From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun May 27 0:15: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A649937B424 for ; Sun, 27 May 2001 00:15:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chip@wiegand.org) Received: from chip.wiegand.org [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.05) id ABE6B900110; Sun, 27 May 2001 00:25:26 -0700 Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 00:19:52 -0700 From: Chip Wiegand To: jcouch@netdoor.com Cc: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Introductory Book on FreeBSD: More Chapters Message-Id: <20010527001952.748908c7.chip@wiegand.org> In-Reply-To: <01052621394300.14177@katana.amberskogg.dns2go.com> References: <01052621394300.14177@katana.amberskogg.dns2go.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.4.63 (GTK+ 1.2.8; i386--freebsd4.2) Organization: wiegand.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It appears Jim Couch , on Sat, 26 May 2001 21:39:43 -0500 wrote something like: > What were you using to read it ? the pdf reader that I have is unable to > open > them??? > Jim I had no problem with opening the chapters. I have the regular version of acrobat reader that is in the FreeBSD ports system installed. Using Netscape, they just opened when clicking on them, the way they should. -- Chip > On Saturday 26 May 2001 09:09 pm, Annelise Anderson wrote: > > I now have chapters through 17 on my anon ftp site. > > > > What's left to do is mainly miscellaneous--other sources > > of information, handling crises, etc. > > > > The introduction has been relabelled Chap00 for convenience. > > > > Revisions of chapters that were there before are mainly > > corrections of typos and a little more formatting, nothing > > substantive. I've also fixed some stuff that prevented the > > pdf documents from printing. > > > > I want to thank those of you on this list and others who have > > taken the time to read this and send corrections. Bruce Harding and > > others. > > > > Annelise > > ps: url is > > ftp andrsn.stanford.edu > > log in as ftp > > send email as password > > cd /pub/introbook To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun May 27 3:11:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mailc.telia.com (mailc.telia.com [194.22.190.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD2AF37B422 for ; Sun, 27 May 2001 03:11:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fredrik@speechcraft.com) Received: from d1o74.telia.com (d1o74.telia.com [62.20.224.241]) by mailc.telia.com (8.11.2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f4RABrM23874; Sun, 27 May 2001 12:11:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from molly.telia.com (t1o74p88.telia.com [62.20.224.88]) by d1o74.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA05297; Sun, 27 May 2001 12:11:52 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 12:12:14 +0000 (/etc/localtime) From: Fredrik Olausson X-Sender: fredrik@molly.telia.com To: Stuart Duckworth Cc: Dragon Singer , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hello, In-Reply-To: <057615312231a51PCOW029M@blueyonder.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 27 May 2001, Stuart Duckworth wrote: > On 25 May 01, at 17:23, Dragon Singer wrote: > > > I'm really new to FreeBSD, so new in fact that I haven't had the courage > > to try and install it yet. > > I tried installing Linux after several successfull FreeBSD installs. I > found FreeBSD easier and safer to install. The Linux distribution I > tried was RedHat and despite me clearly not wanting it to write to > my primary drive, it did so anyway and trashed the partition table. I > shall stick with FreeBSD in future. RedHat is difficult, since it tries to be so simple :) I use Slackware a lot on my laptop systems since I haven't been able to get FreeBSD to install on any of them due to PCMCIA NICs and cdroms. Slackware is a great distribution if you know what you're doing. While it isn't as good as FreeBSD (in my opinion) it certainly is miles better than, for example, RedHat and SuSE. -Fredrik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun May 27 7:43:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.18.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 352A737B423 for ; Sun, 27 May 2001 07:43:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Received: from moritz.alleswirdgelber (ascend-tk-p107.dialin.uni-bonn.de [131.220.244.107]) by f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA652930; Sun, 27 May 2001 16:43:13 +0200 Received: from localhost (uzs106@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moritz.alleswirdgelber (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA01180; Sun, 27 May 2001 16:03:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 16:03:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Heiko Recktenwald X-Sender: uzs106@moritz.alleswirdgelber To: Stuart Duckworth Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hello In-Reply-To: <0fa755016121a51PCOW024M@blueyonder.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > must be selective about ports. I want X and a window manager but > don't really want a desktop for now. Just stay with twm ! You must configure your twmrc somewhere, to get additional xterms in the mousemenu. And what you want. Maybe xcalc. I have vmac and gyroscope there. Most funky. H. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun May 27 8:39:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp4ve.mailsrvcs.net (smtp4vepub.gte.net [206.46.170.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 583B837B422 for ; Sun, 27 May 2001 08:39:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daniel.stehm@verizon.net) Received: from SILENTCHAOS (adsl-141-152-142-251.norfva.adsl.bellatlantic.net [141.152.142.251]) by smtp4ve.mailsrvcs.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA35457399 for ; Sun, 27 May 2001 16:01:22 GMT From: "Daniel Stehm" To: Subject: Off To Install FreeBSD! Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 11:35:34 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Just wanted to give a holler to everyone on the list and say hey. I purchased the FreeBSD PowerPak 4.2 from CompUSA yesterday (Yes, I know... Ive heard people holler at me you can download it for free, but cant beat it, get The Complete FreeBSD book, the toolkit, extra packages... plus, I like buying all my Unix/Linux distros, as it contributes to the makers) and Im just getting prepared to install FBSD now. Im going to be dual booting with Win2k (Win2k runs all my windows games, thats all its for). Looking forward to trying out FBSD and installing it, Ive used quite a few Linux distros, and Linux is pretty cool, its just soo many distros are different, there needs to be a set standard, not to mention all the packages it installs that you probably will never use. Just wanted to let you guys know you have another FBSD user among you :) Off to install, will keep you guys posted on how it went if ya want. Thanks. -Daniel Stehm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun May 27 16:12:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow024o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 921A037B423 for ; Sun, 27 May 2001 16:12:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ITServices@blueyonder.co.uk) Received: from aliorhan ([62.30.68.157]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Mon, 28 May 2001 00:14:40 +0100 From: "Stuart Duckworth" To: Heiko Recktenwald , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 00:16:25 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Hello Reply-To: ITServices@cableinet.co.uk References: <0fa755016121a51PCOW024M@blueyonder.co.uk> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11) Message-ID: <076114014231b51PCOW024M@blueyonder.co.uk> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 27 May 01, at 16:03, Heiko Recktenwald wrote: > Just stay with twm ! > > You must configure your twmrc somewhere, to get additional xterms in the > mousemenu. And what you want. Maybe xcalc. I have vmac and gyroscope > there. Most funky. > Thanks for this advice. I'll look up twmrc. What're xcalc, vmac and gyroscope? You see. I am a total newbie :-) Stuart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun May 27 16:12:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow024o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F3EF37B422 for ; Sun, 27 May 2001 16:12:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ITServices@blueyonder.co.uk) Received: from aliorhan ([62.30.68.157]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Mon, 28 May 2001 00:14:39 +0100 From: "Stuart Duckworth" To: "Daniel Stehm" , Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 00:16:25 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Off To Install FreeBSD! Reply-To: ITServices@cableinet.co.uk In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11) Message-ID: <0789f3914231b51PCOW024M@blueyonder.co.uk> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 27 May 01, at 11:35, Daniel Stehm wrote: Just wanted to let you guys know > you have another FBSD user among you :) Off to install, will keep you guys > posted on how it went if ya want. Thanks. > Best of luck. Enjoy it, it's fun. Let us know how it goes. Stuart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 28 2:13:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from filer.fr.clara.net (filer.fr.clara.net [212.43.194.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CF1D37B423 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 02:13:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james@fr.clara.net) Received: from munster.noc.fr.clara.net (munster.noc.fr.clara.net [212.43.195.20]) by filer.fr.clara.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9110F3438; Mon, 28 May 2001 11:13:40 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 11:13:40 +0200 (CEST) From: James X-Sender: james@munster.noc.fr.clara.net To: Fredrik Olausson Cc: Stuart Duckworth , Dragon Singer , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hello, In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Debian is not bad either for laptops...It has always found any NIC's I have had... James On Sun, 27 May 2001, Fredrik Olausson wrote: > > On Sun, 27 May 2001, Stuart Duckworth wrote: > > > On 25 May 01, at 17:23, Dragon Singer wrote: > > > > > I'm really new to FreeBSD, so new in fact that I haven't had the courage > > > to try and install it yet. > > > > I tried installing Linux after several successfull FreeBSD installs. I > > found FreeBSD easier and safer to install. The Linux distribution I > > tried was RedHat and despite me clearly not wanting it to write to > > my primary drive, it did so anyway and trashed the partition table. I > > shall stick with FreeBSD in future. > > RedHat is difficult, since it tries to be so simple :) I use Slackware a > lot on my laptop systems since I haven't been able to get FreeBSD to > install on any of them due to PCMCIA NICs and cdroms. Slackware is a great > distribution if you know what you're doing. While it isn't as good as > FreeBSD (in my opinion) it certainly is miles better than, for example, > RedHat and SuSE. > > -Fredrik > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 28 2:50:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from sork.levonline.com (tistel.levonline.com [193.15.191.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2307D37B422 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 02:50:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fredrik@speechcraft.com) Received: from CTHULHU (t2o74p78.telia.com [62.20.224.198]) (authenticated) by sork.levonline.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f4S9nhV26194; Mon, 28 May 2001 11:49:44 +0200 Message-ID: <001f01c0e75b$979071c0$0e0101c0@CTHULHU> From: "Fredrik Olausson" To: "James" Cc: "Stuart Duckworth" , "Dragon Singer" , References: Subject: Re: Hello, Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 11:50:11 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Original Message ----- > Debian is not bad either for laptops...It has always found any > NIC's I have had... I like Debian, or I did until I broke the packaging stuff. Again, I feel that's the beauty of FreeBSD and Slackware; there is no need to worry about corrupting some database somewhere, if you don't like the program, just go ahead and delete it. But wait, lets not start a Linux distribution war on a FreeBSD mailing list :) -Fredrik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 28 2:59: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from filer.fr.clara.net (filer.fr.clara.net [212.43.194.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D4EA37B424 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 02:59:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james@fr.clara.net) Received: from munster.noc.fr.clara.net (munster.noc.fr.clara.net [212.43.195.20]) by filer.fr.clara.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B644934E6; Mon, 28 May 2001 11:58:39 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 11:58:39 +0200 (CEST) From: James X-Sender: james@munster.noc.fr.clara.net To: Fredrik Olausson Cc: Stuart Duckworth , Dragon Singer , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hello, In-Reply-To: <001f01c0e75b$979071c0$0e0101c0@CTHULHU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The Packages can be a pain in the *rse...although sticking with stable has rarely caused problems...One thing I still haven't got to grips with on FreeBSD is an upgrade, (4.2 to 4.3 for example) To be honest I haven't needed to attempt it yet but it looks horrible ! :-) On Mon, 28 May 2001, Fredrik Olausson wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > Debian is not bad either for laptops...It has always found any > > NIC's I have had... > > I like Debian, or I did until I broke the packaging stuff. Again, I feel > that's the beauty of FreeBSD and Slackware; there is no need to worry about > corrupting some database somewhere, if you don't like the program, just go > ahead and delete it. But wait, lets not start a Linux distribution war on a > FreeBSD mailing list :) > > -Fredrik > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 28 3:48:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow028o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB8E737B629 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 03:48:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from s_duckworth@blueyonder.co.uk) Received: from aliorhan ([62.30.68.157]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Mon, 28 May 2001 11:44:48 +0100 From: "Stuart Duckworth" To: James , Dragon Singer , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 11:46:34 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Installation [was Re: Hello] Reply-To: ITServices@cableinet.co.uk References: <001f01c0e75b$979071c0$0e0101c0@CTHULHU> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11) Message-ID: <03e614844101c51PCOW028M@blueyonder.co.uk> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 28 May 01, at 11:58, James wrote: > > The Packages can be a pain in the *rse...although sticking with > stable has rarely caused problems...One thing I still haven't got to grips > with on FreeBSD is an upgrade, (4.2 to 4.3 for example) To be honest I > haven't needed to attempt it yet but it looks horrible ! :-) > > Before I start installing FreeBSD *again* has anyone tried installing without using the graphical installation program on the boot up floppy? I wondered whether I would have more control over the installation process. Stuart. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 28 4:44:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.18.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 411F537B422 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 04:44:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Received: from moritz.alleswirdgelber (ascend-tk-p204.dialin.uni-bonn.de [131.220.244.204]) by f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA1010302; Mon, 28 May 2001 13:44:33 +0200 Received: from localhost (uzs106@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moritz.alleswirdgelber (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA00247; Mon, 28 May 2001 11:22:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 11:22:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Heiko Recktenwald X-Sender: uzs106@moritz.alleswirdgelber To: Stuart Duckworth Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hello In-Reply-To: <076114014231b51PCOW024M@blueyonder.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > You must configure your twmrc somewhere, to get additional xterms in the > > mousemenu. And what you want. Maybe xcalc. I have vmac and gyroscope > > there. Most funky. > > > > Thanks for this advice. I'll look up twmrc. What're xcalc, vmac and > gyroscope? xcalc is just a simple calculator, gyroscope is something to find out the number of one of the 256 colors that you may need for html writing or gifs, vmac is a Mac Plus emulator. Just gimmics ;-) But more fun than the gimmicks in KDE etc, IMHO. Jukka helped me with my .twmrc. Most stuff is unmodified. You'll need the line with xterm !! Voila: # # $XConsortium: system.twmrc /main/9 1996/10/16 16:14:38 kaleb $ # # Default twm configuration file; needs to be kept small to conserve string # space in systems whose compilers don't handle medium-sized strings. # # Sites should tailor this file, providing any extra title buttons, menus, etc. # that may be appropriate for their environment. For example, if most of the # users were accustomed to uwm, the defaults could be set up not to decorate # any windows and to use meta-keys. # RandomPlacement NoGrabServer RestartPreviousState DecorateTransients TitleFont "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*" ResizeFont "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*" MenuFont "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*" IconFont "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*" IconManagerFont "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-100-*-*-*" #ClientBorderWidth Color { BorderColor "slategrey" DefaultBackground "rgb:2/a/9" DefaultForeground "gray85" TitleBackground "rgb:2/a/9" TitleForeground "gray85" MenuBackground "rgb:2/a/9" MenuForeground "gray85" MenuTitleBackground "gray70" MenuTitleForeground "rgb:2/a/9" IconBackground "rgb:2/a/9" IconForeground "gray85" IconBorderColor "gray85" IconManagerBackground "rgb:2/a/9" IconManagerForeground "gray85" } # # Define some useful functions for motion-based actions. # MoveDelta 3 Function "move-or-lower" { f.move f.deltastop f.lower } Function "move-or-raise" { f.move f.deltastop f.raise } Function "move-or-iconify" { f.move f.deltastop f.iconify } # # Set some useful bindings. Sort of uwm-ish, sort of simple-button-ish # Button1 = : root : f.menu "defops" Button1 = m : window|icon : f.function "move-or-lower" Button2 = m : window|icon : f.iconify Button3 = m : window|icon : f.function "move-or-raise" Button1 = : title : f.function "move-or-raise" Button2 = : title : f.raiselower Button1 = : icon : f.function "move-or-iconify" Button2 = : icon : f.iconify Button1 = : iconmgr : f.iconify Button2 = : iconmgr : f.iconify # # And a menus with the usual things # menu "defops" { "Twm" f.title "Xterm" f.exec "xterm &" "GyrosCoPe 1.0" f.exec "gyroscope &" "vMac" f.exec "vMac &" "xcalc" f.exec "xcalc &" "xmix" f.exec "xmix &" "" f.nop "Iconify" f.iconify "Resize" f.resize "Move" f.move "Raise" f.raise "Lower" f.lower "" f.nop "Focus" f.focus "Unfocus" f.unfocus "Show Iconmgr" f.showiconmgr "Hide Iconmgr" f.hideiconmgr "" f.nop "Kill" f.destroy "Delete" f.delete "" f.nop "Restart" f.restart "Exit" f.quit } --------- Thats all ;-) H. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 28 4:59:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from sork.levonline.com (tistel.levonline.com [193.15.191.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BCC737B422 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 04:59:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fredrik@speechcraft.com) Received: from CTHULHU (t1o74p74.telia.com [62.20.224.74]) (authenticated) by sork.levonline.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f4SBxTV10187; Mon, 28 May 2001 13:59:30 +0200 Message-ID: <001b01c0e76d$b910c770$0e0101c0@CTHULHU> From: "Fredrik Olausson" To: "James" Cc: "Stuart Duckworth" , "Dragon Singer" , References: Subject: Re: Hello, Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 13:59:58 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Original Message ----- > The Packages can be a pain in the *rse...although sticking with > stable has rarely caused problems...One thing I still haven't got to grips > with on FreeBSD is an upgrade, (4.2 to 4.3 for example) To be honest I > haven't needed to attempt it yet but it looks horrible ! :-) Hmm... I upgraded our server here at work from 4.0 to 4.2 not to long ago and... well, I'm ashamed of admitting it but I basically blew the disks and reinstalled completely. Later on, after thinking about this (some people would use the word "rationalize" here), I figured that it might be a good idea from a security standpoint to do a clean reinstall of the OS on wvery major systems upgrade, that way you are forced to revisit the configuration files and you make sure any back doors and other nasties are taken care of. -Fredrik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 28 5: 5: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.fr.clara.net (lorraine.fr.clara.net [212.43.194.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 465E437B423 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 05:05:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james@fr.clara.net) Received: from munster.noc.fr.clara.net (munster.noc.fr.clara.net [212.43.195.20]) by mail2.fr.clara.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 322E234FB8; Mon, 28 May 2001 14:03:29 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 14:03:29 +0200 (CEST) From: James X-Sender: james@munster.noc.fr.clara.net To: Fredrik Olausson Cc: Stuart Duckworth , Dragon Singer , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hello, In-Reply-To: <001b01c0e76d$b910c770$0e0101c0@CTHULHU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sounds good to me :-) On Mon, 28 May 2001, Fredrik Olausson wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > The Packages can be a pain in the *rse...although sticking with > > stable has rarely caused problems...One thing I still haven't got to grips > > with on FreeBSD is an upgrade, (4.2 to 4.3 for example) To be honest I > > haven't needed to attempt it yet but it looks horrible ! :-) > > Hmm... I upgraded our server here at work from 4.0 to 4.2 not to long ago > and... well, I'm ashamed of admitting it but I basically blew the disks and > reinstalled completely. Later on, after thinking about this (some people > would use the word "rationalize" here), I figured that it might be a good > idea from a security standpoint to do a clean reinstall of the OS on wvery > major systems upgrade, that way you are forced to revisit the configuration > files and you make sure any back doors and other nasties are taken care of. > > -Fredrik > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 28 5:16:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from amber.dds.nl (amber.dds.nl [194.109.21.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C535537B423 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 05:16:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danilook@dds.nl) Received: from feline.dds.nl (feline.dds.nl [194.109.20.19]) by amber.dds.nl (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA11535; Mon, 28 May 2001 14:16:16 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from moronic.edu.dds.nl (moronic.edu.dds.nl [194.109.21.17]) by feline.dds.nl (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id f4SCFVU20835; Mon, 28 May 2001 14:15:31 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <243124734.991052561101.JavaMail.danilook@dds.nl> Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 16:52:41 +0430 (GMT+04:30) From: danilook@dds.nl To: James Subject: Re: Hello, Cc: Stuart Duckworth , Dragon Singer , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit WebmailServer: De Digitale Stad, Ver. 1.0 by G.Hofstede 1998 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, Upgrading really isn't that scary at all. I upgraded to 4.2 about 2 weeks after I'd first installed and had no serious issues. Using CVSUP to download the new source and compiling new kernels and userland are all clearly & well documented in the handbook. Give a go some time. Dan James schreef: > >The Packages can be a pain in the *rse...although sticking with >stable has rarely caused problems...One thing I still haven't got to grips >with on FreeBSD is an upgrade, (4.2 to 4.3 for example) To be honest I >haven't needed to attempt it yet but it looks horrible ! :- ) > > >On Mon, 28 May 2001, Fredrik Olausson wrote: > >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> > Debian is not bad either for laptops...It has always found any >> > NIC's I have had... >> >> I like Debian, or I did until I broke the packaging stuff. Again, I feel >> that's the beauty of FreeBSD and Slackware; there is no need to worry about >> corrupting some database somewhere, if you don't like the program, just go >> ahead and delete it. But wait, lets not start a Linux distribution war on a >> FreeBSD mailing list :) >> >> -Fredrik >> >> > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 28 5:31: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from sork.levonline.com (tistel.levonline.com [193.15.191.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C786E37B422 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 05:30:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fredrik@speechcraft.com) Received: from CTHULHU (t1o74p61.telia.com [62.20.224.61]) (authenticated) by sork.levonline.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f4SCUpV22416; Mon, 28 May 2001 14:30:51 +0200 Message-ID: <001101c0e772$1a107cb0$0e0101c0@CTHULHU> From: "Fredrik Olausson" To: , "James" Cc: "Stuart Duckworth" , "Dragon Singer" , References: <243124734.991052561101.JavaMail.danilook@dds.nl> Subject: Re: Hello, Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 14:31:19 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Original Message ----- > Upgrading really isn't that scary at all. I upgraded to 4.2 > about 2 weeks after I'd first installed and had no serious > issues. Using CVSUP to download the new source and > compiling new kernels and userland are all clearly & well > documented in the handbook. > > Give a go some time. If I get my ADSL before the next turn of the century I will :) -Fredrik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 28 7:29:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow029o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55BCF37B422 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 07:29:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ITServices@blueyonder.co.uk) Received: from aliorhan ([62.30.68.157]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Mon, 28 May 2001 15:31:17 +0100 From: "Stuart Duckworth" To: Frans Haarman , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 15:32:59 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Installation [was Re: Hello] Reply-To: ITServices@cableinet.co.uk References: <03e614844101c51PCOW028M@blueyonder.co.uk> In-reply-to: <01052813125600.00689@frans.haarman.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11) Message-ID: <028391731141c51PCOW029M@blueyonder.co.uk> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 28 May 01, at 13:12, Frans Haarman wrote: > On Monday 28 May 2001 12:46, you wrote: > > On 28 May 01, at 11:58, James wrote: > > > The Packages can be a pain in the *rse...although sticking with > > > stable has rarely caused problems...One thing I still haven't got to > > > grips with on FreeBSD is an upgrade, (4.2 to 4.3 for example) To be > > > honest I haven't needed to attempt it yet but it looks horrible ! :-) > > > > Before I start installing FreeBSD *again* has anyone tried installing > > without using the graphical installation program on the boot up > > floppy? > > > > I wondered whether I would have more control over the installation > > process. > > > > Stuart. > > There is a non-graphical installation ? > > One could installworld on a new harddrive and put that harddrive in your new > box. > Ooo! That sounds dangerous. I might give it a try and see what happens. My spare hdd is in my present box and I plan to keep it there. I will run two systems in the one box. I'll look up "installworld" in the faqs and Annelise Anderson's book, then consider trying it with this machine. I do not want to upset my primary drive again. Stuart. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue May 29 10: 8:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.smed.com (smtp.smed.com [64.46.248.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1ACF37B423 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 10:08:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Joe.Warner@smed.com) Received: from smtpgate.shrmed.com (zorya.smed.com [64.46.248.1]) by smtp.smed.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7C741619F for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 13:07:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from iesa14.shrmed.com (iesa14.shrmed.com [10.1.99.114]) by smtpgate.shrmed.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA08762 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 13:08:10 -0400 From: Joe.Warner@smed.com Received: from uranus.smed.com (unverified) by iesa14.shrmed.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 2.0.15) with ESMTP id for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 13:08:00 -0400 Subject: Help Desk App for FreeBSD To: FreeBSD-Newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.7 March 21, 2001 Message-Id: Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 11:08:04 -0600 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on Uranus/SMS(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 05/29/2001 01:07:59 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, Before I start looking at commercial solutions, I was just wondering if anyone on this list knows about a web based Help Desk application that would run on FreeBSD. Our current Help Desk application is running on a Lotus Notes database via Domino on the AS/400. Our users access the database with the Lotus Notes 5.0.5 client on WIN NT/2K. This application is outdated and I feel a web based solution would better serve our needs. I'm currently running Apache 1.3.6 on a FreeBSD 3.4 box but plan to upgrade to FreeBSD 4.2 or 4.3, along with the most current versions of Apache, PHP and MySQL soon. The Help Desk application I'm looking for would, at the minimum, provide an interface that our users could access through any web browser, fill in their name, contact info and information regarding the problem they are experiencing, click a "submit" button and be issued a confirmation number. There would be a queue that our IT staff could check for new requests that they could then assign to the appropriate personnel, based on their individual area of expertise. We would need to have the ability to update requests with text and the person who submitted the request would need to be able to view the status. We would also need to be able to pull up statistics like the number and type of requests (open/closed) that have been submitted over a given period and how many/type have been closed by each member of our staff. Is there any app or way I could do this on FreeBSD? Thanks Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message and any included attachments are from Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services Corporation and are intended only for the addressee(s). The information contained herein may include trade secrets or privileged or otherwise confidential information. Unauthorized review, forwarding, printing, copying, distributing, or using such information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. 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Thank you To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue May 29 10:41:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1194A37B422 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 10:41:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA6FA1; Tue, 29 May 2001 10:47:49 -0700 Message-ID: <3B13DF5C.E0372DD1@acuson.com> Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 10:41:48 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ITServices@cableinet.co.uk Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation [was Re: Hello] References: <001f01c0e75b$979071c0$0e0101c0@CTHULHU> <03e614844101c51PCOW028M@blueyonder.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Stuart Duckworth wrote: > Before I start installing FreeBSD *again* has anyone tried installing > without using the graphical installation program on the boot up > floppy? Graphical installation? What graphical installation? Have you guys been holding out on me? I installed 4.3 less than a month ago, and I got the same old semi-reliable (it doesn't like my cdrom) installer that I've always gotten. Is there another more graphical installer available that I don't know about? Or is *this* the graphical installer, and there's a much more unfriendly method of install? David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue May 29 10:54: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.fr.clara.net (lorraine.fr.clara.net [212.43.194.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5282937B423 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 10:54:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james@fr.clara.net) Received: from munster.noc.fr.clara.net (munster.noc.fr.clara.net [212.43.195.20]) by mail2.fr.clara.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05F8434AAE; Tue, 29 May 2001 19:53:54 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 19:53:53 +0200 (CEST) From: James X-Sender: james@munster.noc.fr.clara.net To: David Johnson Cc: ITServices@cableinet.co.uk, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation [was Re: Hello] In-Reply-To: <3B13DF5C.E0372DD1@acuson.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wa do not want a Mandrake style install thankyou :-) On Tue, 29 May 2001, David Johnson wrote: > Stuart Duckworth wrote: > > > Before I start installing FreeBSD *again* has anyone tried installing > > without using the graphical installation program on the boot up > > floppy? > > Graphical installation? What graphical installation? Have you guys been > holding out on me? > > I installed 4.3 less than a month ago, and I got the same old > semi-reliable (it doesn't like my cdrom) installer that I've always > gotten. Is there another more graphical installer available that I don't > know about? Or is *this* the graphical installer, and there's a much > more unfriendly method of install? > > David > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue May 29 16:51:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ns3.tstt.net.tt (ns3.tstt.net.tt [196.3.132.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 39BFA37B423 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 16:51:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dchulhan@uwi.tt) Received: (qmail 116656 invoked from network); 29 May 2001 23:50:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO uwi.tt) (209.94.221.175) by ns3.tstt.net.tt with SMTP; 29 May 2001 23:50:56 -0000 Message-ID: <3B1435E4.63C1BE8B@uwi.tt> Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 19:51:00 -0400 From: Dale Chulhan - Home Organization: COSTAATT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Uninstalling Software Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ok kewl I did the packages thing but now I'm up to the point where I actuallt compile and install other software from tar files etc. So the big question is ..... ( drum roll ) How do I uninstall software that has been done the whole process: gzip -dc | tar -xvf - cd ./configure make make test make install so from there is there some file some where that tracks installs and helps you get rid of stuff? Thanks, Dale To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue May 29 17: 6:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from monet.studio1620.com (cc4443-a.taylor1.mi.home.com [24.0.58.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 688D837B423 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 17:06:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from larry@studio1620.com) Received: from studio1620.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by monet.studio1620.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3332991A; Tue, 29 May 2001 20:09:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B143A57.EBD05BEF@studio1620.com> Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 20:09:59 -0400 From: Larry Coleman X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-20mdk i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe.Warner@smed.com Cc: FreeBSD-Newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help Desk App for FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I don't know of any applications, but what you are trying to do sounds pretty simple. You just need a database (MySQL or PostgreSQL would do fine) and some scripts (PHP or even Perl or Python). Larry Coleman larry@studio1620.com --- Democracy: two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Joe.Warner@smed.com wrote: > > Hi, > > Before I start looking at commercial solutions, I was > just wondering if anyone on this list knows about a web > based Help Desk application that would run on FreeBSD. > > Our current Help Desk application is running on a Lotus Notes > database via Domino on the AS/400. Our users access the > database with the Lotus Notes 5.0.5 client on WIN NT/2K. This > application is outdated and I feel a web based solution would > better serve our needs. > > I'm currently running Apache 1.3.6 on a FreeBSD 3.4 box but > plan to upgrade to FreeBSD 4.2 or 4.3, along with the most > current versions of Apache, PHP and MySQL soon. > > The Help Desk application I'm looking for would, at the minimum, > provide an interface that our users could access through any > web browser, fill in their name, contact info and information > regarding the problem they are experiencing, click a "submit" > button and be issued a confirmation number. There would be > a queue that our IT staff could check for new requests that they > could then assign to the appropriate personnel, based on their > individual area of expertise. We would need to have the ability > to update requests with text and the person who submitted the > request would need to be able to view the status. We would > also need to be able to pull up statistics like the number and > type of requests (open/closed) that have been submitted over > a given period and how many/type have been closed by each > member of our staff. > > Is there any app or way I could do this on FreeBSD? > > Thanks > > Joe > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This message and any included attachments are from Siemens Medical Solutions > Health Services Corporation and are intended only for the addressee(s). > The information contained herein may include trade secrets or privileged or > otherwise confidential information. Unauthorized review, forwarding, printing, > copying, distributing, or using such information is strictly prohibited and may > be unlawful. If you received this message in error, or have reason to believe > you are not authorized to receive it, please promptly delete this message and > notify the sender by e-mail with a copy to CSOffice@smed.com. Thank you > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue May 29 17:12:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from sampnt500.avantgo.com (phantom.avantgo.com [64.157.227.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDCBF37B424 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 17:12:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bforcier@avantgo.com) Received: by sampnt500.avantgo.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 29 May 2001 17:11:36 -0700 Message-ID: <2D6573A84E33D411927700D0B77423340459648C@sampnt500.avantgo.com> From: Bradley Forcier To: Joe.Warner@smed.com Cc: FreeBSD-Newbies@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Help Desk App for FreeBSD Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 17:11:36 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C0E89D.1711B5C0" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C0E89D.1711B5C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" You might want to give this a try. It is very basic but can be customized for you needs. http://www.fsck.com/projects/rt/ Brad Forcier -----Original Message----- From: Larry Coleman [mailto:larry@studio1620.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 5:10 PM To: Joe.Warner@smed.com Cc: FreeBSD-Newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help Desk App for FreeBSD I don't know of any applications, but what you are trying to do sounds pretty simple. You just need a database (MySQL or PostgreSQL would do fine) and some scripts (PHP or even Perl or Python). Larry Coleman larry@studio1620.com --- Democracy: two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Joe.Warner@smed.com wrote: > > Hi, > > Before I start looking at commercial solutions, I was > just wondering if anyone on this list knows about a web > based Help Desk application that would run on FreeBSD. > > Our current Help Desk application is running on a Lotus Notes > database via Domino on the AS/400. Our users access the > database with the Lotus Notes 5.0.5 client on WIN NT/2K. This > application is outdated and I feel a web based solution would > better serve our needs. > > I'm currently running Apache 1.3.6 on a FreeBSD 3.4 box but > plan to upgrade to FreeBSD 4.2 or 4.3, along with the most > current versions of Apache, PHP and MySQL soon. > > The Help Desk application I'm looking for would, at the minimum, > provide an interface that our users could access through any > web browser, fill in their name, contact info and information > regarding the problem they are experiencing, click a "submit" > button and be issued a confirmation number. There would be > a queue that our IT staff could check for new requests that they > could then assign to the appropriate personnel, based on their > individual area of expertise. We would need to have the ability > to update requests with text and the person who submitted the > request would need to be able to view the status. We would > also need to be able to pull up statistics like the number and > type of requests (open/closed) that have been submitted over > a given period and how many/type have been closed by each > member of our staff. > > Is there any app or way I could do this on FreeBSD? > > Thanks > > Joe > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- > This message and any included attachments are from Siemens Medical Solutions > Health Services Corporation and are intended only for the addressee(s). > The information contained herein may include trade secrets or privileged or > otherwise confidential information. Unauthorized review, forwarding, printing, > copying, distributing, or using such information is strictly prohibited and may > be unlawful. If you received this message in error, or have reason to believe > you are not authorized to receive it, please promptly delete this message and > notify the sender by e-mail with a copy to CSOffice@smed.com. Thank you > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message ------_=_NextPart_001_01C0E89D.1711B5C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" RE: Help Desk App for FreeBSD

You might want to give this a try.  It is very basic but can be customized for you needs.

http://www.fsck.com/projects/rt/


Brad Forcier

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Coleman [mailto:larry@studio1620.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 5:10 PM
To: Joe.Warner@smed.com
Cc: FreeBSD-Newbies@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Help Desk App for FreeBSD


I don't know of any applications, but what you are trying to do sounds
pretty simple. You just need a database (MySQL or PostgreSQL would do
fine) and some scripts (PHP or even Perl or Python).

Larry Coleman
larry@studio1620.com
---
Democracy: two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner.

Joe.Warner@smed.com wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Before I start looking at commercial solutions, I was
> just wondering if anyone on this list knows about a web
> based Help Desk application that would run on FreeBSD.
>
> Our current Help Desk application is running on a Lotus Notes
> database via Domino on the AS/400.  Our users access the
> database with the Lotus Notes 5.0.5 client on WIN NT/2K.  This
> application is outdated and I feel a web based solution would
> better serve our needs.
>
> I'm currently running Apache 1.3.6 on a FreeBSD 3.4 box but
> plan to upgrade to FreeBSD 4.2 or 4.3, along with the most
> current versions of Apache, PHP and MySQL soon.
>
> The Help Desk application I'm looking for would, at the minimum,
> provide an interface that our users could access through any
> web browser, fill in their name, contact info and information
> regarding the problem they are experiencing, click a "submit"
> button and be issued a confirmation number.  There would be
> a queue that our IT staff could check for new requests that they
> could then assign to the appropriate personnel, based on their
> individual area of expertise.  We would need to have the ability
> to update requests with text and the person who submitted the
> request would need to be able to view the status.  We would
> also need to be able to pull up statistics like the number and
> type of requests (open/closed) that have been submitted over
> a given period and how many/type have been closed by each
> member of our staff.
>
> Is there any app or way I could do this on FreeBSD?
>
> Thanks
>
> Joe
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> This message and any included attachments are from Siemens Medical Solutions
> Health Services Corporation and are intended only for the addressee(s).
> The information contained herein may include trade secrets or privileged or
> otherwise confidential information.  Unauthorized review, forwarding, printing,
> copying, distributing, or using such information is strictly prohibited and may
> be unlawful.  If you received this message in error, or have reason to believe
> you are not authorized to receive it, please promptly delete this message and
> notify the sender by e-mail with a copy to CSOffice@smed.com.  Thank you
>
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------_=_NextPart_001_01C0E89D.1711B5C0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue May 29 17:47:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow024o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0357637B422 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 17:47:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ITServices@blueyonder.co.uk) Received: from aliorhan ([62.30.68.157]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Wed, 30 May 2001 00:00:56 +0100 From: "Stuart Duckworth" To: James , ITServices@cableinet.co.uk, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, David Johnson Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 00:02:50 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Installation [was Re: Hello] Reply-To: ITServices@cableinet.co.uk References: <3B13DF5C.E0372DD1@acuson.com> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11) Message-ID: <0f0075600231d51PCOW024M@blueyonder.co.uk> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 29 May 01, at 19:53, James wrote: > > Wa do not want a Mandrake style install thankyou :-) > I'm a newbie, forgive me ... isn't that little grey dialogue with selections that you highlight with the edit keys and select with the spacebar a graphical interface? It's crude, I know, but still graphical. I meant in my original question that there might be a command line method of installation where you might have greater control over what is installed and be less likely, through an oversight, to install unnecessary packages. I asked more out of curiosity than anything else. I shall use the graphical installer. One of the things that appeals to me about FreeBSD is the absence of windoze-like "wizards" .... I have a distrust of anything that is peddled as magic and of the people who do the peddling. Stuart. > On Tue, 29 May 2001, David Johnson wrote: > > > Stuart Duckworth wrote: > > > > > Before I start installing FreeBSD *again* has anyone tried installing > > > without using the graphical installation program on the boot up > > > floppy? > > > > Graphical installation? What graphical installation? Have you guys been > > holding out on me? > > > > I installed 4.3 less than a month ago, and I got the same old > > semi-reliable (it doesn't like my cdrom) installer that I've always > > gotten. Is there another more graphical installer available that I don't > > know about? Or is *this* the graphical installer, and there's a much > > more unfriendly method of install? > > > > David > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue May 29 19:43:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bfm.org (mail.bfm.org [216.127.218.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A37F537B43C for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 19:43:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@whizkidtech.net) Received: from WhizKid (r25.bfm.org [216.127.220.121]) by mail.bfm.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52399U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id org; Tue, 29 May 2001 21:48:17 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20010529214225.00aa8100@mail85.pair.com> X-Sender: whizkid@mail85.pair.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 21:42:25 -0500 To: ITServices@cableinet.co.uk, James , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, David Johnson From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: Installation In-Reply-To: <0f0075600231d51PCOW024M@blueyonder.co.uk> References: <3B13DF5C.E0372DD1@acuson.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 00:02 30-05-2001 +0100, Stuart Duckworth wrote: >I'm a newbie, forgive me ... isn't that little grey dialogue with >selections that you highlight with the edit keys and select with the >spacebar a graphical interface? It's crude, I know, but still >graphical. No, it's not, even if it may seem to be. It is done in textual mode, using textual fonts to do the drawing (which, by the way, looks quite awful on my system which uses an iso2 font, so instead of box drawing lines I see accented characters). It would only be considered graphical if the software were actually drawing the various boxes instead of "typing" them with fonts. Adam --- http://phonecowboy.com/registrar/twist/ finds a good domain for you and checks for its existence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue May 29 19:44:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from VL-MS-MR003.sc1.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA95137B423 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 19:44:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sjose@branchez-vous.com) Received: from PIII450.branchez-vous.com ([24.203.159.27]) by VL-MS-MR003.sc1.videotron.ca (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GE4NLU02.V1E for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 22:44:18 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010529224658.00a1d2d0@courrier.branchez-vous.net> X-Sender: sjose@courrier.branchez-vous.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 22:47:50 -0400 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane?= Jose Subject: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org subscribe Stephane Jose To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue May 29 22:22:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C79437B42C for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 22:22:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net) Received: from DougBarton.net (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA71007; Tue, 29 May 2001 22:22:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net) Message-ID: <3B1483A3.AAC2A61D@DougBarton.net> Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 22:22:43 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: ITServices@cableinet.co.uk, James , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, David Johnson Subject: Re: Installation References: <3B13DF5C.E0372DD1@acuson.com> <3.0.6.32.20010529214225.00aa8100@mail85.pair.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "G. Adam Stanislav" wrote: > > At 00:02 30-05-2001 +0100, Stuart Duckworth wrote: > >I'm a newbie, forgive me ... isn't that little grey dialogue with > >selections that you highlight with the edit keys and select with the > >spacebar a graphical interface? It's crude, I know, but still > >graphical. > > No, it's not, even if it may seem to be. It is done in textual mode, > using textual fonts to do the drawing (which, by the way, looks quite > awful on my system which uses an iso2 font, so instead of box drawing > lines I see accented characters). > > It would only be considered graphical if the software were actually > drawing the various boxes instead of "typing" them with fonts. That would make it a graphical display. A graphical user interface is one where the user interaction with those graphics causes useful things to happen. -- I need someone really bad. Are you really bad? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed May 30 11:18:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF88B37B422 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 11:18:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA4CE8; Wed, 30 May 2001 11:24:23 -0700 Message-ID: <3B15396E.1CA556DE@acuson.com> Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 11:18:22 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: van Roekel Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cd roms on install References: <3B13DF5C.E0372DD1@acuson.com> <3.0.6.32.20010530215949.007d4d80@mt.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org van Roekel wrote: > This rang my bell > > I am completely new to FBSD and UNIX etc. Trying to get started I cannot > see ANY reference to CDROMs in the kernel configuration of the boot > floppies. The book says matcd0 (Matshishita/Panasonic 562) is supported but > the configuration menu does not seem to cater for multimedia. The darn > entry is empty. FreeBD 4.2. This is definitely a question for freebsd-questions, and not freebsd-newbies. But to give you a direction to look, here are some tips: you don't need multimedia to install FreeBSD with, but you do need the CDROM. Look for CDROM's in the configuration menu. If all else fails, it is still possible to load a kernel module at boot time, but that topic is way beyond this forum. I mentioned that I have problems during install with my CDROM. This is speculation on my part because I have not bothered to track down the actual cause. It is certainly not related to your problem. What happens is that the install will freeze occasionally during a CD read (with some errors printed out on the console). I have learned to do a minimum install, and install any other distributions or packages after I boot into the OS. Only the installer has this problem, not the installed OS. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed May 30 14:56: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from clavin.efn.org (clavin.efn.org [206.163.176.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B12C37B424 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 14:55:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spk@efn.org) Received: from efn.org (pm3-088.efn.org [206.163.180.88]) by clavin.efn.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f4ULtsu29011 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 14:55:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B156C2A.C1E2EEBF@efn.org> Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 14:54:50 -0700 From: Steve Kanady X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: startx xinit Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------A866C5FBB568283EE6BDF047" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --------------A866C5FBB568283EE6BDF047 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit After installing some ports with /stand/sysinstall. When I type : startx < I get> execv failed for/usr/X11R6/bin//XFree86 (errno2) -X11TransSocketUNIX Connect : Can't connect:errno =2 -X11TransSocketUNIX Connect : Can't connect:errno =2 -X11TransSocketUNIX Connect : Can't connect:errno =2 -X11TransSocketUNIX Connect : Can't connect:errno =2 -X11TransSocketUNIX Connect : Can't connect:errno =2 -X11TransSocketUNIX Connect : Can't connect:errno =2 xinit : No such file or directory (errno2) : unable to connect to x server xinit : No such process (errno3) : Server errror This on a 4.2 FreeBSD (i386) and XFree86 3.3.6. on a Pentium II with 190M of ram, it already runs Win98 and Red Hat 7. The X server was working before I started installing ports and I'm not sure what would have caused it because I didn't fire up after every install. There were no error messages during the installations. Thanks - Steve --------------A866C5FBB568283EE6BDF047 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit After installing some ports with /stand/sysinstall. When I type :

startx  < I get>
execv failed for/usr/X11R6/bin//XFree86 (errno2)
-X11TransSocketUNIX Connect : Can't connect:errno =2
-X11TransSocketUNIX Connect : Can't connect:errno =2
-X11TransSocketUNIX Connect : Can't connect:errno =2
-X11TransSocketUNIX Connect : Can't connect:errno =2
-X11TransSocketUNIX Connect : Can't connect:errno =2
-X11TransSocketUNIX Connect : Can't connect:errno =2
xinit : No such file or directory (errno2) : unable to connect to x server
xinit : No such process (errno3) : Server errror

This on a 4.2 FreeBSD (i386) and XFree86 3.3.6.  on a Pentium II
with 190M of ram, it already runs Win98 and Red Hat 7.  The X server was
working before I started installing ports and I'm not sure what would
have caused it because I didn't fire up <startx> after every install.  There
were no error messages during the installations.

                                                Thanks
                                                    - Steve
  --------------A866C5FBB568283EE6BDF047-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu May 31 1:32:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow029o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B608337B422; Thu, 31 May 2001 01:32:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ITServices@blueyonder.co.uk) Received: from aliorhan ([62.30.68.157]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Thu, 31 May 2001 08:32:47 +0100 From: "Stuart Duckworth" To: Doug Barton , owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 08:34:45 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Installation Reply-To: ITServices@cableinet.co.uk Cc: ITServices@cableinet.co.uk, James , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, David Johnson In-reply-to: <3B1483A3.AAC2A61D@DougBarton.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11) Message-ID: <05fe34732071f51PCOW029M@blueyonder.co.uk> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 29 May 01, at 22:22, Doug Barton wrote: > > That would make it a graphical display. A graphical user interface is one > where the user interaction with those graphics causes useful things to > happen. > Well, I interacted with the graphics and FBSD installed and I think that's useful :-) I take your point though. It's not like using a pointer in a full on GUI. I interpreted "graphical" as meaing picture like and saw the boxes and moving highlights and appliable asterisks as part of a picture. Stuart. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu May 31 2: 4:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E48F37B422 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 02:04:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net) Received: from DougBarton.net (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA84949; Thu, 31 May 2001 02:04:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net) Message-ID: <3B16091E.35F9915A@DougBarton.net> Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 02:04:30 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ITServices@cableinet.co.uk Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation References: <05fe34732071f51PCOW029M@blueyonder.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Stuart Duckworth wrote: > > On 29 May 01, at 22:22, Doug Barton wrote: > > > > > That would make it a graphical display. A graphical user interface is one > > where the user interaction with those graphics causes useful things to > > happen. > > > > Well, I interacted with the graphics and FBSD installed and I think > that's useful :-) > > I take your point though. No problem. Give the nature of this list it's sometimes good to dip lightly into the world of pedantry so that those who are interested can learn a little something in the process. -- I need someone really bad. Are you really bad? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu May 31 3:10:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from imo-d03.mx.aol.com (imo-d03.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 947FC37B422 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 03:10:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from acogacesa@netscape.net) Received: from acogacesa@netscape.net by imo-d03.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v30.22.) id n.58.46eb4b (16213) for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 06:10:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from netscape.com (aimmail05.aim.aol.com [205.188.144.197]) by air-in01.mx.aol.com (v77_r1.37) with ESMTP; Thu, 31 May 2001 06:10:20 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 06:10:20 -0400 From: acogacesa@netscape.net (Aco Gacesa) To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: CD-Packages-4.3-RELEASE Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <1BA0CF3C.3EBF8E76.02D8B887@netscape.net> X-Mailer: Franklin Webmailer 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I fetched 4.3-RELEASE from ftp and then burned on to CD basic distributions(without packages-so I left my "packages" directoty empty),which takes about 220 MB. Packages directory ocupies circa 2100 MB of my disk space.I would like to split it on to four CD-s.Question is how to organize each CD-directory structure.Key problem is how to split "INDEX" ,"Latest" e.t.c... directories so that they no conflict with splitting of "All"-directory and no conflict with /stand/sysinstall Thanks for suggestions Aco __________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu May 31 6:18:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from k0r3.reflektor.cz (k0r3.reflektor.cz [212.24.129.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 71D7B37B423 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 06:18:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cynic@mail.cz) Received: (qmail 8018 invoked by uid 202); 31 May 2001 13:18:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zvahlav.mail.cz) (212.24.143.100) by k0r3.reflektor.cz with SMTP; 31 May 2001 13:18:43 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010530191722.01ef1008@mail.cz> X-Sender: cynic@mail.cz X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 15:26:21 +0200 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org From: Cynic Subject: install locations of packages Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi there, I've installed FreeBSD 4.3, and added bash and tcsh (btw, /stand/sysinstall didn't mark tcsh as installed though it was). These got installed to /usr/local/bin/, but I'd rather have them in /bin/. I could just move them, but then I won't be able to remove them. I have had a look at /var/db/pkg/, and it looks like the locations are hashed with MD5. Will it be enough to edit the + with the new locations _and_ new hashes, or is the integrity checked elsewhere? As I said, I want to be able to remove the packages with pkg_delete(1). Better yet -- where will the man page get installed if I install e. g. bash with # pkg_add -p / bash-2.05.tgz (hope I have it right)? Because normally it goes to /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/man/man1/, while I want it in /bin/ and /usr/share/man/man1/. I guess I'll have to edit the install script, right? 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To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu May 31 10:37:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from kaon.intercom.com (kaon.intercom.com [198.143.3.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59EA637B422 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 10:37:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sishwar@intercom.com) Received: from [198.143.22.4] (helo=intercom.com) by kaon.intercom.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 155WWK-000KC7-00 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Thu, 31 May 2001 13:46:04 -0400 Message-ID: <3B16BA9C.11750359@intercom.com> Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 17:41:48 -0400 From: Ishwaran Sundar Organization: Intercom Online X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: hi... I would like to subscribe... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu May 31 14: 8:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow024o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A497837B424 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 14:08:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfm@blueyonder.co.uk) Received: from lexx.my.domain ([62.31.194.122]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Thu, 31 May 2001 22:10:11 +0100 From: John Murphy To: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 22:11:12 +0100 Organization: poor Reply-To: jfm@blueyonder.co.uk Message-ID: References: <05fe34732071f51PCOW029M@blueyonder.co.uk> <3B16091E.35F9915A@DougBarton.net> In-Reply-To: <3B16091E.35F9915A@DougBarton.net> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug Barton wrote: >> I take your point though. =20 > > No problem. Give the nature of this list it's sometimes good to dip ^n >lightly into the world of pedantry so that those who are interested can >learn a little something in the process. Good Troll ;) John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu May 31 16:47:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from clavin.efn.org (clavin.efn.org [206.163.176.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9000137B424 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 16:47:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spk@efn.org) Received: from efn.org (pm3-177.efn.org [206.163.180.177]) by clavin.efn.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f4VNlc210907 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 16:47:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B16D7D9.5E8E9344@efn.org> Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 16:46:33 -0700 From: Steve Kanady X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: X Server error Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is the second time I've posted this, as I got no responses to the first post and I think it might have been incorrectly addressed. After installing some ports with /stand/sysinstall. When I type : startx < I get> execv failed for/usr/X11R6/bin//XFree86 (errno2) -X11TransSocketUNIX Connect : Can't connect:errno =2 -X11TransSocketUNIX Connect : Can't connect:errno =2 -X11TransSocketUNIX Connect : Can't connect:errno =2 -X11TransSocketUNIX Connect : Can't connect:errno =2 -X11TransSocketUNIX Connect : Can't connect:errno =2 -X11TransSocketUNIX Connect : Can't connect:errno =2 xinit : No such file or directory (errno2) : unable to connect to x server xinit : No such process (errno3) : Server errror This on a 4.2 FreeBSD (i386) and XFree86 3.3.6. on a Pentium II with 190M of ram, it already runs Win98 and Red Hat 7. The X server was working before I started installing ports and I'm not sure what would have caused it because I didn't fire up after every install. There were no error messages during the installations. Does anyone know how to fix this error? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu May 31 20:13:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pele.WURLDLINK.NET (pele.WURLDLINK.NET [216.235.52.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05E0937B422 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 20:13:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@wurldlink.net) Received: from wurldlink.net (station160.WURLDLINK.NET [216.235.52.160]) by pele.WURLDLINK.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA69117 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 17:13:20 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from jon@wurldlink.net) Message-ID: <3B17067F.C4EB4142@wurldlink.net> Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 17:05:36 -1000 From: Jon Yamashita X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-CCK-MCD (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,zh,zh-CN,zh-TW MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: name server Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all, I'm trying to create a name server? does anyone know where I could get a step by step format on this? thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu May 31 20:24: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mailin2.email.bigpond.com (juicer14.bigpond.com [139.134.6.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E070537B423; Thu, 31 May 2001 20:23:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle ([139.134.4.56]) by mailin2.email.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GE8F0B00.B1K; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 13:28:59 +1000 Received: from CPE-61-9-142-202.vic.bigpond.net.au ([61.9.142.202]) by mail3.bigpond.com (Claudes-Australian-MailRouter V2.9c 5/9578759); 01 Jun 2001 13:22:11 Message-ID: <02aa01c0ea4a$3cc755f0$0300a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "Jon Yamashita" , Cc: References: <3B17067F.C4EB4142@wurldlink.net> Subject: Re: name server Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 13:21:38 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The experts will probably regard this as a technical question & get mad if I don't copy it to the questions list > Hi all, I'm trying to create a name server? does anyone know where I > could get a step by step format on this? > thanks > Having looked high & low for years for such a creature I'm fairly confident that there isn't any such beast in existence :) I dunno that it would be possible to explain that sort of witchcraft easily ..... its always been one of the more esoteric areas in a sea of complexity. I do have the O'Reilly "DNS & Bind" book but its a far far cry from "step_by_step" status. What has worked quite well for me is creating a simple caching nameserver by adding a named_enable="YES" line in /etc/rc.conf & adding the IP address of the machine to /etc/resolv.conf. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 1 0:57:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D424937B424; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 00:57:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramidi@otenet.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a096.otenet.gr [212.205.215.96]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f517vSI29139; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:57:28 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f517qX207209; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:52:33 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramidi@otenet.gr) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:52:33 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Doug Young Cc: Jon Yamashita , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: name server Message-ID: <20010601105233.B7117@hades.hell.gr> References: <3B17067F.C4EB4142@wurldlink.net> <02aa01c0ea4a$3cc755f0$0300a8c0@oracle> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <02aa01c0ea4a$3cc755f0$0300a8c0@oracle>; from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au on Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:21:38PM +1000 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:21:38PM +1000, Doug Young wrote: > The experts will probably regard this as a technical question & get mad if I > don't copy it to the questions list > >> Hi all, I'm trying to create a name server? does anyone know where I could >> get a step by step format on this? thanks > > Having looked high & low for years for such a creature I'm fairly confident > that there isn't any such beast in existence :) Well, to be frank, the DNS-HOWTO of the Linux Documentation Project was of immense help when I was trying to find out how a name server has to be set up. It's not part of the FreeBSD Doc. Project, but since it came handy I think you might want to check it out :) --giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 1 1:17:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pele.WURLDLINK.NET (pele.WURLDLINK.NET [216.235.52.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D90F37B423; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 01:17:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@wurldlink.net) Received: from wurldlink.net (station160.WURLDLINK.NET [216.235.52.160]) by pele.WURLDLINK.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA78815; Thu, 31 May 2001 22:17:38 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from jon@wurldlink.net) Message-ID: <3B174DCA.E583C076@wurldlink.net> Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 22:09:46 -1000 From: Jon Yamashita X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-CCK-MCD (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,zh,zh-CN,zh-TW MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Doug Young , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: name server References: <3B17067F.C4EB4142@wurldlink.net> <02aa01c0ea4a$3cc755f0$0300a8c0@oracle> <20010601105233.B7117@hades.hell.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thanks Giorgos, would you have the web page for that? thanks aloha Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:21:38PM +1000, Doug Young wrote: > > The experts will probably regard this as a technical question & get mad if I > > don't copy it to the questions list > > > >> Hi all, I'm trying to create a name server? does anyone know where I could > >> get a step by step format on this? thanks > > > > Having looked high & low for years for such a creature I'm fairly confident > > that there isn't any such beast in existence :) > > Well, to be frank, the DNS-HOWTO of the Linux Documentation Project was of > immense help when I was trying to find out how a name server has to be set up. > It's not part of the FreeBSD Doc. Project, but since it came handy I think you > might want to check it out :) > > --giorgos > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 1 8:23:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from motgate4.mot.com (motgate4.mot.com [144.189.100.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C42D37B42C for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 08:23:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Charles.S.Libby@motorola.com) Received: [from pobox4.mot.com (pobox4.mot.com [10.64.251.243]) by motgate4.mot.com (motgate4 2.1) with ESMTP id IAA28611 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 08:23:39 -0700 (MST)] Received: [from il33exm02.wes.mot.com (il33exm02.wes.mot.com [154.56.3.102]) by pobox4.mot.com (MOT-pobox4 2.0) with ESMTP id IAA16383 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 08:23:33 -0700 (MST)] Received: by il33exm02.wes.mot.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:23:33 -0500 Message-ID: From: Libby Charles-CCL044 To: "'freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG'" Cc: "'Jon Yamashita'" Subject: RE: name server Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:23:24 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The URL for Linux Documentation is: http://www.linux.org/docs/index.html There you can find the How To's and other possible helpful material, just remember it is Linux, and not Free BSD. -----Original Message----- From: Jon Yamashita [mailto:jon@wurldlink.net] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 3:10 AM To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Doug Young; ; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: name server Thanks Giorgos, would you have the web page for that? thanks aloha Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:21:38PM +1000, Doug Young wrote: > > The experts will probably regard this as a technical question & get mad if I > > don't copy it to the questions list > > > >> Hi all, I'm trying to create a name server? does anyone know where I could > >> get a step by step format on this? thanks > > > > Having looked high & low for years for such a creature I'm fairly confident > > that there isn't any such beast in existence :) > > Well, to be frank, the DNS-HOWTO of the Linux Documentation Project was of > immense help when I was trying to find out how a name server has to be set up. > It's not part of the FreeBSD Doc. Project, but since it came handy I think you > might want to check it out :) > > --giorgos > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 1 9:22: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 865C437B422 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 09:22:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alexdimauro@worldnet.att.net) Received: from dreams3 ([12.84.14.167]) by mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with SMTP id <20010601162202.LXEW8745.mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net@dreams3> for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 16:22:02 +0000 Message-ID: <005d01c0eab6$ae3796c0$28fefea9@electronicdreams.com> From: "Alexander DiMauro" To: Subject: newbie Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 11:19:46 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_005A_01C0EA8C.C3988E90" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_005A_01C0EA8C.C3988E90 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm a newbie who is trying to install FreeBSD, but it keeps crashing at = the XFree86 Setup part. 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------=_NextPart_000_005A_01C0EA8C.C3988E90-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 1 10:15:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from clyde.goodleaf.net (piscator.seanet.com [199.181.165.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24D0437B422 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:15:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from goodleaf@clyde.goodleaf.net) Received: by clyde.goodleaf.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BA2BF5C10; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:28:08 -0700 (PDT) References: <005d01c0eab6$ae3796c0$28fefea9@electronicdreams.com> In-Reply-To: <005d01c0eab6$ae3796c0$28fefea9@electronicdreams.com> From: "J.Goodleaf" To: "Alexander DiMauro" Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbie Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 17:28:08 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010601172808.BA2BF5C10@clyde.goodleaf.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This seems like a reasonable place to start. You should begin, though, by describing the hardware you've got, which versions of FreeBSD and XFree86 you're trying to install, and what you mean by "crash." -John Alexander DiMauro writes: > I'm a newbie who is trying to install FreeBSD, but it keeps crashing at the XFree86 Setup part. I'm confused as to where to ask my question since I read that : > > Support questions should be sent to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org. > > But when I sign up for that mailing list it says: > > "You should not send "how to" questions to the technical lists unless you consider the question to be pretty technical." > > So, where do I ask a "how to" about XFree86 Setup? > > Just wondering... _____________________________ | J. Goodleaf | | | / ) | Technology Coordinator | / / | FreeBSD Advocate | ( ( | email ==> | (((\ \> |/ ) john@goodleaf.net | (\\\\ \_/ /_________________________| \ / \ _/ / / / / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 1 12:27:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ns.assalom.com (ns.assalom.com [64.65.58.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37ED137B424 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 12:27:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from apache@assalom.com) Received: by ns.assalom.com (Postfix, from userid 103) id 7E2EF18069; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:09:56 -0400 (EDT) From: webmaster1@netlane.com To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Этому нет аналогов!!! Message-Id: <20010601140956.7E2EF18069@ns.assalom.com> Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:09:56 -0400 (EDT) Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Предлагаем размещение Вашей информации на более чем 3500 досок объявлений, из них более 1000 российских, также абонементное обслуживание (одна рассылка - один доллар), а также полнофункциональные интернет-магазин , стоимоcтью 200$, базы данных предприятий и организаций России и СНГ, программный комплекс рекламы Вашего ресурса, фирмы в интернете, всё это на нашем сайте. URL: http://www.database.ussr.com email: database@netlane.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 1 12:52:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2342937B422 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 12:52:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alexdimauro@worldnet.att.net) Received: from dreams3 ([12.84.8.30]) by mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with SMTP id <20010601195225.IFJK29100.mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net@dreams3> for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 19:52:25 +0000 Message-ID: <003901c0ead4$11d80530$28fefea9@electronicdreams.com> From: "Alexander DiMauro" To: References: <005d01c0eab6$ae3796c0$28fefea9@electronicdreams.com> <20010601172808.BA2BF5C10@clyde.goodleaf.net> Subject: Re: newbie Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:50:04 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've got FreeBSD 4.2, trying to setup XFree86 4.0.2. I have an NVidia TNT2 video card and a ViewSonic A75f monitor. The computer itself is a home built one with an iWill motherboard and an Athlon 600Mhz. None of the other hardware seems to have a problem. I get to the point in the install where you start the XFree86 setup. Everything works fine, the GUI starts up, the mouse and keyboard work fine. I select the video card from the list, then when I get to the monitor portion, maybe I'm selecting the wrong choice? I select a monitor with variable rate and maximum 1280 x 1024 @67Mhz. I set it to 1024 x 768. When I tested, the screen went gray and then a white rectangle appeared in the upper left. Is that the screen? If so, how do I center it? That's it. I waited for a long time, nothing happened, it just stayed like that. So, I started over, and this time picked the same settings, but @76Mhz. This time, a blue rectangle with "Out Of Bounds" moved across the screen and once again, I waited, and nothing happened. No keys worked, it was just stuck like that. Both times I couldn't reboot, I had to hit the reset switch on the computer. Any suggestions? Thanks, --Alex ----- Original Message ----- From: "J.Goodleaf" To: "Alexander DiMauro" Cc: Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 12:28 PM Subject: Re: newbie > This seems like a reasonable place to start. > > You should begin, though, by describing the hardware you've got, which > versions of FreeBSD and XFree86 you're trying to install, and what you mean > by "crash." > > -John > > Alexander DiMauro writes: > > > I'm a newbie who is trying to install FreeBSD, but it keeps crashing at the XFree86 Setup part. I'm confused as to where to ask my question since I read that : > > > > Support questions should be sent to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org. > > > > But when I sign up for that mailing list it says: > > > > "You should not send "how to" questions to the technical lists unless you consider the question to be pretty technical." > > > > So, where do I ask a "how to" about XFree86 Setup? > > > > Just wondering... > > > > _____________________________ > | J. Goodleaf | > | | > / ) | Technology Coordinator | > / / | FreeBSD Advocate | > ( ( | email ==> | > (((\ \> |/ ) john@goodleaf.net | > (\\\\ \_/ /_________________________| > \ / > \ _/ > / / > / / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 1 13:43:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from micro-mania.net (micro1.micro-mania.net [204.214.90.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16CF137B424 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 13:43:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zwade@micro-mania.net) Received: from micro-mania.net [204.214.90.136] by micro-mania.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A1043D00DC; Fri, 01 Jun 2001 14:54:28 -0600 Message-ID: <3B17F6EF.41523D6C@micro-mania.net> Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 14:11:27 -0600 From: zwade X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.9 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: newbies Subject: did it Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, Ok, I did it. I went and bought 4.2 Power Pak today. Gonna wipe, partition, and install in the next few days. Will light candles and incense, with meditation and study first. Here I come! Z. Wade Hampton Missoula, MT -- My Cyber Space Home page: http://www.micro-mania.net/zwade UNIX is the Operating System of choice in Heaven. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 1 14:24:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 552A937B422 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:24:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mimerki@saintmail.net) Received: from saintmail.net (nicej-1.stu.rpi.edu [128.113.142.113]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f51LOeW131000; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 17:24:40 -0400 Message-ID: <3B180801.F892F65C@saintmail.net> Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 17:24:17 -0400 From: Marcia Barrett Nice X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander DiMauro Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbie References: <005d01c0eab6$ae3796c0$28fefea9@electronicdreams.com> <20010601172808.BA2BF5C10@clyde.goodleaf.net> <003901c0ead4$11d80530$28fefea9@electronicdreams.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I had similar problems getting XFree86 to run on my box (also under 4.2). In my case this problem appeared to be that I was selecting the incorrect monitor settings, so that is where I would suggest starting. (In my case it also has something to do with the fact that it's a monitor the university was throwing out for being too old so I have no actual info on it.) However, keep in mind that this advice is worth every penny you paid for it... ;> Barrett Alexander DiMauro wrote: > > I've got FreeBSD 4.2, trying to setup XFree86 4.0.2. > > I have an NVidia TNT2 video card and a ViewSonic A75f monitor. The computer > itself is a home built one with an iWill motherboard and an Athlon 600Mhz. > None of the other hardware seems to have a problem. > > I get to the point in the install where you start the XFree86 setup. > Everything works fine, the GUI starts up, the mouse and keyboard work fine. > I select the video card from the list, then when I get to the monitor > portion, maybe I'm selecting the wrong choice? I select a monitor with > variable rate and maximum 1280 x 1024 @67Mhz. I set it to 1024 x 768. When I > tested, the screen went gray and then a white rectangle appeared in the > upper left. Is that the screen? If so, how do I center it? That's it. I > waited for a long time, nothing happened, it just stayed like that. So, I > started over, and this time picked the same settings, but @76Mhz. This time, > a blue rectangle with "Out Of Bounds" moved across the screen and once > again, I waited, and nothing happened. No keys worked, it was just stuck > like that. Both times I couldn't reboot, I had to hit the reset switch on > the computer. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > --Alex > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "J.Goodleaf" > To: "Alexander DiMauro" > Cc: > Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 12:28 PM > Subject: Re: newbie > > > This seems like a reasonable place to start. > > > > You should begin, though, by describing the hardware you've got, which > > versions of FreeBSD and XFree86 you're trying to install, and what you > mean > > by "crash." > > > > -John > > > > Alexander DiMauro writes: > > > > > I'm a newbie who is trying to install FreeBSD, but it keeps crashing at > the XFree86 Setup part. I'm confused as to where to ask my question since I > read that : > > > > > > Support questions should be sent to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org. > > > > > > But when I sign up for that mailing list it says: > > > > > > "You should not send "how to" questions to the technical lists unless > you consider the question to be pretty technical." > > > > > > So, where do I ask a "how to" about XFree86 Setup? > > > > > > Just wondering... > > > > > > > > _____________________________ > > | J. Goodleaf | > > | | > > / ) | Technology Coordinator | > > / / | FreeBSD Advocate | > > ( ( | email ==> | > > (((\ \> |/ ) john@goodleaf.net | > > (\\\\ \_/ /_________________________| > > \ / > > \ _/ > > / / > > / / > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 1 14:41: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from clyde.goodleaf.net (piscator.seanet.com [199.181.165.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5467437B422 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:41:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from goodleaf@clyde.goodleaf.net) Received: by clyde.goodleaf.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 839855C10; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:54:05 -0700 (PDT) References: <005d01c0eab6$ae3796c0$28fefea9@electronicdreams.com> <20010601172808.BA2BF5C10@clyde.goodleaf.net> <003901c0ead4$11d80530$28fefea9@electronicdreams.com> <3B180801.F892F65C@saintmail.net> In-Reply-To: <3B180801.F892F65C@saintmail.net> From: "J.Goodleaf" To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbie Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 21:54:05 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010601215405.839855C10@clyde.goodleaf.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I think you should look at the specs of the monitor, a ViewSonic if I recall, and see what the possible ranges of refresh rates it can handle. I've had good luck choosing the "high frequency svga" option and then manually tuning the refresh rate ranges... By the way, in my experience, the completed x server config doesn't look like much at all. It's been a flat gray window in the upper left, with the words "Contragulations..." and a choice to save the configuration. Save the config and then test it out with startx. I've never had to center the window with the congratulations... -John Marcia Barrett Nice writes: > I had similar problems getting XFree86 to run on my box (also under > 4.2). In my case this problem appeared to be that I was selecting the > incorrect monitor settings, so that is where I would suggest starting. > (In my case it also has something to do with the fact that it's a > monitor the university was throwing out for being too old so I have no > actual info on it.) > > However, keep in mind that this advice is worth every penny you paid for > it... ;> > > Barrett > > Alexander DiMauro wrote: >> >> I've got FreeBSD 4.2, trying to setup XFree86 4.0.2. >> >> I have an NVidia TNT2 video card and a ViewSonic A75f monitor. The computer >> itself is a home built one with an iWill motherboard and an Athlon 600Mhz. >> None of the other hardware seems to have a problem. >> >> I get to the point in the install where you start the XFree86 setup. >> Everything works fine, the GUI starts up, the mouse and keyboard work fine. >> I select the video card from the list, then when I get to the monitor >> portion, maybe I'm selecting the wrong choice? I select a monitor with >> variable rate and maximum 1280 x 1024 @67Mhz. I set it to 1024 x 768. When I >> tested, the screen went gray and then a white rectangle appeared in the >> upper left. Is that the screen? If so, how do I center it? That's it. I >> waited for a long time, nothing happened, it just stayed like that. So, I >> started over, and this time picked the same settings, but @76Mhz. This time, >> a blue rectangle with "Out Of Bounds" moved across the screen and once >> again, I waited, and nothing happened. No keys worked, it was just stuck >> like that. Both times I couldn't reboot, I had to hit the reset switch on >> the computer. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> Thanks, >> --Alex >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "J.Goodleaf" >> To: "Alexander DiMauro" >> Cc: >> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 12:28 PM >> Subject: Re: newbie >> >> > This seems like a reasonable place to start. >> > >> > You should begin, though, by describing the hardware you've got, which >> > versions of FreeBSD and XFree86 you're trying to install, and what you >> mean >> > by "crash." >> > >> > -John >> > >> > Alexander DiMauro writes: >> > >> > > I'm a newbie who is trying to install FreeBSD, but it keeps crashing at >> the XFree86 Setup part. I'm confused as to where to ask my question since I >> read that : >> > > >> > > Support questions should be sent to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org. >> > > >> > > But when I sign up for that mailing list it says: >> > > >> > > "You should not send "how to" questions to the technical lists unless >> you consider the question to be pretty technical." >> > > >> > > So, where do I ask a "how to" about XFree86 Setup? >> > > >> > > Just wondering... >> > >> > >> > >> > _____________________________ >> > | J. Goodleaf | >> > | | >> > / ) | Technology Coordinator | >> > / / | FreeBSD Advocate | >> > ( ( | email ==> | >> > (((\ \> |/ ) john@goodleaf.net | >> > (\\\\ \_/ /_________________________| >> > \ / >> > \ _/ >> > / / >> > / / >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > _____________________________ | J. Goodleaf | | | / ) | Technology Coordinator | / / | FreeBSD Advocate | ( ( | email ==> | (((\ \> |/ ) john@goodleaf.net | (\\\\ \_/ /_________________________| \ / \ _/ / / / / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 1 19:10:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8EED37B424 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 19:10:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from sue@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f522A1881942 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 19:10:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 19:10:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Message-Id: <200106020210.f522A1881942@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Newbies First Aid Kit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org FreeBSD-Newbies First Aid Kit (This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD-Newbies mailing list. It is also available at http://www.welearn.com.au/freebsd/newbies/) FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG is the place to send all questions about installing, configuring, running and using FreeBSD. All help requests are handled by FreeBSD-Questions, including newbies questions. FreeBSD-Newbies is different. We don't ask for help or answer how-to questions. It is a discussion forum for newbies. FreeBSD-Newbies provides a place for new FreeBSD users to meet and covers any of the activities of newbies that are not already dealt with elsewhere. Examples include helping each other to learn more on our own, finding and using resources, problem solving techniques, how to seek help elsewhere, how to use mailing lists and which lists to use, general chat, making mistakes, boasting, sharing ideas, stories, moral (but not technical) support, and taking an active part in the FreeBSD community. We take our problems and support questions to freebsd-questions, and use freebsd-newbies to meet others who are doing the same things that we do as newbies. One of the things we do together is learn more effective ways to find help when we need it. Here are some suggestions: When something doesn't work the way you expect 1. First look at the errata for your release of FreeBSD at http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/releases/ for the latest information and security advisories. 2. Search the Handbook, FAQ, and mail archives at http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/search.html 3. If you still have a question or problem, collect the output of `uname -a' and of any relevant program(s) and email your question to FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG. Mailing lists When you have a problem that you can't solve by yourself, there's only one support mailing list and that's FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG. FreeBSD-questions helps with installation and basic setup as well as more general and advanced questions. You don't have to actually join freebsd-questions before asking a question there. Replies to your question will normally be sent to you personally as well as to the list. Just make sure you have read and followed the guidelines for posting, because you might find them different to what you're used to. If you do subscribe to freebsd-questions you'll have the advantage of seeing all of the recent questions and their answers. Before you post to FreeBSD-questions, please read the guidelines at http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Many of the people who answer FreeBSD-questions are very knowledgeable, but they get frustrated when they get questions which are difficult to understand. http://www.lemis.com/email.html is worth reading too. If you're not sure that you can follow these guidelines, come back and ask the other newbies for help on how to post an effective question to the support mailing list. Maybe your question has been asked before. If you search the mailing list archives at http://www.freebsd.org/search.html first you might get the answer right away. It's always worth trying. Other mailing lists (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-CHARTERS) cover specialised areas and many are more developer-oriented. You'll need to read their charters carefully before participating, but it's probably a good idea to ask on either -newbies or -questions for advice about where to post a more specialised question. FreeBSD-announce is a very low volume read-only list for occasional announcements, such as notice of new releases, and the Really Quick Newsletter. It's worth subscribing to FreeBSD-announce too. Manuals You'll always be expected to show that you have made some effort to use the available documentation before asking for help. That's not always as easy as it sounds! If you know what documentation you need but can't locate it, send a brief query to FreeBSD-questions. If you don't know what you need, always have trouble finding it, or can't make any sense of it when you do, ask some patient newbies to steer you in the right direction. Anyone interested in writing or reviewing documentation for FreeBSD is encouraged to join the FreeBSD Documentation Project. Details are at http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/docproj.html Other resources A resource list is available at http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html to help new and inexperienced FreeBSD users to find relevant information quickly. It includes books, on line documents and tutorials, and links to web pages that other newbies have found useful for learning. If you have a suggestion for good material to be included, please write to freebsd-newbies and tell us about it. But I have seen people asking questions here! It is quite common for people to send the wrong kind of post to a mailing list. Because we're newbies it'll certainly happen here from time to time. The best thing to do if you see a message that doesn't belong on a list is to ignore it. There's always someone around whose job it is to sort these problems out privately. The posts to the lists go straight through, whatever their content. It is going to be confusing for a little while because we're all newbies so we all make mistakes. That's OK. One thing we're going to see a fair bit is people posting questions, believing they're doing the right thing by posting here as newbies, not realising how it works. If someone answers those questions the situation will snowball. There's nothing wrong with helping someone to redirect their question to freebsd-questions, but please do so gently. There's nothing wrong with the occasional mistake either. So all questions, requests for help, etc still go to freebsd-questions as usual. Ours is more of a discussion group, a place where newbies can relax with other newbies and focus more on our successes than on our temporary imperfection. We can talk about things here that are not allowed on freebsd-questions. We're also a bit freer to make the mistakes that we need to make in order to learn. _________________________________________________________________ To Subscribe to FreeBSD-Newbies: Send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "subscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message. Mail sent to freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org appears on the mailing list. _________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Jun 2 15:37:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bsdaemon.be (194-78-207-41.pro.turboline.skynet.be [194.78.207.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07F2137B423 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 15:37:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from opr@bsdaemon.be) Received: by mail.bsdaemon.be (Postfix, from userid 400) id 0B42F97; Sun, 3 Jun 2001 00:31:50 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.bsdaemon.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id D681761 for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2001 00:31:50 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 00:31:50 -0500 (CDT) From: oPr To: Subject: dos2unixtime(): month value out of range (15) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have a problem with a msdosfs slice ... first gonna explain the situation. I have an nfs mounted disk on my openbsd box. The nfsd is a FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE and the mountpoint is /disk. When i write on the nfs mounted partition, my freebsd gives following errors: freebsd /kernel: dos2unixtime(): month value out of range(15) and when i write many files to the mounted disk i'm getting those errors a few time, and then: Last message repeated 50 times. Hope someone can help me with this. grtz, oPr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Jun 2 23: 5:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from drake.host4u.net (drake.host4u.net [216.71.64.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93D7137B422; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 23:05:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsddiary@drake.host4u.net) Received: (from freebsddiary@localhost) by drake.host4u.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA05951; Sun, 3 Jun 2001 01:07:01 -0500 Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 01:07:01 -0500 Message-Id: <200106030607.BAA05951@drake.host4u.net> From: Dan Langille To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: The FreeBSD Diary: 2001-05-13 - 2001-06-02 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list archives and/or The FreeBSD Diary . These are the articles posted during this period: 31-May : Concatenated Disk Configuration Make several disks into one large disk http://freebsddiary.org/ccd.php?2 24-May : Dual-homed NFS servers I tried. I failed, there must be an easier way... http://freebsddiary.org/nfs-dual-homed.php?2 21-May : Installing via wireless NIC The first, the best, you read it here! http://freebsddiary.org/wireless-install.php?2 20-May : Get your name in the kernel! Ever wonder why jkh gets his? http://freebsddiary.org/uname-a.php?2 19-May : New city, new LAN, new Laptop Ahh the fun that goes with relocating... http://freebsddiary.org/newlan.php?2 13-May : The trip north Packing, selling, giving, and flying http://freebsddiary.org/newjob2.php?2 -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ - practical examples FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ - the place for ports To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message