terabyte limit

2003-09-05 Thread Shawn Ostapuk
I have around 10 IDE drives which add up to over a terabyte. My goal is to use them all as one big drive using any means necessary (I have a backup so redundency is not needed, only space in this situation) I used to use vinum (and still would like to), i hit the terabyte limit with UFS and was to

Re: 20TB Storage System

2003-09-05 Thread Terry Lambert
David Gilbert wrote: > > "Poul-Henning" == Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Poul-Henning> I am not sure I would advocate 64k blocks yet. > Poul-Henning> I tend to stick with 32k block, 4k fragment myself. > > That reminds me... has anyone thought of designing the system to have

Re: mplayer one last time :(

2003-09-05 Thread Matthew Emmerton
[ corrected top-posting ] > On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:25:52 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote > > In the last episode (Sep 05), Monah Baki said: > > > Hi, sorry for being ignorant, but I don't want to switch to another > > > OS if freebsd can do the job. > > > > > > Based on the advices I installed the followin

Re: rsync problem

2003-09-05 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 05:34, Jim Durham wrote: > On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:59 am, Malcolm Kay wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 23:27, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > > > Hello > > > > > > I'm using rsync to sort of mirror two 40GB disks (once a day). > > > All partitions work as expected, but root is weird

Need help with ATI Radeon 9200

2003-09-05 Thread David Loszewski
I just bought a ATI Radeon 9200, XFree86.org says that XFree86 4.3.0 will handle any radeon card however I can't get mine to work correctly under FreeBSD 4.8 or 5.1. The only driver I could get it to work with is the "vesa" driver, and as you can image it looks like crap. Could someone provide me

Re: mplayer one last time :(

2003-09-05 Thread Monah Baki
When I choose a trailer I get the following error message on my xterm: To get best performance recompile mplayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection Reading config file /usr/local/share/mplayer/mplayer.conf: no such file or directory Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config reading /root/.mplayer

Re: FBSD equivalent to Linux cp -u

2003-09-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Charles Howse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have read man cp, and I don't see a way to copy source file to > destination file *only* if source file is newer than destination file. > > In Linux, I could do cp -u. Is there another utility that can pull this > off? In sh(1), it should be as si

RE: Strange Mouse issue

2003-09-05 Thread Dragoncrest
Try using the script configuration (I forget which option (#3 I think)) for X instead of the gui or ncurses based tools. This fixed the issue on the 5.1 install I was playing with a few days ago (be sure to specify "/dev/sysmouse" and "auto" as Daniela suggested when doing this as well).

diablo-jdk1.3.1 oesn't work for me.

2003-09-05 Thread Vlad D. Markov
Looks like this works for others, any clue to my problem appreciated? I downloaded and installed diablo-jdk1.3.1. I try to run the jfc demo Notepad (java -jar Notepad.jar) and get the following results: SIGILL4* illegal instruction Full thread dump Classic VM (diablo-1.3.1-0, green thread

"The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

2003-09-05 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inev

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2003-09-05 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2003/03/09 22:09:31 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that at

Re: Possible errors in FreeBSD 5.1

2003-09-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Jerry McAllister wrote: > > >>I have come accross a few possible bugs or errors while using FreeBSD > >>5.1-Current. I wrote them down and thought I would at least pass on the > >>information per chance it would help someone, etc. I know that some of > >>the errors could just be me, etc. >

PAM, X11, and su as a normal user?

2003-09-05 Thread Robert Huff
Steven G. Kargl writes: > I've tried using "xhost sgk@", but this doesn't work. > The only thing I can think of that may need to be > configured is PAM, but the documentation is rather > incomplete. So, anyone know how to setup su to > permit sgk to use X clients? "xhost +inet:" wo

Re: mplayer one last time :(

2003-09-05 Thread Lee Harr
Hi, sorry for being ignorant, but I don't want to switch to another OS if freebsd can do the job. Based on the advices I installed the following on Freebsd 5.1: multimedia/openquicktime multimedia/mplayer www/mplayer-plugin www/mozilla (1.4) www/mplayer-fonts Still can't get mplayer working. I have

RE: Help!!! Problems with dhclient....

2003-09-05 Thread Christopher W Rueber
Sorry for my lack of knowledge.. But.. I'm pretty new to FreeBSD I'll admit, but I'm definitely using it. Anyways, the last LINUX Distro that I installed (Slackware and Red Hat both used that, I believe), used tulip.o, so I assumed FreeBSD did as well, since it actually didn't let me tell it which

Re: Possible errors in FreeBSD 5.1

2003-09-05 Thread James Leone
Jerry McAllister wrote: I have come accross a few possible bugs or errors while using FreeBSD 5.1-Current. I wrote them down and thought I would at least pass on the information per chance it would help someone, etc. I know that some of the errors could just be me, etc. FreeBSD 5.1-Current Pos

Re: Help!!! Problems with dhclient....

2003-09-05 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Christopher W Rueber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [05/09/03 18:40]: > I have looked through all the help files that I can find, handbook and > such (along with the Complete FreeBSD book).. And I just can't seem to > solve this problem: > > I am setting up high speed internet for a Cable Modem. M

Help!!! Problems with dhclient....

2003-09-05 Thread Christopher W Rueber
I have looked through all the help files that I can find, handbook and such (along with the Complete FreeBSD book).. And I just can't seem to solve this problem: I am setting up high speed internet for a Cable Modem. My cable provider uses a DHCP setup, thus I have to use dhclient. I am running an

customizing the apache2 port

2003-09-05 Thread dave
Hello, I'd like to customize the apache2 port install. I'd like to use my own layout file and to add some additional compile-time options. I've catted my custom layout file on to the end of work/httpd-2.0.47/config.layout and changed the layout option in the Makefile to reflect that change and

Re: 5.1 & WD 80.0GB SE Drive Geometry

2003-09-05 Thread James Leone
Jim wrote: Let me start by qualifying I am extremely new to FreeBSD (I have performed a whopping two installs thus far). I am looking to fire up a machine with a single western digital special edition 80GB IDE drive for simple storage and testing. The BIOS detects the correct geometry for the driv

Re: CUPS, foomatic-rip, 4.8 RELEASE (was: How to get CUPS to work)

2003-09-05 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Todd Stephens wrote: > On Friday 05 September 2003 09:59 am, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > >> I hope the above information is useful to someone. It MAY NOT >> be 100% complete. I was very tired when I took the above notes. >> Please write me and let me know if you had to add anything or >> do anything

Keyboard lockup during install problem

2003-09-05 Thread Brian Scott Adams
Hello, I'm having a problem installing the latest FreeBSD version on an HP Pavilion 9795c machine. I've downloaded the ISO images and wrote them onto a CD, then I attempted to install it. It'll start to install, but it seems to lockup my keyboard. I currently have a couple of Linux and a

Re: CUPS, foomatic-rip, 4.8 RELEASE (was: How to get CUPS to work)

2003-09-05 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Mark Terribile wrote: > >> > ... but here are the ADDITIONAL things I had to >> > do to get the cups port/package working properly >> > under FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE: (This may not all be >> > necessary under 4.8-RELEASE. YMMV.) >> >> Ah, yes. I think I forg

Re: mplayer one last time :(

2003-09-05 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:26:19 -0400 "Monah Baki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, sorry for being ignorant, but I don't want to switch to another OS if > freebsd can do the job. > > Based on the advices I installed the following on Freebsd 5.1: > > multimedia/openquicktime > multimedia/mplayer

RE: 5.1 & WD 80.0GB SE Drive Geometry

2003-09-05 Thread Jim
> -Original Message- > From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 4:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: 5.1 & WD 80.0GB SE Drive Geometry > > > > > > Let me start by qualifying I am extremely new to FreeBSD (I > have

FBSD equivalent to Linux cp -u

2003-09-05 Thread Charles Howse
Hi, I have read man cp, and I don't see a way to copy source file to destination file *only* if source file is newer than destination file. In Linux, I could do cp -u. Is there another utility that can pull this off? Thanks, Charles Got a computer with idle CPU time? Join [EMAIL PROTECTED] and

Re: PAM, X11, and su as a normal user?

2003-09-05 Thread Steven G. Kargl
Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:18:40PM -0700, Steven G. Kargl wrote: > > After a few hours of frustation, it's time to ask a question. > > > > I have 2 accounts on my machine. I use startx to start > > X11 as user kargl. If I then su to user sgk, I cannot > > fire up X client

Re: CUPS, foomatic-rip, 4.8 RELEASE (was: How to get CUPS to work)

2003-09-05 Thread Todd Stephens
On Friday 05 September 2003 09:59 am, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > I hope the above information is useful to someone. It MAY NOT > be 100% complete. I was very tired when I took the above notes. > Please write me and let me know if you had to add anything or > do anything different from the above. But

Re: 20TB Storage System

2003-09-05 Thread David Schultz
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003, David Gilbert wrote: > > "Poul-Henning" == Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Poul-Henning> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Petri Helenius > Poul-Henning> writes: > >> fsck problem should be gone with less inodes and less blocks since > >> if I read the cod

Re: AVI format in FBSD

2003-09-05 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 19:41:40 +0400 Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All!!! > > Does FBSD support AVI format files? > I can't open avi files, but why? > What I can do to play avi? It is not the job of the OS to support media files and the likes. Stuff like this is best left to userland/

Re: CUPS, foomatic-rip, 4.8 RELEASE (was: How to get CUPS to work)

2003-09-05 Thread Todd Stephens
On Friday 05 September 2003 02:39 pm, Mark Terribile wrote: > > ... but here are the ADDITIONAL things I had to > > do to get the cups port/package working properly > > under FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE: (This may not all be > > necessary under 4.8-RELEASE. YMMV.) > > Ah, yes. I think I forgot to add that

Re: 5.1 & WD 80.0GB SE Drive Geometry

2003-09-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Let me start by qualifying I am extremely new to FreeBSD (I have performed a > whopping two installs thus far). > > I am looking to fire up a machine with a single western digital special > edition 80GB IDE drive for simple storage and testing. > > The BIOS detects the correct geometry for t

Re: Possible errors in FreeBSD 5.1

2003-09-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > I have come accross a few possible bugs or errors while using FreeBSD > 5.1-Current. I wrote them down and thought I would at least pass on the > information per chance it would help someone, etc. I know that some of > the errors could just be me, etc. > > FreeBSD 5.1-Current Possible bugs

Re: using FreeBSD plus KDE as a kiosk

2003-09-05 Thread Paul Murphy
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 16:42:36 -0500 "Matt Hartzell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am interested in using FreeBSD and KDE as a semi-publicly accessible > internet terminal. I have a web-based application that I would like > to run from this type of setup. > > Does anyone have any experience using

configuring a firewire scanner

2003-09-05 Thread Mark Diekhans
I would like to get a firewire scanner working on FreeBSD 5.1. It seems that the approach to this is to use the pt driver via sbp. The scanner is recognized, however sbp gets attached to pass0 (pt is linked in the kernel). I been digging through the code, but have not yet come to an understandin

Re: virus scan programs

2003-09-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Dear freeBSD enthusiast, > Greetings. I am a newcomer to the BSD/Unix world. My place of > employment is a large agency with thousands of client machines. Most of > the clients use Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional operating system. Most > of the servers use either Novell operating

Possible errors in FreeBSD 5.1

2003-09-05 Thread James Leone
I have come accross a few possible bugs or errors while using FreeBSD 5.1-Current. I wrote them down and thought I would at least pass on the information per chance it would help someone, etc. I know that some of the errors could just be me, etc. FreeBSD 5.1-Current Possible bugs: 1. When I in

Re: mplayer one last time :(

2003-09-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 05), Monah Baki said: > Hi, sorry for being ignorant, but I don't want to switch to another > OS if freebsd can do the job. > > Based on the advices I installed the following on Freebsd 5.1: > > multimedia/openquicktime > multimedia/mplayer > www/mplayer-plugin > www/mozi

RE: Strange Mouse issue

2003-09-05 Thread Jim
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Daniela > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 3:49 PM > To: Dragoncrest; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Strange Mouse issue > > > On Friday 05 September 2003 18:18, Dragoncrest wrote: > > Recently I had my

5.1 & WD 80.0GB SE Drive Geometry

2003-09-05 Thread Jim
Let me start by qualifying I am extremely new to FreeBSD (I have performed a whopping two installs thus far). I am looking to fire up a machine with a single western digital special edition 80GB IDE drive for simple storage and testing. The BIOS detects the correct geometry for the drive, and bot

Re: mplayer one last time :(

2003-09-05 Thread Monah Baki
I got it running in Linux all I need to is to compile the following: openquicktime-1.0-src.tar win32codecs.tar MPlayer-0.91.tar.bz2 mplayerplug-in-0.80.tar.gz mini.tar.bz2 Blue-1.0.tar qt6dlls.tar.bz2 Those too are the same files that freebsd looks for, but all I get is a white dialog box sa

Re: mplayer one last time :(

2003-09-05 Thread James Leone
Monah Baki wrote: Hi, sorry for being ignorant, but I don't want to switch to another OS if freebsd can do the job. Based on the advices I installed the following on Freebsd 5.1: multimedia/openquicktime multimedia/mplayer www/mplayer-plugin www/mozilla (1.4) www/mplayer-fonts Still can't get mp

Re: rsync install help

2003-09-05 Thread Andrew Y Ng
I would also look into keychain, this way u won't have to have a passphrase-less ssh key... i rsync a bunch of stuff in cron with ssh and keychain: 25 2 * * * . ~/.ssh-agent-${HOSTNAME} && rsync -av /foo/* bar.foo.com:foo/ /ayn On 0, Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri,

Re: Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions.

2003-09-05 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Michael Vondung wrote: > Hello! Howdy, Michael. > My apologies for the length of this post. Summary: 4.x or 5.x for a > desktop machine, disk partitioning for a workstation, miscellaneous > installation questions. > > Okay, the details! Now that I have my local FreeBSD server (mail/news, > rou

mplayer one last time :(

2003-09-05 Thread Monah Baki
Hi, sorry for being ignorant, but I don't want to switch to another OS if freebsd can do the job. Based on the advices I installed the following on Freebsd 5.1: multimedia/openquicktime multimedia/mplayer www/mplayer-plugin www/mozilla (1.4) www/mplayer-fonts Still can't get mplayer working. I

Re: ipfilter vs. firewall appliance

2003-09-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
Well, if you can, crack open a "hardware" firewall like a Cisco PIX. You will recognize a LOT of what is in there and you will be very surprised. I have hardware in quotes because the only real differentiator is that PCs have hard drives for storage, these unit dont. Yes, some will have speci

disk problem ATA => DMA problem fallback to POI mode

2003-09-05 Thread Dan Langille
Please CC me on replies. I arrived home this afternoon to find a box had rebooted and is having trouble with its IDE drive. A screen shot is at http://www.freebsddiary.org/tmp/ata-failure.jpg My current plan: 1 - add a new IDE drive 2 - install FreeBSD on that 3 - run "fsck -y" each on each vo

FibreChannel Adapter support

2003-09-05 Thread Aidan Hayes
Hi I would appreciate any feedback/confirmation on FibreChannel HBA support (Qlogic, Emulex, etc), under FreeBSD versions 4.8 or higher. Best RegardsAidan Hayes RAIDTEC Corporation Aidan Hayes Raidtec Corporation Castle Road, Little Island, Cork, IRELAND Tel: +353-21-43

ipfilter vs. firewall appliance

2003-09-05 Thread Redmond Militante
hi i have an ipfilter/ipnat box, that i'm using to protect an apache webserver. the machine is 4.7-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p3 #1: Mon Aug 11 18:27:06 CDT 2003. the machine is a dell optiplex gx260 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz 512 mb of ram. it's been doing a fine job. i'd like to ge

Re: PAM, X11, and su as a normal user?

2003-09-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:18:40PM -0700, Steven G. Kargl wrote: > After a few hours of frustation, it's time to ask a question. > > I have 2 accounts on my machine. I use startx to start > X11 as user kargl. If I then su to user sgk, I cannot > fire up X clients. For example, > > troutmask:ka

Re: rsync problem

2003-09-05 Thread Jim Durham
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:59 am, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 23:27, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > > Hello > > > > I'm using rsync to sort of mirror two 40GB disks (once a day). > > All partitions work as expected, but root is weird (and as you > > can see below, I sort of made it too sm

Re: rsync install help

2003-09-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 02:39:27PM -0400, Brent Bailey wrote: > Im using FBSD 4.8rc1 ..IM getting ready to install rsync to help with > mirroring to another redundant FBSD box. I was wondering if anyone could > point me a a good howto for this ? Oooh... an easy one. # cd /usr/ports/net/rsync

Re: sharing FW drive w/OS-X

2003-09-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hi, > > I've been battling this for some time, and I figured perhaps someone here > has done this already. I have a 60GB IDE drive in a firewire enclosure. > Works great w/FreeBSD. It's partitioned like so: > > Offset Size(ST)End Name PType Desc Subtype > Flags >

Re: Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions.

2003-09-05 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Michael Vondung wrote: > Partitions > > If anything brings out the perfectionist in me, it is figuring out how to > partition a disk. What I have in mind for the 80GB FreeBSD disk for the > workstation is this: > > / = 512MB (too spacey, but that should be plenty for future rel

Re: sharing FW drive w/OS-X

2003-09-05 Thread Marc Wiz
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:52:30PM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: > Hi, > > I've been battling this for some time, and I figured perhaps someone here > has done this already. I have a 60GB IDE drive in a firewire enclosure. > Works great w/FreeBSD. It's partitioned like so: > > Offset Si

sharing FW drive w/OS-X

2003-09-05 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi, I've been battling this for some time, and I figured perhaps someone here has done this already. I have a 60GB IDE drive in a firewire enclosure. Works great w/FreeBSD. It's partitioned like so: Offset Size(ST)End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 6

Re: virus scan programs

2003-09-05 Thread Jim Durham
On Friday 05 September 2003 12:32 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear freeBSD enthusiast, > Greetings. I am a newcomer to the BSD/Unix world. My place > of employment is a large agency with thousands of client machines. > Most of the clients use Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional > operat

Re: CUPS, foomatic-rip, 4.8 RELEASE (was: How to get CUPS to work)

2003-09-05 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Mark Terribile wrote: > > ... but here are the ADDITIONAL things I had to > > do to get the cups port/package working properly > > under FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE: (This may not all be > > necessary under 4.8-RELEASE. YMMV.) > > Ah, yes. I think I forgot to add that I had to > chang

Re: 20TB Storage System

2003-09-05 Thread Andrew J Caines
[Warning: semi-useless information ahead] On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 11:06:15AM +, Geoff Buckingham wrote: > However I just read the newfs man page and am intrigued to know what effect > the -g and -h options have Somewhere in -STABLE between 4.8-RELEASE and a month or so ago I recreated a f

Re: Necessary code or trash?

2003-09-05 Thread Daniela
On Monday 28 August 2028 17:52, Denis Troshin wrote: > Hi! > > I have FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE. > > Why most of bin (sbin) utilities are so big. > > For example, > > rm - 410 268 bytes, > mv - 407 568 bytes, > date - 423 748 bytes. > > Do they really contain only necessary code or > have more tha

PAM, X11, and su as a normal user?

2003-09-05 Thread Steven G. Kargl
After a few hours of frustation, it's time to ask a question. I have 2 accounts on my machine. I use startx to start X11 as user kargl. If I then su to user sgk, I cannot fire up X clients. For example, troutmask:kargl[202] su sgk Password: troutmask:sgk[201] gnuplot Terminal type set to 'x11'

Re: CUPS, foomatic-rip, 4.8 RELEASE (was: How to get CUPS to work)

2003-09-05 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Mark Terribile wrote: > > >> ... but here are the ADDITIONAL things I had to >> do to get the cups port/package working properly >> under FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE: (This may not all be >> necessary under 4.8-RELEASE. YMMV.) > > Ah, yes. I think I forgot to add that I had to > change the lpd_progra

Re: Two X sessions on one machine???

2003-09-05 Thread Shantanu Mahajan
+-- KroNiC~BSD [freebsd] [04-09-03 09:36 IST]: | Is it possible to have more that one X session running on the same | machine? The problem is if i want to create a remote X connection to my | linux machine via my Freebsd machine i have to kill the current running | LOCAL X session first.then i

Re: Strange Mouse issue

2003-09-05 Thread Daniela
On Friday 05 September 2003 18:18, Dragoncrest wrote: > Recently I had my BSD install go totally down in flames with a smashing > finale where it exploded into a billion pieces and wafted off into > oblivion. (blame the hardware, not me.) Anywho, I've since resurrected > the box but with one stra

Re: CUPS, foomatic-rip, 4.8 RELEASE (was: How to get CUPS to work)

2003-09-05 Thread Mark Terribile
> ... but here are the ADDITIONAL things I had to > do to get the cups port/package working properly > under FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE: (This may not all be > necessary under 4.8-RELEASE. YMMV.) Ah, yes. I think I forgot to add that I had to change the lpd_program variable in /etc/rc.conf : /etc/

rsync install help

2003-09-05 Thread Brent Bailey
Im using FBSD 4.8rc1 ..IM getting ready to install rsync to help with mirroring to another redundant FBSD box. I was wondering if anyone could point me a a good howto for this ? any and all help is greatly appreciated -- Brent Bailey CCNA Bmyster LLC Computer Networking and Webhosting Network Eng

Re: AVI format in FBSD

2003-09-05 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
On Friday 05 September 2003 17:41, Denis wrote: > Hi All!!! > > Does FBSD support AVI format files? > I can't open avi files, but why? > What I can do to play avi? AVI is just a "container" so you don't know which codec is used. Try mplayer (/usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer). It uses win32codec

Re: I need to control a bunch of files.

2003-09-05 Thread Mark Terribile
Vitali Malicky writes > I need to control a bunch of files. > As soon as any of these files changes it should > be immediately rechecked and correct chmod and > chown reset on this file(s). > I'd like them to be controlled by a process which > would monitor any possible changes in these files >

Re: AVI format in FBSD

2003-09-05 Thread Guilmot Mike
On Friday 05 September 2003 17:41, Denis wrote: > Hi All!!! > > Does FBSD support AVI format files? > I can't open avi files, but why? > What I can do to play avi? I guess you mean DivX ? Xvid should work already in FreeBSD (i'm not sure, but I think). For DivX you have to install the DivX

AVI format in FBSD

2003-09-05 Thread Denis
Hi All!!! Does FBSD support AVI format files? I can't open avi files, but why? What I can do to play avi? -- Best regards, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Strange Mouse issue

2003-09-05 Thread Guilmot Mike
On Friday 05 September 2003 20:18, Dragoncrest wrote: > Recently I had my BSD install go totally down in flames with a smashing > finale where it exploded into a billion pieces and wafted off into > oblivion. (blame the hardware, not me.) Anywho, I've since resurrected > the box but with one stra

Strange Mouse issue

2003-09-05 Thread Dragoncrest
Recently I had my BSD install go totally down in flames with a smashing finale where it exploded into a billion pieces and wafted off into oblivion. (blame the hardware, not me.) Anywho, I've since resurrected the box but with one strange little quirk. The mouse freaks out like a cat on crack.

bug in sh or misinterpretation?

2003-09-05 Thread The Anarcat
[please CC, I don't follow -questions] Hello! I've been struggling with an odd quirk in sh(1). Here is my sample code: --- 8< cut here 8< --- cleanup () { echo "cleaning up $pid" kill $pid } ( echo "in subshell" tail -f /etc/motd & pid=$! trap cleanup 1 2 15 wait $pi

Re: process memory peak recording

2003-09-05 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Jesse Guardiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> During a recent programming/installation >> project, I found myself wanting to know >> the peak memory usage of a given command/process. >> >> Is there any way to gather this information >> without recompiling an applicatio

Re: mergemaster fails when building temproot

2003-09-05 Thread Michael E. Mercer
Thanks, that was it! later Michael On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 13:31, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote: > > mergemaster fails saying freebsd.cf does not exist when > > building temproot. > > > > Have I missed something here? > > You need to install the new version of mergemaster before > running it. _

Re: converting internet addresses

2003-09-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "What is the difference between what I am telling the DNS server and outgoing gateway router to do when I enter into my browser address box 'http://www.bsdcon.kwiki.org' and when I enter into my browser address box 'http://bsdcon.kwiki.org'?" In this particular case, there

Re: mergemaster fails when building temproot

2003-09-05 Thread Gregory Neil Shapiro
> mergemaster fails saying freebsd.cf does not exist when > building temproot. > > Have I missed something here? You need to install the new version of mergemaster before running it. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: converting internet addresses

2003-09-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 12:00 PM Subject: converting internet addresses > Dear BSD enthusiast, > Greetings. I am a newcomer to the BSD/Unix world. See below. > My question is this: "What is the difference between > what I am tell

mergemaster fails when building temproot

2003-09-05 Thread Michael E. Mercer
Hello peoples, mergemaster fails saying freebsd.cf does not exist when building temproot. Have I missed something here? Thanks Michael Mercer cd /usr/src/etc/sendmail; make distribution install -C -o root -g wheel -m 644 /usr/src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc freebsd.cf /var/tmp/temproot/etc/mail in

Re: process memory peak recording

2003-09-05 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:03:31AM -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote: [...] > Another approach that occurred to me might be feasible would be to use > the limits(1) facility to set a maximum virtual memory size for the > process. Then do a binary search to find the smallest v

Re: ssh problem

2003-09-05 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 05 September 2003 12:09 pm, Alex Zivenko wrote: > All known utility ssh. > How can I configure it? > I have one FreeBSD 4.8 machine in my net. I need to setup an ssh access > there for some win-users. I use telneat for it. > > I have a problem with it. When I'm trying to connect to this

Re: help me please

2003-09-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
RAMILISAONA Lova wrote: How can I read with Windows 95 the SGML files about the FreeBSD docs ? I think you might be able to get Mozilla to do a reasonable job displaying raw XML or SGML files, but if you simply want to read the documentation on a Win95 box, using the HMTL or PDF versions would be

Re: virus scan programs

2003-09-05 Thread Marc Ramirez
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear freeBSD enthusiast, > Greetings. I am a newcomer to the BSD/Unix world. My place of > employment is a large agency with thousands of client machines. Most of > the clients use Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional operating system. Most > o

converting internet addresses

2003-09-05 Thread Lee_Shackelford
Dear BSD enthusiast, Greetings. I am a newcomer to the BSD/Unix world. On Wednesday, a message was posted on FreeBSD-Announce by Mr. Nik Clayton announcing the creation of a wiki site for the upcoming BSD convention. He gave the address as follows: "http://bsdcon.kwiki.org/";. In attempti

ssh problem

2003-09-05 Thread Alex Zivenko
All known utility ssh. How can I configure it? I have one FreeBSD 4.8 machine in my net. I need to setup an ssh access there for some win-users. I use telneat for it. I have a problem with it. When I'm trying to connect to this machine I' got an error, which tells me something about DSA key. It

Re: virus scan programs

2003-09-05 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 09/05/03 09:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sat at the `puter and typed: > Dear freeBSD enthusiast, > Greetings. I am a newcomer to the BSD/Unix world. My place of > employment is a large agency with thousands of client machines. Most of > the clients use Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional ope

samba ldap+unix password sync

2003-09-05 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi ! I know this question isn't FreeBSD specific, but all the scripts I tried to achieve what I need only seem to work under Linux. I have a FreeBSD-5.1-p2+pam_ldap+nss_ldap+openldap+samba (with ldap support). Ldap authentication works for both unix and samba accounts. What I need is a way of sy

Re: virus scan programs

2003-09-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
> If so, could you describe the Unix/BSD approach to > locating and eradicating these invaders of one's hard drive? If the issue > is already explained in either printed literature, or posted at a world > wide web site, it is sufficient to cite the location. Many thanks for your > response. > Th

Re: virus scan programs

2003-09-05 Thread Adam McLaurin
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 12:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear freeBSD enthusiast, > Greetings. I am a newcomer to the BSD/Unix world. My place of > employment is a large agency with thousands of client machines. Most of > the clients use Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional operating system.

Re: some linux advice !!!

2003-09-05 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003, Sweetleaf wrote: >I am planning on setting up a host which has several OS's via >VMware-4.x. Vmware-4 only runs on linux, so the host OS has to be linux >according to their website and i suppose i will have freebsd etc.. as the >guest. > >so my questions is, which linux d

virus scan programs

2003-09-05 Thread Lee_Shackelford
Dear freeBSD enthusiast, Greetings. I am a newcomer to the BSD/Unix world. My place of employment is a large agency with thousands of client machines. Most of the clients use Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional operating system. Most of the servers use either Novell operating system, or I.

Re: Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions.

2003-09-05 Thread Andy Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- ~ On 05-Sep-2003, Michael Vondung wrote message "Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions." ~ > 4.8 or 5.1? > I have 4.8 at work, and 5 a

Re: Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions.

2003-09-05 Thread Jud
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 17:01:41 +0200, "Michael Vondung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello! > > My apologies for the length of this post. Summary: 4.x or 5.x for a > desktop > machine, disk partitioning for a workstation, miscellaneous installation > questions. Replying to selected bits - [snip] > 4.

Re: Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions.

2003-09-05 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 05 September 2003 10:01 am, Michael Vondung wrote: > Hello! > > My apologies for the length of this post. Summary: 4.x or 5.x for a desktop > machine, disk partitioning for a workstation, miscellaneous installation > questions. > > Okay, the details! Now that I have my local FreeBSD serve

802.11g and FreeBSD based access point ...

2003-09-05 Thread Vledder, Hans
All, I am considering building a 802.11g FreeBSD access point. I've read that I will need a network adapter that supports hostap (access point mode). Does anyone known a brand/model (PCI) that's being supported by FreeBSD ? Regards, Hans Vledder -- The contents of this e-mail are intended for

Re: VNC & ssh tunneling problem: getsockopt TCP_NODELAY error

2003-09-05 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:03:21 +0100 (BST), Jan Grant wrote: > OK, two other things (increasingly bizarre) occur to me; after that, I'm > stumped: > > 1. tcp wrappers or similar on your vnc? On the FreeBSD system? No. Well, not that I know of. I have not configured to use tcp wrappers w/ VNC so if

how to check which COM port modem is connected to?

2003-09-05 Thread Tadimeti Keshav
Hi folks, how can I check which COM port the modem is connected to? Please help. I need to set up internet connectivity. Thanks in advance AMIT Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger

Re: Cyrus Imapd install

2003-09-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:54:53PM +0100, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having some problems configuring /usr/ports/mail/cyrus-imapd22 > The port installs ok, but I can't seem to start it. Running > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/imapd.sh.sample produces the following output: > > .: Can't open %%RC

OpenGroupWare build failed

2003-09-05 Thread Kliment Andreev
I am trying to build OpenGroupware from sources. Using: FreeBSD 4.7 GNU Make 3.79.1 gcc 2.95.4 Everything went fine until I've tried to build SKYRIX Core Libraires # gmake -s nosasl=yes debug=yes install NGActiveSocket.m: In function `-[NGActiveSocket _unixWriteBytes:count:]': NGActiveSocke

Re: I need to control a bunch of files.

2003-09-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:37:34PM +0300, Vitali Malicky wrote: > There is a question, sorry if you find it stupid. > > I need to control a bunch of files. > > As soon as any of these files changes it should be immediately > rechecked and correct chmod and chown reset on this file(s). > > Thou

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