Re: Bad system clock

2006-08-12 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Hello Girish! --- "P.U.Kruppa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, for some time now my system clock really goes wrong (some hours per day). Is there some simple way to find out if this is caused by a hardware or software proble

Re: solaris

2006-09-03 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, dick hoogendijk wrote: I have a 3-part disk: (a) XP for games (b) FreeBSD-6.1 (my main OS) (c) FreeBSD-6.1 (a backup) I want to replace the third partition with solaris 10, mainly for studying this OS. I burned the DVD. Will it install solaris on this third partition without

Re: Unicode support on freebsd?

2006-09-03 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Wei Hu wrote: When will Freebsd support unicode? Freebsd 7? What exactly do you want be supported? In my /usr/share/locale/ I can see some UTF-8 directories. Regards, Uli. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: solaris

2006-09-06 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, dick hoogendijk wrote: I have a 3-part disk: (a) XP for games (b) FreeBSD-6.1 (my main OS) (c) FreeBSD-6.1 (a backup) I want to replace the third partition with solaris 10, mainly for studying this OS. I burned the DVD. Will it install solaris on this third partition without

Simple Mailing List with Sendmail

2006-09-09 Thread P.U.Kruppa
Hi, I am experimenting with a simple mailing list setup for some (15 - 20) of my students, i.e. I put a line like this maths: user1, user2, user3, ..., /var/mail_archive/maths into my /etc/mail/aliases . The last entry produces a kind of archive file. Does anyone know an - equally simple -

Suddenly Cups doesn't work anymore ...

2006-09-17 Thread P.U.Kruppa
Hi! This is cups-1.2.2 on FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE, all I know is I did some portupgrading. Now Cups doesn't work anymore, i.e. # lpstat -a lpstat: Kann Server nicht erreichen ("Cannot reach server") When I try to start Cups manually # cupsd cupsd

Re: New to FreeBSD/UNIX

2006-09-18 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Edward and Nancy Powers wrote: I am new to UNIX, and want to download a basic UNIX system, just to run commands and become familiar with the system. I wish to use this system as a companion piece to a UNIX tutorial which I have on DVD. I do not want to replace Windows

Re: [solved] Suddenly Cups doesn't work anymore ...

2006-09-19 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, P.U.Kruppa wrote: Now Cups doesn't work anymore, i.e. # lpstat -a lpstat: Kann Server nicht erreichen ("Cannot reach server") When I try to start Cups manually # cupsd cupsd: Child exited on signal 15! Just

Re: USB based webcam

2006-09-25 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi: I have a laptop with a built in webcam: ugen0: Vimicro Corp. USB2.0 Web Camera, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 Since this goes on the generic usb device, I guess there is no driver. Is this supported? Do I need to download a driver somewhere or will webc

Re: calenders .. silly question !

2006-09-27 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Erik Norgaard wrote: Desmond Coughlan wrote: The thread on calendars has got me thinking The 'non-profit' organisation I mentioned, is a school. Here in France (and no doubt in dozens of other countries), many universities have constructed 'virtual campuses

Re: Can't ping localhost?

2006-09-30 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Chuck Swiger wrote: Laurence Sanford wrote: Anyone got any ideas on this? [EMAIL PROTECTED](~)$ ping 127.0.0.1 PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address ping: sendto: Can't assign req

Re: Disaster recovery.

2006-10-06 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Grant Peel wrote: Is it possible to boot the machine using a 'live' freebsd silesystem via cd? Then setup the /mnt , setup the new filesystems, then use restore to briung the real data to the disk? I guess my question really should have been, if you install a new disk, or

Re: adding a linux boot option

2006-10-06 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Jonathan Horne wrote: i have a system with 2 disks (ad0 and ad1), with ad1 having a recent suse linux install, and ad0 is a standard freebsd install. i must have made a mistake when i installed the suse, as i overwrote my freebsd bootloader and only had option to boot suse.

Re: xorg install problem

2007-10-21 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, AN wrote: I am trying to install a new system with Gnome and xorg on 7.0 beta 1. Here are the steps I have taken: install 6.2 release cvsup to releng_7 as of 10/21/07 buildworld -sucessful installworld -sucessful reboot into 7.0 beta set packagesite to ft2.nl.freebsd.org p

Re: Anyone get Flash 9 working?

2007-10-23 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Mark Moellering wrote: The basic question, has anyone gotten Flash-9 running on FreeBSD ? linux-version? wine version? FreeBSD 7? anything? Now, you can't exactly call it "running": On FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 amd64 with linux_base-fc7-7_1 in linux-opera-9.24.20071015 with linux

Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

2007-10-26 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, E. J. Cerejo wrote: Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work. It is not fun any more! Always an issue, either a port conflicts wi

Re: project management software for freebsd?

2007-10-27 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, zbigniew szalbot wrote: Hello, I am looking for recommendation of software which could be installed from ports and which would help us register new ideas, be able to see if they have been started/completed, etc. I did have a look at Horde but this is not what I am looki

Re: Virtualization

2007-10-31 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Bart Silverstrim wrote: I was curious with the information coming out regarding FreeBSD 7 what option are available for virtualizing other OS's using FreeBSD as a host. I've been running several servers (Windows of various versions and a Linux system) as virtual machines

What kind of audio device is this?

2007-11-03 Thread P.U.Kruppa
Hi, dmesg says I have got ugen0: on uhub0 on board. What is this? Do we have a driver for it? Of course I tried # kldload snd_driver but all I get is # cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2007061600/amd64) Installed devices: I am running Fre

Re: What kind of audio device is this?

2007-11-04 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, beni wrote: On Saturday 03 November 2007 19:08:25 P.U.Kruppa wrote: Hi, dmesg says I have got ugen0: on uhub0 on board. What is this? Do we have a driver for it? Vendor 0x0d8c seems to be C-Media, but without the product ID it is difficult to find out what card it is

Re: What kind of audio device is this?

2007-11-09 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Adam J Richardson wrote: P.U.Kruppa wrote: dmesg says I have got ugen0: on uhub0 on board. What is this? Do we have a driver for it? Of course I tried # kldload snd_driver but all I get is # cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit

Re: Help:Install RPMS on FreeBSD 6.2

2007-11-09 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Ƚ¿¡Ðã wrote: Hello,I have just install rpm-3.0.6 via /usr/ports/archivers/rpm. And I get some ERROR like below when trying to install libc5compat-1.0-5.i586.rpm via rpm. host# /usr/local/bin/rpm -Uvh libc5compat-1.0-5.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: /bin/sh

Re: awk question

2007-07-26 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Peter Boosten wrote: P.U.Kruppa wrote: Hi (and sorry for this slightly OT question), I would like to extract the second last field of each line of a file called user.csv . So I try > awk '{print $(NF-1)}' user.csv awk: trying to access out of r

awk question

2007-07-26 Thread P.U.Kruppa
Hi (and sorry for this slightly OT question), I would like to extract the second last field of each line of a file called user.csv . So I try > awk '{print $(NF-1)}' user.csv awk: trying to access out of range field -1 input record number 1, file user.csv source

ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE: File exists ????

2007-08-12 Thread P.U.Kruppa
Hi, today I tried to start cups with # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cupsd start and receive this message: ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE: File exists ifconfig: BRDGADD rl0: File exists Starting cupsd. What does this mean and why does it keep my printer from working? Thanks, Uli. Pe

Re: Gnome & FreeBSD

2007-08-19 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Michael S wrote: Good day all, I decided to add GUI to my GUI-less FreeBSD machine. I am considering installing Gnome, which I haven't used for long while and the last time was on Linux anyway. The reason is that most of my favorite applications use gtk libraries, like Fir

Re: firefox plugins

2007-08-27 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Charles Bacon wrote: I'm unable to find any reference to amd64 on Firefox FAQ and other info sources. I have an EVGA mobo with an AMD64 running FreeBSD 6.2 perfectly, with Firefox. But every attempt at a plugin complains either that it isn't windows or that it's an amd64.

Re: home lan with freebsd as gateway / security issues

2007-08-28 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Dear all, Please bear with me one more time. In two months I will need to set up a home network and I was planning to use a spare freebsd box as a gateway, proxy (squid) and content filtering (dansguardian). I am basically ready but the more I think

Re: Problems With xorg 7.3 After A Port Upgrade

2007-09-14 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Aryeh Friedman wrote: On 9/15/07, Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just did a port upgrade on one of the servers here. When I tried to start X on the console, I got this: X.Org X Server 1.4.0 Release Date: 5 September 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build

Re: Problems With xorg 7.3 After A Port Upgrade

2007-09-14 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Aryeh Friedman wrote: Some drivers (3rd party) have not updated either (nVidia's comes to mind) On some gentoo linux mailing list I have found this # startx -- -ignoreABI This will at least start xorg's vanilla desktop twm. Uli. Peter Ulrich Kruppa Wuppertal Germ

Re: Problems With xorg 7.3 After A Port Upgrade

2007-09-14 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Aryeh Friedman wrote: nVidia's driver does not honor -ignoreABI Sorry. At least it honored my S3Virge. Uli. On 9/15/07, P.U.Kruppa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Aryeh Friedman wrote: Some drivers (3rd party) have not updated eithe

Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?

2007-09-18 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Charles Bacon wrote: I installed FreeBSD-RELEASE6.2 last January, and wonder if there will be a 6.3. Just discovered freebsd-update(8), tried it out, and saw: WARNING: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date. It is strongly recommended that you upgrad

Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?

2007-09-19 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Charles Bacon wrote: I installed FreeBSD-RELEASE6.2 last January, and wonder if there will be a 6.3. Just discovered freebsd-update(8), tried it out, and saw: WARNING: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE is approaching its

maxima, rlwrap and sbcl

2007-09-22 Thread P.U.Kruppa
Hello, I have built maxima with sbcl on FreeBSD-7.0 . I would like to add some command line editing functionality by installing rlwrap. When I try to start rmaxima I get rlwrap: error: Could not open master pty: Input/output error Can anyone help? Thanks, Uli. Peter Ulrich Kruppa Wuppertal

sbcl/lisp question

2007-09-26 Thread P.U.Kruppa
Hi, while playing with SBCL and the editor slime, I found that slime needs some ("fast loadable") files in /usr/local/lib/sbcl/.. (with .fasl suffix) to be set executable. Was this forgotten by the port authors or is there some tricky LISP way to do it automatically (i.e. is it a bug or a fe

Re: sbcl/lisp question

2007-09-27 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Andreas Davour wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, P.U.Kruppa wrote: Hi, while playing with SBCL and the editor slime, I found that slime needs some ("fast loadable") files in /usr/local/lib/sbcl/.. (with .fasl suffix) to be set executable. Was this forgotten b

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