Re: resolver problem

2003-06-11 Thread Uwe Doering
exec wrote: It seems I have a problem with resolver. [...] /etc/resolv.conf is right: domain my.uni.org nameserver xx.xx.xx.xx nameserver yy.yy.yy.yy nameserver zz.zz.zz.zz All nameservers are working properly on every other machine. I deleted host.conf file (which was also right) and nothing cha

Re: how to talk to the serial and parallel ports through a C

2003-06-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 11), Bernard Dugas said: > Not sure, but i'm using the serial port only to read and write > electrical values, to command power relays. On mickey systems, serial > drivers are far to complicated for that. > > Did anybody write a simple kernel module doing just that ? > >

Re: how to talk to the serial and parallel ports through a C

2003-06-11 Thread Olivier Nicole
I'll reply on the parallel port: fd_relay=open("/dev/ppi0", O_WRONLY); ioctl(fd_relay, PPISDATA, value) Value being an 8 bits value. That works wonders with the relay card from Quality Kits http://www.qkits.com/serv/qkits/diy/pages/QK74.asp As for the entry, as I only needed 2 contacts, I used

Re: how to talk to the serial and parallel ports through a C

2003-06-11 Thread Bernard Dugas
Hello, Malcolm Kay a écrit : > The i/o space in FreeBSD is normally reserved for management > by the kernel. In my opinion this makes it a real hosted OS rather > than some mickey mouse thing. This is why i'm using FreeBSD :-) > However if a process run by root opens /dev/io then while it is > h

Re: adding script to the startup

2003-06-11 Thread Sunil Sunder Raj
Hi, Put the startup script in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory and give it permissions 755 Regards SSR From: "Anurag Chaudhary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: adding script to the startup Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 09:31:28 +0530 how can I add my script to the startup programs

Re: error on build of jdk13 build

2003-06-11 Thread dave
At 11:32 PM 6/11/2003, you wrote: I have been trying to build jdk13 but I get this error; ===>Verifying install for /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.3.1/bin/javac in /usr/ports/java/linux-sun-jdk13 ===> Extracting for linux-sun-jdk-1.3.1.08 >> Checksum OK for j2sdk-1_3_1_08-linux-i586.bin. ===>

Re: Unicode typing in freebsd?

2003-06-11 Thread Olivier Nicole
> > Is it possible to write unicode characters in freebsd shell and > > xwindows? Of course I can display them, but is there also a tool to > > write for instance vietnamese characters? > > (Please wrap your lines.) > > My experience is with Japanese and a some Chinese, but I'll tell you > what I

Re: Unicode typing in freebsd?

2003-06-11 Thread Joel Rees
> Is it possible to write unicode characters in freebsd shell and xwindows? Of course > I can display them, but is there also a tool to write for instance vietnamese > characters? (Please wrap your lines.) My experience is with Japanese and a some Chinese, but I'll tell you what I can. Any la

Re: Palm USB Cradle Compatability

2003-06-11 Thread David Banning
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 09:20:05PM -0700, Russ Bernhardt wrote: > I can't seem to find any recent (anything from 2003) information as to > whether or not the current release of FreeBSD supports Palms on USB > Cradles running Palm OS 4.0+. I have a Tungsten T with Palm OS 5.0 and a > USB cradle a

error on build of jdk13 build

2003-06-11 Thread David Banning
I have been trying to build jdk13 but I get this error; ===>Verifying install for /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.3.1/bin/javac in /usr/ports/java/linux-sun-jdk13 ===> Extracting for linux-sun-jdk-1.3.1.08 >> Checksum OK for j2sdk-1_3_1_08-linux-i586.bin. ===> linux-sun-jdk-1.3.1.08 depends on

Re: Are there STABLE/CURRENT/RELEASE tags for ports?

2003-06-11 Thread DoubleF
> Are there any equivalents to STABLE/RELEASE/CURRENT for ports? I've been > cvsup'ing with "tag=." for awhile and I keep getting build errors (bug > reports will be filed soon). Is there a way to just track -STABLE ports > (maybe that only have bugfixes and security updates) that are more likely

Palm USB Cradle Compatability

2003-06-11 Thread Russ Bernhardt
I can't seem to find any recent (anything from 2003) information as to whether or not the current release of FreeBSD supports Palms on USB Cradles running Palm OS 4.0+. I have a Tungsten T with Palm OS 5.0 and a USB cradle and would very much like to merge to BSD, but it's an important aspect a

Re: Gated Old version 5 Kernel

2003-06-11 Thread Mike Tancsa
You might also consider looking at Zebra. It works very well under FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x and has better protocol support (RIP, RIPNG, OSPF and BGP) than the old version of gated. ---Mike On Thu, 29 May 2003 14:53:30 -0700, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >On Thu, May 29, 20

Re: * FreeBSD AntiVirus Solutions *

2003-06-11 Thread Olivier Nicole
> i am using the norton av eval version with auto updates > works fine so far, i will let you know when i finish evaluating it. The debate may become OT, but problem with Norton and other McAfee is that updates are committed at a very low frequency (few days?) which leave you with a large risk win

Re: * FreeBSD AntiVirus Solutions *

2003-06-11 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, George Vagner wrote: > i am using the norton av eval version with auto updates > works fine so far, i will let you know when i finish evaluating it. does anyone know where one can get an actual license for this? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: * FreeBSD AntiVirus Solutions *

2003-06-11 Thread George Vagner
i am using the norton av eval version with auto updates works fine so far, i will let you know when i finish evaluating it. i think its uvscan and amavis-perl - Original Message - From: "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 9:50 PM Subje

Re: PPPoE (user ppp) no longer working

2003-06-11 Thread Khairil Yusof
--- Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You forgot to mention what version you're running. > If it's > 5.1-CURRENT, this has been reported by others on the > current@ mailing > list (which you should be reading). Yup.. running 5.1-CURRENT Which I follow and cvs-all. I lost my connection

Re: Starting applications

2003-06-11 Thread Bill Moran
Ken Thompson wrote: I have FreeBSD 5.0 installed and working pretty good but being so new to it I find myself a bit lost. I used the portinstall webmin command and it looked for all the world like it grabbed the package, compiled it and installed it. Now I can't get it to start and can't seem to

Re: * FreeBSD AntiVirus Solutions *

2003-06-11 Thread Bill Moran
Olivier Nicole wrote: We have noticed that Kaspersky and Sophos are placed at your web site but we wonder if we have any other / new alternatives more then these two SW ? We've been using Kaspersky for more than a year, no problem with the product itself, but the sales team is a bit unresponsive (d

XServer Configuration

2003-06-11 Thread Gil Virtucio
Hi, Im using FreeBSD 4.7 Stable in my NEC Versa Note laptop. The Video card is Neomagic Magic Graph 128 XD. My xserver works very fine before when I was still using it's LCD display monitor but when I connected it to a CRT monitor (NEC Multisync xv14) , it displays a message that "INPUT IS OUT

Starting applications

2003-06-11 Thread Ken Thompson
I have FreeBSD 5.0 installed and working pretty good but being so new to it I find myself a bit lost. I used the portinstall webmin command and it looked for all the world like it grabbed the package, compiled it and installed it. Now I can't get it to start and can't seem to find any executible

5.1 and nvidia drivers

2003-06-11 Thread brakje
hi! I have just installed 5.1 on my laptop and everything was going smooth. but when i was trying to install the nvidia drivers for my GF2 go i got stuck. They worked perfectly in 5.0, but now i get some errors while doing "make setup". In 5.1, modules are put in /boot/modules/ instead of /m

Re: fdimage.exe on win 2000

2003-06-11 Thread Matthew Emmerton
> I'm on win 2000 using fdimage.exe from ftp.freebsd.org to make the > kern.flp and mfsroot.flp images to install, but apparently 2000 dosent > like fdimage.exe cause it throws an illegal operation, any ideas or > suggestions? And no, I dont have any 95, 98, ME boxes. Use rawrite.exe (found in the

Re: * FreeBSD AntiVirus Solutions *

2003-06-11 Thread Olivier Nicole
> We have noticed that Kaspersky and Sophos are placed at your web site but we > wonder if we have any other / new alternatives more then these two SW ? We've been using Kaspersky for more than a year, no problem with the product itself, but the sales team is a bit unresponsive (don't expect them

fdimage.exe on win 2000

2003-06-11 Thread Steve
I'm on win 2000 using fdimage.exe from ftp.freebsd.org to make the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp images to install, but apparently 2000 dosent like fdimage.exe cause it throws an illegal operation, any ideas or suggestions? And no, I dont have any 95, 98, ME boxes. Steve ___

Re: network settings auto-config

2003-06-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
John DeStefano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there another file/setting that's being consulted somewhere at boot time? Gary > mentioned it may be due to a smbd, netbios-ssn, or DCHP setting, but he's unfamiliar > with those services. Add some overrides to the dhclient.conf(5) file to put in

Re: arplookup errors

2003-06-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tim Radigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi everyone, I'm getting some arplookup errors here which I think is > the cause of my name server not transferring zone files over to the > slave server. > > Here is my scenario: > > 67.153.114.xx - gateway / nat / firewall / dhcpd server / dns server >

Re: RAID, Vinum and different disksizes

2003-06-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 11 June 2003 at 20:56:22 +0200, Mark Rowlands wrote: > On Tuesday 10 June 2003 2:02 am, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Monday, 9 June 2003 at 17:10:37 +0200, freeBSD wrote: >>> I have three 120GB disks and one 170GB disk. The first three is forming >>> a raid-5 volume using Vinum a

Re: Vinum question

2003-06-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Single line paragraphs. On Wednesday, 11 June 2003 at 10:51:57 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm considering migrating a Linux server over to 4.8-RELEASE. The > Linux server has a bootable software RAID set up, where there

Re: qt compile

2003-06-11 Thread Rohit
Yes I do have QTDIR=/usr/X11R6 exported On Wednesday 11 June 2003 21:42, Andreas Kohn wrote: > Am Wed, 2003-06-11 um 12.25 schrieb Rohit: > > Hi, > > I cant get simple qt helloworld programs to compile. It complains about > > not being able to find qapplication.h and other header files which res

Re: 4.8 to 5.0

2003-06-11 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 11:12:23AM +0200, Doron Shmaryahu wrote: > Hi, > > > > I have been considering upgrading my machine from 4.8 – 5.0. Is it a easy buildworld > or can anyone give me advice on any problems before upgrading. > If i where you i would joing the current maillinglist and the

Re: Changing font sizes in X

2003-06-11 Thread Warren Block
[please wrap your lines at 70 columns or so] On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Phil Gambrel wrote: > Actually it took me nearly a year to work up the courage to start > again at the bottom of the learning curve. I must say, that > installing FreeBSD is not a very user friendly activity. After 3 > failed att

Re: Dynamic DNS (DDNS)

2003-06-11 Thread Murray Taylor
Looks good ... (just hoiked it out of ports with make configure as Im on a work machine and dont need it here) Reads well, great examples within the code ans well as in the support files. On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 17:47, Reed L. O'Brien wrote: > ddclient is in the ports tree and has worked well for

Re: Vinum & Firewire?

2003-06-11 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I was wondering if you've had any time to look at this? If I am a nusiance, please tell me and I'll go away. If you're still extremely busy, I'll continue to wait patiently. Thanks, Drew > On Wednesday, 21 May 2003 at 16:01:17 -0700, Drew Tomlinson > wrote: >> >> - Original Message - >>

Re: Pkgdb corrupted : doesn't recognized installed ports

2003-06-11 Thread Viny
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 12:32:22AM +0200 or thereabouts, Andreas Kohn may have written : > Depending on the amount of missing ports, and the contents of > lost+found, you might be able to move the missing files to their correct > position. (I used a perl script to unconditionally do that, since >

Re: how to talk to the serial and parallel ports through a C

2003-06-11 Thread Guillaume
On 10 June 2003 18:45, Bernard Dugas wrote: > Hi, > > I also did some programming on serial port to control pins with a c > program under linux, but I didn't found any simple way to port it > under freebsd. Any hint ? > > For instance, I need the equivalent of : > inb(adr) > outb(val,adr) > iopl(n)

Re: Pkgdb corrupted : doesn't recognized installed ports

2003-06-11 Thread Andreas Kohn
Am Thu, 2003-06-12 um 00.02 schrieb Viny: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:43:22PM -0400 or thereabouts, Robert Huff may have > written : > > make a copy of the db > > delete the db > > rebuild the db from scratch > > > > The last may take a while, depending on how fast your machine >

Re: Pkgdb corrupted : doesn't recognized installed ports

2003-06-11 Thread Viny
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:43:22PM -0400 or thereabouts, Robert Huff may have written : > make a copy of the db > delete the db > rebuild the db from scratch > > The last may take a while, depending on how fast your machine > is, but it may save you a lot of grief. >

Re: kernel compilation error

2003-06-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 09:20:20AM -0700, Vaida Bogdan wrote: > Please cc this answer to me because I'm not in the > mailling list. > I'm using Freebsd 5.0-RELEASE. I sysinstall > /usr/src/ sys,tools,usr.bin then I cvsup those. I try > to compile the kernel (GENERIC) using: > make buildker

Re: PPPoE (user ppp) no longer working

2003-06-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:31:03PM +0800, Khairil Yusof wrote: > Any help on this would be really appreciated.. I'm clueless right now as > to what's wrong, and dialup is slow and unstable. You forgot to mention what version you're running. If it's 5.1-CURRENT, this has been reported by others on

Re: qt compile

2003-06-11 Thread Andreas Kohn
Am Wed, 2003-06-11 um 12.25 schrieb Rohit: > Hi, > I cant get simple qt helloworld programs to compile. It complains about not > being able to find qapplication.h and other header files which reside in > /usr/X11R6/include on my FreeBSD 4.8 system. > > I have tried using the -I/usr/X11R6/inclu

Re: Soundcard problems [Was: No Subject]

2003-06-11 Thread Andreas Kohn
Hello, Am Wed, 2003-06-11 um 22.03 schrieb tom miller: > i installed bsd 4.8 on a amd 266 with 256 meg orram and > a 10 gig hdd mb mvp3c > installation went smooth > after i got everything configured i started workin on > getting sound installed > i added devicepcm to the config file a

Re: X TrueType font spacing

2003-06-11 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Jesse D. Guardiani thusly... > > parv wrote: > > > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Jesse D. Guardiani > > thusly... > >> > >> EVERY TIME, the WXP fonts will display fine in MOST KDE > >> applications, but occassionally (like in Konqueror) the horizontal >

Re: X TrueType font spacing

2003-06-11 Thread Jesse D. Guardiani
J. Seth Henry wrote: [...] > BTW - it occurs for all truetype fonts - not just the Microsoft TTF files. No sir. Not on my box. The Luxi TrueType font that came with X works fine. No problems whatsoever. > Believe me, I've tried several. The BIGGER problem (at least for Konsole) > is that ther

Re: Checking the clean bit of a filesystem

2003-06-11 Thread Christian Laursen
Justin Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know the easiest way, besides running fsck, to check the > clean bit on a filesystem? I need to check if a filesystem is marked > clean and I do not want to call fsck. If there is not a way through > userland commands to check the clean bit

Re: Xterm won't accept changes to .Xdefaults

2003-06-11 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Fredrik Carlén thusly... > > I even tried "$ xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults" even though I don't know > what it does... >From xrdb(1)... -load This option indicates that the input should be loaded as the new value of the specified properties, repla

Checking the clean bit of a filesystem

2003-06-11 Thread Justin Hopper
Hello, Does anyone know the easiest way, besides running fsck, to check the clean bit on a filesystem? I need to check if a filesystem is marked clean and I do not want to call fsck. If there is not a way through userland commands to check the clean bit, can someone point me in the general direc

Re: Are there STABLE/CURRENT/RELEASE tags for ports?

2003-06-11 Thread Bill Moran
Mark Miller wrote: Hi, Are there any equivalents to STABLE/RELEASE/CURRENT for ports? I've been cvsup'ing with "tag=." for awhile and I keep getting build errors (bug reports will be filed soon). Is there a way to just track -STABLE ports (maybe that only have bugfixes and security updates) that

mplayer subtitle.ttf diff ?

2003-06-11 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I don't get it. Running mplayer on Debian/GNU linux I get a subtitle fontsize that is quit pleasant for the eye, whilst under FreeBSD the (arial) font is much too large. It does not improve if I choose another scale factor. What can I do about this font being too large? I have the same TTF fonts in

Are there STABLE/CURRENT/RELEASE tags for ports?

2003-06-11 Thread Mark Miller
Hi, Are there any equivalents to STABLE/RELEASE/CURRENT for ports? I've been cvsup'ing with "tag=." for awhile and I keep getting build errors (bug reports will be filed soon). Is there a way to just track -STABLE ports (maybe that only have bugfixes and security updates) that are more likely to

Re: CVS Update

2003-06-11 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 12:19:50AM -0800, Joe Pokupec wrote: > Thanks Jonathan! > > I simply used your supfile and changed the host to cvsup16.FreeBSD.org (the > other ones were busy) and: > > Establishing multiplexed-mode data connection > Running > Updating collection src-all/cvs > > Sweet! So

Re: RAID, Vinum and different disksizes

2003-06-11 Thread Mark Rowlands
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 2:02 am, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 9 June 2003 at 17:10:37 +0200, freeBSD wrote: > > I have three 120GB disks and one 170GB disk. The first three is forming > > a raid-5 volume using Vinum and the last one is just fooling around > > without any purpose. > > >

Re: System for generating C/C++ references?

2003-06-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Michal Pasternak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am looking for some sort of software which would allow me > to generate C/C++ (and preferably other languages, like Python > or PHP) references for a given project. Suppose I am browsing > FreeBSD kernel, notice, that a function uses ,,struct somest

Pkgdb corrupted : doesn't recognized installed ports

2003-06-11 Thread Viny
Hi As I was upgrading my ports, my system crashed (have to find out why, but this is another problem) and rebooted. I was using portupgrade and it seems to have messed up the port/pkg db because now, when I run pkgdb -F, it tells me about stale depencies like 'x11-toolkits/vte', 'm

Multiple IP in Jail Patch

2003-06-11 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, Has anyone got the URL of multiple IP's in jail patch? Googling isn't gehelping Thanks Rus -- www: http://www.65535.net | Hosting - Shell Accounts MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Virtual Servers from just $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Community: http://www.65535.org t:

Re: Dynamic DNS (DDNS)

2003-06-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
> Hello. I am on Comcast CABLE and the DHCP lease is > only 4 days to expire, all the time. So my IP changes > every four days. I was wondering in FreeBSD > (FreeBSD4.8) how I can set up Dynamic DNS. I checked > the online docs and I could not find anything on DDNS, > is it some rc.x file or a file

Re: centericq in an xterm

2003-06-11 Thread Adam
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 15:16, Marco Beishuizen wrote: > I tried Eterm and that seems to work, so I'm using that now. But it's > strange that it doesn't work with Xterm. Oh, I didn't even realize you were using xterm. For some reason I read 'aterm'. Anyhow, xterm is crap (too outdated). aterm is a s

Re: centericq in an xterm

2003-06-11 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On stardate Wed, 11 Jun 2003, the wise Adam entered: > iirc, it matters how you start cicq. I think the solution was to launch > it from your window manager using 'aterm -e centericq' .. Of course you > can customize the aterm window, but I think this was the trick to get > the F keys to work. > >

Re: Java support

2003-06-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Augusto Jun Devegili wrote: Hhmm. Does this mean that, if I install a Mozilla binary compiled for Linux, plugins might work? Reportedly, yes. For instance, some people have claimed that running the Linux version of Mozilla and the Macromedia Flash plugin works well for them...so it's worth a tr

Opening & Closing Ports

2003-06-11 Thread Rick
I'm running FreeBSD 4.8 and wanted to know if there was anywhere other than /etc/inetd.conf and /usr/local/rc.d to open and close ports. Thanks Rick ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

Re: System for generating C/C++ references?

2003-06-11 Thread Kenneth Culver
cscope works well for C, don't know about the other ones. Ken On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Michal Pasternak wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking for some sort of software which would allow me > to generate C/C++ (and preferably other languages, like Python > or PHP) references for a given project. Suppose I

Re: X TrueType font spacing

2003-06-11 Thread J. Seth Henry
It isn't just an X problem, it's also a KDE problem. I ran into this recently, after installing some IBM netstations on my network. When I attempted to use anything other than the fixed fonts in Konsole, I would get this strange spacing and video corruption. On my system console, they work fine.

System for generating C/C++ references?

2003-06-11 Thread Michal Pasternak
Hello, I am looking for some sort of software which would allow me to generate C/C++ (and preferably other languages, like Python or PHP) references for a given project. Suppose I am browsing FreeBSD kernel, notice, that a function uses ,,struct somestruct'' as it's parameter. I want to see, what

Re: centericq in an xterm

2003-06-11 Thread Adam
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 14:10, Marco Beishuizen wrote: > I installed CenterICQ under FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE. My problem is that I > can't use my keyboard when CenterICQ runs in an Xterm, pressing keys > doesn't have any effect in CenterICQ. > > Does anyone recognize this problem? What should I do to ma

Re: /etc/motd

2003-06-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hello Everyone, > > I'm running FreeBSD 4.8 and would like to remove the information given > each time I login. I've cleared everything in the /etc/motd, but for some > reason there's some sort of daily tip I'm given after login that isn't > in the /etc/motd. First tip. Please break your

Re: [FAQ answer] cvsup and co/ci

2003-06-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
LuKreme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I grabbed the latest sources for freeBSD 5.1 using cvsup: > > # cat supfile > *default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org > *default prefix=/usr > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup > *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress You want *default tag=. here.

Re: /etc/motd

2003-06-11 Thread Peter Elsner
Edit your .login file Comment out the entry that looks something like this: [ -x /usr/games/fortune ] && /usr/games/fortune -s You can also create an empty file called .hushlogin which will not display anything upon log on. Peter At 11:18 AM 6/11/2003 -0700, you wrote: Hello Everyone, I'm ru

/etc/motd

2003-06-11 Thread Rick
Hello Everyone, I'm running FreeBSD 4.8 and would like to remove the information given each time I login. I've cleared everything in the /etc/motd, but for some reason there's some sort of daily tip I'm given after login that isn't in the /etc/motd. Any help at all would be greatly app

centericq in an xterm

2003-06-11 Thread Marco Beishuizen
I installed CenterICQ under FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE. My problem is that I can't use my keyboard when CenterICQ runs in an Xterm, pressing keys doesn't have any effect in CenterICQ. Does anyone recognize this problem? What should I do to make it work? Thanks, Marco -- "Calling J-Man Kink. Calling

cvsup and co/ci

2003-06-11 Thread LuKreme
I grabbed the latest sources for freeBSD 5.1 using cvsup: # cat supfile *default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org *default prefix=/usr *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress ports-all tag=. src-all once this process completed, all the source files in the /usr/

[no subject]

2003-06-11 Thread tom miller
i installed bsd 4.8 on a amd 266 with 256 meg orram and a 10 gig hdd mb mvp3c installation went smooth after i got everything configured i started workin on getting sound installed i added devicepcm to the config file and i started to recompile after 3 attempts i got error code 1 on umass

Re: Anyone built apache13-modssl since June 04?

2003-06-11 Thread Bill Moran
For the archives ... I'm not sure what was wrong, but I completely reinstalled the machine with FreeBSD 4.8 and the port then built without issue. Not sure what I did to this test machine to cause it to act so, but I hope the production server doesn't have the same problem! Dirk Meyer wrote: Bill M

5.1-RELEASE install giving me random errors

2003-06-11 Thread freebsd
I finally managed to get the first disc of 5.1-RELEASE downloaded and verified the md5 hash for it. I burned the image to a cd and rebooted. I then remembered that my computer for some unknown reason refuses to boot FreeBSD cds (doesn't matter which version, yet it has no problem booting my win2k

Vinum question

2003-06-11 Thread pkddeckard
I'm considering migrating a Linux server over to 4.8-RELEASE. The Linux server has a bootable software RAID set up, where there are three disks configured for a RAID-1 volume, two of which are currently active and one of which serves as a standby disk (to allow for two disk failures in close pr

network settings auto-config

2003-06-11 Thread John DeStefano
As Gary suggested below, I have commented out, clear as day, "# enable dns" in my /etc/ppp/ppp.conf file, but my network settings keep getting hosed each time I reboot! My domain keeps gettting erased from my /etc/resolv.conf, and my /var/log/messages is now being filled with series of messages

Re: gnitiev@nashe.ru

2003-06-11 Thread Joshua Lokken
- Original Message - From: "Matthew Seaman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Supote Leelasupphakorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 3:06 AM Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:13:14AM +0100, Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote: > Hello

Re: Java support

2003-06-11 Thread Michael E. Mercer
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 13:24, Augusto Jun Devegili wrote: > Hhmm. Does this mean that, if I install a Mozilla binary compiled for > Linux, plugins might work? I would assume yes, but do not know for sure... MeM > > Michael E. Mercer wrote: > > Keep in mind that any port with "linux" in the name

qt compile

2003-06-11 Thread Rohit
Hi, I cant get simple qt helloworld programs to compile. It complains about not being able to find qapplication.h and other header files which reside in /usr/X11R6/include on my FreeBSD 4.8 system. I have tried using the -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib flags when I complie with gcc or g

Re: Java support

2003-06-11 Thread Augusto Jun Devegili
Hhmm. Does this mean that, if I install a Mozilla binary compiled for Linux, plugins might work? Michael E. Mercer wrote: Keep in mind that any port with "linux" in the name is a linux binary and runs on FreeBSD under linux emulation. Therefore linux plugins will not run with native applications.

Re: Java support

2003-06-11 Thread Michael E. Mercer
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 11:49, Augusto Jun Devegili wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm using FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE and managed to install JDK 1.4.1. However, > I'm not being able to install the Java plugin for Mozilla. > linux-sun-jdk1.4.1 comes with plugins for netscape (ns4, ns600 and > ns610), but none of

Re: mounting Win with spaces via samba in fstab

2003-06-11 Thread Matthew Emmerton
[top-posting corrected] > Matthew Emmerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> I'm trying to mount a remote Windows directory, which happens to have a > space in its name; "mount -a" returns the following error: > > fstab: /etc/fstab:14: Inappropriate file type or format > > > > I have tried both of the f

Unicode typing in freebsd?

2003-06-11 Thread Alexander Lesch
Hi, Friends I did not find an answer to my question, so I am writing directly to you! Is it possible to write unicode characters in freebsd shell and xwindows? Of course I can display them, but is there also a tool to write for instance vietnamese characters? Thanks for your help! Cu, Alexande

Re: Fork giving error

2003-06-11 Thread Fernando Gleiser
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Sharma, Tarun wrote: > while running a program I found that fork was giving some error. Can anybody > tell me why fork can give error and whats the solution for not getting this > problem ? If any syscall fails, you should look at errno(2) to see why it failed. In the fork c

kernel compilation error

2003-06-11 Thread Vaida Bogdan
Please cc this answer to me because I'm not in the mailling list. I'm using Freebsd 5.0-RELEASE. I sysinstall /usr/src/ sys,tools,usr.bin then I cvsup those. I try to compile the kernel (GENERIC) using: make buildkernel KERNCONF=BUGNERIC and I get the following errors: .c /usr/src/sys/netg

Re: X TrueType font spacing

2003-06-11 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 01:01, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: > Malcolm Kay wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 23:47, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: [...] > > This knocks a big hole in my argument -- Courier is a fixed width font. > > Oh. It is? Ok... > > > I have in the past installed true-type fonts from windows a

Re: Java support

2003-06-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 12:49:12PM -0300, Augusto Jun Devegili wrote: > I'm using FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE and managed to install JDK 1.4.1. However, > I'm not being able to install the Java plugin for Mozilla. > linux-sun-jdk1.4.1 comes with plugins for netscape (ns4, ns600 and > ns610), but none o

RE: Dynamic DNS (DDNS)

2003-06-11 Thread J. Seth Henry
Jay, I'm on Comcast in MD, and my DHCP lease is a bit longer - on the order of 3 months. Not sure if that is because I am a holdover of @Home or what. Just a note of caution, though. Comcast doesn't technically allow any kind of server. They will tolerate SMALL servers that don't generate a lot

Re: Java support

2003-06-11 Thread Augusto Jun Devegili
Hi all, I'm using FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE and managed to install JDK 1.4.1. However, I'm not being able to install the Java plugin for Mozilla. linux-sun-jdk1.4.1 comes with plugins for netscape (ns4, ns600 and ns610), but none of them worked with my Mozilla 1.1. Any ideas? TIA, Augusto ___

spamassassin port not reading local.cf?

2003-06-11 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! I tried asking this on SpamAssassin list and didn't get it solved. Maybe it is something specific to the FreeBSD port of SA. I'm running Postfix 2.07, amavisd-new-20030314.p1 and SpamAssassin 2.53, all installed from ports. Everything works fine, except that SpamAssassin as running via am

Re: Java support

2003-06-11 Thread Juan AMIGUET
Regarding Java support Michael Vest Wrote on 11 Jun 2003, at 8:19: > Dear FreeBSD, > > I am curently running FreeBSD 4.5. I am interested in doing > Java development on FreeBSD. I have installed Java 1.1.8 via the > /usr/ports mechanism. It works fine. However, when I try to make > some of t

Re: X TrueType font spacing

2003-06-11 Thread Jesse D. Guardiani
Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 23:47, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: >> Malcolm Kay wrote: >> > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 22:52, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: >> >> parv wrote: >> >> > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Jesse D. Guardiani >> >> > thusly... [...] >> >> >> Perhaps I should subscribe

Re: Java support

2003-06-11 Thread Rohit
Yes, when you try to make install the ports you should be asked to download source files. The urls to download these files are printed out. Just follow the instructions and download the required files and place them in /usr/ports/distfiles Then take a long coffee break and let it all compile an

Re: Dynamic DNS (DDNS)

2003-06-11 Thread Mark Atkinson
Jay Buhrt wrote: only 4 days to expire, all the time. So my IP changes Don't forget to use something like: send dhcp-lease-time 31449600 in your dhclient.conf to try to get a year's lease time up front. Some servers wont give it to you, but you don't know until you try... --- Mark atkin901 at N

Re: Java support

2003-06-11 Thread Michael E. Mercer
I would suggest you fully read these pages... http://www.freebsd.org/java after that, to get a usable jdk14 upgrade freebsd to 4.8-Stable. later MeM On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 11:19, Michael Vest wrote: > Dear FreeBSD, > > I am curently running FreeBSD 4.5. I am interested in doing > Java

Java support

2003-06-11 Thread Michael Vest
Dear FreeBSD, I am curently running FreeBSD 4.5. I am interested in doing Java development on FreeBSD. I have installed Java 1.1.8 via the /usr/ports mechanism. It works fine. However, when I try to make some of the later versions of Java (1.2, 1.3, and 1.4), I get errors during the make pro

Re: mounting Win with spaces via samba in fstab

2003-06-11 Thread John DeStefano
I'm afraid you may be right, Matt. I found the following in "man fstab 5": "If a program needs the character special file name, the pro- gram must create it by appending a ``r'' after the last ``/'' in the spe- cial file name." ...but that didn't seem to help. The mount_smbfs command seem

Re: USB keyboard and KVM

2003-06-11 Thread Scott Saunders
On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 08:10 PM, Ian Dowse wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Saunders w rites: ... I can SSH in (and maybe this will be the permanent solution). If I run kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd0 < /dev/ttyv0 while it's 'locked up' I get: kbdcontrol: cannot open /dev/kbd0: Device

make buildworld failed

2003-06-11 Thread Гнитиёв Виктор
Hi, All. On my machine with FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE I was done next steps: Edit /usr/local/etc/CVSUP.conf for next settings: *default host=cvsup4.ru.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/cvsup *default prefix=/var/cvsup *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 *default delete use-rel-suffix #*default compress src

Re: X TrueType font spacing

2003-06-11 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 23:47, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: > Malcolm Kay wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 22:52, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: > >> parv wrote: > >> > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Jesse D. Guardiani > >> > thusly... > >> > > >> >> EVERY TIME, the WXP fonts will display fine in MOST KDE

Re: mounting Win with spaces via samba in fstab

2003-06-11 Thread Matthew Emmerton
> I'm trying to mount a remote Windows directory, which happens to have a space in its name; "mount -a" returns the following error: > fstab: /etc/fstab:14: Inappropriate file type or format > > I have tried both of the following formats: > //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Win\ Partition /mountpoint smbfs

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