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KDE

2010-10-06 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
Dear colleagues, Actually I was trying to promote KDE/FreeBSD to my ISP (novice) users instead of Windows XP or so, for a virus free journey. But failed to install straight way from /usr/ports/x11/kde4 Its now gcc problem. waiting for gcc problem to be cleared. By hand can be solved (possibly)

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-06 Thread Charlie Kester
On Tue 05 Oct 2010 at 06:25:05 PDT Mark Blackman wrote: Jon Radel wrote: I'm somewhat unclear on how that follows. Might it not be that many manufacturers, busily dealing with Microsoft, and easing into Linux now that it has significant mindshare, have simply decided that there's no economic

Re: KDE

2010-10-06 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Aftab Jahan Subedar ja...@bol-online.comwrote: Dear colleagues, Actually I was trying to promote KDE/FreeBSD to my ISP (novice) users instead of Windows XP or so, for a virus free journey. Is there anyone has actually successfully installed directly from

Issues with FlowCleaner on a spam server.

2010-10-06 Thread perikillo
Hi my friends I have a big issue that I still cannot track what is causing that my server stop working. I have a spam gateway running: spamassassin clamavis amavis apache+mailgraph postfix bacula client apcupsd client My server is running freebsd 8.0-p2 AMD64. Raid-1. Copyright (c) 1992-2009

Re: Issues with FlowCleaner on a spam server.

2010-10-06 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 10/06/2010 09:40 AM, perikillo wrote: Hi my friends I have a big issue that I still cannot track what is causing that my server stop working. may be this bug? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/146792 a fix is also in the report I have a spam gateway running: spamassassin

Re: Confused about keeping system up to date

2010-10-06 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Patrick! :-) 1.) How do you know if a patch applies just to the kernel? For example, I'm looking at the security advisory 2010-09-20 FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2 (

Re: KDE

2010-10-06 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 01:50:47 -0500, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Aftab Jahan Subedar ja...@bol-online.comwrote: Dear colleagues, Actually I was trying to promote KDE/FreeBSD to my ISP (novice) users instead of Windows XP or so, for a

php5-mysqli problem

2010-10-06 Thread liNEr Crime
Cann't install /usr/ports/databases/php5-mysqli/ Error: /usr/local/include/mysql/m_string.h: In function 'lex_string_set': /usr/local/include/mysql/m_string.h:304: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type /usr/local/include/mysql/m_string.h:305: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete

Re: php5-mysqli problem

2010-10-06 Thread Phan Quoc Hien
Which mysql client version? Try to use /usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions instead? On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:17 PM, liNEr Crime h17li...@gmail.com wrote: Cann't install /usr/ports/databases/php5-mysqli/ Error: /usr/local/include/mysql/m_string.h: In function 'lex_string_set':

Re: Netbooks BSD

2010-10-06 Thread bdsfbsd
On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:50:12 -0400, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El día Monday, October 04, 2010 a las 11:33:02PM +, Mikle Krutov escribió: Hello, list! I'm going to buy a netbook soon, so a question is which one. The choice is between 1) Samsung N127 2) ASUS Eee PC 900AX 3)

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-06 Thread Mark Blackman
Charlie Kester wrote: On Tue 05 Oct 2010 at 06:25:05 PDT Mark Blackman wrote: There's also the whole train of thought that says FreeBSD isn't really aimed at the desktop/laptop/notebook use model and any benefit in that arena is entirely coincidental. I've often seen that opinion expressed,

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-06 Thread Michel Talon
Chad Perrin wrote: Another thing to consider is the ease of maintaining the software on the machine. My personal opinion is that Ubuntu (more generally Debian) is light years ahead of FreeBSD in this domain. How is it light years ahead of FreeBSD for the ease of maintaining the

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-06 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:31:58 +0100, Mark Blackman m...@exonetric.com wrote: It's derived from a server/workstation OS and I assume the number of FreeBSD deployed servers wildly outnumbers the desktop/notebook installations and the tag line is The power to serve, so there's a strong server

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-06 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 16:42:40 +, Michel Talon ta...@lpthe.jussieu.fr wrote: I mean that the concept of maintaining a full set of binary packages which has been verified by the distribution maintainers and remain usable for an extended period of time, combined with an effective binary

LDAP Authentication from console

2010-10-06 Thread Kevin Mai
Hey guys, I've already configured PAM to authenticate against ldap and it works wonderful using ssh/su/sudo/etc, but when I try to log in from console it prompts: login: kma Password: LDAP Password: (same as the first one) Login Incorrect login: What am I missing?

Re: LDAP Authentication from console

2010-10-06 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 06), Kevin Mai said: Hey guys, I've already configured PAM to authenticate against ldap and it works wonderful using ssh/su/sudo/etc, but when I try to log in from console it prompts: login: kma Password: LDAP Password: (same as the first

Re: LDAP Authentication from console

2010-10-06 Thread Jason
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 11:59:53AM -0500, Dan Nelson thus spake: In the last episode (Oct 06), Kevin Mai said: Hey guys, I've already configured PAM to authenticate against ldap and it works wonderful using ssh/su/sudo/etc, but when I try to log in from console it prompts: login: kma

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-06 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Mark Blackman m...@exonetric.com wrote: There's also the whole train of thought that says FreeBSD isn't really aimed at the desktop/laptop/notebook use model and any benefit in that arena is entirely coincidental. That tends to be my perspective. Linux tends to

third-party ports/packages sources

2010-10-06 Thread Chad Perrin
Is there some way to set up a third-party online source for ports and/or packages that allows users to do the same kinds of things they can do with the official ports system? I mean, for instance, using portversion to check whether there are new versions available (or an equivalent operation) and

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 10:50:42AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Mark Blackman m...@exonetric.com wrote: There's also the whole train of thought that says FreeBSD isn't really aimed at the desktop/laptop/notebook use model and any benefit in that arena is

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 11:11:23AM +0700, Phan Quoc Hien wrote: Hello everyone, Which laptop vendor is best support for FreeBSD ? I've had good luck with ThinkPads. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgppdjrOCJnkm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 04:42:40PM +, Michel Talon wrote: I mean that the concept of maintaining a full set of binary packages which has been verified by the distribution maintainers and remain usable for an extended period of time, combined with an effective binary upgrader (apt-get,

Re: OT: fdisk - Data Recovered

2010-10-06 Thread Robert
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 11:42:49 -0700 Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 03:53:09 +1100 (EST) Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: Ian I am in the process of dd the entire disk to a 1TB disk but I wanted to respond to you. You have given a lot of good advice and

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-06 Thread Michael Ruhe
Hi guys, normally I am just listening to what is communicated related to the FreeBSD OS. But here I feel that I can contribute something for Which OS for notebook. I really do share the opinion that a good Linux might be more suitable for notebooks for Newbees, on the other hand I am using

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-06 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 06 Oct 2010 at 07:31:58 PDT Mark Blackman wrote: Charlie Kester wrote: On Tue 05 Oct 2010 at 06:25:05 PDT Mark Blackman wrote: There's also the whole train of thought that says FreeBSD isn't really aimed at the desktop/laptop/notebook use model and any benefit in that arena is entirely

Re: Issues with FlowCleaner on a spam server.

2010-10-06 Thread perikillo
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Bas Smeelen b.smee...@ose.nl wrote: On 10/06/2010 09:40 AM, perikillo wrote: Hi my friends I have a big issue that I still cannot track what is causing that my server stop working. may be this bug? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/146792 a fix

Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/178267 And yes, there it is, in /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/acpica/hardware/hwsleep.c: * 4.3. Licensee shall not export, either directly or indirectly, any of this * software or system incorporating such software without first obtaining any *

Re: Netbooks BSD

2010-10-06 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 09:33:08AM -0400, bdsf...@att.net wrote: On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:50:12 -0400, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El día Monday, October 04, 2010 a las 11:33:02PM +, Mikle Krutov escribió: Hello, list! I'm going to buy a netbook soon, so a question is which

Re: LDAP Authentication from console

2010-10-06 Thread Kevin Mai
Logins over ssh and sudo work great with ldap, but when I try to log in from console, it prompts me twice for the password. If I put a wrong password it prints out that it cannot bind to the ldap server, what means that I'm being able to bind to ldap, but cannot login for some reason. What is

Re: Unable to access CDROM device to play music

2010-10-06 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 9/26/10, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 02:03:28 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de articulated: On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 19:46:08 -0400, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:49:16 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de articulated: Have you

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-06 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 10:50:42AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Mark Blackman m...@exonetric.com wrote: There's also the whole train of thought that says FreeBSD isn't really aimed at the

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted softwarein the core

2010-10-06 Thread Matt Emmerton
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/178267 And yes, there it is, in /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/acpica/hardware/hwsleep.c: * 4.3. Licensee shall not export, either directly or indirectly, any of this * software or system incorporating such software without first obtaining any *

Re: php5-mysqli problem

2010-10-06 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 15:17:34 +0300 liNEr Crime h17li...@gmail.com articulated: Cann't install /usr/ports/databases/php5-mysqli/ Error: /usr/local/include/mysql/m_string.h: In function 'lex_string_set': /usr/local/include/mysql/m_string.h:304: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread RW
On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:40:54 -0700 mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/178267 ... So, is such approval on file with the FreeBSD Foundation? without first obtaining _any_ _required_ license or other approval ... It doesn't say

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
RW == RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com writes: RW It doesn't say approval is needed. It says that it's needed if it's RW required by the appropriate agencies. In other words, it's needed if RW it's needed. But doesn't this then shift the burden to every exporter, knowing or unknowing, willing or

Re: third-party ports/packages sources

2010-10-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/10/2010 19:06:01, Chad Perrin wrote: Is there some way to set up a third-party online source for ports and/or packages that allows users to do the same kinds of things they can do with the official ports system? I mean, for instance, using portversion to check whether there are new

Re: LDAP Authentication from console

2010-10-06 Thread Michel Talon
Kevin Mai wrote: Logins over ssh and sudo work great with ldap, but when I try to log in from console, it prompts me twice for the password. If I put a wrong password it prints out that it cannot bind to the ldap server, what means that I'm being able to bind to ldap, but cannot login for

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:16:37 -0700 Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com articulated: RW == RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com writes: RW It doesn't say approval is needed. It says that it's needed if RW it's required by the appropriate agencies. In other words, it's RW needed if it's

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Jerry == Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net writes: But doesn't this then shift the burden to every exporter, knowing or unknowing, willing or unwilling? Seems like an onerous burden. Is it well-documented? Jerry Are you familiar with the axiom: Jerry Ignorantia juris non excusat or

Re: third-party ports/packages sources

2010-10-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 10:18:54PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: [stuff] Thanks! That gives me a lot to look into. I appreciate the information. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpnxxRo3nzZg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: confirm 0fa75124cd6e5148b308c9a2d70f2847d79ff29f

2010-10-06 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:17:09 + freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org articulated: Mailing list subscription confirmation notice for mailing list freebsd-questions We have received a request for subscription of your email address,

VirtualBox: Pressing some key few times fast causes an event storm

2010-10-06 Thread Yuri
I run Ubuntu guest on FreeBSD host. I am in Open Accessories/Terminal app I get this quite often: when I press some button fast few times it gets pressed endless number of times. This can be Enter after some command. Or Up/Down on some large file in vim. Guest behaves like I pressed this

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 02:16:37PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: RW == RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com writes: RW It doesn't say approval is needed. It says that it's needed if it's RW required by the appropriate agencies. In other words, it's needed if RW it's needed. But doesn't this

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Erik == Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se writes: Erik Since it essentially says that if you export it from the USA you will Erik have to follow whatever laws and regulations covers such exports, it Erik doesn't really add any burden since anybody doing such an export would Erik be legally

Re: VirtualBox: Pressing some key few times fast causes an event storm

2010-10-06 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: I run Ubuntu guest on FreeBSD host. I am in Open Accessories/Terminal app I get this quite often: when I press some button fast few times it gets pressed endless number of times. This can be Enter after some command. Or Up/Down on

Re: LDAP Authentication from console

2010-10-06 Thread Indexer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/10/2010, at 10:05 AM, Michel Talon wrote: Kevin Mai wrote: Logins over ssh and sudo work great with ldap, but when I try to log in from console, it prompts me twice for the password. If I put a wrong password it prints out that it

Re: Netbooks BSD

2010-10-06 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 04:45:35PM -0400, bdsf...@att.net wrote: On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:54:35 -0400, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: This brings a question to mind; maybe you know; maybe somebody else on the list does. Say that I buy an EEE 10 Atom, max out the memory

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
El 06/10/2010 08:08 p.m., Randal L. Schwartz escribió: Erik == Erik Trulssonertr1...@student.uu.se writes: Erik Since it essentially says that if you export it from the USA you will Erik have to follow whatever laws and regulations covers such exports, it Erik doesn't really add any burden

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Rob Farmer
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 14:46, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com wrote: I understand that entirely.  Which is why it would be reasonable (and downright ethical) to ensure that every FreeBSD integrator be made well aware of this restriction. It hadn't occurred to *me* for example to

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Rob == Rob Farmer rfar...@predatorlabs.net writes: Rob Making the license more visible may be a good idea, but doesn't Rob materially change the situation any. I agree, it doesn't change it materially. But for the casual integrator, making it very visible would help. -- Randal L. Schwartz -

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Michael Powell
Rob Farmer wrote: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 14:46, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com wrote: I understand that entirely. Which is why it would be reasonable (and downright ethical) to ensure that every FreeBSD integrator be made well aware of this restriction. It hadn't occurred to

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Michael Powell
Michael Powell wrote: [snip] export restrictions have to do with acpi? Is acpi a copyrighted, patented, or trademark otherwise owned by some entity? Quite possibly so as it is in contrib. I just have no idea who might own it. Or how it would fall afoul of crypto export restrictions. Looking

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Michael == Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com writes: Michael I was under the impression that the most onerous of these Michael export rules and restrictions applied to crypto technology. If Michael this is so, what I don't quite grasp is what do crypto export Michael restrictions have to do

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Jung-uk Kim
On Wednesday 06 October 2010 03:40 pm, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/178267 And yes, there it is, in /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/acpica/hardware/hwsleep.c: * 4.3. Licensee shall not export, either directly or indirectly, any of this * software or

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Jung-uk == Jung-uk Kim j...@freebsd.org writes: Jung-uk Please stop the FUD. ACPICA is actually triple-licensed, i.e., Jung-uk generic Intel software license, (three-clause) BSD-like license, and Jung-uk GPLv2. [...] Jung-uk Historically FreeBSD never touched the license header. However, I

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Rob Farmer
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 20:04, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: I was under the impression that the most onerous of these export rules and restrictions applied to crypto technology. If this is so, what I don't quite grasp is what do crypto export restrictions have to do with acpi? Is

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
El 06/10/2010 11:18 p.m., Rob Farmer escribió: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 14:46, Randal L. Schwartzmer...@stonehenge.com wrote: I understand that entirely. Which is why it would be reasonable (and downright ethical) to ensure that every FreeBSD integrator be made well aware of this restriction.

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
El 07/10/2010 12:11 a.m., Randal L. Schwartz escribió: Michael == Michael Powellnightre...@hotmail.com writes: Michael I was under the impression that the most onerous of these Michael export rules and restrictions applied to crypto technology. If Michael this is so, what I don't quite

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Rob Farmer
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 20:38, Gonzalo Nemmi gne...@gmail.com wrote: As a lawyer, no matter how much I review your set up, it´s a _fact_ that a license place in a place like /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/acpica/hardware/hwsleep.c, that is to say, lost amongs a gazillion files: _will_ scape any

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 04:08:35PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Erik == Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se writes: Erik Since it essentially says that if you export it from the USA you will Erik have to follow whatever laws and regulations covers such exports, it Erik doesn't really

Fwd: Canon Support Centre - Ref # 00066023

2010-10-06 Thread Rob Hurle
I have a Canon LBP7200Cdn printer (d = duplex, n = network). Canon advertise on their web site that this printer works on Debian and Red Hat Linux, and they provide drivers for CUPS and some source code. However, I have not been to make this printer work on either Debian or PC-BSD, and I have not