Re: what is your programming language on freebsd?

2008-11-07 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 17:10 06/11/2008, you wrote: Hi there, Earlier I was asking for some help getting XSP/ mod_mono on FreeBSD. I may be asking in the wrong mailing list, but my impression is that mono on FreeBSD is generally not a popular idea. To pose my questions to the developers in the FreeBSD community:

RE: Replace XP with FreeBSD (was Re: (no subject))

2008-11-07 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Hill Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 7:08 PM To: SAM HAYNES Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Replace XP with FreeBSD (was Re: (no subject)) On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, SAM HAYNES wrote:

Re: Hardware Raid + hot-replace failed disk

2008-11-07 Thread Frank Bonnet
Pieter Donche wrote: Suppose you have a system with multiple disks managed by a hardware RAID controller in a RAID5 of RAID6 configuration, To FreeBSD it will look like e.g. a single large drive. If you want to extend your disk space by plugging in an extra disk, the hardware RAID controller

Re: Hardware Raid + hot-replace failed disk

2008-11-07 Thread Pieter Donche
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Suppose you have a system with multiple disks managed by a hardware RAID controller in a RAID5 of RAID6 configuration, To FreeBSD it will look like e.g. a single large drive. what is RAID5 of RAID6??? RAID5 or RAID6 (sorry, typing error) If you

Re: Geom multipath

2008-11-07 Thread My Myself
Thanks!. I did know that there would be only one active path, but path switching doesnt seem to happen when one path fails. The behaviour is intermittent, so i was wondering if there are any kernel tunables that i could play with, like timeout variables etc.

Re: spell check - how to?

2008-11-07 Thread Robert Huff
Giorgos Keramidas writes: The main drawback of being unable to use the `freebsd' wordlist is that you will get many false positives for words that are perfectly valid for FreeBSD documentation but are not standard English words. I have a script which does something similar,

Re: eps to jpg conversion - which program?

2008-11-07 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Laszlo Nagy wrote: Hi, I need to convert eps files into jpeg files in batch mode. Gimp works perfectly, except that I cannot use an X display. I tried eps2png with no success: %file test.eps test.eps: DOS EPS Binary File Postscript starts at byte 30 length 566887 TIFF starts at byte

Re: eps to jpg conversion - which program?

2008-11-07 Thread Timm Wimmers
Laszlo Nagy schrieb: I need to convert eps files into jpeg files in batch mode. Gimp works perfectly, except that I cannot use an X display. I tried eps2png with no success: %file test.eps test.eps: DOS EPS Binary File Postscript starts at byte 30 length 566887 TIFF starts at byte

pkg_delete delete files even if md5 check fails

2008-11-07 Thread Johan Hendriks
How can i tell pkg_delete to delete all files of a package even if the md5 checks fail? Regards, Johan Hendriks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: pkg_delete delete files even if md5 check fails

2008-11-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 03:25:30PM +0100, Johan Hendriks wrote: How can i tell pkg_delete to delete all files of a package even if the md5 checks fail? Does the -f flag do this? -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: what is your programming language on freebsd?

2008-11-07 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Thursday 06 November 2008, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 12:10:41AM +0800, Foo JH wrote: Hi there, Earlier I was asking for some help getting XSP/ mod_mono on FreeBSD. I may be asking in the wrong mailing list, but my impression is that mono on FreeBSD is generally

Re: How to upgrade to KDE4

2008-11-07 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:26 PM, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:52:06 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the only thing that updated was the meta-port (I did a portupgrade -r too). Aside from the fact that there are separate kde meta-ports, portupgrade -r kde... updates the

FreeBSD 7/CURRENT and AutoFS or AMD (automounter) with OpenLDAP

2008-11-07 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello out there, I run into trouble. When looking for AutoFS in the net I find a lot about AutoFS on Linux and, surprisingly, for FreeBSD 6.X, but those messages are dated to the year 2004/2006. I'm running FreeBSD 7.X and FreeBSD 8.0-CUR boxes and tried to find something about AutoFS, but

FreeBSD 7/8 and AMD/automounter with LDAP support

2008-11-07 Thread O. Hartmann
Just sneaked through the /usr/src/contrib/amd code base of the amd automounter and found amd is naturally not built with LDAP support. Well, how can I configure 'make world' to automatically build 'amd' with LDAP support (as I can do this with sendmail being build with cyrus-sasl-support via

Preserving X forwarded applications

2008-11-07 Thread Roey Dror
I'm looking for a solution similar to the screen utility, but for X11. I want, for example, to burn a cd on a remote computer using some GUI application. If, for any reason, the network goes down while burning, I suppose I lose the whole thing. Same thing goes when editing a document. I know that

Re: Preserving X forwarded applications

2008-11-07 Thread Mel
On Friday 07 November 2008 18:01:28 Roey Dror wrote: Is there any way to make sure a X forwarded application won't die when my session is disconnected? Also, I would like to be able to reconnect the window when logging back in. Of course you can try to fiddle with X forwarding to do this,

RE: pkg_delete delete files even if md5 check fails

2008-11-07 Thread Johan Hendriks
Yes off course it does! I thought it only deleted the package even if other packages depends on it. Sorry for the somewhat stupid question. Regards, Johan Hendriks -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Jeremy Chadwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: vrijdag 7 november 2008 15:28 Aan:

Re: Hardware Raid + hot-replace failed disk

2008-11-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:35:39AM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Suppose you have a system with multiple disks managed by a hardware RAID controller in a RAID5 of RAID6 configuration, To FreeBSD it will look like e.g. a single large drive. what is

Re: How to upgrade to KDE4

2008-11-07 Thread mdh
--- On Fri, 11/7/08, Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to upgrade to KDE4 To: RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday, November 7, 2008, 9:49 AM On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:26 PM, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Confused About Linux Compatibility

2008-11-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I am attempting to install a Linux RPM of Legato's Networker Backup Client on FBSD 7.1 I do not know if this is possible but I hope so. :) I have followed instructions in the Handbook and http://www.linux.com/articles/53055. I am at the point of installing an appropriate linux_base port

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-07 Thread Al Plant
FBSD1 wrote: Looking for word processer that runs on xfce and can output document in ms/word format. Thanks for your help. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Openoffice 3.0.0 - spellchecker not functioning

2008-11-07 Thread Craig Butler
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 18:13 +, Mike Clarke wrote: I've installed en-openoffice.org-GB-3.0.0 from ports on my 6.4-RC1 system. The install, using the command portinstall -m LOCALIZED_LANG=en-GB -DWITH_KDE editors/openoffice.org-3, appeared to complete OK and I can run

eps to jpg conversion - which program?

2008-11-07 Thread Laszlo Nagy
Hi, I need to convert eps files into jpeg files in batch mode. Gimp works perfectly, except that I cannot use an X display. I tried eps2png with no success: %file test.eps test.eps: DOS EPS Binary File Postscript starts at byte 30 length 566887 TIFF starts at byte 566917 length 4741

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-07 Thread Frank Staals
FBSD1 wrote: Looking for word processer that runs on xfce and can output document in ms/word format. Thanks for your help. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: (no subject)

2008-11-07 Thread Michael Powell
SAM HAYNES wrote: Greetings, O Learned Ones from: Sam Haynes, Pathfinders 2008 I haven't the foggiest as to how you came to be in my favorites list, other than that I probably tagged you in an ongoing search for both or either something to replace Win XP and or build my own personal

host -6 failure

2008-11-07 Thread mdh
Howdy folks, I'm having a little trouble understanding a problem that the `host` command in RELENG_7_0 (very recent) is having. This is by and large my first time working with IPv6, which I've been meaning to learn for some time. First off, I've got my zone file configured to return a

Re: eps to jpg conversion - which program?

2008-11-07 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:36:51 +0100, Laszlo Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need to convert eps files into jpeg files in batch mode. Gimp works perfectly, except that I cannot use an X display. I tried eps2png with no success: You can use the convert command from ImageMagick:

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-07 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:37:21 +0100, Frank Staals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well not realy solution for the problem you mentioned. But if you have a bit of a programming background you may want to take a look at TeX/LaTeX for you documents. I know it may be like using a cannon to kill a fly

Re: what is your programming language on freebsd?

2008-11-07 Thread Roger Olofsson
Wojciech Puchar skrev: may be asking in the wrong mailing list, but my impression is that mono on FreeBSD is generally not a popular idea. To pose my questions to the developers in the FreeBSD community: 1. What programming language(s) do you deploy on FreeBSD? whatever i need. i personally

sudo, LDAP, and Kerberos

2008-11-07 Thread Darek M.
I'm setting up a centralized Kerberos/LDAP authentication system and trying to get sudo to use a) Kerberos for the password, and b) LDAP for a non-local user's group. Locally on a client system /etc/sudoers specifies %sysadmin to be able to sudo to root. I don't need to move sudoers to LDAP

Re: what is your programming language on freebsd?

2008-11-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
IMHO there are only three alternatives left these days when creativity seems to be fading C - the prince among languages and Eclipse + Java - the future already today. it's very sad that such crap like java have to be the future. unfortunately already it's popular.

Re: Confused About Linux Compatibility

2008-11-07 Thread Eitan Adler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Drew Tomlinson wrote: Bottom line, what linux_base port should I install and do I need to set this sysctl to something? I'm confused... If you have a recent 7-STABLE changing the linux kernel version to 2.6.16 and running -f8 should not be a

Re: Confused About Linux Compatibility

2008-11-07 Thread Boris Samorodov
Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am attempting to install a Linux RPM of Legato's Networker Backup Client on FBSD 7.1 I do not know if this is possible but I hope so. :) I have followed instructions in the Handbook and http://www.linux.com/articles/53055. I am at the point of

Re: Openoffice 3.0.0 - spellchecker not functioning

2008-11-07 Thread Nikola Lečić
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:17:25 + Craig Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 18:13 +, Mike Clarke wrote: I've installed en-openoffice.org-GB-3.0.0 from ports on my 6.4-RC1 system. The install, using the command

Re: Openoffice 3.0.0 - spellchecker not functioning

2008-11-07 Thread Mike Clarke
On Friday 07 November 2008, Nikola Lečić wrote: Happily, the instruction from the same page (DictOOo-Wizard, intended for OpenOffice.org-2) worked just fine in my OpenOffice-3. I downloaded   http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/diction aries/dicooo/DicOOo.sxw and

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:51:06AM +0200, Ross Cameron wrote: On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:34 AM, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Top posting is how Microsoft outlook works. Nothing I can do about it. sorry Ditch Outlook and use Evolution or Thunderbird or KMail or hell anything . .

Glob error?

2008-11-07 Thread Steve Watt
( Please cc: me on replies, as I can't keep up with traffic on -questions ) I did the following: % cd /tmp % mkdir -p a/dir1/new a/dir1/cur % mkdir -p b/dir1/new b/dir1/cur % mkdir -p c/dir1/new c/dir1/cur % ls -ld */dir1/new drwxrwxr-x 2 steve wheel 512 Nov 7 15:10 a/dir1/new/ % System

Re: (no subject)

2008-11-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 06:28:07AM -0500, Michael Powell wrote: If you are totally new to Linux/Unix and have zero experience and just want an easy, out of the box something other than XP you might try the latest incarnation of Kubuntu. I know in a FreeBSD list these comments are sacrilege,

Re: Glob error?

2008-11-07 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 15:13:03 -0800, Steve Watt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ( Please cc: me on replies, as I can't keep up with traffic on -questions ) I did the following: % cd /tmp % mkdir -p a/dir1/new a/dir1/cur % mkdir -p b/dir1/new b/dir1/cur % mkdir -p c/dir1/new c/dir1/cur % ls -ld

Re: Glob error?

2008-11-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 03:13:03PM -0800, Steve Watt wrote: ( Please cc: me on replies, as I can't keep up with traffic on -questions ) I did the following: % cd /tmp % mkdir -p a/dir1/new a/dir1/cur % mkdir -p b/dir1/new b/dir1/cur % mkdir -p c/dir1/new c/dir1/cur % ls -ld */dir1/new

Re: Openoffice 3.0.0 - spellchecker not functioning

2008-11-07 Thread Craig Butler
On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 22:01 +, Mike Clarke wrote: On Friday 07 November 2008, Nikola Lečić wrote: Happily, the instruction from the same page (DictOOo-Wizard, intended for OpenOffice.org-2) worked just fine in my OpenOffice-3. I downloaded

Re: Glob error?

2008-11-07 Thread Steve Watt
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:19:47PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 03:13:03PM -0800, Steve Watt wrote: ( Please cc: me on replies, as I can't keep up with traffic on -questions ) I did the following: % cd /tmp % mkdir -p a/dir1/new a/dir1/cur % mkdir -p

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-07 Thread Daniel Howard
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:51:06AM +0200, Ross Cameron wrote: On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:34 AM, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Top posting is how Microsoft outlook works. Nothing I can do about it. sorry Ditch

Re: Glob error?

2008-11-07 Thread Paul A. Procacci
Steve Watt wrote: ( Please cc: me on replies, as I can't keep up with traffic on -questions ) I did the following: % cd /tmp % mkdir -p a/dir1/new a/dir1/cur % mkdir -p b/dir1/new b/dir1/cur % mkdir -p c/dir1/new c/dir1/cur % ls -ld */dir1/new drwxrwxr-x 2 steve wheel 512 Nov 7 15:10

new idea: requiring php and java; maybe other ports...

2008-11-07 Thread Gary Kline
Yesterday while I was trying to read a newspaper article online using firefox yet-another idea struck me. This may/may not work with FreeBSD ... or is might be crafted for FBSD 1st and later ported to every other operating system. To avoid flames, I'll

Re: Confused About Linux Compatibility

2008-11-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Eitan Adler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Drew Tomlinson wrote: Bottom line, what linux_base port should I install and do I need to set this sysctl to something? I'm confused... If you have a recent 7-STABLE changing the linux kernel version to 2.6.16 and

Re: Confused About Linux Compatibility

2008-11-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Boris Samorodov wrote: Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am attempting to install a Linux RPM of Legato's Networker Backup Client on FBSD 7.1 I do not know if this is possible but I hope so. :) I have followed instructions in the Handbook and http://www.linux.com/articles/53055.

Messenger servers

2008-11-07 Thread Da Rock
I haven't checked the list for around a week- I'm still catching up! :) I'm trying to sort out a messenger server for work purposes, and although I've found a few I'm hoping some input from sysadmins who have deployed these might help our decision. I've found Gale, Jabberd2, OpenFire, and SJECS

Re: (no subject)

2008-11-07 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 19:45 -0500, SAM HAYNES wrote: Greetings, O Learned Ones from: Sam Haynes, Pathfinders 2008 I haven't the foggiest as to how you came to be in my favorites list, other than that I probably tagged you in an ongoing search for both or either something to replace Win

Re: Messenger servers

2008-11-07 Thread Steven Susbauer
Da Rock wrote: I haven't checked the list for around a week- I'm still catching up! :) I'm trying to sort out a messenger server for work purposes, and although I've found a few I'm hoping some input from sysadmins who have deployed these might help our decision. I've found Gale, Jabberd2,

Re: Glob error?

2008-11-07 Thread andrew clarke
On Fri 2008-11-07 15:13:03 UTC-0800, Steve Watt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: % mkdir -p a/dir1/new a/dir1/cur % mkdir -p b/dir1/new b/dir1/cur % mkdir -p c/dir1/new c/dir1/cur % ls -ld */dir1/new drwxrwxr-x 2 steve wheel 512 Nov 7 15:10 a/dir1/new/ What file system are you using?

install on Dell SMT-116B

2008-11-07 Thread S C
I'm trying to install 7.0-RELEASE from cd on a Dell SMT-116B, but it is hanging on GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider acd0 is iso9660/FreeBSD_INSTALL. Is this computer just incompatible with FreeBSD, or is there something I can do to get it working?

Port Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD?

2008-11-07 Thread Mike Price
Hello guys, Is there a port like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD? I would like to move to FreeBSD as soon as possible. Thanks, DEK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions