Re: 5.3 diskless PC & 2 NICs: Can I separate NFS from other network trafic?

2004-11-07 Thread R. W.
On Sunday 07 November 2004 06:16, Rob wrote: > Hello, > > I have a master for a cluster of diskless slaves; the master > serves the slaves over NFS (/, /usr, /home). I have two > internet cards in all PCs, but only using one on the slaves > right now. > > Could I use the second internet card to sep

Re: Compiling the kernel

2004-11-07 Thread R. W.
On Saturday 06 November 2004 14:19, Valerian Galeru wrote: > Could there appear any problems if the /usr/src/sys > tree is not completely updated(I mean I started > updating , but I didn`t finish) ? If you mean: can cvsup be stopped, and started again? the answer is yes it can. If you mean that

Re: DSL support

2004-11-06 Thread R. W.
On Saturday 06 November 2004 15:34, Mark wrote: > I am on sbc dsl and found this page covered the setup. > > http://renaud.waldura.com/doc/freebsd/pppoe/ > > On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 09:54:30AM -0800, William Scott wrote: > > Dear Sir or Madam, > > > > Is there any support/documentation for configur

Re: Is my computer under spec?

2004-11-01 Thread R. W.
On Monday 01 November 2004 13:33, Henry Miller wrote: > You can add more ram, but considering the age of that system it > really isn't worth the cost. I don't know what that system takes, > but in many cases old RAM isn't made anymore, so when you can buy it > (supply and demand) you pay far mo

Re: Laptops as routers

2004-10-31 Thread R. W.
On Sunday 31 October 2004 21:54, Luke wrote: > > If you are worry about power consumption or reliability when using > > old computers I have some general tips for you: > > 1. Don't use a storage device that has spinning disks, instead use > > a CF card, Zip Drive/Disk, etc. > > http://www.cfide.co.

DVD burners

2004-10-31 Thread R. W.
I'm thinking of buying an IDE DVD burner, ideally one of the new double-layer type. Are these generic products? If not, what should I choose or avoid? My computer is a 700 MHz P3 coppermine with 512 Mbytes of PC100 ram, is it going to be fast enough? TIA ___

Re: Problems with flash and native mozilla

2004-10-19 Thread R. W.
On Tuesday 19 October 2004 15:27, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: > Martes Wigglesworth wrote: > > Greetings. > > > > I have an issue with my mozilla install. I am unable to figure out > > how, or what people get flash7 to work with mozilla. And I also > > have trouble getting anything to work that I nee

Re: How to remove a patch from a port?

2004-10-19 Thread R. W.
On Monday 18 October 2004 23:06, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > I'm wondering how to remove a custom patch for a port. I am sort of > new at this, but I've managed to learn how to patch a port and > upgrade it for testing. But I'm not at all sure how to remove that > patch if need be. What I've been doing

Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

2004-10-19 Thread R. W.
On Tuesday 19 October 2004 08:59, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > On Monday 18 October 2004 11:10 pm, Christopher Nehren > > > Hmph. Just a few days ago I was thinking about how Pan deserves a > > 1.0 version number because of its full feature set, stability, and > > so forth. It's never crashed here, and

Re: GNOME questions

2004-10-07 Thread R. W.
On Thursday 07 October 2004 08:36, Gary Kline wrote: > Both Gnome and KDE are nice front ends, but a bit heavy > on the graphical interface side for a CLI hacker like > me. Feedback welcome! Try xfce4. XCFe started life as a CDE clone, but the later versions are quite configurable, and it'

Re: Good tool for light photo editing?

2004-10-06 Thread R. W.
On Wednesday 06 October 2004 19:21, stan wrote: > I just got my first set of pictures on CD's (vacation pics), and I > wan't to put them up on my web server. > > What's a good tool to do some really lightweight editeing on them > with? Mostly I just need to rotate the vertical ones, but I _might_ >

Re: FreeBSD hardware specifications

2004-09-29 Thread R. W.
On Wednesday 29 September 2004 04:12, annuar wrote: > I'm interested on FreeBSD (download the 4.10) and would like to > install it either on this machine or a new machine. If you are a new FreeBSD user, you might want to wait a week or two and download the 5.3 release. 5.x versions have been ava

Re: connections from dialup IP's

2004-09-28 Thread R. W.
On Tuesday 28 September 2004 17:43, dave wrote: > Hello, > Last evening i had a pretty determined dialup user try to ssh in > to my system as root, the logs showed he tried for over 15 minutes. > What i'd like to know is is there a way of dropping a connection from > an IP if it connects more t

No Sound after upgrading KDE

2004-09-25 Thread R. W.
I recently upgraded to KDE 3.3 (under FreeBSD 5.2.1) and the sound stopped working properly. I hear the tune as KDE starts up, but then there is no sound after that. Multimedia applications still work properly under XFce, it's just KDE. ___ [EMAIL PROT

Re: Which Release to Download?

2004-09-09 Thread R. W.
On Thursday 09 September 2004 07:07, Younes Al-Hroub wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I am a computer engineer and I want to learn the FreeBSD OS, > and I do not have the FreeBSD software and when I have tried > to download the FreeBSD software form your website, I found > two Releases one called " New Techn

MTU Blackhole problem?

2004-09-07 Thread R. W.
I'm using FreeBSD 5.21 with a dialup modem, and I'm having problem uploading files and sending emails with attachments through the Fastmail.fm mail service - the connections just time-out. Ordinary web browsing and short text emails work normally with Fastmail. File uploads to other sites wor

Re: cannot install KDE3 or KDE-LITE from ports

2004-08-29 Thread R. W.
On Sunday 29 August 2004 04:29, Peter Ryan wrote: > Thanks for the reply, but are you sure I need to do a port > upgrade after the cvsup if I am installing from the newly > updated port. KDE is the first application i am installing > after the standard installation of 4.10, and the error is > a m

Re: can't find manual pages

2004-08-29 Thread R. W.
On Saturday 28 August 2004 23:27, JB Fields wrote: > Hi, > > Just finished installing BSD 5.0. Had an old CD, made an ISO image, > attached it as a CDRom to a new VMWare machine, booted form it, and > can log on. If I were you I'd download a 5.2.1 iso and start again. 5.0 is a sort of first-cut

Re: cannot install KDE3 or KDE-LITE from ports

2004-08-28 Thread R. W.
On Saturday 28 August 2004 13:07, Peter Ryan wrote: > HI, > > I have just done a fresh install of 4.10 R > from the ISO disk > > The first package I installed was cvsup, > and then i did a complete ports upgrade from > cvsup3. > > Then I tried to make KDE3. It failed trying to > find a file called

Re: KlamAV on FreeBSD...

2004-08-28 Thread R. W.
On Saturday 28 August 2004 10:58, Mike Hauber wrote: > Has anyone had any luck getting KlamAV to work on FreeBSD? > Is there a project underway to get this into the ports > tree? If not, is there another frontend for clamAV that > will run on FreeBSD? (I haven't been able to find any, and > my pr

Re: how to view .ascii file?

2004-08-23 Thread R. W.
On Monday 23 August 2004 07:17, Jay O'Brien wrote: > I'm trying to read the 'paper.ascii' file contained in > /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/paper.ascii.gz and it is > a mess. This is a tutorial on "make". I've unzipped > the file in a WinXP machine and I can't find a display > tool that will not show

Re: Installing FreeBSD 4.7 on large disk shared with Windows

2004-08-22 Thread R. W.
On Sunday 22 August 2004 13:49, John Michaels wrote: > I have obtained Sams Teach yourself FreeBSD which includes a Cd with > FreeBSD 4.7 which the authors suggest is installed as you can then > 'follow along' the book. > > I have a machine with 2 Disks (60 Gb and 30Gb respectively) which > alread

Re: Equitable Sharing between TCP Sockets

2004-08-21 Thread R. W.
On Saturday 21 August 2004 13:46, R. W. wrote: > I'm using 5.21 on a desktop computer with a dial-up modem. I tend to > have several applications simultaneously sharing the connection, and > I'm finding that this aspect isn't working as well as it does under > windows

Equitable Sharing between TCP Sockets

2004-08-21 Thread R. W.
I'm using 5.21 on a desktop computer with a dial-up modem. I tend to have several applications simultaneously sharing the connection, and I'm finding that this aspect isn't working as well as it does under windows 98. Under windows each tcp socket would tend to receive at about the same rate,

Equitable Sharing between TCP Sockets

2004-08-21 Thread R. W.
I'm using 5.21 on a desktop computer with a dial-up modem. I tend to have several applications simultaneously sharing the connection, and I'm finding that this aspect isn't working as well as it does under windows 98. Under windows each tcp socket would tend to receive at about the same rate,

Re: Xorg or XFree86?

2004-08-19 Thread R. W.
On Thursday 19 August 2004 03:28, Eric Crist wrote: > Hello list, > > I've seen a lot of posts over the past couple months regarding > installation of X.org. I was wondering, is it that much better than > XFree86 that it's worth the hassle? If so, what are those > advantages? Until 5.x goes stab

Re: Removing the ports dir to start all over

2004-08-18 Thread R. W.
On Wednesday 18 August 2004 18:22, Joshua Lewis wrote: > I ran a cvsup this morning and now when running a make index I get > several errors. So did I, but I ran it again this evening and the problems went away. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://

Re: Xorg Install

2004-08-18 Thread R. W.
On Wednesday 18 August 2004 17:05, Tyler Parrott wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm currently trying to install X.Org onto my FreeBSD 4.10 machine > but am running into trouble. I followed the instructions in > /usr/ports/UPDATING but to no avail. > > Basically, I deleted XFree and imake using pkg_deinstal

Do I need rc_subr with 5.2.1

2004-08-11 Thread R. W.
I'm not sure what installed it, but I have a port called rc_subr. Does this port serve any useful function on 5.x? The pkg_descr suggests it doesn't, but it doesn't say it categorically. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: I did something stupid ?

2004-08-07 Thread R. W.
Sound like what you actually did was upgrade to FreeBSD-CURRENT which is bleeding edge (and probably closer to 5.3 than 5.21), and then downgraded to 5.2.1. If you couldn't build the kernel then you shouldn't actually have installed anything yet. In that case I would leave it and see if you

Re: Gaim-Encryption

2004-08-07 Thread R. W.
Things will be easier if you install (and use) sysutils/portupgrade It's best to use /etc/make.conf for world and kernel settings, and for general compiler settings; and use /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf for port settings. Anything in make.conf is seen by every build, but portupgrade reads per

Re: Can i make a CD of the Ports Collection

2004-08-04 Thread R. W.
Just a thought, but do you actually need an up-to-date ports collection. If you are trying things out, and frequently reinstalling you may be better-off with the one on the disk. One of the big pitfalls in FreeBSD (and Gentoo Linux) is that new users install something like gnome, from the disk

Deleting Leaves Without Losing Build-Dependencies

2004-08-04 Thread R. W.
I've recently been using portversion -r and pkg_cutleaves to find unwanted ports that I can deinstall. However, it appears that neither of these takes into account build-dependencies. Is there a tool that will find true port-leaves, rather than package leaves?

De-installing Gnome 2.4.2

2004-07-27 Thread R. W.
I installed both Gnome and KDE (FreeBSD 5.2.1) and have been keeping both up to date for some time. But I scarcely ever use Gnome, and don't want the hassle of running the 2.6 upgrade script. How do I de-install Gnome 2.4.2? Will removing the metaport alone suffice? (When I recently portupgra