On Wednesday 05 March 2003 07:30 pm, Chris Howells wrote:
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| On Wednesday 05 March 2003 19:44, Bill Moran wrote:
| > Hell ... just install ActivePerl and write a perl script that does
| > lots and lots of number crunching (it need not be
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 07:28 pm, Chris Howells wrote:
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| Hi,
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| On Wednesday 05 March 2003 19:35, Tuc wrote:
| > So the next question is how do I approach Dell to replace
| > the motherboard/cpu/memory? If I show them FreeBSD they'l
On Sunday 02 March 2003 03:01 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
| On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:49:21PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote:
| > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cliff Sarginson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
| > > Will the ports maintainers *please* make sure they release
| > > compilable ports..especially for t
On Sunday 02 March 2003 02:22 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
| At the risk of being accused of a complainer..
| I will state here that my experiments in the use of portupgrade, have
| left me without a useable X system.
| Guess it is back to the CD's.
| Will the ports maintainers *please* make sure t
x for the new QT and then
try to get KDE to use the alternate prefix as its load library location
but my record trying that sort of thing has not been good.
On Friday 21 February 2003 08:15 pm, Gary D Kline wrote:
| On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 07:59:04PM -0500, Brian T. Schellenberger
wrote:
| >
On Friday 21 February 2003 03:25 pm, Gary D Kline wrote:
| On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:24:34AM -0800, David Cramblett wrote:
| > if you have KDE installed, try the program switchdesk on Linux.
|
| Well, I asked for Gnome and that's all my friend
| installed.
|
|
On Friday 21 February 2003 07:42 pm, Gary D Kline wrote:
| On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 07:01:55PM -0500, Brian T. Schellenberger
wrote:
| > On Friday 21 February 2003 03:25 pm, Gary D Kline wrote:
| > | On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:24:34AM -0800, David Cramblett wrote:
| > | > if
On Friday 21 February 2003 08:10 am, Alistair Phillips wrote:
| Hi guys,
|
| So I enabled SoftUpdates when I was busy with FDISK at the install
| time and now it seems like it may have been a bad idea. Now I know
| 4GB is not much but it seems that there is no more space left. And
| at times d
I would suggest installing staroffice instead. You can install it from
binaries so you don't have to compile it. In my experience it runs a
lot faster & better than openoffice as well. I had installed
openoffice but wound up dumping it in favor of staroffice myself.
On Tuesday 18 February
burncd is for IDE burners.
Use cdrecord for SCSI.
On Sunday 09 February 2003 01:17 am, David Loszewski wrote:
| When I try to burn with my Plextor scsi cdrom drive I get the
| following:
|
| zeus# burncd -f /dev/cd1 -s 12 data 4.7-disc1.iso fixate
| burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCGETBLOCKSIZE): Inappropri
No, not the vncserver script, the init script that invokes vncserver.
In fact, if you simply replace the line that says
vncserver
with the *exact* syntax I put in, it will work.
THe parentheses start a local environment and the PATH adds to the path
for that environment and then invokes v
I tried a couple of FreeBSD ICQ clients but they wanted me to tell them
my ICQ ID.
Well, I don't have one yet..
How do you get one in the first place?
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On Thursday 12 December 2002 03:45 pm, Brian wrote:
| getting vnc to start at boot is tricky, since you want it to start as
| some user, rather than as root. A solution I've been thinking of is
| looking at the output os ps auxw, grepping for Xvnc owned by the
| desired user, if its there exit,
Does anybody know how to customize the galeon (mozilla) context menus?
Eg, I want to re-arrange the order of the options for when hovering over
a picture . . . .
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I've used zip (quite recently in fact) to extract .exe archives.
No idea why/when it does/doesn't work, though.
On Thursday 10 October 2002 11:52 am, Nathan Kinkade wrote:
| On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:08:12AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote:
| > Nathan Kinkade said:
| > > I had Win2k Pro installed on t
On Monday 07 October 2002 09:19 am, Pookie wrote:
| How does FreeBSD handle itself when i disconnect the power plug on my
| laptop? I'm not sure how this works. Can someone please direct me in
| the proper direction?
Why would FreeBSD have to "do" anything?
Your laptop should handle it itself
On Friday 04 October 2002 04:49 pm, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
| On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, the wise Oliver Fromme spoke, and said:
| > Marco Beishuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > > That did the trick. I wrote a file to the cd and fixate worked
| > > correctly. At least I think it did, because when I
On Monday 30 September 2002 09:32 pm, éÌØÑ ûÉÐÉÃÉÎ wrote:
| Dear Sirs,
|
| every time I do "make buildworld", I usually apply several patches,
| is it possible to specify somewhere those patches ? I'm afraid I'll
| forget to apply them once...
Well, the patches really only need to be applied w
Or just boot off disk 2 of the distribution which is a "live filesystem"
rescue CD.
Then run boot0cfg to re-install the bootloader.
On Sunday 29 September 2002 09:22 am, Jimmy Lantz wrote:
| Check out liveCD
| livecd.sourceforge.net.
| / Hth
|
| At 18:26 2002-09-29 +0800, you wrote:
| >Hello a
.art is a graphics format of some sort.
Is there any FreeBSD program that will display these suckers, or better
yet convert them to so "normal" graphics format like .png, .jpg, or
.gif?
Thanks.
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Yes, I believe that they do.
On Friday 27 September 2002 08:16 am, John Bleichert wrote:
| On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Jack L. Stone wrote:
| > Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:55:09 -0500
| > From: Jack L. Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| > To: John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
| > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re
On Friday 27 September 2002 07:01 am, Petri Riihikallio wrote:
| >h I use apcupsd from ports which has shown to be very
| > reliable and has great docs. It has been months since I looked at
| > this stuff, but remember something like this issue you make was
| > covered in detail.
|
| Th
What is wrong with
shutdown -p now
?
(Or shutdown -h now, if you don't have APM?)
On Thursday 26 September 2002 11:09 am, Kirk Strauser wrote:
| At 2002-09-26T14:02:01Z, Petri Riihikallio
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > A couple of days ago I sent a message asking how to shut down a
| > Fr
On Thursday 19 September 2002 01:38 am, Peter Leftwich wrote:
| Tonight I surprised myself by running `find ~/Desktop/folder/ -name
| "*.jpg" -exec mv {} ~/Desktop/folderjpgs/ \;` successfully! My first
| custom find command line ever.
|
| But there were two issues -- I had to escape the semic
On Thursday 19 September 2002 01:52 am, Kris Kennaway wrote:
| On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 06:47:11PM -0400, Adam Bender wrote:
| > I tried to install LaTeX through /usr/ports/print/latex, and it
| > seemed to go OK, but it seems to be missing the package files.
| > When I try to compile with it, i
On Thursday 25 July 2002 02:23 pm, MET wrote:
| There is without a doubt that FreeBSD is an amazing server OS, but how
| well does it stand as a desktop, or rather a laptop. To be blunt, I'm
| tired of Microsoft and was wondering how feasible it is to run FreeBSD
| as my Laptop OS. I will do som
On Thursday 25 July 2002 06:41 pm, Jeff Jirsa wrote:
| On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Ed Yu wrote:
| > 4. Things like right click to change resolution and
| > wizards to help setup things, and various other small
| > things. But once you get the hang of it, you will
| > stick with FreeBSD, trust me.
|
| Thi
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On Wednesday 24 July 2002 10:47 pm, Wanda wrote:
| To whom it may concern,
|
| I am writing to ask for help about installing the FreeBSD in my computer.
| I have a DELL Optiplex GX 115, X86 Computer with Windows XP installed on
| the master drive 40 gigs. It has 512 Ram, 800 mhz, a slave drive 15
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 09:27 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Hi Brain,
|Thanks for getting back to me.
No problem.
|
| I'm happy to at last find someone who is willing to at least *say* that
| he's blasted and reinstalled a higher version of XFree86-4.
|
| From what you said here, I'll pro
[hope you don't mind me including the list back here since I think others
might find this info useful]
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 08:22 am, you wrote:
| Cool, thanks a million for the help!
|
| In fact, I had a crash about two months ago...I thihnk I had a trojan in
| som software I was un insta
x (didn't want that)
| The box hung at installation when I included gnome desktop (hence only
| XFree86-4.0.2 installed this time around)
|
|
| Well., thanks again for taking the time, Brian. Hope that what I've
| included here lights a few bulbs in a few peoples' heads before too
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 03:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Hi Doug,
|Thanks for getting back to me. I actually got around that problem in the
| end.
|
| However upon completing the upgrade, I noticed a couple of things:
|
| 1] startx has stopped working (just XFree86-4.0.2 from the 4.4 CD
On Tuesday 23 July 2002 10:36 pm, karl agee wrote:
| When using burncd, is it necessary to first create a iso fs on the cd??
| It's not clear in the man page if it does this or not.
Well, burncd will burn whatever you give it.
If you want an ISO disk then you'll need an ISO image. If you want a
On Tuesday 23 July 2002 09:23 pm, David Smithson wrote:
| Doh.
|
| > to enable it. Background fsck is only available in -current.
|
| -current? Hmmm...I probably shouldn't put current on this mission critical
| file-server. What do you think?
Of course not.
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On Tuesday 23 July 2002 07:30 pm, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
| patch diff.txt > orig.file
Please don't top-post on this list.
Also, that's not the right patch syntax. It's
patch < diff-file
(the patch should have the source file to which it applies already embedded in
the patch)
If t
On Tuesday 23 July 2002 08:11 pm, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
| On Tuesday 23 July 2002 06:19 pm, Jon Reynolds wrote:
| | I am new to freebsd and I need to update PHP because of the security hole
| | found in it. I believe that I can use a diff file to update it without
| | having to
On Tuesday 23 July 2002 06:19 pm, Jon Reynolds wrote:
| I am new to freebsd and I need to update PHP because of the security hole
| found in it. I believe that I can use a diff file to update it without
| having to completely redownload and recompile it, is this right? I also
| have never tried th
It looks like you could use disklabel to allocate cylinders 2872-3377 to
partition d. (And then newfs it.)
So just set up a partition d with an offset of 46129152 (that's 2097152 +
44032000) and a size of 8142848 (that's 54272000 - 46129152).
I've done this on a "live" system before, though
On Tuesday 23 July 2002 01:13 am, Steve Wingate wrote:
| On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 21:35, Mark B wrote:
| > OK I know I did something wrong, but with little chance to correct the
| > system, with error messages spewing out at a blinding rate, I hit the
| > reset button then fsck the disks on boot, the
On Monday 22 July 2002 09:47 pm, Ross Lippert wrote:
| Some of us never make world. Or rather, there must be an easier way to
| get this directory populated than having to learn how to make world.
| "make world" kind of makes me nervous.
|
| If this is a recognized problem, then why isn't it repo
Actually, I posted about this just yesterday, but not this list.
Set the location to get it from "All" instead of "Latest" and you should be
golden.
On Monday 22 July 2002 07:52 pm, Chris Denault wrote:
| I am trying to install XFree86 4.2 via package add using
|
| zeus:~> pkg_add -rv XFree86-
On Monday 22 July 2002 06:23 am, Jens Rehsack wrote:
| Philip Hallstrom wrote:
| > Hi all -
| > This seems like an obvious answer, but I didn't see anything in
| > the man pages or the FQ so...
| >
| > If I mount *all* of my partitions as read only (ignoring the problems of
| > needing to
On Monday 22 July 2002 02:38 am, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
| On 22/07/02 01:41 -0400, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
|
|
| > I would do
| >
| > mkdir /usr/var
| > mv /var/log /usr/var/log
| > ln -s /usr/var/log /var
|
| I would probably HUP syslogd too, given that the original files
On Monday 22 July 2002 01:34 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Hi
| I am trying to work out how to symlink my log files from /var
| to /usr/var (?/usrvar/log/) as var is full.to create some space.
| Should I copy the logs across then make the link?
| How do I actually make the link? Do I make it
On Sunday 21 July 2002 07:53 pm, Brian McCann wrote:
| Both. I use KDE only when I need to download stuff off the web, or look
| up something off the web, and I use KDE sometimes for mail. But I will
| always do my server "maint" and configs from a CLI using an editor like
| vi. None of my serv
I just updated my system after about six months, and this is surely the most
trivial of issues, but . . .
For some reason, now that I've updated my system to stable (as of Friday
night) and also wiped out and reinstalled *all* of my packages and ports,
I've run into a rather odd problem:
In
On Sunday 21 July 2002 07:08 pm, Grant Cooper wrote:
| quick question for the admins, do you guys perfer to work out of a GUI such
| as KDE or just from freeBSD CLI(command line interface)?
That's a little ambiguous. I, for one, Like to use a GUI on my "main screen"
just so that I can have edit
On Monday 15 July 2002 01:04 am, you wrote:
| sorry i did not explain properly, it just hangs at this message.
|
| F1FreeBSD
| Default: F1
| -
|
| hitting F1 or enter does not start the loading process.
| so what could be the cause of the problem?
Unfortunately, I don't have any idea.
Anybod
On Saturday 20 July 2002 08:32 am, éÌØÑ ûÉÐÉÃÉÎ wrote:
| Dear Sirs,
|
| after installing the port I see the following message in httpd-error.log:
|
| [Sat Jul 20 18:31:15 2002] [error] [client 212.57.175.94] Premature end of
| script headers: /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/majordomo
|
| what should I chec
On Thursday 18 July 2002 02:54 pm, Steve Mazerski wrote:
| On Thursday 18 July 2002 20:09, Daniel Bye wrote:
| > On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 07:15:10AM -0700, Balaji, Pavan wrote:
| > > By default, cdrom is /dev/acd0c is only mountable by root in FreeBSD.
| > > You can make it mountable by normal user
On Friday 19 July 2002 05:14 am, osama zekry wrote:
| what is kernel functions and what kernel meaning
First, please give your mail a meaningful subject.
Second, you are going to have to do some basic research before you send
questions to the list. Find and read a book or article on Unix; chec
On Thursday 18 July 2002 11:06 am, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
| IMHO, "op" is far superior to "sudo."
Hmm . . . come to think of it, that's a little terse.
"op" is easy to configure, and it allows you give access to people not to
certain commands but to c
IMHO, "op" is far superior to "sudo."
On Wednesday 17 July 2002 03:04 pm, Tom Limoncelli wrote:
| "Balaji, Pavan" wrote:
| > I wonder what exactly this means. I don't remember seeing any option for
| > creating/not-creating the wheel group while installation.
|
| It means "Install 'sudo' so that
I'm pretty sure that that buildworld does *not* build kernels.
If anybody has definitive information (like, proof) to the contrary I'd be
interested in knowing.
On Wednesday 17 July 2002 10:28 am, parv wrote:
| in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
| wrote John Mills thusly...
|
| > Pavan -
| >
| >
On Monday 15 July 2002 11:26 am, Vivek Khera wrote:
| > "RT" == Richard Tobin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| >>
| >> Yes. You need to wait for the system to "settle down" before dumping.
|
| RT> Is there any way to wait until a soft-update filesystem is up-to-date -
| RT> something like sync (
On Monday 15 July 2002 03:44 pm, paul serheyev wrote:
| I want to buy new external modem,so please what modem can u can advise me
| which works properly/ And if u have such give me your kernel configuration
| for it (com ports ,flags,irq for your current modem) THANKU
Any "real" external modem (R
On Monday 15 July 2002 11:27 am, Phil Gates wrote:
| Hi I sent a question to Document questions and I was told to send all
| questions to this email address . I am trying to setup a user to only be
| able to login to login as a ftp client. is this possiple.
Sure. Just set up their "shell" as so
On Monday 15 July 2002 01:55 pm, Balaji, Pavan wrote:
| > > I added a system call to the FreeBSD-4.6 kernel and
| >
| > compiled the kernel,
| >
| > > it compiled properly. Now, in my new kernel, if I try to make some
| > > changes in the system call (very minor changes) and recompile the
| > > ke
On Monday 15 July 2002 10:38 pm, Rob Andrews wrote:
| I've recently ran into a question of how to convert some backup
| cd images from a .bin format into .iso for use of being able to
| use the burncd utility on our freebsd box since we have fewer
| problems and errors when burning cd's on that ma
On Monday 15 July 2002 06:57 pm, Jeff Feller wrote:
| I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.6 on a Pentium 133 with a Western Digital
| 40 GB Hard Drive (WD400BB). The BIOS and everywhere else see's it as a 40
| GB drive but when I get into FreeBSD's FDISK part it thinks it's a 2 GB
| drive.
|
| I hook
On Monday 15 July 2002 09:52 am, Richard Tobin wrote:
| > Yes. You need to wait for the system to "settle down" before dumping.
|
| Is there any way to wait until a soft-update filesystem is up-to-date -
| something like sync (which doesn't wait for soft updates to complete).
|
| Of course you ca
On Monday 15 July 2002 09:23 am, Richard Tobin wrote:
| I deleted some files immediately before dumping a filesystem. When I
| checked the dump with "restore rN" I got several "cannot find
| directory inode xxx" messages. I dumped again, and the dump file
| was slightly smaller and produced no s
Well, the message is perfectly normal & correct.
It should, however, boot up FreeBSD 10 seconds later, or immediately if you
hit F1 or Enter.
So are we to gather that it hangs instead? Is that correct?
On Monday 15 July 2002 12:33 am, Marc Freeman wrote:
| Hi i am trying to installed freeB
On Saturday 13 July 2002 11:29 pm, Steven Lake wrote:
| Ok, I got a two part question.
|
| 1. I've got pine 4.44 installed. Is there any hot fixes,
| updates, or other upgrades that I need to make or is this the most current
| version?
You can cruise over to the freeBSD site and see what
On Saturday 13 July 2002 12:36 am, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
| > From: Brian T.Schellenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| > To: Holt Grendal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| > Subject: Re: Unloading Kernel Modules
| > Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 23:40:02 -0400
| >
| > On Friday 12 July 2002 10:33 pm, Ho
On Friday 12 July 2002 10:33 pm, Holt Grendal wrote:
| Hi,
|
| My kernal has these modules loaded:
| > kldstat
|
| Id Refs AddressSize Name
| 13 0xc010 1bb548 kernel
| 21 0xc5b8d000 14000linux.ko
That's probably because you enabled linux emulation way back when you
in
On Friday 12 July 2002 10:33 pm, Holt Grendal wrote:
| Hi,
|
| My kernal has these modules loaded:
| > kldstat
|
| Id Refs AddressSize Name
| 13 0xc010 1bb548 kernel
| 21 0xc5b8d000 14000linux.ko
That's probably because you enabled linux emulation way back when you
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