Re: Hi All + Technical question

2005-03-09 Thread epilogue
However, this time I think i got the bull by the horns! I've migrated all my stuff from linux to BSD hello riaan, congratulations and welcome to freebsd! just a couple of outstanding issues. Ie. KDM/GDM needs to work properly, as other people use my machine for an X server. the

Re: security logs being mailed to root

2005-03-04 Thread epilogue
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 12:08:41 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 08:59:45AM -0500, sn1tch wrote: When I ran FBSD 5.2.1 I used to get the daily, weekly, and monthly security logs and such mailed to root...now since I did a clean install with 5.3 I no longer get anything,

Re: security logs being mailed to root

2005-03-04 Thread epilogue
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:06:03 -0500 sn1tch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 12:34:36 -0600, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 08:59:45AM -0500, sn1tch wrote: When I ran FBSD 5.2.1 I used to get the daily, weekly, and

Re: portupgrade wrecked gnome!!! ~8-(

2005-03-03 Thread epilogue
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 20:58:50 -0800 Karl Agee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is my tale of woe. Freebsd 4.11-stable. I upgraded my ports using portupgrade -arR after cvsuping and make fetchindex and portsdb -u. Things worked, so I went out and did portupgrade. But my gnome-2.8.2 install

Re: How can I cut and paste from xterm _into_ another program ? (NOTE - I am not an IDIOT)

2005-02-28 Thread epilogue
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:36:30 -0800 (PST) Joe Schmoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm...so instead of actually reading my post, several folks have responded ... presumably just looking at the words cut and paste in my post and responding with a tutorial on how to use my mouse buttons. Thanks.

Re: Portupgrading - portauditing

2005-02-26 Thread epilogue
I finally gave up and deleted the db at /var/db/portaudit/auditfile.tbz and then did the upgrade. It still flags firefox as a vulnerability, even though the problem it references is supposed to be explicitly fixed in the version I have installed (window injection vulnerability). Of

Re: Updating Ports

2005-02-16 Thread epilogue
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:17:09 -0600 Cody Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After running cvsup, I then ran portdb -Uu and received the following error. Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..gnustep-slideshow-0.3: /usr/ports/graphics/slideshowkit non-existent --

Re: Broken shell - I can't login at all

2005-02-15 Thread epilogue
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:57:28 -0800 Jeff BSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi- I'm in the process of upgrading a 4.6 system to 5.3. When I boot the machine it gets to: init: bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally, going to single user mode Enter root password, or ^D to go multi-user

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-03 Thread epilogue
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:43:39 +0100 Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 00:32:23 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While all of this is very interesting academic, if user Gert is dumb enough to leave the console of his UNIX system accessible then user

rather strange netstat output

2005-01-28 Thread epilogue
hello all, 4500 (steady) though 5500 (peak) is the usual transfer rate i see with my 56k winmodem. just wondering how the throughput below is possible? (yes, i said winmodem) only 1 process is using the connection... netstat 1 input(Total) output packets

Fw: rather strange netstat output

2005-01-28 Thread epilogue
forgot to mention -- 5.3-RELEASE-p2 --- hello all, 4500 (steady) though 5500 (peak) is the usual transfer rate i see with my 56k winmodem. just wondering how the throughput below is possible? (yes, i said winmodem) only 1 process is using the connection... netstat 1

Re: how to get it online

2004-12-22 Thread epilogue
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:00:32 -0600 Bagus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The FreeBSD Handbook is a great reference: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ Yes... there's more information there than I saw on first perusal. Thanks, but I'm not out of the woods yet. since you

Re: linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.0_2/linux_base-7.1_7 conflict when upgrading linux-realplayer

2004-12-16 Thread epilogue
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:57:41 +1030 Ian Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I've delete linux-base, now portupgrade says: Stale dependency: linux-realplayer-8.cs2_5 -- linux_base-7.1_7 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force. I'm still have trouble understanding what to do

Re: make package don't build package

2004-12-15 Thread epilogue
pkg_create -- i can't use becose I need create package recursively, but I don't find in man page for this tool options for recursively. hello again alexandr, to my knowledge, such a switch does not exist. you can 'pkg_deinstall -R fooport' and then 'make package fooport' but, because you'll

Re: make package don't build package

2004-12-15 Thread epilogue
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:59:30 + Alexandr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I run FreeBSD 5.3 I free my ports tree and make this: cd /usr/ports/www/audio/mpg123/ make package and get: === Installing for mpg123-esound-0.59r_15 === mpg123-esound-0.59r_15 depends on shared library: esd.2 -

Re: Strange startup behavior on 5.3-release

2004-12-14 Thread epilogue
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:36:06 -0800 Jim Pazarena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: one would think, or expect, that if you disable sendmail using SENDMAIL_ENABLE=NONE, that NONE sendmail activity would be triggered. This seemed to be the way it worked in FreeBSD 4.XX, and altho we can live with

Re: Messages between dmesg and login

2004-12-10 Thread epilogue
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 01:56:02 +0300 Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just couldn't find it, where can I get those messages, which come during the boot sequence just after white text (kernel) and before login: prompt. Are they even saved somewhere? I know that errors are written to

Re: acpi laptop fan control

2004-12-07 Thread epilogue
On 01 Dec 2004 08:44:37 +0100 Christian Laursen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: epilogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i'm hoping that someone here might have a suggestion for a longstanding and nagging little problem - my laptop fan /never/ shuts off. the machine is a Compal N30W, which

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 Questions

2004-12-02 Thread epilogue
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:13:19 -0800 Jerry Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just loaded FreeBSD 5.3 a few days ago, and generally things are running well, with a few exceptions: hello jerry, 1) How do I stop the Sendmail daemons from starting at boot? I have sendmail_enable=NO set in

acpi laptop fan control

2004-11-30 Thread epilogue
hello all, i'm hoping that someone here might have a suggestion for a longstanding and nagging little problem - my laptop fan /never/ shuts off. the machine is a Compal N30W, which is the OEM version of the Dell Inspiron 5000. i'm running 5.3 and have the latest BIOS. from what i've read, it

Re: NEW: cannot ssh to my computer

2004-11-22 Thread epilogue
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 00:05:33 -0500 Ivan Georgiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just another thing ... If I remove myself from the group wheel then I CAN ssh to my computer; if I put myself back to wheel - then CANNOT ssh to the computer. How can I ssh and be a member of the wheel group? hello

Re: NEW: cannot ssh to my computer

2004-11-22 Thread epilogue
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 22:37:19 -0500 Ivan Georgiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just another thing ... If I remove myself from the group wheel then I CAN ssh to my computer; if I put myself back to wheel - then CANNOT ssh to the computer. How can I ssh and be a member of the wheel

Re: World Clock timezones

2004-11-03 Thread epilogue
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 10:01:26 -0800 (PST) borg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I'm looking for a world clock that helps me keep track of time in different cities by showing me clocks for multiple time zones. Preferably under X if not I don't mind using a non-GUI based application. I

Re: 5.2.1, installed Mozilla -- X reverses background colors when used!!

2004-10-29 Thread epilogue
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:59:52 -0700 (PDT) Bill Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Fri, 29 Oct 2004 it looks like Volker Eckert composed: On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 05:57:59AM -0700, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: ... I have run 5.2.1 successfully on many machines and X is actually working

Re: 5.2.1, installed Mozilla -- X reverses background colors when used!!

2004-10-29 Thread epilogue
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:30:43 -0700 (PDT) Bill Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Fri, 29 Oct 2004 it looks like epilogue composed: On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:59:52 -0700 (PDT) Bill Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Fri, 29 Oct 2004 it looks like Volker Eckert composed

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 / XFree86 4.3 .0 on Dell Inspiron 5000

2004-10-27 Thread epilogue
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:41:00 -0700 (PDT) orig injun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am wondering if somebody can help me get X up and running on my Dell Inspiron 5000 Laptop. hello, most likely. it has been running just fine on mine for years now. After installing the OS and

Re: OOo-1.1.3

2004-10-24 Thread epilogue
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 12:03:54 +0200 dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the OOo-1.1.3_nl package yesterday and wanted to install it like I did the previous version. I was very surprised to see that it did *not* wanted to install with a pkg_add onto my freebsd-4.10p3 system.

Re: Ports Improvements

2004-10-24 Thread epilogue
This makes it easier to choice an older version if the latest has some bugs not worked out yet. if you often find yourself longing for an older version, you might find it worthwhile to familiarise yourself with /usr/ports/sysutils/portdowngrade(yes, downgrade) piece of cake to install

Re: 5.3 Release

2004-10-24 Thread epilogue
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:01:28 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also having to update ports as I'm finding some stuff no longer works. it sounds as though you might want to get into the habit of reading both /usr/src/UPDATING (every sup of source) and /usr/ports/UPDATING (every sup

Re: Java under Opera 7.54?

2004-10-21 Thread epilogue
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 08:28:32 -0700 Kevin Glick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using Opera exclusively for a couple years under FreeBSD, and prefer it to all other browsers. With that said, I've had more success running the linux-opera port. With it and the Linux versions of java,

Re: Install error OOo-1.1.3 on 4.10p3

2004-10-20 Thread epilogue
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:59:16 +0200 Benjamin Thelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi lists, I am now really stumped and appreciate you for your assistance. I had this very error already with OOo-1.1.2 on three 4.10p2 FreeBSD boxes in the end of August, posted it to the list, but got no answer.

Re: Mounting data CD

2004-10-20 Thread epilogue
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:17:02 -0400 Steven Friedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to mount a data CD as a normal user. It works fine as root, but I want average users to be able to do it. Here's the session: % mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not

USB developer please look at cdce driver -- (Was: Driver for Yopy PDA)

2004-10-18 Thread epilogue
hello again, i just noticed this driver turn up in the openbsd code. i'm suspecting that it might resolve pc-pda connectivity issues for some users. man: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cdcesektion=4 cvsweb: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/usb/if_cdce.c

Re: how do I suppress system messages?

2004-10-14 Thread epilogue
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:21:05 -0400 Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lynette Tillner wrote: [ ... ] Also, I can't switch to another tty because my only access is remote --- I don't have console access. You can get to another tty by logging into the machine again from another SSH

Re: sysctl kern.securelevel=2

2004-10-12 Thread epilogue
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 01:33:44 -0400 epilogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 20:03:32 -0400 Chris Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Alll I was wondering what is the best kern.securelevel to run on a machine that provides general internet services, Web, FTP and Email

Re: sysctl kern.securelevel=2

2004-10-11 Thread epilogue
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 20:03:32 -0400 Chris Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Alll I was wondering what is the best kern.securelevel to run on a machine that provides general internet services, Web, FTP and Email. I don't want this so tight I cannot use the machine and I have also read in

Re: portupgrade (pkgdb) question (2nd try)

2004-10-11 Thread epilogue
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:52:57 -0400 Bobb Shires [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (dang webmail thing mangled my message. Sorry. Trying again) pkgdb -F is asking me a question I don't understand. What should I do here? === [EMAIL PROTECTED] /root/supfiles 24 - # pkgdb -F --- Checking the

Re: GNOME questions

2004-10-07 Thread epilogue
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 00:36:59 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the Gnome wizards out there, I've been experimenting with different window managers and need some tips on how making Gnome more comfortable feel. Here are some miscellaneous questions:

Re: ask for information

2004-10-02 Thread epilogue
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 14:33:23 +0100 Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 11:57:12AM -0700, Elwaleed Khafagy wrote: 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

Re: Broken X fonts

2004-09-29 Thread epilogue
On 28 Sep 2004 22:43:21 -1000 Gary Dunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 11:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first time I used portupgrade -arR. Slightly off topic, but are there args redundant? How would this differ from -a ? I'm still struggling to understand

Re: sendmail question

2004-09-29 Thread epilogue
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:53:51 -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ronnie Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill, Thanks for the response. Here is the last entry in the maillog file: Sep 29 03:01:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] sendmail[1204]: i8T81lo5001204: to=root, delay=00:00:00,

Re: Organizing the output of make etc.

2004-09-29 Thread epilogue
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:27:55 +1000 Andrew Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I'm administering my own little hobby system. Great fun. I notice that when I make targets, usually through portupgrade, a great deal of text flies by. Some of it is of obvious immediate use, such as

Re: please educate me on memory usage

2004-09-24 Thread epilogue
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:59:52 -0700 (PDT) Gregor Mosheh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking at my top output and was surprised to see that the bulk of my 512 MB of memory was in use, since the server really has fairly little running. It's not a problem, but I was wanting some clarification

Re: Undelete featured filesystem forfreebsd? WAS: Undelete on untouched partition

2004-09-20 Thread epilogue
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:00:07 +0200 Joachim Dagerot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- | On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:23:08AM +0200, Joachim Dagerot wrote: | I have a disk with one single slice and one partition: ad1s1d. I used | move to move ALL data on this disk to another

Re: FreeBSD

2004-08-29 Thread epilogue
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 10:01:13 +0200 falko klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD-Team, I am looking for somebody officially representing FreeBSD for a short e-mail-interview. hello falko, just for the sake of completeness, you may also want to consider contacting:

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

2004-08-26 Thread epilogue
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:07:26 -0700 Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I have searched the archives, and I can't find that my question has been answered previously, but please forgive me if that's incorrect. I'm using (or rather trying to use) cron to update my ports tree daily.

Re: ssh question

2004-08-25 Thread epilogue
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:42:52 -0500 Mark Tullos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After modifying the sshd.conf to allow my new IP access via ssh I can't connect. I have stopped and restarted the service and the server and double check the conf file. I have checked hosts.allow and found nothing

Re: Installing ports

2004-08-24 Thread epilogue
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 20:11:49 +0200 Florian Hengstberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm using FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I'm in trouble with installing software using the ports collection. After typing make install everything seems to be okay, but in most cases I get a message like this after a

Re: Reinstalling, then upgrading (Was Re: Salvageable? (Was Re:make installworld error))

2004-08-24 Thread epilogue
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:47:03 -0400 (EDT) Charles Ulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lowell Gilbert said: In FreeBSD, a port is a third-party application ported to be built from source on your system. A package is a pre-compiled binary of that port. Once installed, they are both tracked (and

Re: XFree86 Question

2004-08-22 Thread epilogue
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 17:04:43 -0700 Oliver Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if this is not quite the place for this question but I'm at my wits ends here. I need viable Horizontal sync ranges and vertical refresh rates for my compaq presario laptop 1200-XL118 (13 HPA screen, Trident

Re: Upgrade FreeBSD

2004-08-17 Thread epilogue
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 01:37:27 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey I have FreeBSD 4-9 RELEASE,and i wont upgrade it to 4.10 STABLE.I use for this operation CVSUP,and when cvsup dawnload sources in /usr/src directory ,i write: cd /usr/src make buildworld and system

openoffice : unable to set accelerator keys

2004-08-17 Thread epilogue
questions@ is probably the right forum for this... Begin forwarded message: Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:36:05 -0400 From: epilogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: unable to set accelerator keys hello all, i've got the english openoffice-1.1.2 package for 4.x installed. i

Driver for Yopy PDA

2004-08-17 Thread epilogue
hello all, i recently received a yopy 3500 pda (yopy.com and yopydeveloper.org) and have been trying very much in vain to get it to speak 'ethernet over usb' with my fbsd 4.10 install. the only promising *bsd related threads i have been able to locate were:

Re: Strange prompt behavior in tcsh

2004-08-13 Thread epilogue
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:50:28 +0700 Roger Merritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently installed the port shells/tcshrc, and ever since I've been getting some funny output on the console whenever I change directories: kepler:/root# echo $SHELL /bin/tcsh kepler:/root# cd /etc \033]2;KEPLER

What is YOUR config for a working Iomega USB ZIP?

2004-08-05 Thread epilogue
hello all, though several very kind individuals have tried to help me get my Iomega USB Zip drive working, i haven't yet had any luck. rather than continuing a desperate troubleshooting via a boring series of lengthy messages, i thought that i might try turning the tables by launching the

Re: wm dropping keypresses since moving to xorg (strange) -- SOLVED

2004-08-03 Thread epilogue
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 20:17:08 -0400 epilogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks to some very kind help from dejan, and after a little stress testing on my end, i believe that it is safe to declare this problem solved. -- the fix: -- /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/pc

Re: Chess for Kids (and dummies like dads)

2004-08-02 Thread epilogue
On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 12:24:53 -0500 Damon Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a BSD user, I can't help you. As a chess player, I will comment that there's a certain learning curve involved, and playing against random moves isn't going to advance you far along it. I've never known anyone

Re: Chess for Kids (and dummies like dads)

2004-08-02 Thread epilogue
On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 13:02:22 -0500 Damon Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you haven't already tried it, visit sf.net and plug 'chess' into the search window. it will probably return a bunch of programs, including some which are java based. Thanks. I'll try that out. fwiw, i

Fw: wm dropping keypresses since moving to xorg (strange)

2004-08-02 Thread epilogue
2004 00:33:30 -0400 From: epilogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: wm dropping keypresses since moving to xorg (strange) hello x11, questions, i have some reservations about sending this in, because it sounds a bit weird, but i've jumped through all the usual

Re: wm dropping keypresses since moving to xorg (strange) -- SOLVED

2004-08-02 Thread epilogue
file and restart x. hello anholt, copying you in case you want to feed this back up the pipe to xorg. dejan also located this old link, which you might find of interest: http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580 cheers, epi -- On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 15:42:53 -0400 epilogue [EMAIL

Re: Newbie Problems with cvsup and updating files.

2004-08-01 Thread epilogue
On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 00:23:01 -0400 (EDT) Paul R Culmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Bill Moran wrote: Yes, I think your supfile is wrong. *default release=cvs RELENG_5_2_1_RELEASE ^^^ This line is what I believe is wrong, replace it with these two lines: *default

Re: OOo packages for FreeBSD porting - projects.imp

2004-08-01 Thread epilogue
On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 20:57:57 +0200 dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Normally I download the FreeBSd packages (4.10R) on http://projects.imp.ch but the lates version they have for fbsd-4.10 is OOo-1.1.0_1 On the openoffice site I followed some links to the

Re: Problem installing cvsup on 4.10

2004-08-01 Thread epilogue
On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 11:51:30 +0800 (SGT) Peter Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get CVsup running on 4.10. The handbook indicates it is easier to install the package, so I went to the package collection and installed cvsup-16.1h The package installation seemed to indicate

Re: can i delete /usr/obj/ before installworld?

2004-07-31 Thread epilogue
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 10:36:16 + Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I'm really short on diskspace, and I have no room to run a make buildkernel after I run make buildworld. Is it possible to do the following: make buildworld rm -fr /usr/obj make buildkernel make

Re: Antialiased fonts in Linux applications

2004-07-28 Thread epilogue
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:20:24 +0200 (CEST) Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Font in Linux applications no longer render as they should. Both antialiasing and hinting is off. This applies to Acrobat Reader, Mathematica, Maple and Opera (ie. all my Linux applications) I have

Re: OSS

2004-07-27 Thread epilogue
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 02:57:38 -0500 Miguel Cardenas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Sorry for my ignorance, am new to FreeBSD... which is the kernel config file? is it a configuration for compiling or at boot time? am linux user so will not bee too hard, just tell me which is the file pls :D

wm dropping keypresses since moving to xorg (strange)

2004-07-26 Thread epilogue
hello x11, questions, i have some reservations about sending this in, because it sounds a bit weird, but i've jumped through all the usual self-serve hoops and i'm about at my wits end. since switching to xorg, when i alt+tab to a window with my wm of choice (fluxbox-devel), the 1st keypress is

Re: Windows X

2004-07-20 Thread epilogue
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 13:55:05 -0500 Christopher Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a new user to FreeBSD. Is Windows X an extremely basic windows program. I loaded your CD that I purchased from Microcenter onto my computer and I was not able to see anything except a very primitive windows

Re: Openoffice

2004-07-19 Thread epilogue
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 08:30:47 -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Osmany Guirola Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi people.. simple question Where can i find a binary distribution of openoffice for FreeBSD From the OpenOffice.org web site, downloads section. Last I checked, there

Re: Our package system: Fundamentally Flawed - A Linux User.

2004-07-19 Thread epilogue
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 09:09:28 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a different library name) like it should, pkg_add only gives a warning and an assumption that the install went well. Now, the user goes to run the package and gets a big fat error: libintl.so.X not found.

Re: trouble with 5.2.1-RELEASE install

2004-07-17 Thread epilogue
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 15:09:48 +1000 (EST) eodyna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, it doesn't seam that today is my day :P ive tried to install 5.2.1 on a machine and i get the following error (sorry i had to type it) hello eo, i'm sorry that you had to type it too.;) freebsd

Re: Root fs full - free space always below 0

2004-07-17 Thread epilogue
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:37:29 -0500 uidzero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Schuller wrote: Hello, so during a portupgrade on my laptop the root fs, with soft updates enabled, became full. So I removed a bunch of stuff to make a few gigs available. I checked and df reported more than a gig

Re: upgrading form 4.2 to 5.x

2004-07-17 Thread epilogue
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:50:13 +0200 Remko Lodder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brent Bailey wrote: Hello, My company has been asked to help with the upgrade of several Freebsd systems that are pretty old. The customer is running a file server samba also running apache running FBSD 4.2, he

Re: buildworld fails in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gperf/ ==make: don't know how to make getopt.c

2004-07-17 Thread epilogue
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 15:59:32 -0500 (CDT) Lane Holcombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm upgrading from 4.9-RELEASE to 4.10-STABLE, but I can't get past make buildworld in your sup file, have you got RELENG_4 or RELENG_4_10? I ran make clean from /usr/src, then cvsup'd src-all from

Re: upgrading form 4.2 to 5.x

2004-07-17 Thread epilogue
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 17:14:22 -0400 epilogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:50:13 +0200 Remko Lodder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brent Bailey wrote: Hello, My company has been asked to help with the upgrade of several Freebsd systems that are pretty old

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-15 Thread epilogue
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 20:30:10 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i want to go to FreeBSD instead of NetBSD on my i386 machines because of all new features :( introduced in NetBSD after 1.5 mostly crashing softdeps, strange memory/unified disk cache management (large writing

Re: Newbie: Drive geometry in freebsd 4.10

2004-07-15 Thread epilogue
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:40:21 -0300 Geoffrey Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to tri-boot windows, gentoo and freebsd 4.10 cause I don't have an extra HD but had an extra slice to install. the hd is a maxtor 40gb IDE, model# 4d040h2, labeled on it says: cyl 16383 / head 16 / sectors

Re: Building JDK-1.4 fails, even with linprocfs mounted

2004-07-15 Thread epilogue
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 20:04:00 +0200 Gustaaf Wijnands [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Trying to build the port jdk14, I get the following error message: /.amd_mnt/mirrorball/export/ports/java/jdk14/work/control/build/bsd-i5 86/gensrc/java/util/CurrencyData.java:1:

Re: Is it possible to set-up a USB Printer in Freebsd?

2004-07-14 Thread epilogue
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:33:12 -0700 (PDT) Mark Jayson Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have an old model Epson C20UX USB Printer and I usually print in my Windows OS(dual boot) using that printer. For long, I did not bother to read the section in the handbook(setting up printer)

how can i install a winmodem? (was: No Subject )

2004-07-14 Thread epilogue
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 23:26:07 +0400 Àëåñåé Çèâåíêî [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi bsd community. Does anybody know how to setup winmodem under FreeBSD? I had it on Linux, but just forget the package name, now I am under FreeBSD and I need to set it up. I have Lucent Microelectronics 56k

Re: Freebsd 5.1 - Win XP Networking problems

2004-07-14 Thread epilogue
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:40:10 -0600 Danny MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 03:41:04AM -0600, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 02:32:46PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote: ifconfig_ed0=inet 192.168.1.0/24 netmask 255.255.0.0

Re: Freebsd 5.1 - Win XP Networking problems

2004-07-14 Thread epilogue
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 23:06:38 -0400 epilogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:40:10 -0600 Danny MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 03:41:04AM -0600, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 02:32:46PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote

Re: FreeBSD 5.2 vs. 5.2.1

2004-07-13 Thread epilogue
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 12:56:32 -0400 Andrew Kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm developing an embedded system based on FreeBSD. When I started to build a stripped down version of FreeBSD I was using 5.2 RELEASE. Now I keep finding that 5.2 has vanished from most servers, and only

Re: Mozilla Java Plug-In

2004-07-13 Thread epilogue
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 12:55:11 -0500 Jason Dusek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How do I set up the java-vm plugin for Mozilla? did you even bother to pay a visit to http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/ (?!) try typing java mozilla vm or java mozilla plugin or similar into

Re: Mozilla Java Plug-In

2004-07-13 Thread epilogue
. added the list back in cc only to share my rant (er, these suggestions) with others. - Jason epilogue wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 12:55:11 -0500 Jason Dusek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How do I set up the java-vm plugin for Mozilla? did you even bother to pay a visit

Re: Routing Training Books Please!!

2004-07-13 Thread epilogue
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:24:36 -0400 (EDT) Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After many years of waiting my company has a position opening up that I can fill. I spoke with the Net Admin and asked if there were any one skill that would be of a great benefit to my company and his response

Re: closer, no cigar.

2004-07-13 Thread epilogue
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:33:51 -0500 Eric Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 13 July 2004 22:19, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: The first of these processes is sendmail started in submit mode by the `rc.sendmail' startup script. The relevant rc.conf options are: : sendmail_enable=NO :

Re: KDE

2004-07-13 Thread epilogue
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 00:05:24 -0500 Teilhard Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I just installed FreeBSD 4.10, and everything went all right. I typed: startx, and I could enter KDE and do some tweakings. Then I shut down and rebooted, and something happened I cannot enter KDE, nor as a

Re: web browser plugin strategy for FreeBSD 5.2.1

2004-07-12 Thread epilogue
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:13:42 +0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 08:20:30AM -0500, Andrew L. Gould wrote: In FreeBSD 4.10, I'm using mozilla and diablo-jre; which isn't an option in 5*. I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1 Release; and can't seem to get internet browser

Re: web browser plugin strategy for FreeBSD 5.2.1

2004-07-12 Thread epilogue
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:21:26 -0500 Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 12 July 2004 11:01 am, epilogue wrote: On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:13:42 +0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 08:20:30AM -0500, Andrew L. Gould wrote: In FreeBSD 4.10, I'm using

Re: i865 - XFree86, problem - 800x600/72Hz

2004-07-12 Thread epilogue
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 00:40:55 +0400 Àëåñåé Çèâåíêî [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I have a question about XFree86 system and KDE. I have i865GBF chipset with integrated video i865 When I installed 4.9 Release on my system - installation program gives me a list of devices of graph. cards -

Re: Connecting a USB Zip drive -- whatever am I doing wrong?

2004-07-12 Thread epilogue
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 16:04:10 +0100 John Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: epilogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ### uname -a FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p1 i386 ### relevant lines from kernel device vpo device scbus device da device umass device

Re: Can Portupgrade provide a list of files to download?

2004-07-12 Thread epilogue
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:07:57 +1000 Ron Joordens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Morning Everyone, Having only a dial-up connection at home, I try to download most of the large files I need for FreeBSD at work. To date I have to sit down in front of the pc, run portupgrade with the fetch only

Re: Can't Mount Optical Drive

2004-07-11 Thread epilogue
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 16:29:59 -0500 Jason Dusek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Again, In that there must be something else wrong, because after trying a few permutations I was unable to get the drive on my D600 to work: 1 root # mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0:

Re: Sounds on Opera

2004-07-11 Thread epilogue
not work correctly. Thanks, Paulo. On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 14:27:57 +0200, Arjan Van Leeuwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 23:29:17 -0400, epilogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 21:49:14 -0300 Paulo Fonseca Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Recompile, Does not exclude modules

2004-07-11 Thread epilogue
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 09:00:00 +1000 Steven Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I already made a custom kernel and disabled usb in /etc/rc.conf I guess they aren't causing me any harm ill just leave them alone for now..:) Thanks tho hello steven, this will probably sound silly, and if you

Re: Lucent LT modem under FreeBSD

2004-07-11 Thread epilogue
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 01:01:06 +0200 Jan Christian Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read that the proper drivers are in the ports collection, but there's one big problem. The only way I'd be able to access the ports collection is with an internet connection, and to have an internet

Re: Can't Mount Optical Drive

2004-07-11 Thread epilogue
and solving problems, both esoteric and common. :) - Jason epilogue wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 16:29:59 -0500 Jason Dusek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Again, In that there must be something else wrong, because after trying a few permutations I was unable to get the drive

Re: Moving my Outlook PST file to any BSD E-mail client

2004-07-09 Thread epilogue
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 09:20:43 -0700 (PDT) Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of an e-mail client that supports importing an outlook .PST file. i don't know of clients which support both (not that they don't exist), however there are tools out there to convert between the

Re: Flashplasyer plug-in for Opera

2004-07-09 Thread epilogue
On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 21:49:14 -0300 Paulo Fonseca Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to enable flash plug-in on freebsd 5.1 like this: 1) cd /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplayer make install clean it's ok 2) Tools - Preferences - Plug-ins - Change path the working path is:

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