cc-mail file format

2008-10-13 Thread perryh
Is anyone aware of a program that can read cc-mail mailboxes, similar to readpst from mail/libpst for Outlook? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Can tcsh report 'command had no output'?

2008-10-13 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, Kelly Jones wrote: Can I force tcsh to say previous command returned empty stdout or something? I often cut and paste shell output for my cow-orkers, and it's crucial to note when a command returns nothing. Currently, I insert the information manually: ls | fgrep

Re: IAX2 (or SIP) softphone for FreeBSD

2008-10-13 Thread Zane C.B.
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:28:15 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone know something good. good=simply, works well, preferably no or minimal GUI. The most reliable is 'net/ekiga'. I've run into problems with 'net/kiax' and crossing NAT. That was nearly two years

RE: Firewall and FreeBSD ports

2008-10-13 Thread Bob McConnell
On Behalf Of RW I don't normally do this as Watson is usually less impressed when Holmes reveals his working, but the clues were there. He wrote: install software with ports (i.e, the /usr/ports collection.) and FTP to grab source files from mirrors If you combine that

Re: rsync or even scp questions....

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy Hooks
How, may I ask, does this work? If you search the bash man file you can find this and lots of other useful constructs, search for 'Parameter Expansion' - I'm not sure how much of this relates to other Bourne Shell derivatives, but I don't imagine it would be difficult to test it out.

Re: kernel: Approaching the limit on PV entries...

2008-10-13 Thread Bob Johnson
On 10/10/08, Mark Tinguely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vm.pmap.pv_entry_count: 583006 vm.pmap.shpgperproc: 200 vm.pmap.pv_entry_max: 2243305 The system: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p5 #0: Wed Oct 1 07:51:58 UTC 2008 [EMAIL

Linux X11 applications getting disconnected

2008-10-13 Thread EforeZZ
Hello, I have a little problem with my X11 linux applications (Skype, VMware). I run remote X11 server on Windows (Cygwin/XWin) and I'm getting problems with Skype/VMware. They sporadically get disconnected from the X server while all other native FreeBSD programs (KDE, terminals) keep running.

Re: distributed.net proxyper

2008-10-13 Thread Michael Lednev
Eitan Adler пишет: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Lednev wrote: Hello. I'm having issue running this thing on 7.0-RELEASE # /usr/local/distributed.net/proxy/proxyper Bad system call (core dumped) Somebody seen this error or I'm just lucky? Was this compiled

distributed.net proxyper

2008-10-13 Thread Michael Lednev
Hello. I'm having issue running this thing on 7.0-RELEASE # /usr/local/distributed.net/proxy/proxyper Bad system call (core dumped) Somebody seen this error or I'm just lucky? -- wbr, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: freebsd7 kde4 performance

2008-10-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Saturday 11 October 2008 15:22:37 Michal Kulczewski wrote: I'm running 7.0 stable with ULE scheduler on i386 architecture (since it's Pentium M). I've tried to use kde4 out of the box (after compilation). Whole kde is running poorly. I have to wait seconds for any action to complete (right

Re: freebsd7 kde4 performance

2008-10-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Saturday 11 October 2008 03:10:41 Wojciech Puchar wrote: well it's KDE. what do you expect ;) QT4 is quite a lot faster than QT3, and both have been very quick for several years now. Your argument is quite turn-of-the-millenium. -- Kirk Strauser

Minor problems with Xfce

2008-10-13 Thread James Butler
Greetings all, I'm using 7-stable on my Thinkpad X31, with Xfce recently (2 weeks or so) installed from packages. I have two minor problems with Xfce, at least one of which could be HAL/DBUS related - I'd appreciate some advice to rule out misconfiguration on my part. Firstly, when I bring up

Kopete and KDE4.1

2008-10-13 Thread Sdävtaker
Did someone make kopete work in kde4.1 with msn and jabber networks? I tried a couple of recipes i found gogling, but nothing worked. Any ideas? Im running FBSD7.0 x64 Any info is appreciated, thanks! Sdav ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: kernel: Approaching the limit on PV entries...

2008-10-13 Thread Mark Tinguely
Thanks. I'll see what happens. In amd64/7.0 is there any chance running out of pv_entrys would show up as failures in interprocess communication rather than a panic? The original symptom was that certain web pages (or jailed servers, I'm not sure) were unreachable, as if the firewall

port maintaining pointyhat

2008-10-13 Thread Desmond Chapman
I need to contact whoever is in charge of the ports collection. It concerns the status of a port. I'm new at this- maintaining ports, that is. _ See how Windows Mobile brings your life together—at home, work, or on the go.

Re: Linux X11 applications getting disconnected

2008-10-13 Thread Boris Samorodov
EforeZZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a little problem with my X11 linux applications (Skype, VMware). I run remote X11 server on Windows (Cygwin/XWin) and I'm getting problems with Skype/VMware. They sporadically get disconnected from the X server while all other native FreeBSD programs

Re: Minor problems with Xfce

2008-10-13 Thread Manolis Kiagias
James Butler wrote: Greetings all, I'm using 7-stable on my Thinkpad X31, with Xfce recently (2 weeks or so) installed from packages. I have two minor problems with Xfce, at least one of which could be HAL/DBUS related - I'd appreciate some advice to rule out misconfiguration on my part.

Re: Minor problems with Xfce

2008-10-13 Thread Manolis Kiagias
James Butler wrote: My other problem is possibly unrelated, but any actions I perform which would remove or update icons on the desktop (deleting a file, emptying Trash) don't take effect until xfdesktop is restarted or I log out and then in. Any ideas? Notably, automatic detection and mounting

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-13 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:57:22AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-13 Thread Boris Samorodov
Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:57:22AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select

Re: Need help installing on SATA

2008-10-13 Thread Joseph Olatt
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:06:51PM -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: Does anyone know the magic incantation that will permit me to install FreeBSD on this new machine of mine (nVidia chipset, SATA1 disk controller)? I've been trying for a week or so now, with no luck. Just out of

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 08:35:37PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:57:22AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the

Re: IAX2 (or SIP) softphone for FreeBSD

2008-10-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
anyone know something good. good=simply, works well, preferably no or minimal GUI. The most reliable is 'net/ekiga'. I've run into problems with 'net/kiax' and crossing NAT. That was nearly two years ago so it may for now kiax works for me (but no NAT), just they automatic gain control and

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-13 Thread ton80
Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-13 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:57:22AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-13 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Boris Samorodov wrote: Well, that may be totally correct but practice... Ex., I have an ASUS P5K motherboard and I can't use a USB mouse with USB Legacy Support. The mouse is detected and works IFF this support is OFF. Just to add to that--same situation, but the mouse

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-13 Thread ton80
ton80 wrote: Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:19:40AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:57:22AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the

new hdd numeration after mainboard change

2008-10-13 Thread ilikefbsd
Hello list, i run FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE i had a change of the mainboard of my lenovo notebook t60. after reboot the harddisk which was before recognized as ad0 is now ad4. i cannot find any other devices, no ad0/ad1/ad2 in /dev. even in the dmesg only ad4. does fbsd create a uniqe identifier

Re: port maintaining pointyhat

2008-10-13 Thread andrew clarke
On Mon 2008-10-13 15:30:43 UTC+, Desmond Chapman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I need to contact whoever is in charge of the ports collection. It concerns the status of a port. I'm new at this- maintaining ports, that is. What is your concern? You should probably address your question to

Re: new hdd numeration after mainboard change

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 07:12:20PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i run FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE i had a change of the mainboard of my lenovo notebook t60. after reboot the harddisk which was before recognized as ad0 is now ad4. i cannot find any other devices, no ad0/ad1/ad2 in /dev. even in

Re: portupgrade failure

2008-10-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Patrick Lamaizière [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Portupgrade is often confused with his database on upgrade. Delete /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db and retry. May be you have to delete /usr/ports/INDEX-6.db too. Hmm. This does not inspire confidence in the tool. Mike --

Re: portupgrade failure

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 02:04:02PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Patrick Lamaizière [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Portupgrade is often confused with his database on upgrade. Delete /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db and retry. May be you have to delete

Re: portupgrade failure

2008-10-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So don't use it? :-) There are alternatives like portmaster. I suppose I prefer a single, reliable, supported tool for the system. portupgrade seems to be pushed the most in all of the documentation that I can find, so I

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-13 Thread Boris Samorodov
Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Boris Samorodov wrote: Well, that may be totally correct but practice... Ex., I have an ASUS P5K motherboard and I can't use a USB mouse with USB Legacy Support. The mouse is detected and works IFF this support is OFF. Just to add

Re: portupgrade failure

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 02:08:54PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So don't use it? :-) There are alternatives like portmaster. I suppose I prefer a single, reliable, supported tool for the system. portupgrade

Re: Minor problems with Xfce

2008-10-13 Thread James Butler
Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Butler wrote: Greetings all, I'm using 7-stable on my Thinkpad X31, with Xfce recently (2 weeks or so) installed from packages. I have two minor problems with Xfce, at least one of which could be HAL/DBUS related - I'd appreciate some

Re: Sysinstall colors

2008-10-13 Thread borish
After some trial and error, I put XTerm*color7: #bebebe in my .Xdefaults. Now the yellow sysinstall font is much more legible inside an xterm. This works for both xterm and rxvt. The rxvt man page proved very useful. Now I have solved my problem but other users may experience the

Re: new hdd numeration after mainboard change

2008-10-13 Thread Josh Paetzel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 07:12:20PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i run FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE i had a change of the mainboard of my lenovo notebook t60. after reboot the harddisk which was before recognized as ad0 is now

Oddities with VLAN/CARP Interfaces on Primary/Failover Setup

2008-10-13 Thread Mike Sweetser - Adhost
Hello: We currently have a primary/failover setup for two FreeBSD 6.3 servers running PF, and we're running into odd issues when setting up multiple subnets on a single VLAN and CARP interface. We have issues with them coming up properly, and even worse, having both servers believe they are

Re: Minor problems with Xfce

2008-10-13 Thread Manolis Kiagias
James Butler wrote: Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Butler wrote: My other problem is possibly unrelated, but any actions I perform which would remove or update icons on the desktop (deleting a file, emptying Trash) don't take effect until xfdesktop is restarted or I log

Re: Minor problems with Xfce

2008-10-13 Thread James Butler
Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Butler wrote: Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Butler wrote: My other problem is possibly unrelated, but any actions I perform which would remove or update icons on the desktop (deleting a file, emptying Trash)

New PATA Drive

2008-10-13 Thread Doug Hardie
I am encountering an issue with a new 160 GB PATA drive. Its being installed on an old system (Pentium II). The boot process never really starts. It gets in the BIOS to where it checks for drives and hangs with the message searching for the primary drive on the channel. Normally I have

Re: New PATA Drive

2008-10-13 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 01:56:40PM -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: I am encountering an issue with a new 160 GB PATA drive. Its being installed on an old system (Pentium II). The boot process never really starts. It gets in the BIOS to where it checks for drives and hangs with the message

Re: Sysinstall colors

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:42:04PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After some trial and error, I put XTerm*color7: #bebebe in my .Xdefaults. Now the yellow sysinstall font is much more legible inside an xterm. This works for both xterm and rxvt. The rxvt man page proved very

Re: newsyslog naming scheme could be improved?

2008-10-13 Thread Walt Pawley
At 9:33 AM -0700 10/11/08, Kelly Jones wrote: newsyslog rotates logfiles so that messages.0.gz is yesterday's file, messages.1.gz is the day before's, etc. This is ugly. IMHO, this is worse than merely ugly. I gave up rotating log files a long time ago when I kept running into problems that

Re: IAX2 (or SIP) softphone for FreeBSD

2008-10-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Jagermiester so this may not make to sense. The problem I originally ran into is that behind goat fraging NAT I would run into issues receiving calls. The problem I ran into is that this is not kiax problem. this may be your NAT problem. what is doing NAT? IAX has configurable ping time,

FreeBSD do dbus hal work?

2008-10-13 Thread Aniruddha
I'm trying to mount (USB) devices in KDE/Gnome automagically through dbus and hal. I added the following lines to /etc/rc.conf: dbus_enable=YES hald_enable=YES Unfortunately when I insert an USB (NTFS formatted) nothing happens. When I insert a (fat) sdcard in my cardreader still nothing

Re: New PATA Drive

2008-10-13 Thread Doug Hardie
On Oct 13, 2008, at 14:03, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 01:56:40PM -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: I am encountering an issue with a new 160 GB PATA drive. Its being installed on an old system (Pentium II). The boot process never really starts. It gets in the BIOS to where it

Re: Sysinstall colors

2008-10-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 02:09:29PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:42:04PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After some trial and error, I put XTerm*color7: #bebebe in my .Xdefaults. Now the yellow sysinstall font is much more legible inside an xterm.

Re: portupgrade failure

2008-10-13 Thread Sahil Tandon
Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So don't use it? :-) There are alternatives like portmaster. I suppose I prefer a single, reliable, supported tool for the system. portupgrade seems to be pushed the most

Re: an even dumber q: how do i get sage's ports-ypgrade working?

2008-10-13 Thread Fred Condo
On Oct 10, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Gary Kline wrote: Late last December my small network began falling apart. Still not sure how, but a fellow from Dallas came to my rescue and from his home, slowly rebuilt and re-configured everything. E.g.: for one thing, where I

Re: New PATA Drive

2008-10-13 Thread Michael Ross
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:45:44 -0700 Doug Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 13, 2008, at 14:03, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 01:56:40PM -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: I am encountering an issue with a new 160 GB PATA drive. Its being installed on an old system (Pentium

Re: New PATA Drive

2008-10-13 Thread Doug Hardie
On Oct 13, 2008, at 16:03, Michael Ross wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:45:44 -0700 Doug Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 13, 2008, at 14:03, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 01:56:40PM -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: I am encountering an issue with a new 160 GB PATA drive. Its

Re: an even dumber q: how do i get sage's ports-ypgrade working?

2008-10-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 04:23:26PM -0700, Fred Condo wrote: On Oct 10, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Gary Kline wrote: Late last December my small network began falling apart. Still not sure how, but a fellow from Dallas came to my rescue and from his home, slowly rebuilt and

Re: FreeBSD 7 and ESXi

2008-10-13 Thread scuba
Hi all, I'm facing some problems trying to install a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-amd64, on a Dell PE 2950III, dual Xeon Quad core, 8GB RAM. After (FBSD) boot menu count down, it shows a dump of the CPU registers and a message: BTX Halted. No matter what is changed in VM setup.

Re: FreeBSD 7 and ESXi

2008-10-13 Thread Brian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm facing some problems trying to install a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-amd64, on a Dell PE 2950III, dual Xeon Quad core, 8GB RAM. After (FBSD) boot menu count down, it shows a dump of the CPU registers and a message: BTX Halted. No matter what is changed in VM

Re: FreeBSD 7 and ESXi

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 08:58:00PM -0700, Brian wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm facing some problems trying to install a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-amd64, on a Dell PE 2950III, dual Xeon Quad core, 8GB RAM. After (FBSD) boot menu count down, it shows a dump of the CPU

Re: FreeBSD 7 and ESXi

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:54:26AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm facing some problems trying to install a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-amd64, on a Dell PE 2950III, dual Xeon Quad core, 8GB RAM. After (FBSD) boot menu count down, it shows a dump of the CPU registers and a message:

Re: FreeBSD 7 and ESXi

2008-10-13 Thread scuba
Jeremy, On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: |On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:54:26AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I'm facing some problems trying to install a FreeBSD | 7.0-RELEASE-amd64, on a Dell PE 2950III, dual Xeon Quad core, 8GB RAM. | After (FBSD) boot menu count down,

Re: FreeBSD 7 and ESXi

2008-10-13 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:54 PM 10/13/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm facing some problems trying to install a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-amd64, on a Dell PE 2950III, dual Xeon Quad core, 8GB RAM. After (FBSD) boot menu count down, it shows a dump of the CPU registers and a message: BTX Halted.

Re: FreeBSD 7 and ESXi

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:04:07AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeremy, On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: |On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:54:26AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |I'm facing some problems trying to install a FreeBSD | 7.0-RELEASE-amd64, on a Dell PE 2950III,

Re: FreeBSD 7 and ESXi

2008-10-13 Thread scuba
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: |On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:04:07AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Jeremy, | | On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: | | |On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:54:26AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I'm facing some problems trying to install a