On Monday 17 January 2005 16:47, Chris wrote:
Adam Smith wrote:
What happens is, upon loading of KDE from KDM, just after Initializing
Peripherals, it backs out with no error and Xorg reloads.
Anyone got any suggestions as to what I might try to resolve this problem?
When ever you pull off
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 03:46, Trey Sizemore wrote:
I'm getting an error when trying to view PDFs with these applications:
ghostscript: unknown device x11
I have ghostscript version 7.07 installed and was able to view PDFs as
recently as a few days ago. Acrobat Reader won't even start
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 15:07, Trey Sizemore wrote:
On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 04:03 +, RW wrote:
I got this error once because I had a ghostscript nox port installed.
Actually, I think I had two versions simultaneously, one of which was a
nox version (not sure how that happened). Anyway
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 14:23, Brian John wrote:
Hello,
I have (I think) kind of a unique question. I leave my home computer on
all day and transfer and share files via a P2P application. However,
sometimes I like to ssh in from work and transfer files between my work PC
and my home PC
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 17:07, Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
Brian John wrote:
Hello,
I have a DVD writer, a CD writer and a floppy drive in my PC. Since I
don't know what file system that a media will use until I put it in the
drive, how do I set it up in fstab?
...
AFAIK, there is no
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 12:10, Warren wrote:
I changed the shell type using: chsh -s /bin/csh
I think you want /bin/tcsh/ which is the enhanced version of csh. Incidently I
think tcsh is the default for root, not csh, which is probably why
auto-completion works for you in root.
It's
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 15:22, Daniel Bye wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 02:32:41PM +, RW wrote:
It's recommended that you stick to shells in /bin for root, and tcsh is
the best of these. For non-root account you have more choice, bash and
ksh are popular.
This is true enough
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 15:22, Daniel Bye wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 02:32:41PM +, RW wrote:
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 12:10, Warren wrote:
I changed the shell type using: chsh -s /bin/csh
I think you want /bin/tcsh/ which is the enhanced version of csh.
It's the same
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 12:58, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:48:28PM +1000, Warren wrote:
is there a particular reason why the ports INDEX file is del each time
cvsup is run and then re-d/l in a portupgrade ?
Yes, see /usr/ports/UPDATING or the mailing list archives of
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 07:21, Jay O'Brien wrote:
I've brought up a 5.3 Release machine as a learning tool,
with apache 1.3. It is on a LAN with Windows machines, and
port 80 (and only port 80) is open and directed by the
Linksys router to the FreeBSD machine. It is working fine so
far,
I recently upgraded my CD burner to a DVD burner. I have the ATAPI/CAM options
built-in to my 5.3 kernel and can burn DVDs with growisofs.
How should I burn CDs in the DVD drive? Should I use growisofs with /dev/cd0
or should I used burncd with /dev/acd0, or will either work?
On Thursday 27 January 2005 15:34, Nathan Kinkade wrote:
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 08:12:55PM -0500, Tom Moyer wrote:
I have a Windows XP installation on the first 20 GB of my harddrive
and I would like to remove it and expand my FreeBSD install to fill
the entire disk. Is there an easy way
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 08:04, Christopher Illies wrote:
Have a look at /usr/ports/sysutils/pkg_cutleaves. It is a script that
detects and removes orphaned dependencies.
Just bear in mind that some of the leaves will be required for building other
ports. Whilst they can be safely removed,
On Thursday 10 February 2005 06:32, Vince Sabio wrote:
I'm running 5.1-RELEASE, and need to use Lynx via an ssh session to
access my firewall's administrative interface. Logging into the
firewall requires javascript. My FreeBSD machine has a stock
installation of Lynx Version 2.8.4rel.1. I've
On Thursday 10 February 2005 13:08, RW wrote:
On Thursday 10 February 2005 06:32, Vince Sabio wrote:
I'm running 5.1-RELEASE, and need to use Lynx via an ssh session to
access my firewall's administrative interface. Logging into the
firewall requires javascript. My FreeBSD machine has
I just mounted a device at /mnt/t and tried to access a file from linux
realplayer. It couldn't see anything under /mnt at all, it seems that it's
actually seeing /compat/linux/mnt.
Why does /compat/linux/mnt exist? Is there some serious problem of having
linux apps see /mnt (like they see the
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 14:00, Freminlins wrote:
But in December, Yahoo started to port its homegrown infrastructure
applications from its custom operating system to Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 4.0, which was in beta at the time and was released last week.
Plans call for a gradual migration
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 20:21, Wouter van Rooij wrote:
You remembered to add your hardware but you completly forgot to add how
long it takes you to do a make buildworld. :)
Ben
I was wondering how long it would take before i'm deciding to do it
myself;-)
It's not a major build, I
On Sunday 27 February 2005 16:32, Richard Danter wrote:
...
I guess the last step is to recompile the ports I have installed. Is
there a quick way to rebuild just the ports I have installed or do I
need to go through them all one by one and 'make install clean' them?
The easiest way is to use
I'm thinking about upgrading my hardware from an Intel P3 to an AMD 64, and
replacing the graphics card, without buying a new hard disk. Has anyone done
this kind of thing successfully?
I've recompiled kernel+world for 686 and I've done a portupgrade -fR on cvsup
and portupgrade.
Typical
On Sunday 27 February 2005 17:49, Subhro wrote:
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RW
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 23:06
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Upgrading hardware from P3 to AMD 64
I'm
On Sunday 27 February 2005 18:12, Subhro wrote:
As I said, I'm recompiling for 686 (which I think is pentium pro), my
undestanding is that the AMD 64 is back-compatible to 686.
Negative. AFAIK there are incompatible in both the ways.
I found this thread:
On Monday 07 March 2005 16:01, Ean Kingston wrote:
run 'pkg_add -r kde' from the command line
edit /etc/ttys (with ee or whatever editor you like.
Look for the line that looks like this:
ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon xterm off secure
and change the word 'off' to 'on'. Then save
On Friday 11 March 2005 10:15, h p wrote:
Hi,
I don't understand the behaviour of fetch(1). Whenever I try to fetch
from an URL, I get anwers like
fetch http://www.google.com
fetch: http://www.google.com: No address record
This is what you get when fetch can't do a successful dns
On Thursday 10 March 2005 20:53, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
It sounds quite complicated... I need some more experience before doing
that!
Thank you, I'll take in consideration in the future!
Also, if it's windows 9x, then it's will expect to be installed on the first
partition, and so will
On Friday 11 March 2005 20:25, Gary Kline wrote:
a better flavor on Linux that I should consider?
I've not tried it yet, but I like the look of:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/
It's based on Debian but aims to update several times a year instead of once
every several years. Also updates
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 03:10, Jean Lagarde wrote:
I have been troubleshooting reboots over the last weekend, I think I
might have enough clues now to get some useful hints from an expert.
FreeBSD 5.3-release (see dmesg below for details)
The problem seems to be with trying to run with
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 01:49, Tom Vilot wrote:
I have the port flashplugin-mozilla-0.4.12 installed (using
firefox-1.0.1_2,1). I find that it crashes firefox pretty consistently.
However, a quick grep of flash in the ports reveals these:
flash-0.9.5
flashplugin-0.4.3
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 22:49, Boris Spirialitious wrote:
No, we have product that run on intel machine. It
would be nice if we could use same image for both
intel and operton platforms.
You can, provided you use the i386 version of FreeBSD and don't optimize the
build for anything above
On Sunday 13 March 2005 20:05, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote:
If I just do:
cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile portmanager -u
Do I need portupgrade at all then?
I think you do, as I understand the situation, portmanager lacks two
significant features.
1. All ports have an implicit dependence on
On Sunday 13 March 2005 15:47, Luyt wrote:
On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:06, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote:
2. having that demon in there, it invites evil into my world
What is the daemon doing to that funny penguin?
http://gbraad.spotsnel.nl/images/takeittux.png
LOL, that would make a
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 20:05, Matthew Seaman wrote:
You can generally run AMD64 machines in IA32 mode -- but what would be
the point? All you get then is a machine that costs more than an
equivalent IA32 box and that probably performs worse.
The core market for the AMD64 is 32-bit Windows
On Thursday 17 March 2005 16:16, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Soo-Hyun Choi wrote:
Hi,
I'm wondering how much HDD space does FreeBSD need in a normal
installation. What I mean by the normal installation includes 'Full
X-Development' packages with Gnome. Oh, It's 5.3-RELEASE.
My HDD has 10G space
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 15:54, Brian John wrote:
Hello,
When I try to build openoffice I get the following error:
./unxfbsd.pro/misc/FREEBSDGCCIruntime/libprldap50.so \ echo /dev/null
cp: ./unxfbsd.pro/misc/build/mozilla/dist/bin/libnss3.so: No such file or
directory
dmake: Error code
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 06:45, Bachelier Vincent wrote:
any idea to make agp of freebsd work ?
Have you read /usr/X11R6/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README
I suspect the answer is in there, but I'm not strongly motivated to find out,
since I don't actually see any practical consequences of the
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 06:44, Gary Kline wrote:
The first CD boots 5.3 ad brings up /stand/sysinstall.
Every options I have tries sees the NTFS as ad0s1.
Is there another choice to chose to divvy up the drive
to give me more than three slices? This is where the
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 19:28, Gary Kline wrote:
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 02:08:19PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote:
On Mar 23, 2005, at 1:59 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
If memory servers, the slices I created were
ad0s2 /
ad0s3 SWAP
ad0s4 /usr
People normally create a
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 20:05, RW wrote:
Even
if you don't plan to use it you should do that to see what the default
looks like.
Don't forget to delete the three partitions and create a single large slice,
if you try to create a default set of partitions on a slice dimensioned to
take
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 21:05, Gary Kline wrote:
ks like.
Yeah, I wound up trying the defaults because my custom creates
failed. With thr auto defaults newfs works, but I error out
on /usr. /usr is large.So the mount will fail, etc. (??)
Maybe a smaller /usr
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 21:03, Ean Kingston wrote:
Also, I am looking for antiviral protection for both
the FreeBSD server, and any Windows or Macintosh
systems that may be using the POP mail. I know qmail
has one solution, which was contributed by a qmail
user, but what are the
On Friday 25 March 2005 14:25, O. Hartmann wrote:
Hello.
I run into the follwoing problem.
Using an internet connected at my lab makes me happy installing each
package I need from source.
At home I have only a very slow moem connection, but I need also the
same packages (not precompiled,
On Friday 25 March 2005 20:49, RW wrote:
On Friday 25 March 2005 14:25, O. Hartmann wrote:
Unforunately portupdate does not have a simple functionality to gather
all tarballs from each installed
port and its friends it depends on.
Maybe someone of you has a similar limitation and can help
On Saturday 26 March 2005 22:45, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes, the theory is very nice; you've done a nice
job reading Intel's marketing garb.
I haven't read their marketing materials. I'm simply going by the
technical descriptions I've read of the architecture.
On Sunday 27 March 2005 22:33, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
RW writes:
Multiple processors can run multiple processes at the same time. A HT
processor can only run two threads from the same process.
This is incorrect. HT processors don't care where the threads come
from; it is possible to run
On Monday 28 March 2005 06:41, Jay O'Brien wrote:
stheg olloydson wrote:
Hello,
They are recursive dependencies. Check each ports requirements.
cvsup-without-gui depends on ezm3. ezm3 depends on gmake,
gettext and libiconv. libiconv depends on libtool...and the foot
bone's connected
On Monday 28 March 2005 17:00, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
If you have different versions of gcc installed, which version is used
then when you run a portupgrade somepackage ?
I know a package can give the needed version itself, but what if the
port does not do so? Is the system's default run then
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 05:17, Kent Stewart wrote:
On Monday 28 March 2005 07:27 pm, well sun wrote:
That is if I want to install the latest version, I should use the
make install or get the xxx.tbz from the freebsd-current
directory. Is it correct?
You have to understand up front
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 04:27, well sun wrote:
thanks your answers. I use the ports-supfile and stable-supfile under
/usr/share/examples/cvsup to do upgrade.
I think I understand what the difference between the pkg_add and make
install.
That is if I want to install the
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 05:42, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
markzero writes:
Has anybody had any luck with getting OpenNTPD (net/openntpd) to work
with anything other than UTC? I'm on GMT and recently we moved into
daylight savings. As OpenNTPD has decided that I'm on UTC, I'm now
an hour
On Thursday 31 March 2005 13:57, Per Berger wrote:
Hi all!
I am running freebsd 5.3 RELEASE p5 and have installed several ports, so
now I have X, gnome 2.10, firefox, openoffice and several other
goodies installed. And most of it without a glitch! :-)
However, I have a question... (Of
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 10:55, Darksidex wrote:
Richard Danter wrote:
1. If I do portupgrade -rR port it will recompile the new version of
port and related ports as expected but it will also try to compile up
any packages that are dependent. Is there a way to tell it not to
upgrade
From a KDE Root console, I changed a directory's permissions to 770 and added
my account to it's group with pw. In another console, under my own account,
I tried to cd into the directory and failed, no gui application could access
the directory either. pw showed I was a member of the group.
On Monday 24 October 2005 06:51, Eyad Salah wrote:
I'm kinda new to Linux, How can I start FreeBSD GUI (Like windows)?
FreeBSD is not Linux.
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On Wednesday 26 October 2005 16:08, Igor Robul wrote:
2) you can buy more memory and use memory backed md (4) /tmp
And you can create a 100 MB memory-backed /tmp simply by adding the following
to rc.conf
tmpmfs=YES
tmpsize=100m
tmpmfs_flags=-SM
If you omit the tmpmfs_flags line, it
On Monday 31 October 2005 07:38, Michael C. Shultz wrote:
On Sunday 30 October 2005 22:15, Jack Thompson wrote:
Hello, and Please ,,,Somebody nudge me in the right direction,
I have a successful install of 6.0 RC1, and when I startx it comes up
with three boxes , of xterminals
I have
On Thursday 03 November 2005 14:29, paul thodiyil wrote:
On 11/4/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/3/05, paul thodiyil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am sort of new to FreeBSD and still learning the ropes. I am having
great
trouble installing WINE and indeed other packages on
On Thursday 03 November 2005 04:27, Moffatt, Chris wrote:
It is a reserved word from the DOS days (like prn)
Now that is funny - prn is where the texting generation will expect to store
their porn.
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On Saturday 05 November 2005 13:48, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote:
will updating from 5.4 to 6.0 give me these changes or
will I have to reformat the drives with the updated UFS2?
This was asked and answer yesterday - only 11 threads ago.
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On Saturday 05 November 2005 16:16, eoghan wrote:
Hello
Im just looking for some advice. Ive updated my ports since kde has
gone to 3.4.3. Im currently using 3.4.2. I want to upgrade. But Im
not sure if I do this will I loose all my current settings - like
desktop items etc. Also, do I do a
On Saturday 05 November 2005 17:27, eoghan wrote:
On 5 Nov 2005, at 17:13, RW wrote:
On Saturday 05 November 2005 16:16, eoghan wrote:
Hello
Im just looking for some advice. Ive updated my ports since kde has
gone to 3.4.3. Im currently using 3.4.2. I want to upgrade. But Im
not sure
On Monday 07 November 2005 12:37, Petr Karasek wrote:
Dear ...,
I would like to ask you
to which platform belong this processor AMD Sempron 64 2600 (socket 754,
Palermo) Box ?
Is this the
FreeBSD/amd64 Platform
or
FreeBSD/i386 Platform
Any Sempron will
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 04:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have just installed Gnome 2.12 on 6.0stable, and then installed
linuxpluginwrapper from the port. After installation I copied
libmap.conf-FreeBSD6 to /etc/libmap.conf. However, when I start Mozilla
and goto the plugins page,
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 23:38, Steve Bertrand wrote:
In production (at an ISP), what is the best to follow...RELENGX_X or
RELENG_X? I have 4.x, 5.x boxes in production, and this 6.x box is being
prepared for the same.
See the Handbook:
20.2.2.2 Who Needs FreeBSD-STABLE?
On Thursday 17 November 2005 19:14, Kövesdán Gábor wrote:
EM64T is Intel's 64-bit processor architecture. It uses 64 bit registers
so it gets around the 4GB limit. It is very similar to AMD64
architecture ...
IA-64 was Intel's 64-bit architecture. EM64T is Intel's attempt to make AMD64
On Saturday 19 November 2005 10:37, Philip Lykke Carlsen wrote:
.. does anyone know why the problem of stale dependencies in the package
system occurs?.. it's just.. the system won't let you install any given
port/package without having met all the dependencies..
That's not entirely true,
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 23:44, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
David Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
5.4 showed an ASCII Beastie at boot, 6.0 shows FreeBSD in awful
ASCII-art text. As a Beastie traditionalist, what's the option to
display Beastie again?
man loader.conf|grep
On Wednesday 23 November 2005 20:57, Russell Meek wrote:
Roland Smith wrote:
Try /usr/ports/KNOBS for the most common ones, and the Makefile of each
port for specific ones.
Roland
Many ports fail if you try to use extravagant make flags like what you
would use with Gentoo.
I can't say
On Friday 25 November 2005 03:26, user wrote:
Hello,
What is a tool I can use on FreeBSD to rip dvd movies to _iso_ ?
Every document I see refers to vobcopy, which is not what I want, as I
want single-file iso dumps of the dvd.
The port sysutils/dvdbackup will backup a dvd to your
I start mlnet, the daemon part of mldonkey, from it's local rc.d script on
bootup. If mlnet isn't shutdown properly, it leaves behind a pid file that
prevents the daemon running until I notice and manually delete the file.
What's the best way to deal with this? I was wondering if there is
On Friday 25 November 2005 06:45, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
2000 interrupts per second per core for the timer is a
ridiculous high number and I reduce it simply for aesthetic reasons.
This may be a religious issue and everyone should use what he or she
seems fitting.
If you think in a
On Saturday 26 November 2005 12:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am unable to locate this folder (/usr/src/etc). I mean, it does not
exist. I only have sys under /usr/src
You only have the kernel source, not the world source. Try updating with
cvsup as described in the handbook.
On Saturday 26 November 2005 13:41, RW wrote:
On Saturday 26 November 2005 12:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am unable to locate this folder (/usr/src/etc). I mean, it does not
exist. I only have sys under /usr/src
You only have the kernel source, not the world source. Try updating
On Saturday 26 November 2005 13:36, Kiffin Gish wrote:
I'm using FreeBSD 5.4 at the moment, so does it take care of itself also?
I guess it will take care of itself on any version of FreeBSD. I think it's
just the case that more modern versions (5.0 onwards?) will check the
non-root
On Saturday 26 November 2005 13:13, Alistair Sutton wrote:
On 26/11/05, Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I restarted by machine, I get the warning messages:
WARNING /usr was not properly dismounted
WARNING /tmp was not properly dismounted
...
and for a number of other mount
On Saturday 26 November 2005 16:48, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
Hello.
I've got a problem.
I'm using KDE 3.4.3 on a 5.4p8 system: simply it does not check for
password!!!
At login (using kdm) I just enter my username and can leave the password
field blank or type whatever I want. The same
On Saturday 26 November 2005 17:38, Chris wrote:
Miguel Saturnino wrote:
Hi!
I have a FreeBSD 5.3 release system which was upgraded with CVSup to
RELENG_5. I have recently built a new kernel, but *have not* rebuilt
world. The computer now says it's a FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE system.
This
On Saturday 26 November 2005 18:45, Nils Vogels wrote:
Hi!
I'm looking for a way to have an on-the-fly compressed filesystem, to
use as an archive under FreeBSD. So far, I've only been able to find
solutions for Linux, are there any for FreeBSD as well ?
There's mkuzip, but it's read only.
On Saturday 26 November 2005 20:16, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
where can i find simple instructions for upgrading to
a new major
version? im running 4.10 right now and want to change
to 6.0--why not? heh--but the installation page in the
handbook just talks about doing it from
scratch. and
On Saturday 26 November 2005 18:34, Derrick MacPherson wrote:
Wow, if I could use that sarcasm to fuel my car I'd be happy. I guess we
would be the only people to run current or stable on a production
machine, and everyone else is using RELEASE? I guess I should have stuck
with 4.1x
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 14:05, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
arden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I want to duel boot BSD with Slackware whats the best Linux file system
to use for reading and write to I would normally use ReiserFS would this
be ok ?
reiserfs support in FreeBSD is read-only at the
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 14:01, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
The ports will continue to work, but you should update them when you
get a chance so that they link against the 6.0 libraries instead of
the old ones.
One exception is nvidia-driver, you must remove the driver from loader.conf
and
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 12:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pick any of them and add it/tem to /etc/ntp.conf, then set up things so
that ntpd is started at boot time and you're set
You really need ntpdate as well, which performs a gross correction during
boot. If you already have ntp
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 14:43, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
I'm not sure when this happened, but I'm not able to use the XVideo
extension enymore. I'm 100% positive that I was able to before, but now
MPlayer wont let me use it. xvinfo also says no adaptors present.
I imagine this might
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 18:53, Vizion wrote:
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 07:16, the author RW contributed to the
dialogue on-
Re: Upgrading to 60 question.:
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 14:01, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
The ports will continue to work, but you should update them when you
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 20:52, Vizion wrote:
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 12:02, the author RW contributed to the
dialogue on-
Re: Upgrading to 60 question.:
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 18:53, Vizion wrote:
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 07:16, the author RW contributed to the
dialogue
On Thursday 01 December 2005 08:16, Matthew Seaman wrote:
Odhiambo Washington wrote:
It's my suspicion that updating 5.4 to 6.0 via CVSup leaves alot of old
libraries in place. Is this anywhere near correct?
...
Is there an easy way to fix them?
...
Software compiled under 5.x will almost
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 13:00, Ashley Moran wrote:
Hello,
When upgrading a machine from FreeBSD 5.4 to 6.0 I came across the problem
of how to re-compile all the ports to use FreeBSD 6 libraries so I can
ditch the compat5x port.
Actually you can ditch it anyway, all of the library are
On Friday 02 December 2005 09:06, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 12:05:11AM -0800, Jose Borquez wrote:
I am attempting to install the cvsup package I downloaded using pkg_add
-r cvsup-without-gui-16.1h_2.tbz, but I keep getting the following error:
Error: FTP Unable to get
On Friday 02 December 2005 19:28, Tuc at T-B-O-H wrote:
Hi,
I was looking to upgrade using the :
http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/gnome_upgrade212.sh
but it tells me that 4.11-STABLE isn't supported. Is there a
procedure to do the upgrade?
If the new version of Gnome
On Saturday 03 December 2005 03:12, RW wrote:
On Friday 02 December 2005 19:28, Tuc at T-B-O-H wrote:
Hi,
I was looking to upgrade using the :
http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/gnome_upgrade212.sh
but it tells me that 4.11-STABLE isn't supported. Is there a
procedure
On Saturday 03 December 2005 19:56, Joerg Pernfuss wrote:
Everybody has to figure out that one for himself, so, here is my
rule of thumb:
Upgrade your ports only when you need to.
If all installed ports work fine and a new version doesn't introduce
some functionality you simply need
On Monday 05 December 2005 10:56, Ashley Moran wrote:
On Sunday 04 December 2005 17:20, ke.han wrote:
I don't want to follow current or stable (I don't think). I just want
security fixes and other changes that might be termed 6.01 if there were
such a thing.
I've always wondered this.
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 05:33, K P wrote:
hello,
i just got AMD Athlon 64bit but i want to know that FreeBSD for AMD64 port
will work at 64bit mode or it is 32bit and just will work in 64bit arch?
i386 works in 32-bit mode, AMD64 works in 64 bit mode.
If it's going to be a desktop, be
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 20:15, Efren Bravo wrote:
Hi,
-Is there a client to access to Informix Server
on freeBSD via PHP?
-Where can I find information about rcNG scripts
because I need to set priority on deamons' loads.
It's all based on PROVIDE, REQUIRE and BEFORE, see rcorder(8).
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 11:36, eoghan wrote:
On 7 Dec 2005, at 11:24, Erik Norgaard wrote:
Have you looked in ~/.thunderbird?
...
this is in /root/.thunderbird
I can't think of any good reason to run thunderbird as root.
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On Wednesday 07 December 2005 21:04, Javier Matos wrote:
Hi, I install FreeBSD 6.0 in my box and create the file xorg.conf.new with
rights values. Then I try it with Xorg -config ... (and it works fine)...
but when I try to start kde (writing kdm in the console as root) the
screen change his
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 23:01, Michael Sherman wrote:
Hello all.
I am trying to get postfix to relay mail through my ISP, without much
luck though.
...
relayhost = smtp.broadband.rogers.com
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtp_sasl_password_maps
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 23:32, Paul Schmehl wrote:
Yahoo wants authentication. Postfix doesn't do smtp-auth between
mailhosts, ...
relay-host smtp-auth is pretty much an essential feature of an MTA these days,
with so many ISP-assigned addresses being on blocklists.
On Thursday 08 December 2005 10:33, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
On 12/8/05, James Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Inside the CHECKSUM.MD5 file, however, it says that its own
checksum should be
MD5 (CHECKSUM.MD5) = 6ee62cd847afff4cadf6648389c67a11
This is interesting; how can the MD5 of
On Saturday 10 December 2005 22:46, Ian Moore wrote:
Hi,
I have mplayer installed and at one stage I installed the mplayer-skins
port as well. Then I got sick of dealing with the skins port being broken a
lot because the source files are often unfetchable, so I removed the port
(I can't
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