Re: Easter Eggs

2002-11-07 Thread Adam Weinberger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (11.06.2002 @ 2313 PST): Lord Raiden said, in 0.3K: This might sound like a silly question, but does Freebsd or any of it's component programs have known easter eggs? Just curious. :) If so, how would you get to them to see

Re: Updating ports problem!

2002-11-07 Thread Adam Weinberger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (11.06.2002 @ 1930 PST): Warren Block said, in 0.6K: Lucky I put the water down before reading that--you almost owed me a new keyboard! Gotcher keyboard. ::) Ermmn, I mean, I did it to migrate to the new PORTCOMMENT Makefile variable, which

Re: tip(1) questions

2002-11-07 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 09:54:38PM -0800, paul beard typed: So I have tried to use tip to connect to this old printer, and it seems less than responsive. tip will connect but that I can't use any escapes: I have to kill the tip process from another session. That shouldn't be necessary. Have

Re: man 1 eject [DaleCo]

2002-11-07 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 11:32:25PM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote: Are we closer to getting to the bottom of this? I don't remember choosing to install eject manually from my original /stand/sysinstall install. pkg_info -W eject Ceri -- The warriors of my elders have come! To Unsubscribe:

Re: Easter Eggs

2002-11-07 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:13:40AM -0500, Lord Raiden wrote: This might sound like a silly question, but does Freebsd or any of it's component programs have known easter eggs? Just curious. :) The binaries don't, although there is some level of amusement to be found in the source

Re: Easter Eggs

2002-11-07 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:02:49AM +, Ceri Davies wrote: On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:13:40AM -0500, Lord Raiden wrote: This might sound like a silly question, but does Freebsd or any of it's component programs have known easter eggs? Just curious. :) The binaries don't,

Re: mounting smbfs at boot time

2002-11-07 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Tue, 05-Nov-2002 at 11:10:59 -0800, Rotaru Razvan wrote: Hello, well when I said ~/.nsmbrc i meant also /root/.nsmbrc. Still i doesn't work for me, but then again my method with the daemon-like startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d is unusual. /usr/local/etc/nsmb.conf doesn't even work

Itronix 6250. (fwd)

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Halliday
I am trying to install free on this machine, as I have no floppy/cdrom for this box I am restricted to installing via another laptop then swapping the drive back. Boot goes fine until: ata0-master: no status, reselecting device ata0-master: timeout sending command=ec s=ff e=00

Re: tip(1) questions

2002-11-07 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, paul beard wrote: So I have tried to use tip to connect to this old printer, and it seems less than responsive. tip will connect but that I can't use any escapes: I have to kill the tip process from another session. I did successfully get the printer to identify itself

Re: sendmail without (real) hostname?

2002-11-07 Thread Ray Kohler
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 6 23:00:20 2002 Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 05:46:27 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ray Kohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sendmail without (real) hostname? On 2002-11-06 21:15, Ray Kohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

Re: sendmail without (real) hostname?

2002-11-07 Thread Ray Kohler
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Nov 7 02:45:04 2002 Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 08:37:17 +0100 From: Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ray Kohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sendmail without (real) hostname? Ray Kohler wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On

Re: man 1 eject [Giorgos]

2002-11-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-11-06 23:29, Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: keramida@gray[16:11]/home/keramida$ man -w eject No manual entry for eject What does man -w tell you? # man -w eject /usr/local/man/cat1/eject.1.gz (source:

urgnet

2002-11-07 Thread MR: MATTHEW KTNBO
ATTN: I PRESUME THIS MAIL WILL NOT BE A SURPRISE TO YOU. I AM AN ACCOUNTANT WITH THE MINISTRY OF MINERAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY IN SOUTH AFRICA AND ALSO A MEMBER OF CONTRACTS AWARDING COMMITTEE OF THIS MINISTRY UNDER SOUTH AFRICA GOVERNMENT. MANY YEARS AGO, SOUTH AFRICA GOVERNMENT ASKED THIS

Re: date set unable

2002-11-07 Thread iulian
Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-06 13:56:02 +: Adam Weinberger wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (11.06.2002 @ 0530 PST): iulian said, in 1.0K: I can modify the date, but doesn't remeains like I do! I mean when I do date -v

end of line ^M

2002-11-07 Thread shubha mr
Hi, I have developed a device driver for BSD and I mailed it to a customer from a windows machine.But the driver did not compile on the target BSD machine.we found that because the src files got ^M's for every end -of -line beacause of windows,and hence the compile did not go through.Is there any

Re: end of line ^M

2002-11-07 Thread Jens Rehsack
shubha mr wrote: Hi, I have developed a device driver for BSD and I mailed it to a customer from a windows machine.But the driver did not compile on the target BSD machine.we found that because the src files got ^M's for every end -of -line beacause of windows,and hence the compile did not go

dell poweredge 1650

2002-11-07 Thread Redmond Militante
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi all we're thinking of buying a dell poweredge 1650 at work to be our new webserver. i'd like to run the most recent version of freebsd RELENG_4_7, apache, and proftpd on it. our site has approximately 45000-5 documents on it, and receives

Problem concerning installation of NFS server more particulary file hosts in IPV6

2002-11-07 Thread LEVEILLE Quentin
Hie, I'd tried to install on Freebsd 4.7 Releases, an NFS server. So I'd configure etc/exports, the five differents deamons ... but when i want to join my client whitout DNS Server, called router01 at the address fec0:555::5, an message at the end of the reboot indicate that the etc/hosts is

Re: dell poweredge 1650

2002-11-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
hi all we're thinking of buying a dell poweredge 1650 at work to be our new webserver. i'd like to run the most recent version of freebsd RELENG_4_7, apache, and proftpd on it. our site has approximately 45000-5 documents on it, and receives about 9 hits a day. we host about 10

PostNuke installed on FreeBSD ?

2002-11-07 Thread Darryl Hoar
Anybody have postnuke installed on FreeBSD ? Is there a port for it ? thanks, Darryl To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: end of line ^M

2002-11-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, I have developed a device driver for BSD and I mailed it to a customer from a windows machine.But the driver did not compile on the target BSD machine.we found that because the src files got ^M's for every end -of -line beacause of windows,and hence the compile did not go through.Is

Re: end of line ^M

2002-11-07 Thread Marcio Merlone
Jens Rehsack wrote: shubha mr wrote: Wouldn't it much better you use an editor which is able to edit files in unix node? There're several one's, eg. - Mr. Ed: http://www.utopia-planitia.de/ - Programmers File Editor - Visual Slick-Edit - WinEdit BTW, I have not found such kind of programmer

Re: end of line ^M

2002-11-07 Thread Jens Rehsack
Marcio Merlone wrote: Jens Rehsack wrote: shubha mr wrote: Wouldn't it much better you use an editor which is able to edit files in unix node? There're several one's, eg. - Mr. Ed: http://www.utopia-planitia.de/ - Programmers File Editor - Visual Slick-Edit - WinEdit BTW, I have not found

Re: NATD HELP

2002-11-07 Thread Nick Rogness
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Alvaro Rosales R. wrote: Im trying to set up natd in my FreeBSD BOX, I have read the NAT portion of the hand book but I still need some help. this is my environment 10.10.1.2 (internal ip address of my wkstation) 200.37.53.22 (this the natd box external IP address)

Re: Dump and nodump flag?

2002-11-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
- Original Message - From: Blake Swensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 9:59 AM Subject: Dump and nodump flag? The manual for dump states: ... -h level Honor the user ``nodump'' flag (UF_NODUMP) only for dumps at or

Printing to HP845c attached to Win2K - over samba?

2002-11-07 Thread Stacey Roberts
Is anyone successfully printing using apsfilter / smbprint from FBSD 4.7Stable to a printer attached to Win2K Pro, via samba? I have followed what bits of information I could gather from various sites and google results and I believe that I've set things up as required, but I still have problems

TOTALLY Scrogged 1TB RAID :(

2002-11-07 Thread jdc
I had a one TB RAID (Qlogic 2200 FC Copper, Chaparrel RAID, RAID3 because it wrote large files once and was subsequently read many times) which was working ok until today. The Qlogic Controller started reporting multiple Phase Errors about three days ago, but this was not logged anywhere until

stupid sed question

2002-11-07 Thread Mathew Kanner
Hello, I've been going nuts trying to figure out how to embed a newline in sed, and the man page just doesn't mean anything to me. What I would like is echo abc | sed -e's,b,\n' to get a c Of course, the above doesn't work and I'm looking for an

Re: stupid sed question

2002-11-07 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 15:46:25 -0500 Mathew Kanner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been going nuts trying to figure out how to embed a newline in sed, and the man page just doesn't mean anything to me. What I would like is echo abc | sed -e's,b,\n' to get a c How

Re: NATD HELP

2002-11-07 Thread Terrac Skiens
Basically you need these three things: 1) natd -n interface -f config file 2) sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 3) ifocnfig interface alias address to redirect to -terrac Minister of Tiny Plastic Robots --- Terrac Skienswww.terrac.com

Re: stupid sed question

2002-11-07 Thread Paul A. Scott
On 11/7/02 12:46 PM, Mathew Kanner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I would like is echo abc | sed -e's,b,\n' to get a c A script of the form: echo abc | sed -e 's,b,\ ,' will work if the newline is escaped with a backslash and the remainder of the sed substitute is on the next line. If you

Re: stupid sed question

2002-11-07 Thread Paul A. Scott
How about echo abc | tr 'b' '\n' ? tr substitutes characters only, while sed can work on arbitrary strings and patterns. My guess is that the example was a simplified expression of a more general requirement, in which case sed is appropriate and therefore, echo aaabbbccc | sed -e 's,bbb,\ ,'

Re: FreeBSD filesystem 1TB Limit

2002-11-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-11-07T06:48:32Z, Derrick Ryalls [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1200*1MB == 1.2GB, does it not? Yes, it does not. Usually, when talking computers, people use 2^10 which = 1024. So 1200 MB = 1.17 GB. Anyone correct me if I am wrong. I'm willing to call 1.17 as 1.2 for the sake of this

Re: stupid sed question

2002-11-07 Thread philipp
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/editor-faq/sed/ section 4.6 on Do, Nov 07, 2002 at 03:46:25pm -0500, Mathew Kanner wrote: Hello, I've been going nuts trying to figure out how to embed a newline in sed, and the man page just doesn't mean anything to me. What I would like is echo abc |

Removing and Replacing FreeBSD

2002-11-07 Thread Natalie Behm
Having gone over and over and over and over the handbook and installation guides, I have determined that the installation of FreeBSD just does NOT work for me. Perhaps it is because I'm not a programmer, perhaps it's because I'm a complete moron (as I'm sure anyone reading this will make a

Re: stupid sed question

2002-11-07 Thread Mathew Kanner
On Nov 07, Paul A. Scott wrote: How about echo abc | tr 'b' '\n' ? tr substitutes characters only, while sed can work on arbitrary strings and patterns. My guess is that the example was a simplified expression of a more general requirement, in which case sed is appropriate and therefore,

Re: Re: regarding 4.7 stable

2002-11-07 Thread Jud
-Original Message- From: Charles Pelletier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: paul beard [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jud [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 20:43:13 -0600 Subject: Re: regarding 4.7 stable will the ports-supfile ONLY upgrade ports? Charles Pelletier

Re: FreeBSD filesystem 1TB Limit

2002-11-07 Thread DaleCo Help Desk
- Original Message - From: Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 3:23 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD filesystem 1TB Limit At 2002-11-07T06:48:32Z, Derrick Ryalls [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1200*1MB == 1.2GB, does it not? Yes, it does not.

Re: Removing and Replacing FreeBSD

2002-11-07 Thread Jud
-Original Message- From: Natalie Behm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 13:33:46 -0800 (PST) Subject: Removing and Replacing FreeBSD Having gone over and over and over and over the handbook and installation guides, I have determined that the installation of

vm error

2002-11-07 Thread Doug Hardie
I am getting a rash of vm errors that started today: vm_page_cache: attempting to cache busy page I don't seem to find anything obviously wrong in the system. How do I tell which process is causing the problem? It looks like something is hung, but I don't see any obvious candidates.

Re: Removing and Replacing FreeBSD

2002-11-07 Thread DaleCo Help Desk
From: Natalie Behm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 3:33 PM Subject: Removing and Replacing FreeBSD Having gone over and over and over and over the handbook and installation guides, I have determined that the installation of FreeBSD just does NOT work

Re: FreeBSD filesystem 1TB Limit

2002-11-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-11-07T21:37:11Z, DaleCo Help Desk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, to be as nitpicky as both of y'all are, the thread didn't *start* with the statement 1200*1MB is too big---looks from here as if that was the _fifth_ post. To be very nitpicky, I guess I should've said subthread. :)

Re: Port managment

2002-11-07 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Not specific answers, but take a look at the portupgrade and porteasy ports... they do port management and might be able to answer your questions. -philip On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote: Hi, I would like some help with port/file managment. I am trying to figure out a way of

Re: Port managment

2002-11-07 Thread DaleCo Help Desk
Many folks like /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade.. I believe it's touted to do everything you listed and more.. Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. - Original Message - From: Lefteris Tsintjelis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 4:00 PM Subject: Port

monitoring CPU/mem etc without SNMP

2002-11-07 Thread twig les
Hey all, after a bit of thinking and some looking thru email archives I'm still stumped on a way to get CPU, memory, disk I/O, disk use etc info from one machine to another without using SNMP. All these boxes are FreeBSD 4.7 Release. I'm sure I could rig a script to ssh into the boxes and do

Re: Removing and Replacing FreeBSD

2002-11-07 Thread DaleCo Help Desk
Having gone over and over and over and over the handbook and installation guides, I have determined that the installation of FreeBSD just does NOT work for me. Perhaps it is because I'm not a programmer, perhaps it's because I'm a complete moron (as I'm sure anyone reading this will make a

Re: Port managment

2002-11-07 Thread Lefteris Tsintjelis
Thanks for your answer but, how would it help for example to find ports that do not depend in any other ports? DaleCo Help Desk wrote: Many folks like /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade.. I believe it's touted to do everything you listed and more.. Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. -

FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE, shared library qtmcop.1 does not exist, for kdelibs3?

2002-11-07 Thread N.E.
Hello, I'm trying to install /usr/ports/x11/kdelibs3. I've been getting the following error: Error: shared library qtmcop.1 does not exist, for kdelibs3? Source left? Can anyone tell me what's is? Thanks. -- N.Evermann To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: Apache and getting started!

2002-11-07 Thread Fred Willow
Obviously Mr Cassidy has some unresolved anger... Maybe reading a manual about that might help?!? ... E-Mail: Bryan Cassidy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Operating System: FreeBSD 4.6.2 Gaim: bsdsys Yahoo Messenger: bsdsys Please do not simply Reply-To: Bryan Cassidy [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is OK to Cc: me

Re: Apache and getting started!

2002-11-07 Thread Andrew Boothman
Bryan Cassidy wrote: OK. I'm about to install Apache/PHP from the ports as soon as I get some replies on this. I think I'm gonna try and use name.dyndns.org for a website to start out with then take it from there. After I install apache then PHP what should I do to get it to where when I load

Re: Apache and getting started!

2002-11-07 Thread Bryan Cassidy
Thank you. Atleast you was nice about it. I am installing things now and I'm gonna go on and read some manuals on it and someone already gave me some help so I'm gonna try that and see how things work. I appreciate that you were nice about it so thanx anyways.. See ya On Fri, 08 Nov 2002 02:45:45

Re: Dell PowerVault

2002-11-07 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:28:29 +1000, Christopher Smith wrote: We are looking to setup a sorta-redundant pair of servers for a student computer lab, consisting of a pair of 2650s and a Dell PowerVault stuffed full of drives. The idea is to have all data related storage on the PV (home

Eating Crow...

2002-11-07 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Dear List Seems likes it's time to eat some crow. A poster says... this completely user-UNfriendly operating system and replacing it with something that we commonplace morons can use? Three people answer her. Two of them do the Right Thing(tm) and give a polite and accurate

RE: monitoring CPU/mem etc without SNMP

2002-11-07 Thread chris scott
better still why dont you setup a simple vpn to to each host from the monitoring box, and only bind the snmpd to the interal ip, forewall off the public side totally. If all the machines are local then just build a service network to run the snmp traffic over instead of the vpn, basically there

Re: make fails during upgrade, so...

2002-11-07 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Giorgos Keramidas thusly... On 2002-11-06 02:00, parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Giorgos Keramidas thusly... # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf # config -d /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NEWKERNEL NEWKERNEL # cd

a strange perl problem?

2002-11-07 Thread Vincent Chen
Hi, all I wrote a perl script to destroy gif interface. It has a line looks like this: system(ifconfig,gif0,destroy); yes, this script is running suidperl and has suid bit set. The problem is this script work fine if called under shell prompt but not working if called by a suidperl CGI. Any

Re: tip(1) questions

2002-11-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
So I have tried to use tip to connect to this old printer, and it seems less than responsive. tip will connect but that I can't use any escapes: I have to kill the tip process from another session. I did successfully get the printer to identify itself after I power-cycled it, but that

Re: your mail about domain name

2002-11-07 Thread DaleCo Help Desk
From: Tiago Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 7:43 AM Hello there... I have a host conect do the router, How do i send my domain name to the dns server, i can ping by the ip but not by domain Thanks Tiago Camilo More

fail on glibc install

2002-11-07 Thread David Banning
=== Installing for linux_base-7.1_1 kern.fallback_elf_brand: -1 - 3 glibc-common-2.2.4-29.i386.rpm glibc-2.2.4-29.i386.rpm execution of glibc-2.2.4-29 script failed, exit status 0 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base. *** Error code 1 Stop in

Perl Problems

2002-11-07 Thread Shawn Ramsey
I am having problems getting almost any perl module to compile... If I install from the ports (assuming there is one) they compile fine. But installing from source fails on just about every module that needs to be compiled. This is on both perl 5.005_03 (system perl, I believe, this is a

Re: NIS gods angry

2002-11-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 07), Tim Kellers said: I'm using NFS to mount /usr/home from the server on the client machine. All the accounts on the server have their home directories in /usr/home ypcat passwd returns the passwd list, ypwhich returns the master server name, chpass (usernameon

Re: NIS gods angry

2002-11-07 Thread Mike Hogsett
Definitely sounds like a problem with the + line in the passwd file. Run vipw, and verify that +: is at the bottom. If it still doesn't work, try truss'ing id -u zoomba and verify that it's reading the NIS files and doing network calls. Don't forget to add +::: to

gpg -random bytes

2002-11-07 Thread Brian Henning
hello- i have looked for a solution on google for this problem but i can't find anything... when i run: gpg --gen-key i get this error: Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 300 more bytes) can someone tell me how

Re: NIS gods angry

2002-11-07 Thread Mike Hogsett
Thanks for the replies, guys, it's (freakin' finally) working. Thank the NIS Gods. I don't know if it was the extra blank line before the +: in /etc/master.passwd was the culprit It is likely. or the weird characters in /var/yp/ypservers. I did some reading to try and find

[Fwd: Re: Apache and getting started!]

2002-11-07 Thread paul beard
I'm even less inclined to help now that I received this nasty-gram: looks like I need a few filters of my own. Original Message Subject: Re: Apache and getting started! Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 20:06:24 -0600 From: Bryan Cassidy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: paul beard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

send-pr web page forbidden?

2002-11-07 Thread Bob Johnson
http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html returns forbidden. Is this intentional, or is something misconfigured? - Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

IP aliasing with ppp

2002-11-07 Thread krad
hi, I currently have a /29 assigned by my isp for my dsl. I have got my bsd box connecting fine and natd is working off one off the ips. I would like to bind the remaining 5 ips to the tun0 interface on the bsd box and enable static nating to certain boxes behind the firewall. I am however

Re: Laptops FreeBSD?

2002-11-07 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Thursday, Nov 7, 2002, at 23:35 US/Pacific, Steve (CK) wrote: My first thought was an iBook or TiBook running OS X but the prohibitive cost has me second-guessing that option. Maybe if the new IBM PPC chips were to be introduced before next fall in the iBook I would take this option but