Re: gmake/make dependency problem

2005-09-20 Thread Harti Brandt
Harlan, On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Harlan Stenn wrote: HS>It is ugly to add $(srcdir) to the targets (and perhaps dependencies), HS>but that may have to happen. For the 'foreseeable future' - yes. HS>If I say: HS> HS>srcdir=wherever HS>VPATH: $(srcdir) HS> HS>a: b HS> HS>b: c HS> cd $(srcdir) && sc

Re: Diskless Boot Problem

2005-09-20 Thread kevin stovall
Thanks for responding and sorry it took me so long to respond. I am still having the same problem that I was. / is mounted through nfs. Do you know if the dhclient does the same as you described in 6? Also, I think that they did away with mfs in version 6. style='FONT-SIZE:11px;FONT-FAMILY:ta

Re: make buildworld fails on step 1.2 and questions

2005-09-20 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sep 20, 2005, at 7:01 PM, Chris wrote: A few things - If you are using CURRENT (anything) you have posted to the wrong list - try FreeBSD-CURRENT. K. If your a newb (as you seem to be), you should be using either 5.4-RELEASE or 4.11-RELEASE Meh. I just want to get my hands dir

Re: sendmail port compilation failed in jail

2005-09-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
Dave wrote: I've cvsupped my ports tree on 5.4-p6 to the latest, and am trying to get sendmail 8.13.5 going in a jail. The compilation appeared to go well, then a test failed. Any suggestions appreciated. Sendmail is failing trying to use SysV shared memory. Try: sysctl security.jail.sysv

Re: gmake/make dependency problem

2005-09-20 Thread Harlan Stenn
Harti, It is ugly to add $(srcdir) to the targets (and perhaps dependencies), but that may have to happen. If I say: srcdir=wherever VPATH: $(srcdir) a: b b: c cd $(srcdir) && script c > b then it is Strange that make will correctly see that for 'a', the dependency is 'b' and 'b' is found i

Re: freebsd and vmware?

2005-09-20 Thread Yuan Jue
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 15:23, mgedv online wrote: > is 5.4, 6.0 or 7x supported to run under vmware on > a logical partition? > > has anyone successfully setup such a configuration? A. if you want to install FreeBSD using vmware in Windows, the answer is YES B. if you want to install vmware

Re: Codeweaver for *BSD software petition, please condsider signing.. :)

2005-09-20 Thread Remington
On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 07:25 -0700, Frank Jahnke wrote: > Bill, > > You beat me to this! I was going to post here on Monday. For more > information on the petition, please see Dru Lavigne's most recent blog > entry, http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7731 > > Frank > > __

Re: Printing to a Win XP LPD Server from FreeBSD 5.4

2005-09-20 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, aksis wrote: Hi, I am having a problem printing to a WinXP (home edition) LPD Server. The command: lptest | lpr -P lp-test print's to the printer successfuly. According to your printcap file, this is an unfiltered queue. lpr -P lp test.ps doesn't print anything, but

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 + VMware

2005-09-20 Thread Aaron Peterson
> On Sep 20, 2005, at 1:37 PM, Aaron Peterson wrote: > > > I've had problems loading/booting FreeBSD 5.4 in a virtual machine. > > If I start in the default mode, it crashes VMware. If I start with > > ACPI disabled it crashes VMware. If I start in "Safe Mode" it works > > great. So... I want t

220.backup-bsdlabels (WAS: Re: periodic(8) / daily bsdlabel / fdisk / softraid*)

2005-09-20 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Here's a basic script to accomplish this. No support for checking geom/gmirror/vinum configurations. RAIDFrame's raidctl(8) has a nice "-G" flag: "-G dev Generate the configuration of the RAIDframe device in a format suitable for use with the -c or -C options." Maybe someone

Re: Firefox and Flash ...

2005-09-20 Thread RW
On Monday 19 September 2005 20:57, Kiffin Gish wrote: > I know I am not the first nor more than likely the last, but I cannot > for the life of me get Flash to work in Firefox 1.0.6 on FreeBSD 5.4. > > I've tried everything according to the FreeBSD handbook, mailing lists, > etc, but still when the

Re: make buildworld fails on step 1.2 and questions

2005-09-20 Thread Chris
Garrett Cooper wrote: > Hello, > I'm building my OS from source from the first time, and I realize > that I must have missed a step in configuring it properly. I just hate > treading through a lot of documentation when there isn't a really nice > search feature involved, so if someone can gi

Re: Free Opera

2005-09-20 Thread rod person
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 03:45:04 +0200 Björn König <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 03:04:22 +0200, rod person > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:50:22 -0400 > > Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > >> I don't know. If there is an easy way to find out

Re: Free Opera

2005-09-20 Thread Chris
Björn König wrote: > On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 03:04:22 +0200, rod person <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: ... Free Oprah?! -- Best regards, Chris 1) You can't win 2) You can't break even 3) You can't even quit the game ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: Free Opera

2005-09-20 Thread Björn König
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 03:04:22 +0200, rod person <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:50:22 -0400 Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know. If there is an easy way to find out on my installation, let me know and I will post the result. I assume you guys are talking a

make buildworld fails on step 1.2 and questions

2005-09-20 Thread Garrett Cooper
Hello, I'm building my OS from source from the first time, and I realize that I must have missed a step in configuring it properly. I just hate treading through a lot of documentation when there isn't a really nice search feature involved, so if someone can give me the steps they used-

Re: Recommended AGP Nvidia card?

2005-09-20 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sep 19, 2005, at 3:33 PM, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Monday 19 September 2005 16:48, Garrett Cooper wrote: 5600/5800's aren't bad. In fact I might get one to replace my old Ti 4200 sometime in the near future. But if you want to get the 6200 or somewhere around the 6000 series, they ar

Re: Free Opera

2005-09-20 Thread rod person
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:50:22 -0400 Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know. If there is an easy way to find out on my installation, > let me know and I will post the result. I assume you guys are talking about the Toolbar fonts. I've used Opera since 5.x and I'm pretty sure ther

Re: Free Opera

2005-09-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-09-20 20:50, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 19:48, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>On 2005-09-20 19:17, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 15:52, Gerard Seibert wrote: I know that this is slightly off topic, but Opera is now being >>

Re: Free Opera

2005-09-20 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 19:48, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2005-09-20 19:17, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 15:52, Gerard Seibert wrote: > >> I know that this is slightly off topic, but Opera is now being given > >> away free. There is a FreeBSD version available the

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 + VMware

2005-09-20 Thread Norberto Meijome
Aaron Peterson wrote: I've had problems loading/booting FreeBSD 5.4 in a virtual machine. If I start in the default mode, it crashes VMware. If I start with ACPI disabled it crashes VMware. If I start in "Safe Mode" it works great. So... I want to learn about what is different about booting

Re: OT: re AbiWord and margins

2005-09-20 Thread virgil huston
Try looking under Format options. I don't know Abiword, but OO has Styles. Virgil On 9/20/05, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 05:08:40PM -0400, virgil huston wrote: > > Does Abiword have Styles? If so, you can set them up and apply them to > > blocks of text. > > Vi

periodic(8) / daily bsdlabel / fdisk / softraid*

2005-09-20 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
All: I just realized that the stock perdiodic scripts dont backup fdisk/disklabel output. I'm taken back a bit; NetBSD and OpenBSD have always done this (archive to /var/backup). We backup the password and group files, but not system info. Obviously, RAID can mitigate the need for this, b

Printing to a Win XP LPD Server from FreeBSD 5.4

2005-09-20 Thread aksis
Hi, I am having a problem printing to a WinXP (home edition) LPD Server. The command: lptest | lpr -P lp-test print's to the printer successfuly. lpr -P lp test.ps doesn't print anything, but it is sending to the server (see below). I have tried cups. I have the exact ppd file (ML-1740spl2.p

Re: OT: re AbiWord and margins

2005-09-20 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 05:08:40PM -0400, virgil huston wrote: > Does Abiword have Styles? If so, you can set them up and apply them to > blocks of text. > Virgil > any clue where i should begin searching? does oo have these "styles"? (i live most with vi... .) gaary

Re: Intranet/Internet Gateway - Intranet requests to Internet ip time out

2005-09-20 Thread Peter Clutton
On 20 Sep 2005 13:40:17 -0400, Lowell Gilbert < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thomas Dimson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Here is my problem: whenever a person on the internal network tries to > > connect to my web server (or anything else) on my public IP, the > > request times out. I t

Re: Is there anyway to mount linux xfs filesystems in 5.4

2005-09-20 Thread Peter Clutton
On 9/20/05, jdonahue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is something really important if I am going to use FreeBSD more. > I need to mount my Gentoo linux which I have on XFS & REISERFS partitions. > -- You can use mount -t ext2fs /drive /mnt Drive is like /dev/ad1 etc and /mnt is mount point

Re: Xprt

2005-09-20 Thread Dejan Lesjak
dick hoogendijk wrote: > Yesterday I upgraded my xorg-printserver. Afterwards my Xprt would not > start. Looking at /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/xprint.sh I did not have a > POSIX-shell. Hmmm.. seems you need ksh or bash for xprint all of > a sudden. A warning would have been nice. > > I installed ksh93,

sendmail port compilation failed in jail

2005-09-20 Thread Dave
Hello, I've cvsupped my ports tree on 5.4-p6 to the latest, and am trying to get sendmail 8.13.5 going in a jail. The compilation appeared to go well, then a test failed. Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks. Dave. #make SENDMAIL_WITHOUT_IPV6=yes SENDMAIL_W ITHOUT_NIS=yes   SENDMAIL_

Re: Free Opera

2005-09-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-09-20 19:17, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 15:52, Gerard Seibert wrote: >> I know that this is slightly off topic, but Opera is now being given >> away free. There is a FreeBSD version available there. >> >> http://www.opera.com >> >> We will now return you to

Re: Game server

2005-09-20 Thread Peter Clutton
On 9/20/05, Eros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > please, How can I make a game server with FreeBSD ? I want run every game > from one ferver with out need to install the games on the clients. Can i > make that ? There are quite a few game servers for various things like Quake etc in /usr/port

Re: mgsql periodic script? running vacuumdb?

2005-09-20 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Lane wrote: Hello, I recently installed postgresql 8.0 on FreeBSD 5.4 and I've noticed the following message in the "daily run output": vacuuming... Password: vacuumdb: could not connect to database template1: fe_sendauth: no password I'm assuming you found /usr/local/etc

Re: Free Opera

2005-09-20 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 15:52, Gerard Seibert wrote: > I know that this is slightly off topic, but Opera is now being given > away free. There is a FreeBSD version available there. > > http://www.opera.com > > > We will now return you to your regularly scheduled forum. > I downloaded and install

Re: Bind not starting on startup on new system

2005-09-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-09-20 18:25, Lisa Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>The only place it should be looking for it is in the path that >>named.conf is pointing to it. which if its the default is >>/etc/namedb/master. Is it there, or if not, where is named.conf >>looking for it. >> >>This seems obvious and i

Re: Starting kdm

2005-09-20 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 09/19/05 09:21 PM, Eric Schuele sat at the `puter and typed: > stan wrote: > > I'm trying to figure out the current way (on a 4.11 STABLE machine) > > of having kdm startup on boot. Surpisingly neither the handbook, > > nor a Google search really led me anywhere on this, and I don't > > see a sc

Re: howto add a user with more then 16 characters

2005-09-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 19 September 2005 at 11:00:26 -0300, Eros wrote: > To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org On Monday, 19 September 2005 at 12:36:52 -0300, Eros wrote: > To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org On Monday, 19 September 2005 at 13:01:37 -0300, Eros wrote: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > > Hi all, >

Re: Bind not starting on startup on new system

2005-09-20 Thread Lisa Casey
Hi Jeff, - Original Message - From: "jdyke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lisa Casey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 6:03 PM Subject: Re: Bind not starting on startup on new system The only place it should be looking for it is in the path that named.conf is poi

Re: Can I Rebuild / and /usr Remotely? Ideas?

2005-09-20 Thread D. Goss
Thanks. Guess it'll just be easier to physically go to the console. Not that big of a deal in this case but I wanted to try it remotely just for future reference. That way if the need arose, I could be fairly confident I could do it remotely. It is OS independent but one thing to think

Re: Can I Rebuild / and /usr Remotely? Ideas?

2005-09-20 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 9/20/2005 2:50 PM Jerry McAllister wrote: On 9/20/2005 11:28 AM Jerry McAllister wrote: On 9/20/2005 10:20 AM Jerry McAllister wrote: Thank you for your reply. This gives me some direction in which to proceed. Since the layout is as I like now, it seems to me that I would only hav

Bind not starting on startup on new system

2005-09-20 Thread Lisa Casey
Hi, I migrated my web server and DNS server from a FreeBSD 3.2 box to a new FreeBSD 5.3 box last week. I think I have most of the kinks worked out but I just ran across a biggie. The old box was running Bind 8.2.x. On the new box I set up Bind 8.4. I'll migrate to Bind 9 soon, but not now d

Re: Can I Rebuild / and /usr Remotely? Ideas?

2005-09-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > On 9/20/2005 11:28 AM Jerry McAllister wrote: > > >>On 9/20/2005 10:20 AM Jerry McAllister wrote: > >> > >>Thank you for your reply. This gives me some direction in which to > >>proceed. Since the layout is as I like now, it seems to me that I would > >>only have to dump / and then dump /

Re: Can I Rebuild / and /usr Remotely? Ideas?

2005-09-20 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 9/20/2005 11:28 AM Jerry McAllister wrote: On 9/20/2005 10:20 AM Jerry McAllister wrote: When I built this system, I configured the disks using sysinstall. I used the "dangerously dedicated"mode just as I had when I ran the 4.x series. I suspect my problems occur because geom_stripe

Re: OT: re AbiWord and margins

2005-09-20 Thread virgil huston
Does Abiword have Styles? If so, you can set them up and apply them to blocks of text. Virgil On 9/20/05, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 09:36:09AM -1000, Robert Marella wrote: > > Gary Kline wrote: > > > Apologies up front for this genral question; this time I

Re: AMD Sempron CPUTYPE & Co.

2005-09-20 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 15:21, Andrew P. wrote: > Hello! > > So I have a Sempron 2500+ CPU, one that supports > SSE3. What should I place in my /etc/make.conf? I use > ssh with X11Forward very often, so OpenSSL should > be compiled to be as fast as it can be on this CPU. > Here's a part of dme

FreeBSD 5.4 + VMware

2005-09-20 Thread Aaron Peterson
I've had problems loading/booting FreeBSD 5.4 in a virtual machine. If I start in the default mode, it crashes VMware. If I start with ACPI disabled it crashes VMware. If I start in "Safe Mode" it works great. So... I want to learn about what is different about booting in "Safe Mode" from the

Re: OT: re AbiWord and margins

2005-09-20 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 09:36:09AM -1000, Robert Marella wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > Apologies up front for this genral question; this time I > > *have* searched for a solution, but to no avail. > > > > With OpenOffice's WP I can change typeface, margin, &c > > by dragging mouse

AMD Sempron CPUTYPE & Co.

2005-09-20 Thread Andrew P.
Hello! So I have a Sempron 2500+ CPU, one that supports SSE3. What should I place in my /etc/make.conf? I use ssh with X11Forward very often, so OpenSSL should be compiled to be as fast as it can be on this CPU. Here's a part of dmesg: CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2500+ (1407.05-MHz 686-class C

Free Opera

2005-09-20 Thread Gerard Seibert
I know that this is slightly off topic, but Opera is now being given away free. There is a FreeBSD version available there. http://www.opera.com We will now return you to your regularly scheduled forum. -- Gerard E. Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ fr

Re: OT: re AbiWord and margins

2005-09-20 Thread Robert Marella
Gary Kline wrote: Apologies up front for this genral question; this time I *have* searched for a solution, but to no avail. With OpenOffice's WP I can change typeface, margin, &c by dragging mouse over read-in file. Once entire file is highlighted, altering fonts and margin

Re: Xprt

2005-09-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 09:18:17PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: > On 20 Sep 2005 14:56:48 -0400 > Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Yesterday I upgraded my xorg-printserver. Afterwards my Xprt would > > > not start. Looking at /

Re: Xprt

2005-09-20 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 20 Sep 2005 14:56:48 -0400 Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Yesterday I upgraded my xorg-printserver. Afterwards my Xprt would > > not start. Looking at /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/xprint.sh I did not have a > > POSIX-shell. Hmmm.. seems yo

Re: where are the missing libraries from the kernel source code

2005-09-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Alexandru Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > I try to compile my system (make buildworld) for a kernel > recompilation after cvsup'ing the 5.3 stable sources (using src all > option in stable-supfile) and, after about 20 min I get this error: > -- > i

Re: where are the missing libraries from the kernel source code

2005-09-20 Thread Tobias Fendin
Alexandru Gabor wrote: [snip] Iwdent HOSSU [snip] #device ppbus # Parallel port bus (required) [snip] The Iwdent seems misspelled. And the comment for ppbus says it's required, so I guess you should not remove it. -tobbe __

Re: Xprt

2005-09-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yesterday I upgraded my xorg-printserver. Afterwards my Xprt would not > start. Looking at /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/xprint.sh I did not have a > POSIX-shell. Hmmm.. seems you need ksh or bash for xprint all of > a sudden. A warning would have been nice. T

OT: re AbiWord and margins

2005-09-20 Thread Gary Kline
Apologies up front for this genral question; this time I *have* searched for a solution, but to no avail. With OpenOffice's WP I can change typeface, margin, &c by dragging mouse over read-in file. Once entire file is highlighted, altering fonts and margin

RE: Can I Rebuild / and /usr Remotely? Ideas?

2005-09-20 Thread Gayn Winters
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Drew Tomlinson > Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 10:01 AM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Can I Rebuild / and /usr Remotely? Ideas? > > > I have a system running 5.4-STABLE. I created a geo

Re: cpio and tar are loosing flags (and a panic message without trace)

2005-09-20 Thread Tim Kientzle
Matthew Dillon wrote: : :I guess cpio and tar really should take care about flags. Am I wrong? cpio won't do it, tar won't do it, dump only does whole partitions, cpdup is not an archiver. Hmm. Actually: * Joerg Schilling's "star" has done this for many years. * bsdtar has likew

where are the missing libraries from the kernel source code

2005-09-20 Thread Alexandru Gabor
Hi, I try to compile my system (make buildworld) for a kernel recompilation after cvsup'ing the 5.3 stable sources (using src all option in stable-supfile) and, after about 20 min I get this error: -- ib/file/Magdir/mips > magic cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DCOMPILE_O

Re: Can I Rebuild / and /usr Remotely? Ideas?

2005-09-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > On 9/20/2005 10:20 AM Jerry McAllister wrote: > > >>When I built this system, I configured the disks using sysinstall. I > >>used the "dangerously dedicated"mode just as I had when I ran the 4.x > >>series. I suspect my problems occur because geom_stripe doesn't get > >>along well with d

Re: Can I Rebuild / and /usr Remotely? Ideas?

2005-09-20 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 9/20/2005 10:20 AM Jerry McAllister wrote: I have a system running 5.4-STABLE. I created a geom_stripe disk for /usr. It works fine except that upon reboot, the stripe attempts to load itself twice and thus fails. Therefore, since I have no /usr, the system comes up in single user mode.

Xprt

2005-09-20 Thread dick hoogendijk
Yesterday I upgraded my xorg-printserver. Afterwards my Xprt would not start. Looking at /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/xprint.sh I did not have a POSIX-shell. Hmmm.. seems you need ksh or bash for xprint all of a sudden. A warning would have been nice. I installed ksh93, softlinked it to ksh and Xprt is wo

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2005-09-20 Thread Jakob Bratkovic
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Re: maintainers of drivers

2005-09-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jim Pazarena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > how do you find out who the maintainer is > of a particular driver? Usually the place to start is to check the commit logs, and see who has made checkins to those files lately. Note that there may not be any official "maintainer" for a given driver. ___

Re: hints for troubleshooting poor sound quality.

2005-09-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
George Hartzell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lowell Gilbert writes: > > George Hartzell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've set up an ASUS small form factor machine based around an P4S8L > > > motherboard. It's running 6.0BETA4 and Gnome2.12 from the tinderbox > > > packages. > > > >

Re: Looking for bsdlabel tutorial

2005-09-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Ansar Mohammed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems that bsdlabel is a bit of rocket science to use.. is there an > easier way to create additional partitions on an existing installation? Or a > step by step bsdabel/disklable tutorial? The handbook covers a number of situations where you want

Re: Performance of mailserevr in FreeBSD 5.4

2005-09-20 Thread Deepak Naidu
Thanx Randy, It would be good, if I have some data of posted doc regarding this... or of your own experience. Thanx for your advise Cheers, Deepak Naidu. Randy Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 19 Sep 2005, Chuck Swiger spaketh thusly: -}Deepak Naidu wrote: -}>

Re: Starting interactive processes at boot time

2005-09-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Roger O. Svenning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have this game server process "nwserver" that previously was started > at boot time trough /etc/rc.local > > I could send commands and read results whenever needed trough the use of > 'watch -i -W console' > > I now want to start this process t

Re: remote X session fonts question

2005-09-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Maarten Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My wifes laptop is too aged to work at an acceptable speed. I have > converted it to a remote X terminal (over ssh) and that works like a > charm. Only application that behaves funny is Openoffice.org.1.1.5. For > some reason the fonts in the menus get

Re: Intranet/Internet Gateway - Intranet requests to Internet ip time out

2005-09-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Thomas Dimson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I've posted here about getting a gateway working and everyone was a > great help. There is just one thing left to fix before everything > works 100%. > > I have my routes set up as thus: any requests to 127.97.0.0 is routed > through network ca

Re: Can I Rebuild / and /usr Remotely? Ideas?

2005-09-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > I have a system running 5.4-STABLE. I created a geom_stripe disk for > /usr. It works fine except that upon reboot, the stripe attempts to > load itself twice and thus fails. Therefore, since I have no /usr, the > system comes up in single user mode. At that point I can do 'kldunload >

Re: Drives Dieing

2005-09-20 Thread Gregory Nou
Matt Juszczak wrote: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a WARNING: /tmp was not properly dismounted WARNING: /usr was not properly dismounted WARNING: /var was not properly dismounted WARNING: /hd2 was not properly dismounted ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 error=40 LBA=2 29575903 ad1: FAILU

RE: Sendmail not listening correctly

2005-09-20 Thread Peter Matulis
--- Mike Loiterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.62121127.0.0.1.25 SYN_SENT What is this? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___

Can I Rebuild / and /usr Remotely? Ideas?

2005-09-20 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I have a system running 5.4-STABLE. I created a geom_stripe disk for /usr. It works fine except that upon reboot, the stripe attempts to load itself twice and thus fails. Therefore, since I have no /usr, the system comes up in single user mode. At that point I can do 'kldunload geom_stripe'

RE: Sendmail not listening correctly

2005-09-20 Thread Peter Matulis
--- Mike Loiterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 4. Listed everything after starting sendmail > tcp4 0 0 *.25 *.*CLOSED Clearly the thing is deaf. > 5. Checked /var/log/maillog to find the same errors: > This is starting to get frustrati

RE: Sendmail not listening correctly

2005-09-20 Thread Mike Loiterman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Altering cf files directly is frowned upon. I can't help you there. Sorry, that's what I meant. I was editing the .mc files. > Make sure there is no sendmail listening (port 25 or 587). Here's what I did: 1. Killed all sendmail processes # kil

Re: IE in FreeBSD?

2005-09-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
jonas wrote: hi! On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:24:38 +0100 RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Because it's common for companies and recruitment agencies to specify MS Word documents only. It's a de facto standard. this may be a bit offtopic :) ... but i think we agree that this situation is not

Re: two questions in one

2005-09-20 Thread Bob Johnson
On 9/19/05, steve lasiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > My web server is up and running well and I can test > all by going to 192.168.0.2 from any internal > workstation, but if I try to go to www.mywebsite.com > from any internal workstation, which maps to the > 66.190.xxx.xxx IP directed to

Re: Drives Dieing

2005-09-20 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 05:43, Matt Juszczak wrote: > >> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a > >> WARNING: /tmp was not properly dismounted > >> WARNING: /usr was not properly dismounted > >> WARNING: /var was not properly dismounted > >> WARNING: /hd2 was not properly dismounted > >> ad1: FAIL

Re: IE in FreeBSD?

2005-09-20 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 11:19 am, jonas wrote: > hi! > > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:24:38 +0100 > > RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Because it's common for companies and recruitment agencies to specify > > MS Word documents only. It's a de facto standard. > > this may be a bit offtopic :) ... >

Re: 5.4-RELEASE && Java jre1.3

2005-09-20 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día martes, septiembre 20, 2005 a las 05:32:18 +0200, jonas escribió: > what about these two? hi, > Port: jre-1.1.8 > Path: /usr/ports/java/jre > Info: Standard Java Platform for running Java programs # cd /usr/ports/java/jre # make ===> jre-1.1.8 depends on shared library: c.3 - no

Re: IE in FreeBSD?

2005-09-20 Thread Dimitar Vasilev
The standarts we are speaking are per company basis - e.g. West European governments are slightly shifting to Linux as a desktop, while others strictly mention what formats of resumes they accept on their recruitment sites. In most cases of big companies I have seen, they say that prefer HTML or

Re: 5.4-RELEASE && Java jre1.3

2005-09-20 Thread jonas
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:51:14 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Apitz) wrote: > > Hello, > > I've the official dictionary of the Academy RAE of Spain. It > works very nice on Linux with an jre 1.1.8 shipped with the > dictionary on CD; because I want to switch over to FreeBSD > I've ported jdk15

Re: IE in FreeBSD?

2005-09-20 Thread jonas
hi! On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:24:38 +0100 RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Because it's common for companies and recruitment agencies to specify > MS Word documents only. It's a de facto standard. this may be a bit offtopic :) ... but i think we agree that this situation is not good. is there any

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2005-09-20 Thread kk kumar
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freebsd and vmware?

2005-09-20 Thread mgedv online
is 5.4, 6.0 or 7x supported to run under vmware on a logical partition? has anyone successfully setup such a configuration? br... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

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2005-09-20 Thread kiran kumar
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Re: Could Free-BSD includes RPM & Linux emulator in new release?

2005-09-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 08:28:13PM -0700, thomas wrote: > Dear Sir > > Could Free-BSD includes RPM & Linux emulator in new > release? Or provides instructions to install RPM & > Linux emulator in your website... It can and does, and has for years. Instructions for using the linux emulator may

Re: 5.4-RELEASE && Java jre1.3

2005-09-20 Thread Micah
Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, I've the official dictionary of the Academy RAE of Spain. It works very nice on Linux with an jre 1.1.8 shipped with the dictionary on CD; because I want to switch over to FreeBSD I've ported jdk15 form /usr/ports/java/jdk15 which took one night buy installed witho

Re: IE in FreeBSD?

2005-09-20 Thread Dimitar Vasilev
If you use openoffice and then export to PDF it ok. If you're able to write your resume in PostScript and then convert it to PDF that would be perfect solution. Regards, -- Димитър Василев Dimitar Vassilev ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: IE in FreeBSD?

2005-09-20 Thread RW
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 14:52, Ashley Moran wrote: > RW wrote: >> For example, if you are applying > > for a job, you have to check that your cv/resume views correctly on a > > real microsoft word. > > Why not submit your CV as a PDF? Because it's common for companies and recruitment agencie

Re: Delivery reports about your e-mail

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Need help on reboot issue (hang during shutdown)

2005-09-20 Thread cs
Hi, I have a headless colo server and sometimes (after issuing the reboot command) it would hang and did not reboot. I have enabled console logging: normal reboot: Sep 19 13:24:26 foo kernel: Writing entropy file: Sep 19 13:26:30 foo kernel: Pre-seeding PRNG: Sep 19 1

Looking for media system reccomendations

2005-09-20 Thread Ean Kingston
Hi all, I'm looking for some hardware suggestions for low-power/small footprint systems suitable to create a multimedia computer for my living room. I'm leaning toward mini-itx boards and cases. Specifically I want the following capabilities: Remote control capable (IR port I think) TV out (sv

Re: IE in FreeBSD?

2005-09-20 Thread Ashley Moran
RW wrote: However bad wine is for day to day use, and however good the native alternatives get, there remain occasions when it is essential to use an industry-standard Microsoft application. For example, if you are applying for a job, you have to check that your cv/resume views correctly on a r

Re: Performance of mailserevr in FreeBSD 5.4

2005-09-20 Thread Randy Schultz
On Tue, 19 Sep 2005, Chuck Swiger spaketh thusly: -}Deepak Naidu wrote: -}>I wanted to know whether FreeBSD can make a perfect -}> mailserver compared to mailservers on linux. I am in -}> process of porting them, but needed some statistical -}> info regarding its performance compared with oth

Re: Turning PC speaker on and off

2005-09-20 Thread Ean Kingston
On September 19, 2005 08:20 pm, Rem P Roberti wrote: > How does one go about enabling and disabling the PC speaker? Probably not what you are looking for but a few years ago I re-wired my PC speaker to include a switch so I could actually turn off the speaker. It worked great until I had to chan

Re: how to add a user with more then 16 characters

2005-09-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
Eros wrote: I have a problema by now. I can´t add a user with more then 16 characters. I have made I have modify /usr/include/sys/param.h and /usr/include/utmp.h, and after If you modify the source, then at least include your changes if you want anyone to come up with a helpfull c

Re: IE in FreeBSD?

2005-09-20 Thread RW
On Thursday 15 September 2005 02:28, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > As a result the existence of these programs discourages interest in native > FreeBSD programs, and encourages people not to wholeheartedly switch > over to FreeBSD. That would be true if you could download any windows software, run th

Re: game server

2005-09-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
Eros wrote: please, How can I make a game server with FreeBSD ? I want run every game from one ferver with out need to install the games on the clients. Can i make that ? You can use X11 to remotely display graphical programs from one machine to another, which will work fine for things which a

Re: Performance of mailserevr in FreeBSD 5.4

2005-09-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
Deepak Naidu wrote: I wanted to know whether FreeBSD can make a perfect mailserver compared to mailservers on linux. I am in process of porting them, but needed some statistical info regarding its performance compared with other os. FreeBSD makes a fine mailserver. If you need "statistical

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