test

2004-02-03 Thread Stephen Liu
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Test-1

2004-02-03 Thread Stephen Liu
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Help - problem in contacting moderators

2004-02-04 Thread Stephen Liu
eld: Post by non-member to a members-only list Kindly advise how to contact moderators TIA B.R. Stephen Liu _ No masks required! Use MSN Messenger to chat with friends and family. http://go.msnserver.com/HK

Fresh installation of FreeBSD 5.2

2004-02-07 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all folks, I am prepared to install FreeBSD 5.2 doing net installation using packages from its developers' site. I have 4 CDs downloaded. Kindly advise which CD shall I use and which document shall I follow during installation. TIA B.R. Stephe

First time installation - 5.2

2004-02-20 Thread Stephen Liu
ey did not function. Finally I pressed a hard-reboot to restart the PC. PC restarted going straight to text mode with login popup. I entered 'root' and then 'startx'. This time X window could not start. Kindly advise how to f

Re: First time installation - 5.2 (Partially solved)

2004-02-20 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Robert Thanks for your advice. Problem is now half-solved. X window starts XF86Config.new was found under super 'ROOT'. Steps taken as follows; 1) copied 'XF86Config.new' to '/etc/X11/' and renamed it as 'XF86Config' 2) # startx Xterm window popup and mouse works 3) # ee /etc/rc.conf addi

Fail to start KDE

2004-02-22 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all folks, Version 5.2 new installation I encountered problem in starting KDE after installation. 1) KDE installed pkg_info | grep kde kde-3.1.4 The "meta-port" for KDE kdeaddons-3.1.4 Additional plugins and scripts for some KDE applications kdeadmin-3.1.4 KDE applications related to system ad

Re: Fail to start KDE

2004-02-22 Thread Stephen Liu
Mike Jeays wrote: Version 5.2 new installation - snip - Create a file .xinitrc in the home directory, containing the single line 'startkde &' (without the quotes). Then try startx again. Hi Mike, Tks for your advice. Sorry I forgot to mention in my previous posting; 1) KDE could not start

Rebooting problem

2004-02-22 Thread Stephen Liu
ing 'reset' key Kindly advise is it the size of SWAP insufficient? If 'YES', kindly advise how to check it and increase its size. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: Rebooting problem

2004-02-22 Thread Stephen Liu
Version 5.2 new installation On rebooting it hangs on . syncing disks, buffers remaining ... 5 5 done Uptime: 45m45s Shutting down ACPI Rebooting... Keyboard reset did not work, attempting CPU shutdown. It hanged here and I have to make a 'hard reboot' by pressing 'reset' key Kindly advise i

Connecting ISP problem

2004-02-23 Thread Stephen Liu
t authname USERNAME set authkey PASSWORD set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0 add default HISADDR# Add a (sticky) default route Kindly advise how to make # start pptp to work TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

How to start single user mode or safe mode

2004-02-23 Thread Stephen Liu
;safe mode' nor 'single user mode' Kindly advise how to boot to 'single user mode' or 'safe mode' TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: [FAQ pointer] Re: How to start single user mode or safe mode

2004-02-23 Thread Stephen Liu
- snip - Kindly advise how to boot to 'single user mode' or 'safe mode' The precise answer depends on what version of FreeBSD you're running, which you failed to mention. You can work it out from the FreeBSD FAQ entry titled "I made a mistake in rc.conf, or another startup file, and now I ca

Re: Backing up my system

2004-04-20 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Bill, - snip - > You can use dump/tar to back up the actual data. I also apply 'tar' command to backup actual data keeping the directory tree simultaneously. Kindly advise what is 'dump/tar' B.R. Stephen - snip - > Then, if you needed to restore/rebuild from scratch, you could boot a > CD

Re: Backing up my system

2004-04-20 Thread Stephen Liu
quot;OR", as in "you can use > dump or tar for backup, and restore or tar for > rebuilding" Hi Kevin, Tks for your advice. I seldomly use 'dump' command, mostly 'tar' What will be 'dump vs tar' ?. Their pros and cons. TIA B.R. Stephen ==

How to config CDRom to read udf files

2004-04-23 Thread Stephen Liu
/dev/acd0 /usr/home/user/cdrom mount: /dev/acd0: Permission denied All failed. $ kldstat -v | grep udf 10 1 0xc43e7000 6000 udf.ko 333 udf $ ls /boot/kernel/ | grep udf udf.ko udf_iconv.ko the module seems there. Kindly advise how to fix it. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu

Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-24 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.2 I encountered following problem on installing OOo OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz was download to /usr/home/user/Download $ cd /usr/home/user/Download/ checked md5 OK $ ls -al ... -rw-r--r-- 1 user wheel 73105915 Apr 17 18:11 OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_inst

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-24 Thread Stephen Liu
the file. Hi Terry, Tks for your advice. I have done installing OOo from tarball on Linux many times. I just tried FreeBSD way following the instruction (see attached file) and came to problem. B.R. Stephen = Best Regards Stephen Liu ___

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-24 Thread Stephen Liu
--- Nico Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > > $ su - > > password > > You are in "/root" now. If you use "su" instead of > "su -", you will stay > in the current directory. > > > > > # pkg_add OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz > > pkg_add: can't stat package file > > 'OOo_1.1.1

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-24 Thread Stephen Liu
> [2004-04-24 08:32]: > > On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 08:27:28PM +0800, Stephen > Liu wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > FreeBSD 5.2 > > > > > > I encountered following problem on installing > OOo > > > > > > OOo_1.1.

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Liu
- snip - > > > see what's > > > happening, and install the darned thing. > > > > # pkg_add OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz > > pkg_add: could not find package ORBit-0.5.17_2 ! > > > > Now another problem comes on installing > RRBit-0.5.17_2 > > as follow; > > > > # cd /usr/ports/ > > #

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Liu
- snip - > > No. It's a package, and it's *not* a tgz file. > > Errr... folks -- packages *are* .tgz files. Except > under 5.x where > they are .tbz files. They could just as well be > .zip files, or some > sort of compressed cpio format like .rpms or Solaris > packages. It's > just a mechani

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Matthew, Tks for your advice. > > Can I use 'zxvf' to untar the packages and do > 'setup' > > to install OOo, the normal way not FreeBSD way? > > No -- in this case the files being referred to are > in fact FreeBSD > pkg's. You can certainly extract the contents using > 'tar -zxvf', but >

ICQ question

2004-05-13 Thread Stephen Liu
hn.com/sec/kxicq.html can the tarballs there works for FreeBSD TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk ___ [EMAIL

Re: ICQ question

2004-05-13 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Nelis, > > Has any folk run 'Kxicq' on FreeBSD before. Can I > > talk to my friend if he runs MSN on Windows? If > NO > > kindly advise what will be the solution. > > you may want to try Gaim > http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ for MSN support > and others. > > /usr/ports/net/gaim Hi Nelis, Fr

Re: First time running cvsup

2004-05-11 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Ion, Tks for your advice. Freebsd5.2 - snip - > I use 3 cvsup files: one fot the ports, one for the > docs and one for the > system (src). This way I can update ports and docs > more often and be > sure the system had known-to-be-working sources (I'm > on -CURRENT). Noted with tks

First time running cvsup

2004-05-10 Thread Stephen Liu
upfile src-all doc-all ('release=cvs' ???) cvs-all ('release=cvs' ???) cvsroot-all ('release=cvs' ???) ports-all ('release=cvs' ???) . then # cvsup supfile Is it necessary to run following trial test ??? # mkdir /var/tmp/dest # cvsup supfile /v

Re: ICQ question

2004-05-13 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Phil, FreeBSD 5.2 === Tks for your advice. > > you may want to try Gaim > http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ for MSN support > > and others. > > Either install gabber (from ports/net) and find an > MSN transport on it, > or install ayttm (also from ports/net). # pkg_info | grep gabber # p

Installing linuxpluginwrapper

2004-05-10 Thread Stephen Liu
stfiles/ # ls -al | grep linuxpluginwrapper No printout. Kindly advise how to proceed. TIA B.R. satimis = Best Regards Stephen Liu ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.

Re: Starting Gnome problem

2004-05-02 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Uli, Tks for your response. > > Following warning popup; > > > > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Share object > "libORBit-2.so.0" > > not found > This one should be present in /usr/local/lib . > > But, as I have to admit, I am no gnome expert. Try > their mailing > list. I am quite sure your upgrade di

Re: Starting Gnome problem

2004-05-03 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Uli, > > $ gnome-session > > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Share object > > "libORBit-2.so.0" not found > My liORBit-2.so.0 is in /usr/local/lib . > You can try to search your directory tree for yours > and create a > symbolic link to this place: > # ln -s /whereIt/reallyIs/libORBit-2.so.0 > /u

Re: Starting Gnome problem

2004-05-03 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Joe, - snip - > > It is very strange. The file is already there, > plus > > one symbolic link > > > > # locate libORBit-2.so.0 > > /usr/local/lib/libORBit-2.so.0 > > > > # ls -al /usr/local/lib/ | grep -i libORBit-2.so.0 > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15 May 3 10:23 > > libORBit-2.so

Re: Starting Gnome problem

2004-05-03 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Joe, - snip - > > # ldconfig -r | head > > /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints: > > search directories: > /lib:/usr/lib:/usr/lib/compat:/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib/kde3 > > 0:-lcrypt.2 => /lib/libcrypt.so.2 > > 1:-lkvm.2 => /lib/libkvm.so.2 > > 2:-lm.2 => /

Which package generating libesd.so.2

2004-05-04 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, Starting GNOME on Konsole window, following warning popup $ gnome-session /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libesd.so.2" not found $ find / libesd.so.2 find: libesd.so.2: No such file or directory Kindly advise which package generates 'libesd.so.2' T

Re: Which package generating libesd.so.2

2004-05-04 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Christian, > > Starting GNOME on Konsole window, following > warning > > popup > > > > $ gnome-session > > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libesd.so.2" > not > > found > > > > $ find / libesd.so.2 > > find: libesd.so.2: No such file or directory > > > > Kindly advise which package generate

Command to display the complete picture of hard drive

2004-05-15 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.2 What command will be used to display the complete history of the hard drvice (other than fdisk) listing all partitions, their allocated space, used space, available space, date of creation, etc. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu

Re: Command to display the complete picture of hard drive

2004-05-15 Thread Stephen Liu
iused Mounted on /dev/ad4s1a 248M43M 185M19%1791 312315% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% 0 0 100% /dev ... Why the denotation of hard drive = /dev/ad4sla, not /dev/hda, etc. B.R. Stephen > On Saturday 15 May 2004 03:26 am, Stephen Liu wrote: &

Re: Command to display the complete picture of hard drive

2004-05-15 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi, Tks for your advice. - snip - > > Why the denotation of hard drive = /dev/ad4sla, > not > > /dev/hda, etc. > > Because afaik, /dev/hda is a Linuxism. The > /dev/ad2s1a convention has > been there long before Linux was even conceived of. I suppose '/dev/ad2sla' with the HD connected to the

Files burned on CDRW could not be copied on Liunx box

2004-05-15 Thread Stephen Liu
box I tried to mount the CDRW as root as well as user with the same result. Kindly advise is there any solution? Beside how to authorized 'user-A' to burn CD TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yah

How to allow 'User-A' to burn CD

2004-05-16 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, Which file shall I re-configure to authorize 'User-A' using 'burncd' to burn CD and how to edit it. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.

Creating ISO image question

2004-05-17 Thread Stephen Liu
nclude the complete tree starting from /document-AAA/subdirectories Kindly advise. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.ya

Re: How to allow 'User-A' to burn CD

2004-05-17 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Matthew, Tks for your advice. > > Which file shall I re-configure to authorize > 'User-A' > > using 'burncd' to burn CD and how to edit it. > > /usr/local/etc/sudoers would be a good file to use > to set up that sort > of thing. Noted with thanks I only expect to allow 'User-A', not all use

Re: Creating ISO image question

2004-05-17 Thread Stephen Liu
o have is after burning a folder named 'Storage-040517' found on the CD under which are directories and subdirectories. B.R. Stephen > > > On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 12:28, Stephen Liu wrote: > > HI folks, > > > > I tried to solve following questions on creating

Re: Creating ISO image question

2004-05-17 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Fernando, Tks for your advice. > > I tried to solve following questions on creating > ISO > > image with reference to 'man mkisofs' but could > not > > resolve; > > Take a look at /usr/share/examples/worm/makecdfs.sh > > It's a shell script the FreeBSD team uses for making > the FreeBSD ISOs

Re: Creating ISO image question

2004-05-17 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Fernando, - snip - > > But I could not discover the 'Readme' for > > 'makecdfs.sh' explaining how to use it and where > will > > this file be copied to. > > There isn't a readme for makecdfs.sh > Just run makecdfs.sh without arguments and it'll > show a help message. # makecdfs.sh makecdfs.s

How to mount and read cdimage before burning

2004-05-18 Thread Stephen Liu
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Re: How to mount and read cdimage before burning

2004-05-18 Thread Stephen Liu
gt; -f file] [-s size] [-S sectorsize] [-u unit] > > mdconfig -d -u unit > > mdconfig -l [-n] [-u unit] > > type = {malloc, preload, vnode, > swap} > > option = {cluster, compress, > reserve} > > size

Re: How to mount and read cdimage before burning

2004-05-18 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Warren, Tks for your advice. Although my problem has been solved with the assistance from folks on this list, I am interested to learn an alternative way, if any. - snip - /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html > > Isn't "loop" the compressed filesystem? In that >

Re: Creating ISO image question

2004-05-18 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Joe, Tks for your advice. - snip- > mkisofs -o cd_image.iso page> dir/ ? Applying following command lines 1) # mkisofs -o cdimage.raw -R /usr/home/user-A/document-AAA 2) # mkisofs -R -o cdimage.raw /usr/home/user-A/document-AAA 3) # mkisofs -o cdimage.raw -R -pathspec /usr/home/user-A/docu

Re: Creating ISO image question (PROBLEM SOLVED)

2004-05-19 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Malcolm, Tks for your advice. You understand my need completely. Problem is now solved as stated at the bottom of this posting. > I believe that in case 1) you want to see the > directory usr on the final CD containing > subdirectory home etc. > > And in instance 2) you want to see the

Correct steps to recompile kernel

2004-05-20 Thread Stephen Liu
ther steps needed to be taken thereafter? If I am wrong please correct me. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk

Re: Correct steps to recompile kernel

2004-05-20 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Bill, Tks for your advice. - snip - > > # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf > > # cp GENERIC GENERIC.bak > > # cp GENERIC MYKERNEL > > # ee MYKERNEL > > (modifying the kernel) > > This is good ... although making a backup of GENERIC > is > somewhat redundant. Noted with thanks. But in case of troub

Install IPFILTER question

2004-05-21 Thread Stephen Liu
to install IPFILTER and/or edit kernel option to enable it. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk ___ [EMAIL PROTECTE

Long filename question on burning CD

2004-05-21 Thread Stephen Liu
them changed to 8 character max, such as ~01, ~02, etc. Is there any solution on burning CD allowing the long filename (exceeding 8 characters) can be read clearly on Windows identical to their name read on Linux/Unix Kindly advise. TIA B.R. Stephe

Re: Creating ISO image question

2004-05-23 Thread Stephen Liu
still could not be created. B.R. Stephen > On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 15:19, arden wrote: > > im guessing this is what you mean ? > > > > mkisofs -r -J -o cd_image.iso dir/ > > > > arden > > > > > > On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 12:28, Stephen Liu wrote: &g

Problem after running portupgrade

2004-05-24 Thread Stephen Liu
nown yet. Kindly advise. 1) How to free space. The HD is of 40 G in size solely for FreeBSD 5.2 2) Where can I find 'portsclean' package 3) How to discover the cause of failure in starting Gnome 4) How to set fonts on Konsole window TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___

Re: Problem after running portupgrade

2004-05-25 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Chris, Tks for your advice. > Look into /var/log for a list of files like this > example: > > cron.0.bz2 maillog.1.bz2 > sendmail.st.0 > cron.1.bz2 maillog.2.bz2 > sendmail.st.1 > > Note the bz2 extensions and the files that have > digits at th

Re: Problem after running portupgrade

2004-05-25 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Remko, Tks for your advice. > It says to you that the var drive is full, the var > drive keeps logs etc > so pretty crucial that it has some space. Go to > /var/log and check which > files are a bit big and "rotate" them. You can do > that by entering > single user mode, mount the /var, go

Problem after running portupgrade (continue)

2004-05-26 Thread Stephen Liu
were created. Can I delete them all TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Seeking advice on 'ports-supfile'

2004-05-31 Thread Stephen Liu
. *default host=cvsup10.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup/ (or to set base=/usr) *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_2_1_RELEASE (or to set tag=. or tag=RELENG_5_2) *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all ports-all tag=. Any advice. TIA B

Re: Seeking advice on 'ports-supfile'

2004-06-01 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Adam, Tks for your advice. > > FreeBSD-5.2 > > > > I'm seeking for advice on 'ports-supfile' to run > > > > # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/ > > ports-supfile > > > > the second time as at the first time there were > some > > problems > > I don't quite use it this way. > > I use the three

How to exclude upgrading kde in running 'portupgrade'

2004-06-03 Thread Stephen Liu
-aRrv -x kde I don't know whether the '-x' tag will excluding upgrading kde otherwise the PC will run for several days. Any suggestion? TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk

Re: How to exclude upgrading kde in running 'portupgrade'

2004-06-03 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Lowell, Tks for your advice. > > # portupgrade -aRrv -x kde > > > > I don't know whether the '-x' tag will excluding > > upgrading kde otherwise the PC will run for > > several days. > > That should work. If you want to see for sure > before starting, use > the "-n" option -- that's exactly

Problem about ports command

2004-06-04 Thread Stephen Liu
-f portupgrade* pkg_delete: No match. # pkg_info | grep portupgrade portupgrade-20030723 FreeBSD ports/packages administration and management tool s It is also there. Is there a device locking all ports commands. Kindly advise how to proceed. TIA B

Re: How to make a screenshot?

2004-06-05 Thread Stephen Liu
an > readable format: > >vidcontrol -P < /dev/ttyv3 On KDE desktop Konsole window # vidcontrol -P < /dev/ttyv3 no graphic image displayed (tried both -P and -p) Besides I have to 'su' to use 'vidcontrol' B.R. Stephen Liu > The .scr images can

cvsup vs portupgrade

2004-06-06 Thread Stephen Liu
round Kindly advise. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu = Best Regards Stephen Liu ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk ___ [EMAIL

Re: cvsup vs portupgrade

2004-06-07 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Remko, Tks for your advice. - snip - > > 2) If having run > > > > # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/ports-supfile > > # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/stable-supfile > > > > Whether I still need to run > > > > # portupgrade -aRr > > Yes you can do this, since cvsup retrieve's the > latest so

Re: cvsup vs portupgrade

2004-06-07 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Viktor, Tks for your advice. - snip - > > # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/ports-supfile > > # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/stable-supfile > > > > Whether I still need to run > > > > # portupgrade -aRr > > > > 3) If NO to 2) above > > When shall I need to run > > # portupgrade -aRr > > > > 4)

Re: Wisdom of automating upgrades

2004-06-08 Thread Stephen Liu
best > value I can for clients > > and at the moment I have to charge for my time > whenever an upgrade is > > necessary. > > > You may want to have a look at freebsd-update. Its a > binary updater, > Client/Server config, the server code and info on > what it is,

Re: Wisdom of automating upgrades

2004-06-08 Thread Stephen Liu
HI Luke, Thanks for your advice. > > Is there a way updating all installed ports > > automatically wheneven the server/workstation is > > booted and connected to Internet, similar to ntp > > synchronizing the clock. > > > in theory it should be possible to write a script > that runs portupgrade

Command to combine several files as a single file, etc.

2004-06-09 Thread Stephen Liu
ran Windows, I used 'PaperPort', 'PageKeeper','Omnipage, etc. to do the abovementioned job. Are there similar applications on Open Source for FreeBSD/Unix/Linux worlds. TIA. B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Do You Yahoo!

Re: Command to combine several files as a single file, etc.

2004-06-10 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Parv, FreeBSD 5.2 Tks for your advice. - snip - > Do you want to collect a number of files in various > formats in one > file to be able to extract any file from the > resulting collection? > > Or, do you want to collect information contained in > different files > in one single file in on

Re: Command to combine several files as a single file, etc.

2004-06-10 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Bill, Tks for your advice. Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) Saving webpages from website as following files > > > > Page-1.pdf > > Page-2.pdf > > Page-3.pdf > > Page-4.pdf > > and so on > > There are a couple of differ

Problem in running htmldoc

2004-06-10 Thread Stephen Liu
3 too wide - truncation or overlapping may occur! ERR014: Image on page 3 too large - truncation or overlapping may occur! PAGES: 3 ERR012: Unable to open output file - No such file or directory It failed. There is no mailing list/discussion forum on http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/ Any advice? TIA B.R. S

How to switching between INIT 3 and INIT 5

2004-02-23 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, 5.2 == Kindly advise the key combination switching between INIT 3 and INIT 5 Ctrl + Alt + F2 = INIT 3/Text mode (works) Ctrl + Alt + F7 = INIT 5/Graphic mode (does not work) and the method switching to multi-user-mode from single-user-mode instead of rebooting PC TIA B.R. Stephen

Re: KDE startup slowly on "initializing system service"

2004-02-23 Thread Stephen Liu
advise how to fix the problem TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: How to switching between INIT 3 and INIT 5

2004-02-24 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Dan, FreeBSD does not have "init" levels. You've got off, single-user, and multi-user. Noted with thanks and the method switching to multi-user-mode from single-user-mode instead of rebooting PC Exit the single-user shell, and the system will bring itself to multi-user mode automatic

Re: How to switching between INIT 3 and INIT 5

2004-02-24 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Matt, - snip - FreeBSD does not have "init" levels. You've got off, single-user, and multi-user. As Dan said, FreeBSD does not have init levels but you can switch to a text console from X-windows Ctrl + Alt + F[1-8] will all take you to a login prompt, Ctrl + Alt + F9 will take you bac

Re: Fail to start KDE

2004-02-24 Thread Stephen Liu
- snip - 2) After starting 3 'Xterm windows' I can start KDE 3.1 from any one of the 'Xterm window' with; # startkde It worked with KDE started. 3) On INIT 3/text mode I can login either as 'root' or as 'user' with correct password without problem I haven't used xdm in ttys for a long t

KDE 3.1 start up too slow

2004-02-24 Thread Stephen Liu
after installation (from CD1) completed it worked perfectly. IIRC, only after playing around to configure network card, ppp, etc. which are still not completed yet, KDE startup became terrible slow. Kindly advise. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ [EMAIL

Re: KDE startup slowly on "initializing system service"

2004-02-24 Thread Stephen Liu
0% of the processor. I restarted KDE and kinit's usage dropped to ~1%. Drew On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 01:49, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Teodor, FreeBSD 5.2 I encounter the same problem. KDE starts very slow, first popup desktop icrons, bottom tool-bar, welcome screen, etc., one by

Re: obsolete files?

2004-02-24 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi jsha, so what, freebsd from scratch is the only way to avoid this? Where can I find information on 'freebsd from scratch'. Pointers would be appreciated. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu and how come make/install world is made like that? shouldn't the developers try to avoid thi

Re: KDE startup slowly on "initializing system service"

2004-02-24 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Andrew, 5.2 == The network changes might not releated to the issues w/ KDE. I would first verify that no other program is trashing your resources. I suspect whether 'vi editor' having problem because each time when I boot the PC, the screen pauses on;- ... Recovering vi editor sessions:

Re: KDE startup slowly on "initializing system service"

2004-02-24 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Jerry, I suspect whether 'vi editor' having problem because each time when I boot the PC, the screen pauses on;- What has happened in this case is that you [or someone has] have left some vi session[s] open when either a connection was ended or the system was taken down. It tries to re

Re: Fail to start KDE

2004-02-24 Thread Stephen Liu
- snip - /usr/local/etc/rc.d is a directory. Whether you recommend to create a file with only a single line :- 'Kdm &' (without quote) on it and save it to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ Shall I 'chmod 775' the file created? Files in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ directory have an extension '.h'. Sha

Re: KDE startup slowly on "initializing system service" (SOLVED)

2004-02-24 Thread Stephen Liu
04-02-24 at 01:49, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Teodor, FreeBSD 5.2 I encounter the same problem. KDE starts very slow, first popup desktop icrons, bottom tool-bar, welcome screen, etc., one by one taking prolonged time. Starting K package from desktop also takes lengthy time to

Re: Connecting ISP problem

2004-02-25 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi JJB, Thanks for your advice. Still can't connect ISP. start of DSL ppp.conf ### default: set log Phase tun #use to avoid excessive log sizes set timeout 0 # no idle time out, will not disconnect dialisp: set device PPPoE:rl0 # r

Re: Connecting ISP problem

2004-02-26 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi JJB, Tks for your advice. This is wrong. is not comment or commandremove it. You have all statements starting in position 1 this is wrong, section header names start in position 1 and end with : default: anddialisp: make ppp.conf look like this default: & dialisp: s

How to start KDE automatically at booting

2004-02-27 Thread Stephen Liu
- xinit /usr/local/bin/kdm and chmod 500 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/kguilogin.sh. On booting it only booted to multi-user mode. Kindly advise how to make KDE started automatically at booting TIA Stephen Liu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebs

Installing OpenOffice 1.1 question

2004-02-29 Thread Stephen Liu
its tarball to be downloaded from OO website. If from FBSD site, kindly advise how to make it. Pointer would be appreciated. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Mozilla and Mozilla Mail screen problem

2004-03-01 Thread Stephen Liu
BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor"Monitor0" ..... SubSection "Display" Depth 24 mo

SSH Problem

2004-03-01 Thread Stephen Liu
again. [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Permission denied, please try again. [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive). Kindly advise how to fix this problem TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ [EMAIL PRO

Is it a warning on video config

2004-03-01 Thread Stephen Liu
quot;Card0"         Monitor    "Monitor0"         .         SubSection "Display"                 Depth     24                 modes     "1024x768"         EndSubSection EndSection[/code] B.R. Stephen Liu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Installing OpenOffice 1.1 question

2004-03-01 Thread Stephen Liu
m does not provide much information. Is it 'gst-md5sum' same as 'md5sum' Kindly advise. TIA B.R. Stephen > -Original Message- > From: Stephen Liu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 10:12 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Ins

Re: Is it a warning on video config

2004-03-01 Thread Stephen Liu
B.R. Stephen > Kind regards, > > Remko Lodder > Elvandar.org/DSINet.org > www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the > hackerscene > > mrtg.grunn.org Dutch mirror of MRTG > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [

Re: SSH Problem

2004-03-01 Thread Stephen Liu
- snip - > > You say that this works as root, but your example seems to indicate > otherwise. By default, root logins via ssh is disabled in the sshd > config file, usually at /etc/ssh/sshd_config. If for some reason you > want to allow root logins via ssh then uncomment the following line and >

Start GNOME question

2004-03-01 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all folks, How to add GNOME to GUI login allowing seletion of desktop. KDE and failsafe can be started from there. /etc/ttys .. ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure .. Kindly advise. TIA B.R. S

Md5sum

2004-03-01 Thread Stephen Liu
to md5sum. From 'man gst-md5sum' it seems a program to generate sum but how to checksum. Kindly advise. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: SSH Problem

2004-03-01 Thread Stephen Liu
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 01:27, HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER wrote: > > This arrangement is only to facilitate Administor's job. He operates > > outside contact as 'user' from there if necessary he can login as root > > doing maintenance. > > Granting the person root access is one thing. Allowing root log

How to remove a non-empty directory

2004-03-01 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all folks, Kindly advise where can I find the small program 'midnight commander' for FreeBSD. OR what command line shall be applied on FBSD to remove a non-empty directory together with its content TIA B.R. satimis ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

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