Re: restrict gnome desktop user.

2008-10-25 Thread en0f
joeb wrote: How do it configure gnome to restrict users to their home directory? I don't want them to be able see any system directories or other users? Dont know about gnome per se but you can use chroot/jails to restrict users to see only stuffs you want them to see for any environment. Just

Re: duplicate a drive

2008-10-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
RW wrote: On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:19:23 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK The best way is to reinstall the OS on the new disk, then move the user data over. This is highly recommended if you have

the age old 3D hardware question

2008-10-25 Thread xorquewasp
Hello. I'm looking to buy a new workstation that needs to be able to run in 64-bit (long) mode (working with large data sets). What are my options for 3D acceleration without binary drivers? My needs are quite minimal, I'm not running any games. As far as I can tell, only onboard Intel graphics

Re: the age old 3D hardware question

2008-10-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm looking to buy a new workstation that needs to be able to run in 64-bit (long) mode (working with large data sets). What are my options for 3D acceleration without binary drivers? My needs are quite minimal, I'm not running any games. you actually need 3D accelerator or just fast 2D card?

Re: the age old 3D hardware question

2008-10-25 Thread xorquewasp
On 20081025 10:18:01, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I'm looking to buy a new workstation that needs to be able to run in 64-bit (long) mode (working with large data sets). What are my options for 3D acceleration without binary drivers? My needs are quite minimal, I'm not running any games. you

Re: the age old 3D hardware question

2008-10-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
afaik openGL always requires local display On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20081025 10:18:01, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I'm looking to buy a new workstation that needs to be able to run in 64-bit (long) mode (working with large data sets). What are my options for 3D

Re: the age old 3D hardware question

2008-10-25 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20081025 10:18:01, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I'm looking to buy a new workstation that needs to be able to run in 64-bit (long) mode (working with large data sets). What are my options for 3D acceleration without binary drivers? My needs

RE: restrict gnome desktop user.

2008-10-25 Thread joeb
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of en0f Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 2:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG Subject: Re: restrict gnome desktop user. joeb wrote: How do it configure gnome to restrict users to their home directory? I don't

Re: the age old 3D hardware question

2008-10-25 Thread xorquewasp
On 20081025 11:48:02, Bruce Cran wrote: I would guess the development and testing will be done on the same machine. -- Bruce If that was a question, then yeah, you're correct. It seems that I can actually get open acceleration using the r500 series of ATI cards (the X1950 is the most

Re: the age old 3D hardware question

2008-10-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 08:48:58AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I'm looking to buy a new workstation that needs to be able to run in 64-bit (long) mode (working with large data sets). What are my options for 3D acceleration without binary drivers? My needs are quite minimal, I'm

Re: Why does adding /usr/lib32 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH break 64-bit binaries?

2008-10-25 Thread Alexander Sack
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 24 October 2008 23:20:59 Peter Jeremy wrote: this will make system trying to bind 32-bit libs to 64-bit program. it can't work rtld shouldn't attempt to bind 32-bit libs to 64-bit programs. The same problem

Gimp-help not working after portupgrade

2008-10-25 Thread Mike Clarke
After upgrading to Gimp 2.6.1 (on 6.4-RC1) I can't access the Gimp help files. I have the following gimp* ports installed: gimp-2.6.1,2The meta-port for The Gimp gimp-app-2.6.1_1,1 A GNU Image Manipulation Program gimp-gutenprint-5.1.7_1 GutenPrint Printer Driver gimp-help-2.4.1

Re: root | su

2008-10-25 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 24 October 2008 23:59, Jos Chrispijn wrote: [Jeremy Chadwick said] You're trying to solve a social (possibly personal?) problem with technology. Simply put, this is a bad idea. Yep, I think that is .true. I would highly recommend you either talk to the idiot and explain to

FireBird SQL port is not up to date

2008-10-25 Thread DSA - JCR
Hi all I don't know if this is the rigth list to say, but I have found that the por for the Firebird SQL server and client is not up to date. in the ports the version is 2.0.3_2 in FirebirdSQl.org the last version 2.1.1 and also testing 2.5 I work with Firebird SQL Server and under FreeBSD (of

Re: Why does adding /usr/lib32 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH break 64-bit binaries?

2008-10-25 Thread Alexander Kabaev
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:49:19 -0400 Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this a bug or not in FreeBSD's rtld? -aps It is not. In case it was not clear before, I maintain that you _ask_ rtld for wrong behaviour and you get back what you asked for, down to the letter. 'Tasting'

How to restore a lost root password...

2008-10-25 Thread DSA - JCR
Hi all I have lost the neuron where I stored the root password of an installation ;D I have seen a How to about this but I have a problem, i set the console to insecure, so when I try to do the step of the how to i get a message to input the root password or Ctrl-D to enter in multiuser mode.

Re: How to restore a lost root password...

2008-10-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all I have lost the neuron where I stored the root password of an installation ;D I have seen a How to about this but I have a problem, i set the console to insecure, so when I try to do the step of the how to i get a message to input the root password or Ctrl-D to enter in

Re: How to restore a lost root password...

2008-10-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
Matthew Seaman wrote: DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all I have lost the neuron where I stored the root password of an installation ;D I have seen a How to about this but I have a problem, i set the console to insecure, so when I try to do the step of the how to i get a message to input the root

Re: How to restore a lost root password...

2008-10-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
Matthew Seaman wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all I have lost the neuron where I stored the root password of an installation ;D I have seen a How to about this but I have a problem, i set the console to insecure, so when I try to do the step of the how to i get a

Re: Gimp-help not working after portupgrade

2008-10-25 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Mike Clarke wrote: gimp-help-2.4.1 worked OK with 2.4 but perhaps it's not compatible with 2.6. (I see from www.gimp.org that work is in progress on updating the user manual for GIMP 2.6) so I thought I'd switch over to the online help but then I got the following error

Re: mpd - lcp protocol rejects

2008-10-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:08:13 +0300 CK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm running mpd 4.4 on 6.3-STABLE #4. Connecting with mpd to my ISP's VPN server running poptop. Everything is ok for some time, and then all of a sudden mpd starts throwing weird protocol rejects to log file and

re: DHCP server

2008-10-25 Thread bofh42
On Friday 24 October 2008, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if this is an issue with my dhcp server or the client, but since I seem to get troubles with two different clients, I'm thinking it might be the server:

Re: Gimp-help not working after portupgrade

2008-10-25 Thread Jan Henrik Sylvester
Mike wrote: After upgrading to Gimp 2.6.1 (on 6.4-RC1) I can't access the Gimp help files. graphics/gimp-app misses a dependency: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2008-October/020978.html Install www/webkit-gtk2 and rebuild graphics/gimp-app. Please, report back if that

Re: Why does adding /usr/lib32 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH break 64-bit binaries?

2008-10-25 Thread Alexander Sack
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Alexander Kabaev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:49:19 -0400 Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this a bug or not in FreeBSD's rtld? -aps It is not. In case it was not clear before, I maintain that you _ask_ rtld for wrong

Re: disappearing mouse pointer

2008-10-25 Thread Robert
Five days and no responses, so maybe more information. On this computer I have on board GeForce 6100. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:5:0:class=0x03 card=0x81bf1043 chip=0x024210de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Nvidia Corp' device = 'GeForce 6100' class = display subclass

Re: Why does adding /usr/lib32 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH break 64-bit binaries?

2008-10-25 Thread Alexander Kabaev
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:10:53 -0400 Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Alexander Kabaev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:49:19 -0400 Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this a bug or not in FreeBSD's rtld? -aps It is

Re: Gimp-help not working after portupgrade

2008-10-25 Thread Mike Clarke
On Saturday 25 October 2008, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: graphics/gimp-app misses a dependency: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2008-October/020978. html Install www/webkit-gtk2 and rebuild graphics/gimp-app. Please, report back if that solves the problem with gimp-help.

The FreeBSD Diary: 2008-10-05 - 2008-10-25

2008-10-25 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

sudo multiple commands at once without shell script

2008-10-25 Thread Kelly Jones
How do I run multiple sudo commands at once? This fails because the semicolon ends the whole sudo command: sudo whoami; whoami root user This confuses tcsh: monica:~ sudo ( whoami ; whoami ) Badly placed ()'s. I could obviously write a shell script or something or do: sudo whoami; sudo

Re: sudo multiple commands at once without shell script

2008-10-25 Thread perryh
How do I run multiple sudo commands at once? This fails because the semicolon ends the whole sudo command: sudo whoami; whoami root user This confuses tcsh: monica:~ sudo ( whoami ; whoami ) Badly placed ()'s. Supposing sudo spawns a shell, something like ~ sudo whoami \; whoami

Re: sudo multiple commands at once without shell script

2008-10-25 Thread Tom Marchand
This works for me: sudo sh -c whoami;whoami On Oct 25, 2008, at 9:11 PM, Kelly Jones wrote: How do I run multiple sudo commands at once? This fails because the semicolon ends the whole sudo command: sudo whoami; whoami root user This confuses tcsh: monica:~ sudo ( whoami ; whoami )

`mail'

2008-10-25 Thread Charles Darwin
Hi all, I need some help to get mail working on my mac: $ system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType |grep Version System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.5 (9F33) Kernel Version: Darwin 9.5.0 I would like to be able to send mail's within my own network as well as over the Internet. Here part of my

RE: How to restore a lost root password...

2008-10-25 Thread FBSD1
Go to www.a1poweruser.com and read section 13.7 Forgot Root password -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of DSA - JCR Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 9:56 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to restore a lost root password... Hi all

restrict FreeBSD users to their home directory

2008-10-25 Thread FBSD1
How do it configure FreeBSD to restrict users to their home directory? I don't want them to be able see any system directories or other users? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To