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2006-04-04 Thread Kyle J. Farmer
quilt. Let me know if your interested, Take it easy --Kyle J. Farmer Computer Gathering Project [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.computergathering.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Help?

2006-04-05 Thread David J Brooks
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 18:18, Tom wrote: I am just looking at Free BSD as a Windows alternative. I have a home workgroup that I am out growing and wanting to do more with, but don't want to give MS any more Hundreds of hard earned dollars. My first question is where can I find a site

Re: Drive errors on boot

2006-04-10 Thread David J Brooks
On Monday 10 April 2006 09:26, Bryan Curl wrote: --- Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Curl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My apologies if this is a repost. It seems either I had a gmail problem or list never posted the question. I have subscribed with another

Re: I think I butchered my supfile - can anyone tell me why I get this result?

2006-04-12 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 06:45, Jim Stapleton wrote: *default host=cvsup13.us.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default date=2006.04.01.12.00.00 collections.

Re: Help clarify the '-l' option of ls(1).

2006-04-12 Thread David J Brooks
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 10:47, David Robillard wrote: Hello everyone, I'd like to have an explication about the '-l' (minus L) option of the ls(1) command. What exactly is the signification of the second column in the display? The man page states that it is 'the number of links'. But

which mixer device do KDE system notifications use?

2006-04-12 Thread David J Brooks
My KDE system notifications are too loud relative to other sounds like the CD player. I know I can use mixer to adjust the volume, but which device should I be tampering with? David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base.

Re: Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0.

2006-04-12 Thread David J Brooks
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 14:03, fredthetree wrote: glx doesn't work. both glx and dri are in my xorg.conf, i'm using the nv driver, i have graphics/dri installed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ glxgears Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. glxgears: Error: couldn't get an RGB,

Re: Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0.

2006-04-12 Thread David J Brooks
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 15:07, fredthetree wrote: nothing. i just noticed something though: X Window System Version 6.9.0 Release Date: 21 December 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.9 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 6.1 i386 [ELF] Current Operating System: FreeBSD

Re: Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0.

2006-04-12 Thread David J Brooks
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 19:14, fredthetree wrote: i installed the x11/nvidia-driver port with -DWITH_LEGACY_GPU_SUPPORT for my ancient TNT2 64. too bad the screen resolution isn't as good =/ Did you also build the nvidia-xconfig and nvidia-settings tools? Both are available in

Re: DMA TIMEOUT

2006-04-13 Thread David J Brooks
On Thursday 13 April 2006 01:58, Perttu Laine wrote: I have problem with ATA drive having DMA TIMEOUTs. It might work day or two fine with DMA mode on but then system halts on those dma timeout problems. hardware is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:5:0: class=0x018085 card=0x4d68105a chip=0x4d69105a

persistent mixer volume levels

2006-04-14 Thread David J Brooks
What is the preferred method for making mixer volume levels persistent? As it stands now my sounds levels are dropped to about 75% after each reboot. David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base.

Re: persistent mixer volume levels

2006-04-14 Thread David J Brooks
On Friday 14 April 2006 15:33, Bigby Findrake wrote: On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, David J Brooks wrote: What is the preferred method for making mixer volume levels persistent? As it stands now my sounds levels are dropped to about 75% after each reboot. I suppose preferred would depend on what

Re: persistent mixer volume levels (solved)

2006-04-14 Thread David J Brooks
On Friday 14 April 2006 16:21, David J Brooks wrote: Curious! I wrote up an rc.d script that seemes to work fine on reboot. I get console messages confirming that volume has been changed. But as soon as I log in, either as root or a normal user, I type 'mixer' and it shows the volume levels

Re: Determining whether or not a SCSI disk is in use

2006-04-14 Thread David J Brooks
On Friday 14 April 2006 16:43, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Apr 14, 2006, at 1:21 PM, Bigby Findrake wrote: On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Bigby Findrake wrote: I'm sorry, I'm an idiot - the script, in its current incarnation, needs to be modified. It's doing exactly what you don't want it to do -

ipfw acting strange

2006-04-14 Thread David J Brooks
I'm stumped. This afternoon I upgraded the outward facing NIC on my gateway, with a corresponding device name change from rl0 to fxp1. I have edited rc.conf to reflect the change and made what I thought were the appropriate changes to rc.firewall. On bootup the console displays the corrected

Re: ipfw acting strange

2006-04-14 Thread David J Brooks
On Friday 14 April 2006 23:14, David J Brooks wrote: I'm stumped. This afternoon I upgraded the outward facing NIC on my gateway, with a corresponding device name change from rl0 to fxp1. I have edited rc.conf to reflect the change and made what I thought were the appropriate changes

Re: /boot/loader and modules

2006-04-16 Thread David J Brooks
On Sunday 16 April 2006 17:42, jesse marquez wrote: Hello, Last night I installed FreeBSD 6.0 - Release on a Gateway 450SX4 laptop. For some reason it seems the loader is not reading the local changes made to /boot/loader.conf . Have any of you expierenced this? I've checked my changes made

Re: a favorite graphical ftp client?

2006-04-16 Thread David J Brooks
On Sunday 16 April 2006 22:56, Micah wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote: On Sunday 16 April 2006 20:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i would like to ask the list for opinions on a good graphical ftp client for a freebsd desktop. before i try them all, id like to get a few recomendations :)

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-17 Thread David J Brooks
On Monday 17 April 2006 16:29, Brendan Grossman wrote: Databases are stored in /var/db for security reasons Just curious... What are the security reasons? After some thought, here's what I'm planning on doing... Disk is 73gb scsi... / 500mb swap 4gb /var 4gb /usr 4gb /home

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-17 Thread David J Brooks
On Monday 17 April 2006 16:59, Brendan Grossman wrote: Databases are stored in /var/db for security reasons Just curious... What are the security reasons? After some thought, here's what I'm planning on doing... Disk is 73gb scsi... / 500mb swap 4gb /var

Re: How do I change hostname in freebsd?

2006-04-17 Thread David J Brooks
On Monday 17 April 2006 17:41, Matt Rajca wrote: ? In /rtc/rc.conf add a line like this: hostname=host.network.net If you are running network services such as DNS, etc. you may need to change it in those configuration files as well. HTH, David -- Sure God created the world in only

Re: KDE + GNOME?

2006-04-19 Thread David J Brooks
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 13:34, Duane Whitty wrote: Perhaps I should be more clear. Is there anyone reading who currently has KDE 3.5.x and GNOME 2.12.x installed concurrently on their systems? Did you experience installation problems with respect to dependencies? Are you able to choose

Re: booting problems

2006-04-19 Thread David J Brooks
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 16:46, boy red wrote: i have so far installed freeBSD OS and set up the accounts but im having some problems. it just takes me 2 a black DOS type screen and i dont know how 2 get in. by getting in i mean that it doesnt take me to the place where i actually start

Re: Java applets asking for plugin in firefox

2006-04-20 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
needed. Such a simple approach. I don't know why all browsers don't work this way. -- Conrad J. Sabatier [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- In Unix veritas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Opinion please on quick and dirty

2006-04-20 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
please have a look at it and tell me what you think ? The guide is a quick and dirty on how to get zope installed and running on your FreeBSD box. Thanks in advance. So, like, where is it??? :-) -- Conrad J. Sabatier [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- In Unix veritas

Re: KDE + GNOME?

2006-04-20 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
to select which desktop/window manager you want to use, check out x11-wm/selectwm. -- Conrad J. Sabatier [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- In Unix veritas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: How do you tell pkg_add to just download the packages ?

2006-04-20 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
to pkg_add ( I want to use binaries ) or are there other tools I can use ? man pkg_fetch Actually, you would do well to familiarize yourself with *all* of the pkg_* tools. man -k pkg Then, when you're ready, install portupgrade and forget about all of that stuff. :-) -- Conrad J. Sabatier

Re: Question about COM port

2006-04-22 Thread Bret J Esquivel
peripherals. For further details please refer to http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=uftdisektion=4manpath=FreeBSD+4.7-stable. Free BSD version 6 will support the FT2232C device. Free BSD version 5 will also support the FT2232C device with a patch. I hope this helps. -- Bret J

Re: Setting up Fluxbox (May apply to other GUI's)

2006-04-24 Thread Gregory J. Knight
To help you figure out which file is which $pkg_info -Lx fluxbox | grep ^/ | xargs file On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 23:05 -0400, Peter wrote: --- Enigma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using FreeBSD 6, and are new to *nix in itself. I have used the 'pkg_add -r fluxbox' command to get the

Re: gcc problem, I can't get the 'ctime((statbuf.st_atime)' value in line20.

2006-04-28 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
**The end!* -- Conrad J. Sabatier [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- In Unix veritas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gcc problem, I can't get the 'ctime((statbuf.st_atime)' value in line20.

2006-04-28 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 08:17:34 -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:22:10 +0800, jiangyong jon7808 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1 #include sys/stat.h 2 #include errno.h 3 char *filename = /etc/passwd ; 4 5 int main

Re: pkg_add -r openoffice Error: FTP Unable to get ftp:

2006-05-01 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Monday 01 May 2006 02:31, robert wrote: On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 03:12 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks but: pkg_add -r openoffice.org pkg_add: can't stat package file 'openoffice.org' that was the logical and first thing I tried. On Mon, 1 May 2006, Kris Kennaway

Re: Kernel not compiling

2006-05-02 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 10:07, Steve Davidson wrote: Here are the last few lines from the kernel build output: /usr/src/sys/netinet/ip_output.c: In function `ip_ctloutput': /usr/src/sys/netinet/ip_output.c:1550: internal compiler error: in expand_stmt, at c-semantics.c:883 Please submit a full

Re: Why do I have to keep doing portsnap extract?

2006-05-05 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 05 May 2006 01:06, Peggy Wilkins wrote: On 5/4/06, Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peggy Wilkins wrote: On 5/4/06, Jason Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you run `extract' after your original `fetch'? Yes, I did; I followed the instructions exactly. I ran

Re: Remote screen control software - recommendations please

2006-05-07 Thread J. Erik Heinz
(and as secure as possible - lol !) /usr/ports/net/rdesktop Cheers -- Erik -- J. Erik Heinz Keyboard-samuraing in process :: All non-mailinglist mail to this emailadress will be deleted. OpenBC: https://www.openbc.com/hp/JErik_Heinz Blog: http://jerik.blogspot.com

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE !!

2006-05-08 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Monday 08 May 2006 10:55, Ceri Davies wrote: On 8/5/06 15:39, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on a dev box, did a cvsup and buildworld yesterday... and now my kernel says 6.1 stable! fbsd60-2# uname -a FreeBSD fbsd60-2.dev.dfwlp.com 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Sun May

Re: Free BSD install tutorial I wrote

2006-01-01 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
Allen wrote: I wrote this quite a while ago and I've posted it to the docs list before and it got a good repsonce, but I've seen a couple install questions on here so I'm going to link to it again for this list. I don't think there is an easier to follow installer help anywhere. Not

Re: Disk error messages (ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# xxxxxx)

2006-01-02 Thread Russell J. Wood
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:15:08PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, On my screen, there were messages like the followings comeing up. I have to reboot mutiple times to get it boot up normally. Does this mean I have to replace the disk which is a relatively new disk (1-2 years)?

Mounting SD card of Treo600 via USB

2006-01-02 Thread Timothy J. Luoma
I've been trying to find out if there is a way to mount my Treo 600's SD card using a USB cable. Most of what I seem to find from Google, etc seems to relate to *syncing* which I have no need/desire to do, just to mount the card, which I believe is formatted as FAT32. I'm using FreeBSD 5.4

Re: How long to compile...

2006-01-03 Thread Russell J. Wood
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 11:04:41AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Crispy Beef writes: Was wondering on average how long building userland and the kernel for 6.0-RELEASE should take on a 466MHz Celeron machine with 128Mb RAM? Many hours. :-( For comparison: it takes ~1h45

Re: Free BSD install tutorial I wrote

2006-01-03 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
Allen wrote: On Tuesday 03 January 2006 16:50, Josh Soza wrote: ..snip.. And another mail I sent to the list today, I pointed out the reason I didn't link tot he docs. I WANT people to BUY the books from Free BSD to help support the project. You can't possibly think that was wrong of

VMware 5.5 w/FreeBSD as host OS?

2006-01-12 Thread Brian J. McGovern
All, I'm just curious, given the Linux support, if anyone is running VMware 5.5 with FreeBSD as the host operating system. VMware claims they don't support it, but history has repeatedly shown me that not supported is not the same as doesn't work. Feedback? -B

Re: cannot ping anything

2006-01-20 Thread Alvaro J . Gurdián
thanks, but the defaultrouter line was already present in my /etc/rc.conf. On Jan 20, 2006, at 1:32 PM, Derek Ragona wrote: Check your /etc/rc.conf for this line: defaultrouter=192.168.1.1 add it and reboot if it is missing -Derek At 12:26 PM 1/20/2006, Alvaro J. Gurdián wrote

Re: cannot ping anything

2006-01-20 Thread Alvaro J . Gurdián
setting. Oh and check the LED's on your ethernet interface and router and hub/switches to be sure you didn't knock a cable loose. -Derek At 12:50 PM 1/20/2006, Alvaro J. Gurdián wrote: thanks, but the defaultrouter line was already present in my /etc/rc.conf. On Jan 20, 2006, at 1:32

S-Video to TV

2006-01-22 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Is it possible, using FreeBSD stable, to see my Desktop in my TV using a S-Video cable? How would one go about it? Thank you. EJC www.only7bucks.com - Yahoo! doce lar. Faça do Yahoo! sua homepage.

Re: S-Video to TV

2006-01-22 Thread E. J. Cerejo
: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sorry, forgot to CC - Original Message Subject: Re: S-Video to TV Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 17:58:36 +0100 From: David Raison To: E. J. Cerejo References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kind of like this: in your xorg.conf

Re: make index

2006-01-24 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
What version of FreeBSD are you using. It can make a difference as to which way want to you go. If you are using 6.0, you can use portsnap, which is so much faster than anything else, it's laughable. I only use cvsup for updating src. Don On Tuesday 24 January 2006 13:01, Michael P. Soulier

Re: make index

2006-01-25 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 19:39, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 24/01/06 Donald J. O'Neill said: What version of FreeBSD are you using. It can make a difference as to which way want to you go. If you are using 6.0, you can use portsnap, which is so much faster than anything else, it's

Re: make index

2006-01-25 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 19:39, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 24/01/06 Donald J. O'Neill said: What version of FreeBSD are you using. It can make a difference as to which way want to you go. If you are using 6.0, you can use portsnap, which is so much faster than anything else, it's

Re: make index

2006-01-25 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 05:45, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Donald J. O'Neill wrote: What version of FreeBSD are you using. It can make a difference as to which way want to you go. If you are using 6.0, you can use portsnap, which is so much faster than anything else, it's laughable. I only

Re: question on the firefox port...

2006-01-28 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 27 January 2006 22:33, mojo fms wrote: I am having an odd problem on the firefox port. This is a fresh install of Freebsd 6 and basicly what its doing ... === Generating temporary packing list === Checking if www/firefox already installed === firefox-1.5_5,1 is already

Re: Portsnap

2006-01-28 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 28 January 2006 13:36, Gerard Seibert wrote: I just started using 'portsnap' on my FreeBSD 5.4 PC. If I were to run cvsup again, and perhaps 'portsdb -Uu' would that cause a problem if 'portsnap' were run again? Would I have to run the extract command again to initialize the ports

Re: Portsnap

2006-01-28 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 28 January 2006 13:36, Gerard Seibert wrote: I just started using 'portsnap' on my FreeBSD 5.4 PC. If I were to run cvsup again, and perhaps 'portsdb -Uu' would that cause a problem if 'portsnap' were run again? Would I have to run the extract command again to initialize the ports

Re: Portsnap

2006-01-28 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 28 January 2006 19:19, Chris wrote: Concerning speed I discovered the version in the ports tree is very slow, I have portsnap running zippy when using fetch on 2 5.4 boxes which I use the version in the base system, on 2 5.3 boxes and a 4.10 box I use the version from ports and

Proper FreeBSD installation practices

2006-01-31 Thread Alvaro J . Gurdián
I just installed FreeBSD 6.0 on a computer I want to use to test BIND. The newest release is 9.3.2, but the one installed with FreeBSD 6.0 is 9.3.1. Since according to the ISC's website there are a few bugs in 9.3.1, I decided to upgrade. I then looked over the ports and found versions

Re: Proper FreeBSD installation practices

2006-01-31 Thread Alvaro J . Gurdián
not thru sysinstall? On Jan 31, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 31), Alvaro J. Gurdin said: I just installed FreeBSD 6.0 on a computer I want to use to test BIND. The newest release is 9.3.2, but the one installed with FreeBSD 6.0 is 9.3.1. Since according

Re: Proper FreeBSD installation practices

2006-01-31 Thread Alvaro J . Gurdián
Oh, I forgot to mention that I had tried that. It downloaded the package but when I checked, pkg_check bind9-9.3.2 it said the package did not exist and pkg_check bind9-9.3.1 it gave me all the appropriate output. On Jan 31, 2006, at 6:08 PM, lars wrote: You could also try # pkg_add -r

Re: Proper FreeBSD installation practices

2006-02-01 Thread Alvaro J . Gurdián
never been so hard. Having to set environment variables every time I want to get the newest version of a program should not be the standard way to operate, I am sure it isn't. Thanks. On Jan 31, 2006, at 6:22 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Alvaro J. Gurdián wrote: I used sysinstall to look

Re: Why does portsdb -Uu run so long?

2006-02-04 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 04 February 2006 16:56, Xn Nooby wrote: By the looks of it when you cvsup you get everything (src-all, ports-all, etc) all at once. I think it might be better if you split that into two sup-files where you would have one for the system, src-all, and the other one for ports.

Re: stale dependencies in pkgdb

2006-02-10 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 10 February 2006 12:41, Andrew wrote: On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 11:42 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Andrew writes: I've run pkgdb -F as portupgrade suggests, deleting stale dependencies, but they seem to keep reappearing. I'm not an expert on pkgdb, but I'm pretty sure that's

Re: NAS advice?

2006-02-14 Thread j m g
Has anyone used the freenas.org distro? On what equipment? Thanks. On 2/14/06, Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, DAve wrote: (I am cross posting to FreeBSD questions and Bacula Users, I will not be cross posting replies) I've been crying for four years

Re: Removing BOM from UTF-8

2006-02-19 Thread J. Erik Heinz
installation. Cheers Erik -- J. Erik Heinz Keyboard-samuraing in process :: All non-mailinglist mail to this emailadress will be deleted. OpenBC: https://www.openbc.com/hp/JErik_Heinz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-02-21 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 05:39, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Kristian Vaaf wrote: I don't know what's wrong. But all my makes error out. I've tried over and over again. And sent about a dozen e-mails to this list. http://www.home.no/hedhnta/result.txt This is my supposition. There have

Re: Firefox-1.5.0.1 not starting after successfull instalation

2006-02-21 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:41, Vladis wrote: Hi, unfortunately this doesn't help, still the same result. I removed ~/.mozilla and tried to start firefox again. I did the same doesn't start and nothing happened. Just directory ~/.mozilla was created again. It's really annoying. Is

Re: Firefox-1.5.0.1 not starting after successfull instalation

2006-02-21 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:41, Vladis wrote: Hi, unfortunately this doesn't help, still the same result. I removed ~/.mozilla and tried to start firefox again. I did the same doesn't start and nothing happened. Just directory ~/.mozilla was created again. It's really annoying. Is

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:26, Chuck Swiger wrote: manish jain wrote: I just purchased an APC 500 Back UPS (the basic model, not the pro/smart one). It does not have any serial/usb interface. Can I get apcupsd or any other daemon to work with it so that the system automatically shuts

Re: Firefox-1.5.0.1 not starting after successfull instalation

2006-02-21 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 09:53, Vladis wrote: Hi, I start it from xterm: Ok, there are some dependencies involved here. Do you have all of them? Mine has: %pkg_info -r firefox-1.5.0.1_1,1 Information for firefox-1.5.0.1_1,1: Depends on: Dependency: pkgconfig-0.20 Dependency: expat-2.0.0

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 09:53, Ian Lord wrote: At 10:32 2006-02-21, Peter wrote: --- Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:09 2006-02-21, manish jain wrote: Hi, I just purchased an APC 500 Back UPS (the basic model, not the pro/smart one). It does not have any

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 10:08, Chuck Swiger wrote: Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:26, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] No. If your UPS isn't smart and does not have an external USB or serial port, apcupsd has nothing to work with. As best I can tell from

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 11:46, Ian Lord wrote: Lol in my own opinion, if the user that asked the question can't figure out there is a usb/serial port on the unit (I took the assumption as true :) I can hardly see how he would manage to compile and configure apcupsd :) What can I say.

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-22 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 05:07, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Donald J. O'Neill Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 8:47 AM To: Chuck Swiger Cc: manish jain; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 19:58, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi, I've googled. I've read the handbook, I've read Absolute BSD and still I can't understand FreeBSD Ports/Packages esp when it comes to upgrading via packages. I'm from a Linux (gentoo linux) background so I'm not a rough diamond.

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 20:59, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 20:32 -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Wednesday 22 February 2006 19:58, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi, I've googled. I've read the handbook, I've read Absolute BSD and still $pkg_add -vr x11/xterm-206_1

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-23 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 21:59, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:36 -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Wednesday 22 February 2006 20:59, Ow Mun Heng wrote: what about the dependency then? Ignore it? What if there are files needed by xorg-clients? eg: libXX.so.Y and which

Re: portsnap failing

2006-02-24 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Thursday 23 February 2006 05:33, Ashley Moran wrote: I'm trying to update my ports tree on a 6.0-RELEASE/amd64 machine. I get this error: Updating from Wed Feb 15 08:30:17 GMT 2006 to Thu Feb 23 10:20:03 GMT 2006. Fetching 3 metadata patches.. done. Applying metadata patches... done.

Re: release in cvsup supfile

2006-02-24 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 24 February 2006 20:35, Peter wrote: --- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey people, I notice that in my supfile, I have this: *default release=cvs tag=. I'm using FreeBSD 5.4. Should I change the tag to 5.4-RELEASE? I don't want ports that aren't going to

Re: release in cvsup supfile

2006-02-24 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 24 February 2006 22:35, Peter wrote: --- Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/24/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey people, I notice that in my supfile, I have this: *default release=cvs tag=. I'm using FreeBSD 5.4. Should I change the

Re: Install USB Printer on FreeBSD

2006-02-25 Thread David J Brooks
On Saturday 25 February 2006 03:23, Alin Tuhut wrote: Hello, I am trying with no luck setting up a an USB Xerox Phaser 3116 printer on FreeBSD 6.0 I have installed and enabled CUPS and from the CUPS web admin area I have added the printer as USB Printer #1. When I try to print a test page

Re: winmodem driver

2006-02-25 Thread David J Brooks
On Saturday 25 February 2006 05:21, kalin mintchev wrote: hi all... is there a win modem driver in 6.0 that can be used with the build-in modem on ibm thinkpads? Have you tried /usr/ports/comms/mwavem ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Bandwidth Problems with Freebsd 5.x

2006-02-25 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Sunday 19 February 2006 11:54, ptitoliv wrote: Mathieu CHATEAU a écrit : try this: ping -c 1000 -s 1500 IP_TO_PING wait for the 1000 ping to go trough. You should not have more than 0,5% of loss (is the servers aren't overload). If it's more or equal than 0,5%, it comes from the network

Re: Bandwidth Problems with Freebsd 5.x

2006-02-25 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 25 February 2006 16:30, ptitoliv wrote: Donald J. O'Neill a écrit : Not hardly. I'll bet that 950kB/s for the Debian box was the peak download speed and it didn't maintain it through the entire download. Don The Debian Box is capable to make a 5 MB/s stable connection easily

Re: Bandwidth Problems with Freebsd 5.x

2006-02-25 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 25 February 2006 18:00, ptitoliv wrote: Donald J. O'Neill a écrit : Maybe, but not to the internet on an 1.5Mb/s connection. Your aDSL line is only good for at most 1.5M and that's not guaranteed to happen all the time. There are a lot of things that go on to throttle

Re: Bandwidth Problems with Freebsd 5.x

2006-02-26 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Sunday 26 February 2006 08:10, ptitoliv wrote: Hello Everybody, I made lots of searches on the Internet and I found something about the option net.inet.tcp.inflight.enable. If I set this value to 0, my bandwitdh problems are resolved. Does anybody knows something about this options

Re: Help with IP Filter 4.1.8

2006-02-26 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Sunday 26 February 2006 11:19, fbsd_user wrote: Since you say the same ipf rules work on your 5.3 system and you are trying to run them on 6.1-PRERELEASE, I would say the problem is 6.1-PRERELEASE. Prereleases versions and RC version are not intended for public use. They are version for

Re: How to upgrade portsnap in freebsd 6.0?

2006-02-26 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Sunday 26 February 2006 16:50, Steve P. wrote: pkg_delete worked, as confirmed by pkg_version does not show it anymore. However, when I attempt to make install it from ports, I get this: # make install === portsnap-1.0 portsnap now contained in the base system. *** Error code 1 Any

Re: portsnap failing

2006-02-27 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Monday 27 February 2006 03:19, Ashley Moran wrote: On Saturday 25 February 2006 03:07, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: Why are you deleting the portsnap files. That's a 39 MB file that you have to download everytime you do that. The idea is to just download the patches necessary to update

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-02-28 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 05:46, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-02-28 12:15, Kristian Vaaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your buildworld sequence appears to be a little lacking - either in the detail you gave, or because some things are missing. The buildworld sequence I us is:

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-02-28 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 05:15, Kristian Vaaf wrote: Hello Don! Thank you for some good help. My make.conf only had some use.perl stuff. I added your flags. Also I've revised my sequence: cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile \ cd /usr/obj \ chflags -R noschg * \ rm -rf * \ cd

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-02-28 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 08:52, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 08:48:15AM -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: 11) script /home/script/buildworld/iw-???date run 12) cd /usr/srcpwd 13) mergemaster -p 14) make installworld 15) mergemaster -i

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-02-28 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 09:02, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-02-28 08:48, Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 28 February 2006 05:46, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Until you are satisfied that everything works without any problems at all, please don't use scripts

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-02-28 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 13:17, Kris Kennaway wrote: OK, but you were still confused, because mergemaster doesn't need a populated /usr/obj to do its thing (only a source tree). You can run it at any time, before during or after your buildworld. Well, I learned something new then. Thank

Re: Problems with Cron

2006-03-01 Thread David J Brooks
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 01:10, perikillo wrote: root: not found The FAQ explains it all: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#ROOT-NOT-FOUND-CRON-ERRORS David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established userbase.

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-03-01 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
. Regards Manish Jain Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:26, Chuck Swiger wrote: manish jain wrote: I just purchased an APC 500 Back UPS (the basic model, not the pro/smart one). It does not have any serial/usb interface. Can I get apcupsd

Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System

2006-03-01 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 16:31, Chris Maness wrote: Thanks, I do have port audit installed. I was refering to system security. The base system + FreeBSD userland. I wanted to do this because I did get a notice from the security list today. Do I do a make buildworld, to update the

Re: Where to place refuse file for CVSUP?

2006-03-01 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 21:10, Jose Borquez wrote: In my ports-supfile my base=/var/db and prefix=/usr. Does that mean I should place my refuse file in /var/db/sup/ ? I am a little confused, so if anyone can help me out it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Jose

Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System

2006-03-02 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Thursday 02 March 2006 13:59, Chris Hill wrote: On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Is my supfile correct to track security for freebsd-6.0? [snip] *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6 [snip] As I understand it, that tag will get you the latest released version of

Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System

2006-03-02 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Thursday 02 March 2006 16:23, Chris Hill wrote: Sorry for the misinformation! You are right, RELENG_6 is equivalent to -STABLE. I sit corrected. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] That's ok Chris. I knew you really knew what you

Problems with Kdevelop under 4.9-REL

2003-11-11 Thread J. Seth Henry
Guys, I know this doesn't *seem* like a FreeBSD question, but the problems started after an upgrade from 4.8 to 4.9. I understand a lot of libraries got minor version upgrades as well. Has anyone had any problems using the Kdevelop editor? I find that it occasionally hangs while typing. There

Re: Recursion with grep?

2003-11-13 Thread Francisco J Reyes
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Viktor Lazlo wrote: If there are a large number of files this will call grep numerous times--it would be more efficient to pass to xargs so grep is only called a few times: find . -type f -print | xargs grep options string Although in my case the files are few I will

Bugbuddy2 libxslt and xslt.2 library

2003-11-14 Thread E. J. Cerejo
I'm trying to upgrade bugbuddy2 but it needs the shared library xslt.2 which it should be part of libxslt, I've got libxslt installed but xslt.2 can't be found anywhere, bugbuddy2 looks for it and then tries to install libxslt even though it's already installed, and it fails because of that.

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