Re: question on the firefox port...

2006-01-28 Thread Duane Whitty
tead of portsnap. This then allows a utility like portdowngrade to look at CVS commits to decide how to uninstall "rollback" a bad installation, so I've read. I hope this helps Best regards, --Duane Whitty ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ports : make index failed

2006-01-29 Thread Duane Whitty
tells CVS which items to ignore (i.e. not fetch when updating the ports tree) Thanks for your help and patience with us newbies. --Best Regards Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

Re: serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Duane Whitty
i.e. vt100, vt220, cons25, etc. My guess is you want tty0getty(terminal type) on secure Plug in your laptop to the serial port, restart init (man init) and see what happens Best Regards, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: CVS Import Permissions

2006-01-29 Thread Duane Whitty
Hi, I highly recommend the following book. It is available for viewing online or as a downloadble PDF http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/ Best Regards, --Duane Whitty --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: CVS Import Permissions

2006-01-30 Thread Duane Whitty
Jan 30 10:55 proj.c,v Now I don't want to make any assumptions about whether this infrastructure is safe or not. That's why I'm asking the question. Everything seems to work but am I leaving myself open to any known security problems? Sorry for the

Proper mail headers

2006-01-30 Thread Duane Whitty
round? Thanks, --Duane Whitty duane @greenmeadow.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Ports collection via portupgrade

2006-01-30 Thread Duane Whitty
having good success with for this or other tasks. Best Regards, --Duane Whitty [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: I'm stubborn or stupid (and that's not xor) (Was: CVS Import Permissions)

2006-01-31 Thread Duane Whitty
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-01-31 00:44, Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everyone, On the CVS server machine should our CVS repository directory belong to the cvs group, i.e. user==root, group==cvs? It's usually a good idea. And as for the umask, as it appears to be 027, if we g

Re: Standard way of updating 6.x ?

2006-02-01 Thread Duane Whitty
cases and more easy-to-use (just portmanager -u to do what one "usually" wants to do). Too bad it was pulled from ports. Hi everyone, I just checked the change log for portmanager. It appears the author has re-given permission to redistribute it. --Du

Re: ports : make index failed

2006-02-01 Thread Duane Whitty
Pirat SRIYOTHA wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: Pirat SRIYOTHA wrote: hi sirs, after cvsup the ports tree , i make index but get errors. it said inspiron# cat /usr/ports/make-index Script started on Mon Jan 30 07:10:38 2006 You have mail. inspiron# uname -a FreeBSD inspiron.thai-aec.org 6.0

Re: LiveCD FreeBSD

2006-02-01 Thread Duane Whitty
#x27;m at the point where I rarely need to boot into Windows anymore. I can say that if you want to learn an OS FreeBSD makes it easier than many because it has so much excellent documentation. Installing FreeBSD as your desktop OS definitly forces a person to learn but as you do you will no

Re: Performance Monitoring

2006-02-03 Thread Duane Whitty
Craig wrote: Hi I am fairly new to FreeBSD and I am trying to find out how I can see what the CPU and memory utlization is at any time. What commands/tools are available? Thanks Craig ___ Run the command man top. Best regards, --Duane Whitty

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Duane Whitty
iscovery 1 option perform-mask-discovery 1 It was the only way my notebook would get a dhcp address. It seems I don't need these settings anylonger in 6.0 but maybe making them explicit will help your cause. Hope this helps. --Duane Whitty ___

Re: firefox

2006-02-06 Thread Duane Whitty
. I haven't used the mplayer-plugin yet. Best Regards, Duane Whitty ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Default browser

2006-02-06 Thread Duane Whitty
t's K Menu->Settings->KDE Components->Component Chooser->Web Browser Hope this helps, Duane Whitty ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD 6 on DVD

2006-02-10 Thread Duane Whitty
27;s probably not as straight forward as it sounds but I'm going to give a try for making a dvd for an x86 system. I'll post to the list re this subject heading with my progress. Hope this helps, --Duane Whitty ___ freebsd-questions

Re: I can't mount my USB thumb drive or ipod -- no /dev/da*

2006-02-11 Thread Duane Whitty
Erin Sharmahd wrote: I'm a bit of a newbie, but I've done a good bit of research, and some asking around on this issue, and haven't been able to resolve it yet. I'm using FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE with the GENERIC kernel. (from what i can tell, it has all of the necessary pieces to allow usb drives)

Re: Samba Problem

2006-02-11 Thread Duane Whitty
Warren Liddell wrote: When i try logging onto the FreeBSD machine from windows via samba, upon entering the username/pswd windows Automatically adds: fred/shinjii All i want it to have is just shinjii .. what am i missing and where do i go to fix this ? ___

Re: Samba Problem

2006-02-11 Thread Duane Whitty
Warren Liddell wrote: When i try logging onto the FreeBSD machine from windows via samba, upon entering the username/pswd windows Automatically adds: fred/shinjii All i want it to have is just shinjii .. what am i missing and where do i go to fix this ? ___

Re: MBR blown away

2006-02-11 Thread Duane Whitty
Jerry McAllister wrote: I need help. I added a slice to a single hard drive dual-boot (windows) system and now I guess that scrambled my MBR. I get three options from the FreeBSD (5.4) boot manager: 1. DOS 2. FreeBSD 3. FreeBSD I can boot to FreeBSD (the new slice is fine) by choosing option

Re: Samba Problem

2006-02-11 Thread Duane Whitty
Warren Liddell wrote: On Saturday 11 February 2006 12:33, Duane Whitty wrote: Warren Liddell wrote: When i try logging onto the FreeBSD machine from windows via samba, upon entering the username/pswd windows Automatically adds: fred/shinjii All i want it to have is just shinjii .. what am i

Re: Flash Plugin for Firefox

2006-02-13 Thread Duane Whitty
Chris Maness wrote: What do I use for a flash plugin for Firefox? The auto plugin installer do-dad choked (I guess it was expecting linux) Thanks Chris Maness ___ This is what I am using from ports flashplugin-mozilla-0.4.13 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; F

Re: Every 12-hrs -- "ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE DMA"

2006-02-17 Thread Duane Whitty
Fabian Keil wrote: "V.I.Victor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For the last 4-days, our (otherwise OK) 5.4-RELEASE machine has been reporting: Feb 12 12:08:05 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=2701279 Feb 13 00:08:51 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=2

Re: problem regarding setting DISPLAY env variable and hostname

2006-02-22 Thread Duane Whitty
Rob wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:27:20 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2006-02-22 10:17, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have been trying to figure out how to set the display name on my computer. I have a program used with Xorg that gives me the error message: _X11Tra

Re: trouble finding burner (k3b)

2006-02-22 Thread Duane Whitty
Peter wrote: This k3b program is great but it I find it very picky. Currently it cannot detect my DVD/CD burner (/dev/acd1) anymore. It can find my CDROM (/dev/acd0) allright but it claims the permissions may be wrong on the burner. I checked and these devices have the same permissions. I eve

Re: portupgrading only certain ports

2006-02-22 Thread Duane Whitty
Peter wrote: --- "Steve P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am trying to avoid upgrading two ports: kde and X. What are the command line options to portupgrade to accomplish this? For instance, I tried this and it failed: #portupgrade -a -x 'kde*' -x 'x*' Where am I going wrong? I've read the

Re: trouble finding burner (k3b)

2006-02-23 Thread Duane Whitty
Fabian Keil wrote: Duane Whitty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Peter wrote: This k3b program is great but it I find it very picky. Currently it cannot detect my DVD/CD burner (/dev/acd1) anymore. It can find my CDROM (/dev/acd0) allright but it claims the permissions may be wrong on the

Re: Looking for a mentor on php/mysql

2006-02-23 Thread Duane Whitty
Robert Uzzi wrote: I am trying to teach my self php/mysql/html programming. I have done native static html web sites before. Running FreeBSD 6.0 with apache13, php, and mysql all installed and working. Have read a few php books and searched the web for code snippets. Have been on some of the php

htdig Archive Access Failure

2006-02-24 Thread Duane Whitty
Hi, When searching the FreeBSD mailing lists archives, irrespective of which list I am searching, I receive an error if I try to access a second or subsequent page. Does anyone else experience this? --Duane ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: htdig Archive Access Failure

2006-02-24 Thread Duane Whitty
Micah wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: Hi, When searching the FreeBSD mailing lists archives, irrespective of which list I am searching, I receive an error if I try to access a second or subsequent page. Does anyone else experience this? --Duane Yes, makes that search interface rather useless

device atapicam not enabled in GENERIC kernel for FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE

2006-03-04 Thread Duane Whitty
Hi, Just wondering if anyone has any information/opinion as to why device atapicam is not enabled by default in the GENERIC kernel. Does this apply to releases other than 6? Thanks in advance, --Duane ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: device atapicam not enabled in GENERIC kernel for FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE

2006-03-05 Thread Duane Whitty
On Saturday 04 March 2006 17:30, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 05:26:37PM -0400, Duane Whitty wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just wondering if anyone has any > > information/opinion as to why > > device atapicam is not enabled by > > default

Re: device atapicam not enabled in GENERIC kernel for FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE

2006-03-05 Thread Duane Whitty
On Sunday 05 March 2006 17:31, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 05:12:36PM -0400, Duane Whitty wrote: > > On Saturday 04 March 2006 17:30, > > Kris > > > > Kennaway wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at > > > 05:26:37PM

Re: reconfiguring a port

2006-03-05 Thread Duane Whitty
On Monday 06 March 2006 00:53, Andrew Spott wrote: > i accidentally configured a port > incorrectly, how do I get the > configure dialog box back up? > > -Andrew > _ >__ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing > list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: Flash Player

2006-03-06 Thread Duane Whitty
On Monday 06 March 2006 15:13, Rem P Roberti wrote: > I'm using Firefox with FreeBSD 5.4, > and I would like to have Flash Player > installed, but have no idea as to > which of the available versions will > work, if any. Can someone give me a > heads up here. > > Thanks in advance. > > Rem >

Re: no cd* devices appear in /dev [was Re: device atapicam not enabled in GENERIC kernel for FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE]

2006-03-06 Thread Duane Whitty
> On Monday March 6 2006 16:09 > David J Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote > > This reminds me to ask: I have > ATAPICAM enable in my kernal, > specifically so that k3b can find my > dvd+rw ... but no cd* devives appear > in /dev, and k3b cannot find anything > no matter where I tell it to look ..

Re: Flash Player

2006-03-06 Thread Duane Whitty
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 01:42, Chris Maness wrote: > Duane Whitty wrote: > > On Monday 06 March 2006 15:13, Rem > > P > > > > Roberti wrote: > >> I'm using Firefox with FreeBSD > >> 5.4, and I would like to have > >> Flash Player install

system crashed - vmcore dump file format not recognized (Long message)

2006-03-13 Thread Duane Whitty
Hello, My system recently crashed and I am looking forward to analyzing the cause. Towards that end I could use some pointers. If someone could point me on my way I'd really appreciate it. When I try to use gdb to "look" at the core dump I receive an error message (see below for details) and a

Re: Ports upgrade policy

2006-03-14 Thread Duane Whitty
Mike Loiterman wrote: This is my supfile: *default host=cvsup1.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs *default tag=RELENG_6_0 *default delete use-rel-suffix src-all *default tag=. ports-all doc-all I have been using it like this for years, obviously cha

Re: Thunderbird + Mozilla Suite

2006-03-14 Thread Duane Whitty
n you are prompted for the new value enter the path of the mozilla web browser launcher. Follow the same procedures as above to enable support for https. Everywhere you typed http above type https instead. I hope this helps. --Duane Whitty ___ freebsd-ques

Re: Thunderbird + Mozilla Suite

2006-03-15 Thread Duane Whitty
Andrey V. Semyonov wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: If you did not find an entry named network.protocol-handler.app.http then right click on any entry under Preference Name. Choose New, String. When you are prompted for the new string type network.protocol-handler.app.http When you are prompted for

Re: Thunderbird + Mozilla Suite

2006-03-15 Thread Duane Whitty
Chris Whitehouse wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: Andrey V. Semyonov wrote: Is it possible and what docs do describe setting a mozilla-bin from Mozilla Suite as URL-browser in Thunderbird? Mozilla Suite and Thunderbird are installed from ports. ___ Hi

Re: Thunderbird + Mozilla Suite

2006-03-16 Thread Duane Whitty
Andrey V. Semyonov wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: Strange things... When launched from xterm (or directly from my WM's button) /usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla starts mozilla binary normally. But after such a reconfiguration of TB when I try to open any link in TB it prints "/usr/X11R6/bin/mozil

resolv.conf getting rewritten at system startup

2006-03-16 Thread Duane Whitty
Hi all, I am running FBSD 6.0-RELEASE I use DHCP to configure my network interface. At startup my resolv.conf is overwritten, setting my nameserver to the address of the router running DHCP. I tried commenting out almost all of the rc.d/resolv startup script but to no avail. I read the man pa

Trouble searching mailing list archives

2006-03-16 Thread Duane Whitty
Hi all, Well, first I was having a problem searching the archives with the pipermail interface. So after some helpful advice from Micah (thanks Micah) is switched to search.html#mailinglists. This worked great for a while but now it appears to be broken. Is anyone else having this issue? Duan

Re: resolv.conf getting rewritten at system startup

2006-03-16 Thread Duane Whitty
Beech Rintoul wrote: On Thursday 16 March 2006 12:29, Duane Whitty wrote: Hi all, I am running FBSD 6.0-RELEASE I use DHCP to configure my network interface. At startup my resolv.conf is overwritten, setting my nameserver to the address of the router running DHCP. I tried commenting out

man dhclient [was Re: resolv.conf getting rewritten at system startup]

2006-03-16 Thread Duane Whitty
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 05:29:45PM -0400, Duane Whitty wrote: Hi all, I am running FBSD 6.0-RELEASE I use DHCP to configure my network interface Thanks in advance, Duane P.S. Is there a man page for the dhcp client FBSD 6 is using (what is FBSD 6 using

Re: Trouble searching mailing list archives

2006-03-16 Thread Duane Whitty
John Murphy wrote: Micah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you can always use Google with 'site:lists.freebsd.org your key words' I usually find the interface below most usefullest (sp): http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.questions?hl=en Hi, Thanks very much. This is great

Re: Trouble searching mailing list archives

2006-03-18 Thread Duane Whitty
is applicable to more than the FreeBSD lists. Thanks for sharing your techniques and even more importantly your time. Sincerely, Duane Whitty -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Portupgrade fails to upgrade after using portsnap

2006-03-18 Thread Duane Whitty
Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Saturday 18 March 2006 12:06, Jez Hancock wrote: Hi Donald, Thanks for the replies. On 3/18/06, Donald J. O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 18 March 2006 08:06, Jez Hancock wrote: Hi all, For a long time I've been using cvsup and portu

make.conf syntax

2006-03-20 Thread Duane Whitty
Hello all, I believe I used the wrong syntax in my make.conf I used NO_PROFILE="YES" Should I have instead used NO_PROFILE=YES or NO_PROFILE=TRUE Is YES and TRUE and 1 equivalent in this context? Thanks in advance, Duane -- ___ freebsd-question

Re: make.conf syntax

2006-03-20 Thread Duane Whitty
Duane Whitty wrote: Hello all, I believe I used the wrong syntax in my make.conf I used NO_PROFILE="YES" Should I have instead used NO_PROFILE=YES or NO_PROFILE=TRUE Is YES and TRUE and 1 equivalent in this context? Thanks in advan

Re: make.conf syntax

2006-03-20 Thread Duane Whitty
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 07:00:08PM -0400, Duane Whitty wrote: Hello all, I believe I used the wrong syntax in my make.conf I used NO_PROFILE="YES" Should I have instead used NO_PROFILE=YES or NO_PROFILE=TRUE It shouldn't matter. Is YES

Dropping into ddb from kernel panic

2006-03-21 Thread Duane Whitty
Hi, I am trying to learn how to trace kernel issues or determine if a problem even is a kernel issue. Here are the debugging options I have set in my kernel config. makeoptions DEBUG=-g options KDB options KDB_TRACE options DDB options KTRACE options

Re: encrypted drives

2006-03-22 Thread Duane Whitty
Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi: 1) I was thinking, what is the performance penalty of storing data on an encrypted device? Sure, for writing documents, coding and stuff, I guess the performance loss is insignificant, but for music and video which then needs to be decrypted and then decoded, is this

Re: USR 56k Internal WinModem

2006-03-24 Thread Duane Whitty
Dmitry Pisklov wrote: How can I set up (if I can do it at all :)) my US Robotics winmodem? I use FreeBSD 6.0 stable. Here's what says pciconf: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:2:0: class=0x078000 card=0x008112b9 chip=0x100612b9 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = '3COM Corp, Modem Division (Formerly US Robotics

Re: k3b incorrectly identifies scsi r/w drive as read-only -- Mode sense fails

2006-03-24 Thread Duane Whitty
Oliver Iberien wrote: On Friday 24 March 2006 12:29, you wrote: On 3/24/06, Oliver Iberien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 24 March 2006 12:12, you wrote: On 3/24/06, Oliver Iberien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've got my Plextor PX-W4012S SCSI R/W drive recognized

[OT] What's in a name? FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #1

2006-03-24 Thread Duane Whitty
Hi all, I recently built 6-STABLE and I was wondering what the #0 and #1 refer to in the uname FreeBSD dwpc.dwlabs.ca 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #1: Fri Mar 24 19:34:58 AST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DWPC-200603230410 i386 --Duane Whitty

Re: [OT] What's in a name? FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #1

2006-03-24 Thread Duane Whitty
Chris Hill wrote: On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Duane Whitty wrote: I recently built 6-STABLE and I was wondering what the #0 and #1 refer to in the uname FreeBSD dwpc.dwlabs.ca 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #1: Fri Mar 24 19:34:58 AST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DWPC

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread Duane Whitty
e are my opinions. Your mileage may vary, use at your own risk, etc., etc. Best of luck to you. Sincerely, --Duane Whitty ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: k3b incorrectly identifies scsi r/w drive as read-only -- Mode sense fails

2006-03-25 Thread Duane Whitty
Oliver Iberien wrote: On Saturday 25 March 2006 11:46, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: Please forgive me for stepping in, but I'm having the same problem, asked sometime ago and did not get any answer. My Yamaha burner is still detected as a read-only device. bye &am

Re: What's that filesystem for a usb flash drive?

2006-03-25 Thread Duane Whitty
uname -a and dmesg. That way people on the list will have some information about your system. As well include the make and model of the device in question. Without this you are unlikely to receive much (positive) attention. --Duane Whitty ___ free

Re: Thanks! and... the su command

2006-03-25 Thread Duane Whitty
or installed? -saul Hi, Check to see if you belong to the wheel group. As root #pw groupshow wheel If your user name doesn't appear then do this #pw groupmod wheel -m your_user_name_here Next time you log in as that user you should be able to s

Re: Adjusting configuration options during port installation?

2006-03-26 Thread Duane Whitty
Matt Singerman wrote: Hi all, I am installing an upgrade to the Cyrus email server. Our existing email boxes are in a database format that is no longer used by Cyrus; however, there is a configuration option which will instruct the new version to use the old database format. They are --with-m

Re: Adjusting configuration options during port installation?

2006-03-26 Thread Duane Whitty
Peter wrote: --- Duane Whitty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matt Singerman wrote: Hi all, I am installing an upgrade to the Cyrus email server. Our existing email boxes are in a database format that is no longer used by Cyrus; however, there is a configuration

Re: package vs ports question

2006-03-26 Thread Duane Whitty
Huy Ton That wrote: I am curious, the key different between packages and ports are that packages are precompiled and ports are not? Am I erroneous in this statement? I'm a little confused as I have been always using make install clean from the ports and don't see the difference... Has anyone e

[Fwd: Re: package vs ports question]

2006-03-27 Thread Duane Whitty
Original Message Subject:Re: package vs ports question Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:57:04 -0300 From: Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Duane Whitty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: [Fwd: Re: package vs ports question]

2006-03-27 Thread Duane Whitty
Duane Whitty wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: package vs ports question Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:57:04 -0300 From: Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Duane Whitty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Oops: Deleted /var/named

2006-03-29 Thread Duane Whitty
Olivier Nicole wrote: devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_RAPPLY: Inappropriate ioctl for device devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_RAPPLY: Inappropriate ioctl for device devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_RAPPLY: Inappropriate ioctl for device I can only assume that it has something to do with the files in /var/nam

Re: Why are so many people using 4.x?

2006-03-29 Thread Duane Whitty
tions from list members which may challenge this theory? Best wishes, --Duane Whitty ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-03-29 Thread Duane Whitty
Hi, Your previous message reminded me of a previous project you were working on which I was following closely. I was just wondering if you have had any success with make world et al? I ask because I am very interested in how the build process of FreeBSD works. Is there any follow-up available o

[Fwd: Re: Oops: Deleted /var/named]

2006-03-29 Thread Duane Whitty
Original Message Subject:Re: Oops: Deleted /var/named Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:58:45 +0200 From: Dimitar Vasilev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Duane Whitty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EM

[Fwd: Re: Oops: Deleted /var/named]

2006-03-29 Thread Duane Whitty
Original Message Subject:Re: Oops: Deleted /var/named Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:35:52 +0200 From: Dimitar Vasilev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Duane Whitty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <

Installing Horde 3.1.1

2006-04-01 Thread Duane Whitty
quot;chasing my tail"? Thanks in advance, --Duane Whitty ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ipfw dosn"t want to run a rule ???? is it possible ? [Was ipfw n'applique pas une regle ???? est-ce possible ?]

2006-04-02 Thread Duane Whitty
michael wrote: Bonjour, Ok, So, i'll correct u're french because u seems to want to learn it and i think u're french is not to bad And for my problem do think about a begining of an answer ? Hello, Thank you for correcting my French. I need much practice! As for your ipfw problem, I do

Re: software recommendation

2006-04-04 Thread Duane Whitty
fbsd_user wrote: I am looking for am application that will simulate a browser and allow me to program responses to filling in forms from the internet application the browser is accessing. I have read about this type of thing before and even seen it mentioned on this list but at the time I had no

Re: Switch from SATA-RAID to gmirror?

2006-04-06 Thread Duane Whitty
ys the consultant's fault :) So my recommendation is that you simulate a disk going bad now before it happens for real. For instance, what happens if you unplug the disk from the controller, or remove its power connection, etc? Just my $0.02 -- Duane Whitty ___

Re: Running an X application as root? (getting printer set in openoffice)

2006-04-06 Thread Duane Whitty
nter-related is in there. _______ When you built OOo did you use the -DWITH_CUPS option? -- Duane Whitty ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FIXED Running an X application as root? (getting printer set in openoffice)

2006-04-06 Thread Duane Whitty
n spadmin with sudo, spadmin can't find libraries it needs that are in its own folder. su-ing gets the same result as running as root, and deleting ~/.openoffice.org-2.0.2 and running spadmin as a normal user changes nothing -- apparently nothing printer

OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-07 Thread Duane Whitty
Hi, My appologies in advance for the OT post. This probably more appropriately belongs on ISP@ but there doesn't seem to be much traffic there. To the point: I'm about to provide hosting services, including but not limited to email, to a few local business. Right now I have Sendmail configured

UFS extended attributes

2006-04-09 Thread Duane Whitty
lable? Sincerely, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Newbie help!

2006-04-09 Thread Duane Whitty
books/handbook/index.html If this does not work then do the following su - root cd /usr/ports/www/lynx make install clean exit /usr/local/bin/lynx file:///usr/share/doc/en/books/handbook/index.html This should let you view the English version of the hanbook Sincerely, Duane Wh

Re: Hard crash on 6.x -- reproducible, multiple people affected

2006-04-09 Thread Duane Whitty
Peter Thoenen wrote: --- Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 04:09:30PM -0400, Anish Mistry wrote: It's not clear what he means by "hard crash", but he also says power off", which is the part that is most confusing to me. Hmmm...I missed that part.

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-11 Thread Duane Whitty
Duane Whitty wrote: Hi, My appologies in advance for the OT post. This probably more appropriately belongs on ISP@ but there doesn't seem to be much traffic there. To the point: I'm about to provide hosting services, including but not limited to email, to a few local business. R

Re: WAN setup help.

2006-04-12 Thread Duane Whitty
t what you want to do has been done many times and a professional should have no problems doing this for you. If he appears unsure of how to proceed then he probably hasn't done it before and is figuring it out as he goes. Sincerely, Duane Whitty

Re: can i build more than one world on a buildserver?

2006-09-08 Thread Duane Whitty
this setup you can even do a chroot-ed install world, make dist, etc. There are hints for this in UPDATING as well. Best Regards, Duane Whitty P.S. Your email server bounced my earlier reply which, admittedly, I forgot to CC to list thanks, jonathan

Re: Good networking books for a beginner?

2006-10-02 Thread Duane Whitty
online article that I found quite helpful was Daryl's TCP/IP Primer http://www.ipprimer.com/overview.cfm I was quite surprised by how much detail was there when I started actually following along with its tutorial style. Best Regards, Duane Whitty

Re: Device busy

2006-04-15 Thread Duane Whitty
tely be worth checking out CUPS, the Common UNIX Printing System. I don't know if it supports this particular printer but it seems to offer support for a lot of different printing devices. Hope this helps, Duane Whitty, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: Improving kde perfomance...

2006-04-15 Thread Duane Whitty
osmething wrong with my installation? I instaleld it via ports by the way. Thanks for your help. ___ Hi, When you say you installed it from ports, do you mean you installed it as a package from ports or that you built it from source? Duane Whitty

Re: How do you tell pkg_add to just download the packages ?

2006-04-18 Thread Duane Whitty
t; Use packages only, fail if packages not available "PP" (important to use two upper-case Ps here) Be verbose "v" If you also want to fetch dependencies you can add -R. This will recurse through all the dependencies the new package needs # cd /usr/ports # portupgrade -NFPPR

KDE + GNOME?

2006-04-19 Thread Duane Whitty
be able to choose which environment I am going to run on a per-session basis. Any hints, pointer, RTFMs, would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: KDE + GNOME?

2006-04-19 Thread Duane Whitty
Duane Whitty wrote: Hello everyone, I'm contemplating installing GNOME . I am currently using KDE. Does anyone know of any issues I should be aware of before I proceed. I'm mostly concerned about dependency issues, especially wtih respect to the xorg clients and firefox. Essential

Re: KDE + GNOME?

2006-04-19 Thread Duane Whitty
Duane Whitty wrote: [snip] ... I want to be able to switch back-and-forth whenever I want. Has anyone else tried this? Thanks for your responses. Sincerely, Duane Whitty Thanks again for the responses. I am now busily building GNOME 2.12 from ports. Sincerely, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL

Re: Your message to freebsd-questions awaits moderator approval

2006-04-19 Thread Duane Whitty
his necessary. Hmm, Well anything I can do to help the fight against spam and email abuse I guess. Too bad real spam still manages to get through... Oh, and why was this sent to the list and not to my personal address? Of course I felt compelled to whine publicly. ; ) Duane W

Sendmail Compile-Time Configuration

2006-04-28 Thread Duane Whitty
D 6-STABLE? TIA, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Sendmail Compile-Time Configuration

2006-04-28 Thread Duane Whitty
Duane Whitty wrote: Hi, I'm adding LDAP support to my Sendmail configuration. I couldn't seem to find the appropriate m4 file in which to declare my APPENDDEF statements. My course of action was to include SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+=-DLDAPMAP in make.conf. Does this seem like the correct way

Re: Sendmail Compile-Time Configuration

2006-04-28 Thread Duane Whitty
Duane Whitty wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: Hi, I'm adding LDAP support to my Sendmail configuration. I couldn't seem to find the appropriate m4 file in which to declare my APPENDDEF statements. My course of action was to include SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+=-DLDAPMAP in make.conf. Does this see

Re: permissions dilemma

2006-04-28 Thread Duane Whitty
first time I installed MySQL I neglected to do so. As well, do you also have a mysql user and a mysql group defined? Best Regards, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/

Re: permissions dilemma

2006-04-29 Thread Duane Whitty
jekillen wrote: On Apr 28, 2006, at 6:10 PM, Duane Whitty wrote: jekillen wrote: On Apr 28, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Gerard Seibert wrote: jekillen wrote: Hello: I have had a problem with installing MySQL 5.0.18 on a FreeBSD v 6.0 installation where everything seems to compile and install

Re: permissions dilemma

2006-04-29 Thread Duane Whitty
Duane Whitty wrote: [snip] Read the chapters in the MySQL manual regarding post-install tasks under UNIX and securing the initial MySQL accounts. Hope this helps, Duane Whitty http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/index.html ___ freebsd

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