Recommended remote management card for FreeBSD 6.X?

2006-09-05 Thread Philippe Lang
Hi, What remote management card (like Drac, for example) would you recommend for a FreeBSD 6.X Server? -- Philippe Lang, Ing. Dipl. EPFL Attik System rte de la Fonderie 2 1700 Fribourg Switzerland http://www.attiksystem.ch Tel: +41 (26) 422 13 75 Fax: +41 (26)

Abwesenheitsnotiz: Information

2006-09-05 Thread Roduner Daniel
Out of the office - reply Thank you for your message. I am out of the office from September 6th, until October 5th, 2006. Messages are checked upon my return. In urgent matters please contact: Elisabeth Katz; Tel. +41 (0) 52 354 97 35; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Best regards, Daniel Roduner ___

OpenOffice2 with german user interface

2006-09-05 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello - Forwarded message from Simon Phoenix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Simon Phoenix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Phoenix Lab. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Martin Schweizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OpenOffice2 with german user interface Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:35:2

Re: solaris

2006-09-05 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
At Tue, 5 Sep 2006 it looks like backyard composed: > > don't get me wrong I don't doubt it is a great system > to use, which is why I kept on trying to get it > installed on many different machines; from laptops to > desktops, to servers, and my commodore... and I will > admit I installed withou

News of latest Release

2006-09-05 Thread Mohit parkash
To Free BSD, I m Mohit the admin of FlyNix (Linux Coustomization Community )would like to request u that. If FreeBSD has a launch any of its new addition can u inform me via mail. so that i can give this news on my site. Thankyou Mohit. -- Mohit Parkash Mobile no. +919416

Re: questions about periodic

2006-09-05 Thread pauls
--On September 5, 2006 10:09:02 PM -0500 Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i have a couple virtual machines running freebsd 6.1-;4 on a ms vs2005 host, and as of the moment of this writing (and for a while now actually), they are idling at near 0% utilization. but during the nights,

KBTV setup problem

2006-09-05 Thread Mike jeays
Has anyone else encountered this problem with KBTV? Note that the line showing the mixer channel seems to lack an entry. chaucer 501 /usr/home/mike # btsetup btsetup> show BKTR - BrookTree/Conexant BT8x8 based cards === BKTR MODULE L

questions about periodic

2006-09-05 Thread Jonathan Horne
i have a couple virtual machines running freebsd 6.1-;4 on a ms vs2005 host, and as of the moment of this writing (and for a while now actually), they are idling at near 0% utilization. but during the nights, they really get going to the point that they ramp the cpu fan speeds to max on the my

Re: sshd login stalling

2006-09-05 Thread backyard
--- Noah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > backyard wrote: > > --- Noah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> Okay I cant seem to figure out why sshd logins > are > >> stalling. I see that > >> I am coming from an IP address that does not have > >> Reverse mapping. > >> > >> So I added the lin

easy patch management tools

2006-09-05 Thread Aaron Bliss
Hi everyone, first let me say that I'm pretty new to bsd, so please forgive the newbie questions; I've been using linux (redhat, suse, centos) for many years, and so learning bsd was a bit of a learning curve, but not bad (I almost never use gui's for administration); I was wondering if there are

Re: Problem Installing SuExec on Apache 1.3

2006-09-05 Thread doug
Well I shoulda searched better. But building it correctly just gets me to the next error. I have a work around but am quite lost at this point. In my case the answer for building apache was RTFMF. But it was also posted in response to the same question for apache 2, for 1.3 it is: make WITH_

Re: Backing up

2006-09-05 Thread Perry Hutchison
> I think FreeBSD supports ext2 better than Linux supports UFS. This is a ways down my priority list, but since the subject has come up :) It is not working for me at all (in 6.1): # ll /dev/ad0s7 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 93 Sep 4 02:30 /dev/ad0s7 # file -s /dev/ad0s7 /dev/ad

Re: script help

2006-09-05 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 03:36:09PM -0700, ann kok wrote: > > Dear Paul > > Thank you for your mail > > I want to run a script xx seconds automatically > > but cronjob is limited minutes > > Thank you I think what you're after is sleep(1) -- Frank echo "f r a n k @ e s p e r a n c e - l

pxeboot(8) NFS code breaks PIX/ASA policy

2006-09-05 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
I'm PXE booting systems using the "dhcprelay" feature on a PIX 525 running 7.1(2). The TFTP process of retrieval of /tftoboot/pxeboot works fine, however once loaded NFS mount requests to the server fail per the following messages. In my config, all layer 4->7 packet "inspection" features a

Re: Anyone Using the New Free Mulberry Mail Client?

2006-09-05 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, September 01, 2006 22:31:59 +0100 RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's just a thought, but perhaps the linking could be handled by wrapping the binary in a shell script that verifies ~/.mulberry and the links. This has now been done. I've submitted an update to the port that use

Re: script help

2006-09-05 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Tuesday, September 05, 2006 15:36:09 -0700 ann kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Paul Thank you for your mail I want to run a script xx seconds automatically but cronjob is limited minutes That's correct. The fastest you can run a cron job is every minute because that's how often c

Re: CB

2006-09-05 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
On 4 September 2006, at 13:05, Conrad Bellman wrote: Hello, I have downloaded the two disks needed for BSD, apon loading the firs disk, I am stuck with the command list, and unable to use it, due to "can't find kernel" Maybe this is because you got a corrupted CD image. I tried loadin

Re: script help

2006-09-05 Thread ann kok
Dear Paul Thank you for your mail I want to run a script xx seconds automatically but cronjob is limited minutes Thank you --- Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --On Tuesday, September 05, 2006 11:16:26 -0700 ann > kok > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > I would

Re: Various package/ports problems

2006-09-05 Thread Gerard Seibert
Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > > So now i can find out what version each port is, but that doesnt > > help me know whether these are outdated, or to update them. > > For that im still stuck on the Ruby core dump problem. I did > > reinstall portupgrade, ruby18, and th

Re: ebook reader

2006-09-05 Thread Henry Lenzi
On 9/5/06, Ivan Levchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there anything in the ports tree for reading books on the computer? something like Tom Reader or Ice book reader for windows? I don't know what those are, since I don't use Windows. For ebooks, there are a variety of choices. These choice

Re: Backing up

2006-09-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 5, 2006, at 1:59 PM, Jordi Carrillo wrote: Just a doubt: FFS is not the same as UFS (unix filesystem)??? I installed FreeBSD and let FreeBSD to partition my hard drive and in fstab I have the partitions mounted as UFS. FFS is an abbreviation for "Berkeley Fast File System", and is the

Subversion GUI client

2006-09-05 Thread Greg Groth
I'm probably missing something stupid, but I'm having trouble connecting to a subversion server using esvn & kdesvn. The server is running svnserve, and I'm connecting with svn+ssh. When I try to connect using either app, they hang when browsing the repository tree. I then tried launching bo

Re: script help

2006-09-05 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Tuesday, September 05, 2006 11:16:26 -0700 ann kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all I would like to ask script question 1/ if i use the script to run within 1 minute, I can't run it in the cronjob. how can I run this script automatically? I don't understand what you mean here. Are

radeon_cp_init called without lock

2006-09-05 Thread freebsd4u
Hello, My graphics card's 3D acceleration is supported by Xorg's radeon module but, for some reason, it doesn't work. Before posting, I did some research on the Internet and it seems that I'm not the only one having this problem. It doesn't load agp.ko... and I have it on my loader.conf it's weir

Re: Backing up

2006-09-05 Thread Jordi Carrillo
Just a doubt: FFS is not the same as UFS (unix filesystem)??? I installed FreeBSD and let FreeBSD to partition my hard drive and in fstab I have the partitions mounted as UFS. thanks 2006/9/5, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: In response to Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sep 5, 2006, at

Re: Backing up

2006-09-05 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sep 5, 2006, at 1:41 PM, Jordi Carrillo wrote: > > I was thinking about using rdiff-backup to do incremental backups > > and ext2 type filesystem, as I don't use windows at all. Ext2 > > because I sometimes switch to Linux. I don't know if

Re: Backing up

2006-09-05 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 05/09/06, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sep 5, 2006, at 1:41 PM, Jordi Carrillo wrote: > I was thinking about using rdiff-backup to do incremental backups > and ext2 type filesystem, as I don't use windows at all. Ext2 > because I sometimes switch to Linux. I don't know if FFS is

Re: Various package/ports problems

2006-09-05 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: So now i can find out what version each port is, but that doesnt help me know whether these are outdated, or to update them. For that im still stuck on the Ruby core dump problem. I did reinstall portupgrade, ruby18, and the ruby-bdb thing, but sadly i still get th

Re: Backing up

2006-09-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 5, 2006, at 1:41 PM, Jordi Carrillo wrote: I was thinking about using rdiff-backup to do incremental backups and ext2 type filesystem, as I don't use windows at all. Ext2 because I sometimes switch to Linux. I don't know if FFS is recognized by Linux. I think modern flavors of Linux

Re: Backing up

2006-09-05 Thread Jordi Carrillo
I was thinking about using rdiff-backup to do incremental backups and ext2 type filesystem, as I don't use windows at all. Ext2 because I sometimes switch to Linux. I don't know if FFS is recognized by Linux. 2006/9/5, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sep 5, 2006, at 1:22 PM, Jordi Carrillo

Re: Backing up

2006-09-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 5, 2006, at 1:22 PM, Jordi Carrillo wrote: I use FreeBSD as my primary Desktop. I have purchased an external usb hard drive to perform backups of my home directory. What type of filesystem do you recommend for this drive, ext2?, fat?... If you are only using FreeBSD, formatting it in

Backing up

2006-09-05 Thread Jordi Carrillo
I use FreeBSD as my primary Desktop. I have purchased an external usb hard drive to perform backups of my home directory. What type of filesystem do you recommend for this drive, ext2?, fat?... Thanks -- http://jordilin.wordpress.com ___ freebsd-questio

Re: ACPI won't shutdown

2006-09-05 Thread bsd
Ok, Sorry for the delay. My hardware is quite complicated. Briefly : This is a bi-xeon with Intel motherboard (Intel Server Board SE7520AF2). I have two ATA RAID controler : - A mirror of 2 disks for the system. - One 3ware Model 9500S-12, 12 ports --> for the data (partition in 2 --> on

LVM support in FreeBSD

2006-09-05 Thread Jeff Rollin
Hi list, I'm wondering whether FreeBSD is able to support reading (at least, but preferably also writing) Linux LVM volumes? I have an itch to try FreeBSD on a desktop but all my data is in a Linux LVM. Is it possible? TIA, Jeff Rollin -- Proud Linux user since 1998 __

Re: 6.1-STABLE spontaneously reboots!

2006-09-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 10:55:04AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This server was in production and rock steady with 4.10-STABLE for years. > Before moving it to a colo center, I took it offline and did a clean > install of 6.1, cvsup'd to STABLE on 8/30/06 and then installed the latest > sta

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-05 Thread Jerold McAllister
Nikolas Britton writes: On 9/5/06, Jerold McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nikolas Britton writes: > On 9/4/06, Perry Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? >> > > AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't b

Re: MIME and mailcap

2006-09-05 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 12:07:42PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > > I'm trying to understand the use of mailcap for MIME translation within a > mail client. I installed mail/metamail, which created a .mailcap file in > my home directory. That file appears to be a copy of the run-mailcap > script

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-05 Thread Jerold McAllister
Perry Hutchison writes: By the way, Openoffice does work nicely on FreeBSD 6.1 and Gnome is not needed for it at all. Gnome is irrelevant to Openoccife. The Ports build of OpenOffice seems to require glib, which seems to be maintained by the gnome folks even if it is not, strictly speaking, p

Re: sshd login stalling

2006-09-05 Thread Noah
backyard wrote: --- Noah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay I cant seem to figure out why sshd logins are stalling. I see that I am coming from an IP address that does not have Reverse mapping. So I added the lines below to /usr/local/etc/ssh/sshd_config and /etc/ssh is sym linked to /usr/l

Re: sshd login stalling

2006-09-05 Thread backyard
--- Noah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay I cant seem to figure out why sshd logins are > stalling. I see that > I am coming from an IP address that does not have > Reverse mapping. > > So I added the lines below to > /usr/local/etc/ssh/sshd_config > and /etc/ssh is sym linked to /usr/local/

script help

2006-09-05 Thread ann kok
Hi all I would like to ask script question 1/ if i use the script to run within 1 minute, I can't run it in the cronjob. how can I run this script automatically? 2/ I have file "file.txt" as below, there are two fields. 4 999 10 200 15 400 60 900 I write "awk script" to exact field 2 if the fi

Problems With driver "sk0".

2006-09-05 Thread Thiago Esteves de Oliveira
Hi, I've installed an 3com 3C940 Gigabit Ethernet and the it's stoped during boot, but if I disable ACPI it works well. Before installing the 3com it was working well with ACPI. Look...without ACPI - Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989,

downloading res - resource reservation system

2006-09-05 Thread Noah
Hi there, I am looking for a link to download res - resource reservation system. Anybody help me please? Cheers, Noah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send a

Re: sshd login stalling

2006-09-05 Thread Noah
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Noah wrote: Okay I cant seem to figure out why sshd logins are stalling. I see that I am coming from an IP address that does not have Reverse mapping. So I added the lines below to /usr/local/etc/ssh/sshd_config and /etc/ssh is sym linked to /usr/local/etc/ssh What

Re: sshd login stalling

2006-09-05 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Noah wrote: Okay I cant seem to figure out why sshd logins are stalling. I see that I am coming from an IP address that does not have Reverse mapping. So I added the lines below to /usr/local/etc/ssh/sshd_config and /etc/ssh is sym linked to /usr/local/etc/ssh What are the contents of your /e

sshd login stalling

2006-09-05 Thread Noah
Okay I cant seem to figure out why sshd logins are stalling. I see that I am coming from an IP address that does not have Reverse mapping. So I added the lines below to /usr/local/etc/ssh/sshd_config and /etc/ssh is sym linked to /usr/local/etc/ssh --- snip --- lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-05 Thread Perry Hutchison
> By the way, Openoffice does work nicely on FreeBSD 6.1 and Gnome > is not needed for it at all. Gnome is irrelevant to Openoccife. The Ports build of OpenOffice seems to require glib, which seems to be maintained by the gnome folks even if it is not, strictly speaking, part of gnome. If there

Re: ebook reader

2006-09-05 Thread Ivan Levchenko
a friend of mine just recommended this thing: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pybookreader/ i will try it out On 9/5/06, Jordi Carrillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try reed. I haven't tried though. 2006/9/5, Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 17:42:08 +0300 > "Ivan

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-05 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 9/5/06, Jerold McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nikolas Britton writes: > On 9/4/06, Perry Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? >> > > AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't build. >> ... >> > KOffice 1

Re: AMD64 Stability with 6.1+?

2006-09-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 06:54:44PM +0200, Cor van Wandelen wrote: > I experience instability with FreeBSD-AMD64 using ext2/ext3 filesystems. > Sometimes reading and writing these filesystems work without any problems and > the next time the whole system hangs with the only option resetting the pc.

MIME and mailcap

2006-09-05 Thread Paul Schmehl
I'm trying to understand the use of mailcap for MIME translation within a mail client. I installed mail/metamail, which created a .mailcap file in my home directory. That file appears to be a copy of the run-mailcap script. But what does it do? It seems like it does nothing. What I'm tryin

Re: AMD64 Stability with 6.1+?

2006-09-05 Thread Cor van Wandelen
I experience instability with FreeBSD-AMD64 using ext2/ext3 filesystems. Sometimes reading and writing these filesystems work without any problems and the next time the whole system hangs with the only option resetting the pc. Nevertheless I use it because overall it seems to be a lot faster, but I

Re: AMD64 Stability with 6.1+?

2006-09-05 Thread Cor van Wandelen
I experience instability with FreeBSD-AMD64 using ext2/ext3 filesystems. Sometimes reading and writing these filesystems work without any problems and the next time the whole system hangs with the only option resetting the pc. Nevertheless I use it because overall it seems to be a lot faster, but I

Re: ebook reader

2006-09-05 Thread Jordi Carrillo
Try reed. I haven't tried though. 2006/9/5, Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 17:42:08 +0300 "Ivan Levchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there anything in the ports tree for reading books on the computer? > something like Tom Reader or Ice book reader for windo

Re: Gnome 2 - Fuzziness

2006-09-05 Thread Jordi Carrillo
You can run kde apps within gnome as well. I have Gnome and I can run perfectly k3b. As for fuzziness in the gdm login screen, it is most probably due to the screen resolution. Set your default in the xorg.conf file. 2006/9/5, Shane Ambler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 5/9/2006 22:58, "Justin" <[EMA

Re: ebook reader

2006-09-05 Thread IOnut
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 17:42:08 +0300 "Ivan Levchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there anything in the ports tree for reading books on the computer? > something like Tom Reader or Ice book reader for windows? > > i did some searching in the ports tree and freshports.org and that > didn't help a

Re: Gnome 2 - Fuzziness

2006-09-05 Thread Shane Ambler
On 5/9/2006 22:58, "Justin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > Installed FreeBSD 6.1R on a clean system over the weekend, and installed the > gnome2 port from the ports tree (after cvsup'ing). Everything installed > great, no errors. Ran the xorg configure from the handbook, went over

Re: Unicode support on freebsd?

2006-09-05 Thread a
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 05:23:05AM +0200, P.U.Kruppa wrote: > On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Wei Hu wrote: > > >When will Freebsd support unicode? Freebsd 7? > What exactly do you want be supported? In my /usr/share/locale/ I can see > some > UTF-8 directories. > > Regards, > > Uli. > >

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-05 Thread Jerold McAllister
Nikolas Britton writes: On 9/4/06, Perry Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? > > AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't build. ... > KOffice 1.5 has OpenDocument support. Not that I'm any more eager to get in

6.1-STABLE spontaneously reboots!

2006-09-05 Thread up
This server was in production and rock steady with 4.10-STABLE for years. Before moving it to a colo center, I took it offline and did a clean install of 6.1, cvsup'd to STABLE on 8/30/06 and then installed the latest stable versions of all the applications and mods. It's now back in production a

Re: Device Drivers and Kernel Modules

2006-09-05 Thread backyard
--- Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "David Wassman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am trying to figure out which would be best, to > load all the device > > drivers through compiling them into the kernel or > to load them at boot > > through loader.conf. > > > > I would think t

Re: AMD64 Stability with 6.1+?

2006-09-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 08:09:27AM -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > Can anybody on this list indicate what kind of stability they have seen > with AMD64 systems using FreeBSD (the 64-bit binaries)? How about the > majority of PORTS in the tree? Stability of amd64 is excellent. # uptime 7:4

Your request for Sales Addresses of Philips Semiconductors

2006-09-05 Thread Philips Sales
Sales Addresses of Philips Semiconductors Australia : Sydney, 65 Epping Road, North Ryde, NSW 2113, New South Wales, Tel. +61 2 99470250, Fax. +61 2 99470251. Austria : Vienna, Silica (An Avnet Company), Tel. +43 1 86642-300, Fax. +43 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]://www.silica.com Belarus :

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-05 Thread Erik Norgaard
RW wrote: On Tuesday 05 September 2006 09:35, Erik Norgaard wrote: In the standard-supfile for the base system you'd specify RELENG_6 which means you'll get head of -STABLE, or if you are conservative RELENG_6_1 which means that you'll just get security patches to the 6.1 release. I do wish p

ebook reader

2006-09-05 Thread Ivan Levchenko
Is there anything in the ports tree for reading books on the computer? something like Tom Reader or Ice book reader for windows? i did some searching in the ports tree and freshports.org and that didn't help at all. -- Best Regards, Ivan Levchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: AMD64 Stability with 6.1+?

2006-09-05 Thread RW
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 14:09, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > Can anybody on this list indicate what kind of stability they have seen > with AMD64 systems using FreeBSD (the 64-bit binaries)? How about the > majority of PORTS in the tree? The problems with amd64 are more to do with whether the

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-05 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 9/5/06, RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 05 September 2006 09:35, Erik Norgaard wrote: > In the standard-supfile for the base system you'd specify RELENG_6 which > means you'll get head of -STABLE, or if you are conservative RELENG_6_1 > which means that you'll just get security patch

Re: AMD64 Stability with 6.1+?

2006-09-05 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 9/5/06, Thomas T. Veldhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can anybody on this list indicate what kind of stability they have seen with AMD64 systems using FreeBSD (the 64-bit binaries)? How about the majority of PORTS in the tree? I realize this question will solicit relatively subjective respo

Gnome 2 - Fuzziness

2006-09-05 Thread Justin
Greetings, Installed FreeBSD 6.1R on a clean system over the weekend, and installed the gnome2 port from the ports tree (after cvsup'ing). Everything installed great, no errors. Ran the xorg configure from the handbook, went over good, background and cursor came up sharp. So, I enabled gdm, an

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-05 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 9/5/06, Perry Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FreeBSD and Linux will not meet your teenagers needs, If you really > > want to introduce your kid to UNIX then buy a Mac... trust me on > > this... I interact with many high school and college kids on a daily > > basis. Any used Mac capab

AMD64 Stability with 6.1+?

2006-09-05 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Can anybody on this list indicate what kind of stability they have seen with AMD64 systems using FreeBSD (the 64-bit binaries)? How about the majority of PORTS in the tree? I realize this question will solicit relatively subjective responses, but I am interested in them all. Thanks in advan

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-05 Thread RW
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 09:35, Erik Norgaard wrote: > In the standard-supfile for the base system you'd specify RELENG_6 which > means you'll get head of -STABLE, or if you are conservative RELENG_6_1 > which means that you'll just get security patches to the 6.1 release. I do wish people wo

Re: Device Drivers and Kernel Modules

2006-09-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"David Wassman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to figure out which would be best, to load all the device > drivers through compiling them into the kernel or to load them at boot > through loader.conf. > > I would think that loader.conf would be more convenient as changing hardware > wul

RE: Having trouble getting ppp configured on my 6.1 box

2006-09-05 Thread Bob
Post your /etc/ppp/ppp.conf /var/log/ppp.log/etc/hosts and firewall rules files. Are you running DNS server? You may also find the Install Guide at www.a1poweruser.com helpful. It covers user ppp in detail. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: solaris

2006-09-05 Thread backyard
--- Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-09-04 15:52, backyard > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would recommend the second drive option. > > Me too. Not for the same reasons though. > > > I have attempted installing Solaris 10 on multiple > computers and all > > if ever se

Re: portmanager port upgrade question

2006-09-05 Thread Gerard Seibert
Boris Samorodov wrote: > > Personally, why a new source was not created so that anyone downloading > > Which type of source are you speaking of? When a new, or not, user downloads an image file for FBSD, he/she is getting an image file with this obsoleted version. They must then use 'portupgrade

Thank You For Contacting Hauntedfilm.com

2006-09-05 Thread Haunted Film Administrator
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Re: portmanager port upgrade question

2006-09-05 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 05:56:03 -0400 Gerard Seibert wrote: > Boris Samorodov wrote: > > > Can anyon tell me why this port is marked ignore? Has it been superseeded? > > > > You may consider reading /usr/ports/UPDATING. > > > > BTW, it's the right file to read from time to time and especially if >

Re: portmanager port upgrade question

2006-09-05 Thread Gerard Seibert
Boris Samorodov wrote: > > Can anyon tell me why this port is marked ignore? Has it been superseeded? > > You may consider reading /usr/ports/UPDATING. > > BTW, it's the right file to read from time to time and especially if > you have questions about the port system. ;-) The info you are searc

Re: Having trouble getting ppp configured on my 6.1 box

2006-09-05 Thread Matteo Pillon
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 07:07:21PM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote: > > What's interesting is, I can resolve hostnames within the domain of my ISP ( > Icehouse.net). For example, I can resolve www.icehouse.net, but I can't > resolve www.freebsd.org. > That's really strange. Try setting 151.1.1.1 as

mod_ntln for apache2

2006-09-05 Thread Клопотнюк Михаил Сергеевич
I have FreeBSD 5.4 and Apache2 (Apache2-2.0.53_1). I need compile module mod_ntlm for apache. Compiling stops with this errors: # make install ===> Building for mod_ntlm-0.4 /usr/local/sbin/apxs -c-Wc,-Wall mod_ntlm.c /usr/local/share/apache2/build/libtool --silent --mode=compile cc -prefer-p

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-05 Thread Erik Norgaard
Perry Hutchison wrote: Looking at that post it seems something failed when you tried to update your ports collection. I suspect the blunder was in trying to update Ports at all, given it is a new 6.1 CD install and nothing *else* is updated. The Handbook suggests to always update Ports before

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-05 Thread Perry Hutchison
> > FreeBSD and Linux will not meet your teenagers needs, If you really > > want to introduce your kid to UNIX then buy a Mac... trust me on > > this... I interact with many high school and college kids on a daily > > basis. Any used Mac capable of running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and > > NeoOffice2 wil