Re: questions@ vs. freebsd-questions@

2007-08-15 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 08:15:46 pm Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 07:14:43AM -0400, Gerard wrote: Is there a reason that you cannot just use the address specified in the email headers of messages distributed by this forum. This is a snippet from the headers from your

Re: reposted question

2006-12-20 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
Well, if it were me, I'd simply do: # rm -r /home/ncvs Then I'd change prefix='home/ncvs to prefix=/usr, just so I could cvsup the ports tree if I ever wanted to. But after makeing that change, I'd run: # portsnap fetch extract And know that that next time I wanted to update the ports

Re: freebsd desktop

2006-11-26 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Sunday 26 November 2006 13:15, probsd org wrote: Regarding my earlier email Do not install FreeBSD as a desktop I don't care how long I have been using FreeBSD, or yadda yadda or yadda when I cvsup ports, update the databse, and install www/firefox and go to a website I expect

Re: Apache port compile error

2006-11-25 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 25 November 2006 05:31, VeeJay wrote: Hi When compiling apache20 from ports and enabling/diabling knobs, I am writing the make command as follow; #make WITHOUT_MODULES=charset-lite include env setenvif status autoindex asis cgi negotiation imap actions userdir alias so

Re: Installworld Problem... Please help!!!

2006-11-19 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Sunday 19 November 2006 06:47, VeeJay wrote: Hello, Please help!!! I have CVSup'ed my 6.1 Fresh Install. No problems with buildworld or kernel build, but I am getting failures during installworld. When I give this command in single user mode: # make installworld A Partial output of

Re: Qmail Vpopmail From Ports

2006-11-18 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 18 November 2006 20:54, Rachel Florentine wrote: 7883- Original Message From: Tom Ierna [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've installed qmail/vpopmail many ways - from source, using the instructions from qmailrocks and most recently using the instructions found here:

Re: firefox 2.0 and flash 7

2006-11-04 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 04 November 2006 09:24, Michael S wrote: Thanks for the tip. I will try it out. Just don't remove the old symlinks in /usr/X11r6/lib/browser_plugins, if you take them out, firefox won't open. Put in the new ones in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins and you should be good to go. Don

Re: firefox 2.0 and flash 7

2006-11-03 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 03 November 2006 16:06, Michael S wrote: Good day all. I am running 5.5 RELEASE and I have just upgraded Firefox from 1.5 to 2.0. Flash 7 was working very well under 1.5, however after upgrade it didn't. Moreover, flash doesn't appear anymore in the about:plugins. Has anyone had

Re: atapicam trouble

2006-10-17 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 05:47, Johan Johansen wrote: Actually, on my system I can do mount_udf /dev/acd0 and copy a 3GB file, I just tried. My problem is adding CAM support, which the handbook tells me I have to use to burn dvd. johan I'm unable to copy a file from a udf-mounted DVD

Re: startkde: cannot start kdeinit. Check your installation

2006-10-14 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 13 October 2006 21:17, Karl Agee wrote: --- Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 13 October 2006 20:11, Karl Agee wrote: 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #4: Mon Oct 2 08:40:06 PDT 2006 I cannot start kde. Installed kde 3.5.4 from pkg_add

Re: startkde: cannot start kdeinit. Check your installation

2006-10-14 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 14 October 2006 11:44, Karl Agee wrote: Don: ls -la /usr/local/bin/kdeinit -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 39876 Oct 6 01:18 /usr/local/bin/kdeinit ls -la /usr/local/bin/startkde -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11828 Oct 13 17:04 /usr/local/bin/startkde ls -la .xinitrc -rw-r--r--

Re: startkde: cannot start kdeinit. Check your installation

2006-10-13 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 13 October 2006 20:11, Karl Agee wrote: 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #4: Mon Oct 2 08:40:06 PDT 2006 I cannot start kde. Installed kde 3.5.4 from pkg_add -r kde and everything installed fine. I put in my ~/.xinitrc file: startkde but I keep getting this error:

Re: Problems properly setting up /etc/exports

2006-09-30 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 30 September 2006 13:39, stan wrote: I've got a FBSD 6 machine built from a 6.2 PRERELEASE set of sources that I need to use as an NFS server for some other similar machines. If I specify the machines by host name, or IP address in /etc/exports, I can mount the requisite

Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs

2006-09-12 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
Perry Hutchison wrote: Before you can build from ports, you need to have ports tree in place, the standard way to do this is by running portsnap. with the caveat that, at least in my recent experience, an up-to-date ports tree does not always play nicely with a not-updated base install

Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs

2006-09-12 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
Perry Hutchison wrote: ... at least in my recent experience, an up-to-date ports tree does not always play nicely with a not-updated base install from CD. That's very interesting. However, the ports tree on the CD isn't complete, as in: not all the ports are there. Any idea why? (I am

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-04 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Monday 04 September 2006 02:08, Perry Hutchison wrote: Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't build. richtext builds OK, but as soon as I try to select bold it writes 4 lines to stderr and drops core: Message

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-04 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Monday 04 September 2006 13:55, Perry Hutchison wrote: Try to save yourself as much pain as possible. Building openoffice from ports tends to fall in the category of pain. So it would seem :( I thought the whole point of the Ports Collection was to avoid this sort of problem. That's

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-04 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
If you installed programs from packages when you installed the system, you may get problems with version conflicts installing from an updated ports collection - this happens usually when the last release is getting old. In that case, maybe you should clean out the system, deinstall all

Re: Kernel won't build: 6.1-RELEASE 6.1-STABLE

2006-07-22 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 22 July 2006 10:49, Kyrre Nygard wrote: Hello, I'm trying to upgrade my kernel from 6.1-RELEASE to 6.1-STABLE. But it will not work, it fails out when dealing with umass. This is a freshly installed system. The command I issued was: make buildworld KERNCONF=SURIA You really

Re: post re jdk port

2006-07-21 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 21 July 2006 04:54, eoghan wrote: Hi I postd a question about the jdk port but didnt see my message get to the list. Since Im using a gmail account it may be something to do with this, but I do remember seeing previous posts I made. Can someone let me know if it got through and if

Re: jdk port

2006-07-21 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Thursday 20 July 2006 16:11, eoghan wrote: Hi While installing openoffice I had to grab jdk15. This is the build error: Note: * uses or overrides a deprecated API. Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details. Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations. Note:

Re: CUPS, one more try

2006-07-13 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 22:42, E. J. Cerejo wrote: I've been trying to configure my HP Officejet 4315 using CUPS 1.2.0 but so far all I can do is configure a printer using the web interface and I'm able to print a test page but when I try to print any other document I'm unable to print, I

Re: CUPS, one more try

2006-07-13 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Thursday 13 July 2006 08:09, E. J. Cerejo wrote: Don I just did what you told me but I still get the same message when run lpstat, and still can't print. EJC www.only7bucks.com - Take a look at:

Re: ATAPICAM

2006-07-11 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 14:16, Beni wrote: On Tuesday 11 July 2006 18:33, Chris Maness wrote: How do I load atapicam at boot time. I tried to have it load the same way I have the sound modules load, and it doesn't work. After the system is up and running I can load just fine. Why don't

Re: how to avoid recompiling applications?

2006-06-05 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Monday 05 June 2006 09:49, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so, could i theoretically use 'make reinstall' on a fresh system where the port had never been previously installed? Maybe, maybe not. If make install doesn't work because there's already a

Re: how to avoid recompiling applications?

2006-06-04 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Sunday 04 June 2006 12:19, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/4/06, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so, could i theoretically use 'make reinstall' on a fresh system where the port had never been previously installed? No, you can't. Yes... but what's the point?... when you can make

Re: how to avoid recompiling applications?

2006-06-04 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Sunday 04 June 2006 12:54, Mikhail Goriachev wrote: Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Sunday 04 June 2006 12:19, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/4/06, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so, could i theoretically use 'make reinstall' on a fresh system where the port had never been previously

Re: makeworld FAILURE on 5.4-STABLE

2006-05-17 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 05:10, Kyrre Nygard wrote: Hey man, # df Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s1a248M 35M193M15%/ devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/ad4s1d248M 80M148M35%/var /dev/ad4s1e

Re: makeworld FAILURE on 5.4-STABLE

2006-05-16 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 03:30, Kyrre Nygard wrote: Hello Don! Yes it's the `make buildworld' as far as I know. The /etc/make.conf contains PERL_VER=5.8.7 and PERL_VERSION=5.8.7. Is it possible, do you think, to use a FreeSBIE CD maybe to clean out everything on my harddrive but my

Re: makeworld FAILURE on 5.4-STABLE

2006-05-16 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 05:30, Kyrre Nygard wrote: Is /home on a slice of its own. Mine is, for the reason that if I have to blow off the system and reinstall, I can safely do that, as long as I don't make any changes to /home, just remount it as /home. You can do this with sysinstall, very

Re: makeworld FAILURE on 5.4-STABLE

2006-05-15 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Monday 15 May 2006 04:03, Kyrre Nygard wrote: Hello Don, good old friend :) Yes I am back. I had to change my alias because too many people were after me. And also I'm still stuck on the same problem. I did make a clean 6.1-RELEASE blow at my Pentium 120mhz firewall which needed the

Re: makeworld FAILURE on 5.4-STABLE

2006-05-14 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Sunday 14 May 2006 07:31, Kyrre Nygard wrote: I believe it should be: chflags -R noschg /usr/obj/usr rm -rf /usr/obj/usr cd /usr/src Yes, the 'make cleandir' statement is run twice. -- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Once or twice, it is still irrelevant. Thank you so much

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE !!

2006-05-08 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Monday 08 May 2006 10:55, Ceri Davies wrote: On 8/5/06 15:39, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on a dev box, did a cvsup and buildworld yesterday... and now my kernel says 6.1 stable! fbsd60-2# uname -a FreeBSD fbsd60-2.dev.dfwlp.com 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Sun May

Re: Why do I have to keep doing portsnap extract?

2006-05-05 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 05 May 2006 01:06, Peggy Wilkins wrote: On 5/4/06, Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peggy Wilkins wrote: On 5/4/06, Jason Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you run `extract' after your original `fetch'? Yes, I did; I followed the instructions exactly. I ran

Re: Kernel not compiling

2006-05-02 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 10:07, Steve Davidson wrote: Here are the last few lines from the kernel build output: /usr/src/sys/netinet/ip_output.c: In function `ip_ctloutput': /usr/src/sys/netinet/ip_output.c:1550: internal compiler error: in expand_stmt, at c-semantics.c:883 Please submit a full

Re: pkg_add -r openoffice Error: FTP Unable to get ftp:

2006-05-01 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Monday 01 May 2006 02:31, robert wrote: On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 03:12 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks but: pkg_add -r openoffice.org pkg_add: can't stat package file 'openoffice.org' that was the logical and first thing I tried. On Mon, 1 May 2006, Kris Kennaway

Re: I think I butchered my supfile - can anyone tell me why I get this result?

2006-04-12 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 06:45, Jim Stapleton wrote: *default host=cvsup13.us.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default date=2006.04.01.12.00.00 collections.

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-04-03 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Monday 03 April 2006 14:27, M. Warner Losh wrote: OK. I got bordered photo printing working. I haven't gotten borderless printing working, alas. The key points I learned: (1) Install print/cups. (2) Install graphics/hpijs. This filters .ps - goo the printer groks (3) Install

Re: ACPI disables network (why?)

2006-04-01 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 31 March 2006 21:59, Peter wrote: Here is what I have for irq. It looks like irq 22 is being overused. $ dmesg | grep irq ioapic0 Version 1.1 irqs 0-23 on motherboard ohci0: OHCI (generic) USB controller mem 0xfc003000-0xfc003fff irq 22 at device 2.0 on pci0 ohci1: OHCI

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-03-31 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 31 March 2006 00:08, M. Warner Losh wrote: Let us suppose that I have a HP DeskJet 5850 that I can talk to via CUPS. I can print test pages w/o any problem. What are my options to print photos and what kind of quality can I expect relative to Windows? Warner

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-03-31 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 31 March 2006 10:34, M. Warner Losh wrote: Let's assume for the moment that my PPD is good. I guess I'm looking for something more basic: how do I take the .jpg from my camera and get a photo on my printer. What's the conversion process? Warner Your going to have to look at

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-03-31 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 31 March 2006 10:37, M. Warner Losh wrote: Bob, Thanks for the tips. I have these ports installed, but am tripping over something stupidly basic: what converts the pict0001.jpg into something that can be fed to the hpijs driver that will print? Warner

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-03-31 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 31 March 2006 11:56, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On Friday 31 March 2006 10:37, M. Warner Losh wrote: : Bob, : : Thanks for the tips. I have these ports installed, but am : tripping over

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-03-31 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 31 March 2006 14:16, Bob Johnson wrote: In principle, an application feeds it to CUPS, CUPS feeds it to GhostScript, and GhostScript uses the HPIJS driver to print it. Or something like that. In practice, I use APSFILTER instead of CUPS, and I haven't ever tried to do photo

Re: 6.0 APCI Config PMAP

2006-03-31 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 31 March 2006 18:55, Don O'Neil wrote: I am 'burning in' some hardware and drives before putting them into production using various tools (raidtest, etc...) and have a couple of questions.. Occasionally under high load when doing the raid test, I see: collecting pv entries --

Re: ACPI disables network (why?)

2006-03-31 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 31 March 2006 19:16, Peter wrote: I've been meaning to ask this one for awhile. I'm running 5.4-STABLE and I cannot use my network card *without* booting with ACPI enabled. The net contains trouble with people having this type of issue with Realtek cards and ACPI *enabled*. I

Re: ASCII files becoming double lined

2006-03-30 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Thursday 30 March 2006 09:04, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 04:59:36PM +0200, Vaaf wrote: Hello! Sometimes I notice ASCII files becoming double lined. As in there somehow appearing an empty line in between every line. Why is this? And: 01 How can I detect files

Re: a number of widly varied questions [FreeBSD 6.0; stdc++6, Xorg/Drivers issues, one KDE issue]

2006-03-30 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Thursday 30 March 2006 09:48, Jim Stapleton wrote: Sorry if some of these aren't all exactly appropriate for here, but this seems like the best place to ask for a number of them, especially given my system is FreeBSD, and I've gotten everything from ports. I'm putting all of this in one

Re: ASCII files becoming double lined

2006-03-30 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Thursday 30 March 2006 11:27, Vaaf wrote: At 17:58 30.03.2006, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Thursday 30 March 2006 09:04, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 04:59:36PM +0200, Vaaf wrote: Hello! Sometimes I notice ASCII files becoming double lined

Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade

2006-03-30 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Thursday 30 March 2006 17:53, Albert Shih wrote: Le 30/03/2006 à 14:42:10-0800, Micah a écrit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1.5.0.1_2 was commited last night, so it's probably a recent breakage. I just found a bug report on it at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=95100 So we

Re: FBSD 6.0 ipfilter nat redirect not working.

2006-03-29 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
Just a quick question. How are you connecting to the Internet, by that I mean are you using aDSL? If you are, I can help you. Don ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Error Compiling Open Office

2006-03-29 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 22:08, Chris Maness wrote: I just updated my ports and tried to compile open office. got this failure while trying to compile. Any suggestions? g++-ooo: Internal error: Killed: 9 (program cc1plus) Please submit a full bug report. See

Re: Why are so many people using 4.x?

2006-03-29 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 09:27, Vaaf wrote: At 14:46 29.03.2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: of FreeBSD to building a skyscraper on shallow grounds. apparently, you did not read much of the source tree did you. or appreciate the fact that FreeBSD boots so fast and clean. Whatever. I

Re: Fwd: package vs ports question

2006-03-27 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Monday 27 March 2006 09:26, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont wrote: Thanks for the answer. I just hope I'm not messing things too much. So if a port may override a package, is the only solution to this generate a package then install it? Now if this happens, what will

Re: Fwd: package vs ports question

2006-03-27 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Monday 27 March 2006 09:49, RW wrote: On Monday 27 March 2006 14:20, Norberto Meijome wrote: make package will actually make the package and install it for you, you dont need to do a pkg_add after that (yes, a bit counter-intuitive, but really handy) Make package creates a package out

Re: Portupgrade fails to upgrade after using portsnap

2006-03-18 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 18 March 2006 08:06, Jez Hancock wrote: Hi all, For a long time I've been using cvsup and portupgrade to update the ports tree once a week; this has worked well for years now. Recently though I changed to using portsnap to update the ports tree, still using portupgrade once a

Re: Portupgrade fails to upgrade after using portsnap

2006-03-18 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 18 March 2006 08:06, Jez Hancock wrote: Hi all, For a long time I've been using cvsup and portupgrade to update the ports tree once a week; this has worked well for years now. Recently though I changed to using portsnap to update the ports tree, still using portupgrade once a

Re: Portupgrade fails to upgrade after using portsnap

2006-03-18 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 18 March 2006 12:06, Jez Hancock wrote: Hi Donald, Thanks for the replies. On 3/18/06, Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 18 March 2006 08:06, Jez Hancock wrote: Hi all, For a long time I've been using cvsup and portupgrade to update the ports

Re: Portupgrade fails to upgrade after using portsnap

2006-03-18 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 18 March 2006 15:50, Duane Whitty wrote: Hi, I seem to remember needing to run portsnap fetch extract update the first time I ran portsnap. Afterwards portsnap fetch update worked as I expected. Perhaps you have already tried this? If so, my apologies for the useless noise.

Re: I386 Installation

2006-03-14 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 02:47, Eileen Wasson wrote: I'm a newbie to unix and freebsd. I'm trying to follow your documentation and keep failing the install. I have an HP COmpaq desktop dc5100 MT and it will NOT detect my iso image for the i386. i did not see it in your hardware list.htm. does

Re: Mail client like mulberry

2006-03-14 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 12:40, Benjamin Lutz wrote: On Tuesday 14 March 2006 18:15, Paul Schmehl wrote: What does this New Messages feature do? It's like Favorites, except it only displays folders that have new messages in them. I have so many folders that it's a real PITA to have to

Re: Mail client like mulberry

2006-03-14 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 17:39, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:15:07 -0600 Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't filter folders, however it has a Next Unread Folder command, which makes it directly switch to the next folder with unread messages

Re: cg 0: bad magic number (used to be Disappointed with version 6.0)

2006-03-12 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 11 March 2006 21:08, you wrote: Hi Donald. It's me again. I sent this to the list and saw I didn't include you. I haven't seen the one on the list yet, this one got here first. . Ok, I have narrowed down my problem a great deal. It appears that FreeBSD cannot read

Re: cg 0: bad magic number (used to be Disappointed with version 6.0)

2006-03-12 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 11 March 2006 23:51, Peter wrote: Are you doing this through sysinstall or are you manually running fdisk and bsdlabel. Through sysinstall. Both disklabel and fdisk don't work. The former gives input/output error and output to the latter I gave in my last post. Is

Re: pkgdb warning message

2006-03-12 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Sunday 12 March 2006 07:07, Gerard Seibert wrote: When running the following command: pkgdb -Fv, I receive the following message: Duplicated origin: devel/libtool15 - libtool-1.5.22_1 libtool-1.5.22_2 Unregister any of them? [no] I am unsure of what action to take, therefore I have

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 10 March 2006 22:57, Peter wrote: I'm setting up a new server on 6.0 I've been planning for a long time and I am very disappointed with two critical issues. My motherboard is the ASUS K8V-X SE that I chose because it was listed as compatible at the FreeBSD/amd64 Project:

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 11 March 2006 13:38, Peter wrote: --- Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] ad0: DMA limited to UDMA33, device found non-ATA66 cable ad0: 39205MB Maxtor 6K040L0 NAR61HA0 at ata0-master UDMA33 acd0: CDROM GCR-8525B/1.02 at ata0-slave PIO4 ad2: 190782MB Seagate

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 11 March 2006 18:48, Peter wrote: You can answer me tomorrow if you like but here is an update: I removed the cdrom and the problem remains. I got the usb ports to work as well by updating the bios and fiddling with some settings. It is truly a mystery why this 300 GB drive

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 11 March 2006 20:03, Peter wrote: OK, does dmesg still give this with the cdrom removed: ad0: DMA limited to UDMA33, device found non-ATA66 cable ad0: 39205MB Maxtor 6K040L0 NAR61HA0 at ata0-master UDMA33 acd0: CDROM GCR-8525B/1.02 at ata0-slave PIO4 ad2: 190782MB Seagate

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-03-06 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
. Are you sure your source tree is clean and up to date? As Donald has posted latter: On 2006-03-03 09:09, Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alright Kristian, why don't you post your supfile, make.conf, rc.conf, output of uname -a, a description of what equipment your doing

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-03-06 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
Well Kristian, it looks to me like your procedure sucks, since it's failing on two computers. That should tell you something is wrong with the way you're doing things. This has been going on for over three weeks. Pick someone you think knows what they're doing and follow their suggestions.

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-03-05 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
. Are you sure your source tree is clean and up to date? As Donald has posted latter: On 2006-03-03 09:09, Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alright Kristian, why don't you post your supfile, make.conf, rc.conf, output of uname -a, a description of what equipment your doing

Re: script(1) Why does it output in CR/LF?

2006-03-03 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 03 March 2006 04:52, Kristian Vaaf wrote: At 16:05 28.02.2006, James Bailie wrote: Glenn Dawson wrote: At 02:30 AM 2/28/2006, Kristian Vaaf wrote: Hello. I am just curious why the files I generate with script(1) output in CR/LF forcing me to run dos2unix on them

Re: Users and groups properly organized?

2006-03-03 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 03 March 2006 08:32, Kristian Vaaf wrote: Hello. Have you all ever had a look at your /etc/master.passwd and /etc/group? Stupid question. But notice the user and group identifications being thrown about as if they didn't matter. To me they do, and I would like some order in my

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-03-03 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 03 March 2006 08:08, Kristian Vaaf wrote: Sorry sorry sorry, I am so very sorry. http://www.home.no/hedhnta/result.txt is indeed online now. Also, strangely, my other FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE box (I have two) also errors out on build world. Different error though. Please also see

Re: plugin in firefox

2006-03-03 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
This libmap.conf is what works for me, compare it with yours. It's one I spent a whole lot of time and trouble reading advice for what worked. Don === # /etc/libmap.conf for FreeBSD 6.0(6.0-BETA3 and later) and 7-current # $Id: libmap.conf-FreeBSD6,v 1.23 2005/11/13 01:46:14 nork

Re: plugin in firefox

2006-03-03 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 03 March 2006 10:07, Mikael Backman wrote: Thank you for your reply. But it didn't help to replace libmap.conf with your file or run ldconfig. I get the same error messages. I must be doing somthing stupid somewhere. Maybe I should use linux-firefox?

Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System

2006-03-02 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Thursday 02 March 2006 13:59, Chris Hill wrote: On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Is my supfile correct to track security for freebsd-6.0? [snip] *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6 [snip] As I understand it, that tag will get you the latest released version of

Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System

2006-03-02 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Thursday 02 March 2006 16:23, Chris Hill wrote: Sorry for the misinformation! You are right, RELENG_6 is equivalent to -STABLE. I sit corrected. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] That's ok Chris. I knew you really knew what you

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-03-01 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
. Regards Manish Jain Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:26, Chuck Swiger wrote: manish jain wrote: I just purchased an APC 500 Back UPS (the basic model, not the pro/smart one). It does not have any serial/usb interface. Can I get apcupsd

Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System

2006-03-01 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 16:31, Chris Maness wrote: Thanks, I do have port audit installed. I was refering to system security. The base system + FreeBSD userland. I wanted to do this because I did get a notice from the security list today. Do I do a make buildworld, to update the

Re: Where to place refuse file for CVSUP?

2006-03-01 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 21:10, Jose Borquez wrote: In my ports-supfile my base=/var/db and prefix=/usr. Does that mean I should place my refuse file in /var/db/sup/ ? I am a little confused, so if anyone can help me out it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Jose

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-02-28 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 05:46, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-02-28 12:15, Kristian Vaaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your buildworld sequence appears to be a little lacking - either in the detail you gave, or because some things are missing. The buildworld sequence I us is:

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-02-28 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 05:15, Kristian Vaaf wrote: Hello Don! Thank you for some good help. My make.conf only had some use.perl stuff. I added your flags. Also I've revised my sequence: cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile \ cd /usr/obj \ chflags -R noschg * \ rm -rf * \ cd

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-02-28 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 08:52, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 08:48:15AM -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: 11) script /home/script/buildworld/iw-???date run 12) cd /usr/srcpwd 13) mergemaster -p 14) make installworld 15) mergemaster -i

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-02-28 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 09:02, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-02-28 08:48, Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 28 February 2006 05:46, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Until you are satisfied that everything works without any problems at all, please don't use scripts

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-02-28 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 13:17, Kris Kennaway wrote: OK, but you were still confused, because mergemaster doesn't need a populated /usr/obj to do its thing (only a source tree). You can run it at any time, before during or after your buildworld. Well, I learned something new then. Thank

Re: portsnap failing

2006-02-27 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Monday 27 February 2006 03:19, Ashley Moran wrote: On Saturday 25 February 2006 03:07, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: Why are you deleting the portsnap files. That's a 39 MB file that you have to download everytime you do that. The idea is to just download the patches necessary to update

Re: Bandwidth Problems with Freebsd 5.x

2006-02-26 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Sunday 26 February 2006 08:10, ptitoliv wrote: Hello Everybody, I made lots of searches on the Internet and I found something about the option net.inet.tcp.inflight.enable. If I set this value to 0, my bandwitdh problems are resolved. Does anybody knows something about this options

Re: Help with IP Filter 4.1.8

2006-02-26 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Sunday 26 February 2006 11:19, fbsd_user wrote: Since you say the same ipf rules work on your 5.3 system and you are trying to run them on 6.1-PRERELEASE, I would say the problem is 6.1-PRERELEASE. Prereleases versions and RC version are not intended for public use. They are version for

Re: How to upgrade portsnap in freebsd 6.0?

2006-02-26 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Sunday 26 February 2006 16:50, Steve P. wrote: pkg_delete worked, as confirmed by pkg_version does not show it anymore. However, when I attempt to make install it from ports, I get this: # make install === portsnap-1.0 portsnap now contained in the base system. *** Error code 1 Any

Re: Bandwidth Problems with Freebsd 5.x

2006-02-25 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Sunday 19 February 2006 11:54, ptitoliv wrote: Mathieu CHATEAU a écrit : try this: ping -c 1000 -s 1500 IP_TO_PING wait for the 1000 ping to go trough. You should not have more than 0,5% of loss (is the servers aren't overload). If it's more or equal than 0,5%, it comes from the network

Re: Bandwidth Problems with Freebsd 5.x

2006-02-25 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 25 February 2006 16:30, ptitoliv wrote: Donald J. O'Neill a écrit : Not hardly. I'll bet that 950kB/s for the Debian box was the peak download speed and it didn't maintain it through the entire download. Don The Debian Box is capable to make a 5 MB/s stable connection easily

Re: Bandwidth Problems with Freebsd 5.x

2006-02-25 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 25 February 2006 18:00, ptitoliv wrote: Donald J. O'Neill a écrit : Maybe, but not to the internet on an 1.5Mb/s connection. Your aDSL line is only good for at most 1.5M and that's not guaranteed to happen all the time. There are a lot of things that go on to throttle

Re: portsnap failing

2006-02-24 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Thursday 23 February 2006 05:33, Ashley Moran wrote: I'm trying to update my ports tree on a 6.0-RELEASE/amd64 machine. I get this error: Updating from Wed Feb 15 08:30:17 GMT 2006 to Thu Feb 23 10:20:03 GMT 2006. Fetching 3 metadata patches.. done. Applying metadata patches... done.

Re: release in cvsup supfile

2006-02-24 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 24 February 2006 20:35, Peter wrote: --- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey people, I notice that in my supfile, I have this: *default release=cvs tag=. I'm using FreeBSD 5.4. Should I change the tag to 5.4-RELEASE? I don't want ports that aren't going to

Re: release in cvsup supfile

2006-02-24 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 24 February 2006 22:35, Peter wrote: --- Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/24/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey people, I notice that in my supfile, I have this: *default release=cvs tag=. I'm using FreeBSD 5.4. Should I change the

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-23 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 21:59, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:36 -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Wednesday 22 February 2006 20:59, Ow Mun Heng wrote: what about the dependency then? Ignore it? What if there are files needed by xorg-clients? eg: libXX.so.Y and which

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-22 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 05:07, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Donald J. O'Neill Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 8:47 AM To: Chuck Swiger Cc: manish jain; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 19:58, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi, I've googled. I've read the handbook, I've read Absolute BSD and still I can't understand FreeBSD Ports/Packages esp when it comes to upgrading via packages. I'm from a Linux (gentoo linux) background so I'm not a rough diamond.

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