Re: sysctl security.jail.* descriptions

2013-02-07 Thread Jamie Gritton
On 02/07/13 05:55, Fbsd8 wrote: Jamie Gritton wrote: On 02/06/13 09:59, Fbsd8 wrote: > Fbsd8 wrote: >> Waitman Gobble wrote: >>> On Feb 6, 2013 7:17 AM, "Fbsd8" wrote: >>>> Waitman Gobble wrote: >>>>> On Feb 6, 2013 7:02 AM, "Fbsd8&qu

Re: sysctl security.jail.* descriptions

2013-02-06 Thread Jamie Gritton
wrong. All the security.jail.param.* MIBs are set in rc.conf or /etc/jail.conf file on a per jail bases by changing the word "parm" to the jailname? There's not always a direct connection between the jail parameters and the current rc.conf values. The jail parameters are what you&#

Re: problems upgrading from 7.2-RELEASE-p8 to 7.4 or 9.0-RELEASE

2012-10-12 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Bas Smeelen wrote on Fri 12.Oct'12 at 11:02:47 +0200 ] > On 10/12/2012 10:53 AM, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > [ Greg Larkin wrote on Thu 11.Oct'12 at 20:49:19 -0400 ] > > > >> Hi Stuart, > >> > >> If you click the link in this mailing l

Re: How does freebsd supports ipx?

2012-10-12 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
> I suppose you should add "options IPX" line to your kernel > configuration file and rebuild/reinstall the kernel. have a look at /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES and/or /usr/src/sys/{amd64,i386}/conf/NOTES for more information about kernel options ___ freebsd-

Re: problems upgrading from 7.2-RELEASE-p8 to 7.4 or 9.0-RELEASE

2012-10-12 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Greg Larkin wrote on Thu 11.Oct'12 at 20:49:19 -0400 ] > Hi Stuart, > > If you click the link in this mailing list article > (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-July/218554.html), > then follow the rest of the threaded messages, you should be able fix > the problem once y

Re: freebsd-texlive port

2012-10-11 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Antonio Olivares wrote on Thu 11.Oct'12 at 6:39:00 -0500 ] > The efforts by Romain Tartiere should not go unnoticed. For many > years now, he has a port to texlive: > > https://code.google.com/p/freebsd-texlive/ > > It works with the FreeBSD tools that you mention and it updates the > pack

Re: freebsd-texlive port

2012-10-10 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Joe Gain wrote on Wed 10.Oct'12 at 19:11:50 +0200 ] > This is not constructive criticism, but just to give voice to how > great it would be if texlive could become an official port of freebsd, > integrated into the ports system!!! I imagine it would be a lot of work to integrate it into the por

Re: freebsd-texlive port

2012-10-10 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Polytropon wrote on Wed 10.Oct'12 at 17:49:25 +0200 ] > On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:01:44 +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > If you prefer, you can just use the download dvd or netinstall from the > > texlive website. They have provided binaries for FreeBSD. I instal

Re: freebsd-texlive port

2012-10-10 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Antonio Olivares wrote on Wed 10.Oct'12 at 7:23:21 -0500 ] > On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Joseph Olatt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > According to: > > > > http://code.google.com/p/freebsd-texlive > > > > I got the impression that the texlive is now available in the ports. My > > understanding wa

Re: Building Ports: Is there a "make" equivalent for --batch ?

2012-10-08 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ John Levine wrote on Mon 8.Oct'12 at 2:42:33 - ] > >... Note that setting the BATCH environment variable to yes will answer > >yes to any prompts during this process, removing the need for manual > >intervention during the build process. > > > >(This was said with respect to up

Re: New User to FreeBSD

2012-10-07 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Waitman Gobble wrote on Sun 7.Oct'12 at 0:38:30 -0700 ] > On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 12:17 AM, alwin doss wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Let me be honest at the outset, I have never used an operating system other > > than linux with enthusiasm. > > But something about Linux always troubled me "It's li

Re: Xterm options for correct man page display?

2012-10-07 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Thomas Dickey wrote on Sat 6.Oct'12 at 7:32:00 -0400 ] > On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 07:31:07AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 10:45:52AM +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > > [ Ronald F. Guilmette wrote on Sat 6.Oct'12 at 2:25:04 -0700 ] &g

Re: Xterm options for correct man page display?

2012-10-06 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Ronald F. Guilmette wrote on Sat 6.Oct'12 at 2:25:04 -0700 ] > > When I view man pages in a xterm window, some parts of them are coming > out a bit garbled. > > I'm sure that there must be some recommended option or options for > xterm that will cause man pages to display properly. If someo

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 with LSI MegaRAID 9265-8i

2012-10-05 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ To FreeBSD Questions wrote on Fri 5.Oct'12 at 10:46:38 +0100 ] > When you install the 8.3-RELEASE, just use svn to download to stable source > tree and rebuild the system from source, then you'll have the version you > need. Are you able to do that? Sorry I meant to say build on another mac

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 with LSI MegaRAID 9265-8i

2012-10-05 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Joe Mays wrote on Thu 4.Oct'12 at 22:26:01 -0400 ] > Well, this is a real problem. I have nothing where I am to build and burn an > ISO, and I am trying to work with someone several states away through an > IKVM switch. The server-to-be is on a port on the switch and I need them to > downloa

Re: Trouble updating Sources via subversion?

2012-10-04 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
n > using the master server, or your favorite mirror, and your protocol of > choice, e.g.: > > svn co svn://svn.FreeBSD.org/ports/head /usr/ports > > Then, just for kicks, try to update /usr/ports: > > svn up /usr/ports > > If you're still getting error message

Re: suggest pdf viewer for pdf version 1.6 with annotations

2012-10-04 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
running Linux 'stuff' on FreeBSD I completely agree with. But, it's the fault of these proprietary software people that make it difficult for us FreeBSD users and so whilst I don't like the concept of it, it's unfortunately something I h

Re: suggest pdf viewer for pdf version 1.6 with annotations

2012-10-03 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
) I'm using adobe acroread on 9.1(stable) and it is ok. Bit slow starting up, but i've experienced no other issues HTH, Jamie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: find slot number and number of ports for each card

2012-10-01 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Devin Teske wrote on Sat 29.Sep'12 at 12:32:04 -0700 ] > > On Sep 29, 2012, at 7:37 AM, saeedeh motlagh wrote: > > > hello all > > > > i want to have statistics about my hardware specially the type of card > > that are installed on my system, > > Card characteristics are provided by "pciconf

Re: How to use subversion to keep source, system and doc files up to date?

2012-09-28 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Warren Block wrote on Thu 27.Sep'12 at 14:11:39 -0600 ] > Yes. If a new version of a file conflicts with your local changes, svn > will complain and try to help resolve those conflicts. When I changed to svn, I completely remove or moved (mv(1)) the /usr/ports tree. Created a new /usr/port

Re: PC-BSD 9.0 in VirtualBox

2012-09-28 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Mike Jeays wrote on Thu 27.Sep'12 at 22:56:42 -0400 ] > I have been running PC-BSD 9.0 with the KDE interface in a VirtualBox VM, and > notice that it uses CPU resources when idle, driving up my CPU temperature > about 15 degrees on an otherwise idle machine. (It is an Intel i5 quad four). >

Re: svn checkout "head" or "stable"

2012-09-28 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Trond Endrestøl wrote on Fri 28.Sep'12 at 12:44:10 +0200 ] > On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:28+0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > > My question is, does it pull in docs for all languages or can I > > exclude docs in languages that I don't need - I only need en docs. &

Re: svn checkout "head" or "stable"

2012-09-28 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
to jump in on the thread, but I wondered about pulling in the docs using svn. I use svn for base updates and ports, but haven't yet don so the docs. My question is, does it pull in docs for all languages or can I exclude docs in languages that I don't need - I only need

Re: Change in /etc/rc.d/namend script

2012-09-25 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Olivier Nicole wrote on Tue 25.Sep'12 at 11:39:37 +0700 ] > Hi, > > Yesterday I upgraded my DNS server from 7.2 to 8.3 and has the > unpleasant suprise to find that named would not restart after the > upgrade. > > I think I traced it back to the new /etc/rc.d/named script. > > I am runing in

svn commit: r240807 - in stable/9/contrib/bind9: . lib/dns lib/dns/include/dns

2012-09-22 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
can I just go into /usr/src/contrib/bind9 and make, build, install that bit? It does affect me do I should really update to this commit, up to now i've only rebuilt the entire system from source rather than individual code commits. Cheers, Jamie _

Re: have desktop on freebsd

2012-09-22 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ saeedeh motlagh wrote on Sat 22.Sep'12 at 9:55:47 +0330 ] > thanks Sean, no X doesn't work correctly for me. > > thanks Brian, but this freebsd box is my develop system and i have to > work with it and no other OS. > > thanks Michael, i compiled X11 and Gnome from ports. > > I'm thinking to

Re: exclude device from bus probe?

2012-09-18 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
> We have a system based on Supermicro X7SPA-HF with IPMI connected via a > shared 82574L NIC. We are not using this NIC for anything from the OS but > the probing and device attach breaks the IPMI connection so bad FBSD don't > see any screen during boot. There is no BIOS flag that disables th

Re: have desktop on freebsd

2012-09-18 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
... just to quickly add, X installs a simple window manager called twm. Just to test further, before installing another window manager/desktop put exec twm in your .xinitrc file. That 'should' start twm. Then you know it's working and can then install the Window Manager or Desktop you want. ___

Re: have desktop on freebsd

2012-09-18 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ saeedeh motlagh wrote on Tue 18.Sep'12 at 12:39:43 +0430 ] > yes, i used "Xorg -configure" and after that "Xorg -config > xorg.conf.new -retro" as a root user. it seems that every thing is ok > and i see a gray page with mouse curser but when i restart my system i > don't have desktop. > i use s

Re: have desktop on freebsd

2012-09-18 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ saeedeh motlagh wrote on Tue 18.Sep'12 at 9:40:16 +0430 ] > thanks Jamie, i changed my driver to intel and modules are as the same > you mentioned but i don't have desktop yet. after editing xorg.conf > file, i restart my system to be sure that xorg.conf file is readed >

Re: Questions about ZFS Tuning

2012-09-17 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Mike Clarke wrote on Mon 17.Sep'12 at 18:19:18 +0100 ] > On Monday 17 September 2012 13:20:14 Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > > I set zfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=0 because some dmesg line suggested/implied > > it would benefit. I don't recall the exact output now.

Re: Questions about ZFS Tuning

2012-09-17 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
they are as my system is functioning well enough, as far as I can tell anyway. This is the first time I've used ZFS on FreeBSD so I am still very much in the 'learning process' where that is concerned. Thanks for your response Volodymyr. Very much appreciated. Best wishes, J

Re: have desktop on freebsd

2012-09-17 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
ection Also, near to the top of the file, there is module section. I have this: Section "Module" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "dri2" Load "dbe" Load "dri"

Questions about ZFS Tuning

2012-09-17 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
Hi When I installed FreeBSD on my Lenovo Think Center Desktop I created a full ZFS Root file system using Matthew Seaman's excellent article: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/articles/install-on-zfs/ My system now is: /home/jamie $ uname -a FreeBSD kontrol.kode5.net 9.1-PRERE

Re: kinternet alternative in FreeBSD

2012-09-14 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ suseuse...@lajt.hu wrote on Fri 14.Sep'12 at 11:05:03 +0200 ] > Matthias, Polytropon: > > I have answered to your messages using "reply to" but my messages > haven't reached the mailing list. I am posting now my answer in a > new (not reply to) mail. > > Thank you for your answers. > I am usin

Re: portsnap Generating a "Bad file descriptor" Error Message

2012-09-04 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
seems > fine. What could the problem be? I'm not getting that error but I am getting these: sort: write failed: standard output: Broken pipe sort: write error Unrelated i'd imagine but seems portsnap has some issues? Jamie _

Re: Wrong version of sources?

2012-09-02 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
LEASE brach. Or you could just continue to track stable branch and keep the RELENG_9 tag. That's what I am doing currently although I intend on tracking stable branch anyway, i.e. after 9.1-RELEASE has been made available. Jamie. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: text editor

2012-08-29 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
> > NOTE: Assuming FreeBSD here. > > -- > > Devin > > > > _ > > The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or > > confidential. > If > > you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all >

Re: TLS config help

2012-08-29 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
A')dnl > DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s')dnl > > Bye, > Matthias That's very handy info, I am planning on setting up TLS for sendmail myself. So thanks to the OP for asking that question, although i'm sure there's loads of info on the n

Re: sendmail local-host-names questions

2012-08-29 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
does make a difference, especially if you have several machines on your LAN. It's not as hard as it first appears. In fact the default installation is already configured for a local caching nameserver. I have added my own zone files as well which is all explained on the Handbook.

Re: CMI8788 audio card/chip support

2012-08-27 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Polytropon wrote on Mon 27.Aug'12 at 4:10:57 +0200 ] > On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 02:01:34 +, James Powell wrote: > > > > Are any plans being made to start support for these audio cards? > > Currently I'm using one in a system I would like to use with > > FreeBSD but it has no support through the

Re: Upgrading 9.1-BETA1 -> 9.1-RC1

2012-08-25 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Thomas Mueller wrote on Sat 25.Aug'12 at 2:51:38 -0400 ] > from Maarten Billemont : > > > I've installed a FreeBSD server using the BETA1 release because RC1 was > > delayed. I notice the 9.1-RC1 is available now, so I thought I'd upgrade > > ASAP. > > > The following command, however, fai

Re: Issue with kernel building

2012-08-23 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Lowell Gilbert wrote on Thu 23.Aug'12 at 10:28:47 -0400 ] > Jamie Paul Griffin writes: > > > [ Lowell Gilbert wrote on Thu 23.Aug'12 at 9:23:14 -0400 ] > > > >> antonin tessier writes: > >> > >> > I have a problem when I try to bu

Re: Issue with kernel building

2012-08-23 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Lowell Gilbert wrote on Thu 23.Aug'12 at 9:23:14 -0400 ] > antonin tessier writes: > > > I have a problem when I try to build my own kernel. I had never got such a > > one; here is my kernel configuration file and the building errors that it > > makes. > Or just stay with GENERIC; most co

Re: why does /etc/namedb link to /var?

2012-08-23 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Gary Aitken wrote on Wed 22.Aug'12 at 23:39:16 -0600 ] > Can anyone shed light on why /etc/namedb is a symlink to > /var/named/etc/namedb? > > It seems to me this is general configuration stuff which should be in > /etc/namedb on the root partition, not on /var. I thought /var was used for

Re: firefox & png

2012-08-22 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Polytropon wrote on Thu 23.Aug'12 at 2:00:15 +0200 ] > On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:43:55 -0400, david coder wrote: > > thx, i hadn't seen the reply to my earlier message. > > > > unfortunately, though i've got the png port installed w/ > > > > OPTIONS=APNG "Animated PNG support" On >

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-22 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Michel Talon wrote on Wed 22.Aug'12 at 12:29:56 +0200 ] > > David Jackson said: > > In reference to the claims that systemd developers "do not care about > > portability", this is deceptive and misleading. > You should read the following interview of Lennart Poettering > http://linuxfr.org/

Re: "Twitter.com is loading slowly" after updating to Firefox 13.0.1

2012-08-21 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Toomas Aas wrote on Tue 21.Aug'12 at 23:48:56 +0300 ] > Tue, 17 Jul 2012 kirjutas Lars Eighner : > > > On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Toomas Aas wrote: > > > >> Hello! > >> > >> I'm having this problem on two different computers, one running > >> 8.3-STABLE and the other running 9.0-STABLE. After updat

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-20 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
== jb wrote on Mon 20.Aug'12 at 17:40:40 + == > The end effect is, they consciously want to screw up Linux and non-Linux > (UNIX, > *BSD, etc) ecosystems that opt not to follow them (read some additional > comments that appeared in the meantime in the comments section of > Distrowatch). > Th

Re: freebsd-update fetch trying to update custom kernel

2012-08-20 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
== Denis wrote on Mon 20.Aug'12 at 16:41:56 +0400 == > > Then why not follow my suggestion of _letting_ freebsd-update > > update the kernel, but _use_ a different one instead which it > > won't touch? In /boot/loader.conf: > > > > kernel="mykernel" > > bootfile="/boot/mykernel/ker

Re: I Can Has Packages?

2012-08-20 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
== Polytropon wrote on Mon 20.Aug'12 at 14:22:45 +0200 == > On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 06:38:33 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > I always keep saying the ideal > > situation would be that you could customise and compile just your own > > really mission critical software and freely mix that with installin

Re: Issue with kernel building

2012-08-20 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
== Jerry wrote on Mon 20.Aug'12 at 8:11:17 -0400 == > I inquired several years ago about the possibility of changing the > renaming format into something like: "kernel_##_YY-MM-DD.old". The "##" > would be incremented with each successive build on a given day. I > thought it would alleviate jus

Re: Issue with kernel building

2012-08-20 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
== Michael Powell wrote on Sun 19.Aug'12 at 19:43:14 -0400 == > Keep in mind whenever you install a new kernel your present kernel (and its > matching modules) get moved to kernel.old. What this means is that the > GENERIC you have with a base install will be moved to kernel.old and can be > us

Re: Firefox 14.0.1 won't build under 8.3 on amd64

2012-08-17 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
== John Levine wrote on Mon 13.Aug'12 at 5:41:52 - == > Oops, it's 14.0.1 I'm trying to build. 13.0.0.1 is what I have installed now. > > In article <20120813053621.24629.qm...@joyce.lan> you write: did you select the option to use optimised CFLAGS when you run make config in the port dire

Re: sendmail + clamav + spamassasin config help

2012-08-14 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
> Not really able to help you here... > However, you may consider MIMEDefang (which in turn will run all of > the above). At least, that's how I do it. or, you could consider using Postfix. It's much easier to configure and implement content filters. Jamie ___

Re: mac powerpc ibook g3 blank screen on start up

2012-08-08 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
== Jeff Tipton wrote on Thu 9.Aug'12 at 8:36:12 +0300 == > On 08/09/2012 06:22, Andy Recker wrote: > >i installed the power PC version of free BSD and put it on my mac i book g3 > >i was in the insulation process when i couldn't get it to work because of a > >few errors and i decided to turn it

Re: Openresolv Config

2012-08-07 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
#x27;t override the entries you put in /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf when it boots-up. That might be a solution to your problem, perhaps others could confirm that for sure. Jamie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:/

Re: Installing free bsd

2011-12-13 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
l be fine to use on most earlier versions. As others have mentioned you only need FreeBSD Disc1. I personally just use the "User" installation option which only installs binaries and man pages and docs. I don't install the sources and ports collection at that stage, I find it&#x

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-22 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 02:06:04PM -0400, Daniel Staal wrote: > One of the people I know uses this as his work laptop, running Excel, > Powerpoint, Outlook, Word, etc. (Of course, he's not running Android at > that point...) The 'laptop' is a tablet in a case with a bluetooth > keyboard. He us

Re: virtualbox 4.0

2011-07-21 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 07:38:23AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > Recent versions of VirtualBox claim to be able to run a 64-bit VM on a > 32-bit host if the host CPU is 64-bit and has hardware virtualization > support: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=33940 > (search for "64-bit gues

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-21 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 07:28:24PM -0400, Daniel Staal wrote: > --As of July 20, 2011 5:45:49 PM -0400, David Jackson is alleged to have > said: > > > but you also have scanners, cameras, joysticks, capture devices for video, > > and so on that many common users love to use. A lot of people use >

Re: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25

2011-07-19 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 04:27:14PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > ssgriffonuser writes: > > > I'm having difficulty getting sendmail set up on my server. I can > > send and receive to localhost and I can send to external networks but > > I can not receive from external networks (I receive a 550:

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
ecoming too high over-time. I think it's easy to forget that we get this great os for free and take the work of those involved in developing it for granted. jamie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 07:30:00AM -0400, Jerry wrote: > I suggested several years ago, and I will re-suggest that FreeBSD start > a program that would allow programmers to be paid to write code that > either the regular contributors do not want to write or are not capable > of writing. Other OS'

Re: can't build teTeX port in FreeBSD 8.2 amd64

2011-07-16 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
a small subset of the TeXlive distribution, there is so much there. Jamie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: can't build teTeX port in FreeBSD 8.2 amd64

2011-07-14 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
or a true native port for TeXLive I can't see that it's really necessary. I remember difficulties with the 2009 release when FreeBSD binaries were not included but now they are the installation is headache-free. jamie. ___ freebsd-qu

Re: acroread9 - kernel module load error

2011-06-03 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 12:14:36AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 23:43:51 +0200, Patrick Lamaiziere > wrote: > > We need a kernel module to see some pdf with acrobat now? > > I was thinking exactly the same (without further investigation). > Luckily xpdf and gv, as well as Gnome'

Re: acroread9 - kernel module load error

2011-06-02 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 08:23:22AM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > > Jamie Paul Griffin writes: > > > Installed this port but the kernel won't load and produces the following > > error: > > > > think# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/linux_adobe start > > kldloa

Re: acroread9 - kernel module load error

2011-06-02 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 08:23:22AM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > > Jamie Paul Griffin writes: > > > Installed this port but the kernel won't load and produces the following > > error: > > > > think# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/linux_adobe start > > kldloa

acroread9 - kernel module load error

2011-06-02 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
odule /usr/local/libexec/linux_adobe/linux_adobe.ko Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone have any suggestions to fix it? best wishes jamie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: editors/openoffice.org-3

2011-05-31 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:40:56AM -1000, parv wrote: > in message <20110530163134.ga51...@think.gnix.co.uk>, > wrote Jamie Paul Griffin thusly... > > > > I wouldn't mind using one of the packages but they want perl version > > 5.12 and I don't want t

Re: editors/openoffice.org-3

2011-05-30 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
sing one of the packages but they want perl version 5.12 and I don't want to use that just for OO. jamie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

editors/openoffice.org-3

2011-05-30 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
eople said they had experienced this problem, the last message in it was dated 15 May 2011. No update after and no indication when the problem might be fixed. I wondered if anyone here has any more information about this? best wishes, jamie _

Re: How to change Fluxbox resolution?

2011-05-25 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
thing called Unity which I believe provides some functionality to change the screen size and requires vmware-tools but even though I installed them as per the manual I received errors when starting it (not relating to Unity). It also requires suitable hardware. O

Re: canon ip4700 and cups

2011-05-24 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 06:30:22PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > print/gutenprint I already have that port installed. jamie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

canon ip4700 and cups

2011-05-24 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
t mine which is typical. as along shot i downloaded the source from canon for linux and tried to use the ppd file that came with but needless to say it didn't work. does anyone use this printer on FreeBSD, if you do i'd love to know how you got it set up. bes

Re: CRUX and FREE BSD

2011-05-24 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 04:38:36PM +0200, Ramu Chakravadhanula wrote: > hi, > > I have to make CRUX and FREE BSD dual boot. Is that possible? how can i do > that?? I have CRUX installed before. now i want to use Free BSD 7.3. please > help me, thank you. The best thing would be to delete Linux of

Re: x11-wm/olvwm

2011-05-24 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 07:09:11PM +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote: > Just letting then disappear silently is rude und unnecessary, but that's just > IMHO. I completely agree. That's happened to me before, I spent so much time getting things set up the way I like it for it all to be in vain. We're only

Re: opera 11.11 and flash

2011-05-24 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
o be fair, I didn't persevere as much as should have done but, I have to say I am so impressed with the new firefox, it works so well on my system so i'm glad it worked out that way. Cheers Jamie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd

info about java ide

2011-05-24 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
x27;d need that to actually build the sun version anyway wouldn't I? Any help would be great. Jamie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any m

Re: perl-threaded

2011-05-24 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
hem all and it's good. Thanks for your reply. jamie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

perl-threaded

2011-05-23 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
I have rebuilt my perl5.14 with threading support. do I need to rebuild my perl-linked ports again now i've made this change? jamie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questio

Re: opera 11.11 and flash

2011-05-23 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:06:07PM +0200, claudiu vasadi wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Have a look at section 6.2.3.2 from > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html, it works. If you > still have problems, you can report back. It's Jamie actually but hello anyw

opera 11.11 and flash

2011-05-23 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
d success by following the process for Firefox but as I understand it with the www/opera-linuxplugins port this shouldn't be necessary? Has anyone got this to work and if so could you tell me how you did it? jamie ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: GEOM warning in dmesg

2011-04-07 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
re person. > Back on topic, you can and should ignore the warnings. They won't cause > any problems, which certainly can't be said about you fiddling with your > partitions. > Jud thank you for your clear advice Jud. best wishes jamie

Re: GEOM warning in dmesg

2011-04-06 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 07:24:29PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Wednesday 06 Apr 2011 17:58:21 Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > > i'm sorry but that doesn't make any sense at all. could you explain a > > solution more clearly please? > > There's no problem

Re: GEOM warning in dmesg

2011-04-06 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
e drive. Now, when I installed FBSD there were no error messages. I > don't know if that will help you or not. thanks to you both. it seems it's nothing to worry about so i'm happy to just ignore the warnings, i was just worried it might cause problems in some way later o

Re: GEOM warning in dmesg

2011-04-06 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
with out complicating things.. i'm sorry but that doesn't make any sense at all. could you explain a solution more clearly please? jamie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: GEOM warning in dmesg

2011-04-06 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 12:11:58PM -0400, Michael J. Kearney wrote: > Press "a" at the partitioning program during install. .. i think you can fix > that post install too **-* > thanks for your reply but could you be more specif

GEOM warning in dmesg

2011-04-06 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
Hi everyone I have just installed FreeBSD 8.2 RELEASE amd64 onto my new Lenovo ThinkCentre and i'm dual-booting FreeBSD with Windows & which was preinstalled. When the system boots i see the message shown below in dmesg which relates to the partitions on the FreeBSD slice. So far i have not exp

Re: DNS Administrator - Kenya

2011-04-03 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 06:57:27PM +0300, Kenneth Parit wrote: > Hello, > > I look forward to becoming the DNS Administrator for my country Kenya. > > It is impossible to download FreeBSD 8.2 from any of the mirror sites > due to disconnections. > > Since I am contactable any day/time of the yea

Re: Just wanted to install vim - had to spend entire day building X11

2011-01-10 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
if you just want a console editor. It's better than vim if you ask me anyway. jamie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: [Probably a bit OT] A question about mail systems

2011-01-08 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
added security features possibly. These servers are also designed with security in-mind which is always something you need to consider. jamie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: port print/teTeX-base failed to install

2011-01-05 Thread jamie
nstallation > should consist of just running the installer. Tug.org have provided TeXlive binaries for freebsd and installing it is easy but, some other ports do still require TeTeX as a dependency and it's not unsual to have both distributions insta

Re: best way to rebuild all perl ports

2011-01-05 Thread jamie
> Check so you not have "perl-threaded". If you have you must type > "portupgrade -fr perl-treaded". Othervise it just do nothing. wow that was easy. this was the problem and it's now rebuilding everything. thanks to everyone fo

Re: best way to rebuild all perl ports

2011-01-04 Thread jamie
've installed that require perl have been built against 5.12. jamie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

best way to rebuild all perl ports

2011-01-04 Thread jamie
ed, should i do this and if so if there's a particular ports-management tool that would be best suited to this? jamie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubs

Re: Portupgrade status

2011-01-03 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
ed port depends Indeed, this -R option is useful. Up-to-now i've not used anything else other than portupgrade but i'll have a look over the man pages of portmaster, etc.; i'll probably continue to use portupgrade for a while though. jamie _

Re: Portupgrade status

2011-01-03 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
so can i just ask, is portmaster or another port upgrading tool recommended over portupgrade now because i'm going to be upgrading all my ports soon and in the 18 months i've been using FreeBSD i've always used portupgrade but sounds like it's best to change

Re: jls jail command

2010-07-08 Thread Jamie Gritton
the jid unless explicitly specified). The core dump has been fixed in the upcoming 8.1 release - in 8.0 you can only specify jails by jid. - Jamie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questio

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