Which Release to Download?

2004-09-09 Thread Younes Al-Hroub
Dear Sir, I am a computer engineer and I want to learn the FreeBSD OS, and I do not have the FreeBSD software and when I have tried to download the FreeBSD software form your website, I found two Releases one called New Technology Release: 5.2.1 and the other called Production Release: 4.10

[OT?]Problem with db2/htdig

2004-09-09 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
I cannot say if this is a FreeBSD or htdig problem but this list is definitely more active :-) After upgrading from htdig 3.1.6 to 3.2.0-b6 I can rundig and htfuzzy without errors, but a htsearch produces the following result (from the Apache log): DB2 problem...:

RE: Which Release to Download?

2004-09-09 Thread Marcel de Reuver
Dear Sir, I am a computer engineer and I want to learn the FreeBSD OS, and I do not have the FreeBSD software and when I have tried to download the FreeBSD software form your website, I found two Releases one called New Technology Release: 5.2.1 and the other called Production

Re: Multiple IP addresses in a Jail

2004-09-09 Thread Tomaz Borstnar
At 19:08 8.9.2004, you wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 12:16:28PM -0400, Frederick N. Brier wrote: I need to specify 2 IP addresses for the Jail, not one. I had heard there was a patch to do this and that it had been added to FreeBSD 5.3. Is this not the case? Is there a patch? Is there

Re: BSD display

2004-09-09 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Steve, Nothing can stop a hacker who really wants your box, but most of the annoyances are script kiddies. Script kiddies when things get tough tend to move on to another system. So whatever I can to not help script kiddies is to my advantage. This might be true, yes. They might not care and

Re: Which Release to Download?

2004-09-09 Thread Matthew
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 23:07:07 -0700 (PDT), Younes Al-Hroub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sir, I am a computer engineer and I want to learn the FreeBSD OS, and I do not have the FreeBSD software and when I have tried to download the FreeBSD software form your website, I found two Releases one

[Re:] Postfix thinks there isn't enough disk space in a jail

2004-09-09 Thread Ralf Härle
Out: 220 xx ESMTP In: EHLO yy Out: 250-xx Out: 250-PIPELINING Out: 250-SIZE 102400 Out: 250-VRFY Out: 250-ETRN Out: 250 8BITMIME In: MAIL FROM:a at b.com http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions SIZE=13414 Out: 452 Insufficient system storage In: QUIT Out: 221 Bye Okay,

Postfix thinks there isn't enough disk space in a jail

2004-09-09 Thread Ralf Härle
Out: 220 xx ESMTP In: EHLO yy Out: 250-xx Out: 250-PIPELINING Out: 250-SIZE 102400 Out: 250-VRFY Out: 250-ETRN Out: 250 8BITMIME In: MAIL FROM:a at b.com http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions SIZE=13414 Out: 452 Insufficient system storage In: QUIT Out: 221 Bye Okay,

Fw: I can't visit your MX

2004-09-09 Thread Pongsak Tachawatana
-- Forwarded Message --- From: Pongsak Tachawatana [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 15:34:04 +0700 Subject: I can't visit your MX dear IT Department Tel: 0-2599- ext. 2316 Shinawatra University --- End of Forwarded Message --- IT

PS/2 mouse problem via kvm switch

2004-09-09 Thread Li Wei Jea
Hi, I have problem with ps/2 scroll mouse when connecting via Nova View KNV102 kvm switch. The mouse doesn't work. It just moved to the top-right of the screen and stuck there. It has no problem when connecting mouse directly with the pc, everything works fine. My system is Compaq Evo

I can't visit your MX

2004-09-09 Thread Pongsak Tachawatana
dear IT Department Tel: 0-2599- ext. 2316 Shinawatra University ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BSD display

2004-09-09 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 05:00:48PM +0200, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 06:33:03AM -0700, steveb99 typed: Thank you that was my motivation is security. Same as you don't display the last name that logged on, it gives a hacker half the info they need to crack an account.

what is -DNOPROFILE ?

2004-09-09 Thread Geert Hendrickx
Hi, I was wondering what this make.conf-flag is for: NOPROFILE= true# Avoid compiling profiled libraries What are profiled libraries? GH ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: PS/2 mouse problem via kvm switch

2004-09-09 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 10:14:29 +0700 Li Wei Jea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have problem with ps/2 scroll mouse when connecting via Nova View KNV102 kvm switch. The mouse doesn't work. It just moved to the top-right of the screen and stuck there. It has no problem when connecting

Re: what is -DNOPROFILE ?

2004-09-09 Thread cpghost
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:52:32PM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote: Hi, I was wondering what this make.conf-flag is for: NOPROFILE= true# Avoid compiling profiled libraries What are profiled libraries? /usr/lib/lib*_p.{a,so} See gprof(1) GH -- Cordula's Web.

SV: Error when installing apr-svn from ports collection

2004-09-09 Thread Carsten Gehling
-Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 8. september 2004 01:20 Can you make clean everything and install apr-svn alone? Also, which version(s) of libtool do you have installed? You mail helped in a way. :-) I tried to make clean all, which did not mak eany

HELP -- install FreeBSD 5.2 with Minimal Installation completed .....

2004-09-09 Thread Kangaroo
Hello Installation of freebsd5.2 with minimal installation ( fast install )complete . After reboot the machine for the first time and bring os up, OS actually do not work. it boot with all kind of funny characters and the screen keep rolling forever. my system is cyrix MII 686.-300MHZ. 30G MAXTOR

Re: what is -DNOPROFILE ?

2004-09-09 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 01:40:33PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:52:32PM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote: Hi, I was wondering what this make.conf-flag is for: NOPROFILE= true# Avoid compiling profiled libraries What are profiled libraries?

Re: what is -DNOPROFILE ?

2004-09-09 Thread cpghost
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 01:51:22PM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 01:40:33PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:52:32PM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote: Hi, I was wondering what this make.conf-flag is for: NOPROFILE= true#

RE: HELP -- install FreeBSD 5.2 with Minimal Installation completed.....

2004-09-09 Thread JJB
Sounds like you have bad hard drive. This is typical side effect problem caused by the PCs power supply going bad and not providing enough power to HD to keep disks spinning at correct speed. At low speeds heads rub on recording media destroying it. Try installing on different pc with different

Re: what is -DNOPROFILE ?

2004-09-09 Thread Geert Hendrickx
Ok, thank you very much for enlightening me! :-) GH ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

About the capacity size can over 2TB question

2004-09-09 Thread Rory
Dear Sir, We are the RAID architects company; I have one question about the FreeBSD capacity. According to the page as below from your web site, it said that the FreeBSD version V5.1 alpha has already support over 2TB. But now, I have 2 questions. First, does this version of x86 FreeBSD has

Mounting ext3 filesystem from USB keydrive

2004-09-09 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! I have an USB keydrive with ext3 filesystem on it. I'm trying to mount this filesystem on FreeBSD 4.9, but I'm not succeeding. I've seen it written in several places that ext3 filesystem can be mounted as ext2, but... When I plug in the drive, the following appears to /var/log/messages:

Packet filter statistics

2004-09-09 Thread Steve Bertrand
Please bear with me... I've got a Windows 2000 web server that is spewing out over 2Mbps of data which is going out round robin over my 3 T-1 connections. Although there is still more throughput available, this is seemingly rediculous. I've got a fortigate box in front of the server now, but the

Re: Which Release to Download?

2004-09-09 Thread R. W.
On Thursday 09 September 2004 07:07, Younes Al-Hroub wrote: Dear Sir, I am a computer engineer and I want to learn the FreeBSD OS, and I do not have the FreeBSD software and when I have tried to download the FreeBSD software form your website, I found two Releases one called New Technology

Re: PPPOE using PPP IPCP problem

2004-09-09 Thread Mark
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 11:03:57AM +1000, Kris wrote: Hi I am trying to connect to a DSL provider in Australia called OPTUS. I have configured many other DSL providers with no hassle previously but this particular ISP I keep running into the following problems which I hope *someone*

Re: MP3 Audio CD Burning

2004-09-09 Thread brian-freebsd-004
On 8 September, 2004, at 01:41 (-0700) Miles Keaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 22:25:02 -0500, Brian Finniff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to burn a CD from an .MP3 file? If so, how would I do that? You need to install sox: cd /usr/ports/audio/sox ; make install

Re: Packet filter statistics

2004-09-09 Thread Norm Vilmer
Steve Bertrand wrote: Please bear with me... I've got a Windows 2000 web server that is spewing out over 2Mbps of data which is going out round robin over my 3 T-1 connections. Although there is still more throughput available, this is seemingly rediculous. I've got a fortigate box in front of the

Re: Installation without PS/2 Keyboard

2004-09-09 Thread David Aquilina
So nobody has ever had this situation, ever? I find that hard to believe. It's been said that sometimes the best way to get support is to exclaim that $FOO can do this but $BAR can't, $BAR sucks! at which point you will have people tripping over each other to offer help, however that leaves a bad

Re: Packet filter statistics

2004-09-09 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: Please bear with me... I've got a Windows 2000 web server that is spewing out over 2Mbps of data which is going out round robin over my 3 T-1 connections. Although there is still more throughput available, this is seemingly rediculous. I've got a fortigate box in

RE: PS/2 mouse problem via kvm switch

2004-09-09 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Li Wei Jea Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 8:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PS/2 mouse problem via kvm switch Hi, I have problem with ps/2 scroll mouse when connecting via Nova View

Swatch - compilation aborted

2004-09-09 Thread Henri Prudhomme
I did a portupgrade on all my ports, primarily to overcome a problem I was having with Swatch, but now I can not get Swatch to run. Here's the command and error: mis2005# swatch -c /root/.swatchrc -t /var/log/ctwd/switch.log --daemon Can't locate Term/ANSIColor.pm in @INC (@INC contains:

booting the install cd

2004-09-09 Thread Christophe Asselin
I want to install FreeBsd 5.2.1 but when i boot from the install i386 cd an error occur. Some text appear and it froze (stuck at these lines) pcibo:acpi host-pci bridge port oxcf8-oxcff on acpi0 pci0:acpi pci bus on pcibo pcibo: slot 2 INTA is routed to irq 10 in windowsxp, if I watch for

5.2.1 fs in 4.10

2004-09-09 Thread mikko
Hello, I had 5.2 installed before, and have all my data on a 5.2 -made disk (separate from the system disk). After that I decided to use 4.10 for the system. Now I cannot mount the data diskslice, I get incorrect superblock. Is it possible to use 5.x made disks in 4, or am I just simply screwed?

RE: VESA_800x600 (age old question)

2004-09-09 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lewis Thompson Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 2:13 PM To: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: VESA_800x600 (age old question) On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 04:59:23PM -0400, Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL

Re: 5.2.1 fs in 4.10

2004-09-09 Thread Bill Moran
mikko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I had 5.2 installed before, and have all my data on a 5.2 -made disk (separate from the system disk). After that I decided to use 4.10 for the system. Now I cannot mount the data diskslice, I get incorrect superblock. Is it possible to use 5.x made

Re: Packet filter statistics

2004-09-09 Thread Norm Vilmer
Steve Bertrand wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: Please bear with me... I've got a Windows 2000 web server that is spewing out over 2Mbps of data which is going out round robin over my 3 T-1 connections. Although there is still more throughput available, this is seemingly rediculous. I've got a

RE: Tar pitting automated attacks

2004-09-09 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Hauber Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 9:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tar pitting automated attacks I realize this is probably a dumb question (I quietly drop everything

Set Screen Refresh Rate?

2004-09-09 Thread phusion
How can I set the screen refresh rate in FreeBSD 5.2.1. I can go into gnome-control-center and go to screen resolution then change the refresh rate it to say 75 MHz, but then the next time I log into X-Windows it's back to say 85 MHz. Is there some file I can edit to keep it to stay a certain

Re:

2004-09-09 Thread Ciprian Badescu
--- vola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a question. Not long ago i have download the FreeBsd 4.10 operetion system. By the installation i have problems. I put the cd into the cd-rom and I restarted the computer. The computer boot from the cd and the installation began. It looks all

RE: 5.2.1 fs in 4.10

2004-09-09 Thread JJB
if you installed 5.2.1 from iso file burned to cdrom then the new file system was used. 4.10 can not access the new 5.x file system. So in your own words 'you are screwed'. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of mikko Sent: Thursday, September 09,

Re: Set Screen Refresh Rate?

2004-09-09 Thread Bill Moran
phusion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I set the screen refresh rate in FreeBSD 5.2.1. I can go into gnome-control-center and go to screen resolution then change the refresh rate it to say 75 MHz, but then the next time I log into X-Windows it's back to say 85 MHz. Is there some file I can

Re: Which Release to Download?

2004-09-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thursday 09 September 2004 07:07, Younes Al-Hroub wrote: Dear Sir, I am a computer engineer and I want to learn the FreeBSD OS, and I do not have the FreeBSD software and when I have tried to download the FreeBSD software form your website, I found two Releases one called New

Re: 5.2.1 fs in 4.10

2004-09-09 Thread mikko
Thank you for the info. I guess I'll go back to 5 until 5-stable. Mikko ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Packet filter statistics

2004-09-09 Thread Steve Bertrand
My email domain is just a strange coincidence, I am not associated with the people at ethereal.com, just like the product (and name :) You do not need X, use tethereal, it is a command line program. With regards to inserting the box inline, It should be possible, I have not been

Re: Tar pitting automated attacks

2004-09-09 Thread Mike Hauber
On Thursday 09 September 2004 11:00 am, Ted Mittelstaedt proclaimed: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Hauber Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 9:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tar pitting automated attacks

RE: xl driver for 3Com NIC

2004-09-09 Thread Hauan, David
Good day! A have troubles to set up my 3Com EtherLink (xl) Network Card. Driver says 'no PHY found'. Hardware is 100% ok. 'messages' file is attahced. -- With best regards, Ighor mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't see miibus0 in your in your dmesg

ipfw pipes

2004-09-09 Thread synrat
I'm trying to figure out ipfw/pipes setup. The requirement is to provide more or less exclusive pipe for voip service ( vonage ) that goes through ipfw nat. I know this isn't QOS and I would appreciate advise on QOS as well, but for now I just want to get this working and tested. I want to specify

Vim on SMB share

2004-09-09 Thread Daren Russell
Hi, I know this is slightly OT, but it is still using FBSD! I have a SMB share mounted, and can generally write to it. I can copy files to it, delete them, use 'ee' to edit and save them. However, when using Vim, I can load and edit without warning, but if I try to save it I get E212: Can't

Re: VESA_800x600 (age old question)

2004-09-09 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 07:53:59AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lewis Thompson Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 2:13 PM To: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: VESA_800x600 (age old question)

Re: Vim on SMB share

2004-09-09 Thread Charles Ulrich
Daren Russell said: Hi, I know this is slightly OT, but it is still using FBSD! I have a SMB share mounted, and can generally write to it. I can copy files to it, delete them, use 'ee' to edit and save them. However, when using Vim, I can load and edit without warning, but if I try to

Phantom /var full messages

2004-09-09 Thread Paul Schmehl
I'm running snort 2.1.3 and mysql 3.23.58 on FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE. All applications are built from ports. Periodically I get /var full messages and everything comes to a grinding halt. The problem is, /var isn't full. df -h will show /var at 104%, but du -h /var shows /var at 40% (for

Re: Phantom /var full messages

2004-09-09 Thread Bill Moran
Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running snort 2.1.3 and mysql 3.23.58 on FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE. All applications are built from ports. Periodically I get /var full messages and everything comes to a grinding halt. The problem is, /var isn't full. df -h will show /var at 104%,

Re: Tar pitting automated attacks

2004-09-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Sep 9, 2004, at 11:44 AM, Mike Hauber wrote: That makes sense... I haven't gotten so much into security that I would want to invite a potential cracker. I would just assume they go and bug someone else (who knows, maybe it will result in more BSD admins. :) ) How difficult would it be to

Re: Phantom /var full messages

2004-09-09 Thread cpghost
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 11:50:36AM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm running snort 2.1.3 and mysql 3.23.58 on FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE. All applications are built from ports. Periodically I get /var full messages and everything comes to a grinding halt. The problem is, /var isn't full. df -h

Re: Phantom /var full messages

2004-09-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Sep 9, 2004, at 1:03 PM, Bill Moran wrote: Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I suspect this is some sort of filehandle not being released issue, but I'm not sure how to track it down. I've got lsof installed, but I'm not an expert on it yet. Any hints would be welcomed. What's

Re: Phantom /var full messages

2004-09-09 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, September 09, 2004 05:54:16 PM +0100 Martin Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul who are you running du as? du will only report file sizes that it has access to. So if you don't run du as root you can get odd results... Sorry, I should have mentioned that. I'm running both df

RE: PS/2 mouse problem via kvm switch

2004-09-09 Thread Jerry Dunham
On 9 Sep 2004 at 7:34, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 8:14 PM I have problem with ps/2 scroll mouse when connecting via Nova View KNV102 kvm switch. The mouse doesn't work. It just moved to the top-right of the screen and

Re: Phantom /var full messages

2004-09-09 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, September 09, 2004 01:03:33 PM -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any hints would be welcomed. What's the best way to troubleshoot this problem? First, if you could isolate it to just snort or just MySQL. Typically, folks have this problem because they try to rotate log

cleaner handling of mount point disappearance

2004-09-09 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey guys, Assume I have a USB hard drive attached to my machine. Is there any way to make it so that, in the event the drive is mounted and disappears (i.e. is unplugged), the system doesn't vomit on itself (i.e. kernel panic?) I can deal with the fact that data may not be written cleanly to

wireless pci card

2004-09-09 Thread arden
hi all I'm making some changes to my home network and my BSD 5.2.1 box is going to act as a gateway/firewall I would like to add a wireless card to give my Linux laptop access to the net in any room. Dose anyone have any recommendations as to which cards are supported? also are they supported

Re: Phantom /var full messages

2004-09-09 Thread Bill Moran
Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Thursday, September 09, 2004 01:03:33 PM -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any hints would be welcomed. What's the best way to troubleshoot this problem? First, if you could isolate it to just snort or just MySQL. Typically,

Re: Mounting ext3 filesystem from USB keydrive

2004-09-09 Thread Shantanoo
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 15:29:08 +0300, Toomas Aas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I have an USB keydrive with ext3 filesystem on it. I'm trying to mount this filesystem on FreeBSD 4.9, but I'm not succeeding. I've seen it written in several places that ext3 filesystem can be mounted as ext2,

5.3-beta3 boot manger show stopper problem

2004-09-09 Thread fbsd_user
MS/Windows98 is first partition with 30% of 10 gig IDE hard drive. This booted and worked as expected. Downloaded 5.3-beta3 miniinstall.iso using my Freebsd server box, ran md5 and verified correct hash with checksum.md5 file. Burned to cdrom and installed 5.3 as second system on MS/Windows98

Re: wireless pci card

2004-09-09 Thread Manuel Astudillo
Hi, im using a netgear 401 802b and it works perfectly. M. On Thursday 09 September 2004 20.10, arden wrote: hi all I'm making some changes to my home network and my BSD 5.2.1 box is going to act as a gateway/firewall I would like to add a wireless card to give my Linux laptop access to

Re: 5.3-beta3 boot manger show stopper problem

2004-09-09 Thread Mark
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 02:58:02PM -0400, fbsd_user wrote: MS/Windows98 is first partition with 30% of 10 gig IDE hard drive. This booted and worked as expected. Downloaded 5.3-beta3 miniinstall.iso using my Freebsd server box, ran md5 and verified correct hash with checksum.md5 file.

Port: fontconfig

2004-09-09 Thread Mike Hogsett
Greetings list, I am having a problem with fontconfig from ports. I wanted to update X11 to xorg on my alpha box. I read the 20040723 entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING and proceeded as instructed. Now the port build processing is barfing on the build of fontconfig. [ I didn't have the actual error

Re: Which Release to Download?

2004-09-09 Thread David Syphers
On Thursday 09 September 2004 08:13 am, Jerry McAllister wrote: At this point, unless you have some critical application that needs the proven stability of 4.x, I don't see a good reason for a new user to start there. Given that you want it for learning, I would say the choice is between

Re: 5.3-beta3 boot manger show stopper problem

2004-09-09 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 09 Sep Mark wrote: I had something like this happen a few times from my mistakes and found that gag bootloader will install and boot or recover both os. In my case, GAG did install, the OS'ses could be added, but after choosing one (windows i.e.) the machine hang like it did before ;-)

error in new mail server

2004-09-09 Thread Julio Steffen Jr
Hi, I trying to make a mail server with Sendmail, and after I call inetd, on my screen appears this message: inetd[100]: cannot execute /usr/local/libexec/popper: No such file or directory Then, I create it into /usr/local/libexec and after that the message change to: inetd[717]: cannot

Re: Which Release to Download?

2004-09-09 Thread eric
On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 13:22:15 -0700, David Syphers proclaimed... I disagree. I think a completely new user should start with 5.x - there's no reason to learn the details of how 4.x works, just to have significant portions of that knowledge become obsolete in a month. I wouldn't use 5.2.1

Re: Which Release to Download?

2004-09-09 Thread David Syphers
On Thursday 09 September 2004 01:57 pm, eric wrote: On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 13:22:15 -0700, David Syphers proclaimed... I disagree. I think a completely new user should start with 5.x - there's no reason to learn the details of how 4.x works, just to have significant portions of that

pdflatex port?

2004-09-09 Thread Florian Hengstberger
Hi! I#180;m unseccussfully searching for a pdflatex port! dvips and ps2pdf or something does not meet my needs. Case there is no port: is there something equivalent? Best regards Florian -- Linux/BSD: The daemons are not longer just in my

Re: pdflatex port?

2004-09-09 Thread Fernando Gleiser
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Florian Hengstberger wrote: Hi! I#180;m unseccussfully searching for a pdflatex port! dvips and ps2pdf or something does not meet my needs. Case there is no port: is there something equivalent? It is installed as part of teTeX-base Fer

Adding A Hard Drive Using A PCI Controller

2004-09-09 Thread Rishi Chopra
I just installed FreeBSD 5.2 on an old Dell (Pentium 120). The box has an ide controller onboard as well as a Promise Ultra100 TX2 PCI controller card. There's a 4GB hard drive attatched to the onboard controller used for all of the system files (e.g. /, /var, /tmp, and /usr) and a 200GB hard

Re: error in new mail server

2004-09-09 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 05:47:02PM -0300, Julio Steffen Jr wrote: [...] inetd[799]: cannot execute /usr/local/libexec/popper: Exec format error This says that /usr/local/libexec/popper is not a FreeBSD executable. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Apache+mod_ssl + mod_php segfault

2004-09-09 Thread Vonleigh Simmons
I sent this already but didn't get any replies. I'm a little desperate because I need to get this working, so if you can suggest anything at all, I'd really appreciate it. I'm running FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE, apache is apache13-modssl, php is the mod_php version. All latest versions (cvsup this

cvsup problem Please Help

2004-09-09 Thread Lee Lispon
Hello. I am running FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE I have recently had a problem with ports and cannot get the ports to download completely. Basically, in an effort to save space and exclude ports that I never need like x11, japanese, etc.. I deleted these directories from the /usr/ports directory and

What's the difference of X.org and XFree86

2004-09-09 Thread yeweikeke-maillist
Hi, I'm using FBSD 4.10. I want to know what's the difference of X.org and XFree86. I'm using XFCE4, can it run on X.org? Can someone supply some url for reading the difference? Thanks. = Regards, Ye Wei _ Do You

Re: pdflatex port?

2004-09-09 Thread Murray Taylor
# portversion -v | grep tex hugelatex-1.0 = up-to-date with port # which pdflatex /usr/local/bin/pdflatex NB hugelatex is just TeTex with some limits resized... On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 07:32, Florian Hengstberger wrote: Hi! I#180;m unseccussfully searching for a pdflatex

Re: ASUS Laptop - CPU Temp utility?

2004-09-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 10), Adam Smith said: Does anyone know of a motherboard monitor utility that I can use on an ASUS laptop running FreeBSD 5.3? I'm not sure which specific board it has. xmbmon or lmmon should work, and if your laptop has good enough acpi support, sysctl hw.acpi.thermal

problemo

2004-09-09 Thread A W
Hi once again and very obviously i have ran into another problem. the Xfree86 i installed KDE window manager or w/e. So i reboot after i login and type startkde in the command prompt it gives me xet : unable to open display xsetroot : unable to open display startkde : starting up... startkde :

freebsd goes linux and gets a distro

2004-09-09 Thread stheg olloydson
Hello, I haven't seen this mentioned and thought it might be of interest to the community. Distrowatch.com mentions a company, Trianceware, that is offering what appears to be a FBSD/KDE bundle they named TrianceOS. Their main aim looks to be making a *nix desktop OS for the typical Windows user,

Re: ASUS Laptop - CPU Temp utility?

2004-09-09 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:39:33 +0930 Adam Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a motherboard monitor utility that I can use on an ASUS laptop running FreeBSD 5.3? I'm not sure which specific board it has. It's been generating a *lot* of heat lately and I want to try and

Re: problemo

2004-09-09 Thread Subhro
Make a file called .xinitrc in your home directory. The file would contain only startkde without the s in the first line. Save and exit the file. Next start the X server using startx without the s if you have installed the wrapper port or with X without the s if you havent. You should be back in

Re: Adding A Hard Drive Using A PCI Controller

2004-09-09 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Thursday 09 September 2004 16:58, Rishi Chopra wrote: I just installed FreeBSD 5.2 on an old Dell (Pentium 120). The box has an ide controller onboard as well as a Promise Ultra100 TX2 PCI controller card. There's a 4GB hard drive attatched to the onboard controller used for all of the

Re: What's the difference of X.org and XFree86

2004-09-09 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:58:47 +0800 (CST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using FBSD 4.10. I want to know what's the difference of X.org and XFree86. I'm using XFCE4, can it run on X.org? As of right now there is not much difference between XFree86 4.4 and Xorg 6.7.0. If you want to

Re: ASUS Laptop - CPU Temp utility?

2004-09-09 Thread Subhro
lmsensors whould also work fine. However I am not sure if its ported or not. Regards S. On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 21:37:38 -0500, Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:39:33 +0930 Adam Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a motherboard monitor utility that

Re: cvsup problem Please Help

2004-09-09 Thread Subhro
I guess you have used something wrong in the supfile. Pull up /usr/share/example/cvsup/ports-supfile and edit that file directly. It should work fine. Regards S. On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 01:39:24 -0400 (EDT), Lee Lispon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I am running FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE I have recently

Re: Apache+mod_ssl + mod_php segfault

2004-09-09 Thread Subhro
Did you use something non standard while compiling? Something like including excessive optimizations like -O2 or -O3 in CFLAGS in your Makefile or /etc/make.conf? If not, could I have the core? Regards S. On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 16:02:30 -0700, Vonleigh Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: error in new mail server

2004-09-09 Thread Subhro
You have forgotten to install a pop3 server and you are trying to start that up. Install qpopper or anything equivalent from the ports collection and you should be back in track. Regards S. On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:40:17 +1200, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at

Re: problemo

2004-09-09 Thread Subhro
Suppose you want to setup X Server for a user called prince. Then log into the system as prince. Then type these commands: cat .xinitrc Enter startkde Enter Ctrl+D startx This will work for you. Regards S. On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 02:48:56 +, A W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do i make files

Re: Set Screen Refresh Rate?

2004-09-09 Thread Subhro
You need to edit the HSync (Horizontal Synchronization Rate) and VSync (Vertical Synchronization Rate) Parameters in your XFree86 configuration file. Btw why do you want to go for a lower resolution. X, in most cases detects the monitor and video subsystem and selects the most optimized settings.

Re: 5.3-beta3 boot manger show stopper problem

2004-09-09 Thread Richard Lynch
Mark wrote: MS/Windows98. After F1 key win98 boot just hung there doing nothing. Forgive me if this is silly, but... In *MY* setup, F1 points to a teeny tiny partition that Windows XP Home Edition created with, err, looks like some kind of boot-strapping stuff in it. And *F2* is what gets me

Re: booting the install cd

2004-09-09 Thread Subhro
Did you try booting in safe mode? Regards S. On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 10:43:56 -0400, Christophe Asselin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to install FreeBsd 5.2.1 but when i boot from the install i386 cd an error occur. Some text appear and it froze (stuck at these lines) pcibo:acpi host-pci

Re: booting the install cd

2004-09-09 Thread Richard Lynch
Christophe Asselin wrote: I want to install FreeBsd 5.2.1 but when i boot from the install i386 cd an error occur. Some text appear and it froze (stuck at these lines) pcibo:acpi host-pci bridge port oxcf8-oxcff on acpi0 pci0:acpi pci bus on pcibo pcibo: slot 2 INTA is routed to irq 10

Re: booting the install cd

2004-09-09 Thread Bill Moran
Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christophe Asselin wrote: I want to install FreeBsd 5.2.1 but when i boot from the install i386 cd an error occur. Some text appear and it froze (stuck at these lines) pcibo:acpi host-pci bridge port oxcf8-oxcff on acpi0 pci0:acpi pci bus on

Re: ASUS Laptop - CPU Temp utility?

2004-09-09 Thread Adam Smith
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 09:03:00PM -0500, Dan Nelson said: In the last episode (Sep 10), Adam Smith said: Does anyone know of a motherboard monitor utility that I can use on an ASUS laptop running FreeBSD 5.3? I'm not sure which specific board it has. xmbmon or lmmon should work, and if

Re: Broadcom 440x NIC not recognized on boot

2004-09-09 Thread Richard Lynch
So, I'm having trouble because my laptop is not recognizing the built-in LAN/NIC during boot. I've been reading manuals furiously, but I'm at the stage where I have a laundry list of things to try, but am not running across the docs on how to do them... Of course, sometimes it's that I can't

Re:Name Lookup fail for cvsup.freebsd.org

2004-09-09 Thread Huajian Luo
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