Repeaters [off topic]

2012-08-21 Thread Bob Hall
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Re: what is the best kind of KVM Switch?

2012-08-11 Thread Bob Hall
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:18:59PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: guys, can any of you with hardware background tell me which are the better KVM makes? about three weeks ago my Belkin soho 4-port kvm switch started going flakey on port #1. I ordered a new one,

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-29 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 01:54:06AM +0100, RW wrote: On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:17:41 -0400 Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:10:10AM +0100, RW wrote: I'm not saying that anonymous mappings used by malloc aren't zero-filled, just that it's not mentioned anywhere

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-28 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:10:10AM +0100, RW wrote: I'm not saying that anonymous mappings used by malloc aren't zero-filled, just that it's not mentioned anywhere in the mmap man page. I think it's just taken as read. I just got what you're trying to say. Unfortunately, your quotes mislead me

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-27 Thread Bob Hall
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:41 AM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: The above quote states that the memory not occupied by the remapped object is zero filled. Which is to say that memory allocated by mmap() is either filled with new data or filled with zeros. In context it says:     If

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-25 Thread Bob Hall
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:18:46PM +0100, RW wrote: I don't believe the heap is allocated zeroed pages. The kernel does allocate such pages to the BSS segment, but that's because it holds zeroed data such as C static variables. According to McKusick and Neville-Neil's book on FreeBSD, sbrk

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-25 Thread Bob Hall
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:46:33PM +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:18:46PM +0100, RW wrote: I don't believe the heap is allocated zeroed pages.  The kernel does allocate such pages to the BSS segment

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-25 Thread Bob Hall
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:29:08PM +0100, RW wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:54:20 -0400 Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:46:33PM +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:18:46PM

Re: Image activator

2011-04-20 Thread Bob Hall
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:48:38AM +0530, akash kumar wrote: Hi, Can someone throw light on what ELF image activators is all about and point me to some good articles on it. You mean the thingy that starts execution of a file by setting up process memory and remapping the text and initialized

statclock vs softclock

2011-01-19 Thread Bob Hall
I hope this is the correct forum. I'm reading The Design Implementation of the FreeBSD OS by McKusick Neville-Neil, I'm a little confused about statclock( ) and softclock( ). According to the book, statclock( ) ticks 128 times per second, and recalculates the priority of the current process

Re: Simple command to reset / clear all logs?

2011-01-12 Thread Bob Hall
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 08:21:45PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 02:17:10 +0900, Ryuichiro Hara r...@kibug.org wrote: Hello, It might be all right to remove all normal file logs, though you may want to retain all subdirectories. find /var/log -type f -exec rm {} \;

Portupgrade status [Was Re: Portmaster general questions and problems]

2010-12-26 Thread Bob Hall
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:39:58AM -0800, Ron (Lists) wrote: But, due to portupgrade no longer being maintained and failing to work anymore, I'm a bit confused about this. I did a quick google search and saw that someone had stopped maintaining portupgrade, but I also saw things that suggested

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD)

2010-10-20 Thread Bob Hall
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:07:55PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 10/20/2010 11:55 AM, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:47:38AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El d?a Tuesday, October 19, 2010 a las 07:29:46PM -0700, Gary Kline

Re: Little question about device driver name

2010-09-24 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 07:04:06PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: Hi folks, I just wonder why if_bridge(4) is prefixed by if_ for device name. Every other device name like lagg(4), gif(4) are not prefixed with this same one. if_bridge was based on bridge. I assume that when the updated

Re: Is this bunk.

2010-08-22 Thread Bob Hall
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 01:25:34AM +0100, Garry wrote: Mac OS X is basically BSD that's been appleised (serious vendor lock-in), they do give a little back to BSDs, but have made sure that BSDs can't get much off of them, but they can get a lot out of BSD. If the kernel is the basis of an OS,

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-29 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 09:52:07AM +0200, ?? wrote: On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:55:04 -0600 Dale Scott dalesc...@shaw.ca wrote: Personally, I enjoy our mascot Beastie, as well as the Beastie-influenced official logo. I also smile when I see Casper, Wendy andHotStuff. However, I also

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-29 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:03:07AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:15:27AM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: Beastie is the mascot, and the sex toy is the logo. It is only the mascot that the OP objected to. He didn't mention any objections to the logo. Actually, the OP

Re: Directory Passwords

2010-06-12 Thread Bob Hall
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 02:52:59PM -0400, Mike Robins wrote: Hi there, I currently am running a FreeBSD/Samba server for my company with public shares for all of the employees to keep their work related documents in. I'm wondering if it is possible for me to keep these shares public and add a

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-28 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:53:39PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Thursday 27 May 2010 05:18:07 pm Bob Hall wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 04:36:08PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: ps: antiword same as catdoc. back to my per substitutions. that works, along with vi's Builtin subs. Have

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-28 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:45:38AM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: Another possibility, if you haven't considered it, is using sed to convert everything. If you know all the characters that need to be Never mind. I just remembered about the garbage at the beginning of doc files. I had forgotten that I

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-27 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 04:36:08PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: ps: antiword same as catdoc. back to my per substitutions. that works, along with vi's Builtin subs. Have you considered using whatever replaces the most special characters, and fixing the few characters that remain with

Re: Autoresponders [pa...@magi.magidesign.com: [#24508600] Re: Need advise.]

2010-05-20 Thread Bob Hall
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:37:22PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: Headers attached, so we can stop this nonsense in the future. I've gotten the same thing, and I'm a bit confused. What exactly is going on? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Question not found in FAQs or other documentation

2010-05-15 Thread Bob Hall
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 05:57:35PM -0400, jon wrote: To whom it concerns, I am a relatively basic/amateur computer user and I just noticed today that my recent servers lists Free BSD. I do not knowingly connect to any outside servers and am concerned that any server has been connected

Re: Setting firewall symbolic constants

2010-03-30 Thread Bob Hall
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 07:52:57AM -0500, Walter wrote: Can these be set by the system automatically? Specifically $firewall_simple_onet? I use onet=`ifconfig if | grep inet | awk '{print $6}'` where if is rl0 or em0 or whatever the outward facing interface is for your system.

Re: Setting firewall symbolic constants

2010-03-30 Thread Bob Hall
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 04:17:22PM -0500, Walter wrote: Can these be set by the system automatically? Specifically $firewall_simple_onet? My first response never showed up. Second try. I use onet=`ifconfig rl0 | grep inet | awk '{print $6}'` where rl0 is the outward facing NIC on

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-19 Thread Bob Hall
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 11:48:55AM -0400, PJ wrote: Bob Hall wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 05:36:43PM -0400, PJ wrote: Bob Hall wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 02:34:40AM +, Mark wrote: Actually, this has got very little to do with being a native English

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-17 Thread Bob Hall
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 05:36:43PM -0400, PJ wrote: Bob Hall wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 02:34:40AM +, Mark wrote: Actually, this has got very little to do with being a native English speaker or not. It's ere a matter of intonation (which, in writing, can only be conveyed

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 07:27:42PM -0400, PJ wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:54:23 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: but from man tunefs: BUGS This utility should work on active file systems. What in hades does this mean--just above it says cannot be run on active

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread Bob Hall
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 02:34:40AM +, Mark wrote: Actually, this has got very little to do with being a native English speaker or not. It's ere a matter of intonation (which, in writing, can only be conveyed to a certain degree, of course). 'Should' can certainly mean Don't try that. As

Re: Regex Help - Greedy vs. Non-Greedy

2009-09-09 Thread Bob Hall
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:15:25AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm trying to do a search and replace in vim. I have lines like this: http://site1/dir/; http://site2/dir/;LastName, FirstName;Phone; http://site3/dir/;LastName, FirstName; http://site4/dir/; I'm want to match http:* and stop

Re: Restarting hal

2009-07-25 Thread Bob Hall
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 08:41:38AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:02:39 -0400, Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com wrote: Aside from the ctrl-alt-bksp bug, this has been the easiest X setup I've ever done. I've tried it with and without hal and both are easy to set up. Given my level

Re: Restarting hal

2009-07-24 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 08:57:43AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:43:50 -0400, Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to get hal to reload its configuration withou rebooting? I've tried sending a HUP signal and I've tried rc.d/hal restart, but so far rebooting

Re: vim port have a lot of broken links ??

2009-07-24 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:13:43PM +0200, Kalle Mller wrote: When I try to install vim from ports it tries 4-5 sites which all have to time out... and with a 200 files.. thats a lot of timeouts.. Who should I poke to, so the mirrors would be updated ?? -- Med Venlig Hilsen Hi Kalle, If

Restarting hal

2009-07-23 Thread Bob Hall
Thanks to Manolis Kiagias's suggestion, I was able to get ctrl+alt+bksp working in xorg again. However, I've noticed that just restarting hal leaves me with no mouse or keyboard in X. I have to reboot the system to get a mouse keyboard in X. Is there a way to get hal to reload its configuration

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 03:04:05PM +, RW wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:38:13 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: set up tor and use it as socks proxy with your browser and python script. You don't need privoxy for that. but isn't the point of of

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-08-08 Thread Bob Hall
A few years later about 6 months after the book went out of print I actually bought a box of 20 of the books for something like a dollar a book, from a remainder dealer, just to have a future cache of them that I could give away. I probably wouldn't be using FBSD now if it wasn't for your

Re: FreeBSD Server Settings Consult

2008-05-02 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 07:28:44AM -0400, Free BSD wrote: We've been having some problems with our server and I was wondering if someone had any advice or suggestions for our current system settings. You'll probably get more help if you post the problems and any diagnostic info. :)

Re: traceroute problems

2008-03-10 Thread Bob Hall
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:30:05PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: traceroute uses UDP packets, no special port numbers. Outgoing is UDP. The return packet is ICMP type 11. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Recommendations for djvu and bittorrent

2008-02-12 Thread Bob Hall
Thanks to all for the suggestions and comments. I'm using rtorrent for the torrents. I noticed that I was uploading today, which I hadn't expected (I'm behind a firewall and NAT), but I'm happy to do in order to help make this public domain material available to people who are interested in

Recommendations for djvu and bittorrent

2008-02-10 Thread Bob Hall
I found some old public domain translations of Prajnaparamita texts available in djvu format and available via bittorrent. I have no experience with either one. Does anyone have any recommendations for djvu readers or torrent clients in the ports? Thanks, Bob Hall

xorg-drivers-7.3

2008-01-21 Thread Bob Hall
I'm trying to update xorg-drivers-7.3 on an old machine. I didn't know that the i810 drivers do the job of the i740 drivers, so I selected i740 in the config screen when I ran portmanager. Unfortunately, this conflicts with i810, and unfortunately, this choice I made is preserved in some

Re: xorg-drivers-7.3

2008-01-21 Thread Bob Hall
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 03:15:19PM -0500, Chess Griffin wrote: Bob Hall wrote: I'm trying to update xorg-drivers-7.3 on an old machine. I didn't know that the i810 drivers do the job of the i740 drivers, so I selected i740 in the config screen when I ran portmanager. Unfortunately

Re: how to be *nix programmer

2008-01-16 Thread Bob Hall
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 04:42:48PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 03:48:47PM -0500, Radheshyam Bhatt wrote: Hello People, How's it going?I am interested in to developing drivers for FreeBSD. How do I go about start learning program for

Re: IPFW Rules and Games

2007-11-02 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 04:59:27AM -0500, Jack Barnett wrote: I added this for a temporary fix: ${fwcmd} add pass all from any to any I don't think that is the right answer; That allows to much in? Yes. I've tried these per the docs: ${fwcmd} add allow all from any to any out via

Re: IPFW Rules and Games

2007-11-02 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 10:59:04PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: onet=`ifconfig xl0 | grep inet | awk '{print $6}'` I'm not sure about this. Isn't the sixth word the broadcast address (ending with .255)? It's correct. I've been using this in my firewall file since FBSD 4.something.

Re: Should sudo be used?

2007-04-05 Thread Bob Hall
security measures are in place, my biggest concern is clumsy fingers. Sudo limits the harm that can occur and backups ensure recovery. Bob Hall ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Should I Upgrade 5.4 - 6.2?

2007-03-17 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 01:14:45AM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:46:45PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 05:09:57PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 04:47:06PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First

Re: Need a good Unix script that..

2007-03-14 Thread Bob Hall
. Someone somewhere maintains a sed FAQ along with a file of 100 sed statements giving examples of various tasks. I can't remember the URL, but googling will probably bring it up. Bob Hall ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: List Protocol (was: Major Version Upgrade 4.11 to 5.x)

2006-12-12 Thread Bob Hall
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 04:49:39PM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: a young girl in a tank top and boobs out front Isn't that where the boobs are usually installed? Until then STFU you ungrateful bastards. All you once were dumb newbies who didn't know FreeBSD from free beer, and I'll bet

Re: Top behavior differences

2006-09-10 Thread Bob Hall
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 08:56:31AM -0400, stan wrote: Can someone explain to me why top's handling of multi processor status display is different on FreeBSD, than it is on Linux? Open source started with the concept of individuals hacking the source code to get the features they want. The

Re: Top behavior differences

2006-09-10 Thread Bob Hall
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 06:04:04PM -0400, stan wrote: On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 11:57:05AM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 08:56:31AM -0400, stan wrote: Can someone explain to me why top's handling of multi processor status display is different on FreeBSD, than it is on Linux

Re: AND COBOL

2006-03-07 Thread Bob Hall
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 04:33:05PM -0800, jdow wrote: From: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give the poor guy a break; he's a COBOL programmer, so he's used to thinking and typing in all-caps :-) And just think, both COBOL and AOL end in OL. I wonder if there is a relationship? LOL? Or

Re: Crontab and GPG?

2005-10-26 Thread Bob Hall
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 03:52:53AM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:10:57PM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 03:00:18PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 02:45:02PM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:13:52PM -0500

Re: Crontab and GPG?

2005-10-26 Thread Bob Hall
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:31:44PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:23:29AM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 03:52:53AM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:10:57PM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 03:00:18PM -0400, Kris

Re: Crontab and GPG?

2005-10-26 Thread Bob Hall
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 08:06:28PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 07:51:03PM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:31:44PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:23:29AM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 03:52:53AM -0400, Kris

Re: Crontab and GPG?

2005-10-25 Thread Bob Hall
/etc/pgpdecrypt.logger PGP Decrypter Starting Take the /bin/bash out of your crontab. Put #!/bin/bash at the beginning of your script. I just looked at your script quickly, but it looks like it should run in sh. For portability, you can use #!/bin/sh Bob Hall

Re: Crontab and GPG?

2005-10-25 Thread Bob Hall
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 03:00:18PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 02:45:02PM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:13:52PM -0500, Robert Wall wrote: Hello! I'm attempting to run GPG from cron, and it's not working. I can run the script from the command

Mutt weirdness

2005-10-04 Thread Bob Hall
needs updating (port has 5.52_2) xterm-204 needs updating (port has 205_1) I've tried googling for mutt and bottom of screen, which is all I can think of, but no luck. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Bob Hall

Re: Mutt weirdness

2005-10-04 Thread Bob Hall
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 03:51:26PM -0700, Danny Howard wrote: On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 06:15:14PM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: I did portupgrade -ar last night. When I tried to use mutt this morning, it was behaving weirdly. Mutt wasn't one of the upgrades. I'm pretty sure this command isn't

Re: ct Re: NMAP probing of network ports

2005-09-16 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 07:36:36AM -0500, Boris Karloff wrote: It appears that when FreeBSD is sent an invalid packet without the SYN or ACK bits set, it responds with a RESET reply regardless of the ipfw rules. It appears this is one of the things nmap is exploiting. Any suggestions on how

Re: Can I do this?

2005-09-15 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 10:05:12PM -0400, Lisa Casey wrote: What's the quickest easiest way to change the IP address on the new 5.3 box? Should I do it via /stand/sysinstall or should I change it in /etc/rc.conf and /etc/hosts (or do I need to do something with ifconfig - which I'm least

Re: DHCP assigned unregistered IP address

2005-07-15 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:38:07AM +0100, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Bob Hall wrote: The modem web page contained this: The SURFboard cable modem can be used as a gateway to the Internet by a maximum of 32 users on a Local Area Network (LAN). When the Cable Modem is disconnected

Re: DHCP assigned unregistered IP address

2005-07-15 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 07:14:52PM +0100, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Also if the 4100 can't reach the DHCP server, the green lights won't ever all come on, so it's pretty obvious when there is a fault. Of course, that might be because the local DHCP server has been turned off ;-) In this case, the

Re: DHCP assigned unregistered IP address

2005-07-14 Thread Bob Hall
Thanks for all the replies. Responses to everyone's comments and suggestions: 1) It is a Motorola cable modem. (SB5100) 2) I can access 192.168.100.1 after modifying the firewall rules that stop RFC1918 nets on the outside interface. (IPFW) There's no checkbox to disable DHCP. I downloaded the

DHCP assigned unregistered IP address

2005-07-13 Thread Bob Hall
Tonight, during a thunderstorm, I shutdown the household FBSD internet gateway. After the storm passed, I booted it up again, only to discover that during the bootup, my ISP's DHCP server had assigned me a new IP address. That wasn't a problem in itself, but the new address was 192.168.100.11, an

Re: perl-after-upgrade

2005-07-07 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 06:55:58PM +0200, legalois wrote: Bob Hall wrote: I don't know squat about perl. I recently ran portupgrade, which upgraded perl. Goose stopped working, because the location for Curses.pm was no longer in @INC. I tried to run perl-after-upgrade, but I couldn't get

Re: perl-after-upgrade

2005-07-07 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:53:48PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Thursday, July 07, 2005 14:39:44 -0400 Bob Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I stated above, I used portupgrade. That means that any messages at the end of the perl upgrade scrolled off the screen and out of the screen

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD (Beastie vs Penguin)

2005-07-06 Thread Bob Hall
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 11:43:07PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: 30 years from now they will probably try for bestiality marriage Beastie getting married? Be still my heart! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

perl-after-upgrade

2005-07-06 Thread Bob Hall
I don't know squat about perl. I recently ran portupgrade, which upgraded perl. Goose stopped working, because the location for Curses.pm was no longer in @INC. I tried to run perl-after-upgrade, but I couldn't get it to run. I've got a book that said to use # perl perl-after-upgrade or

Re: perl-after-upgrade

2005-07-06 Thread Bob Hall
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 03:10:04PM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: I don't know squat about perl. I recently ran portupgrade, which upgraded perl. Goose stopped working, because the location for Curses.pm was no longer in @INC. I tried to run perl-after-upgrade, but I couldn't get it to run. I found

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread Bob Hall
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 01:02:33AM +0400, Dmitry Mityugov wrote: I am, personally, currently helping my friend to buy and configure a computer for him and his family. Although I know FreeBSD better than Linux (and this does not mean I am a FreeBSD guru), I'll be installing something like

Lilypond and LaTeX

2005-06-01 Thread Bob Hall
I haven't used Lilypond since last fall. Running the current port (lilypond-2.2.2) today, I get the following error message: * lilypond: error: LaTeX failed on the output file. lilypond: error: The error log is as follows: ! Undefined control

Re: Where's the grammar: hostname nor servname provided, or not known

2005-05-28 Thread Bob Hall
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 04:13:52PM -0500, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: Hello! Can someone please change this in the source: hostname nor servname provided, or not known That's a bit archaic, but perfectly correct. See the most recent edition of Fowler's.

Re: MySQL Server died yesterday !

2005-04-20 Thread Bob Hall
permissions (ls -l). If it's not there, you may have to back up all your tables and reinstall. Or you may be able to reinstall just the host table. Further questions should go to a MySQL mailing list. Bob Hall ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: messages from dhclient

2005-04-17 Thread Bob Hall
solution is in the archives, here: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2005-January/071412.html Again, I can't promise that it will solve your problem. Bob Hall ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Outgoing port 113 connections

2005-04-04 Thread Bob Hall
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 11:46:26AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My firewall keeps reporting that it denies outgoing 113 port connections. Why would I allow port 113 outgoing connections? I don't seem to have any problems at the moment. Also, how would I identify which program is

Re: samba ldap

2005-02-28 Thread Bob Hall
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 11:56:49AM +0100, Florian Hengstberger wrote: Disabled by default? Sorry, but I've never specified any ldap options in my smb.conf but the server always tries to authentificate the users with an ldap server. With or without LDAP compiled in, Samba shouldn't be asking

Firefox configuration problem

2005-02-18 Thread Bob Hall
uname -a FreeBSD kongemord.krig.net 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Sep 13 00:17:04 EDT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KONGEMORD0 i386 Port: firefox-1.0_7,1 Firefox can't write to its configuration files when I make changes. I can manually edit them. The bookmark and

Re: Firefox configuration problem

2005-02-18 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 06:04:24PM -0500, Mike Hauber wrote: On Friday 18 February 2005 04:42 pm, Bob Hall wrote: uname -a FreeBSD kongemord.krig.net 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Sep 13 00:17:04 EDT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KONGEMORD0 i386 Port

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-17 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 09:36:36AM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Only my personal experience. In addition to not being comfortable with the BSD logo, a couple of the programmers here didn't like my Ouija-board mouse pad, because they associated it with the occult,

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Bob Hall
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:22:38PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: It has been widely alleged (and is even likely) that Windows got large parts of the TCP/IP implementation from some BSD implementation, but so far no proof has appeared. Actually, MS admitted to it. From Win2k on, much of the

Re: How do I do a COLD Reboot on FreeBSD?

2005-02-01 Thread Bob Hall
This may help. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/assembly-language/x86/general/part3/section-5.html Bob Hall ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: dhclient stops trying to get a new lease

2005-01-28 Thread Bob Hall
, as part of the lease. You may be able to set it a century into the future by setting up a permanent lease. I've never tried it, so I don't know. Bob Hall ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Backups / Dump etc

2005-01-14 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:30:49PM -0800, Tabor Kelly wrote: Jeff MacDonald wrote: snip On a related note: If I want to do complete dumps of all of my file systems do I need to be in single user mode? Will running in multiuser mode (with all of my normal daemons running) mess up my

Re: Hosts.allow and netatalk/cups

2005-01-11 Thread Bob Hall
-a FreeBSD kongemord.krig.net 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Sep 13 00 :17:04 EDT 2004 kongemord.krig.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KONGEMORD0 i386 Bob Hall ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Hosts.allow and netatalk/cups

2005-01-11 Thread Bob Hall
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 02:31:47AM -0500, Bob Hall wrote: Three questions: How do I cause changes in the hosts.allow file to take effect without rebooting? Everything I've seen says to restart inetd, but I'm not using inetd. I searched with different keywords and found the answer

Re: dhclient: send_packet: Permission denied

2005-01-10 Thread Bob Hall
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 08:25:39PM -0500, Bob Hall wrote: I keep getting the message dhclient: send_packet: Permission denied This stopped when I added ${fwcmd} add allow udp from ${router} bootps to ${bcast} bootpc in via ${oif} to my rule set. My dhclient

Hosts.allow and netatalk/cups

2005-01-10 Thread Bob Hall
of what the cnidscheme setting is, it announces that's there's no cnid scheme selected and uses the default. Bob Hall ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: I quit

2005-01-09 Thread Bob Hall
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 06:17:36PM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 08:54:55 -0600 Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mac OSX is based upon FreeBSD and may have native versions of the Mac OSX was--and unless something has changed drastically in the last few

Re: dhclient: send_packet: Permission denied

2005-01-08 Thread Bob Hall
I keep getting the message dhclient: send_packet: Permission denied I try sockstat | grep dhclient and get root dhclient 247 4 udp4 *:68 *:* root dhclient 247 6 dgram - /var/run/log I utter psgrep dhclient and get

dhclient: send_packet: Permission denied

2005-01-06 Thread Bob Hall
I keep getting the message dhclient: send_packet: Permission denied I try sockstat | grep dhclient and get root dhclient 247 4 udp4 *:68 *:* root dhclient 247 6 dgram - /var/run/log I utter psgrep dhclient and get

Re: firewall

2003-09-18 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 08:54:30AM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:29:22 -0400 Bob Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apologies humbly offered. Apparently, I'm getting confused by reading My fault. I'm too impatient. the tons of documentation I've been looking at. For now

Re: firewall

2003-09-17 Thread Bob Hall
going to implement NAT. Again, you can't proceed, and we can't help you, until you decide. You have to pick one of the three options listed at the top. Bob Hall ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: What's the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD?

2003-09-17 Thread Bob Hall
problems for Diff Eq class. Bob Hall ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: firewall

2003-09-16 Thread Bob Hall
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 06:17:13PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:56:07 -0400 Bob Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another poster pointed out, and I seconded, that you need to set up NAT. There was no divert rule in your previous rule list, and you haven't mentioned

Re: firewall

2003-09-15 Thread Bob Hall
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:25:51PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:52:40 -0400 Bob Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you be more specific about what doesn't work? Have you tried ping and traceroute? nslookup? HTTP? Sometimes when people are having trouble, it turns

Re: NAT without recompiling my kernel ?

2003-09-15 Thread Bob Hall
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:55:01PM +0100, Wayne Pascoe wrote: Hi all, I've got ipfw working and logging without recompiling my kernel. I've now hit my next problem... Is it possible to use NAT without recompiling ? I've kldloaded the\ No. Bob Hall

Re: firewall

2003-09-14 Thread Bob Hall
a problem for him. Bob Hall ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: firewall

2003-09-14 Thread Bob Hall
will have more success with the SIMPLE ruleset. (I made the same mistake the first time I set up a LAN firewall.) Bob Hall ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: I need help getting a desktop working.

2003-09-13 Thread Bob Hall
know how to install it, su to root (type su at the $ prompt, and enter the root password), and type /stand/sysinstall. Follow the instructions. By default, X-windows is installed with the twm window manager. At the $ prompt, type startx. That's the quickest route to a working desktop. Bob Hall

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