On 2/22/06, poria hariry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Dear Sirs
i am a ICT student . i have a project that moust install freebsd and
sharing file whit windows but i have a problem
i can not open Xwindow . can you help me about this.
tnx
1. You don't need Xwindows to share a file with
FluxBox)
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fluxbox
;;
I lost the original email so rather that misquote I'm not quoting
at all. Just thought I'd mention you should probably use the command
startfluxbox as opposed to fluxbox, to start your fluxbox session.
Mike
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 02:33:15PM -0500, Xn Nooby wrote:
I bought a QuickCam Orbit MP, which I apparently must use under Windows (or
Linux). From what I've seen online, not many (if any), people are using
webcams under FreeBSD. I was curious if there were other things that also
were not
Hello all,
Just wondering if anyone has had success with this device on freebsd.
It seems I can get the analog control to work but the hat (as it's
called) doesn't. Mame isn't as much fun to use with the keyboard ;)
Mike
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On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 11:56:26AM -0800, aguridan razvan wrote:
i'm switching to freeBSD from debian and i don't know how to switch the
runlevel of the system. i want to start my system in a user graphical
environment but i don't know how. can you please help me? thank you.
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 07:24:00PM +0200, Aivaras wrote:
How to get to samba share by name?
On windows mashine typing in explorer \\192.168.0.1 opens shares and
\\server doesnt.
Mounting localy on server:
mount_smbfs -I 192.168.0.1 //server/data /mnt/samba - works
mount_smbfs
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:07:25AM -0800, Danial Thom wrote:
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wrote:
Linux is just kernel only.
FreeBSD is complete operating system.
FreeBSD and Linux have almost similar
performance. There are much
already discussed about it, a
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:38:24AM -0800, Danial Thom wrote:
No, thats ridiculous. Linux has multiple
distributions that use the same kernel. The fact
that freebsd only has one distribution doesn't
make it any more complete.
Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:32:30PM +0200, Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT wrote:
any idea when i'll be able to use my sound card on freebsd ;) ?
[high definition audio :p]
changing the topic ;)
missed listening to music :'( [my speakers will get rot soon, dont even know
if they still work :p]
You know
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:04:10AM +0600, Aftab Jahan Subedar wrote:
Installing compiling KDE3 in 4.7 had problem in line 275 of
/usr/ports/x11/kdebase3/work/kdebase-3.4.3/kcontrol/usbview/usbdevices.cpp
Not ready for 3.5 yet are you?
Mike
Just so very recently, someone said:
| hello all, i have ipod nano and im using freebsd 6.0.
| DMESG command display (umass0: Apple iPod, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2)
message.The iPod nano is detected when
| plugged in, but a daX device is not created. please help me
I get that too with the 30GB
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 04:34:23PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
* On 09/12/05 11:13 +0200, Perttu Laine wrote:
And how about upgrading of apache itself. I can't just remove apache13 cause
lots of proggies are depending on it. So how I do procedure of upgrading it?
There is no
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 05:46:49PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
Your question seems to belong to apache-users list, no?
I was hoping some other freebsd user might have found a way to achieve a similar
goal via the ports system, really. Sorry if I crossed some line.
Mike
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 06:35:13PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
There appears to be so many arguments to `make` when compiling
applications fro the ports tree.
What beats me is where they are documented ;)
-Wash
/etc/make.conf?
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 07:01:31AM -0800, Micah wrote:
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
As far as I know Nvidia hasn't allowed Xorg to write drivers
for their cards, all the nvidia drivers out there are
binaries from Nvidia. This for me would cross that card
off my list.
Just to correct this bit
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 09:39:19PM +, Uncle Deejy-Pooh wrote:
I may be guilty of mis-reading this, but the thought of downloading @
compiling anything of any complexity fills me with horror !?!? By the time
KDE is ready to use, you'd have lost the will to live !
It's not so bad on a
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 05:47:55AM -0800, Joshua Lewis wrote:
I have a FreeBSD 5.4 system and I have no way to back up the data. I don't
have a burner and I can't get one anytime soon. I do however have a burner
on my wifes G4 laptop. I have enabled SSH on the FreeBSD system and I can
SSH
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 04:01:52PM +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote:
Hello
I've compiled thunderbird 1.0.7 from ports at 6.0-R and I have a small
problem which is when I click on an URL written in an email it does
not start firefox or any other www browser.
I thinks I miss something but ... what
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:22:08PM +, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Jeppe Larsen wrote:
After running cvsup and portupgrade, I'm having some problems with xterm
and some other programs.
Portupgrade failed because of the following:
=== xterm-206_1 conflicts with installed package(s):
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:59:40PM +, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
I don't think so. Keep track of which ports you deleted the
dependencies from, then when you have the whole xorg-clients/xterm mess
sorted out, just force a re-install of those packages and the right
dependencies will come
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:24:45AM -0800, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
New releases of xterm are made far more often than full X11
releases, so it makes more sense I guess. Every time a new
version of xterm is out, you don't really need to download
rebuild monster-tarballs with all the X11
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:20:01PM -0500, bob self wrote:
Yes, I have the nvidia driver installed. I used pkg_delete to remove
nvidia-driver. I already had the latest xterm installed.
I was now able to install xorg-clients. Finally, I re-installed
nvidia-driver and now everything is back to
On or near Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 08:02:06PM +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote something
along the lines of:
There are definitely security benefits from stripping unwanted services from
your system and I rather like to know that my system (and ports) are up to
date with the latest patches which
Hello all!
I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 now, and of course I'm thinking about my upgrade
to 6.0. What I'm wondering is if it's a Good Idea or a Bad Idea (tm) to
build everything from source. I have experience building linux from scratch
(linuxfromscratch.org) and I have learned that sometimes it's
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 04:16:32PM +, eoghan wrote:
Hello
Im just looking for some advice. Ive updated my ports since kde has
gone to 3.4.3. Im currently using 3.4.2. I want to upgrade. But Im
not sure if I do this will I loose all my current settings - like
desktop items etc. Also,
On 10/22/05, eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Id like to get it sending this name so I can also use it with samba
like:
\\home.nathaniel\public
Instead of using the machines IP address. Thanks for any help.
If you don't have a local dns server that you control (i.e. that you
can add the
On 10/22/05, eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Id like to get it sending this name so I can also use it with samba
like:
\\home.nathaniel\public
Instead of using the machines IP address. Thanks for any help.
I just woke up, sorry I clicked send before I realized that you said
you mac not your
On 10/16/05, Alejandro Valenzuela Roca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you have any suggestions on what I might try to make the wireless
mouse work?
Unfortunately I have no solution but I can tell you that on my Dell
system that came with a wireless mouse and keyboard, the keyboard
works, and the
Try /usr/ports/x11/3ddesktop
Mike =)
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On 10/14/05, Mark Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to get suggestions or input on
what you all use for your contact management and sales software.
Thanks very much in advance!
-Mark
I've found that kde's pim suite (kontact) works fine for me. I haven't
had to do expense reports from
On 10/6/05, Bob Ababurko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is this and where are the other mails to this thread?
Smells like classic trolling to me
Mike
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Has anyone gotten opencroquet (http://www.opencroquet.org/) to work
with freebsd? I see a version for mac, linux, and windows. Maybe under
linux emulation?
Mike
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On 9/29/05, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear list,
I am often annoyed trying to get a long directory listing from my unix box
while ftp'ing somewhere. pause is hardly useful, since the listing goes
by to quickly. Occasionally, I have found a site that uses |more , but this
is unusual. I
On 9/28/05, eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello
Im going to do a fresh install of 5.3 over the weekend, then id like
to upgrade to 5.4. My reasons for upgrading are: ill have to do it
some time or another and I cant always rely on having my trusty dvd
with me.
Why would you want to do
On 9/27/05, James McNaughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone ever gotten jackd to work. I'm having no
luck. Should I keep trying or is it a lost cause?
Jim
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On 9/26/05, Cristian Mijea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to broadcast live content captured via
a sound card. And I tried to install MuSE, via ports.
Can Muse actually do that sort of thing? I thought it was just a
sequencer? I use darkice + shoutcast server to stream content from my
dj
I'm using 5.4 with my 6800 right now... try installing the drivers
with the download from nvidia?
Mike
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On 9/14/05, Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
stuff about gnome needing epiphany
Yeah I think a while back the gnome guys made epiphany their
official browser. I dunno what's wrong with galeon, it's always been
my fav on gnome desktops. *shrug*
Mike
I think one jail for them all would be the only option, think if you
have 10+ users that's a lot of copies of binaries and libs. You might
want to look into jailkit:
http://olivier.sessink.nl/jailkit/howtos_chroot_shell.html
I've used it on linux before but never bsd.
Good luck!
Mike
-t could work for you. Just check the man page it's at the top.
-Mike
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On 9/10/05, Jan Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You're using the default whole slice partition, ad1s1c. My guess is,
you're using the default disklabel for that slice.
Jan is right. The only time I've had the above issue though, was when
I was trying to fsck an ext2 partition without having the
Have you tried explicitly telling fsck what file system it's going to
be checking?
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If you ask him not to do so, then you know who he is, correct? The
best way to prevent him from continuing is to deny him access to the
network. AFAIK there is no way to block a scan, though you could
close ports and otherwise secure your systems so that the scans won't
produce any helpful
On 9/6/05, Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a directory, no idea where it came from called '-X' and it has
consumed my entire /home partition, now 10GB. Given the name, I am
finding it hard to remove, how can I remove this file? I've been doing a
lot of backup script testing
On 9/2/05, C. Michailidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes yes? Reasonable?
Sounds good to me:) I was thinking for a moment that maybe there was
some special feature that was OS dependent.
Mike
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I don't think there is a default. But I can tell you that if you
want something small, try fluxbox-devel from ports, or one of the
other lightweight wm's available there.
Mike
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I was reading osnews just now and noticed a link re: the Equinox
Desktop Environment. To me it looks like... fvwm95... or icewm... but
what's got me a little confused is this: The most important feature
is full FreeBSD support. Could someone clue me in as to what exactly
that means? I've tried a
On 9/1/05, Jim Janovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
I am running 5.4 on an i386 and with any passwd-like command, passwd,
chpass, chsh, I get a seg fault core dump. Any ideas? Any help would be
greatly appreciated.
Not sure if it's anywhere near related, but I've had issues
On 8/30/05, WOB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Basically, I use FreeBSD at home, and want to connect to my XP Pro box
at work.
You could probably use openvpn. It's in ports and also available for windows.
Mike
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On 8/23/05, Eric Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When installing X fonts whats the best way to do this
say I found a font I really like thats manily for windows ...the file is
called XCELI.TTF
So I figured I could go to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF and place the file
there..then open ip
On 8/18/05, Gayn Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thus my questions: any ideas for very elementary reading on computers
for a 10 year old? Any ideas for an appropriate web site for her?
Anyone tried PicoBSD as an example of a small OS?Can anyone advise
me as to how much of FreeBSD I
On 8/19/05, Eric Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey all Im trying to install OSS to get 5.1 sound working -- I keep getting
THIS error:
(I get a similar error when trying to run glxgears as well)
greed# ./oss-install
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libncurses.so.5 not found,
On 8/17/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey everyone,
I downloaded some themes from freshmeat hoping to get the entire theme but
realised that they don't come with the cool background images.
Some do, some don't. I actually find themes.org (now
themes.freshmeat.net) a good
On 8/17/05, Campbells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey everyone,
I run Fluxbox and I'm looking for an efficient, complete and good looking
file
manager. Any suggestions?
Rox-filer is nice...
Mike
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In my quest to remove windows from my machine I am working on a list
of stuff I can do with windows that I can't figure out how to do with
*nix. The item I'm up to now is simultaneous streaming and recording
of audio from my line-in. I can use audacity to record, and stream
with the shoutcast
On 8/13/05, Carstea Catalin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can i share ( with chmod for example ) for only some users ( web
programmers ) only one directory where they can put his web pages.
Ex : share : /var/www/html/dir1
for user1,user2,user3
If user1 make ssh on my server he can
On 8/11/05, Tom Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Something else just occured to me. Am I going to need a separate pop3
daemon, or does postfix do that too?
Thanks again,
Tom Norris
You'll need something else for pop/imap.. you might try courier or dovecot...
Mike
On 8/6/05, Mitch Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am a newbie to freeBSD.
In my job I work with Solaris and RedHat Linux. Occasionally I work on AIX
and HP-UX servers as well.
I have been fascinated with Linux and would like to have a deeper knowledge
of the OS.
You might want
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