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From: Oliver Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 16 mai 2007 03:18
To: Jerry McAllister
Cc: Oliver Peter; Ian Lord; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:38:15PM -0400, Jerry McAllister
On 5/16/07, Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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From: Oliver Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 16 mai 2007 03:18
To: Jerry McAllister
Cc: Oliver Peter; Ian Lord; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...
On Tue, May 15
On 2007-05-16 03:21, Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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From: Oliver Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 16 mai 2007 03:18
To: Jerry McAllister
Cc: Oliver Peter; Ian Lord; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs
Peter'; 'Jerry McAllister'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...
On 2007-05-16 03:21, Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Oliver Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 16 mai 2007 03:18
To: Jerry McAllister
Cc
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:26:36PM -0400, Ian Lord wrote:
...
Where can I change the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ?
Did you set up your hostname correctly in /etc/rc.conf ?
Furthermore you need to tell your MTA how your hostname is called.
--
Oliver PETER, email: [EMAIL
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:26:03PM +0200, Oliver Peter wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:26:36PM -0400, Ian Lord wrote:
...
Where can I change the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ?
Look in the file /etc/mail/aliases
You can alias root to go to your favorite address.
On Tue, 15 May 2007 12:26:36 -0400
Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[]
The problem, is that the mail is coming from
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
We have a spamfirewall and it rejects the mail saying localhost.mydomain.com
is invalid.
Where can I change the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to
B. Cook wrote:
Hello all,
I'm trying out amd64 on this Dell M90, and it seems to be going great..
*except* the nvidia-drivers port won't compile on amd64.. so I took
out the i386 entry in the Makefile and it gets to a part where its
linking and gets this:
=== Building for
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 10:49:16AM -0400, B. Cook wrote:
Hello all,
I'm trying out amd64 on this Dell M90, and it seems to be going great..
*except* the nvidia-drivers port won't compile on amd64.. so I took out
the i386 entry in the Makefile and it gets to a part where its linking
and
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:44:57 +0100, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why shall you do the double job by installing the FreeBSD, then
reinstall it after adding SMP option to kernel? Couldn't we get
FreeBSD to install the right kernel based on the number of the cpu(s)
in
At about the time of 2/13/2007 12:07 PM, pete wright stated the following:
On 2/13/07, Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday February 13, 2007 at 01:42:23 (PM) pete wright wrote:
how would you define correct? have all systems boot with a SMP
kernel by default so that machines with
Subject: Re: Newbie--new install on Core 2 Duo?
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:44:57 +0100, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why shall you do the double job by installing the FreeBSD, then
reinstall it after adding SMP option to kernel? Couldn't we get
FreeBSD to install the right
Ive never installed FreeBSD by myself, its always been installed for me by
someone. But im planning on getting a new laptop soon, thinking of the
ThinkPad T60, which now has a Intel Core 2 Due processor.
nice choice
What do i need to do to make sure i'm getting the use of both cores? I read
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/12/07, Dr. Jennifer
Nussbaum wrote:
Ive never installed FreeBSD by myself, its always been installed for me by
someone. But im planning on getting a new laptop soon, thinking of the
ThinkPad T60, which now has a Intel Core 2 Due
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:23:20AM +0300, Mike Barnard wrote:
Ive never installed FreeBSD by myself, its always been installed for me by
someone. But im planning on getting a new laptop soon, thinking of the
ThinkPad T60, which now has a Intel Core 2 Due processor.
nice choice
What do
This question come sup so often, I believe FreeBSD should do this by
default, install the proper kernel unless something different is
selected by the user.
they will detect your cpus and will
install the right kernel to use both cpus
Brian
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On Tuesday February 13, 2007 at 01:42:23 (PM) pete wright wrote:
how would you define correct? have all systems boot with a SMP
kernel by default so that machines with multiple processors
automatically detect all available CPU's? then what about all the
users that are using uni-proc
Gerard writes:
It is also a hugh waste of time. Doing the initial system
installation, there should be an option at the very least to
enable SMP. Installing a system, then having to rebuilt and and
reinstall it again if counter productive.
The market is moving toward multiple CPUs.
It is also a hugh waste of time. Doing the initial system installation,
there should be an option at the very least to enable SMP. Installing
a system, then having to rebuilt and and reinstall it again if counter
productive.
The market is moving toward multiple CPUs. The FBSD installation
On 2/13/07, Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday February 13, 2007 at 01:42:23 (PM) pete wright wrote:
how would you define correct? have all systems boot with a SMP
kernel by default so that machines with multiple processors
automatically detect all available CPU's? then what about
On 2007/02/13 11:02, Brian seems to have typed:
the question of smp comes up along with amd64 vs i386 vs ia64.
This is documented in the hardware notes though:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/hardware-i386.html
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/hardware-amd64.html
On 2/13/07, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is also a hugh waste of time. Doing the initial system installation,
there should be an option at the very least to enable SMP. Installing
a system, then having to rebuilt and and reinstall it again if counter
productive.
The market is moving
Create a custom kernel with SMP enabled.
-Derek
At 11:35 AM 2/12/2007, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
Ive never installed FreeBSD by myself, its always been installed for me by
someone. But im planning on getting a new laptop soon, thinking of the
ThinkPad T60, which now has a Intel
On 2/12/07, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ive never installed FreeBSD by myself, its always been installed for me by
someone. But im planning on getting a new laptop soon, thinking of the ThinkPad
T60, which now has a Intel Core 2 Due processor.
What do i need to do to make
I have another section to add to my previous post:
At some point in your dealings, you may introduce a typo into a
critical startup file, such as rc.conf, loader.conf, fstab, or
similar, and reach the following upon reboot:
Press enter for /bin/sh:
To recover:
0. press enter
1. cd /etc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Steve Franks wrote:
I have another section to add to my previous post:
At some point in your dealings, you may introduce a typo into a
critical startup file, such as rc.conf, loader.conf, fstab, or
similar, and reach the following upon reboot:
On Jan 17, 2007, at 12:04 AM, Oliver Iberien wrote:
I am logged in as oliver. I have two extra partitions mounted.
Below is the
section of devfs.conf that has to do with them:
#Allow access to the second disk
own /dev/ad1s2c oliver:wheel
perm/dev/ad1s2c 0666
own /disk2
Hello Brett,
I'd try posing this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The people that
watch that list will probably be more able to help (rather, have more
interest in helping you) that those on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, when
posting there -- if you haven't done so already -- try changing your
subject line to
Hey,
It is pretty straightforward:
--- cut here ---
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
exec(nmap 192.168.1.2);
--- cut here ---
I would just use an sh script for something this simple:
--- cut here ---
#!/bin/sh
nmap 192.168.1.2;
--- cut here ---
If you want to be able to supply optional arguments, we
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 09:19:27AM -0500, Brett Bonfield wrote:
Hello Brett,
I'd try posing this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The people that
watch that list will probably be more able to help (rather, have more
interest in helping you) that those on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, when
posting there -- if
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 10:48:24AM -0500, Brett Bonfield wrote:
Hi,
I am a library student at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. My
goal is to aggregate information about the Library and Information
Science profession (e.g. conferences, mailing lists, blogs,
professional associations,
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007, linux quest wrote:
I have been searching for tutorials for browsing the Internet using Lynx,
but canât seem to find one anywhere. There arenât any tutorial either in
those Unix books that I bought. What command do I need to type to download
Lynx and what command I need
lynx is found by running sysinstall, then going to
configure-packages-all-lynx.
I run firefox with firefox not mozilla.
Steve
On 1/4/07, linux quest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been searching for tutorials for browsing the Internet using Lynx,
but can't seem to find one anywhere. There
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:42:25AM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007, linux quest wrote:
I have been searching for tutorials for browsing the Internet using Lynx,
but canât seem to find one anywhere. There arenât any tutorial either in
those Unix books that I bought. What
- Original Message
From: linux quest [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org
Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2007 10:22:25 AM
Subject: Newbie Lynx and Mozilla Firefox Questions
I have been searching for tutorials for browsing the Internet using Lynx, but
can't seem to find one
The interface configuration looks correct, similar to how i have created a
bridge on my box at startup. Ive never needed to setup any routes at startup
myself; but adding a single route as you need cant be too hard... sorry i
cant be of more help.
Sometimes man pages assume knowledge beyond a
Loading a kernel module at boot time is done by editing (or creating)
loader.conf in /boot. And adding [module_name]_load=YES to load a module,
so: if_gre_load=YES.
Edit rc.conf for startup configurations. Take a look at man rc.conf. The
sections on network_interfaces and static_routes will be
* On 13/12/06 15:48 +, Chris wrote:
| Loading a kernel module at boot time is done by editing (or creating)
| loader.conf in /boot. And adding [module_name]_load=YES to load a module,
| so: if_gre_load=YES.
|
| Edit rc.conf for startup configurations. Take a look at man rc.conf. The
|
On 12/13/06, Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* On 13/12/06 15:48 +, Chris wrote:
| Loading a kernel module at boot time is done by editing (or creating)
| loader.conf in /boot. And adding [module_name]_load=YES to load a
module,
| so: if_gre_load=YES.
|
| Edit rc.conf for
there's always the shells,
bash for example
--
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John F Hoover
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On 10/6/06, John Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
there's always the shells,
bash for example
asciiquarium is a good start.
*A Must*
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On 10/6/06, ograbme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like a few recommendations for small ports to try to install
on my stand-alone machine.
The stand-alone machine does not have connection to the internet;
however, I do have a set of four (4)CD from the FreeBSD Mall and two
(2) of the CD's
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 12:14:29PM -0400, ograbme wrote:
I would like a few recommendations for small ports to try to install
on my stand-alone machine.
The stand-alone machine does not have connection to the internet;
however, I do have a set of four (4)CD from the FreeBSD Mall and two
Dear Very Helpful and Informative FreeBSD List,
I installed FreeBSD on Friday Night and tried very hard to get it all working.
My initial X problem actually fixed itself (you can imagine my surprise),
however, even with that, our computer is useless as a desktop (or anything
else) without an
On 2006-09-17 12:22, Joel Adamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Very Helpful and Informative FreeBSD List,
I installed FreeBSD on Friday Night and tried very hard to get
it all working. My initial X problem actually fixed itself
(you can imagine my surprise), however, even with that, our
On Thursday 14 September 2006 01:21, Kevin Brunelle wrote:
As for the GNU tools, yes most sysadmins use some of them (although not
always). I know that BSD tar handles gzip and bzip2 just fine ( -z and -j
respectively). So I know I wouldn't download gtar just for that feature.
In fact, as I
On Sep 14, 2006, at 12:29 AM, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
On Thursday 14 September 2006 01:21, Kevin Brunelle wrote:
As for the GNU tools, yes most sysadmins use some of them
(although not
always). I know that BSD tar handles gzip and bzip2 just fine ( -
z and -j
respectively). So I know I
On Thursday 14 September 2006 08:40, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
On Sep 14, 2006, at 12:29 AM, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
In fact, as I discovered a few days ago (after all, how often does
one read tar(1)'s manpage?), you only need to use -z and -j when
creating a tar archive.
In response to ograbme [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hello All.
Thursday, September 14, 2006, 4:24:43 AM, RJ45 wrote in regards to his
message titled Memory problem:
snip
R I am running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p6 build with buildworld.
snip
What does the -p6 nomenclature represent in the
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 06:16, Jeff Rollin wrote:
I let a lot of BSD comments about Linux go unpunished, but this one has
always got me. BSD had to be *almost totally rewritten* to avoid ATT
licensing issues... added to the fact that I wouldn't be surprised if it's
hard to find a single
If I may comment as someone who knows only that BSD looks better to a newbie,
it looks better because I only have to go to one place to read the FreeBSD
manual. For Linux, there's documentation for all the little parts, and a
community/wiki for any particular distribution, except that's a lot
On 9/13/06, Joel Adamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I may comment as someone who knows only that BSD looks better to a newbie,
it looks better because I only have to go to one place to read the FreeBSD
manual. For Linux, there's documentation for all the little parts, and a
community/wiki
On 11/09/06, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Rollin wrote:
Discussions like these leave me lost for words...
Perhaps, although it seems you recovered quickly. :-)
Heh. Maybe I ought to have said almost!
Which is to say, apart from the occasional
On 11/09/06, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Rollin wrote:
Discussions like these leave me lost for words...
Perhaps, although it seems you recovered quickly.
:-)
Which is to say, apart from the
On 11/09/06, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Needless to say, I was very disappointed. I feel
that FreeBSD will never
achieve broader acceptance (even with momentum
building for alternative
OS)
among people with modest technical
--- Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/09/06, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
When I first installed FreeBSD, circa 2003,
version
4.9, the two reasons I chose it over Redhat and
Debian were the simplicity of the installation
and
good manual. The install process
One question I often forget to ask myself is ;
What is my end goal ?
These days, if I want a non Windows desktop
that is quick and easy to install / update I use
this ; www.zenwalk.org [400MB .iso]
For servers, I use FreeBSD :)
Of course, you can use FreeBSD as a desktop
machine too ... but
On 12/09/06, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/09/06, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
When I first installed FreeBSD, circa 2003,
version
4.9, the two reasons I chose it over Redhat and
Debian were the simplicity of the
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 11:16, Jeff Rollin wrote:
I'm unconvinced you could take FreeBSD 4 box and run the kernel from 6.1 on
it without changing anything else.
No, but the fact that you upgrade world+kernel in one go helps. FreeBSD also
mantains a good level of back-compatibility. The
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:05, Jeff Rollin wrote:
That was my point, that BSD was rewritten from the ground up to avoid ATT
patents. So whilst some might consider BSD real unix, it's really only
emulating V7 with Berkeley extensions.
My understanding was that it was copyright rather than
On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 08:46 -0400, Bob Walker wrote:
Thanks to *all* who responded to my whining -- you've been great, and I am
going to give FreeBSD another try. Apologies to all if I sounded like a
twit... I was just eager to try something new as I have had it with MS
products. Regards,
Must have missed your rant Bob. You may want to check out
PC-BSDhttp://www.pcbsd.org,
a graphical installer that loads the KDE desktop on completion and rides on
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p2. If your hardware is supported in FreeBSD then it's
pretty painless. I dropped Windows at my home over 4 months
{expunged the old, typ}
I've only been around since FreeBSD 5.4
myself,
and
found during installs that sysinstall would
get
confused if you changed your mind and went
backwards
through the menus to reconfigure options. it
seems
like the one in 6.1 is a lot better,
Bob Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I have always wanted to better understand Unix, and so I finally made the
decision to switch some of my office PCs over to either a Unix or Linux
system. With office suites like OpenOffice, I felt that I would be able to
transition away from Windows
On 11/09/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bob Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I have always wanted to better understand Unix, and so I finally made
the
decision to switch some of my office PCs over to either a Unix or Linux
system. With office suites like OpenOffice, I felt that
On Monday 11 September 2006 05:29, Jeff Rollin wrote:
On 11/09/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bob Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I have always wanted to better understand Unix, and so I finally made
the
decision to switch some of my office PCs over to either a
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:46:13 -0400, Bob Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Thanks to *all* who responded to my whining -- you've been great, and I
am
going to give FreeBSD another try. Apologies to all if I sounded like a
twit... I was just eager to try something new as I have had it with MS
On Monday 11 September 2006 15:56, Jud wrote:
everyone who uses FreeBSD knows that a better (meaning,
at least to many folks, more simplified and graphical)
installer would be nice
Perhaps as an option. The problem is that you need to install a graphical
environment to run a graphical
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:26:33 +0200, Jonathan McKeown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Monday 11 September 2006 15:56, Jud wrote:
everyone who uses FreeBSD knows that a better (meaning,
at least to many folks, more simplified and graphical)
installer would be nice
Perhaps as an option. The
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 05:32:40 -0400
Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We are a community. We're not Microsoft. We're not interested in
driving users away by saying here's everything you need, don't bother
us again. Our limited resources are focused on developing the really
important parts
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:26:33 +0200
Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 11 September 2006 15:56, Jud wrote:
everyone who uses FreeBSD knows that a better (meaning,
at least to many folks, more simplified and graphical)
installer would be nice
Perhaps as an option. The
In response to Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Any other related projects to improve the installer? I *KNOW* it isn't the
most
important part of the system, but every bit counts, and I think that having
both a ncurses and a GUI (non-ncurses ;) )based installer would be quite nice
and
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 11:42:19PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote:
Too bad you felt it was that horrific.
In my experience FreeBSD is sometimes a bit harder than modern Linux
distros to install, but are much nicer to maintain and use.
I found leaning linux was much harder because there wore
On 2006 Sep 11, Bill Moran wrote:
In response to Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Any other related projects to improve the installer? I *KNOW* it isn't the
most
important part of the system, but every bit counts, and I think that having
both a ncurses and a GUI (non-ncurses ;)
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:51:28 +0200
Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
absolutely. but you don't need to install anything to run a graphical
installer. And, ideally, you wouldn't be forced to have only the graphical
installer option, you'd still be able to use the good old ncurses or
In response to Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 2006 Sep 11, Bill Moran wrote:
In response to Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Any other related projects to improve the installer? I *KNOW* it isn't
the most
important part of the system, but every bit counts, and I think
On 9/11/06, Bob Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I have always wanted to better understand Unix, and so I finally made the
decision to switch some of my office PCs over to either a Unix or Linux
system. With office suites like OpenOffice, I felt that I would be able to
transition away
On 11/09/06, jan gestre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/11/06, Bob Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I have always wanted to better understand Unix, and so I finally made
the
decision to switch some of my office PCs over to either a Unix or Linux
system. With office suites like
On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Rollin wrote:
Discussions like these leave me lost for words...
Perhaps, although it seems you recovered quickly. :-)
Which is to say, apart from the occasional bug I really don't see
what the
problem is with sysinstall.
Credits: It's highly
From: Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 11:42:19PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote:
Too bad you felt it was that horrific.
In my experience FreeBSD is sometimes a bit harder than modern Linux
distros to install, but are much nicer to maintain and use.
I found leaning
Needless to say, I was very disappointed. I feel that FreeBSD will never
achieve broader acceptance (even with momentum building for alternative
OS)
among people with modest technical proficiency and fairly simple
requirements (i.e., spreadsheets, word processing, presentations, email).
On Monday 11 September 2006 2:12 pm, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
Needless to say, I was very disappointed. I feel that FreeBSD will never
achieve broader acceptance (even with momentum building for alternative
OS)
among people with modest technical proficiency and fairly simple
--- Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Rollin wrote:
Discussions like these leave me lost for words...
Perhaps, although it seems you recovered quickly.
:-)
Which is to say, apart from the occasional bug I
really don't see
what the
--- Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Needless to say, I was very disappointed. I feel
that FreeBSD will never
achieve broader acceptance (even with momentum
building for alternative
OS)
among people with modest technical proficiency
and fairly simple
requirements (i.e.,
backyard writes:
--- Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Rollin wrote:
Discussions like these leave me lost for words...
Perhaps, although it seems you recovered quickly.
:-)
Which is to say, apart from the occasional bug I
really don't see
what
--- Jerold McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
backyard writes:
--- Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Rollin wrote:
Discussions like these leave me lost for
words...
Perhaps, although it seems you recovered quickly.
:-)
You are correct that FreeBSD is closer with roots to UNIX.
You would have done better to post here first and get some pointers on
installation. The basic install is usually easy on supported hardware. X
and and GUI like gnome, kde, etc are NOT part of the OS. Unlike other OS's
there is no
In brief, the installation process is just awful. After multiple attempts
on an admittedly older machine (Pentium II 266Mhz, 256KB ram, 30GB hard
drive, S3 Virge graphics card), I was able to get the FreeBSD OS installed,
but could not configure Gnome or KDE properly. The documentation is
On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 10:17:27AM -0400, g wrote:
ok, i got a snapshot of the make bootstrap
it shows the error.
???
Well, you didn't quite follow my instructions, but you showed enough
to see that something is quite odd on your system:
srcdir=/usr/ports/gcc-4.1.1/fixincludes /bin/sh
i downloaded the file from gnu.
ok, i see the directory.
thanks, i will try using the freebsd instruction.
g.
On Sep 2, 2006, at 10:33 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 10:17:27AM -0400, g wrote:
ok, i got a snapshot of the make bootstrap
it shows the error.
???
Well, you
Use gcc42, g++42, etc.
--- g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i compiled and installed gcc-4.2 using the instruction on the FreeBSD
web site. thanks to kris, who directed me to /usr/ports/lang/
gcc ... and pointed out there was something unusually wrong with
what i had done before.
how
Thanks, Sean.
g.
On Sep 2, 2006, at 2:32 PM, Sean M. wrote:
Use gcc42, g++42, etc.
--- g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i compiled and installed gcc-4.2 using the instruction on the FreeBSD
web site. thanks to kris, who directed me to /usr/ports/lang/
gcc ... and pointed out there was
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 08:21:04PM -0400, g wrote:
hi everyone,
i'm trying to compile and install gcc-4.1.1 from the port section.
errors:
Syntax error: redirection unexpected
*** Error code 2
Stop in /usr/home/g/Applications/gcc-4 ... /build-i386-unknown-
freebsd6.1/fixincludes.
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 12:37 am, E. Gad wrote:
Hello
First I was directed to post the here because I posted to the stable
mailing list before re-reading what it's purpose is- I apologise-.
I am playing with freebsd 6 on a testing box. I Upgraded l from 6.0 to
6.1 because it looked
Hello,
Welcome to the world of FreeBSD. First of all, why are you trying to
install binaries? I would say it is wiser to use the port system
yourself. However remember to cvsup your ports tree before you start
using it to get the required software. Refer to the handbook for
understanding how
Subhro wrote:
yourself. However remember to cvsup your ports tree before you start
using it to get the required software. Refer to the handbook for
understanding how ports work.
For most people portsnap would be a better way of updating one's ports
tree. Firstly, it's in the base system and
Bruce Greene wrote:
Hi —
In setting up FreeBSD 6.1, i don't know what group or member groups to
choose.
Thank you -
Bruce Greene
Macs Plus 410 764-8599
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.macsplus.com
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On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:00:27 -0400
Bruce Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In setting up FreeBSD 6.1, i don't know what group or member groups
to choose.
during the install ?
you can put yourself in group staff and if you want to use su -
later on, then put yourself in group wheel
--
grtjs,
Bruce Greene wrote:
Hi
In setting up FreeBSD 6.1, i don't know what group or member groups to
choose.
Thank you -
Bruce Greene
Macs Plus 410 764-8599
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.macsplus.com
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On Sunday 30 July 2006 13:09, Oliver Iberien wrote:
After running portsnap this morning:
bsd# pkg_version -v /home/oliver/version.txt
Makefile, line 54: Could not
find /usr/ports/print/cups-lpr/../../print/cups/Makefile.common
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
pkg_version:
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