On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 10:20:27PM -0400, james thompson wrote:
How difficult is FreeBSD to use in place of MS windows, say compared to
Apple OSX?
Setup is difficult to compare, since OSX always comes pre-installed, and
has a limited range of hardware to contend with.
FreeBSD is more
Dear James
I am afraid the answer is no. FreeBSD is simple enough on its technical
structural but not the kind of simple as to novice user (so the right
question might be if FreeBSD is novice-user friendly enough or easy to
learn enough).
The OS best fitting your requirement could be Ubuntu
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 14:30 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
Dear James
run Office 98.
However the OpenOffice office suit which by default installed in SuSE
and Ubuntu is superior than Office 98 in functionality, and can open
your old Office 98 documents just fine
I forgot to mention: using
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:38:31 -0400 quoth Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:30:20PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote:
On Thu, 26 Apr
Zhang Weiwu wrote:
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 14:30 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
Dear James
run Office 98.
However the OpenOffice office suit which by default installed in SuSE
and Ubuntu is superior than Office 98 in functionality, and can open
your old Office 98 documents just fine
I forgot to
Scott Bennett wrote:
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:38:31 -0400 quoth Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Please note that I posted the first two items merely to inform the
readership of the existence of the problems. I only hoped for assistance
on the third problem.
Now, given that you are
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On 2007-04-27 22:20, james thompson wrote:
How difficult is FreeBSD to use in place of MS windows, say compared to
Apple OSX? I believe it may be able to run Offide 98; can Office 98
with Publisher be ran on FreeBSD? I want to use FreeBSD to
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 23:58 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
As for running Windows binaries of Office on Wine / Crossoffice, this is
tricky at best.. particularly with newer MS products (what with the
Did you really try to run Windows applications on Crossoffice that
crossoffice claimed to be
I am debugging a (seemingly) KDE-related problem on a FreeBSD laptop.
The version of FreeBSD is 6.1-RELEASE-p10 #0. I am starting in in
debug mode. It is using kdm as a login screen. The corresponding line
in /etc/ttys is
ttyv8 /usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon xterm on secure
The
Hello
I am trying to run a perl script connecting a mysql50 database on a
freebsd61 box.
But I get this error:
Can't locate Mysql.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/BSDPAN /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
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OpenOffice in OSX still isn't that great either because there
still isn't a native (Aqua) build.
I suspect the NeoOffice folks would be surprised to hear that :)
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Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 2:50 PM
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Subject: Re: No SMB/Samba support on Windows Home Editions
At 03:49 PM 4/27/2007, L Goodwin wrote:
On every message, sent to the list, I receive a strange response with the
subject line: Fwd: failure notice.
The body contains:
=== BODY BEGIN
Hi. This is the deliver program at eyou.com.br
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the
following addresses.br
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Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 1:58 PM
To: Ted Mittelstaedt
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On Apr 26, 2007, at 12:15 AM,
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Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 2:45 PM
To: Ted Mittelstaedt
Cc: User Questions
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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
[snip]
When I scan my maillogs
On 28/04/2007, at 7:25 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
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Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 1:58 PM
To: Ted Mittelstaedt
Cc: Christopher Hilton; Grant Peel; Eric Crist;
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Greylisting --
Andriy Babiy wrote:
I am debugging a (seemingly) KDE-related problem on a FreeBSD laptop.
The version of FreeBSD is 6.1-RELEASE-p10 #0. I am starting in in
debug mode. It is using kdm as a login screen. The corresponding line
in /etc/ttys is
ttyv8 /usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon xterm on secure
after 'make' type 'make deinstall make install'
Hello
I am trying to run a perl script connecting a mysql50 database on a
freebsd61 box.
But I get this error:
Can't locate Mysql.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/BSDPAN
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach
Reshmakov Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
after 'make' type 'make deinstall make install'
I've found that a make clean frequently cleans up this problem as well,
which basically seems to be the result of the port system somehow losing
track of the fact that a particular dependency is already
Reshmakov Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
after 'make' type 'make deinstall make install'
key phrase: mysql-client-5.0.27 is already installed, so you need
remove old package and install new :)
make clean does not solve this problem cause you clean build tree, not
package.
I've found that
On Saturday 28 April 2007 14:16:34 Stefan Ehmann wrote:
If a non-privilged program calls syslog(3), after the call, errno is set to
13 (permission denied).
Seems like I jumped the gun.
opengroup.org says The value of errno should only be examined when it is
indicated to be valid by a
If a non-privilged program calls syslog(3), after the call, errno is set to 13
(permission denied).
In lib/libc/gen/syslog.c connectlog(), it is first tried to connect
to /var/run/logpriv. If it fails /var/run/log is tried.
The first connect fails if syslog() is not called as root, it fails
Hello,
Would U Plz. tell me about MAX amount of RAM freeBSD supports per processor in
SMP systems?
Does a dualcore system be considered as SMP system? Say an AMD X2 or Core2Duo?
Thanks
Mukul Chaudhuri
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SHOUT IT OUT! Tell everyone, from anywhere,
Garrett Cooper wrote:
Howard Goldstein wrote:
Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote:
Michel Le Cocq wrote:
I think it's a global thunderbird 2 bug, because i have exactly the
same trouble ona mac os 10.4 with a binary update.
I do not think it is exactly the same -- see below.
Howard Goldstein a
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:56:04PM +0100, mukul choudhuri wrote:
Would U Plz. tell me about MAX amount of RAM freeBSD supports per
processor in SMP systems?
Depends on the architecture. A 32 bit x86 chip can address 4GB, unless
you have the PAE extension in the kernel. In that case it is 64
We sucessfuly use amd64 arch on Intel Xeon CPUs.
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:56:04PM +0100, mukul choudhuri wrote:
Would U Plz. tell me about MAX amount of RAM freeBSD supports per
processor in SMP systems?
Depends on the architecture. A 32 bit x86 chip can address 4GB, unless
you have the
Elan Marikit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am a newbie of FreeBSD and I want to know how to set environment
inside chroot in a shell script.
My script looks like this:
chroot $NEWROOT /bin/sh -c command
And I want to set an environment, before the command.
Is it possible that it will
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 02:10:16AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
The true value of Wikipedia is that it can deal with controversial
subjects. ...
on the other hand, for some instances it doesn't _deal_ with controversial
subjects, but only reflects the most common opinion. Currently(*) the
Eduardo Morras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm trying to setup a cvs server. I have a vps jail account so i can't make
a jail in the jail to run the cvs server. Has cvs server a /chroot/ mode?
Where can i find documentation to do so? All doc, man and howto i readed
shows how to do creating
On 4/28/07, james thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How difficult is FreeBSD to use in place of MS windows, say compared to
Apple OSX? I believe it may be able to run Offide 98; can Office 98
with Publisher be ran on FreeBSD? I want to use FreeBSD to compose
articles, and combine them into a
On Apr 28, 2007, at 4:20 AM, Andriy Babiy wrote:
On every message, sent to the list, I receive a strange response
with the
subject line: Fwd: failure notice.
This is because (at least) one member of the list,
[EMAIL PROTECTED], has an address behind a broken MTA.
If the email system for
Warren Liddell wrote:
Running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE .. Azureus as always fials with the following (any
ideas/suggestions welcomed)
---
=== Building for azureus-3.0.1.0
Buildfile: build.xml
init:
[mkdir] Created dir: /usr/ports/net-p2p/azureus/work/build
compile:
Just installed 6.2 from cd and now see many Instructions: not found
messages.
What are these messages referring to???
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From: Maksym Kuvyklin[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: I have suspicion that somebody use my server like zombie server.
Environment:FreeBSD mail.ukremb.com 5.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE
#6:MonApr 23 14:41:21 EDT 2007
[EMAIL
--- Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 27 April 2007, L Goodwin said:
When I ran the DHCP client configuration tool on
FreeBSD 6.2, it added a new hostname variable to
/etc/rc.conf below existing the hostname var (it
did not remove or comment-out the old hostname
I'm having a problem with quotacheck failing and giving this message:
quotacheck: /home/quota.user: seek failed: Invalid argument THE FOLLOWING
FILE SYSTEM HAD AN UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY:
/dev/twed0s1d (/home)
However, I have run a full fsck from single user mode on this volume and it
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 02:07:32PM +, Maksym Kuvyklin wrote:
Synopsis: I have suspicion that somebudy use my server like zombie
server.
Arrival-Date: Sat Apr 28 14:20:04 GMT 2007
Originator: Maksym Kuvyklin
Release:FreeBSD 5.5 STABLE
Environment:
FreeBSD
On Saturday 28 April 2007, L Goodwin said:
--- Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 27 April 2007, L Goodwin said:
When I ran the DHCP client configuration tool on
FreeBSD 6.2, it added a new hostname variable to
/etc/rc.conf below existing the hostname var (it
did not
Figured it out. Had a comment in rc.conf that was not preceded with # sign.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 12:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG
Subject: fbsd 6.2 new boot time messages
Just installed 6.2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OpenOffice in OSX still isn't that great either because there
still isn't a native (Aqua) build.
I suspect the NeoOffice folks would be surprised to hear that :)
Yes _.. I mean that the latest and greatest version of OOo isn't
available for Aqua native yet. It's
VeeJay wrote:
Hello
I am trying to run a perl script connecting a mysql50 database on a
freebsd61 box.
But I get this error:
Can't locate Mysql.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/BSDPAN /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
Reshmakov Roman wrote:
We sucessfuly use amd64 arch on Intel Xeon CPUs.
EMT64 is fully compatible with the major features in AMD64. However,
IA64 (64-bit architecture made by Intel in older Xeons) isn't compatible
with AMD Opterons AFAIK. Besides, IA64 doesn't allow binary/library
profiling
maximo4k wrote:
Hello freebsd-questions,
From: Maksym Kuvyklin[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: I have suspicion that somebody use my server like zombie server.
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It has been brought to my attention that there is / was an inherent flaw in
how/when bsdstats is run ... it makes the assumption that the server is
actually *running* at 5am on the 1st of each month, instead of shutdown as
numerous offices do ...
I ran the df command last night to check slice sizes in anticipation of
doing some backup and eventual tranfer to a new machine.
The output gave me not just normal slices that were created at install
but also three additional (mount points?)
/proc
/net
/host
The machine is a simple web server
I ran the df command last night to check slice sizes in anticipation of
doing some backup and eventual tranfer to a new machine.
The output gave me not just normal slices that were created at install
but also three additional (mount points?)
/proc
/net
/host
The machine is a simple web server
I'm still building my backup DNS server on my remaining Kayak
playing with various window managers (aka desktops). Stuck.
To any browser/media/audio wizards out there in freebsd-land:
A few weeks ago (after failing with both mozilla and firefox)
I tried
On 28/04/07, Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I ran the df command last night to check slice sizes in anticipation of
doing some backup and eventual tranfer to a new machine.
The output gave me not just normal slices that were created at install
but also three additional (mount points?)
On Apr 25, 2007, at 6:23 AMApr 25, 2007, Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote:
On 4/25/07, Oliver Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 11:11:07AM +0200, Andreas Widere Andersen
wrote:
Hi,
On one of my FreeBSD servers all system emails to root is stored
in the
root
mailbox
On Apr 26, 2007, at 8:57 PMApr 26, 2007, Tommy Scheunemann wrote:
Hello everyone,
I'm running a FreeBSD 6.2 system, only have SSH access to it. The
only user which is allowed to login had Bash (installed from the
Ports) installed.
Since 2 days I can't login any longer - Bash misses a
Hmmm. My system is 4.11 so that would explain /proc. Could /net and
/host be related to running apache or samba? I did not knowingly create
these devices I haven't been as vigilant as I could have been for
security (one of my reasons for an upcoming reinstall), so there is a
possibility
The php5 port seems to look in the port dir tree for installed dependants
instead of the /ver/db/pkg
I have all of php5 dependants preinstalled as packages.
I install the dependants for (port named links. Which is a command line
browser) as packages and then do the make install clean command in
On Saturday 28 April 2007 21:57:21 Gary Kline wrote:
I'm still building my backup DNS server on my remaining Kayak
playing with various window managers (aka desktops). Stuck.
To any browser/media/audio wizards out there in freebsd-land:
A few weeks ago (after failing
Could somebody please tell me if there is any software capable of reading
Linux md devices under FreeBSD (for transition purposes) or if lengthier,
less convenient methods will be required?
--
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Undergraduate Physics
University of Bath
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On Apr 28, 2007, at 5:29 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
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Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 2:45 PM
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Ted
On Apr 28, 2007, at 5:25 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
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From: Bart Silverstrim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 1:58 PM
To: Ted Mittelstaedt
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freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Greylisting
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 11:21:20AM -0700, Graham North wrote:
I ran the df command last night to check slice sizes in anticipation of
doing some backup and eventual tranfer to a new machine.
The output gave me not just normal slices that were created at install
but also three additional
I understand quotas were broken in 6.1. I am testing 6.2 where I
thought they were working again. However, it behaves considerably
differently from 5.x. I set both a hard and soft limit on a user to
the same value. Adding disk usage to that user past that limit
succeeds. quota shows
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 12:32:37AM +0200, Danny Pansters wrote:
On Saturday 28 April 2007 21:57:21 Gary Kline wrote:
I'm still building my backup DNS server on my remaining Kayak
playing with various window managers (aka desktops). Stuck.
To any browser/media/audio wizards out
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
wrote Jerry McAllister thusly...
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 11:21:20AM -0700, Graham North wrote:
I ran the df command last night to check slice sizes in
anticipation of doing some backup and eventual tranfer to a new
machine. The output gave me not just
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Garrett Cooper
Sent: Sunday, 29 April 2007 4:28 AM
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Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices, Will
FreeBSD accept Office 98 +
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 10:20:27PM -0400, james thompson wrote:
How difficult is FreeBSD to use in place of MS windows, say compared to
Apple OSX?
Well, it depends on your personality and work habits and expectations.
I find FreeBSD easier to use than MS and have had very little contact
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I ran the df command last night to check slice sizes in anticipation of
doing some backup and eventual tranfer to a new machine.
The output gave me not just normal slices that were created at install
but
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