Re: too many video drivers

2009-03-31 Thread mdh
esn't work on architectures other than i386 and has some other limitations (breaks certain components of KDE4, for one other thing - see the 'black windows bug'.) It does support 3d acceleration using the nvidia GPU, though. The x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv port is the open source Xor

Re: Question about entry in auth.log

2008-11-15 Thread mdh
rty applications. I've written a socket abstraction library that supports throttling of this sort internally, and it's actually very easy to implement on its own. Implementing it in OpenSSH may be more or less difficult depending on whether there's any central function that is called

Re: host -6 failure

2008-11-10 Thread mdh
--- On Sun, 11/9/08, David Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: David Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: host -6 failure > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Sunday, November 9, 2008, 8:34 PM > On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 3:13 AM, m

Re: host -6 failure

2008-11-09 Thread mdh
--- On Sat, 11/8/08, David Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: David Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: host -6 failure > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 8:10 PM > On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 7:55 PM, m

Re: host -6 failure

2008-11-08 Thread mdh
--- On Sat, 11/8/08, David Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: David Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: host -6 failure > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 7:25 PM > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:18 PM, m

host -6 failure

2008-11-07 Thread mdh
Howdy folks, I'm having a little trouble understanding a problem that the `host` command in RELENG_7_0 (very recent) is having. This is by and large my first time working with IPv6, which I've been meaning to learn for some time. First off, I've got my zone file configured to return a rec

Re: How to upgrade to KDE4

2008-11-07 Thread mdh
h paths, and remember to use kdm from KDE4 as your login manager (this tricked me at first, and I was wondering for a bit why I was still getting a KDE3 login manager until I realized that KDE4 went under /usr/local/kde4/). I would not say that it is error prone at all. Everything has, so far,

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-06 Thread mdh
OpenOffice.org 3. There's a port. - mdh --- On Thu, 11/6/08, FBSD1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: FBSD1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: recommendation word processer for xfce > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG" > Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 8:40 PM

Re: what is your programming language on freebsd?

2008-11-06 Thread mdh
uited as a special-purpose OS (eg. mail server, DNS > server)? FreeBSD is a fine development platform. In fact, it offers some things that developers like that other systems don't have. kqueue is very nice, and there are also little things such as the reallocf() function that are helpful

Re: Unable to mount / in read - write mode

2008-11-04 Thread mdh
cessarily a corrolation between a man page and the actual binary. Check the binary's modification time and such for better detail here. Beyond that, try running the mount command manually from the command line after booting from a CD or in single-user mode, if single-user mode works.

Re: Java and FreeBSD

2008-11-03 Thread mdh
in that order, Eclipse will work for you. You may also want to make a symlink from /usr/local/eclipse to /usr/local/eclipse-devel - this allows the Eclipse plugin ports to install properly. Without it, they will not. I've got several (Perl, Ruby, and a co

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-03 Thread mdh
with FreeBSD. I also use a lot of GTK based applications as well, and these run on a KDE desktop as well. The X UI library used by an application does not matter to the desktop environment/wm application except that you may get a little more integration given certain combinations in terms of t

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 - Status

2008-11-02 Thread mdh
n RC for 7 yet, so it still has a ways to go. 6.4-R will probably be out the door in a matter of weeks, as RC2 just got tagged a couple of days ago. Hint: look for kensmith commits to newvers.sh for a much quicker heads-up on activity than you'll get from the schedule on the websit

Re: FreeBSD on Eeepc 1000h

2008-11-01 Thread mdh
gt; Sven If I recall correctly, the eeepc 1000H has an Attansic L1E, not an L1, ethernet controller chipset. FreeBSD RELENG_7 has support for the L1 and the L2, but I've heard that the L1E doesn't work yet. You should do some searching for a driver, it's possible

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-01 Thread mdh
- usually unpaid volunteers - who are willing to help debug the software, just as commercial software vendors have paid support staff for such issues. If you don't like free UNIX-like systems, you can buy a nice Sun box and get Solaris support from Sun. In fact, S

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-01 Thread mdh
er the course of a few weeks writing a perfect afterstep config was really cool when I was a young'un and didn't have a life to worry about, but nowadays I just want to get on with what needs doing. KDE allows me to accomplish just that, efficiently, and without leaving me unable to t

Re: Cannot login to root account on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-10-31 Thread mdh
Right - sorry, my bad on that one. But do substitute -ggdb for your -g, as that'll give us GDB-specific debugging symbols. - mdh --- On Fri, 10/31/08, Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Build it for debugging. cd to the directory > /usr/src/bin/csh, and run the &g

Re: Cannot login to root account on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-10-31 Thread mdh
M > On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 08:19 -0700, mdh wrote: > > --- On Fri, 10/31/08, Pramod Dematagoda > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: Pramod Dematagoda > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: Re: Cannot login to root account on > FreeBSD 7.0 > > >

Re: Cannot login to root account on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-10-31 Thread mdh
ortunately your solution did > > > not work, I changed the root password to > something else, however I still > > > cannot login to root once I boot FreeBSD > normally. > > > > There should be in indication in /var/log/me

Re: Cannot login to root account on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-10-31 Thread mdh
work, I changed the root password to something else, > however I still > cannot login to root once I boot FreeBSD normally. > > Regards, > Pramod Dematagoda Try going through those steps again (single user mode, the mount commands) and then looking at your system logs in /var/log

Re: Firewalls in FreeBSD?

2008-10-30 Thread mdh
r ISP, chances are a tunnel broker is your only option for v6 connectivity, however. If the game doesn't support IPv6, however, then you are likely stuck with playing with port forwarding from the public routable address, however. It stinks, so feel free to lobby your ISP, the game

Re: improvement idea of man page of strfile

2008-10-30 Thread mdh
s free > service, or if you're AOL, a month free > on a real service > provider. Erm, I don't see this text in strfile(8) on RELENG_7 which is reasonably recent. Where did you get your man page from? - mdh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread mdh
assword, enables telnet, and hops on IRC to notify the person who uploaded it, or something. The system does work. It just doesn't provide instant gratification. If you really need things to happen in real-time, email the FreeBSD Found

Re: SUN Fire V 250

2008-10-27 Thread mdh
n't say offhand. Someone on the sparc64 list probably can though. - mdh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (GENERIC) firefox3 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgio-2.0

2008-10-26 Thread mdh
2:10 PM > freebsd-questions: > > If I understand the above, the linker is unable to find the > file > gio-2.0. STFW I found something similar: > The answer is to upgrade your devel/glib20 port to the latest version, then try to install or upgr

Re: root | su

2008-10-24 Thread mdh
> part of the > wheel group. To prevent this nub to change any other user > account in God > mode, I am searching for a solutions on this. Disable direct access via whatever remote access method you use as root. Thus the other individual will have to login as themself, and su to root.

Re: root | su

2008-10-24 Thread mdh
> access to a machine, just use security/sudo instead (with a > carefully > crafted sudoers file). That's one option. Another is to implement jails, or virtualization via something like qemu. Since the person asking didn't give any details of what he wants to do, it&

Re: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE installing php-imap

2008-10-24 Thread mdh
web search for similar issues turn up anything? Is anyone else experiencing this? If so, was there a PR on it? If not, you may want to contact the port maintainer and see if they have any assistance, or file a PR if there is not one already. Also, please post a reply to the list with your `un

Re: FreeBSD-7.1, BETA2 or PRERELEASE

2008-10-24 Thread mdh
rcsid's or asked to cvsup to the latest if the issue is considered to possibly be a base system and/or kernel code issue. It's probably worth discussion and consideration, though. I don't know if/how useful the utility of the current naming conventions are to folks trying to

Re: Locked out of Root

2008-10-23 Thread mdh
any help/advice. > > You'll need to reboot in single-user mode. > E.g., > http://be-well.ilk.org/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#SU-WHEEL-GROUP If he can get to the system console, why would he need to bother b

Re: Locked out of Root

2008-10-22 Thread mdh
o login as root directly. - mdh --- On Wed, 10/22/08, Benjamin Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Benjamin Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Locked out of Root > To: "APseudoUtopia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Dat

Re: KDE and yahoo IM

2008-10-19 Thread mdh
?? My suggestion would be to use Kopete or Pidgin. These are KDE-based and Gtk+ based, respectively, instant messaging clients. AFAIK, the official yahoo messenger client for FreeBSD has not been maintained for quite some while. - mdh __ Do You

Re: Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL

2008-10-18 Thread mdh
sr/src/sys/PDSMI_PLUS_RELENG_7_amd64 > amd64 It's definitly there in RELENG_7 as of this moment (just cvsup'd): /usr/src/sys/dev/syscons/syscons.c:SYSCTL_INT(_hw_syscons, OID_AUTO, kbd_reboot, CTLFLAG_RW|CTLFLAG_SECURE, &enable_reboot, - mdh

Re: back to kde3

2008-10-17 Thread mdh
sr/local/bin/kdm to /usr/local/kde4/bin/kdm The KDE4 stuff is all installed under /usr/local/kde4 in order to not conflict with KDE3 installs. - mdh __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Ma

Re: Problem with www/mod_cband

2008-10-17 Thread mdh
given bandwidth limit which would be configured in the script. Think `tail -f`. Functionality is handled outside of apache so no danger of crashes. Just create the .htaccess in such a way that the end-user can't delete/modify it, and have it do a Redirect. For robustness' sake, mo

Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system

2008-10-15 Thread mdh
27;ll need the ipfw rule, ipfw enabled in your kernel, and the following lines in rc.conf: gateway_enable="YES" natd_program="/sbin/natd" natd_enable="YES" natd_interface="sis0" natd_flags="-u" You may also need to run dhclient or somesuch to get an address from your ISP, but that's a whole other story. Enjoy. - mdh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Interrupt storm detected on "irq10:"; throttling interrupt source

2008-10-15 Thread mdh
re. It could be a driver problem, or it could be that the hardware there is bunk. - mdh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: new install sunfire v100

2008-10-15 Thread mdh
box with FreeBSD, so I don't know if I'll personally be able to help you too much there, but surely some folks here or on the sparc64 list would. As an aside, you may want to consider signing up for the FreeBSD sparc64 mailing list. - mdh ___

Re: Problems with portupgrade or db

2008-10-14 Thread mdh
same error > message. > What can I do to make things work again? > > Thanks in advance, > > Marco Have you tried installing db42 from ports manually? ie: (cd /usr/ports/databases/db42 && make deinstall && make clean &&am

Re: An endian error

2008-10-14 Thread mdh
ring BYTE_ORDER with _BIG_ENDIAN and/or _LITTLE_ENDIAN to determine which is the case, which would seemingly imply that it is OK to have both of those defined. - mdh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

RE: Installation Hangs

2008-10-12 Thread mdh
/serialconsole-setup.html for more info. - mdh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: rsync or even scp questions....

2008-10-11 Thread mdh
sr//'` After running this, where $varWithUsr is the variable containing a string like "/usr/home/blah", the variable $varWithoutUsr will be equal to "/home/blah". I create simple scripts like this all the time to rename batches of f

Re: freebsd7 & kde4 & performance

2008-10-11 Thread mdh
despite less bells and whistles than KDE every time on any system where I've tried it. If you provide some more information, maybe I can direct you to some setting tweaks, etc, but as I said it's working just lovely for me (and this is with a ton of apps open, by the way - several se

Re: Mailman + Apache + Cookies + FreeBSD

2008-10-09 Thread mdh
t by headers in the HTTP protocol response, and sent back to the server in the request headers of the clients subsequent requests. Python doesn't set cookies, Apache does, but python can command Apache to do so, and Mailman can, as a python script, command python to do so. Chances are mailm

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread mdh
signed value then prevents functions which return that type from returning -1 (or otherwise <0) to indicate an error condition. Even if it doesn't affect anything at all in the base system, it could impact untold sums of software developed not in the base system. - mdh

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread mdh
--- On Thu, 10/9/08, Eitan Adler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Eitan Adler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: uptime 2 years! > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org > Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008, 8:41 PM > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > [snip] > > And in theory it should be possible to change ti

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread mdh
ere is getting tips. We're here to help other users because that's how the community interoperates. Others help me, I in turn help others. If someone were rude to me or generally behaved poorly on the list, I may then be less inclined

Re: MPlayer is broken on 71-PRERELEASE?

2008-09-27 Thread mdh
tion, so it may help out there as well. - mdh --- On Sat, 9/27/08, Yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: MPlayer is broken on 71-PRERELEASE? > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008, 4:07 PM > When I

monodevelop compile-time problem

2008-09-27 Thread mdh
looked for patches in the mono-addins port to see if it changed anything that might fix this error, but found none. Any help is, of course, much appreciated. Thanks, mdh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: SIP compatible phone program for unix

2008-03-30 Thread mdh
--- Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > anyone knows such - pure text mode prefered. I'm not sure for the console, but there's Ekiga which is an X11 app that supports SIP. - mdh _

Re: from 6.3 to 7.0, will this work?

2008-03-27 Thread mdh
--- Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:13:07PM -0700, mdh wrote: > > > > If you are running AMD64, then no it would not run > on > > an Intel core2 duo based system. Maybe consider > an > > Yes it would. The Core 2 du

Re: from 6.3 to 7.0, will this work?

2008-03-27 Thread mdh
ould also just backup your data, then do a fresh install of FreeBSD 7 for whatever architecture you decide to build out with, and restore your data from the backup. - mdh Looking for last minute shopping

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-27 Thread mdh
--- David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:53:57PM -0400, Joe Demeny > wrote: > > > > In the end, the best advice seems to be indeed to > take the FreeBSD CD > > to the brick-and-mortar store... > > Or you could purchase an Apple Mac Book and have a > commercially >

Re: freebsd equiv of libdl.a (load shared libs)

2008-03-26 Thread mdh
in libc on FreeBSD. They are a part of libc on my Linux systems as well though, so not sure why it'd be trying to link against another library, though admittedly I know a lot more about development for FreeBSD than for Linux. - mdh __

Re: MPlayer does not compile (actually gio-fam-backend does not)

2008-03-25 Thread mdh
--- Andriy Babiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to compile MPlayer but it just doesn't > work because it > > depends on gio-fam-backend and that does not > compile. It always stops > > with: > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgio-2.0 > > gmake: *** [libgiofam.la] Error 1 > > *** Error code

Re: How do I add search paths to gcc

2008-03-21 Thread mdh
ports run this when you install a port containing shared libraries for example. The other is to use the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to set alternate paths at run-time. The 'ldconfig(1)' man page has more info for you. Take care, mdh

Re: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...

2008-03-20 Thread mdh
Sure, check out the icecast and darkice ports. Icecast is a server, darkice is a client. There're also some other useful ports like icegenerator (automatic mp3 streaming client software). Take care, mdh --- Zbigniew Szalbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > 2008

Re: Best way to achive email hosting for several domains

2008-03-20 Thread mdh
authenticating against the same mysql tables very easily. Take care, mdh --- Roberto Nunnari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Norberto. > > > Norberto Meijome wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:29:29 +0100 > > Roberto Nunnari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > &

Re: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...

2008-03-20 Thread mdh
It's been my experience that finding drivers for hardware created for open source operating systems by developers within the communities is quite easy, while such community doesn't exist for windows and you are 100% reliant on the vendor to supply working drivers. If they supply crap drivers, go o

7.0-STABLE hanging while running Xorg with nv driver

2008-03-20 Thread mdh
a nf4u chipset. The support was either non-existent or very limited in 6.2. * I was using i386 before, but went to amd64 with 7.0. * I'm using the nv driver for Xorg instead of the ones from nvidia.com. * Xorg 6 -> Xorg 7, and all other software up No har

Re: Best way to achive email hosting for several domains

2008-03-20 Thread mdh
isten on all IPs for imap/ssl connections, and localhost only for imap non-ssl (for squirrelmail's benefit), then have squirrelmail installed under an ssl vhost, so that users can't send their credentials over the internet in the clear. Take care, mdh ___