Re: strange reboots

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:47:15PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: On Thursday 21 August 2003 10:36 pm, zhuravlev alexander wrote: [ please CC me, because I am not a list subscriber ] Hi! We encounter with strange casual reboots of our server. Does anyone know any tactics

Re: strange reboots

On Thursday 21 August 2003 11:11 pm, zhuravlev alexander wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:47:15PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: On Thursday 21 August 2003 10:36 pm, zhuravlev alexander wrote: [ please CC me, because I am not a list subscriber ] Hi! We encounter with strange

Re: about using dd command to copy hard drives

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using freebsd 5.0 Jan 2003 series I know that dd is good at copying block devices when they are at identical sizes. But if they're different sizes will it copy correctly? I want to copy my entire freebsd hard disk which is 6 GB to a new

Re: strange reboots

zhuravlev alexander wrote: [ please CC me, because I am not a list subscriber ] Hi! We encounter with strange casual reboots of our server. Does anyone know any tactics of investigation why this happens. anything in /var/log/messages that looks interesting? do you do any monitoring of

mod_perl 1.28 with apache 1.3.28 questions

I have been trying to get mod_perl and apache to play nicely together and they refuse. I have a couple of problems. 1. I can't build and install mod_perl 1.28. I get and Error 1 when make checks to see if any version is installed. I can then go into work/mod_perl-1.28 and make install, but

Re: strange reboots

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 11:29:13PM -0700, paul beard wrote: zhuravlev alexander wrote: [ please CC me, because I am not a list subscriber ] Hi! We encounter with strange casual reboots of our server. Does anyone know any tactics of investigation why this happens.

Re: Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:27:31PM -0700, R B wrote: hi my name is pyr0teknix696 and i've been using linux for 3 years and decided to try freebsd on an old AST x486 with 32MB ram and a 3.16G HDD my problem is that the BIOS is not able to boot from CROM drives so i read through the docs and

Re: Toshiba T2100 Install Trouble

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 01:53:06PM +1000, Aaron ILES wrote: I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 5.1 on a Toshiba T2100 laptop. (That's a x486 with 8meg of RAM booting from floppies) The kernel and MFS root are uncompressed ok, however, when booting the kernel the boot pauses after just a few

Re: console bell visible

Yes OK I can just make a redirect /dev/audio0.* /dev/null but I want to have sound during my X sessions. The /dev/audio0.* /dev/null is a good idea if you only work in console mode. But in my case I use sometimes de X session and sometimes the console mode. [ On Thu, 21 Aug, 2003 at

Re: Backup and restore advise sought

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 11:22:12PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: My proposed solution is this: dump each FBSD partition to backup device, and re-partition the drive. This time put the Windows stuff at the front of the HD, and FBSD at the rear. BTW, I'll recreate the FBSD slices at least as

Re: Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT

I'm not an FreeBSD expert (as you I'm coming from linux). But when I installed my FreeBSD on my old PC, I used these commands to preparing boot floppies : (On linux ...) : dd if=/mnt/cdrom/floppies/kern.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs=36b dd if=/mnt/cdrom/floppies/mfsroot.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs=36b dd

Re: strange reboots

zhuravlev alexander wrote: We encounter with strange casual reboots of our server. Does anyone know any tactics of investigation why this happens. Perhaps you're suffering from the 'PAE crashes'. Mike Silbersack posted a patch to the freebsd-stable list today to backout the

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Re: Details

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Can you help me find a small (old ?) FreeBSD release?

Hi, My name is Dorin Scutarasu. I have an old computer (AMD 80486 DX2 @ 80MHz with 16 MB of RAM) an I want to install FreeBSD on it in a 50 MB partition. Can you help me find a small release that includes all the basic UNIX command line utilities and a compiler maybe? The bin distribution

Re: Copying an entire tree

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 08:35, Dan Strick wrote: No, I hadn't thought of using rsync for a purely local copy. But now that I've tried it, add it to the list of utilities that lose the flags. (I'm particularly interested in preserving the schg and nodump flags.) So far, the only thing I know

Re: Can you help me find a small (old ?) FreeBSD release?

hi On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 03:46:40AM -0700, Dorin-Constantin Scutarasu wrote: Hi, My name is Dorin Scutarasu. I have an old computer (AMD 80486 DX2 @ 80MHz with 16 MB of RAM) an I want to install FreeBSD on it in a 50 MB partition. Can you help me find a small release that includes all

Re: cvsup problems

--- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:09:42PM -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote: I get different error messages. Here's some output of what's going on now (the first error is VERY common): This is a network problem. Either the cvsup server, or something

Re: IP Problems

Does anyone know what this command, route delete default, did? After using it the box reboots but will not go online so I can log in remotely as this is not an on premise box. I need to tell the tech's what I need done in order to repair it. Any suggestions would be appreciated. From: Nils

Re: Backup and restore advise sought

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 09:57:35AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: 1. I'm concerned that the FBSD partition names will change. i.e., / was ad0s3a may now become ad1s3a and so on. Yes, this will happen, but not in the way you've shown: ad0s3a is the first partition (a) on the 3rd slice (s3)

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MozillaFirebird and Java

Hi, I thought I would've been the millionth person to ask this but I had a look in the archives and couldn't find anything so feel free to tell me to RTF relevant article. Can someone help me setup Java MozillaFirebird? I've installed both MozillaFirebird and JDK14 from ports but on java

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Re: MozillaFirebird and Java

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 01:59:29PM +0100, Philip Payne wrote: I thought I would've been the millionth person to ask this but I had a look in the archives and couldn't find anything so feel free to tell me to RTF relevant article. Can someone help me setup Java MozillaFirebird? I've

Re: MozillaFirebird and Java

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I sitll only have 1.3.1, but do you have a similar link in your browser_plugins directory? /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so - /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so Joey On August 22, 2003 09:59, Philip

Re: MozillaFirebird and Java

I have exactly the same problem : I have installed the JDK of SUN (v 1.3.1) for my OpenOffice. I have the following link for Mozilla : /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so@ - /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so But it doesn't work. [

RE: MozillaFirebird and Java

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 01:59:29PM +0100, Philip Payne wrote: I thought I would've been the millionth person to ask this but I had a look in the archives and couldn't find anything so feel free to tell me to RTF relevant article. Can someone help me setup Java MozillaFirebird?

Re: mod_perl 1.28 with apache 1.3.28 questions

KONDOU, Kazuhiro wrote: do you want to make mod_perl with Perl 5.[68] on 5.x system? you must rewrite PERL5/PERL5/PERL_VERSION/PERL_VER in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk and rebuild mod_perl with portupgrade -f. /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk doesn't look like anything I want to mess with: it reads like

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Over the past few months, there have been a handful of posts on freebsd-net regarding the lack of support in FreeBSD for on-board ethernet interfaces using the nVidia nForce2 chipset. I have currently a network-impared machine with an Asus A7N8X motherboard, which uses this chipset, with FBSD

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Hey folks, New to freebsd and it's architecture, i would like to know if there is any howto ( rtfm) for setting up a logitech webcam. Apparently the device has been recognized as ugen0. I just need a link or a howto. I will the rest. I did not find any clear howto and i suppose i am missing

Re: How create /dev/apm* ???

This is better suited towards freebsd-questions, so I'm going to copy this to that list. It is my understanding that ACPI depreciates APM, and that APM was mainly used in the 4.x branch. If anyone is the wiser, please correct me. -- Eric - Original Message - From: Armand Passelac

Re: logitech usb camera driver and setup howto

jens, As far as I know there is no current running application or device driver for the USB Camera from Logitech. They (Logitech) have not been forthcoming with their support for other operating systems then the usual. The SDK's are for Win32 systems and don't really help too much besides give

Re: How create /dev/apm* ???

[ On Fri, 22 Aug, 2003 at 9:22, Eric wrote: ] This is better suited towards freebsd-questions, so I'm going to copy this to that list. In freebsd-questions or freebsd-current ??? As somebody point the mistake out to me : I'm working on 5.1 which is the current. So I have just posted

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Hi all, I have 2 servers runnig freebsd 4.8, however the other server is running freebsd on a 256MB flashcard. I installed epiphany from ports on the first server, and I need to know how can I copy all the necessary files over to the flashcard. I used ldd epiphany-bin to get all required

RE: MozillaFirebird and Java

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 01:59:29PM +0100, Philip Payne wrote: What you need is the java plugin -- it's a loadable object that adds java capabilities to Netscape, Mozilla and (I think) Mozilla derived browsers like Firebird. The plugin is a standard part of the JDK, except that the FreeBSD

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Hi all, In the process of debugging my SAMBA installation, I discovered I've compiled SAMBA v 2.2.8a on my 4.8 RELEASE box. The 2.2.8a is listed in the ports collection as being for 4.8 STABLE, while 2.2.8 is for RELEASE. Should I uninstall and make the 2.2.8 or just leave things as they are?

Re: Can't build kernel with 4GB of memory (MAXDSIZE)

Mike Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't seem to get a new kernel working with increased memory parameters: I tried adding the following to my KERNCONF: options MAXDSIZ=(4096UL*1024*1024) options DFLDSIZ=(2048UL*1024*1024) On 5-current (as of about 6 months ago)

Re: changed root alias/unusual system events

Redmond Militante [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi all i have a general question, probably no big deal. a while ago, i edited /etc/aliases and did 'new aliases', so that root's email account now points to one of my email accounts - i have logcheck set up as a cron job every fifteen minutes

Re: Cvsup script question

Charles Howse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm cvsup'ing from a script in /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily. Here 'tis: #!/usr/local/bin/bash Echo Echo Output of cvsup: /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile Echo Echo Output of portsdb: /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu Echo Echo Output

Re: about using dd command to copy hard drives

I'm using freebsd 5.0 Jan 2003 series I know that dd is good at copying block devices when they are at identical sizes. But if they're different sizes will it copy correctly? If you are copying to a bigger disk you can make it work. But, for what you seem to want to do, it is not the

Re: mbuf clusters exhausted

Andreas Widerøe Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What can I do to get rid of these problems? I think you need to pay attention to the messages: All mbuf clusters exhausted, please see tuning(7). You are hitting very large network buffer usage at some point during the day -- much larger

Re: Samba 2.2.8 vs 2.2.8a on 4.8 Release

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 08:24:51AM -0700, RA Cohen wrote: Hi all, In the process of debugging my SAMBA installation, I discovered I've compiled SAMBA v 2.2.8a on my 4.8 RELEASE box. The 2.2.8a is listed in the ports collection as being for 4.8 STABLE, while 2.2.8 is for RELEASE. Should I

Re: Embedded epiphany

On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 10:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have 2 servers runnig freebsd 4.8, however the other server is running freebsd on a 256MB flashcard. I installed epiphany from ports on the first server, and I need to know how can I copy all the necessary files over to the

Re: PCM on my laptop is broken

Chipp Zanuff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have problem with my laptop;it freezes/crashes on BOOT when I compile device pcm into the kernel. I tried loading snd_pcm, but nothign happens. kldstat shows snd_pcm, but no entries in /dev also, there aren;t any messages in /var/logs/messages

Re: How can I subnetting my network ?

Supote Leelasupphakorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I will assign public IP address to all interfaces, is it neccessary that I must inform the upstream router's administrator to add my subnet in routing table of upstream router ? Yes; if you actually own your own subnet and

Re: IP Problems

Does anyone know what this command, route delete default, did? After using it the box reboots but will not go online so I can log in remotely as this is not an on premise box. I need to tell the tech's what I need done in order to repair it. Any suggestions would be appreciated. It's not

Re: dhclient denied

Bob Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I posted about this a while ago, but I haven't been able to find the cause. I'm getting the following message: Aug 21 13:00:03 kongemord dhclient: send_packet: Permission denied DHCP seems to work fine; I'm getting and maintaining DHCP leases properly.

Cron job question

I am getting this message every 5 minutes. Can somebody explain to me why root apparently is not found here? X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] root /usr/libexec/atrun

Re: Gnome2 config files weirdness

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:00:33PM +, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 21:58, stan wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:16:15PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 12:09, stan wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:14:59PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

Re: Cron job question

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 07:18:16PM +0200, Rick Hoekman wrote: I am getting this message every 5 minutes. Can somebody explain to me why root apparently is not found here? X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL

Re[2]: Cron job question

Hello Matthew, Thank you for taking the time explaining it to me! Rick Friday, August 22, 2003, 7:41:59 PM, you wrote: MS On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 07:18:16PM +0200, Rick Hoekman wrote: I am getting this message every 5 minutes. Can somebody explain to me why root apparently is not found here?

Re: Re: My details

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Something rotten in the OS?

Hey All, I have just had my 2nd HD crash in a year - different machine, different type of drive etc - the only consistency is the OS and the installed software. It looks like this is some kind of overflow This problem seems to start after about a month and is indicated by there being

Re: dhclient denied

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:39:07AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Bob Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I posted about this a while ago, but I haven't been able to find the cause. I'm getting the following message: Aug 21 13:00:03 kongemord dhclient: send_packet: Permission denied DHCP

How can I get sound working on a Compaq EVO n410C

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Re: How can I get sound working on a Compaq EVO n410C

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:25:17 -0400 stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would swear that Iasked this question, and got an answer a couple of weeks ago. I got sidetrakced from the project of making this machine work, and I can't find in my mail archive for the FreeBSD list what the answer was ;-(

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Hi, I have a netserver with 4.8-stable installed. Whatever I do the freebsd finds my scsi drives as 10mbyte/sn huh... Any suggestions? ahc0: Adaptec aic7895 Ultra SCSI adapter port 0x1000-0x10ff mem 0xfc10-0xfc100fff irq 5 at device 5.0 on pci0 ahc0: Using left over BIOS settings aic7895C:

Re: Something rotten in the OS?

On 8/22/03 at 10:13 AM Steve Warwick wrote: ... | |This is exactly the problem that occurred 6 months ago. That time I put it |down to lousy overheated hosting but now I don't have that excuse. | |Has anyone seen this before? | |Does FreeBSD have to be re-booted every month for safety? |

NATD Firewall Rules Setup

I'm configuring a firewall (FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE). I've got the firewall locked down as I need it to be but am having issues getting NAT working. The firewall config file is included below. Note that if I add the allow all rule to the end of the file NAT works fine. I'm certain its an IPFW

Kandalfs useful tips

Where can I get a printer version of Kandalfs tips for Free BSD 5,1 Thank you ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Something rotten in the OS?

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:13:30AM -0700, Steve Warwick wrote: I have just had my 2nd HD crash in a year - different machine, different type of drive etc - the only consistency is the OS and the installed software. I think that you've just been unlucky in buying two hard drives or whatever

Can not rmdir

Hi, I've just installed FreeBSD 5.1, everything is fine, but when I wanted to remove a directory(with only one file in it), the system do not want to do that: When I type rmdir -p dir_name, it gives me as an output : rmdir: dir_name: Directory not empty When I try rmdir -rf

Re: Something rotten in the OS?

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:13:30AM -0700, Steve Warwick wrote: Hey All, I have just had my 2nd HD crash in a year - different machine, different type of drive etc - the only consistency is the OS and the installed software. It looks like this is some kind of overflow This problem

Re: Cron job question

cause perusal of the documentation, which is plenty for seeking mind, is not you nature, sir... crontab(1) i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] man 1 crontab I am getting this message every 5 minutes. Can somebody explain to me why root apparently is not found here? X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NATD Firewall Rules Setup

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:40:50AM -0700, Thomas Smith wrote: I'm configuring a firewall (FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE). I've got the firewall locked down as I need it to be but am having issues getting NAT working. The firewall config file is included below. Note that if I add the allow all rule

Re: Something rotten in the OS?

I think that you've just been unlucky in buying two hard drives or whatever which have failed prematurely. I think if there was such a bug in FreeBSD, a lot more people than you would be complaining and heaven and earth would be being moved in order to fix it. I would have to agree that it's

Re: problem running make on ports

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 05:33:40AM -0500, Charlie ROOT wrote: Hello, I'm having a peculiar problem running make on some ports. I'm getting an error saying: This account is currently not available *** Error code 1 id(1) cannot find your account. Did you accidentally destroy your password

Re: Samba 2.2.8 vs 2.2.8a on 4.8 Release

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Re: Can not rmdir

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 12:00:52PM -0700, Edouard Saksonov wrote: Hi, I've just installed FreeBSD 5.1, everything is fine, but when I wanted to remove a directory(with only one file in it), the system do not want to do that: When I type rmdir -p dir_name, it gives me as an output :

RE: Can not rmdir

I installed FreeBSD 5.1 from the CD-ROM which comes with Linux CD magazine Could you please provide a URL where I can get more information on Linux CD magazine? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Can not rmdir

On Friday 22 August 2003 14:00, Edouard Saksonov wrote: Hi, I've just installed FreeBSD 5.1, everything is fine, but when I wanted to remove a directory(with only one file in it), the system do not want to do that: When I type rmdir -p dir_name, it gives me as an output : rmdir:

Re: Can not rmdir

From: Henrik Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Edouard Saksonov [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 2:55 PM Subject: Re: Can not rmdir And if you don't want it to prompt you, do: rm -rf dir_name Be careful though..this can and will wipe your whole system if you

Re: Can not rmdir

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:44:43 -0500 Charles Howse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed FreeBSD 5.1 from the CD-ROM which comes with Linux CD magazine Could you please provide a URL where I can get more information on Linux CD magazine? http://www.journaux.fr/revue.asp?revue=L4880

Re: Copying an entire tree

--On Friday, August 22, 2003 20:17:07 +0930 Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dump/restore is also the only technique I've found to retain the holes in holey files. cpio can handle sparse files. I think that was the reason I changed from a tar/tar pipe to a find/cpio pipe as my standard

Re: Something rotten in the OS?

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:13:30 -0700 Steve Warwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey All, I have just had my 2nd HD crash in a year - different machine, different type of drive etc - the only consistency is the OS and the installed software. More info on this would be handy. Such as what

Re: Something rotten in the OS?

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:13:30AM -0700, Steve Warwick wrote: This problem seems to start after about a month and is indicated by there being fragments of the kernel config data in the daily kernel log messages. I asked about that on this list but people seemed to think it was just some kind

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Re: dhclient denied

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Re: cvsup problems

--- Bsd Neophyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:09:42PM -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote: I get different error messages. Here's some output of what's going on now (the first error is VERY common): This is a network

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Re: screen size is too large after freebsd install

I have spent over 2 days trying to install this software but no matter what I do the desktop size always ends up being too big. If I click on alt + ctrl + - or + nothing happens. Tryed altering the xf86config file it won't let me. Are you editing the file as root? Why is this so hard seriously

Re: Security question (simple).

I wonder if the better policy is to not run inherently insecure applications (Bto begin with. In theory if no-one can get to that box or make use of that (Bapplication from the internet then your only threats become internal ones. (B (BJust for curiosity sake what does nmap tell you about your

Re: cvsup problems

On Friday 22 August 2003 04:38 pm, Bsd Neophyte wrote: --- Bsd Neophyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:09:42PM -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote: I get different error messages. Here's some output of what's going on

Re: screen size is too large after freebsd install

Sorry about the top level reply. I missed the original posting. With respect to the plus and minus keys; are you using the ones on the keypad? I believe only the ones on key pad work. Sorry I am stuck on another machine (not fbsd), otherwise I would have tried it out. Pete --- Lee Harr [EMAIL

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On Wednesday, 20 August 2003 at 15:25:24 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:33:38PM +0100, Theo Markettos wrote: I'm looking to incorporate some source from FreeBSD into a project of mine under the GPL. I see that Berkeley dropped their requirement on the advertising

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Re: Configuring GeForce FX 5200 in X?

On Saturday, 23 August 2003 15:07, Dragoncrest wrote: Hi all. Just got a GeForce4 FX 5200 to install in a new Freebsd box and I'm trying to configure X to use it, but I don't see the card listed anywhere in the list of cards on the machine. What do I do in order to configure the card

Re: Calendar program dates

[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Mutilated quotations. On Thursday, 21 August 2003 at 10:43:17 -0500, Charles Howse wrote: OK, I jumped the gun here. After browsing through some of the calendar.* files, I realize that it sends an event for tomorrow if no

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