gnome screensaver crashes

On a nice fresh install of FreeBSD 6.3 and gnome, gnome-screensaver crashes at X startup claiming that it can't talk to the dbus daemon, even though the daemon is running. Is this a known problem? It seems to be new in the latest version of X and/or Gnome. __

Fwd: Three wishes of a wannabe developer

ing to learn something new, to get his ideas out there, and to have a bit of fun. Smalltalk is easy to learn, and fun. However, there are lots of ways to skin this cat... this is just my opinion. -- John Websites f

Re: Three wishes of a wannabe developer

s an ideal platform for deploying web applications, which will allow you to make your economic simulations available to anyone on the net. Just my two cents. Brgds: John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: Any way to configure VIA Chrome9?

Quoting Tore Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: My new motherboard has the built-in VIA Chrome9 graphics processor, which seems to use the xf86-video-via driver. The driver works, no doubt about that, but I badly want to configure gamma, contrast, etc. There is supposedly a configuraton utility for Linu

SMP kernel and interrupt storm

8K RUN2 10:33 12.74% idle: cpu2 Notice high load (0.94, often higher) and 45% interrupt. If turn off ACPI (set hint.apic.0.disabled=1 in loader.conf), the interrupt 'storm' ceases, but then I'm only running on one CPU.

Re: Huawei 3g Modem

get this to work? Thanks and best regards, Focus your efforts on the ppp documentation and look for working examples in the archives. This thread (started by me) is an example, and also mentions the STALLED messages: http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.mobile/browse_thread/thread/8f4

Re: are we CRIMINALS?

h there are strong reasons to doubt his veracity. This is a travesty of justice, nothing more, nothing less. R's, John PS: It doesn't have much to do with FreeBSD, either. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: mfsbsd

Quoting Chris Haulmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Anyone used mfsbsd to do remote install of a dedicated server with success? No, but.. Summary: A dedicated server has FreeBSD 6.x running with / as the entire partition of the entire disk. Hoping to find a solution to do reinstall remotely. That

Re: FBSD or PCBSD?

Quoting Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Which is a better solution for a home user? Thank you very much for your practical recommendations! ... I have had great success using PCBSD on various acers, I eventually got fed up with it being not quite iden

Re: No spam???

got totally bogged down handling my, and my client's email, frequently running with a load of 8 or more with several spam per second. A real drag. This set up runs at a much lower load, and seems to do a better job filtering spam. --

Re: No spam???

pid 72123: 451 http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=41.196.155.56 2008-01-14 09:31:18.304682500 rblsmtpd: 123.20.89.67 pid 72124: 451 http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=123.20.89.67 So raises the same point that Oliver makes: how trustworthy are these blacklists? -- John On Jan 14, 2008,

No spam???

en seem to be reaching spamd, I'm guessing that the real hero is pf, which must be blocking 99.99% of spam at the packet level. Is this normal? TIA: John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: ps2pdf problem

>However, when I pass the .ps file through the ghostcript with ps2pdf >slides gets trimmed. > >Is there some more advanced option for ps2pdfwr which will enable >me to conserve the proper width of slides? It sounds like your pages are formatted as landscape and are being translated as portrait.

How to add proxy modules to Apache22 on FreeBSD 6.3

Module proxy_balancer_module libexec/apache22/mod_proxy_balancer.so Restart apache and you are ready to go! Wow! I wish I'd found this email sooner! -- John Websites for On-line Collectible Dealers Identry,

Re: Frequent DHCP requests from Wii

Quoting Jeffrey Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: This is particularly a FreeBSD question, but finding that there isn't a newsgroup for DHCP (and I am running dhcpd on FreeBSD), I'll ask here. We've got a Wii in the house, and I've got an entry for it in my dhcpd.conf host wii { hardware ethe

Re: Fortune

Quoting Jon Dowd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Jan 8, 2008 9:09 AM, Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jon Dowd wrote: > Is there a port for the game fortune? I recently installed 6.2 AMD64 > and I can't find it when I do a 'pkg_add -rv fortune' or 'pkg_add -rv > fortune-mod' > > The ones I fi

Re: changing the postion of a partion in fdisk

Quoting "Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have my FreeBSD partition as partition 1 and my ntfs as partition 2 but Vista insists that there is no suitable partion to install to (even though the ntfs partition is big enough)... after some research I found that vista absolutely insists tha

Re: is there a /bin/sh method to tell the ending of a file

>- >#!/bin/sh > >if [ ".gz" = "`echo \"$STRING\" | sed -n 's/.*\(\.gz\)$/\1/p'`" ]; then > echo test; >fi E. I think that we can now safely take advantage of features added to the shell in the late 1970s. --- #!/bin/sh case "$1" in *.gz) echo that is

Re: Paging Matthew Seaman

--On Friday, January 4, 2008 10:28 AM -0600 Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> du -hd1 > > That's not what I'm looking for. That will return *files* and directories > one level deep. I want directories *only* all levels deep. > Would the following work? find /path/to/director

Re: how to suspend/wake-up a FreeBSD machine?

d_switch_state: Invalid argument This is because this sysctl is not an on/off, but it takes an Sx state to suspend to when you close the lid. So if you set this to S1 it will try to enter S1 when you close the lid, etc. For example: sysctl hw.acpi.lid_switch_state=S3 Would make

Re: mounting geom partition

Quoting John Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Quite some time ago I setup a machine with a couple of 250GB disks in that were mirrored using geom, although I can't remember if I mounted it as 1x 250GB partition or several smaller ones. The machine they were in died, and I kept hold of

mounting geom partition

Quite some time ago I setup a machine with a couple of 250GB disks in that were mirrored using geom, although I can't remember if I mounted it as 1x 250GB partition or several smaller ones. The machine they were in died, and I kept hold of one of the two disks so I could restore the data. I'm now

Re: Small Unix install

Quoting DAve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I am looking for a small install for an old laptop. I have an old but quite reliable Toshiba 330CDT that used to be my personal laptop. I ran FBSD 3.x/4.x on it for years but it has been wiped and in a closet for years. I want to use it again just to access a few

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

--On Friday, December 21, 2007 13:51:29 -0500 Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In response to John Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > Not generally suitable for cron because it can take longer to slew >> > than it does for the next cron execution to oc

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

--On Friday, December 21, 2007 13:24:40 -0500 Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In response to John Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> --On December 21, 2007 11:23:03 AM -0500 Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >&g

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

--On December 21, 2007 11:23:03 AM -0500 Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In response to shinny knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The reason that is not recommended is that it results in sudden steps > of the clock. Occasionally, these steps go backwards. Software that > is very sensitiv

Re: rough method of cleaning the ports tree

On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Erich Dollansky wrote: > after noticing how large my ports tree grows while compiling, I thought > of simply deleting it and do a CVSup to get a new one after the > compilation is finished. > > This should be much faster and also should do some kind o > defragmentation.

Re: Kernel compile problems

kernel something other than GENERIC and change the ident line accordingly. Follow up with the errors you get if it still won't build. -- Thanks, John. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: still no luck in coping a 6 G dvd to a 4.7 dvd.

Quoting Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 11:28:10AM +0100, Michel Talon wrote: Gary Kline wrote: > Guys, I've set up a test account which is pure KDE. Still, using both > my Pioneer and the Lite-on burners, no luck in burning a DVD that is > larger than thee default. Ho

Re: Release 7.0 Beta2

ed it and I can confirm that the installer recognises it. I tested it at the black and white (Beasty?) menu by pressing space and then 1, and I could select a keyboard layout in the sysinstall menu too. I carried on little further without problems. Ca

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

> >> > > You'd need to mount /usr anyway, as the vi binary is located in /usr/bin ;-) > *cough* /rescue/vi Thanks for all the tips on this subject. One more question: How would I enable a local keyboard layout in single user mode? I have had to find '/' by tria

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [Repost from [EMAIL PROTECTED] As has been hashed out in -ports@ over the last few days there is at least a need to examine weither or not the current ports system should remain as is or potentially be re-engineered in the f

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:48:33 +0100 Jorn Argelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Murphy wrote: > > [after pressing 4 at the Beasty menu] > > > > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s2a > > Enter full path name of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: > > /bin/tcsh

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 13:46:12 + Daniel Bye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 02:15:26PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 04:44:27AM +, John Murphy wrote: > > > I've just successfully done the world and kernel upgrad

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 06:18:13 + RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 04:44:27 +0000 > John Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've just successfully done the world and kernel upgrade from 7 beta2 > > to beta3. I've always had a

What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

gested /bin/sh in future, but I was wondering if the only reason a choice of a different shell is offered is to scare the unwary. -- Thanks, John. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To un

Re: Amarok crashes X (since portupgrade)

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:30:22 -0500 Randy Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:47:01 +0000 > John Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Testing 7.0 beta2 so I should upgrade to beta3, but all was working > > well until I portupgraded y

Amarok crashes X (since portupgrade)

gone too quick to read. I will upgrade tomorrow, but my question is more: how can I discover which ports were upgraded most recently and how can I get more debug information about a GUI program which crashes the X server. -- Thanks, John. ___ freebsd

Re: Getting DHCP to 'update' DNS records locally

On Thursday 29 November 2007, Clint Olsen wrote: > Apologies if this isn't the correct forum. I'd like to configure DNS on > my home network but make it work simultaneously with DHCP. So, when > hosts are plugged into the network and issued an IP, DNS is updated to > reflect the hostnames. That

RE: who wrote this

Can people stop responding to this thread, especially the personal OT back and forth exchanges? I'm on the freebsd-questions list and it's clogging up my inbox and has nothing to do with the FreeBSD operating system. I think most agree the website should be change to exclude the specific reference

Re: Desktop printing, a request for your experiences

Quoting Dominic Marks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Can anyone give me their experiences of desktop printing (OpenOffice/KDE/Gnome/Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, etc) recently? I haven't tried for a while but it was a pain to setup and maintain the last time I looked at it. If you are using this for "r

ACPI and interrupt storm--7.0 and 6.2

tion is around 75000 ACPI interrupts per second (per vmstat -i). Any suggestions? pointers? would be much appreciated. Thanks John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscri

Re: congrlations to the freebsd developers

>> You can run FreeBSD/i386 on amd64 boxes. > >All the different methods people have suggested to me for doing this >has blown up You just boot the 386 install disk and install it, the same as you do on any other 386 box. Works great for me. If you want to run some 386 applications on top of

Re: nanobsd, picobsd, tinybsd

be part of the BSD world ;-) On Nov 10, 2007 5:10 PM, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 06:05:35PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 03:45:30PM -0600, John Smith wrote: > > > > > I'd expected a

Re: nanobsd, picobsd, tinybsd

onable question and expect a reasonable reply...? On Nov 10, 2007 9:40 AM, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-11-09 17:01, John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can anybody please explain to my what the differences are between > > nanobsd, picobs

nanobsd, picobsd, tinybsd

Can anybody please explain to my what the differences are between nanobsd, picobsd and tinybsd. They all seem to be doing the same (creating a minimal FreeBSD image that can be used in embedded systems), or is this not right? I've searched the internet but can't really find a page that clearly ex

flash: linux firefox vs linuxpluginwrapper

native FreeBSD version? Any input would be appreciated. John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Determine FreeBSD version of binary

ier on: I also have a file called 'kernel'. Could that somehow give somewhat more detailed information about exactly which 4.x kernel it is, and if so, how would I go about doing that ? Regards, John Smith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

Re: Determine FreeBSD version of binary

kind of hint ? Regards, John Smith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Determine FreeBSD version of binary

Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to determine for what version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled, purely by examining the binary? Any and all help and suggestions are greatly appreciated, Thanks, john Smith ___ freebsd-questions

Re: make delete-old question

On Sunday 04 November 2007, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a clever way to run make delete-old in /usr/src so that (y) > will be the default answer? Otherwise it's pressing "y" 437 times in my > case... This is covered in build(7), one of the manpages in the very-useful-but-not-very

Re: Mounting/examining dd image?

2007 10:22 PM, John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 02 November 2007, Jon Drukman wrote: > > > I was trying to transplant my system from a small, old drive to a > > > big, new one. I made a dd dump of the entire small drive, but then I > > > a

Re: not sure which list for 7beta items...

mber of 7.0 questions on freebsd-stable so I guess that would be the place: http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/current/freebsd-stable.html There's a thread about the iwi driver here: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20071029224155.GG97703 -- Thanks, John. _

Re: Determining the number of files in a directory

On Saturday 03 November 2007, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 12:41:51PM +, Daniel Bye wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 05:27:06AM -0700, White Hat wrote: > > > This is probably a dumb question; however, I never let a little thing > > > like that bother me in the past. > > > > Heh

Re: Mounting/examining dd image?

On Friday 02 November 2007, Jon Drukman wrote: > I was trying to transplant my system from a small, old drive to a big, > new one. I made a dd dump of the entire small drive, but then I > accidentally destroyed the drive (be careful with bare drives and > metal PC cases...) > > Anyway, I have the

Re: extracting 7_bit_ascii from ms_word files

Quoting spellberg_robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: i finally ran into a situation where my existing approaces are no longer satisfactory. i never bought "office". i have a twelve_year_old version of "wordperfect" from [ at that time ] novell that still works just fine [ i first used wordperfect

Re: Virtualization

On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 20:21:41 +1100 Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 02:09:20 +0000 > John Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I found a clue to a cure, but qemu was dropping cores when I tried it > > recently. Tried bochs t

Re: Virtualization

g VMware 3.x I think. I found a clue to a cure, but qemu was dropping cores when I tried it recently. Tried bochs too; I quite like it. I also installed qemu-launcher, but haven't tried it partly because it seems to be missing qemuctl and I can't even even extract files from the Linux

FreeBSD 6.2 with Xorg 7.3

cd to /usr/ports/x11/xorg and make install clean When I do pkg_version -v, it SEEMS to have installed the xorg that I want. Is this the right procedure to start with? Should I have set up that vulnerability database? Any advice appreciated. John _

Re: Help with Cron pleazzzzzzzzzzzz

Quoting Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On October 31, 2007 07:58:21 am VeeJay wrote: I am running a status script written in Perl (*status.pl*) and want to have it *Always Running*. How can I check through CRON that "status.pl" is running and if NO, then start the script execution again? Plea

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD

On Sunday 28 October 2007, Andrew Wasilczuk wrote: > I'm interested to see what servers people use for FreeBSD. I used to > buy the IBM xSeries x306 for firewalls and web servers and the x206 for > low budget file servers, but both aren't being sold anymore. I recently > got a few IBM x3200 and x

Re: port xyz: the grey screen with all the checkboxes is wrong and won't come back

On Sunday 28 October 2007, Steve Franks wrote: > so where, phyisically, on the disk, does the data from make config go > then? I looked in /. after make clean, and it's as clean as > fresh snow... It goes in /var/db/ports JN > On 10/28/07, Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Oc

Re: pkgdb -Ff and autoconf question...how do I respond?

dency: kde-3.5.7 -> gnu-autoconf-2.61 (devel/gnu-autoconf): -> Deleted. (irrelevant) But I don't get asked to unregister gnu-automake. Can I force it, without breaking anything, somehow? -- Thanks, John. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

Quoting Francisco Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Frank Jahnke writes: VMs in general are a problem on Free. There is an effort to port the most recent VMware Workstation by a very good man. VMware employee? No, Orlando Bassotto, who is the programmer who did much of the work for the original

Re: resizing partitions

On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Chad Perrin wrote: > I have need to alter some partition sizes on a (laptop) system I use > daily, with FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE installed. Are there tools you'd > recommend for this, that should be stable and not prone to hosing up my > filesystems? In particular, I probab

Re: the right next step?

On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Aliya Harbouri wrote: > Hi everybody! > > If we've > > i) raised a question about a port on this list > ii) sent an email to the port maintainer > iii) filed a pr > iv) waited ~ a month, then followed-up the pr > > and there's still no communication / action, wha

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

r what to read; The Handbook is a must: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ -- Thanks, John. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

tem-internal users like root belong) is `wheel'. Some vendors have expanded on this usage, modifying Unix so that only members of group `wheel' can go root. -- Thanks, John. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

On Friday 19 October 2007, Frank Jahnke wrote: > On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 16:47 +0200, Frank Staals wrote: > > What is the status of that project if I may ask ? I did some research > > on it some time ago but the best I could find was that there was > > someone porting vmware-workstation 4.5.X to Free

Re: Two questions about UNIX(r) certification.

--On Thursday, October 18, 2007 13:49:07 + "Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> From here: >> >> http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html#unix >> >> Mac OS X is now a fully certified UNIX operating system, conforming to >> both the Single UNIX Specification (SUSv3) and

mailing list

K you please stop sending me this spam from your account: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am not interested in that shit! JOhn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: OT: Procmail not recognising /etc/procmailrc?

Quoting Lisa Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, This is kind of off topic for this list, but I know a lot of FreeBSD Admins use Procmail, so hopefully someone here can help. I'm running procmail 3.22 on FreeBSD. I verified that procmail does work on my system by following the "testing your proc

Re: 1 TB data copy

Quoting Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: In response to "Monah Baki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi all, We have a windows 2003 server and 1 freebsd 6.2 server. The 2003 server supports USB 1 while the freebsd supports usb 2. We went and purchased an external 1 TB usb 2 harddrive. Our objective is to

Re: offline installation of Xorg - Re: unable to install XFree86

the tab key to switch between the selections and the OK box. When you're happy with your selections up arrow to Exit which will take you back to the previous page. Press enter again and you should then be able to choose the installation media. It is harder to describe tha

Re: unable to install XFree86

://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-install.html There's also a section (5.7.3.1) on enabling The KDE Display Manager: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html -- Thanks, John. ___ free

Re: Problem compiling kdegraphics (exr problem?)

Quoting John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Quoting Will Wainwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm having some trouble getting kdegraphics to update. I use portmanager to keep my ports updated. Usually this works well, but the past couple of days portmanager did have problems with t

Re: Problem compiling kdegraphics (exr problem?)

Quoting Will Wainwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm having some trouble getting kdegraphics to update. I use portmanager to keep my ports updated. Usually this works well, but the past couple of days portmanager did have problems with the latest OpenEXR update. As to my problem with kdegraphics, h

RE: setting up a cvsup mirror

Quoting Johan Hendriks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I want to setup a local cvsup mirror on my local machine (someone told me if you do it right you don't need to hand apply uncommitted patches) what do I need to do this? Google, 3rd hit: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/08/30/Big_Scary_Daemon

Re: Can't build kdelibs. Errors in cups-util.c

Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Quoting John Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Can't build kdelibs. Errors in cups-util.c >> >> I posted to the "cups-1.3.3 not compiling anymore in FreeBSD 7.0" >> thread because thi

Can't build kdelibs. Errors in cups-util.c

s (I don't actually have a printer). No change. I then (stupidly) made deinstall etc. in x11/kdelibs, which had the undesireable side effect of breaking my kde desktop env. I keep running csup in the hope that it gets fixed, but there's a good chance the problem is bet

Re: cups-1.3.3 not compiling anymore in FreeBSD 7.0

RADE_PORT=kdelibs-3.5.7_1 UPGRADE_PORT_VER=3.5.7_1 make ** Fix the problem and try again. ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed) ! x11/kdelibs3 (kdelibs-3.5.7_1)(unknown build error) ---> Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed -- Thanks, john. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD Tomcat

Quoting "Ivan \"Rambius\" Ivanov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 9/28/07, Yance Kowara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Would you mind explaining the difference between sun-jdk and diablo jdk? From the point of view of the end user or even the Java programmer there is no differences - both jdk's offer the

Re: Cheaper backup mechnism for a server

intelligently on a remote box - you can set it to backup as often as you like ... It saved my ass when my FreeBSD co-lo server disk died - I had a backup up to date as of midnight that let me restore the machine (I back it up over a DSL line without problems) John

Re: Hard drive RPM

se blocks will take up to 8% or there abouts of the disk. BTW I am not shouting when "SUPER BLOCKS' that's how it's written. In a root shell type fsck and watch the screen. For more info dig into you docs usually /share/doc or usr/doc there where some really good docs

Mediawiki 1.9.*

structure for a PARTH statement for latex/tex, with no joy. Yes the LocalSettings has the use tex variable set to true. Has anyone else had any experience or advice with this package on FreeBSD 6.2-S? Cheers John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

RE: http://www.freebsd.org site unreachable

New York is down ICMP and telnet 80 are OK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Bertrand Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 4:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org site unreachabl

Texvc

texvc and texvc is not a port. Ideas and suggestions Please. Regards John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Gstripe during install

On Friday 07 September 2007, n j wrote: > Hello, > > I have a machine which has 2 (identical) hard disks. I would like to > create RAID-0 GEOM stripe (gstripe(8)) to merge these 2 disks into 1 > disk with larger capacity and install FreeBSD on it. There is this > article (http://www.onlamp.com/pub/

Re: Gstripe during install

On Friday 07 September 2007, John Nielsen wrote: > I assume you're aware of all the caveats that go along with using RAID-0 > (no redundancy, twice as likely to fail, etc.). You can't use the method > Dru outlines to create a gstripe volume since you can't add drives t

gmirror and booting one and/or the other of the twins, then rebuilding raid 1

given device during the an interactive boot procedure. And then of course, I'd like to be able to re-raid based on my preferred drive, repopulating the other. I'm not certain how best to manage this. Thanks for some ideas. John ___ freeb

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

--On Thursday, August 30, 2007 19:53:50 -0300 Nélio Mesquita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello to all! > Just for curiosity, why the FreeBSD logo is a little devil? Is there a > history around it? > > Thank you! Sort of answers your question. (Implied and explicit.)

Re: Dump + GZIP

On Thursday 16 August 2007, Grant Peel wrote: > Can I safely pump a filesystem dump through gzip during the dumping > process?, or di I need to create the dump first then gzip it after? I do it all the time: dump -f - ... | gzip > date_filesystem.dump.gz or with bzip2: dump -f - ... | bzip2 > date

Re: lagg(4) - configuration for /etc/rc.conf?

On Wednesday 08 August 2007 09:58:58 am Ewald Jenisch wrote: > Thanks to the hints posted here about "failover redundancy" I've > successfully set up lagg(4) in order to have a machine with redundant > failover connection to two switches. > > > The only thing that's missing is the correct configura

Re: Iomega Ditto Max Pro

On Saturday 04 August 2007, jbarnet wrote: > Hello, > > I have this drive: > Iomega Ditto Max (Professional) > Model: IO 1000 - PX > > It has a parallel port interface. > > Included are a bunch of 5/10 Gig [uncompressed/compressed] tapes and > also a few 3.5/7 Gig [uncom/com] tapes. > > I w

Re: /stand/sysconfig does't work

as long as /usr/sbin hasn't been removed from PATH ;-) On 03/08/07, Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --On Friday, August 03, 2007 08:51:48 +0100 John Clement > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you run the find command you'll find what you

Re: /stand/sysconfig does't work

If you run the find command you'll find what you're looking for ;-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# find / -name sysinstall -print /usr/sbin/sysinstall cheers On 03/08/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just purchased Freebsd-6.1 RELEASE and /stand/sysinstall doesn't work. > > I have

Re: CRT value Absurd

On Thursday 02 August 2007 02:13:46 pm Subhro wrote: > Hello Folks, > > Recently I got a HP nc6400 notebook for myself and decided to install > FreeBSD on this. My system boots up fine but I am repeatedly getting > Errors from ACPI. I am repeatedly getting > > acpi_tz0: _CRT value is absurd, ignore

Re: Custom builds from ports

On Tuesday 31 July 2007 12:16:32 pm CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: > Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > > On Sun, July 29, 2007 01:37, N.J. Mann wrote: > >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: > >>> Is there a way to specify which ports certain options are to be applied > >>> to, without havi

Re: xf86 madness - stop installing drivers

On Tuesday 31 July 2007 02:37:36 pm Noah wrote: > Hi, > > I am wondering if there is an easy way to stop installing all of the > xf86 input an video drivers listed below. Sure, just uninstall the xorg metaport, the xorg-drivers metaport, and any of the driver ports you listed that you're not inte

Re: Downgrading from current

On Sunday 29 July 2007 09:42:01 pm Ross Penner wrote: > I recently upgraded my system from stable to current to try and take > advantage of some of wireless features offered. Unfortunetly, things > didn't work out as well as I'd like to and I want to downgrade. > > Reading online, it seems that dow

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