From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 12 06:41:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BCFE16A4B3 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 06:41:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns8.icdc.com (ns8.icdc.com [208.244.152.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D76143FBF for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 06:41:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from csmith@icdc.com) Received: from WAND (pool-141-158-57-118.phil.east.verizon.net [141.158.57.118]) by ns8.icdc.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with SMTP id h9CDhcb2007078; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 09:43:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <00bf01c390c7$7adcd3d0$1002a8c0@WAND> From: "Chauncey Smith" To: , "Lal Manavado" References: <003801c38523$7d9c4a10$1002a8c0@WAND> <000a01c3910e$c0231480$bf7b4382@tocom> Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 09:48:11 -0400 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 6.00.2800.1106 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Subject: Re: cool thing I found X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 13:41:37 -0000 Yea I'm actually thinking I want to be a Unix administrator. I've written some cool stuff and some how-tos to the questions and here.. to other people. I'm hoping that I can list that as and accomplishment to my resume. And at least get a chance. I don't know am I still a newbie after 2 years of doing this. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lal Manavado" To: "Chauncey Smith" Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 6:18 PM Subject: Re: cool thing I found > Congratulations! > > Let's hope that this would encourage more newbies to > pen potentially immortal prose for posterity. > > L. M. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Chauncey Smith > To: > Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 11:16 AM > Subject: cool thing I found > > > > I found that all the stuff that I wrote to newbies and questions get > > archived. Not a cool feat in and of it self. But what I did find is that > if > > you do a web search on my name everything I ever wrote comes up. From my > > musings that FreeBSD is like a lot of my ex-girlfriends to the how to get > > the Archos 20GB hard drive MP3 player to work on FreeBSD to my Dayum the > man > > I'm writing drivers letters. > > > > So wow I'm famous... and the cool thing is everyone else who writes in the > > news groups are too... I'm very happy and excited..... > > > > > > Chauncey Smith > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 13 03:24:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18F9C16A4B3 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 03:24:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta1-svc.business.ntl.com (mta1-svc.business.ntl.com [62.253.164.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6D5543F75 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 03:24:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john.law1@tesco.net) Received: from icute ([62.252.152.80]) by mta1-svc.business.ntl.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with SMTP id <20031013102401.ZHBU28629.mta1-svc.business.ntl.com@icute> for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 11:24:01 +0100 Message-ID: <000801c39173$e7db95a0$5098fc3e@icute> From: "John Law" To: Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 11:22:28 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 06:17:45 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: www X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 10:24:04 -0000 Dear sir or madam I have just installed BSD 4.8 after a lot of = problems trying to configure X but I got there I need to be able to = connect to the internet to solve other issues I have got Kppp to work = but when I start my browser nothing appears, kppp logs on but nothing = else happens it just shows error on the page as if I was offline can you help . Thanks. john From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 13 08:16:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2168416A4B3 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:16:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orngca-mls02.socal.rr.com (orngca-mls02.socal.rr.com [66.75.160.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9093943FBD for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:16:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gwschenk@socal.rr.com) Received: from fuzz.socal.rr.com (cpe-66-74-149-98.socal.rr.com [66.74.149.98])h9DFC2811162; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:12:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Schenk To: John Law , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:16:39 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <000801c39173$e7db95a0$5098fc3e@icute> In-Reply-To: <000801c39173$e7db95a0$5098fc3e@icute> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310130816.39567.gwschenk@socal.rr.com> Subject: Re: www X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:16:45 -0000 On Monday 13 October 2003 03:22 am, John Law wrote: > Dear sir or madam > I have just installed BSD 4.8 after a lot > of problems trying to configure X but I got there I need to be able > to connect to the internet to solve other issues I have got Kppp to > work but when I start my browser nothing appears, kppp logs on but > nothing else happens it just shows error on the page as if I was > offline can you help . Thanks. > john John, You'd be better off asking this question on freebsd-questions. When I first got started on FreBSD that list was very helpful. Gary From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 13 08:44:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA2A816A4B3 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:44:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imf18aec.mail.bellsouth.net (imf18aec.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.59.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E963F43F75 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:44:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from polkrl@bellsouth.net) Received: from windows ([68.209.159.2]) by imf18aec.mail.bellsouth.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.27 201-253-122-126-127-20021220) with ESMTP id <20031013154512.RJGM1828.imf18aec.mail.bellsouth.net@windows>; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 11:45:12 -0400 From: "Rob" To: "'John Law'" , Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 10:44:41 -0700 Message-ID: <000201c391b1$b167e1c0$6401a8c0@windows> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 In-Reply-To: <000801c39173$e7db95a0$5098fc3e@icute> Importance: Normal Subject: RE: www X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:44:48 -0000 It sounds like a dns issue. Take a look at your /etc/ppp/ppp.conf Once you edit that file, you can invoke it by shell# ppp -ddial papchap If you need more assistance please let me know. ROb -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of John Law Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 3:22 AM To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: www Dear sir or madam I have just installed BSD 4.8 after a lot of problems trying to configure X but I got there I need to be able to connect to the internet to solve other issues I have got Kppp to work but when I start my browser nothing appears, kppp logs on but nothing else happens it just shows error on the page as if I was offline can you help . Thanks. john _______________________________________________ freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 13 08:49:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C51B16A4B3 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:49:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailgw-20.stcloudstate.edu (mailgw-20.stcloudstate.edu [199.17.25.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 682DB43F93 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:49:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bepratt@stcloudstate.edu) Received: from exchange7.campus.stcloudstate.edu [199.17.25.221] by mailgw-20.stcloudstate.edu with XWall v3.28 ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 10:49:49 -0500 Received: from exchange.campus.stcloudstate.edu ([199.17.25.200]) by exchange7.stcloudstate.edu with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Mon, 13 Oct 2003 10:49:48 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6375.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 10:49:48 -0500 Message-ID: <4F752E686C8E04449DCB9FA7C3BD9674718169@EXCHANGE.campus.stcloudstate.edu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: www Thread-Index: AcORoQYCaMXPh7w7Q7WL9HCJidJDIAAAF6kQ From: "Pratt, Benjamin E." To: "John Law" , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Oct 2003 15:49:48.0920 (UTC) FILETIME=[A1F11780:01C391A1] Subject: RE: www X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:49:51 -0000 To check to see if it is a DNS issue you might want to try pinging google.com. If that does work your DNS is fine. If it doesn't work try pinging 216.239.37.99 (Google's IP address) for a reply. If that works it's a DNS issue, if it doesn't it's a networking issue. Good luck, Ben=20 -----Original Message----- From: Rob [mailto:polkrl@bellsouth.net]=20 Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 12:45 PM To: 'John Law'; freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: www It sounds like a dns issue. Take a look at your /etc/ppp/ppp.conf Once you edit that file, you can invoke it by shell# ppp -ddial papchap If you need more assistance please let me know. ROb -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of John Law Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 3:22 AM To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: www Dear sir or madam I have just installed BSD 4.8 after a lot of problems trying to configure X but I got there I need to be able to connect to the internet to solve other issues I have got Kppp to work but when I start my browser nothing appears, kppp logs on but nothing else happens it just shows error on the page as if I was offline can you help . Thanks. john _______________________________________________ freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 14 13:58:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E931C16A4C0; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:58:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nezlok.unixathome.org (nezlok.unixathome.org [66.154.97.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A57D43F3F; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:57:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@nezlok.unixathome.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nezlok.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA352AE621; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 00:10:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nezlok.unixathome.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nezlok.unixathome.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00246-07; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 00:10:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by nezlok.unixathome.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 930B7AE61F; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 00:10:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Langille To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20031012071001.930B7AE61F@nezlok.unixathome.org> Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 00:10:01 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at unixathome.org Subject: The FreeBSD Diary: 2003-09-21 - 2003-10-11 X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:58:04 -0000 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 . -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/ - practical examples FreshPorts - http://www.FreshPorts.org/ - the place for ports FreshSource - http://www.FreshSource.org/ - the place for source From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 07:31:33 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECDC516A4B3 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 07:31:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailrelay02.tugraz.at (mailrelay.tu-graz.ac.at [129.27.3.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15B3C43FD7 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 07:31:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from buschekc@sbox.tugraz.at) Received: from pluto.tugraz.at (pluto.tu-graz.ac.at [129.27.41.4]) h9FEVP5F010612 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 16:31:26 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 16:30:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Christo Buschek X-X-Sender: buschekc@pluto.tugraz.at To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: gdm login X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:31:34 -0000 hello. hopefully you can help me. i have just installed freebsd 5.1 and wanted, that gdm automatically starts after booting to login. i changed in /etc/ttys the following line: ttyv0 "/usr/X11R6/bin/gdm" gdm on secure gdm is starting with this, but i'm unable to login as a different user than root. even if i login with my default user woo and woo's password, gdm is starting gnome as root. any hints? greetinx christo -- root@sis# shutdown -h now From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 08:46:06 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 907BB16A4B3 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:46:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1227543FCB for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:46:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.22]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:48:31 -0500 Message-ID: <3F8D6B83.3040908@daleco.biz> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:45:07 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030920 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christo Buschek References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Oct 2003 15:48:31.0937 (UTC) FILETIME=[C8E1EB10:01C39333] cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gdm login X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:46:06 -0000 Christo Buschek wrote: >hello. hopefully you can help me. > >i have just installed freebsd 5.1 and wanted, that gdm automatically >starts after booting to login. i changed in /etc/ttys the following line: > >ttyv0 "/usr/X11R6/bin/gdm" gdm on secure > >gdm is starting with this, but i'm unable to login as a different user >than root. even if i login with my default user woo and woo's password, >gdm is starting gnome as root. any hints? > >greetinx >christo > > > I don't know if I can help or not: two things here. One is that the "newbies" list is generally not the place for questions, so we may get flamed (but likely only with a small match, not napalm or anything. The second issue: I don't use GDM. I simply have "startx" in my .login and "exec gnome-session" (and nothing else) in my .xinitrc. Did you see the following during your install? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GDM is installed. Do _NOT_ use /etc/ttys to start gdm at boot time. This will result in gdm hanging or restarting constantly. Instead, copy the included gdm.sh.sample script to gdm.sh, and restart. This script is found, by default, in /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maybe that's the thing you need. Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 16 00:36:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 608F916A4B3 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 00:36:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web41502.mail.yahoo.com (web41502.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D92D43F85 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 00:36:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gtheodo72@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20031016073656.95189.qmail@web41502.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [212.251.10.249] by web41502.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 00:36:56 PDT Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 00:36:56 -0700 (PDT) From: George Theodo To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Colous for characters X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 07:36:59 -0000 Hello to everybody. I am new to FreeBSD which I am using for a couple of weeks. I would like to ask this: when we log in the text mode ( not a terminal in graphic environment ) , the picture we get is black background and white characters. Is it possible to change the color of the characters to something different than white? ( I am using 5.1 Release and csh). Thank you. George --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 16 04:51:06 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 964A716A4B3 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 04:51:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from digitelone.com (mail.digitelone.com [202.138.128.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A7EA43FB1 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 04:51:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gihl@digitelone.com) Received: from [202.163.221.178] (account ) by digitelone.com (CommuniGate Pro WebUser 3.5.9) with HTTP id 5551134; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:51:08 +0800 From: "Gil Agno Virtucio" To: gtheodo72@yahoo.com X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro Web Mailer v.3.5.9 Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:51:08 +0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Colous for characters X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:51:06 -0000 maybe you can try using vidcontrol say for example : vidcontrol lightgreen black you can see "man vidcontrol" for further reference... hope this helps... (: hope you'll enjoy using FreeBSD. ----------------------------------------------------- Gil Agno Virtucio Janitor/Collector/Messenger NEC System Integration and Construction Philippines Inc. 15th Floor BPI Buendia Center Gil Puyat Ave. Makati City 1200 Cellphone : +639163989695 Office Phone: +6328914167 ----------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: George Theodo [mailto:gtheodo72@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 3:37 PM To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Colous for characters Hello to everybody. I am new to FreeBSD which I am using for a couple of weeks. I would like to ask this: when we log in the text mode ( not a terminal in graphic environment ) , the picture we get is black background and white characters. Is it possible to change the color of the characters to something different than white? ( I am using 5.1 Release and csh). Thank you. George --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search _______________________________________________ freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ____________________________________________________________________ ** Get your free E-Mail account at WWW.DIGITELONE.COM ** From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 16 22:44:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B4B516A4B3 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 22:44:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web41504.mail.yahoo.com (web41504.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86B5C43F75 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 22:44:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gtheodo72@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20031017054449.69827.qmail@web41504.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [212.251.10.249] by web41504.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 22:44:49 PDT Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 22:44:49 -0700 (PDT) From: George Theodo To: Gil Agno Virtucio In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Colous for characters X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 05:44:50 -0000 Hello all. I want to thank Gil for the suggestion , it is working, and also i want to thank Andy Kozak for suggesting the "bsdvault.net" site. This site provides great help , I am a very beginner and yesterday I burned a CD in command mode. Thank you. George Gil Agno Virtucio wrote: maybe you can try using vidcontrol say for example : vidcontrol lightgreen black you can see "man vidcontrol" for further reference... hope this helps... (: hope you'll enjoy using FreeBSD. ----------------------------------------------------- Gil Agno Virtucio Janitor/Collector/Messenger NEC System Integration and Construction Philippines Inc. 15th Floor BPI Buendia Center Gil Puyat Ave. Makati City 1200 Cellphone : +639163989695 Office Phone: +6328914167 ----------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: George Theodo [mailto:gtheodo72@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 3:37 PM To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Colous for characters Hello to everybody. I am new to FreeBSD which I am using for a couple of weeks. I would like to ask this: when we log in the text mode ( not a terminal in graphic environment ) , the picture we get is black background and white characters. Is it possible to change the color of the characters to something different than white? ( I am using 5.1 Release and csh). Thank you. George --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search _______________________________________________ freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ____________________________________________________________________ ** Get your free E-Mail account at WWW.DIGITELONE.COM ** _______________________________________________ freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 16 22:57:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77CBD16A4B3 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 22:57:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from digitelone.com (mail.digitelone.com [202.138.128.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 702C143F75 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 22:57:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gihl@digitelone.com) Received: from [203.175.2.233] (account ) by digitelone.com (CommuniGate Pro WebUser 3.5.9) with HTTP id 5606493; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 13:55:36 +0800 From: "Gil Agno Virtucio" To: gtheodo72@yahoo.com X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro Web Mailer v.3.5.9 Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 13:55:36 +0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Colous for characters X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 05:57:48 -0000 no problem bro. if you have other questions just dont hesitate to ask but i'd suggest that you also check the freebsd handbook.. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ im sure you'll learn almost about anything that you need to get started with FreeBSD. And i also found this site very helpfull.. (these tips were created by Dru Lavigne) http://www.onlamp.com/pub/q/FreeBSD_Basics ----------------------------------------------------- Gil Agno Virtucio Janitor/Collector/Messenger NEC System Integration and Construction Philippines Inc. 15th Floor BPI Buendia Center Gil Puyat Ave. Makati City 1200 Cellphone : +639163989695 Office Phone: +6328914167 ----------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: George Theodo [mailto:gtheodo72@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 1:45 PM To: Gil Agno Virtucio Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Colous for characters Hello all. I want to thank Gil for the suggestion , it is working, and also i want to thank Andy Kozak for suggesting the "bsdvault.net" site. This site provides great help , I am a very beginner and yesterday I burned a CD in command mode. Thank you. George Gil Agno Virtucio wrote: maybe you can try using vidcontrol say for example : vidcontrol lightgreen black you can see "man vidcontrol" for further reference... hope this helps... (: hope you'll enjoy using FreeBSD. ----------------------------------------------------- Gil Agno Virtucio Janitor/Collector/Messenger NEC System Integration and Construction Philippines Inc. 15th Floor BPI Buendia Center Gil Puyat Ave. Makati City 1200 Cellphone : +639163989695 Office Phone: +6328914167 ----------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: George Theodo [mailto:gtheodo72@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 3:37 PM To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Colous for characters Hello to everybody. I am new to FreeBSD which I am using for a couple of weeks. I would like to ask this: when we log in the text mode ( not a terminal in graphic environment ) , the picture we get is black background and white characters. Is it possible to change the color of the characters to something different than white? ( I am using 5.1 Release and csh). Thank you. George --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search _______________________________________________ freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ____________________________________________________________________ ** Get your free E-Mail account at WWW.DIGITELONE.COM ** _______________________________________________ freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search ____________________________________________________________________ ** Get your free E-Mail account at WWW.DIGITELONE.COM ** From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 17 01:57:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEF5416A4B3 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 01:57:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out012.verizon.net (out012pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE29043FBD for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 01:57:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alden.pierre@verizon.net) Received: from verizon.net ([138.89.12.247]) by out012.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20031017085714.ZQMO20366.out012.verizon.net@verizon.net> for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 03:57:14 -0500 Message-ID: <3F8F4498.30002@verizon.net> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 21:23:36 -0400 From: Alden Louis-Pierre User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030704 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out012.verizon.net from [138.89.12.247] at Fri, 17 Oct 2003 03:57:14 -0500 Subject: CVSup supfile question X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:57:16 -0000 I just finished reading the Handbook for CVSup. It appears to be a very simple process. I'm currently running FreeBSD 4.8 and from my understanding you can keep your sources up to date via CVSup. Does this mean if I were to do a fresh install of FreeBSD 4.8 and then CVSup my source all known security issues would be resolved for the particular FreeBSD I'm running? Would the following supfile update all of my sources for FreeBSD 4.8? *default tag=RELENG_4_8 *default host cvsup3.FreeBSD.org *default prefix=/usr *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress src-all Is there a difference between using RELENG_4 vs RELENG_4_8? I currently update all known security issues via patch < /path/to/patch method and following the instructions for each security advisor. Thank You Alden Louis-Pierre From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 17 19:10:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1822516A4B3 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:10:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 511AA43FEC for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:10:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (sue@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9I2A9FY040571 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:10:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from sue@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h9I2A9wO040564 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:10:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:10:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Sue Blake Message-Id: <200310180210.h9I2A9wO040564@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Newbies FAK X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 02:10:11 -0000 FreeBSD-Newbies First Aid Kit This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD-Newbies mailing list. It is also available at http://people.freebsd.org/~sue/newbies/fak.html 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. It is particularly important to send all installation questions and answers to FreeBSD-Questions so that they only appear in one place. FreeBSD-Newbies is different. We don't ask for FreeBSD 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. We can help people to use the FreeBSD mailing lists and resources, or to interact more productively with the broader FreeBSD community. These are not support questions, and not technical, so we deal with them here. Everyone can help with these new user orientation requests. 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/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/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. _________________________________________________________________ Mailing list membership To Subscribe to FreeBSD-Newbies: Use the easy form at http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies to subscribe to the FreeBSD-Newbies mailing list, or to change your subscription details if you are already a member. To Unsubscribe from FreeBSD-Newbies: To stop receiving list emails, simply follow the unsubscribe link that appears at the bottom of each email you receive from the mailing list. Mail sent to freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org is distributed to all members of the FreeBSD-Newbies mailing list. _________________________________________________________________