installworld fails - err code 71 - too many levels of symbolic links

2008-10-21 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
/nb_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME: Too many levels of symbolic links *** Error code 71 Stop in /usr/srs/share/timedef. *** Error code 1 What am I doing wrong? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928

camcontrol(8) - Unexpected busfree in Message-out phase

2008-10-28 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
-out phase SEQADDR == 0x170 and nothing is detected: I'm sure I miss something out, so I don't think this is a `currnet' issue. Any advice? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117

Re: build ImageMagick 6.4.4.1_1 from ports failed...

2008-10-29 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
performed. I've passed all tests on i386 and all but 2 tests on alpha. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd

Re: build ImageMagick 6.4.4.1_1 from ports failed...

2008-10-29 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
-stable and 8.0-current. Will let you know how the tests go soon. Post also your /etc/make.conf -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

Re: build ImageMagick 6.4.4.1_1 from ports failed...

2008-10-29 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 02:47:03PM +0200, Aggelidis Nikos wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In any case you can build and install without tests, and then do 'make check' separately. I'm building IM on i386 7.0-stable and 8.0-current

Re: build ImageMagick 6.4.4.1_1 from ports failed...

2008-10-29 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
CPU) # perhaps you just haven't built perlmagick, or use some old libraries - just a guess. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

Re: build ImageMagick 6.4.4.1_1 from ports failed...

2008-10-29 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:30:35PM +0200, Aggelidis Nikos wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: perhaps you just haven't built perlmagick, or use some old libraries - just a guess. I haven't build perlmagick. I only tried to build imagemagick

Re: Running X without a videocard

2008-11-20 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
-questions@freebsd.org/index.html#194794 and at the xdm(1) man page. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions

no port ralcgm - render CGM graphics with ImageMagick?

2008-12-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
for FBSD. Is that so? Is there anybody else who is interested in having this port? I might try to create one, if there is some support from the community. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0

obsolete /usr/share/doc/handbook ?

2008-12-31 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
the obsolete docs under /usr/share/doc? Why are there two doc folders? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

SOLVED: Re: obsolete /usr/share/doc/handbook ?

2008-12-31 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 01:30:48PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I update my local FBSD documentation with cvsup doc-all. I note that the latest FBSD documentation is under /usr/doc. However I still have /usr/share/doc which is about 2 years out of date. On the other hand /usr/doc does

Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

2009-01-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
. This should be a simple problem, just find what the differences are between the working and the broken configurations, and implement them. But I can't find any differences. What should I look at to resolve the problem? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept

ports tree build ignores /etc/make.conf

2009-01-08 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
1 Stop in /usr/ports/lang/gcc43. # So it seems make ignores NOT_FOR_ARCHS= setting. When I add this to the gcc43/Makefile directly, build goes ahead. What's the problem? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol

/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libgcrypt.so.15 not found, required by libgs.so.8

2009-01-12 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I get this error in /var/spool/lpd/my printer: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libgcrypt.so.15 not found, required by libgs.so.8 I use apsfilter, so I guess this must be something to do with ghostscript? Any advice? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech

can't work with a file starting with dash space '- ' ?

2009-01-16 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
about all. I tried wildcards and quotes, sh, csh, bash, tcsh and superuser but no luck. How can I delete or rename this file? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44

no browser starts, possible dbus-launch problem?

2009-01-16 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 --8A9CA8FC08.1232111947/mx1.freebsd.org-- - End forwarded message - -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol

Failed to connect to socket /var/tmp/dbus-9QmJ2ebH21: No such file or directory

2009-01-23 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
9f784d8ddca2a8f9deaefd12c809fc51 What's going on? Give me a clue please. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

Re: Failed to connect to socket /var/tmp/dbus-9QmJ2ebH21: No such file or directory

2009-01-23 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:19:25PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I run FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE alpha, and I've XAUTHORITY set up: % echo $XAUTHORITY /home/mexas/.Xauthority I've gconf2-2.24.0 and ORBit2-2.14.16 Whenever I try to start a browser, e.g. firefox2 or kazehakase I get

overwriting NOT_FOR_ARCHS via /etc/make.conf has no effect

2009-01-26 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
on alpha ia64, while you are running alpha. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/lang/gcc43. # What am I doing wrong? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117

X - configure - No devices to configure. Configuration failed

2009-01-27 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
, so.. I don't get it. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: X.org-update - screen garbled / settings for xorg.conf?

2009-01-30 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
that it cannot connect.. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: X.org-update - screen garbled / settings for xorg.conf?

2009-01-31 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 09:29:34PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 03:46:14PM +0100, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, Today I upgraded my system (ports) so I got x.org 7.4 installed. Given the various entries in /usr/ports/UPDATING about

installworld fails - nb_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME: too many levels of symbolic links

2009-01-31 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
/timedef. *** Error code 1 What's the problem? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions

X, dbus and hal - how to?

2009-02-02 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I'm running X remotely, i.e. xorg-server and clients are on different boxes. After reading freebsd.org/gnome FAQs and hal FAQs my impression is that dbus and hal must be run on the clients box, not on the server. Can somebody confirm this? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6

Re: installworld fails - nb_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME: too many levels of symbolic links

2009-02-02 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 08:00:58AM -0900, Mel wrote: On Saturday 31 January 2009 07:09:39 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm upgrading from 7.1-prerelease to 7.1-stable. I followed the manual. make buildworld, make buildkernel, make installkernel, reboot, make installworld fails with install

policykit fails to build on 7.1-stable i386

2009-02-03 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/policykit/work/PolicyKit-0.9' gmake: *** [all] Error 2 *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/policykit. What shall I do? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk

Re: policykit fails to build on 7.1-stable i386

2009-02-03 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 09:57:45AM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: when building ports/sysutils/policykit on FBSD 7.1-stable i386 I get: Making all in man gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/policykit/work/PolicyKit-0.9/d oc/man' /usr/local/bin/xsltproc -nonet http

Re: policykit fails to build on 7.1-stable i386

2009-02-03 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
is not to blame. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: policykit fails to build on 7.1-stable i386

2009-02-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
cannot get X to work at all on 7.1-stable or 8.0-current, and some stubborn problems on 6.4-stable alpha. I submitted one PR already, and am preparing two more. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928

xdm doesn't run as daemon

2009-02-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
After upgrades of 23-24 Jan 2009 xdm is not working: # xdm # ps ax|grep xdm 75632 p1 S+ 0:00.01 grep xdm # cat /var/log/xdm.log # So no xdm daemon. My system: FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE alpha, xdm-1.1.8_1. Any ideas? -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol

Re: xdm doesn't run as daemon

2009-02-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 08:01:25AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Anton Shterenlikht writes: After upgrades of 23-24 Jan 2009 xdm is not working: # xdm # ps ax|grep xdm 75632 p1 S+ 0:00.01 grep xdm # cat /var/log/xdm.log Any ideas? 1) May we see /var/log/Xorg

Re: about upgrade

2009-02-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
A.7.1 in the user manual. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: xdm doesn't run as daemon

2009-02-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 09:39:23PM +0100, Roger Olofsson wrote: Anton Shterenlikht skrev: After upgrades of 23-24 Jan 2009 xdm is not working: # xdm # ps ax|grep xdm 75632 p1 S+ 0:00.01 grep xdm # cat /var/log/xdm.log # So no xdm daemon. My system: FreeBSD 6.4

Re: gdm wont start

2009-02-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
. similar things happended to me with firefox and kazehakase ports. I never figured it out. I blame dbus and hal ports, but couldn't investigate this fully as after the 23-24 Jan port upgrages my X failed alltogether. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University

Re: xorg 7-current ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash

2009-02-10 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
submitted a PR on this: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/131426 -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

Re: xorg 7-current ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash

2009-02-10 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 03:28:09PM +0100, Uwe Laverenz wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:39:33PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: for me xorg 7.4 doesn't work at all on 7.1-stable i386 Compaq Armada 1700 Sorry, do you really run FreeBSD with xorg on this machine? This laptop must

7.4 - X -configure gives No devices to configure

2009-02-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
) IX[B] (II) Primary Device is: PCI 0...@00:08:0 No devices to configure. Configuration failed. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

hald makes cdrom fail

2009-02-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
is in hal, and not FBSD. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: XDM login freezes on boot

2009-02-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
cannot get the daemon to run. This is on 6.4-stable alpha with xdm-1.1.8_1 -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

Re: XDM login freezes on boot

2009-02-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
of auto keyboard and mouse detection still not clear, contrary to the statement in ports/UPDATE? Cleary something changes from 7.3 to 7.4 that gives all sorts of troubles to many people on different systems. If these questions have been answered already please point me to a link. anton -- Anton

Re: hald makes cdrom fail

2009-02-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:55:28AM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On FBSD 7.1-stable i386 if I start hald from rc.conf with hald_enable=YES the cdrom fails with acd0: FAILURE - unknown CMD (0x03) ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 sks=0x40 0x00 0x00 I

X -config - failed to set mtrr: invalid argument

2009-02-12 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
__ not sure what platform this was. Any advice? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

Re: 7.4 - X -configure gives No devices to configure

2009-02-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 03:31:43PM -0500, Robert Noland wrote: On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 10:42 +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Upgrade from 7.3 to 7.4 made X unsuable on FBSD 7.1-stable i386. I followed the UPDATE procedures, had no errors on build, but on X -configure I get No devices

xdm -debug 1 = Nothing left to do, exiting

2009-02-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: 7.4 - X -configure gives No devices to configure

2009-02-17 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:18:38PM -0500, Robert Noland wrote: On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 09:26 +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 03:31:43PM -0500, Robert Noland wrote: On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 10:42 +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Upgrade from 7.3 to 7.4 made X unsuable

w(5) shows non-existent or lost process?

2009-02-17 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
and that there could be some forked sub-process still alive. Does this make sense? Which other commands I can use to see what's going on? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax

Re: w(5) shows non-existent or lost process?

2009-02-17 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 08:02:12AM -0600, Randy Belk wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: The who (or w, or finger) command shows that I'm still logged into ttyp5, even though I have rebooted the xxx box many times since. Does this mean

Re: xdm -debug 1 = Nothing left to do, exiting

2009-02-17 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:13:08AM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On 6.4-stable alpha I cannot get xdm to become a daemon, it exits immediately with empty /var/log/xdm.log. I tried to use -debug option, and this is the output: # xdm -debug 1 DisplayManager.errorLogFile

SOLVED: Re: xdm -debug 1 = Nothing left to do, exiting

2009-02-17 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 04:30:49PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:13:08AM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On 6.4-stable alpha I cannot get xdm to become a daemon, it exits immediately with empty /var/log/xdm.log. I tried to use -debug option

Re: w(5) shows non-existent or lost process?

2009-02-18 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 07:08:41PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:43:30 + Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: The who (or w, or finger) command shows that I'm still logged into ttyp5, even though I have rebooted the xxx box many times since. Does this mean

wrong time stamp 1 JAN 1970 on /var/tmp/orbit-user

2009-02-18 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
# each time I try to launch a browser another couple of dbus processes are started, but never exit. Any advice? many thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

Re: wrong time stamp 1 JAN 1970 on /var/tmp/orbit-user

2009-02-24 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:26:26PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 15:52 +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I use FBSD 6.4-stable alpha. When starting a browser (firefox2 or kazehakase) no window is open, instead: GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server

ghostscript8 build failure

2009-04-02 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
/ports/print/ghostscript8/work/ghostscript-8.64' gmake: *** [so] Error 2 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/ghostscript8. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/ghostscript8. # Is this something to do with incomplete perl-dependt ports upgrades? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht

dbus, hal over xdmcp?

2009-04-17 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
? I've tried various configurations, but cannot still cannot get a web browser to run, only endless dbus-launch and dbus-daemon processes. Please advise. Perhaps this question is more suited to x11 or gnome mailing list? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech

Re: PDF Authoring tool, suggestions?

2009-04-17 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
/ghostscript8 to convert to PDF. hard to get good quality because the result is likely to be a raster image. Technically I'd do this with ImageMagick's composite - overlaps one image over another, but the output pdf will be a poor quality raster image and, yes, significantly bigger in size. -- Anton

Re: Where is gfortran in FreeBSD 7.2 Release (i386)?

2009-12-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
for you, because most fortran-dependent ports will want gfortran44. An alternative is lang/g95. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

Re: editing a binary file

2009-12-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
well, one of my colleagues pointed out a feature of fortran 2003, which I, being an idiot, have missed. YOu have access='stream' in f2003, which is all I need. No record separators, just data. many thanks for all your help and advice. anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building

RE: Signal over range, WAS: X -configure fails: Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices. Configuration failed.

2009-12-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 11:20:12PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:10:10PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 04:00:05PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 09:48:03PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I've built X without

anybody uses Netgear WG311T PCI wireless card? any issues?

2009-12-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
to double check, is anybody using this card? Any issues? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd

Re: Signal over range, WAS: X -configure fails: Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices. Configuration failed.

2009-12-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:12:35AM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: ok, I moved a step further. 'X -configure' is now successful. All I had to do is to move the graphics card to another pci slot. Perhaps where xvr600 was, is not a standard pci slot

Re: Signal over range, WAS: X -configure fails: Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices. Configuration failed.

2009-12-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:26:03PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Warren, thank you, but this doesn't help. I've added: Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 HorizSync 30-50 VertRefresh 60 EndSection Section Device

SOLVED: Re: Signal over range, WAS: X -configure fails: Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices. Configuration failed.

2009-12-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:26:03PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Warren, thank you, but this doesn't help. I've added: Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 HorizSync 30-50 VertRefresh 60 EndSection Section Device

Re: Signal over range, WAS: X -configure fails: Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices. Configuration failed.

2009-12-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:29:54PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 08:12:14PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:26:03PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Warren, thank you, but this doesn't help. I've

freebsd for children

2009-12-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
? Something that would make kids or that age curious, some programming environment that they can easily understand and enjoy. A programming game of sorts? many thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0

Re: freebsd for children

2009-12-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 08:18:44AM -0500, b. f. wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Can somebody recommend a graphical port which could be used to teach kids 6-8 years programming? I know it's a very vague question, but what I have in mind (possibly) is say an interpreter linked with some

Re: freebsd for children

2009-12-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 04:56:21PM +0100, Uwe Laverenz wrote: Anton Shterenlikht schrieb: Can somebody recommend a graphical port which could be used to teach kids 6-8 years programming? I know it's a very vague question, but what I have in mind (possibly) is say an interpreter linked

example c program that does beep

2009-12-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
How can I get a beep from c? I looked at curses and syscons.c, but still not clear. Could somebody send me an example. I'd be soo grateful. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0

Re: example c program that does beep

2009-12-26 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 08:49:14PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:58:26 +, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: How can I get a beep from c? I looked at curses and syscons.c, but still not clear. If you want to use NCURSES / CURSES, it's a bit complicated

Re: example c program that does beep

2009-12-26 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 02:02:19PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 18:58 +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: How can I get a beep from c? I looked at curses and syscons.c, but still not clear. Could somebody send me an example. I'd be soo grateful. #include

Re: example c program that does beep

2009-12-26 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
don't get some basic idea.. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: example c program that does beep

2009-12-26 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 08:08:52PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:16:23 +, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 11:50:06AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: instead of the printf/fflush, it would clear the screen and beep

TP-LINK wireless pci - ath(4) driver - Atheros chipsets = WAS: [mary...@tp-link.com: RE:]

2009-12-27 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
-Original Message- From: Anton Shterenlikht [mailto:me...@bristol.ac.uk] Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2009 3:45 AM To: support...@tp-link.com Subject: Dear Sir/Madam I'm looking to buy a TP-LINK PCI wireless adapter. However, it must not be based on Atheros AR5005VL chipset. I need to use

fetchmail and plain text password

2009-12-28 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
the security of having my password in plain text on the system. Is there a more secure arrangement that would still allow running fetchmail in daemon mode? Or maybe there is another software solution alltogether? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept

Re: fetchmail and plain text password

2009-12-29 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 06:35:15PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 03:15:53PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I use fetchmail http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-fetchmail.html to download all my mail from the Uni mail server to my fbsd box

Re: fetchmail and plain text password

2009-12-29 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
and download mail to local boxes are probably not very welcome. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

Re: fetchmail and plain text password

2009-12-29 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 02:22:09PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 08:03:53AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Anton Shterenlikht writes: I'd be more worried that your password is sent as plaintext over the network using e.g. POP3. You should use the --ssl option

Re: fetchmail and plain text password

2009-12-29 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:53:24PM +, RW wrote: On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:44:21 + Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I might be wrong, but that's my understanding. So programs like fetchmail that actually connect to their imap server and download mail to local boxes

Re: fetchmail and plain text password

2009-12-30 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 02:16:51PM +0600, Victor Sudakov wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Are you saying I can make mutt read mail directly from the imap server? Without fetchmail? Certainly. mutt is a very good IMAP client, you can do some tricky things with it like mutt -f imaps://y

does toor have passwd or not? According to logins -p: yes

2009-12-30 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
somebody clarify if toor does indeed have passwd. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd

Re: does toor have passwd or not? According to logins -p: yes

2009-12-31 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 02:11:13PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:33:41PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I was checking for passwordless accounts with 'logins -p'. None was found. However, I understand toor doesn't have passwd by default, and I never touched it, so

Re: miro - gcc

2010-01-04 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. HAMOR -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
in older ssh there was DenyHosts option, but no longer in the current version. Is there a replacement for DenyHOsts? Or is there a good reason for such option not to be used? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
via /etc/hosts.allow is a bad idea. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 03:25:04PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow: # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you # need

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-12 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:42:06AM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. This is a returning topic, search the archives. Anyway, the returning answer: - why not let your firewall do

top/ps: is Active Memory = sum(resident set size)?

2010-01-12 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
the same as the sum of RES fields of top(1). I seem to have much bigger Active set than the sum of all resident (or real) memories used by all processes. Please advise many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:36:11PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: - why not let your firewall do the blocking? If your blocking is IP based that's the place to block. I'm already under the University firewall. Only port 22 is let through. But even that filles

wireless ath - unable to get scan results

2010-01-15 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
support and also this firewall line options IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK but I've no /etc/ipf.rules yet Perhaps it's my firewall that's blocking everything? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University

syslog - ipmon(8) logs to a wrong log file?

2010-01-16 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
messages in /var/log/messages. According to my /etc/syslog.conf this file shouldn't have ipmon messages: *.notice;authpriv.none;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err /var/log/messages What am I doing wrong? Please advise many thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng

SOLVED: Re: syslog - ipmon(8) logs to a wrong log file?

2010-01-16 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 04:23:37PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: This is on FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT ia64. I've ipfilter built into the kernel, with logging enabled: options IPFILTER options IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK options IPFILTER_LOG It works fine, but logs

getting firewall logs via /etc/periodic/daily ?

2010-01-16 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I'd like to receive the firewall logs together with the usual /etc/periodic/daily email. What's the easiest/safest way to achieve this? Shall I add my own script under /etc/periodic/daily? Shall I modify an existing script, e.g. 310.accounting? Please advise many thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht

Re: xdm and xdmcp

2010-01-21 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
and connecting from sparc64, both 9.0-current, works fine. I could probably share my xdm config files, if this is useful. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

SOLVED: WAS: wireless ath - unable to get scan results

2010-01-21 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
, and not ath0? many thanks for your help and support as always anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd

can't load smbfs kernel module

2010-01-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
advise many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: can't load smbfs kernel module

2010-01-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:38:47AM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: This is on FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0 r202964M ia64 I've built a kernel with smbfs module: # ls -al /boot/kernel/smb* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 265579 25 Jan 13:36 /boot/kernel/smbfs.ko -r-xr-xr-x

Re: can't load smbfs kernel module

2010-01-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 09:56:54PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:38:47AM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: This is on FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0 r202964M ia64 I've built a kernel with smbfs module: # ls -al /boot/kernel/smb* -r-xr

libutil.so.8 - libutil.so.9, WAS: openssh-portable fails to build on ia64, sparc

2010-01-27 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I didn't get any reply from ports@, so maybe somebody here can help - Forwarded message from Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk - maybe this has been discussed already, my apologies in that case. on current r203046 I'm trying to rebuild openssh-portable-5.2.p1_2,1 due to an upgrade

Re: libutil.so.8 - libutil.so.9, WAS: openssh-portable fails to build on ia64, sparc

2010-01-27 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
like a compiler error to me.. many thanks anton On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:28:34AM +, Anton Shterenlikht thus spake: I didn't get any reply from ports@, so maybe somebody here can help - Forwarded message from Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk - maybe this has been

make doesn't see changes in /etc/mail/freebsd.mc

2010-01-28 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
of this behaviour I have to manually delete local .mc files and all .cf files before running make. Any comments? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

Re: make doesn't see changes in /etc/mail/freebsd.mc

2010-01-28 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 05:03:26PM +, Chris Rees wrote: On 28 January 2010 16:59, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I've seen this behaviour for years, but never bothered to ask why. Imagine I already have in /etc/mail local .mc and .cf files. Imagine I then update

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