mx1.freebsd.org administrator?

2006-04-11 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi, i need to contact the admin in charge of postfix @ mx1.freebsd.org. is [EMAIL PROTECTED] the right address? thanks :) Beto ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Best way to print photos

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

Re: ipfw plus authentication???

2006-04-04 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 00:34:49 -0700 (PDT) Mark Jayson Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for ways to manage our LAN by having each user register > their ipaddress, mac address, workstation os, etc. in our ldap > directory. Now in our pcrouter, the users will first send his login > cr

Re: How severe is IDNF errors in SMART log?

2006-04-04 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 15:47:35 +0400 Playnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Norberto, > > Monday, April 3, 2006, 7:11:24 PM, you wrote: > > NM> I have a laptop with a 100GB Hitachi SATA drive. the SMART log > NM> shows the errors below (via 'sudo smartctl -a /dev/ad0' ). How > NM> badly damaged

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-04-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 23:10:16 -0700 Vayu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Step 6 is just 'sudo rm -f /usr/bin/lp?*'. /usr/bin/lp is mildly > > useful, and will be recreated. > > What do you mean will be recreated? (If it's going to be recreated, > then why delete it?) why not install print

Re: Server time doesn't want to stay set (help!)

2006-04-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 10:37:07 -0400 "Steve Douville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've reset it at the BIOS > level, only to have it changed somehow during the boot process. I've > tried setting and resetting it through sysinstall, but nothing helps. but if you do that, then you need to make sure

How severe is IDNF errors in SMART log?

2006-04-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
hi all, I have a laptop with a 100GB Hitachi SATA drive. the SMART log shows the errors below (via 'sudo smartctl -a /dev/ad0' ). How badly damaged is the disk? [...] Error 65535 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 214 hours (8 days + 22 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the

Help understanding SMART log info

2006-04-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi there, brand new thinkpad z60m , 100GB Sata drive. Wednesday night, it started doing this little tsttttsttt..tstt... like it was trying to re-spin or something like this. laptop crashed - HARD. FS were a complete mess, drive VERY slow to use, most of the time doing the noise. this lasted for

Re: Booting Issues - ACPI and HD

2006-04-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:12:49 -0600 Ryan Winograd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, I have been successful booting Knoppix-STD (linux liveCD), but > did not have time (unfortunately) to try mounting the drive. I'll try > that when I get a chance. I say this because I'm not sure if the > drive is b

Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4

2006-04-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 15:18:02 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Beto, > > i believe he has given up. > :( without knowing WHAT is the problem? > i would say that on a dedicated database machine 50-75% > dedicated(shared) memory is not overkill. of course not. I am not sure I read his vmstat scr

Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4

2006-04-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:09:26 -0600 Miguel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, im loading a lot of information to a postgresql 8.1.3 database, > im using the copy command, using the same file and version of > postgres in gentoo it spend a few minutes (~4-5), in freebsd > 6.1-beta4 it has already spent

Re: How do you divide your network?? (do you use vlan??)

2006-04-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:19:52 -0800 (PST) Mark Jayson Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't want to divide the network by physical topology since users > frequently transfer to other departments... if you add a firewall (pf / ipf / ipfw) you can control what kind of traffic/broadcast goes

Re: Linux migration

2006-04-02 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 12:40:21 -0500 Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nonetheless, it might be a good idea to hack together some kind of > reminder script for some of the RH commands; note, as a somewhat > related example, how many FTPD's accept both "ls" and "dir" You > could (and I h

Re: ATA Drive Issues

2006-03-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:28:09 -0800 "Wil Hatfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > fair enough, but you should be able to use some of the performance > > testing tools to hammer the server before pushing it live. > > Suggestions for tools that REALLY hammer? if it's going to be a webserver, use a

Re: ATA Drive Issues

2006-03-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:00:34 -0800 "Wil Hatfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Beto, > > I am currently trying to upgrade one without customers on it to 6.0. > But as was the problem with 5.4 the problems don't show up until the > machine is under high load. So even under 6 I won't have a clue i

Re: icewm tools

2006-03-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:32:01 -0700 "Logan McNaughton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, ive tried to download and compile IceWM Control Panel, it > required python for an install shield, so I got python, and it needed > py-gtk, so I got py24-gtk from ports, all that went fine, I tried to > run the

Re: 6.0 APCI Config & PMAP

2006-03-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:55:29 -0800 "Don O'Neil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am 'burning in' some hardware and drives before putting them into > production using various tools (raidtest, etc...) and have a couple of > questions.. > > Occasionally under high load when doing the raid test, I see:

Re: ATA Drive Issues

2006-03-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:43:35 -0800 "Wil Hatfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok I am just nervous about going to 6.x and putting these customers > through this not once more, but twice when I have to go back to 4.x. Sorry for asking the obvious, but why not try with 6 without any customers on t

Re: Which xorg driver/setup to use to get all the buttons for a Logitech MX518

2006-03-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:13:49 -0500 "Jim Stapleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've googled the problem in general, tried looking around xorg and > this site, but I couldn't find any useful information on getting my > MX518 working with all of it's buttons in BSD (were I to downgrade > back to Li

Re: Compiling Java 1.5

2006-03-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006 08:44:13 +1200 Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If that doesn't work, you can installing the navtive linux-sun-jdk15 > to enable your build. FYI, if you had native JDK1.4 installed, that > would work as well. ah, but there's something else also... I had some problems

Re: Best way to print photos

2006-03-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:46:03 -0700 (MST) "M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : Are you using cups? Or something else? If you have your printer > working : under cups, then I would think that gimp would print to it. > > I have cups running. I'd have thought that too, so I'm doing > some

Re: root password

2006-03-27 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 21:06:56 -0800 (PST) Moe Zhank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi...I have a freeBSD 2.0 that used as server for my local computers. > because of the electrical hazard, my system had trouble. > All of my password has lost !!! sorry to hear that. > what should I do? look

Re: ADSL prob!

2006-03-27 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:51:09 +0800 "Mc Shch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there, > >Hi sir: > I need your help. > I am using FreeBSD5.3 operating system,and I have configure >etc/ppp/ppp.conf rightly. >when I use ppp by typing this: > >#ppp -ddial papchap > >to

Re: Fwd: package vs ports question

2006-03-27 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:57:49 -0300 "Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the answer. I just hope I'm not messing things too much. np :) > > So if a port may override a package, a port and a package are the same thing, in a different form :). the tree structure u

Re: wdm and fluxbox help??

2006-03-27 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:25:21 -0700 (MST) "RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do not have an .xsession file in my home dir in fact i do not seem > to have an .xsession or an xsession file anywhere on my system just > Xsession see below hey there - i know it's been a month..did u

Re: [Fwd: Re: package vs ports question]

2006-03-27 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:15:07 -0400 Duane Whitty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does the installation process install any package that may be > overriden by any port? yes. for example ,you select to install bash-3 from sysinstall ( " the freebsd installer UI" ). this reads and installs the package b

Re: linux-firefox

2006-03-27 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:01:33 -0900 Beech Rintoul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to get linux-firefox running on a system that also has > native firefox installed. When I try and start linux-firefox I get a > message saying that firefox is already running (which it's not). I > tried reboot

Re: cat /proc/cpuinfo ?

2006-03-26 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 22:47:11 -0800 (PST) Bill Schoolcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Family, > > Yes, yes, I know... I have a bunch of boxes under my desk here at > home and between the Ultra-10, FreeBSD-5.4 and 6.0 and SuSE I get > confused and that's what happened when I tried to type t

Firefox 1.5 + Flash 7, "_dlsym" symbol... again

2006-03-26 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi there, firefox-1.5.0.1_1,1 built from source linux-flashplugin-7.0r63 flashpluginwrapper-0.20021113_1 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0: Mon Mar 27 11:43:54 EST 2006 (flash v.6 is marked as with security vulerability) I have followed the steps that had got flash6 working in another

Re: Linux migration

2006-03-26 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:47:54 + Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also another thing that I was thinking about since my original mail, > things like chkconfig and commands like say 'service network > restart'. Does such a thing like a "redhat layer" type project exist > so that emgineers who m

Re: Where is $PAGER defined?

2006-03-26 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 21:46:29 -0500 (EST) Chris Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't forget that "less is more". They're hardlinked: :-) right, but they behave differently enough to warrant the change in the local/personal rc file, IMHO ___ freebsd-qu

Error bulding Java jdk15 - FAQ?

2006-03-22 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi there, I'm having trouble building jdk15 under FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE, with world, kernel and ports up to date. It dies with [...] /usr/bin/gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -W -Wall -Wno-unused -Wno-parentheses -pipe -fno-omit-frame-pointer -D__MEDIALIB_OLD_NAMES -D__USE_J2D_NAMES -DMLIB_NO_LI

Re: Where is $PAGER defined?

2006-03-22 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:59:38 -0800 "Kenyon Ralph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/22/06, Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 03:48:50 -0800 > > "Kenyon Ralph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > &g

Re: encrypted drives

2006-03-22 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:20:34 +0100 Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using geli appears to be the same as for gbde. Using geli here (FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0). since this is my (work) laptop, the only (allowed) user is me - I simply use sudo as needed (IOW, yes, mdconfig , geli and moun

Re: How do I test disk performance in Freebsd60 ?

2006-03-22 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:32:29 +0200 "Halid Faith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use FreeBSD60 on Dell1600 SC ( 2gbyte Ram 4 CPU ) > amr0: mem 0xfcc0-0xfcc0 irq 21 at > device 2.0 on pci2 > amr0: Firmware 351X, BIOS 1.10, 64MB RAM > > I have 3 scsi disks that each about 70 Gbyte based RA

Re: Where is $PAGER defined?

2006-03-22 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 03:48:50 -0800 "Kenyon Ralph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I define PAGER myself in /etc/profile, it is still set to "more" > upon login. I've done grep -R PAGER /etc and got nothing (except > /etc/profile of course, which apparently is being overridden). ~/.bashrc i beli

Re: Google Talk and NAT issue ?

2006-03-22 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:54:14 +0800 Yuan Jue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What kind of new technology Google use to > overcome a NAT issue? Hi there, no idea if you figured this out yet. I dont use (any version of ) google talk (skype works just great :) ), so these are only suggestions. Windows

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-15 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:36:43 -0500 (EST) Wesley Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Everything else seems in order. Thanks for the info Wesley. What about ACPI? btw, what resolution are u running X at? what fps does glxgears report? cheers, Beto ___ f

Re: Motherboards & FreeBSD [used to be "RE: Disappointed with version 6.0"]

2006-03-14 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:53:00 -0500 (EST) Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a secret resource I haven't found? [EMAIL PROTECTED] + its archives FWIW, we have a TYAN dual opteron box, 4 x SATA drives, 1 RU, works a treat. I think it's the something-24 model. search the archives for more

Re: Mail client like mulberry

2006-03-14 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:44:32 -0600 Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > and I have all my folders with new email in a nice bright blue (vs. > > grey for folders w no unread email, and black for folders with > > unread email, but no new email) > > > But can it show all folders with new

Re: mail backup solution?

2006-03-14 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:38:47 -0500 Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: re. server side backup, a) if you can't have shell access to the box, rsync is kind of out of the question b) If your mail is hosted alongside your website, which is managed by one of the many control panels (cpanel, plesk

Re: Mail client like mulberry

2006-03-14 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:15:07 -0600 "Donald J. O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It doesn't filter folders, however it has a "Next Unread Folder" > > command, which makes it directly switch to the next folder with > > unread messages in it. > > > > Cheers > > Benjamin > > > Yes, Kmail does f

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-14 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:00:31 -0800 "Kevin Oberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 01:07:32 -0500 > > From: Parv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > wro

Re: Mail client like mulberry

2006-03-14 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:06:20 -0600 Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now that Cyrusoft has gone out of business, does anyone know of a > mail client that has the New Messages feature of Mulberry? I need to > find a replacement, and Thunderbird and Evolution aren't it. What does this "New

Re: Supported? Intel Pro/Wireless 3945B/G

2006-03-14 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:11:31 +1100 Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > In short, is the INTEL PRO/WIRELESS 3945BG NIC supported? It's the > card that comes with the Lenovo Thinkpad T60. > > Can't find any reference to this card relating to

Re: Good subversion GUI?

2006-03-14 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:43:43 + Ashley Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've tried eSVN but it's a bit flaky. in what way flaky? I haven't found any problems (again, I probably don't push it hard enough) thx, Beto ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-14 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:01:04 +1100 "David Dean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mm, well I run a Dell 700m .. the widescreen 12" one with built-in > wireless. thx for your time :) B ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: Good subversion GUI?

2006-03-14 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:43:43 + Ashley Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use KDE on my desktop and I'm trying to find a good svn GUI but I > can't see one in the ports. I've tried eSVN but it's a bit flaky. I > saw a good one on KDE-apps.org called KdeSvn but it's not in ports. > KDE integ

Supported? Intel Pro/Wireless 3945B/G

2006-03-14 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi all, In short, is the INTEL PRO/WIRELESS 3945BG NIC supported? It's the card that comes with the Lenovo Thinkpad T60. Can't find any reference to this card relating to Freebsd. thx, Beto ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-13 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi everyone, > I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work > WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: > > ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) > PATA / SATA with no problems > all other basic stuff (graphic

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-13 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:58:29 -0800 "Kevin Oberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have not been successful with a suspend/resume cycle while running > X. It seems to suspend, but never resumes when in X. If I'm on a vty, > it does resume, but the display characters are garbage. "vidcontrol > mode

Re: Tippingpoint SMS client software

2006-03-12 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 08:36:45 +1100 Edwin Groothuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > We recently obtained a Tippingpoint SMS server which is currently > safe guarding our network against the bad guys. > > Unfortunately, the client software for Linux (which is nothing more > than a Java

Re: How to install gnucash?

2006-03-10 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 14:45:48 +1300 Tom Munro Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've used pkg_add -r to install slib-3a1_2 and slib-guile-3a1 and > then tried to portinstall g-wrap, but that failed. So I used pkg_add > to install g-wrap-1.3.4_7 and then I was able to portinstall gnucash. > > Ho

libtool: compile: cannot determine name of library object

2006-03-10 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi guys and gals, I need some help here. I'm trying to compile the maildir plugin for sylpheed-claws ( http://claws.sylpheed.org/plugins.php ). The build process dies with: $ make make all-recursive Making all in src if /usr/local/bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFI

Re: Open Source and 3rd world countries

2006-03-10 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:11:48 +0700 (ICT) Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry Nicole, but here in Brazil our government does not use pirated > > software, and yes, they're changing to Open Source. > > That only means Brazil is not much a 3rd world country anymore... Given that the

SOLUTION : Lockup when suspending from X

2006-03-09 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 01:36:43 +1100 Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I need some help trying to understand why this is happening. > > apm -z (or zzz) works just fine from any of the text-based virtual > consoles. If I run it from a shell in X, eit

video.google , Flash 7, Firefox1.5 issues

2006-03-06 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi all, has anyone managed to get the video streaming from Flash 7 (and 8, on other platforms) to work with linux-flashplugin-7 ? FFox just freezes. Granted, both flash-7 and -6 under ffox 1.5 freeze when going to, say, www.uptoten.com , then click the < < < enter > > > link... maybe something is

Re: Firefox, Flash7 and libstlport_gcc.so mistery

2006-03-06 Thread Norberto Meijome
problem. Yes, i had installed OO from a package, as I lack a time machine to skip a 48 day build cycle ;) cheers, Beto > > Norberto Meijome wrote: >> hi all, >> I have firefox 1.5 working fine with Flash 7 (limited tests, havent >> confirmed with video.google.com) - . b

Re: Accesing BSD disk under windows

2006-03-06 Thread Norberto Meijome
Nicolas BOUTIER wrote: > Hello, > > I found an old disk (24 Mo!) and I know I installed BSD on it... years ago. > > How can I read this disk under windows XP pro? > > hmmm this seems a bit harder than I thought...there is a "UFS Explorer" shareware, but it only mentions ext2 and ext3 support. W

Firefox, Flash7 and libstlport_gcc.so mistery

2006-03-05 Thread Norberto Meijome
hi all, I have firefox 1.5 working fine with Flash 7 (limited tests, havent confirmed with video.google.com) - . but on first load of the flash plugin, i get this in .xsession-errors: LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.1/program/libnpsoplugin.so [Shared o

Crash on smbfs umount?

2006-03-02 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi, has anyone experienced this? I connected via a PPTP VPN to my office, mounted a SMB share (which actually resides on a linux-backed NAS running SAMBA 3) via : sudo mount_smbfs -I 10.168.100.17 -W //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Software /mnt/smb1 after using the share as usual, I issued sudo umoun

Re: if_iwi on FreeBSD 6.0 on a Thinkpad T43

2006-02-23 Thread Norberto Meijome
Nathan Lay wrote: > Hi all, > I've encountered a peculiar quirk in either this laptop or FreeBSD > with IPW2915ABG. For some reason or another, either the Thinkpad > turns the card on at bootup, or FreeBSD's if_iwi driver and acpi_ibm > mistakenly think the card is turned on. > > My loaded modules

Re: 10 years of "The Complete FreeBSD"

2006-02-23 Thread Norberto Meijome
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > Ten years ago today, on 24 February 1996, I submitted for publication > the final version of the first ever book on FreeBSD, "Installing and > Using FreeBSD". It was later renamed to "The Complete FreeBSD". > > I have always retained full rights to the book, and for to

Re: kdm and fluxbox

2006-02-19 Thread Norberto Meijome
RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN wrote: > Thanks to all and i will take your advice Norberto as i do not really like > kde that much anyway. If i wanted window i would just install windowsxp or > maybe vista would be more like Kde any how i digress. > > I am tiring to set up wdm and added this line to my

Re: Firewall/Web server difficulties

2006-02-19 Thread Norberto Meijome
Brian Bobowski wrote: > Norberto Meijome wrote: > >> Brian Bobowski wrote: >> >> >>> I'm poking at that now, yes. I had difficulty getting it to work with >>> virtual hosts... but I can at least reference it by the private-side IP >>> add

Re: kdm and fluxbox

2006-02-16 Thread Norberto Meijome
RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN wrote: > usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession > > notice this file is for XDM, not KDM. try searching in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/kdm :) > WHERE IS KDM GETTING ITS SESSION INFO FROM AND HOW DO I TELL IT TO ADD FLUXBOX > > not sure, probably from its config file. Or just set it to

Re: Help Installing FreeBSD 6.0 with GUI

2006-02-15 Thread Norberto Meijome
Igor Robul wrote: > On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 07:36:08AM +, Robert Slade wrote: > >> There are some minor issues with nvida video 3d cards but there are >> nvida drivers for BSD. ATI cards are a bit more of a problem. In both >> cases search the mailing list archives the info is there. >>

Re: Why myserver be locked ?

2006-02-14 Thread Norberto Meijome
Erik Norgaard wrote: > Halid Faith wrote: > > Check logfiles for error messages, you may set loglevel up so all > debugging is also logged. > Hi , how do you do that system wide? i guess u can do it for each servicebut is there a system wide knob for kernel related issue? cheers, Beto

Re: Help with strange web server problem

2006-02-13 Thread Norberto Meijome
Jerry Bell wrote: > Looks like it's still an issue, so I'd say the firewall issue is still > in play. If there is not a firewall/proxy in place, are there any > known issues with IPFW (or anything else with FBSD) that could cause > this behavior? Hi Jerry - hard to tell without seeing your firewal

Help needed - Hard lockups and reboots on laptop

2006-02-13 Thread Norberto Meijome
(sending again, i think the list server rejected the big attachments) Hi all, I've been running FBSD 6 on my laptop(hardware and software specs below) for the last 3 weeks. I have been experiencing spontaneous reboots (NOT panics, just blip, off it goes to restart), lockups and some app crashes (ma

Re: Firewall/Web server difficulties

2006-02-13 Thread Norberto Meijome
Brian Bobowski wrote: > Norberto Meijome wrote: > >> Brian Bobowski wrote: >> >> >>> All right. I've got my firewall up and running, and my workstation can >>> get almost anywhere it needs to just fine. >>> >> >> you dont&#

Re: Firewall/Web server difficulties

2006-02-13 Thread Norberto Meijome
Brian Bobowski wrote: > All right. I've got my firewall up and running, and my workstation can > get almost anywhere it needs to just fine. you dont' say if you are using ipfw, ipf , pf > I can access it by directly referencing the private-interface IP, but if > my workstation tries to get t

Re: How to ensure one blank line on top of ASCII files?

2006-02-13 Thread Norberto Meijome
Kristian Vaaf wrote: > > Hello! > > I need to make sure all my ASCII files start with one blank line. > > I just need to know what command to use, > I've written the rest of the script to do this for me: > > -- > echo "" > MY_BLANK_LINE.txt > for file in `find -s . -type f -not -name ".*"`;

Re: Protecting Windows

2006-02-11 Thread Norberto Meijome
Brian Astill wrote: > On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:19 am, Romana Branden wrote:> Brian Astill > wrote: >>> Interesting. The "spiel" on the Nuance website gave me that >>> impression, too. However the Royal Society for the Blind in >>> Adelaide tried v 7 (current is 8) and were VERY unimpressed. >> any

Re: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

2006-02-11 Thread Norberto Meijome
Peter wrote: > > As mentioned in an earlier post, I tried that on my own when I ran into > trouble and I have not edited this file. The default is to allow root > logins. Just to be clear, FreeBSD is shipped with root logins via SSH *DISABLED*. (most Linux distros i remember, OTOH, have it enabl

Thunderbird vs Evolution...

2006-02-11 Thread Norberto Meijome
Anyone has preferences on one or the other for heavy use of email? Stability on Thunderbird 1.5 has been **shocking** lately (running with enigmail 0.94.0, Remove duplicate msgs 0.1.02, Notary 0.2, Signature switch 1.02) , so right now is my main concern,... Exchange plugin is interesting ,but it

Re: Mount changing mount point rights?

2006-02-11 Thread Norberto Meijome
Ceri Davies wrote: > > On 9 Feb 2006, at 12:52, Norberto Meijome wrote: > >> hi all, >> I'm mounting a GELI encrypted, file backed vnode on ~/mount_folder. I am >> member of wheel. >> >> I start with >> Home directory: >> drwxr-x--- 51

Mount changing mount point rights?

2006-02-09 Thread Norberto Meijome
hi all, I'm mounting a GELI encrypted, file backed vnode on ~/mount_folder. I am member of wheel. I start with Home directory: drwxr-x--- 51 betom betom 3072 Feb 9 23:38 betom file and folder which i want to mount in. drwxrwx--- 2 betom betom 512 Feb 9 17:42 mount_folder

Automounter support for smbfs

2006-02-07 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi there, I want to use automounter with samba shares on a remote server. I can connect with mount_smbfs just fine, but I would like the same behaviour with amd as if using NFS : /host/SMB_SERVER/SHARE/... the amd port (sysutils/am-utils)website mentions support for SMBFS via the 'program' option,

Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

2006-02-07 Thread Norberto Meijome
Parv wrote: > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote martinko thusly... >> Norberto Meijome wrote: >>> Hans Nieser wrote: >>> >>>> FreeBSD Prospect wrote: > ... >>>> What I am especially fond of in portage is the USE-flags and the >

Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

2006-02-07 Thread Norberto Meijome
martinko wrote: > > i already raised the following issue with pkgtools.sonf here on MLs some > time ago but i didn't get a response i'd be happy with: > i want to make sure that a certain port will be compiled with a certain > make argument/flag. there are MAKE_ARGS in port tools but these are >

Re: Default browser

2006-02-07 Thread Norberto Meijome
Guido Van Hoecke wrote: [...] > > It guess I should have been more specific. I am using Window Maker as window > manager. I know that KDE has the Component Chooser and Gnome has its > gnome-control-center/preferred applications, but I have not found a window > maker equivalent. Frankly, I do not

Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

2006-02-07 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hans Nieser wrote: > FreeBSD Prospect wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Reading a lot about FreeBSD recently made me really curious. I know, >> that the founder of Gentoo (the well known GNU/Linux >> meta-distribution, which is also based on compiling everything from >> source) was using FreeBSD for some time, b

Re: Optimize shell

2006-02-06 Thread Norberto Meijome
Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hello, > > I am setting up a machine to work as a mail back-up. It receives copy > of every email for every user. When the disk is almost full, I want to > delete older messages up to a total size of 40. > > Messages are stored in /home/sub_home/user/Maildir/cur in

Re: Conflict? :smbfs built in support and mount_smbfs

2006-02-06 Thread Norberto Meijome
Norberto Meijome wrote: > Hi, > I had my kernel built with the following options > options NETSMB #SMB/CIFS requester > options NETSMBCRYPTO#encrypted password support for SMB > > which I understand adds the support for smbfs into

Conflict? :smbfs built in support and mount_smbfs

2006-02-06 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi, I had my kernel built with the following options options NETSMB #SMB/CIFS requester options NETSMBCRYPTO#encrypted password support for SMB which I understand adds the support for smbfs into the kernel itself. BUT when using either mount -t smbfs o

Re: Filemanager with SMB support?

2006-02-05 Thread Norberto Meijome
Garrett Cooper wrote: > Norberto Meijome wrote: >> Hi all, >> I need a filemanager which supports SMB browsing. >> >> I use fluxbox and VERY much rather not have to keep all those KDE >> dependencies for Konqueror. >> >> I've tried xfce4's x

Filemanager with SMB support?

2006-02-05 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi all, I need a filemanager which supports SMB browsing. I use fluxbox and VERY much rather not have to keep all those KDE dependencies for Konqueror. I've tried xfce4's xffm, but it relies on nmblookup for discovery, which is really unreliable , and doesn't seem to allow me to simply tell i

Reliability of GELI after unclean shutdowns

2006-02-04 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi there, I am planning to use GELI on a file-backed device on my laptop. Given that this laptop (toshiba tecra a2) regularly (about 40% of the time) crashes when doing apm -z (either when doing shutdown OR coming back from it), i'm a bit concerned about data loss on the encrypted volume due t

Re: SOLVED - Re: Ethereal port doesn't install GUI

2006-02-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 17:09 +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote: Norberto Meijome wrote: Hi, Is there other port that installs the GTK Ethereal interface ? net/ports is installing tethereal and lots of other files, but NOT /usr/X11R6/bin/ethereal. [] $ sudo nice

SOLVED - Re: Ethereal port doesn't install GUI

2006-02-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
Norberto Meijome wrote: Hi, Is there other port that installs the GTK Ethereal interface ? net/ports is installing tethereal and lots of other files, but NOT /usr/X11R6/bin/ethereal. [] $ sudo nice make WITH_X11=true install Ok, figured it out, the following works as a simple

Ethereal port doesn't install GUI

2006-02-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi, Is there other port that installs the GTK Ethereal interface ? net/ports is installing tethereal and lots of other files, but NOT /usr/X11R6/bin/ethereal. I've built net/ethereal as follows: portinstall ethereal but then I couldn't find bin/ethereal anywhere. pkg_info -f shows: [...] Fil

Toshiba Tecra: ACPI and APM woes...

2006-02-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi all, (apologies for the long email!) I've recently made the switch to FBSD 6.0 (FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #6: Mon Jan 30 15:08:44 EST 2006) from WinXP on my work laptop, a Toshiba Tecra A2. Apps work great, but the system feels a bit unstable...too many (fatal) crashes for my liking. (and hardly a

gcc options when building kernel

2006-01-29 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi all, I'm rebuilding my kernel and I noticed some gcc (I believe ) options being used that I don't think I set anyway. The options are : -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2 Does this mean that the kernel won't make use of these cpu features, even though they are supported by the cpu (see

Lockup when suspending from X

2006-01-29 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi all, I need some help trying to understand why this is happening. apm -z (or zzz) works just fine from any of the text-based virtual consoles. If I run it from a shell in X, either as root or myself with sudo, the computer locks up - no panic, nothing . The only change I can see is the lig

Re: Encrypted volume - how?

2006-01-22 Thread Norberto Meijome
Brooks Davis wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 09:39:52AM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a way to recreate the functionality of PGP Disk (under Win32). Basically, create an encrypted file, which contains a filesystem which can then be mounted in any mount point. I

Encrypted volume - how?

2006-01-22 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi all, I'm looking for a way to recreate the functionality of PGP Disk (under Win32). Basically, create an encrypted file, which contains a filesystem which can then be mounted in any mount point. I know I can use GELI in FreeBSD 6 - as I understand, it performs the encryption at the partiti

Re: no one here use restore/dump?

2006-01-18 Thread Norberto Meijome
Wojciech Puchar wrote: nobody here do backups of their systems? strange?! what do you base this (false comment) on? Beto ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: USB removable drive as dump device?

2006-01-18 Thread Norberto Meijome
Mike Loiterman wrote: Using 6.0-RELEASE I'm trying to use a USB removable drive as a dump device. [...] The issue is when I try to dump to the device: # dump 0uafL /dev/da0 / I think this is telling dump to treat /dev/da0 as a normal file, which it isn't. it makes sense to say /dev/[your_

Re: I need a better way to loop in the shell...

2005-12-13 Thread Norberto Meijome
user wrote: I always do loops in /bin/sh like this: for f in `cat file` ; do rm -rf $f ; done Easy. I like doing it like this. The problem is, when I am dealing with an input list that has multiple words per line, this chops it up and treats every word as a new line... For instance, lets say

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