Re: programmer questions - MMAP

2006-04-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
#include #include #include #include main() { int ff=open("test",O_RDWR|O_CREAT,0666); char *adr; lseek(ff,1<<24,0); write(ff,"",1); adr=mmap(0,1<<24,PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,MAP_NOCORE,ff,0); Try MAP_NOCORE|MAP_SHARED here. It's probably defaulting to a private mapping. WORKS!!! thank yo

Re: Award BIOS Upgrade Fees - Slightly Offtopic

2006-04-05 Thread Igor Robul
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 05:50:47PM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: > For a 3rd party BIOS, 39.95 is cheap. They can be much higher, close to > $100. But for $50 it is possible to buy new "not so bad" motherboard. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: FAX software ?

2006-04-05 Thread Igor Robul
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 04:41:14PM +0200, simon butsana wrote: > Hi, > > Try hylafax. mgetty+sendfax is much easier to tune. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, s

Is there a way of automatically including a CVS tag in a string substitution

2006-04-05 Thread Murray Taylor
I am looking for a way to do string substitution for CVS tags in the same fashion as the $Id$ method for the RCS version info etc... or the SCCS @(#) tagging syntax. Is there something dumb I have overlooked or does it take manual intervention to include the 'official' release tag into pro

font renderer already registered

2006-04-05 Thread snnn
Help! I got many warnings such as "Warning: font renderer for ".pcf" already registered at priority 0" when I start X. there is my Xorg.0.log X Window System Version 6.9.0 Release Date: 21 December 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.9 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 6.0 i386 [EL

Which Laptop for FreeBSD

2006-04-05 Thread David Schulz
Hello all, i would like to buy a new Laptop in the very near future, and of course it has to run my favourite OS. I have never searched for a Laptop, and now that i did i am overwhelmed with the confusing variety of different Brands and Models. One of the big Questions i am having is; Should i

Re: upgrade 5.2 -> 5.5

2006-04-05 Thread Perttu Laine
On 05 Apr 2006 09:40:29 -0400, Lowell Gilbert < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can you boot from the install floppies for 5.5? > Can't try just yet 'cause no fdd and no cdrom on that puter. But I tried to download 5.5 ISO and copied /boot/kernel from there and it halt on same place. Right after posti

Re: Using Macromedia flash with native firefox

2006-04-05 Thread Chandan Haldar
This mail in the freebsd list archives describes what I did to get firefox 1.0.7 and flash 6 working: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=660877+665553+/usr/local/www/db/text/2006/freebsd-questions/20060305.freebsd-questions Look at how I had to change MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH (towards the end).

Re: ipfw and ssh

2006-04-05 Thread Dennis Olvany
# Allow person SSH access mip="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" ${fwcmd} allow tcp from any to any 22 out setup keep-state I see two reasons that egress sshd traffic will not match the above rule. The destination port is incorrect and a syn/ack will not match. ${fwcmd} add pa

Re: ipfw and ssh

2006-04-05 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Not just that, but it doesn't appear to be logging the events, even after I added net.inet.ip.fw.verbose=1 net.inet.ip.fw.verbose_limit=5 to /etc/sysctl.conf and firewall_logging="YES" into /etc/rc.conf, i see no updates to /var/log/security after the ssh attempt failed. What am I doing wrong

Re: ipfw and ssh

2006-04-05 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Thank you for your very prompt reply. I tried your suggestion and it didn't work. I do not know why. Is the location where I place this in the client profile important? I have also tried the person's actual IP address as well as the IP address of the router (just in case it is not doing som

Re: ipfw and ssh

2006-04-05 Thread Ean Kingston
You neglected to include the 'add' in your first fwcmd. You may want to try something simple to start with. I haven't used ipfw in a while so hopefully my syntax is still good. Here is a simple starting point: # Allow person SSH access mip="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" # IP Address of person ${fwcmd} add

Re: FIXED Realplayer plugin not working after portupgrade

2006-04-05 Thread Oliver Iberien
It went like this: Install portdowngrade. I think this is how I did it. cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portdowngrade make DEFAULT_CVS_SERVER=\”:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs\” clean install Then portdowngrade linux-realplayer will begin the process. Or you can specify the cvs server when invok

ipfw and ssh

2006-04-05 Thread Anthony M . Agelastos
Hello everyone, Allow me to preface my problem by saying that I am very ignorant when it comes to networking. I do apologize if this is trivial. In any event, I enabled the "client" ifpw firewall located in /etc/ rc.firewall. This appears to work well for my needs... except for one additio

Using Macromedia flash with native firefox

2006-04-05 Thread Ean Kingston
I've been trying to get Macromedia Flash 6 (linux-flashplayer6) to work with native firefox (1.5) on FreeBSD 6.0 and running into some annoying problems. I know I needed linuxpluginwrapper to get this to work and so installed it along with the linux flash plugin port. I tried several times, revi

Re: Help?

2006-04-05 Thread Daniel A.
On 4/6/06, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am just looking at Free BSD as a Windows alternative. I have a home > workgroup that I am out growing and wanting to do more with, but don't want > to give MS any more Hundreds of hard earned dollars. > > > > My first question is where can I find a sit

Re: Help?

2006-04-05 Thread David J Brooks
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 18:18, Tom wrote: > I am just looking at Free BSD as a Windows alternative. I have a home > workgroup that I am out growing and wanting to do more with, but don't want > to give MS any more Hundreds of hard earned dollars. > > > > My first question is where can I find a

Re: How to handle 'local' ports/packages?

2006-04-05 Thread RW
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 01:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > to the +CONTENTS file for the package, but then portmanager complains that > it is nonexistent and won't complete 'portmanager -s'. To make matters > more awkward, this package is built from a closed-source binary > distribution and thus

Re: Can't configure Xorg of FreeBSD 6.0 STABLE

2006-04-05 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Norberto Meijome wrote: >On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:21:22 -0500 >"Michael D. Norwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>I built a proper xorg.conf but when trying to 'startx' >>the xserver bombs with a logged 'xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io >>for extended I/O'. I googled one similar problem

FreeBSD hangs at boot

2006-04-05 Thread Daniel A.
Hi. I am trying to get FreeBSD 6.0 running on my desktop machine, but with no luck. When I boot in anything but Safe Mode, FreeBSD will hang at boot and refuse to go further. I've tried to let have a go at it for 30 minutes, but the boot process didnt get any further. When I try to boot the machin

Re: can't get a shell while choosing single user mode

2006-04-05 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Vincent Chen thusly... > > > I just upgrade my freebsd 4.11 to 6.0. While using 4.11, I used to > enter single user mode and run fsck on all filesystem every month. > Recently, I tried to enter single user mode under 6.0 but can't > get a shell to do anything.

Help?

2006-04-05 Thread Tom
I am just looking at Free BSD as a Windows alternative. I have a home workgroup that I am out growing and wanting to do more with, but don't want to give MS any more Hundreds of hard earned dollars. My first question is where can I find a site that will list all approved or thoroughly checked

Re: Using javavmwrapper

2006-04-05 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Jeff Cross wrote: > [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: >> Jeff Cross wrote: >>> Here is the reason I am asking, and maybe someone could shed some light >>> on this as well. >>> >>> I have been using Zend Studio Client 4.0.2 on FreeBSD 6.0-SECURITY for >>> quite some time. I updated my ports and packages (which

Re: Using javavmwrapper

2006-04-05 Thread Jeff Cross
[LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > Jeff Cross wrote: >> Here is the reason I am asking, and maybe someone could shed some light >> on this as well. >> >> I have been using Zend Studio Client 4.0.2 on FreeBSD 6.0-SECURITY for >> quite some time. I updated my ports and packages (which Zend is not) >> the other

Re: Using javavmwrapper

2006-04-05 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Jeff Cross wrote: > > Here is the reason I am asking, and maybe someone could shed some light > on this as well. > > I have been using Zend Studio Client 4.0.2 on FreeBSD 6.0-SECURITY for > quite some time. I updated my ports and packages (which Zend is not) > the other day and it hasn't worked

Re: Award BIOS Upgrade Fees - Slightly Offtopic

2006-04-05 Thread Derek Ragona
This sounds like it is offered as a 3rd party BIOS upgrade. You didn't say who the manufacturer is, bust most of the better manufacturer's support their own BIOS updates directly. Using a 3rd party BIOS is often used on non-support motherboards or older motherboards that are no longer support

Re: memory slot info

2006-04-05 Thread Derek Ragona
Look up your motherboard at: http://www.kingston.com/ or http://www.edgetechcorp.com/store/memory.aspx or http://www.smartupgradeconfigurator.com/config/ You will find the part numbers and even some pricing information too. -Derek At 05:40 AM 3/29/2006, Simon Gray wrote: Hi guys, I

Re: Award BIOS Upgrade Fees - Slightly Offtopic

2006-04-05 Thread jdow
What motherboard manufacturer? I think it is time to boycott that one. {^_^} - Original Message - From: "Thompson, Jimi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I just encountered what I consider to be a totally outrageous problem. I've got a system with a BIOS issue. The motherboard maker has decided to

Re: programmer questions - MMAP

2006-04-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 05), Wojciech Puchar said: > the question is - why character 'a' isn't written!??!?! > > #include > #include > #include > #include > main() { > int ff=open("test",O_RDWR|O_CREAT,0666); > char *adr; > lseek(ff,1<<24,0); > write(ff,"",1); > adr=mmap(0,1<<24,PROT_REA

Re: Using javavmwrapper

2006-04-05 Thread Jeff Cross
[LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > Jeff Cross wrote: >> Can anyone give me some guidance in using javavmwrapper? I have >> searched high and low (I know someone will post the link I have >> overlooked) but can't seem to find any detailed information on how to >> use it. I understand that there are some enviro

programmer questions - MMAP

2006-04-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
the question is - why character 'a' isn't written!??!?! #include #include #include #include main() { int ff=open("test",O_RDWR|O_CREAT,0666); char *adr; lseek(ff,1<<24,0); write(ff,"",1); adr=mmap(0,1<<24,PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,MAP_NOCORE,ff,0); if(adr==MAP_FAILED) { puts("error"); exit(

understanding of make.conf

2006-04-05 Thread Beat.Siegenthaler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, i try to build NTP from ports. As I have a new old trimble GPS i want to add the parse clock for trimble tsip. When i do a ./configure --enable-TRIMTSIP directly in the work folder i get "checking Trimble GPS receiver/TSIP protocol... yes"

Remote FreeBSD Over Linux

2006-04-05 Thread Dew Ediho
Does anybody have a real life experience with Installing FreeBSD over Fedora remotely? I am considering installing freebsd over a remote linux install. I do not have physical access to machine and no one at the remote end will install for me? Has anyone worked with the 'depenguin' hack? Thanks i

Re: PXEboot install failing to load kernel

2006-04-05 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Chris wrote: > I am trying to perform a netboot install of FreeBSD 6 to a Thinkpad > X40 laptop from linux on my desktop. I've followed what guides I can > but the info is either for older versions of FreeBSD (the CD structure > has changed?) or assumes an existing FreeBSD install to work from (f

Re: Using javavmwrapper

2006-04-05 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Jeff Cross wrote: > Can anyone give me some guidance in using javavmwrapper? I have > searched high and low (I know someone will post the link I have > overlooked) but can't seem to find any detailed information on how to > use it. I understand that there are some environment variables I can use >

Re: localhost dns

2006-04-05 Thread michael
For my own to test the cache: ping www.google.fr => ok i block the outside dns packet with my firewall ping www.google.fr => ok ping www.google.com => not ok Michael. Matthew Seaman a écrit : >Marlon Martin wrote: > > >>im running localhost dns(127.0.0.1), it works fine but my question is, is

Using javavmwrapper

2006-04-05 Thread Jeff Cross
Can anyone give me some guidance in using javavmwrapper? I have searched high and low (I know someone will post the link I have overlooked) but can't seem to find any detailed information on how to use it. I understand that there are some environment variables I can use to choose between different

PXEboot install failing to load kernel

2006-04-05 Thread Chris
Hi, I am trying to perform a netboot install of FreeBSD 6 to a Thinkpad X40 laptop from linux on my desktop. I've followed what guides I can but the info is either for older versions of FreeBSD (the CD structure has changed?) or assumes an existing FreeBSD install to work from (for dissecting flo

Re: Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C.why?? library

2006-04-05 Thread Garrett Cooper
項瑞鋼 wrote: 从freebsd5.4升级到freebsd 6.1 prerelease后可能是本地化错误,导致了很多问题. 表现为xmms时菜单乱码,中文文件名及目录乱码,总是提示Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library.而且#cd /usr/ports,#make search name=..也无法搜索到结果.portsdb -F也出现错误,提示错误与locale有关. 郁闷至极... 除了在~/.cshrc中设置LANG zh_CN.eucCN,LC_ALL zh_CN.eucCN之外还需要做些什么?我还来在free

Negative look ahead with capturing using pcre

2006-04-05 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Hi: I am trying to write some rules for filtering email with postfix header rules. In particular, I'd like to discard anything in a character set I don't understand, or rather accept ascii, iso-8859-* and utf-8. So I have created the following rule for mime header checks: /^Content-Type:.*?chars

Re: Portupgrade & Ruby | warning: Insecure world

2006-04-05 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:38 PM +0200 4/5/06, Jonas Jacobsen wrote: When i use portupgrade, i get this Warning all the time /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools.rb:980: warning: Insecure world writable dir /tmp, mode 041777 have any of you seen that warning before,? and do you know how to make it go away

Re: Linksys EG1032 support

2006-04-05 Thread Benjamin Lutz
Hello Ashley, On Wednesday 05 April 2006 17:08, Ashley Moran wrote: > I've tested the 6.1-BETA4 CD and that supports the card. I forgot my > desktop actually runs a very old 6-STABLE, so the Linksys card v3 support > must have been added a few weeks after 6.0 was released. I'll just run the > on

Re: FAX software ?

2006-04-05 Thread usleepless
Dear Frank, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > some people claim hylafax is overkill, but i have been using it for > > years, with much satisfaction. it is in the ports. > > yes I saw it, but have no experience in fax softwares > should I contact you if I have some problems ? no, you should contact t

RE: Award BIOS Upgrade Fees - Slightly Offtopic

2006-04-05 Thread fbsd_user
For that kind of money you can get a bios replacement chip from unicore. www.unicore.com Which probably is better and contains more functions that the mfg would provide. I have never had to pay the mfg for a bios burnable upgrade. Who is the motherboard mfg? I would like to know so I don't buy

Re: FreeBSD stickers

2006-04-05 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ashley Moran wrote: and 10 Linux Inside badges for our less-enlightened network admin :) For superior enlightenment, attach with a nail to the forehead :-) --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

RE: Free BSD Upgrade Problem

2006-04-05 Thread Zimmerman, Eric
> > I am very new to FreeBSD. > > I installed freebsd 5.4 > > I upgraded to source of RELENG_6_0 while I fetched in > > the ports of current release by use of '*default tag=. > > > > I followed following steps after downloading above > > with CVSUP: (Please pardon me , I am from windows > > backgro

Re: Award BIOS Upgrade Fees - Slightly Offtopic

2006-04-05 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Thompson, Jimi wrote: I just encountered what I consider to be a totally outrageous problem. I've got a system with a BIOS issue. The motherboard maker has decided to use Award's BIOS and they want a minimum of $39.95 to email me the BIOS update that I need to fix the system. So why ha

Re: Linksys EG1032 support

2006-04-05 Thread Ashley Moran
Sorry ignore me! I've tested the 6.1-BETA4 CD and that supports the card. I forgot my desktop actually runs a very old 6-STABLE, so the Linksys card v3 support must have been added a few weeks after 6.0 was released. I'll just run the onboard ethernet until 6.1 comes out - whenever that may b

Re: C Program to execute programs in same console

2006-04-05 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jonathan Herriott wrote: What I am trying to do is execute the command in the calling shell. So, if I were to execute my program, which changes the directory, it would do the following: pwd /usr/home/username/ ./myprog .. pwd /usr/home/ That's basically what I'm looking for.

Re: FreeBSD stickers

2006-04-05 Thread Ashley Moran
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 15:01, John Cruz wrote: > I don't know where else to get the stickers, but they should be on the > bsdmall site, at least I thought they were but now can not find them. If > anybody sees it, please post a link. > > But since you're in the UK, you should head on over to Sc

Re: Free BSD Upgrade Problem

2006-04-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-03-29 15:34, dharam paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo all! > I am very new to FreeBSD. > I installed freebsd 5.4 > I upgraded to source of RELENG_6_0 while I fetched in > the ports of current release by use of '*default tag=. > > I followed following steps after downloading above > wi

Award BIOS Upgrade Fees - Slightly Offtopic

2006-04-05 Thread Thompson, Jimi
I just encountered what I consider to be a totally outrageous problem. I've got a system with a BIOS issue. The motherboard maker has decided to use Award's BIOS and they want a minimum of $39.95 to email me the BIOS update that I need to fix the system. I thought I post here, even though it

RE: FAX software ?

2006-04-05 Thread simon butsana
Hi, Try hylafax. Simon Frank Bonnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : Hello I need advices to choose a FAX software (sending and receiving) running at 6.0 , the modem I have is a ZyXEL Omni 56K Plus, it has both serial and USB interfaces. Thanks for any help. -- Frank Bonnet _

Re: FAX software ?

2006-04-05 Thread usleepless
some people claim hylafax is overkill, but i have been using it for years, with much satisfaction. it is in the ports. if i were you i would choose the serial connection ( reliability ? ). regards, usleep On 4/5/06, Frank Bonnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I need advices to choose a

RE: Portupgrade & Ruby | warning: Insecure world

2006-04-05 Thread Zimmerman, Eric
> > have any of you seen that warning before,? and do you know how to make > > it go away ? > > Not seen it but check the ouput of > $ ls -ld /tmp > (mode should be drwxrwxrwt) > > Maybe it is drwxrwxrwx, in which case > # chmod o+t /tmp > will fix it. Otherwise I'm not sure. > Using portmanag

FAX software ?

2006-04-05 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I need advices to choose a FAX software (sending and receiving) running at 6.0 , the modem I have is a ZyXEL Omni 56K Plus, it has both serial and USB interfaces. Thanks for any help. -- Frank Bonnet ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: C Program to execute programs in same console

2006-04-05 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 09:33:04PM -0400, Jonathan Herriott wrote: > usleep, > > What I am trying to do is execute the command in the calling shell. > So, if I were to execute my program, which changes the directory, it > would do the following: > > > pwd > /usr/home/username/ > > ./myprog .. >

Re: FreeBSD stickers

2006-04-05 Thread John Cruz
I don't know where else to get the stickers, but they should be on the bsdmall site, at least I thought they were but now can not find them. If anybody sees it, please post a link. But since you're in the UK, you should head on over to ScotGold and get some freeBSD case badges. http://www.sco

Re: C Program to execute programs in same console

2006-04-05 Thread Jonathan Herriott
usleep, What I am trying to do is execute the command in the calling shell. So, if I were to execute my program, which changes the directory, it would do the following: > pwd /usr/home/username/ > ./myprog .. > pwd /usr/home/ That's basically what I'm looking for. Being able to modify the call

Re: Portupgrade & Ruby | warning: Insecure world

2006-04-05 Thread Ashley Moran
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 14:38, Jonas Jacobsen wrote: > When i use portupgrade, i get this Warning all the time > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools.rb:980: warning: Insecure > world writable dir /tmp, mode 041777 > > have any of you seen that warning before,? and do you know how to mak

Re: upgrade 5.2 -> 5.5

2006-04-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Perttu Laine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried to upgrade 5.2 to 5.5 and buildworld, buildkernel and installkernel > went just fine. reboot didn't. It halts on this with new kernel: > > atapci0: port 0xfff0-0x at device 2.1 on > pci0 > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 > ata1: at 0x170

Portupgrade & Ruby | warning: Insecure world

2006-04-05 Thread Jonas Jacobsen
When i use portupgrade, i get this Warning all the time /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools.rb:980: warning: Insecure world writable dir /tmp, mode 041777 have any of you seen that warning before,? and do you know how to make it go away ? -- Med venlig hilsen Jonas Jacobsen

Re: re-attaching STDOUT

2006-04-05 Thread Jan Christian Meyer
> Can I re-direct the output of a given command so a specific > ttyv on the machine itself from a remote command; ie redirect > stdout for a given command to ttyv2 ? sysutils/screen in the ports collection is very convenient for this sort of thing. Sincerely, -Jan Christian Meyer ___

Re: Attacking our pc router at work

2006-04-05 Thread Michal Mertl
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > Hi, >I have one question. What if I change my ip and mac address at the > same time to that of our pcrouter's ip and mac... Will this going to > kick out that router in our network, causing the rest of the entire > lan to be out of service?? No one's gonna caugh

Re: FreeBSD stickers

2006-04-05 Thread usleepless
> Oh it's got to be Beastie! Personally I think the new one looks like a > space hopper made from red glass. I like something that says > "Hands off my server" :) i was already wondering where the stickers were for. but they are warning signs obviously. thanks, usleep On 4/5/06, Ashley Mor

re-attaching STDOUT

2006-04-05 Thread Nathan Vidican
say one runs a command like so: tar tvzpf _some_big_tar_file_will_take_hours_to_list.tgz & then later I exit... leaving it running (note the '&') How do I later return and grab the output still coming from that command; where does the output of a command left running in the background go to?

Re: FreeBSD stickers

2006-04-05 Thread Ashley Moran
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 11:10, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > You probably didn't indicate if you wanted the "original Beastie" > stickers or the "FreeBSD sex toy" stickers that resulted from > the logo design competition. ;-) > > Ted > Oh it's got to be Beastie! Personally I think the new one look

Linksys EG1032 support

2006-04-05 Thread Ashley Moran
Hi We've just upgraded our office switch to a gigabit Netgear one. We bought a stack of Linksys EG1032 cards because the hardware list says they are compatible with FreeBSD 6. I've got one working in my desktop (dmesg identifies it as re0: ) which is running on an MSI K7N2 Delta2. But on ou

RE: Update from Ports removes dependency data

2006-04-05 Thread Zimmerman, Eric
> > and my algorithm isn't really airtight, but I'll give you the algorithm > > I'm using. The script just uses pkg_info, pkg_version, and grep. > > Sounds like you're reinventing the wheel..portupgrade does all this > and more. > > Kris Portmanager works great as well (in my experience anyways

Re: FreeBSD/PC-BSD Stand

2006-04-05 Thread Bill Moran
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 11:46:06 +0200 "Gonzalo Martinez-Sanjuan Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > Im supporting the english and spanish PC-BSD Community, an Operating > System based on FreeBSD and would like to ask some features about > FreeBSD. Ill tell: > In Madrid exists SIMO (an anual fa

FreeBSD/PC-BSD Stand

2006-04-05 Thread Gonzalo Martinez-Sanjuan Sanchez
Hi. Im supporting the english and spanish PC-BSD Community, an Operating System based on FreeBSD and would like to ask some features about FreeBSD. Ill tell: In Madrid exists SIMO (an anual famous computering fair) and was thinking in asking for a stand of FreeBSD/PC-BSD just for giving some info

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C.why?? library

2006-04-05 Thread ��瑞��
从freebsd5.4升级到freebsd 6.1 prerelease后可能是本地化错误,导致了很多问题. 表现为xmms时菜单乱码,中文文件名及目录乱码,总是提示Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library.而且#cd /usr/ports,#make search name=..也无法搜索到结果.portsdb -F也出现错误,提示错误与locale有关. 郁闷至极... 除了在~/.cshrc中设置LANG zh_CN.eucCN,LC_ALL zh_CN.eucCN之外还需要做些什么?我还来在freebsd5.4中就是这么设置的

can't get a shell while choosing single user mode

2006-04-05 Thread Vincent Chen
Hi, all I just upgrade my freebsd 4.11 to 6.0. While using 4.11, I used to enter single user mode and run fsck on all filesystem every month. Recently, I tried to enter single user mode under 6.0 but can't get a shell to do anything. What should I do to get it done? Thanks, Vincent Chen

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-04-05 Thread Warner Losh
> Of course, if you can print "borderless" on your particular printer > via Windows, then you should have a reasonable expectation of being > able to do that in FreeBSD as well. However, if you regressed your > setup I think you'd find that the hardware is the limiting factor. What you said about

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-04-05 Thread Bob Johnson
The HP 5850 is capable of borderless photo prints. - Bob On 4/3/06, Greg Barniskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > M. Warner Losh wrote: > > OK. I got bordered photo printing working. I haven't gotten > > borderless printing working, alas. > > > > The key points I learned: > > > > (1) Install pri

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-04-05 Thread Greg Barniskis
M. Warner Losh wrote: OK. I got bordered photo printing working. I haven't gotten borderless printing working, alas. The key points I learned: (1) Install print/cups. (2) Install graphics/hpijs. This filters .ps -> goo the printer groks (3) Install graphics/gimp. This makes .ps files

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-04-05 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006 06:12:01 +0200 (CEST) "P.U.Kruppa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try something like > # /usr/local/bin/lpr your_image.jpg > If that works we will have to set some links and everything will > be fine. ah yes :) (the thread was, partly, about issues with cups printing not s

about Acrobat Reader

2006-04-05 Thread Mc Shch
Greeting, I need help,i am on the FreeBSD5.3 release.when i open a *.pdf which is chinesefile with Acrobat Reader,there is a error,said that: you must clear this error by installing a chinese pagekage... any idea? how to install the pagekage... thx, - Exploit_it

Re: smb startup

2006-04-05 Thread spen
To quote from Kevin Kinsey original post: So, you installed from source, or from the ports/packages system? It reads like you installed from source, to me. I did install samba from the ports... At least it's working now, right? Good catch of the problem! It's working without problems, yes :) I

Free BSD Upgrade Problem

2006-04-05 Thread dharam paul
Hallo all! I am very new to FreeBSD. I installed freebsd 5.4 I upgraded to source of RELENG_6_0 while I fetched in the ports of current release by use of '*default tag=. I followed following steps after downloading above with CVSUP: (Please pardon me , I am from windows background for my language

fcitx problem

2006-04-05 Thread Mc Shch
Hi,sir: I am using FreeBSD5.3 operating system. And I have a prob about fcitx installation I run the command below to install fcitx: #cd /usr/ports/chinese/fcitx #make install clean I am sure that fcitx is installed corectly, and I also configure the root/.xinitrc as below: export LANG=zh_CN.eu

Re: root password (thank you)

2006-04-05 Thread Moe Zhank
Thank you Meijome,Valmont and all. It work !!! Thank you thank you... Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what should I do? look up how to fix it, it's FAQ. "recover root password" or something like that. I'm pretty certain it's in that wonderful resource, the FreeBSD Handbook.

ADSL Prob is ok now

2006-04-05 Thread Mc Shch
HI,sir: My adsl prob in FreeBSD5.3 is ok,now I add two lines to the resolv.conf as below: search domain nameserver 202.96.128.68 so,thanks for your reply,i will contact wiht you when i have probs.. thanks again! _ 免费下载 MSN Expl

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-04-05 Thread Anish Mistry
On Monday 03 April 2006 15:27, M. Warner Losh wrote: > OK. I got bordered photo printing working. I haven't gotten > borderless printing working, alas. > > The key points I learned: > > (1) Install print/cups. > (2) Install graphics/hpijs. This filters .ps -> goo the printer > groks (3) Install

kdegames cannot be downloaded ?

2006-04-05 Thread Yuan Jue
hi all. After portupgrade, I noticed that kdegames has updated to kdegames-3.5.2. The weird thing is kdegames-3.5.2.tar.bz2 cannot be downloaded through any server in the Makefie. And, when google "kdegames", the response is always "time out", while google other key words like "kdeedu" or "kden

RE: FreeBSD stickers

2006-04-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
worldlabel.com has templates for openoffice openoffice can also open ms word templates I believe. Ted >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gayn Winters >Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 2:51 AM >To: 'Ashley Moran'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

RE: FreeBSD stickers

2006-04-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
You probably didn't indicate if you wanted the "original Beastie" stickers or the "FreeBSD sex toy" stickers that resulted from the logo design competition. ;-) Ted >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ashley Moran >Sent: Wednesday, April 05,

RE: Questions regarding RAID support

2006-04-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Hi Paul, That if I'm not mistaken is the Intel 82801ER (ICH6R) south bridge chip set, and you want to start by booting FreeBSD 6.1 BETA4 on that and seeing what comes up. I am not sure what you mean by "partial support" If you set your Matrix array up as a RAID0 only or RAID1 only you shoul

RE: Attacking our pc router at work

2006-04-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Jayson >Alvarez >Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 2:04 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Attacking our pc router at work > > >Hi, > > I have one question. What if I change my ip and mac ad

RE: FreeBSD stickers

2006-04-05 Thread Gayn Winters
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ashley Moran > Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 2:14 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: FreeBSD stickers > Anyone know if I can get FreeBSD stickers in the UK? I just > bought 6-RELEASE > on CD from freebsdmall.com and you don't get any in t

FreeBSD stickers

2006-04-05 Thread Ashley Moran
Anyone know if I can get FreeBSD stickers in the UK? I just bought 6-RELEASE on CD from freebsdmall.com and you don't get any in the box. If I'd know I would have spent $0.50 on a set. How they can give you useless things like binary packages and omit such a critical part of a server installa

Re: cron question

2006-04-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-04-05 07:03, Marlon Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i created a simple shell script: > > filename: rn > > #!/bin/sh > rndc dumpdb > > what it does, is just dump the hostname and IP addresses in /var/dump > i set the time in 2 minutes but when i checked the logs, it doesnt work any > ide

Attacking our pc router at work

2006-04-05 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Hi, I have one question. What if I change my ip and mac address at the same time to that of our pcrouter's ip and mac... Will this going to kick out that router in our network, causing the rest of the entire lan to be out of service?? No one's gonna caught me right?? Arpwatch can only watch i

Re: [OT] Re: software recommendation

2006-04-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-04-05 00:57, Daniel Bye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 07:26:07PM -0300, Duane Whitty wrote: > > Try googling (can this really be a word :) ) browser > > automation name_of browser. > > According to Dictionary.com, yes. It gives three definitions, > two of which are l

Re[2]: How severe is IDNF errors in SMART log?

2006-04-05 Thread Playnet
Hello Norberto, Tuesday, April 4, 2006, 5:25:49 PM, you wrote: >> OR you need full backup and monitoring SMART two weeks every day. >> IDNF is a hard-bad what you can remap with Hitachi tool. >> http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/downloads/dft32_v406_b00.iso NM> Thanks for the info :) IBM (AU

Re: Ekiga

2006-04-05 Thread Thomas
Hi Am Mittwoch, den 05.04.2006, 10:50 +0200 schrieb Albert Shih: > Hi all. > > Are the some plan to make a ports for ekiga (gnome-meeting) to FreeBSD ? Yes, Jean-Baptiste Quenot has created an ekiga port. See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=95320 And http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-

Re: Helping interpreting crash

2006-04-05 Thread Playnet
Hello cw, Monday, April 3, 2006, 2:09:12 PM, you wrote: c> My FreeBSD server (6.0-RELEASE #0) crashed out the other night. I have a c> custom kernel in place with debugging on so can get the info out the c> dump in /var/crash Try upgrade to 6.1 -- 6.0 have some troubles... c> current process

Ekiga

2006-04-05 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all. Are the some plan to make a ports for ekiga (gnome-meeting) to FreeBSD ? Lots of thanks. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. 7 ième étage, plateau D, bureau 10 Heure local/Local time: Wed Apr 5 10:49:00 CEST 2006

ogle problems

2006-04-05 Thread Beech Rintoul
I'm trying to get ogle going on one of our boxes. I finally got it to build after rebuilding all of the ports it depends on. When I start it I get the menu audio on the dvd but the screen is blank. Using ogle-gui doesn't make any difference. Here's the output on the shell after starting it. pin

getmail Segmentation fault

2006-04-05 Thread Zeng Nan
Hi, After upgrading to the newest Python 2.4.3, I always get a Segmentation fault after running getmail using ssl connection. This problem doesn't show up for ordinary pop3 connections without ssl. Is it related to the the ssl library of freebsd? By the way, I'm using freebsd6.0 and getmail 4.5.

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