Re: write failed filesystem full on fresh install of 5.4

2005-05-15 Thread platanthera
On Saturday 14 May 2005 23:30, Ross Adams Lippert wrote: > I'm sorry I was not more specific. > > /var has 256MB > /tmp has 256 > / has 256 > /usr has 4500MB > newfs had been run on everything. > > ftp was passive. > > Since base is about 46MB of material, it seems it could put it > anywhere. > > T

Re: Updating newly installed FreeBSD-5.2.1

2004-07-04 Thread platanthera
On Sunday 04 July 2004 14:53, Stacey Roberts wrote: > Hello Louis, > Thanks for the response. > > - Original Message - > From: "Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" > To: To [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sun, 04 Jul, 2004 13:40 BST > Subject: Re: Updating newly installed FreeBSD-5.2.1 > > >

Re: Updating newly installed FreeBSD-5.2.1

2004-07-04 Thread platanthera
On Sunday 04 July 2004 14:26, Stacey Roberts wrote: > Hello, > Forgive the simple question here, please. > > I've just installed FreeBSD-5.2.1 from BSDMall's CD-Set, and I wanted > to do what I'd usually do with a new installation of FreeBSD-4.x, > which is to update it to the latest "stable"

Re: mc and kde 3.2

2004-06-28 Thread platanthera
On Monday 28 June 2004 02:55, Javier Ramirez wrote: > Hi > I have a question, > why freebsd 5.2.1 don't have mc ? > and how adapt kde 3.2 to my freebsd 5.2.1 ? > > regards > Javier Ramirez hi Javier, mc and kde3 are in the ports collection. see chapter 4 of the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/d

Re: voodoo 2

2004-06-28 Thread platanthera
On Saturday 26 June 2004 20:34, arden wrote: > hi all > > I've been trying to re-use some old pcs i have kicking around i > really amazed at how much you can do with a k6/2 400 if you tweak it > right > > > one of these pcs has an 16 meg voodoo 2 card is it possible to use > the 3d functions of thi

Re: [solved] silky doesn't start -- mime.types missing

2004-06-01 Thread platanthera
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silky doesn't start -- mime.types missing

2004-06-01 Thread platanthera
Hello. Just built/installed silky-0.5.1 on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 box - without any problems. But to run it, I apparently need a "mime.types" file which is currently missing. - How can I get it? Thanks a lot in advance -- > silky -d main.c:442, main(): Debug turned on support.c:1465, silky_create_s

Re: make depend error

2004-06-01 Thread platanthera
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 04:39, john huss wrote: > Hello, > > Can any of you kind teeps help me out please? I'm trying to compile my > FreeBSD 4.9 kernel for the first time and am having problems. > > I am recompiling for several reasons; to learn about compiling the > kernel; to get sound support f

Re: FreeBSD

2004-05-26 Thread platanthera
On Wednesday 26 May 2004 17:24, Fox wrote: > Здравствуйте! добро пожаловать. > Я вот недавно купил установочный диск с FreeBSD 5.2, и не смог его > поставить.Напишите мне пожалуйста документацию по пошаговой установке > FreeBSD 5.2. > > Заранее спасибо! My Russian is quite poor, but if I did und

Re: home on a gbde encrypted partion

2004-05-22 Thread platanthera
On Sunday 23 May 2004 01:56, Robert Storey wrote: > On Sat, 22 May 2004 12:54:29 +0200 > > platanthera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 21 May 2004 17:49, platanthera wrote: > > > hi all, > > > > > > I want to move my home directory to a gbd

Re: home on a gbde encrypted partion

2004-05-22 Thread platanthera
On Friday 21 May 2004 17:49, platanthera wrote: > hi all, > > I want to move my home directory to a gbde encrypted partition. > I plan to have only the default dotfiles in /home/xxx (before > mounting the encrypted partition), log in as usual, attach and fsck > the encrypted part

home on a gbde encrypted partion

2004-05-21 Thread platanthera
hi all, I want to move my home directory to a gbde encrypted partition. I plan to have only the default dotfiles in /home/xxx (before mounting the encrypted partition), log in as usual, attach and fsck the encrypted partion and then mount it 'over' /home/xxx. Is there anything wrong with this a

Re: cron can't find root or operator

2004-05-20 Thread platanthera
On Thursday 20 May 2004 22:57, carvin5string wrote: > --- Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You've got a user's crontab created in the format of the system > > crontab. > > > > The system crontab has an extra field to designate the user under > > which > > the job should run. When this fie

Re: Correct steps to recompile kernel

2004-05-20 Thread platanthera
On Thursday 20 May 2004 18:39, Stephen Liu wrote: > 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 GEN

Re: cron can't find root or operator

2004-05-20 Thread platanthera
On Thursday 20 May 2004 17:47, Bill Moran wrote: > carvin5string wrote: > > I have a new server set up and running and am getting a slew of > > messages from cron, like this - > > > > Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> root /usr/libexec/atrun > > Body: root: not found > > > > and > > > > Cron <[EMAI

Re: Is There Any Professional To Help Me!

2004-05-19 Thread platanthera
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 12:37, mehrdad nosrati wrote: > Dear All, > > I've a FreeBSD 3.4 Release.My cronttab file is like: > > > > # /etc/crontab - root's crontab for FreeBSD > # > # $FreeBSD: src/etc/crontab,v 1.18.2.2 1999/08/29 > 14:18:39 peter Exp $ > # > SHELL=/bin/sh > PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/

Re: ls(1) crashes

2004-05-18 Thread platanthera
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 14:26, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 12:25:09AM +0200, platanthera wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 May 2004 00:05, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > In the last episode (May 18), platanthera said: > > > > ls(1) crashed (exited on signal

Re: ls(1) crashes

2004-05-17 Thread platanthera
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 00:05, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (May 18), platanthera said: > > ls(1) crashed (exited on signal 10) for the second time within a > > few days today. Could you please have a look at the core file and > > tell me what's going on? Or eve

ls(1) crashes

2004-05-17 Thread platanthera
hi. ls(1) crashed (exited on signal 10) for the second time within a few days today. Could you please have a look at the core file and tell me what's going on? Or even better yet - point me to a beginners guide on how to interpret core files thanks a lot ___

Re: Help with editing partition tables

2004-05-17 Thread platanthera
On Monday 17 May 2004 17:07, Robert Huff wrote: > platanthera writes: > > you could (and definitely should) have a separate slice for /tmp > > and eventually another one for /home too. > > May I ask your logic here? Is this about safety, convenience, > overcrowd

Re: Help with editing partition tables

2004-05-17 Thread platanthera
On Monday 17 May 2004 14:41, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 01:21:44PM +0200, platanthera typed: > > On Monday 17 May 2004 06:17, Phil Thomson wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I am a relative newbie to UNIX, going from being an ex-Windows &

Re: Help with editing partition tables

2004-05-17 Thread platanthera
On Monday 17 May 2004 06:17, Phil Thomson wrote: > Hi all, > > I am a relative newbie to UNIX, going from being an ex-Windows user > to being an X Windows user! ;-) I recently got FreeBSD installed on > an older PC with a 3 GB drive and a 5 GB drive (which has not yet > been mounted). The system is

where has /etc/defaults/make.conf gone? [was: COPTFLAGS...]

2004-05-16 Thread platanthera
On Saturday 15 May 2004 03:31, Chuck Swiger wrote: > platanthera wrote: > > On Friday 14 May 2004 00:03, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > [ ... ] > > >> Yes, you do. But I'm sure that you will find the make.conf(5) > >> manpage very informative and useful. &g

Re: Display installed port dependencies

2004-05-15 Thread platanthera
On Saturday 15 May 2004 03:44, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a simple way to display a list of all installed packages > that depend on another given installed package? pkg_info -R foo will list all currently installed packages that depend on foo regards ___

Re: COPTFLAGS (not?) only for compiling the kernel?

2004-05-14 Thread platanthera
On Friday 14 May 2004 00:03, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2004-05-13 23:29, platanthera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [/etc/make.conf] > > ... > > # To compile just the kernel with special optimizations, you should > > use # this instead of CFLAGS (which is no

Re: Problems running "startx" on FreeBSD 5.2.1

2004-05-14 Thread platanthera
On Friday 14 May 2004 07:18, Sanjay Chadda wrote: > Folks, > I have a Dell 2400 series desktop with Pentium4 processeor. I am not > sure what graphics card I have. I looked at the Dell site and it > seems these models have the integrated chipset 82845G on them. So > while configuring Xserver, I gav

Re: COPTFLAGS (not?) only for compiling the kernel?

2004-05-13 Thread platanthera
On Friday 14 May 2004 01:41, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 01:39:34AM +0200, platanthera wrote: > > On Friday 14 May 2004 01:09, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 01:12:41AM +0200, platanthera wrote: > > > > On Friday 14 May 2

Re: COPTFLAGS (not?) only for compiling the kernel?

2004-05-13 Thread platanthera
On Friday 14 May 2004 01:09, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 01:12:41AM +0200, platanthera wrote: > > On Friday 14 May 2004 00:48, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:29:07PM +0200, platanthera wrote: > > > > [/etc/make.conf] > &g

Re: COPTFLAGS (not?) only for compiling the kernel?

2004-05-13 Thread platanthera
On Friday 14 May 2004 00:48, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:29:07PM +0200, platanthera wrote: > > [/etc/make.conf] > > ... > > # To compile just the kernel with special optimizations, you should > > use # this instead of CFLAGS (which is not appl

Re: Do not know how to build a device In Freebsd 5.2.1

2004-05-13 Thread platanthera
On Thursday 13 May 2004 22:28, Abbas Karbassian wrote: > Dear All; > > I have managed to install FreeBsd5.2.1. I have a TV > card which is working under FreeBsd 4X without any > problem. > > I tried to build the bktr device under FreeBsd5.2.1, > and when I used MAKEDEV bktr, I go the message > disp

COPTFLAGS (not?) only for compiling the kernel?

2004-05-13 Thread platanthera
[/etc/make.conf] ... # To compile just the kernel with special optimizations, you should use # this instead of CFLAGS (which is not applicable to kernel builds anyway). # There is very little to gain by using higher optimization levels, and doing # so can cause problems. # COPTFLAGS= [whatever] ...

Re: Creating periodic cron jobs

2004-05-13 Thread platanthera
On Thursday 13 May 2004 17:51, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > I am trying to create a quarter-daily cron job on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 as > follows in /etc/crontab: > > 05 0,6,12,18 * * * root periodic quarter-daily > > I created the /etc/periodic/quarter-daily directory and placed my scrip

Re: sys messages on X desktop

2004-05-12 Thread platanthera
On Wednesday 12 May 2004 20:00, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > On Wed, 12 May 2004 19:47:47 +0200 > > Martin Vana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I saw a screenshot and there was console running with sysmessages, > > how can I run such a console? > > thanx > > simple version (as root): > # tail -f

Re: uninstalling base packages

2004-05-12 Thread platanthera
On Wednesday 12 May 2004 17:04, Chris Ochs wrote: > I want to uninstall the heimdal kerberos that comes in the base freebsd > install. How do you delete software packages that are in the base install > and that I didn't install manually with the package system? > > Chris > You could adjust /etc/

strange system behavevior

2004-05-12 Thread platanthera
Sorry for not choosing a more specific subject line, I've got no idea what's going on with my system. Please help me to find out. My problems started a few days ago when I updated security/cfs to version 1.4.1_1. After doing that, clear text access to encrypted directories was no longer possib

Re: Out of curiousity: Who am I mailing to?

2004-05-12 Thread platanthera
On Wednesday 12 May 2004 06:42, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > Sir, ... > I'm just wondrin' who exactly am I mailing to? ... Not exclusively to male individuals. Please try not to make anyone feel you're not interested in their opinion because of their gender. thanks __