Re: Suggestions for OS to use behind freebsd pf firewalls.
On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:45:14 -0600 eculp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed freebsd server in a small company that has approx 30 pc's of all sizes, shapes, brands, etc. They have just realized that a large part of the problems that they had before the firewall was caused by the 30 windows pc's that were connected directly to the ISP's wireless router. They would like to change the PC's to unix desktops. I would like to install FreeBSD or any other bsd but don't feel that we have the drivers available to substitute such a wide variety of hardware. I would love to be proven wrong. Therefore I am considering a linux version with a graphic installer that will make it easier to train someone to install on any new machines that they add later. My problem is that I haven't done a linux install since before FreeBSD 2.2 IIRC and have no idea which version would be the most versatile and has an installer that is basically brain dead simple with most all drivers. I suspect that I am asking the impossible but you never know. I'm sure that I'm not the only person to run into this situation and I would sure appreciate any suggestions. In my experience from similar situations I would recommend OpenSUSE from Novell, since it has to be as windows like as possible. OpenSUSE is very well supported and since it is Novell who is behind the distro, the company can provide professional support. In general I recommend Debian over any distro, but in some rare cases like this one, I would rather recommend OpenSUSE. Thanks, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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 install KDE4 on FreeBSD?
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:26:20 -0800 (PST) uutorok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find that there is no KDE 4 in ports. The only instruction I get is http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title ... E4/FreeBSD But there is not much information. Anyone who know how to build KDE 4 on FreeBSD? Wait patiently until it reaches the ports, or build it manually from source. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-install-KDE4-on-FreeBSD--tp14989042p14989042.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Extended FreeBSD licens
Hi. Would it be possible for someone to add some conditions to the FreeBSD licens and then call it his extended FreeBSD licens? I mean would that be legally binding if he provided that licens with software he developed? Best regards. Rico. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adding a XP disk to FreeBSD machine
Hi I have a box running FreeBSD 6.2 on ad0. I have another HD which used to be in the same box running XP. I set this drive to slave and installed it into the box in order to dualboot. On the bootmenu the new drive ad1 shows up: F1 FreeBSD F5 Drive 1 Pressing F1 boots the disk on ad0 with FreeBSD, but pressing F5 also boots ad0 with FreeBSD. How can I make this work? Best regards. Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem installing FreeBSD 6.2 on laptop
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:46:09 -0700 (PDT) Harriet Severino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am getting an error message, and do not know how to fix the problem. I have a new Intel Celeron laptop, and want to run FreeBSD on it. I chose the standard installation for user + Xwindows. After teh insytallation I configured Xorg, by section 5 of the documantation. The test worked, and I made no changes to the config files. $ uname -a FreeBSD severino.home 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i385 The error message comes when I boot the machine, as the login prompt appears. the Xorg has not started, I have a console login prompt. Error Message: Jun 10 12:09:33 severino init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv8, sleeping 30 secs. This message repeats about once every 30 seconds. Please tell me how to fix this, or where to get the infomation on how to fix this. X is misconfigured and it exits back to the console. If you use xdm/kdm/gdm, it will restart X. This throws you into a loop that makes the machine unusable, since you can't access the console because it's trying to switch into graphics mode all the time. Getty detects this, and freezes the console that created this for 30 secs, which gives you a chance to log in through the console and fix whatever error you have. You should check your Xorg configuration. Best regards Thank you for your time and attention H Severino Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=listsid=396545469 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does any verson of Freebsd includes the apache package?
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:54:07 +0800 goole blowfish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends, I have download the freebsd FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. When I install, I can't find the apache package in this installtion package. Does any verson of Freebsd includes the apache package? Something tells me that you are used to OpenBSD? :-) Apache is not part of FreeBSD baseinstall. You have to install it via pkg_add or via the ports collection. FreeBSD has more than one version of Apache as well. Best Regards, FredZhang ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!
On Thu, 31 May 2007 06:56:51 -0700 George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Favourite worst written error message in history: Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue. I have always loved this one!! Who made that up!? Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Clustered file system
Hi We are expanding at work and I am messing around with different setups. I need a file system that will *look* like its just on one machine, like when mounting with NFS, but because of the large amount of data, I really need to expand the files to several servers. Also I need some kind of security. I haven't set something like this up before so all kind of friendly advice would be greatly appriciated. What solution is recommended? Best regards Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help needed with server setup at work
Hi. At work we have a bunch of NFS servers. The servers provide the home directories for all the employees client machines. Most of the employees mount their home dirs manually, but some are mounted using scripts. Employee John knows he belongs to NFS server 1, and emplyoee Britney knows she belongs to NFS server 3 and so on. Now due to new conditions I have to set up a new system from which ALL employees are able to mount their home directories from their homes (where they live). Since I only have one IP address at my disposal, I need to set up some kind of union system in which all home directories apear as they live on just one server. Besides that I have to figure out what kind of security I need to use. I have been thinking about AFS. About the union thing I first thought of somehow union mouting all the different home directories on a single machine which then serves as the access point, but I am affraid if that particular machine crashes, then no one can get to their files. Good ideas and experiences are greatly appreciated! -- Best and kind regards Rico Secada ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I like Ubuntu
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:37:27 -0300 Henry Lenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/19/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Henry Lenzi wrote: I find nothing brilliant in Debian's package management. It's heavily dependent upon human intervention and just adds a layer of complexity on top of a problem that was *already solved* in the Unix world, by using Make files. Do they have a better backtracking algorithm then Make? No. I don't understand this at all. It's quite obvious you don't. Neither do you! Assuming that Ubuntu's package management is nearly the same as Debian's (by means of apt-get etc.) then how do you figure it's heavily dependent on human intervention? Have you ever seen the process whereby Debian (and I keep saying Debian because Ubuntu just piggybacks on the Debian developers) releases packages? Their package management system is supposed to be about handling dependencies automatically. Well, I'm not sure you've quite noticed this, that FreeBSD (and the other BSDs) *also* handle dependencies automatically. How? Because of the Magic Makefiles and its backtracking algorithm! Well, funny, huh. No need to reinvent the wheel, as 3 BSD Unixes demonstrate daily. Stop comparing things which aren't comparable! *BSD ports system handles dependencies in a completely different manner and its building upon source. apt-get uses binary packages. The two systems has nothing in common. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Regarding updating packages
Hi Why is it that the binary files are so long about being updated? On OpenBSD and on most major GNU/Linux distros the binary packages are updated very quickly. I am asking the question to understand the reason behind the FreeBSD choice to give this a low priority. Best regards. Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An alternative to FOP
Hi all I am working on a documentation project using docbook in which I need to incorporate some arabic text. I am using xsltproc to convert to xhtml and fo, and it works perfectly. Normally I use FOP to convert from fo to pdf, but FOP can't render the arabic text. And the result is hashes (###). I have checket the fo file and it has been converted perfectly as well. I need an alternative to FOP, which can handle utf8, any recommendations would be appreciated. Best and kind regards, Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with arabic in Docbook
Hi I am currently working on a docbook project using FreeBSD and I need to incorporate some arabic words. When I convert using xmlto into a xhtml document the words show up together with the other languages perfectly, but when I convert into PDF using xsltproc, the arabic letters gets converted into hashes ###. To convert the document into PDF I do the following: xsltproc --output foo.fo --stringparam section.autolabel 1 --stringparam section.label.includes.component.label 1 --stringparam generate.toc book toc --stringparam fop.extensions 1 /usr/local/share/xsl/docbook/fo/docbook.xsl foo.xml Afterwards I do: fop foo.fo foo.pdf xmlto isn't working with PDF on FreeBSD and I get this error: /usr/local/share/xmlto/format/docbook/../fo/pdf: Can't open /usr/local/share/xmlto/format/docbook/../fo/pdf: No such file or directory Any sugestions? Best regards, Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quanta+ freezes after upgrading
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:33:02 + dgmm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 26 February 2007 05:32, Rico Secada wrote: Since I upgraded KDE to 3.5.5 Quanta+ always freezes when I try to start it up. It doesn't do anything. No errors, just a freeze, and a CPU usage of 97%. Has anyone else experienced problems with Quanta+ since KDE 3.5.5? No, as I've not upgraded yet, but to help those who might be able to help you, open a shell window and run quanta from there so you can see all the output as the program loads up. Odds are you'll see it stuck in a loop of some kind looking for files or trying to find backups. I wish! :-) There is no output. -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quanta+ freezes after upgrading
Hi Since I upgraded KDE to 3.5.5 Quanta+ always freezes when I try to start it up. It doesn't do anything. No errors, just a freeze, and a CPU usage of 97%. Has anyone else experienced problems with Quanta+ since KDE 3.5.5? Best regards. Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CD/DVD Catalog
Hi Anyone who can recommend a good CD/DVD catalog program? Best regards Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Assembly language on FreeBSD
Hi I am brushing up on my assembler language and I wonder if anyone could recommend any particular reading well suited for FreeBSD? Best and kind regards, Rico Secada. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flash 9
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:37:10 +0600 Bachilo Dmitry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't you guys know? There would not be any sound, because linux flash 9 uses ALSA, not OSS. If there would be some wrapper sometime, we will hear the flash, if there would not be such thing, we would not. No I didn't know that :-) Well I am going back to version 7, works perfectly with Opera even on sites that demand version 8. Best regards, Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems using autoconf/automake
Hi I am using autoconf/automake to try to build portable makefiles for some software I wrote. I am a newbie in makefiles. If I don't add my man page, all works out fine. But as soon as I add my man page 2 problems arises. 1. I can't use make distcheck, I get the following error: make: don't know how to make myprg.1. Stop *** Error code 2 2. When I do make, the man page gets installed in /usr/local/share/man/man1, and not in /usr/local/man/man1. How do I deal with this issue and at the same time maintain portability? My Makefile.am looks like this: bin_PROGRAMS = myprg salahtime_SOURCES = myprg.hpp myprg.cpp man_MANS = myprg.1 My configure.ac looks like this: AC_INIT(myprg.cpp) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(myprg,0.1) AC_PROG_CC AC_PROG_CXX AC_PROG_INSTALL AC_OUTPUT(Makefile) Any help would be appreciated. Best and kind regards, Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems using autoconf/automake (SOLVED)
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:29:30 +0100 Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, ./configure --mandir=/usr/local/man, when installed on freebsd. Didn't think of that. Hi I am using autoconf/automake to try to build portable makefiles for some software I wrote. I am a newbie in makefiles. If I don't add my man page, all works out fine. But as soon as I add my man page 2 problems arises. 1. I can't use make distcheck, I get the following error: make: don't know how to make myprg.1. Stop *** Error code 2 2. When I do make, the man page gets installed in /usr/local/share/man/man1, and not in /usr/local/man/man1. How do I deal with this issue and at the same time maintain portability? My Makefile.am looks like this: bin_PROGRAMS = myprg salahtime_SOURCES = myprg.hpp myprg.cpp man_MANS = myprg.1 My configure.ac looks like this: AC_INIT(myprg.cpp) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(myprg,0.1) AC_PROG_CC AC_PROG_CXX AC_PROG_INSTALL AC_OUTPUT(Makefile) Any help would be appreciated. Best and kind regards, Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 23:07:55 -0600 Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why should I continue using FreeBSD when the project never delivers on it promises? Noone is forcing you to do so. Let me restate that... I want to use FreeBSD, but the lack of progress is driving me and others away. Then just go away! If you have a problem with FreeBSD, then start working on the issue, pay someone else to do it, or just shut up! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:01:51 -0600 Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD is created and supported by volunteers. Seems like you just posted a nice list of things for you to get busy and contribute. I don't have time to contribute work, I have a business to manage as well as other obligations that come first... I need this stuff to just work... so I can get real things done. So you need people to work freely, without any pay, to make things work for you, so you can complain when something isn't working like you want it to!? So you can get real things done!? If you have a business to manage, and just need this to work, made by people who contribute for free, maybe its time you start to pay someone!? Now just shut up and go away!!! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:48:39 -0600 Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am unhappy but I care too much about FreeBSD to just up and leave, it may be time for a sabbatical though... And I complain because I care... like a parent. Trolling. ___ 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 operator group for?
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:30:49 + Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Chris You could run a: find / -type f -group operator to see all files where operator is the group. Forgive me if I am wrong but I actually think this is the best way to find out. Hi all can anyone tell me what the operator group is for, or docs where I can read about it? I see that /sbin/shutdown and /sbin/mk_snap_ffs are both executable by members and various things in /dev/ are mountable by them. I want a regular user to be able to mount removeable media and shutdown the computer. If I make them a member of operator group what else am I allowing them to do? Thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flash in freebsd
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 01:16:09 +0300 Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/26/06, Dan Sikorsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How? I've heard stories of linux-opera and linux-flashplayer7 didnt work for me Why not? Its working perfectly here. do I have to mess with plug in files ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: uncalled for reboot
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 14:38:43 -0700 Z. Wade Hampton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Bill. I'll keep that in mind. I think I have the problem figured out. *base=/var/db was set in the supfile. After changing it to /usr, the problem went away. You can be 99.9% sure that the problem wasn't that. It is, like it is stated, most likely a hardware problem but initialized by using cvsup. My guess is RAM problems. Try using MEMTESTER. Regards, ZWH However, spontaneous reboots are almost always hardware problems. Have you verified that your RAM, hard drive, cooling, power, and all other hardware factors are in proper operation? That would be the first logical step in diagnosing this. -Bill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Working with DocBook on FreeBSD nothing but problems
Hi For some strange reason I no longer can convert my .fo files to .pdf using fop. All I get is this.. $ fop -d mytext.fo mytext.pdf [DEBUG] Input mode: [DEBUG] FO [DEBUG] fo input file: mytext.fo [DEBUG] Output mode: [DEBUG] pdf [DEBUG] output file: mytext.pdf [DEBUG] OPTIONS [DEBUG] no user configuration file is used [default] [DEBUG] debug mode on [DEBUG] dump configuration [DEBUG] quiet mode on [INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser [INFO] base directory: file:/usr/home/rico/cvs/doc/mytext/ [INFO] FOP 0.20.5 [INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser [INFO] building formatting object tree [INFO] setting up fonts [ERROR] property - background-position-horizontal is not implemented yet. [ERROR] property - background-position-vertical is not implemented yet. Error creating background image: Error while recovering Image Informations (http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/images/draft.png) : Operation timed out [ERROR] property - background-position-horizontal is not implemented yet. [ERROR] property - background-position-vertical is not implemented yet. [INFO] JAI support was not installed (read: not present at build time). Trying to use Jimi instead Error creating background image: Error creating FopImage object (http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/images/draft.png) : Jimi image library not available [ERROR] property - background-position-horizontal is not implemented yet. [ERROR] property - background-position-vertical is not implemented yet. Then it just freezes. Normally I can convert eventhough the above errors are shown, but now I can't. I can't seem to figure out what it is doing standing there. Could anyone please shed some light on this issue. I am seriously thinking about not using DocBook anymore and just going back to Open Office. There are so many complications during conversion IMHO. Best regards Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vmware on freebsd?
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:58:23 -0400 (EDT) Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Peter Is it possible to install VMWare Server on FreeBSD 6.0? I'm looking for comments from people who may have done this. Yes. At out office we are running VMWare3 as a host on FreeBSD 6.1 running Windows XP. It runs perfect. During setup I testet other solutions qemu etc. but found that VMWare out-speeds them all. VMWare is very fast, so fast that you almost wont notice its virtual. Someone commented, that its impossible to run VMWare on FreeBSD as a host, but thats wrong. I highly recommend VMWare3 from ports, eventhough its old. Peter __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [IMPORTANT] Adaptec no longer supporting iir(4) driver ...
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:44:01 -0300 (ADT) User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems to me like the best solution is to boykott Adaptec like OpenBSD did. 'k, I finally got ahold of someone @ adaptec, and the official word seems to be: FreeBSD 6 is not officially supported for the GDT based ICP RAID controllers. Nevertheless the inbox driver should work. Great, well, the inbox driver doesn't work with FreeBSD 6.x, and support doesn't exist to get it fixed, mainly since, as most ppl here know, the specs are closed, so even a non-Adaptec person can't do much to fix the problem(s) ... For those that haven't been following the discussion on this, the iir(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.x appears to have a deadlock issue under medium to heavy load, where the 'blocked' state just continues to rise until file accesses just no longer work ... So, if you are running a server that is using the iir(4) device driver and are considering upgrading to FreeBSD 6.x and beyond, or are looking to build a new machine using a device that relies on this driver, do so at your own peril ... Please note that this deadlock issue exists on *both* the ICP Vortex cards, *and* the Intel based RAID controllers ... If anyone from Adaptec is out there and is actually interested in seeing this problem fixed, *please* let me know ... I have three servers, all three exhibiting this problem, and one of them is fully loaded with the kernel debug stuff so that I can (I think) give you almost *anything* you want in the way of information concerning the problem ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Error compiling GNAT
Hi During installation of GNAT from ports I get the following error: gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/gnat/work/gcc-34/gcc/fixinc' /bin/csh ./genfixes machname.h SHELL=/bin/sh: Command not found. export: Command not found. if: Expression Syntax. gmake[2]: *** [machname.h] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/gnat/work/gcc-34/gcc/fixinc' gmake[1]: *** [fixinc.sh] Error 2 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/gnat/work/gcc-34/gcc' gmake: *** [all-gcc] Error 2 *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/lang/gnat. What does this error mean? Best and kind regards Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vmware / vmplayer on freebsd?
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:39:28 + (WET) Duane Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I'm aware, VMWare only supports FreeBSD as a Guest OS, not as a Host OS. i.e. you can't run VMWare itself on FreeBSD, but you can run FreeBSD inside VMWare.. That would be correct. I own a copy of VMWare for Windows and use it extensively to test out different scenarios with FreeBSD before touching our production server. Works like a charm! That is not correct! We use VMWare3 from ports on a FreeBSD machine at our datacenter and it's running Windows XP perfectly. VMWare3 from ports supports FreeBSD as a host perfectly. Best and kind regards Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ATAPICAM in the FreeBSD manual
Hi. In the FreeBSD manual on '17.6.9 Using the ATAPI/CAM Driver', it only talks about rebuilding the kernel with device atapicam. I think it should mention that it actually is possible to just add 'atapicam_load=YES' to /boot/loader.conf. Perhaps I have missed or overlooked something and in that case just ignore my message, but otherwise I think it would improve the manual. I for one just rebuild the kernel the other day just to enable the ATAPI/CAM driver, but had I known it could be loaded from loader.conf, I wouldn't have rebuild it. Best and kind regards, Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CUPS, USB printers Permission Denied
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 12:43:45 -0400 Anthony Agelastos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just installed cups from ports and had a similar problem with printing. Normally I haven't got any problems. The printer is a HL-1430 connected to USB and the error I got was: 'Unable to open USB device usb:/dev/unlpt0 Permission Denied.' Now I don't know if this is relevant in any way. After trying all kinds of solutions I finally decided to simply do chmod 777 /dev/unlpt0, and that solved the problem. Best and kind regards, Rico On Jun 29, 2006, at 6:51 PM, Jan-Espen Pettersen wrote: I just tried /dev/unltp0 and I have the same issues. Basically, I killed all of the jobs, made your change, submitted a test page, watched as nothing happened (it didn't display any messages in the web interface), did a /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cupsd restart, killed the test page, then resubmitted one, and then it mentioned the USB busy will retry in 30 seconds line. I reattached my error_log for today's activities. I will be on the road for the better part of a week, so I will try to help out as much as I can given the circumstances. Thank you everyone for your assistance with this. I found that the usb backend stalled here before actually doing any work. Before I've done any actual debugging of the backend, I suspect that it is being blocked on a status read attempt, though this is only my current guess. Here is a workaround: In printers.conf () you will probably find a line like this: DeviceURI usb:/dev/ulpt0 change usb: to file:, so that it looks something like this: DeviceURI file:/dev/ulpt0 Then restart cups. Cups will not read any status information from the printer, but at least it can print. Be warned about unknown side effects. :) Jan-Espen Pettersen I did this fix and it enabled the local server that has the printer connected to it to print (a test page anyways) however, when I try to print to the printer through the network via my MacBook Pro (which worked before), I get the message in the CUPS Web Interface: /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed Basically, I have the same problem reported in the one-message-thread Can't print to CUPS from Macintosh. Does anyone have any ideas? The FreeBSD community has my appreciation for all of its help on this matter. Based on the number of problems associated with this issue (there's this thread, the aforementioned Mac thread, and the cups 1.2 - no output thread), would it be worthwhile to create a new Port named cups-devel (keeping the 1.2.x codebase) and downgrade the existing cups to the latest 1.1.x version until the bugs have been ironed out on the 1.2.x branch (or at least adding an entry to /usr/ports/ UPDATING to warn those updating)? Would 1.2.1 fix these issues (that is the current stable version whereas FreeBSD's CUPS is at 1.2.0), or perhaps the 1.3svn branch? I am unsure where the current problems lay (on the CUPS side, on how it is installed in the FreeBSD environment, or on the FreeBSD environment itself). Earlier in this thread, the issues were primarily related with permissions (since, it was mentioned, CUPS is trying to run with a more reasonable set of permissions instead of via 'root'), but now they appear to be configuration specific. I am willing to try whatever is proposed to help the developers get past these issues. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KDE not in 6-stable anymore
Hi I have noticed that KDE 3.5.2 has been removed from packages-6-stable. Why is that? Best and kind regards, Rico. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Frustration
Being an experienced BSD user who on a daily basis gives support to other people using BSD, wether FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD, I hardly think this has to do with FreeBSD. This rather sounds like a typical MS whiner, who hasn't really got around to actually understand what he is doing. In some situations there are hardware complications, which again hasn't got anything to do with FreeBSD but rather is based upon hardware vendores keeping others than MS from using their hardware. Long story short, stop whining and just go back to MS Windows. Nobody cares! On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:51:00 -0400 Fernando Pinguelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing to you because I need to vent. I have tried installing version 5.3 of FreeBSD on a Pentium III machine. I thought I succeeded in doing it so, but when I tried to build xOrg I realized that I did not have all the ports installed and that some other dependencies were also missing. I realized then that the installation had not been as successful as I first thought. So, I tried to re-install the ports from the CD, since I didn't have an Internet connection to that machine. Well, I kept getting more and more hardware/software errors. I then tried to upgrade FreeBSD to version 6.1. And that was what I did; I tried. Well, I kept getting more errors, as usual. The more I tried to install/reinstall/upgrade/fix FreeBSD, the more I was realizing that anything that had to do with FreeBSD that could go wrond would go wrong, be it the software installation or hardware behavior. The amount of work and headache that I have been experiencing to move a single 'inch' towards a working Unix environment has been enourmously frustating. The worst part of it all is that I have not accomplished anything tangible at all. I think now it is time for this boy to abandon the 'Unix' bandwagon for good and move back to MS Windows. At least I will be able to concentrate on doing real productive work, instead of dealing with temperamental hardware and software every time I touch the PC. Good luck to those heroic individuals who stick with the configuration fight to the end. I failed to see the 'Power to Serve'. Bye, Fernando ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Frustration
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:40:09 +0100 Joao Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/30/06, Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Being an experienced BSD user who on a daily basis gives support to other people using BSD, wether FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD, I hardly think this has to do with FreeBSD. This rather sounds like a typical MS whiner, who hasn't really got around to actually understand what he is doing. In some situations there are hardware complications, which again hasn't got anything to do with FreeBSD but rather is based upon hardware vendores keeping others than MS from using their hardware. Long story short, stop whining and just go back to MS Windows. Nobody cares! Part of the FreeBSD experience is the comunity and you're not helping. It's about helping people who want and need help, not people who whine! I care, most probably someone else cares. Well, go ahead then, care all you want! But please do so somewhere else! Not on this list! Please don't talk for the comunity by stating nobody cares. I do talk for the comunity by stating nobody cares. This list is about helping. Not venting! Nobody from the comunity cares about that! -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Frustration
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:40:09 +0100 Joao Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/30/06, Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Being an experienced BSD user who on a daily basis gives support to other people using BSD, wether FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD, I hardly think this has to do with FreeBSD. This rather sounds like a typical MS whiner, who hasn't really got around to actually understand what he is doing. In some situations there are hardware complications, which again hasn't got anything to do with FreeBSD but rather is based upon hardware vendores keeping others than MS from using their hardware. Long story short, stop whining and just go back to MS Windows. Nobody cares! Part of the FreeBSD experience is the comunity and you're not helping. It's about helping people who want and need help, not people who whine! I care, most probably someone else cares. Well, go ahead then, care all you want! But please do so somewhere else! Not on this list! Please don't talk for the comunity by stating nobody cares. I do talk for the comunity by stating nobody cares. This list is about helping. Not venting! Nobody from the comunity cares about that! -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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 VMWare
I have never gotten vmware to run as a program under FreeBSD, i.e. using FreeBSD as the host for other vmware machines. I have tried several times. Technically, VMWare doesn't support it. We have used FreeBSD at our company as a host for some Windows XP based machines running on VMWare 3 from ports. But I am not sure if that is exactly what you mean. It is running just fine. Best and kind regards, Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upload a binary of Open Office 2
Thanks Zeng Nan! Didn't know that. Zeng Nan wrote: On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:34:16AM +0200, Rico wrote: Hi, Would someone, with access, mind compiling Open Office 2 for FreeBSD 6 stable, and uploading it to the FreeBSD server? Best and kind regards, Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can download it directly from openoffice's website: http://www.openoffice.org/index.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upload a binary of Open Office 2
Hi, Would someone, with access, mind compiling Open Office 2 for FreeBSD 6 stable, and uploading it to the FreeBSD server? Best and kind regards, Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMWare install error
Thank you very much Beni! I completely missed that. Best regards, Rico Original Message Subject: Re: VMWare install error Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:52:06 +0200 From: Beni [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday 17 June 2006 22:20, Rico wrote: Hi, I am trying to install VMWare3 on FreeBSD 6.1 from the ports. During intall I get this error: = SHA256 Checksum OK for rpm/i386/fedora/4/zlib-1.2.2.2-5.fc4.i386.rpm. === linux_base-fc-4_1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/rpm2cpio - found === Patching for linux_base-fc-4_1 === Configuring for linux_base-fc-4_1 === Building for linux_base-fc-4_1 === Installing for linux_base-fc-4_1 === linux_base-fc-4_1 conflicts with installed package(s): linux_base-8-8.0_14 They install files into the same place. Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1). *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-fc4. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/rtc. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3. I do understand the conflict, but I am not sure what the best way to handle this is. Trying to remove linux_base, gives a lot of work since a lot of other stuff depends upon that. Any recommendations? Another question, regarding speed and ease of configuration, which is recommended: VMWare vs. Qemu? Best and kind regards, Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe this can help from /usr/ports/UPDATING : [...] 20060616: AFFECTS users of emulation/linux_base-* AUTHOR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] We now use Fedora Core 4 as the linux base port, and the corresponding xorg libs for the linux X11 libs port. To upgrade you have to run portupgrade -f -o emulators/linux_base-fc4 linux_base\* portupgrade -f -o x11/linux-xorg-libs linux-XFree86-libs [...] Beni. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VMWare install error
Hi, I am trying to install VMWare3 on FreeBSD 6.1 from the ports. During intall I get this error: = SHA256 Checksum OK for rpm/i386/fedora/4/zlib-1.2.2.2-5.fc4.i386.rpm. === linux_base-fc-4_1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/rpm2cpio - found === Patching for linux_base-fc-4_1 === Configuring for linux_base-fc-4_1 === Building for linux_base-fc-4_1 === Installing for linux_base-fc-4_1 === linux_base-fc-4_1 conflicts with installed package(s): linux_base-8-8.0_14 They install files into the same place. Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1). *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-fc4. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/rtc. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3. I do understand the conflict, but I am not sure what the best way to handle this is. Trying to remove linux_base, gives a lot of work since a lot of other stuff depends upon that. Any recommendations? Another question, regarding speed and ease of configuration, which is recommended: VMWare vs. Qemu? Best and kind regards, Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Converting DocBook into PDF
N.J. Thomas wrote: * Rico [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-06 03:41:50 +0200]: I am working on a documentation project and needs to convert some DocBook files into several formats. I have installed xmlto amongst others and I can convert the DocBook into XHTML, TXT but not into PDF or PS. This doesn't really help you with your xmlto problem, but I use the following toolchain to produce PDF from DocBook - write the XML file against the DocBook DTD - validate the file with xmllint --valid --noout foo.xml xmllint is part of libxml2 (Theoretically, this step is not necessary if you write proper XML, but xsltproc does not checks for valid XML (only well formed), and if you pass it non-valid DocBook XML, it spits out all sort of cryptic errors.) - use xsltproc to convert to HTML: xsltproc --output foo.xhtml /usr/local/share/xsl/docbook/xhtml/docbook.xsl foo.xml (xsltproc is part of libxslt) - use xsltproc to convert to FO: xsltproc --stringparam fop.extensions 1 --output foo.fo /usr/local/share/xsl/docbook/fo/docbook.xsl foo.xml - use fop to convert FO to DPF: fop foo.fo foo.pdf You can find libxml2, libxslt, fop, docbook-xml, and docbook-xsl in ports. Thomas Thank you very much! I will use that solution then! Rico. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Converting DocBook into PDF
Hi, I am working on a documentation project and needs to convert some DocBook files into several formats. I have installed xmlto amongst others and I can convert the DocBook into XHTML, TXT but not into PDF or PS. Trying to do so I get the error: $xmlto --skip-validation pdf My_DocBook.xml Making portrait pages on USletter paper (8.5inx11in) XPath error : Undefined variable $ulink.footnotes != 0 ^ error: file file:///usr/local/share/xsl/docbook/fo/footnote.xsl line 94 element number Failed to compile predicate /usr/local/bin/xmlto: line 379: 17329 Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped) xsltproc $XSLTOPTS -o $XSLT_PROCESSED $STYLESHEET $INPUT_FILE /usr/local/share/xmlto/format/docbook/../fo/pdf: Can't open /usr/local/share/xmlto/format/docbook/../fo/pdf: No such file or directory How can I make xmlto work? I used this on a GNU/Linux system with great succes and would like to use the same tool since it is very easy and it renderes greatly. If not possible how can it be done otherwise. Best and kind regards, Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Unix Haters Handbook
Hi all. I had not before seen this book, but doing some Unix research I found it at http://research.microsoft.com/~daniel/uhh-download.html Loving Unix I found the book hilarious and quite entertaining and still containing some truth. The chapter about the rm command is very funny because everybody has tried that mistake once. Anyway, wanted to share my discovery. I know many knows this book, but perhaps many also don't. Best and kind regards, Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Como utilizar CUPS
Tengo configurado CUPS para imprimir en un servidor de Windows cons SAMBA y si funciona. El problema es que cuando mando a imprimir por ejemplo con el comando lpr -P impresora /etc/hosts no manda nada y sale un mensaje en la consola que dice: lpd[555]: /dev/lp: no such file or directory... POr que sucede esto? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
