Sharing resources on LAN without NFS

2004-12-15 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
The handbook section on NFS was great but having only 3 computers I don't feel the need to set up a client/server system. Nevertheless I would like to be able to share one printer and one cd-writer between these 3 machines. I'll be grateful even for just a shove towards the correct handbook cha

ppp (56kbs dialup) not keeping logs

2004-12-16 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
ppp is playing up and I thought I'd have a look through the log file to try and find the cause. Problem is that ppp.log was to big so I deleted it thinking that ppp would just create a new one next time. It didn't. I need a log file to look at. How? Cheers, Ben.

Modem/ppp takes 3-4 attempts to connect (56kbps dialup)

2004-12-17 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
Hi all. For no apparent reason when I type 'ppp -ddial xtra' the modem clicks on, starts dialing, disconnects for some reason, clicks off, starts the process again. It does this about 3-4 times before it connects if it even connects at all. I have tried to figure this one out myself, I've scann

Re: ppp (56kbs dialup) not keeping logs

2004-12-16 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
Ben Washington-Yule wrote: ppp is playing up and I thought I'd have a look through the log file to try and find the cause. Problem is that ppp.log was to big so I deleted it thinking that ppp would just create a new one next time. It didn't. I need a log file to look at. How? C

Bandwith info command

2004-12-22 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
What command can I use to see what is using the bandwith on my 56kbs dialup internet connection? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTE

Use pkg_delete or make deinstall?

2004-10-15 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
I've been wondering lately if there is any difference between the two methods of removing software from the system; pkg_delete software-name and cd /usr/ports/catagory/software-name && make deinstall. This question is not answered in the FAQ, I mainly ask out of curiousity. _

Text-based mail program which handles webmail.

2004-10-17 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
I have a Yahoomail account and receive messages with Mozilla Mail but I would like to at least try a non-GUI mail program. I have heard of mutt and pine but I am not sure if I can download my webmail (Yahoo) messages with them. I am sure that the information is available on the internet but my

Receving two copies of message in this mailing list

2004-10-17 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
I have found that I am sent two copies of any message replying to a question I have asked; they are identical except one has this footer: ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Text-based mail program which handles webmail.

2004-10-17 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
h wrote: if your yahoo mail is pop3, then you can process your mail with fetchmail + pine, it works like a breeze. you don't need X and you can do it from remote via ssh without any problem. make sure you quit pine before you access your email with other programs, tho. __

GENERIC kernel build fails at ACPI

2007-06-23 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
6-STABLE. Here's the relative part from the script file. Thanks. === cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Werror -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -nostdinc -I- -I/usr/src/sys/modules/acpi/acpi/../../../contrib/dev/acpica -DHAVE_KERNEL_OPTION_HEA

Why can't on install packages for 5-current on 5-release?

2004-10-23 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
Hi all, I'm beginning to understand the diffs between -STABLE, -CURRENT and RELEASE but I have a question regarding packages. I am using 5.2.1-RELEASE, and "pkg_add -r mozilla" installs version 1.5 or thereabouts of mozilla, 1.7 being the latest stable release. I have noticed that there is a mu

Which "mozilla" accepts options

2004-10-23 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
Hi all, "mozilla -help" gives loads of options, the ones I'm interested in are -height and -width , but I have on my computer /usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla (a shell script), /usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla/mozilla (also a shell script) and /usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin (an executable), which of the "mozi

Diagnosing program crashes.

2004-10-27 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
I have just destroyed a keyboard over this utterly frustrating problem; Evolution, (usr/ports/mail/evolution) crashes only about 1-2 minutes of use and by crash I mean that it crashes the entire system; screen freezes, keyboard locks up, have to flick switch off at back of computer. These crash

Re: Mozilla installation - XFree86 Makefile broken ?

2004-10-27 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
Adrien Reboisson wrote: Hi all ! I'm new to freeBSD and I've a question about mozilla installation. I want to install mozilla. I use : su cd /usr/ports/www/mozilla make Files begin to be downloaded on my computer, all seems to be OK... But suddenly the process is stopped : ===> Configuring for XF

Re: Mozilla installation - XFree86 Makefile broken ?

2004-10-27 Thread Ben Washington-Yule
Adrien Reboisson wrote: Thank you Ben I don't understand where is the problem : when I "ask" freeBSD to install mozilla, sources and makefiles are downloaded from Internet - they should be up to date, no ? Not necessarily; you must update the "skeleton" files yourself using a utility like CVSup.