Re: Failure in build of sdl12

2004-12-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 12:25:34AM -0500, Steve Lake wrote: > When I'm trying to upgrade KDE to the latest build one of the things > it asks me to install is SDL12. During the build it gives the error > "dl_yuv_mmx.c:236: Syntax Error before '['" I also get one of these with > 417

Failure in build of sdl12

2004-12-24 Thread Steve Lake
When I'm trying to upgrade KDE to the latest build one of the things it asks me to install is SDL12. During the build it gives the error "dl_yuv_mmx.c:236: Syntax Error before '['" I also get one of these with 417 as well and a bunch of failures after it. The path this file is in is /usr/po

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-24 Thread Tabor Kelly
Tom Vilot wrote: Admittedly, I'm still a bit of a noob, but I can't stand any shell but bash. Then log in as your normal user and then do a 'su -m' -Tabor ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: sendmail running on localhost 25?

2004-12-24 Thread Tabor Kelly
Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 03:26:15AM -0700, James typed: This will also disable those annoying daily, weekly and montly messages recieved from cronjobs. Who wants to read about your disks filling up, attempts to break into your server and other futilities anyway ;-) A typical

Re: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?

2004-12-24 Thread orv
P.B.S. wrote: ffsdrv seems to be able to mount only the first slice. I couldn't get it mount any other slice after playing with it for some time. # df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s1a496M124M332M27%/ devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 10

Unable to get APM running on an Acer Travelmate 4002WLMi

2004-12-24 Thread -
Hi list, I simply can't get APM to work on this laptop. It is a travelmate 4002WLMi (P-M 1.6) on which I've just installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, and built a custom kernel with apm, apm_saver and acpi (also tried with only apm, apm+apm_saver, and now apm+apm_saver+acpi) I had set the hints to disa

Re: serial port (com1) on 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 24), Jason said: > running 5.3-STABLE, > from my dmesg at boot, > sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 > sio0: type 16550A, console > sio1: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0 > sio1: type 16550A > > so whe

serial port (com1) on 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Jason
running 5.3-STABLE, from my dmesg at boot, sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A, console sio1: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0 sio1: type 16550A so where is /dev/sio0 and /dev/sio1?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] jason $

Re: 5.3 Xorg jerky

2004-12-24 Thread Adrian Patino II
Thanks for the reply On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:03:24 -0500, Joe Altman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:20:30PM -0600, Adrian Patino II wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Fairly new to FreeBSD. Recently did a fresh install from 4.10 to 5.3, > > and noticed that when in X, things are a

Re: Simple program to check for problems prior to running portupgrade

2004-12-24 Thread Jay O'Brien
Bill Moran wrote: > http://www.potentialtech.com/wmoran/portupgrade-check.php > Very nice. I just waded through /usr/ports/UPDATING for the first time, and seeing your extracting tool immediately after that exercise shows me how valuable your tool will be in the future. It also forced me to

Re: 5.3 Xorg jerky

2004-12-24 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:20:30PM -0600, Adrian Patino II wrote: > Hello, > > Fairly new to FreeBSD. Recently did a fresh install from 4.10 to 5.3, > and noticed that when in X, things are a bit jerky, enough for me to > notice at least. Anything scrolling jerks and SDL video programs are > ver

Re: Simple program to check for problems prior to running portupgrade

2004-12-24 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 19:28 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > http://www.potentialtech.com/wmoran/portupgrade-check.php > Nice job, Bill! Appears to work well here. -- Cheers, Trey --- "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here,

Re: Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed

2004-12-24 Thread Scott Bennett
Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Fri Dec 24 16:25:40 2004: >--On Friday, December 24, 2004 1:54 PM -0600 Scott Bennett ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm looking for a driver that supports the Dell Wireless WLAN 1450 >> Dual- Band card for laptops. If anyone can point me in the

Re: ifconfig for WLAN using WEP

2004-12-24 Thread Scott Bennett
Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Fri Dec 24 16:22:29 2004: >--On Thursday, December 23, 2004 3:49 AM -0600 Scott Bennett ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> As it turns out, this was the right question to ask, for which I >> thank Paul. >> >Glad I was able to help. > > >> I inter

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Chris
Chris wrote: Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Responding to Chris: CSS is neither outdated nor a Windows thing. You apparently need to get an extra clue or two before you rejoin this discussion. Not really - Some years back MS made a big issu

Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

2004-12-24 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 24 December 2004 03:52 pm, Peter Schuller wrote: > > That is indeed the case with portmanager. Sometimes it is a waste > > of time to rebuild everthing when a dependency changes, and > > sometimes it is the right thing to do, portmanager assumes it is > > always the right thing to do. One

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Chris
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Responding to Chris: CSS is neither outdated nor a Windows thing. You apparently need to get an extra clue or two before you rejoin this discussion. Not really - Some years back MS made a big issue about CSS. I

Re: gnome-cd: connecting to cddb server as user

2004-12-24 Thread Karl Agee
From: Joe Marcus Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Karl Agee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: FreeBSD User Questions List Subject: Re: gnome-cd: connecting to cddb server as user Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 15:27:23 -0500 On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 11:02 -0800, Karl Agee wrote: > Freebsd 4.11-pre, gnome-lite 2.8.1. >

Re: sendmail running on localhost 25?

2004-12-24 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 05:29:05PM -0700, James wrote: > On Friday 24 December 2004 09:16 am, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 03:26:15AM -0700, James typed: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Use: > > > sendmail_enable="none" > > > > > > This will disable all sendmail processes. > > > > Thi

Multiple Vinum Problems Since Upgrade From 4.9 To 4.10

2004-12-24 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Since an upgrade from 4.9 to 4.10, I've had problems with vinum. The basic problem is that upon reboot, two of my vinum drives show up as "referenced" and thus create the associated chaos. I've tried many things and fiddled around quite a bit so I can't say exactly what I've done. I can inclu

Re: sendmail running on localhost 25?

2004-12-24 Thread Bill Moran
James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 24 December 2004 09:16 am, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 03:26:15AM -0700, James typed: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Use: > > > sendmail_enable="none" > > > > > > This will disable all sendmail processes. > > > > This will also disable t

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Lane
On Friday 24 December 2004 17:08, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > > Responding to Chris: CSS is neither outdated nor a Windows thing. You > > > apparently need to get an extra clue or two before you rejoin this > > > discussion. > >

Re: sendmail running on localhost 25?

2004-12-24 Thread James
On Friday 24 December 2004 09:16 am, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 03:26:15AM -0700, James typed: > > Hello, > > > > Use: > > sendmail_enable="none" > > > > This will disable all sendmail processes. > > This will also disable those annoying daily, weekly and montly > messages reci

Simple program to check for problems prior to running portupgrade

2004-12-24 Thread Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com/wmoran/portupgrade-check.php -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 09:40:00PM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Nikolas Britton wrote this message on Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 22:46 -0600: [ Choosing a random(ish) post to reply to - I am on holiday right now and I will not pretend to have read the whole thread ] > > 2. I cringe when I see Tim

Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

2004-12-24 Thread Peter Schuller
> That is indeed the case with portmanager. Sometimes it is a waste > of time to rebuild everthing when a dependency changes, and sometimes > it is the right thing to do, portmanager assumes it is always the right > thing to do. One way this has proved to be a benefit is I've never > had to run th

Re: KDM problems on fresh install of 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Michael L. Squires
A couple of problems that might cause this have been discussed recently in the freebsd-kde mailing list. One of them involved not having the correct KDE startup files in /usr/local/share/config/kdm (where kdmrc lives, apparently) and another had to do with commands in the shell startup scripts

Re: Answers: Keeping FreeBSD Applications Up-To-Date

2004-12-24 Thread Richard Bejtlich
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 23:00:25 +0100, Jorn Argelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Richard, > > It looks good. > > However, it would be nice if you actually wrapped the text to make it > readable. Hi Jorn, I realized I missed a closing tag when I posted the file. It should render properly now.

Device Driver

2004-12-24 Thread Giuliano Cardozo Medalha
All, Lets supose that I am having a device that does not have support in the FreeBSD Kernel. How is the procedure to compile and use a device driver for FreeBSD ? There is some place and documents to learn how to do that ? Thanks a lot, Giuliano ___ fre

Re: tarball

2004-12-24 Thread Daniel S. Haischt
Leon schrieb: Hi, What is the "tarball"? for example that's a tarball: /usr/ports/distfiles/samba-3.0.9.tar.gz actually it is 'gzipped' to shrink its size. How can I extract it? a standard tarball: > tar xpvf my-tarball.tar a gzipped tarball: > tar xpvfz my-tarball.tar.gz a bzipped tarball: > t

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > Responding to Chris: CSS is neither outdated nor a Windows thing. You > > apparently need to get an extra clue or two before you rejoin this > > discussion. > Not really - Some years back MS made a big issue about CSS. It was > the

Re: CUPS server

2004-12-24 Thread Daniel S. Haischt
Leon schrieb: Hi, How can I check if SUPS server is running? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps ax | grep cups 696 ?? Ss 0:03.87 /usr/local/sbin/cupsd ^ If it is not running , how can I Install it, and configure? cd /usr/ports/print/cups && make install clea

Re: Pioneer DVR-108 can burn DVDs, can't mount them!

2004-12-24 Thread Ian Moore
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 02:25, David Vincelli wrote: > On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:22:16 +1030, Ian Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:58, David Vincelli wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm using FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE with a custom kernel I just compiled a > > > few days ago to have the

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Chris
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On 2004-12-23 23:02, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: 2. I cringe when I see Times New Roman, again redo the whole site with a modern web font: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Etc. (ever here of Cascading Sty

tarball

2004-12-24 Thread Leon
Hi, What is the "tarball"? How can I extract it? Where I can extract it from? Thanks, Leon. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2004-12-23 23:02, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > 2. I cringe when I see Times New Roman, again redo the whole site > > > with a modern web font: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Etc. (ever here of > > > Cascading Style

CUPS server

2004-12-24 Thread Leon
Hi, How can I check if SUPS server is running? If it is not running , how can I Install it, and configure? Thanks, Leon. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any ma

Re: Text Filter

2004-12-24 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 15:46:48 -0500 Leon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Where can I get advanced "Text Filter" for printer "Dell AIO A960" Check out the apsfilter port. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

Re: Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed

2004-12-24 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, December 24, 2004 1:54 PM -0600 Scott Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm looking for a driver that supports the Dell Wireless WLAN 1450 Dual- Band card for laptops. If anyone can point me in the right direction, please let me know. It's probably the wi driver, which should

Re: ifconfig for WLAN using WEP

2004-12-24 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, December 23, 2004 3:49 AM -0600 Scott Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As it turns out, this was the right question to ask, for which I thank Paul. Glad I was able to help. > I interpret the above as meaning that the "Broadband" interface is the dial-up interface, the "Local

Re: Answers: Keeping FreeBSD Applications Up-To-Date

2004-12-24 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, December 24, 2004 4:14 PM -0500 Richard Bejtlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Three weeks ago I posted notification of my article Keeping FreeBSD Up-To-Date. Today I am happy to announce the publication at TaoSecurity.com of Keeping FreeBSD Applications Up-To-Date: http://www.taosecur

Re: mkfifo: No such file or directory

2004-12-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 09:08:19PM +, Frank Staals wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 06:16:06PM +, Frank Staals wrote: > > > > > >>I want to use my printer which is on a windoze computer to use on my > >>intire network ( most FreeBSD computers ) so I read this >

Re: portupgrade time, xorg ports

2004-12-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 01:54:04PM -0800, Jay O'Brien wrote: > I ran portupgrade -a -N -vu -rR, and it tried several times > to fetch X11R6.8.1-src1.tar.gz, each time taking over an hour, > and when the file failed, it failed showing a checksum mismatch. > I tried it again today, and it was ab

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-24 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, December 24, 2004 6:53 AM -0900 Andy Firman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So for those of us that want to go back to the way things should be, (leaving root shell be /bin/sh) I fire up vipw and change this: root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/usr/local/bin/bash to this: root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/ro

KDM problems on fresh install of 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Peter McMahan
Hi, I just installed FreeBSD 5.3 on a Dell Latitude, and installation went without a hitch. While trying to configure KDM for graphical login, though, I ran into some problems. startx works fine as both root and as a regular user. However, when I run KDM and enter my username and password all that

Re: Supported CDRW listing for 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 20:11:04 -0600 Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm going to be in the market for a new CDRW soon - I thought there > was a list of supported devices. There certainly isnt a mention in > the 5.3 Hardware Notes. Nearly any CDRW drive should work. My only suggestions is to adv

Re: Answers: Keeping FreeBSD Applications Up-To-Date

2004-12-24 Thread Jorn Argelo
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:14:16 -0500, Richard Bejtlich wrote > Three weeks ago I posted notification of my article Keeping FreeBSD > Up-To-Date. Today I am happy to announce the publication at > TaoSecurity.com of Keeping FreeBSD Applications Up-To-Date: > > http://www.taosecurity.com/keeping_freeb

Re: portupgrade time, xorg ports

2004-12-24 Thread albi
Jay O'Brien wrote: hi, Running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 #0, i386 P3-667MHz, 512MB RAM. - cut for brevity -I didn't install xorg. Why are the 16 xorg ports present? a fresh FreeBSD 5.3 has xorg by default instead of XFree86 ___ freebsd-questions

portupgrade time, xorg ports

2004-12-24 Thread Jay O'Brien
Running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 #0, i386 P3-667MHz, 512MB RAM. This is my first experience using portupgrade. I ran cvsup successfully for ports-all. I ran pkg_version -v. It showed a total of 28 ports, 20 needed updating. Of those, 16 were xorg- ports; the others were xterm, freetype2, imake a

FAQ: What constitutes an inappropriate posting? Was: Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 01:11:31PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: > > I guess I'm really not sure what your > malfunction is, Joe. What do you not understand about > 'deprecated' and 'will be removed in a future release'? BTW, I > really don't care to discuss it any further; if you have any > addi

Re: checksum mismatch on hicolor-icon-theme-0.5

2004-12-24 Thread Chandler May
I had downloaded the latest version (hicolor-icon-themes-0.5.tar.gz), and it was even the exact same size as the file that Ports was requesting, so I didn't think that redownloading it would do any good. Well, out of desperation, I did (delete the current file and download a new one), and that fix

Answers: Keeping FreeBSD Applications Up-To-Date

2004-12-24 Thread Richard Bejtlich
Three weeks ago I posted notification of my article Keeping FreeBSD Up-To-Date. Today I am happy to announce the publication at TaoSecurity.com of Keeping FreeBSD Applications Up-To-Date: http://www.taosecurity.com/keeping_freebsd_applications_up-to-date.html The new article takes the same case-

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-24 Thread Matthias Buelow
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: This is a particularly tenacious rumour. I've been using bash as my root shell on many different UNIX platforms for nearly 14 years, and I've never had any problems. I've also never seen any substantiated problems reported anywhere. Besides, when your favourite shell is

Printer

2004-12-24 Thread Leon
Hi, I have tried to configure printer by "KDE". When I start to print it gave me an error: The rlpr executable could not be found in you path. Check your installation. What should I do? What should I install? Where I can find this file? Thanks, Leon.

Text Filter

2004-12-24 Thread Leon
Hi, Where can I get advanced "Text Filter" for printer "Dell AIO A960" . Thanks, Leon. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: gnome-cd: connecting to cddb server as user

2004-12-24 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 11:02 -0800, Karl Agee wrote: > Freebsd 4.11-pre, gnome-lite 2.8.1. > > using gnome-cd to listen to cd's in my user acct, but it wont connect to the > cddb server to pull down cd info. It does when I do it as root, however. > > The only error I see is this: > > ** (gnome-

Re: mkfifo: No such file or directory

2004-12-24 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:08:19 +, Frank Staals <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running 5.3 Stable, how can I configure FreeBSD that I can use the > printer on the windows pc Please read the official documentation: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing.html -- Jo

Re: mkfifo: No such file or directory

2004-12-24 Thread Frank Staals
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 06:16:06PM +, Frank Staals wrote: I want to use my printer which is on a windoze computer to use on my intire network ( most FreeBSD computers ) so I read this http://www.freebsddiary.org/samba.php . As it is explained I did: mkfifo /dev/smbpri

Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed

2004-12-24 Thread Scott Bennett
I'm looking for a driver that supports the Dell Wireless WLAN 1450 Dual- Band card for laptops. If anyone can point me in the right direction, please let me know. Thanks in advance! Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ***

Re: NFS fstab and ipfw

2004-12-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
Please don't post the reply on top of what you're replying and trim your replies a bit, keeping only what's relevant :-/ On 2004-12-24 14:11, Grant Peel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On 2004-12-24 13:25, Grant Peel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I can't

Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

2004-12-24 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 24 December 2004 07:54 am, RW wrote: > On Friday 24 December 2004 07:38, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > On Thursday 23 December 2004 11:16 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote: > > > Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > > > On Thursday 23 December 2004 10:01 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote: > > > >>I'm running 5.3 RELEASE

Re: NFS fstab and ipfw

2004-12-24 Thread Grant Peel
I may have left out a key piece of info: I am not using a ipfw.rules sh script. I am using Webmin, which loads the ipfw.rules in the rc.local file. I don't know alot about the order of operations as far as the rc files go, but assume the rc.local is of the last ones to run, likely after mounts n

Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:05:30 -0500, Joe Altman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:31:37PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:17:57 -0500, Joe Altman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 10:31:40AM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: > > > > > "co

Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:31:37PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: > On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:17:57 -0500, Joe Altman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 10:31:40AM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: > > > > "comm/JT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > > Just a quick question, I was

gnome-cd: connecting to cddb server as user

2004-12-24 Thread Karl Agee
Freebsd 4.11-pre, gnome-lite 2.8.1. using gnome-cd to listen to cd's in my user acct, but it wont connect to the cddb server to pull down cd info. It does when I do it as root, however. The only error I see is this: ** (gnome-cd:671): WARNING **: could not contact cddb server how to fix --Ka

Re: NFS fstab and ipfw

2004-12-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-12-24 13:25, Grant Peel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I can't boot my machine with out using the noauto switch on my nfs mount, > presumeably, because ipfw has'nt set up a tule to allow lo0 access. > > I have read some things about nfs_mount and wonder if the -i -s switch can > b

Re: mkfifo: No such file or directory

2004-12-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 06:16:06PM +, Frank Staals wrote: > I want to use my printer which is on a windoze computer to use on my > intire network ( most FreeBSD computers ) so I read this > http://www.freebsddiary.org/samba.php . As it is explained I did: mkfifo > /dev/smbprint but I got thi

Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:17:57 -0500, Joe Altman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 10:31:40AM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: > > > "comm/JT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > Just a quick question, I was wondering if anyone had some documentation > > > > to > > > > fully move

NFS fstab and ipfw

2004-12-24 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I can't boot my machine with out using the noauto switch on my nfs mount, presumeably, because ipfw has'nt set up a tule to allow lo0 access. I have read some things about nfs_mount and wonder if the -i -s switch can be used in fstab on the nfs mount, or if there exists a switch that can

Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 10:31:40AM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: > > "comm/JT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Just a quick question, I was wondering if anyone had some documentation to > > > fully move from sendmail to exim on a 5.3 machine. I have tried this and > > > seemed to have failed,

Re: Error sending email with mutt

2004-12-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-12-24 13:04, Alfredo Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi I am running freebsd 5.3 Release > > I am trying to send emails with Mutt and I am getting this message: > > SMTP 552 sorry, You envelop sender domain must exist" > > Does anybody knows what it means and how I can fix it? Add this

Error sending email with mutt

2004-12-24 Thread Alfredo Perez
Hi I am running freebsd 5.3 Release I am trying to send emails with Mutt and I am getting this message: SMTP 552 sorry, You envelop sender domain must exist" Does anybody knows what it means and how I can fix it? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 04:27:51PM -0500, Brian Astill wrote: > > Could this conversation please be moved to -advocacy and ONLY to > -advocacy? Seconded. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-12-24 15:38, "Colin J. Raven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 24, Josh Paetzel launched this into the bitstream: > >I've always been curious as to why you can't(shouldn't?) just change > >the shell that root uses. > > Josh that's been the backbone of this particular thread over the last

Re: does FreeBSD support nvidia ethernet?

2004-12-24 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 19:38:51 +0300, alexei kozlov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, Gurus. > > I have EPOX 8rda3 motherboard based on nvidia2 chipset with 2 ethernet > interfaces. > One is well known -- rtl8139. It works (great). > The other is based on nvidia chipset. And I do not know what to

Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

2004-12-24 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 09:02:30 -0800, Jay O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RW wrote: > > > On Friday 24 December 2004 07:38, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > > >>On Thursday 23 December 2004 11:16 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote: > >> > >>>Michael C. Shultz wrote: > >>> > On Thursday 23 December 2004 10:0

mkfifo: No such file or directory

2004-12-24 Thread Frank Staals
I want to use my printer which is on a windoze computer to use on my intire network ( most FreeBSD computers ) so I read this http://www.freebsddiary.org/samba.php . As it is explained I did: mkfifo /dev/smbprint but I got this : bash-3.00# cd /dev/ bash-3.00# mkfifo smbprint mkfifo: smbprint:

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 24 December 2004 10:52 am, Josh Paetzel wrote: <-snip-> > > I've always been curious as to why you can't(shouldn't?) just change > the shell that root uses. I think it has to do with the fact that some shells executables are in /bin and others are in /usr/local/bin. Root users should u

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-24 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Dec 24, Josh Paetzel launched this into the bitstream: On Friday 24 December 2004 16:06, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 24 December 2004 09:53 am, Andy Firman wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:54:51PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: Then the thing to do is create another root account and make t

Re: help

2004-12-24 Thread Osmany Guirola Cruz
Geo B. wrote: como activar el scroll del mouse ps/2. How activate ps/2 mouse scroll - ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

2004-12-24 Thread Jay O'Brien
RW wrote: > On Friday 24 December 2004 07:38, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > >>On Thursday 23 December 2004 11:16 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote: >> >>>Michael C. Shultz wrote: >>> On Thursday 23 December 2004 10:01 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote: >I'm running 5.3 RELEASE and trying to learn. I did a port

"The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

2004-12-24 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

2004-12-24 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2004/09/19 02:40:48 $ 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 a

Re: your mail

2004-12-24 Thread Dan Kilbourne
Lilith B. extolled: > como activar el scroll del mouse ps/2. > > How activate ps/2 mouse scroll > > If the mouse itself works, but the mouse scroll wheel does not, just add the following to your mouse definition in your X config file: Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

Re: Pioneer DVR-108 can burn DVDs, can't mount them!

2004-12-24 Thread David Vincelli
That's exactly what I mean (I can't mount any DVDs at all). I tried with both devices, they both fail. mount: Input/Output error. I'll try with dma disabled on atapi devices (I assume hw.ata.atpai_dma="0" means disable dma for atapi devices) when I have access to the box - it's at work and the offi

Re: help

2004-12-24 Thread Danny Koenig
> How activate ps/2 mouse scroll Add following lines into your XF86Config in section "InputDevice". Option "Buttons" "5" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" -- Danny Koenig BSD User Group Berlin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-24 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Friday 24 December 2004 16:06, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Friday 24 December 2004 09:53 am, Andy Firman wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:54:51PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > Then the thing to do is create another root account and make > > > the default shell for that one be bash, l

Re: Pioneer DVR-108 can burn DVDs, can't mount them!

2004-12-24 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 11:09:51AM -0500, David Vincelli wrote: > Exactly as from the handbook. > > I blanked a DVD-RW using: > > # dvd+rw-format -blank=full /dev/cd0 > > I burned a DVD-RW, using: > > # growisofs -Z /dev/cd0 -J -R /usr/backup > > and I tried a DVD+R, using: > > # growisofs -

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
Matthew Seaman wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I think there's more FreeBSD installations than Apple installations, way, way more. Obscurity is in the eye of the beholder. And talk is cheap. The FreeBSD documentation team has already asked the FreeBSD community to do a site redesign, see here: ht

help

2004-12-24 Thread Geo B.
como activar el scroll del mouse ps/2. How activate ps/2 mouse scroll - ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, sen

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I think there's more FreeBSD installations than Apple installations, way, way more. Obscurity is in the eye of the beholder. And talk is cheap. The FreeBSD documentation team has already asked the FreeBSD community to do a site redesign, see here: http://www.freebsd.org/d

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2004-12-24 Thread Lilith B.
como activar el scroll del mouse ps/2. How activate ps/2 mouse scroll - ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send an

does FreeBSD support nvidia ethernet?

2004-12-24 Thread alexei kozlov
Hello, Gurus. I have EPOX 8rda3 motherboard based on nvidia2 chipset with 2 ethernet interfaces. One is well known -- rtl8139. It works (great). The other is based on nvidia chipset. And I do not know what to do to activate it in FreeBSD. What driver support this ethernet interface. Thanks, Ale

Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Joshua Lokken
On 24 Dec 2004 11:33:53 +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "comm/JT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Just a quick question, I was wondering if anyone had some documentation to > > fully move from sendmail to exim on a 5.3 machine. I have tried this and > > seemed to have fa

Re: Is this new hard drive going to be useless with freebsd?

2004-12-24 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:42:32 +0530, Subhro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Jayson Alvarez > > Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 20:27 > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >

Re: sendmail running on localhost 25?

2004-12-24 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 03:26:15 -0700, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Use: > sendmail_enable="none" > > This will disable all sendmail processes. Please don't top-post. Also, the above is deprecated, and the pertinent documentation shows the following: sendmail_enable="NO" sendma

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Joshua Lokken
Great suggestions, everyone! Now, can we PLEASE move this thread off of -questions. It doesn't belong here. Thank you. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: sendmail running on localhost 25?

2004-12-24 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 03:26:15AM -0700, James typed: > Hello, > > Use: > sendmail_enable="none" > > This will disable all sendmail processes. This will also disable those annoying daily, weekly and montly messages recieved from cronjobs. Who wants to read about your disks filling up, attempt

RE: Is this new hard drive going to be useless with freebsd?

2004-12-24 Thread Subhro
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Jayson Alvarez > Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 20:27 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Is this new hard drive going to be useless with freebsd? > > > Good day, >

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 24 December 2004 09:53 am, Andy Firman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:54:51PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > Then the thing to do is create another root account and make the > > default shell for that one be bash, leaving the root root be > > /bin/sh. > > So for those of us that

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