Re: basic

On Wednesday 06 May 2009 21:09:07 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 06:00:32PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > 10 GOTO 10 > > > > On Wed, 6 May 2009 14:32:47 +0200, "giorgio novello" wrote: > > > Do you want obtain new market share? > > > > > > Develop e visual-basic like language, o

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I am having serious problems getting my freebsd machines with abiword installed to open .doc files. Text becomes totally garbled and unreadable. Have searched the net and the few abiword forums I can find but nowhere does it say what nob is unturned on my freebsd installs. winxp and linu

Re: abiword

On Thu, 07 May 2009 10:16:45 +0200, kenneth hatteland wrote: > I am having serious problems getting my freebsd machines with abiword > installed to open .doc files. Text becomes totally garbled and > unreadable. Maybe this is due to a defective .DOC file (quick save disaster, memory dump); po

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Re: isc-dhcp logging and status query

On Thursday 07 May 2009 12:00:10 Pieter Donche wrote: > 2. Is there any tool to see what Statically assigned IP address are handed > out at a given time? > (I also see nothing in /var/db/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases file execpt comments) Add omapi-port 7911; to dhcpd.conf. Then, as follows: $ omshell > co

Re: make - reassign variable using if-then ?

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 05:40:41PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: > On Wednesday 06 May 2009 11:31:17 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > I'm trying to build gcc43 on alpha 6.4. > > In /usr/ports/lang/gcc43/Makefile I have: > > > > # grep NOT_FOR_ARCHS /usr/ports/lang/gcc43/Makefile > > NOT_FOR_ARCHS= alpha

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Re: Developing and maintaining a rapidly deployable image of an installed system

Warren Guy wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I'm just wondering if there is an established best practice for > developing and maintaining a rapidly deployable image of an installed > FreeBSD system? > > If anyone can point me towards documentation or any other resources that > might be of use I would

Re: Maintaining a FreeBSD system - Workcycle

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Dumb question because of dumb action: can anyone point me to a place where I can find a copy of /etc/ttys? - suitable for FreeBSD v7.2 Thanks ianf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questi

Re: /etc/ttys

Ian Fitzgerald wrote: > Dumb question because of dumb action: can anyone point me to a place > where I can find a copy of /etc/ttys? - suitable for FreeBSD v7.2 In it's entirety: http://ibctech.ca/ttys Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: 7.2 = no sound

On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 11:50:27AM +0100, Lars Hecking wrote: > I upgraded my system to 7.2 with cvsup, and sound has stopped working. I'm > running gnome, and both (...) > Sound module loaded: yes > > # kldstat |grep snd > 41 0xc09d6000 1abf8snd_hda.ko > > # cat /dev/sndstat > Fre

Re: /etc/ttys

On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 10:18:03PM +1000, Ian Fitzgerald wrote: > Dumb question because of dumb action: can anyone point me to a place > where I can find a copy of /etc/ttys? - suitable for FreeBSD v7.2 /usr/share/examples/etc/ttys -- Daniel Bye

Re: Developing and maintaining a rapidly deployable image of an installed system

Bill Moran wrote: [...] > > The host system is a very basic install -- mostly just give it an IP and > add users for the administrators. All the ports and details of their > configs are in the individual jails. It's much more efficient than using > something like VMware, which has horrific perfo

Re: /etc/ttys

On Thu, 07 May 2009 22:18:03 +1000 Ian Fitzgerald wrote: > Dumb question because of dumb action: can anyone point me to a place > where I can find a copy of /etc/ttys? - suitable for FreeBSD v7.2 /usr/share/examples/etc/ttys WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Te

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Jeff Croft wrote: Hello -- I'm configuring FreeBSD 7.1 as a router/load-balancer and I just got stuck. I know this sounds like a newbie question, but hear me out. I have three DSL line (AT&T in SF Bay Area, business class) connected via ethernet to the box, and one more ethernet connected to

Re: Developing and maintaining a rapidly deployable image of an installed system

In response to Greg Larkin : > Bill Moran wrote: > [...] > > > > The host system is a very basic install -- mostly just give it an IP and > > add users for the administrators. All the ports and details of their > > configs are in the individual jails. It's much more efficient than using > > som

Xfce unable to lookup hostname

Every time I log in to xfce, it throws a warning that it cannot lookup "bsdbox" (which is my hostname as defined in rc.conf). The warning dialog suggests altering /etc/hosts to fix the problem. In fact, it's not a "problem" because my WAN connectivity is fine, but I still want to resolve this. In

Re: Xfce unable to lookup hostname

On Thu, 7 May 2009 09:14:24 -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > In /etc/hosts there are two lines containing: > > localhost localhost.my.domain Really? No IP? I mean like ::1 localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 bsdbox.local bsdbox 127.0.

Re: Xfce unable to lookup hostname

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Daniel Underwood wrote: > Every time I log in to xfce, it throws a warning that it cannot lookup > "bsdbox" (which is my hostname as defined in rc.conf). The warning > dialog suggests altering /etc/hosts to fix the problem. In fact, it's > not a "problem" because my

Re: Xfce unable to lookup hostname

> Really? No IP? I mean like > >::1 localhost >127.0.0.1 localhost >127.0.0.1 bsdbox.local bsdbox >127.0.0.1 bsdbox.local. Right, I realize I was unclear. I just meant that two lines contained "localhost localhost.my.domain", not that t

Re: Xfce unable to lookup hostname

*Correction* In previous email, "/etc/ttys" --> "/etc/hosts". ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Xfce unable to lookup hostname

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Daniel Underwood wrote: > > Really? No IP? I mean like > > > >::1 localhost > >127.0.0.1 localhost > >127.0.0.1 bsdbox.local bsdbox > >127.0.0.1 bsdbox.local. > > Right, I realize I was unclear. I just me

Re: basic

On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 09:03:36AM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: > On Wednesday 06 May 2009 21:09:07 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 06:00:32PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > > 10 GOTO 10 > > > > > > On Wed, 6 May 2009 14:32:47 +0200, "giorgio novello" > > > > wrote: > > > > Do you

Re: abiword

On Thu, 07 May 2009 10:16:45 +0200 kenneth hatteland wrote: > I am having serious problems getting my freebsd machines with > abiword installed to open .doc files. Text becomes totally garbled > and unreadable. Have searched the net and the few abiword forums I > can find but nowhere does it sa

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Re: Xfce unable to lookup hostname

On Thu, 7 May 2009 09:37:59 -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > Let me make sure I understand (part of) your advice. Since I set > hostname="bsdbox" in rc.conf, I should replace "localhost" instances > in /etc/ttys ? No, the name "localhost" should be in your /etc/hosts, along with the hostname yo

Re: basic

On Thu, 7 May 2009 09:53:19 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > I know what he thinks he means. But, what he says is that > improvements are against the ethic of FreeBSD and that simply > is not true. Never said such thing. In fact, there are many improvements I'd like to see in FreeBSD, as well

Re: basic

On Wed 2009-05-06 14:32:47 UTC+0200, giorgio novello (gio@vodafone.it) wrote: > Develop e visual-basic like language, or asp vb and your OS will be a best > seller The OP is likely trolling, but reminded me of the Lazarus project. It's loosely based on Borland Delphi and is apparently quite

isc-dhcpd server, HOSTNAME

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Re: Preferred client for DynDNS

On Wed 2009-05-06 10:40:46 UTC-0400, Daniel Underwood (djuatde...@gmail.com) wrote: > There appear to be several clients capable of working with DynDNS.com > services here: > > > E.g., dns/inadyn, dns/ipcheck > > Can anyone make recommendations? My goal

Re: Autofs howto

--On Wednesday, May 06, 2009 22:55:23 -0500 Michel Talon wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm wondering if I can use autofs on FreeBSD. Last time I asked the question someone said I need amd, which I found rather cryptic. Indeed it is cryptic, let me gave an example which works: niobe% cat /e

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Re: [Samba] PDC and "group" question

Am Donnerstag, den 07.05.2009, 09:11 -0700 schrieb MargoAndTodd: > Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > > > I am not quite sure, I understand your question correctly: > > probably you will want to use commands like > > # net groupmap add ntgroup="Domain Admins" unixgroup=wheel type=d > > rid=512 > > w

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So there's cron. Is there anything that lets an ordinary user start his/her programs at bootup of the system? And then run a script when the system is shutting down? I'm familiar with /etc/rc.d/, but that's not really what I'm looking for. I gave my friends access to my FreeBSD server and I wan

Re: Run script on boot, as ordinary user

Nerius Landys wrote: > So there's cron. Is there anything that lets an ordinary user start > his/her programs at bootup of the system? And then run a script when > the system is shutting down? I'm familiar with /etc/rc.d/, but that's > not really what I'm looking for. I gave my friends access t

Re: Run script on boot, as ordinary user

Nerius Landys wrote: So there's cron. Is there anything that lets an ordinary user start his/her programs at bootup of the system? And then run a script when the system is shutting down? I'm familiar with /etc/rc.d/, but that's not really what I'm looking for. I gave my friends access to my F

Re: Run script on boot, as ordinary user

In response to Nerius Landys : > So there's cron. Is there anything that lets an ordinary user start > his/her programs at bootup of the system? And then run a script when > the system is shutting down? I'm familiar with /etc/rc.d/, but that's > not really what I'm looking for. I gave my frien

Re: 7.2 = no sound

> > > pcm0: at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 > > pcm1: at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 > > Have you tried to set hw.snd.default_unit to the right port? > > >From snd_hda(4): > > The default audio device may be tuned by setting the hw.snd.default_unit > sysctl, as described in sound(4), or explicitly specifi

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Hello! Finally I managed to find some time to apply the libc update to our server running FreeBSD 7.0 i386. I applied the patch as described in the section titled "To patch your present system:" of the advisory. I didn't notice any errors during the entire process, but after it was complete

Re: Run script on boot, as ordinary user

On Thursday 07 May 2009 19:57:03 Nerius Landys wrote: > So there's cron. Is there anything that lets an ordinary user start > his/her programs at bootup of the system? And then run a script when > the system is shutting down? I'm familiar with /etc/rc.d/, but that's > not really what I'm looking

RE: php4 + php5

-Original Message- From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk] Sent: donderdag 7 mei 2009 8:29 To: Mark Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: php4 + php5 Mark wrote: > > Using a single Apache 1.3.x install, is there a way to install > > both mod_php4 + mod_php5

SOLVED (was: RE: php4 + php5)

-Original Message- From: Mark [mailto:ad...@asarian-host.net] Sent: donderdag 7 mei 2009 21:32 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: php4 + php5 > ... So I just upgraded to PHP5 already. :) Only thing is, I can't get > GD to compile properly (which I really need). Compile keeps f

Re: Run script on boot, as ordinary user

man crontab @reboot On Thu, 7 May 2009, Nerius Landys wrote: So there's cron. Is there anything that lets an ordinary user start his/her programs at bootup of the system? And then run a script when the system is shutting down? I'm familiar with /etc/rc.d/, but that's not really what I'm lo

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Tim Judd wrote: I think project evil (ndis) requires a specific driver version, such as the WinXP drivers versus the Vista or 2000 or anything else. What drivers did you use? Any other drivers available on the manufacturer website? If you're not using XP, I recall reading that XP is the pre

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Hey, My server was fine when I went to work. When I got back, it was dead. I had the datacenter reboot it, and it refused to boot. It just hangs with no error message when booting. After the "Welcome to FreeBSD" menu, it just freezes up. I have no idea where to start to fix this. Any ideas? Than

Re: Frozen on Boot - Kernel Hanging?

My server was fine when I went to work. When I got back, it was dead. I had the datacenter reboot it, and it refused to boot. It just hangs with no error message when booting. After the "Welcome to FreeBSD" menu, it just freezes up. I have no idea where to start to fix this. Any ideas? most pro

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What is the most recommended IRC client that runs in a terminal? rtorrent is to bit torrent what is to IRC. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "f

Re: Run script on boot, as ordinary user

Seems that @reboot in cron is what I need. It's too bad that there's no straightforward shutdown hook. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-qu

Re: Xfce unable to lookup hostname

I added the line "127.0.0.1 bsdbox bsdbox.my.domain" and now it works perfectly, thanks! Question: what does the line I added tell my computer? I.e., what does that line "do"? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: php4 + php5

Add WITHOUT_X11=yes in /etc/make.conf file before running make command. Amitabh On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Mark wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk] > Sent: donderdag 7 mei 2009 8:29 > To: Mark > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: Command-line IRC client

Irssi or Weechat will be most recommended. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Command-line IRC client

irssi On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:36 AM, gabe g wrote: > Irssi or Weechat will be most recommended. > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > fr

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7.2 Installation Problem - Large Disk

Hi there.. I hope this is the correct mailing list to ask this question. I have a Dell Poweredge R710 server (brand new)... 7.2-RELEASE installs fine but I'm having a problem getting any large partitions over approximately 500GB. During the installation it allows me to create 4.5TB partiti

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Re: 7.2 Installation Problem - Large Disk

On 05/07/2009 07:28 PM, Paul Stewart wrote: > Hi there.. > > > > I hope this is the correct mailing list to ask this question. > > > > I have a Dell Poweredge R710 server (brand new)... 7.2-RELEASE installs fine > but I'm having a problem getting any large partitions over approximately > 50

Re: Autofs howto

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:14, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Wednesday, May 06, 2009 22:55:23 -0500 Michel Talon < > ta...@lpthe.jussieu.fr> wrote: > > >> Paul Schmehl wrote: >> >> I'm wondering if I can use autofs on FreeBSD. Last time I asked the >>> question someone said I need amd, which I foun

Re: Xfce unable to lookup hostname

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: > I added the line > > "127.0.0.1 bsdbox bsdbox.my.domain" > > and now it works perfectly, thanks! > > Question: what does the line I added tell my computer? I.e., what does > that line "do"? > The /etc/hosts file is used to map host

Re: Command-line IRC client

On Thu, 7 May 2009 17:19:47 -0700, Nerius Landys wrote: > What is the most recommended IRC client that runs in a terminal? > rtorrent is to bit torrent what is to IRC. Solution = { irc, BitchX } :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mous

Re: Xfce unable to lookup hostname

On Thu, 7 May 2009 20:26:40 -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > I added the line > > "127.0.0.1 bsdbox bsdbox.my.domain" > > and now it works perfectly, thanks! > > Question: what does the line I added tell my computer? I.e., what does > that line "do"? It simply associates the given hos

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Re: Problems after upgrading to xorg-7.4_1

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I've got a question that is likely not suited for this list, but I know that there are people here who can guide me off-list. Being a network engineer, I'm far from a developer. With that said, I've written numerous network automation programs (mostly in Perl), and have developed several small pat

Re: Frozen on Boot - Kernel Hanging?

On Thursday 07 May 2009 23:46:54 APseudoUtopia wrote: > Hey, > > My server was fine when I went to work. When I got back, it was dead. > I had the datacenter reboot it, and it refused to boot. It just hangs > with no error message when booting. After the "Welcome to FreeBSD" > menu, it just freezes

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Hello, FreeBSD 6.3 has new device called lagg(4). Lagg is a link aggregation and link failover interface. With lagg we can easily bond two NIC interfaces together. But how we can do NIC teaming in FreeBSD 6.2? Please help. Thanks, Daniel Vanags Information Technolog

Re: Teaming NIC

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Daniels Vanags wrote: > Hello, > > > > FreeBSD 6.3 has new device called lagg(4). > > Lagg is a link aggregation and link failover interface. > > With lagg we can easily bond two NIC interfaces together. > > But how we can do NIC teaming in FreeBSD 6.2? Please he