Re: Problem building ports : 1) abiword; 2) curl

2009-03-13 Thread bf
Firstly, it looks like you are using an old ports tree. You should update it by downloading a newer tarball or using csup. Read the pertinent section of the handbook if you don't know how to do this. This may solve your goffice build problem. (It's actually goffice, and not abiword, that is the

Problem with running acroread8/linux-nvu

2009-03-13 Thread bf
The whole point of ports is to provide an already integrated suite of applications; if you are copying files here-and-there, you are probably doing something wrong. (Yes, of course a port maintainer occasionally makes a mistake, and some tweaking is needed, or a port requires some

Re: Problem with running acroread8/linux-nvu

2009-03-13 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:56:28 +0530 Manish Jain wrote: I am running FreeBSD7.1 on an x86 system. When I try to run acroread8 or linux-nvu, both fail with the following error message : error while loading shared libraries: libgobject-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or

Binary upgrade 7.1 i386 - amd64 ?

2009-03-13 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
I'm planning to binary upgrade a machine that's now running i386 7.1-RELEASE-p3 to AMD64. Mainly because the machine has 8GB of memory and I don't like the PAE limitations. I've done this a couple of times before with 4.x - 6.x but all remained i386. Are there any pitfalls when doing an upgrade

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-13 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:47:07 -0400, T. freebsd-questi...@lists.goldenpath.org wrote: You want a transparent tor proxy, which you setup with freebsd and pf. Thanks much for the help. If my modest Python script used to download some web pages goes through Tor, is there a way for the remote web

Re: Binary upgrade 7.1 i386 - amd64 ?

2009-03-13 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 09:05:12AM +0100, Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: I'm planning to binary upgrade a machine that's now running i386 7.1-RELEASE-p3 to AMD64. Mainly because the machine has 8GB of memory and I don't like the PAE limitations. I've done this a couple of times before with 4.x -

Re: Binary upgrade 7.1 i386 - amd64 ?

2009-03-13 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
Btw, yes I know that it might (or will) brake currently existing apps, I have to save the /etc/fstab /etc/master.passwd files etc. I'm just wondering if I end up with a system that can boot the old filesystem and sshd will run so I can recompile all the ports on the machine in the new

Re: Binary upgrade 7.1 i386 - amd64 ?

2009-03-13 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 09:05:12AM +0100, Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: I'm planning to binary upgrade a machine that's now running i386 7.1-RELEASE-p3 to AMD64. Mainly because the machine has 8GB of memory and I don't like the PAE limitations. I've done this a couple of

fd to fd passthrough in kernel

2009-03-13 Thread Stephen Blott
Folks, Does anybody know if the following is possible in FreeBSD? I would like to write a program that: 1. copies its standard input to standard output (verbatim, a la cat with no arguments) 2. exits with an error code of 0 if at least one byte was copied, or a non-zero error

Re: sed error unescaped newline inside substitute pattern

2009-03-13 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
David Banning wrote: Here is the php line that gives the error; cat start_text | sed s/--maintext--/$test/ endtext give error; sed: 1: s/--maintext--/ Comment ...: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern where $test contains customer input from a website form There is something about

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Thanks much for the help. If my modest Python script used to download some web pages goes through Tor, is there a way for the remote web server to somehow trace this connection back to me? if you won't help them with extra info in request headers - no.

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2009-03-13 Thread CFX Network

Anyone runs 7.1 with an IBM X3650 (64 bits ARCH) ?

2009-03-13 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello Everything is in the subject :-) Thanks for any infos Purpose is migration of a mailhub ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Replace console login prompt

2009-03-13 Thread Matias Surdi
Hi, Please, could somebody give me a pointer to some documentation or an idea of how to replace the default console login prompt with a custom script? Thank you very much. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-13 Thread Maciej Suszko
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: This machine uses wpi and bge. Both devices seem to work ok chucking files around a domestic network. at least for wired network i never had a problem with broadcom chips Neither do I... w...@pci0:8:0:0:class=0x028000

/ partition full

2009-03-13 Thread Warren Liddell
I've looked as much as i can, but with only 5meg free on / .. its making things in terms of building world kernel a lil difficult .. what's the command so i can see exactly what dir on / is using up all the space so i can free it up ? ___

Re: / partition full

2009-03-13 Thread Neal Hogan
just to clarify (it's early) man du(1) On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Warren Liddell shin...@maydias.com wrote: I've looked as much as i can, but with only 5meg free on / .. its making things in terms of building world kernel a lil difficult .. what's the command so i can see exactly

Re: / partition full

2009-03-13 Thread Mehul Ved
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Warren Liddell shin...@maydias.com wrote: I've looked as much as i can, but with only 5meg free on / .. its making things in terms of building world kernel a lil difficult .. what's the command so i can see exactly what dir on / is using up all the space so i

Re: Anyone runs 7.1 with an IBM X3650 (64 bits ARCH) ?

2009-03-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello Everything is in the subject :-) I'm not running it now but I've tested it - worked fine. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Replace console login prompt

2009-03-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Matias Surdi wrote: Hi, Please, could somebody give me a pointer to some documentation or an idea of how to replace the default console login prompt with a custom script? man 5 ttys signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Problem building ports : 1) abiword; 2) xine

2009-03-13 Thread Manish Jain
Hello BF/Everyone, Thanks for your advice. But the problems just don't seem to go away. I ran 'make config' inside /usr/ports/ftp/curl and was able to rectify the problem. I was installing curl as part of the xine build process. Once curl got built, xine got built too. The install went

Re: / partition full

2009-03-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I've looked as much as i can, but with only 5meg free on / .. its making things in terms of building world kernel a lil difficult .. what's the command so i can see exactly what dir on / is using up all the space so i can free it up ? du -s directory good lesson to NOT make multiple

Re: / partition full

2009-03-13 Thread Warren Liddell
Neal Hogan wrote: man du Thanks that gave me what i needed .. now i goto figure out what i can del an what not to .. never had a prob with / filling up before *g* enterprise# du -h -d 1 / 2.0K/.snap 2.0K/dev 34K/tmp 537G/usr 740M/var 1.7M/etc 2.0K/cdrom 2.0K

Re: / partition full

2009-03-13 Thread Mehul Ved
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Warren Liddell shin...@maydias.com wrote: Thanks that gave me what i needed .. now i goto figure out what i can del an what not to .. never had a prob with / filling up before *g* enterprise# du -h -d 1 / 537G    /usr 538G    / Pretty easy to figure out

Re: / partition full

2009-03-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
396M/boot I'd say this /boot is pretty big, you may have several versions of older kernel that you can remove. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Networking / Storage projects testing.

2009-03-13 Thread onkar mahajan
Hi All , I am interested in implementing some interesting Networking storage virtualization related projects on FreeBSD . I have only one PC available with me at home. Does FreeBSD foundation provide some sort of public servers wherein the developers can test their code or something

Re: / partition full

2009-03-13 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Warren Liddell shin...@maydias.com: Neal Hogan wrote: man du Thanks that gave me what i needed .. now i goto figure out what i can del an what not to .. never had a prob with / filling up before *g* enterprise# du -h -d 1 / Try du -hxd1 / It'll save you from having

Re: / partition full

2009-03-13 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl: good lesson to NOT make multiple partitions :) And when a rogue app fills up /var and kills 4 other apps that could have kept going ... are we then learning conflicting lessons? Enterprise-class servers should have many partitions

Re: Anyone runs 7.1 with an IBM X3650 (64 bits ARCH) ?

2009-03-13 Thread Frank Bonnet
Ivan Voras wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello Everything is in the subject :-) I'm not running it now but I've tested it - worked fine. OK Thanks a lot Ivan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: / partition full

2009-03-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:33:53 +1000 Warren Liddell shin...@maydias.com wrote: I've looked as much as i can, but with only 5meg free on / .. its making things in terms of building world kernel a lil difficult .. what's the command so i can see exactly what dir on / is using up all the

SanDisk USB stick with FreeBSD 7

2009-03-13 Thread Polytropon
Hi, I've gotten an USB stick with 8 GB which doesn not work with FreeBSD 7-STABLE-20080811. I've googled and found that this particular product might be defective by factory. Anyone has an idea how to make it accessible with FreeBSD? In order to have maximal abilities for data transfer, this

Re: / partition full

2009-03-13 Thread Jacques Manukyan
Definitely take a look at the /usr/home directory like Mehul stated. Try something like this to get a list of large files in that file system: find /usr -type f -size +50M -exec ls -la {} \; or find /usr/home -type f -size +50M -exec ls -la {} \; The above commands will print out a list of

Re: / partition full

2009-03-13 Thread John Almberg
On Mar 13, 2009, at 8:46 AM, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl: good lesson to NOT make multiple partitions :) And when a rogue app fills up /var and kills 4 other apps that could have kept going ... are we then learning conflicting lessons?

Re: SanDisk USB stick with FreeBSD 7

2009-03-13 Thread Polytropon
Oops, hit the wrong reply button... On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:49:53 +0300, \Remorque\ odhia...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:33:23 +0300, \Remorque\ odhia...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for top-posting! No

Re: / partition full

2009-03-13 Thread Warren Liddell
Mehul Ved wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Warren Liddell shin...@maydias.com wrote: Thanks that gave me what i needed .. now i goto figure out what i can del an what not to .. never had a prob with / filling up before *g* enterprise# du -h -d 1 / 537G/usr 538G/ Pretty

Re: / partition full

2009-03-13 Thread Warren Liddell
Olivier Nicole wrote: 396M/boot I'd say this /boot is pretty big, you may have several versions of older kernel that you can remove. Olivier with thanks to the added du command not looking into mounts, it seemd /boot was it, there was a kernel.old file in there rather large,

Re: Bios chip update suggestions

2009-03-13 Thread Andrew
G'Day, Fbsd1 wrote: Chris Whitehouse wrote: Fbsd1 wrote: I have an desktop manufactured in 2002 by a South Korean company Hyunju. The company is now out of business. It's bio's do not allow booting from a usb memory stick. I want to find an bio's update that adds booting from usb memory

Re: Inetd and multiple IP addresses

2009-03-13 Thread Andrew
Tim Judd wrote: On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 03:38 +0100, skx wrote: I have inetd configured to open a listening port for leafnode nntp stream tcp nowait news /usr/libexec/tcpd /usr/local/sbin/leafnode but this opens the port on all IP addresses associated with this machine. I would like to choose

Managing bsdpan -- some advice please

2009-03-13 Thread David Southwell
Basically I do not know how to manage the bsdpan ports. On portupgrade -a I get long lists like the one below. How are items held How do I decide whether ort not to hold them. Some advice would be appreciated. I have searched for some guidance on the freebsd web site but not found any. ---

Re: SanDisk USB stick with FreeBSD 7

2009-03-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
da0: SanDisk Cruzer Micro 8.02 Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 1.000MB/s transfers da0: Attempt to query device size failed: UNIT ATTENTION, Medium not present this suggest defective device or USB controller/driver problems. if you can - check it on another computer running other

xine-v0.99.5 hangs on FreeBSD-7.1; xmms-1.2.11 crashes on enabling option DoubleSize

2009-03-13 Thread Manish Jain
Hi all, I just downloaded the latest ports tarball and successfully installed xine. When I started xine (not as root), I got the message I: caps.c: Dropping root privileges The ui loaded but hung. It simply did not respond to any number of mouse clicks. I finally had to kill xine.

Re: Xorg - Resolution issues

2009-03-13 Thread Francis Dubé
Francis Dubé wrote : Hi everyone, I got this TV : http://www.samsung.com/ca/consumer/detail/spec.do?group=tvtype=tvsubtype=lcdmodel_cd=LN40A330J1DXZCfullspec=F I'm trying to use it as my screen under FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE with a resolution of 1366x768 which is suposed to be suported by the

Re: sed error unescaped newline inside substitute pattern

2009-03-13 Thread David Banning
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: David Banning wrote: Here is the php line that gives the error; cat start_text | sed s/--maintext--/$test/ endtext give error; sed: 1: s/--maintext--/ Comment ...: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern where $test contains customer input from a website form

Re: Replace console login prompt

2009-03-13 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 13), Ivan Voras said: Matias Surdi wrote: Please, could somebody give me a pointer to some documentation or an idea of how to replace the default console login prompt with a custom script? man 5 ttys or, man 5 gettytab. gettytab is the file that holds the login

Re: Replace console login prompt

2009-03-13 Thread Matias Surdi
Thanks for your help Ivan. Finally, I found here the solution: http://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-questions-answers/13126-freebsd-auto-login-user-boot-im-stuck.html I set up getty to autologin and then a .login runs my script. Thanks. Ivan Voras escribió: Matias Surdi wrote: Hi, Please,

Re: / partition full

2009-03-13 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Warren Liddell wrote: with thanks to the added du command not looking into mounts, it seemd /boot was it, there was a kernel.old file in there rather large, removed it an an old loader file which has freed up quite a bit of space .. How much space did you get rid of? Jos Chrispijn

Re: sed error unescaped newline inside substitute pattern

2009-03-13 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
David Banning wrote: Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: David Banning wrote: Here is the php line that gives the error; cat start_text | sed s/--maintext--/$test/ endtext give error; sed: 1: s/--maintext--/ Comment ...: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern where $test contains customer

Re: issues in XFCE 4.6

2009-03-13 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Keith Seyffarth wrote: On freebsd 6.0, I upgraded XFCE from 4.4 to 4.6 last night. When I started X this morning, and went to follow these instructions from the UPDATING file: Make sure to switch as well to the Tango theme. To do this just open the Settings Manager and select Appearance.

Re: sed error unescaped newline inside substitute pattern

2009-03-13 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
David Banning wrote: I have looked at the file in vi but the problematic characters are invisible there. The problematic character is the newline character, \n, ASCII 0xA. And, yes vi is old but it's a few months now that it supports newlines without problems;) Nikos

Re: sed error unescaped newline inside substitute pattern

2009-03-13 Thread David Banning
Don't you have control over this web form??? That's the place you should filter your input... The sooner you do the filtering the better. Anyway, you could also use an intermediate variable that replaces all newlines with spaces. # a=This is the input from the web server # b=`echo $a` #

Re: issues in XFCE 4.6

2009-03-13 Thread Keith Seyffarth
Manolis, Thanks for the quick reply. Did you follow the rest of the instructions for xfce 4.6 in UPDATING? There are a few ports to deinstall, preferably before upgrading. A little problem with that: after having the ports tree updated I could not simply make deinstall them, as the old port

Perl5 with threads?

2009-03-13 Thread s0rk
Hello FreeBSD-Team, i got a question about the Perl version in 7.1 release. I needed Perl 5.8.10 but this wasn't available, okay i only need the perl threds but this isn't on in default. I set it in my ports dir in my MAKEFILE on, but wasn't accepted. How can i use Perl5.8.9_2 in FreeBSD 7.1

Re: issues in XFCE 4.6

2009-03-13 Thread Dave Feustel
The install for 4.6.0 is too complicated (hence error-prone). I'm sticking with my current version of xfce, which I like a lot. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: issues in XFCE 4.6

2009-03-13 Thread Keith Seyffarth
The install for 4.6.0 is too complicated (hence error-prone). I'm sticking with my current version of xfce, which I like a lot. That may well have been a better choice at this point... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

sys/vimage.h and net/opt_inet6 not exist on 7.1 release?

2009-03-13 Thread Jacky Oh
Hi, Im trying to compile sys/netinet/ip_fw_pfil.c as example of KLD firewall module. This file include net/opt_inet6.h and sys/vimage.h but the compiler dont find it. This files seems that was deleted from the source tree. Anyone know something?. Thanks

Bind to Localhost from Jail

2009-03-13 Thread Dave
Hi all, I'm trying to get cPanel installed on my host, and to run it from jail. The installer script that cPanel provides, however, seems to be confused by the fact that it cannot test the daemons it has installed by checking if they are listening on localhost. Is there any way to allow

best archiver?

2009-03-13 Thread Gary Kline
guys, this is for any compression experts on-list. my main desktop is nearly full. i'm looking for the best means of compressing [mostly] audio files. mp3, ogg, and .flag. i cross backup among my servers and would like to have the most reasoned approach to

Re: Problem with Bash-4 and $(command) syntax

2009-03-13 Thread Tim Judd
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:35 PM, bf bf20...@yahoo.com wrote: {Problem with Bash-4 and $(command) ...}: [...] I found the same problem, and have reverted to bash3.2 until it's sorted out. See if the following helps. http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/COMPAT Especially:

Re: Bind to Localhost from Jail

2009-03-13 Thread Tim Judd
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Dave sed.entary...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to get cPanel installed on my host, and to run it from jail. The installer script that cPanel provides, however, seems to be confused by the fact that it cannot test the daemons it has installed by

Re: Perl5 with threads?

2009-03-13 Thread Michael Powell
s0rk wrote: Hello FreeBSD-Team, i got a question about the Perl version in 7.1 release. I needed Perl 5.8.10 but this wasn't available, okay i only need the perl threds but this isn't on in default. I set it in my ports dir in my MAKEFILE on, but wasn't accepted. How can i use

Re: best archiver?

2009-03-13 Thread Nerius Landys
guys, this is for any compression experts on-list. my main desktop is nearly full. i'm looking for the best means of compressing [mostly] audio files. mp3, ogg, and .flag. i cross backup among my servers and would like to have the most reasoned approach to

Re: best archiver?

2009-03-13 Thread Thomas Abthorpe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 13, 2009 03:15:24 pm Gary Kline wrote: guys, this is for any compression experts on-list. my main desktop is nearly full. i'm looking for the best means of compressing [mostly] audio files. mp3, ogg, and .flag. i cross backup

Re: best archiver?

2009-03-13 Thread Eitan Adler
Gary Kline wrote: guys, this is for any compression experts on-list. my main desktop is nearly full. i'm looking for the best means of compressing [mostly] audio files. mp3, ogg, and .flag. i cross backup among my servers and would like to have the most

Re: best archiver?

2009-03-13 Thread andrew clarke
On Fri 2009-03-13 12:15:24 UTC-0700, Gary Kline (kl...@thought.org) wrote: guys, this is for any compression experts on-list. my main desktop is nearly full. i'm looking for the best means of compressing [mostly] audio files. mp3, ogg, and .flag. i cross backup among my servers and would

Re: Inetd and multiple IP addresses

2009-03-13 Thread skx
Tim Judd wrote/napisał(a): inetd.conf(5) see option -a put it in your rc.conf, as inetd_flags I do this for all my hosts so I have a tighter reign on the problem Thanks. -- skx. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: best archiver?

2009-03-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
guys, this is for any compression experts on-list. my main desktop is nearly full. i'm looking for the best means of compressing [mostly] audio files. mp3, ogg, and .flag. i cross backup among my servers and would like to have mp3 is already compressed as ogg flac

Re: best archiver?

2009-03-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
already highly compressed and will not compress much further. As far as the best compressor, I vote for bzip2/bunzip2. in my tests i found NO case when grzip would not compress data better than bzip2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: best archiver?

2009-03-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I would look into archivers/bunzip and archivers/p7zip. I recall reading that the 7z format produces better compression rates than RAR 7zip is comparable to grzip (sometimes sligtly better - difference in order of 1%), while much slower ___

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-13 Thread T.
Gilles wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:47:07 -0400, T. freebsd-questi...@lists.goldenpath.org wrote: You want a transparent tor proxy, which you setup with freebsd and pf. Thanks much for the help. If my modest Python script used to download some web pages goes through Tor, is there a

Re: best archiver? (for music)

2009-03-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:15:24PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: guys, this is for any compression experts on-list. my main desktop is nearly full. i'm looking for the best means of compressing [mostly] audio files. mp3, ogg, and .flag. All of these are already compressed.

Re: Managing bsdpan -- some advice please

2009-03-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
David Southwell wrote: Basically I do not know how to manage the bsdpan ports. On portupgrade -a I get long lists like the one below. How are items held How do I decide whether ort not to hold them. Some advice would be appreciated. I have searched for some guidance on the freebsd web site but

Re: best archiver? (for music)

2009-03-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
- The general archivers can compress the wav somewhat without loss, but none do as well as the dedicated lossless compression program flac. - Trying to compress mp3, ogg and flac files further is a waste of time. - If you want smaller files, use lossy compression like mp3 or ogg vorbis, and

Re: Problem with Bash-4 and $(command) syntax

2009-03-13 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:16:07 -0600 Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:35 PM, bf bf20...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm wondering if a fix can be accomplished due to a semicolon within the ()s to complete a command line. Similar to how find(1) expression works, you have to end the

Re: issues in XFCE 4.6

2009-03-13 Thread Keith Seyffarth
snip longer present. I could use stg like pkg_delete, but in the end, I preferred using pkg_rmleaves and remove the entire xfce4.4 related ports I wasn't able to find pkg_rmleaves, so I tried pkg_delete on all the related packages I could find. (including the libs, mousepad, Thunar and a

gnash and ff3

2009-03-13 Thread Neal Hogan
Hi, I have 7-1 RELEASE running with up-to-date packages, including firefox3. I also have gnash-0.8.3 and mozplugger-1.10.2. I'm confused as to why gnash and mozplugger are not automatically enabled and/or used by ff3. That is, ff claims not to have any plug-ins. I have the same set-up on an oBSD

Re: issues in XFCE 4.6

2009-03-13 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Keith Seyffarth wrote: snip longer present. I could use stg like pkg_delete, but in the end, I preferred using pkg_rmleaves and remove the entire xfce4.4 related ports I wasn't able to find pkg_rmleaves, so I tried pkg_delete on all the related packages I could find. Well,

Re: issues in XFCE 4.6

2009-03-13 Thread Keith Seyffarth
snip Please make sure these ports are installed: x11-themes/gtk-xfce-engine installed as: gtk-xfce-engine-2.6.0 An XFCE engine for GTK 2.0 x11-themes/icons-tango-extras installed as: icons-tango-extras-0.1.0_1 A extra set of icons from the Tango project snip I am afraid I can do both

Re: SanDisk USB stick with FreeBSD 7

2009-03-13 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:35:10 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: da0: SanDisk Cruzer Micro 8.02 Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 1.000MB/s transfers da0: Attempt to query device size failed: UNIT ATTENTION, Medium not present this suggest

Re: gnash and ff3

2009-03-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 04:02:11PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: Hi, I have 7-1 RELEASE running with up-to-date packages, including firefox3. I also have gnash-0.8.3 and mozplugger-1.10.2. I'm confused as to why gnash and mozplugger are not automatically enabled and/or used by ff3. That is, ff

Re: issues in XFCE 4.6

2009-03-13 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Keith Seyffarth wrote: New user gets a completely different interface. XFCE and components don't seem to launch, nor do they seem to be available. Not only is there no menu, there's no panel from which to launch the menu, and the panel won't start from the command line. Well, this

Re: Problem building ports : 1) abiword; 2) xine

2009-03-13 Thread bf
--- On Fri, 3/13/09, Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote: From: Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Problem building ports : 1) abiword; 2) xine To: bf20...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Friday, March 13, 2009, 8:14 AM Hello BF/Everyone,

Re: gnash and ff3

2009-03-13 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Neal Hogan wrote: Hi, I have 7-1 RELEASE running with up-to-date packages, including firefox3. I also have gnash-0.8.3 and mozplugger-1.10.2. I'm confused as to why gnash and mozplugger are not automatically enabled and/or used by ff3. That is, ff claims not to have any plug-ins. I have the

Re: usb sound card

2009-03-13 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Does anyone have experience with a usb sound card? Are any of them supported in FreeBSD? looks like it is - man snd_uaudio from manual it looks like it's standard of USB audio interfaces so all should work - unless some manufacturers don't comply to standards. thanks

Re: issues in XFCE 4.6

2009-03-13 Thread Keith Seyffarth
snip Well, this leads me to believe you don't have an .xinitrc file in the new user's home directory Create an ~/.xinitrc with exec startxfce4 OK, did that. as the only content and try again. The panel is there (and displayed icons on the desktop, weird). However, the menu doesn't

Re: / partition full

2009-03-13 Thread Kaspars Bankovskis
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Mehul Ved mehul.n@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Warren Liddell shin...@maydias.com wrote: I've looked as much as i can, but with only 5meg free on / .. its making things in terms of building world kernel a lil difficult .. what's the

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-13 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
prad wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:20:18 -0700 prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: do people here have any thoughts on the two different licenses? thank you everyone for your comments on this topic. the links some of you provided were very interesting and helpful. i had no idea

Keyboard adaptor PS/2 - USB to use with FreeBSD

2009-03-13 Thread Polytropon
Dear list, in the future I'm going to use a device which doesn't have any PS/2 sockets anymore to attach keyboard and / or mouse. This device is equipped with USB ports only. (Yes, you guessed it, it will be some kind of Netbook that needs some ordinary physical user interface - CRT, keyboard,

Execute and lock a user into a program upon login

2009-03-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi everyone, Although the application of my question focuses on network operation, I believe that the objective fits this list. Mostly irrelevant, I have been working on securing my network perimeter. I have a FreeBSD box that acts as a host-based BGP peer to all edge connected routers. I use

Re: Execute and lock a user into a program upon login

2009-03-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: Hi everyone, Although the application of my question focuses on network operation, I believe that the objective fits this list. Mostly irrelevant, I have been working on securing my network perimeter. I have a FreeBSD box that acts as a host-based BGP peer to all

Re: Execute and lock a user into a program upon login

2009-03-13 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:12:07 -0400, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: Hi everyone, Although the application of my question focuses on network operation, I believe that the objective fits this list. Mostly irrelevant, I have been working on securing my

Re: Execute and lock a user into a program upon login

2009-03-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:12:07 -0400, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: Hi everyone, Although the application of my question focuses on network operation, I believe that the objective fits this list. Mostly irrelevant, I have been working on

Re: Execute and lock a user into a program upon login

2009-03-13 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 02:18:27AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: [..] If the user's shell is csh (FreeBSD's standard dialog shell), you could achieve the goal: ~/.login vtysh logout Only problem: I don't know how the shell will act when the user terminates the vtysh

Re: Execute and lock a user into a program upon login

2009-03-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 02:18:27AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: [..] If the user's shell is csh (FreeBSD's standard dialog shell), you could achieve the goal: ~/.login vtysh logout Only problem: I don't know how the shell will act when the user

Re: best archiver? (for music)

2009-03-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 09:31:50PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: - The general archivers can compress the wav somewhat without loss, but none do as well as the dedicated lossless compression program flac. - Trying to compress mp3, ogg and flac files further is a waste of time. - If you want

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-13 Thread Modulok
On 3/12/09, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: Hello I'd like to download information from our competitor's web site, without their knowing it's from us. Do you know of an alternative for FreeBSD, ie. a solution that will let me connect to a web server through at least one other host, and

Re: Keyboard adaptor PS/2 - USB to use with FreeBSD

2009-03-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I'm aware of the fact that there are adaptors (adapters?) do plug a standard PS/2 keyboard (and mouse) into an USB port. Do I have to pay attention to get a specific device or are they that simple (wired) that any will do? I don't know about the others, but the adapter delivered by Dell

Re: issues in XFCE 4.6

2009-03-13 Thread Keith Seyffarth
I went through pkg_rmleaves and deleted xfce and then everything it exposed, then re-installed using portinstall -R This installed 32 packages when I had only deleted 31, so something got installed that wasn't previously. Unfortunately, this still didn't fix the problems. The XFCE menu still

Re: issues in XFCE 4.6

2009-03-13 Thread Fbsd1
Keith Seyffarth wrote: I went through pkg_rmleaves and deleted xfce and then everything it exposed, then re-installed using portinstall -R This installed 32 packages when I had only deleted 31, so something got installed that wasn't previously. Unfortunately, this still didn't fix the