Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009-05-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
Manish Jain wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: On Wednesday 13 May 2009 09:21:46 manish jain wrote: I want to move vi to /bin so that I have an editor available in single-user mode. The only reason to need an editor and not have /usr and /var available is to edit /etc/fstab. It is trivial to spot erro

Re: install both jdk15 and jdk 16 from port

2009-05-15 Thread vuthecuong
Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (May 14), vuthecuong said: >> do I will have conflict etc problems when install both jdk15 and jdk 16 >> from ports? > > Nope; all the jdk ports install into separate directories. There is a > javavmwrapper port that installs as /usr/local/bin/java an

Re: Emailing 100+ PDFs, one at a time, to a given address

2009-05-15 Thread perryh
Glen Barber wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Kelly Jones > wrote: > > I need to email 100s of PDFs, 1 per email, to a given address. > > > > What's the easiest way to do this? > > > > /usr/bin/Mail won't work, since > > PDFs are binary, so I must first BASE64 encode them. ... > If you c

Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009-05-15 Thread perryh
Manish Jain wrote: > From all the discussion I have walked through on the issue of > where to place vi, it does appear FreeBSD has a skewed policy > on the issue. There are plenty of reasons you might need access > an editor in single-user mode - editing fstab is just one. > Having to use the wor

Re: root user, graphical programs

2009-05-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
Pieter Donche wrote: FreeBSD 7, KDE 3.5 To install Matlab (in linux compat mode), one must execute the matlab install program as root. The installer is graphical. When from a KDE terminal window, I switch to root (# su -) and try a graphical program, e.g. # xpdf, I get Can't open display. The Fr

Re: root user, graphical programs

2009-05-15 Thread Pieter Donche
No luck (yet) I tried both methods, (with xpdf as a graphical program) The first still gives # xpdf Can't open display The second method # xpdf No protocol specified Error: Can't open display: :0.0 (after su -, $HOME was indeed /root) (in /root .Xauthority was changed/created, $DISPLAY is :0.

Re: root user, graphical programs

2009-05-15 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 15 May 2009 10:38:34 +0200 (CEST), Pieter Donche wrote: > No luck (yet) > I tried both methods, (with xpdf as a graphical program) > The first still gives > # xpdf > Can't open display > > The second method > # xpdf > No protocol specified > Error: Can't open display: :0.0 > > (after

Re: php5 pcre

2009-05-15 Thread Gorbatovsky Dmitry
Saifi Khan wrote: On Thu, 14 May 2009, gdn wrote: Hi all! I'm using on CURRENT apache22 with php5. When I install php5-extensions, all packages make fine. But module "pcre" not work. -- php -m

suitesparse - error when compiling from ports

2009-05-15 Thread cblasius
Hello, I got the foolowing error when copile the suitesparse (/usr/ports/math/suitesparse) on Athlon64 FreeBSD-7.2 RELEASE # make install clean ===> Extracting for suitesparse-3.3.0 => MD5 Checksum OK for SuiteSparse-3.3.0.tar.gz. => SHA256 Checksum OK for SuiteSparse-3.3.0.tar.gz. ===> Patchin

RE: php5 pcre

2009-05-15 Thread Mark
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Gorbatovsky Dmitry Sent: vrijdag 15 mei 2009 11:04 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: php5 pcre > When I run make config I see selected PCRE and SPL extensions

USB WLAN Atheros and USB Ethernet FBSD 7.2

2009-05-15 Thread Marco
Hello, iam thinking of building a router with usb wlan and usb ethernet controller attached. as the wlan device shall be an AP i would go for atheros stick. however, i'am unsure if anybody has expirience if or which devices should work out of the box with latest stable release. i read somethi

Re: Keyboard not working in gnome?

2009-05-15 Thread Christopher Arnold
Hi again, some more input on this. In Xorg.0.log i see: (II) config/hal: Adding input device USB Receiver (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8) (II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Keyboard (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8) (The at part makes sense, i only have US

Re: USB WLAN Atheros and USB Ethernet FBSD 7.2

2009-05-15 Thread Saša Stupar
2009/5/15 Marco > Hello, > > iam thinking of building a router with usb wlan and usb ethernet controller > attached. as the wlan device shall be an AP i would go for atheros stick. > however, i'am unsure if anybody has expirience if or which devices should > work out of the box with latest stable

Re: root user, graphical programs

2009-05-15 Thread Mike Clarke
On Friday 15 May 2009, Pieter Donche wrote: > No luck (yet) I see from your original post that you're using KDE so you could try a third way: Use to open the run dialog. Enter xpdf or whatever in the "Command area. Click on "Options", select "Run as a different user and fill in the username a

Re: portupgrade -R problems

2009-05-15 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 14 May 2009 10:39:52 +0200 (CEST) Pieter Donche wrote: >FreeBSD7. >I wanted to upgrade print/cups-base and print/hplip >>From a portsnap run: >cups-base-1.3.9_3 < needs updating (index has >1.3.10_1) hplip-2.8.2_3 < needs updating >(index has 2

Re: root user, graphical programs

2009-05-15 Thread Pieter Donche
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Mike Clarke wrote: On Friday 15 May 2009, Pieter Donche wrote: I see from your original post that you're using KDE so you could try a third way: Use to open the run dialog. Enter xpdf or whatever in the "Command area. Click on "Options", select "Run as a different user and

Re: root user, graphical programs

2009-05-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
Pieter Donche wrote: On Fri, 15 May 2009, Mike Clarke wrote: On Friday 15 May 2009, Pieter Donche wrote: I see from your original post that you're using KDE so you could try a third way: Use to open the run dialog. Enter xpdf or whatever in the "Command area. Click on "Options", select "Run as

Re: USB WLAN Atheros and USB Ethernet FBSD 7.2

2009-05-15 Thread Jan Henrik Sylvester
Marco wrote: iam thinking of building a router with usb wlan and usb ethernet controller attached. as the wlan device shall be an AP i would go for atheros stick. however, i'am unsure if anybody has expirience if or which devices should work out of the box with latest stable release. i read so

freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory

2009-05-15 Thread Brian Hoort
I've been trying every few days to update from 7.1-P5 to 7.2 using freebsd-update.  It always goes as follows: statler # freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.2-RELEASE Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-RELEASE from update5.FreeBSD.org... done. Fet

Re: Sun E250

2009-05-15 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 16:19 +0100, RAUL H C LOPES wrote: > Hi, > > No. the A1000 does not require any special RAID controller. > > Freebsd 7.2 is freezing after message: > Jumping to kernel entry at 0xc0078000 Okay, this erroneous behavior is happening much earlier than before the RAID controll

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 opencrypto --> kern.cryptodevallowsoft

2009-05-15 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 19:14 +0100, Brendan Kennedy wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm trying to test a hardware crypto driver, but want to run my tests > through the software driver first (and possibly use the software > driver to validate results). > I have set the following in my GENERIC conf file: > Wh

Re: Keyboard not working in gnome?

2009-05-15 Thread Robert Noland
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 13:05 +0200, Christopher Arnold wrote: > Hi again, > > some more input on this. > > In Xorg.0.log i see: > (II) config/hal: Adding input device USB Receiver > (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8) > (II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Keyboard > (EE) config/h

Re: mergemaster -U overwriting modified files

2009-05-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 26 April 2009 11:12:12 Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: > Bruce Cran wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:10:42 +0200 > > > > Peter Schuller wrote: > >> I recently began testing mergemaster -U since the perpetual "review > >> diff of file I never touched" grows annoying real quick. > >> > >> Unfo

Re: Keyboard not working in gnome?

2009-05-15 Thread Andrew Gould
> > > > And in /etc/rc.conf: > > bus_enable="YES" Shouldn't the line above be: dbus_enable="YES" > > > hald_enable="YES" > > > > Or does anyone have any hints on why a keyboard (that i'm currently > > writing on...) don't work in X11/Gnome? > > Any hints on debugging this? > > > > /Chr

Re: USB WLAN Atheros and USB Ethernet FBSD 7.2

2009-05-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 15 May 2009 13:04:50 Saša Stupar wrote: > I suggest you to buy a good AP (Lynksys, Asus, etc.) and it will work much > better than building it from FreeBSD. And this is based on which assumption with what criteria for "working better"? On my FreeBSD AP I can: - view my logs in realtime

Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009-05-15 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:03:58PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Chris Rees wrote: > > 2009/5/14 Chad Perrin : > > > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:38:30AM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: > > >> I think the problem with that is he meant changing the root > > >> shell to /usr/local/bin/bash. You're be

Re: USB WLAN Atheros and USB Ethernet FBSD 7.2

2009-05-15 Thread Maciej Milewski
Friday 15 May 2009 17:15:37 Mel Flynn napisał(a): > On Friday 15 May 2009 13:04:50 Saša Stupar wrote: > > I suggest you to buy a good AP (Lynksys, Asus, etc.) and it will work > > much better than building it from FreeBSD. > > And this is based on which assumption with what criteria for "working >

Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009-05-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 15 May 2009 08:46:46 Manish Jain wrote: > Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 May 2009 09:21:46 manish jain wrote: > >> I want to move vi to /bin so that I have an editor available in > >> single-user mode. > > > > The only reason to need an editor and not have /usr and /var available is

Re: USB WLAN Atheros and USB Ethernet FBSD 7.2

2009-05-15 Thread Zane C.B.
On Fri, 15 May 2009 17:15:37 +0200 Mel Flynn wrote: > On Friday 15 May 2009 13:04:50 Saša Stupar wrote: > > > I suggest you to buy a good AP (Lynksys, Asus, etc.) and it will > > work much better than building it from FreeBSD. > > And this is based on which assumption with what criteria for > "

craigslist for computers??

2009-05-15 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, Some friends of mine suggested I use craigslist to find the kinds of new (or maybe used and used[?]) computers I'm looking for. I've used both google and yahoo and haven't found what may be best:: Most Green. Can anybody clue me in? gary

Re: subversion / dav_svn_module : Fatal error 'Recurse on a private mutex.'

2009-05-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 15 May 2009 02:27:43 Olivier Mueller wrote: > Hi Mel, > > On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 22:21 +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: > > I'm still thinking there's two different (threading|bdb) libraries linked > > into httpd, but not sure to ask for which ldd...httpd or mod_dav. The db > > version could be a r

Re: Keyboard not working in gnome?

2009-05-15 Thread Robert Noland
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 10:09 -0500, Andrew Gould wrote: > > > > > > And in /etc/rc.conf: > > bus_enable="YES" > > Shouldn't the line above be: > > dbus_enable="YES" Yes, sorry... typo... robert. > > > > hald_enable="YES" > > >

Re: ghostscript8 - errors when compiling from ports

2009-05-15 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 13 May 2009 21:08:11 Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 05:54:09PM +0200, Zbigniew Komarnicki wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 of May 2009 12:08:55 you wrote: > > > just a guess, looks like a problems with cups-base, try to update it > > > first. I recommend ports-mgmt/portmaster

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 opencrypto --> kern.cryptodevallowsoft

2009-05-15 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Le Tue, 12 May 2009 19:14:38 +0100, Brendan Kennedy : > Hi All, Hello, > FreeBSD_26# sysctl -a | grep crypto > kern.cryptodevallowsoft: 1 > > However, when I try a test, I get the following: > > FreeBSD_26# /usr/src/tools/tools/crypto/cryptotest -va 3des > cipher 3des keylen 24 > CIOCGSESSION:

Problem building htop

2009-05-15 Thread Robin Becker
I'm trying to build htop-0.8.1 from ports on a FreeBSD 6.1 system. It seems htop requires ncurses and I see this error In file included from RichString.h:14, from Object.h:12, from Process.h:14, from ProcessList.h:17, from Sett

Re: issues with Intel Pro/1000 and 1000baseTX

2009-05-15 Thread Steven Hartland
Never only set one end manually, always set both the machine and the switch. Regards Steve - Original Message - From: "James Tanis" To: "FreeBSD Questions" ; Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 4:12 PM Subject: issues with Intel Pro/1000 and 1000baseTX I have a FreeBSD v7.0 box it

Re: Keyboard not working in gnome?

2009-05-15 Thread Christopher Arnold
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Robert Noland wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 13:05 +0200, Christopher Arnold wrote: Hi again, some more input on this. In Xorg.0.log i see: (II) config/hal: Adding input device USB Receiver (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8) (II) config/hal: Adding input de

Re: Keyboard not working in gnome?

2009-05-15 Thread Christopher Arnold
Problem solved, see below.. On Fri, 15 May 2009, Christopher Arnold wrote: On Fri, 15 May 2009, Robert Noland wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 13:05 +0200, Christopher Arnold wrote: In Xorg.0.log i see: (II) config/hal: Adding input device USB Receiver (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest fail

Re: issues with Intel Pro/1000 and 1000baseTX

2009-05-15 Thread Jack Vogel
Better yet, just let them autoneg and you won't have these problems :) Jack On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Steven Hartland wrote: > Never only set one end manually, always set both the machine and the > switch. > > Regards > Steve > > - Original Message - From: "James Tanis" > To

Re: Keyboard not working in gnome?

2009-05-15 Thread Robert Noland
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 18:56 +0200, Christopher Arnold wrote: > Problem solved, see below.. > > On Fri, 15 May 2009, Christopher Arnold wrote: > > > On Fri, 15 May 2009, Robert Noland wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 13:05 +0200, Christopher Arnold wrote: > >>> In Xorg.0.log i see: > >>> (II)

Re: BGP

2009-05-15 Thread Alessandro Dellavedova
On May 14, 2009, at 12:55 AM, Steve Bertrand wrote: Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: is there a way to have FreeBSD work as BGP router and/or at least failover between 2 different ISPs? I, as some random guy on the Internet, would recommend Quagga and, yes, it will work with 2+ ISP's on sin

Re: Reading warnings when installing multiple ports

2009-05-15 Thread mfv
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 13:53:35 Mel Flynn wrote: > On Monday 11 May 2009 15:21:24 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > But, I very often wish there was a convenient way to see some of those > > messages and especially messages about things one has to do during > > the install, such as manually installing so

Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Powell
Manish Jain wrote: > Mel Flynn wrote: >> On Wednesday 13 May 2009 09:21:46 manish jain wrote: >> >>> I want to move vi to /bin so that I have an editor available in >>> single-user mode. [snip] > > From all the discussion I have walked through on the issue of where to > place vi, it does appear

7.2 Release kills my XP Dual Boot

2009-05-15 Thread Graham Bentley
Hi All, I downloaded the DVD version of 7.2 Release and did a minimum install as usual before customizing and for the first time in years FreeBSD installer has done something odd to my XP boot loader (whatever is responisble?) I know I'm likely to be told to go to a Windows forum but wondered if

Re: root user, graphical programs

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Powell
Pieter Donche wrote: > FreeBSD 7, KDE 3.5 > To install Matlab (in linux compat mode), one must execute the > matlab install program as root. The installer is graphical. > When from a KDE terminal window, I switch to root (# su -) > and try a graphical program, e.g. # xpdf, I get Can't open displa

Problems with PolicyKit and device mounting

2009-05-15 Thread David Karapetyan
Hello all. I am currently running 7.2-Release. I followed the instructions at the freebsd project website for configuring gnome; furthermore, I edited my Policy Kit to allow user 'bobo' to mount removable drives. However, when I start gnome, hal only mounts cd drives; while icons are produced f

Customer Notice:- Access Account Has Been Blocked

2009-05-15 Thread Alliance & Leicester Plc
Alliance & Leicester Dear Valued Customer, We recently have determined that different computers have logged into your Alliance & Leicester account, and multiple password failures were present before the logons. In this manner for your security, your spec

qmail.sh is broken symlink

2009-05-15 Thread Kelly Jones
I just installed qmail on my FreeBSD box out of /usr/ports/mail/qmail, and noticed this: # ls -l /usr/local/etc/rc.d/qmail.sh lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13 May 15 18:43 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/qmail.sh@ -> /va\ r/qmail/rc # ls -l /var/mail/rc ls: /var/mail/rc: No such file or directory I read somewh

Re: qmail.sh is broken symlink

2009-05-15 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 06:29:27PM -0700, Kelly Jones wrote: > I just installed qmail on my FreeBSD box out of /usr/ports/mail/qmail, > and noticed this: > > # ls -l /usr/local/etc/rc.d/qmail.sh > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13 May 15 18:43 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/qmail.sh@ -> > /va\ > r/qmail/rc > >