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At 08:51 PM 7/23/2005, Paul Taylor wrote:
Hi,
I'm new to FreeBSD, so there is a good possibility that this is just
something stupid that I'm doing wrong... I've had bad timing with
linux software that I've tried installing in the past (just happened
to try to install while there was a broken d
Thanks a lot :)
On 7/23/05, Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In the last episode (Jul 23), Lei Sun said:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am wondering why turck-mmcache-2.4.6 disappeared from the ports tree
> > in 5.4, and later on I found out that it disppeared in 5.3 as well.
> >
> > Will it make its wa
Hi,
As I have been having problems with 5.4 on my Compaq Pl5000, I would
like to go back to 5.3-Stable. Is it possible to roll back the ports via
CVSUP to 5.3 by just changing the TAG=.
Rob
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At 01:51 AM 7/24/2005, Robert Slade wrote:
Hi,
As I have been having problems with 5.4 on my Compaq Pl5000, I would
like to go back to 5.3-Stable. Is it possible to roll back the ports via
CVSUP to 5.3 by just changing the TAG=.
There's no tags in ports like there are in src. You have to spec
Is there any software available, that can control the fans of my system,
like the lm-sensors package for Linux? I can read out the fan speeds and
temperatures of my motherboard with consolehm, but what I actually would
like to do is to vary the fan speeds depending on the measured
temperatures.
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I tried setting flags and/or removing hints for ed(4) but it didn't
work. I get the idea from /boot/device.hints that, perhaps not quite
accurately, hints work more with ISA. But my NIC actually belongs to
the PCI family.
The last thing I tried before going mad saved me. :)
I took a p
Glenn Dawson wrote:
[...] rm -R /var/db/ports/isc-dhcp3-server to get rid of the old config. [...]
"make rmconfig" is more gently ;-)
Björn
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Robert Slade wrote:
As I have been having problems with 5.4 on my Compaq Pl5000, I would
like to go back to 5.3-Stable. Is it possible to roll back the ports via
CVSUP to 5.3 by just changing the TAG=.
There are not much reasons to use an old version of the ports. Do you
have a specific probl
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 10:26, Björn König wrote:
> Robert Slade wrote:
>
> > As I have been having problems with 5.4 on my Compaq Pl5000, I would
> > like to go back to 5.3-Stable. Is it possible to roll back the ports via
> > CVSUP to 5.3 by just changing the TAG=.
>
> There are not much reasons
> >>> I just started to use an ADSL line with PPPoE and want run a firewall
> >>> between it and my local network. What I am wondering about is that even
> >>> if I only have the default everything-blocking rule (deny ip from any to
> >>> any) I still see incoming packets on tun0 with tcpdump
On Sunday 24 July 2005 10:37, Björn König wrote:
> You can fix this temporarily if you add the line
>
>WRKSRC= ${WRKDIR}/Numeric-${PORTVERSION}
>
> to Makefile, e.g. just before
>
>.include
>
> in line 28. I sent a mail to the maintainer yesterday.
>
> Björn
Thanks, that allows it to bui
João Carlos Mendes Luís wrote:
>
> Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
>
>>João Carlos Mendes Luis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>
>>
>>>gaia::root ~ [647] mbmon -I
>>>No ISA-IO HWM available!!
>>>InitMBInfo: Unknown error: 0
>>>gaia::root ~ [648]
>>
>>
>>I don't get that with -I (just with -S). It pr
I am using FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE
I just installed K3B and when i goto configure it, it dosent detect my CD
Burner, even though i enter in the location /dev/acd1 .. what am i missing
that it wont accept or detect my CD Burner ?
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Hey all,
Apologies. Long. Late. (Early).
I just spent a few hours longer than I feel I should have had to learning
about ANSI escape sequences and the raw unadulterated line-noise-like
readability of the system termcap file.
Here's the basics: I use pine's "print" command, which works fin
Glenn,
Thanks for the suggestions, but I'm still coming up with the same
failure... You said that it built for you - Are you on FreeBSD 4.11,
or a newer build of FreeBSD?
I ask because the maintainer of this port stated in this post (http://
lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/
On July 24, 2005 08:52 am, Warren wrote:
> I am using FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE
>
> I just installed K3B and when i goto configure it, it dosent detect my CD
> Burner, even though i enter in the location /dev/acd1 .. what am i missing
> that it wont accept or detect my CD Burner ?
Run K3B as root.
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hi
howto allow kde export from freeBSD 5.4 ?
I mean to load KDE, for example with X-Win32
http://www.xwin32.com/en/products/
on the windows machine ?
kind regards
piotr
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On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 13:30, PK wrote:
> hi
>
> howto allow kde export from freeBSD 5.4 ?
>
> I mean to load KDE, for example with X-Win32
>
> http://www.xwin32.com/en/products/
>
> on the windows machine ?
>
> kind regards
> piotr
>
>
You are probably better off with VNC. Freebsd has a VNC
yes, I know VNC
but VNC create all the time a new KDE session and I'd like to export already
running KDE session.
--- On Sun 07/24, Robert Slade < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
From: Robert Slade [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:41:16 +000
Ian Moore wrote:
numpy.pdf is actually in /usr/ports/math/py-numeric/work/Numeric-23.8
By editing line 48 of the Makefile to:
${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKDIR}/Numeric-23.8/numpy.pdf ${DOCSDIR}
the port installs correctly.
Ok, thanks. I didn't noticed it because I have NOPORTDOCS=yes in my
make.conf
Turk has been replaced with eaccelerator, which is in the ports tree now.
Jerry
http://www.syslog.org
> Hi,
>
> I am wondering why turck-mmcache-2.4.6 disappeared from the ports tree
> in 5.4, and later on I found out that it disppeared in 5.3 as well.
>
> Will it make its way back to the ports t
On 07/23/05 05:11 PM, Greg Maruszeczka sat at the `puter and typed:
> Aaron Siegel wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > This message is off topic but I was not sure were else I can go to get help
> > with my problem. For the past week I have been receiving messages from
> > various mail servers which have
On 07/24/05 07:16 AM, Mario Hoerich sat at the `puter and typed:
> # Aaron Siegel:
>
>
> [ there is no un-rm ]
> >
> > One option I have seen for creating your own restore is to create a script
> > that will move files you want to delete to a temporary directory, a "Trash
> > Bin". Then use you
On Sunday 24 July 2005 14:52, Warren wrote:
> I am using FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE
>
> I just installed K3B and when i goto configure it, it dosent detect my CD
> Burner, even though i enter in the location /dev/acd1 .. what am i missing
> that it wont accept or detect my CD Burner ?
Read /usr/ports/sysu
João Carlos Mendes Luís <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> João Carlos Mendes Luís wrote:
>
> Indeed, my kernel could find ichsmb. But mbmom still does not work. Are you
> sure you have no other smb device in your board?
I don't see anything else in "scanpci" or "pciconf" or
"/var/run/dmesg" which h
jackqq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Finally, I rebuilt the kernel with a dynamic loaded ed(4) driver
> (if_ed.ko), which SUCCESSFULLY recognized my NIC.
Good work. There ought to be a web page with little success stories
like yours, to incourage more people to look at the source.
I sure hope y
Good day!
We are along with my family collectors of every gadgets of promotional
different firms, institution
and foundation, so, I is returned
with question if capability exists from state -member of message some free
promotional gadgets
and reinforcement our collection? If here,
our addres
Robert Slade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As I do not have the expertise to fix this and I would rather have a
> working system, I would like to role back to 5.3 as this worked. I
> assume that if I did a CVSup with TAG=5.3 this should get me back to
> 5.3_stable. I am not convinced though. Is th
i've just got new system (MSI Nforce 250Gb-based with athlon64).
tried NetBSD, tried FreeBSD-5.4, even tried Windows XP PRO X64 and none of
them detects builtin network chip. not a lack of driver problem - chip
isn't listed on PCI bus at all!!!
this motherboard is listed on FreeBSD webpage as
On 24 Jul Paul Taylor wrote:
>
> Glenn,
>
> Thanks for the suggestions, but I'm still coming up with the same
> failure... You said that it built for you - Are you on FreeBSD 4.11,
> or a newer build of FreeBSD?
I'm on FreeBSD-4.11-stable and the port builds very well.
I have (of course) the la
> I'm sending this through so someone may find it in the future and
> save themself some effort.
Good of you to try to document it; I wish I knew where else it could
go. I wonder if there should be a wiki-type knowledge base for things
like that.
> Related: In searching around I've also found a t
Hi
I am trying to remove a bootloader accidentally installed on ad0s3.
I tried overwriting it with fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 -3 but that didn't
have any effect. And anyway, I'd rather see it gone than
replaced with the FreeBSD bootloader.
boot0cfg doesn't seem to be able to act on slices alone. That
Hi!
I would like to offer a network based install service in our LAN here,
and I would like it to be able to install NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and
Gentoo. I have a PXE environment booting Grub 0.97, which can boot a
Net/OpenBSD kernels and the FreeBSD loader.
So far, so good.
Which files do I ne
Dirk GOUDERS wrote:
[ ... ]
If you are using PPPoE, the system de-encapsulates the IP traffic off of the
PPP session via the tun0 interface. tun0 can be treated as your "external
interface" when writing firewall rules, setting up NAT, etc.
Well, I am a little bit confused, because usually, I
I get this error when trying to buildworld:
mkdep -f .depend -a-I. -I/usr/src/usr.bin/colldef
-I/usr/src/usr.bin/colldef/../../lib/libc/locale -DCOLLATE_DEBUG -DYY_NO_UNPUT
-I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/legacy/usr/include parse.c scan.c
echo colldef: /usr/lib/libc.a /usr/lib/libl.a
/usr/obj/usr/src
Tobias Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am trying to remove a bootloader accidentally installed on ad0s3.
> I tried overwriting it with fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 -3 but that didn't
> have any effect. And anyway, I'd rather see it gone than
> replaced with the FreeBSD bootloader.
> boot0cfg doesn
I'm answering my own question on the mailing list, just to get what I found
into the archives in case anyone else has this question.
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:33:47PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron
collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing:
> I'm running FreeBSD 4.11. I last
LOadiNg_ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello, I'm writing with a little question. I'm looking for graphic of
> daemon (like on this one http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/freebsd_1.gif )
> but in highest resolution, minimal 1024x768. In free time I'm making
> any graphics or wallpapers, and I want to mak
Don't top-post, please.
Emil Khatib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well, I just had an idea, as make fetch-recursive-list is unusable in
> windows (unless I make a script or program to read it or I download
> manually each of the packages), I would like to be able to boot a
> FreeBSD system instal
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 08:15:27PM +0200, LOadiNg_ wrote:
> Hello, I'm writing with a little question. I'm looking for graphic of
> daemon (like on this one http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/freebsd_1.gif )
> but in highest resolution, minimal 1024x768. In free time I'm making
> any graphics or wallpaper
I'm using 4.11-release... I just installed it off of the miniinst CD
image Friday night.
I'll try a reinstall.. Perhaps I've hosed something up.
Paul
On Jul 24, 2005, at 11:45 AM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
On 24 Jul Paul Taylor wrote:
Glenn,
Thanks for the suggestions, but I'm still com
I found a problem when I recompiled the
graphics/kdegraphics3 port; the build and install were
OK, but now when I run KPovModeler, it tells me, "No
OpenGL support" and does not show wireframes anymore.
I'm running FreeBSD-5.4-RELEASE-p4, and recompiling
because I'm just doing an ordinary portup
> > Well, I am a little bit confused, because usually, I run machines with
> > "real" NICs and if I activate firewall rules that drop packets from
> > that NIC, I can run tcpdump on that NIC and will not see the dropped
> > packets.
>
> Are you 100% certain of that?
No, I now realize, that
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
I'm sending this through so someone may find it in the future and
save themself some effort.
Good of you to try to document it; I wish I knew where else it could
go. I wonder if there should be a wiki-type knowledge base for things
like that.
Re
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 15:03, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> Robert Slade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > As I do not have the expertise to fix this and I would rather have a
> > working system, I would like to role back to 5.3 as this worked. I
> > assume that if I did a CVSup with TAG=5.3 this sho
Hi,
I have just build /usr/ports/packages/All packages for all ports
installed on my system with some awk and bash. Does anyone know a way to
return the category for an installed port? I can't find any option in
pkg_info. I would like to create the symlinks in /usr/ports/packages as
well.
Maarten
Hello,
On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 11:01:06PM +0200, maarfree wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just build /usr/ports/packages/All packages for all ports
> installed on my system with some awk and bash. Does anyone know a way to
> return the category for an installed port? I can't find any option in
> pkg_info
On 24 Jul Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> dick hoogendijk writes:
>
> >On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 06:50:57 -0400
> >Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >>dick hoogendijk writes:
> >>
> >>> Sure, smtp service is listening. No matter on what address I call
> >>> the oucier server (127.0.0.1 ; 192.168
Hello,
On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 11:45:31PM +0200, maarfree wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 23:27 +, Jonathan Glaschke wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 11:01:06PM +0200, maarfree wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have just build /usr/ports/packages/All packages for all ports
> > >
Hello All,
Freebsd seems to take a long time (up to ten minutes) to load some web
sites. When i use Linux or Windows it seems to load at normal speed. I have
installed Freebsd (same version) on another computer and it has the same
trouble. I have tried both firefox and konqueror.
The website is
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PK wrote:
> --- On Sun 07/24, Robert Slade < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> From: Robert Slade [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:41:16 +
> Subject: Re: howto export kde from freeBSD 5.4 ?
>
>
hi
I have exact the same problem and get the same errors.
to clean a port, reinstall or upgrade ntop or rrdtool doesn't help.
I've done:
portupgrade -a -N -vu -R net/ntop
and
portupgrade -a -N -vu -r net/ntop
did ports tree update again
but still get errors !
on other hardware with fresh
(I don't really know /where/ to ask this question. It's not particularly
FreeBSD-centric, but the list has been good to me in the past, so hopefully
nobody minds.)
I'm trying to write a shell script that runs a for loop in an SSH session.
Simply, I'm trying to do this:
for HOST in `cat hostn
Hi,
I would like to use the mtree utility to confirm no changes have
occurred to system files since 'make installworld', similar to that
possible with 'mtree -f /cdrom/5.4-RELEASE/base/base.mtree' on a
release installation. This would also give the added advantage of
being able to determine the cu
Hi,everyone.
I met a very strange net problem in FreeBSD 5.4,it disturbed me very
long time,i like freebsd very much,but if this problem can't be
resolved,i have to give up it.:(
The problem is just like this:
My server box located in the education network at China(this is a
special net work,mainl
At 07:12 PM 7/24/2005, he ccjj wrote:
Hi,everyone.
I met a very strange net problem in FreeBSD 5.4,it disturbed me very
long time,i like freebsd very much,but if this problem can't be
resolved,i have to give up it.:(
The problem is just like this:
My server box located in the education network a
Hi all,
I am trying to install 5.4 on a box that's been running Linux. It's a 2
year old 'Snap Appliance 4500' (
http://www.snapappliance.com/page.cfm?name=4500Main&nav=4500 ), with 4 x
120 GB EIDE, P4, 512 Mb.
As soon as I try to load the kernel I get :
--- (copied by hand )
Fatal trap 10: t
Norberto Meijome wrote:
lspci -v : attached
dmesg (linux knoppix 3.8): attached
list server blocked the attachments. Please find them here:
lspci -v : http://meijome.net/files/fbsd/arsmagna_lspci-v.txt
dmesg (linux knoppix 3.8): http://meijome.net/files/fbsd/arsmagna_dmesg.txt
thanks
beto
Thanks! :)
But, to tell you the truth, I'm actually a newbie to FreeBSD, even
*nix. I beg your pardon I don't quite understand what you mean by
"filing a PR".
On 7/24/05, Gary W. Swearingen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Good work. There ought to be a web page with little success stories
> like
I've got the clue from Anthony's reply to my Holtek subject.
Sorry for troubling you. Thanks!
On 7/25/05, jackqq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks! :)
>
> But, to tell you the truth, I'm actually a newbie to FreeBSD, even
> *nix. I beg your pardon I don't quite understand what you mean by
> "fi
Hello.
I cannot install the application from a collection of ports.
The mistake is given out Error code 1
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Damian Gerow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm trying to write a shell script that runs a for loop in an SSH session.
> Simply, I'm trying to do this:
>
> for HOST in `cat hostnames` ; do
> ssh ${HOST} "for PROCESS in 01 02 ; do echo '${PROCESS}' ; done"
> done
>
> But because this i
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