Re: Suggestions for OS to use behind freebsd pf firewalls.

2008-03-01 Thread Rico Secada
On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:45:14 -0600 eculp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed freebsd server in a small company that has approx > 30 pc's of all sizes, shapes, brands, etc. They have just realized > that a large part of the problems that they had before the firewall > was caused by the 3

Re: How to install KDE4 on FreeBSD?

2008-01-20 Thread Rico Secada
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:26:20 -0800 (PST) uutorok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I find that there is no KDE 4 in ports. The only instruction I get is > http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title ... E4/FreeBSD > > But there is not much information. Anyone who know how to build KDE > 4 on FreeBSD?

Extended FreeBSD licens

2007-11-14 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. Would it be possible for someone to add some conditions to the FreeBSD licens and then call it his extended FreeBSD licens? I mean would that be legally binding if he provided that licens with software he developed? Best regards. Rico. ___ freebsd

Adding a XP disk to FreeBSD machine

2007-06-17 Thread Rico Secada
Hi I have a box running FreeBSD 6.2 on ad0. I have another HD which used to be in the same box running XP. I set this drive to slave and installed it into the box in order to dualboot. On the bootmenu the new drive ad1 shows up: F1 FreeBSD F5 Drive 1 Pressing F1 boots the disk on ad0 with

Re: Problem installing FreeBSD 6.2 on laptop

2007-06-11 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:46:09 -0700 (PDT) Harriet Severino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am getting an error message, and do not know how to fix the problem. > I have a new Intel Celeron laptop, and want to run FreeBSD on it. I > chose the standard installation for user + Xwindows. After

Re: Does any verson of Freebsd includes the apache package?

2007-06-10 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:54:07 +0800 "goole blowfish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear friends, > > I have download the freebsd FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. > > When I install, I can't find the apache package in this installtion package. > > > Does any verson of Freebsd includes the apache package? >

Re: OT: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

2007-05-31 Thread Rico Secada
On Thu, 31 May 2007 06:56:51 -0700 George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Favourite worst written error message in history: > > Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue. I have always loved this one!! Who made that up!? Rico ___ freebsd-questions@fr

Clustered file system

2007-05-01 Thread Rico Secada
Hi We are expanding at work and I am messing around with different setups. I need a file system that will *look* like its just on one machine, like when mounting with NFS, but because of the large amount of data, I really need to expand the files to several servers. Also I need some kind of se

Help needed with server setup at work

2007-04-23 Thread Rico Secada
serves as the access point, but I am affraid if that particular machine crashes, then no one can get to their files. Good ideas and experiences are greatly appreciated! -- Best and kind regards Rico Secada ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-19 Thread Rico Secada
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:37:27 -0300 "Henry Lenzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/19/07, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Henry Lenzi wrote: > > > I find nothing brilliant in Debian's package management. It's heavily > > > dependent upon human intervention and just adds a layer of complexity

Regarding updating packages

2007-03-25 Thread Rico Secada
Hi Why is it that the binary files are so long about being updated? On OpenBSD and on most major GNU/Linux distros the binary packages are updated very quickly. I am asking the question to understand the reason behind the FreeBSD choice to give this a low priority. Best regards. Rico

An alternative to FOP

2007-03-07 Thread Rico Secada
Hi all I am working on a documentation project using docbook in which I need to incorporate some arabic text. I am using xsltproc to convert to xhtml and fo, and it works perfectly. Normally I use FOP to convert from fo to pdf, but FOP can't render the arabic text. And the result is hashes (##

Problems with arabic in Docbook

2007-03-05 Thread Rico Secada
Hi I am currently working on a docbook project using FreeBSD and I need to incorporate some arabic words. When I convert using xmlto into a xhtml document the words show up together with the other languages perfectly, but when I convert into PDF using xsltproc, the arabic letters gets convert

Re: Quanta+ freezes after upgrading

2007-02-26 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:33:02 + dgmm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 26 February 2007 05:32, Rico Secada wrote: > > Since I upgraded KDE to 3.5.5 Quanta+ always freezes when I try to start it > > up. It doesn't do anything. No errors, just a freeze,

Quanta+ freezes after upgrading

2007-02-25 Thread Rico Secada
Hi Since I upgraded KDE to 3.5.5 Quanta+ always freezes when I try to start it up. It doesn't do anything. No errors, just a freeze, and a CPU usage of 97%. Has anyone else experienced problems with Quanta+ since KDE 3.5.5? Best regards. Rico ___ fre

CD/DVD Catalog

2007-02-10 Thread Rico Secada
Hi Anyone who can recommend a good CD/DVD catalog program? Best regards Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Assembly language on FreeBSD

2007-02-07 Thread Rico Secada
Hi I am brushing up on my assembler language and I wonder if anyone could recommend any particular reading well suited for FreeBSD? Best and kind regards, Rico Secada. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Flash 9

2007-01-18 Thread Rico Secada
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:37:10 +0600 Bachilo Dmitry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't you guys know? There would not be any sound, because linux flash 9 uses > ALSA, not OSS. If there would be some wrapper sometime, we will hear the > flash, if there would not be such thing, we would not. > No

Re: Problems using autoconf/automake (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread Rico Secada
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:29:30 +0100 Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmm, ./configure --mandir=/usr/local/man, when installed on freebsd. Didn't think of that. > Hi > > I am using autoconf/automake to try to build portable makefiles for some > software I wrote. I a

Problems using autoconf/automake

2007-01-10 Thread Rico Secada
Hi I am using autoconf/automake to try to build portable makefiles for some software I wrote. I am a newbie in makefiles. If I don't add my man page, all works out fine. But as soon as I add my man page 2 problems arises. 1. I can't use make distcheck, I get the following error: make: don't k

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Rico Secada
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:48:39 -0600 "Nikolas Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am unhappy but I care too much about FreeBSD to just up and leave, > it may be time for a sabbatical though... And I complain because I > care... like a parent. Trolling. __

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Rico Secada
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:01:51 -0600 "Nikolas Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FreeBSD is created and supported by volunteers. > > Seems like you just posted a nice list of things > > for you to get busy and contribute. > > > > I don't have time to contribute work, I have a business to manag

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Rico Secada
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 23:07:55 -0600 "Nikolas Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why should I continue using FreeBSD when the project never delivers on > > > it promises? > > > > Noone is forcing you to do so. > > > > Let me restate that... I want to use FreeBSD, but the lack of progress > is

Re: what is operator group for?

2007-01-03 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:30:49 + Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Chris You could run a: find / -type f -group operator to see all files where operator is the group. Forgive me if I am wrong but I actually think this is the best way to find out. > Hi all > > can anyone tell me

Re: Flash in freebsd

2006-12-26 Thread Rico Secada
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 01:16:09 +0300 "Andrew Pantyukhin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/26/06, Dan Sikorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How? > > > > I've heard stories of linux-opera and linux-flashplayer7 didnt work > > for me Why not? Its working perfectly here. > > do I have to mess

Re: uncalled for reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Rico Secada
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 14:38:43 -0700 "Z. Wade Hampton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Bill. I'll keep that in mind. > I think I have the problem figured out. > *base=/var/db > was set in the supfile. > > After changing it to "/usr", the problem went away. You can be 99.9% sure that the p

Working with DocBook on FreeBSD nothing but problems

2006-09-27 Thread Rico Secada
Hi For some strange reason I no longer can convert my .fo files to .pdf using "fop". All I get is this.. $ fop -d mytext.fo mytext.pdf [DEBUG] Input mode: [DEBUG] FO [DEBUG] fo input file: mytext.fo [DEBUG] Output mode: [DEBUG] pdf [DEBUG] output file: mytext.pdf [DEBUG] OPTIONS [DEBUG] no use

Re: vmware on freebsd?

2006-08-15 Thread Rico Secada
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:58:23 -0400 (EDT) Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Peter > Is it possible to install VMWare Server on FreeBSD 6.0? I'm looking > for comments from people who may have done this. Yes. At out office we are running VMWare3 as a host on FreeBSD 6.1 running Windows XP. It

Re: [IMPORTANT] Adaptec no longer supporting iir(4) driver ...

2006-08-01 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:44:01 -0300 (ADT) User Freebsd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Seems to me like the best solution is to boykott Adaptec like OpenBSD did. > > 'k, I finally got ahold of someone @ adaptec, and the official word seems > to be: > > "FreeBSD 6 is not officially supported for the

Error compiling GNAT

2006-07-24 Thread Rico Secada
Hi During installation of GNAT from ports I get the following error: gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/gnat/work/gcc-34/gcc/fixinc' /bin/csh ./genfixes machname.h SHELL=/bin/sh: Command not found. export: Command not found. if: Expression Syntax. gmake[2]: *** [machname.h] Error 1 gma

Re: vmware / vmplayer on freebsd?

2006-07-20 Thread Rico Secada
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:39:28 + (WET) Duane Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > As far as I'm aware, VMWare only supports FreeBSD as a Guest OS, not as a > > Host > > OS. i.e. you can't run VMWare itself on FreeBSD, but you can run FreeBSD >

ATAPICAM in the FreeBSD manual

2006-07-12 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. In the FreeBSD manual on '17.6.9 Using the ATAPI/CAM Driver', it only talks about rebuilding the kernel with "device atapicam". I think it should mention that it actually is possible to just add 'atapicam_load="YES"' to /boot/loader.conf. Perhaps I have missed or overlooked something and i

Re: CUPS, USB printers & "Permission Denied"

2006-07-08 Thread Rico Secada
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 12:43:45 -0400 Anthony Agelastos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I just installed cups from ports and had a similar problem with printing. Normally I haven't got any problems. The printer is a HL-1430 connected to USB and the error I got was: 'Unable to open USB device "usb:/

KDE not in 6-stable anymore

2006-07-03 Thread Rico Secada
Hi I have noticed that KDE 3.5.2 has been removed from packages-6-stable. Why is that? Best and kind regards, Rico. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Frustration

2006-06-30 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:40:09 +0100 "Joao Barros" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/30/06, Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Being an experienced BSD user who on a daily basis gives support to other > > people using BSD, wether FreeBSD, OpenBSD or Ne

Re: Frustration

2006-06-30 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:40:09 +0100 "Joao Barros" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/30/06, Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Being an experienced BSD user who on a daily basis gives support to other > > people using BSD, wether FreeBSD, OpenBSD or Ne

Re: Frustration

2006-06-30 Thread Rico Secada
Being an experienced BSD user who on a daily basis gives support to other people using BSD, wether FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD, I hardly think this has to do with FreeBSD. This rather sounds like a typical MS whiner, who hasn't really got around to actually understand what he is doing. In some s