Re: kqueue

2002-09-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 11:07:04PM +0200, Michel Oosterhof wrote: > > Hello. > > Recently I started looking into kqueue(2), and to get to know the > interface better I attempted to turn usr.sbin/moused into a kqueue > program (replacing the main select() loop that reads the mouse > device). Sin

Simple Samba Question(?)

2002-09-24 Thread Scott R.
[I am not currently subscribed to this mailing list, so please 'cc:' me in any replies. Thank you.] I have a simple home network with one Windows XP machine and one FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE machine. I am trying to set up a Samba share on the FreeBSD machine that the WinXP box can read/write to.

Re: FTP site problems

2002-09-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 09:33:01PM -0400, Chris Chekay wrote: > Ah thank you very much Matthew for that help. Also i dont know if its > posted publicly on the web site, but might be a good idea to have that for > use older version uses. Thank you alot! > On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Matthew Seaman w

Re: Hey SEXY!

2002-09-24 Thread Jodana Cox
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Re: Waaaaaay OT, OpenOffice and page numbering... .

2002-09-24 Thread Gary D Kline
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 11:37:39PM -0400, Chris Griffiths wrote: > Gary D Kline ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Hi People, > > > > First, my apologies for this OT post... but I'm out of clues. > > The builtin docs don't make sense. Anybody know howto simply > > *number* pages

X crashes on i810

2002-09-24 Thread manish jain
25 Sep, 02 Dear Everyone, I have a Tomato motherboard (Baby AT) with an Intel 810 chipset and a Logitech FirstMouse+ (serial). I tried installing FreeBSD 4.6 a few days back on my system. When I try startx, the monitor goes blank and the LED on the monitor starts blinking. (Ctrl-Alt-BackSpa

X crashes on i810

2002-09-24 Thread manish jain
25 Sep, 02 Dear Everyone, I have a Tomato motherboard (Baby AT) with an Intel 810 chipset and a Logitech FirstMouse+ (serial). I tried installing FreeBSD 4.6 a few days back on my system. When I try startx, the monitor goes blank and the LED on the monitor starts blinking. (Ctrl-Alt-BackSpa

why tcp connects sleep?

2002-09-24 Thread .
Hi! I have strange situation. there are 2 tcpdumps in attaches, where I copy the same file of 44k length from 2 similar computers (kw, tw) to the third computer (banny). all 3 in the same switch, kw is 2 m apart from switch via copper, tw is 500 m apart from the switch via optic. banny is 2 m apa

FreeBSD based cluster

2002-09-24 Thread Igor Kulemzin
Hi, Is there way to build cluster with FreeBSD? I'm off the list. -- Wednesday, September 25, 2002 1:55:51 PM Best regards, Igor Kulemzin Amursky Crystall, http://www.kristal.ru E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber# [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 165511323 -> FreeBSD - The BEST upgrade you can

Re: Mplayer

2002-09-24 Thread Weston M. Price
The major problem I am having is that certain video encodings are not being recognized when I am pretty sure they should be. I am writing down all the ones that fail and will post when I am finished. Weston On Wednesday 25 September 2002 01:04 am, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 24

Re: front end to pkg_xxx

2002-09-24 Thread Adam Weinberger
/usr/ports/sysutils/barry you need a recent ports tree... it just got added within the last few days. -Adam >> (09.24.2002 @ 1753 PST): edscott wilson garcia said, in 0.3K: << > > I've been thinking about writing a gtk2 frontend for the pkg_ series of > programs (pkg_add, pkg_create, pkg_dele

Waaaaaay OT, OpenOffice and page numbering... .

2002-09-24 Thread Gary D Kline
Hi People, First, my apologies for this OT post... but I'm out of clues. The builtin docs don't make sense. Anybody know howto simply *number* pages when editing a file with OpenOffice? So far it's a very savvy and Cool w-processor; but how do you

Re: Mplayer

2002-09-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 24 September 2002 at 21:37:42 -0400, Dru wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 24 September 2002 at 21:10:12 -0400, Dru wrote: >>> Did you have to do any special magic to install mplayer in the first >>> place? I've tried on several occasions on

Re: VIA EPIA ITX MoBo

2002-09-24 Thread Marc Schneiders
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, at 20:48 [=GMT-0500], Steve Fettig wrote: > I have two coming this week slated for mini-backup machines. I can post > how things go as far as the installation and usage once I have the > machines running - if people are interested. Because the boards are > designed to run x

Re: VIA EPIA ITX MoBo

2002-09-24 Thread Steve Fettig
I have two coming this week slated for mini-backup machines. I can post how things go as far as the installation and usage once I have the machines running - if people are interested. Because the boards are designed to run x86 OS's and there have been many success stories regarding running W

Re: no xargs -i flag

2002-09-24 Thread Edwin Groothuis
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 06:48:15PM -0400, Peter Leftwich wrote: > I'm surprised that xargs has no flag for interactive mode (-i) so that the > command line will be echoed to the terminal asking [y/n/!] where y means yes > proceed and n means no stop now and ! would mean answer y to all remaining >

Re: Mplayer

2002-09-24 Thread Dru
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 24 September 2002 at 21:10:12 -0400, Dru wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 24 September 2002 at 20:37:27 +, Weston M. Price wrote: > >>> On Tuesday 24 September 2002 11:11 pm, you wrote:

Re: FTP site problems

2002-09-24 Thread Chris Chekay
Ah thank you very much Matthew for that help. Also i dont know if its posted publicly on the web site, but might be a good idea to have that for use older version uses. Thank you alot! On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 06:01:05PM -0400, Chris Chekay wrote: >

Re: Mplayer

2002-09-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 24 September 2002 at 21:10:12 -0400, Dru wrote: > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Tuesday, 24 September 2002 at 20:37:27 +, Weston M. Price wrote: >>> On Tuesday 24 September 2002 11:11 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday, 24 September 2002 at 15:24:00 +, Westo

sendmail failed message problem

2002-09-24 Thread Vinod
Can anyone tell me how i can get rid of the message "sendmail hostname sendamil[id]: gethostbyaddr(ip addr) failed: 1" i have sendmail disabled. Thanks in advance, Vinod __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yah

Re: Mplayer

2002-09-24 Thread Dru
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 24 September 2002 at 20:37:27 +, Weston M. Price wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 September 2002 11:11 pm, you wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 24 September 2002 at 15:24:00 +, Weston M. Price wrote: > >>> Hello, > >>> Does anyone have the

Re: OT: emacs command line switch

2002-09-24 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
thursday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am wondering if there is a switch available when starting emacs to have > it put you at the end of the buffer when you open the file, e.g., Well, there sorta is (in Xemacs, at least), but you'd be better off doing it the way Giorgos suggested. > emacs -

Re: Mplayer

2002-09-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 24 September 2002 at 20:37:27 +, Weston M. Price wrote: > On Tuesday 24 September 2002 11:11 pm, you wrote: >> On Tuesday, 24 September 2002 at 15:24:00 +, Weston M. Price wrote: >>> Hello, >>> Does anyone have the mplayer gui running. The man page says it >>> is gmplayer b

front end to pkg_xxx

2002-09-24 Thread edscott wilson garcia
I've been thinking about writing a gtk2 frontend for the pkg_ series of programs (pkg_add, pkg_create, pkg_delete, pkg_info, pkg_update, pkg_version) but maybe it's already been done. Has it been done before? Edscott Wilson Garcia To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscrib

Re: how to find executable files

2002-09-24 Thread Fernando Gleiser
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Peter Leftwich wrote: > Two questions, first is why doesn't this work, or is there a flag I can use > with "ls?" > > # find . -type f -perm +x > find: -perm: x: illegal mode string > # find . -type f -perm +x -print > find: -perm: x: illegal mode string You need to use the o

Re: lost vinum config

2002-09-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 25 September 2002 at 9:48:22 +1000, Pietralla, Siegfried P wrote: > hi all, > > i'm running 4.3 on partition ad0s3. i tried to install 4.6.2 on ad3s2 and > when i booted back up on ad0s3 i lost my vinum partition which lives in > ad3s4a ( i did not note down the error message :( so

lost vinum config

2002-09-24 Thread Pietralla, Siegfried P
hi all, i'm running 4.3 on partition ad0s3. i tried to install 4.6.2 on ad3s2 and when i booted back up on ad0s3 i lost my vinum partition which lives in ad3s4a ( i did not note down the error message :( so don't ask :) ). i did a ' dd if=/dev/ad3s4a | od -c ' and it looked as though my vinum con

Re: SOLVED: Problems installing from CD-ROM

2002-09-24 Thread Charles Pelletier
it really seems to be easier to install via ftp anyway. i've had that problem with multiple machines. just give up on cdroms. :-) --charlie pelletier --litmus(mp3.com/litmus) - Original Message - From: "Søren Neigaard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 24

Re: Recommended partitions for a 20 GB disk

2002-09-24 Thread Adam Weinberger
monkey@manifold:/% du -h bin 4.0Mbin monkey@manifold:/% du -h sbin 12Msbin i have a 75MB / partition, and i only use 58% of it. as long as /var, /tmp, and /home are separate partitions, / doesn't need to be big at all. practically the only thing that takes up space then is /root. so, no

Strange IPFW log message: Deny MAC in via ed0

2002-09-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
I've just started using IPFW2 on my FreeBSD 4.7-RC1 firewall, and I'm getting an entry in /var/log/security that I've not seen before: /kernel: ipfw: 2100 Deny MAC in via ed0 and /kernel: ipfw: 2100 Deny MAC in via fxp0 with ed0 and fxp0 being two of the active interfaces on that server.

Re: OT: emacs command line switch

2002-09-24 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 02:16:13AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-09-24 20:32, thursday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ahoy-hoy, > > > > I've been reading the copious Emacs documentation, but cannot find the > > answer to my question, so...I am hoping someone here can help my poor >

Re: changing subjects [in this manner]

2002-09-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-09-24T23:02:43Z, Peter Leftwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is mutt a lot like PINE? Yes, but with a more loyal following. > The thing is, I think I want just a client, not a daemon to move or copy > over my /var/mail/$USER from another box to my box at home (similar to > uucp or som

Re: how to find executable files

2002-09-24 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 07:13:51PM -0400, Peter Leftwich wrote: > Two questions, first is why doesn't this work, or is there a flag I can use > with "ls?" > > # find . -type f -perm +x > find: -perm: x: illegal mode string > # find . -type f -perm +x -print > find: -perm: x: illegal mode string

Re: no xargs -i flag

2002-09-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-09-24 18:48, Peter Leftwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm surprised that xargs has no flag for interactive mode (-i) so that the > command line will be echoed to the terminal asking [y/n/!] where y means yes > proceed and n means no stop now and ! would mean answer y to all remaining >

Re: OT: emacs command line switch

2002-09-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-09-24 20:32, thursday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ahoy-hoy, > > I've been reading the copious Emacs documentation, but cannot find the > answer to my question, so...I am hoping someone here can help my poor > frustrated self. > > I am wondering if there is a switch available when star

Re: Recommended partitions for a 20 GB disk

2002-09-24 Thread Mike Hogsett
/ can be 128M if you have separate /var and /tmp directories... Here is my local box : ; df -lh Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0a126M63M53M54%/ /dev/ad0f252M70M 162M30%/tmp /dev/ad0g 17G 5.0G11G31%/usr /dev/ad0

how to find executable files

2002-09-24 Thread Peter Leftwich
Two questions, first is why doesn't this work, or is there a flag I can use with "ls?" # find . -type f -perm +x find: -perm: x: illegal mode string # find . -type f -perm +x -print find: -perm: x: illegal mode string Question II: Is find always recursive (through subdirectories) or can this be

Re: Mplayer

2002-09-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 24 September 2002 at 15:24:00 +, Weston M. Price wrote: > Hello, > Does anyone have the mplayer gui running. The man page says it > is gmplayer but I cannot find a single reference to it on my > system. Thanks. Works fine for me, for a recent installation: $ pkg_info -L

Recommended partitions for a 20 GB disk

2002-09-24 Thread Søren Neigaard
I have gotten a new old server. The default patitions only leaves 128MB for '/', is that not a little to little? Do you guys have any recommendations? I will offcause place most things under '/usr', bu surely '/' must be able to contain quite some MB's too, after all 'bin' and 'sbin' are placed u

Re: Silly vinum question

2002-09-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 24 September 2002 at 10:49:34 -0400, Steve Shorter wrote: > Howdy! > > I have 2 disks on separate SCSI busses that are > striped to form a single vinum volume. They are recognized as > da0 and da1 > > I want to add 1 more disk to each SCSI buss and create > another striped

Re: changing subjects [in this manner]

2002-09-24 Thread Peter Leftwich
On 24 Sep 2002, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > PS - And that reminds me! Why am I still ssh'ing someplace and running > > pine when I could be running xpine and (probably) POP3s'ing my mail to my box!!! > Because you haven't discovered fetchmail and mutt yet? :) > Kirk Strauser Is mutt a lot like PINE

Re: changing subjects [in this manner]

2002-09-24 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > I meant the threads that are archived on the web, from the newsgroup side > > of this mailing list. > text below still applies (s/email client/favorite mail archive/) > > > It's up to your email client (not the mailinglist) to thread messages, I am

no xargs -i flag

2002-09-24 Thread Peter Leftwich
I'm surprised that xargs has no flag for interactive mode (-i) so that the command line will be echoed to the terminal asking [y/n/!] where y means yes proceed and n means no stop now and ! would mean answer y to all remaining promptings. If the command passed to xargs *includes* something like "

SOLVED: Problems installing from CD-ROM

2002-09-24 Thread Søren Neigaard
I have installed via ftp now, did not think about that :) I just choosed ftp in the menu from the booted CD. It's going to be a server, so who needs a CD-ROM anyway. Thanks for the replys :) OLD MESSAGE BELOW I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.6.2 from CD-ROM, and it boots just fine. But

mprof

2002-09-24 Thread Marc Hunter
Anybody here using mprof? I've built my program linking in the lib and it runs fine, creates mprof.data, but never puts anything in it... Special circumstances: my pgm is running as a daemon, and is using threads. Any help would be appreciated. Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROT

subscribe questions@freebsd.org

2002-09-24 Thread Mike Harris
subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mike Harris Thunder Network Tech Support To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

graphics/ogle build errors

2002-09-24 Thread La Temperanza
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/graphics/ogle/work/ogle-0.8.5/mpeg2_video' /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link cc -march=i686 -O -fforce-mem -fforce-addr -frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt -pipe -Wall -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -march=i686 -O -fforce-mem -fforce-addr -frerun

Re: Mplayer

2002-09-24 Thread Joshua Lokken
9/24/2002 1:07:02 PM, João Paulo Vasconcellos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I got it running once, in Linux, but I had to compile with "--enable-gui" or >stuff like that. After that, I got my gmplayer symlink and gui running fine. >Em Tuesday 24 September 2002 12:24, Weston M. Price escreveu: >>

Re: Mplayer

2002-09-24 Thread Wesley Morgan
This is a silly side question, but why do we have video players in the graphics subdir? When I think of graphics, I imagine pictures (stills). Why not a very convenient and much better suited /usr/ports/video? On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Adam Weinberger wrote: > if you're running a recent ports tree, >

Re: Mplayer

2002-09-24 Thread Fernando Gleiser
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Weston M. Price wrote: > Hello, > Does anyone have the mplayer gui running. The man page says it is > gmplayer but I cannot find a single reference to it on my system. Thanks. Try: mplayer -gui If that doesn't work, reinstall mplayer with the GUI options: cd /usr/p

Re: DVD software

2002-09-24 Thread Adam Weinberger
/usr/ports/graphics/mplayer, xine, and ogle i prefer ogle for watching dvds. ymmv, of course. -Adam >> (09.24.2002 @ 0008 PST): [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, in 0.2K: << > Isn't there DVD software in FreeBSD? > > Thanks! > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe fre

Re: Mplayer

2002-09-24 Thread Adam Weinberger
if you're running a recent ports tree, cd /usr/ports/graphics/mplayer && make -DWITH_GUI install clean -Adam >> (09.24.2002 @ 0824 PST): Weston M. Price said, in 0.3K: << > Hello, > Does anyone have the mplayer gui running. The man page says it is gmplayer > but I cannot find a

kqueue

2002-09-24 Thread Michel Oosterhof
Hello. Recently I started looking into kqueue(2), and to get to know the interface better I attempted to turn usr.sbin/moused into a kqueue program (replacing the main select() loop that reads the mouse device). Now I thought I understood the interface, I requested a kqueue, but as soon as I ad

Re: Chroot

2002-09-24 Thread Brossin Pierrick
|| Your first half made total sense, and I was able to lock the root || user in /home/developer when || chroot was executed. || Your second half however, is not clicking with me at the moment. || Here is what I did || 1. Under /home/developer/bin create a new file (my_sh) with this -> || #!/b

OT: emacs command line switch

2002-09-24 Thread thursday
Ahoy-hoy, I've been reading the copious Emacs documentation, but cannot find the answer to my question, so...I am hoping someone here can help my poor frustrated self. I am wondering if there is a switch available when starting emacs to have it put you at the end of the buffer when you open t

Re: Chroot

2002-09-24 Thread Gerard Samuel
Well I figured out why my example below wouldn't work. So this is one for the archive for others who may try what I was doing... chroot can only be executed by root, and the shell is executed by the user logging in, thus a no go. So the method of using chroot and or jail doesn't seem to make se

Re: DVD software

2002-09-24 Thread John Bleichert
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 15:08:01 +0800 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: DVD software > > Isn't there DVD software in FreeBSD? > > Thanks! > A quick search at http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html turned up 'ogle' a

Re: Can IPFW keep state after a flush?

2002-09-24 Thread dfolkins
- Original Message - From: "Kirk Strauser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 12:43 PM Subject: Can IPFW keep state after a flush? > From what I can tell, ipfw's 'flush' command clears the ruleset *and* the > current list of dynamic (keep-state)

Re: DVD software

2002-09-24 Thread João Paulo Vasconcellos
You can use mplayer from ports to watch DVD, VCD, and stuff like that. Em Tuesday 24 September 2002 04:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: > Isn't there DVD software in FreeBSD? > > Thanks! > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the

Re: DVD software

2002-09-24 Thread Jim Mock
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 at 15:08:01 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Isn't there DVD software in FreeBSD? cd /usr/ports && make search key=dvd - jim -- jim mock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freeb

Re: Mplayer

2002-09-24 Thread João Paulo Vasconcellos
I got it running once, in Linux, but I had to compile with "--enable-gui" or stuff like that. After that, I got my gmplayer symlink and gui running fine. Em Tuesday 24 September 2002 12:24, Weston M. Price escreveu: > Hello, > Does anyone have the mplayer gui running. The man page says

DVD software

2002-09-24 Thread vanceyogi
Isn't there DVD software in FreeBSD? Thanks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Can IPFW keep state after a flush?

2002-09-24 Thread D. Penev
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 11:43:19AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Can IPFW keep state after a flush? >From: Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 24 Sep 2002 11:43:19 -0500 > >>From what I can tell, ipfw's 'flush' command clears the ruleset *and* the >current list

4.6.2 filesystem efficiency

2002-09-24 Thread Matthias Trevarthan
Hi. My company runs FreeBSD 4.6.2 on three different servers. Two of these servers handle a good bit of mail. Currently we use sendmail, but we're moving towards a switch to qmail and maildir. I think maildir will significantly increase the number of files on our disk. We may have to increas

Problems installing from CD-ROM

2002-09-24 Thread Søren Neigaard
I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.6.2 from CD-ROM, and it boots just fine. But when I chose to install from CD-ROM, it says that it can't find my CD-ROM. What can I do? I'm not sure what vendor/model my CD-ROM is (I'm compleet stupid when it comes to hardware), but it says VUEGO 36x MAX. Does that

Re: Graphical Interface?

2002-09-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 01:53:50PM -0400, Mooney Potter wrote: > I am used to shells only on FreeBSD and does FreeBSD have a windows > graphical interface like Mandrake? You can run exactly the same graphical interface on FreeBSD as Mandrake. > Cause I'm looking for a OS with text commands not

Re: Is there anything like Linux Virtual Server Project for FreeBSD

2002-09-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 04:10:14PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi all, > > Anyone know if there is something similar to the Linux Virtual Server Project > for FreeBSD? It would help if you explain what this is. Kris msg02701/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Mplayer

2002-09-24 Thread Weston M. Price
Hello, Does anyone have the mplayer gui running. The man page says it is gmplayer but I cannot find a single reference to it on my system. Thanks. Weston To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

sendmail default relaying?

2002-09-24 Thread Chris Smith
Hi, I assume sendmail allows only local relaying by default on 4.6.2 ? I just built a mail server using the default config + smarthost define. Is this safe? Cheers, - Chris. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux || Possibly wrong list

2002-09-24 Thread Weston M. Price
Hello, One of the major caveats to the FreeBSD--Linux compatibility is Java applications. This may just be in my case, but I am having absolutely no luck getting a lot of Java based applications to work on FreeBSD that work just fine on Solaris and Linux. Also, multimedia stuff is also

NIS + OpenLDAP + ypldapd

2002-09-24 Thread Eric Anderson
Has anyone gotten this to work? I'm struggling with the LDAP setup - any good pointers (for an LDAP newbie)? I have NIS running currently, and would like to move to LDAP (and use the ypldapd to bandaid things in the transitional phases). Eric --

Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux || Possibly wrong list

2002-09-24 Thread Jud
-Original Message- From: Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: MET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:37:50 +0200 Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux || Possibly wrong list On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 02:24:48PM -0400, MET wrote: [snip] > > 2) Since FreeBSD offers its 'Linux Compatib

Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux || Possibly wrong list

2002-09-24 Thread Mark Haney
>1) What is the BIG difference between FreeBSD and Linux? Is it truly a >'big' difference, or do people just exaggerate the truth? > >2) Since FreeBSD offers its 'Linux Compatibility' - will that allow me >to use programs that were written on and for a Red Hat version of Linux? Matthew, I fou

Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux || Possibly wrong list

2002-09-24 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 02:24:48PM -0400, MET wrote: > I've been doing a LOT of reading, and I can't seem to find anything > resembling a clear answer. The one truth I've found is this, there are > more 'stupid' Linux users than there are FreeBSD users. So I figured That is just because there a

Re: Partitions

2002-09-24 Thread Jud
-Original Message- From: "John Wards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:25:51 +0100 Subject: Partitions Hi, I need to resize my XP partition so i can install FreeBSD. I have looked at loads of partition software but they all want me to pay for it and

FreeBSD vs. Linux || Possibly wrong list

2002-09-24 Thread MET
I've been doing a LOT of reading, and I can't seem to find anything resembling a clear answer. The one truth I've found is this, there are more 'stupid' Linux users than there are FreeBSD users. So I figured I'd ask this to a FreeBSD mailing list, as opposed to a Linux one. 1) What is the BIG

Re: Graphical Interface?

2002-09-24 Thread Jud
-Original Message- From: "Mooney Potter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:53:50 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Graphical Interface? I am used to shells only on FreeBSD and does FreeBSD have a windows graphical interface like Mandrake? Cause I'm looking for a OS

Graphical Interface?

2002-09-24 Thread Mooney Potter
I am used to shells only on FreeBSD and does FreeBSD have a windows graphical interface like Mandrake? Cause I'm looking for a OS with text commands not much grapical interface. -xachen _ http://fastmail.ca/ - Fast Secure Web E

Re: Chroot

2002-09-24 Thread Gerard Samuel
Your first half made total sense, and I was able to lock the root user in /home/developer when chroot was executed. Your second half however, is not clicking with me at the moment. Here is what I did 1. Under /home/developer/bin create a new file (my_sh) with this -> #!/bin/sh /home/develo

help out with internetpage

2002-09-24 Thread Josef El-Rayes
hi! i study computer science in austria and i am a convinced user of freebsd, therefore i would like to help out. altough i have some coding skills, i fear there are not good enough for helping you with the code ouf freebsd itself, but i have well knowledge of html & php, so i wish to help you wi

Re: Chroot

2002-09-24 Thread Roman Neuhauser
> On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 12:01, Gerard Samuel wrote: > > Im trying to figure out how to restrict users from leaving their > > home directories. > > I would enter the new directory /usr/home/developer and issue the > > chroot command -> > > > > hivemind# chroot /usr/home/developer > > chroot: /bin/

PS/2 Mouse wheel

2002-09-24 Thread Richard Jones
FreeBSD daedalus.info-plc.com 4.6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Aug 14 21:23:26 GMT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 Hi, I'm really struggling to get the mousewheel working on one of my FreeBSD boxen. I have two PC's connected with an unbranded KVM switcher, b

Re: Init & ttys(5) file = Keeping script alive?

2002-09-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 02:51:47PM +0200, Jimmy Lantz wrote: > "Init can also be used to keep arbitrary daemons running, automatically > restarting them if they die. In this case, the first field in the ttys(5) > file must not reference the path to a configured device node and will be > passed

Strange Behavior with ALL Java based GUI applications

2002-09-24 Thread Weston M. Price
Hello, I am having an awful time with any sort of Java application that requires a graphical user interface. I am using the native JVM 1.3.1 provided in the ports collection. If I try to run ANY of the following applications: RealPlayer Eclipse JEdit Forte etc. I get errors such as Warn

Can IPFW keep state after a flush?

2002-09-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
>From what I can tell, ipfw's 'flush' command clears the ruleset *and* the current list of dynamic (keep-state) rules. Is there any way to ask ipfw to flush only the ruleset, but to leave the dynamic rules intact? Ideally, ipfw could be made to compare the curreny dynamic rules against any new r

Re: Chroot

2002-09-24 Thread Brossin Pierrick
Hi, || Im trying to figure out how to restrict users from leaving their home || directories. || I would enter the new directory /usr/home/developer and issue the || chroot command -> || hivemind# chroot /usr/home/developer || chroot: /bin/csh: No such file or directory It's because a chrooted di

Re: ports dont build: WTF

2002-09-24 Thread Adam Weinberger
can you please send me the file you use to cvsup? i suspect that is where the problem lies. -Adam >> (09.24.2002 @ 0805 PST): anon user said, in 0.9K: << > hi , iam a freeBSD noobie. i've tried to build some > ports. like kdevelop-1.4.1.tar.gz and vice-1.2.tar.gz > they error out .. stop .. wel

Re: Chroot

2002-09-24 Thread Jeff Neuffer Jr.
I'm interested in this as well. I now that the ftp daemon in OBSD will chroot and that is nice when a user only have FTP access. Thanks, Jeff On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 12:01, Gerard Samuel wrote: > Im trying to figure out how to restrict users from leaving their home > directories. > I would ente

Partitions

2002-09-24 Thread John Wards
Hi, I need to resize my XP partition so i can install FreeBSD. I have looked at loads of partition software but they all want me to pay for it and I don't see the point as I will only be using it once! Does anyone know of any partion software that will resize my XP partition for free! Cheers Jo

Re: ports dont build: WTF

2002-09-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
> hi , iam a freeBSD noobie. i've tried to build some ports. like > kdevelop-1.4.1.tar.gz and vice-1.2.tar.gz they error out .. stop .. well > crap !! .. so wtf is up with this stuff ?? .. i've tried cvsup it > connects says its doing it , but i dont get any version changes. also > tried portupg

Re: ports dont build: WTF

2002-09-24 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-24 08:54:41 -0700: > anon user wrote: > >hi , iam a freeBSD noobie. i've tried to build some > >ports. like kdevelop-1.4.1.tar.gz and vice-1.2.tar.gz > >they error out .. stop .. well crap !! .. so wtf is > >up with this stuff ?? .. i've tried cvsup it connects > >s

Chroot

2002-09-24 Thread Gerard Samuel
Im trying to figure out how to restrict users from leaving their home directories. I would enter the new directory /usr/home/developer and issue the chroot command -> hivemind# chroot /usr/home/developer chroot: /bin/csh: No such file or directory What am I doing wrong?? Also when this is set,

Re: ports dont build: WTF

2002-09-24 Thread Kent Stewart
anon user wrote: > hi , iam a freeBSD noobie. i've tried to build some > ports. like kdevelop-1.4.1.tar.gz and vice-1.2.tar.gz > they error out .. stop .. well crap !! .. so wtf is > up with this stuff ?? .. i've tried cvsup it connects > says its doing it , but i dont get any version > change

Is there anything like Linux Virtual Server Project for FreeBSD

2002-09-24 Thread r . brighenti
Hi all, Anyone know if there is something similar to the Linux Virtual Server Project for FreeBSD? Cheers Ray Corpex Limited * email virus protection * Server Co-Location UK & Germany* Web Site Hosting * Domain Name Services http://www.corpex.com T +44 (0)207 430 8000 F +44(0)207 430

ports dont build: WTF

2002-09-24 Thread anon user
hi , iam a freeBSD noobie. i've tried to build some ports. like kdevelop-1.4.1.tar.gz and vice-1.2.tar.gz they error out .. stop .. well crap !! .. so wtf is up with this stuff ?? .. i've tried cvsup it connects says its doing it , but i dont get any version changes. also tried portupgrade , it

Silly vinum question

2002-09-24 Thread Steve Shorter
Howdy! I have 2 disks on separate SCSI busses that are striped to form a single vinum volume. They are recognized as da0 and da1 I want to add 1 more disk to each SCSI buss and create another striped vinum volume, but keep the initial vinum volume intact. The issue ...

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Init & ttys(5) file = Keeping script alive?

2002-09-24 Thread Jimmy Lantz
Hi All, I have a script that I need to run all the time and restart if it would die. I've seen that the init in the man at least offers the capabilities to run and restart scripts. So now I've been searching the web for a great while for expales of using the Init as described in man. "Init can

Re: Writing a start / stop script (getting pid)

2002-09-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Pascal Giannakakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm sorry, i searched for "PID" in the manpage... The man page uses the full term "process ID". See '-p'. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

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