Re: Configuring Compaz Wireless Optical Wheel Mouse

2004-04-18 Thread Gerard Seibert
PROTECTED] |Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 | |Try /dev/ums0 :) | |- Original Message - |From: Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] |To: FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 12:28 AM |Subject: Configuring Compaq Wireless Optical Wheel Mouse | | | I am

Re: Configuring Compaq Wireless Optical Wheel Mouse

2004-04-18 Thread Gerard Seibert
port. I have tried every port I can |think | |of, | | and it sill gives me an error. | | | | I would really appreciate any help someone might be able to afford me. | | | | Thanks! | | | | Gerard Seibert | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | ** Reply Separator ** | Sunday, April 18, 2004 7:36

Configuring Compaq Wireless Optical Wheel Mouse

2004-04-17 Thread Gerard Seibert
to afford me. Thanks! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What does: is an interactive port mean?

2004-04-16 Thread Gerard Seibert
I was just trying to install Star Office 7.0 and I received the following error message: ** 'editors/staroffice70' is marked as IGNORE: is an interactive port I have run cvsup and portsdb -Uu prior to this. Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks! Gerard E. Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED

Setting up Apache

2004-03-25 Thread Gerard Seibert
be able to afford me. I am presently running FreeBSD 5.2.1 if that makes any difference. Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Cardbus - on 4.x, or still 5.x only?

2004-03-24 Thread David Gerard
Is PCMCIA CardBus support in 4.x as yet (if it ever will be), or is it still a 5.x-only thing? - d. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: special characters, ie spanish accents

2004-03-21 Thread Gerard Seibert
made to the system. Well that is my 2ยข {alt155} worth. Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 4.9 installation woes (on thinkpad 560X)

2004-03-21 Thread David Gerard
On 03/17/04 00:09, David Gerard wrote: I was advised by a few people (including the laptop's previous owner) that FreeBSD 5.x would be quite difficult to get working with sound, and that it would be a better idea to try with 4.9. I have just spent a few hours carefully reinstalling the laptop

4.9 installation woes (on thinkpad 560X)

2004-03-16 Thread David Gerard
I was advised by a few people (including the laptop's previous owner) that FreeBSD 5.x would be quite difficult to get working with sound, and that it would be a better idea to try with 4.9. I have just spent a few hours carefully reinstalling the laptop with FreeBSD 4.9. Restart for its first

Compiling Packages

2004-03-10 Thread Gerard Seibert
to offer my services? Thanks! Gerard E. Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re[2]: Message from CRON

2004-03-09 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tuesday, March 09, 2004 6:11:41 AM Ruben de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 06:25:39PM -0500, Gerard Seibert typed: | From time to time, I receive a notification that I have mail in | /var/mail/ges. | | Upon checking, this is what I find: | | | | From [EMAIL

Simplifying FreeBSD Installation

2004-03-08 Thread Gerard Seibert
as Microsoft's operating system does. Once they have reached that plateau, they can then proceed to improving on their overall product features and usability. Well that is enough of my ramblings. I just though that I might add my 2 cents to the mix. Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Update Utility

2004-03-08 Thread Gerard Seibert
to run. You might want to throw a 'portsclean -CDDLPP' into the mix also prior to step five. I am sure that others will have far better suggestions. Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Message from CRON

2004-03-08 Thread Gerard Seibert
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Re: pam_acct_mgmt(): user account has expired (was Re: Login Problem)

2004-03-07 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Saturday, March 06, 2004 5:42:56 PM Barry Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 4, 2004, at 1:33 PM, Gerard Seibert wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.2.1 - RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 23 20:45:55 GMT 2004 It seems that I can no longer log into my system. Upon boot-up, the usually login appears. I

Login Problem

2004-03-04 Thread Gerard Seibert
was KDE 3.2 today. Can anyone tell me what has happened and how do I get back into my system? Thanks in advance! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Error Msg

2004-03-04 Thread Gerard Seibert
to correct this problem. Even more mysterious is that this problem and several others only surfaced after installing KDE 3.2. I welcome any assistance someone can afford me, Thanks! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 95653152 ___ [EMAIL

[Repost] Limiting connections to CVS

2004-03-01 Thread Gerard Samuel
Reposting to list, as I was locked out of -questions over the weekend, and I don't know if I got any replies. - I read somewhere that they were able to limit CVS pserver connections to 4 a minute. I would like to do something similar. I currently have a firewall/nat box running

Re: where do i get libintl.so.5?

2004-03-01 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Monday 01 March 2004 11:07 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: im on my quest to install phpnuke when i hit a serious problem. it failed and upon looking at the error code i saw If I remember correctly, you're going to have to deinstall/reinstall gmake and friends (gtk/glib/), and reinstall

Re: [Repost] Limiting connections to CVS

2004-03-01 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Monday 01 March 2004 02:47 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote: See inetd.conf(5) The solution was under my nose all this time Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Search Path in Bash

2004-02-29 Thread Gerard Seibert
just trying to get the most accurate information in regards to how bash works. Gerard E. Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beware of quantum ducks. quark quark ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Properly Configuring For Internet Access

2004-02-28 Thread Gerard Seibert
. Once I get that cleared up, I will proceed to try to get the other two machines to recognize this one and vice-versa. Thanks for any assistance offered. Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Limiting connections to CVS

2004-02-28 Thread Gerard Samuel
I read somewhere that they were able to limit CVS pserver connections to 4 a minute. I would like to do something similar. I currently have a firewall/nat box running 4.9-RELEASE-p1, using ipf. The CVS server is behind the firewall/nat box running on 4.9-RELEASE-p1. Thanks for any insight you may

Problem with dhclient

2004-02-27 Thread Gerard Seibert
to a router and then to a cable modem. The other two machines are running XP without any problems. This machine was working correctly until today, Therefore I assume that something got corrupted. Thanks in advance. Gerard Seibert ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Error Message Installing GCC 3.4

2004-02-21 Thread gerard-serbert
'/usr/ports/lang/gcc34/work/build/i386-portbid-freebsd5.2.1/libiberty' gmake[1]: *** [all-target-libiberty] Error 2 gmake[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/ports/lang/gcc34/work/build' gmake: *** [bootstrap-lean] Error 2 *** Error 2 Stop in /usr/ports/lang/gcc34 Thanks in advance! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL

Re: Win200 gateway blocking FBSD html?

2004-02-19 Thread Gerard Seibert
allows Internet Explorer to work? Doesn't seem possible, but what do I know? All suggestions welcome. best regards, Robert Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:52:48 AM ** Reply Separator ** Have you tried using nslookup to see if it is working correctly? Gerard Seibert [EMAIL

Re: Welcome to the Test mailing list

2004-02-19 Thread Gerard Seibert
administrators, you can visit the list admin overview page to find the management interface for your list. If you are having trouble using the lists, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re[2]: Shutting down system

2004-02-17 Thread Gerard Seibert
. Can any one give me any assistance? Thanks! Gerard E. Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Reply Separator ** Did you enable apm in /etc/rc.conf? What do you get when you execute the following? apm -s If you get a 0 (zero), then I don't think apm is enabled at bootup. See

Shutdown Problem

2004-02-17 Thread gerard-seibert
failed: AE_NO_ACPI_TABLES I have no idea what that means, but I assume that it has something to do with the problem I am experiencing. Perhaps someone might have some idea what is happening and how to correct it. Thanks! Gerard E. Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED

Shutting down system

2004-02-16 Thread Gerard Seibert
. Can any one give me any assistance? Thanks! Gerard E. Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Newbie Questions Regarding SU Command Running Periodic Updating

2004-02-15 Thread gerard-seibert
in advance! Gerard E. Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Options for a New Kernel

2004-02-10 Thread Gerard Seibert
special before compiling the kernel? Thanks! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Funky characters in KMail 1.5.4

2004-02-09 Thread Gerard Samuel
Im not sure what to google for, so Im checking here to see if any other FreeBSD users experience this. Every now and then my emails that I send contain extra characters like =2D and =46 I have no idea what is causing it, and Im hoping someone on here can direct me to something on the net to help

Problem with KDE

2004-02-02 Thread Gerard Seibert
I am not sure if this is the correct place to ask this question, but I figured I might as well start somewhere. I am presently running BSD version 5.2. I just installed the meta port for KDE. The port seemed to install correctly. The problem is that the program will not terminate correctly.

Re: DMA Problem With DVD Drive

2004-01-28 Thread Gerard Seibert
Wednesday, January 28, 2004 8:54:32 AM Try entering the following into your /boot/loader.conf file: hw.ata.ata_dma=1 hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 hw.ata.wc=1 That solved the problem for me. Of course you will have to reboot after entering the commands. Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Reply

Email Program

2004-01-26 Thread Gerard Seibert
This may not be the best place to post this question, but I will try anyway. I need a really full featured email program. Something along the lines of MS Outlook. It has to be able to handle multiple identifies and several different SMTP and POP addresses. The handling of both HTML and plain

Problem with KDE

2004-01-25 Thread Gerard Seibert
increasing with each new line of output.. I have been reduced to using a three finger salute to stop the machine and get it started again. I am running BSD 5.2 latest version. This problem has only manifested itself within the past day. I would appreciate any suggestions. Gerard Seibert [EMAIL

Problem With Configuring Name Servers

2004-01-24 Thread Gerard Seibert
it. I have a cable connection that uses DHCP . I have the latest release of FreeBSD 5.2 installed. Thanks in advance. Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

RE: Formatting Zip Drive Disks

2004-01-22 Thread Gerard Seibert
suggestions? I have tried mounting in various ways, but they all fail. Formatting via /stand/sysinstall has not corrected the problem. Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Formatting ZIP Disk

2004-01-21 Thread Gerard Seibert
presently using version 5.2 of BSD. Can anyone assist me.? Thanks! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Formats Other Than FAT(16)

2004-01-19 Thread Gerard Seibert
I want to format disks that I use in my ZIP drive in either the FAT(32) or NTFS systems. Is there anyway to make FreeBSD accomplish that task? All it seems to want to do is use the FAT(16) system. I am now using version 5.2. Thanks! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] If life gives you lemons

Problems with X

2004-01-04 Thread Gerard Seibert
Error: can't connect to sawfish on display 0.0 /dev/dsp No such file or directory I have no idea what is wrong or how to correct it. I would appreciate any assistance someone might be able to afford me. Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL

Log Rotation

2003-12-28 Thread Gerard Samuel
In particular, Im looking to see if there is a FreeBSD way in rotating PostgreSQL logs. Any advise would be appreciated. Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Log Rotation

2003-12-28 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Sunday 28 December 2003 12:36 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Gerard Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In particular, Im looking to see if there is a FreeBSD way in rotating PostgreSQL logs. Any advise would be appreciated. newsyslog(8) is part of the base system... Yes, Im familiar

Re: Log Rotation

2003-12-28 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Sunday 28 December 2003 01:24 pm, Scott W wrote: This is a simple solution, and has the potential to lose a few log entries due to the time from the completion of the original log copy until the original log file truncation is completed, but should be fine for home, non critical or low

Re: Log Rotation

2003-12-28 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Sunday 28 December 2003 01:34 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Postgres knows how to use syslog(8) for its logging, which is another option also quite simple... True. I have to investigate this option... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Moving from a single to dual CPU setup

2003-12-27 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Friday 26 December 2003 07:32 pm, Gerard Samuel wrote: Ill report back on my findings... Ok, Im throwing in the towel. Im guessing bad motherboard. Its definately hanging in random places... Thanks for your help. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: Moving from a single to dual CPU setup

2003-12-26 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Friday 26 December 2003 03:28 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Gerard Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did a bit of googling, and came up with an instance, that there may be a problem with FreeBSD 4.9/SMP/ACPI combo. Even though (well at least I believe) ACPI is off, Im having something

Moving from a single to dual CPU setup

2003-12-25 Thread Gerard Samuel
I acquired a SuperMicro dual slot one board a while ago (http:// www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/840/PIIIDME.htm), and was running a single PIII 450 in there for about a month. The system worked great. I decided to move to using dual processors, so I acquired 2 PIII 667 cpus. (According

Re: Running dual CPUs

2003-12-24 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 02:39 am, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 24), Gerard Samuel said: I acquired a pair of Slot 1 CPUs that is supposedly a matched pair. I've heard, that they must be of the same stepping, and Im not sure of what Im looking for. CPU specs

Running dual CPUs

2003-12-23 Thread Gerard Samuel
I acquired a pair of Slot 1 CPUs that is supposedly a matched pair. I've heard, that they must be of the same stepping, and Im not sure of what Im looking for. CPU specs are at - http://processorfinder.intel.com/scripts/ details.asp?sSpec=SL3XLProcFam=25PkgType=ALLSysBusSpd=ALLCorSpd=5775 Just

Personal IP telephony software for FreeBSD and Windows?

2003-12-07 Thread David Gerard
Living in the UK, a happy land of timed phone calls, and with a DSL that can certainly spare 9600bps up and down for a voice channel, I've decided it's time to look into personal IP telephone software. I know there's lots of it about. What I'm looking for is something that's available for *nix

Problem with Disk/Partition???

2003-12-07 Thread Gerard Samuel
Running 4.9, and when running fsck on a partition craps out with - hivemind# fsck /files ** /dev/da0s1h (NO WRITE) ** Last Mounted on /files ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl

Re: SOLVED: Can't install gaim on FreeBSD 4.x

2003-12-01 Thread David Gerard
On 12/01/03 16:33, Lowell Gilbert wrote: David Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gaim requires perl 5.8 or higher just to be installed - its 'l33t++ custom configurator thingy requires it. The 5.005 that comes with FreeBSD 4.8 is not sufficient. That's not true. I just did it (on -STABLE

Re: php4...

2003-11-30 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Sunday 30 November 2003 03:39 pm, Gary Kline wrote: Melvyn Sopacua's advice resolved this php4 snafu. lang/php4 comes first, mod_php4 falls into place cleanly. The problem now (with BBS software not in the ports tree) is that my mysql4 and postgresql7 are not

Re: php4...

2003-11-30 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Sunday 30 November 2003 08:29 pm, Gary Kline wrote: Yipes! No wonder no FUD port has been done! I have a one-line php test file in /usr/local/www/data/hello.php; *with* mod_php4, several pages of system data shows up, but with only php4, I have the option to

SOLVED: Can't install gaim on FreeBSD 4.x

2003-11-30 Thread David Gerard
On 11/25/03 22:06, David Gerard wrote: Has anyone got gaim 0.71 or later working on FreeBSD 4.x? What did you do to get it working? The answer, short form: Sacrifice Linuxism-infested w33n0rs to the Great God Knuth. Ha! Only kidding. [*] The answer, longer form: Gaim requires perl 5.8

Re: Remove ^M characters from xhtml file

2003-11-30 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Sunday 30 November 2003 10:39 pm, Bryan Cassidy wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, I take that back. It worked on 1 file and then ir started erasing the contents of the file. perl -pi -e s:^M::g filenames Usually works for me. Picked it up from

Re: php4...

2003-11-29 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Sunday 30 November 2003 12:01 am, Gary Kline wrote: Looks like I'm missing /usr/local/bin/php, and lang/php4 is broken. I already have the mod_php4 port installed-- and working. FUDforums2 is looking for the php bnary, if I'm interpreting the installation message

Re: Can't install gaim on FreeBSD 4.x

2003-11-26 Thread David Gerard
On 11/26/03 01:52, Bryan Cassidy wrote: Why not just use the ports? Works fine on my end with FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE 'Cos the port in 4.8-RELEASE is 0.59, and the new MSN protocol is only in 0.71 or later. Now messing with cvsup ... - d. ___ [EMAIL

Multiple CPU Performance

2003-11-26 Thread Gerard Samuel
I was fortunate to acquire a dual Slot one motherboard. I currently only have one PIII 450 in there, and its working without any problems so far. This box is primarily for www/samba/cvs. I was wondering if my PHP apps would benefit (run faster) if I introduced a 2nd CPU. Just wondering

Re: Multiple CPU Performance

2003-11-26 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Wednesday 26 November 2003 05:02 pm, Kevin Stevens wrote: No single program thread will run faster than it would on an unladen single-processor machine. You would gain more in terms of how many threads could run concurrently. In other words: more, not faster. Thats what I thought. Thanks

Can't install gaim on FreeBSD 4.x

2003-11-25 Thread David Gerard
We're trying to install gaim on a 4.8-RELEASE box, and it's acting like the package is broken. lilith# pkg_add -v gaim-0.72.tar Requested space: 42147840 bytes, free space: 46554032128 bytes in /var/tmp/instmp.ko8CO8 pkg_add: read_plist: bad command '@conflicts ja-gaim-*' lilith# Er, huh? I got

Re: Can't install gaim on FreeBSD 4.x

2003-11-25 Thread David Gerard
On 11/25/03 22:06, David Gerard wrote: We're trying to install gaim on a 4.8-RELEASE box, and it's acting like the package is broken. lilith# pkg_add -v gaim-0.72.tar Requested space: 42147840 bytes, free space: 46554032128 bytes in /var/tmp/instmp.ko8CO8 pkg_add: read_plist: bad command

Re: Can't install gaim on FreeBSD 4.x

2003-11-25 Thread David Gerard
On 11/25/03 22:20, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 17:06, David Gerard wrote: Has anyone got gaim 0.71 or later working on FreeBSD 4.x? What did you do to get it working? You need to install the sysutils/pkg_install port, I can't find such a port ... either on the system

DHCP

2003-11-15 Thread Gerard Samuel
A bit off topic, but any help would be appreciated. Im trying to setup DHCP for the first time. I set winXP to auto configure itself in the network section, but it still remains on the IP address that it was previously set at, and not obeying, the range of IP Addresses listed in dhcp.conf. The

Re: Fastest way to change IP addresses

2003-11-15 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Saturday 15 November 2003 02:35 pm, Jamie wrote: 1) ifconfig de0 200.80.11.8 255.255.255.0 ifconfig -a then gives me: fxp0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 200.80.11.8 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 200.88.11.255 ether 00:03:47:b1:d6:1c

Re: DHCP

2003-11-15 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Saturday 15 November 2003 02:17 pm, Gerard Samuel wrote: A bit off topic, but any help would be appreciated. Im trying to setup DHCP for the first time. I set winXP to auto configure itself in the network section, but it still remains on the IP address that it was previously set

Re: DHCP

2003-11-15 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Saturday 15 November 2003 05:07 pm, Peter Schuller wrote: Unless you need the laptop to always have that certain hostname, you should just be able to remove the host {} section and any devices, including the laptop, should get an IP address from the pool. Well I tried it and it seems to be

Re: ok, i give up; how acroread in mozilla???

2003-11-08 Thread David Gerard
On 11/08/03 22:45, Gary Kline wrote: Setting up netscape to use realplayer and acroread took awhile but I finally got it. I've been using mozilla more and more, but still haven't figured out howto get it to successfully spawn acroread. Heh. I gave up and just set Firebird to spawn xpdf

Re: newbie: myPHPadmin - LOCK TABLES

2003-10-31 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Friday 31 October 2003 06:44 pm, Noah wrote: Hi, okay I am a little new to myPHPadmin and mysql in general.I am trying to figure out how to set LOCK TABLES priv to a specific user? how Might I go to do this. this user has access only to specific databases. I hope my quesiton is

Re: firebird as non-root

2003-10-31 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Friday 31 October 2003 11:25 pm, Vulpes Velox wrote: Has any one else here had problems running firebird not as root? I can execute it and a ps -aux shows it as running, but nothing comes up on the screen. Under root it works rather fine. Comes up fine for me. Just installed it, and at

Temporarily changing the time

2003-10-23 Thread Gerard Samuel
Could someone point me to a man page, where I can temporarily change the time on FBSD 4.8. Im testing a php script and Im looking to see how it will handle the upcoming time change this weekend. Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Temporarily changing the time

2003-10-23 Thread Gerard Samuel
Gerard Samuel wrote: Could someone point me to a man page, where I can temporarily change the time on FBSD 4.8. Im testing a php script and Im looking to see how it will handle the upcoming time change this weekend. Thanks Thanks for your replies. Time to go read

weird KDE alt-tab problem

2003-10-20 Thread David Gerard
Every now and then, I press alt-tab to go between applications in KDE 3, and it goes into a strange mode: I press alt, hold and press tab, and the window menu comes up ... I press alt again and it actually goes to the next window. 1. What is happening? 2. How did it get there? 3. What can I do to

Re: Mozilla weirdness

2003-10-16 Thread David Gerard
anyone know why my Mozilla 1.4 has no spell check in mail? am i missing something here? Yep - 1.4 doesn't come with the spell checker! It is included with 1.4.1 or 1.5, though. - d. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

*Editing* PDFs?

2003-10-13 Thread David Gerard
We have just seen the many tools for generating PDFs all you want. Is there anything usable on FreeBSD for *editing* existing PDFs, though? Any form of replacement whatsoever for the full version of Acrobat? - d. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: *Editing* PDFs?

2003-10-13 Thread David Gerard
On 10/13/03 19:03, James Leone wrote: The only way I have been able to edit existing PDF's is by installing Adobe Acrobat 5.0 in Linux by using Codeweaver's Cross Over Office, which is available at www.codeweavers.com. Which is the original problem :-) I've used Acrobat on Windows. It works

Re: StarOffice 7

2003-10-13 Thread David Gerard
On 10/13/03 15:11, Ray Seals wrote: Has anyone tried to run Star Office 7 on FreeBSD 5.1 yet? I have 6 and I use it daily on my 4.8 machine. Just wanted to know what type of battle I would have on my hands trying to get the new one working on 5.1. OpenOffice 1.1 for Linux runs *very* well on

Permission denied with NFS mount

2003-10-11 Thread Gerard Samuel
I already have 2 mount points setup from the server to my workstation and they are working perfectly. When adding a third mount point, HUPping mountd, and trying to mount it (as root), Im getting - gladiator# mount hivemind:/files/www/data /home/gsam/www [udp] hivemind:/files/www/data:

Re: Permission denied with NFS mount

2003-10-11 Thread Gerard Samuel
Gerard Samuel wrote: I already have 2 mount points setup from the server to my workstation and they are working perfectly. When adding a third mount point, HUPping mountd, and trying to mount it (as root), Im getting - gladiator# mount hivemind:/files/www/data /home/gsam/www [udp] hivemind

Re: Opera 7.20b7 for FreeBSD problems

2003-09-30 Thread David Gerard
On 09/29/03 23:42, Timothy J. Luoma wrote: Why not try the static version? http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml?platform=freebsdver=7.20b7 Note the page suggests Download the static version unless you know that your system will be able to use the shared version. Ah, no, I tried both with the

Opera 7.20b7 for FreeBSD problems

2003-09-29 Thread David Gerard
Yes, they have a FreeBSD native binary :-) Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me. It fails like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/opera $ ./opera /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libawt.so not found But locate shows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/opera $ locate libawt.so

Re: Postfix against spam

2003-09-20 Thread Gerard Samuel
Mark wrote: I just posted a short tutorial on Postfix on my website that deals with today's MS virus outbreak, take a look here: http://samba.netfirms.com/postfix/postfixrules.pdf I couldn't get to your site, but Ill try again later. But I did come across a very good resource at

Postfix against spam

2003-09-19 Thread Gerard Samuel
A bit off topic, but with a rash of crap coming down my pipe, Im looking for solutions to fight spam using Postfix running on FreeBSD 4.8. I've come across a few links that suggest using Postfix with RBL. If anyone has any experiences with this or any other techniques with FBSD/Postfix, email me

Re: /etc/fstab explain me please.....

2003-09-13 Thread David Gerard
On 09/13/03 11:11, Denis wrote: I want to mount automatically my second disk drive which has Fat32 file system. Could you tell me what i must write in FSType section in /etc/fstab?? Maybe msdos or fat32??? msdos is correct. Here's mine: $ cat /etc/fstab # See the fstab(5) manual page for

Script doesn't complete via Cron

2003-09-12 Thread Gerard Samuel
Script - #!/bin/sh # # To roll up a zip file of source code # date=`date '+%Y-%m-%d'` cd ~/temp rm -rf foo_dev foo.zip export CVS_RSH=ssh export CVSROOT=:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/xxx/yyy/zzz cvs -Q export -D $date -d foo_dev foo zip -q -r foo foo_dev scp -q foo.zip server_name: rm -rf

Re: Script doesn't complete via Cron

2003-09-12 Thread Gerard Samuel
. Gerard Samuel wrote: Script - #!/bin/sh # # To roll up a zip file of source code # date=`date '+%Y-%m-%d'` cd ~/temp rm -rf foo_dev foo.zip export CVS_RSH=ssh export CVSROOT=:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/xxx/yyy/zzz cvs -Q export -D $date -d foo_dev foo zip -q -r foo foo_dev scp -q foo.zip

Re: OpenOffice 1.1rc3-Linux on FreeBSD 4.6.2 installation problems

2003-09-08 Thread David Gerard
Do you have linprocfs mounted? I think it's required for 4.6.2 I just mounted it anyway, to try that: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ls -la /compat/linux/proc total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 18 2002 . drwxr-xr-x 12 root wheel 512 Sep 18 2002 .. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ sudo

OpenOffice 1.1rc3-Linux on FreeBSD 4.6.2 installation problems

2003-09-07 Thread David Gerard
We just downloaded and installed the Linux binary of OOo 1.1rc3 on my wife's FreeBSD 4.8 box with no problems. My 4.6.2 box, however, doesn't want to play. I untar the install files into a directory in my home directory, run ./setup and it puts up an unpacking window (box opening and progress

Re: OpenOffice 1.1rc3-Linux on FreeBSD 4.6.2 installation problems

2003-09-07 Thread David Gerard
On 09/07/03 20:50, T Kellers wrote: On Sunday 07 September 2003 03:41 pm, David Gerard wrote: We just downloaded and installed the Linux binary of OOo 1.1rc3 on my wife's FreeBSD 4.8 box with no problems. My 4.6.2 box, however, doesn't want to play. The thing is, this is the *exact* same

Suggestions to a command line editor

2003-09-03 Thread Gerard Samuel
Well I've been using FreeBSD for the past maybe 4 years now. I've been using ee (don't laugh) to do all my editing on the command line. Im looking to grow out of ee into something else. Naturally, something that can open/edit files. And if possible, I've heard of editors with color syntax

Re: Suggestions to a command line editor

2003-09-03 Thread Gerard Samuel
Gerard Samuel wrote: Well I've been using FreeBSD for the past maybe 4 years now. I've been using ee (don't laugh) to do all my editing on the command line. Im looking to grow out of ee into something else. Naturally, something that can open/edit files. And if possible, I've heard of editors

Re: Why people are not satisfied with FreeBSD?

2003-08-30 Thread David Gerard
Denis Troshin wrote: Looking at the field MAILER of e-mails' headers, I see that there a lot of people here who are using mail programs like Outlook, Eudora, Mozillafor win32. This means that they run windows systems. So I'm asking why still a lot of people here who hadn't move to

Re: Mozilla Thunderbird under Linux compatibility?

2003-07-26 Thread David Gerard
David Gerard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030724 06:05]: I'm trying to run a current Thunderbird build for Linux under compatibility. It's quitting with: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ./thunderbird/thunderbird ./thunderbird/thunderbird-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot

Mozilla Thunderbird under Linux compatibility?

2003-07-23 Thread David Gerard
I'm trying to run a current Thunderbird build for Linux under compatibility. It's quitting with: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ./thunderbird/thunderbird ./thunderbird/thunderbird-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Re: Use linux_base-debian instead of linux_base?

2003-07-14 Thread David Gerard
Kirk Strauser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030715 02:46]: I have linux_base-debian installed and working well. However, some ports (namely linux-ibm-jdk14 via the USE_LINUX Makefile entry) want to install linux_base alongside it. Can I configure my system to use linux_base-debian for ports that

Re: Inode Problem

2003-07-12 Thread Gerard Samuel
Thanks. I guess I may as well get a bigger disk... ;) Jan Grant wrote: On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Gerard Samuel wrote: A few weeks ago, I had a problem on one of my partitions where it was running out of inodes. The guy who helped me out, at the time suggested to either rebuild the disk

Inode Problem

2003-07-11 Thread Gerard Samuel
A few weeks ago, I had a problem on one of my partitions where it was running out of inodes. The guy who helped me out, at the time suggested to either rebuild the disk or the partition. I don't remember which one at the moment. So what should I be doing? Rebuilding the disk or the partition

Re: cvs co CVSROOT

2003-07-03 Thread Gerard Samuel
It has been a while, but when I did mine, if I remember correctly I didn't experience any problem with setting it up. Which FreeBSD server did you go to get the CVSROOT? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dear list i just tried to cvs co CVSROOT in order to try out setting up a CVS repository - the

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