Re: Suggestions for OS to use behind freebsd pf firewalls.

2008-03-01 Thread Rico Secada
On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:45:14 -0600 eculp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed freebsd server in a small company that has approx 30 pc's of all sizes, shapes, brands, etc. They have just realized that a large part of the problems that they had before the firewall was caused by the 30

Re: How to install KDE4 on FreeBSD?

2008-01-20 Thread Rico Secada
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:26:20 -0800 (PST) uutorok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find that there is no KDE 4 in ports. The only instruction I get is http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title ... E4/FreeBSD But there is not much information. Anyone who know how to build KDE 4 on FreeBSD? Wait

Extended FreeBSD licens

2007-11-14 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. Would it be possible for someone to add some conditions to the FreeBSD licens and then call it his extended FreeBSD licens? I mean would that be legally binding if he provided that licens with software he developed? Best regards. Rico. ___

Adding a XP disk to FreeBSD machine

2007-06-17 Thread Rico Secada
Hi I have a box running FreeBSD 6.2 on ad0. I have another HD which used to be in the same box running XP. I set this drive to slave and installed it into the box in order to dualboot. On the bootmenu the new drive ad1 shows up: F1 FreeBSD F5 Drive 1 Pressing F1 boots the disk on ad0 with

Re: Problem installing FreeBSD 6.2 on laptop

2007-06-11 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:46:09 -0700 (PDT) Harriet Severino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am getting an error message, and do not know how to fix the problem. I have a new Intel Celeron laptop, and want to run FreeBSD on it. I chose the standard installation for user + Xwindows. After teh

Re: Does any verson of Freebsd includes the apache package?

2007-06-10 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:54:07 +0800 goole blowfish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends, I have download the freebsd FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. When I install, I can't find the apache package in this installtion package. Does any verson of Freebsd includes the apache package? Something

Re: OT: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

2007-05-31 Thread Rico Secada
On Thu, 31 May 2007 06:56:51 -0700 George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Favourite worst written error message in history: Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue. I have always loved this one!! Who made that up!? Rico ___

Clustered file system

2007-05-01 Thread Rico Secada
Hi We are expanding at work and I am messing around with different setups. I need a file system that will *look* like its just on one machine, like when mounting with NFS, but because of the large amount of data, I really need to expand the files to several servers. Also I need some kind of

Help needed with server setup at work

2007-04-23 Thread Rico Secada
then serves as the access point, but I am affraid if that particular machine crashes, then no one can get to their files. Good ideas and experiences are greatly appreciated! -- Best and kind regards Rico Secada ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-19 Thread Rico Secada
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:37:27 -0300 Henry Lenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/19/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Henry Lenzi wrote: I find nothing brilliant in Debian's package management. It's heavily dependent upon human intervention and just adds a layer of complexity on top of a

Regarding updating packages

2007-03-25 Thread Rico Secada
Hi Why is it that the binary files are so long about being updated? On OpenBSD and on most major GNU/Linux distros the binary packages are updated very quickly. I am asking the question to understand the reason behind the FreeBSD choice to give this a low priority. Best regards. Rico

An alternative to FOP

2007-03-07 Thread Rico Secada
Hi all I am working on a documentation project using docbook in which I need to incorporate some arabic text. I am using xsltproc to convert to xhtml and fo, and it works perfectly. Normally I use FOP to convert from fo to pdf, but FOP can't render the arabic text. And the result is hashes

Problems with arabic in Docbook

2007-03-05 Thread Rico Secada
Hi I am currently working on a docbook project using FreeBSD and I need to incorporate some arabic words. When I convert using xmlto into a xhtml document the words show up together with the other languages perfectly, but when I convert into PDF using xsltproc, the arabic letters gets

Re: Quanta+ freezes after upgrading

2007-02-26 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:33:02 + dgmm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 26 February 2007 05:32, Rico Secada wrote: Since I upgraded KDE to 3.5.5 Quanta+ always freezes when I try to start it up. It doesn't do anything. No errors, just a freeze, and a CPU usage of 97%. Has anyone

Quanta+ freezes after upgrading

2007-02-25 Thread Rico Secada
Hi Since I upgraded KDE to 3.5.5 Quanta+ always freezes when I try to start it up. It doesn't do anything. No errors, just a freeze, and a CPU usage of 97%. Has anyone else experienced problems with Quanta+ since KDE 3.5.5? Best regards. Rico ___

CD/DVD Catalog

2007-02-10 Thread Rico Secada
Hi Anyone who can recommend a good CD/DVD catalog program? Best regards Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Assembly language on FreeBSD

2007-02-07 Thread Rico Secada
Hi I am brushing up on my assembler language and I wonder if anyone could recommend any particular reading well suited for FreeBSD? Best and kind regards, Rico Secada. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Flash 9

2007-01-18 Thread Rico Secada
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:37:10 +0600 Bachilo Dmitry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't you guys know? There would not be any sound, because linux flash 9 uses ALSA, not OSS. If there would be some wrapper sometime, we will hear the flash, if there would not be such thing, we would not. No I

Problems using autoconf/automake

2007-01-10 Thread Rico Secada
Hi I am using autoconf/automake to try to build portable makefiles for some software I wrote. I am a newbie in makefiles. If I don't add my man page, all works out fine. But as soon as I add my man page 2 problems arises. 1. I can't use make distcheck, I get the following error: make: don't

Re: Problems using autoconf/automake (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread Rico Secada
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:29:30 +0100 Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, ./configure --mandir=/usr/local/man, when installed on freebsd. Didn't think of that. Hi I am using autoconf/automake to try to build portable makefiles for some software I wrote. I am a newbie in makefiles

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Rico Secada
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 23:07:55 -0600 Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why should I continue using FreeBSD when the project never delivers on it promises? Noone is forcing you to do so. Let me restate that... I want to use FreeBSD, but the lack of progress is driving me and

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Rico Secada
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:01:51 -0600 Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD is created and supported by volunteers. Seems like you just posted a nice list of things for you to get busy and contribute. I don't have time to contribute work, I have a business to manage as well as

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Rico Secada
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:48:39 -0600 Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am unhappy but I care too much about FreeBSD to just up and leave, it may be time for a sabbatical though... And I complain because I care... like a parent. Trolling. ___

Re: what is operator group for?

2007-01-03 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:30:49 + Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Chris You could run a: find / -type f -group operator to see all files where operator is the group. Forgive me if I am wrong but I actually think this is the best way to find out. Hi all can anyone tell me

Re: Flash in freebsd

2006-12-26 Thread Rico Secada
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 01:16:09 +0300 Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/26/06, Dan Sikorsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How? I've heard stories of linux-opera and linux-flashplayer7 didnt work for me Why not? Its working perfectly here. do I have to mess with plug in

Re: uncalled for reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Rico Secada
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 14:38:43 -0700 Z. Wade Hampton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Bill. I'll keep that in mind. I think I have the problem figured out. *base=/var/db was set in the supfile. After changing it to /usr, the problem went away. You can be 99.9% sure that the problem

Working with DocBook on FreeBSD nothing but problems

2006-09-27 Thread Rico Secada
Hi For some strange reason I no longer can convert my .fo files to .pdf using fop. All I get is this.. $ fop -d mytext.fo mytext.pdf [DEBUG] Input mode: [DEBUG] FO [DEBUG] fo input file: mytext.fo [DEBUG] Output mode: [DEBUG] pdf [DEBUG] output file: mytext.pdf [DEBUG] OPTIONS [DEBUG] no user

Re: vmware on freebsd?

2006-08-15 Thread Rico Secada
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:58:23 -0400 (EDT) Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Peter Is it possible to install VMWare Server on FreeBSD 6.0? I'm looking for comments from people who may have done this. Yes. At out office we are running VMWare3 as a host on FreeBSD 6.1 running Windows XP. It

Re: [IMPORTANT] Adaptec no longer supporting iir(4) driver ...

2006-08-01 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:44:01 -0300 (ADT) User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems to me like the best solution is to boykott Adaptec like OpenBSD did. 'k, I finally got ahold of someone @ adaptec, and the official word seems to be: FreeBSD 6 is not officially supported for the GDT

Error compiling GNAT

2006-07-24 Thread Rico Secada
Hi During installation of GNAT from ports I get the following error: gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/gnat/work/gcc-34/gcc/fixinc' /bin/csh ./genfixes machname.h SHELL=/bin/sh: Command not found. export: Command not found. if: Expression Syntax. gmake[2]: *** [machname.h] Error 1

Re: vmware / vmplayer on freebsd?

2006-07-20 Thread Rico Secada
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:39:28 + (WET) Duane Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I'm aware, VMWare only supports FreeBSD as a Guest OS, not as a Host OS. i.e. you can't run VMWare itself on FreeBSD, but you can run FreeBSD inside

ATAPICAM in the FreeBSD manual

2006-07-12 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. In the FreeBSD manual on '17.6.9 Using the ATAPI/CAM Driver', it only talks about rebuilding the kernel with device atapicam. I think it should mention that it actually is possible to just add 'atapicam_load=YES' to /boot/loader.conf. Perhaps I have missed or overlooked something and in

Re: CUPS, USB printers Permission Denied

2006-07-08 Thread Rico Secada
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 12:43:45 -0400 Anthony Agelastos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just installed cups from ports and had a similar problem with printing. Normally I haven't got any problems. The printer is a HL-1430 connected to USB and the error I got was: 'Unable to open USB device

KDE not in 6-stable anymore

2006-07-03 Thread Rico Secada
Hi I have noticed that KDE 3.5.2 has been removed from packages-6-stable. Why is that? Best and kind regards, Rico. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Frustration

2006-06-30 Thread Rico Secada
Being an experienced BSD user who on a daily basis gives support to other people using BSD, wether FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD, I hardly think this has to do with FreeBSD. This rather sounds like a typical MS whiner, who hasn't really got around to actually understand what he is doing. In some

Re: Frustration

2006-06-30 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:40:09 +0100 Joao Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/30/06, Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Being an experienced BSD user who on a daily basis gives support to other people using BSD, wether FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD, I hardly think this has to do

Re: Frustration

2006-06-30 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:40:09 +0100 Joao Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/30/06, Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Being an experienced BSD user who on a daily basis gives support to other people using BSD, wether FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD, I hardly think this has to do