Unable to boot FreeBSD (dual-boot)

2004-06-26 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
Hi, I have a dual boot with Windows 2000 (ad0s1 is windows, ad0s2 is FreeBSD 5.2.1). I trashed a working dual-boot somehow. Now the problem is, I get the boot menu listing both Windows and FreeBSD, but only Windows boots (with F1). Pressing F2 for FreeBSD just gives a beep.I booted from the fixit

Re: Unable to boot FreeBSD (dual-boot)

2004-06-26 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:11:45 +0300, Dancho Penev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 12:25:24AM +1000, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: I have a dual boot with Windows 2000 (ad0s1 is windows, ad0s2 is FreeBSD 5.2.1). I trashed a working dual-boot somehow. Now the problem is, I get

Re: fetchmail question

2004-06-27 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 15:02:57 +0545, Bikrant Neupane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry.. I mentioned the wrong header :( Indeed the hearder was added by sendmail. This is the one added by fetchmail Received: from pop2.wlink.com.np [202.79.32.43] by localhost with POP3

Re: Unable to boot FreeBSD (dual-boot)

2004-06-28 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:57:42 +0300, Dancho Penev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 12:25:24AM +1000, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: For label use /boot/boot file, /boot/boot0 is for mbr. /hd is the temporary directory I created to mount /dev/ad0s2a, so I guess my slice

Re: Converting from wma file to mp3 or other

2004-06-29 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 00:12:58 -0400, Bruce Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, What is a good program/port to convert wma files to mp3? mplayer can convert I think: $ mencoder -oac mp3lame -o a.mp3 a.wma /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer /usr/ports/audio/lame Gautam

Re: Ripping Real Audiostreams?

2004-06-29 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:32:46 +0200, Joachim Dagerot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a few tools on the MS platform for saving down a realaudio stream to disk. mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile a.dump url Gautam ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Means of trimming files

2004-06-29 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:50:25 -0400, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gerard Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: find ./ -name '*.php' -exec php -r '$f = file_get_contents({}); $h = fopen({}, wb); fwrite($h, trim($f)); fclose($h);' \; It did the job perfectly. $ perl -0 -pi -e

Re: Permissions setting

2004-06-30 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:58:59 + (GMT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to set different permissions on one file for 2 groups and set 'no access' for other people? And how? http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200310/acl.html Gautam ___ [EMAIL

Re: Linux-Opera problem

2004-07-01 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 15:02:41 -0400, Bruce Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try and run linux-opera, i get this error. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rehash [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-opera ELF binary type 0 not known. ELF binary type 0 not known. /usr/X11R6/share/linux-opera/bin/opera: 1: Syntax

Re: sound-card // dsp1

2004-07-03 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 23:48:24 - (GMT), Hugo Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need to create a dsp1 device. I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 I've tried: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev]# mknod /dev/dsp1 c 30 0x0013 mknod: /dev/dsp1: No such file or directory but no luck.. I need

Re: your mail

2004-01-16 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 07:07:48PM -0800, Evan Sayer wrote: FreeBSD- Please help, this is really important. I was told that i could get rid of the ^m symbols at the end of the lines in my web page's html code by using sed. They said to execute sed s//^m^m index.html index.html or

Re: PowerPC?

2004-01-16 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:50:42AM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: Content-Description: signed data Where do I get a PowerPC ISO to install? (I recently obtained an old Mac G3). I'm not seeing anything readily identifiable in pub/FreeBSD on the ftp server. Obviously not FreeBSD, but close:

Re: starting /stand/sysinstall in single user mode, how?

2004-01-17 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 02:46:47PM +0100, Didier WIROTH wrote: hi, (concerns freebsd 5.2-release) when I restart in single user mode with: shutdown now I choose: /bin/csh as my shell. Set TERM variable: set TERM cons25 and try to start sysinstall: /stand/sysinstall A message appears: Try

Re: stumped... .

2004-01-17 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 07:09:12PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: I've written scores of scripts to hack text files, but this one has me dead in the water. How can I delete all lines from /^PATTERN to EOF?? sed -e '/pattern/,$d' Gautam

Re: problem generating certificate for postfix

2004-01-20 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:32:54AM +0200, Hiren wrote: greetings all i am in the process of generating a certificate for postfix i am currently trying to run the following command: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/etc/postfix/ssl/post.rand count=1 2/dev/null the error i get is: dd: unknown operand 2

Re: Big troubles running FreeBSD on a Shuttle nForce2

2004-01-20 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 03:09:10PM +0100, Raphael Dinge wrote: Those solutions sounds good to me. Is there a sysutil that would heavily test the ram in my very specific case ? http://www.memtest86.com/ Gautam ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: DNS access on private (RFC 1918) network

2004-01-20 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:41:39PM -0800, Charlie Schluting wrote: Kenneth W Cochran wrote: Hello: I get messages like the following in my syslog all the time: Jan 20 09:00:40 kern.info localhost /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.0.1:1990 from 192.168.0.1:53 Jan 20 09:02:48

Re: why some man pages are not found?

2004-01-21 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 07:48:29PM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Okay. I figured it out: I need to setenv MANPATH /usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man Or add to /etc/manpath.config Gautam ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Unable to mount CDrom in 5.2, reading past threads is of no help

2004-01-21 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:29:23AM -0800, scott renna wrote: mount /cdrom yields: cd9660: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument /etc/fstab is set up as such: /dev/acd0/cdrom cd9660ro,noauto0 0 Hope you're not trying to mount an audio CD. Otherwise, try what's below. It must say

Re: record single files in IDE CDRW

2004-01-21 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:33:11PM -0300, Roberto Pereyra wrote: Hi all ! How can I burn single files in a cdrom (RW-IDE) ? Burncd allow burn iso files only ? I want to burn files many times with the same cdrom (open session). I can't get burncd to work properly, but cdrecord will. Steps are

Re: record single files in IDE CDRW

2004-01-22 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 07:54:22AM -0300, Roberto Pereyra wrote: Hi cdrecord works with ATAPI CD burner ? thanks roberto Yup, mine is a Lite-On drive which works very well. You must have the following in your kernel. Please refer to the handbook for more info. device atapicam device

Slow USB performance

2004-01-23 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
Hello, I have a Jetflash 64MB USB memory stick and a Fuji Digital Camera. USB is atrociously slow. Copying images from the camera is about 3.1 MB in 23 secs (138 kbytes/s). The memory stick is even worse. 3-4 MB take more than a minute. Could this be because of same IRQ being assigned to USB

Re: Sendmail 8.12.11

2004-01-23 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 01:34:53AM +, Mark wrote: And do a search at the bottom of the page for sendmail. The output will show that the ports currently include sendmail 8.12.10 I went to the ports listing, of course. :) But I recall the existence of a different URL, for

Re: Why BSD?

2004-01-23 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 11:40:39PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: This is not a troll. I've installed FreeBSD 5.2 on a spare SCSI drive and am compiling kernels, updating ports, etc,etc. Thus far, other than some minor hassles, it's equivilent to my Debian sid. I have to ask: Why FreeBSD

Re: How to forge make a port with no checksum

2004-01-25 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 06:39:30AM +0300, Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote: Sorry for lamer's question. But I don't know how to make a port without checksum. Where to put the const NO_CHECKSUM??? in the Makefile or in the make command? (and how) make NO_CHECKSUM=yes (targets) Gautam

Re: macromedia plugin question

2004-01-26 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 07:26:31PM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:23:12AM +, marlon corleone wrote: We are unable to locate a single Web player that best matches your platform and operating system. Please visit our table of recommended Web players. .

Re: How to build FreeBSD entirely from sources?

2004-01-27 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 07:48:42AM +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote: Hello, FreeBSD from Scratch describes a method for REbuilding a FreeBSD system entirely from sources, starting from an existing FreeBSD system. But I want to build a new FreeBSD system on a machine currently NOT running

Re: Mutt, GPG and Maildir HOWTO

2004-01-27 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 12:01:20PM -0600, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Can anybody lead me to a HOWTO or simple configuration for using Mutt with GPG and a Maildir setup (via courier-imap)? From the mutt homepage: http://mutt.sourceforge.net/imap/ http://mutt.org/doc/PGP-Notes.txt Gautam

Re: Installing OpenOffice from Ports Collection

2004-01-28 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:53:35AM -0800, peter lageotakes wrote: --- Colin J. Raven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good advice and thanks for it :-) There still appears to be a problem however, small though it may be. OO.org installer is asking to be pointed at a Java environment - and to

Re: failed build for tk-8.4.5,1 and bittorrent

2004-01-28 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 06:48:24PM -0800, Doom Neine wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install bittorrent on a FreeBSD 5.2 release , i have not updated the source tree or rebuilt world or anything. but it won't work i kept getting errors. so just to try to figure out where the problem was i tried

Re: locking a user into one directory

2004-01-28 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 09:59:11PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Dragoncrest [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've seen this explained before, but I've never taken much interest in it as I never had a need for it. Well, it's starting to look like I do. What I'm wanting to do is give shell

Re: ports question

2004-02-01 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:42:24 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People, Since I managed to upgrade this system's ports tree, I keep things up to date. Recently, been having trouble fetching some ports. openldap is one such. Upgrading or trying

Vulnerability check disabled

2004-02-04 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
Hello, Hope I'm not missing something obvious, but since today morning, I've been getting wierd warnings when running make in the ports: [madras!/usr/ports/www/apache13]# make fetch-recursive === Fetching all distfiles for apache-1.3.29_1 and dependencies === Vulnerability check disabled ===

Re: Daemon Monitor

2004-02-08 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 06:13:13 -0800 Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a good program that can monitor a daemon and take an appropriate action if the daemon dies? I am having trouble with ClamAV dying in certain circumstances, but somewhat rare. I would like for when it dies, to

Re: deactivate slave on first IDE

2004-02-10 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:42:50 +0100 Antoine Jacoutot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi :) Since my system doesn't boot when my cdrom is plugged in (it hangs after timecounter... ; see my previous post), I was wondering if it was possible to tell FreeBSD not to deal with IDE1-slave (something like

Re: Firefox Process Not Exiting

2004-02-16 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:12:56 -0500 Daniel R. Curran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wondering if anyone else has this issue and if there is a fix for it. When I run firefox and then exit the program the process remains resident, and it starts eating up the CPU. Does anyone know of a fix for

Re: is vlc incompatible with atapicam?

2004-02-16 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 09:16:08 -0600 Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just noticed that I can't watch dvd movies anymore using vlc. I think the last time I watched a dvd was prior to recompiling my kernel with atapicam to burn dvd's. Is vlc incompatible with atapicam? If any of

Re: How to stop the cursor of emacs blinking in console?

2004-02-20 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:44:39 -0800 loader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 09:03:27AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: loader [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I use FreeBSD5.2.1-RC2, and emacs21. How can I stop the cursor blinking in console? I thought the default was that

Re: Request For some Help on Netgraph Nodes

2004-02-20 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:27:04 -0800 (PST) Arunav Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Friends , I am Arunav Roy . I have recently started working on NETGRAPH . Even I am planning to write program for a netgraph node through which I could connect my node to the Ether node and read

Re: Mounting a 5.2 filesystem on a 4.9 system?

2004-02-21 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 20:24:57 -0600 Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I'm really screwed up my server last week, now I'm giving up on the 5.x series as a server for a while, so I've installed 4.9. I took all my backup files and placed them on a second harddrive in the system,

Re: where do i get freebsd kernel source code only

2004-02-23 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:44:58 -0800 (PST), Ashok Raj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, i am interested in looking at the source code of freebsd. but i was unable to find only source code in ur ftp sites. so i want to know the path from where i can download only the source code of freebsd

Re: mp4 spliter

2004-02-25 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 23:00:20 -0500 (EST), Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi freebsders, I have a movie file ended with mp4 and it's bigger than 700mb, does anybody know how I can split the file into 2 so I can make a CD out of it? thanks a lot! If you can play it with mplayer, then

Re: cron.daily and cron.hourly

2004-07-05 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 16:45:27 +0200, Taulant Galimuna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I had a problem with my web-server that I already solved. But now I have to execute a PHP file on my FreeBSD server every hour, to get the needed updates from database. I know I need a shell script to execute

Re: emails bouced to bulkmail folder

2004-07-05 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 15:32:01 -0600, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Need some info on the what the large email severs ie Yahoo and Hotmail use to determine if email is spam. I run a small email server with about 30 clients and when i send email to yahoo it gets bounced to the bulk

Re: FreeBSD via BitTorrent

2004-07-07 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 16:39:53 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if there is an official release available for current (5.2.1) via BitTorrent. http://www.opentorrent.org/ Gautam ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: allowing users to mount cdrom again

2004-07-07 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 00:41:59 +0200, Grant Speelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I read in the previous post about allowing users to mount cdrom and wanted to try it for myself I did the follow : added vfs.usermount=1 to /etc/sysctl.conf changed the permissions on /dev/acd0 to include the

Re: linux compatibility

2003-12-08 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 06:22:29PM -0800, danu kusmana wrote: Hi guys, My probs is I wanna add flash plugins to my mozilla, buat the default ports frebsd gave is an old one and it always make my mozilla hang if I open a web page. I have www/flashpluginwrapper installed and flash works very

Re: user timer/alarm

2003-12-08 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:17:48PM -0700, Troy wrote: Hello, I found a command a few days ago that would allow a user to type in the command + time in minutes then it would allow a person to continue to man 1 at Gautam ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anyone have /usr/ports/java/jdk14 working on 4.8?

2003-12-10 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 07:25:46AM -0600, Charles Howse wrote: You don't by any chance have OpenOffice-1.1 working do you? That's where I'm going with this, but I have to get jdk working first. attempting to install jdk takes 6+ hrs on my machine. :-) I just got both working less than a week

Re: Notebook Mouse and 5.x

2003-12-11 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 07:29:55AM -0800, Minnesota Slinky wrote: working ok, but I can't get my PS/2 port or the integrated touchpad to work. Does anyone have any Is this what you're looking for? http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/mouse.html Gautam ___

Re: trying installing openoffice

2003-12-12 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 10:30:38PM -0800, Eric Boucher wrote: Hi everybody, I'm trying to install openoffice and it don't work. Here is the command I did as root: You could save time and download the package: http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ If you insist on ports, try

Make and rm die randomly

2003-12-12 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
Hi, I've been using 5.1 for about 4 months now and all was well until a month back when I deleted all my installed ports. I had too many installed. Since then I've had problems with make and rm dying randomly (SIGILL and SIGSEGV) but only for some builds (like XFree, kernel and buildworld) but

Re: gnome2-lite build fails

2003-12-14 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:54:41PM +0100, r t g tan wrote: Hi, checking for minimum required perl version = 5.004... 5.00503 checking for full perl installation... no configure error: Cannot find Config.pm or $Config{archlib}. A full perl installation is required.

Re: How to list all packages in a given category?

2003-12-14 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 03:27:47PM -0800, Chris Pressey wrote: Hi all, Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question, but I couldn't find anything relevant in the man pages or with Google: How can I list all the packages I have installed in a certain category? I'm thinking it should

Re: gnome2-lite build fails

2003-12-15 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 04:42:47PM +0100, r t g tan wrote: Hi Gautam, Yes I've run use.perl port. On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 09:57:04AM +1100, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:54:41PM +0100, r t g tan wrote: Hi, checking for minimum required perl version

Re: howto upgrade 4.8 to 4.9 without cdrom or floppy? ERROR

2003-12-16 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:44:08AM -0800, hugle wrote: MS # make; make depend; make install at step 4, you should do: make depend make make install Well, why not make depend all install? Gautam ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Could you Please add to FREEBSD FAQ for us Newbies

2003-12-16 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 05:21:18PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The impotence of setting your computers time and date when Using make world. That is something you can hardly ignore... Gautam ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Mutt + Procmail Filters

2003-12-17 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 06:06:09PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote: Rather than procmail, which is very common but has an arcane syntax, consider maildrop (in the ports tree. The syntax is quite a bit easier to read and it supports Maildir format natively. Here's a sample from my ~/.mailfilter:

Re: Mutt + Procmail Filters

2003-12-17 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:08:57PM -0600, Bryan Cassidy wrote: OK. I've added that to my .procmailrc but when I load Mutt it still doesn't show any group called freebsd-questions. Do I have to create a ~/Maildir/freebds-questions directory? I am using Postfix + Courier-IMAP + SquirrelMail +

make args for lower dependencies

2003-12-17 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
Hello, I am using portupgrade to install ImageMagick. I have in pkgtools.conf (in the right place): 'graphics/ImageMagick' = 'WITHOUT_IMAGEMAGICK_PDF=yes WITHOUT_IMAGEMAGICK_PERL=yes WITHOUT_X11=yes', 'print/ghostscript-gnu*' = 'A4=yes NO_CHECKSUM=yes', And I tried all of the following: #

Re: rdist to update some lines

2003-12-19 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 12:47:41PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: Hi :) I'm actually using rdist for centralized management of certain files (/etc/hosts, /etc/motd...). Is there a way to use rdist (or any other tools alike) too update a file on a remote server instead of blindly copying

Re: rsync and unattended ssh syncing 2 machines

2003-12-20 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:56:58PM -0500, Brent Bailey wrote: ive been trying to get rsync to work with unattended SSH and syncing of file systems between 2 machines running FBSD 4.9RC. I have rsync installed and i run a script like #!/bin/sh remote=192.168.25.12 fslist=/var/mail

Re: Question on Web/Content Management packages

2003-12-21 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 07:33:03PM -0500, Scott W wrote: Hey all- while this isn't a FreeBSD specific question, I'm hoping someone may have an answere or two for me, for a system that's capable of running on FreeBSD. I've done a fair amount of searching (Google, FreshMeat, lists) and I

Re: TTF fonts in XFree86

2003-12-23 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 09:07:18AM +0300, flux wrote: Hi everyone, I want to use TrueType font collection from MS Windows. I mounted my FAT32 partition on my FreeBSD box and copied all *.TTF files from C:\WINDOWS\Fonts to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ directory. Then I added the following

Re: Apacer USB Flash drive

2003-12-23 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 06:19:50AM -0800, Olga Zenkova wrote: Hi! Can't mount Apacer USB Flash drive in FreeBSD 4.8. When I do: mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt I get: msdos: /dev/da0s1: Input/output error My guess is that you have not formatted it first? (newfs_msdos /dev/da0s1)

Re: Procmail + Mutt

2003-12-25 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 03:43:01PM -0600, Bryan Cassidy wrote: I am using FreeBSD 4.8 with Mutt 1.5 and Procmail 3.22 and have setup some filters. In my .procmailrc I have the following :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD_Questions :0: * ^TO_questions FreeBSD_Questions That must read: :0: *

Re: Dynamic DNS Updates

2003-12-26 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 05:59:49PM -0800, Evan Sayer wrote: FreeBSD- I would like to know how to make my server running 4.9 update my networks Dynamic Ip address on my domains DNS servers. My ip is always changing because it's dynamic, so a domain is essentially pointless unless i

Re: help

2003-12-29 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 09:52:07PM -0800, Aeden wrote: Hi I am new to freebsd and unix. I would like you to help me if you can, i need some tutorials or documets on unix commands and so and how to use bsd without X just the shell can you give me information on websites which offer this service

Re: flash support

2003-12-30 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 07:51:35AM -0400, Monah Baki wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to setup freebsd 4.9 at work as a desktop. I'm having problems with flash, even though I installed it from ports (linux-flashplugin-6.0r69 and flashplugin-mozilla-0.4.10_2 and to name a few ), I still can't

Re: List of absolutely required files for FreeBSD?

2003-12-31 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 01:30:07PM -0800, Philip Hallstrom wrote: Hi - I was wondering if there is a list of absolutely required files for FreeBSD? I'm trying to trim an installation down as small as possible (to put on Compact Flash). If I start out with just the 'bin' directory for

Re: mail

2003-12-31 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 03:46:33PM -0600, Chad Albert wrote: I am writing a script that mails me when certain events occur. I am using mail(1) to notify me by email when some things happen. I have read the man page and I don't see a way to attach a file, does anyone know how to use mail(1)

Re: 5.2 RC2: Semi-deterministic gcc segfault during buildworld

2003-12-31 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:55:23AM +0100, Peter Schuller wrote: Hello, I had just installed a fresh 5.2 RC2 system and cvsup:ed the latest source (only 5-10 files changed; nothing related to this problem as far as I could see). I wanted to add Coda client support. so I created a GENERIC

Re: DOS partition permissions.

2004-01-01 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 03:37:51PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: Hey all, How can I change the write permissions on DOS partitions? I have tried a chmod 0777 /dev/device and chmod 0777 /mount-point and neither have any effect. What am I doing wrong? I'm trying to do this for a USB storage

Re: File system full?

2004-01-01 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 06:00:23PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: How big is necessary for a /usr partition? Mine keeps filling up and I've deleted /usr/obj and /usr/ports/distfiles regularly. Here's my df -h readout: $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on

Re: shared objects(.so files)

2004-01-02 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 01:16:38PM +, niraj kumar wrote: i want to create shared objects (.so files) in freebsd what is the command and the parameters for that. I think it's: $ gcc -shared -o libname.so (object files) Gautam ___ [EMAIL

Re: 5.2 ISO won't boot

2004-01-03 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 08:54:54PM +1100, August Simonelli wrote: Hi all, I've had some trouble with booting from the 5.2 ISO I downloaded. Some background (long-winded, but bear with me): I downloaded 5.2RC2 disk1 and 5.2RC2 disk2 with Firebird on Red Hat 9. All seemed well. I scp'd

Re: Mount /cdrom as non-root user - does this actually work for anyone?

2004-01-03 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 12:53:52AM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: Hello, As root I can mount and read the CD fine.., checking for non-root user: exit ~ $ mount /cdrom cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted ~ $ mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c ~/cdrom cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted

Re: Mount /cdrom as non-root user - does this actually work for anyone?

2004-01-03 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 05:12:41PM -0800, Chris Pressey wrote: On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 11:59:29 +1100 Gautam Gopalakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 12:53:52AM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: Hello, As root I can mount and read the CD fine.., checking for non-root

Re: How do I read digital camera on USB port with hppsmtools?

2004-01-05 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 04:30:51AM -0500, Ken Seggerman wrote: I have a USB port on my old laptop running FreeBSD 4.3 Release. usb0: OHCI version 1.0 usb0: NEC uPD 9210 USB controller on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 usb0: OHCI version 1.0 usb0: NEC uPD 9210 USB controller on ohci0 usb0:

Re: recording streaming audio (mp3, wav, or realaudio)?

2004-01-05 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:57:48PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: People, Is there a way of capturing mp3 or realaudio data as it streams in, say, from NPR? Hard to tell from the Info: tags. mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile a.mp3 (url) Gautam

Re: help me with this sed expression

2004-01-05 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:30:42PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 22:19, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I've worked an hour to figure out a serial of sed command to process some text (without any luck, you kown I'm kinda newbie). I really appreciate your help. The original text

Re: help me with this sed expression

2004-01-05 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:20:52PM +1100, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: I think awk is easier: awk '{print $2 $3 $1}' original | tr -s target Sorry, that must read: awk '{print $2 $3 $1}' original | tr -s ' ' target ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: help me with this sed expression

2004-01-05 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:24:38PM +1100, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:20:52PM +1100, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: I think awk is easier: awk '{print $2 $3 $1}' original | tr -s target Sorry, that must read: awk '{print $2 $3 $1}' original | tr -s

Re: help me with this sed expression

2004-01-05 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:45:04PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 12:50, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:30:42PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 22:19, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I've worked an hour to figure out a serial of sed command

Re: XFree86 Desktop installation

2004-01-06 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:04:48AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I already configured the XFree86 on my FreeBSD system and I want to run the KDE or Gnome desktop applications. How is this possible. I appreciate your help. Totally newbie here :) If you have the time, patience and

Re: changing configure options when using a port

2004-01-06 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:33:49PM +1100, August Simonelli wrote: Hi all, I'm slowly getting used to FreeBSD from a Linux background so forgive the ignorant questions. I'm curious what the best way to add configure options are when installing from a port. For example, i'd like to add

Re: How do I read digital camera on USB port with hppsmtools?

2004-01-07 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:11:02AM -0500, Ken Seggerman wrote: Thanks for your reply. I plug the camera into the USB port, turn on the camera, it beeps and says it is connected to a computer. At this stage I think you could mount the camera with the /dev/da0s1 device with msdosfs.

Re: KDE damaged ...

2004-01-07 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:34:02PM +0400, Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote: Hi, With the help of the great people here I was able to install and run KDE3 on my FreeBSD 4.9. After that, I was trying to change the theme to the skin-less default one which made KDE freeze for a very long time. I forced a

Re: Yahoo! and GAIM

2004-01-09 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:51:06PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: Content-Description: signed data Hello people. I used to think IM clients were passe and childish, until I tried to go without. I found that there are a lot of business associates and friends that use it, and it makes life a

Re: Sound not working on laptop

2004-01-10 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 09:23:26PM -0400, Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote: Hi, Thanks for everyone who helped (and is helping me) to find my way in the great world of FreeBSD. I learned how to recompile the kernel and I did compile it with device pcm and device pcm0 at but it didn't work. I

Re: Alternatives to zcat ?

2004-01-11 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 08:27:35PM -, rob.c wrote: Hello All, I used to peruse my logs (when prompted by events in the periodic script output emails) using zcat, however i've just tried again for the first time recently and appears the logfile compression format has changed. This is in

Re: where are the jabber man pages?

2004-01-11 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 10:36:49AM -0600, David Fleck wrote: 4.9-RELEASE-p1. I've installed jabber (successfully, as far as I can tell) from ports, cvsup'ed Jan. 10. But I can't find any documentation for it on my system, either as man pages, docs in /usr/local/share/doc, info pages...

Re: cdbakeoven errors when burning multiple tracks

2004-01-11 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 12:54:40PM -0800, Alex wrote: Thanks for the response. Yes, I do have cdrecord installed and everything seems to be in the correct place: u ~$ which cdrecord /usr/local/bin/cdrecord u ~$ which cdbakeoven /usr/local/bin/cdbakeoven Hi, Unless you insist on using

Re: [OT] Configuration file parsing

2004-01-12 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:45:25AM +0100, Philip Schulz wrote: Hello! Let me apologize for asking an offtopic question. If you feel offended, please ignore this eMail. I'm currently working on a program which will be used in a closed company environment. The programm is written in C.

Re: xmms - problem - how to fix?

2004-01-12 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 02:24:30PM +0200, Alex Zivenko wrote: Hi! I have some problem with my xmms mm player. When I'm treing to listen some mp3's it gives me aN error, that I don't know how to fix. I have KDE 3.1 if you need this info ^) So here it is: bash-2.05b$ xmms /dev/dsp: Device

Re: Mounting as non-root?

2004-01-12 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 02:40:54PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: Content-Description: signed data What is the most secure way to enable mounting of flash drives, cdroms, and floppies? I've seen solutions that include setting setuid on mount. I would rather not go this route. Is there any

Re: Mounting as non-root?

2004-01-12 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 02:59:38PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: Content-Description: signed data On Monday 12 January 2004 02:50 pm, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 02:40:54PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: Content-Description: signed data What is the most secure way