Current Cron Log

2006-07-26 Thread Nicky
Hello, I have a script that is started through cron. This script contains several steps, each step writes information to stdout, in case of errors to stderr. The total script runs for about 6 hours and then the the combined output of all steps is mailed to root. However, is there a way to 'exam

Re: Current Cron Log

2006-07-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 26), Nicky said: > I have a script that is started through cron. This script contains > several steps, each step writes information to stdout, in case of > errors to stderr. The total script runs for about 6 hours and then > the the combined output of all steps is mailed t

Re: a good www/picture management port?

2006-07-26 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 24 Jul Mike Hunter wrote: > I haven't tried gallery on FreeBSD, but I highly recommend it based on > my experience with it on Linux. The same goes for me, but for coppermine. A really great program and very well maintained. -- dick -- http://nagual.nl/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running F

mail rejected

2006-07-26 Thread dick hoogendijk
All of a sudden mail to this list is rejected. My IP can't be found. It always was, so this is weird. I checked with a "dig @large.world.ns" and a few others and they all resolved my name / IP OK. I send this mail through my provider (which works). Anybody else experiencing this change in behaviour

have been trying to compile samba 3 with ads support getting error below

2006-07-26 Thread Moon Michael
: undefined reference to `krb5_free_error_contents' libads/kerberos_keytab.o(.text+0x1fb): In function `smb_krb5_kt_add_entry': : undefined reference to `krb5_kt_compare' /usr/lib/libgssapi.so: undefined reference to `krb5_rd_cred2' /usr/lib/libgssapi.so: undefined reference to `krb5_crypto_destroy

RE: Does FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE support the Intel PWLA8391GT NIC?

2006-07-26 Thread Mark
> >>> -Original Message- > >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> Sent: maandag 19 juni 2006 8:11 > >>> To: Mark > >>> Cc: 'FreeBSD-Questions Questions' > >>> Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE support the Intel PWLA8391GT > >>> NIC? > > Mark schrieb: A similar question as before:

Re: Current Cron Log

2006-07-26 Thread Erik Norgaard
Nicky wrote: Hello, I have a script that is started through cron. This script contains several steps, each step writes information to stdout, in case of errors to stderr. The total script runs for about 6 hours and then the the combined output of all steps is mailed to root. However, is ther

Re: ssh tunnel - remote access through nat

2006-07-26 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 20:03, Drew wrote: > Hi, > I've got a box that's nat'd out to the internet. It is occassionally > neccessary for me to access this box remotely. The obvious answer is: > > ssh -R :localhost:22 remote.box cat > > run from the nat'd box where remote box is a place I pretty

Re: How to use kernel modules from CURRENT on STABLE

2006-07-26 Thread Erik Norgaard
Rafael Aquino wrote: When you do a make depend in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf// you are just compiling the modules... Ok, I tried to "make something" in various directories, it seems that the way to build modules only is: # cd /usr/src/sys/modules # make Thanks, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818

Re: Can't print to hplip+CUPS+LJ1160Le

2006-07-26 Thread Anthony Agelastos
On Jul 25, 2006, at 11:22 PM, Anthony Agelastos wrote: If I wait even longer, /var/log/messages adds the following: Jul 25 22:52:33 dell python: hpssd [ERROR] Not found Jul 25 22:52:33 dell python: [ERROR] Unsupported printer model. I am willing to try the updated hplip (1.6.6). How do I go

Re: pf firewall for a server

2006-07-26 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ive been googling for a while now this evening, but have > unsuccesfully found any examples on how to firewall a server. i do > *not* want to build a router, and unfortunatly, every article i seem > to find wants to tell me how to build a router! The

Experiencing problems with Ted

2006-07-26 Thread Bryan Bonifacio
Hi all, I just installed Ted (2.17) on my FreeBSD 6.1-Release from the ports using "make install clean". I experienced no issues on the installation process and have no problems starting the program but whenever I try to change page properties (File-->Properties) Ted keeps exiting abruptly. It

Re: pf firewall for a server

2006-07-26 Thread RW
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 02:30, Jonathan Horne wrote: > ive been googling for a while now this evening, but have unsuccesfully > found any examples on how to firewall a server. i do *not* want to build a > router, and unfortunatly, every article i seem to find wants to tell me how > to build a ro

Re: FreeBSD 6 Hard Lock no logs

2006-07-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Rob Connon (Info)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I have a web/mail server thats running the lastest version of FreeBSD > 6.0-RELEASE-p9 #4. In the last month or so it's started hard locking.. > when the machine locks up i can still ping it and get connects from > telneting to 80,22,etc so

Re: fsck in the background

2006-07-26 Thread RW
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 02:03, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jul 25), Michael P. Soulier said: > > A while ago there was a power failure in my house, long enough to > > wear down the UPS. I had to power-on my server when I got home > > (crappy bios), and I noticed after I logged-in tha

Re: any audio wizards know howto store *.smil files?

2006-07-26 Thread RW
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 01:31, Gary Kline wrote: > Rats. Here's what happened whn I added the two switches to mplayer. > Anybody know why the streamm bmbed out?? >... > Connecting to server real.npr.org[63.236.6.227]:80 ... > Cache size set to 8192 KBytes > Connected to server: real.n

Re: help installing FreeBSD

2006-07-26 Thread adrian esquivel
If I'm not mistaken, I believe this is a long-time bug in the installer. I've installed several times seeing this error and never had a problem. However, to be safe you could always manually specify the geometry of your disk in the fdisk utility during install. I'm confused. At what point are y

Re: help installing FreeBSD

2006-07-26 Thread Rafael Aquino
Hi there, As far as I know, this is a hardware problem. Everytime I experienced that, it was the HD... The same machine with another equal HD didn't show the same problem. []'s -- Rafael Mentz Aquino BSDServer Ltda. 51 - 9847 8825 -- Original Message --- From: "adrian esquivel"

gmirror dual mirrors?

2006-07-26 Thread Mark Busby
New to gmirror so a newb question. I have my computer setup with 4 sata drives. I am using one for the operating system then one to mirror it. One has data and I want a mirror of that. When creating the first mirror I used gm0. Now creating the 2nd mirror use gm1? Or is there a gotcha hidden a

Re: Permission to Distribute OS and Demon Logo

2006-07-26 Thread Don Munyak
> The overwhelming majority of argentine PC users run un-licensed Microsoft > Sytems and software. The remainder have licenses or use Linux. FreeBSD is > unknown to the average PC user. For the desktop pc, check out: http://www.desktopbsd.org/ http://www.pcbsd.org/ Both are using FreeBSD as th

Re: gmirror dual mirrors?

2006-07-26 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 09:38, Mark Busby wrote: > New to gmirror so a newb question. I have my computer setup with 4 sata > drives. I am using one for the operating system then one to mirror it. One > has data and I want a mirror of that. When creating the first mirror I > used gm0. Now creatin

Re: Permission to Distribute OS and Demon Logo

2006-07-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hello from Buenos Aires, Argentina! Hello from the USA. > My name is Carmen Chase and I request your permission to distribute FreeBSD & > ports, use the BSD Demon, and links to the manuals & downloads sites. Our > objective is to locally promote and generalize FreeBSD as end users - not >

Locate updatedb

2006-07-26 Thread Elijah Savage
Running 6.1 fresh install one of my routines after installing is updating the locate database but I am getting errors and it is not fulling updating. locate: integer out of +-MAXPATHLEN (1024): 1027 locate: integer out of +-MAXPATHLEN (1024): 1027 _

Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread Joshua Lewis
I have a hard question to ask and I realize that there are a thousand answers to this question. I am replacing my XP system with a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I finished installing it last night and cvsuped. Now I need to choose a window manager. There are what seems like hundreds

Re: gmirror dual mirrors?

2006-07-26 Thread James Snow
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 06:38:48AM -0700, Mark Busby wrote: > I am using one for the operating system then one to mirror it. One has > data and I want a mirror of that. When creating the first mirror I > used gm0. Now creating the 2nd mirror use gm1? Or is there a gotcha > hidden away? That's how

RE: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Tamouh H. wrote: On Jul 25, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: ICP Vortex is an Adaptec company and Adaptec doesn't support FreeBSD. We've already been over this once. Not to disagree with you, but Adaptec put new drivers for 5.3 and 5.4 for their 2420, 2820, 2

RE: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Philippe Lang wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently been experiencing lock ups with the three servers that I've upgraded to 6.x ... one of which is <1 year old, the other two are 3 years old ... after getting everything setup with DDB, to the point that I could pro

Re: Virtual Private Servers???

2006-07-26 Thread Don Munyak
disclaimer...I have no personal experience with VM's...But, one of the list services I belong to has mentioned this before. See if Qemu might be of use. http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ Don ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread Don Munyak
On 7/26/06, Joshua Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a hard question to ask and I realize that there are a thousand answers to this question. I am replacing my XP system with a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I finished installing it last night and cvsuped. Now I need to choose a window

tool to track processes read/write

2006-07-26 Thread Tamouh H.
Hi, Is there a tool that shows how many times a process has read / written to disk ? Preferred in a TOP style. Thx, Tamouh Hakmi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscrib

FreeBSD and papalove

2006-07-26 Thread Kostia Rubchinsky
Hi, I wanted to ask if FreeBSD is suitable to the needs of the site our company is building, a large scale video upload and download center. You can see a small version of what we're doing at: http://papalove.tv/ Also, we are funding this out of our own shallow pockets, avoiding venture ca

Re: tool to track processes read/write

2006-07-26 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 26, 2006, at 10:58 AM, Tamouh H. wrote: Is there a tool that shows how many times a process has read / written to disk ? Preferred in a TOP style. Why, yes-- run "top -mio". :-) -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:

Your message to freebsd-emulation awaits moderator approval

2006-07-26 Thread owner-freebsd-emulation
Your mail to 'freebsd-emulation' with the subject Barclays IBank Security Measure. Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. The reason it is being held: SpamAssassin identified this message as possible spam Either the message will get posted to the list, or yo

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/26/06, User Freebsd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Tamouh H. wrote: >> >> On Jul 25, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: >> >>> >>> ICP Vortex is an Adaptec company and Adaptec doesn't >> support FreeBSD. >>> We've already been over this once. >> >> Not to disagree wit

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 11:23, Joshua Lewis wrote: >I am replacing my XP system with a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I finished >installing it last night and cvsuped. Now I need to choose a window >manager. > >There are what seems like hundreds of different WM in the ports >collection a

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 11:44:38AM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > We need an Internet store that only stocks compatible hardware. It > should include all the BSDs as well as Linux, Mac OS X, and any other > non Microsoft OS. On the site they can just list whats compatible with > what and custom

Re: help installing FreeBSD

2006-07-26 Thread John Murphy
"adrian esquivel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi! I've been trying to install FBSD on my computer, but I keep getting an >error message that I have absolutely no idea what it means. This is what I >get when I hit Alt+F2 > >DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem >DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread RW
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 16:23, Joshua Lewis wrote: >KDE seems like it is bloated so I was considering Gnome. I have also >been reading about enlightenment and it sounds interesting. I have >looked into Fluxbox and it also seems like it would do the trick. > >Would I be better off

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 06:15:48PM +0100, RW wrote: > KDE is mostly application modules, which you don't need to install if you > dont > want them. These days, though, the avoidance of bloat is mostly just a > fetish. I've not noticed any speed difference between KDE and the lighter > window m

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread doug
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, RW wrote: On Wednesday 26 July 2006 16:23, Joshua Lewis wrote: KDE seems like it is bloated so I was considering Gnome. I have also been reading about enlightenment and it sounds interesting. I have looked into Fluxbox and it also seems like it would do the tric

Re: tar dies on making tape backup

2006-07-26 Thread Derek Ragona
I use the ASCII headers for portability incase I need to restore to another server with a different tar version. -Derek At 06:29 PM 7/25/2006, Jaime wrote: On Jul 25, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Derek Ragona wrote: Using tar with a SDLT I set the blocksize at 1024 and use ASCII headers (-c)

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 7/26/2006 07:35, User Freebsd seems to have typed: The point is, if we keep acting as "individuals", vendors will treat as unimportant ... if we start acting like an organization, and actually *lobby* these vendors for better support, maybe they

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: * No binary blob drivers. This is one that I don't necessarily agree with ... if Adaptec came out with a *supported* iir driver, but it was binary only, I'd be happy with that ... I just want to know that if I *have* a problem with a piece of hard

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 03:36:51PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > >* No binary blob drivers. > > This is one that I don't necessarily agree with ... if Adaptec came out > with a *supported* iir driver, but it was binary only, I'd be happy with > tha

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread RW
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 18:34, Darrin Chandler wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 06:15:48PM +0100, RW wrote: > > KDE is mostly application modules, which you don't need to install if you > > dont want them. These days, though, the avoidance of bloat is mostly just > > a fetish. I've not noticed a

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread jan gestre
On 7/26/06, Joshua Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a hard question to ask and I realize that there are a thousand answers to this question. I am replacing my XP system with a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I finished installing it last night and cvsuped. Now I need to choose a windo

FreeBSD = Free Software?

2006-07-26 Thread Dylan Rogers
I only use free software. I was considering installing a BSD derivative on one of my machines. Does FreeBSD contain only free software? -- Dylan Knight Rogers www.dylanknightrogers.com www.gnu.org www.debian.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: FreeBSD = Free Software?

2006-07-26 Thread Gábor Kövesdán
Dylan Rogers wrote: I only use free software. I was considering installing a BSD derivative on one of my machines. Does FreeBSD contain only free software? Yes, the base system only contains BSDL-ed and GPL-ed code (afaik only these two). From ports you can use some commercial software as we

Re: FreeBSD = Free Software?

2006-07-26 Thread albi
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:32:00 -0500 "Dylan Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I only use free software. I was considering installing a BSD > derivative on one of my machines. > > Does FreeBSD contain only free software? read the GPL-license, read the BSD-license, draw your own conclusions on w

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 7/26/2006 10:34, User Freebsd seems to have typed: Supporting 3ware is good, but what if/when Adaptec buys them out ... Adaptec doesn't officially support FreeBSD, therefore, anyone they buy out would most likely change their policy accordingly ..

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread Garrett Cooper
jan gestre wrote: On 7/26/06, Joshua Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a hard question to ask and I realize that there are a thousand answers to this question. I am replacing my XP system with a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I finished installing it last night and cvsuped. Now I nee

Re: FreeBSD = Free Software?

2006-07-26 Thread Gábor Kövesdán
albi wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:32:00 -0500 "Dylan Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I only use free software. I was considering installing a BSD derivative on one of my machines. Does FreeBSD contain only free software? read the GPL-license, read the BSD-license, draw your own

Re: FreeBSD = Free Software?

2006-07-26 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jul 26, 2006, at 1:32 PM, Dylan Rogers wrote: I only use free software. I was considering installing a BSD derivative on one of my machines. Does FreeBSD contain only free software? What do you consider "Free" software? gnu is considered by many to NOT be Free because of the virus l

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Darrin Chandler wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 03:36:51PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: * No binary blob drivers. This is one that I don't necessarily agree with ... if Adaptec came out with a *supported* iir driver, but it was b

Re: FreeBSD = Free Software?

2006-07-26 Thread albi
Gábor Kövesdán wrote: >> if you really only want to use "Free Software", have fun with >> GNU-Hurd ;-) >> >> > Hurd is purely GPL-ed, while FreeBSD is mostly BSDL-ed. BSDL has almost > no restrictions, so I'd rather say FreeBSD is really free, not Hurd. i didn't mean to start a discussion abou

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread Peter
--- Joshua Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have a hard question to ask and I realize that there are a > thousand >answers to this question. > > > >I am replacing my XP system with a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I finished >installing it last night and cvsuped. Now I need to choos

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 04:48:52PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: > > My point isn't that I *liked* binary-only drivers ... my point is that I'd > rather a company like Adaptec to *at least* supply a binary driver if they > require their specs to be closed, then provide *no means* for me to use > A

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread Garrett Cooper
Peter wrote: --- Joshua Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a hard question to ask and I realize that there are a thousand answers to this question. I am replacing my XP system with a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I finished installing it last night and cvsuped. Now I need to choose

gutenprint - postscript - setup check

2006-07-26 Thread Neil Short
would you guys please check my setup. I have made it the easiest in the world as far as I can tell. When I send something (other than plain text) to lpr my printer makes some bumping and warmup noises but prints nothing. /etc/printcap: # /etc/printcap epson|lp:\ :sh:\ :sd=/usr/sp

Re: [TYPO]What I would like to see, or "How many FreeBSD boxen are out there?"

2006-07-26 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 00:52, Aftab Jahan Subedar wrote: > IMHO this is the first and oldest one. > http://www.netccraft.com it should be http://www.netcraft.com Double oops. -- Aftab Jahan Subedar CEO/Software Engineer Subedar Technologies Ltd Subedar Baag Bibir Bagicha #1 North Jatrabari D

Configure postfix to forward to isp smtp server?

2006-07-26 Thread Chris T.
I am trying to create a home mail gateway. First thing is getting it to relay messages to my ISP as if I had connected directly to the isp in the first place. That is without adding any information to headers to reveal that it went through my smtp server. I also want to create a repositry of

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread RW
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 20:39, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Performance is all relative though, based on what your machine's > speed is, how much RAM it has, disk space, etc. I personally abandoned > Gnome and KDE approximately 1-2 years ago because I found compiling the > packages to be too much

Re: Configure postfix to forward to isp smtp server?

2006-07-26 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 26, 2006, at 5:46 PM, Chris T. wrote: I am trying to create a home mail gateway. First thing is getting it to relay messages to my ISP as if I had connected directly to the isp in the first place. Set: relayhost = [mailserver.isp.net] ...in main.cf. That is without adding any info

vmware

2006-07-26 Thread Robin Becker
I see there are several versions of vmware in /usr/ports/emulators. Is there any simple way to run a vmware image under freebsd? I'm a vmware newbie and don't really understand the player/server version 2/3 differences. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-que

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread Gerard Seibert
Darrin Chandler wrote: > Do you see that if support in 4.x had been based on open specs from > Adaptec that this issue would not exist? Adaptec is controlling your > ability to use their product, and that's the real problem. It's > consumer-hostile, unless you fit their perfect picture of "consume

A General Question.

2006-07-26 Thread D W
Hi I hope I am directing my question to the correct address. Could you please send me a link to a page numerating contrasting BSD and Linux, i.e. what are the advantages and disadvantages to either system? Thank you in advance, Daniel. ___ freebsd-que

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-07-26 18:59, Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Darrin Chandler wrote: >> Do you see that if support in 4.x had been based on open specs from >> Adaptec that this issue would not exist? Adaptec is controlling your >> ability to use their product, and that's the real problem. It's >>

Re: any audio wizards know howto store *.smil files?

2006-07-26 Thread Derrick Ryalls
On 7/26/06, RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 26 July 2006 01:31, Gary Kline wrote: > Rats. Here's what happened whn I added the two switches to mplayer. > Anybody know why the streamm bmbed out?? >... > Connecting to server real.npr.org[63.236.6.227]:80 ... > Cache size set

help installing FreeBSD

2006-07-26 Thread adrian esquivel
I had similar errors reported when I tried to install FreeBSD from a CDRom drive which was connected to the motherboard with a standard udma(33?) ribbon cable (Yes write errors). Make sure your connectors are the better 80 conductor ones. -- John. Thanks John but how do I do that?? ___

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread Chris Hill
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Joshua Lewis wrote, in part: I am replacing my XP system with a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I finished installing it last night and cvsuped. Now I need to choose a window manager. I want something lean and fast but I want to have my cake and eat it to because I do want so

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread Gerard Seibert
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > If the technical specifications are open, there is *zero* support cost > for the hardware vendor. They don't even _have_ to make a driver for > their hardware. What they *can* do though is reply to requests for an > open source driver with: ``Piss off! We have you the

Re: A General Question.

2006-07-26 Thread David Schulz
http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php (good one) http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/bsd_flier.html On Jul 27, 2006, at 5:30 AM, D W wrote: Hi I hope I am directing my question to the correct address. Could you please send me a link to a page numerating contrastin

Re: FreeBSD 6 Hard Lock no logs

2006-07-26 Thread Rob Connon (Info)
HI, The system completly locks up, attached keyboard is useless.. and as mentioned no errors.. the only pattern is tuesday/wednesday it freezes.. other days of the week it's fine under heavy load.. buildworlds are not a problem.. Rob. Lowell Gilbert wrote: "Rob Connon (Info)" <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: "Greg Barniskis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; ; "Nick Withers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 11:59 AM Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: "Gerard Seibert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 6:17 PM Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > If the technical specifications are open, there is *zero* support cost > > for

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: "User Freebsd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Darrin Chandler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Nikolas Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "FreeBSD Questions" Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 12:48 PM Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? > > My poin