Re: help i need a help
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 anyone, not even windows machines, believe it or not :) 2. Once you have your network set up properly (see the handbook), move on to 3. 3. In my opinion, you really need help with samba, not freebsd (all you have to do is install samba, which is as easy as cd /usr/ports/wherever/samba/is/hiding/ ; make install) samba documentation is plentiful on the web, ask google... the only issues that might be freebsd specific when it comes to samba involve the location of the config files and binaries. I could be wrong... good luck :) Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kdm and fluxbox
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What doesn't work on desktop FreeBSD ? (ex Webcams)
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 realistic to do (I'm not complaining). Some of the things that do work are my soundcard, nVidia card, gigabit NIC, opengl games, wine, accelerated qemu, hp inkjet printer, and lots of wonderful free software. Qemu nullified my need for VMWare (though I own 5.5 for win and linux). OpenOffice, Abiword, and Firefox with flash and java works. Lots of stuff works. I'm just curious if I am going to hit any roadblocks down the road. My printer works, but the scanner portion requires a reboot to windows or I have plug it into my powerbook. It's an HP PSC something or other. Midi - well... most open source operating systems aren't great in that area My nvidia card works except that gtk2 applications get this very strange text decay pretty often. It's very strange that the text gets very blurry and distorted sometimes. Only happens with the nvidia driver and composite render accel. I posted to the nvidia freebsd forum about it, one other person verified the issue... doesn't look like it's going to get fixed any time soon. (note - never had that problem with linux) My quickcam pro doesn't work, but I never expected it to really. My ipod video is recognized but I can't access the device. I hear this may be fixed now, I have to cvsup my tree and see if it works now. I have a couple of logitech dual action joypad things, they kinda work, but they don't fully work. Luckily I have 2 other operating systems to choose from if I really need to use one of the non-working things I mentioned above ;) Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Logitech Dual Action Gamepad
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help
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. look in the handbook for setting up XDM. It's not controlled by the runlevel of your system, it's more about setting up your display manager at system startup. Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: samba mount by name
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 //server/data /mnt/samba - mount_smbfs: can't get server address: syserr = Operation timed out ping server - I get good response - ping works to that name. /etc/hosts: 192.168.0.1 server.domain.com server You'll either need a DNS server or you'll have to edit your hosts files. To include the names and ip's of the machines you want to connect to by name. Windows has a hosts file that works very similar to /etc/hosts. You need to add the ip address and name of the machine to it. Mike H ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:07:25AM -0800, Danial Thom wrote: --- FlashWebHost.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 google search will give you more info. Nothing personal, but thats about the dumbest and most wrong (wrongest???) answer that one could possibly contemplate. DT Actually he's not too far off, Linux really is a kernel, it's not so much of an operating system until you get all the GNU tools to go along with it. Luckily there are distributions that do that for you, or you can go the LFS or DIY route I suppose and download everything yourself. As far as similar performance... well performance has a lot to do with the hardware and applications in question, but I must say there are no major differences between running kde on linux and kde on freebsd on my home pc. So although the answer is incomplete for sure, I certainly wouldn't say that it's the dumbest and/or wrongest reply that could have been given. Of course if the OP would have just googled this could have all been avoided to begin with ;) Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
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 the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in a combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU, with Linux functioning as its kernel. http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html Google for linux is a kernel. Doesn't make FreeBSD better. Just means that when you say FreeBSD you refer to an entire OS and when you say Linux you refer to a kernel. Mike PS we all know the most important difference anyway: linux has a penguin. ;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
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 it could be worse, you could be using OpenBSD and then you'd never even have a chance at getting a proprietary driver to work. ;) In the meantime why don't you spend $5 and get a cheap sound card to give you something to do while you wait?:) OpenBSD vs. FreeBSD vs. Linux opens up a new old can of worms... or is that an new can of old worms? Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE3 install problem n solution (BUG ????)
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to use ipod nano in freebsd 6.0
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 iPod I just bought. I think there's an issue preventing new iPods from working with FreeBSD. I even formatted mine for windows since it's easier to read vfat rather than HFS. Still nothing. If you get your nano workin please let me know :) Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apache13 to 22
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 clear-cut upgrade procedure, but it's doable, I think, but on the same machine, you really have to schedule a downtime and let your users know that you will be upgrading and the downtime will be about NN minutes long. You'll really need to deinstall apache13, then install apache22 and reinstall mod_php5. This is where the downtime comes in. I'm messing with apache on my home computer, and with apache13 I was able to use mod_ruby. mod_ruby doesn't seem to like apache22 though =/ Is it even possible to use mod_ruby with apache 2? I was going to start a new thread but it's related to this so I figured I'd just add to this one. Thanks Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apache13 to 22
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: args to `make` within the ports tree
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? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does FreeBSD 6.0 fully support PCI-Express?
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 of mis-information, there are two drivers available for nvidia. The nv driver is an open source driver provided by xorg, and the nvidia driver is a closed source driver provided by nvidia. And the nvidia driver is in the ports tree, and works just fine. Just watch out if you're messing with the composite extension, glx, etc. I've been using it with my GeForce 6800 Pci-X card for months now with no problems (of course the composite stuff is still a bit flaky but it's still new). Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Regarding whi
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 recent machine... I installed 6.0, then rebuilt it all so it would be compiled with -O2 -march=pentium4. Installed all my apps from the ports tree. Didn't take too long really. It was actually really fast, imho. But then again I've spent a few years building linuxfromscratch which is a long long long process if you actually read through the text of the book and copy paste the commands by hand. Building FreeBSD turned out to be so easy it felt like I was cheating :) Oh and it just WORKS when it's done, which is a plus. Mike PS though there are fundamental differences between bsd and linux, and you may also harbor some penguin hate... I suggest you try lfs at least once if you want to see how the gnu tools and stuff work together. It's actually quite interesting. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Secure File Copy
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 into the box from the Mac, However I do not know how to copy the files I need to back up from the FreeBSD system to the Mac. Thanks ahead of time for any help. You said the easiest way in your subject, just use scp :) You could also install samba on the bsd box and use mac os x's smb support, or you can set up nfs. I suggest scp, it's the easiest since you already have an ssh server running. quick example: scp local_file.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Good luck :) Mike H ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: thunderbird port problem ?
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 ??? Thanks a lot for any info You'll have to edit the prefs.js file IIRC, to set the url handler. Same goes for if you want thunderbird to open when you click on mailto: links in firefox. Google returns many results, some freebsd specific. Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xterm conflicts with xorg-clients
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): xorg-clients-6.8.2 They install files into the same place. Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1). *** Error code 1 Don't delete any of those dependencies! If you do then you will probably have to re-install those packages to get the dependencies back. Great. I just had the same problem and I deleted the dependencies ;) This is fun. If I had only waited 10 minutes... I hope I didn't break anything beyond repair. Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xterm conflicts with xorg-clients
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 back. Time consuming, but not rocket science ;-) I had to do something like that when interrupting gnome_upgrade early seems to bugger everything a treat, but I got everything back OK (I think!). Great ;) I'm still working on my first year with freebsd so this a great learning experience. Without getting too far OT, is there a quick explanation as to why xterm is a separate port? Does it take up so much space that it would bloat a standard Xorg/Xfree install? Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xterm conflicts with xorg-clients
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 sources. A simple portupgrade invocation takes care of updating just xterm: # portupgrade -vuN xterm That's probably why it's a separate port. Thanks for the quick and concise reply. It made sense to me to have the xorg-clients and server parts as separate pacakges, but I couldn't figure out why xterm would be alone. Now I have an idea :) Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can I install xorg-clients?
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 normal. I didn't realize there was a port for the driver ;) I installed with the tar.gz I found on nvnews.net (Where I used to get my linux driver) What I had to do in order to achieve the effect above is install the driver from the port and then deinstall it and then reinstall xorg-clients and then reinstall the nvidia driver. I suppose I could have just removed the offending files, but this seemed to me to be the best way to go. And it worked, which is what matters most to me ;) Just a note in case someone else is following or found this thread in the archives... I did all my b0rking remotely, and after removing xorg-clients and not being able to reinstall it (until coming home and reading my mail) I had my kdm screen still there waiting for me. I tried to log in and it told me that iceauth was missing. Yes, iceauth is part of the xorg-clients port. What I did was cd into the iceauth dir of the port (something like work/programs/iceauth) and ran make install from there. This allowed me to log in to kde once again. Does it make sense to mess about with x11 ports from a running x session? probably not. But it was comforting to work from an Eterm, especially after wondering all day whether or not I did serious damage to my brand new install ;) Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good idea or Bad idea?
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 occasionally requires that you rebuild everything. I would imagine that there is some very minor perfomance benefit in that my new kernel and all its bits and pieces is 22mb smaller than the default shipped in RELENG_6 18M./kernel 42M./kernel.old Smaller kernel size is plus, and staying up to date with the latest patches is also a benefit that I hadn't considered. Are there security patches for 6.0 already? I just noticed so many mails on this list recently re: build failures that I thought it would be good to ask if there really was any noticeable performance increase. I know that the OpenBSD project actually discourages users from building the system unless it is absolutely necessary, noting that it's more likely to cause problems than to provide any tangible benefits. So far it looks like a worthwhile venture :) I'd certainly like to see if there are any differences in terms of speed between the default binary build (which for me is i386, and interestingly enough is still called i386 even though 386 itself is no longer supported as of 6.0) and a build done with march=686. It looks as though either way the upgrade to 6.0 should leave me with a system that feels faster. I'd like to wait till the Saturday but I'm not sure how much longer I can fight off the urge to start the minute I get home hehe Thanks to all who replied! And thanks to the FreeBSD team for giving me 0 reasons to miss Linux =) Mike H ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good idea or Bad idea?
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 just a better
idea to use binary packages (i.e. building everything from source can be
a waste of time if there is no performance gain, and it's easy to screw up.)
I have no trouble following docs, so I'm not really worried about blowing
everything up in the process (even though I might haha...) I'm just wondering
if there are any real (noticeable) performance increases if I build my kernel
and base system from source. Of course either way my ports will be compiled.
Any feedback is appreciated - especially in regards to {C,XX}FLAGS and even
more appreciated in the case of DO NOT USE -br34k-all when compiling __ ;)
I've had my share of oops I guess didn't like -fomit-frame-pointer in
the past with linux ;)
Thanks!
Mike
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Re: update kde
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, do I do a pkg_remove kde3 and then pkg_add - r kde3? I dont want to try anything just yet in case I mess things up... I've been updating my ports tree constantly and haven't noticed the kde version bump up to 3.4.3 yet. Was it done recently? I was hoping that with the release of 6.0 that the ports tree would have been updated :) Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: computer name
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 hostname too), then you'll have to add home.nathaniel to the hosts file of the box you are trying to get there from. Windows has a hosts file similar to your freebsd box. Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: computer name
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 windows box ;) I just saw the samba and assumed. Either way there's a host file you can edit. Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop v 2.10 (mouse not being detected)
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 mouse doesn't. I had to resort to using an old usb mouse that I had laying around. Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New Desktop Manager
Try /usr/ports/x11/3ddesktop Mike =) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Contact Management Software
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 it though. Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Here's the proof.
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
opencroquet?
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: long ftp dir listings
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 often resort to using ftp in Windows DOS mode so I can scroll up a long listing. Any good methods would be appreciated. I use zsh's built in ftp. It's as simple as this (assuming zsh is installed): #[probably put this in .zshrc] zmodload zsh/zftp autoload -U zfinit zfinit zfopen ftp.whatever.foo [user pass when prompted] zfcd pub/example/test/etc zfls|less The real beauty of it is that you can use all of zsh's expansions and the ftp stuff sits in the background while you use your shell. For more info man zshzftpsys Good luck :) Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrading
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 that? Why not just install 5.4? Or wait a bit and install 6? Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: jack audio server - it won't work
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It worked with lots of errors... really a no go. If you get it working make sure you post it because I sure would love to use it ;) Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: muse
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 equipment... maybe that will work for you. Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nvidia idrivers
I'm using 5.4 with my 6800 right now... try installing the drivers with the download from nvidia? Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Replacing Epiphany with Firefox ...
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Requesting advice on Jail technique.
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is fsck trying to tell me?
-t could work for you. Just check the man page it's at the top. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is fsck trying to tell me?
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 proper stuff installed (e2fsprogs). My error though, of course, was fsck: exec fsck_ext2fs., as opposed to fsck_unused. In this case it looks like fsck is doing what it can but as Jan said, the type for the c partition is unused. Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is fsck trying to tell me?
Have you tried explicitly telling fsck what file system it's going to be checking? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: port scanning and hidden servers
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 information? Hiding a server wont help much, nmap can scan blocks of IP's. If the servers aren't on the same network as your users they can't be scanned easily, but that might complicate your setup. IMHO, revoke the user's permission to access the network, or bring up the issue with someone who has the authority to do so. Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Large -X directory
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 that devel server, so I am assuming it came from a bad run at this point with the -X option of tar placed incorrectly. Try rmdir -- -X Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: EDE
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs. window managers
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
EDE
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 lot of window managers on linux, freebsd, openbsd, even Tiger on my powerbook, and none had full support for any specific OS. I'm thinking maybe it didn't compile under freebsd before? I checked their faq but maybe this question isn't frequent enough to make the list ;) Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd 5.4 seg fault with any passwd command
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 like that with linux when I was experimenting with PAM, Shadow, and cracklib. If you have been messing with that stuff it may be a similar problem. AFAIK the issue was a shadow bug, which was fixed in releases that followed. Just mentioning it in case... Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there a way to connect to a Microsoft VPN?
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fonts Question...
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 xfontsel and have at it.. This didnt work...so my question is.. how do you install custem X fonts and can you use windows fonts? I drop them in the TTF directory and run fc-cache. Works for me; I have ttf fonts in my fluxbox menu's etc. Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD and projects for kids
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 need to load before there are interesting games for 10 year olds in the games ports? Other advice/ideas? Not sure if you wanted to get her started on programming, but if so you might check out http://www.squeakland.org/ Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quick sound question
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, required by oss-install Looks like ncurses is missing it's in ports under devel Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: themes
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 source for backgrounds... I get them from themes made for window managers I don't even use ;) Currently I'm using http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/rootbox/ If you like the rpg Final Fantasy XI you can check out http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/mithraranger/ The mithraranger style was made by a student I had working with me over the summer as an intern. As you can see I allowed him to use bluefish, after spending a week on vimtutor just to make sure he appreciated how lucky he is to have a nice gui haha :) Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommend a file manager
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
stream + record audio simultaneously (jack?)
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 server + darkice, but I can't stream and record at the same time. I've done some research and it looks like I may be able to accomplish this using Jack. So far I've also found some good news: jack and darkice are already ports, and darkice can use jack... and audacity's homepage says it can be compiled with jack support as too... but the good news seems to end there. If anyone knows of a way to stream record simultaneousy with freebsd (with jack or by any other means) please let me know... thanks! Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Connect from distance!
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 view,read,modify,remove only files from /var/www/html/dir1 .. Sounds to me like you might want to just user mod_userdir. There are config examples in the deafult httpd.conf. Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Any suggestions for a MTA for a new admin?
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: Looking to get involved.
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 to look into linux from scratch (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org) I've learned a great deal about linux from building it that way. You do realize you are asking about linux on a FreeBSD list, which is not linux, right? Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
