Re: FreeBSD Distribution installations

2003-04-03 Thread John Vender
On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 03:06 PM, Sukhbinder Singh wrote: Hello, Can anyone explain, how can I install more distribution into a running freebsd from the root directory. for example if my initial freebsd installation was only customed to install the bin (required) distribution

Re: Weird traceroute problem

2003-04-03 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:08:52PM +1000, Christopher Smith wrote: I have two firewalls - the second is being prepped to replace the first. All networking from the second machine appears to be fine *except* traceroute looks broken. This happens: could it be that your second maschine blocks

Re: FreeBSD Port/Distribution Installation

2003-04-03 Thread Sukhbinder Singh
I got the bin distribution installed at the first time when I installed this whole new FreeBSD into my computer for the very first time using the 2 image floppy disk. First, I tried installing them using ftp. However, I was unable to connect or start a ftp connection after successive tries. Then,

Re: FreeBSD Port/Distribution Installation

2003-04-03 Thread Sukhbinder Singh
Hello, I installed the /bin distribution from my harddisk at the very first time when I installed freebsd. I chose the installed via dos partition method and the installation program automatically found the /bin directory in my dos partition and installed this bin distribution. Now my

ATI Rage pro + XFree86 Server

2003-04-03 Thread Wayne Swart
Hi Is there support for ATI Rage pro II on FreeBSD XFree86 server? According to /stand/sysinstall there isn't or am I just blind?:) Thanks Wayne ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: OpenOffice broken???

2003-04-03 Thread CARTER Anthony
Hi, Does anyone have any ideas on this? Anthony On Thursday 03 April 2003 08:16, CARTER Anthony wrote: Hi, I had a bit of a problem with the new openoffice 1.0.2. It stops out with the following: === Installing for openoffice-1.0.2_2 === openoffice-1.0.2_2 depends on file:

Nvidia drivers

2003-04-03 Thread Wayne Swart
Hi there everyone A while ago I emailed this list regarding my network interfaces stop responding when I am running x windows. I have now installed the latest nvidia drivers on FreeBSD 4.8-RC and I have found that it is indeed those drivers that causes that. I have two dc type cards in my box,

Re: Fatal trap after adding more memory

2003-04-03 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Eric Ekong wrote: I added memory to my machine yesterday and since then I have noticed Fatal traps when I try to do some intensive activity on the machine. IE. make buildworld Tried yanking that last module back out? Something else, are all DIMMs the same manufacturer,

RE: Technical question about scripts

2003-04-03 Thread Curt Grimley
Mr. Chen's solution is a good one, and you might simplify it like this: # Where a, b and c are the config files: md5before=`cat a b c | md5` vi a b c md5after=`cat a b c | md5` if [ $md5before = $md5after ] then exit # no changes made fi Curt Grimley -Original Message-

Re: Loopback filesystem support?

2003-04-03 Thread Jeff Walters
On Thursday 03 April 2003 01:23 am, W. Sierke wrote: From: Rus Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi All, Does FreeBSD have any support for loopback filesystems. i.e. I mean being able to mount a file as a filesystem ala Linux. Googling didn't chuck back much and the nearest I found was

Re: SOLVED! Re: Sendmail + Cyrus + Procmail(?) + SpamAssassin

2003-04-03 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 04:00:56PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-04-01T06:17:40Z, Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's now well past my bed time, my brain is all muzzy, and I'm this close to giving up on the whole project. Before I do, I have to ask: has *anyone* made

RE: IPFILTER Question

2003-04-03 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
Can you post the rules he is using? Perhaps you'll need something like: passout quick on xl0 proto tcp from any to any keep state keep frags in his ruleset! Regards, Ivailo Tanusheff -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nevins,

Re: rebuilding the MBR

2003-04-03 Thread Steve Bertrand
is it possible to rebuild the MBR? i'm booting from a promise controller. initially i was booting from the primary controller but now i'm booting from the second ide contoller now. Don't really know if this is completely relevant, but: # man boot0cfg(8) Steve i'm assuming there is a

Re: SOLVED! Re: Sendmail + Cyrus + Procmail(?) + SpamAssassin

2003-04-03 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-04-03T14:51:05Z, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Farber) writes: I use fetchmail - procmail - SpamAssasin - Courier-IMAP on OpenBSD and it works fine - procmail is able to deliver to Courier-IMAP folders, you just have to name them .blah/ Cyrus is a little different. It maintains its

Recording sound

2003-04-03 Thread Hugo Saro
Hi all, What is the command to record sound in freebsd? I have the soundcard correctly set up and it playbacks sound nicely, now i want to try recording, but don't know how. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms,

Re: IPFILTER Question

2003-04-03 Thread Marco Radzinschi
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Nevins, Peter wrote: Hello. I'm a firewall admin and have run into a question regarding your OS. A client is running IPFILTER and cannot send mail to us here. We're running a Raptor Firewall for NT (yes, NT). He sends a SYN and my system responds with an ACK that is more

Re: Fatal trap after adding more memory

2003-04-03 Thread Eric Ekong
* Andrew MacIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030403 07:33]: On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Eric Ekong wrote: I added memory to my machine yesterday and since then I have noticed Fatal traps when I try to do some intensive activity on the machine. IE. make buildworld Tried yanking that last module back

Re: Loopback filesystem support?

2003-04-03 Thread Adam
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 00:52, Rus Foster wrote: Hi All, Does FreeBSD have any support for loopback filesystems. i.e. I mean being able to mount a file as a filesystem ala Linux. Googling didn't chuck back much and the nearest I found was mount_null. Is it possible? *** -$ man mount_null

Re: Loopback filesystem support?

2003-04-03 Thread Adam
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 08:57, Jeff Walters wrote: See also: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-virtual.html vnconfig goes away in favor of mdconfig in FreeBSD 5.0. Ah, I guess there is another solution other than mount_null .. My mistake .. -- Adam [EMAIL

16.2.5 options PNPBIOS aber 5.0 will nicht

2003-04-03 Thread User LINUXMAILING
Hey Leute, Ich bin dabei seit anfang der Woche Freebsd auf meinem Laptop zu installieren *g*... Also ich hab XFree86 noch nicht zum laufen bekommen, und da mir dmesg gesagt hat das er keinen treiber fuer meine graka und soundka nicht hat, hab ich mal im handbuch geguckt was da zur soundkarte

Raid Card Support

2003-04-03 Thread Members Help
Can someone tell me if the latest version of FreeBSD supports the Adaptec 2100S raid card? I called Adaptec and they said only version 4.0 supports it and they did not know if the newer version did? Also is there any other raid cards which would be better that you could recommend? Thanks!

Novice has psm0 problems on a laptop

2003-04-03 Thread dknapp
I have a Compaq Presario 1220 laptop (Cyrix 200Mhz - woot!), and I can't seem to get the touchpad to work. I've read the laptop/mobile computing info, searched the mailing list, and gone to a couple of linux laptop sites - and from what I gather, there is really nothing special about a touchpad

#!sh grep and move files

2003-04-03 Thread Matthew Bettinger
Hello, I am trying to find the best way to search through several thousand files and move some to a different directory. The files are all prefixed with LB. Like, LBX99.DAT141683. These are data transactions and contain one line. The lines i am trying to search for all begin with 1~TA~

Re: #!sh grep and move files

2003-04-03 Thread Andy Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- ~ On 03-Apr-2003, Matthew Bettinger wrote message #!sh grep and move files ~ Hello, I am trying to find the best way to search through

Re: How to ignore arp error message

2003-04-03 Thread Dancho Penev
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:14:24AM +1000, Carl Morley wrote: From: Carl Morley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 07:14:24 +1000 Subject: How to ignore arp error message Hi, I have a server on a network which is inhabited by an Intel rack-mount box running Win2k. The

Novice has psm0 problems on a laptop - update

2003-04-03 Thread dknapp
I've done a boot -v - psm0 says: psm0: current command byte:0047 psm0: failed to reset the aux device I'm using a Synaptics PS/2 TouchPad Is there a patch to make this work? Is it possible to manually reset the aux device? I have a Compaq Presario 1220 laptop (Cyrix 200Mhz - woot!), and I

Re: VNC and blackbox

2003-04-03 Thread E. J. Cerejo
I've got VNC running with blackbox. Is there any useful info in the vncserer logfile - probably located at ~/.vnc/something.log. Basically, I set up a special user under which to launch the VNC server, so that I can effectively restrict any VNC usage to that which I have explicitly setup for the

Re: #!sh grep and move files

2003-04-03 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthew Bettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I am trying to find the best way to search through several thousand files and move some to a different directory. The files are all prefixed with LB. Like, LBX99.DAT141683. 1~TA~ (standing for timeand attendance labor

Re: Raid Card Support

2003-04-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 11:36:49AM -0500, Members Help wrote: Can someone tell me if the latest version of FreeBSD supports the Adaptec 2100S raid card? I called Adaptec and they said only version 4.0 supports it and they did not know if the newer version did? Sure that card is supported

rdist vs rsync

2003-04-03 Thread Brian Henning
Greetings, what are the major differences between rdist and rsync? is one of them better to use? I have a directory that i am backing up with a crontab and the backup dir is on the same machine. thanks, brian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

rdist vs rsync

2003-04-03 Thread Brian Henning
Greetings, what are the major differences between rdist and rsync? is one of them better to use? I have a directory that i am backing up with a crontab and the backup dir is on the same machine. thanks, brian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Gnome2, Sound, MPlayer

2003-04-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Although I've had success with FBSD as a server, I'm a complete newbie when it comes to using FBSD as a desktop. I've completed a fresh install of FBSD 5.0-RELEASE, and the latest versions of Gnome2, and XWindows. I learned that I needed 'options pcm' in my kernel config to get sound working so

Re: OpenOffice broken???

2003-04-03 Thread Ryan Merrick
CARTER Anthony wrote: Hi, Does anyone have any ideas on this? Anthony On Thursday 03 April 2003 08:16, CARTER Anthony wrote: Hi, I had a bit of a problem with the new openoffice 1.0.2. It stops out with the following: === Installing for openoffice-1.0.2_2 === openoffice-1.0.2_2 depends

RE: VNC and blackbox

2003-04-03 Thread Chris Ptacek
Try removing the from after blackbox. I run KDE and this is what my xstartup looks like: #!/bin/sh xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title $VNCDESKTOP Desktop autocutsel xhost + startkde - Chris -Original Message- From: E. J. Cerejo

Wireless NIC for 5.0-release + Shuttle sb51g?

2003-04-03 Thread David Kurtz
Can anyone recommend a PCI NIC for 802.11b that will work with FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE and a Shuttle sb51g? I'm a relative newbie to FreeBSD and unix sysadmin stuff in general, so if there are caveats and pay attention to thises I should be aware of, I'd be grateful for the help.

imap-uw / pam.d

2003-04-03 Thread Eduardo Viruena Silva
Hello guys! I'm trying to make kmail work with imapd in FreeBSD-5.0RELEASESp7 1. I compiled imap-uw cd /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw make WITH_SSL_AND_PLAINTEXT=yes install clean 2. I included the following lines in my inetd.conf file: pop3stream tcp nowait root

Re: rdist vs rsync

2003-04-03 Thread Andy Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- ~ On 03-Apr-2003, Brian Henning wrote message rdist vs rsync ~ Greetings, what are the major differences between rdist and rsync? is one

Re: VNC and blackbox

2003-04-03 Thread E. J. Cerejo
That did it. I knew it was something in this file. thanks Chris Ptacek wrote: Try removing the from after blackbox. I run KDE and this is what my xstartup looks like: #!/bin/sh xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title $VNCDESKTOP Desktop autocutsel

Re: rdist vs rsync

2003-04-03 Thread actisystem.net ML
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 15:29:09 -0500 (EST), Andy Harrison wrote: (cut) rdist can be run through ssh, which is useful. (i have no clue if rsync can or can't) Yes, it can run trought ssh too. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Load

2003-04-03 Thread David Olbersen
Does anybody have a nice definition of the UNIX term load ? I have a gut-level idea of what it is, but nothing that I can pass on to non-UNIX people. Any help? -- David Olbersen iGuard Engineer 11415 West Bernardo Court San Diego, CA 92127 1-858-676-2277 x2152

Re: VMware2 build under -CURRENT ... is Broken?

2003-04-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:49 PM -0700 4/1/03, Danilo Fiorenzano wrote: 5.0-CURRENT with sources cvsup'd on March 30. portinstall vmware2 aborts with: .../vmmon-only/freebsd/hostif.c: In function `FindMPN': .../vmmon-only/freebsd/hostif.c:186: invalid operands to binary *** Error code 1 Stop in

Re: Weird traceroute problem

2003-04-03 Thread Christopher Smith
On Thursday, April 3, 2003, at 06:47 PM, Toni Schmidbauer wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:08:52PM +1000, Christopher Smith wrote: I have two firewalls - the second is being prepped to replace the first. All networking from the second machine appears to be fine *except* traceroute looks

FireBird on FreeBSD?

2003-04-03 Thread george donnelly
Anyone running the FireBird db on FreeBSD? any pitfalls? how is performance, stability? thanks! -- george donnelly - http://www.zettai.net/ - We Love Newbies :) Zope Hosting - Dynamic Website Design - Search Engine Promotion Yahoo, AIM: zettainet - MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ICQ: 51907738

apsfilter, ghostscript and my wife's Lexmark 3200 printer

2003-04-03 Thread Tom Parquette
Hi. I've got printing set up and I have been able to generate the test print from 5.0-CURRENT to my Laserjet 2200dse via USB cabling. My wife wants to get her Lexmark 3200 off of her desk and somewhere else. So, I migrated my Laserjet to USB and I'm planning to plug her printer into the

[Repost: cvs mirror question]

2003-04-03 Thread Tom Parquette
I posted the following a month ago and got no responses. Let's try this one more time, before I give up... TIA and Cheers... ---BeginMessage--- I have cvsup-mirror installed (using the desfault paths) and I recently installed svsweb. I was looking at the cvsweb conf file and I started wondering

Re: OpenOffice broken???

2003-04-03 Thread Louis LeBlanc
I've been running into a different problem than that one: -bash-2.05b# make install === Installing for openoffice-1.0.2_2 Initializing installation program.. *** Error code 1 (ignored) === Generating temporary packing list === Add wrapper scripts sed: illegal option -- i usage: sed

Re: apsfilter, ghostscript and my wife's Lexmark 3200 printer

2003-04-03 Thread David Banning
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 06:55:42PM -0500, Tom Parquette wrote: Hi. I've got printing set up and I have been able to generate the test print from 5.0-CURRENT to my Laserjet 2200dse via USB cabling. My wife wants to get her Lexmark 3200 off of her desk and somewhere else. So, I migrated my

Re: Re: USB Printer

2003-04-03 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Konrad Scorciapino ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: == Hi, == == Whichever one you want. They should all work. you probably don't need == the x11 port, so one of the two -nox11 versions. One is licensed with == GNU, one with an open source license that permits commercial reuse if == you pay a

Mod_perl nightmares

2003-04-03 Thread Brent Wiese
I have to believe I'm overlooking something simple here, but I'm pulling my hair out over this... I am running 4.5. I have the latest ports list. I have installed apache 1.3.27, mod_ssl, mod_php 4.3.1 and mod_perl 1.27. Previously, it was running the same, minus mod_perl. Php is fine. I can

Re: Load

2003-04-03 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, David Olbersen wrote: Does anybody have a nice definition of the UNIX term load ? I have a gut-level idea of what it is, but nothing that I can pass on to non-UNIX people. Any help? The load averages displayed in commands like top, uptime and w are the average

DUAL XEON 2.40Mhz SMP APIC_IO Troubles

2003-04-03 Thread Gabor Esperon
Hi!!! I have a ProLiant Dual XEON at 2.4Mhz running FreeBSD 5.0 configured as it follows: machine i386 cpu I686_CPU options SMP options APIC_IO But every time the system boots stop running at kernel message: APIC_IO: Testing 8254 Interrupt Delivery and go

Long wait for harddisk detection during kernel boot

2003-04-03 Thread Rob Lahaye
Hi, I'm using 4.7 Release. When the kernel boots, I get a relatively long wait (a minute or more) at the harddisk detection. The HD is a IBM-DTLA/30.7Gb; CPU is Intel 1.7 GHz. For the whole 'dmesg' output, see below in the PS; the place where the wait occurs is here: [...] atapci0: Intel

Re: VMware2 build under -CURRENT ... is Broken?

2003-04-03 Thread Danilo Fiorenzano
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 16:10, Garance A Drosihn wrote: .../vmmon-only/freebsd/hostif.c: In function `FindMPN': .../vmmon-only/freebsd/hostif.c:186: invalid operands to binary *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/vmware2/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only. Just wondering if the

time -h option not working?

2003-04-03 Thread Carl Morley
Hi, I just tried to use the time command to time a process, but with the -h (human readable) output option: Eg. time -h ping -c 5 some_ip_address But I get back: -h: Command not found. 0.000u 0.000s 0:00.00 0.0% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w What am I doing wrong? Cheers, Carl.

Re: time -h option not working?

2003-04-03 Thread Tim Aslat
In the immortal words of Carl Morley [EMAIL PROTECTED]... I just tried to use the time command to time a process, but with the -h(human readable) output option: Eg. time -h ping -c 5 some_ip_address But I get back: -h: Command not found. 0.000u 0.000s 0:00.00 0.0% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w

Re: time -h option not working?

2003-04-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-04-04 12:35, Carl Morley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just tried to use the time command to time a process, but with the -h (human readable) output option: Eg. time -h ping -c 5 some_ip_address But I get back: -h: Command not found. 0.000u 0.000s 0:00.00 0.0% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w

RE: time -h option not working?

2003-04-03 Thread Carl Morley
# -Original Message- # From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- # [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Giorgos Keramidas # Sent: Friday, 4 April 2003 12:49 # To: Carl Morley # Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Subject: Re: time -h option not working? # # On 2003-04-04 12:35, Carl Morley [EMAIL

Re: Weird traceroute problem - SOLVED

2003-04-03 Thread Christopher Smith
It appears I've been bitten by a bug in the vlan code. I noticed while tcpdumping that the icmp time-exceeded packets were getting back to the vlan parent interface, but not to the vlan interface itself. This thread appears to describe the underlying problem:

Accessing a console X session from a remote system later?

2003-04-03 Thread Joey Teel
Is it possible to setup an X session at the console then later access that same session by remote without having to use saved sessions? Basically I need to leave an X app running on my console, and later access the session (or at least the application) from another system, usually over my LAN, but

Re: VNC - server started at boot-time

2003-04-03 Thread Rik Scarborough
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, D. Theunissen wrote: Does anyone know how to start /usr/local/bin/vncserver at boottime as a particular user? eg. I want to start the vncserver as user 'dan' during boot. I've found that if you put @reboot $HOME/bin/startvnc in dan's crontab works really well.

Re: time -h option not working?

2003-04-03 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Carl Morley wrote: Hi, I just tried to use the time command to time a process, but with the -h (human readable) output option: Eg. time -h ping -c 5 some_ip_address But I get back: -h: Command not found. 0.000u 0.000s 0:00.00 0.0% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w What am I

Re: OpenOffice broken???

2003-04-03 Thread JacobRhoden
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 10:17 am, Louis LeBlanc wrote: I've been running into a different problem than that one: === Add wrapper scripts sed: illegal option -- i usage: sed script [-Ean] [file ...] sed [-an] [-e script] ... [-f script_file] ... [file ...] *** Error code 1 [EMAIL

Re: sendmail woes

2003-04-03 Thread bastill
Quoting Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: but you should really read the README file for hints and pointers to more detailed documentation. I think the README to which you refer is elsewhere? /etc/mail/README is quite brief and refers to people who have sendmail_enable=NO and

Diskcheckd Port and Freebsd 4.7

2003-04-03 Thread Bigbrother
Dear, I have Freebsd 4.7-Release-p7 and I tried to install the port Sysutils/diskcheckd(ports are daily cvsuped) The message that I received is: ** 'sysutils/diskcheckd' is marked as IGNORE: Not tested on anything less than 5.0, use at discretion But the fact is that in an old

How to list installed ports that have no dependant ports

2003-04-03 Thread Adam
(/usr/ports) - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - (01:31:37) -$ pkg_info |wc -l 488 As you can see, I need to clean up my system quite a bit. I've got a ton of things installed, most of which were installed as dependencies for ports that have since been uninstalled. So, what I'd like to do is list all

Re: Diskcheckd Port and Freebsd 4.7

2003-04-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 09:35:01AM +0300, Bigbrother wrote: My question is why it says that it isn't tested on anything less than 5.0, even though I had compiled and used it on 4.X fbsds in the past? It says it wasn't tested because it wasn't tested :-) P.s. I tried to fiddle with the

Re: OpenOffice broken???

2003-04-03 Thread CARTER Anthony
You tried installing sed? It fixed that one for me... Anthony On Friday 04 April 2003 02:17, Louis LeBlanc wrote: This message uses a character set that is not supported by the Internet Service. To view the original message content, open the attached message. If the text doesn't display

Jail on FreeBSD5

2003-04-03 Thread Wayne Pascoe
Hi all, I'm about to implement a jail on FreeBSD 5, but I don't see anything in the man page about devfs. The host environment is running FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE-p7, with devfs. The jail man page says cd $D/dev sh MAKEDEV jail Should I still do this step on 5? If not, what should I do ? thanks,

LPT1 Port in ASM or C

2003-04-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all! I want to know how I can control the lpt1 port in asm or C. I'm a newbie. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Greetings Sebastian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: LPT1 Port in ASM or C

2003-04-03 Thread Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]
On Friday 04 April 2003 09:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I want to know how I can control the lpt1 port in asm or C. I'm a newbie. Any help would be greatly appreciated. There are two ways to do that. 1. Directly poke around with the ports 2. open /dev/lpt0 and communicate with that I

Re: USB Printer

2003-04-03 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Konrad Scorciapino [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Install enscript so you can generate postscript files. Then read the ijs documentation to figure out what flags to feed it to make produce output for your printer. You can test this by doing something like: Where can I find

Re: FreeBSD Port/Distribution Installation

2003-04-03 Thread David Banning
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 05:25:50PM +0800, Sukhbinder Singh wrote: I got the bin distribution installed at the first time when I installed this whole new FreeBSD into my computer for the very first time using the 2 image floppy disk. First, I tried installing them using ftp. However, I was

Re: newfs parameters for a 500 GB volume ?

2003-04-03 Thread Jan Grant
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi, I am repeating the post below, because it obviously hasn't made it to the list (at least i did not get it back from the list). Can someone please give me some advice, because i will be setting up the discs today. Thank you Hi, I am

SSH failing randomly in 4.7-REL

2003-04-03 Thread J. Seth Henry
I appreciate the help so far in trying to get these X terminals going. Unfortunately, I have discovered another oddity, this time with sshd and dhclient. I'm not sure if they are related or not. The first is with sshd. Randomly, and for no apparent reason, sshd will refuse to allow logins.

customizing printcap to email file

2003-04-03 Thread David Banning
what I would like to do is have windows boxes print to a unix printer filter which would convert the file into pdf format and put the file into a directory where it could be emailed out. Anyone tried this? First off, I tried modifying the printcap if= entry to take the file and save it as a

Re: customizing printcap to email file

2003-04-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:33 PM -0500 4/3/03, David Banning wrote: what I would like to do is have windows boxes print to a unix printer filter which would convert the file into pdf format and put the file into a directory where it could be emailed out. Anyone tried this? First off, I tried modifying the printcap

TrueType Fonts under XFree863.3.6

2003-04-03 Thread Fred Ciesla
I am running FreeBSD4.7-stable on my laptop and am using XFree863.3.6 because XFree864 is not compatible with my hardware. I have tried to install TrueType fonts as described in the handbook online, but keep getting an error which reads: unable to set default font, 'fixed' However, if I

Re: How to ignore arp error message

2003-04-03 Thread John Murphy
Dancho Penev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:14:24AM +1000, Carl Morley wrote: From: Carl Morley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 07:14:24 +1000 Subject: How to ignore arp error message arp: 10.1.21.80 moved from 00:03:47:f1:b8:3b to

RE: How to ignore arp error message

2003-04-03 Thread Carl Morley
Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Murphy Sent: Friday, 4 April 2003 09:52 To: Dancho Penev Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to ignore arp error message Dancho Penev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:14:24AM

Re: TrueType Fonts under XFree863.3.6

2003-04-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:14:19PM -0700, Fred Ciesla wrote: I am running FreeBSD4.7-stable on my laptop and am using XFree863.3.6 because XFree864 is not compatible with my hardware. I have tried to install TrueType fonts as described in the handbook online, but keep getting an error which

Re: newfs parameters for a 500 GB volume ?

2003-04-03 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Jan Grant wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi, I am repeating the post below, because it obviously hasn't made it to the list (at least i did not get it back from the list). Can someone please give me some advice, because i will be setting up the discs today. Thank you Hi,

Re: newfs parameters for a 500 GB volume ?

2003-04-03 Thread Jan Grant
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Thank you for your reply. I have reread the manpage and would go for: - blocksize = 64 kB - fragsize= 64/8 = 8 kB - bytes/inode = 16 kB Are these values reasonable or should i use higher values (because the disk is so large?) I'd turn

Re: newfs parameters for a 500 GB volume ?

2003-04-03 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Jan Grant wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Thank you for your reply. I have reread the manpage and would go for: - blocksize = 64 kB - fragsize= 64/8 = 8 kB - bytes/inode = 16 kB Are these values reasonable or should i use higher values (because the disk is so

Re: newfs parameters for a 500 GB volume ?

2003-04-03 Thread Jan Grant
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Jan Grant wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Thank you for your reply. I have reread the manpage and would go for: - blocksize = 64 kB - fragsize= 64/8 = 8 kB - bytes/inode = 16 kB Are these values reasonable or

Keyspan USB Serial adapter

2003-04-03 Thread Niklas Saers Mailinglistaccount
Hi, I've got a STABLE (as of today) running where I connect my Keyspan USA-19 serial adapter. I've compiled my kernel with device ucom, but when my computer boots up, it displays: ugen0: Keyspan USA-19 serial adapter, rev 1.00/80.01, addr 2 Why does this come up as ugen and not ucom? As far as I

Setting up a USR Courier modem ?

2003-04-03 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi People, I've done all the necessary steps to configure my modem ( FreeBSD 4.7 Stable ) and I can communicate fine directly to my Courier modem using tip ( I enabled Courier support and recompiled tip from source ) . I now need some help tweaking the serial port and whatever else may have to be

Re: TrueType Fonts under XFree863.3.6

2003-04-03 Thread E. J. Cerejo
When I ran XF 3.3.6 I had truetype fonts working but I only remember this much on how to configure it. cd /usr/ports/x11-servers out of these servers choose the one that relates to your video card, the driver you chose when you first configured XFree86, you can also find it in

Re: Accessing a console X session from a remote system later?

2003-04-03 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 03), Joey Teel said: Is it possible to setup an X session at the console then later access that same session by remote without having to use saved sessions? Basically I need to leave an X app running on my console, and later access the session (or at least the

dhclient acts odd with read-only '/' other questions about /dev

2003-04-03 Thread J. Seth Henry
Ok, I think I just qualified for an idiot award. After a little more poking around, I discovered that it was the read-only filesystem that was causing the problem. I rebuilt the microdrive image, and included a special /dev this time - which I mount over the original /dev. Now, I don't seem to be

Re: customizing printcap to email file

2003-04-03 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, David Banning wrote: what I would like to do is have windows boxes print to a unix printer filter which would convert the file into pdf format and put the file into a directory where it could be emailed out. Anyone tried this? First off, I tried modifying the printcap

Re: OpenOffice broken???

2003-04-03 Thread mpd
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 02:14:09PM +1000, JacobRhoden wrote: On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 10:17 am, Louis LeBlanc wrote: I've been running into a different problem than that one: === Add wrapper scripts sed: illegal option -- i usage: sed script [-Ean] [file ...] sed [-an] [-e script]

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2003-04-03 Thread Ivar Tenter
Good Day/Morning ;) My name is Ivar Tenter. I am administator of 3 Latvian ISP Companies, called Junik, Neonet and soon Telia/Sonera too. I have own 100Mbit line and own WSP called Sunshine.lv. I want to be Latvian Freebsd support team Master and webhoster of lv.freebsd.org or lv2.freebsd.org -