Re: Printing problems with Mozilla and Firefox on Freebsd 5.3

2005-12-18 Thread Micah
l method is not working for me. I've had to edit the prefs.js directly in order to maintain printing ability. HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: How to safty unplug a USB Stick

2005-12-19 Thread Micah
ntrol eject dax. The light always turns off for me. HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: unmounting USB key (sorry, lost the original title)

2005-12-20 Thread Micah
). Update from Micah is interresting: On 5.2/5.3/5.4 I've used umount then camcontrol eject dax. The light always turns off for me. HTH, Micah On 12/20/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I can't remember who posted that and I removed my emails from server. I try

Re: Can you run Xen on FreeBSD?

2005-12-20 Thread Micah
rlier version of Xen, but is not available for release due to licence restrictions. Looks like someone is working on a port of it. Try contacting Kip Macy to see what the status is. HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread Micah
BSD a try, if not, try a Linux distro. Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Two simple questions

2005-12-24 Thread Micah
konqueror use view->show hidden files. You cannot "unhide" a hidden dot-file without renaming it. Renaming it will make it impossible for the programs that use the file to find it. HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

pthread problems and ports on fresh 6.0 install

2005-12-24 Thread Micah
e problem is... Any help in tracking the problem down is appreciated. I'm running FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE i386 with the generic kernel installed off CD. Thanks, Micah *** For GPGME error message see: *** http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-December/108171.html ***Erro

Re: What is the M in tar Mcvf

2005-12-25 Thread Micah
tar man and got http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/tar.1.html which will explain it. HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: pthread problems and ports on fresh 6.0 install

2005-12-26 Thread Micah
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Micah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I wrote in a few days ago about gpgme not compiling. It had an error about several pthread_* functions. I got around it by installing from packages. Now I can't compile multimedia/gstreamer from ports for the same reason. (

Re: Scanner in FBSD

2005-12-27 Thread Micah
tried, plustek_pp required libieee1284 for parallel port access. Libieee1284 is unsupported in FreeBSD (at least the 5 series FreeBSD). Your best bet is to go out and get a supported USB or SCSI scanner or install your scanner on a Linux SANE server. HTH, Micah

Re: Mozilla plugins broken after port upgrade

2005-12-29 Thread Micah
t; and "Flash no longer displayed in Firefox". It's an issue with the linuxpluginwrapper port, several methods to make it work are described in those recent threads. HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: Hardware graphics

2005-12-30 Thread Micah
ed to specify r300 as you xorg driver, not radeon. Radeon is the driver for older radeon cards, r300 is the driver for newer radeon cards. HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

Re: Mozilla plugins broken after port upgrade

2005-12-30 Thread Micah
Chris Hill wrote: On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Micah wrote: Chris Hill wrote: [snip] The specific issues are with acroread7, flash and mplayer-plugin. All of these worked as plug-ins before the upgrade, but now none of them do. [snip] Search the list archives for "Flash Plugin in 6.0

Re: I just can't find GCJ on my FreeBSD 6 box

2005-12-30 Thread Micah
l, Inc. From Makefile: # FIXME: As of 20051202, installing libgcj nearly kills 1GB machines. WITHOUT_JAVA= yes In other words java has been disabled until they fix it. You can try commenting the line out, but I'm not sure I'd want to "nearly k

Re: script to monitor internet connection

2006-01-06 Thread Micah
from a cron job. Something like: #!/bin/sh ping -c 1 my.isps.main.server.example.com 2> /dev/null > /dev/null echo `date`: Ping returned $? >> /var/log/ispevidence.log HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: Java Virtual Machine

2006-01-07 Thread Micah
FreeBSD on i386. HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Difficulty asking questions

2006-01-14 Thread Micah
surprised!) So you should probably start by emailing one of the address I listed to see if they can help you track down your problem. HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To uns

Re: Mail filtering at server

2006-01-14 Thread Micah
o set this up ? can this be done by sendmail itself or should I install an other program from the portstree I actually haven't tackled this one yet. Try looking through http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html with a keyword of spam. HTH, M

Re: how to force ucom driver to create /dev/cuaU? for some device?

2006-01-17 Thread Micah
usbd_set_config_index: set config 1 This (ofcourse) does not work: # gardump -p /dev/ugen0 gardump: TIOCGETA: Invalid argument ucom is loaded: # kldstat -v |grep ucom 85 ucom I don't suppose you tried symlinking ucom to ugen? If that works it's just a matter of setting up devfs.rules.

Re: konsole font size and colour ?

2006-01-17 Thread Micah
ick, use "save as default". Preset colors schemes can be set via "schema" and can be customized via "configure konsole" I've never run into a GRUB option that allows you to change it's size. You'll

Re: konsole font size and colour ?

2006-01-17 Thread Micah
em console. It has been discussed on the list several times in the past few months. Google turns up a few hits with "freebsd console resolution" which would point you to man vidcontrol. HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Creating alternate passwd file

2006-01-17 Thread Micah
ssword for user root: secret pw: user 'root' does not exist (NIS?) What did I do wrong? Any suggestions? Thanks, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Creating alternate passwd file (solved)

2006-01-17 Thread Micah
Micah wrote: I'm trying to create a master.passwd file that I can crack as part of a demo for an IAS class. I don't want to muck about with my live master.passwd or even a copy of it, since the passwords there take too long to crack. I tried copying /usr/src/etc/master.passwd an

Re: portmanager status?

2006-01-19 Thread Micah
do not get along with the people in charge of FreeBSD ports." Sounds pretty permanent to me. Use portupgrade. HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Java Virtual Machine

2006-01-22 Thread Micah
martinko wrote: Micah wrote: Porpoise Power wrote: Which Java VM is the best for freebsd 5.4, running gnome2, and firefox? James Best Both the native jdk14 and jdk15 provide good Java VMs. jdk15 is newer and might be unstable (hasn't been for me). jdk14 is more tested and i

X mouse cursor annoyance

2006-01-23 Thread Micah
g this and what to adjust so my mouse cursors are a little more uniform? (All installed ports are up to date as of last night) Thanks, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To un

Re: /etc/group and /etc/passwd nuked after installworld

2006-01-28 Thread Micah
er my last installworld. Thanks, -Garrett If you want the defaults used by FreeBSD, check out /usr/src/etc/groups HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Java without Motif/X?

2006-02-01 Thread Micah
nning. Thanks in advance, -Nick Since Java includes GUI support, there's no official or easy way of getting Java without X. You could always try installing everything, then deinstalling X and seeing what happens. HTH, Micah ___ freebsd

Re: SSH with Public Key Authentication (Was: Re: Attention: Giorgos Keramidas (Was: CVS Import Permissions))

2006-02-01 Thread Micah
er? Thanks! Regards, DB Out of curiosity did you use "save public key" or copy and paste out of the "public key for pasting in openssh authorized_keys file" box? If I remember correctly, the "save public key" does not produce an openssh compatible publi

Re: Porblem with Openoffice 2.0.1

2006-02-06 Thread Micah
Since no one has responded, I'll respond with a wild guess. Try jdk15. There's been some odd problems revolving around libzip that are seem to be fixed in 1.5. HTH, Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had Openoffice 2.0.1 installed and working perfectly for several weeks now.

Re: Porblem with Openoffice 2.0.1

2006-02-07 Thread Micah
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Micah wrote: Since no one has responded, I'll respond with a wild guess. Try jdk15. There's been some odd problems revolving around libzip that are seem to be fixed in 1.5. HTH, Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had Openof

Re: Konsole Font Color

2006-02-09 Thread Micah
figure Konsole->Schema HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Konsole Font Color

2006-02-09 Thread Micah
edit, that would do the same ... Peter Micah wrote: Peter Marshall wrote: Hey. Thanks for the help. I just tried that and it works great. However, there does not seem to be an option for the text inside a file. ie. I am trying to edit httpd.conf, and the text inside the file is black

Re: FreeBSD 6 on DVD

2006-02-09 Thread Micah
not have the answer. Actually, if you try to install some of the included packages you end up swapping the disks quite frequently. It's quite annoying especially if you decided to install packages because you are in a hurry. Later, Micah

Re: Looking for a USB Compact Flash card reader.

2006-02-16 Thread Micah
27;s always worked for me from 5.2 to 5.4 (haven't really used it since the upgrade to 6.0). HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: VNC forwarding over sshd issue

2006-02-17 Thread Micah
existing connection until you know the daemon came back up. Close your connection and reconnect. You can probably do the same to vino by killing it and then bringing it back up (not familiar with vino). Once you know where the problem originates maybe you can figure out how

Re: small freebsd laptop suggestions?

2006-02-17 Thread Micah
ps, find one you like, search Google to see if anyone has gotten it to work with FreeBSD, repeat until you find one that works. [EMAIL PROTECTED] might be a good place to ask too. The archives of that list usually has several recommendations. HTH, Micah ___

Re: eclipse looks for cairo.2

2006-02-21 Thread Micah
>> >> >> thing is i installed cairo 1.0.2 from src for firefox 1.5 a few days ago >> and it worked for it... so i was wondering why eclipse isn't finding it? >> >> thanks >> I noticed you CC'd freebsd-java & freebsd-ques

Re: eclipse looks for cairo.2

2006-02-22 Thread Micah
kalin mintchev wrote: I noticed you CC'd freebsd-java & freebsd-questions but didn't CC freebsd-eclipse@ Have you searched their archives? Tried the WITHOUT_CAIRO=yes knob? What kind of system are you trying to build this on? thanks Micah.. i'm not sure if i want to exc

Re: htdig Archive Access Failure

2006-02-24 Thread Micah
Mailman at FreeBSD.org. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]" Later, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: can't cd to /usr/ports/devel/libtool13

2006-02-26 Thread Micah
see /usr/ports/UPDATING). To fix it read /usr/ports/UPDATING. Always read /usr/ports/UPDATING before blindly upgrading and definitely before mailing this list. Later, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: A reason for major ports update?

2006-02-27 Thread Micah
/pkg_version to tell you when things need updating. Later, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: password change in memberships reminder

2006-03-01 Thread Micah
I'm paranoid, so I would just assume that the accounts were hacked and treat the situation accordingly. Contact the lists administrator in case it was a bug in the system... HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: capturing a desktop demonstration as a movie

2006-03-01 Thread Micah
me problem when recording a demonstration and ended up using vnc2swf instead (records a swf animation). I couldn't get xvidcap to work with anything but really small windows, which was useless since I was trying to demo a web application. HTH, Micah ___

Card for basic 3D acceleration in FreeBSD

2006-03-02 Thread Micah
o have the option to move to the amd64 release. Any suggestions on a low-end (read cheap) card? I know "nvidia" is often recommended, but any particular model? Thanks, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: Card for basic 3D acceleration in FreeBSD

2006-03-03 Thread Micah
Hans Nieser wrote: Micah wrote: I'm looking for a card to handle some simple OpenGL stuff for a class I'm taking. I have an ATI X300 card, but 3D acceleration is not supported on it in the current Xorg. The only slots on my Mobo are PCI and PCI-EX. I use the i386 release of FreeBSD

Re: BSD+KDE replacement for SecureCRT

2006-03-05 Thread Micah
or example, typing sftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED] or fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED] in a Konqueror location bar will allow you to work with the remote system's files in Konqueror. Most any KDE application (kate being the one I use most) can directly edit files on the remote system

Re: sending large amount of data securely

2006-03-08 Thread Micah
sym links if any in this data. Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks. Dave. Some options are to tar then scp, or to use rsync+ssh. I've transfered 6gb tar backups via scp in the past with no problems. HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: Xorg config problems

2006-03-11 Thread Micah
thing that works. It looks like, from the log you sent, that the hsync refresh rate that Xorg is guessing is wrong. You might be able to google on your video card and find the right setting. HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: sending large amount of data securely

2006-03-11 Thread Micah
Dave wrote: Hi, Unfortunately, the box doesn't have the room on it to make the tar backup, so i'd have to tar over ssh, then untar on the other box. Is this doable? Thanks. Dave. - Original Message ----- From: "Micah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dave

Re: how does a system come up if you disable background fsck ?

2006-03-13 Thread Micah
multi-user mode ? OR Does it mean the system will boot up quickly into multi-user mode, but the non-root partitions will just not be mounted and/or usable until I fsck them by hand ? thanks. The former, as I can say with ample experience this morning. (stupid USB panic)

Panic with USB drive - bug or fixed?

2006-03-13 Thread Micah
pages 16 Mar 13 09:47:25 trisha kernel: Mar 13 09:47:25 trisha kernel: dev da0s1 Mar 13 09:54:16 trisha syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel Can get more information tomorrow maybe. Thanks, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: how does a system come up if you disable background fsck ?

2006-03-13 Thread Micah
anic) HTH, Micah I find both ways useless. If fsck background starts after a crash it literally slows down the machine to a halt rendering it unusable. If enable fsck to check the system prior to mounting device, it will take at least 15-30 minutes for it to complete (in the event of a hard cra

Re: Trouble searching mailing list archives

2006-03-16 Thread Micah
Duane Whitty wrote: Hi all, Well, first I was having a problem searching the archives with the pipermail interface. So after some helpful advice from Micah (thanks Micah) is switched to search.html#mailinglists. This worked great for a while but now it appears to be broken. Is anyone else

Re: Few thunderbird questions

2006-03-17 Thread Micah
Edit->Preference->General->Play Sound Note: some people have problems with it. It didn't work for me for the longest time, then suddenly started working after a port upgrade. HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: hosts.allow ?

2006-03-20 Thread Micah
tes a load_rc_config $name (or equivalent). HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: openoffice package install fails on gamin dependency - KDE needs fam

2006-03-20 Thread Micah
at you listed above. Or if you decide to stick with fam, see if you can force the install of the openoffice package despite the gamin dependency. Then run pkgdb -F and point openoffice's gamin dependency to fam. HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questi

Re: screen recorder

2006-03-23 Thread Micah
rate flash (swf) movies of the captured screenshots? Thanks Eoghan The thread is at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-February/114445.html For flash you can use net/vnc2swf, it requires a VNC server running on the computer you wish to record.

Re: The 'Amnesiac' screen s set up when FreeBSD starts up

2006-03-27 Thread Micah
l indicate which terminal the shell is associated with. There are kernel options which can be changed to let you setup more or fewer virtual TTY's; see "man vt"... ---Chuck You can set up more/fewer by editing /etc/ttys See man ttys HTH, Micah __

Re: Error Compiling Open Office

2006-03-29 Thread Micah
hat it caused weird port errors. This may have been the weird error that it's referring to. HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade

2006-03-30 Thread Micah
i386 Any clues on what's wrong? Thanks, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade

2006-03-30 Thread Micah
Lars Cleary wrote: Micah wrote: I just updated my ports collection this morning and upgraded all out of date ports, including thunderbird and firefox. Now typing thunderbird or firefox on the command line does absolutely nothing. firefox or thunderbird do not show up in ps (checked using

Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade

2006-03-30 Thread Micah
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/30/06, Micah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Lars Cleary wrote: Micah wrote: I just updated my ports collection this morning and upgraded all out of date ports, including thunderbird and firefox. Now typing thunderbird or firefox on the command line does abso

Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade

2006-03-30 Thread Micah
Pete Slagle wrote: Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Thursday 30 March 2006 17:53, Albert Shih wrote: Le 30/03/2006 à 14:42:10-0800, Micah a écrit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1.5.0.1_2 was commited last night, so it's probably a recent breakage. I just found a bug report on

Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade

2006-03-31 Thread Micah
ons/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/chrome.manifest" Later, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-03-31 Thread Micah
, as well as the gtk program gqview, can all print too. I can't vouch for their usefulness since I've never used them for printing. You might also try browsing http://www.freebsd.org/ports/graphics.html to see if there's something there that sounds better. HTH, Micah

Re: Path problem

2006-03-31 Thread Micah
e path: > echo $PATH /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin: /usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/gwschenk/bin It looks like it is in the path to me. Any ideas? Gary Try "rehash" HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Re: portupgrade -ar (why?)

2005-10-16 Thread Micah
d it. Now what part of that is not covered by the manpage? Look at it again. Unless I'm completely off, -a and -r are mutually exclusive. All sets $all and sets $recurse to false. -r only sets $recurse if $all is not set. So if -a is specified you'll never get a recurse. So the origi

Re: i get stuck installing kernel

2005-10-24 Thread Micah
_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html note: you probably don't want cutting edge, but that's where the general procedure for cvsupping and compiling your sy

Re: i get stuck installing kernel

2005-10-25 Thread Micah
Linnea Forslund wrote: On 10/25/05, Micah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Linnea Forslund wrote: On 10/25/05, Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Oct 24, 2005, at 5:59 PM, Linnea Forslund wrote: But there is nothing in there cd /usr/src/ssys /usr/src/ssys: No

Re: i get stuck installing kernel

2005-10-25 Thread Micah
Linnea Forslund wrote: On 10/25/05, Micah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Linnea Forslund wrote: On 10/25/05, Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Oct 24, 2005, at 5:59 PM, Linnea Forslund wrote: But there is nothing in there cd /usr/src/ssys /usr/src/ssys: No

Re: i get stuck installing kernel

2005-10-25 Thread Micah
Linnea Forslund wrote: On 10/25/05, Micah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Linnea Forslund wrote: On 10/25/05, Micah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Linnea Forslund wrote: On 10/25/05, Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Oct 24, 2005, at 5:59 PM, Linnea Forslund wro

Re: Need to boot from CD and delete a file on the hard drive

2005-10-25 Thread Micah
gain? Thanks. Scott Alexander The option you are looking for is "fixit" from the install disk menu. This'll get you a command prompt. You will have to manually mount the partion that boot is on then you can delete, rename, edit, etc the file in question. HTH, Micah

Re: What packages can I deinstall?

2005-10-25 Thread Micah
don't need it. There's a KDE program called gpkgdep (sysutils/gpkgdep) that let's you see what depends on a package. It also lets you "simulate" the deinstall of different packages. It might be quicker than the command line tools to find those pac

Re: xorg.conf block my machine

2005-10-26 Thread Micah
ell, mount the drive that has xorg.conf and edit the file. HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: jdk15 without having to install X Windows?

2005-10-26 Thread Micah
with installing Java without any X windows support? I'd like the keep the number of installed packages on this server to a bare minimum. thanks, -Nick My guess? You probably can't install JDK without X because of Java's GUI libraries

Re: Hardware selection for comment.

2005-10-26 Thread Micah
SDMX75KB DVI-D 12MS Black LCD thanks all mjt I'd stay away from ATI unless you are sure FreeBSD/Xorg/DRI supports it. I have a cheap ATI based card and the performance on this machine, even 2D stuff, sucks because the card is only barely supported. HTH, Micah __

Re: Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?

2005-10-27 Thread Micah
-user when upgrading. But then, I'm the only user and there are not many processes. I'm not gonna worry anyway, hope it's not a rootkit :-) I have a 5.4 system, /do/ go into single user when upgrading, and file does /not/ report FreeBSD version. I get the same output you do.

Re: Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?

2005-10-27 Thread Micah
Will Maier wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 06:51:21AM -0700, Micah wrote: I have a 5.4 system, /do/ go into single user when upgrading, and file does /not/ report FreeBSD version. I get the same output you do. It would be nice to know why this works on some systems and not on others

Re: Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?

2005-10-27 Thread Micah
Will Maier wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 06:51:21AM -0700, Micah wrote: I have a 5.4 system, /do/ go into single user when upgrading, and file does /not/ report FreeBSD version. I get the same output you do. It would be nice to know why this works on some systems and not on others

Re: Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?

2005-10-27 Thread Micah
"working" machine: alexis% file a.out a.out: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 5.4, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped I looked at my "env", but I do not see /any/ compiler related variables set. Is there so

ghostscript headaches

2005-10-30 Thread Micah
have any words of advice on how to get an 8.x gs running on my machine with cups? Thanks, Micah trisha# pwd /usr/ports/print/cups-pstoraster trisha# make build ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found ===> Extracting for cups-pstoraster-8.15 => Checksum OK for ghosts

Re: ghostscript headaches

2005-10-30 Thread Micah
Micah wrote: Hi all, I'm running FBSD 5.4-release-p7. I've had gs-gnu 7.07 installed from when I installed FBSD 5.3. I just installed scribus and it needs a newer gs. I set WITH_GHOSTSCRIPT_AFPL=yes, deinstalled gs-gnu, installed gs-afpl, and did a pkgdb -F. Scribus now worked

Re: Buildworld fails for 6.0-RC1

2005-11-02 Thread Micah
g/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: jre1.1.8 Class not found

2005-11-02 Thread Micah
ing one of the JDKs. 1.1.8 is pretty old, 1.5 is Sun's current version. I assume JRE 1.1.8 is in the ports for legacy reasons only. Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-06 Thread Micah
I just ran memtest86+ and there's no memory errors. I'm guessing it's a hardware issue, but how do I diagnose it? Thanks, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-06 Thread Micah
Skylar Thompson wrote: Micah wrote: My desktop system just started doing this last night. I was upgrading Gnome using the handy shell script they provide. It looks like sometime around 11:30pm the computer reset. This morning I'm trying to reinstall all the software that got lo

Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-06 Thread Micah
Beecher Rintoul wrote: On Sunday 06 November 2005 12:20 pm, Micah wrote: My desktop system just started doing this last night. I was upgrading Gnome using the handy shell script they provide. It looks like sometime around 11:30pm the computer reset. This morning I'm trying to reinstal

Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Micah
Garrett Cooper wrote: Micah wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: On Nov 6, 2005, at 2:01 PM, Micah wrote: Skylar Thompson wrote: Micah wrote: My desktop system just started doing this last night. I was upgrading Gnome using the handy shell script they provide. It looks like sometime

Re: filesystem full error

2005-11-07 Thread Micah
space left on device pkg_add: can't record package infor '/var/db/pkg/ORBit-0.5.17_2', you're on your own! I'm not seeing the connection between the /tmp partition and a /var filesytem error. On his system they're

Re: Subject: Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Micah
Gorski, Jim wrote: Micah, I had a motherboard fail with a similar set of symptoms. Mine was due to bad capacitors on the motherboard itself. Take a look and make certain that none of them are swollen or pushing material out the top. Heat also leads to random resets - is your fan still running

Re: Subject: Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Micah
Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:11:42AM -0800, Micah wrote: I cleaned out all the fans, but they weren't that dirty. I can't test the temps while the system is under load (have to reboot and check them in the bios). Try xmbmon of mbmon from the/usr/ports/sysut

Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Micah
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Micah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm running the i386 version of FreeBSD with 1gb ram. Didn't think to check this before, but I'm getting ~112-113 volts into the PSU from the

Re: Subject: Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Micah
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Micah wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:11:42AM -0800, Micah wrote: I cleaned out all the fans, but they weren't that dirty. I can't test the temps while the system is under load (have to reboot and check them in the bios). Try

Re: Major Error Upgrading to GNOME 2.12

2005-11-08 Thread Micah
wrote a script that made a list of the differences). HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Upgrading application(s)

2005-11-11 Thread Micah
make install otherwise it'll complain about the port already being installed. HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Override prompt when deleting a file

2005-11-18 Thread Micah
e file? To original poster: is the immutable bit set on the file? HTH Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Override prompt when deleting a file

2005-11-18 Thread Micah
go away or you may need a more complex solution. HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: starting services?

2005-11-21 Thread Micah
rarily enable a service without making it run every time you boot the os. By using it, you are saying "Even though I said DO NOT RUN service x, force service x to run." HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Does FreeBSD 6.0 fully support PCI-Express?

2005-11-22 Thread Micah
e for nvidia. The nv driver is an open source driver provided by xorg, and the nvidia driver is a closed source driver provided by nvidia. Later, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questio

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