FreeBSD-multi-boot

2006-05-06 Thread Vlad GURDIGA
Hello all, I have these slices on my HDD: - /dev/ad0s1 - Windows XP - /dev/ad0s2 - FreeBSD/i386 - /dev/ad0s3 - FreeBSD/amd64 and I want them all in my boot.ini. Till now I succeeded with FreeBSD/i386 (first did "dd if=/dev/ad0s2 of=boot.bsd bs=512 count=1" from FreeBSD/i386, then copied the res

Re: Problems installing/running acroread 7: libBIB.so

2006-05-06 Thread Andrew Robinson
Ok, thanks! That solved the library problems (there were several more, as I'm sure you can imagine). Now I'm trying to run the program and I get: $ /usr/X11R6/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/ENU/bin/acroread The OS named FreeBSD version 6.1-PRERELEASE is currently not installed. Try running on an installed pl

gamin - fam

2006-05-06 Thread dick hoogendijk
Does anybody have a solution for the gamin / fam problem. Afaics only the courier package needs FAM still. So, I have two questions: (a) does courier run well without fam support? (b) does courier run with gamin support? As it gets more and more packages that depend on gamin and not on fam it see

Re: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

2006-05-06 Thread Kyrre Nygard
I have found a problem. I find the design / typesetting to be very unprofessional. It looks like a teenager wrote it, in Microsoft Word, but no offense. You just used the wrong typesetting system. Please check out the LaTeX Project as well as the Memoir class. It will do the typesetting for y

Re: Enquiry the FreeBSD scourse

2006-05-06 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Sat, 06 May 2006 19:51:52 +0200, Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Sir, I haven't any experience on FreeBSD. Could you please kindly advice any refer book to me? which will help me easily to handle the command and control. thanks a lot. Best regards Daniel http://www.freebsd.org/doc/e

LSI SAS1064-IR / SF X4100

2006-05-06 Thread Simakin Alexandr
Hello! Then planned to add support of LSI SAS1064 adapter from Sun Fire X4100 to FreeBSD version 5 or 6? 7.0-CURRENT-SNAP013 already working on it... -- Best regards, Alexandr Simakin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: gamin - fam

2006-05-06 Thread Marshall Pierce
On 05/06/06 01:21, dick hoogendijk wrote: > Does anybody have a solution for the gamin / fam problem. > Afaics only the courier package needs FAM still. > So, I have two questions: > > (a) does courier run well without fam support? > (b) does courier run with gamin support? > > As it gets more an

A good source for scripts

2006-05-06 Thread Kyrre Nygard
Hello! I'm searching a good source for various scripts like shell, Ruby, Python etc. A lot of these script sites are more focused on making an income with eyestabbing advertising rather than collecting and redistributing fine scripts. Anyone know of any? Thanks, Kyrre _

Re: FTPd recommendation?

2006-05-06 Thread Kyrre Nygard
It is such a beautiful FTP server. At 15:53 04.05.2006, albi wrote: Noah wrote: > What are people using for their ftpd these days? I am looking for something > easy to initiailize, configure, and is very secure. http://vsftpd.beasts.org/ /usr/ports/ftp/vsftpd/ not too difficult to confi

Re: i/o error OOo-2.0.2 NFS

2006-05-06 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 05 May Bill Moran wrote: > dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 5 May 2006 12:51:47 +0200 > > Fabian Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Opening a file on my local machine is OK, but when I try to open > > > > one on

Re: ACPI Eror

2006-05-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Michael Alestock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just installed FreeBSD-5.4-Release on my Toshiba Satellite A105 laptop > and keep getting this rather annoying error every so often > > ACPI-0370: *** Error: No installed handler for fixed event [0004] > > I Googled around and seems as th

Re: Enquiry the FreeBSD scourse

2006-05-06 Thread Eric Schuele
Atom Powers wrote: On 5/6/06, Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Sir, I haven't any experience on FreeBSD. Could you please kindly advice any refer book to me? which will help me easily to handle the command and control. thanks a lot. Dead-Tree form (a little dated): The Complete FreeBS

Re: DCSSI Authorisation for Free BSD Software

2006-05-06 Thread Ceri Davies
Bethan, On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 03:44:35PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > ExportControls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Additionally, because FreeBSD contains what is considered "strong > > cryptography", French authorities (the "DCSSI") requires that an > > authorisation is obtained for the item i

Re: Why do I have to keep doing "portsnap extract"?

2006-05-06 Thread Peggy Wilkins
On 5/5/06, Colin Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Peggy Wilkins wrote: > On 5/4/06, Colin Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Do you have a ".portsnap.INDEX" file in your ports tree? > > Yes; I don't know if it was there before I ran portsnap today, though. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel

Re: R 2.3.0 fails to compile: undefined reference to `R_running_as_main_program'

2006-05-06 Thread Christopher Illies
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 08:29:04PM -0500, Eric van Gyzen wrote: > Christopher Illies wrote: > >On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:24:13AM +0100, Vittorio wrote: > >> Last night , after portsnap(-ping) and trying to recompile the > >> statistical software R from 2.2.1 to 2.3.0 I get the following: > >[...]

RE: nubie question - Ports - Ruby 1.8.4

2006-05-06 Thread Hunter Fuller
On 02 May 2006, at 9:52 PM, Bakki Kudva wrote: FIXED! I have Ruby 1.8.4 in my tree now. I had not done... # portsnap extract I was a bit mislead because when I did # portsnap fetch after downloading it said it was 'extracting'. So I skipped extract. My bad. I still would like to ask you

Re: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

2006-05-06 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 6 May 2006 at 10:22:11 +0200, Kyrre Nygard wrote: > > I have found a problem. > > I find the design / typesetting to be very unprofessional. > It looks like a teenager wrote it, in Microsoft Word, but no offense. > > You just used the wrong typesetting system. > > Please check out the

fam_gamin

2006-05-06 Thread dick hoogendijk
Will the contraverse between fam and gamin be delt with in the near future? Like it's been done for avahi <-> mDNSResponder or avaha <-> howl ? I know there are workarounds, but why do two packages install files in the same place to begin with? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F862

OO02 localised port

2006-05-06 Thread dick hoogendijk
When I run a portinstall -P editors/openoffice.org-2.0 I get a running OOo2 package. Hyphenation and spellchecker work OK in Dutch! I know there are localised versions of OOo2 on OOOpackages.good-day.net but it seems that their package is not as good as the one that gets fetched by portupgrade. H

Re: i/o error OOo-2.0.2 NFS

2006-05-06 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Fri, 5 May 2006 15:24:18 -0400 Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Think so. This is the exact same problem I had when I upgrade from > OOo1 to OOo2. Search the archives and you'll see that Fabian is > correct and that it solved the problem for me. OOo2 runs OK. Opening files from a NFS

Celeron-D SMP

2006-05-06 Thread Bret Esquivel
Hi, I just compiled my 6.0 kernel with SMP options, however it still is not recognizing the Celeron-D has 2 processors, nothing in dmesg shows any information about it. Anyone have this issue? Thanks, Bret J. Esquivel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Immense Network

Re: Celeron-D SMP

2006-05-06 Thread John Pettitt
Bret Esquivel wrote: > Hi, > > > > I just compiled my 6.0 kernel with SMP options, however it still is not > recognizing the Celeron-D has 2 processors, nothing in dmesg shows any > information about it. Anyone have this issue? > > > > Thanks, > > The Celeron D is a single core non hyperthrea

portupgrade

2006-05-06 Thread Arno Schleich
Dear all, I have observed the following behavior in portupgrade: The operation portugrade -a results in a repetitive rebuild of the package database whenever the database is accessed. [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... Inappropriate file type or format - /var/db/pkg/pkgdb; rebuild nee

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Mac File System

2006-05-06 Thread Hunter Fuller
On 03 May 2006, at 11:38 PM, FreeBSD mailing list wrote: On 29 apr 2006, at 15:28, Yousef Raffah wrote: On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 09:11 -0400, John Cruz wrote: I don't know about HFS, but you can format your mac drives with UFS when you do a clean install of MacOS, at least then FreeBSD would

Re: portupgrade

2006-05-06 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Saturday 06 May 2006 13:28, Arno Schleich wrote: > Dear all, > > I have observed the following behavior in portupgrade: > > The operation > > portugrade -a > > results in a repetitive rebuild of the package database whenever the > database is accessed. > > [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ...

Re: A good source for scripts

2006-05-06 Thread cpghost
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 12:16:53PM +0200, Kyrre Nygard wrote: > > Hello! > > I'm searching a good source for various scripts like shell, Ruby, Python > etc. > > A lot of these script sites are more focused on making an income with > eyestabbing > advertising rather than collecting and redistri

GUI mail client recommendations ...

2006-05-06 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I've been using pine *forever* now and am finding it really hard to find a good GUI to replace it :( Tried kmail, didn't like it ... Off the top of my head, the only thing(s) it needs to do is: multiple identities IMAP PGP As much as I hate admitting doing things under Windows, I have used

Re: GUI mail client recommendations ...

2006-05-06 Thread albi
On Sat, 6 May 2006 20:40:02 -0300 (ADT) "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been using pine *forever* now and am finding it really hard to > find a good GUI to replace it :( Tried kmail, didn't like it ... > > Off the top of my head, the only thing(s) it needs to do is: > > mul

Re: GUI mail client recommendations ...

2006-05-06 Thread albi
forgot to mention, i'm also using sylpheed, but that because i still need to move the mail-filtering to thunderbird and that reminds me of one annoyance in thunderbird, if you use pop3(s) .. and you have really large mailboxes, then you manually have to "compress" them after deleting emails in th

Re: Why do I have to keep doing "portsnap extract"?

2006-05-06 Thread Colin Percival
Peggy Wilkins wrote: > On 5/4/06, Colin Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Do you have a ".portsnap.INDEX" file in your ports tree? > > Yes; I don't know if it was there before I ran portsnap today, though. > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1230186 May 4 16:39 .portsnap.INDEX Does 'portsna

Fetch Problems...

2006-05-06 Thread Jeff Molofee
I'm having some odd problems with fetch. If I pkg_add or attempt portupgrade, portmanage, etc, I get endless errors about fetch operation timed out. I am able to ping the sites by ip and name, I am able to ftp to the site, open the sites in firefox, galeon, etc. If I ssh into my own box and at

Re: portupgrade

2006-05-06 Thread Colin Percival
Arno Schleich wrote: > portugrade -a > > results in a repetitive rebuild of the package database whenever the > database is accessed. > > [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... Inappropriate > file type or format - /var/db/pkg/pkgdb; rebuild needed] [Rebuilding the > pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... -

Re: video players broken

2006-05-06 Thread Ian Moore
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 07:50, Brian John wrote: > Gerard Seibert wrote: > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:22:45PM -0500, Brian John wrote: > >>> Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 08:59:42PM -0500, Brian John wrote: > > Hi, I just upgraded my ports and no

Re: GUI mail client recommendations ...

2006-05-06 Thread Ian Moore
On Sunday 07 May 2006 09:10, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > I've been using pine *forever* now and am finding it really hard to find a > good GUI to replace it :( Tried kmail, didn't like it ... > > Off the top of my head, the only thing(s) it needs to do is: > > multiple identities > IMAP > PGP > > As

ZFS/NILFS for FreeBSD

2006-05-06 Thread Matt Bostock
Hi, I'm looking for a stable filesystem that implements integrity checks using file checksums (aren't we all?). Is anyone aware of a ZFS/NILFS equivalent for FreeBSD? I know DragonFlyBSD plan to port ZFS, and NILFS is Linux only. Is there another option currently available for FreeBSD? Many than

Re: GUI mail client recommendations ...

2006-05-06 Thread Peter
--- "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been using pine *forever* now and am finding it really hard to > find a > good GUI to replace it :( Tried kmail, didn't like it ... > > Off the top of my head, the only thing(s) it needs to do is: > > multiple identities > IMAP > PGP

installing multiple kernels

2006-05-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
People, Coming from Linux, I'm used to being able to build multiple kernels and install them all, configuring the bootloader to pick one of them at boot time. I can't find anything on doing this on FreeBSD. Is this possible? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligen

Re: 6.1 install problems with creating partitions

2006-05-06 Thread Eric Dan
I actually followed both the handbook and "The Complete FreeBSD" book's installtion carefully, and yet i still get the same error, the installer can't create the file system and install aborts. I've tried using the auto option for both fdisk and disklable, i've tried shared os, i've tried sacrifici

Re: GUI mail client recommendations ...

2006-05-06 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sun, 7 May 2006, Ian Moore wrote: On Sunday 07 May 2006 09:10, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I've been using pine *forever* now and am finding it really hard to find a good GUI to replace it :( Tried kmail, didn't like it ... Off the top of my head, the only thing(s) it needs to do is: multiple

Remote 'viewing / control' of X Windows

2006-05-06 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I'm dealing with a situation where I'm migrating ppl over to using X vs M$ Windows ... I'd like to be able to help them out remotely, similar to how I can with VNC for Windows ... Is there something similar for Unix that would allow me to 'piggyback' in such a way that they're X desktop is a

Re: installing multiple kernels

2006-05-06 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Sunday 07 May 2006 11:30, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > People, Michael, > Coming from Linux, I'm used to being able to build multiple kernels and > install them all, configuring the bootloader to pick one of them at boot > time. I can't find anything on doing this on FreeBSD. Is this possible? H

Re: portupgrade

2006-05-06 Thread Arno Schleich
No, I upgraded to 6.0 a couple of days after it was released. That must have been eight or nine months ago ... m: Colin Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Arno Schleich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 14:37:45 -0700 Arno Sch

Re: portupgrade

2006-05-06 Thread Arno Schleich
Thanks, that improved the behavior. What I don't understand though is why upgrading individual ports e. g. "portupgrade xyz" never resulted in that problem ... From: Beech Rintoul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org CC: Arno Schleich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: portupg

Can't build bash3.1 during portupgrade -a

2006-05-06 Thread Michael D. Norwick
freebsd 6.1 RELEASE Compaq Proliant SMP PII-200 (smp modified kernel) Over a week ago I was trying to rebuild Xorg and ran into an issue with libexpat.so.5 not found for 'fc-cache'. This was my fault because earlier I wanted expat2, built it from the 'ports' collection tarball current (at that t

Jails won't start when using /etc/rc.d/jail

2006-05-06 Thread Matt Bostock
Hi, I'm using EZJail (http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/ezjail/) on FreeBSD 6.0. EZJail uses the /etc/rc.d/jail mechanism. My problem is that whilst I can start a jail using the 'jail' command manually (and type commands, start services etc in the jail), when I try to start it with /etc/rc.d/jail

Re: Can't build bash3.1 during portupgrade -a

2006-05-06 Thread Peter
--- "Michael D. Norwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > freebsd 6.1 RELEASE Compaq Proliant SMP PII-200 (smp modified kernel) > > Over a week ago I was trying to rebuild Xorg and ran into an issue > with > libexpat.so.5 not found for 'fc-cache'. This was my fault because > earlier I wanted expat

Re: Remote 'viewing / control' of X Windows

2006-05-06 Thread Subhro
Marc G. Fournier sat at his 'puter and typed on 5/7/2006 7:02: I'm dealing with a situation where I'm migrating ppl over to using X vs M$ Windows ... I'd like to be able to help them out remotely, similar to how I can with VNC for Windows ... Is there something similar for Unix that would al

Question regarding bus_dma_tag_create() .

2006-05-06 Thread Paul Marciano
Hi. The man page for bus_dma_map_create() says this about the "nsegments" parameter: Number of discontinuities (scatter/gather seg- ments) allowed in a DMA mapped region. If there is no restriction, BUS_SPACE_UNRESTRICTED may be specified. BUS_SPACE_UNRESTRICTED is #defined as (~0). Then, in

Re: Remote 'viewing / control' of X Windows

2006-05-06 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Marc G. Fournier thusly... > > I'm dealing with a situation where I'm migrating ppl over to using > X vs M$ Windows ... I'd like to be able to help them out remotely, > similar to how I can with VNC for Windows ... > > Is there something similar for Unix that

Re: GUI mail client recommendations ...

2006-05-06 Thread guru
El día Saturday, May 06, 2006 a las 08:40:02PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier escribió: > > I've been using pine *forever* now and am finding it really hard to find a > good GUI to replace it :( Tried kmail, didn't like it ... > > Off the top of my head, the only thing(s) it needs to do is: > > mult

Re: Remote 'viewing / control' of X Windows

2006-05-06 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 01:34 -0400, Parv wrote: > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > wrote Marc G. Fournier thusly... > > > > I'm dealing with a situation where I'm migrating ppl over to using > > X vs M$ Windows ... I'd like to be able to help them out remotely, > > similar to how I can with VNC for

Re: How do I set up an IRC site?

2006-05-06 Thread Bigby Findrake
On Thu, 4 May 2006, Gary Kline wrote: Folks, I'm thinking of setting up an IRC page on my website so I can chat (live) with just a few people. Are there any tutorials on this? Othr than using GAIM and ymessenger, the last time I did live chat was circa

Re: Remote 'viewing / control' of X Windows

2006-05-06 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Ow Mun Heng thusly... > > On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 01:34 -0400, Parv wrote: > > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > wrote Marc G. Fournier thusly... > > > > > > I'm dealing with a situation where I'm migrating ppl over to using > > > X vs M$ Windows ... I'd like t