Should I just go ahead on 7.0?

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/schedule.html I want to build an experimental / frugal desktop on FreeBSD+Fluxbox Am I ok to go ahead on 7.0 iso's after the 7th ? Thanks Graham ps Sorry if this has been answered, I have been out of the loop for a while :o)

Re: New FreeBSD art?

I also don't understand how the 'Red Globe' with horns thing. In my mind there can be nothing better than just the words FreeBSD Thinking about IBM's logo (the stripey IBM letters) I suggest they have got it just right. Simple and Memorable. There are alot of other logo's that do just that to

Subject: Re: One Laptop Per Child

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Re: What server for a mail server

Get some help before you botch it. I love Teds replies, classic !!! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Fluxbox Themes on FreeBSD Question

Hi All, Does anyone remmeber from ages ago there was a theme pack tarball knocking about for Fluxbox - must have had about 20 themes in it, some with backgrounds. I have Googled about and looked at the ones in ports but thats not them. Anyone know where I might find this now such along time

Re: FB on 3BSD

So if you rebuild your fluxbox port with the default settings, transparency should work fine. And that is exactlyt why I am asking - it doesnt! As reported issuing a plain make results in fluxbox -info output of -RENDER ie. it is NOT included !!! Of course the first thing I did before my post

Seg Fault Action!

Hi All, I have often wondered what to do if I compile a port and immediatly after trying to run it I get a seg fault. In the past I have just tried to find an alternative port that did the same job, but it has always felt as though I wasnt trying hard enough. Yesterday after upgrading all my po

Marvell 88E8052 PCI-E LAN on FreeBSD 7.0

Hi ALl, I have a DFI LanParty Mobo that includes Marvells 88E8052 and 88E8053 LAN IF. Using the module with 7.0 [msk] the network preformance is terrible, Opera / Links stall, or wont page load at all although pings to the router are fine? I then tried using Marvells own driver the website [myk

Re: Seg Fault Action!

For one, make sure your ports are up-to-date with your installed ports tree before installing more ports. Yep, done that :) You can run the program under truss(1), which will help you figure out what kind of bad data is being passed to system calls (assuming that's where the failure is, but

Re: Marvell 88E8052 PCI-E LAN on FreeBSD 7.0

You need to keep something in mind here: Marvell does not give out documentation for their cards publicly, so Yong-Hyeon has to reverse-engineer and "tinker" with what he already knows. Some hardware feature do not work, others are buggy, others work fine on specific revisions of the chip while l

Re: Marvell 88E8052 PCI-E LAN on FreeBSD 7.0 (PYUN Yong-Hyeon)

I'm not sure you suffers from the same problem but there was a Tx checksum offload related bug in msk(4) driver and it was fixed in HEAD. How about applying the diff in CVS rev 1.33 of if_msk? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/msk/if_msk.c.diff?r1=1.32;r2=1.33;f=h Would love to h

Re: Marvell 88E8052 PCI-E LAN on FreeBSD 7.0

select "unified" diff on the above and save it to a file, then cd /usr patch < patchfilewhere "patchfile" is the saved file, then build as normal. 3bsd# patch < if_msk.c.diff Hmm... Looks like a unified diff to me... The text leading up to this was: -- |--- src/sys/de

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

I left KDE after version 2 as it then seemed to go in the wrong direction (more features / bloat?) http://www.kde.org/screenshots/kde2shots.php In fact, if 2.n would compile on 7.0 I'd have another look. Since then I've been quite a fan of XFCE but found myself slowly but surely converting to m

Backup Winserver

Hi All, Is there anyone using Rsync on windows to backup to a Linux or FreeBSD server? Are the Windows Rsync implementations reliable? Or, how are people doing this? [ftp etc?] Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Anyone remember this organiser?

Sorry for OT post but this is driving me nuts It was a lightweight 'Web Organiser' - a bunch of perl scripts, html docs and a few graphics. It had 'To Do' list and Calendar. It also had the look of the 'Outlook bar' - it was basic but useful. For the life of me I cant remember what it was ca

YASSDQ

Hi I have put together a little experimental FreebSD 9.0 box which comprises of ; http://www.cartft.com/catalog/il/934 http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-023-ZA 2GB RAM and a Sandisk SDSA3BD-054G 8GB SSD The idea is a silent system I can tinker on - nothing serious. I chose

Gui CD soft recommend

Which GUI CD writing software can you recommend [less dependencies = better] Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr.

Re: Gui CD soft recommend

Thanks for your several considered replies > 1) If you're already got KDE libs, k3b / k3b-kde4 is pretty light > 2) I find that Gnome has pretty good built-in support > 3) Polytropon as 1,2 mostly I shoud have been more specific. Im running xorg with vtwm and trying to stay light / minimal as pos

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg (Polytropon)

> When it installs it comes with twm (Trivial Window Manager) Tom's Window Manager? A great little wm :) http://www.cpcnw.co.uk/twm/twmrc.htm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

I quite like this http://www.vtwm.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re-create MBR

Hi All, I had to install Linux to participate in a project I was involved with. Now is all finished I have restored the partition but now need a 3bsd boot sector back. Scheme is ; 0 Primary XP 0 Extended FAT32 1 Primary FreeBSD Approx 1/3 disc for each. How can I restore the 3bsd boot sector? T

Mailing list recommend

Default Mail SignatureHi All - can anyone recommend an easy / simple mailing list software? All I need is to subscribe/ un-subscribe and a little maintainance of users. MySQL if its worth it, or a just php? Any pointers appreciated! ___ freebsd-questio

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

*Some* reasonable and balanced points for a questions list :) My laptop distro www.zenwalk.org My rack server www.trustix.org My webserver www.freebsd.org (of course:) For very boring locked in accounts work W2K Using the appropraite tool for the job seems to be the best advice I have had on this

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

Damn, I just fell into the same old trap. This is a questions list about FreeBSD. I already use it (as well as other OS's) What do I care about the arguments for and against xy and z? Thinking about it now, if I was asking the same question and someone said "Why not try out FreeBSD and make yo

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

> What do you say to the people who want to do some research before > putting the time into installing it? > > Ted http://www.freesbie.org/ ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Elegant delete of word ~tmp files in all sub / dirs

Hi All, I once found a very elegant method of recursively removing all the word ~tmp files on our Samba server (many hundereds of subs) It involved find rm xargs and some {} It worked very quickly indeed. I have tried to find this again but cant and have used alternatives that are alot slower.

Kernel Compile Question

Hi All, I have just been testing www.raqdevil.com which is coming along nicely :) I decide to recompile the stock 6.0 kernel and strip out all the stuff I would not be using on my 'web appliance' (LPT, Serial, Firewire, USB) I think I have got my kernel down as small as I can (about 2.8 MB) howe

Re: A strategic question

http://www.pcbsd.org/ worked out of the box with my NVidia card ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

How to get latest and greatest FAMP

Hi All, I wanted to do a quick test of Apache21, MySQL5 and PHP5 I tried a minimal install of FreeBSD 6.0 then pkg_add -r which worked fine up until PHP5 where I was told that Apache21 conflicted with Apache13 that was to be installed as aPHP5 dependancy. I pkg_delete and went ahead with installi

Hostname Question

Is there any differnce in the way 6.0 resolves its own hostname compared to 5.2 ? I just noticed in phpsysinfo the hostname is being outputted as the IP address ? # hostname does in fact show the correct hostname.domain name of the machine. I have tried the same version of phpsysinfo (as I had

Re: 6.0 on DVD

Or just use 3 floppies and install via FTP ;-) ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.0-RELEASE/floppies You will need boot.flp, kern1.flp, kern2.flp If you choose the developer series and ports you can build a system to your liking :) ___ f

Help on Tape Backups / Disc Space

Hi All, Can any one comment on the below ; candle# df -H Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a260M 37M202M15%/ devfs 1.0k1.0k 0B 100%/dev /dev/ar0s1d116G 96G 11G90%/data /dev/ad0s1e260M 29k2

Re: Help on Tape Backups / Disc Space

Thanks for the reply Lowell. > Are you just guessing here, or do you have a reason to think this is > happening? Not sure what you mean? I cut and paste the logs so clearly there is something happening i.e. a reason for those messages? > A quick look at flexbackup makes me think that it uses > v

Anyone interpret this ?

security run output +++ /tmp/security.QSnlQzckFri Feb 17 03:02:01 2006 +Limiting closed port RST response from 216 to 200 packets/sec +Limiting closed port RST response from 241 to 200 packets/sec +Limiting closed port RST response from 261 to 200 packets/sec _

Cron Q

Is it OK to list two different tasks on two lines for the exactly the same time ? I did this and the second one didnt run maybe it was a problem with the job ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

Back-UPS CS 350 is the lowest model I got to work on *nix. However, you have to ring / mail APC and ask them to send you out a serial lead. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To uns

Tape backup / Bizzare Device Question

Is there a way to create a hdd resore solution with set of boot floppies that will support my tape drive access the tape and restore the entire hard disc in case of disc failure disaster ? ie So I could install a new disc and be up and running without doing any additional admin? I guess like a 'g

Anyone seen this scsi error before ?

Recently swapped out my Sony for a HP DAT and got this first time in dmesg (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL. CDB: 1e 0 0 0 0 0 (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0 (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): N

New user questions :)

Hello to all you FreeBSD guys (and girls:) I am new here and have some questions to ask and comments to invite. For the last year or so I have been using SME server (an optimised Linux based server / LAN server that provides in one distro Mail/Webmail/FTP/ HTTP/Samba - all configurable from a

FreeBSD community - best ever !

Have to say this :- I have used alot of online resources and have had help in many forms from far and wide. Sometimes I have received ridicule and criticism and condescending remarks for my inquisitiveness and sometimes stupid questions. But as a new FreeBSD user I am amazed at the first off r

SSH / D-Link Router

> My problem is that ssh and telnet don't work. I get as far as the > Password prompt, I type it in, and then ssh freezes for a couple of > minutes until it probably goes in timeout and gives up. I came across this after a new installation. I googled about and on some advice tried adding the re

CMS Software

Hi, I was wondering if anyone can comment on the following :- I am looking to install some CMS software and to run my web site long term on FreeBSD. I am thinking something on the lines of phpWebsite, PostNuke/PhpNuke or similar (ie easy for me to install and maintain / update - don't need buc

FreeBSD Wiki

Hi All, I was just wondering something :- I have used in the past Trustix Linux which has a nice Wiki page http://doc.trustix.org/cgi-bin/trustixdoc.cgi?TrustixWiki It includes some nice step by step configs for that distro and I think its great that peeps can add there own info and collaborate

MySQL Advice

Hi All Can any MySQL gurus out there point me in the direction of enlightenment. Just installed MySQL for a Wiki DB and get the following when trying to add the root password as instructed by the installer. freebsd# /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe & [1] 684 freebsd# Starting mysqld daemon with data

Postnuke install probs - any advice appreciated.

Hello All, I have 5.2.1 freshly installed and updated / built. I have installed Postnuke (Rogue) using the ports system. I have a running Apache which displays a PHP test page fine. I have a running MySQL server in which I have created a root password for both localhost and the host/domain. I h

Re: Postnuke install probs - any advice appreciated.

> On the phpinfo(); test page do you see the MySQL Support enabled ?? > "PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect()" > Andras Kende > http://kende.com Only reference to mysql from the output of phptest.info i.e. is :- sql.safe_mode Off Off So I _guess_ mysql support

Best way to limit SSH to LAN IP's only ?

Hi All, Wondered what is the best way to do this ? Do I have to get involved with host.allow / deny or better to use the sshd config ? Thanks guys ! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsu

Compiling XFE

Hello All, I admit, I am a lazy admin and like clicking with a mouse whilst talking on the phone, drinking tea and eating toast. I got used to XFE from using Linux and have enjoyed it in FreeBSD - until I installed it under 5.3 Now it core dumps for no reason whatsoever. At any time. My installatio

Re: Backup of hd using DD. (james.cook@utoronto.ca)

Just a point of conversation, heres what I usually do... Partition the disc into C / D Copy all the files from the Windows CD in Win98 to a folder on D, say win98.src Install Windows from there D:\win98.src\setup.exe Now install the rest of your software and get the install just the way you want it

Cheap SCSI Controllers UK

Tekram DC-390U Ultra 40Mbit 50pin SCSI2 (PCI) with BIOS £17.63 http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Products.ASP?CatID=35&Category=SCSI&Thumbnails=yes http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-i386.html#DISK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: New user questions :)

Graham Bentley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I also wondered if there is a project based on FreeBSD that achieves similar goals to SME Server (ie all in one LAN server with Web config) or similar to Trustix (ie minimal config with series of scripts to configure server services. Not that I k

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

The devil made me do it ! besastie.4th \ 46 4 print-beastie The power of .. choice ! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROT

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

> This is the funniest discussion i have ever read. I saving these messages > for future entertainment. I love Tux and Beastie pictures Same here, I also like the look of the default blue colored lilo menu on some linux distros - its looks quite professional. __

Friendly Request

Hi All, I am hoping you may be able to help with a little input. I am looking to build a resource of the following ; 1) Step by Step Tutorials on various server / service related topics (for example "How to build an FTP server on FreeBSD" or "How to Build an streaming MP3 JukeBox with Apache etc

Samba without Cups ?

I just want file sharing, not printing. pkg_add -r samba3 also pulls in cups then my smb log complains ... [2005/07/26 00:31:17, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_cache_reload(85) Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost - Connection refused (I havent enabled cups daemon) but insists ; Global pa

Where to put scripts ?

Hi All, I have a short script for Flexbackup ; #!/bin/sh # Backup using Flexbackup /bin/rm -f /data/IT/Backup_Log/data* /usr/local/bin/flexbackup -newtape /usr/local/bin/flexbackup -dir /data /usr/bin/mt -f /dev/sa0 rewind /usr/bin/mt -f /dev/sa0 offline I put this in /usr/bin/ and made exec In

Re: 100Mbit network performance - again (Andrew P.)

> "mistakes" must be on the Windows side, but that's > not an excuse for FreeBSD/Linux to not be at least > 99%-Windows-networking-compatible. Tridge Quote: Samba is Bug for Bug compatible with Windows. (Until M$ changes something ie tries to fix its own bugs and makes some others OR are new 'fea

RAID Advice

Hello All, I am setting up FreeBSD 5.4 on a Dell SC1420 server. It has an Adaptec 39320 SCSI Card which will do RAID 1 Hosting. I have Control-A and enterd the SCSI BIOS and created a RAID Pair from the two 73 GB SCSI Discs. When I came to install FreeBSD I only used the first disc it had detected

Re: RAID Advice

> Your RAID system is only reported as one single device to the OS. > To see status of your RAID arrays you'll need to use the RAID mgmt > software that Adaptec probably provides. I remember that on an IDE RAID card I got another device loaded at install time (md0 I think) as well as the two dev

Re: KDE Konqueror:Can i have konqueror without KDEstuff port

If you want a 'traditional' style file manager try XFE http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/ You will need the Fox toolkit which BTW comes with a nice editor called adie. http://fox-toolkit.org/ as well as a file 'explorer' and cool sci-calc You might also want to look at :- http://www.xfce.org/index

Subject: Re: Web host manager

>This might suit your needs: http://www.raqdevil.com/ > I do not know how well developed for use with freebsd this is yet. I must say > the installation instructions sounded very off putting..do not install on any > thing other than a bare system seemed to be the implication. Although I did > not

Firefox woes

Hi All, I wanted to upgrade my Firebord 0.7 to the latest Firefox (0.9.3?) I tried downloading the .tar.gz files from the Mozilla site but got some odd messages about being unable to execute (other Linux binaries seem to work ok) So, I went to Fresh Ports an it says do the follwing ; pkg_add

What caused this ?

Hi all, I have had a server freeze after about 7 days of uptime. When I got to the terminal the screen was full of this message :- swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: ad0s1f, blkno: 663, size 20480 swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: ad0s1f, blkno: 4096, size 329 The keyboard

Hardware Recommendations (UK)

Hi Can anyone recommend a good solid mobo for building a little web server ? Is it worth paying the extra for Intel manufactured ? Thanks ! Custom PC North West Open Source Solutions http://www.cpcnw.co.uk ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http:

KVM Recommendations

Hi All, Can anyone recommend a 4 Port KVM (UK Supplier ) that will work with FreeBSD (and not too expensive :) I have just recently racked my 4 boxes and have a Protec Bytelan VS4. The main problem is moused / XMouse - annoyingly it works with Winblows but not my FreebSD box - keyboard is OK.

SCSI Shock Advice !

Hi All, Need some quick advice on the following. I recently added an Adaptec 29160N card and an IBM SCSI disc to my server box which previously had just an IDE disc. I cloned the disc using G4U http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ and set SCSI as the first boot device in the BIOS (disabled 2nd,3rd,4th c

Re: SCSI Shock Advice !

Thanks for replies, however I need advise on cloning the IDE to the SCSI disc. G4U did not finish correctly and once I had made changes to fstab and booted the fs I got some pretty severe errors. /usr was inaccessible and I ended up using Freesbie to re-edit fstab to get a booting system. I th

Re: SCSI Shock Advice !

Mark, Yep, mine makes that 2 tone screech noise much more frequently than i woudl like !!! Its an IC35L The site has a nice util called the drive fitness test :- http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm Fits on a floppy and tests your SCSI drive. I did this because my supplier told

Official wallpapers

Nice work . . . But we don't want FreeeBSD going all multimedia . . . Do we ? :-) Custom PC North West Open Source Solutions http://www.cpcnw.co.uk ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Openoffice

>> Abiword: Otherwise I would be using that and ignoring Openoffice. Ted can do RTF and has few deps. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-q

Starting from Scratch!

After several months away from FreeBSD I am asking for advice on versions for general desktop / interest use [non critical learning platform] Should I hang on a bit for 8.2 to go current? Or will I easily be able to update RC3 in any case? Thanks! ___

dwm / dmenu advice

Anyone using these two give me some advice? Im trying to launch dmenu with Alt-P and a predefined list of about 6 apps in something like ~/.menu.lst but having a tough time getting this to work. Any tips? http://www.mail-archive.com/dwm@suckless.org/msg00468.html This looked the part but syntax

Re: Newbie Experience

One question I often forget to ask myself is ; "What is my end goal ?" These days, if I want a non Windows desktop that is quick and easy to install / update I use this ; www.zenwalk.org [400MB .iso] For servers, I use FreeBSD :) Of course, you can use FreeBSD as a desktop machine too ... but

CD Writing from non root accounts

Hi, Is there a recommended method of letting non root users write some CDR's ? If so, can anyone give me some pointers / advice etc on this ! Thanks !!! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: CD Writing from non root accounts

> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q15 3bsd# camcontrol devlist <_NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG 2.18> at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (pass0,cd0) <_NEC DVD_RW ND-4570A 1.02>at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (pass1,cd1) 3bsd# cat /etc/devfs.conf # Allow members of the group wheel to mount the cdr

Diablo-Jre / Javavmwraper / Firefox / FreeBSD6.2

Im sure I had this working on 6.1 but Diablo-Jre pkg_add now complains that javavmwrapper is a later version than required by it, but installs anyway. No jvm plugin appears in about:plugins and pkg_delete refuses to remove. Anyone any suggestions with this - Thanks !

> Subject: Re: Ezmlm Port Okay Or Junk?

Can you expand on this ? I have noticed that quite alot of ports are broken on 6.2 but then again I only loaded it a few days ago and havent updated the tree (thinking this is the 'latest' version - flawed?) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: Upgrade Question

You've confused STABLE with RELEASE. 6.2 has not reached RELEASE. 6-STABLE is the latest "these changes worked fine in CURRENT (right now, aka 7) and have been MFCed (merged from current) so that more people can try them out", which right now corresponds to the version of FreeBSDthat is just

Working at Console

Hi All, I am interested in setting up a text based / console system. So far I have learnt how to recompile the kernel and get 1024x768 console. I have 'mc' loaded because I am familiar with that. And of course sendmail is already sending mail. Then there is elinks for web ... What other apps ar

Re: > Subject: Re: Ezmlm Port Okay Or Junk?

>Graham, please include the list in the reply - it doesn't help anyone else to >have a private chat :) Sorry about that >> I didnt keep a list but mplayers extra codecs spring to mind. >hmmm my mplayer and mplayer-skins having a nit with some skin it cant find >(it may be that I chose a bun

WiFi Woes !

Hi All, Can any WiFi gurus help me with this one ? After clean minimal install of 6.1 # kldload wlan_wep # kldload wlan_ccmp # kldload wlan_tkip # ifconfig ral0 inet 192.168.7.120 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid cpc channel 11 wep wepkey 0x12345ABCDE ifconfig ral0 now reports an association, it has

Fw: WiFi Woes !

- Original Message - From: "Graham Bentley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 4:15 PM Subject: WiFi Woes ! > Hi All, > > Can any WiFi gurus help me with this one ? > > After clean minimal install of 6.1 > > # kldload wlan_

Re: Fw: WiFi Woes !

> >Subject: Re: Fw: WiFi Woes ! > From: Vince Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 20:41:11 +0000 > To: Graham Bentley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >Graham Bentley wrote: >> >>> I hav

Obmenu

Hi All, I was wondering if anyone can shed any light on this, I have come accross it before but cant remember how to resolve ? I think there are some Perl modules to install and vaguely recall something to do with cpan but thats about it. I downloaded the latest obmenu [a graphical menu editor

Re: quickie: howto? window manager & xterms, but no

You can make Twm look quite nice with a bit of effort as well as adding virtual desktops. http://www.lontronics.nl/index.php?m=0011 I have just setup a FreeBSD lightweight desktop with the latest X and Fluxbox which I would recommend. Apart from that have mostly console apps, quick! mc (*The* f

CLI CD-Audio Copying 'On The Fly!'

Hi All, I found this little script on a web page somewhere sometime ago and modified it slightly (replaced 'eject' with 'cdcontrol') #!/bin/sh for i in /dev/acd0t* do dd if=$i of=/usr$i.cdr bs=2352 done cdcontrol -f acd0 eject cd /usr/dev for i in acd0t*cdr do mv $i track${i#acd0t} done burncd -

Port update advice

Hi All, Following a Portsnap Fetch / Extract on top of a base install what is the best strategy for keeping ports updated? I think maybe it would be a waste of time / bandwidth to fetch the entire ports again or on a weekly basis so am guessing here that I should be checking to see which ports I

Fwd: Returned mail: see transcript for details

Hi All, Not sure how to correct this but I have created some mp3's to share with a friend using mp3c. I have setup filenaming like this ; ArtistName_AlbumName_TrackNo_TrackTitle.mp3 It seems to work great under FreeBSd and I can see the full filename. I then burnt the tracks to DVD using

USB Phone Charging

Hi All, Still not got to the bottom of this one ; My Blackberry mobile phone refuses to charge from USB when logged into FreeBSD. dmesg -a shows; ugen1: Research In Motion Blackberry Device etc usbdevs -v shows ; Controller /dev/usb1: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub

Re: Network Monitor?

/usr/ports/net/trafshow ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cpcnw.co.uk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Quick mail advice / Laptop use

Hi All, I noticed that fetchmail created a file mbox but Mutt creates a 'Mail' directory however the mail seems to download into /var/mail Mutt asks me on exit to copy to mbox format. The Mail directory also has only one folder and on exit is empty. /var/mail still has copies. Can anyone clear

Novell / M4 Etc

Hi All, What are the opinions of people on this list regarding the above subject ? What are the implications for FreeBSD? Thanks ! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Header Warning

X-Authentication-Warning: omni.cpcnw.co.uk: admin set sender to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using -f Hi All ! On my laptop 'omni' I have now setup mutt / sendmail and am getting the above in messages to others. I have tried hacking about in my .muttrc but I dont think thats where this originates. Anyone kn

Console graphics viewers

If anyone has had any luck with seejpeg or other (better?) alternative could you post your findings ? I just seem to get a flickering screen ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: simple question...how to show packages which depend upon

And ... how to remove a package and all the packages it sucked in ? All I get from pkg_delete that it isnt even installed when I know it is because that was the previous command I just ran !!! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: simple question...how to show packages which depend upon

> Example: you install Z, which depends on Y, which depends in X, > ..., which depends on Q. > What if Q is "xorg-server-6.9.0_1"? I installed 'feh' thinking wrongly it was a console app and ended up getting x, xlibs etc etc when all I wanted was a console app to view jpgs in elinks. So, the above

DVD Movies

Is it possible to play a DVD without loading X ? Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Svgalib

Can anyone advise me on tweaking my /usr/local/etc/vga/libvga.config ? I am trying to get zgv, a console graphics viewer, working on my HP OmniBook6000 and am getting some very odd results (lines, freaky phased out graphics etc) How would I go about detecting the right chipset, V/H Synv an

Re: Advantages of trimmed kernel?

Wouldnt it be a usefull exercise on an old laptop with not much horsepower ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Help with mail Forwarding

Hi All, I was hoping someone might throw me a few pointers on the following ; I have FreeBSD 6.1 setup, running Apache / PHP / MySQL etc In aliases I specify my most used ISP pop address and all mail for root gets sent there from Charlie - this works great. I am testing an osc cart and the two o

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