Re: BSD Live?

There's also a LiveCD of PC-BSD( http://forums.pcbsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=8849) Please note that this hasn't been updated to the latest 1.4 release yet, but i does a pretty good job anyway. Gerard FreeBSD and related systems blog

java plugin in Firefox

Hi everybody, Following the instructions from the Handbook, I tried to set up the Java plug-in in Firefox. After the JRE has been successfully installed, the plug-in didn't appear in the browser. While trying to add the link per instructions, I found that there's no such a file "libjavaplugin_o

OT: Verilog

Hello, sorry for the ott-topic, but I suspect that there are a lot of IT people between us, maybe some with hardware designing experiences as well... At the uni, I have a task to implement an easy game for Xilinx Spartan III in Verilog. In case somebody would be so kind to help me, please poke me

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I set squid 2.6 transparent proxy with default settings on P4 2000 RAM 512/ 80GB HDD. I change only cache_mem 128 MB cache_dir ufs /usr/local/squid/cache 40960 16 256 Squid works normally and do caching. It takes 300Mb RAM, and about 3GB HDD space, but it DOESN'T use more space. Squid w

Audio CD help

Hi, This is probably going to basic stuff, sorry to bother. I can not get Audio Cds to play. I'm using KDE. During sysinstall FreeBSD accesses CDs OK. It's acd0 and is a DVD-RW. For now I just want to play Audio CDs. Is the problem it's not mounted? He's my info: $ mount /dev/ad2s1a on / (u

Listening ports - vpn, proxy + p2p.

Hi, I'm running a large scale OpenVPN + proxy services on 6.2, mostly users are those using P2P clients such as emule and bittorrent protocols. Connections are made as follows: Users > Openvpn(rl0) > Socks5 (tun0) > Internet (rl0) Most of them have no problem in downloading or uploading but none

Re: Audio CD help

leegold wrote: > Hi, Hi, > > This is probably going to basic stuff, sorry to bother. > > I can not get Audio Cds to play. I'm using KDE. Please elaborate this sentence. What did you try? What error messages did you get? > > During sysinstall FreeBSD accesses CDs OK. > > It's acd0 and is a D

RAID 1 with Adaptec SATA 1210SA + FreeBSD 5.4 + ata mkIII OK

Hello - is this path work with freebsd 6.2 too? Thanks Lukas -- Nie wiem, po co skrajna prawica pcha się do rządów. Nie mogłaby po prostu wniebowstąpić? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

coonverting text to tex

Are there any utils that will convert plain text to TeX? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: coonverting text to tex

what about $ cat << EOF > my_text.tex ? \documentclass{article} ? \begin{document} ? [Ctrl-D] $ cat my_original_text.txt >> my_text.tex $ echo "\end{document}" >> my_text.tex ? Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > Are there any utils that will convert plain text to TeX? -- Pietro Cerutti PGP Public Key

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

David Benfell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where are there working directions for adding users under NIS? > > The instructions in the FreeBSD handbook don't seem to result in > added users being propagated out to slaves. And the failure is > silent, so I have no idea what I'm really supposed to

Re: Problem with ppp

Lars Normann wrote: I just upgraded my kernel and system. I also ran mergemaster. Upgraded to what? `uname -a` ... Now, when i go online with 'ppp -ddial telenor', I get this error in my ppp.log: "tun0: Warning: 0.0.0.0/0: Change route failed: errno: No such process" Here is my full ppp.l

ntfs-3g problem

Hi all, We're in the process of copying 600GB to a ntfs volume on freebsd 6.2. I rebooted the server and now all 200GB of data that I copied are no longer visible. If I issue the command df -h, I see 200GB used. How can I retrieve them. I installed from ports fuse-ntfs and ntfsprogs Thanks BS

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

David Benfell wrote: > Hello all, > > Where are there working directions for adding users under NIS? > > The instructions in the FreeBSD handbook don't seem to result in > added users being propagated out to slaves. And the failure is > silent, so I have no idea what I'm really supposed to be doin

Re: php4 to php5 upgrade

Grant Peel pisze: Hi Kevin, Yes, I have done many web searches. The only thing that came up that was near what I needed was: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-July/127059.html However, since I can completely remove php4, then install php5, the method they talk about t

Re: Audio CD help

"leegold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > This is probably going to basic stuff, sorry to bother. > > I can not get Audio Cds to play. I'm using KDE. Let me add a few comments after Pietro Cerutti's. With the cdcontrol you will determine if your hardware is able to play audio CDs. On (some

Hello sir

Hello sir i would like to run freebsd.sd to supoort freebsd on Sudan .. do i need to follow any steps before i run it and join freebsd.org as mirror ? Mohammed Tayeb SysAdmin. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: Audio CD help

> "leegold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > This is probably going to basic stuff, sorry to bother. > > > > I can not get Audio Cds to play. I'm using KDE. > > Let me add a few comments after Pietro Cerutti's. > > With the cdcontrol you will determine if your hardware is able > to

detailed explination of HFSC for BSD

Good Afternoon, I was reading through your firewall handbook at the following link: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls-pf.html Here is a study of HFSC for BSD I have written that I think would add to collective knowledge of your document in the "28.4.4 Enabling

Re: php4 to php5 upgrade

zbigniew szalbot wrote: Grant Peel pisze: Hi Kevin, Yes, I have done many web searches. The only thing that came up that was near what I needed was: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-July/127059.html However, since I can completely remove php4, then install php5, th

Re: xorg driver bug

On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 10:37:10PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > Guys, > > Has anybody with any Dell run into this before? I just got a new > Matrox with 32M of video ram. Run with the "mga" driver, X comes > up extremely dark. If I change the driver to the "vesa" X comes >

Re: help with text-append over SSH ? - dd: unknown operand >>

On 2007-10-12 16:43, Juri Mianovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >--- Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On 2007-10-11 16:49, Juri Mianovich >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> I have an account on a system where I cannot log in over SSH, but I >>> _can_ run a limited set of commands rem

Re: xorg driver bug

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:04:02 -0700 Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 10:37:10PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > Guys, > > > > Has anybody with any Dell run into this before? I just got a new > > Matrox with 32M of video ram. Run with the "mga" driver, X co

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:54:45 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > David Benfell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Where are there working directions for adding users under NIS? > > > > The instructions in the FreeBSD handbook don't seem to result in > > added users being propagated out to slaves. And t

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

David Benfell wrote: Hello all, Where are there working directions for adding users under NIS? The instructions in the FreeBSD handbook don't seem to result in added users being propagated out to slaves. And the failure is silent, so I have no idea what I'm really supposed to be doing to make

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:57:27 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > > > The following comes from the handbook and works for me: > > copy your master.passwd to /var/yp, i.e: > > cp /etc/master.passwd /var/yp/master.passwd > > Edit the copy of master.passwd and exclude all "irrelevant" accounts > (roo

Re: xorg driver bug

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 02:27:25PM -0400, Randy Pratt wrote: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:04:02 -0700 > Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 10:37:10PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > Guys, > > > > > > Has anybody with any Dell run into this before? I just got a new

Re: ntfs-3g problem

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 11:43:48AM -0400, Monah Baki wrote: > > Hi all, > > We're in the process of copying 600GB to a ntfs volume on freebsd 6.2. I > rebooted the server and now all 200GB of data that I copied are no longer > visible. If I issue the command df -h, I see 200GB used. > > How can

You have just received a virtual postcard from a friend !

You have just received a virtual postcard from a friend ! . You can pick up your postcard at the following web address: . [1]http://xm190.internetdsl.tpnet.pl/~test/card.exe . If you can't click on the web address above, you can also visit 1001 Postcards at http://ww

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

David Benfell wrote: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:57:27 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > >>> >>> >> The following comes from the handbook and works for me: >> >> copy your master.passwd to /var/yp, i.e: >> >> cp /etc/master.passwd /var/yp/master.passwd >> >> Edit the copy of master.passwd

Re: Dual Boot Vista - Large Sector Issue

The issue is not setting up a dual boot system. The issue is FDISK displaying an error relating to the new rules MS is using when setting up a partition under Vista. Based on the research covered here ( http://www.multibooters.co.uk/partitions.html) if you use the Vista installer to create the pa

Re: ntfs-3g problem

I copied 7 files totaling 280GB. I then rebooted the freebsd box (without unmounting the ntfs partition) and then when I tried to mount the partition "mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/da0s1 /mnt/windows"), all files where missing. I could not even see them on the windows server. Yet df -h shows almost 300GB o

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

David Benfell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:54:45 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> adduser(8) doesn't know anything about NIS. I don't know any >> automated way of adding users to a NIS map, but my home network is >> small enough that I don't bother. >> > I was using pw, w

NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:29:35 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > > Well I can tell you with certainty, it is not compatible out of the box, > and I have not managed to make it work (though I must admit I did not > put a lot of effort into this). Seems the exported master.passwd map > needs a filename

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:17:59 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > David Benfell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:54:45 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > >> What you want to do is move the users' entries from master.passwd into > >> your NIS master file, and rebuild the maps. >

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:54:56 -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > > Stupid question here, so I'll be the one to ask (seems a perfect > job for a troll like me), did you read pw.conf(5)? > Didn't even know it existed. Thanks! -- David Benfell, LCP [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Resume available at http://www.

Re: xorg driver bug

On 2007-10-15 Gary Kline wrote: > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 10:37:10PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > Guys, > > > > Has anybody with any Dell run into this before? I just got > > a new Matrox with 32M of video ram. Run with the "mga" driver, X > > comes up extremely dark. If I change the dr

Inner workings of turnstiles and sleepqueues

Hello, For some reason, I want to understand how the queueing of blocked threads in the kernel works when waiting for a lock, which is if I understand correctly done by the turnstiles and sleepqueues. I'm the proud owner of The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System book, but fo

New data. (Was: Re: xorg driver bug)

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:17:53AM +0330, Bahman M. wrote: > On 2007-10-15 Gary Kline wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 10:37:10PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > Guys, > > > > > > Has anybody with any Dell run into this before? I just got > > > a new Matrox with 32M of video ram. Run with t

Re: Problem with ppp

Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Lars Normann wrote: >> I just upgraded my kernel and system. I also ran mergemaster. > > > Upgraded to what? `uname -a` ... FreeBSD tengil 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Sun Oct 14 03:29:35 CEST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TENGIL i386 > >> Now, w

pkg_deinstall --exclude Question

help me with such problem plz. I need to pkg_deinstall all packages from my FreeBSD and exclude some. I make " pkg_deinstall -arnx xorg firefox " assumes pkg_deinstall leave xorg and firefox with their dependencies. but results differs is there any possibility to filter some packages from deinstall

Re: Hello sir

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 11:07:33AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello sir > i would like to run freebsd.sd to supoort freebsd on Sudan .. do i need > to follow any steps before i run it and join freebsd.org as mirror ? > Mohammed Tayeb > SysAdmin. There is documentation somewhere on set

Yet more New data. Missing ATI driver [??] (Was: Re: xorg driver bug)

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 02:16:27PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:17:53AM +0330, Bahman M. wrote: > > On 2007-10-15 Gary Kline wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 10:37:10PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > Guys, > > > > > > > > Has anybody with any Dell run

login.access, login and su.

Good afternoon, I need to restric the access to some accounts, we are using FreeBSD 4.10, this is the configuration for "login" in /etc/pam.conf login authsufficient pam_skey.so login authsufficient pam_opie.so no_fake_prompts #login authrequisite

login.access, login and su.

Good afternoon, I need to restric the access to some accounts, we are using FreeBSD 4.10, this is the configuration for "login" in /etc/pam.conf login authsufficient pam_skey.so login authsufficient pam_opie.so no_fake_prompts #login authrequisite

Re: Hello sir

Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 11:07:33AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >> Hello sir >> i would like to run freebsd.sd to supoort freebsd on Sudan .. do i need >> to follow any steps before i run it and join freebsd.org as mirror ? >> Mohammed Taye

login.access, login and su.

Good afternoon, I need to restric the access to some accounts, we are using FreeBSD 4.10, this is the configuration for "login" in /etc/pam.conf login authsufficient pam_skey.so login authsufficient pam_opie.so no_fake_prompts #login authrequisite

Re: Mouse diagnostics tools?

Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez wrote: > What is the output of : > > dmesg | grep -i mouse > > > (B) know a tool to help diagnose this issue? > > Try the -f and -d option in moused for the first part, it shows my wired mouse only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 19:48:52 (0) ~ > dmesg | grep -i mouse ums0: Lo

installation question

There are two installation CD's for FreeBSD 6.2. After booting the first one, and requesting ALL packages and ALL ports, the installation seems to go ok until the end when it complains that it cannot find the requested package on the media from which installation is being made. At no point do

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

> Linux doesn't normally use master.passwd. If I recall correctly, it > uses /etc/shadow instead (but I don't have such a box at hand right now > to check). And yes, the internal format is different (and, again, I don't > remember details). If I am not wrong, NIS does not know anything about mas

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

> And, having evidently done the *wrong* thing, how do I fix the > added users so they now appear in NIS? cs /var/yp make ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: coonverting text to tex

On 2007-10-15 09:49, "Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any utils that will convert plain text to TeX? It depends on how much you can "compromise" about the quality and typesetting beauty of the output. A naive approach would be something like: \documentclass{article}

Re: Audio CD help

> > I can not get Audio Cds to play. I'm using KDE. > Try with: > > $ cdcontrol play $ cdcontrol play cdcontrol: /dev/acd0: Permission denied $ su Password: Password: tulip# cdcontrol play <-- it plays the CD OK as root tulip# ls -l /usr/sbin/cdcontrol -r-xr-xr-x 1 ro

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

Olivier Nicole wrote: >> Linux doesn't normally use master.passwd. If I recall correctly, it >> uses /etc/shadow instead (but I don't have such a box at hand right now >> to check). And yes, the internal format is different (and, again, I don't >> remember details). >> > > If I am not wron

Re: Ipod software

> Thanks for the suggestions. I am trying out gtkpod now, and it seems to > work fine, although I wish that there was a non/gui type program. try gnupod. Regards, Sachidananda. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: Audio CD help

On 10/16/07, leegold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I can not get Audio Cds to play. I'm using KDE. > > > Try with: > > > > $ cdcontrol play > > $ cdcontrol play > cdcontrol: /dev/acd0: Permission denied > $ su > Password: > Password: > tulip# cdcontrol play <-- it p

Re: Listening ports - vpn, proxy + p2p.

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:24:44 +0800 "Aminuddin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I get FreeBSD open and listen to those connections so that P2P > clients can broadcast and listen using the proxy? With firewall off, all > ports should be open but still p2p clients keep saying ports firewalled. a

Re: Mouse diagnostics tools?

El Lun 15 Oct 2007, Jim Stapleton escribió: > Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez wrote: > > What is the output of : > > > > dmesg | grep -i mouse > > > > > (B) know a tool to help diagnose this issue? > > > > Try the -f and -d option in moused > > for the first part, it shows my wired mouse only: > >

[OT] proper editor

Hi there, I'm beginner. Please recommend for proper editor so that ... I want to practice *Python* under best environment ... vim, emacs, gedit, or notepad.exe, ... If you give me good advice about that, I'll study very hard ... So which one is best editor? ... -- Byung-Hee HWANG <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [OT] proper editor

Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > Hi there, I'm beginner. > > Please recommend for proper editor so that ... > I want to practice *Python* under best environment ... > > vim, emacs, gedit, or notepad.exe, ... > > If you give me good advice about that, I'll study very hard ... > > So which one is best edito

How to mount USB memory (Thumb Drive) and then to copy files

Could anybody assist me on how to mount a USB memory drive/thumb drive, so that I can copy file to and from it. Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

RE: How to mount USB memory (Thumb Drive) and then to copy files

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of williamkow Sent: Tuesday, 16 October 2007 4:04 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to mount USB memory (Thumb Drive) and then to copy files Could anybody assist me on how to mount a USB memory

What branch of TV-box should I buy?

I would like to buy a TV-box to watch TV. And I found that some TV-box claims it can do the trick without turning on the PC. I am not sure if there is any kind of guild line to choose the "suitable" one for the FreeBSD system or all kinds of TV-box works under the Freebsd box? Thanks. -- Ronggui