periodic(8) / daily bsdlabel / fdisk / softraid*

2005-09-20 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
All: I just realized that the stock perdiodic scripts dont backup fdisk/disklabel output. I'm taken back a bit; NetBSD and OpenBSD have always done this (archive to /var/backup). We backup the password and group files, but not system info. Obviously, RAID can mitigate the need for this, b

Re: OT: re AbiWord and margins

2005-09-20 Thread virgil huston
Try looking under Format options. I don't know Abiword, but OO has Styles. Virgil On 9/20/05, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 05:08:40PM -0400, virgil huston wrote: > > Does Abiword have Styles? If so, you can set them up and apply them to > > blocks of text. > > Vi

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 + VMware

2005-09-20 Thread Norberto Meijome
Aaron Peterson wrote: I've had problems loading/booting FreeBSD 5.4 in a virtual machine. If I start in the default mode, it crashes VMware. If I start with ACPI disabled it crashes VMware. If I start in "Safe Mode" it works great. So... I want to learn about what is different about booting

Re: Free Opera

2005-09-20 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 19:48, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2005-09-20 19:17, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 15:52, Gerard Seibert wrote: > >> I know that this is slightly off topic, but Opera is now being given > >> away free. There is a FreeBSD version available the

Re: Free Opera

2005-09-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-09-20 20:50, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 19:48, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>On 2005-09-20 19:17, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 15:52, Gerard Seibert wrote: I know that this is slightly off topic, but Opera is now being >>

Re: Free Opera

2005-09-20 Thread rod person
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:50:22 -0400 Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know. If there is an easy way to find out on my installation, > let me know and I will post the result. I assume you guys are talking about the Toolbar fonts. I've used Opera since 5.x and I'm pretty sure ther

Re: Recommended AGP Nvidia card?

2005-09-20 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sep 19, 2005, at 3:33 PM, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Monday 19 September 2005 16:48, Garrett Cooper wrote: 5600/5800's aren't bad. In fact I might get one to replace my old Ti 4200 sometime in the near future. But if you want to get the 6200 or somewhere around the 6000 series, they ar

make buildworld fails on step 1.2 and questions

2005-09-20 Thread Garrett Cooper
Hello, I'm building my OS from source from the first time, and I realize that I must have missed a step in configuring it properly. I just hate treading through a lot of documentation when there isn't a really nice search feature involved, so if someone can give me the steps they used-

Re: Free Opera

2005-09-20 Thread Björn König
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 03:04:22 +0200, rod person <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:50:22 -0400 Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know. If there is an easy way to find out on my installation, let me know and I will post the result. I assume you guys are talking a

Re: Free Opera

2005-09-20 Thread Chris
Björn König wrote: > On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 03:04:22 +0200, rod person <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: ... Free Oprah?! -- Best regards, Chris 1) You can't win 2) You can't break even 3) You can't even quit the game ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: Free Opera

2005-09-20 Thread rod person
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 03:45:04 +0200 Björn König <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 03:04:22 +0200, rod person > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:50:22 -0400 > > Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > >> I don't know. If there is an easy way to find out

Re: make buildworld fails on step 1.2 and questions

2005-09-20 Thread Chris
Garrett Cooper wrote: > Hello, > I'm building my OS from source from the first time, and I realize > that I must have missed a step in configuring it properly. I just hate > treading through a lot of documentation when there isn't a really nice > search feature involved, so if someone can gi

Re: Firefox and Flash ...

2005-09-20 Thread RW
On Monday 19 September 2005 20:57, Kiffin Gish wrote: > I know I am not the first nor more than likely the last, but I cannot > for the life of me get Flash to work in Firefox 1.0.6 on FreeBSD 5.4. > > I've tried everything according to the FreeBSD handbook, mailing lists, > etc, but still when the

220.backup-bsdlabels (WAS: Re: periodic(8) / daily bsdlabel / fdisk / softraid*)

2005-09-20 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Here's a basic script to accomplish this. No support for checking geom/gmirror/vinum configurations. RAIDFrame's raidctl(8) has a nice "-G" flag: "-G dev Generate the configuration of the RAIDframe device in a format suitable for use with the -c or -C options." Maybe someone

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 + VMware

2005-09-20 Thread Aaron Peterson
> On Sep 20, 2005, at 1:37 PM, Aaron Peterson wrote: > > > I've had problems loading/booting FreeBSD 5.4 in a virtual machine. > > If I start in the default mode, it crashes VMware. If I start with > > ACPI disabled it crashes VMware. If I start in "Safe Mode" it works > > great. So... I want t

Re: Printing to a Win XP LPD Server from FreeBSD 5.4

2005-09-20 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, aksis wrote: Hi, I am having a problem printing to a WinXP (home edition) LPD Server. The command: lptest | lpr -P lp-test print's to the printer successfuly. According to your printcap file, this is an unfiltered queue. lpr -P lp test.ps doesn't print anything, but

Re: Codeweaver for *BSD software petition, please condsider signing.. :)

2005-09-20 Thread Remington
On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 07:25 -0700, Frank Jahnke wrote: > Bill, > > You beat me to this! I was going to post here on Monday. For more > information on the petition, please see Dru Lavigne's most recent blog > entry, http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7731 > > Frank > > __

Re: freebsd and vmware?

2005-09-20 Thread Yuan Jue
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 15:23, mgedv online wrote: > is 5.4, 6.0 or 7x supported to run under vmware on > a logical partition? > > has anyone successfully setup such a configuration? A. if you want to install FreeBSD using vmware in Windows, the answer is YES B. if you want to install vmware

Re: gmake/make dependency problem

2005-09-20 Thread Harlan Stenn
Harti, It is ugly to add $(srcdir) to the targets (and perhaps dependencies), but that may have to happen. If I say: srcdir=wherever VPATH: $(srcdir) a: b b: c cd $(srcdir) && script c > b then it is Strange that make will correctly see that for 'a', the dependency is 'b' and 'b' is found i

Re: sendmail port compilation failed in jail

2005-09-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
Dave wrote: I've cvsupped my ports tree on 5.4-p6 to the latest, and am trying to get sendmail 8.13.5 going in a jail. The compilation appeared to go well, then a test failed. Any suggestions appreciated. Sendmail is failing trying to use SysV shared memory. Try: sysctl security.jail.sysv

Re: make buildworld fails on step 1.2 and questions

2005-09-20 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sep 20, 2005, at 7:01 PM, Chris wrote: A few things - If you are using CURRENT (anything) you have posted to the wrong list - try FreeBSD-CURRENT. K. If your a newb (as you seem to be), you should be using either 5.4-RELEASE or 4.11-RELEASE Meh. I just want to get my hands dir

Re: Diskless Boot Problem

2005-09-20 Thread kevin stovall
Thanks for responding and sorry it took me so long to respond. I am still having the same problem that I was. / is mounted through nfs. Do you know if the dhclient does the same as you described in 6? Also, I think that they did away with mfs in version 6. style='FONT-SIZE:11px;FONT-FAMILY:ta

Re: gmake/make dependency problem

2005-09-20 Thread Harti Brandt
Harlan, On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Harlan Stenn wrote: HS>It is ugly to add $(srcdir) to the targets (and perhaps dependencies), HS>but that may have to happen. For the 'foreseeable future' - yes. HS>If I say: HS> HS>srcdir=wherever HS>VPATH: $(srcdir) HS> HS>a: b HS> HS>b: c HS> cd $(srcdir) && sc

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