Minimum base and X footprint

2003-06-15 Thread iLLfated
Lo all, I recently obtained a 486/75 toshiba satellite laptop. It has a 300MB HD in it. I have debian installed on it currently with basic networking tools, nmap, netcat, dig, whois, traceroute, tcpdump, etc... I also have X, fluxbox Epic4, Links, ssh, vim and a few other progies. I was

The FreeBSD Diary: 2003-05-25 - 2003-06-14

2003-06-15 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 mailing list

HowTo repair my console fonts/kbd ?

2003-06-15 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hello List! Since some cvsup three or four weeks ago my text-console on -CURRENT is a complete mess (on previous versions of -CURRENT everything worked fine). Here are some symptoms: - special characters (you need for drawing neat lines in /stand/sysinstall or the midnight-commander) display

How to install gnucash in Gnome2 environment

2003-06-15 Thread Glenn Todd
I have successfully installed Gnome2 and have got a majority of my applications going. However, I want to continue to use gnucash. On doing a portinstall of gnucash 1.8.4 I noted that gnome1, and gnumeric1 was being installed as dependencies. I aborted the install process expecting that to

Troubleshooting USB printer detection

2003-06-15 Thread Xavier de Labouret
Hello, My USB printer, an HP Photosmart P1115, is desperately seen by FreeBSD as a ugen device, i can't get it to be seen as an ulpt device. Any help would be much appreciated, i have been trying various tricks without success. And my wife will only shift from Linux if she can print on

Re: xterm questions

2003-06-15 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 06:55:05PM -0700, Mikko Ty?l?j?rvi wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Alex de Kruijff wrote: I have a configuration question about how to change the default selecting proces. I would like it when i select a URL (with a double click), that it select the whole URL instead

miniinst and livefs cd merged into a single cd

2003-06-15 Thread Joost Bekkers
Hi I recently merged the 5.1-RELEASE miniinst and livefs (fixit) cd into a single cd. And I was wondering if there is any demand for this kind of thing in the community. I don't have the resourses to put a file this large (503MB, 308M .gz) online somewhere, but I'll be happy to upload it

Re: HowTo repair my console fonts/kbd ?

2003-06-15 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, P. U. Kruppa wrote: Hello List! Since some cvsup three or four weeks ago my text-console on -CURRENT is a complete mess (on previous versions of -CURRENT everything worked fine). Here are some symptoms: - special characters (you need for drawing neat lines in

Error compiling evolution 1.4.0

2003-06-15 Thread S. Niunco
Hello guys, I'm trying to compile version 1.4.0 of Evolution, however at some stage I receive the following error: In file included from alarm-notify-dialog.c:38: /usr/X11R6/include/gtkhtml/gtkhtml.h:28: libgnome/gnome-paper.h: No such file or directory In file included from

diskless: FBSD 5.1 fails, 5.0 and 4.8 do it

2003-06-15 Thread Hartmann, O.
Hello. Our setup for a cluster and a bunch of diskless terminals utilizes a DHCP and NFS server to do the job. Each client boots via PXE (Intel NICs) and then mounts its root filesystem via NFS. This setup works now for a really long time but it doesn't with rcNG!! Using the new style setup with

Re: Output from `pkg_info`

2003-06-15 Thread Konrad Scorciapino
Hi, Fixed a few weeks ago. But what is the solution? Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problem compiling imap+php

2003-06-15 Thread Jez Hancock
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 07:47:49PM -0400, Scott Kupferschmidt wrote: Hello, I saw a post regarding IMAP the other day on the questions list, so I thought others might be trying to do the same as me and give me a heads up on what might be wrong here. I am trying to compile PHP 4.3.2 with

Modem

2003-06-15 Thread Claudiu Bichir
I would like to know if only serial modems are working with freebsd. I have an Aztech UM9800 external modem. It has a USB port.Will it work with freebsd ? - Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! ___

want to interrupt installing through ports

2003-06-15 Thread Kei Ikeda
Hi, I'm installing original gnome through ports right now. However, It won't finish so far and I found Japanese version gnome which is better for me. So I'd liketo interrupt installing original gnome. If I do it, is it possible to make deinstall original gnome properly?

Two Questions

2003-06-15 Thread Ben Shin
1. I use booteasy to allow me to boot between FreeBSD and Win 2k. However, the boot menu has ?? when referring to Win 2k. Is there any way I can configure booteasy so that it'll display Windows 2000? 2. Whenever KDE starts, the GNOME top menu and bottom slide bar comes up. It is quite

Re: Procmail isn't handing off mail like it should.

2003-06-15 Thread David Banning
user2 and user3 in an effort to filter their mail as well, then forward it off to each one's respective mail accounts. The process is being run as user1 from cron rather than as root. All works fine except no mail is being filtered for either user2 or user3. It's basically coming in, and

Rack Recommendations

2003-06-15 Thread Troy
Hello, Has anyone had any good experiences with rack equipment vendors, cases motherboards and everything else, enough to recommend them? If so could you recommend them to me? I just want some recommendations before starting to shell out money. Thanks, Troy

Re: miniinst and livefs cd merged into a single cd

2003-06-15 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 11:31:33AM +0200 or thereabouts, Joost Bekkers seemed to write: Hi I recently merged the 5.1-RELEASE miniinst and livefs (fixit) cd into a single cd. And I was wondering if there is any demand for this kind of thing in the community. I don't have the resourses to

Re: want to interrupt installing through ports

2003-06-15 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 01:11:00AM +0900 or thereabouts, Kei Ikeda seemed to write: Hi, I'm installing original gnome through ports right now. However, It won't finish so far and I found Japanese version gnome which is better for me. So I'd liketo interrupt installing original gnome. If I

Re: Error compiling evolution 1.4.0

2003-06-15 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 05:48, S. Niunco wrote: Hello guys, I'm trying to compile version 1.4.0 of Evolution, however at some stage I receive the following error: In file included from alarm-notify-dialog.c:38: /usr/X11R6/include/gtkhtml/gtkhtml.h:28: libgnome/gnome-paper.h: No such file or

Re: Two Questions

2003-06-15 Thread Joshua Oreman
[Please read http://www.lemis.com/email/questions.html] [In particular: wrap lines at 72-chars or so, ask only one question per email, and put on a meaningful subject.] On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 12:13:15PM -0400 or thereabouts, Ben Shin seemed to write: 1. I use booteasy to allow me to boot

Re: * FreeBSD AntiVirus Solutions *

2003-06-15 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello Bill I've read your posting about Sophos and FreeBSD. I'm also interessted about it. How do you use it: on clients, on servers or on mail servers? Am Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 09:50:19PM -0400 Bill Moran schrieb: Olivier Nicole wrote: We have noticed that Kaspersky and Sophos are placed at

dvorak keyboard, single-user mode

2003-06-15 Thread sd
In single-user mode, such as when fsck detects errors at boot time, how does one enable the dvorak keyboard by default (so that the dvorak keyboard layout will be used whenever the system is in single-user mode) or manually? Thank you, Steve Doonan Portales, NM US --

Re: want to interrupt installing through ports

2003-06-15 Thread Kei Ikeda
Dear Josh, I hit ^C and I confirmed that I didn't have to make deinstall. I mean, as you said, it didn't install itself yet. Thanks a lot. - Original Message - From: Joshua Oreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kei Ikeda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 1:35

Re: Minimum base and X footprint

2003-06-15 Thread peter lageotakes
Hello, I ran into this link a few days ago, its about building a minBSD. Its geared toward FreeBSD. Hope that helps. FYI: I havent tried it. http://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html#t1 Pete --- iLLfated [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lo all, I recently obtained a 486/75 toshiba satellite laptop.

[no subject]

2003-06-15 Thread ase
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I currently have an APC Smart-UPS 1000, It is connected to my win2k machine using a serial cable and using power chute I can have the computer shutdown when the battery gets low. There are 3 computers connected to it, my FreeBSD server, my

Re: Error compiling evolution 1.4.0

2003-06-15 Thread S. Niunco
It didn't help. Other suggestions? On 15 Jun 2003 12:38:18 -0400 Joe Marcus Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 05:48, S. Niunco wrote: Hello guys, I'm trying to compile version 1.4.0 of Evolution, however at some stage I receive the following error: In file

Re: your mail

2003-06-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 01:23:18PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I currently have an APC Smart-UPS 1000, It is connected to my win2k machine using a serial cable and using power chute I can have the computer shutdown when the battery gets low. There are 3 computers connected to

Re: Error compiling evolution 1.4.0

2003-06-15 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 16:31, S. Niunco wrote: It didn't help. Other suggestions? Remove /usr/X11R6/include/gtkhtml Joe On 15 Jun 2003 12:38:18 -0400 Joe Marcus Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 05:48, S. Niunco wrote: Hello guys, I'm trying to compile version

Re: * FreeBSD AntiVirus Solutions *

2003-06-15 Thread Bill Moran
Martin Schweizer wrote: Hello Bill I've read your posting about Sophos and FreeBSD. I'm also interessted about it. How do you use it: on clients, on servers or on mail servers? Currently we're only using it as a mail server solution, via Amavis. The cost of the individual client setups has

GPIO support?

2003-06-15 Thread Jay West
I can't seem to find any mention in the mailing list archives or in the hardware lists for freebsd 4.8 about GPIO cards? I need to interface to a PCI card which provides around 24 bidirectional TTL level channels, maybe a clock line or two (haven't selected a card yet). I find it hard to believe

RE: X doesn't work

2003-06-15 Thread Scott Miller
I am using the GeForce2 driver that came with FreeBSD 5. -Original Message- From: peter lageotakes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 51 PM To: Scott Miller; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: X doesn't work Hello Scott, Are you using the FreeBSD/Linux driver for X?

RE: X doesn't work

2003-06-15 Thread Scott Miller
ctrl-alt backspace does work, so X is not really locked. The screen just has junk. Since Dell provides no information about the display, any ideas on how to determine the correct rates? Thanks, Scott -Original Message- From: Daniela [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 14,

Re: more transparent proxy and squid questions.

2003-06-15 Thread Andrew Thomson
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 09:47:09AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Yes. You've got the right idea. hmm.. i have encountered some difficulties ;) so now i'm seeking some more advice.. i have the following rules on my firewall: 10561 skipto 11000 ip from 192.168.1.2 to any 10562 fwd

Re: X doesn't work

2003-06-15 Thread Jud
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 16:18:38 -0700, Scott Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ctrl-alt backspace does work, so X is not really locked. The screen just has junk. Since Dell provides no information about the display, any ideas on how to determine the correct rates? Thanks, Scott Have you tried

Re: more transparent proxy and squid questions.

2003-06-15 Thread Bill Moran
Andrew Thomson wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 09:47:09AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Yes. You've got the right idea. hmm.. i have encountered some difficulties ;) so now i'm seeking some more advice.. i have the following rules on my firewall: 10561 skipto 11000 ip from 192.168.1.2 to any 10562

Re: Output from `pkg_info`

2003-06-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 11:46:38AM -0300, Konrad Scorciapino wrote: Hi, Fixed a few weeks ago. But what is the solution? Upgrade to newer sources and rebuild the affected packages if you want (it's only a cosmetic issue). Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

ipfirewall_forward

2003-06-15 Thread Andrew Thomson
i'm working on setting up a transparent squid proxy. would like to clarify what the forward stuff actually does.. this is what I thought was happening.. ipfw2 initialized, divert enabled, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to accept, logging unlimited 00500 fwd 192.168.1.2 tcp from any to

X Desktop

2003-06-15 Thread Ben Shin
Is there a way to change the desktop (i.e. KDE, GNOME, WM) on a user-by-user basis? _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus

Re: ipfirewall_forward

2003-06-15 Thread Andrew Thomson
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:09:34AM +1000, Andrew Thomson wrote: i'm working on setting up a transparent squid proxy. would like to clarify what the forward stuff actually does.. this is what I thought was happening.. ipfw2 initialized, divert enabled, rule-based forwarding enabled,

(no subject)

2003-06-15 Thread GardianofNight
Hello im trying to download a copy of unix from the site. i have got to: 2.13.1 Creating an installation CDROM As part of each release, the FreeBSD project makes available five CDROM images (``ISO images''). These images can be written (``burned'') to CDs if you have a CD writer, and then

Re: X Desktop

2003-06-15 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 08:10:51PM -0400 or thereabouts, Ben Shin seemed to write: Is there a way to change the desktop (i.e. KDE, GNOME, WM) on a user-by-user basis? For KDE: $ echo exec startkde ~user/.xinitrc For GNOME: $ echo exec gnome-session ~user/.xinitrc For another WM: $ echo exec

Re: (no subject)

2003-06-15 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 15 June 2003 05:39 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello im trying to download a copy of unix from the site. i have got to: 2.13.1 Creating an installation CDROM As part of each release, the FreeBSD project makes available five CDROM images (``ISO images''). These images can be

Re: (no subject)

2003-06-15 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 08:39:08PM -0400 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] seemed to write: Hello im trying to download a copy of unix from the site. i have got to: 2.13.1 Creating an installation CDROM As part of each release, the FreeBSD project makes available five CDROM images

Re: Which ISO to downlaod (was (no subject))

2003-06-15 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello im trying to download a copy of unix from the site. i have got to: 2.13.1 Creating an installation CDROM As part of each release, the FreeBSD project makes available five CDROM images (``ISO images''). These images can be written (``burned'') to CDs if you

Sendmail Authentication Problem

2003-06-15 Thread Gary K Stinnett Jr
I have been trying to get smtp authentication to work with Sendmail I have looked over and tried many times to install sasl and go through the directions on the following freebsd web page http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html When I get to the point of make

Re: X configuration problem (was: [no subject] on -hackers)

2003-06-15 Thread Joshua Oreman
[Moved to -questions] Please read http://www.lemis.com/email/questions.html for some email guidelines for the list. On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 08:12:47PM -0400 or thereabouts, Derek Santamassino seemed to write: Hi, I need some help with FreeBSD 4.8 Release. I installed FreeBSD. It does not

Re: more transparent proxy and squid questions.

2003-06-15 Thread Rapier
From what you've said you have natd enabled,instead of redirecting with ipfw you shoud redirect with natd!man natd On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:41:05 +1000 Andrew Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 09:47:09AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Yes. You've got the right

Moving users

2003-06-15 Thread Richard Beyer
Hi, I need to move users from one machine to another and keep their passwords intact. I've added a test user to Server-Source and a test user to Server-Destination and copied the password hash from /etc/master.password on Server-Source and pasted it into master.password on Server-Destination,

Re: UNIX programming platform

2003-06-15 Thread Joel Rees
Dear list, I would like to hear your opinions about your favorite UNIX programming platform. *nix;) The kind of programming I am more interested is system and network programming. Pick one that is accessible to you and dig in. I've found myself liking the BSDs more than the Linuxes,

burncd and PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-105

2003-06-15 Thread Matthew Grooms
Hello all, I was hoping I could get some help ... I just purchased a spanky new dvd/cdrw, threw it in my freebsd box ( 4.7-release ) and proceeded to burncd myself a freebsd 5.1 iso when I got this message ... -bash-2.05b$ burncd -f /dev/acd0c data 5.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso fixate next

Can I delete a partition (or is it a slice?)

2003-06-15 Thread Roger Merritt
I have a chance to get my hands on a 4-GB hard drive that's being replaced by a 40-GB drive. My other machine really needs more space (it also has a 4-GB drive), and I'd like to move the /usr/home slice (or is it partition?) to the new(er) HDD and delete the /usr/home slice from the older

key barriers

2003-06-15 Thread Thanjee Neefam
Hello, I have a friend who is a Debian Linux user and I have been having a discussion with him about using FreeBSD. He wrote me a list of his concerns with changing to FreeBSD. I don't want to give him any incorrect answers or incorrect information. So could someone more knowledgable than me

VESA modes inexplicably not available on Matrox p750 ?

2003-06-15 Thread Josh Brooks
There is a new matrox card (with triple head support) available - the Matrox Millenium p750. Forget the triple/dual head features - I have not even loaded X yet - I just want a reasonable test console mode to do console work in. Unlike many ATI Rage cards (especially in dell laptops ?) this

Re: Moving users

2003-06-15 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 02:40:02PM +1000, Richard Beyer typed: Hi, I need to move users from one machine to another and keep their passwords intact. I've added a test user to Server-Source and a test user to Server-Destination and copied the password hash from /etc/master.password on

Re: Can I delete a partition (or is it a slice?)

2003-06-15 Thread Scott Kupferschmidt
Hello, You could simply format the new disk and mount it as /usr/home. However, you would have to mount it elsewhere temporarily to move the real /usr/home data to this new partition. I would really have to see your fstab file to see how you got it set up, but even if you have an existing