Re: RSS thru mozilla, how?

2004-12-31 Thread Sergei Gnezdov
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 23:05 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Gang, I just installed RSS on mozilla; now I can't figure out where to click or howto use RSS. I have use separate RSS apps but I'd rather read headlines (c) thru my browser. Can anybody clue me in?

RE: Something wrong in stable 5.3?

2004-12-31 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Tom Connolly wrote: Eugene M. Minkovskii wrote: Hi! I'm confusing now: about a month ago I have upgrated from FreeBSD 5.2.1 to stable 5.3. Since this moment strange things have been happens on my PC. Usually system works Ok, and can be run as long as I need without errors. But

Re: RSS thru mozilla, how?

2004-12-31 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 12:09:00AM -0800, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 23:05 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Gang, I just installed RSS on mozilla; now I can't figure out where to click or howto use RSS. I have use separate RSS apps but I'd rather read

Re: Partitioning issues

2004-12-31 Thread
Kvesdn Gbor wrote: Hello, Thanks for Your answer. If you have raid 5 on 3 x 100-Gb drives you will only get 200Gb partition. In fact, the total capacity is 320GB, I have three 160Gb Samsung sata drives. not official Do you mean, that you burn the ISO from ftp server, or you have

Re: PXE boot / BTX Halted [solved]

2004-12-31 Thread Jason Taylor
I'm trying to set up a few diskless workstations using some old hardware. I've tried four different boxes for clients ranging from a P-133 to a P-200. I did use the same Realtek 8139 based NIC in all 4 boxes, but I don't think that's the problem. They all get to the point where they grab

Re: usb printer-scanner

2004-12-31 Thread Andrew Diakin
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 12:47:55 +0300, Andrew Diakin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 14:16:25 +0800, Khairil Yusof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 09:02 +0300, Andrew Diakin wrote: I have a USB Printer-Scanner HP psc 2110 and I want to use it in my freebsd 5.3.

Networking to WinXP

2004-12-31 Thread Gerard Seibert
I have used the 'smbclient' from Samba to access my WinXP computers from my FreeBSD computer. I have also used 'sharity-light'. Does anyone know of any other full featured networking tool that I can use to access my WinXP boxes. I am not too happy with either of the two I mentioned above.

Production Release 5.3 Installation Won't Boot

2004-12-31 Thread babaloo munchies
Hello, I downloaded ISO images disc 1 disc 2 the boot disk for FreeBSD 5.3 to install on a Pentium MMX machine. None of these discs will boot for the installation! What happens is the CD drive fires up, I see a couple of lines from FreeBSD--the bootloader or something--it acts like it's

Re: Something wrong in stable 5.3?

2004-12-31 Thread Nikolas Britton
Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Tom Connolly wrote: Eugene M. Minkovskii wrote: Hi! I'm confusing now: about a month ago I have upgrated from FreeBSD 5.2.1 to stable 5.3. Since this moment strange things have been happens on my PC. Usually system works Ok, and can be run as long as

Re: upgrading perl

2004-12-31 Thread Erik Norgaard
Karl Agee wrote: Freebsd 4.11-pre. I am working on learning perl, and have perl 5.00x that is in the base system when I installed 4.10-Release. Since most of the learning materials out there are based on later verisions esp since 5.6.x some of the features arent in this older version. I am

Re: login problems

2004-12-31 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 03:10:16PM -0600, Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:43:40PM -0600, Scott Stahl wrote: Have you viewed verbose connection messages with the ssh client? Use can use the -v option to view more verbose messages, -vvv will give you a lot more. This will at

Re: Production Release 5.3 Installation Won't Boot

2004-12-31 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 31 December 2004 05:19 am, babaloo munchies wrote: Hello, I downloaded ISO images disc 1 disc 2 the boot disk for FreeBSD 5.3 to install on a Pentium MMX machine. None of these discs will boot for the installation! What happens is the CD drive fires up, I see a couple of lines

9.3.0 on FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-31 Thread J.D. Bronson
It compiles fine and runs fine...but I noticed an odd thing. When the MASTER DNS server boots up, it fails to send notifies to the SLAVES: 31-Dec-2004 06:51:33.207 zone domain.com/IN/external: notify to 1.1.1.1#53: retries exceeded (tons of them..each referring to each of my domains or zones)

Re: RSS thru mozilla, how?

2004-12-31 Thread Jakob Breivik Grimstveit
Gary Kline wrote: I just installed RSS on mozilla; now I can't figure out where to click or howto use RSS. I have use separate RSS apps but I'd rather read headlines (c) thru my browser. Can anybody clue me in? This should be possible using the sidebar feature described here:

rsyncd with FreeBSD 5.3 on AMD64

2004-12-31 Thread Michael Madden
Has anyone gotten rsync 2.6.3 working on FreeBSD 5.3. I am using it on AMD64 if it matters. I've made the following rsyncd.conf which works on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 server: log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log hosts allow = 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0 use chroot = yes uid = root gid = wheel read only = no

FreeBSD box causes workgroup to crash

2004-12-31 Thread Doug Van Allen
When my FreeBSD 5.3 box is connected to the network, no one can browse the network. The internet works fine and on the other 2 PC's(WinXP). When I disconnect the BSD box from the switch, the other 2 PC's can browse the network. I have no idea why it would be doing this. Thanks!

Re: 9.3.0 on FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-31 Thread Richard Cotrina
Is there any reason for not using bind 9.3.0 that comes with FreeBSD 5.3 ? It can be run chrooted with the same flags you are using. Regarding your question, I suposse your master server can't connect to your slaver server on port tcp 53 which is used for transfer zones and master-slave

Re: 9.3.0 on FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-31 Thread Richard Cotrina
Is there any reason for not using bind 9.3.0 that comes with FreeBSD 5.3 ? It can be run chrooted with the same flags you are using. Regarding your question, I suposse your master server can't connect to your slaver server on port tcp 53 which is used for transfer zones and master-slave

Re: 9.3.0 on FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-31 Thread Richard Cotrina
Is there any reason for not using bind 9.3.0 that comes with FreeBSD 5.3 ? It can be run chrooted with the same flags you are using. Regarding your question, I suposse your master server can't connect to your slaver server on port tcp 53 which is used for transfer zones and master-slave

Re: 9.3.0 on FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-31 Thread Richard Cotrina
Is there any reason for not using bind 9.3.0 that comes with FreeBSD 5.3 ? It can be run chrooted with the same flags you are using. Regarding your question, I suposse your master server can't connect to your slaver server on port tcp 53 which is used for transfer zones and master-slave

Re: 9.3.0 on FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-31 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 09:07 AM 12/31/2004, Richard Cotrina wrote: Is there any reason for not using bind 9.3.0 that comes with FreeBSD 5.3 ? It can be run chrooted with the same flags you are using. I deleted it by accident. I dont know how to re-make the OEM version that comes with 5.3I posted it and no one

Re: 9.3.0 on FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-31 Thread Gerard Samuel
J.D. Bronson wrote: At 09:07 AM 12/31/2004, Richard Cotrina wrote: Is there any reason for not using bind 9.3.0 that comes with FreeBSD 5.3 ? It can be run chrooted with the same flags you are using. I deleted it by accident. I dont know how to re-make the OEM version that comes with 5.3I

Re: Wine 20041201 on FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE

2004-12-31 Thread Jim Durham
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 12:05 am, Matthew Bluestone wrote: (I apologize for replying to jason henson rather than the list; either his reply-to was set individually, gmail doesn't correctly respect reply-to (though it seems to in other cases), or I made an error.) Some of my response to

Re: Mounting smbfs

2004-12-31 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 10:19 AM Subject: Mounting smbfs Familiar with Webmin way of mounting smbfs type file systems on our Linux boxes, I tried it with one of the

Re: re-making bind on 5.3-REL

2004-12-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I deleted my named during some aggressive clean up. I have all the source installed on my system, but was wondering if someone can point me to directions on how to recompile the built-in version of Bind that came with 5.3 ... Could be a good

re portmanager, how to prevent upgrade of held ports

2004-12-31 Thread nbco
Hi list, I am trying out portmanager-0.2.2, on a 5.3-RELEASE box. I have openoffice-1.1.3.20040810 installed. I don't want to upgrade openoffice at this time, as I don't have the space for a full compile and will wait for a new package. I have set openoffice to be held in pkgtools.conf in

Re: usb printer-scanner

2004-12-31 Thread Andrew Diakin
-- Forwarded message -- From: Andrew Diakin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 12:47:55 +0300 Subject: Re: usb printer-scanner To: Khairil Yusof [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 14:16:25 +0800, Khairil Yusof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 09:02 +0300,

Re: upgrading perl

2004-12-31 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, December 30, 2004 7:54 PM -0800 Karl Agee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Freebsd 4.11-pre. I am working on learning perl, and have perl 5.00x that is in the base system when I installed 4.10-Release. Since most of the learning materials out there are based on later verisions esp since

Re: upgrading perl

2004-12-31 Thread Skylar Thompson
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 12:46:09PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: I haven't found big differences between 5.6 and 5.8, so I'd suggest you use 5.8. The main reason to stick with an older version is that you might develop scripts for platforms where the newer are not available. I've noticed some

Re: Networking to WinXP

2004-12-31 Thread Skylar Thompson
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 04:56:47AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: I have used the 'smbclient' from Samba to access my WinXP computers from my FreeBSD computer. I have also used 'sharity-light'. Does anyone know of any other full featured networking tool that I can use to access my WinXP boxes.

82546GB support for em driver

2004-12-31 Thread Tm4528
Neither the 5.3 nor 4.10 hardware notes mention te 82546GB chip, however there seems to be snippets of code that reference it. Is it supported? If so, what version of FreeBSD first supported it? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

gdm2

2004-12-31 Thread dusan
hi there. I have a little problem using gdm2 on 5.3, I am using actual version in ports of gdm2 ad I can't add new session type to it. I have added file user.desktop to /usr/X11R6/etc/dm/Sessions with this content but without a result: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=User Comment=This

php modules

2004-12-31 Thread whitevamp
I didnt know where to post this to so im posting it to quistions@ and ports@ i have compiles and installed php 4.3.10 and i was needing to install pcre ,so i did on the command line make PHP_MODNAME=pcre install and then i noticed that it didnt install pcre it just compiled in support for it so

nvidia display driver problem

2004-12-31 Thread Emon
Hello every one I am a nwebie and I am trying to install the nvidia driver for my (GeForce4 MX 440) display card. I running Freebsd 4.10 I have downloaded the driver from nvidia website but i am unable to install it, I am pasting the output after I tried to make install.

RE: nvidia display driver problem

2004-12-31 Thread Subhro
You need to hav the linux comptibility layer instyalled before you try make install. Regards S. Indian Institute of Information Technology Subhro Sankha Kar Block AQ-13/1, Sector V Salt Lake City PIN 700091 India -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL

Re: nvidia display driver problem

2004-12-31 Thread Alexei Stukov
Hi, Make sure you have the linux compatibility on. If not, you can install the package with pkg_add -r linux_base, then, everything should be O.K. On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 20:29:03 GMT, Emon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello every one I am a nwebie and I am trying to install the nvidia

Re: nvidia display driver problem

2004-12-31 Thread Louis LeBlanc
This actually goes much better if you just install from the ports. That's what I'm using and other than the configuration hoops, it works perfectly. Have you verified that the GeForce4 is supported? Lou On 12/31/04 08:29 PM, Emon sat at the `puter and typed: Hello every one I am a nwebie

RE: php modules

2004-12-31 Thread Haulmark, Chris
Someone broke the silence: I didnt know where to post this to so im posting it to quistions@ and ports@ Both are fine. Questions are for the general questions while ports are for ports' questions. i have compiles and installed php 4.3.10 and i was needing to install pcre ,so i did on

FreeBSD PNP OS = NO in system bios configuration?

2004-12-31 Thread John Conover
Should PNP OS = NO in the PC system bios configuration be used for freeBSD? How about assigning IRQs of the PCI devices in system bios? Thanks, John BTW, the reasons for the system related questions is that I'm having some stability issues in FreeBSD 2.5.1; runs for many hours of

Passing options to a 'make install clean'

2004-12-31 Thread rsh
I am trying to 'make install clean' of openoffice and do not want to install Java. I have tried several things to say no to Java but it always wants to try to install jdk14, and this port is not user friendly with my amd64 system. So how can I install openoffice without Java?

problem booting 5.3STABLE from USB2 flash drive

2004-12-31 Thread Jeff Stockett
Hello, I'm hoping to use freebsd as a custom router. To minimize noise and failure points, I was hoping to boot from a USB2 flash stick which have gotten dirt cheap. I downloaded 5.3RELEASE-i386-miniinst.iso and burned it to CD - stuck my 512MB flash drive into a USB port, and let the CD boot

ssh protocol in 5.3

2004-12-31 Thread Robin Becker
I have just upgraded one of my systems from 4.9 to 5.3 and even after restoring my old .ssh folder it seems I cannot get ssh on a 4.9 system to use protocol 1 with the 5.3 system. Am I being stupid or must I go through the pain of creating a whole new set of keys for protocol 2. We use

Re: RSS thru mozilla, how?

2004-12-31 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 02:55:16PM +0100, Jakob Breivik Grimstveit wrote: Gary Kline wrote: I just installed RSS on mozilla; now I can't figure out where to click or howto use RSS. I have use separate RSS apps but I'd rather read headlines (c) thru my browser. Can anybody clue me in?

Re: FreeBSD PNP OS = NO in system bios configuration?

2004-12-31 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Conover) wrote: Should PNP OS = NO in the PC system bios configuration be used for freeBSD? How about assigning IRQs of the PCI devices in system bios? Thanks, John BTW, the reasons for the system related questions is that I'm having some

Help w/ 3com net card on laptop

2004-12-31 Thread Dustin
I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 5.3 on an extra laptop I have over FTP, but I have just one problem: I cannot get the card to work. It's a 3com 3c575TX Fast Ehterlink XL Cardbus PC Card , which from here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3...6.html#ETHERNET

Re: ssh protocol in 5.3

2004-12-31 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 10:31:43PM +, Robin Becker wrote: I have just upgraded one of my systems from 4.9 to 5.3 and even after restoring my old .ssh folder it seems I cannot get ssh on a 4.9 system to use protocol 1 with the 5.3 system. Am I being stupid or must I go through the pain

Re: ssh protocol in 5.3

2004-12-31 Thread John Conover
From 5.3 do ssh -1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can also set a protocol, 1 or 2, in the ssh configs, either globally in /etc/ssh ... or ~/.ssh/config. You can also use both, at the same time. ~/.ssh/known_hosts and ~/.ssh/authorized_keys can have both protocol 1 and 2 records in the same file; the

Re: FreeBSD PNP OS = NO in system bios configuration?

2004-12-31 Thread Michael Madden
John Conover wrote: Should PNP OS = NO in the PC system bios configuration be used for freeBSD? I was reading through Michael Lucus's highly recommended book 'Absolute BSD', and this is what is said on the matter: While you're in the system BIOS, set the Plus and Play OS option to no. This tells

Re: Passing options to a 'make install clean'

2004-12-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 05:20:02PM -0500, rsh wrote: I am trying to 'make install clean' of openoffice and do not want to install Java. I have tried several things to say no to Java but it always wants to try to install jdk14, and this port is not user friendly with my amd64 system. So

Device timeout

2004-12-31 Thread Alexei Stukov
Hi, After a reinstalltion of FreeBSD 5.3, I get the following error : nv0 : Device timout That NIC is on-board and the motherboard is a brand-new ASUS SK8N. Everything worked fine until I reinstalled. Any ideas about how to fix this? Thanks. ___

Re: re portmanager, how to prevent upgrade of held ports

2004-12-31 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 31 December 2004 09:49 am, nbco wrote: Hi list, I am trying out portmanager-0.2.2, on a 5.3-RELEASE box. I have openoffice-1.1.3.20040810 installed. I don't want to upgrade openoffice at this time, as I don't have the space for a full compile and will wait for a new package. I

Re: Passing options to a 'make install clean'

2004-12-31 Thread Sean
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 05:20:02PM -0500, rsh wrote: I am trying to 'make install clean' of openoffice and do not want to install Java. I have tried several things to say no to Java but it always wants to try to install jdk14, and this port is not user friendly with my

Re: Passing options to a 'make install clean'

2004-12-31 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 31 December 2004 02:20 pm, rsh wrote: I am trying to 'make install clean' of openoffice and do not want to install Java. I have tried several things to say no to Java but it always wants to try to install jdk14, and this port is not user friendly with my amd64 system. So how can

Re: Passing options to a 'make install clean'

2004-12-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 06:51:49PM -0500, Sean wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 05:20:02PM -0500, rsh wrote: I am trying to 'make install clean' of openoffice and do not want to install Java. I have tried several things to say no to Java but it always wants to try to

Re: Passing options to a 'make install clean'

2004-12-31 Thread Sean
Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Friday 31 December 2004 02:20 pm, rsh wrote: I am trying to 'make install clean' of openoffice and do not want to install Java. I have tried several things to say no to Java but it always wants to try to install jdk14, and this port is not user friendly with my amd64

Re: ssh protocol in 5.3

2004-12-31 Thread Robin Becker
John Conover wrote: From 5.3 do ssh -1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can also set a protocol, 1 or 2, in the ssh configs, either globally in /etc/ssh ... or ~/.ssh/config. You can also use both, at the same time. ~/.ssh/known_hosts and ~/.ssh/authorized_keys can have both protocol 1 and 2 records

Re: FreeBSD box causes workgroup to crash

2004-12-31 Thread Jonathan Franks
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 09:59:54 -0500 Doug Van Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When my FreeBSD 5.3 box is connected to the network, no one can browse the network. The internet works fine and on the other 2 PC's(WinXP). When I disconnect the BSD box from the switch, the other 2 PC's can browse

Re: Problems with MySQL and SNORT after Reboot

2004-12-31 Thread Mattias Björk
Hi, Thanks for the fast response. I did run REPAIR TABLE event from phpmyadmin and there where no problems with that. No Error here. But when I point my browser to my snort page and select the timeframe for the alerts to all I get the error message after a few seconds: Warning: mysql_query():

Re: ssh protocol in 5.3

2004-12-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 12:33:45AM +, Robin Becker wrote: Just FYI, 5.3 is not an upgrade from 4.9. Its about 25% slower. Do a google groups search with mailing.freebsd.questions 5.3 performance tests. Robert Watson gives a pretty good explanation about the work that needs to be done

Re: Passing options to a 'make install clean'

2004-12-31 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 31 December 2004 04:24 pm, Sean wrote: Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Friday 31 December 2004 02:20 pm, rsh wrote: I am trying to 'make install clean' of openoffice and do not want to install Java. I have tried several things to say no to Java but it always wants to try to

iTunes server setup not going well

2004-12-31 Thread Timothy Luoma
Hello all. I'm trying to follow the instructions at http://home.introweb.nl/~dodger/itunesserver.html Here's where I hit a snag: After doing this, you can remove the mDNSResponder.shar file. [did that] ...Now you'll have to download Rendezvous.tar.gz from Apple. Go to

Re: iTunes server setup not going well

2004-12-31 Thread Chris
Timothy Luoma wrote: Hello all. I'm trying to follow the instructions at http://home.introweb.nl/~dodger/itunesserver.html Here's where I hit a snag: After doing this, you can remove the mDNSResponder.shar file. [did that] ...Now you'll have to download Rendezvous.tar.gz from Apple. Go

Re: Passing options to a 'make install clean'

2004-12-31 Thread Sean
Michael C. Shultz wrote: -- Thanks Mike. I just put this amd64 system together this week after my old Intel died. The speed is impressive but I did not think there would be so many minor jabs getting things up again. I never install anything

Re: Passing options to a 'make install clean'

2004-12-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 08:36:57PM -0500, Sean wrote: Actually I am running 5.3 Release. tardis# gcc -v Using built-in specs. Configured with: FreeBSD/amd64 system compiler Thread model: posix gcc version 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728 It is probably due to the amd64 platform. OO needs to

Re: iTunes server setup not going well

2004-12-31 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Dec 31, 2004, at 8:34 PM, Chris wrote: Somewhat related - is there a port that will play the files downloaded from ITunes? I think the answer is no. Protected AAC files can only be played in iTunes, I believe. TjL ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: iTunes server setup not going well

2004-12-31 Thread Chris
Timothy Luoma wrote: On Dec 31, 2004, at 8:34 PM, Chris wrote: Somewhat related - is there a port that will play the files downloaded from ITunes? I think the answer is no. Protected AAC files can only be played in iTunes, I believe. TjL I sorta thought so - Oh well, so much for my collection

ports - ignore hosts that aren't responding?

2004-12-31 Thread Timothy Luoma
I've tried to install several ports that rely on gnu.org over the past several days, and the first THREE attempts timeout. Here's one example: = Attempting to fetch from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/. fetch: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.bz2: Operation timed out =

Re: ports - ignore hosts that aren't responding?

2004-12-31 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 31 December 2004 06:14 pm, Timothy Luoma wrote: I've tried to install several ports that rely on gnu.org over the past several days, and the first THREE attempts timeout. Here's one example: = Attempting to fetch from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/. fetch:

Re: iTunes server setup not going well

2004-12-31 Thread jason henson
[did that... I have downloaded Rendezvous.tar.gz and mDNSResponder-58.8.tar.gz to /usr/ports/distfiles/] After doing this, go back to /usr/ports/net/rendezvous (if needed) and type: make install clean BUT... but... there is no /usr/ports/net/rendezvous ! ports/net/p5-Net-Rendezvous I

Re: Networking to WinXP

2004-12-31 Thread jason henson
On 12/31/04 13:51:21, Skylar Thompson wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 04:56:47AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: I have used the 'smbclient' from Samba to access my WinXP computers from my FreeBSD computer. I have also used 'sharity-light'. Does anyone know of any other full featured networking

Re: xorg/dri-6.2_1,2 upgrade problems

2004-12-31 Thread jason henson
On 12/30/04 22:18:32, Ned Harrison wrote: The upgrade to 5.3 fixed the Dri build problems. Thanks for the hint, Jason. It is much appreciated. I had to run xorgconfig to make a new config file in order to get the X server going again. My kde desktop keeps crashing but the Windowmaker

Re: iTunes server setup not going well

2004-12-31 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 31 December 2004 08:14 pm, Chris wrote: Timothy Luoma wrote: On Dec 31, 2004, at 8:34 PM, Chris wrote: Somewhat related - is there a port that will play the files downloaded from ITunes? I think the answer is no. Protected AAC files can only be played in iTunes, I believe.

Re: ACPI and APM on 5.3

2004-12-31 Thread Eric Schuele
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In attempting to get sound working on a Dell 7500 Inspiron (cira 1994) I tried many combinations of ACPI and APM thinking that my sound problems stemmed from interrupt or irq/pnp problems. That turned out not to be the case. Now everything is working, but I am using a

News Server (usenet) Setup

2004-12-31 Thread Eric F Crist
Hello list, I'm looking at setting up a news server for a couple reasons. First off, it's easier for the local network to download from a local server, than an off-network server. Also, I'm looking at creating a couple threads, and would like to use the server for that. Thanks for the info.

Programming with Bourne or C shell

2004-12-31 Thread Michael Madden
I have most of my interactive shell experience using bash on Linux and shell programing on Unix-like systems with Bourne shell. Since FreeBSD's default shell is csh/tcsh, I was wondering if it's still considered an atrocity to develop shell scripts with C shell:

apache core dump

2004-12-31 Thread whitevamp
ok the otherday i had an issue with apache not binding to port 80 and i thought i got that taken care of, well maby i have but any way i knoticed that apache wasnt running any more so i when to start it and it whouldnt start so i looked in the error log didnt find anything wrong in there so i

Re: iTunes server setup not going well

2004-12-31 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Dec 31, 2004, at 10:09 PM, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 31 December 2004 08:14 pm, Chris wrote: Timothy Luoma wrote: On Dec 31, 2004, at 8:34 PM, Chris wrote: Somewhat related - is there a port that will play the files downloaded from ITunes? I think the answer is no. Protected AAC files

Re: Programming with Bourne or C shell

2004-12-31 Thread Adam Fabian
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 09:20:22PM -0600, Michael Madden wrote: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ Are most FreeBSD users still using csh or tcsh has their interactive shell and sh for programming? I think it would be nice to use the same interactive and programming shell

Re: iTunes server setup not going well

2004-12-31 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 31 December 2004 09:34 pm, Timothy Luoma wrote: On Dec 31, 2004, at 10:09 PM, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 31 December 2004 08:14 pm, Chris wrote: Timothy Luoma wrote: On Dec 31, 2004, at 8:34 PM, Chris wrote: Somewhat related - is there a port that will play the files

BTX halted

2004-12-31 Thread kalin mintchev
hi all... i'm trying to install 5.3 on an amd machine... i got the discs and they are ok but when i start the off the disk the boot stops with BTX halted no matter which boot mode i chose. i looked on google and i found a few posts about bios issues but non of that helped - i couldn't find how to

Re: iTunes server setup not going well

2004-12-31 Thread Chris
Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 31 December 2004 09:34 pm, Timothy Luoma wrote: On Dec 31, 2004, at 10:09 PM, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 31 December 2004 08:14 pm, Chris wrote: Timothy Luoma wrote: On Dec 31, 2004, at 8:34 PM, Chris wrote: Somewhat related - is there a port that will play

Re: FreeBSD box causes workgroup to crash

2004-12-31 Thread Doug Van Allen
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 19:35:13 -0500, Jonathan Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 09:59:54 -0500 Doug Van Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When my FreeBSD 5.3 box is connected to the network, no one can browse the network. The internet works fine and on the other 2

Re: News Server (usenet) Setup

2004-12-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
Eric F Crist wrote: I'm looking at setting up a news server for a couple reasons. First off, it's easier for the local network to download from a local server, than an off-network server. Also, I'm looking at creating a couple threads, and would like to use the server for that. Very well, did

Re: Passing options to a 'make install clean'

2004-12-31 Thread Sean
Michael C. Shultz wrote: Well I thought I would just let both of you know as I write this I have started the rebuild of my system with WITH_LIB32=yes in the make.conf. I will let you know how it goes. I guess if you don't here from me for a while, then it did not go well! 8-) Sean I'd like to

Re: Programming with Bourne or C shell

2004-12-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
Michael Madden wrote: [ ... ] Are most FreeBSD users still using csh or tcsh has their interactive shell and sh for programming? I think it would be nice to use the same interactive and programming shell for consistency. Most FreeBSD shell scripts seem to be written for /bin/sh. Many FreeBSD

Re: Passing options to a 'make install clean'

2004-12-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 01:04:12AM -0500, Sean wrote: So basically the builds and installs made no difference to the gcc problem. Right, it wasn't expected to. The gcc32 port doesn't compile on amd64 right now. Kris pgpUuTtUeosJc.pgp Description: PGP signature

News from several NNTP Servers

2004-12-31 Thread Sergei Gnezdov
NNTP clients I like (Emacs) work with one NNTP server at a time. I use some free NNTP server, but its reliability is not the best. So, I am thinking of collecting news from free servers, which specialize on certain newsgroups. I don't know how to do that or what to use. I also would like to

Re: iTunes server setup not going well

2004-12-31 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Dec 31, 2004, at 9:41 PM, jason henson wrote: [did that... I have downloaded Rendezvous.tar.gz and mDNSResponder-58.8.tar.gz to /usr/ports/distfiles/] After doing this, go back to /usr/ports/net/rendezvous (if needed) and type: make install clean BUT... but... there is no