Re: Building a FreeBSD system.

2006-01-28 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:12:13 -0500 Anthony Dematteo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am interested in building a new computer, with the intention of > running FreeBSD AMD/64. > > I am, however haveing trouble finding a mother board with support > listed in the hardware database. (Mostly for onboar

Re: Wireless ISP

2006-01-28 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:56:29 - "FootballCALL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am based in the UK and wish to set up a wireless community > broadband service to residents and businesses in my community. From > my access point, I would like other users to 'share' my connection > through

Re: Wireless ISP

2006-01-28 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:36:47 +0100 Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FootballCALL wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am based in the UK and wish to set up a wireless community > > broadband service to residents and businesses in my community. > > From my access point, I would like other users to '

GEOM - how do we replace a failing HDD?

2006-01-28 Thread Yance Kowara
Hi all, We are trying to use GEOM to make a RAID-1 system (using a pair of identical IDE) and it is quite simple to setup. Does anyone know how to replace the hard disk if any of the two disks fails? There does not seem to be much clear documentation, if any exists, about this. More importantly,

Unable to Startx Following Upgrade--Error in Locking Authority File

2006-01-28 Thread Bob Perry
Hi everyone, I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0 and just completed weekly upgrade. Now when I run "startx", I can not connect to the graphical display window. I simply see the gray screen with the small x in the middle. I went back to the command line to review the text immediately following

Gnome's bottom panel doesn't display running programs

2006-01-28 Thread Derrick Ryalls
Greetings, I did some searching, but didn't find anything so I was hoping someone might have a clue on this. I just did the compile for gnome 2.12 on FreeBSD 6 and so far most everything seems to work except the lower panel does not display the current running programs or the other virtual deskto

Odd Graphics Issues

2006-01-28 Thread Jeff Molofee
I've asked about this before, but received no replies... Thought I would ask again, now that it's happening again, and it's happening with a different port. I'm running the latest FreeBSD 6. I have an Nvidia 5900fx and use the nvidia driver. I had this problem awhile ago with webmin. What ha

Re: rm - Argument list too long

2006-01-28 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006, Kirk Strauser wrote: >On Friday 27 January 2006 17:52, Paul Schmehl wrote: >> for files in *.* >> do >> rm $files >> done > >Don't ever, *EVER* blindly unlink glob expansions. It's bad for you. > >Instead, use something like: > >find . -name 'sess.*' -delete While that's

Re: A strategic question

2006-01-28 Thread MikeM
On 1/28/2006 at 3:16 AM Jozef Baum wrote: | [lots of stuff deleted] = Use what you're comfortable with, no one is forcing you to use FreeBSD. I, as a FreeBSD newbie, was able to find FreeBSD quite useful on the desktop. Your mileage may vary. _

Re: Portsnap

2006-01-28 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 28 January 2006 19:19, Chris wrote: > > Concerning speed I discovered the version in the ports tree is very > slow, I have portsnap running zippy when using fetch on 2 5.4 boxes > which I use the version in the base system, on 2 5.3 boxes and a 4.10 > box I use the version from ports an

Re: Portsnap

2006-01-28 Thread Colin Percival
Chris wrote: > I > contacted the dev and he confirmed the ports version is old so I guess the > ports maintainer needs to update it until that is done I dont reccomend it > for 5.3 and older. *cough* Yes, the maintainer of the sysutils/portsnap port should update it. The maintainer of the misc/b

Re: Mounting Reiserfs partition from firewire

2006-01-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 28, 2006, at 5:12 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: Hello, This is my first time trying to mount a Reiserfs 3.6 partition on a firewire drive in FreeBSD 6.0, and I was wondering if there were any additional things that I needed to look into as far as controlling the drive (resetting it for

Re: /etc/group and /etc/passwd nuked after installworld

2006-01-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 28, 2006, at 5:22 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 05:14:21PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: Hi, I was wondering if someone could provide some of the user groups for /etc/group since I think my numbering scheme's off and there are some files owned on my system by my

Re: /etc/group and /etc/passwd nuked after installworld

2006-01-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 28, 2006, at 5:16 PM, Micah wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: Hi, I was wondering if someone could provide some of the user groups for /etc/group since I think my numbering scheme's off and there are some files owned on my system by mystery groups and users. It would be nice since I

Re: /etc/group and /etc/passwd nuked after installworld

2006-01-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 05:14:21PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering if someone could provide some of the user groups > for /etc/group since I think my numbering scheme's off and there are > some files owned on my system by mystery groups and users. It would > be nice

Re: Portsnap

2006-01-28 Thread Chris
On 28/01/06, Donald J. O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 28 January 2006 13:36, Gerard Seibert wrote: > > I just started using 'portsnap' on my FreeBSD 5.4 PC. If I were to > > run cvsup again, and perhaps 'portsdb -Uu' would that cause a problem > > if 'portsnap' were run again? W

Re: /etc/group and /etc/passwd nuked after installworld

2006-01-28 Thread Micah
Garrett Cooper wrote: Hi, I was wondering if someone could provide some of the user groups for /etc/group since I think my numbering scheme's off and there are some files owned on my system by mystery groups and users. It would be nice since I'd like to fix whatever happened after my last

/etc/group and /etc/passwd nuked after installworld

2006-01-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
Hi, I was wondering if someone could provide some of the user groups for /etc/group since I think my numbering scheme's off and there are some files owned on my system by mystery groups and users. It would be nice since I'd like to fix whatever happened after my last installworld.

Mounting Reiserfs partition from firewire

2006-01-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
Hello, This is my first time trying to mount a Reiserfs 3.6 partition on a firewire drive in FreeBSD 6.0, and I was wondering if there were any additional things that I needed to look into as far as controlling the drive (resetting it for powerdown) and any additional things I need for mo

Re: Starting gpg-agent

2006-01-28 Thread Felix 'buebo' Kakrow
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 14:25:10 -0500 Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there any special format or just an entry like this: > > /usr/local/bin/gpg-agent --daemon That should do it. The only thing to consider is that you have to terminate commands that stay in the foreground with a

Re: Starting gpg-agent

2006-01-28 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Saturday 28 January 2006 04:34, Felix 'buebo' Kakrow wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 08:19:44 -0500 > > Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I usually start KDE with the 'startx' command. I would like to > > start 'gpg-agent' at the same time, and possibly shut it down > > when I exit from

Re: VPN / Bridge

2006-01-28 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:01:11 +0100 Bob Kersten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've been trying to create a tunnel/bridge between two networks > which both reside behind a FreeBSD router using NAT. I've achieved > it using the handbook example in chapter 14.10. Clients on network > A are

Re: Number of files

2006-01-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hi list! > > I have a 4.11 server wich have been running successfully, for som years now. > One directory is containing images, and this directory is growing really > fast. > > My question is; how many files can a directory contain, totally? It depends on the number of inodes that were buil

Re: Number of files

2006-01-28 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 1/28/2006 2:31 PM Pelle Andersson wrote: Hi list! I have a 4.11 server wich have been running successfully, for som years now. One directory is containing images, and this directory is growing really fast. My question is; how many files can a directory contain, totally? Best regard & TIA

Re: Number of files

2006-01-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
Pelle Andersson wrote: > I have a 4.11 server wich have been running successfully, for som years now. > One directory is containing images, and this directory is growing really > fast. > > My question is; how many files can a directory contain, totally? Millions (it depends on the filesystem bloc

Re: rm - Argument list too long

2006-01-28 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Friday 27 January 2006 17:52, Paul Schmehl wrote: > for files in *.* > do > rm $files > done Don't ever, *EVER* blindly unlink glob expansions. It's bad for you. Instead, use something like: find . -name 'sess.*' -delete -- Kirk Strauser pgpepCmOuaBna.pgp Description: PGP signature

Mysql on freebsd strange core dumps

2006-01-28 Thread Mihai Tanasescu
Hello, I'm running a mysql server mysql-server-4.1.16 on a FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p1 and I'm constantly getting this: pid 82947 (mysqld), uid 88: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) (about 10-15 times a day). I ran the gdb debugger on the core dump and saw the following: Loaded symbols for

Re: (6.0) Firefox error, "Building for atk-1.9.1" ?

2006-01-28 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Sat, 28 Jan 2006 it looks like Kent Stewart composed: > On Saturday 28 January 2006 09:58, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > > Hello Family, > > > > Well I've read alot of "Firefox" posts and seconds after a > > successful ports update via cvsup I went to build and install > > Firefox and although I ca

Snort - Separate Sensor and Data Collector Boxes?

2006-01-28 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I want to learn about Snort and started Googling. I found a couple of docs that indicate I can install Snort on a "sensor" box and then run ACID, Apache, MySQL, etc. on a "data collector" box. Am I understanding correctly? The box I want to use as the "data collector" already has all the re

Number of files

2006-01-28 Thread Pelle Andersson
Hi list! I have a 4.11 server wich have been running successfully, for som years now. One directory is containing images, and this directory is growing really fast. My question is; how many files can a directory contain, totally? Best regard & TIA I am u

Re: spamassassin problem and question

2006-01-28 Thread Ken Stevenson
David Banning wrote: Having said that, I don't think that's what you want to do. It sounds like you upgraded Spamassassin without upgrading Razor2. I don't think Razor2 gets upgraded automatically when you upgrade Spamassassin because it's optional. I would try upgrading the Razor2 port to the

Re: Portsnap

2006-01-28 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 28 January 2006 13:36, Gerard Seibert wrote: > I just started using 'portsnap' on my FreeBSD 5.4 PC. If I were to > run cvsup again, and perhaps 'portsdb -Uu' would that cause a problem > if 'portsnap' were run again? Would I have to run the extract command > again to initialize the por

Re: Portsnap

2006-01-28 Thread Colin Percival
Gerard Seibert wrote: > I just started using 'portsnap' on my FreeBSD 5.4 PC. If I were to run > cvsup again, and perhaps 'portsdb -Uu' would that cause a problem if > 'portsnap' were run again? Would I have to run the extract command > again to initialize the ports tree? If you run CVSup, you'll

Re: Portsnap

2006-01-28 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 28 January 2006 13:36, Gerard Seibert wrote: > I just started using 'portsnap' on my FreeBSD 5.4 PC. If I were to > run cvsup again, and perhaps 'portsdb -Uu' would that cause a problem > if 'portsnap' were run again? Would I have to run the extract command > again to initialize the por

RE: FreeBSD and aquiring proper drivers

2006-01-28 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
It would be cheaper to buy different hardware. if you work for Dell you need to write the drivers and submit them to freebsd for the dell hardware that isn't already supported. Ted >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jennifer Gold >Sent: Fri

Re: Firefox 1.5

2006-01-28 Thread Stijn Hoop
For those interested, paste the inline patch below in /usr/ports/www/firefox/files/patch-bugzilla305970 And reinstall your firefox. Thanks again, Anish, it certainly seemed to help me! --Stijn --- widget/src/gtk2/nsWindow.cpp.orig Thu Aug 18 10:11:23 2005 +++ widget/src/gtk2/nsWindow.cpp

Re: freebsd hosting

2006-01-28 Thread FlashWebHost.com
www.LayeredTech.com is good for FreeBSD servers, they are flexable and offers any version of FreeBSD you need. Many other providers do not offer latest version, they still stay with version 4.x and say that is the only supported version. May be i should say, LayeredTech.com is a reason why i use

Portsnap

2006-01-28 Thread Gerard Seibert
I just started using 'portsnap' on my FreeBSD 5.4 PC. If I were to run cvsup again, and perhaps 'portsdb -Uu' would that cause a problem if 'portsnap' were run again? Would I have to run the extract command again to initialize the ports tree? Thanks -- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Starting gpg-agent

2006-01-28 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 14:34:41 +0100, Felix 'buebo' Kakrow wrote: > Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I usually start KDE with the 'startx' command. I would like to > > start 'gpg-agent' at the same time, and possibly shut it down > > when I exit from KDE. > > > > Is there a way th

Re: (6.0) Firefox error, "Building for atk-1.9.1" ?

2006-01-28 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 28 January 2006 09:58, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > Hello Family, > > Well I've read alot of "Firefox" posts and seconds after a > successful ports update via cvsup I went to build and install > Firefox and although I can easily open the "Makefile" in > /usr/ports/accessibility/atk apparen

Re: spamassassin problem and question

2006-01-28 Thread David Banning
> Having said that, I don't think that's what you want to do. It sounds like > you > upgraded Spamassassin without upgrading Razor2. I don't think Razor2 gets > upgraded automatically when you upgrade Spamassassin because it's optional. I > would try upgrading the Razor2 port to the latest vers

Re: mysql - linuxthreads

2006-01-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 01:03:31PM +, Chris wrote: > On 27/01/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 03:15:05PM -0500, Romeo Theriault wrote: > > > A week or so ago I wrote to the this list asking about Freebsd and > > > Mysql, wondering if you still needed

RAID level migration and FreeBSD slice/partitions

2006-01-28 Thread Marco Beishuizen
Hello, I would like to add 2 SCSI disks to my RAID controller (an Intel SRCU42X, the new disks are Seagate Cheetahs 36GB) and migrate to RAID 5. At the moment the controller has 2 disks attached to it (also 2x Seagate Cheetah 36GB) in RAID 0. According to the documentation of the controller t

Re: Sony Vaio & sound

2006-01-28 Thread Evgeny Solovyov
Chris wrote: > Ariff Abdullah wrote: >> On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:43:50 -0600 >> Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Additional info via pciconf -vl >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:27:0:class=0x040300 card=0x81a0104d >>> chip=0x26688086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 >>> vendor = 'Intel Corporation'

apache error

2006-01-28 Thread J.D. Bronson
I have apache2.2 and running http only for now. All is running fine, but I noticed that once a page comes up..as soon as I click a link, I see this in the 'access.log' file for apache: www.wixb.com - - [28/Jan/2006:11:55:12 -0600] "GET /" 400 456 www.wixb.com - - [28/Jan/2006:11:55:13 -0600] "GET

(6.0) Firefox error, "Building for atk-1.9.1" ?

2006-01-28 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello Family, Well I've read alot of "Firefox" posts and seconds after a successful ports update via cvsup I went to build and install Firefox and although I can easily open the "Makefile" in /usr/ports/accessibility/atk apparently "Firefox" cannot while attempting to build and install. Here is l

Xorg6.9 XkbLayout us_intl

2006-01-28 Thread dick hoogendijk
After upgrading Xorg to 6.9 the keyboard option "XkbLayout" "us_intl" does not work anymore. so, I don't have accents :-( Does anybody know how to (re) install international keyboard layout? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.0 ++ The Power to Serve

Eterm -x XFCE, Xorg 6.9

2006-01-28 Thread Jimmie James
~>Eterm -x Eterm: Warning: Window Manager does not support MWM hints. Bypassing window manager control for borderless window. After updating Xorg from 6.8.2 to 6.9, borderless Eterm's(urxvt as well) don't work anymore in XFCE4. I've recompiled all of the XFCE parts, and Eterm, and no change.

A strategic question

2006-01-28 Thread Byron Campbell
> This posting doesn't contain a technical question about FreeBSD, rather a > strategic one. > > Some time ago, I wanted to migrate to a Unix environment, because I wanted > to have a secure, stable, convenient and efficient environment for > developing and running programs, no longer having to b

Re: Firefox 1.5

2006-01-28 Thread Stijn Hoop
Thanks for this! I was trying to restore some sanity to this new browser -- it keeps hanging / crashing. Will try this ASAP. --Stijn On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 06:50:11PM -0500, Anish Mistry wrote: > On Friday 27 January 2006 14:49, Mark Kane wrote: > > Anish Mistry wrote: > > > On Friday 27 Janua

Re: question on the firefox port...

2006-01-28 Thread Duane Whitty
Evgeny Solovyov wrote: $ make -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER install clean or $ make FORCE_PKG_REGISTER="YES" install clean will set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER" to YES mojo fms wrote: I am having an odd problem on the firefox port. This is a fresh install of Freebsd 6 and basicly what its doing

Fata Error with FreeBSD 6 Kismet and CIsco Aironet Card

2006-01-28 Thread Jason Carpenter
I'm having some trouble getting Kismet to work with my Cisco card; I get the following error: "FATAL: Cannot set ifmedia: Operation not permitted." I have the source set to radiotap_bsd_b in kismet.conf, and am able to see 802.11 traffic using Ethereal (which seems to imply that rfmon mode is wo

Re: Sony Vaio & sound

2006-01-28 Thread Chris
Ariff Abdullah wrote: On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:43:50 -0600 Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Additional info via pciconf -vl [EMAIL PROTECTED]:27:0:class=0x040300 card=0x81a0104d chip=0x26688086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801FB/FR/FW/FRW Intel

Re: pf and scrubbing bubbles

2006-01-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
J.D. Bronson wrote: > I am using this in my pf.conf (on 6.0) and was wondering if these settings > are appropriate. > > While 'scrub' by itself is always recommended, I added a few more things > that seem to ought to be there? > > I use this for all the NICs...WAN and LAN... > with the exception

Re: Firefox 1.5

2006-01-28 Thread Simon Barner
> > I opened a bug with the Mozilla people, but it got closed and > > marked as a duplicate of this bug (which they say has been fixed in > > their 1.8 CVS): > > > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305970 > > > > I have not yet tried to build the CVS, but it is a very annoying > > bug

Re: A strategic question

2006-01-28 Thread Graham Bentley
http://www.pcbsd.org/ worked out of the box with my NVidia card ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Kernel Compile Question

2006-01-28 Thread Graham Bentley
Hi All, I have just been testing www.raqdevil.com which is coming along nicely :) I decide to recompile the stock 6.0 kernel and strip out all the stuff I would not be using on my 'web appliance' (LPT, Serial, Firewire, USB) I think I have got my kernel down as small as I can (about 2.8 MB) howe

Re: Unable to install 'dirmngr'

2006-01-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When attempting to install 'dirmngr', I am greeted with this error > message: > > gmake[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. > gmake[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. > gmake[2]: Leaving directory > `/usr/ports/security/dirmngr/wor

Re: question on the firefox port...

2006-01-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Donald J. O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To get "make deinstall" and "make reinstall" to work, they have to be > run from the port; in your case, run from /usr/ports/www/firefox. And if you have upgraded your sources since the initial install, a direct pkg_delete(1) may work better tha

Re: FreeBSD and aquiring proper drivers

2006-01-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Jennifer Gold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any way to obtain driver code from FreeBSD regarding Dell systems, > or would I have to ask certain vendors if they would/could write the code? > Is there someone who could recommend me to even a consulting firm about > this? Thanks, Depends

Re: ARP CACHE

2006-01-28 Thread Fabian Keil
KRISTA BALL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My systems arp cache needs cleaning, how do I go about it? arp -ad Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ARP CACHE

2006-01-28 Thread a non y mouse
KRISTA BALL wrote: > My systems arp cache needs cleaning, how do I go about it? arp -a -d (man arp) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL P

GBDE error message - what does it mean?

2006-01-28 Thread Christian Baer
Hello again everybody! A few days back I got my first GBDE-device up and running. After that I had a slight problem described in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I already discribed this problem in a newsgroup (comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc) and didn't get much help there[1] (apart from the adive to use geli ins

Re: question on the firefox port...

2006-01-28 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 27 January 2006 22:33, mojo fms wrote: > I am having an odd problem on the firefox port. This is a fresh > install of Freebsd 6 and basicly what its doing ... > > ===> Generating temporary packing list > ===> Checking if www/firefox already installed > ===> firefox-1.5_5,1 is already

errors in schemas?

2006-01-28 Thread Playnet
Hello freebsd-questions, adding new entry "sambaDomainName=sstand.spb.ru,dc=sstand,dc=spb,dc=ru" modify complete ldap_add: Naming violation (64) additional info: naming attribute 'sambaDomainName' is not present in entry file: dn: sambaDomainName=sstand.spb.ru,dc=sstand,dc=spb,dc=ru obje

ARP CACHE

2006-01-28 Thread KRISTA BALL
My systems arp cache needs cleaning, how do I go about it? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Strange HD-device

2006-01-28 Thread Christian Baer
Hello *! I am experiencing a very annoying problem when trying to (re-) install hard drives. What happened is this: I set up a new (private) server, removed all the hard drives from the old one and installed these drives and one new drive in the new server. The old server was running 4.11-STABLE,

Re: Starting gpg-agent

2006-01-28 Thread Felix 'buebo' Kakrow
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 08:19:44 -0500 Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I usually start KDE with the 'startx' command. I would like to > start 'gpg-agent' at the same time, and possibly shut it down > when I exit from KDE. > > Is there a way that I can do this without having to resort to

Starting gpg-agent

2006-01-28 Thread Gerard Seibert
I usually start KDE with the 'startx' command. I would like to start 'gpg-agent' at the same time, and possibly shut it down when I exit from KDE. Is there a way that I can do this without having to resort to manually starting gpg-agent prior to starting KDE? Ciao, -- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL P

Make Distribution

2006-01-28 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Since about yr 2000, we have been writing many hundreds of scripts and things specific to our (server) needs. We are at the point now, where we would like to make a rapid deployment disk, prefereably of FreeBSD 6.0. This deployment set would be based on on a system that is currenly

Re: mysql - linuxthreads

2006-01-28 Thread Chris
On 27/01/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 03:15:05PM -0500, Romeo Theriault wrote: > > A week or so ago I wrote to the this list asking about Freebsd and > > Mysql, wondering if you still needed to compile Mysql with > > linuxthreads to get better performance

pf and scrubbing bubbles

2006-01-28 Thread J.D. Bronson
I am using this in my pf.conf (on 6.0) and was wondering if these settings are appropriate. While 'scrub' by itself is always recommended, I added a few more things that seem to ought to be there? I use this for all the NICs...WAN and LAN... with the exception to remove filtering on loopback: =

RE: Is there a how-to super-page for FreeBSD?

2006-01-28 Thread fbsd_user
Give the install guide at www.a1poweruser.com a try. What you call add-ons is what FreeBSD calls the port/package environment. A very simple command of pkg_add -r flash will download and install it. And just like the other operating systems, you are on your own to configure and use the add-on soft

Freebsd + samba + ssh+cvs

2006-01-28 Thread David Richards
good day all, As the subject says, We are using samba 3 which is configured to talk to AD (windows 2000 servers). I can use wbinfo -u/t/r/g fine. I can also see the shares fine. Now the reason I set this up was to allow the programmers to use cvs and their nt logon pa

Ctrl+Alt+number terminal switching stopped working

2006-01-28 Thread Ian Moore
Hi, I've just noticed I can't switch from my X session back to the other vtty screens using Ctrl+Alt+1, Ctrl+Alt+2 etc. I can't seem to find any info on this - is it a known issue or is it just my system? It seems to happen when running both kde & twm, so it's not window manger related. I'm run

Re: Dell DRAC QUestion

2006-01-28 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have no problems (knock on my wooden head for saying that!), and no issues at the current time, but am sending this email so it will go into the archives and perhaps help someone (maybe me LOL) in the future. I will use lots of keywords below to assist in the search archive proces

Re: Multiple natd + ipfw

2006-01-28 Thread Playnet
Hello Unix-Solutions, Friday, January 27, 2006, 3:44:46 PM, you wrote: google BGP -- Best regards, Playnetmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: grub+freebsd

2006-01-28 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ serge [freebsd] [28-01-06 15:53 +0300]: | Hi | | Help to install please grub-0.95 on FreeBSD-5.4. | At attempt to install grub the following message is deduced: Error 29: Disk write error | | | Part Mount Size Newfs | - - ---

Re: A strategic question

2006-01-28 Thread Playnet
Hello Jozef, Saturday, January 28, 2006, 5:16:04 AM, you wrote: JB> I wonder how people JB> with a low-bandwidth Internet connection do to download the SP2 for Windows JB> XP. I can buy pirate dvd with win2k + winXP sp2 corporate + winXP sp3 for $3 =) JB> I came to FreeBSD, with the idea that it

Re: Is there a how-to super-page for FreeBSD?

2006-01-28 Thread Mick Beaver
Hello, I was a FreeBSD user, then Linux (including Ubuntu), and now back to FreeBSD again. I've seen what everyone else has to offer, and I understand your frustrations. The handbook is always the first place to look. They continue to increase their FreeBSD desktop coverage all the time. http:/

grub+freebsd

2006-01-28 Thread serge
Hi Help to install please grub-0.95 on FreeBSD-5.4. At attempt to install grub the following message is deduced: Error 29: Disk write error Part Mount Size Newfs - - - - ad0s1 30003MB

Re[2]: asterisk

2006-01-28 Thread Playnet
Hello Gavin, Wednesday, January 25, 2006, 1:16:42 PM, you wrote: GC> Add the following to /etc/make.conf Why not "make config"? GC> WITHOUT_H323=yes # asterisk If disable this one (i disabled it in menu), all Ok. GC> WITHOUT_ZAPTEL=yes with zaptel all compiled good. -- Best regards, Play

Re: question on the firefox port...

2006-01-28 Thread a non y mouse
Evgeny Solovyov wrote: > $ make -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER install clean > > or > > $ make FORCE_PKG_REGISTER="YES" install clean > > will set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER" to YES FWIW, you can also do: % env FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=yes make install clean :) _

Re: question on the firefox port...

2006-01-28 Thread Evgeny Solovyov
$ make -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER install clean or $ make FORCE_PKG_REGISTER="YES" install clean will set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER" to YES mojo fms wrote: I am having an odd problem on the firefox port. This is a fresh install of Freebsd 6 and basicly what its doing ... ===> Generating t

Re: Is there a how-to super-page for FreeBSD?

2006-01-28 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 1/28/06, Xn Nooby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are several websites people have put together for Ubuntu that show > every little step for configuring Ubuntu, is there such a page for FreeBSD? > > For example, tonight I installed Firefox, and wanted to install Acrobat, > Flash, Realplayer,

Re: A strategic question

2006-01-28 Thread Xn Nooby
I have had a lot of frustration in learning Unix, but I stick to it because I know it is the last OS I will ever need to learn. Unix doesn't change, so the effort you put in to learning it will never be wasted. If you stick with commerical OS's, they are going to drag you through every release of

Is there a how-to super-page for FreeBSD?

2006-01-28 Thread Xn Nooby
There are several websites people have put together for Ubuntu that show every little step for configuring Ubuntu, is there such a page for FreeBSD? For example, tonight I installed Firefox, and wanted to install Acrobat, Flash, Realplayer, and Java. I was able to find Acrobat and Flash by using