Re: Out of curiousity: Who am I mailing to?

2004-05-12 Thread platanthera
On Wednesday 12 May 2004 06:42, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: Sir, ... I'm just wondrin' who exactly am I mailing to? ... Not exclusively to male individuals. Please try not to make anyone feel you're not interested in their opinion because of their gender. thanks

strange system behavevior

2004-05-12 Thread platanthera
Sorry for not choosing a more specific subject line, I've got no idea what's going on with my system. Please help me to find out. My problems started a few days ago when I updated security/cfs to version 1.4.1_1. After doing that, clear text access to encrypted directories was no longer

Re: Creating periodic cron jobs

2004-05-13 Thread platanthera
On Thursday 13 May 2004 17:51, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I am trying to create a quarter-daily cron job on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 as follows in /etc/crontab: 05 0,6,12,18 * * * root periodic quarter-daily I created the /etc/periodic/quarter-daily directory and placed my script

Re: uninstalling base packages

2004-05-12 Thread platanthera
On Wednesday 12 May 2004 17:04, Chris Ochs wrote: I want to uninstall the heimdal kerberos that comes in the base freebsd install. How do you delete software packages that are in the base install and that I didn't install manually with the package system? Chris You could adjust

Re: sys messages on X desktop

2004-05-12 Thread platanthera
On Wednesday 12 May 2004 20:00, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2004 19:47:47 +0200 Martin Vana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I saw a screenshot and there was console running with sysmessages, how can I run such a console? thanx simple version (as root): # tail -f

COPTFLAGS (not?) only for compiling the kernel?

2004-05-13 Thread platanthera
[/etc/make.conf] ... # To compile just the kernel with special optimizations, you should use # this instead of CFLAGS (which is not applicable to kernel builds anyway). # There is very little to gain by using higher optimization levels, and doing # so can cause problems. # COPTFLAGS= [whatever]

Re: Do not know how to build a device In Freebsd 5.2.1

2004-05-13 Thread platanthera
On Thursday 13 May 2004 22:28, Abbas Karbassian wrote: Dear All; I have managed to install FreeBsd5.2.1. I have a TV card which is working under FreeBsd 4X without any problem. I tried to build the bktr device under FreeBsd5.2.1, and when I used MAKEDEV bktr, I go the message displayed on

Re: COPTFLAGS (not?) only for compiling the kernel?

2004-05-13 Thread platanthera
On Friday 14 May 2004 00:48, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:29:07PM +0200, platanthera wrote: [/etc/make.conf] ... # To compile just the kernel with special optimizations, you should use # this instead of CFLAGS (which is not applicable to kernel builds anyway

Re: COPTFLAGS (not?) only for compiling the kernel?

2004-05-13 Thread platanthera
On Friday 14 May 2004 01:09, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 01:12:41AM +0200, platanthera wrote: On Friday 14 May 2004 00:48, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:29:07PM +0200, platanthera wrote: [/etc/make.conf] ... # To compile just the kernel

Re: COPTFLAGS (not?) only for compiling the kernel?

2004-05-13 Thread platanthera
On Friday 14 May 2004 01:41, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 01:39:34AM +0200, platanthera wrote: On Friday 14 May 2004 01:09, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 01:12:41AM +0200, platanthera wrote: On Friday 14 May 2004 00:48, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, May

Re: Problems running startx on FreeBSD 5.2.1

2004-05-14 Thread platanthera
On Friday 14 May 2004 07:18, Sanjay Chadda wrote: Folks, I have a Dell 2400 series desktop with Pentium4 processeor. I am not sure what graphics card I have. I looked at the Dell site and it seems these models have the integrated chipset 82845G on them. So while configuring Xserver, I gave

Re: COPTFLAGS (not?) only for compiling the kernel?

2004-05-14 Thread platanthera
On Friday 14 May 2004 00:03, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-05-13 23:29, platanthera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [/etc/make.conf] ... # To compile just the kernel with special optimizations, you should use # this instead of CFLAGS (which is not applicable to kernel builds anyway

Re: Display installed port dependencies

2004-05-15 Thread platanthera
On Saturday 15 May 2004 03:44, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, Is there a simple way to display a list of all installed packages that depend on another given installed package? pkg_info -R foo will list all currently installed packages that depend on foo regards

where has /etc/defaults/make.conf gone? [was: COPTFLAGS...]

2004-05-16 Thread platanthera
On Saturday 15 May 2004 03:31, Chuck Swiger wrote: platanthera wrote: On Friday 14 May 2004 00:03, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: [ ... ] Yes, you do. But I'm sure that you will find the make.conf(5) manpage very informative and useful. not really. it says ... The /etc/make.conf file

Re: Help with editing partition tables

2004-05-17 Thread platanthera
On Monday 17 May 2004 06:17, Phil Thomson wrote: Hi all, I am a relative newbie to UNIX, going from being an ex-Windows user to being an X Windows user! ;-) I recently got FreeBSD installed on an older PC with a 3 GB drive and a 5 GB drive (which has not yet been mounted). The system is

Re: Help with editing partition tables

2004-05-17 Thread platanthera
On Monday 17 May 2004 14:41, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 01:21:44PM +0200, platanthera typed: On Monday 17 May 2004 06:17, Phil Thomson wrote: Hi all, I am a relative newbie to UNIX, going from being an ex-Windows user to being an X Windows user! ;-) I recently got

Re: Help with editing partition tables

2004-05-17 Thread platanthera
On Monday 17 May 2004 17:07, Robert Huff wrote: platanthera writes: you could (and definitely should) have a separate slice for /tmp and eventually another one for /home too. May I ask your logic here? Is this about safety, convenience, overcrowding? You noticed that I accidently

ls(1) crashes

2004-05-17 Thread platanthera
hi. ls(1) crashed (exited on signal 10) for the second time within a few days today. Could you please have a look at the core file and tell me what's going on? Or even better yet - point me to a beginners guide on how to interpret core files thanks a lot

Re: ls(1) crashes

2004-05-17 Thread platanthera
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 00:05, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (May 18), platanthera said: ls(1) crashed (exited on signal 10) for the second time within a few days today. Could you please have a look at the core file and tell me what's going on? Or even better yet - point me

Re: ls(1) crashes

2004-05-18 Thread platanthera
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 14:26, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 12:25:09AM +0200, platanthera wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2004 00:05, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (May 18), platanthera said: ls(1) crashed (exited on signal 10) for the second time within a few days

Re: Is There Any Professional To Help Me!

2004-05-19 Thread platanthera
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 12:37, mehrdad nosrati wrote: Dear All, I've a FreeBSD 3.4 Release.My cronttab file is like: # /etc/crontab - root's crontab for FreeBSD # # $FreeBSD: src/etc/crontab,v 1.18.2.2 1999/08/29 14:18:39 peter Exp $ # SHELL=/bin/sh

Re: cron can't find root or operator

2004-05-20 Thread platanthera
On Thursday 20 May 2004 17:47, Bill Moran wrote: carvin5string wrote: I have a new server set up and running and am getting a slew of messages from cron, like this - Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] root /usr/libexec/atrun Body: root: not found and Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] operator

Re: Correct steps to recompile kernel

2004-05-20 Thread platanthera
On Thursday 20 May 2004 18:39, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Bill, Tks for your advice. - snip - # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf # cp GENERIC GENERIC.bak # cp GENERIC MYKERNEL # ee MYKERNEL (modifying the kernel) This is good ... although making a backup of GENERIC is somewhat

Re: cron can't find root or operator

2004-05-20 Thread platanthera
On Thursday 20 May 2004 22:57, carvin5string wrote: --- Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've got a user's crontab created in the format of the system crontab. The system crontab has an extra field to designate the user under which the job should run. When this field is entered

home on a gbde encrypted partion

2004-05-21 Thread platanthera
hi all, I want to move my home directory to a gbde encrypted partition. I plan to have only the default dotfiles in /home/xxx (before mounting the encrypted partition), log in as usual, attach and fsck the encrypted partion and then mount it 'over' /home/xxx. Is there anything wrong with this

Re: home on a gbde encrypted partion

2004-05-22 Thread platanthera
On Friday 21 May 2004 17:49, platanthera wrote: hi all, I want to move my home directory to a gbde encrypted partition. I plan to have only the default dotfiles in /home/xxx (before mounting the encrypted partition), log in as usual, attach and fsck the encrypted partion and then mount

Re: home on a gbde encrypted partion

2004-05-23 Thread platanthera
On Sunday 23 May 2004 01:56, Robert Storey wrote: On Sat, 22 May 2004 12:54:29 +0200 platanthera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 21 May 2004 17:49, platanthera wrote: hi all, I want to move my home directory to a gbde encrypted partition. I plan to have only the default

Re: FreeBSD

2004-05-26 Thread platanthera
On Wednesday 26 May 2004 17:24, Fox wrote: ! . FreeBSD 5.2, . FreeBSD 5.2. ! My Russian is quite poor, but if I did understand you correctly, you are looking for help with the installation of FreeBSD. There is a Russian version of the FreeBSD handbook available online

Re: make depend error

2004-06-01 Thread platanthera
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 04:39, john huss wrote: Hello, Can any of you kind teeps help me out please? I'm trying to compile my FreeBSD 4.9 kernel for the first time and am having problems. I am recompiling for several reasons; to learn about compiling the kernel; to get sound support for my

silky doesn't start -- mime.types missing

2004-06-01 Thread platanthera
Hello. Just built/installed silky-0.5.1 on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 box - without any problems. But to run it, I apparently need a mime.types file which is currently missing. - How can I get it? Thanks a lot in advance -- silky -d main.c:442, main(): Debug turned on support.c:1465,

Re: [solved] silky doesn't start -- mime.types missing

2004-06-01 Thread platanthera
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Re: voodoo 2

2004-06-28 Thread platanthera
On Saturday 26 June 2004 20:34, arden wrote: hi all I've been trying to re-use some old pcs i have kicking around i really amazed at how much you can do with a k6/2 400 if you tweak it right one of these pcs has an 16 meg voodoo 2 card is it possible to use the 3d functions of this card

Re: mc and kde 3.2

2004-06-28 Thread platanthera
On Monday 28 June 2004 02:55, Javier Ramirez wrote: Hi I have a question, why freebsd 5.2.1 don't have mc ? and how adapt kde 3.2 to my freebsd 5.2.1 ? regards Javier Ramirez hi Javier, mc and kde3 are in the ports collection. see chapter 4 of the handbook

Re: Updating newly installed FreeBSD-5.2.1

2004-07-04 Thread platanthera
On Sunday 04 July 2004 14:26, Stacey Roberts wrote: Hello, Forgive the simple question here, please. I've just installed FreeBSD-5.2.1 from BSDMall's CD-Set, and I wanted to do what I'd usually do with a new installation of FreeBSD-4.x, which is to update it to the latest stable of that

Re: Updating newly installed FreeBSD-5.2.1

2004-07-04 Thread platanthera
On Sunday 04 July 2004 14:53, Stacey Roberts wrote: Hello Louis, Thanks for the response. - Original Message - From: Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: To [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 04 Jul, 2004 13:40 BST Subject: Re: Updating newly installed FreeBSD-5.2.1 On 07/04/04

Re: write failed filesystem full on fresh install of 5.4

2005-05-15 Thread platanthera
On Saturday 14 May 2005 23:30, Ross Adams Lippert wrote: I'm sorry I was not more specific. /var has 256MB /tmp has 256 / has 256 /usr has 4500MB newfs had been run on everything. ftp was passive. Since base is about 46MB of material, it seems it could put it anywhere. This occurs 3%