Re: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD

2008-10-28 Thread Craig Butler
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 14:08 -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: Sent by Glyn Millington: My solution was to install Wine and run the MS port of Firefox. So far it works flawlessly for me. This has two problems: 1. It requires a (licensed) Windows install handy. 2. The solution is

Re: gnash (Re: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD)

2008-10-28 Thread Craig Butler
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 14:34 -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: Sent by Craig Butler: gnash all the way for me.. Does it work with YouTube? -mi Some of the video's work on youtube with the gnash-devel I think there is an issue with the videos that use the On2 VP62 codec... (again

Re: GDM login without using a password

2008-11-04 Thread Craig Butler
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 16:32 +0200, Roey Dror wrote: AFAIK the automatic login feature allows you to nominate a user to automatically log in as... it doesn't ask for the password but I think one can be set (so it doesn't need to be empty). As I said, the automatic login feature is not what

Re: GDM login without using a password

2008-11-04 Thread Craig Butler
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 16:02 +0200, Roey Dror wrote: I've searched around the internet for a way to allow a user to login into GDM without using a password. I know that GDM has an automatic login feature, but that's not what I'm looking. I really do not wish to create a user with an empty

Re: Openoffice 3.0.0 - spellchecker not functioning

2008-11-07 Thread Craig Butler
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 18:13 +, Mike Clarke wrote: I've installed en-openoffice.org-GB-3.0.0 from ports on my 6.4-RC1 system. The install, using the command portinstall -m LOCALIZED_LANG=en-GB -DWITH_KDE editors/openoffice.org-3, appeared to complete OK and I can run

Re: Openoffice 3.0.0 - spellchecker not functioning

2008-11-07 Thread Craig Butler
On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 22:01 +, Mike Clarke wrote: On Friday 07 November 2008, Nikola Lečić wrote: Happily, the instruction from the same page (DictOOo-Wizard, intended for OpenOffice.org-2) worked just fine in my OpenOffice-3. I downloaded

ultranav usb keyboard panics on bootup -- stuck

2009-01-29 Thread Craig Butler
=LEN31P9304nbs_search=C%3D106%26S%3D1040%26lang%3Den-gb%26K%3D%26M%3DLEN The panic is definitely happening because of the usb keyboard (with integrated mouse), if I take it out and replace with a ps/2 counterpart the computer boots up normally. Regards Craig Butler

Re: qemu cutpaste between X11 -- Windows

2009-04-22 Thread Craig Butler
Run the vm with -vnc flag enabled. Then connect using vncviewer. Alternatively connect to the XP system using rdesktop. /Craig B On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 10:00 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, Is there some way to cutpaste text between the UNIX desktop (KDE) and the qemu-0.10.2 VM

Re: Loadbalance outgoing traffic over two cable modems in same network

2009-12-22 Thread Craig Butler
On 22/12/2009 00:46, Mel Flynn wrote: On Monday 21 December 2009 09:56:11 Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On 12/21/2009 6:03 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: Hi, I've looked over http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html but this assumes two different gateways for the two interfaces. I'm faced with two

Re: rum0 acting as an Access point (belkin router) 8.0 R

2010-01-18 Thread Craig Butler
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 16:25 +0100, Samuel Martín Moro wrote: in my rc.conf: ifconfig_rum0=DHCP wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:0xBC45AD1BD5 ssid ReseauWIFI Maybe your problem is that wepkey is malformatted in your command If not, I didn't try to understand, but I also had troubles with the

Re: rum0 acting as an Access point (belkin router) 8.0 R

2010-01-18 Thread Craig Butler
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 17:56 +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Paul B Mahol schrieb: On 1/18/10, Christoph Kukulies k...@kukulies.org wrote: Craig Butler schrieb: On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 16:25 +0100, Samuel Martín Moro wrote: in my rc.conf: ifconfig_rum0=DHCP

wpi problems -- kern/142907

2010-01-25 Thread Craig Butler
to keep the connection alive. After a time it all self destructs anyway and I have to restart if_wpi and /etc/rc.d/netif I know that it isn't the access points at fault as other devices and wifi cards work well. Cheers Craig Butler ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Intel Pro/Wireless3945 issue

2010-01-27 Thread Craig Butler
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 16:28 +, dhaneshk k wrote: Fellow FreeBSDians, I am trying to configure my laptop for wireless connectivity to a broadband connection. these are the steps I followed, I don't know what I made wrong, please help to fix the issue.. 1 ) To

Re: Root on ZFS

2010-03-04 Thread Craig Butler
On 04/03/2010 11:53, Matthew Law wrote: I am following this wiki page to move to zfs root: http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSOnRoot I got to this section: Create bootdir directory where the boot file system will be mounted: # mkdir /tank/bootdir # ln -s bootdir/boot /tank/boot I am confused about

Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available?

2010-03-25 Thread Craig Butler
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 07:36 -0400, Ken Smith wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 3/24/10 6:38 PM, Marius Strobl wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 02:57:09AM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: You're the first one to ask in a while. Since our userbase is small, and developer

Re: SSH root login with keys only

2010-04-04 Thread Craig Butler
On 04/04/2010 22:04, Marcin Wisnicki wrote: Is it possible to configure sshd such that both conditions are met: 1. Root will be able to login only by using keys Yes 2. Normal users will still be able to use pam/keyboard-interactive Yes see PermitRootLogin section in man

Re: RootBSD?

2010-04-06 Thread Craig Butler
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 09:31 -0400, Glen Barber wrote: Hi Tom, Tom Ierna wrote: Hi, Anyone have any experience with RootBSD.net? I've been using RootBSD for a few months now, and would give you nothing but positive feedback - however, your question isn't exactly specific. Is

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

2011-02-18 Thread Craig Butler
On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 04:28 +, John Levine wrote: At one point, Thinkpads - particularly the T4x series - were _the_ recommended used laptop. While it's been a while since i looked into this formally, my grapevine says the quality went downhill quickly after Lenovo bought IBM's pc

Re: can't determine sound card driver to use in /etc/rc.conf

2011-04-18 Thread Craig Butler
On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 08:40 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: Dear folks, On a new machine running AMD-64 XFCE custom by Manolis, I can't determine which sound driver to use for the sound card: grulla# kldload snd_driver grulla# cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit

Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

2009-05-01 Thread Craig Butler
Bacula is your friend, tried and tested http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Disast_Recove_Using_Bacula.html#SECTION004315 /Craig On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 12:07 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: Let's say we have a system that is backed up regularly and it vanishes in a puff of

Re: What is this forum for?

2009-05-29 Thread Craig Butler
On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 11:03 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:43:29PM +0100, RW wrote: On Thu, 28 May 2009 23:38:46 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: i repeated what i read recently about ICE ON ARCTIC SEA melting that

Re: IPv6 FreeBSD servers

2009-07-19 Thread Craig Butler
On Sun, 2009-07-19 at 17:56 +1000, Brett Wiggins wrote: Hi, I am looking to rent a FreeBSD server that has access to an IPv6 address. I have previously rented a FreeBSD server from theplanet.com but they only offer IPv4 and I would like my server to be on the IPv6 network. Does anyone

Re: MS Project file viewer

2009-07-22 Thread Craig Butler
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 11:26 +, Randall Wood wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:12:35AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, Is there any MS Project (mpp) file viewer which runs on FreeBSD? Thx matthias My company uses Steelray Viewer at the office; to my great surprise

Re: Video not view-able

2012-05-08 Thread Craig Butler
On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 15:09 -0400, Carmel wrote: I have been visiting several sites lately in which the video content was not view-able. Example: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/05/republicans-get-in-my-vagina-kate-beckinsale_n_1484918.html?ref=fbsrc=spcomm_ref=false There is a

Re: Can not install ZendOptimizer

2010-10-07 Thread Craig Butler
On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 21:24 +0700, Phan Quoc Hien wrote: Hello, I'm trying install ZendOptimizer with my php5 and get this error: freebsd# make install clean === ZendOptimizer-3.3.0.a cannot install: doesn't work with PHP version : 5 (Doesn't support PHP 5). *** Error code 1 Stop

Re: more CPU being used than I have (?)

2011-01-24 Thread Craig Butler
gives a more accurate representation. raw mode is toggled by passing the -C argument to top. Regards Craig Butler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: more CPU being used than I have (?)

2011-01-26 Thread Craig Butler
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 11:36 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 06:20:02AM -0700, Dmitri Brengauz wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Do you have a reference to a relatively simple explanation of how that weighting works (and

Re: more CPU being used than I have (?)

2011-01-26 Thread Craig Butler
%cpu The CPU utilization of the process; this is a decaying average over up to a minute of previous (real) time. Since the time base over which this is computed varies (since processes may be very young) it is possible for the sum of all %cpu fields to exceed 100%.

Re: NTFS-3G mount during boot

2007-10-07 Thread Craig Butler
Novembre wrote: On 10/7/07, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 07 October 2007 10:00:35 Novembre wrote: On 10/7/07, Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 7 Oct 2007, Novembre wrote: The first error above is because the fuse kernel module is not yet

sound jitter with snd_via8233 and freebsd 7

2008-08-10 Thread Craig Butler
Hi All I am experiencing sound jitter when watching video or listening to music. I have tried many players (vlc, mplayer, xine ... etc) with different cache settings -- same result. It jitters even if the computer is not busy. Has anybody else experienced this ? is there a fix ? Thanks Craig

video glitch with high def vids on nvidia 7600

2008-08-10 Thread Craig Butler
this ? is there a fix ? I am using the nvidia-driver from ports (173.14.09) compiled with the default configuration. Nvidia kernel object is loaded and nvidia is configured in xorg.conf and controlled by nvidia-settings. Kind Regards Craig Butler

Re: Alternative for EasySpeedy

2008-09-20 Thread Craig Butler
On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 16:21 +0200, Marc Schneiders wrote: In the past I had for some time a dedicated server with EasySpeedy in Denmark. In the beginning it worked alright, but later it turned sour. No or flaky network connection. No replies from support. So I quit. But I still would like to

has anyone actually received a bsdmag ?

2008-10-06 Thread Craig Butler
Hi Guys I have been subscribed to BSD Magazine since the start of September, I was hoping to get the first issue sent to me I am still waiting. Looking on their website they have the second issue published again I am waiting to receive it. I have tried emailing them but have not had any

Re: has anyone actually received a bsdmag ?

2008-10-06 Thread Craig Butler
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 17:48 -0400, matt donovan wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Gonzalo Nemmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 06 October 2008 4:24:47 pm Craig Butler wrote: Hi Guys I have been subscribed to BSD Magazine since the start of September, I was hoping to get

Re: BSD mag

2008-10-07 Thread Craig Butler
for the reply. I have sent you an email off list with my address details in. Hopefully I can be a happy BSD mag reader soon. Kind Regards Craig Butler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Script works fine from CLI, but not when Cron'd

2008-10-07 Thread Craig Butler
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 10:20 +0100, Marc Coyles wrote: I've got a script to backup my MySQL databases, which works absolutely fine from the command line, but when I add it in to root's cronjobs it always fails with mysqldump: not found - what am I doing wrong? Script as follows: #!/bin/sh

adding a slice to gmirror instead of a whole disk, will it work?

2008-10-07 Thread Craig Butler
Hi Guys Will adding a slice to a gmirror instead of a whole disk work? The slice is big enough to accommodate the old disk. Thanks Craig B ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: has anyone actually received a bsdmag ? -- SOLVED

2008-10-10 Thread Craig Butler
On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 11:42 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 08:43:29AM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote: The BSDMag website mentioned that it would be available at Barnes Noble. I couldn't find it there; but I found it at Borders bookstores. I've seen a copy at Barnes

Re: Virtualbox does not lunch (FREEBSD 7.2 STABLE)

2009-09-17 Thread Craig Butler
... Did you kldload vboxdrv.ko? Hi Have you tried running it under truss ? I think you might find that it will say - Error in SUPR3HardenedMain and hang... Solution; Rebuild and install Virtualbox port after editing Config.kmk so that VBOX_WITH_HARDENING = 0 Hope it helps Cheers Craig

Re: Virtualbox does not lunch (FREEBSD 7.2 STABLE)

2009-09-17 Thread Craig Butler
# edit work/virtualbox-3.0.51r22683/Config.kmk (or LocalConfig.kmk) so that VBOX_WITH_HARDENING = 0 # make # make deinstall # make reinstall /Craig B Thanks a lot!! 2009/9/17 Craig Butler craig...@lerwick.hopto.org: On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 07:00 +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Thu, Sep 17

Re: Virtualbox does not lunch (FREEBSD 7.2 STABLE)

2009-09-17 Thread Craig Butler
reinstall it only takes few secs... and gives VirtualBox was installed. but when i run it as a normal user i get: $ VirtualBox bash: /usr/local/bin/VirtualBox: No such file or directory ok maybe the reinstall is broke... try; # make deinstall # make install 2009/9/17 Craig Butler

Re: Virtualbox does not lunch (FREEBSD 7.2 STABLE)

2009-09-17 Thread Craig Butler
2009/9/17 Craig Butler craig...@lerwick.hopto.org: On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 20:45 +, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: I am getting the following error on #make deinstall # make deinstall === Deinstalling for emulators/virtualbox === Deinstalling virtualbox-3.0.51.r6 pkg_delete: file

Re: Virtualbox does not lunch (FREEBSD 7.2 STABLE)

2009-09-17 Thread Craig Butler
, even if a dependency is recorded or the deinstall or require script fails. 2009/9/17 Craig Butler craig...@lerwick.hopto.org: On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 20:56 +, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: same thing... when making #make deinstall i get the same error: === Deinstalling for emulators

Re: Virtualbox does not lunch (FREEBSD 7.2 STABLE)

2009-09-24 Thread Craig Butler
Hi, Do you have any thing in /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/ ?? $ ls -l /usr/local/bin/VirtualBox lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 36 Sep 21 08:28 /usr/local/bin/VirtualBox - /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox Cheers /Craig B On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 18:35 +, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: Hi all! Im

ldap and pam-mkhomedir, anyone know how to set directory ownership to the ldap user logging in ??

2009-10-14 Thread Craig Butler
Hi All Currently I have got pam authenticating against ldap and mkhomedir creating the home directories, but they are created owned as root:wheel and the user can't write to their own home directory -- I have read the man page for pam_mkhomedir, the only way I see it working at the moment is

Re: Icelandic FTP server doesn't work? I don't think it's been up for a while?

2010-06-25 Thread Craig Butler
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 23:28 +, Svavar Ingi Hermannsson wrote: Hi, I just wanted to notify you that the Icelandic ftp mirror site doesn't seam to be working. ftp.is.freebsd.org Best regards, Svavar Ingi Seems to be working ok from here - [cr...@x60:~] $ ftp ftp.is.freebsd.org

Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-10 Thread Craig Butler
On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 08:16 -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Randal L. Schwartz on Friday, 10 September 2010: Mark == Mark Sommer msom...@somware.com writes: Mark That's a pretty idealistic view of the upcoming release of HTML5. Mark I have yet to see a release of HTML that is