Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-12 Thread Marty Leisner
My take on computer science (which is an oxymoron) is this: Researchers look at successful programmers and try to figure out what they're doing. In the 70s, it was "structured programming". In the late 80s it was "object oriented". You can manipulate the data with a struct -- put in function

Re: ER schema design

2003-11-12 Thread Murray Taylor
/usr/ports/graphics/tcm ? Has all sorts of diagram capabilities.. ER DTD UML ... On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 16:52, Chris Pressey wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 22:17:42 +0100 > "R.T.G. TAN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Anyone know of a good program to create an ER diagram? > > > > T

broadcom wireless support?

2003-11-12 Thread Richard Jacoby
I have a machine with a built in 54g broadcom wireless interface. Is there a driver out there for this? If not, is one planned? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: ER schema design

2003-11-12 Thread Chris Pressey
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 22:17:42 +0100 "R.T.G. TAN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone know of a good program to create an ER diagram? > > Tnx, > > -- > robert tan I don't know if there is one specifically for ER diagrams, but Dia (/usr/ports/graphics/dia) has an ER sheet, if that's all

RE: anti-spam and mailing lists

2003-11-12 Thread Scott Hiemstra
Looks to me like a manager of that list or server doesn't care for your IP address / hostname or your ISP in general. Coming from the ISP industry, Optima Online is not very ISP friendly when it comes to playing nice with others. I would attempt to contact the list manager off-line or contact you

anti-spam and mailing lists

2003-11-12 Thread Zonesville
My email to freebsd-java is being bounced with the following error: Your message cannot be delivered to the following recipients: Recipient address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reason: Remote SMTP server has rejected address Diagnostic code: smtp;554 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Sender address rejected: Acce

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-12 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:36:15PM -0500, Lucas Holt wrote: > > On Nov 12, 2003, at 8:37 PM, Marty Leisner wrote: > > > > > > >BTW -- I've been doing "object oriented" stuff in C for years -- > >its harder, but its doable. You have a much simpler language > >to deal with. > > > >First learn how

Re: Couldn't modiry the configuration files, when the bsd machine is booted in single mode

2003-11-12 Thread Kent Stewart
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 08:06 pm, fred wrote: >Hi, My machine with the freebsd 4.6 is crashed, when I use >theboot -scommand to enter the single mode, I found I >couldn't modiry the configr the whole filesytem is readonly. Could > any one show me a way? Regards,

Couldn't modiry the configuration files, when the bsd machine is booted in single mode

2003-11-12 Thread fred
Hi, My machine with the freebsd 4.6 is crashed, when I use theboot -scommand to enter the single mode, I found I couldn't modiry the configr= ation files of the system. It seems the whole filesytem is readonly. Could any one show me a way? Regards, Fred Zhang

Re: Sparc64 (Ultra 10) Install emulation

2003-11-12 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:55:19PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:40:53PM -0700, Aaron Brandt wrote: > > > > Can someone tell me what I need to do to get FreeBSD Sparc 64 installed on > > a Ultra Sparc 10. It seems as if the emulation is messed up. I have heard > > of doi

Re: a road to nowhere

2003-11-12 Thread peter lageotakes
Vittori, Perhaps this link might help. http://www.gnustep.org/resources/sources.html or in /usr/ports/devel/gnustep Hope you find your perfect window manager. Pete --- ".VWV." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I still can't believe what people of GNOME and KDE > have done. With GTK 1.x > and

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-12 Thread paul van den bergen
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 02:24 pm, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > On 11/12/03 09:36 PM, Lucas Holt sat at the `puter and typed: > > On Nov 12, 2003, at 8:37 PM, Marty Leisner wrote: > > > BTW -- I've been doing "object oriented" stuff in C for years -- > > > its harder, but its doable. You have a much simpler

Re: Installation Hang

2003-11-12 Thread Nick P.
Bob Downes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >What version of FreeBSD are you trying to install? Have >you tried another branch? (I.e. if you're installing 4.9, >try 5.1, and vice-versa. 5.1 is still not recommended >for production systems, but it seems very, very stable as >my desktop system.) I am i

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-12 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 11/12/03 09:36 PM, Lucas Holt sat at the `puter and typed: > > On Nov 12, 2003, at 8:37 PM, Marty Leisner wrote: > > > > > > > BTW -- I've been doing "object oriented" stuff in C for years -- > > its harder, but its doable. You have a much simpler language to > > deal with. > > > > First lear

a road to nowhere

2003-11-12 Thread .VWV.
I still can't believe what people of GNOME and KDE have done. With GTK 1.x and KDE 2.x there were only some little adjustments missing, to obtain the 'perfect' desktop, compatible with GNUstep's Windowmaker. They have decided to follow an endless way instead. I'm temptated of destroying the whole

Re: Installation Hang

2003-11-12 Thread Nick P.
>Please wrap your lines at 70 characters so they may be easily >read. Thanks. >> I think that if it is documented that in order to use >>FreeBSD, you must have your CD-ROM on a separate IDE >>cable that your hard drive, because of __X___ reason, >>then that would be more palatable. I could the

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-12 Thread Lucas Holt
On Nov 12, 2003, at 8:37 PM, Marty Leisner wrote: BTW -- I've been doing "object oriented" stuff in C for years -- its harder, but its doable. You have a much simpler language to deal with. First learn how to write good programs in C. Then see if C++ buys you anything extra. If it doesn't, you

Re: ip-up script of pppd no triggered

2003-11-12 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:31:29PM +0200, Jim Xochellis wrote: > Hi list, > > I need persuade pppd to call its ip-up script in order to add a > non-default route when the link is up and running. Unfortunately it > seems that my ip-up script is not being called. The mode of the file is > rwxr-xr

Building OpenOffice 1.1 fails during Java build.

2003-11-12 Thread RexFelis
Hello all, I am running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p10. I am trying to install OpenOffice 1.1 from ports. I have the LINPROCFS filesystem mounted, and I have added kern.maxdsiz="1073741824" kern.maxssiz="268435456" to my /boot/loader.conf file, as was suggested, but I am still getting the same error

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-12 Thread Marty Leisner
I've been programming in C for over 20 years. I've gotten up to speed on C++ for work. I like the expression "in C you can shoot yourself in the foot, in C++ you can blow off your leg". C++ does have advantages -- but I haven't seen most C++ programmers use them -- instead they often obscure t

Re: Which version of Java to use?

2003-11-12 Thread Javier Soques
I can only speak on my recent experience with FreeBSD 5.1. I failed installing most of the ports (I tried lots so I don't remember, don't know if I did the right steps) the only port that worked perfectly was the Linux-Blackdown 1.3.x series. Of course you have to install the linux base libraries.

Re: mounting a usb device

2003-11-12 Thread Robin Schoonover
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:53:45 -0500, "Gregory Stearns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to mount a usb device > I have tried mount /dev/usb0 /directory and I get block device required > When I plug it in I get > umass0: LEXAR MEDIA JUMPDRIVE , rev 1.10/0.01, addr 2 > da0 at umass-

Re: Sparc64 (Ultra 10) Install emulation

2003-11-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:40:53PM -0700, Aaron Brandt wrote: > > Can someone tell me what I need to do to get FreeBSD Sparc 64 installed on > a Ultra Sparc 10. It seems as if the emulation is messed up. I have heard > of doing a serial install with a dumb terminal but cant find any > documentatio

Re: Adding packages to the 4.7-RELEASE

2003-11-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:35:03AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Your best bet is probably to go through the ports system, which I > believe is still maintaining compatibility with 4.7. The ports collection only supports the latest release, although many ports will still work with older releases

mounting a usb device

2003-11-12 Thread Gregory Stearns
I am trying to mount a usb device I have tried mount /dev/usb0 /directory and I get block device required When I plug it in I get umass0: LEXAR MEDIA JUMPDRIVE , rev 1.10/0.01, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-CCS device dao: 650KB/s transf

RE: Newbie: Touchy Travan tape drive rewind problem

2003-11-12 Thread Brent Wiese
I have to agree with Bill. I don't like the "me-too" postings, but in this case, I can't recommend highly enough dumping that Travan. I've never had one work for more than a year or so before dying various deaths. Get yourself a nice big 250GB USB/firewire drive and zip your backups tight. You'll

Re: statvfs.h

2003-11-12 Thread SWIT
spiderman# find / -name statvfs.h -print spiderman# comes up empty. now what ? Thanks Mark - Original Message - From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "M.D. DeWar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 5:17 PM Subject: Re: s

Re: Downloading OOo, other ports outside of the system?

2003-11-12 Thread Robin Schoonover
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:48:20 -0700, "Preston Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have what may seem like an odd question. I have a new FreeBSD 4.9 > system that I want to install OpenOffice and some other stuff on. Most of > the stuff left to install is pretty big and thus will be hard to down

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-12 Thread Scott W
yo _ wrote: I would recommend not trying to learn C or C++ by yourself from a book. The fastest (and best way) to learn the right stuff is to take coursework from a university or community college. Not that I like disagreeing for no good reason, but I wholeheartedly disagree with that statemen

Sparc64 (Ultra 10) Install emulation

2003-11-12 Thread Aaron Brandt
Can someone tell me what I need to do to get FreeBSD Sparc 64 installed on a Ultra Sparc 10. It seems as if the emulation is messed up. I have heard of doing a serial install with a dumb terminal but cant find any documentation on it. can someone point me to the correct place? Aaron.. ___

Re: ioctl for my cdrom

2003-11-12 Thread Simon Barner
> When I try to play a music cd in xmms as root ^^ evil!! ;-) > it says digital aufio > extraction test failed: inappropriate ioctl for device. Also it says > device /dev/acd0 ok. Anyone have a solution? You are running a rather recent -CURRENT,

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:06:51 -0500 > "Alex Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks for all of the great suggestions to my previous question! > > > > Yet, the responses have led me to another question. If C++ is newer > > and more advanced than C, will it replace C? > > Unlikely. Old

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-12 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:06:51 -0500 "Alex Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for all of the great suggestions to my previous question! > > Yet, the responses have led me to another question. If C++ is newer > and more advanced than C, will it replace C? Unlikely. Old languages die hard -

Panic on install

2003-11-12 Thread Kevin Orviss
Hi Guys, I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.1 from CD on a Toshiba Tecra 8200 Laptop. No matter what mode I start the install in, it results in a kernel panic. The laptop has an in built Intel NIC and an inbuilt Wireless NIC as well. As you can see from the output below it always happens after the W

Re: Which version of Java to use?

2003-11-12 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 21:49, Preston Crawford wrote: > I want to install Java to use Ant/Tomcat/Struts stuff like that. Which JDK > is the "right" one to install to get these to work properly? Can anyone > tell me? I'm no java guy but regarding the latest commit message I think 1.4.2: jdk

which apache

2003-11-12 Thread David Bear
well, since I will be running apache on freebsd I thought I ask which one will be the best to use, v1.3 series on v2.x series. I will be doing ssl. I know the v2 series uses the thread model instead of the fork.. but I don't care. I just need an apache the 1) I don't have to patch frequently;-)

Using extrn DVD writer HP-300e (USB/firewire) with 4.9 or 5.1?

2003-11-12 Thread Hari Bhaskaran
Hi, I am trying to use an hp 300e external dvd writer from FreeBSD. The links I found so far suggest this isn't possible or available yet. But those pages were old (Sep 2002?). Has anything changed recently? The drive supports both USB as well as firewire - any option (however slow) is ok for me.

afbackup full_backup process dying

2003-11-12 Thread Noah
freeBSD 4.8 afbackup 3.3.5 okay I am unclear why afbackup is killing off the full_backup process? this is a client machine the afbackup server is a remote host. I cant seem to figure out any details from the afbackup logs either? Is there somewhere else I should be Looking for more clues? th

Re: backup drive bootabel

2003-11-12 Thread Noah
> i) Make the 2nd disk an identical copy to the 1st one. In this case > should the 1st drive go AWOL, you would have to open the case and > either remove the first drive or modify the jumpering on the disks to > swap their order on the bus. You will need to mark the FreeBSD slice > bootable in t

Re: file sizes

2003-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Trying to figure out how to find out the size of a file. > Check man ls for "ls -l" jerry > thanks > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail

ioctl for my cdrom

2003-11-12 Thread Jason
When I try to play a music cd in xmms as root it says digital aufio extraction test failed: inapropriate ioctl for device. Also it says device /dev/acd0 ok. Anyone have a solution? Thanks, Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd

Re: HP JetDirect EX printer problems ...

2003-11-12 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 12), David Bein said: > I have an older J2383 Jet Direct box which I am trying to setup for a > FreeBSD 4.9/x86 box. I have tried various things in /etc/printcap, > but still I get nothing reasonable. I know the box is working because > if I telnet to port 9100 on the Jet D

Re: HP JetDirect EX printer problems ...

2003-11-12 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Wednesday, November 12, 2003 17:13:06 -0500 David Bein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello ... I have an older J2383 Jet Direct box which I am trying to setup for a FreeBSD 4.9/x86 box. I have tried various things in /etc/printcap, but still I get nothing reasonable. I know the box is work

Re: file sizes

2003-11-12 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 12), Bryan Cassidy said: > Trying to figure out how to find out the size of a file. ls -l myfile -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

HP JetDirect EX printer problems ...

2003-11-12 Thread David Bein
Hello ... I have an older J2383 Jet Direct box which I am trying to setup for a FreeBSD 4.9/x86 box. I have tried various things in /etc/printcap, but still I get nothing reasonable. I know the box is working because if I telnet to port 9100 on the Jet Direct and type in some lines and then quit

Re: file sizes

2003-11-12 Thread Jakob Breivik Grimstveit
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 00:01, Bryan Cassidy wrote: > Trying to figure out how to find out the size of a file. Try... ls -l ls -lh du -h -- Jakob Breivik Grimstveit, http://www.grimstveit.no/~jakob, +47 48298152 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: cdbakeoven doesn't see atapi burner

2003-11-12 Thread Lee Harr
Hmm... interesting. I've done everything described in man/handbook. The drives shows up (correctly) in dmesg and with camcontrol. So *why* will cdbakeoven not detect the drives? > > Could anyone point me to some documentation for cdbakeoven, or help me > > get started? I did find *some* document

file sizes

2003-11-12 Thread Bryan Cassidy
Trying to figure out how to find out the size of a file. thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Re: Downloading OOo, other ports outside of the system?

2003-11-12 Thread Preston Crawford
> Look into the makefile for the port. > There's a line starting with MASTER_SITES, you can download from any of these. > The variable DISTFILES contains the name of the file. Thanks! I'll take a look when I get home and maybe download them tomorrow. Will it list dependencies as well? Preston _

Re: FreeBSD Essay.

2003-11-12 Thread Jud
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 21:41:40 +0100, "Alex de Kruijff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:01:36PM +, Lewis Thompson wrote: > > Hey guys, > > > > I'm a first year CS student at Manchester and I've been given the task > > of writing a 1,000 word essay on something computer-re

RE: Mount SMB share on bootup

2003-11-12 Thread Chirhart, Brian
Ed - that worked great... Thanks!! I am not sure what I did, but it worked. What language is that script in? It isn't perl - is it C? -Original Message- From: Edward Epstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 5:43 PM To: Chirhart, Brian; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subjec

Re: crontab

2003-11-12 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Wednesday 12 November 2003 21:13, Darryl Hoar wrote: > commented out.  Do I have to create this file from > scratch ? Yes. 'man 5 crontab' for examples. - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://chrishowe

Re: newbie dns mess w/ nic

2003-11-12 Thread Marty Landman
At 03:32 PM 11/12/2003, Steve Bertrand wrote: Add the following to your /etc/rc.conf file: default_router="192.168.0.1" and then perform the following command to get it online without a reboot: # route add default 192.168.0.1 Steve, I decided to add the line to rc.conf and then shutdown... have

ER schema design

2003-11-12 Thread R.T.G. TAN
Hi, Anyone know of a good program to create an ER diagram? Tnx, -- robert tan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: crontab

2003-11-12 Thread Luke Kearney
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:13:34 -0600 "Darryl Hoar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> granted us these pearls of wisdom: > Greetings, > I am running 4.7 and want to use cron to run a command. > when I look in /var/cron/tabs, there is not a file for root. > If I do a crontab -e its blank. > > I thought there was

Re: Downloading OOo, other ports outside of the system?

2003-11-12 Thread R.T.G. TAN
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:48:20PM -0700, Preston Crawford wrote: > I have what may seem like an odd question. I have a new FreeBSD 4.9 system that I > want to install OpenOffice and some other stuff on. Most of the stuff left to > install is pretty big and thus will be hard to download via por

Re: symlink confusion

2003-11-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
> > # ln -s /usr/X11R6 /home/steve/X11R6 > > > > Which put a new link from the original to the new location. > > > > If I # rm /home/steve/X11R6, will I be safe as to not delete the original > > directory? I'm sorry, the above line should have read: # rm /usr/X11R6 not the other way around. In e

Re: Downloading OOo, other ports outside of the system?

2003-11-12 Thread Daniela
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 20:48, Preston Crawford wrote: > I have what may seem like an odd question. I have a new FreeBSD 4.9 system > that I want to install OpenOffice and some other stuff on. Most of the > stuff left to install is pretty big and thus will be hard to download via > ports over

crontab

2003-11-12 Thread Darryl Hoar
Greetings, I am running 4.7 and want to use cron to run a command. when I look in /var/cron/tabs, there is not a file for root. If I do a crontab -e its blank. I thought there was a template already, with example commented out. Do I have to create this file from scratch ? thanks, -D

Re: symlink confusion

2003-11-12 Thread Daniela
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 19:48, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Could someone please briefly describe the reactions to the following > actions? Sometimes I delete the original directories by deleting links, > and hopefully someone can give me some insight. > > # ln -s /home/steve/directory /tmp/direct

Re: symlink confusion

2003-11-12 Thread Daniela
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 20:38, Marty Landman wrote: > At 03:00 PM 11/12/2003, you wrote: > ># ln -s /home/steve/directory /tmp/directory > ># rm /tmp/directory > > > >In testing, the original directory (/home/steve/directory) did not get > > removed > > I'm a newbie Steve so maybe will be ask

Which version of Java to use?

2003-11-12 Thread Preston Crawford
I want to install Java to use Ant/Tomcat/Struts stuff like that. Which JDK is the "right" one to install to get these to work properly? Can anyone tell me? Preston ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

Downloading OOo, other ports outside of the system?

2003-11-12 Thread Preston Crawford
I have what may seem like an odd question. I have a new FreeBSD 4.9 system that I want to install OpenOffice and some other stuff on. Most of the stuff left to install is pretty big and thus will be hard to download via ports over my dial-up connection (yes, I use dial-up). I know it's possible

Re: FreeBSD Essay.

2003-11-12 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:01:36PM +, Lewis Thompson wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm a first year CS student at Manchester and I've been given the task > of writing a 1,000 word essay on something computer-related. It can be > pretty much anything I want (I think). I've decided FreeBSD is > inter

symlink confusion

2003-11-12 Thread Marty Landman
At 03:00 PM 11/12/2003, you wrote: # ln -s /home/steve/directory /tmp/directory # rm /tmp/directory In testing, the original directory (/home/steve/directory) did not get removed I'm a newbie Steve so maybe will be asking more than answering here. But isn't it the case that with a soft link as yo

Re: newbie dns mess w/ nic

2003-11-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
> I had everything working as evidenced by installing a port or two - > including the Lynx browser which worked; then rebooted last night and now > can't get dns working again. > > My LAN has a windoz xp box with dial up and ICS enabled. It is 192.168.0.1 > on the network. My FBSD box will ping to

Re: I need Help Please.

2003-11-12 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:15:28 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) "darkstarmaster21" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello My name is Ron. I'm a newbie to FreeBSD. I downloaded a copy to my > machine and created a iso. Burned it and installed the system with not much > trouble. The problem is I have a old G

Re: pkgdb / portupgrade segfault

2003-11-12 Thread Chris
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 01:38 pm, Will Yardley wrote: > Chris wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 01:08 pm, Will Yardley wrote: > > > I have portupgrade version 20030723, installed from ports. I'm having > > > some problems with it. > > > > > > Running pkgdb -Fv gives a segfault. > > > > >

french accent + keyboard

2003-11-12 Thread HYVERNAT Philippe
hello, i have a freebsd 4.8 release and i have an azerty keyboard, but accents doesn't functions. I have the line : keymap="fr.iso.acc" in the rc.conf file but nothing could you help me please Thank you ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://list

newbie dns mess w/ nic

2003-11-12 Thread Marty Landman
I had everything working as evidenced by installing a port or two - including the Lynx browser which worked; then rebooted last night and now can't get dns working again. My LAN has a windoz xp box with dial up and ICS enabled. It is 192.168.0.1 on the network. My FBSD box will ping to localhos

Re: md5/des ?

2003-11-12 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ Oles Hnatkevych [freebsd] [12-11-03 13:23 +0200]: | Hello! | | /usr/bin/passwd does my passwords MD5 encrypted (accordingly to /etc/login.conf) | But /usr/sbin/adduser creates users with DES encrypted passwords. | How do I make it use MD5 instead of DES? Seems like it's perls crypt() | problem

Re: FreeBSD Essay.

2003-11-12 Thread paul beard
Lewis Thompson wrote: Hey guys, I'm a first year CS student at Manchester and I've been given the task of writing a 1,000 word essay on something computer-related. It can be pretty much anything I want (I think). I've decided FreeBSD is interesting, the OS I advocate and that I shall write about

Re: invalid argument

2003-11-12 Thread Jason
Gregory Stearns wrote: I have used mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom and mount_cd9660 /cdrom It tells me that it is an invalid argument. I have a toshiba satelite laptop and I am running ver 4.7. My cdrom is a cdrw. What should I try next? Thank you You syntax looks good, but do you have acd0c

symlink confusion

2003-11-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
Could someone please briefly describe the reactions to the following actions? Sometimes I delete the original directories by deleting links, and hopefully someone can give me some insight. # ln -s /home/steve/directory /tmp/directory # rm /tmp/directory In testing, the original directory (/home/s

Re: statvfs.h

2003-11-12 Thread SWIT
find brings back nothing on my system. mark - Original Message - From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "M.D. DeWar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 5:17 PM Subject: Re: statvfs.h > M.D. DeWar wrote: > > >were do yo u ge

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-12 Thread Tom Munro Glass
Thanks Chris and Scott for your input on this subject - I've found it most helpful. The freedom to tweak the system to your own way of working is great, and I now feel I am better informed on how to do this without doing anything radical that I will regret in years to come. Thanks again to you

Re: pkgdb / portupgrade segfault

2003-11-12 Thread Will Yardley
Chris wrote: > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 01:08 pm, Will Yardley wrote: > > I have portupgrade version 20030723, installed from ports. I'm having > > some problems with it. > > > > Running pkgdb -Fv gives a segfault. > > > > aura# pkgdb -Fv > > Try this: pkgdb -fuF That seems to work - thanks.

invalid argument

2003-11-12 Thread Gregory Stearns
I have used mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom and mount_cd9660 /cdrom It tells me that it is an invalid argument. I have a toshiba satelite laptop and I am running ver 4.7. My cdrom is a cdrw. What should I try next? Thank you -- __ Sign-up

FreeBSD Essay.

2003-11-12 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hey guys, I'm a first year CS student at Manchester and I've been given the task of writing a 1,000 word essay on something computer-related. It can be pretty much anything I want (I think). I've decided FreeBSD is interesting, the OS I advocate and that I shall write about this. I am plannin

Mysterious manpage & *roff problems solved (SOLUTION)

2003-11-12 Thread Forrest Aldrich
I had posted recently regarding a mysterious problem I had with my manpage subsystem not working properly. This has been a problem for quite some time. After analyzing ktrace/kdump outputs, removing any conflicting *roff files in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/share, we still couldn't get it wo

Re: Newbie: Touchy Travan tape drive rewind problem

2003-11-12 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003, Christophe wrote: >I've installed FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE on a Dell 400SC with an ATA Travan >tape drive, accessing it through /dev/ast0. On linear writing >operations, it works great... but there appears to be some kind of >timeout problem on rewind: A good general rule abou

RE: internet setup

2003-11-12 Thread Aaron Burke
> B F wrote: > > >Can someone just tell me step by step how to get my internet > running starting from a FreeBSD clean install? I have spent days > trying different things I've read on websites and books, but have > yet to get it working. Thanks. > > > I'm new to BSD, but if it was Windows I'

Re: converting real media audio ... ENCODING working?

2003-11-12 Thread BSD baby
While we're on the subject, has anyone gotten the Linux version of the Real Audio Producer (encoder) to work? It's a commercial app from RealNetworks that I downloaded and did a core dump when trying to run. (Sorry I forget details now.) Just wondering if anyone's ever successfully done RealAud

Re: ssh has a delay when typing

2003-11-12 Thread datafirm
List, Yes, I am connecting to the machine remotely via the internet.. The lag is not acceptable, and this same lag and delay happened when I had another FreeBSD machine on our local network. Any more ideas? I have never experienced this behavior on any other unix machines. TIA will On Nov

Re: backup drive bootabel

2003-11-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:20:14AM -0800, Noah wrote: > I will consider it. in the mean time can somebody explain to me how to make > the 2nd drive bootable. I have seen many different ways to do this. can you > direct me to the most optimal. I want to place a boot section that has no > menu a

Multiple IPs in Jail

2003-11-12 Thread FB
Hey all - We patched mijail5 (http://garage.freebsd.pl/mijail.README) against RELENG_5_1. Most of the patch was successful with a little fuzz, except for a couple lines in jls which didn't patch due to cosmetic changes (easily fixed). Before the patch was applied, the jail environment

Re: converting real media audio

2003-11-12 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
* Dan Pelleg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20031112 17:23]: > Joan Picanyol i Puig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > * Dan Pelleg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20031112 15:12]: > >> Joan Picanyol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > I've found two speeches in R

Re: backup drive scheme

2003-11-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:46:39AM -0800, Noah wrote: > > FreeBSD 4.8 -STABLE > > I currently have two 120GB SCSI drives in a machine. one drive is the main > disk and the other drive is a complete exact copy of the first drive. > > I am using rsync every 24 hours to backup drive 1 to drive 2.

Newbie: Touchy Travan tape drive rewind problem

2003-11-12 Thread Christophe
I've installed FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE on a Dell 400SC with an ATA Travan tape drive, accessing it through /dev/ast0. On linear writing operations, it works great... but there appears to be some kind of timeout problem on rewind: # mt -f /dev/nast0 rewind mt: /dev/nast0: rewind: Input/output error

ip-up script of pppd no triggered

2003-11-12 Thread Jim Xochellis
Hi list, I need persuade pppd to call its ip-up script in order to add a non-default route when the link is up and running. Unfortunately it seems that my ip-up script is not being called. The mode of the file is rwxr-xr-x and the owner root:wheel. I am calling the pppd from inside a "/usr/loc

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > >I would recommend not trying to learn C or C++ by yourself from a book. > >The fastest (and best way) to learn the right stuff is to take coursework > >from a university or community college. > > >If the courses are any good, you'll get feedback, and you'll be paced > >and challenged with p

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-12 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 11/12/03 12:09 PM, yo _ sat at the `puter and typed: > >I would recommend not trying to learn C or C++ by yourself from a book. > >The fastest (and best way) to learn the right stuff is to take coursework > >from a university or community college. > > Not that I like disagreeing for no good re

Re: backup drive bootabel

2003-11-12 Thread Noah
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:00:38 -0500, Jason Stewart wrote > Noah wrote: > > FreeBSD 4.8-stable > > > > > > I have about three different sources for making a drive bootable. well I have > > a machine with two drives and the second drive is an exact backup of the > > first. but I need to make the

RE: Routing problems

2003-11-12 Thread Dimitris Xochellis
Hi Vince, Hi list, --- Vince Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The 10.X.X.X subnet will never need to use any of > the > > services of the 193.X.X.X subnet or the 193.R.R.R > > router. It will always access internet via its own > > 10.R.R.R router, which only routes packets towards > t

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-12 Thread yo _
I would recommend not trying to learn C or C++ by yourself from a book. The fastest (and best way) to learn the right stuff is to take coursework from a university or community college. Not that I like disagreeing for no good reason, but I wholeheartedly disagree with that statement. If the cour

Re: portupgrade -arR

2003-11-12 Thread Drew Tomlinson
- Original Message - From: "Jan Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 2:37 AM > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, William O'Higgins wrote: > > > Quite foolishly, I ran this command without thinking it through: > > > > portupgrade -arR > > > > It's been running for 15 hours or

Re: cdbakeoven doesn't see atapi burner

2003-11-12 Thread Bjarne Wichmann Petersen
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 17:13, Charles Howse wrote: > > Try reading 'man atapicam'. It tells you what needs to be done. > Actually, I read the Handbook section on CD's, added device atapicam to my > kernel config file, rebuilt the kernel. > Now my burner is detected in scanbus. Hmm... inter

lnc0 problems on vmware

2003-11-12 Thread RJ45
I Am using FreeBSD 4.9 and it works very nice with vmware. my guest host is windowsXP and I Am running FreeBSD from vmware inside windows XP. I have these errors in the logs lnc0: Missed Packet -- no receive buffer lnc0 what does it mean ? I Tried to search on the archives but no useful thread

Re: converting real media audio

2003-11-12 Thread Dan Pelleg
Joan Picanyol i Puig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [please honour, Mail-Followup-To:, not subscribed] > > * Dan Pelleg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20031112 15:12]: >> Joan Picanyol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > [please honour Mail-Followup-To:, not subscr

Re: cdbakeoven doesn't see atapi burner

2003-11-12 Thread Charles Howse
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 08:22 am, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: > Try reading 'man atapicam'. It tells you what needs to be done. Actually, I read the Handbook section on CD's, added device atapicam to my kernel config file, rebuilt the kernel. Now my burner is detected in scanbus. Still

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