Re: textproc: Typesetting holy content

2006-05-27 Thread Kyrre Nygard
At 18:43 26.05.2006, Adrian Pavone wrote: Well, sounds to me like the perfect reason to learn how to write a shell script. You already have your algorithm/method clearly defined, now you just need something to automate it. A shell script would clearly be the thing to do that with. If you need

Re: textproc: Typesetting holy content

2006-05-27 Thread Kyrre Nygard
At 19:20 26.05.2006, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Friday 26 May 2006 11:35, Kyrre Nygard wrote: I am trying to transcribe The Noble Qur'an, by some said to be the most elegant book ever written, into LaTeX format. That way I can format it the way I wish, and study it at my own premises. I prefer

RE: Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott Sipe Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 12:14 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel Mac experiences On May 26, 2006, at 1:36 AM, vayu wrote: On May 25, 2006, at 9:13 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt

Re: Sharing /usr/local/www

2006-05-27 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Saturday 27 May 2006 00:32, Kyrre Nygard wrote: Hello! I have a team of designers working on web 2.0 like sites. I have added them all to this box, now I'm wondering what's the most convenient way of giving them all access to /usr/local/www? My temporary solution has been to add all

Script to organize passwd and group

2006-05-27 Thread Kyrre Nygard
Hello! I was wondering if anybody out there share the same need as I do to better organize /etc/passwd and /etc/group. I would like to see chronologic ordering of UIDs and GIDs, instead of having them sorted by what ports their corresponding daemons run on. Look below how much more flow it

Re: Sharing /usr/local/www

2006-05-27 Thread Kyrre Nygard
At 10:45 27.05.2006, Beech Rintoul wrote: On Saturday 27 May 2006 00:32, Kyrre Nygard wrote: Hello! I have a team of designers working on web 2.0 like sites. I have added them all to this box, now I'm wondering what's the most convenient way of giving them all access to /usr/local/www?

Re: Sharing /usr/local/www

2006-05-27 Thread Daniel A.
Kyrre Nygard wrote: Hello! I have a team of designers working on web 2.0 like sites. I have added them all to this box, now I'm wondering what's the most convenient way of giving them all access to /usr/local/www? My temporary solution has been to add all users with UID and GID 80, and

Re: Trouble installing FreeBSD on a Dell Precision 210?

2006-05-27 Thread Jorn Argelo
Jason Curole wrote: Hello all, I am a newbie to FreeBSD, though I currently use Mac OS X and am reasonably comfortable with the unix side. I am trying to install FreeBSD on a Dell Precision 210 machine (scrounged it up recently and it has a huge hard drive, otherwise I don't know much about

Re: EMC SAN AX100 and FIber channel HBA in freebsd 5.4

2006-05-27 Thread Jorn Argelo
Ratan Dey wrote: Hi, Currently i am using freebsd 5.4. We have a local storage system (EMC SAN AX100). Now i want to that AX100 as my remote storage system. I also need fiber channel host adapter card to communicate with AX100. But i am not sure which fiber channel host adapter is supported

Re: IBM Blade

2006-05-27 Thread Jorn Argelo
Steele Burgess wrote: When is Freebsd going to support the blades. Doesn't make any sense. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dhclient in giant lock after a few days

2006-05-27 Thread Jorn Argelo
Hi all, My FreeBSD server at home is running natd and ipfw on 6.1-STABLE. So it's the router and firewall for me at home. However, after a few days the dhclient, used for obtaining an IP address from my ISP (and the FreeBSD box gets that external IP address) gets into the giant lock and

Re: TV Remote Control, Lirc under FreeBSD 6.1

2006-05-27 Thread Evgeny Solovyov
# ls -l /dev/ttyd0 crw--- 1 root wheel0, 53 May 26 23:20 /dev/ttyd0 # Are you sure you're accessing that as root? Try adding world read permissions (and maybe world write permissions if the read permissions don't solve your problem) for the device because maybe lirc is being run by

kde applications start segfaulting following kppp use

2006-05-27 Thread Oliver Iberien
I had kppd running for a while when broadband was down, and for the first time on my FreeBSD box, the whole system locked up, on occasion. I don't know why it was doing this, but usually when Konqueror was trying to load a website (once something as innocuous as a Google search). Now

Re: Strange pauses and cpu usage - FreeBSD 6.1

2006-05-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
Shawn wrote: I'm having a strange problem with cpu usage with my Athlon XP. Every so often there seems to be a pause where the system comes under heavy load for no apparent reason. If xmms was playing then I get a buzz sound and the mouse pointer stops just for a split second, the same with

min disk size for (useful) desktop

2006-05-27 Thread Pete C
. . . looking for advice/guidelines for a minimum disk size for a decent desktop install of 6-stable with gnome, openoffice, firefox, gimp etc. . . . . . . I have both a 20G and a 250G on hand, so I guess the question really is is 20G enough ? ? ? TIA Pete C I love my country, but fear my

Re: min disk size for (useful) desktop

2006-05-27 Thread John Cruz
Pete C wrote: . . . looking for advice/guidelines for a minimum disk size for a decent desktop install of 6-stable with gnome, openoffice, firefox, gimp etc. . . . . . . I have both a 20G and a 250G on hand, so I guess the question really is is 20G enough ? ? ? TIA Pete C Peter, 20g is

How to rebuild sendmail independently

2006-05-27 Thread Izwan Mohd
Hello I wanted to make sendmail to use saslauthd acording to the documentation that i have found i have to rebuild the systems sendmail via /usr/src/usr.bin/sendmail but when i try to make depend it give me error make: don't know how to make alias.c. Stop did i miss something else before

Cable tester software running under FreeBSD

2006-05-27 Thread simon butsana
Hi, I am looking for a software that can be used as a cable tester replacement to measure, for UTP or FTP cable, physical properties such correct wiring, cable length, cable loss, etc. Any one got an idea? Simon - Avez-vous

Trouble with server crashing

2006-05-27 Thread Jayesh
Hi, There are few server which are crashing for no reason. The servers are running FreeBSD 5.4 Release. To check if the issue was related to h/w we did change the h/w once. The server is web server with cpanel installed. The /var/log/messages doesn't have any info regarding the server crash.

namebased VPS using JAIL

2006-05-27 Thread Yudai Yamagishi
Hey,. I'm trying to serve several VPS for my friends. But, IP addresses costs too much here in Japan. So, I only have 1 WAN IP. I've heard that Virtuozzo let's users create namebased VPS. For example, I want to create a VPS called vps1. I'll assign vps1.codebusterz.net as VPS's address.

General Non-critical: FreeBSD media releases

2006-05-27 Thread Justin T. Wert
To Whom It May Concern: Are there any plans to release a DVD version of all 3 of your media CDs combined? I tried searching the web on how to combine the media into one DVD, but have failed to find a site that has a working method. My personal attempts have the same issue, where it

Re: min disk size for (useful) desktop

2006-05-27 Thread YTResearch
I don't build desktops so I don't know what people normally do for swap size but it's good to remember at build time if you have small drives. What I think about when sizing a server drive is memory, swap and dumps. You didn't mention how much memory you have, but if it's large, you may

Strange things...

2006-05-27 Thread andreas Sotirakopoulos
Hi I have(?) an internet connetction issue... I have a router connected to a windows box downstaires (Lynksis wAG354G) and i use a wirelless usb adapter (Lynksis WUSB54G). It works fine under windows and even if some times the signal is lost usually it comes back by either moving the antenna a

Re: PF spamd : trouble with homemade blacklist

2006-05-27 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Alexis Dorais-Joncas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: blackl:\ :black:\ :msg=SPAM. Your address %A appears in my homemade list of known spammers:\ :file=/var/mail/blacklist.txt: This one appears to be missing a :method=file:\ entry. That could be the source of your

FreeBSD loader booting xp

2006-05-27 Thread Dave
Hello, I've got a machine with multiple hard drives. I've got freebsd on the first, now i unfortunately have to put xp on the second. I'm wondering can freebsd's loader boot it? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Compiling Kernel for Computer with 2 CPUs

2006-05-27 Thread Maan Jee
Hi I have a Companq Professional AP400 with two Pentium III processors. I want to install FreeBSD on my computer and use it as Web Server. To make real use of Two Processors, I want to Recompile Kernel but I don't see any option to compile the kernel in the file as there used to be in old

Re: FreeBSD loader booting xp

2006-05-27 Thread Derek Ragona
Sure it can, but it is actually the boot manager that does it. You will get a prompt asking to boot or to boot from the second drive. On the second drive you will get a similar prompt. If you need to load the boot manager it is in the tools directory on FreeBSD releases, it is booteasy.

Re: Compiling Kernel for Computer with 2 CPUs

2006-05-27 Thread Lukas Razik
Hello! You need this option/device in your KERNCONF file: options SMP device apic For better performance comment out SCHED_4BSD: #options SCHED_4BSD And take this: options SCHED_ULE You could also try these optimizations: makeoptions COPTFLAGS=-O2 -pipe -funroll-loops

Re: [Offtopic] CD art ...

2006-05-27 Thread ajm
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 02:03:46PM -0500, Mario Oyorzabal Salgado wrote: Hi, i'm newbie using freebsd, i like to print the fron, back and cover cd, but don't know where can get it, somebody can help me ? thank's, my freebsd version 5.4 and 6.1 =). greetings If you mean the cd jewel box

Kernel Panic on FreeBSD 6.1 with Dell PE1850 / 1750

2006-05-27 Thread Mike
Hello, I got a handful of Dell PE1850 and PE1750 boxes running mail scanning that we recently upgraded to FreeBSD 6.1. It started with a new PE1850 (mx4) that we immediately installed 6.1 on, which started having kernel panics- we initially blamed it on hardware. But last week, we rebuild a

phpMyAdmin problem - no Edit/Delete on Browse

2006-05-27 Thread Ian Smith
(originally posted to -database some days ago .. no nibbles) running 5.4-RELEASE and installed phpMyAdmin 2.6.1.3 with pkg_add -r (after finding installing from ports wanted to also fetch php4 sources and heaps of other stuff I already had installed from packages on the 2-CD set). I'd managed to

Re: Kernel Panic on FreeBSD 6.1 with Dell PE1850 / 1750

2006-05-27 Thread Jorn Argelo
Mike wrote: Hello, I got a handful of Dell PE1850 and PE1750 boxes running mail scanning that we recently upgraded to FreeBSD 6.1. It started with a new PE1850 (mx4) that we immediately installed 6.1 on, which started having kernel panics- we initially blamed it on hardware. But last week,

Re: Script to organize passwd and group

2006-05-27 Thread Atom Powers
On 5/27/06, Kyrre Nygard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I was wondering if anybody out there share the same need as I do to better organize /etc/passwd and /etc/group. I've never considered this necissary. I consider the passwd, group files to be fairly black box lists. I almost never edit

Re: Kernel Panic on FreeBSD 6.1 with Dell PE1850 / 1750

2006-05-27 Thread Mike
Mike wrote: Hello, I got a handful of Dell PE1850 and PE1750 boxes running mail scanning that we recently upgraded to FreeBSD 6.1. It started with a new PE1850 (mx4) that we immediately installed 6.1 on, which started having kernel panics- we initially blamed it on hardware. But

Re: min disk size for (useful) desktop

2006-05-27 Thread Micah
Pete C wrote: . . . looking for advice/guidelines for a minimum disk size for a decent desktop install of 6-stable with gnome, openoffice, firefox, gimp etc. . . . . . . I have both a 20G and a 250G on hand, so I guess the question really is is 20G enough ? ? ? TIA Pete C I love my

Re: Kernel Panic on FreeBSD 6.1 with Dell PE1850 / 1750

2006-05-27 Thread Jorn Argelo
Mike wrote: Mike wrote: Hello, I got a handful of Dell PE1850 and PE1750 boxes running mail scanning that we recently upgraded to FreeBSD 6.1. It started with a new PE1850 (mx4) that we immediately installed 6.1 on, which started having kernel panics- we initially blamed it on hardware.

Re: Maple 8 on FreeBSD with Diablo

2006-05-27 Thread Henry Lenzi
Hi Albert -- Thank you for your tip. It will definetly help, I think, because I did manage to install Maple 8 on Ubuntu. I had already contacted my local Maple reseller in Brazil and thanfully I read your tip: NB: Don't buy Maple-10, it's not working on 5.2/5.4/6.1 Thanks very much. Henry

bringing down and interface when system start

2006-05-27 Thread Imran Imtiaz
how can I bring down (disable) a network interface after the system start? what would I've to type in /etc/rc.conf file? regards, Imran Imtiaz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Scanner Canon Canoscan Lide 60 not found.

2006-05-27 Thread FreeBSD User Giacomo
Hi, I have a problem with the scanner Canoscan Lide 60 with FreeBSD 6.1. This is sopported in sane but scanimage -L not find it. If I try whith sane-find-scanner I read: --- searching for USB scanners: checking /dev/uscanner... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/uscanner0... failed

Re: bringing down and interface when system start

2006-05-27 Thread Atom Powers
On 5/27/06, Imran Imtiaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how can I bring down (disable) a network interface after the system start? what would I've to type in /etc/rc.conf file? Do you mean disable it completely, or do you need to run some network apps and then disable it? To disable an interface

Installing Apsfilter

2006-05-27 Thread Gerard Seibert
Trying to install Apsfilter, I encountered a problem. It seems that it requires print/acroread7 which is an interactive port. Reading the Makefile on acroread7, it seems I have to go to http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/distribute.html and fill out a form, wait a few days to see if I am

Re: diablo-jdk vs jdk1.5

2006-05-27 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 24 May 2006, Norberto Meijome wrote: Hi all, 2 questions re. JDK 1.5 : - is .15 considered now stable? ( I remember reading that it was still considered alpha quality, but i cant see that notice anymore). - re. diablo-jdk : Other than the obvious advange of precompiled package (already

Re: Strange pauses and cpu usage - FreeBSD 6.1

2006-05-27 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:14:13AM +0100, Shawn wrote: I'm having a strange problem with cpu usage with my Athlon XP. Every so often there seems to be a pause where the system comes under heavy load for no apparent reason. If xmms was playing then I get a buzz sound and the mouse pointer stops

Re: min disk size for (useful) desktop

2006-05-27 Thread RW
On Saturday 27 May 2006 14:52, Pete C wrote: . . . looking for advice/guidelines for a minimum disk size for a decent desktop install of 6-stable with gnome, openoffice, firefox, gimp etc. . Just in case you are not aware, 6-stable is development branch. . . . I have both a 20G and a 250G

namebased VPS using JAIL

2006-05-27 Thread Yudai Yamagishi
Hey, I'm trying to serve several VPS for my friends. But, IP addresses costs too much here in Japan. So, I only have 1 WAN IP. I've heard that Virtuozzo let's users create namebased VPS. For example, I want to create a VPS called vps1. I'll assign vps1.codebusterz.net as VPS's address. Then

what is the use of drm_os_freebsd.h

2006-05-27 Thread william wallace
hi ,all I am porting something from linux to freebsd ,i found the DataTypes hard to translate ,then i saw that many types inlinux can be found in drm_os_freebsd.h,such as typedef int8_ts8; typedef int16_t s16; typedef int32_t s32; typedef u_int8_t u8; typedef u_int16_t u16;

Configuring local network for Apache22

2006-05-27 Thread Malcolm Fitzgerald
I'm running a small network behind an ADSL router and one of the machines runs freeBSD 6.0-SECURITY. I'd like to configure it to run apache22. Apache fails to start and gives this error. [Sat May 27 18:49:28 2006] [alert] (EAI 8)hostname nor servname provided, or not known: mod_unique_id:

Re: min disk size for (useful) desktop

2006-05-27 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Pete C thusly... looking for advice/guidelines for a minimum disk size for a decent desktop install of 6-stable with gnome, openoffice, firefox, gimp etc. . ... I have both a 20G and a 250G on hand, so I guess the question really is is 20G enough ? ? ?

Re: Strange pauses and cpu usage - FreeBSD 6.1

2006-05-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 02:18:36AM +0200, Xavier Chantry wrote: On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:14:13AM +0100, Shawn wrote: I'm having a strange problem with cpu usage with my Athlon XP. Every so often there seems to be a pause where the system comes under heavy load for no apparent reason. If

Re: Configuring local network for Apache22

2006-05-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: I'm running a small network behind an ADSL router and one of the machines runs freeBSD 6.0-SECURITY. I'd like to configure it to run apache22. Apache fails to start and gives this error. [Sat May 27 18:49:28 2006] [alert] (EAI 8)hostname nor servname provided, or