need *local* help to keep THOUGHT.ORG alive

2009-10-25 Thread Gary Kline
guys, months ago i noticed trouble with Either mouse or KVM. i bought a new mouse, didn't work, so i looked for help from former SeaBUG members. got one answer from a guy at qwest who said to let him know. then the grandson of a writer friend

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-25 Thread herbert langhans
I have some instructions on http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl/af/index.html - not updated for a while, but it might be some useful input. Cheers herb langhans On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 07:56:58PM -0400, PJ wrote: Is there any definitive install guide for flashplugin. I was able to install it on a

Wifi Router and FreeeBSD - need some hints..

2009-10-25 Thread herbert langhans
Hi Daemons, I need some basic information about Wifi routers - very little I know about it. There is my FreeBSD-server (the other one is Linux) and some clients are connected with a LAN-switch. Now I want to add a Wifi Router to the network. I am not sure if I can set up the router without

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
PJ wrote: Is there any definitive install guide for flashplugin. I was able to install it on a 7.2 64bit machine and then on an i386 but somehow it has morphed into god-knows-what and no longer works. This is what I did for a 7.2 box. Note that there are compatibility issues between new

Re: Wifi Router and FreeeBSD - need some hints..

2009-10-25 Thread Erik Norgaard
herbert langhans wrote: Hi Daemons, I need some basic information about Wifi routers - very little I know about it. There is my FreeBSD-server (the other one is Linux) and some clients are connected with a LAN-switch. Now I want to add a Wifi Router to the network. I am not sure if I can set

Re: Anybody is using VirtualBox?

2009-10-25 Thread henter2009
Hi! I'm using 7.4 STABLE amd64, and i was not able to run it as well... from source, or even from packages... It keeps giving me the same error as you, btw I have been pointed in the past to one small fix, (that did not work from me as well) but did for others, let me find out this solution and

Re: Freebsd 8rc1 Puc driver

2009-10-25 Thread P. Moulin
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:04:56 +0200, P. Moulin spamarch...@calyopea.com wrote: and in pciconf -lv : vendor = 'Oxford Semiconductor Ltd' device = 'PCI Interface (disabled) (OX16PCI954)' class = bridge Can somebody tell me why the second PCI interface is

Help me configure Apache

2009-10-25 Thread Антон Андреевский
Good day! I have a home network consisting of two computers. Computers through a router connected to the Internet providers. There is a static IP address (93.81.252.152). Now I installed FreeBSD on one of the computers. Then I installed Apache 1.3. By command telnet localhost 80 I saw on

Re: Help me configure Apache

2009-10-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:53:17 +0300, Антон Андреевский direc...@paganel.info wrote: I have a home network consisting of two computers. Computers through a router connected to the Internet providers. There is a static IP address (93.81.252.152). Now I installed FreeBSD on one of the

Re: Freebsd 8rc1 Puc driver

2009-10-25 Thread Boris Samorodov
P. Moulin spamarch...@calyopea.com writes: I have a multi-serial card with an Oxford OX16PCI954 on it. Whatever I do, the oxford chip is not recognized. How many serial ports does it have? in dmesg: pci0: simple comms, UART at device 12.0 (no driver attached) and in pciconf -lv :

Re: Help me configure Apache

2009-10-25 Thread adrienfirst
Антон Андреевский a écrit : Good day! I have a home network consisting of two computers. Computers through a router connected to the Internet providers. There is a static IP address (93.81.252.152). Now I installed FreeBSD on one of the computers. Then I installed Apache 1.3. By command

Re: Help me configure Apache

2009-10-25 Thread festin
Hi. You must configure port mapping (forwarding) on your router. Do you hardware router or *NIX-box? Good day! I have a home network consisting of two computers. Computers through a router connected to the Internet providers. There is a static IP address (93.81.252.152). Now I installed

Re: Wifi Router and FreeeBSD - need some hints..

2009-10-25 Thread Chris Hill
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Erik Norgaard wrote: herbert langhans wrote: Hi Daemons, I need some basic information about Wifi routers - very little I know about it. There is my FreeBSD-server (the other one is Linux) and some clients are connected with a LAN-switch. Now I want to add a Wifi

Re: Wifi Router and FreeeBSD - need some hints..

2009-10-25 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, herbert langhans wrote: Hi Daemons, I need some basic information about Wifi routers - very little I know about it. There is my FreeBSD-server (the other one is Linux) and some clients are connected with a LAN-switch. Now I want to add a Wifi Router to the network. I am

Re: Anybody is using VirtualBox?

2009-10-25 Thread Mario Lobo
On Sunday 25 October 2009 07:15:50 henter2009 wrote: Hi! I'm using 7.4 STABLE amd64, and i was not able to run it as well... from source, or even from packages... It keeps giving me the same error as you, btw I have been pointed in the past to one small fix, (that did not work from me as

Re: changing cron's From: address in emails

2009-10-25 Thread krad
2009/10/25 Daniel C. Dowse dcdo...@gmx.net On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:08:21 -0600 Kelly Martin kellymar...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, here's a simple question for the FreeBSD gurus out there. I have several servers running cron scripts daily for me, and they all send me e-mail with their

Re: most bizarre libc.so.7 problem

2009-10-25 Thread Tim Judd
snip all http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html#CANONICAL-BUILD Look at the following recommended sequence: 1. make buildworld 2. make buildkernel 3. make installkernel 4. reboot in single user [*] 5. mergemaster -p 6. make installworld 7.

Re: Anybody is using VirtualBox?

2009-10-25 Thread Yuri
ltcdd...@nildram.co.uk wrote: compiled virtual box this morning with additions to run winblows 2003 server. So far it is working better than the xp version which is good as it is one less reason to have to put in the xp harddrive Are you trying to run more than one image copied from the same

Re: FW: DNS Question

2009-10-25 Thread Arthur Chance
Sean Cavanaugh wrote: The other interesting side would be reverse DNS lookups. Only one record would be returned, and most likely would be the original A record. A nice example of this is doing a basic ping -a ww.yahoo.com which you get back that it is resolving www-real.wa1.b.yahoo.com. As

incorrect info in mysql docs

2009-10-25 Thread Chris Whitehouse
hi, I just noticed this at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/automatic-start.html On FreeBSD, startup scripts generally should go in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. The rc(8) manual page states that scripts in this directory are executed only if their basename matches the *.sh shell file name

Re: incorrect info in mysql docs

2009-10-25 Thread Roman Neuhauser
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 06:21:11PM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/automatic-start.html On FreeBSD, [...] you should install the mysql.server script as /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql.server.sh to enable automatic startup. That's not actually right is it? My

Re: incorrect info in mysql docs

2009-10-25 Thread Michael Powell
Chris Whitehouse wrote: hi, I just noticed this at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/automatic-start.html On FreeBSD, startup scripts generally should go in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. The rc(8) manual page states that scripts in this directory are executed only if their basename matches

Re: Anybody is using VirtualBox?

2009-10-25 Thread Yuri
After some debugging I found that VBoxSVC throws an exception because file /root/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml is missing. Who is supposed to create this file? Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: incorrect info in mysql docs

2009-10-25 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:21:11 + Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com replied: I just noticed this at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/automatic-start.html On FreeBSD, startup scripts generally should go in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. The rc(8) manual page states that scripts in this directory

Re: incorrect info in mysql docs

2009-10-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:11:17 -0400, Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: A start-up script is install automatically when using the ports system. You do need to activate it via /etc/rc.conf however. Or in /etc/rc.conf.local, to illustrate the concept of the /usr/local/ subtrees in relation to the

Re: Wifi Router and FreeeBSD - need some hints..

2009-10-25 Thread herbert langhans
Thanks a lot for all the input - in lack of such a Wifi router to experiment I thought its much more difficult, like build a gateway from the server or such. I will buy one tomorrow.. Soon I will enter the world of tomorrow where information floats through the aether! (no stumbling over the

can't make www/linux-f10-flashplugin10

2009-10-25 Thread Jamie Griffin
Hi, i'm trying to build the www/linux-f10-flashplugin port and i'm getting the following error on make: /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.linux-apps.mk, line 79: Malformed conditional ($LINUX_DIST_SUFFIX}==) /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.linux-apps.mk, line 145: Malformed conditional ($LINUX_DIST_SUFFIX}==-f10)

WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-25 Thread Rob Hurle
Dear All, This may sound like a Windows problem, but please read on. I made a mistake and bought a WD My Passport external 350GB disc drive for use on several Windows machines, on some of which I don't have admin access, and a couple of FreeBSD systems. On first use on Windows the disc

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-25 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Rob Hurle wrote: Dear All, This may sound like a Windows problem, but please read on. I made a mistake and bought a WD My Passport external 350GB disc drive for use on several Windows machines, on some of which I don't have admin access, and a couple of FreeBSD systems. On first use

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-25 Thread Rob Hurle
Hi Manolis, Thanks very much for that very helpful reply:   Now to FreeBSD.  The newly formatted (as NTFS) disc appears as two devices - /dev/cd0 (never seen this before) This is how a USB cdrom appears to FreeBSD - as a SCSI device. No problem there. cp: /usb0/MyStuff/test: No such

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-25 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:33:16 +1100 Rob Hurle rob1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Manolis, Thanks very much for that very helpful reply:   Now to FreeBSD.  The newly formatted (as NTFS) disc appears as two devices - /dev/cd0 (never seen this before) This is how a USB cdrom appears to

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-25 Thread Derek Funk
Rob Hurle wrote: Dear All, This may sound like a Windows problem, but please read on. I made a mistake and bought a WD My Passport external 350GB disc drive for use on several Windows machines, on some of which I don't have admin access, and a couple of FreeBSD systems. On first use on

Re: most bizarre libc.so.7 problem

2009-10-25 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 24 October 2009 14:33:53 B. Cook wrote: B. Cook wrote, On 10/24/2009 7:43 AM: 49 === lib/libc (install) 50 install -C -o root -g wheel -m 444 libc.a /usr/lib 51 install -C -o root -g wheel -m 444 libc_p.a /usr/lib 52 install -s -o root -g wheel -m 444

Re: looking for /usr/ports/x11-driver, not /usr/ports/x11-drivers

2009-10-25 Thread Kenneth Freidank
Sorry, the correct directory is #cd /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver -Original Message- From: Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com Sent: Oct 23, 2009 11:33 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: looking for /usr/ports/x11-driver, not /usr/ports/x11-drivers I'm trying to X (re)configure

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-25 Thread Bernt Hansson
Rob Hurle said the following on 2009-10-26 02:33: freebsd [12:12] /usr/ports#ll /dev/da0s1 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 122 26 Oct 09:02 /dev/da0s1 freebsd [12:12] /usr/ports#ntfs-3g -o rw /dev/da0s1 /mnt fuse: failed to open fuse device: No such file or directory kldload fusefs What

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-25 Thread Rob Hurle
Thank you to everyone who answered: kldload fusefs What does ls -la /dev/da* show you. So the device is there, but ntfs-3g fails to see it. Probably kldload fusefs isn't loaded (until Saturday) Yes, fuse.ko had to me copied from /usr/local/modules to /boot/kernel and then kloaded.

Re: configuring X on the Presario with the 8200M driver

2009-10-25 Thread Henry Olyer
I need more information to make this work. help, please. And thank you! On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.comwrote: Jules Gilbert wrote: now i got up (by doing the startx as root,) but i dont' have a working mouse. when I am in screen mode (normal, -- with