corrupt package info.

2004-09-15 Thread clayton rollins
Hi all, During a recent portupgrade, I got a hard crash of some sort... (I was out of the room, and the machine was sounding an alarm when I came back.) At any rate, portupgrade was probably altering the package database at the time of the crash, as I now get this error: pkg_info: the package info

Retrieving audio from memory

2004-09-05 Thread clayton rollins
OK, funny one. I accidentally deleted a media file... However, I did have the file opened in kaboodle. The file appears to be intact in memory; I can listen to it from start to finish. Kaboodle, unfortunately, doesn't have any save feature, so that's out. I'm wondering if there is some way I could

[from newbies]: SSH port forwarding and Webmin

2004-07-12 Thread clayton rollins
On July 12, 2004, Eddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have webmin installed on a brand new installation of FreeBSD 5.2.1. I tunnel port 1 to my localhost and connect to wemin like this: http://127.0.0.1:1 I always connect to webmin this way, with all *nix machines I admin. This does not

[from newbies] RE: Command path

2004-06-29 Thread clayton rollins
Hi, On June 29, 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any reason why I can't directly run sysinstall when I am already currently in the /stand directory? The only way I can execute it is to enter /stand/sysinstall Is there a path configuration I can edit to get FreeBSD to search the current

[from newbies] RE: IPFW2 + 4.10

2004-06-27 Thread clayton rollins
On June 28, 2004, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello freebsd-newbies, I am still fairly new at the BSD level, migrated from linux. The question that I have is, is Version 4.10 kernel compiled with IPFW2, I know the doc's say that CURRENT version has and that it was implemented in 2002,

[from newbies] portupgrade -a

2004-06-07 Thread clayton rollins
On June 6, 2004, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, After running portsdb -Uu I ran a portupgrade -a. Other than taking two days to finish is there a reason why upgrading ALL ports at one time is a bad idea? one other thing. I got hundreds of _POSIX_C_SOURCE: not defined errors. I am

[from newbies]: XP + FreeBSD

2004-06-07 Thread clayton rollins
On June 6, 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This has probably been answered before, but I was unable to find explicit confirmation. The installation guide (2.5.3) states that You now have the option to install a boot manager. In general, you should choose to install the FreeBSD boot manager if:

Re: FreeBSD-newbies group is a compromise community.

2004-03-25 Thread clayton rollins
Hi Randy, On March 24, 2004, Randy Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:36:11 + Clayton Rollins wrote: Hi List, Hi Clayton, Please don't take my comments as any personal affrontation since I have quite different views. No worries. :) Sorry, the thread has become so

Re: FreeBSD-newbies group is a compromise community.

2004-03-25 Thread clayton rollins
Sorry, sorry, sorry. Wrong list. _ Check out MSN PC Safety Security to help ensure your PC is protected and safe. http://specials.msn.com/msn/security.asp ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

porting julian time lib.; fortran errors

2004-03-15 Thread clayton rollins
Hi List, I'm having some trouble getting some third-party software to compile on freebsd, and was hoping some fortran buff out there had time to enlighten me. (I know no fortran.) The specific software is the PDS Rings Node's Julian Library, version 1.3.2. overview:

ar, nm not reading library files (libz, etc.)

2004-02-27 Thread clayton rollins
the issue. Any ideas? Regards, Clayton Rollins PS. please be sure to CC me, as I only receive the list in digest form. _ Say “good-bye” to spam, viruses and pop-ups with MSN Premium -- free trial offer! http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go

Re: ar, nm not reading library files (libz, etc.)

2004-02-27 Thread clayton rollins
On Feb. 27, 2004 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 03:29:34AM +, clayton rollins wrote: Hi List, I've been having problems with ar and nm not being able to use the library files installed on my system, though executables created with them seem to work fine

Re: asking for help

2004-01-31 Thread clayton rollins
Hi Bogdan, On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 07:46:47 -0800 (PST) faina bogdan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, my name is Bogdan Faina and I wote you a couple oof times regarding to the HDF5 instalation. I read the notes abot this matter and I tried to install first only the precompiled binaries for

Re: gtk-gnutella-0.93.2 crashing frequently..

2004-01-11 Thread clayton rollins
will not even connect to you. (Their existence is considered harmful to the network.) I don't want to scold you or anything, but that is a common thought that, really, *must* end. Regards, Clayton Rollins PS. sorry for taking some time to respond. I only get this list in digest form, so didn't see your post

Fwd: newbee help on freebsd email server setup

2003-11-19 Thread clayton rollins
This belongs on -questions; forwarding there. (To Dennis: you don't need to worry about registering to -questions, as you should be CC'ed any replies. You might want to read the style guide here: http://www.lemis.com/email.html and the general guide here: http://www.lemis.com/questions.html .)

problems with libc_r, icu, and gtk-gnutella

2003-10-16 Thread clayton rollins
First off, I'm somewhat of a newbie; sorry if this is daft... I have been trying to get gtk-gnutella cvs to compile with some new (internationalization) functions, using ICU. Neither of the versions currently in ports (devel/icu devel/icu2) work; version 2.6.1 passes configure tests for gtk-g,

Re: Best way to add serial ports to STABLE machine?

2003-07-30 Thread clayton rollins
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a bunch of what I call 2nd generation HP Vectras that I'm redeploying for an application that gets input for Serial RS-232 devices. At the moment the most input devices any 1 computer has to deal with is 2, and I thought I would be in

Re: I hate meeses to pieces

2003-07-18 Thread clayton rollins
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 00:34:12 -0600 Daryl Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am an extreme newbie at FreeBSD. I have it installed but when I go into the Xserver in either of the two GUIs I get a weird mouse that seems to only be able to stay on the very top of the screen and has no vertical

Re: Kernel compile error (from newbies)

2003-07-05 Thread clayton rollins
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 Mihail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, While building a custom kernel make failed with this error: cc -c -O -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions

Re: wine/freebsd/kazaa.. (fwd)

2003-06-12 Thread clayton rollins
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 18:51:40 -0400 (EDT) Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nobody knows? I asked the wine-users list twice and nobody there answered either. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 20:18:55 -0400 (EDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: wine/freebsd/kazaa.. (fwd)

Re: mplayer

2003-06-10 Thread clayton rollins
On 10 Jun 2003 14:10:40 Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 13:39, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I thought I'd install the mplayer port plus the mplayer-skins and have fun playing my DivX or Quicktime movies. ** wrong ** Running a GENERICS kernel mplayer complains about having to

Re: Changing to a PS/2 keyboard after install

2003-06-09 Thread clayton rollins
On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 12:26:39 Gary Schenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed FreeBSD on this machine which came with a USB keyboard and mouse. The keyboard has problems, and for various reasons, I'd like to replace it with a PS/2 keyboard. Only problem is I can't figure out how to do it. Getting

Re: FreeBSD and Windows XP

2003-06-01 Thread clayton rollins
On Sat, 31 May 2003 23:48:55 +0930 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I feel bad about not finding this answer myself as I know how to do it with Win XP. My searching skills seem to be rusty. Question: How do I get my new Win XP box to talk to me FreeBSD Server? When I try to map a drive I get : The

Re: !!X and Securelevel!!

2003-05-31 Thread clayton rollins
On Thu, 29 May 2003 20:02:05 Alejandro N??ez Sandoval[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Hi, I am tring to run my kdm in securelevel=2, put it is not working, when i try with /etc/ttys the x not open, when i try with rc.local, the X open but the console is block. I read about aperture in netbsd, is

Fw: Installing on a IBM PC320 Server (from -newbies)

2003-05-29 Thread clayton rollins
On Wed, 28 May 2003 David Nicholas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an old IBM PC320 Server with the following hardware (use to have Microsoft SBS 4.5 installed before I tried to install FreeBSD): 128MB RAM 2 (4.5GB) Quantum Viking WSE SCSI hard drives, one is SCSI ID#0 and the other SCSI ID#1

Re: ati rage 128 and X

2003-03-29 Thread clayton rollins
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 14:08:09 -0600 kitsune [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: To: adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:46:14 -0800 (PST) adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I have a

Re: running X from windows pc

2003-03-28 Thread clayton rollins
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 16:38:32 -0600 Chad Albert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Subject: Re: [notspam] Re: Running X from a windows PC To: freebsd-questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I believe there is an X server available in

Fwd: distfiles and ftp

2002-11-03 Thread clayton rollins
In the course of running BSD, I have accumulated a number of ports/distfiles. I also have a public ftp which I have made these available on, and I was wondering if there was any system for reporting a possible source for other users who need these files. Also, I was wondering what everyone