Re: Hidden spot on hard drives?

2005-10-05 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Jonathon McKitrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. Any idea where this info could be stored? The obvious place is the end of the first track between the boot sector(s) and the first partition. But that's probably too easy and well-known. As others have noted, Unix (eg, "dd") has easy access t

Apsfilter FBSD 5.4

2005-10-05 Thread E. J. Cerejo
I could print perfectly using apsfilter before I did a clean FreeBSD instalation and now something is not right, when I go through the setup program and I finally test a page the sheet of paper gets fed and looks like it starts printing and then everything freezes on my printer or it completely shu

Re: Which MySQL version best to use and with/without linux threads?

2005-10-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 5 October 2005 at 7:51:33 -0800, Peter Giessel wrote: > On Wednesday, October 05, 2005, at 07:31AM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Monday, 3 October 2005 at 10:37:21 -0800, Peter A. Giessel wrote: >>> On 10/3/2005 09:41, Jared Kuolt seems to have typed:

Cannot open /dev/tty for read

2005-10-05 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
I get the error in the subject line when trying to install the www/interchange port inside a jail. The full output of the make command is below. I'm using the standard devfs rule set 4 with the following addition: # devfs -m /web/jail/myjail/dev rule apply add path 'tty' unhide >From inside

md device backing files on nfs mounts?

2005-10-05 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
Can the files that back an md device be resident on an nfs mount? I run some jails with each having its own root based on an md device. I am thinking of having a backend nfs server have all the storage and serve it to various front end servers. If one front end server went down I could ea

Re: Multilanguange

2005-10-05 Thread Owen Jeremiah
> If you want to display chinese, you need a chinese > font,(e.g."simsun"),then set the LANGUAGE environment > before startx. > e.g. > #setenv LANGUAGE zh_CN.UTF8 > Then you can display chinese filenames under gnome or gnome-terinal. > > If you want to input chinese,you need a chinese input > metho

Best Way to Install FreeBSD on Gateway G6-400

2005-10-05 Thread tcvsoar
Hello, Could you please offer some advice on how I can remove Windows XP Pro from an old and slow Gateway 400 Mhz computer, and install FreeBSD? Thank you, Anthony Ventura ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

Re: OT: New design

2005-10-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 01:26:02AM +0200, Jonathan Glaschke wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 04:05:13PM -0700, Jordan Michaels wrote: > > Chris wrote: > > > > >I see the site is sporting a new design. I like it. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > *Much* better. =) More professional like FreeBSD should

Re: OT: New design

2005-10-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 08:25:22PM -0400, Nicolas Blais wrote: > On October 5, 2005 07:57 pm, Hamza Eraldi wrote: > > Great design! > > Congratulations! > > > > On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 17:43:20 -0500, "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > I see the site is sporting a new design. I like it. > > > > >

Re: Best Way to Install FreeBSD on Gateway G6-400

2005-10-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 6 October 2005 at 1:43:13 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Could you please offer some advice on how I can remove Windows XP > Pro from an old and slow Gateway 400 Mhz computer, and install > FreeBSD? This is described in the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/b

Re: OT: New design

2005-10-05 Thread Murray Stokely
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 05:36:08PM -0700, Micah wrote: > For you it's a white background. For me in konqueror is's a pale blue > (my default window color) and grey in Firefox (again, my default browser > color). By the looks of the rounded buttons, a white background is > expected but not prov

sendmail not starting at boot

2005-10-05 Thread Annelise Anderson
On 5.4-STABLE as of October 1, sendmail doesn't start on reboot. I have to either do it by hand or run sh rc.sendmail (which does start it). There's no sendmail.sh in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. The rc.conf has sendmail_enable="YES" and I even changed this in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. I supposed I could c

Re: Hidden spot on hard drives?

2005-10-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 01:44 pm, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > the company where I work (with Windows) is evaluating a copy protection > product that stores info somewhere on the HDD where the [1] user cannot > touch it, [2] a format will not erase it, [3] and Norton Ghost will not find > it.

Dual Boot, Boot manager

2005-10-05 Thread Joshua Lewis
I installed 5.4 on a second drive and I realize now the boot manager I installed is on the second drive and not loaded in the MBR of my Primary drive. Is there a way to load the FreeBSD boot manager onto my primary drive from within windows? Or do I have to reboot to the CD and load it from there?

Missing mention in ipfw in the Handbook

2005-10-05 Thread Foo Ji-Haw
For what it's worth, I'd like highlight a key point I think is missing, in the ipfw section of the Handbook. This has been discussed earlier with help from this mailing list community. I am just formalising the documentation. The firewall that comes with the default kernel (at least on the 5.4 r

Re: OT: New design

2005-10-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 05:43 pm, Chris wrote: > I see the site is sporting a new design. I like it. I like the idea, but the rendering is lacking in some browsers. This screenshot comes from Konqueror 3.4.2 on a FreeBSD 6.0-BETA4 machine: http://subwiki.honeypot.net/pub/new_freebsd_org

Real Player

2005-10-05 Thread Rem P Roberti
Real Player has a number of archived versions which are purportedly designed for Unix/Linux platforms. If anyone has had success using one of these version with FreeBSD I'd appreciate a heads up as to which one. Alternatively, if there is a better choice out there for streaming I'd love to know a

Enabling cgi scripts in apache

2005-10-05 Thread Garrett Cooper
Hi, Just having problems again enabling cgi script execution in apache. The script exists, it's the right set of permissions, and the perl interpreter is reference correctly, as well as the following line in the httpd.conf file: AddHandler cgi-script .cgi I also restarted the

Re: Enabling cgi scripts in apache

2005-10-05 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 09:31 PM 10/5/2005, Garrett Cooper wrote: Hi, Just having problems again enabling cgi script execution in apache. The script exists, it's the right set of permissions, and the perl interpreter is reference correctly, as well as the following line in the httpd.conf file: AddHandler cgi

Re: Hidden spot on hard drives?

2005-10-05 Thread Peter Clutton
On 10/6/05, Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 05 October 2005 01:44 pm, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > the company where I work (with Windows) is evaluating a copy protection > > product that stores info somewhere on the HDD where the [1] user cannot > > touch it, [2] a format

Re: NEWBIE: how-to for feeding file to gnomealyzer.sh?

2005-10-05 Thread David Armour
hello greg, thank you for your reply. > > i seem to recall a perl something or other flashing by on one of > > those root terminal screens. how does one preserve the > > information on those screensful? > man script > Use script to capture your entire upgrade process for analysis. Look > n

Re: Dual Boot, Boot manager

2005-10-05 Thread Peter Clutton
On 10/6/05, Joshua Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed 5.4 on a second drive and I realize now the boot manager I > installed is on the second drive and not loaded in the MBR of my Primary > drive. > > Is there a way to load the FreeBSD boot manager onto my primary drive from > within wi

Re: Hidden spot on hard drives?

2005-10-05 Thread D. Goss
I wanted to say what Kirk has said well. As a customer, if a company is going to overbearingly copy-protect software i'll look for an alternative. I understand a license number and maybe a key generator, even a dial-in check to some home server. Dongles stink but I have used software wit

Re: OT: New design

2005-10-05 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, October 5, 2005 22:43, Kirk Strauser said: > On Wednesday 05 October 2005 05:43 pm, Chris wrote: >> I see the site is sporting a new design. I like it. > > I like the idea, but the rendering is lacking in some browsers. This > screenshot comes from Konqueror 3.4.2 on a FreeBSD 6.0-BETA4 >

Re: sendmail not starting at boot

2005-10-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
Annelise Anderson wrote: On 5.4-STABLE as of October 1, sendmail doesn't start on reboot. I have to either do it by hand or run sh rc.sendmail (which does start it). There's no sendmail.sh in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. Sendmail is part of the FreeBSD base system by default, and not something in /us

Can't get Mailman to work

2005-10-05 Thread Sasa Stupar
Hi! I have installed Mailman 2.1.6 from the ports collection on FBSD 5.4. Now I have configured apache to have web access and it is working. I have even created a list and that worked too. My problem is that when I sent a message to the list I get back: -- Failure to find group na

Question

2005-10-05 Thread sulie halim
Hi there, how can we view/open files in freebsd? e.g write.doc, write.txt or write.ppt? __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Can't get Mailman to work

2005-10-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
Sasa Stupar wrote: [ ... ] I have sendmail configured and running just fine. And the group mailnull DOES exist on my system. I have even tried to ciompile Mailman with different mail_gid but I get allways the same error. Looks like this is connected to the execution of the smrsh. Does anyone ha

Re: Question

2005-10-05 Thread Yuan Jue
On Thursday 06 October 2005 14:39, sulie halim wrote: > Hi there, > > how can we view/open files in freebsd? e.g write.doc, > write.txt or write.ppt? Try OpenOffice. Good luck! -- Best Regards. Yuan Jue ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: Question

2005-10-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
sulie halim wrote: how can we view/open files in freebsd? e.g write.doc, write.txt or write.ppt? See the OpenOffice port at /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1, or at: WWW: http://www.openoffice.org/ http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/ ...except for the .txt files, which can be viewed o

Re: how to recompile a port in a clean maneer?

2005-10-05 Thread John Oxley
Sorry, I lost the beginning of this thread, On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 06:50:40PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Eric Devolder wrote: > [ ... ] > >My specific questions are: > >* how to fetch the source code of a port? and especially from another > >release? Look in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk There ar

save file

2005-10-05 Thread sulie halim
hi again, how to take a file from the system, and save it into the desktop (in Windows environment)? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __

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