Re: VMWare Workstation?

2004-12-27 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
> I have not yet tried this ... but has anyone gotten VMWare workstation > running on FreeBSD? Of course, I don't mean running FreeBSD as a client > OS in, say, Linux or Windows. But running it as the host OS. well, there is a port for it in /usr/ports/emulators and that works alright. Depending

RE: Need help *fast*

2004-12-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: Nikolas Britton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 8:43 PM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: Broder Mizzérable; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Need help *fast* > > > > > > > That is not want I meant to imply when I said "junk"

RE: Need help *fast*

2004-12-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: Joshua Tinnin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 9:02 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; Nikolas Britton; Broder Mizzérable > Subject: Re: Need help *fast* > > > This would be consistent with my experience.

RE: Does freeBSD have CORBA specs and does it have J2sdk1.4.2 ?

2004-12-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
The binary releases were version 1.3.1 not version 1.4.2. Sun recently changed the licensing terms and the FreeBSD Foundation, who signed them the lst time, balked. As a result Sun pulled the binary distro for 1.3.1 This whole mess is tied up with royalty payments to Sun. According to what is

RE: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-27 Thread Frank Pawlak
This beyond a doubt is one of the best explanations that I have seen, heard, expressed, etc., of how the fsck'ed up world of business does IT stuff, and I have done IT consulting on various levels for over 18 years. Very well said Ted. It points out quite well why BSD in general has a bad tim

moinmoin-1.2.4

2004-12-27 Thread Rene C. Mendoza
Hello! Has anyone successfully installed moinmoin-1.2.4 on FreeBSD 4.10? I installed from ports and used "make install clean" to install the port. AFAIK, there were no problems during the installation. However, whenever I try to create or edit a page on the default pages, I kept getting "Pag

Re: The FreeBSD Foundation

2004-12-27 Thread Jay Moore
On Saturday 25 December 2004 06:26 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: If I say you are right and wonderful will you drop this? Then consider it done, Ted. I'm sure you've impressed us all. Jay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: What version

2004-12-27 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Dan Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A friend gave me a laptop with a Pentium 100 and 24 megs of ram. It only > has a floppy drive. What version of FreeBSD do you recommend and would you > send me the link to download it. First, you should realize that this is seriously outdated hardware.

Re: make.conf file & CPUTYPE?

2004-12-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 06:18:39AM +, jason henson wrote: > On 12/25/04 20:58:12, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 08:17:00PM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: > >> When I ran 'buildkernel' as well as 'buildworld', I used > >> the 'CPUTYPE?=i686' directive in the 'make.conf' file. I w

Re: a quick question

2004-12-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
andrei wrote: Thank you for your quick replay but i am still not sure about a couple of things: I have tried what Mr. Lane suggested ... it took lets say about 8-9 hours (it connects to an ftp and starts downloading packages and installing them from all that writing on the screen and i have cab

Re: a quick question

2004-12-27 Thread Tom Vilot
Andrei, what does the .xinitrc file look like (in either the root directory or in the home directory of the user you log in as)? Thank you for your quick replay but i am still not sure about a couple of things: ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

apache cant bind to port

2004-12-27 Thread whitevamp
I just did a portupgrade -aRrCc and now when I goto start apache i get this error message in the log files [crit] (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to port 80 I have tryed starting it with ethere apachectl start or httpd , as root. and 1.when to /usr/ports/www/apache13 , and

Re: cronjob doesn't run???

2004-12-27 Thread Tom Vilot
Might be a path issue. I had similar issues with cron (/etc/periodic/daily) if I didn't use a full path to the binaries. :c( i have an odd problem with this cronjob, #!/bin/sh cd /home/timothy burncd -f /dev/acd0c blank tar -zcvf ./burning/thunderbird.tar.gz ./.thunderbird/* tar -zcvf ./burning

RE: Program Backward compatibility for FreeBSD 2.25

2004-12-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
I would recommend you run this under FreeBSD 4.11, install the 'compat22' distribution during the installation of FreeBSD. Ted > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Twatchai Saelao > Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 11:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: make.conf file & CPUTYPE?

2004-12-27 Thread jason henson
On 12/25/04 20:58:12, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 08:17:00PM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: > When I ran 'buildkernel' as well as 'buildworld', I used > the 'CPUTYPE?=i686' directive in the 'make.conf' file. I was wondering if > it is correct to leave it in the 'make.conf' file now t

RE: Printer

2004-12-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Hi Leon, I hope you didn't buy this THEN try using it under FreeBSD. The Dell AllInOne A960 printer is exactly the same as the Lexmark X6170. Dell commonly rebrands other people's stuff as their own. By doing this they charge more money for the Dell branded device, as you would pay if you j

re:a quick question

2004-12-27 Thread andrei
Thank you for your quick replay but i am still not sure about a couple of things: I have tried what Mr. Lane suggested ... it took lets say about 8-9 hours (it connects to an ftp and starts downloading packages and installing them from all that writing on the screen and i have cable 500kbps dow

Re: /dev/dsp busy

2004-12-27 Thread doug
A suggestion from a Jan 2004 thread worked for me: Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 08:42:07 -0500 (EST) From: Stephen Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy Geert, I was having this specific problem when t

RE: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roger 'Rocky' > Vetterberg > Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 4:57 PM > To: Simon Burke > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: FreeBSD

Re: Xorg can't start

2004-12-27 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Alexandr wrote: I discavered what i810 drive is broken for X.org in current realize. You can try to set Option "NoAccel" "True" in Section "Device" . Regards, Uli. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Streaming, real time MRTG solution?

2004-12-27 Thread Matt Juszczak
Hello all, I've seen the Adobe SVG viewer work with traffic stats to show real time traffic statistics, such as the one found in m0n0wall. Does anyone know of a real time, web based software package that can communicate with SNMP (much like MRTG does), except it shows "real time" data instead

Re: Need help *fast*

2004-12-27 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Monday 27 December 2004 08:19 pm, "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nikolas > > Britton Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 7:08 PM > > To: Broder Mizzérable > > Cc: freebsd-questions@free

Re: Need help *fast*

2004-12-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nikolas Britton Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 7:08 PM To: Broder Mizzérable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need help *fast* Broder Mizzérable wrote: Hello there..

Re: Need help *fast*

2004-12-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
Chris wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nikolas Britton Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 7:08 PM To: Broder Mizzérable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need help *fast* Broder Mizzérable wrote: Hell

RE: Program Backward compatibility for FreeBSD 2.25

2004-12-27 Thread Twatchai Saelao
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Re: Need help *fast*

2004-12-27 Thread Chris
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nikolas Britton Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 7:08 PM To: Broder Mizzérable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need help *fast* Broder Mizzérable wrote: Hello there.. i'm s

RE: Need help *fast*

2004-12-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nikolas Britton > Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 7:08 PM > To: Broder Mizzérable > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Need help *fast* > > > Broder Mizzérable wrote: > > > Hello there.. i'm

Re: Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, December 24, 2004 7:56 PM -0600 Scott Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I did. The only Dell card listed is the Dell TrueMobile 1150, which I think is a fairly old card that Dell no longer sells. Dell's recent catalogues list only the Intel PRO Wireless 2100 and 2200, the Dell

Re: Need help *fast*

2004-12-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
Chris wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Broder Mizzérable wrote: Hello there.. i'm switching to FreeBSD ' now '... i did try to use the floppy installation way. but it seems like all my floppy's are 50kb to small =/ ... so i was wondering .. is it possible to use a CD ' That does already has stuffs

Vanishing RAID?

2004-12-27 Thread Subhro
Hi folks, This is a strange problem. I own a AMD Athlon 64 bit on a Asus K8V SE Deluxe motherboard. This motherboard has an onboard VIA SATA RAID controller. Two SATA hard drives (120G each) are connected in RAID-0. The already has an installation of Windows XP (32 bit edition) and the RAID works

4.10, amd64, and raid

2004-12-27 Thread ctodd
Trying to install 4.10/i386 on an amd64 system with Promise raid controller. The saga Can't use 4.x install disk because kernel doesn't support raid (at least the promise controller). Can boot off of 5.x install disk and switch media, but install fails because it can't find the base distribu

Re: Need help *fast*

2004-12-27 Thread Chris
Nikolas Britton wrote: Broder Mizzérable wrote: Hello there.. i'm switching to FreeBSD ' now '... i did try to use the floppy installation way. but it seems like all my floppy's are 50kb to small =/ ... so i was wondering .. is it possible to use a CD ' That does already has stuffs on it but sti

RE: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-27 Thread Subhro
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Connolly > Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 5:14 > To: FreeBSD_Questions > Subject: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3 > > Hello list. I wish to put FreeBSD 5.3 on a new hard drive

RE: Trouble determining configure options in ports

2004-12-27 Thread Subhro
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonathan Reeder > Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 3:01 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Trouble determining configure options in ports > > I'm trying to install the sam

RE: after upgrading xorg / error driver

2004-12-27 Thread Subhro
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of gustaaf wijnands > Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 2:56 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: after upgrading xorg / error driver > > Hello, > > after portupgrading xorg to

Re: Need help *fast*

2004-12-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
Broder Mizzérable wrote: Hello there.. i'm switching to FreeBSD ' now '... i did try to use the floppy installation way. but it seems like all my floppy's are 50kb to small =/ ... so i was wondering .. is it possible to use a CD ' That does already has stuffs on it but still boot it and download

RE: make buildkernel using 4.10 supfile

2004-12-27 Thread shawley
I apologize for the continuing intrusion but if you could be so kind as to cast a little wisdom this way again I would greatly appredicate it. I switched to standard-supfile and used *default host=cvsup11.FreeBSD.org #CHANGE_THIS.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default releas

Re: Printer

2004-12-27 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Louis LeBlanc thusly... > > Some newer Lexmark printers do support standard protocols, but I > went and spent $80 for a Lexmark color printer several years ago > that spent more time working as a doorstop than a printer. They > used - and still do for some pri

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
Frank Pawlak wrote: This is one of several issues that have been brought up on an almost periodic basis for the past several years. There have been several attempts by various folks, including a rather ambitious one by this author, and all have died because of severe lack of interest. It has

Re: Trouble determining configure options in ports

2004-12-27 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Jonathan Reeder thusly... > > I'm trying to install the samba3 port, and I'm having trouble > figuring out whether or not the --with-pam config option is being > set. I've looked through the Makefile in /usr/ports/net/samba3, > but I have to admit its not maki

Upgrade to 5.3-STABLE broke X?

2004-12-27 Thread Dave Horsfall
Was running 5.3-RELEASE (from CD) on R31 Thinkpad, when I decided to take advantage of the excellent upgrade guide posted here recently by Richard Bejtlich, and give -STABLE a spin, followed by a "portupgrade". Now, it's unclear at what point the breakage happened, because one followed the oth

NDIS and Dell (Broadcom) WLAN 1450 Dual Band card

2004-12-27 Thread Scott Bennett
I got no responses to my question about existence of a driver for the wireless networking card mentioned in the Subject: line, so I guess I'll try the NDIS route. In section 25.3.3.6.* of the _FreeBSD_Handbook_, the instructions for using NDIS say that I will need the Windows XP driver binary

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-27 Thread Frank Pawlak
This is one of several issues that have been brought up on an almost periodic basis for the past several years. There have been several attempts by various folks, including a rather ambitious one by this author, and all have died because of severe lack of interest. It has been a few years sin

Re: Tcpdump says I'm getting incomplete packets; how to find the culprit?

2004-12-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 27), Doug Lee said: > I use FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE as a nat/firewall box. When connected to > DSL, I got fast web surfing but many gaps in incoming audio traffic > using some audio software. I switched to cable, and now audio works > great, but at least when I pop open pages

Re: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-27 Thread Scott Bennett
Tom Connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello list. I wish to put FreeBSD 5.3 on a new hard drive and have it >dual boot with the existing Windows XP system (separate HD). Can I just >simply go through the FreeBSD install and have it install the FreeBSD >boot manager/loader on the XP drive

Need help *fast*

2004-12-27 Thread Broder Mizzérable
Hello there.. i'm switching to FreeBSD ' now '... i did try to use the floppy installation way. but it seems like all my floppy's are 50kb to small =/ ... so i was wondering .. is it possible to use a CD ' That does already has stuffs on it but still boot it and download FTP wise .. as you would

Re: 5.3 and HT with SMP

2004-12-27 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 06:52 PM 12/27/2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > When it did crash, there was no logs and no errors. The servers are on a > huge stable UPS. Solaris runs on these machines for months. > > Anyone see this? anyone have any ideas? Try a BIOS update. Many early revisions of BIOSes with HTT support wer

Re: 5.3 and HT with SMP

2004-12-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 06:49:35PM -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote: > How stable and successful is HT support via SMP? > (I presume it is supported) > > I have a P4-3.06 with HT support > > I had a 5.3 machine with an HT/SMP kernel (no other customizations) > and the server would randomly reboot. C

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-27 Thread Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg
Simon Burke wrote: [snip] 2. If it wasn't for the interesting content and structure of the FreeBSD website, it would be among the less beautiful. Yes, it serves its purpose well by being simple and straight to the point. But a redesign could offer just the same -- simplicity and accuracy -- w

5.3 and HT with SMP

2004-12-27 Thread J.D. Bronson
How stable and successful is HT support via SMP? (I presume it is supported) I have a P4-3.06 with HT support I had a 5.3 machine with an HT/SMP kernel (no other customizations) and the server would randomly reboot. Could be a few hours or could be a week. I setup a new machine (same exact mode

Re: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-27 Thread Jud
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:44:28 -0700, Tom Connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello list. I wish to put FreeBSD 5.3 on a new hard drive and have it dual boot with the existing Windows XP system (separate HD). Can I just simply go through the FreeBSD install and have it install the FreeBSD boot mana

Re: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-27 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Monday 27 December 2004 06:44 pm, Tom Connolly wrote: > Hello list. I wish to put FreeBSD 5.3 on a new hard drive and have it > dual boot with the existing Windows XP system (separate HD). Can I just > simply go through the FreeBSD install and have it install the FreeBSD > boot manager/loader

Tcpdump says I'm getting incomplete packets; how to find the culprit?

2004-12-27 Thread Doug Lee
I use FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE as a nat/firewall box. When connected to DSL, I got fast web surfing but many gaps in incoming audio traffic using some audio software. I switched to cable, and now audio works great, but at least when I pop open pages in Lynx right on the FreeBSD box, I often experience

Re: add a harddrive to an existing system

2004-12-27 Thread Chris
Chris wrote: Kevin Kinsey wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Where, in the handbook, can I find where to add a new hard drive to an existing system? I know vaguely that I need to do a newfs and such, as well as an fdisk, but I don't know what all the options m

Re: It is a testament ....

2004-12-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Tom Vilot wrote: to the clean design of BSD that I could screw it up so badly and repair it so easily. (Re: ps, make deinstall) If I'd done this with RedHat (or any other RPM-based Linux distro) I hate to think about it. Well, it's a testament to the ports system anyway. Which is

Re: add a harddrive to an existing system

2004-12-27 Thread Chris
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Where, in the handbook, can I find where to add a new hard drive to an existing system? I know vaguely that I need to do a newfs and such, as well as an fdisk, but I don't know what all the options mean and how t

Re: add a harddrive to an existing system

2004-12-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Where, in the handbook, can I find where to add a new hard drive to an existing system? I know vaguely that I need to do a newfs and such, as well as an fdisk, but I don't know what all the options mean and how to best optimize this

Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-27 Thread Tom Connolly
Hello list. I wish to put FreeBSD 5.3 on a new hard drive and have it dual boot with the existing Windows XP system (separate HD). Can I just simply go through the FreeBSD install and have it install the FreeBSD boot manager/loader on the XP drive? I can't risk doing any damage to the XP system

Re: add a harddrive to an existing system

2004-12-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where, in the handbook, can I find where to add a new hard drive to an > existing system? I know vaguely that I need to do a newfs and such, > as well as an fdisk, but I don't know what all the options mean and > how to best optimize this drive. Also, I

Re: Make tutorial

2004-12-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Len Zettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The man page for make refers to > Make - A Tutorial. > A google search turns up such a > beast at > http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/Make/index.html > Is the information there valid for FreeBSD? Nearly all of the information there is valid for *any* make v

Make tutorial

2004-12-27 Thread Len Zettel
The man page for make refers to Make - A Tutorial. A google search turns up such a beast at http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/Make/index.html Is the information there valid for FreeBSD? If not, where can the right turtorial be found? -LenZ- ___ freebsd-q

Re: Device busy...

2004-12-27 Thread Eric F Crist
On Dec 27, 2004, at 4:21 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 04:20:48PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: Hello list, How do I check what process is using a device to kill/rehup it? Try fstat or lsof Kris Thanks! That's what I was looking for.

add a harddrive to an existing system

2004-12-27 Thread Eric F Crist
Hello list, Where, in the handbook, can I find where to add a new hard drive to an existing system? I know vaguely that I need to do a newfs and such, as well as an fdisk, but I don't know what all the options mean and how to best optimize this drive. Also, I'm thinking of obtaining an identic

Re: Device busy...

2004-12-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 04:20:48PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: > Hello list, > > How do I check what process is using a device to kill/rehup it? Try fstat or lsof Kris pgpydOp1gQddV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Device busy...

2004-12-27 Thread Eric F Crist
Hello list, How do I check what process is using a device to kill/rehup it? I output certain syslog events to an Okidata line printer, and every so often, the printer stops printing, and when I try to output to /dev/lpt0, I get a device busy error. thanks __

Re: Minimal system installation (was: What version)

2004-12-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 27 December 2004 at 16:01:57 -0600, Dan Thomas wrote: > On Monday, December 27, 2004 3:08 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Monday, 27 December 2004 at 13:21:51 -0600, Dan Thomas wrote: >>> A friend gave me a laptop with a Pentium 100 and 24 megs of ram. It >>> only has a floppy dri

Re: Create device

2004-12-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 07:56:39PM -0500, Leon wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to create device by using command "MAKEDEV" > But it does not work. > What command can I use? You forgot to mention important details like: * The version of FreeBSD you're running * The exact command you're trying to run * T

Trouble determining configure options in ports

2004-12-27 Thread Jonathan Reeder
I'm trying to install the samba3 port, and I'm having trouble figuring out whether or not the --with-pam config option is being set. I've looked through the Makefile in /usr/ports/net/samba3, but I have to admit its not making all that much sense to me. I really don't want to install samba from s

after upgrading xorg / error driver

2004-12-27 Thread gustaaf wijnands
Hello, after portupgrading xorg to 6.8.1, X still works but there seems to be a problem with the drivers. It produces next error: drm0: port 0x9000-0x90ff mem 0xd0300 000-0xd030,0xd800-0xdfff at device 5.0 on pci1 info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.11.0 20020828 on minor 0 error: [drm:

Re: Printer

2004-12-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 27 December 2004 at 14:25:39 -0500, Leon wrote: > Hi, > > I have a "BSD5.3" > I'm trying to set-up a printer.(Dell AIO A960) > I think, that this printer made by "Lexmark". > They have one looks like what I have(Lexmark X6170) > > I do not know if "BSD" support this printer. Neither, i

Minimal system installation (was: What version)

2004-12-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 27 December 2004 at 13:21:51 -0600, Dan Thomas wrote: > A friend gave me a laptop with a Pentium 100 and 24 megs of ram. It > only has a floppy drive. What version of FreeBSD do you recommend > and would you send me the link to download it. It's possible to run FreeBSD on a machine li

Re: Cheap NAS using FreeBSD - practical considerations?

2004-12-27 Thread Andrew P.
David Gerard wrote: Let's say that, as fine as NetApps are, I can't afford their prices. So I set up a FreeBSD box with a whole lot of disk attached and use that as network-attached storage, serving files by NFS, with gigabit ethernet. Setting up such a box is trivially easy. But what are the pract

Re: portupgrade time, xorg ports

2004-12-27 Thread Jay O'Brien
Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Saturday 25 December 2004 12:29, Jay O'Brien wrote: > > >>But it is there, so it will stay. > > > I doesn't *have* to stay, though: > > 1) Add 'WITHOUT_X11="YES"' to /etc/make.conf . > 2) Use You can use 'pkg_info -rR xorg-[whatever]' to see which ports depend > on

Re: Printer

2004-12-27 Thread Duane Winner
Louis LeBlanc wrote: If it's a new printer, my best suggestion would be to return it and get an HP anything. Some newer Lexmark printers do support standard protocols, but I went and spent $80 for a Lexmark color printer several years ago that spent more time working as a doorstop than a printer.

Re: Printer

2004-12-27 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:25 PM -0500 12/27/04, Leon wrote: Hi, I have a "BSD5.3" I'm trying to set-up a printer.(Dell AIO A960) I think, that this printer made by "Lexmark". They have one looks like what I have(Lexmark X6170) I do not know if "BSD" support this printer. So if you know, pleas let me know. I do not kno

Re: Cheap NAS using FreeBSD - practical considerations?

2004-12-27 Thread joseph kacmarcik
> Let's say that, as fine as NetApps are, I can't afford their prices. So I > set up a FreeBSD box with a whole lot of disk attached and use that as > network-attached storage, serving files by NFS, with gigabit ethernet. > > Setting up such a box is trivially easy. But what are the practical > c

permissions question

2004-12-27 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, I don't know if I am having a brainfart, something is different, or if I never had it right to begin with: I need to have a shared directory for apache web content: /usr/local/htmlstuff And a group, "htmlguys", and several users will be members of that group. I would like to have the root

RE: Cheap NAS using FreeBSD - practical considerations?

2004-12-27 Thread Mark Beaver
I personally do this with 2 IDE 80Gig drives in a CCD Configuiration with Samba on (better free windows support) a Pentium 2 350 with 512 Megs of RAM with no issues, this serves my: Music, Pictures, movies, and such without issue, and I stream them off of the share just fine, even with movies/music

Cheap NAS using FreeBSD - practical considerations?

2004-12-27 Thread David Gerard
Let's say that, as fine as NetApps are, I can't afford their prices. So I set up a FreeBSD box with a whole lot of disk attached and use that as network-attached storage, serving files by NFS, with gigabit ethernet. Setting up such a box is trivially easy. But what are the practical consideration

Re: Printer

2004-12-27 Thread Louis LeBlanc
If it's a new printer, my best suggestion would be to return it and get an HP anything. Some newer Lexmark printers do support standard protocols, but I went and spent $80 for a Lexmark color printer several years ago that spent more time working as a doorstop than a printer. They used - and stil

Can this be done?

2004-12-27 Thread Charlie Sorsby
Now that I have DSL (256K symetrical), installation via ftp from freebsd.org or a mirror seems feasible. My system is all SCSI with two SCSI cards: an Adaptec 2940 and a TekRam DC-390U2W. The CDROM drive and three disk drives are on the 2940; a fourth disk drive is on the DC-390. What I want to

Printer

2004-12-27 Thread Leon
Hi, I have a "BSD5.3" I'm trying to set-up a printer.(Dell AIO A960) I think, that this printer made by "Lexmark". They have one looks like what I have(Lexmark X6170) I do not know if "BSD" support this printer. So if you know, pleas let me know. Thanks, Leon. __

What version

2004-12-27 Thread Dan Thomas
A friend gave me a laptop with a Pentium 100 and 24 megs of ram. It only has a floppy drive. What version of FreeBSD do you recommend and would you send me the link to download it. Thanks for your help, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ fre

Re: Migrate from Qmail to Postfix..

2004-12-27 Thread Chris
Haulmark, Chris wrote: Hello, I want a real confirmation that you can copy the Maildir folders and move them to a different box with postfix running with the ability to continue as it was provided that the postfix was configured to use Maildir and also the domains that this mail server should ac

Migrate from Qmail to Postfix..

2004-12-27 Thread Haulmark, Chris
Hello, I want a real confirmation that you can copy the Maildir folders and move them to a different box with postfix running with the ability to continue as it was provided that the postfix was configured to use Maildir and also the domains that this mail server should accept for? I have alre

Re: Xorg: /dev/io mode

2004-12-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 12:10:13PM +0100, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > Hi, > What is the proper way to permantly give group or world rw rights to > /dev/io? Or is there a better way to be able to use X as other than root? You can set the permissions with devfs (see the manpages), but note that thi

Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: make buildkernel

2004-12-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 10:19:52AM -0600, shawley wrote: > My Bad > In file included from /usr/src/sys/modules/ipfilter/../../contrib/ipfilter/ ? > netinet/ip_fil.c:109: > > /usr/src/sys/modules/ipfilter/../../contrib/ipfilter/netinet/ip_fil.h:501:1: > warning: "PFIL_HOOKS" redefined [...] > ?

Re: Wine 20041201 on FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE

2004-12-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 05:17:18AM +, jason henson wrote: > On 12/26/04 23:13:19, Matthew Bluestone wrote: > >I am running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, Xorg 6.8.1 (portupgraded today), > >and > >KDE 3.3.3 (portupgraded today). My ports tree was updated yesterday. > > > >I am trying to run Wine, and

It is a testament ....

2004-12-27 Thread Tom Vilot
to the clean design of BSD that I could screw it up so badly and repair it so easily. (Re: ps, make deinstall) If I'd done this with RedHat (or any other RPM-based Linux distro) I hate to think about it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: make buildkernel

2004-12-27 Thread shawley
My Bad In file included from /usr/src/sys/modules/ipfilter/../../contrib/ipfilter/   netinet/ip_fil.c:109: /usr/src/sys/modules/ipfilter/../../contrib/ipfilter/netinet/ip_fil.h:501:1: warning: "PFIL_HOOKS" redefined :6:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition /usr/src/sys/mo

Re: 5.3: want to install XFree86

2004-12-27 Thread RW
On Monday 27 December 2004 05:31, Theodore D. Sternberg wrote: > I've had it with Xorg and would like to go back to XFree86. > Unfortunately, when I go to /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 and type "make", it > doesn't do anything; it just gives me this message... > > ===> XFree86-4.4.0_1,1 is part of

Re: portupgrade time, xorg ports

2004-12-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Saturday 25 December 2004 12:29, Jay O'Brien wrote: > But it is there, so it will stay. I doesn't *have* to stay, though: 1) Add 'WITHOUT_X11="YES"' to /etc/make.conf . 2) Use You can use 'pkg_info -rR xorg-[whatever]' to see which ports depend on a each of the X.org ports. For each "depend

Re: FreeBSD Jails & Perl: Reading /proc ...

2004-12-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Friday 24 December 2004 08:17, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > I'm trying to read /proc/*/status, specifically to find what processes > belong to what jail ... but, doing 'direct views' on it tends to generate > errors since processes "come-n-go" ... I had the same problem when I was writing JailAdm

Re: Xorg can't start

2004-12-27 Thread Alexandr
I discavered what i810 drive is broken for X.org in current realize. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: how to - source routing

2004-12-27 Thread Christian Laursen
Perica Veljanovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible to do source routing in FreeBSD? You can do that with ipfw and fwd rules. -- Christian Laursen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

how to - source routing

2004-12-27 Thread Perica Veljanovski
Hi all, Is it possible to do source routing in FreeBSD? I want to set up a fBSD box with (3 nic's) 2 internet connections and a private net, and do some source routing. -- <> ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: urgent help

2004-12-27 Thread kalin mintchev
PLEASE REPLY TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:40:34PM +0100, Andreas Wider?e Andersen typed: >> At 09:35 27.12.2004, you wrote: >> > PLEASE REPLY TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> > upgraded from 4.6 => 4.10 rel >> > >> > network programs are craching the new system: netstat, ping, th

Re: urgent help

2004-12-27 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:40:34PM +0100, Andreas Wider?e Andersen typed: > At 09:35 27.12.2004, you wrote: > > > PLEASE REPLY TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > upgraded from 4.6 => 4.10 rel > > > > network programs are craching the new system: netstat, ping, the qmail tcp > > server all of them...

Re: urgent help

2004-12-27 Thread kalin mintchev
PLEASE REPLY TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] thank you Bill for rplying... well i did it a few times with the same success. it's not the first time i'm doing it. it's the first time with the 4.x.. i followed the handbook step by step - rebuild devs too.. and then cleaned up obj.. to make it all again - t

Re: fBSD on Duron

2004-12-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
Cristi Tauber wrote: Vadim Maksimenko wrote: Do you get kind of these messages at boot time?: I got just the first line npx0: [FAST] then it stops . Setup hangs with no other error. the CPU in at 1600Mhz and is not overclocked ! Cristi I'm assuming

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