Re: Need a Makefile expert.

2003-10-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 01), Julian Elischer said: > > I'm trying to compile npasswd (from utexas). > I know that it doesn't work on freeBSD, but I have > some work to make it do so, if only I could get the damned thing to > compile automatically.. (I can do lots of it by hand but it's a pain) >

Re: Mail-list PGP Keys SOLVED!!!!!!

2003-10-01 Thread Mark Woodson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 01 October 2003 03:11 pm, Eric F Crist wrote: > Hey all, > > Thanks for putting in your time. I finally got everything working > the way it's supposed to. I forgot to add the > ./.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf file with a pinentry program. DOH!

Re: Mail-list PGP Keys SOLVED!!!!!!

2003-10-01 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Mark Woodson wrote: > The idea with trust is that you do so as minimally as possible. The > only person you should trust unconditionally is yourself. There's a > great deal of literature on the subject out there I'd suggest doing a > bit of reading. > > - -Mark Don't liste

Re: Ports : Mozilla / Mozilla-devel

2003-10-01 Thread Paul Murphy
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:23:36 -0500 Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the last episode (Sep 30), Mike Hogsett said: > > I have been pulling my hair out over this. I installed a package > > several days ago that required gettext. The gettext in ports has > > been updated so I had to deins

Re: Mail-list PGP Keys

2003-10-01 Thread Paul Murphy
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 11:27:29 -0700 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:15:03PM -0500, Eric F Crist wrote: > > > How do I submit my keys? > > > > TIA > > 1) Don't middle-post > > 2) Read the URL provided. > > > > > Just a little pet peeve. > > > > > > AFAIK, mo

Re: IM server

2003-10-01 Thread Herbert Wolverson
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 05:17:30PM -0500, Kenzo wrote: > I was wondering what ports there are for an IM server. I looked and only > found jabber. > I was wondering if anyone installed it and what other IM server can I use in > FreeBSD. > I want to install a simple IM server only for LAN use. We r

Re: Need a Makefile expert.

2003-10-01 Thread Julian Elischer
DOH! I think it's looking to use shm_freebsd.c but I haven't finished writing it yet :-/ On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 01), Julian Elischer said: > > > > I'm trying to compile npasswd (from utexas). > > I know that it doesn't work on freeBSD, but I have > > s

Re: creating a package

2003-10-01 Thread Rob
AFAIK, once you've defined a port you can just say make package and the package will magically appear in the current directory. It installs itself to do this. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: creating a package Hi all, I want to distribute my software as a F

panic: inthand_add : Cant Initialize ICU

2003-10-01 Thread mgmcomm @hotmail.com
I get the following error with any attempt to use 5.1-RELEASE. panic: inthand_add : Cant Initialize ICU Previously I was running 4.7 and decided it was time to upgrade but when I tried to run the boot floppies I found the setup program wouldnt load and the computer would just reboot somewhere in

ftp recurvisely

2003-10-01 Thread Michael Sharp
Is there a way using the core ftp to mget all files on a site, creating the directorys and getting the files in the recursively? michael ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send a

Getting cups web interface to work

2003-10-01 Thread Gary K Stinnett Jr
I have cups and samba installed on my FreeBSD 4.8 box. Samba is working fine. I have access to my box from my windows machines for my users home dir and a public dir. I have not been able to set up my printer on cups using the web interface www.mydomain.com:631/admin/ I have configured cupsd.co

Tips for install FreeBSD 4.8 on IBM ThinkPad A22e

2003-10-01 Thread MPAREDES
Hi : I read The Complete FreeBSD, but I don't remember the pages that talk about tips for installing FreBSD in laptops in special the ThinkPad. Does some one know some tips for installing FreeBSD on this machines. -TIA maps ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail

Re: Mail-list PGP Keys

2003-10-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 06:51:05PM -0400, Paul Murphy wrote: > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 11:27:29 -0700 > Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:15:03PM -0500, Eric F Crist wrote: > > > > > How do I submit my keys? > > > > > > TIA > > > > 1) Don't middle-post > > >

Re: tar vs cp

2003-10-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 03:25:27PM -0700, Pat Lashley wrote: > --On Wednesday, October 01, 2003 13:22:36 -0400 Chuck Swiger > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Jamie wrote: > >[ ... ] > >>I don't know what the actual rationale is for this. Can anyone > >>explain why it is oftentimes better

Re: ftp recurvisely

2003-10-01 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 07:28 pm, Michael Sharp wrote: > Is there a way using the core ftp to mget all files on a site, creating > the directorys and getting the files in the recursively? > > michael I think wget (/usr/ports/ftp/wget/) can do it. Andrew __

Newbi Question - Good console replacement for "mail" program?

2003-10-01 Thread jasondic
How does one install, and what are some, good console based mail clients for the console style "mail" program? -Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAI

Re: FreeBSD Fax Server?

2003-10-01 Thread C. Ulrich
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 13:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Which model of US Robotics did you get? The manual only identifies it as a 56k PCI hardware modem. I originally picked it up because "hardware" seemed to be emphasized on the package plus it said Linux was supported. The modem identifies its

Re: Newbi Question - Good console replacement for "mail" program?

2003-10-01 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] thusly... > > How does one install, and what are some, good console based mail > clients for the console style "mail" program? Find mutt in /usr/ports/mail. For details on this "/usr/ports", consult... http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ ht

Got a problem, need to enlarge /tmp

2003-10-01 Thread Dragoncrest
I've got a sight problem I need help with. Trying to install WolfET on my Freebsd workstation and it requires something like 286 megs of free space on /tmp. My /tmp is only 256. So I'm kinda sunk. Any way I can enlarge this short of a complete wipe and repartition of the drive? Or can I t

Newbie - Web based interface for mail program?

2003-10-01 Thread jasondic
Is there any web based interface programs similar to exchanges web mail that one can use with their FreeBSD mail server? -Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Getting cups web interface to work

2003-10-01 Thread Todd Stephens
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 08:33 pm, Gary K Stinnett Jr wrote: > I have cups and samba installed on my FreeBSD 4.8 box. > > Samba is working fine. I have access to my box from my windows > machines for my users home dir and a public dir. > > I have not been able to set up my printer on cups u

Re: Getting cups web interface to work

2003-10-01 Thread Todd Stephens
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 08:33 pm, Gary K Stinnett Jr wrote: > When I access cups admin from a machine on my local network I get > prompted for a user name and password. I enter root and my root > password and it brings up the cups admin page. This is where it > gets strange. The page co

RE: Newbie - Web based interface for email program?

2003-10-01 Thread Gil Agno Virtucio
there are many webmail systems available at the ports. /usr/ports/mail/imp3/ /usr/ports/mail/openwebmail/ /usr/ports/mail/nocc/ /usr/ports/mail/squirrelmail /usr/ports/mail/sqwebmail and many others... hope this helps... :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-01 Thread Daniel Hawton
SoloCDM wrote: Why do the ISOs seem to be three CDs of 600Mb each for RedHat compared to 1.5 CDs for FreeBSD? I thought the files were larger with FreeBSD and its tarballs. Does FreeBSD offer all the packages from A to Z in their CDs? There are some packages which are only available through FTP.

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-01 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Daniel Hawton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > SoloCDM wrote: > > Why do the ISOs seem to be three CDs of 600Mb each for RedHat compared > > to 1.5 CDs for FreeBSD? I thought the files were larger with FreeBSD > > and its tarballs. > > > > Does FreeBSD offer all the packages from A to Z in thei

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-01 Thread Daniel Hawton
4.4BSD Lite 2 is BSD.. which is from SysV.. heh That's what I said. Kenneth Culver wrote: Quoting Daniel Hawton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: SoloCDM wrote: Why do the ISOs seem to be three CDs of 600Mb each for RedHat compared to 1.5 CDs for FreeBSD? I thought the files were larger with FreeBSD and it

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-01 Thread Todd Stephens
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 10:42 pm, SoloCDM wrote: > Why do the ISOs seem to be three CDs of 600Mb each for RedHat > compared to 1.5 CDs for FreeBSD? I thought the files were larger > with FreeBSD and its tarballs. Not sure what you mean by that "its tarballs". Linux distributions come with

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-01 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Daniel Hawton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 4.4BSD Lite 2 is BSD.. which is from SysV.. heh That's what I said. But that's my point, it's NOT from SysV. It's always been it's own thing, parellel to SysV. It had some AT&T code in it at some point, but is not from SysV. Ken > > Kenneth Culver wro

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-01 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
SoloCDM wrote: Why do the ISOs seem to be three CDs of 600Mb each for RedHat compared to 1.5 CDs for FreeBSD? I thought the files were larger with FreeBSD and its tarballs. Red Hat Linux is a Linux kernel+distribution, which means that the company not only provides a Linux kernel, compiler toolch

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-01 Thread Erik Steffl
Todd Stephens wrote: On Wednesday 01 October 2003 10:42 pm, SoloCDM wrote: Why do the ISOs seem to be three CDs of 600Mb each for RedHat compared to 1.5 CDs for FreeBSD? I thought the files were larger with FreeBSD and its tarballs. Not sure what you mean by that "its tarballs". Linux distribu

Re: Got a problem, need to enlarge /tmp

2003-10-01 Thread Marc Ramirez
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 10:30:41PM -0400, Dragoncrest wrote: > I've got a sight problem I need help with. Trying to install WolfET > on my Freebsd workstation and it requires something like 286 megs of free > space on /tmp. My /tmp is only 256. So I'm kinda sunk. Any way I can >

sym links

2003-10-01 Thread Scott Renna
Hello, Was wondering two things: 1) How does one remove a symlink without removing the directory it is linking to? 2) How can you make a symlink for a user so that it can be seen while they are in an FTP session. Basically, I have a user who cannot see the symlink I've set up for them...not s

Re: Got a problem, need to enlarge /tmp

2003-10-01 Thread Marc Ramirez
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:33:49PM -0400, Marc Ramirez wrote: > If you have another partition with gobs of space, create a temp > directory in that one and point your TEMPDIR environment variable at > it. If the install script doesn't know TEMPDIR, you could temporarily > not mount /tmp, and chang

Re: Got a problem, need to enlarge /tmp

2003-10-01 Thread jason
Dragoncrest wrote: I've got a sight problem I need help with. Trying to install WolfET on my Freebsd workstation and it requires something like 286 megs of free space on /tmp. My /tmp is only 256. So I'm kinda sunk. Any way I can enlarge this short of a complete wipe and repartition of

Re: sym links

2003-10-01 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Scott Renna wrote: Hello, Was wondering two things: 1) How does one remove a symlink without removing the directory it is linking to? Change the the dir in which the symlink is located and do 'unlink linkname' ... 2) How can you make a symlink for a user so that it can be seen while they are

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-01 Thread Todd Stephens
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 11:26 pm, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > I imagine you'll correct me if I'm wrong, but when you install > RH you get KDE and Apache, automagically, right? This > makes it a complete OS, but it's a little more structured > in that some choices are made for

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-01 Thread Todd Stephens
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 11:09 pm, Daniel Hawton wrote: > 4.4BSD Lite 2 is BSD.. which is from SysV.. heh That's what I said. Let me give acknowledgment to Greg Lehey ahead of time for this as this bit that follows comes from _The Complete FreeBSD_. ".. by the mid-80s, there were four diff

Audio Devices Becoming Busy

2003-10-01 Thread The All Mighty TCL
Hey all. I've an sound card that uses the snd_es137x module and am running FreeBSD5.1R Every once in a while XMMS stops playing songs saying there is a problem and in the console I get: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): Device busy This happens on random times, sometimes XMMS sta

confirmation

2003-10-01 Thread Mety Soriano
sir/mam Does these controller supported with FreeBSD? Adaptec SCSI Card 9160 - Adaptec SCSI Card 29160LP - Adaptec SCSI Card 29160 - If supported how could I get these drivers More Power FreeBsd.. I Love It Please Response... Thank U

USB mouse doesn't work

2003-10-01 Thread Tai-hwa Liang
Hi, I'm wondering about whether there's any trick to get an USB mouse to work on FreeBSD. I've tried one(forgot its model) a couple months before but out of luck. Recently I got the similar symptom on another optical USB mouse modelled "ELECOM M-MAPP1KHBK" which can be probed by kernel/usb

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-01 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
SoloCDM wrote: Is there FreeBSD ISOs with all the packages included. I'm tired of waiting for RPMs, when they are usually first made into tarballs. Would a person prefer Slackware, RedHat (good installation package, but they complicate matters with RPMS and don't conform to the same directories

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-01 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 11:26 pm, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: I imagine you'll correct me if I'm wrong, but when you install RH you get KDE and Apache, automagically, right? This makes it a complete OS, but it's a little more structured in that some choices are made for you in terms

Setting fetch URIs for portupgrade

2003-10-01 Thread Andrew Terekhov
Hi all, I am running FreeBSD 5.1 Release. I updated all sources, ports and docs by cvsup. I am trying to do a binary upgrade of my system by installing latest packages. I run: portupgrade -aPPR. fetch phase fails to get packages because it goes to a wrong site: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBS

Re: Newbi Question - Good console replacement for "mail" program?

2003-10-01 Thread JacobRhoden
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How does one install, and what are some, good console based mail clients > for the console style "mail" program? Horde is my favourite one (: _ JacobRhoden -- http://rhoden.id.au/ _

Re: confirmation

2003-10-01 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Mety Soriano wrote: sir/mam Does these controller supported with FreeBSD? Adaptec SCSI Card 9160 - Adaptec SCSI Card 29160LP - Adaptec SCSI Card 29160 - The 29160 are working fine See http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.8R/hardware-i386.html or http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/hard

Re: sym links

2003-10-01 Thread Sunil Sunder Raj
Hi, 1) How does one remove a symlink without removing the directory it is linking to? --Normal rm command only removes the symlink. It does not remove the directory it is pointing to. 2) How can you make a symlink for a user so that it can be seen while they are in an FTP session. Basically,

Re: sym links

2003-10-01 Thread Brian Bobowski
On October 2, 2003 02:01 am, Sunil Sunder Raj wrote: > 2) How can you make a symlink for a user so that it can be seen while > they are in an FTP session. Basically, I have a user who cannot see the > symlink I've set up for them...not sure why. > --AFAIK it is not possible. Even then I suppose i

Internal modem with Intel 536EP

2003-10-01 Thread Donny Hariady
Dear All, Does freebsd support modem with Intel 536EP? __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at hariady.or.id ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-01 Thread JacobRhoden
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 01:32 pm, Erik Steffl wrote: >both freeBSD and linux distros (most of them at least) give you > choice what you install. Just because it's on CD does not mean it's Yes, but RedHat installs piles more junk which you dont use (At least last time I did an install about a y

128 bit wep and FreeBSD

2003-10-01 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Hi. The company I worked for is going to buy some wireless PCI and PCMCIA cards. I have insisted on buying Prism II, Prism 2.5 or Prism 3 chipset based cards since I can use them as an Access Point. As far as I have searched on internet Prism 2,2.5,3 chipset based cards support only 40 bit w

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