identity using send-pr with dynamic address

2003-12-15 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, I have a system which has a dialup internet connection. That is it has a different IP address and a different real hostname each time a connection is established. Since it doesn't need any access from the internet it only has a local hostname which has no meaning in the internet. Using mutt

Re: identity using send-pr with dynamic address

2003-12-18 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Dec 17 at 02:57, Simon Barner spoke: > although you seem to already have set up your email mail, the following > article of mine might help you anyway: > > http://home.leo.org/~barner/freebsd/articles/mailsetup/article.html Hi Simon, yes, it's a very interesting article! Especially 2.3 Add

Re: identity using send-pr with dynamic address

2003-12-18 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Dec 16 at 19:01, Lowell Gilbert spoke: > You should be able to send PRs with *any* DNS name that maps to your > address. If you want a permanent one, there are some free "dynamic" > DNS services out there. If you just want to set the hostname > automatically, note that dhclient will do it a

extended/logical slices

2005-12-17 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, FreeBSD 6 seems to recognize logical slices in extended ones. The appropriate entries /dev/ad0sN appear. At least this works with logical slices that contain VFAT or ext2fs. Just 'fdisk' doesn't list the logical slices. Is there a tool that can list these? -Hanspeter __

5.2-current: device pcm

2004-08-07 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, I have upgraded from 5.2.1-release to 5.2-current. On 5.2.1-release there was a device pcm for the sound module. This doesn't seem to be accepted anymore in 5.2-current. Is there an equivalent device? -Hanspeter ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: 5.2-current: device pcm

2004-08-07 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Aug 07 at 17:41, Radek Kozlowski spoke: > Read /usr/src/UPDATING: > > 20040716: > The sound device drivers are renamed. `sound' is always required, > while `snd_*' should be configured accordingly to your hardware. > Refer to NOTES for the detail of the drivers. I h

Re: 5.2-current: device pcm

2004-08-07 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Aug 07 at 18:34, Radek Kozlowski spoke: > You didn't refer to the NOTES file (/usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES that is) > like you were supposed to, did you? There's a section called Sound > drivers that should explain everything. Yes, I checked only the NOTES in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf. Now it works

FreeBSD 5, chroot and /dev

2004-08-11 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, I have built a new kernel on a FreeBSD 5.2 system which doesn't boot anymore. So I took a Freesbee and mounted the filesystems from the harddisk and changed root to the harddisk's one. But there were no devices in /dev. I tried some of /etc/rc.d/dev*. This only created a /dev/null. Trying t

Re: FreeBSD 5, chroot and /dev

2004-08-11 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Aug 11 at 11:25, Bill Moran spoke: > Hanspeter Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What is the recommended way to create the device nodes in /dev in a > > chroot environment? > > This isn't a direct answer to your question, but it should help you >

Re: Bittorrent secure?

2005-01-25 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jan 25 at 14:48, Chuck Swiger spoke: > Hanspeter Roth wrote: > >how secure is Bittorrent? > > It's not secure. > > >How can one know how trustworthy the stuff > >downloaded from other Bittorrent fellows is? > > You need to have an externa

Bittorrent secure?

2005-01-26 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, how secure is Bittorrent? How can one know how trustworthy the stuff downloaded from other Bittorrent fellows is? -Hanspeter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Bittorrent secure?

2005-01-27 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jan 25 at 16:58, Chuck Swiger spoke: > Hanspeter Roth wrote: > > On Jan 25 at 14:48, Chuck Swiger spoke: > >>You need to have an external source of information which specifies a > >>checksum or MD5 hash to confirm that the file has not been tampered with.

beeps at shutdown

2005-02-21 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, at shutdown there occur two beeps. How can I turn them off or change their volume? -Hanspeter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROT

Re: beeps at shutdown

2005-02-23 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Feb 23 at 04:56, scott spoke: > man kbdcontrol > > you can also add > > keybell="off" > > to your /etc/rc.conf file Ok, thanks! I'll try kbdcontrol since a setting in /etc/rc.conf will affect the whole uptime. -Hanspeter ___ freebsd-question

configure/autoconf is missing getloadavg on 5.2

2004-01-16 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, in icewm-1.2.14pre8 configure on FreeBSD 5.2 claims that getloadavg() be not available: configure:6804: checking for getloadavg configure:6847: gcc -o conftest -fpermissive -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wconversion -Wwrite-strings -Winline -Woverloaded-virtual -W -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -I/u

Re: I can not boot my FreeBSD-5.2 partition, please help

2004-01-16 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jan 16 at 12:30, Juan Rodriguez Hervella spoke: > Hello, > > I've got a 40 GBytes hard disk on an old Pentium MMX 266 MHz. > The first time I plugged it into the motherboard my BIOS didn't recognize > the drive, but fortunately there is a jumper that reduces the size of the > disk to 32 GByt

Re: share internet with win xp

2004-01-16 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jan 16 at 15:38, Carvalho Paulo spoke: > I do not want to change the connetion to the > internet to the freebsd box. I like to leave it in the > winxp box. This would require winxp to route. Is winxp able to route? FreeBSD is. I have a FreeBSD box with one network card that's connected t

Re: configure/autoconf is missing getloadavg on 5.2

2004-01-17 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jan 17 at 00:29, Melvyn Sopacua spoke: > On Friday 16 January 2004 19:51, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > > > in icewm-1.2.14pre8 configure on FreeBSD 5.2 claims that > > getloadavg() be not available: > > > > > > configure:6804: checking for getloadavg

beastie in 5.2 boot menu

2004-01-23 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, how can I turn off (delete) the beastie in the boot menu in 5.2? -Hanspeter ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: beastie in 5.2 boot menu

2004-01-24 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jan 23 at 19:06, John Mills spoke: > Hanspeter - > > On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > > > how can I turn off (delete) the beastie in the boot menu in 5.2? > > The ASCII image is part of a text file. I think it is found in /boot and > named simila

Re: Changing Boot Location

2004-02-13 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Feb 12 at 09:42, Adam Seniuk spoke: > I have some Desktop archtechture pc's that is running my servers. > > I went out and got dell 1650's and the dell servers run there IDE chain on > the secondary channel. > So my installs which are based on the primary IDE channel do not boot up in > t

dropping dhclient lease

2004-02-19 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, is there a means to stop dhclient and drop the lease at the DHCP server at the same time? -Hanspeter ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED

growisofs: no mkisofs options are permitted with =, aborting

2005-08-01 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, I'm trying to burn an iso image onto a DVD+RW. I'm trying: growisofs -Z /dev/cd0=image.iso This yields: growisofs: no mkisofs options are permitted with =, aborting... `dmesg | grep cd0` is: acd0: CDRW at ata1-master PIO4 cd0 at ata1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 cd0: Removable CD-ROM SCSI

Re: growisofs: no mkisofs options are permitted with =, aborting

2005-08-02 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Aug 01 at 22:08, Carl Delsey spoke: > Finally, if none of those things work, you might try: > growisofs -Z /dev/cd0=/dev/fd/0 < image.iso Ok, I tried this too, but the result is the same. And I also tried with -dvd-compat. I also tried on NetBSD and OpenBSD. I got the same message: growisof

Re: growisofs: no mkisofs options are permitted with =, aborting

2005-08-03 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Aug 01 at 22:31, Hanspeter Roth spoke: > > Hello, > > I'm trying to burn an iso image onto a DVD+RW. > I'm trying: > > growisofs -Z /dev/cd0=image.iso > > This yields: > > growisofs: no mkisofs options are permitted with =, aborting... I mus

hpijs drivers in cups

2005-11-07 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, I have Cups installed and the HPIJS driver package. But when selecting the Model/Driver in Cups the drivers of HPIJS are not available. What else is required? How are they made available in Cups? -Hanspeter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

strange lease with isc-dhcp3-client

2005-11-19 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, since I upgraded to 6.0-Release the dhclient.conf doesn't work anymore. So I installed the isc-dhcp3-client and set /etc/rc.conf:dhclient_program to /usr/local/sbin/dhclient. When the program executes at boot it gets an address 0.0.0.0. When it is stopped and restarted it gets a normal add

Re: FreeBSD 5, chroot and /dev

2004-08-12 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Aug 11 at 17:33, Henrik W Lund spoke: > I may be wrong here, but I think that in the 5.x system, /dev is > populated at boottime, courtesy of the GEOM layer and the devfs > filesystem. These two operate together, GEOM detecting hardware and > giving it proper device nodes in the special de

kernel module configuration

2004-08-15 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, in the kernel configuration one can enable various devices by the respective 'device' statement. It seems that most drivers go into the kernel directly. Some drivers such as 'acpi' produce a kernel module. How is determined which modules become built in and which become modules? Can I have

Re: kernel module configuration

2004-08-16 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Aug 15 at 17:23, Bill Moran spoke: > By the config file. If you enable the module in the config, it is > built into the kernel, otherwise a kld is generated. What about `apm'? Is it sufficcient to have it commented out in the config and set hint.apm.0.disabled=0 and boot with ACPI disabled?

disk2.iso: rescue disk

2004-08-23 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, is the disk2.iso mainly a rescue disk? Or does it contain further stuff for installation? -Hanspeter ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED

/etc/opiekeys readable for others?

2003-01-07 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, I just tried opiepasswd. Now opiekeys is readable for all? Shouldn't it be hidden for others? (This is on a 4.6.2-Release system.) -Hanspeter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Gtk+ not installed

2003-01-10 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, I'm trying to install the xmms port. I get: checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.2... no *** Could not run GTK test program, checking why... [...] ***rpm --erase --nodeps gtk gtk-devel configure: error: *** GTK+ >= 1.2.2 not installed - please install first *** ===> Script "configure" fa

Re: kernel messsage

2003-01-10 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jan 10 at 13:25, Kenzo spoke: > could this happen say, if someone adds a computer on the network with an IP > address that already exist. Yes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Split DNS, LAN, DMZ

2003-01-10 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jan 10 at 11:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke: > Hello all > > I am setting up a network at home, and I'd like the following configuration: > > outside--DHCP-->firewall (trihomed)--(10 net)-->LAN >|___>DMZ (private IP?) > > Is this feasible? I saw some references that said

Re: Gtk+ not installed

2003-01-10 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jan 10 at 14:29, Joe Marcus Clarke spoke: > Looks like it might be a problem with your GTK install. Either that or > a hidden problem. Can you send the config.log from xmms? Maybe there's a problem with concerning libintl.so.2? -Hanspeter This file contains any messages produced by compi

Re: Gtk+ not installed

2003-01-10 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jan 10 at 14:44, Joe Marcus Clarke spoke: > On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 14:42, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > > Maybe there's a problem with concerning libintl.so.2? > > Yep. You need to first remove all versions of gettext on your machine, > then install the latest version o

linked twice against libintl.so

2003-01-12 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, I'm trying to build the ElectricEyes port. The executable is linked against two versions of libintl.so: libintl.so.4 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.4 (0x284c2000) libintl.so.2 => not found (0x0) Gettext is 0.11.5_1. Is there a solution except of creating a link? I found als

Re: Zope does not start on boot-up

2003-01-12 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jan 11 at 21:15, P. U. Kruppa spoke: > The rc.d-script that came with the port does not do anything - > neither manually - nor on boot-up (besides echoing " Zope"). [...] > >> /usr/local/www/Zope/var/zope-output 2>&1 & Does /usr/local/www/Zope/var/zope-output tell you something? -

Re: linked twice against libintl.so

2003-01-12 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jan 12 at 16:23, Mike Meyer spoke: > Yes. Find port that's using the old version of libintl, and upgrade > it. Unfortunately, there's not an easy way to find the port. See the I found 109 executables in /usr/X11R6/bin using libintl.so.2. So I'm afraid upgrading all the respective ports will

Re: Zope does not start on boot-up

2003-01-13 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jan 13 at 05:31, P. U. Kruppa spoke: > File /usr/local/www/Zope/z2.py, line 690, in ? > IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/www/Zope/var/Z2.pid' Hi Uli, maybe zope switches to a specific user which has no write permission on /usr/local/www/Zope/var ? Maybe `-u www' tells z

Re: linked twice against libintl.so

2003-01-13 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jan 12 at 17:46, Dan Nelson spoke: > You definitely don't want to do this. Shared libraries get version > bumps when the APIs change, so all you would do is coredump. Is gettext's application programming interface changing so often? (Without staying compatible.) > Run "ldd -a" on your elec

Re: linked twice against libintl.so

2003-01-13 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jan 13 at 11:41, Dan Nelson spoke: > In the last episode (Jan 13), Hanspeter Roth said: > > Is gettext's application programming interface changing so often? > > (Without staying compatible.) > > Apparently so. If the API doesn't change there's no

opie stable in 4.7?

2003-01-16 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, is OPIE stable in Freebsd 4.7? Or should one better go for S/Key? -Hanspeter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: opie stable in 4.7?

2003-01-17 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jan 16 at 17:44, Kris Kennaway spoke: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:11:35PM +0100, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > > is OPIE stable in Freebsd 4.7? > > OPIE support works well. S/Key is considered deprecated and has been > removed from 5.0. The others are given permission to rea

login.conf tc=default

2003-01-17 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, I'm trying to setup an alternate welcome file for a specific user. I have the following entry in login.conf: user:\ :welcome=/etc/resolv.conf:\ :tc=default: But the user is presented the default /etc/motd at login. How will he see /etc/resolv.conf? -Hanspeter To Unsubscr

Re: login.conf tc=default

2003-01-18 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jan 17 at 16:57, Joe Marcus Clarke spoke: > On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 16:43, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to setup an alternate welcome file for a specific user. > > I have the following entry in login.conf: > > > > user:\ >

Re: Sound Issue

2003-01-18 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jan 18 at 10:56, Quinn Ellis spoke: > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libusb.so.0" not found Is `file /usr/lib/libusb.so.0` reasonable? Else you might need to reinstall it. -Hanspeter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body o

Re: About Dual Homed Hosts

2003-01-18 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jan 18 at 22:14, Steven Lam spoke: > Dear Sir, > > I will setup Dual Homed Hosts, how about forward packets between the two > interface? Please give me more Information. `sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding` should be 1. You might also have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1

Re: Sound Issue

2003-01-18 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jan 19 at 00:46, Quinn Ellis spoke: > On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 00:17, Hanspeter Roth wrote:> > > > Is `file /usr/lib/libusb.so.0` reasonable? > > Else you might need to reinstall it. > > Oh, yes it does appear to be a problem, in that it's not there. > Is it

Re: login.conf tc=default

2003-01-20 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jan 20 at 07:24, Aaron Burke spoke: > Perhaps there is, I am guessing that you want a custom message for > a specific user. I had to do this for a user named dustman on my Yes, exactly. > machine. It was as simple as adding the name dustman (also in > login.conf) to the password database fi

Re: recovering ufs after fat games

2002-09-17 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Sep 16 at 11:22, Lowell Gilbert spoke: > There are several listed, but i was thinking of: > >Fixit# fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 bootdevice > >substituting bootdevice for your real boot device such as ad0 (first >IDE disk), ad4 (first IDE disk on auxiliary controller), da0 (

Re: recovering ufs after fat games

2002-09-18 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Sep 18 at 14:13, Kevin Oberman spoke: > > From: Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > If I choose "F4" I get nothing but a beep. If I choose "F3" it > > boots into windows. Any suggestions? > > Is this a big disk? If the FreeBSD partition starts at a cylinder > > 1023, this is what you wil

portupgrade, freetype2 and freetype.9

2002-09-20 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, pkg_version -vs freetype2 tells me freetype2-2.0.6 = up-to-date with port As of XFree86-libraries I have 4.1.0_1. Now I want to upgrade XFree86-libraries using portupgrade. Then there's a claim ===> XFree86-libraries-4.2.0_3 depends on shared library: freetype.9

Re: Sendmail configuration question

2002-09-20 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Sep 19 at 08:46, stan spoke: > I find myself in a position where I need to set up sendmail in the following > fashion. I need it to deliver all (except machine local email) to a > smarthost. Now this _should_ be straightforward, except that at the moment I > can only access the machine by IP

Re: portupgrade, freetype2 and freetype.9

2002-09-20 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Sep 20 at 12:18, Jud spoke: > Try just "make deinstall" or "make deinstall clean" in > /usr/ports/print/freetype2, then portupgrade > XFree86-libraries - see if portupgrade will then build > freetype for you as part of the upgrade. I had tried that but it still failed. (Can't remember ho

Re: portupgrade, freetype2 and freetype.9

2002-09-21 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Sep 20 at 17:21, Hanspeter Roth spoke: > Then there's a claim > ===> XFree86-libraries-4.2.0_3 depends on shared library: freetype.9 - not found > ===>Verifying install for freetype.9 in /usr/ports/print/freetype2 I had commented out ports-print from the ports-s

Re: problem with /usr/ports/print/cups-pstoraster

2002-09-21 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Sep 21 at 11:55, jason spoke: > cc -DHAVE_MKSTEMP -O -pipe -I/usr/local/include/glib-1.2 > -I/usr/local/lib/glib/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes You might make it to also include /usr/local/include. > its complaining about jpeglib.h but I do have jpeg installed from the > ports. Is /

Re: VIRUS in ISO images?

2002-10-04 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Oct 04 at 23:13, Olivier Boniteau spoke: > I've taken a virus (bloodhound.mbr) in the following > mirror: Where is the virus claimed to be located? I had an installation with the FreeBSD boot selector. And one scanner (maybe norton 2 or 4) claimed there were a virus in the MBR. When I boo

Silicon Image ATA controllers for ATAPI?

2002-10-10 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, has anyone experiance in running Silicon Image ATA or RAID controllers (Sil 0648, 0649, 0860A)? Do some of them support ATAPI? -Hanspeter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

boot selector and extended partitions

2002-10-16 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, can I make the Freebsd boot selector chain to an extended partition similar like switching to an alternate disk? -Hanspeter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

/dev/* permissions

2002-10-19 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, it seems to me that after the last upgrade the permission of the devices /dev/* have become more restrictive. /dev/*random and /dev/tty were not accessible by ordinary users. How can I restore the permissions on the devices to `reasonable' values (as they were before the upgrade)? -Hanspe

Vtcl, Bwidget and auto_path

2002-11-10 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, I'm trying to develop an application by Vtcl (Visual Tcl). I'm also using Bwidget. When running the application in testmode of Vtcl it starts without problem. Trying to run it standalone fails: Error in startup script: can't find package BWidget while executing "package require BWidge

media change notification

2002-11-13 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, can I get a notification in Tcl/Tk upon a media change (audio-CD loaded) in a CD-drive? Can I get a notification in a C-program? Or can I get an entry in syslog? (Mounting a RockRidge CD produces an entry in syslog, but only upon mounting.) -Hanspeter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: cdrecord problems: too many coasters

2002-12-24 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Dec 23 at 14:56, paul beard spoke: > wavplay and they're fine). I get one track to record, but all > subsequent tracks won't play in a CD player or computer. I just > noise (sounds like the digital equivalent of a record skipping). > > here's the command I have used: > > sudo /usr/local/b

green- or apm-saver

2002-12-24 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, what's the difference of the green and apm-console-saver? Are there restrictions when running X11? -Hanspeter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: smtpd

2002-12-24 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Dec 23 at 15:29, Per Nilsson spoke: > smtp.. when i start the postfix or smtpd, i get this error: > > ERROR - getsockname failed (Socket operation on non-socket) Who am i? Is there already another MTA running? (sockstat -4l|grep :25) Are you running them by root or an unprivileged account?

Re: Mail clients

2002-12-24 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Dec 23 at 17:21, Ernest H. Rice spoke: > Si u decided to try and use another mail program. > k-mail doesnt look for my email in /var/mail/... which is a problem Some mail clients expect a POP3 or IMAP4 service even on the local host. -Hanspeter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

blank_sever doesn't reset from stanby

2003-02-26 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, for the text consoles I have setup blank_saver but for X DPMS. The X DPMS values are as follows: DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: Suspend: 0Off: 0 DPMS is Enabled Sometimes when I return to the station after X has switched to standby mode I can wake X and start a new session.

determining active console

2003-02-27 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, how can I determine the active console? -Hanspeter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: determining active console

2003-02-27 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Feb 27 at 15:48, Giorgos Keramidas spoke: > On 2003-02-27 12:39, Hanspeter Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > how can I determine the active console? > > Use the tty(1) command: But this seems to yield the tty from which the command was launched. So

Re: The Bootloader In FreeBSD 4.6

2002-07-15 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jul 15 at 15:50, Uthai Luednugrobe spoke: > before i'm begining to install FreeBSD 4.6 . i"m realy work with Windows ME , >Linux RH > 7.2 , Slackware 8.1 . It's smooth for use . in 14 jul 2002 i'm decide to Install >The > FreeBSD 4.6 for the first time in my life. It may be very diff

Re: email

2002-07-15 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jul 15 at 08:45, Henning, Brian spoke: > Hello- > I want to be able to send email outside my network using pine or just > regular mail. Right now I can only send email to users on my local network. > What do I need to do to sendmail to get it to send mail outside my network? Make sure you c

Re: email

2002-07-15 Thread Hanspeter Roth
> >dig freebsd.org mx > [...] >;; ANSWER SECTION: >freebsd.org.9m53s IN MX 10 mx1.freebsd.org. [...] > >It looks as if i can resolve names. What is the next step? I have changed Yes that seems ok. >my >DS directive in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf to the address of my smtp server. And

Re: email

2002-07-15 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jul 15 at 09:32, Henning, Brian spoke: > Hello- > thanks for the help everyone. I have one silly question: how do i restart > sendmail? If you want to reload the config: kill -HUP `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid` -Hanspeter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

Linux Flash-plugin in Mozilla

2002-07-18 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, how can one activate the Linux-Flash-plugin in Mozilla? -Hanspeter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Local mail delivery agent

2002-07-18 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jul 18 at 08:18, Gorden Fischer spoke: > Dear sirs: > > My box is running BSD 4.3. I use fetchmail to fetch all my emails from > the ISP. Often when I fetched the mail I ran pine and the mail is not > there yet. > > I think the local mail agent hasn't delivered the mail to my mailbox yet

Re: DHCLIENT problem

2002-07-18 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jul 18 at 17:20, Joe & Fhe Barbish spoke: > Ifconfig -a on the NIC device connected to the cable model gives > inet 68.65.175.62 broadcast 68.65.175.255 > > Every morning I have these 2 console messages > 'DHCLIENT: New Network number : 68.65.175.0' > 'DHCLIENT: New Broadcast address :

entropy

2005-08-31 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, what is entropy for? What are the consequences if one sets rc.conf/entropy_file and rc.conf/entropy_dir to "NO"? -Hanspeter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Editing the boot menu

2005-06-08 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jun 08 at 14:17, Paul Schmehl spoke: > When you use FreeBSD's boot manager, you get a menu like this at bootup: > > F1 DOS > F2 FreeBSD > F3 Linux > F4 ?? > F5 Drive 1 > > Default: F2 > > Is there a way to edit the list? Or is that fixed when boot manager is > installed and not configura

Re: Editing the boot menu

2005-06-09 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jun 08 at 17:42, Jos de Paula Rodrigues spoke: > Did you try using Grub instead? It now supports UFS2, and is a great > bootloader, with lots of features. You can find it in your ports tree. Grub is heavy. The FreeBsd boot selector is much more efficient. It is more suited for an old laptop.

fc-cache got killed with 100dpi

2003-03-31 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, while upgrading fontconfig fc-cache tried to run. While 100dpi was present fc-cache got killed after running a while. After I hid 100dpi fc-cache completed without problem. But it's just a strange behavior. -Hanspeter ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailin

Re: fc-cache got killed with 100dpi

2003-04-01 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Mar 31 at 16:48, Joe Marcus Clarke spoke: > Yeah, it is. Can you try removing the 100dpi directory, then uninstall > XFree86-font100dpi-4.3.0, then reinstall XFree86-font100dpi-4.3.0. You > shouldn't see this problem anymore. If you do, please let me know. It behaves still the same after

i18n with foreign package

2003-05-29 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, I'm trying to install a foreign package with i18n with a specific prefix. The package is icewm-1.2.8pre2 and the prefix is /usr/opt/icewm-1.2.8pre2. So the locale directory becomes /usr/opt/icewm-1.2.8pre2/share/locale . Here are several language directories. Their names are be.po, ca.po, c

Re: Can't start X

2003-05-29 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On May 28 at 18:26, Socketd spoke: > Hi all > > Just got a new laptop and install FreeBSD 4.8-release (mini) on it. Next > I installed gnome2 and then Xfree86-server. I configured x with > xf86config and tried running x with "startx", but got this error: > > could not open default font 'fixed'

Re: throttling cpu speed to run cooler

2004-10-31 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Oct 30 at 13:42, jason spoke: > man acpi_thermal and man acpi. There are sysctl knobs to throttle your cpu. I have 5.3-RC1 GENERIC and acpi enabled on a Centrino and on a Sempron but no hw.acpi.thermal. What is required to make hw.acpi.thermal appear? -Hanspeter ___

Re: throttling cpu speed to run cooler

2004-10-31 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Oct 30 at 14:49, Matthew Seaman spoke: > On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 09:06:31PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > > > I've been looking for a utility to reduce cpu speed to make my laptop > > run cooler. Ideally, it should reduce cpu speed to about 20% when speed > > is not needed, and restore speed

Re: throttling cpu speed to run cooler

2004-11-01 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Oct 31 at 21:42, jason spoke: > This is what you could do to check your info. > > $ sysctl -a |grep thermal > hw.acpi.thermal.min_runtime: 0 > hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rate: 10 > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 2950 [...] > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._ACx: 3732 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 > $ I hav

Tracing Disk Activity

2004-11-21 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, I have set an idle timeout for the hard-disk. But when there is no user activity there are frequent disk accesses. How can one trace disk access? I'd like to know the kind of access and on which files/directories/ nodes. I'd like to log on the console or on a memory disk file. -Hanspeter _

Re: Tracing Disk Activity

2004-11-21 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Nov 21 at 14:00, David Jenkins spoke: > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:33:47 +0100, Hanspeter Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have set an idle timeout for the hard-disk. But when there is no > > user activity there are frequent disk accesses.

Re: Tracing Disk Activity

2004-11-21 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Nov 21 at 10:50, Chuck Swiger spoke: > Hanspeter Roth wrote: > >I have set an idle timeout for the hard-disk. But when there is no > >user activity there are frequent disk accesses. > > Yes, this is Unix. Even when there is no user activity, a Unix system > nor

mounting NetBSD FFS

2004-03-17 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, ist it possible to mount a NetBSD FFS under FreeBSD 4.9 where the slice has sysid 169 (0xA9)? Maybe something like mount -t ufs /dev/ad1s2a /mnt ? -Hanspeter ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr