lseek problem

2004-06-06 Thread Tim Pushor
Hi all, I am working on porting an old system over to FreeBSD, and am having a weird (to me) problem. This system uses various data file types, and unfortunately it uses the group_id execution bit (but no execute) on a data file to signify a sequential type file (mode 2440). I have stepped

Re: starting Konqueror from the command line

2004-06-06 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:01 pm, Jay Moore wrote: On Sunday 06 June 2004 12:46 am, Bruce Hunter wrote: This oughta' be easy, but I've been unable to find any documentation on it... I'm using bluefish as an html editor. I don't have mozilla installed (don't really want it), and

Sending a message to another computer on the network

2004-06-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm on a FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE machine on 217.209.211.x , and would like to send a message to Win-box ( on the same network, but not my machine ) that's filling up my httpd-access.log with junk. Yes, these log-bombs are a pain, making it

Re: starting Konqueror from the command line

2004-06-06 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sunday 06 June 2004 15:31, Jay Moore wrote: On Sunday 06 June 2004 12:46 am, Bruce Hunter wrote: This oughta' be easy, but I've been unable to find any documentation on it... I'm using bluefish as an html editor. I don't have mozilla installed (don't really want it), and would

Re: starting Konqueror from the command line

2004-06-06 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sunday 06 June 2004 15:59, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Sunday 06 June 2004 15:31, Jay Moore wrote: On Sunday 06 June 2004 12:46 am, Bruce Hunter wrote: This oughta' be easy, but I've been unable to find any documentation on it... I'm using bluefish as an html editor. I don't have

The FreeBSD Diary: 2004-05-16 - 2004-06-05

2004-06-06 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

Re: howto setup zope.sh (zope-2.7) ?

2004-06-06 Thread Khairil Yusof
On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 19:05 +0200, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Could someone help me with this? Perhaps I am messing up the syntax somehow? My instancehome dir is /usr/local/etc/zope . zope_enable=YES zope_instances=/usr/local/etc/zope Also make sure that you have copied zope.conf.sample

Re: starting Konqueror from the command line

2004-06-06 Thread Jay Moore
On Sunday 06 June 2004 01:29 am, Malcolm Kay wrote: This oughta' be easy, but I've been unable to find any documentation on it... I'm using bluefish as an html editor. I don't have mozilla installed (don't really want it), and would like to preview my html in Konqueror.

USB Problems

2004-06-06 Thread Jason Oakley
I've just installed a PCI USB card into my FreeBSD server and it appears it's not going to work. It also seems (?) to only be a USB 1.0 card (d'oh!). I've just rebuilt the kernel and added USB support. Any cloobats? (Googled, but couldn't find anything relevant). uhci0: Intel 82371AB/EB

Re: dspam

2004-06-06 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 22:15:22 -0400 Reed L. O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone here use dspam? I posted to the dspam maillist but apparen;ty noone is lurking there today. Just haven't got the time to reply. FreeBSD 5.2.1 maildrop 1.6.3 dspam 2.10.6 I had maildrop delivering

WineTools Error

2004-06-06 Thread Bruce Hunter
I installed winetools from FreeBSD ports collection 1.25a It worked fine. I was having problems setting up wine and winetools solved my issues. I ran wine to install adobe photoshop #wine setup.exe then wine crashed at 80% of install of ps. I couldn't get shutdown wines windows, so I had to

freetype(2) and gtk2.4.1

2004-06-06 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I'm trying to portupgrade my gtk-2.4.0 - 2.4.1_1 but this fails. Looking into the log I suspect either something wrong /w the gtk20 port, OR mayby it's because I have TWO freetype ports installed. Question: is it necessery to have freetype AND freetype2 installed? What's the difference between

Re: Changing SendMail Port Number

2004-06-06 Thread T Kellers
On Saturday 05 June 2004 08:32 pm, Scott Kupferschmidt wrote: The only problem with listening on port 24 is no one is going to be able to send mail to you, as smtp listens on port 25. Sincerely, Scott Kupferschmidt ISPrime, Inc. 866.502.4678 ext. 3 AIM: Scott ISPrime - ICQ: 174337249 On

Re: starting Konqueror from the command line

2004-06-06 Thread Jay Moore
On Sunday 06 June 2004 02:17 am, Jay Moore wrote: What I need is the part that comes after konqueror... i.e. which file to open. And that's assuming Konqueror knows to start in html mode since the file it's opening is html. I thought there might even be a way to specify a profile file

Dangerous file system / disk problem

2004-06-06 Thread Ben Paley
Hello, I wanted to have FreeBSD on my first drive and Win98 on the second, but of course windows doesn't like being on the second disk, and began preparing my first drive which already had FreeBSD on it! Well, I swapped the drives over, put W98 on the first one, they both boot fine and I

Re: Dangerous file system / disk problem

2004-06-06 Thread Dan Strick
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 12:13:17 +0100, Ben Paley wrote: I wanted to have FreeBSD on my first drive and Win98 on the second, but of course windows doesn't like being on the second disk, and began preparing my first drive which already had FreeBSD on it! Well, I swapped the drives over, put W98 on

Re: Sending a message to another computer on the network

2004-06-06 Thread Hasse
On Sunday 06 June 2004 08.16, Ian Smith wrote: On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm on a FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE machine on 217.209.211.x , and would like to send a message to Win-box ( on the same network, but not my machine ) that's filling up my httpd-access.log with junk.

x2vnc

2004-06-06 Thread John Oxley
I am using x2vnc to manipulate my windows box. Is there any way of making x2vnc send the Win key, which doesn't work in windows, but does on my BSD box. I am running 5.2.1-RELEASE-p5 and x2vnc version 1.6 -Ox -- /~\ The ASCII ASCII stupid question, get a EBCDIC ANSI. \ / Ribbon

Crossbuilding 4-stable release on 5.x: perl missing

2004-06-06 Thread Ruben de Groot
Hi there, I'm trying to build releases of releng_4 on a 5.2.1 system. Unfortunately, the build fails because there's no perl installed in the chrooted environment. Any tips or examples would be greatly appreciated as I'm a bit stuck here. Thanks Ruben

Re: Samba on 4.10

2004-06-06 Thread Joan Picanyol
[moved to -questions, please honour MFT] * William Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040606 14:39]: Can some one point me in the right direction for setting up a simple Samba sever for a home network. It sits snugly behind a FreeBSD firewall So I am not terribly concerned with security for the Samba

Re: Recommended answering machine software?

2004-06-06 Thread Bill Moran
Jay Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 04 June 2004 10:02 pm, Bill Moran wrote: snip While it may be overkill, Asterisk is really the software you're looking for: http://www.asterisk.org  It'll do everything you need and more. Unfortunately, asterisk's ability to function on

Re: PHP IDE instead of Bluefish

2004-06-06 Thread Lee Harr
I have recently gotten rid of window and now only run FBSD. I am a programmer of many kinds. I program in PHP and was wondering what is a good PHP IDE? Have you tried Quanta? /usr/ports/www/quanta http://quanta.sourceforge.net/ _ Add

Re: starting Konqueror from the command line

2004-06-06 Thread Lee Harr
What I need is the part that comes after konqueror... i.e. which file to open. And that's assuming Konqueror knows to start in html mode since the file it's opening is html. I thought there might even be a way to specify a profile file (??) to set window size other options. konqueror --help

Boot question

2004-06-06 Thread Roy Fokker
Hi, mi name is Alejandro. When I boot up 5.1R, the system stops at the message: ata2: at 0xe320 on atapipci0 ata3: at 0xe320 on atapipci0 ata4: at 0xe320 on atapipci0 Can anyone provide some insights as to what it is probing, and why it takes so much time compared to the rest of the

Re: Changing SendMail Port Number

2004-06-06 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jun 5, 2004, at 17:35, Mark wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: This is probably a stupid question, but how do I change the SMTP port number that SendMail listens in on? I want to change it to something else, like perhaps 24. My ISP is blocking 25 and I want to get around that problem. And how will

voice talk between 2 FBSD boxs

2004-06-06 Thread JJB
The talk command is not really voice talk but what is normally considered as console text chat these days. Is there an 2 way voice talk command or port application between 2 unix type systems with an ms/windows version? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

RE: Changing SendMail Port Number

2004-06-06 Thread JJB
Port 25 is the world wide internet standard for smtp mail servers to listen on for inbound mail. There is no problem of changing your smtp email server to listen on port 24, except for the fact that no body on the internet can reach your smtp email server because they will be sending to port 25

one for the archives

2004-06-06 Thread paul beard
I had posted a couple of questions about my system suddenly refusing to build shared libraries and making my ports tool-based builds fail. The symptoms were that the host type was being misread as kfreebsd/gnu suggesting I had some Debian/FreeBSD frankenhost, and shared libraries would fail to

loading kernel module from floppy?

2004-06-06 Thread Alan Batie
I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.10 on a raid set using a RocketRaid 1640. In order to do so, I need to load the driver as a kernel module at boot time, but nowhere is it documented (that I can find) how to specify the device. I can lsdev and see disk0a: ffs and disk0c: ffs, but if I try to load

Re: voice talk between 2 FBSD boxs

2004-06-06 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 13:13:31 -0400 JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The talk command is not really voice talk but what is normally considered as console text chat these days. Is there an 2 way voice talk command or port application between 2 unix type systems with an ms/windows version?

Re: PHP IDE instead of Bluefish

2004-06-06 Thread John Oxley
On Sun 2004-06-06 (04:31), Michal Pasternak wrote: Bruce Hunter [Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 09:46:09PM -0400]: I have recently gotten rid of window and now only run FBSD. I am a programmer of many kinds. I program in PHP and was wondering what is a good PHP IDE? Maybe something in the ports

Re: Dangerous file system / disk problem

2004-06-06 Thread Ben Paley
On Sunday 06 June 2004 13:04, Dan Strick wrote: Perhaps something changed the partition type code in the MBR partition table on your FreeBSD disk. Do fdisk ad1 to display the MBR partition table. The FreeBSD slice should say: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) If it says anything

RE: routing question

2004-06-06 Thread doug
thank you On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Eric Crist wrote: You need to kill all the running dhclient processes, then try again. Usually, this can be done with: #killall -9 dhclient HTH Eric F Crist President AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588 -Original Message- From:

Re: voice talk between 2 FBSD boxs

2004-06-06 Thread Michal Pasternak
JJB [Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 01:13:31PM -0400]: Is there an 2 way voice talk command or port application between 2 unix type systems with an ms/windows version? Try: http://shtoom.sf.net/ It's in very early stage of development, but as every Python project, it is highly portable

Please help me understand pciutils output

2004-06-06 Thread Luke
I suspect that my PCI bus is incompatible with some of the PCI cards I'm trying to use with it. The motherboard was made in 1996 and these cards are all much newer. One of the cards gives USB 2.0 support, but I'm not getting anywhere near USB 2.0 speed out of the USB 2.0 devices I plug into

perl -MCPAN problem

2004-06-06 Thread JJB
When I run perl -MCPAN -e shell from the command line I get no route to host message. This box has public internet access as everything else works, so I know that error message is not correct. I looked in my firewall log file and I see that at the time I was doing -MCPAN, I have an inbound port

upgraded perl ... now missing mods that was installed before upgrade

2004-06-06 Thread white vamp
i did a portupgrade -acCrRv -x kde and every thing upgraded just fine and now when i goto run perl -MCPAN -e shell it loads ok but in the shell if i do a install Bundle::CPAN or any outhere one it cant seam to find net::ftp and also sence i did my portupgrade all of my perl modules are missing

Whither binaries?

2004-06-06 Thread Phil Thomson
Hi all, I'm a relative *NIX newby running FreeBSD on an somewhat older (750 MHz) machine. I've been installing programs, and they seem to install in my home directory by default, but I have my partition table set up so I don't have much room there. My questions are: 1) is there a better place

Re: Whither binaries?

2004-06-06 Thread Remko Lodder
Hey Phil, Phil Thomson wrote: Hi all, I'm a relative *NIX newby running FreeBSD on an somewhat older (750 MHz) machine. I've been installing programs, and they seem to install in my home directory by default, but I have my partition table set up so I don't have much room there. My questions

Re: Sharing Linux swap space on FreeBSD 4.9

2004-06-06 Thread Chris Pressey
On Thu, 13 May 2004 04:19:56 + Richard Liang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I am trying to enable the linux swap space I have under Red Hat on FreeBSD 4.9. [...] So I've tried swapon /dev/ad0s4 from FreeBSD and it always says: swapon: /dev/ad0s4: Device not configured I

Re: lseek problem

2004-06-06 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 06), Tim Pushor said: I am working on porting an old system over to FreeBSD, and am having a weird (to me) problem. This system uses various data file types, and unfortunately it uses the group_id execution bit (but no execute) on a data file to signify a sequential

Re: upgraded perl ... now missing mods that was installed before upgrade

2004-06-06 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 06 June 2004 12:48 pm, white vamp wrote: i did a portupgrade -acCrRv -x kde and every thing upgraded just fine and now when i goto run perl -MCPAN -e shell it loads ok but in the shell if i do a install Bundle::CPAN or any outhere one it cant seam to find net::ftp and also sence i

Re: starting Konqueror from the command line

2004-06-06 Thread Chris
On Sunday 06 June 2004 01:01 am, Jay Moore wrote: On Sunday 06 June 2004 12:46 am, Bruce Hunter wrote: This oughta' be easy, but I've been unable to find any documentation on it... I'm using bluefish as an html editor. I don't have mozilla installed (don't really want it), and

Apache pkg-messagees

2004-06-06 Thread Hutterer Robert
After upgrading to apache 1.3.29_4 you have to add a line to rc.conf pkg_message in the ports tree says: === BE CAREFULL HOW TO BOOT on 1.3.29_4 or after: To run apache www server from startup, add apache_enable=YES in your /etc/rc.conf. THIS IS A CLEAR MESSAGE In a similar way

Fatal trap 18

2004-06-06 Thread Hector Rivera
Fatal trap 18 Hello, i have an IBM Thinkpad A30 which comes with embedded wireless. the mini-pci card is Prism card. the following is information from the post or loader when i boot FreeBSD 5.2.1 wi0: Intersil Prism2.5 mem 0xf000 – 0xffff irq11 at device 2.0 on pci2 wi0: 802.11

Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread Roman Kennke
Hi list, One thing, that is making me _not_ using FreeBSD is, that I see no way to easily upgrade from, say 5.1 to 5.2 (just an example), over network. I mean, I have a server running, to which I have no physical access. The only way to maintain it, is over SSH. The upgrade instructions in

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread Remko Lodder
Hey Roman, Roman Kennke wrote: Hi list, One thing, that is making me _not_ using FreeBSD is, that I see no way to easily upgrade from, say 5.1 to 5.2 (just an example), over network. I mean, I have a server running, to which I have no physical access. The only way to maintain it, is over SSH. The

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 06 June 2004 02:44 pm, Remko Lodder wrote: Hey Roman, Roman Kennke wrote: Hi list, One thing, that is making me _not_ using FreeBSD is, that I see no way to easily upgrade from, say 5.1 to 5.2 (just an example), over network. I mean, I have a server running, to which I have

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread Roman Kennke
Hi, One thing, that is making me _not_ using FreeBSD is, that I see no way to easily upgrade from, say 5.1 to 5.2 (just an example), .. Apart from that i updated my systems many times, without being in single user mode, with an ssh connection. This doesn't work on the upgrade to 5.2

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 06 June 2004 02:55 pm, Roman Kennke wrote: Hi, One thing, that is making me _not_ using FreeBSD is, that I see no way to easily upgrade from, say 5.1 to 5.2 (just an example), .. Apart from that i updated my systems many times, without being in single user mode,

RE: upgraded perl ... now missing mods that was installed beforeupgrade

2004-06-06 Thread JJB
I don't think the problem has anything to do with how you upgrade your system. I installed 4.10 from minin.iso and I have same problem about not being able to run perl -MCPAN -e shell command. Something is wrong with the perl CPAN conf files that are part of the FBSD system. Problem may also be

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread Roman Kennke
Am Mo, den 07.06.2004 schrieb Kent Stewart um 0:03: On Sunday 06 June 2004 02:55 pm, Roman Kennke wrote: Hi, One thing, that is making me _not_ using FreeBSD is, that I see no way to easily upgrade from, say 5.1 to 5.2 (just an example), .. Apart from that i updated

RE: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread JJB
The source upgrade is not the problem, it's when on those rare times that system configuration file statements are added or changed that requiring mergemaster to run. There is no way around that condition when that happens. The 5.1 to 5.2 case is special just because 5.x is development branch. You

Re: upgraded perl ... now missing mods that was installed before upgrade

2004-06-06 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 12:48:27 -0700 white vamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i did a portupgrade -acCrRv -x kde and every thing upgraded just fine and now when i goto run perl -MCPAN -e shell it loads ok but in the shell if i do a install Bundle::CPAN or any outhere one it cant seam to find

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Roman Kennke wrote: All I want is not reinstalling the system after every few releases. The FreeBSD team should care about an possibility to easily upgrade from at least one point release to another. Only my suggestion. Have you read the Handbook chapter called The Cutting

suggestions for optimal filesystem-layout over multiple harddrives?

2004-06-06 Thread Geert Hendrickx
Hi, using multiple harddisks can increase performance, since I/O can be done in parallel. But what would be an optimal filesystem-layout on, say, two disks of equal size? Swap should evidently be spread equally over the different drives. As for the filesystems, say I'd have a large /usr and

Re: Apache pkg-messagees

2004-06-06 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 23:24:47 +0200 Hutterer Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After upgrading to apache 1.3.29_4 you have to add a line to rc.conf pkg_message in the ports tree says: === BE CAREFULL HOW TO BOOT on 1.3.29_4 or after: To run apache www server from startup, add

SPAM

2004-06-06 Thread Joshua Lewis
I received spam from these addresses and they got my name from the mailing list. Is there a way to report these names? (subject came in from [kde-freebsd]) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marion N. Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, Joshua Lewis ___ [EMAIL

Re: pccard modem

2004-06-06 Thread Murray Taylor
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 20:36, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 11:17:22AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 on Compaq Armada 1700. I have a pcmcia modem (Psion gold card WAN Global PC Card 56 k+ Fax Combine iT). 1. Is this not a winmodem?

Re: SPAM

2004-06-06 Thread Gary
Hi Joshua, On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 17:41:32 -0700 (PDT) UTC (6/6/2004, 7:41 PM -0500 UTC my time), Joshua Lewis wrote: J I received spam from these addresses and they got my name from the mailing J list. Is there a way to report these names? J [EMAIL PROTECTED] J Marion N. Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Odd characters in filename

2004-06-06 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Joachim Dagerot thusly... I unpacked a rar file and find myself standing with a lot of files with strange characters like accents etc. When I do tab for completion the characters 'escapes' to for example \264 (backward slash). Bourne shell: sanename.sh

Re: voice talk between 2 FBSD boxs

2004-06-06 Thread Thomas Farrell
I have used teamspeak running server on FreeBSD 5.0 and the clients on windows. You can get everything at http://www.teamspeak.org/ I think I run my version in linux compat . Haven't used it in a while but it did work quite well. - Original Message - From: JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: Changing SendMail Port Number

2004-06-06 Thread Thomas Farrell
The answer to your question is: /etc/mail/sendmail.cf change this option restart sendmail O DaemonPortOptions=Port=25 - Original Message - From: Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 7:49 PM Subject: Changing SendMail Port

Maximum Swap Size

2004-06-06 Thread Scott Ballantyne
Hmmm... I didn't know there was a maximum swap size on FreeBSD 4.10 of 1677216 blocks... Is there an easy way to reduce this partition without redoing the entire install? sdb ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread Robert Huff
Roman Kennke writes: All I want is not reinstalling the system after every few releases. My first installation of FreeBSD was 2.0.5. Since then I have done a clean install for x.0 releases - as a matter of policy (excuse to upgrade hardware, plus it cleans out orphaned files) but

Drivers

2004-06-06 Thread Doug Paquette
To whom it may concern at Free BSD, I have a Compaq Proliant 8000 server that I would like to install Free BSD Version 4.9 onto, but the raid controller or hard drives are not detected when I go through the install process. I was wondering if you would have a copy of this version that would

cvsup vs portupgrade

2004-06-06 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, I am still not very clear on the function between # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/stable-supfile and # portupgrade -aRr I have following questions; 1) What will be their diffenece in function 2) If having run # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/ports-supfile # cvsup -g

Re: cvsup vs portupgrade

2004-06-06 Thread Remko Lodder
Stephen, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, I am still not very clear on the function between # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/stable-supfile and # portupgrade -aRr I have following questions; 1) What will be their diffenece in function 2) If having run # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/ports-supfile #

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Roman Kennke wrote: Hi list, One thing, that is making me _not_ using FreeBSD is, that I see no way to easily upgrade from, say 5.1 to 5.2 (just an example), over network. I mean, I have a server running, to which I have no physical access. The only way to maintain it, is over

Problem with Kingmax USB 2.0 Flash Drive on 4.10-R

2004-06-06 Thread freebsd-questions
I just tried a new Kingmax USB 2.0 256 MB Flash Drive on a box with FreeBSD-4.10-RELEASE and the machine locked solid to the extent that it only responded to the power switch. I tried it several times, tailing /var/log/messages while I did it, but each time I inserted the device, everything