spin down ata drive

2003-11-30 Thread sebastian ssmoller
hi, i wonna spin down an ata drive which is used as backup drive so it doesnt need to "run" all the time. i googled the bit and found a lot of people having the same problem - but no solution :( with scsi it is no problem (i read) but ata ? is there any stable solution ? thx sebastian ___

Re: Console resolution

2003-12-08 Thread sebastian ssmoller
try "man 1 vidcontrol" hth seb On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 21:35, Aleksander Rozman - Andy wrote: > Hi ! > > I have just installed FreeBSD onto my notebook. I am using FreeBSD for > quite some time, and now I decided to install it on my notebook (I got > tired of both RedHat and Windows 2000, which

smbmount problem

2003-09-13 Thread sebastian ssmoller
hi, i am running fbsd 5.1. when i try to mount a samba share on a debian system i get : smbfs: server name "x.y" too long the server name is 16 chars long and i found out (looking at the sources) that there is a limit of 15. my question: why is there such a limit? (i used this share from several l

Re: x windows

2003-09-13 Thread sebastian ssmoller
hi, On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 11:46, Ian Todd wrote: > I have a gforce 2 mx 400 and trying to run x windows. I have > downloaded and installed the latest drivers for it and i am still > getting the same error message before i installed it. what could the > problem be the error is: > > Fatal server er

Re: Re: x windows

2003-09-13 Thread sebastian ssmoller
t; any other idea? > > On 13 Sep 2003 11:59:59 +0200 sebastian ssmoller > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >hi, > > > >On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 11:46, Ian Todd wrote: > >> I have a gforce 2 mx 400 and trying to run x windows. I have > >> downloaded

Re: smbmount problem

2003-09-13 Thread sebastian ssmoller
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 15:04, Dancho Penev wrote: > On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 11:22:57AM +0200, sebastian ssmoller wrote: > >From: sebastian ssmoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Date: 13 Sep 2003 11:22:57 +0200 > >Subject: smbmount problem > >

Gnome2 Logout

2003-09-14 Thread Sebastian Ssmoller
hi, another newbie question :) i am running freebsd 5.1 release. each time i want to use the logout menuitem of the gnome menu the gnome panel hangs. i searched the web and found several infos about it but no solution. any gnome2 user here having solved the probem ? thx seb ps: gnomepanel

Re: dd to duplicate a disk.

2003-09-14 Thread Sebastian Ssmoller
Am Son, 2003-09-14 um 16.31 schrieb Lewis Thompson: > Hi, > > I'm trying to setup a vinum mirrored root fs. I've not got very far > (although I have some excellent help once I get past this stage ;) -- > I'm trying to duplicate my disk. why do u want to double ur disk ? i have no knowledge about

Re: Gnome2 Logout

2003-09-15 Thread Sebastian Ssmoller
sers at the list ?? thx seb > Hope this helps. > -- > phil > > Sebastian Ssmoller wrote: > > >hi, > >another newbie question :) > > > >i am running freebsd 5.1 release. > > > >each time i want to use the logout menuitem of the gnome menu t

Re: Request

2003-09-15 Thread Sebastian Ssmoller
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:37:02 +0500 "Vyacheslav M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear sirs, > I'm looking for FreeBSD emulator for Windows. Could you please to help > me with mu request? Thank you in advance. hi, what about www.vmware.com ? seb > > > > -- > Best regards, > Vyacheslav

Re: Samba over SSH

2003-09-20 Thread sebastian ssmoller
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 08:25, FreeBSD MAIL wrote: > I want to use PuTTY and ssh to port forward and map a samba share across the > internet. From what I have read on the net it almost seems possable. i guess u have to set up ssh port forwarding for the ports 137,138 and 139. which box shall provi

ppp and downloaded MBs

2003-09-20 Thread sebastian ssmoller
hi, i use tdsl with my fbsd 5.1 release box. to establish the connection i run: $ ppp -auto tdsl $ ppp -v /var/run/internet dial# i used "set server /var/run/internet" in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf so everything works fine but one thing is missing: on my linux box i used pppd which logged the bytes s

Re: Samba over SSH

2003-09-20 Thread sebastian ssmoller
> I am using FreeBSD 4.8 and Samba 2.2.8 as the server, I would like to use any > windows operating system for the client side, but probably XP. > (I want to map the samba share to the windows box) > so one idea could be to start three ssh tunnels from client side. which command line u may wonna

Re: ppp and downloaded MBs

2003-09-21 Thread sebastian ssmoller
great script ! that's what i was looking for :) thx seb On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 18:09, jimmie james wrote: > >$ ppp -auto tdsl > >$ ppp -v /var/run/internet dial# i used "set > server > >/var/run/internet" in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf > > >logged the bytes sent and received so i could calc > the > >d

Evolution without gnome

2003-11-02 Thread sebastian ssmoller
hi, recently i set up a new freebsd current. i want to use xfce4 as desktop/window manager but also evolution as mail client. i had a look at the dependencies of evolution and found out that evolution depends on the whole gnome2 desktop (!) can anyone explain me why evolution depends on things lik

Re: Evolution without gnome

2003-11-02 Thread sebastian ssmoller
uer wrote: > > On Sunday 02 November 2003 19:00, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 08:46, sebastian ssmoller wrote: > > > > hi, > > > > recently i set up a new freebsd current. i want to use xfce4 as > > > > desktop/window m

Re: Evolution without gnome

2003-11-02 Thread sebastian ssmoller
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 20:06, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 15:06, sebastian ssmoller wrote: > > hi, > > so i have to install a lot of gnome stuff to be able to use evolution > > right ? thats bad :( ... i wonder if all these dependencies are

Re: Evolution without gnome

2003-11-02 Thread sebastian ssmoller
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 20:25, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 15:26, sebastian ssmoller wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 20:06, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 15:06, sebastian ssmoller wrote: > > > > hi, > > > > so i