Re: Security for webserver behind router?

On Wednesday 19 January 2005 07:21, Jay O'Brien wrote: > I've brought up a 5.3 Release machine as a learning tool, > with apache 1.3. It is on a LAN with Windows machines, and > port 80 (and only port 80) is open and directed by the > Linksys router to the FreeBSD machine. It is working fine so > f

Burning CDRs on DVD recorders

I recently upgraded my CD burner to a DVD burner. I have the ATAPI/CAM options built-in to my 5.3 kernel and can burn DVDs with growisofs. How should I burn CDs in the DVD drive? Should I use growisofs with /dev/cd0 or should I used burncd with /dev/acd0, or will either work? _

Re: Moving/Removing Filesystems

On Thursday 27 January 2005 15:34, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 08:12:55PM -0500, Tom Moyer wrote: > > I have a Windows XP installation on the first 20 GB of my harddrive > > and I would like to remove it and expand my FreeBSD install to fill > > the entire disk. Is there an eas

Re: Cleaning Out Ports?

On Tuesday 01 February 2005 08:04, Christopher Illies wrote: > Have a look at /usr/ports/sysutils/pkg_cutleaves. It is a script that > detects and removes orphaned dependencies. Just bear in mind that some of the leaves will be required for building other ports. Whilst they can be safely removed

Re: Javascript in Lynx

On Thursday 10 February 2005 06:32, Vince Sabio wrote: > I'm running 5.1-RELEASE, and need to use Lynx via an ssh session to > access my firewall's administrative interface. Logging into the > firewall requires javascript. My FreeBSD machine has a stock > installation of Lynx Version 2.8.4rel.1. I'

Re: Javascript in Lynx

On Thursday 10 February 2005 13:08, RW wrote: > On Thursday 10 February 2005 06:32, Vince Sabio wrote: > > I'm running 5.1-RELEASE, and need to use Lynx via an ssh session to > > access my firewall's administrative interface. Logging into the > > firewall requires

Linux apps and /mnt

I just mounted a device at /mnt/t and tried to access a file from linux realplayer. It couldn't see anything under /mnt at all, it seems that it's actually seeing /compat/linux/mnt. Why does /compat/linux/mnt exist? Is there some serious problem of having linux apps see /mnt (like they see the

Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

On Wednesday 23 February 2005 14:00, Freminlins wrote: > "But in December, Yahoo started to port its homegrown infrastructure > applications from its custom operating system to Red Hat Enterprise > Linux 4.0, which was in beta at the time and was released last week. > Plans call for a gradual migra

Re: how long does it takes you to do a make buildworld

On Wednesday 23 February 2005 20:21, Wouter van Rooij wrote: > >You remembered to add your hardware but you completly forgot to add how > >long it takes you to do a make buildworld. :) > > > >Ben > > I was wondering how long it would take before i'm deciding to do it > myself;-) It's not a major b

Re: Optimising FreeBSD

On Sunday 27 February 2005 16:32, Richard Danter wrote: >... > I guess the last step is to recompile the ports I have installed. Is > there a quick way to rebuild just the ports I have installed or do I > need to go through them all one by one and 'make install clean' them? > The easiest way is to

Upgrading hardware from P3 to AMD 64

I'm thinking about upgrading my hardware from an Intel P3 to an AMD 64, and replacing the graphics card, without buying a new hard disk. Has anyone done this kind of thing successfully? I've recompiled kernel+world for 686 and I've done a portupgrade -fR on cvsup and portupgrade. Typical moth

Re: Upgrading hardware from P3 to AMD 64

On Sunday 27 February 2005 17:49, Subhro wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RW > > Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 23:06 > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject:

Re: Upgrading hardware from P3 to AMD 64

On Sunday 27 February 2005 18:12, Subhro wrote: > > As I said, I'm recompiling for 686 (which I think is pentium pro), my > > undestanding is that the AMD 64 is back-compatible to 686. > > Negative. AFAIK there are incompatible in both the ways. I found this thread:

Re: Deleting Extra Partitions & installing a second FreeBSD

On Wednesday 24 November 2004 03:11, Lucas Holt wrote: >... > First, I want to delete the dell partition and merge it into the > windows partition. Are there any hurdles with freebsd in doing this? > Do i need to change any boot config options for freebsd to find itself > if I do this? This wil

Re: How do you "make install" without direct internet access?

On Tuesday 23 November 2004 21:22, Ralph wrote: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > actually, since I was in csh, the setenv FTP_PROXY > my.internal.proxy:80 worked like a charm, except that, > for some reason, fetch refuses to work without > internet DNS resolution. As with our environment, no > internal ho

Re: Updating packages list (using cvsup?)

On Friday 26 November 2004 14:22, Olaf Greve wrote: > Hi Thomas (and others), > > First off: thanks a lot for your answer, this is indeed what I was > > looking for... I should also install portupgrade if I were you, it make managing ports a lot easier. It also has the -P and -PP options (a

Re: Playing DVD movies with Xine

On Friday 26 November 2004 12:30, Graham Bentley wrote: > I had to do this before Xine would recognise my DVD's > > ln -s /dev/acd0 /dev/dvd > ln -s /dev/acd0 /dev/rdvd > You can setup this kind of thing inside xine, but you have to change your "experience level" setting, otherwise it hides a lot

Re: How to boot FreeBSD from a slave IDE disk

On Friday 26 November 2004 04:26, rain cip wrote: > Hello, > > I hope I can get some help from this list to figure out how to boot FreeBSD > from a slave drive. My PC has two disks. The sysinstall sees both: ad0 > and ad3. My hardware configuration is such: > > ad0 -- primary IDE, master (all f

Re: Remembering defines for port upgrades.

On Saturday 27 November 2004 22:55, Adam Fabian wrote: >Is there any other/better way to remember build options so > that I don't have to remember them every time I build a port? If you use portupgrade, put your options in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf where there is a section in whch they can be

Re: portupgrade and index

On Tuesday 30 November 2004 05:58, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Monday 29 November 2004 09:40 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:27:47PM -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:57:34 -0800, Kris Kennaway > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > wrote: > > > > On

Re: a little problem!!!!!!

On Wednesday 01 December 2004 11:37, MarC wrote: > hello, my name is marc and i'm from Romania. > I have a little problem: i just bought a laptop Compaq Presario 1200, old > laptop, and my operating system is FreeBSD. I wanted to format it and i > don't know how. In Bios this feature insn't. Please

Re: Deleting Packages

On Thursday 02 December 2004 00:33, Gerard Seibert wrote: > Actually, I all ready did that. I ran 'portsclean -CDDLP', and it did > remove a few packages. However, most are still there. It is not a big > thing, I was just wondering if it would cause a problem if I did remove > them. I's no big de

mkisofs and large files

95 MB, but it still failed, so I guess the version in ports still has the 2 GB limits. Does the development version of cdrtools in ports have the 4 GB limit? If so, how can I get sysutils/dvd+rw-tools to use the newer version, is it just a matter of deinstalling them both and changing the depen

Re: mkisofs and large files

On Wednesday 08 December 2004 15:16, Vulpes Velox wrote: > On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 04:08:12 + > > RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been trying to burn a single large file (a 4.2 GB encrypted > > gbde filesystem within a file) to a DVD, but mkisofs tells me the

Re: mkisofs and large files

On Wednesday 08 December 2004 17:42, Paul Mather wrote: > On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 04:08:12 +0000, RW > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been trying to burn a single large file (a 4.2 GB encrypted gbde > > filesystem within a file) to a DVD, but mkisofs tells me the

Re: mkisofs and large files

On Wednesday 08 December 2004 18:54, Randy Grafton wrote: > growisofs is your solution. No, it isn't. I originally hit the problem using growisofs, although the error comes from mkisofs. Installing the development version of mkisofs solves the burning problem, but FreeBSD can't use the file.

Re: [Fwd: HTT/SMP servers instability on 5.3-STABLE]

On Friday 10 December 2004 19:57, Colin J. Raven wrote: > On Dec 10, Toomas Aas launched this into the bitstream: > > Colin J. Raven wrote: > >> On Dec 10, Toomas Aas launched this into the bitstream: > >>> For more than a month now, I've been running a Dual Xeon 2000 system > >>> (IBM eServer xSer

Re: when to use 'Portupgrade -R'

On Saturday 11 December 2004 20:39, Robert Marella wrote: > On Friday 10 December 2004 14:54, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > I've run into some problems using 'portupgrade -R' so I'm wondering if > > just using 'portupgrade' is good enough in most cases. I don't want a > > port to be upgraded witho

Re: Help troubleshoot the nvidia driver and x display problem

On Friday 17 December 2004 05:59, rain cip wrote: >... > kdm: Abnormal termination of greeter for display:0, code 1, singal 0 > (the line above repeats five times) > init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv8, sleepinnng 30 secs You see this kind of thing whenever kdm has trouble startin

Re: When to use 'portupgrade -R'

On Friday 10 December 2004 14:54, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > I've run into some problems using 'portupgrade -R' so I'm wondering if just > using 'portupgrade' is good enough in most cases. I don't want a port to > be upgraded without NECESSARY dependencies, but I don't want minor upgrades > done

Re: Un-GNOME-ing a FreeBSD box

On Sunday 12 December 2004 01:54, Brett Glass wrote: > At 06:42 PM 12/11/2004, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >That isn't supposed to happen. If another port has X11 listed as a > >dependency, "make deinstall" would have said so and refused to remove > >it.. > > Which, by the way, is what the owner of th

Re: cvsup newbie questions

On Friday 17 December 2004 21:11, Kevin Smith wrote: > I'm interested in upgrading to gnome 2.8 (and possibly the newer > releases of other applications) Gnome is one of the most troublesome metaports to upgrade. See for advice on upgrading. __

Re: Firefox headaches

On Saturday 18 December 2004 20:53, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > Something's not right with firefox. > > Now that I've got the printing problems more or less solved, it > crashes almost every time I hit a page with flash. > > I've got the latest (from ports updated yesterday) native, and > flashplugin-fi

Re: migrating from thunderbird to mutt?

On Sunday 19 December 2004 03:48, Nikolas Britton wrote: > Can mutt handle um like 5+ email address and have them all separated and > be able to send from diffrent email accounts? > > If I remember right mutt is just a mail reader, so how do I get mail to > and sent from mutt? > > How does it hand

Re: Firefox headaches

On Monday 20 December 2004 12:12, RW wrote: > > I've got the latest (from ports updated yesterday) native, and > > flashplugin-firefox port. Certain websites crash or lock it up at > > seemingly random points. >... > > Firstly, are you using the old method of

Re: Firefox headaches

On Monday 20 December 2004 14:06, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > On 12/20/04 12:12 PM, RW sat at the `puter and typed: > > On Saturday 18 December 2004 20:53, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > Firefox doesn't crash or lock up anymore, but of course, most flash on > the web these days is flash

Re: Simple, graphic, desktop calculator

On Monday 20 December 2004 14:06, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: > On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 14:02, edwinculp wrote: > > IIRC, kde had a simple desktop calculator. Either it has been removed or > > I can't find it. I have also checked ports and haven't found anything > > similar except add. > > I don't hav

Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

On Friday 24 December 2004 07:38, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > On Thursday 23 December 2004 11:16 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote: > > Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > > On Thursday 23 December 2004 10:01 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote: > > >>I'm running 5.3 RELEASE and trying to learn. I did a ports cvsup. > > >>Following

Re: portupgrade time, xorg ports

On Friday 24 December 2004 21:54, Jay O'Brien wrote: > Running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 #0, i386 P3-667MHz, 512MB RAM. > > This is my first experience using portupgrade. > > I ran cvsup successfully for ports-all. I ran pkg_version -v. > It showed a total of 28 ports, 20 needed updating. Of those, >

Re: portupgrade -P and local changes

On Sunday 26 December 2004 09:04, Harlan Stenn wrote: > I have a couple of ports where I am using a Makefile.local to provide some > customizations for the local environment (I think they are for > postfix+SASL, and apache2+the experimental modules, but I could be > mistaken) where "stock" prebuilt

Re: 5.3: want to install XFree86

On Monday 27 December 2004 05:31, Theodore D. Sternberg wrote: > I've had it with Xorg and would like to go back to XFree86. > Unfortunately, when I go to /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 and type "make", it > doesn't do anything; it just gives me this message... > > ===> XFree86-4.4.0_1,1 is part of

Re: freebsd on 2nd drive?

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 22:40, Haulmark, Chris wrote: > Someone broke the silence: > > I know this has been asked already, but it's a slightly different > > problem. Let me explain my situation first: I'm 14 years old without > > my own PC. I can't let the FreeBSD bootloader install on the fi

Re: BSD 5.3

On Thursday 30 December 2004 06:10, James Jhai wrote: > You will need to start gdm, kdm, or xdm on boot and then login, the login > manager will allow you to choose the desktop. And KDM is best for KDE. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice?

On Tuesday 04 January 2005 10:10, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > > There's been quite a few reports of people having trouble getting past > > the java tools install which is needed to build the port. Unless that > > challence is interesting in itself, it's

Re: firefox thunderbird

On Tuesday 04 January 2005 09:11, Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote: > Hi people > I am having a little problem with firefox and thunderbird if i have a > mail with and url in his body and i clicked nothing happens the firefox > does not start up , similar in firefox if i have a link "mailto" > thunderbir

Re: Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice?

On Tuesday 04 January 2005 12:58, Stijn Hoop wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:46:48PM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > > > direction of http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.4/index.html > > > > And if you follow the ports route instead, just how man

Re: portupgrade dialogs...

On Tuesday 04 January 2005 12:21, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:24:43PM +0100, Christian Tischler wrote: > > Hi, > > when I run portupgrade to get my server up to date (CVS of > > 4.9-Release), everything works fine and smooth, until any of the ports > > pops up an dialog and asks

Re: make install clean question

On Tuesday 04 January 2005 19:53, Olof Andersson wrote: > Hi! > I tried to run the make install clean again to be able to not select > the "mysqli" but I only get the same message again. I tried to find > information on how to "reset" the install but did not succeed. I have > FreeBSD 5.3. Once se

Re: KDE issues after upgrade

On Monday 17 January 2005 16:47, Chris wrote: > Adam Smith wrote: > >What happens is, upon loading of KDE from KDM, just after "Initializing > >Peripherals", it backs out with no error and Xorg reloads. > >Anyone got any suggestions as to what I might try to resolve this problem? > > When ever yo

Re: KPDF and KGhostView errors

On Tuesday 18 January 2005 03:46, Trey Sizemore wrote: > I'm getting an error when trying to view PDFs with these applications: > > ghostscript: unknown device x11 > > I have ghostscript version 7.07 installed and was able to view PDFs as > recently as a few days ago. Acrobat Reader won't even sta

Re: KPDF and KGhostView errors

On Tuesday 18 January 2005 15:07, Trey Sizemore wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 04:03 +0000, RW wrote: > > I got this error once because I had a ghostscript nox port installed. > > Actually, I think I had two versions simultaneously, one of which was a > > nox version (not s

Re: Can I set priorities for file transfers

On Tuesday 18 January 2005 14:23, Brian John wrote: > Hello, > I have (I think) kind of a unique question. I leave my home computer on > all day and transfer and share files via a P2P application. However, > sometimes I like to ssh in from work and transfer files between my work PC > and my home

Re: How to setup DVD, CD and Floppy Drives

On Tuesday 18 January 2005 17:07, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > Brian John wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a DVD writer, a CD writer and a floppy drive in my PC. Since I > > don't know what file system that a media will use until I put it in the > > drive, how do I set it up in fstab? >... > AFAIK, ther

Re: Tab to Auto-Complete + ....

On Tuesday 18 January 2005 12:10, Warren wrote: > I changed the shell type using: chsh -s /bin/csh I think you want /bin/tcsh/ which is the enhanced version of csh. Incidently I think tcsh is the default for root, not csh, which is probably why auto-completion works for you in root. It's recom

Re: Tab to Auto-Complete + ....

On Wednesday 19 January 2005 15:22, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 02:32:41PM +0000, RW wrote: > > It's recommended that you stick to shells in /bin for root, and tcsh is > > the best of these. For non-root account you have more choice, bash and > > ksh are

Re: Tab to Auto-Complete + ....

On Wednesday 19 January 2005 15:22, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 02:32:41PM +0000, RW wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 January 2005 12:10, Warren wrote: > > > I changed the shell type using: chsh -s /bin/csh > > > > I think you want /bin/tcsh/ which is the enh

Re: CVSUP del INDEX file in ports

On Tuesday 18 January 2005 12:58, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:48:28PM +1000, Warren wrote: > > is there a particular reason why the ports INDEX file is del each time > > cvsup is run and then re-d/l in a portupgrade ? > > Yes, see /usr/ports/UPDATING or the mailing list archiv

Re: How should I divvy up my HDDs? Suggestions Please.

On Thursday 05 May 2005 14:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jerry, thanks for your advice! > > > If all your accounts and web pages > > are really in /home and you have no databases, I would be inclined > > to put both /usr and /var in the 80GB drive and leave the other one > > for home directori

Re: System clean-up tool / technique?

On Thursday 05 May 2005 21:32, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: > I am a very meticulous person. > I try to keep my systems as clean as possible. > > I was wondering that others like me out there do to keep their > systems clean for stale files and files with no reference to > either the system, its ports

Re: vfs.usermount and directory owner

On Friday 06 May 2005 08:41, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > Hello, > > I want to be able to access my cd drive as normal user. As any user, not a > specific one. So it's a problem that I can't mount it to a general > directory like /cdrom since only one user can be owner and it looks like > it's required

Re: Issue with Timezone in KDE

On Saturday 07 May 2005 14:16, Colin Worthy wrote: > I am having an odd issue with setting the correct timezone in KDE. I have > set the correct timezone from the command line and it seems to stay for a > while, but eventually is reverting to UTC time. I should be in Central > Daylight time (Amer

Re: Learning UNIX internals

On Saturday 07 May 2005 17:30, Jon Drews wrote: > On 5/7/05, Chris Hodgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you are interested in Unix and FreeBSD this is a good choice: > > > > http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/0201702452/r > >eviews/026-9762435-1924466 > > Thank you C

Re: Issue with Timezone in KDE

On Saturday 07 May 2005 23:34, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 06:10:45PM +0100, RW wrote: > > On Saturday 07 May 2005 14:16, Colin Worthy wrote: > > > I am having an odd issue with setting the correct timezone in KDE. I > > > have set the correct tim

Re: 5 day lockup on Densitron

On Saturday 07 May 2005 02:00, Clifton Royston wrote: > What you describe > could conceivably be the result of a special counter or RTC chip > running as a "watchdog timer" with a count-down from boot time, and > generating some kind of special interrupt when that countdown reaches > 0. Watchdog

Re: bittorrent client

On Saturday 14 May 2005 00:37, Paulo Roberto wrote: > Hello, > > Any suggestions? I have been using ctorrent, but I am getting a lot of I use Azureus, it's full of features, but it uses a lot resources. Bittorrent is probably the next best port, and is much lighter. > files it shows that it has

Re: video card

On Saturday 14 May 2005 08:56, Roland Smith wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 06:27:54PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > Is there are better driver for my video card than the > > standard, generic vga0 driver? > > My video card is a Diamond Viper v550 vidoe card which uses the

Re: FreeBSD or NetBSD on older hardware (MMX)

On Monday 16 May 2005 18:02, FreeBSD MailingLists wrote: > I fished out an old laptop out of my closet. > It is a Pentium 233 MMX w/ 64MB Ram and 12G HD > I am thinking about setting up a small station for browsing the web. > Which would perform better on such a system? FreeBSD or NetBSD? NetBSD

Re: sharing ext3 partition

On Tuesday 17 May 2005 15:24, backdoc wrote: > I have a laptop partitioned up into a mixture of Windows and Linux > partitions. I was thinking about wiping the Ubuntu partition and putting > FreeBSD 5.4 in its place. However, there are a couple of concerns that I > have before doing this. > > 1)

Re: Is port xmps broke?

On Thursday 19 May 2005 03:52, Steven Friedrich wrote: > I'm trying to find an mpeg player. The .mpg I have is a video, but I don't > know anything else about it's format. I first tried to install xmps, but > it claims "You must have XML::Parser installed to run > ../../intltool-merge". I though

Re: Pine

On Thursday 19 May 2005 18:37, Charles Lamb wrote: > What is a good alternative to Pine? It would seem it is nolonger > available for freebsd? The pine distfile is generic unix source code, if you can't fetch it, it's probably just a temporary server problem.

Re: /etc/make.conf weirdness

On Thursday 19 May 2005 20:51, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 03:31:02PM -0400, Nicolas Blais wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This is probably a user problem (me), but why is it that when I put this > > in /etc/make.conf: > > > > .if ${.CURDIR:M*/multimedia/transcode} > > WITH_DIVX5=yes WI

Re: all users to mount cd's

On Friday 20 May 2005 23:02, Ryan Winograd wrote: > Ryan Winograd wrote: > > On May 20, 2005 04:10 pm, Ryan Winograd wrote: > >>> Is there an easy way to allow any user to mount cd's? > >>> Well, yes. I have proper perms on cd devs and if a user creates > >>> a directory he owns he can mount from c

Re: Playing Music CD's

On Wednesday 25 May 2005 04:01, Warren wrote: > I have a lot of music cd's that i have baught over the years and went to > play them today, but couldnt mount my /cdrom drive. > > How do i go about playing music cd's ? I have FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE and Xmms > installed. Go to Xmms preferences and conf

Re: 5.4 Installation

On Saturday 04 June 2005 00:31, Paul Schmehl wrote: If you're using gdm, uncomment the same line, but change xdm to > gdm. That's changed, gdm is now started by adding gdm_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

KDM and .bash_profile problem

I think it used to be the case that if you used kdm to login, then .bash_profile would not get sourced by bash (because it's not a login shell). However it appears that the Xsession script in /usr/local/share/config/kdm now sources .bash_profile explicitly if bash is your shell. My problem i

Re: Drivers Hardware

On Monday 13 June 2005 16:20, Juan Palacios wrote: > bought LINSPIRE and it installed everything except > modem, tried over 3 modems and NOTHING. Most cheap modems are winmodems. These are modems that offload a lot of the signal processing from hardware into drivers. The drivers are typically

Re: Grub and NTFS

On Wednesday 15 June 2005 02:38, RdBSD wrote: > Can I use grub to boot windows 2003 server with ntfs file system ? My understanding is that Windows is always installed on a standard bootable primary partition, so the bootmanager doesn't need to understand the filesystem or the details of the OS

Re: CVSup -install

On Tuesday 21 June 2005 22:19, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I first tried to install from disc and was receiving > > Error code - 1 > > So I decided to do it from the internet and this is where I'm getting stuck > > > This is the error I get > > ┌ User Confirma

Re: Newbie - Trouble Installing Gnome2

On Thursday 23 June 2005 03:14, Lawrence Petrykanyn wrote: >... > Next I went to /usr/ports/x11/gnome2 and did "make install > clean". This ran for hours, occasionally prompting me for preferences, > then it stopped. Here is what it said... > > Attempting to fetch from > f

Re: Newbie - Trouble Installing Gnome2

On Thursday 23 June 2005 16:10, cali wrote: > >Attempting to fetch from > > ftp://ftp-FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/ghostscript/. > >fetch: ghostscripts-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz: local modification > > does not match remote > >=> Couldn't find it - please

Re: Does Firefox 1.0.4 suck, or is it just me ?

On Thursday 23 June 2005 18:49, Jeff MacDonald wrote: > Maybe it's just me > > I'm running the firefox 1.0.4 from ports. When I open new tabs up, or > new windows the whole jobby tends to freeze up on me pretty hard. It works for me. ___ freebsd-question

Re: upgrading all ports

On Saturday 25 June 2005 12:22, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > I want to do a portupgrade on all installed ports. > > What's the right way? > "portupgrade -arR ?" > or > "portupgrade -a" ? AFAIK there is no difference between the two; "-a" means upgrade all ports in the package databa

Re: Newbie question about ports.

On Friday 24 June 2005 19:36, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Sam Ip wrote: > >I'm trying out FreeBSD for the first time for use at work. However, > >there is a corporate firewall and hence ftp traffic doesn't get > >through. I can access http sites. So if a selling point of FreeBSD is > >its ports collect

Re: upgrading all ports

On Monday 27 June 2005 16:39, Nikolas Britton wrote: > Is there a way to do all of this with packages, I've used ports system > exclusively? The reason I ask is... well I don't like waiting 2 to 3 > days for everything to rebuild and I take the defaults for most > programs anyways. if I could do th

Re: upgrading all ports

On Monday 27 June 2005 17:37, Denny White wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, RW wrote: > > On Saturday 25 June 2005 12:22, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > >> I want to do a portupgrade on all installed ports. > >> > >> What's the right way? > >>"

Re: [FYI] QT4 licensing looks very bad for *BSD

On Wednesday 29 June 2005 12:30, Danny Pansters wrote: > Folks, > > I don't want to scare anyone but today QT4 was released and their web page > > (http://www.trolltech.com/download/opensource.html) > > specifically states several times that if using the free version one is > required to release th

portupgrade -NPR problems

When I recently installed 5.3 on a new slice, I tried to build kde with portupgrade -NR kdelibs kdebase portupgrade -NPR kde My understanding of -NPR is that any port that doesn't have a current package available should have been built from ports before a port that depends on it is installe

Re: Creating a FAT32 on new drive...

On Wednesday 17 November 2004 21:59, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > hello family, > > I have some drives that I've brought home for repair. > > I have a Promise IDE controller installed with dual ports and two > 36" IDE ribbons attached to the Promise controller and snaking out > an open CDROM slot, alo

Re: Just installed FreeBSD

On Monday 07 March 2005 16:01, Ean Kingston wrote: > run 'pkg_add -r kde' from the command line > > edit /etc/ttys (with ee or whatever editor you like. > > Look for the line that looks like this: > > ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure > > and change the word 'off' to 'on'.

Re: portinstall: fetch(1) doesn't fetch

On Friday 11 March 2005 10:15, h p wrote: > Hi, > I don't understand the behaviour of fetch(1). Whenever I try to fetch > from an URL, I get anwers like > > > fetch http://www.google.com > > fetch: http://www.google.com: No address record > This is what you get when fetch can't do a succes

Re: how to install Windows on an existing partition?

On Thursday 10 March 2005 20:53, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > > It sounds quite complicated... I need some more experience before doing > that! > > Thank you, I'll take in consideration in the future! Also, if it's windows 9x, then it's will expect to be installed on the first partition, and so will

Re: no flames, please.

On Friday 11 March 2005 20:25, Gary Kline wrote: > a better flavor on Linux that I should consider? I've not tried it yet, but I like the look of: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ It's based on Debian but aims to update several times a year instead of once every several years. Also updates

Re: 5.3-release fine with 512MB RAM, reboots at times with 1.5GB (but no panic)

On Wednesday 16 March 2005 03:10, Jean Lagarde wrote: > I have been troubleshooting reboots over the last weekend, I think I > might have enough clues now to get some useful hints from an expert. > > FreeBSD 5.3-release (see dmesg below for details) > > The problem seems to be with trying to run wi

Re: flash plugin?

On Wednesday 16 March 2005 01:49, Tom Vilot wrote: > I have the port flashplugin-mozilla-0.4.12 installed (using > firefox-1.0.1_2,1). I find that it crashes firefox pretty consistently. > > However, a quick grep of flash in the ports reveals these: > > > flash-0.9.5 > flashplugin-0.4.3 > flashplug

Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

On Wednesday 16 March 2005 22:49, Boris Spirialitious wrote: > No, we have product that run on intel machine. It > would be nice if we could use same image for both > intel and operton platforms. You can, provided you use the i386 version of FreeBSD and don't optimize the build for anything abov

Re: If I have portmanager, do I need portupgrade?

On Sunday 13 March 2005 20:05, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: > If I just do: > > cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile && portmanager -u > > Do I need portupgrade at all then? I think you do, as I understand the situation, portmanager lacks two significant features. 1. All ports have an implicit dependenc

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

On Sunday 13 March 2005 15:47, Luyt wrote: > On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:06, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: > > 2. having that demon in there, it invites evil into my world > > What is the daemon doing to that funny penguin? > > http://gbraad.spotsnel.nl/images/takeittux.png LOL, that would make

Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

On Wednesday 16 March 2005 20:05, Matthew Seaman wrote: > You can generally run AMD64 machines in IA32 mode -- but what would be > the point? All you get then is a machine that costs more than an > equivalent IA32 box and that probably performs worse. The core market for the AMD64 is 32-bit Window

Re: How much HDD space does FreeBSD need?

On Thursday 17 March 2005 16:16, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I'm wondering how much HDD space does FreeBSD need in a normal > >installation. What I mean by the normal installation includes 'Full > >X-Development' packages with Gnome. Oh, It's 5.3-RELEASE. > > > >My HDD

Re: cannot build openoffice

On Wednesday 16 March 2005 15:54, Brian John wrote: > Hello, > When I try to build openoffice I get the following error: > ./unxfbsd.pro/misc/FREEBSDGCCIruntime/libprldap50.so && \ echo >& /dev/null > cp: ./unxfbsd.pro/misc/build/mozilla/dist/bin/libnss3.so: No such file or > directory > dmake: Er

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