Re: sendmail problems

2007-10-18 Thread Duane Winner
Derek Ragona wrote: At 06:15 PM 10/17/2007, Duane Winner wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: At 04:07 PM 10/17/2007, Duane Winner wrote: Hello, I need help to resolve a problem with my sendmail server. In my /var/log/maillog, I've been seeing: sm-mta[1753]: l9H4EoAn001753: outbound-mail

Re: sendmail problems

2007-10-18 Thread Duane Winner
Derek Ragona wrote: At 01:27 PM 10/18/2007, Duane Winner wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: At 06:15 PM 10/17/2007, Duane Winner wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: At 04:07 PM 10/17/2007, Duane Winner wrote: Hello, I need help to resolve a problem with my sendmail server. In my /var/log

sendmail problems

2007-10-17 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, I need help to resolve a problem with my sendmail server. In my /var/log/maillog, I've been seeing: sm-mta[1753]: l9H4EoAn001753: outbound-mail-10.bluehost.com [69.89.17.210] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to IPv4 I use this server to manage mailman lists, so I knew

Re: sendmail problems

2007-10-17 Thread Duane Winner
Derek Ragona wrote: At 04:07 PM 10/17/2007, Duane Winner wrote: Hello, I need help to resolve a problem with my sendmail server. In my /var/log/maillog, I've been seeing: sm-mta[1753]: l9H4EoAn001753: outbound-mail-10.bluehost.com [69.89.17.210] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during

security patches and release number question

2007-10-04 Thread Duane Winner
Hi, Question about patch numbers and applying patches: Last night, I got the openssl security advisory, and this morning am starting to patch my servers. I've always just done a make build world; make build kernel; make install kernel; make install world when I've need to patch. Today,

Re: What is affected by FreeBSD-SA-07:08.openssl ?

2007-10-04 Thread Duane Winner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexandre Biancalana wrote: Hi list, A quick: $ grep -lr SSL_get_shared_ciphers /usr/src 2 /dev/null /usr/src/crypto/openssl/apps/s_client.c /usr/src/crypto/openssl/apps/s_server.c /usr/src/crypto/openssl/doc/ssleay.txt

urgent sendmail question

2007-09-24 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, I know if I poked around enough, I could find the answer, but am up against the wall here and need a quick solution. I just discovered a major problem with my sendmail configurations. Just recently started consolidating servers by virtual hosting apache, several servers on one box.

emacs22 and portsdb

2007-07-27 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, We've been having a problem with generating the ports Index ever since upgrading to emacs22. As per /usr/ports/UPDATING, we added EMACS_PORT_NAME=*emacs22* to /etc/make.conf Everything went fine. Now running emacs22. But ever since, our daily routine of cvsup'ing and portsdb -Uu

Scanner w/ feeder

2007-07-09 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, Is there anybody out there who is using a scanner w/ a document feeder on FreeBSD? Preferably a new model that we can buy w/ our existing budget (as opposed to an older used model). Mac OS X support in addition to FreeBSD would be nice too. Thanks for any feedback, DW

VPS, Colocation, Dedicated

2007-04-26 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, I am looking for any sort of insight, experience from anybody who uses VPS technology to substitute for managing their own infrastructure and servers for business apps. We are looking at different options to unload some of the burden of supporting a network and server

flash player for mozilla or firefox on 5.4?

2005-06-10 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, Has anybody had any success with Flash on Mozilla or Firefox on FreeBSD 5.4? I used to have some nominal success with Flash before (but slow and cranky) using linuxpluginwrapper. But now that port fails to install at all. I see in the FreeBSD ports, there are a handful of other flash

Re: SSH, SSL and DNS headaches

2005-06-06 Thread Duane Winner
Well, it's a little comforting to know that it's not just me...and yup, that's about when it started for me: around noon (EST) on Friday 5/3. Please post if you come up with anything. I'm also trying to cross-post to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, DW John Brooks wrote: I am having a similar

Re: ssh delays 40 seconds (SOLVED???)

2005-06-06 Thread Duane Winner
I want to thank everyone else for responding also. The consensus was that I need DNS/named working on my gateway/firewall so I will be reading and studying to have that working in the near future. This is what I ended up having to do today...I tried to do what you did (set 'UseDNS no'

Re: strange network behaviour

2005-06-06 Thread Duane Winner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on Friday i set up 4 old celeron boxes as DNS servers for a client. after about 5 minutes, their ability to reach the network vanishes... they can't ping their router, and inbound network traffic vanishes. rebooting fixes the problem... for another ~ 5 min. the only

upgrading from 5.3 to 5.4

2005-05-23 Thread Duane Winner
Hi all, I just noticed that 5.4 is now the production release. I'm downloading the ISO image now, but I was wondering if anybody has done a source upgrade from 5.3 to 5.4 yet. I was going to try to just change my tag from RELENG_5_3 to RELENG_5_4 on one of my boxes, upgrade from source and

monitoring and alerting software ????

2005-05-12 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, This may not be FreeBSD specific, but since I'm running nearly a 100% FreeBSD shop, I figured this would be as good as place as any to ask a question. Also, it might just turn out that the solution for me might be software that runs on FreeBSD. Does anybody have recommendations for a

devfs.conf, permissions and dynamic devices

2005-04-21 Thread Duane Winner
Hello all, Does anybody know of a solution for this problem: I have just acquired a new Zire 31 Palm Pilot to replace my old Palm VII, which was a serial interface. I figured out how to sync the Zire to jpilot over USB after compiling the kernel (5.3 p9) with 'device ucom' and 'device uvisor'.

ssh - restricted shell

2005-03-30 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, Does anybody know the best technique to accomplish this: We have a server that we use for mostly internal development, and run an SSH server. We have an outsider who we want to allow to ssh into this server and do some work. However, because he is an outsider, we don't want him roaming

auto mount external hard drive but only when present?

2005-03-09 Thread Duane Winner
Hi all, Hoping someone might have a good technique for this situation: I have a laptop with a docking station and in the expansion bay of the dock, I have a second hard drive, which I have configured as /dev/ad4s1d and mount it to /hd2 Normally on workstations with a 2nd drive, I'll just put

Re: set_rcvar load_rc_config run_rc_command: all not found

2005-01-26 Thread Duane Winner
Yup!: Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: Christian Hiris wrote: On Wednesday 26 January 2005 05:45:05, Duane Winner wrote: Hello, I've just noticed (after spending the past two weeks testing 5.3-release), that I'm getting this on every boot and shutdown: Local package initialization:set_rcvar

set_rcvar load_rc_config run_rc_command: all not found

2005-01-25 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, I've just noticed (after spending the past two weeks testing 5.3-release), that I'm getting this on every boot and shutdown: Local package initialization:set_rcvar: not found load_rc_config: not found run_rc_command: not found Everything seems to be working fine, but I sure

bash version?

2005-01-11 Thread Duane Winner
Hi all, I use bash instead of the default csh shell that is part of FreeBSD world. I am revising my in-house installation manual for FreeBSD 5.3, and it just came my attention that there is (actually has been I guess) bash version 3 available as a port. But FreeBSD appears to want to use 2.05b

Re: bash version?

2005-01-11 Thread Duane Winner
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:00:52AM -0500, Duane Winner wrote: Hi all, I use bash instead of the default csh shell that is part of FreeBSD world. I am revising my in-house installation manual for FreeBSD 5.3, and it just came my attention that there is (actually has been I

openoffice on 5.3-RELEASE

2005-01-07 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, Has anybody been able to get OpenOffice installed from port on 5.3-RELEASE ? I am running 5.3-RELEASE-p2 (Xorg and JDK1.4.2p7 also installed) Yesterday, I attempted: # portinstall openoffice and chose editors/openoffice-1.1 14 hours later... the output looked like it built cleanly, but

Re: openoffice on 5.3-RELEASE

2005-01-07 Thread Duane Winner
Thanks! I was able to find OOo_1.1.3_FreeBSD53Intel_install.tbz and get that installed and working. I still had the bad user interface fonts, but I found that to be a problem with my xorg config, and I (mostly) fixed it. I sitll have some minor 'ticks' snuggled inside my r's, n's, e's and g

Re: openoffice on 5.3-RELEASE

2005-01-07 Thread Duane Winner
gustaaf wijnands wrote: Just a couple more questions: If I keep my ports tree cvsup'd every day, I'm going to have: openoffice-1.1.3 needs updating (port has 1.1.3_1) We generally do a portupgrade -a to upgrade ports unless /usr/ports/UPDATING affects us. How can I get around the

Re: openoffice on 5.3-RELEASE

2005-01-07 Thread Duane Winner
nbco wrote: On Friday 07 January 2005 17:56, albi wrote: Duane Winner wrote: We generally do a portupgrade -a to upgrade ports unless /usr/ports/UPDATING affects us. How can I get around the openoffice discrepency since a portupgrade -a will always try build it again and end up failing

Re: openoffice on 5.3-RELEASE

2005-01-07 Thread Duane Winner
Joshua Lokken wrote: On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 14:58:22 -0500, Duane Winner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gustaaf wijnands wrote: Just a couple more questions: If I keep my ports tree cvsup'd every day, I'm going to have: openoffice-1.1.3 needs updating (port has 1.1.3_1) We generally do

xorg and xfree86

2005-01-06 Thread Duane Winner
Hi all, I was wondering if anybody could provide me with a brief explanation of why FreeBSD has made Xorg the default X11 implementation over XFree86. It doesn't really matter to me, I've tried it, it seems to work fine, and almost exactly the same. The only problem I've run into so far is is

Re: SSH 5.3 Problems

2005-01-06 Thread Duane Winner
Brian McCann wrote: Hi all. On 5.3 and 5.3 RC1 I have this problem where when I ssh in using either a FreeBSD 4.3 box or an older PuTTY client (0.52 is one I experienced it with), I cannot connect. On PuTTY, it asks for a username, then just exits. On FreeBSD when I put the ssh client into

Re: Free BSD

2005-01-06 Thread Duane Winner
K.T. wrote: I think, BSD is one with lot of unusable, needless systems. You never get over Windows or Linux. FreeBSD is stupid system, which only nobody will use. :-( Hey Butthead, heh,heh, I heard that they, uh, like put plutonium in bowling balls. No way, Beavis, that's golf balls

permissions question

2004-12-27 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, I don't know if I am having a brainfart, something is different, or if I never had it right to begin with: I need to have a shared directory for apache web content: /usr/local/htmlstuff And a group, htmlguys, and several users will be members of that group. I would like to have the root

Re: Printer

2004-12-27 Thread Duane Winner
Louis LeBlanc wrote: If it's a new printer, my best suggestion would be to return it and get an HP anything. Some newer Lexmark printers do support standard protocols, but I went and spent $80 for a Lexmark color printer several years ago that spent more time working as a doorstop than a printer.

Re: From a mild user of UNIX

2004-12-10 Thread Duane Winner
I remember reading this earlier this year. I think it is very good write-up on the differerences and merits. http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php Hope it helps. syed zaidi wrote: Dear sir/madam, my name is syed zaidi and I am writing to you

GEOM: create disk during runtime? (security run output)

2004-11-19 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, I'm hoping somebody on this list can shed some light on this. My boss sent me a copy of his daily cron security run output, which contained this: localhost.local kernel log messages: GEOM: create disk ad0 dp=0xc6b77d60 GEOM: create disk cd0 dp=0xc69a8600 We're all running

security run output question (GEOM: create disk)

2004-11-18 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, Does anybody know what this means when I see this in a daily security run output?: locahost.local kernel log messages: GEOM: create disk ad0 dp=0xc6b77d60 GEOM: create disk cd0 dp=0xc69a8600 I don't recall ever seeing this in my daily outputs, but my boss sent me an email with this and

Re: Laptops

2004-10-22 Thread Duane Winner
Many people run FreeBSD on laptops. This is the best link to get started: http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/ I run 5.2.1-RELEASE on an IBM T30. The only outstanding issues for me are: acpi (I just use apm) and the integrated Cisco Aironet Wireless (it worked with FreeBSD 4.9/10, but

freebsd and MS Active Directory

2004-10-22 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, Does anybody out there have experience with FreeBSD in a Microsoft Active Directory environment? I am going to be delivering two servers to a client, both running FreeBSD 5.2.1 with Apache as the front-end web server, and postgresql on the backend database server. During a meeting with

Re: freebsd and MS Active Directory

2004-10-22 Thread Duane Winner
Danny MacMillan wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 09:02:46AM -0600, Duane Winner wrote: ... During a meeting with their IT people a couple of days ago, most issues were agreed upon, however, the director of IT informed me that I will need to make both of these boxes conform to their Active

updating packages

2004-10-18 Thread Duane Winner
people are using portupgrade these days. Is there a way I can upgrade the packages on other machines without having to a pkg_delete first, then a pkg_add? Thanks for any info, Duane Winner ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

xtset or xtermset tricks?

2004-08-17 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, Hey, does anybody know of any useful tricks for automating xtset or xtermset? I use xtset to set the title and icon labels to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:path so I can keep track of my xterms littered all over my desktop (pretty frequent! :) But it sure would be nice to have them updated whenever

Re: xtset or xtermset tricks?

2004-08-17 Thread Duane Winner
Found a solution! In ~/.bashrc, put this: cd () { builtin cd $@ /usr/local/bin/xtset [EMAIL PROTECTED]:`pwd` } -Duane Duane Winner wrote: Hello, Hey, does anybody know of any useful tricks for automating xtset or xtermset? I use xtset to set the title and icon labels to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: xtset or xtermset tricks?

2004-08-17 Thread Duane Winner
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:`echo $XTDIR` } # force an xtset title at shell login: cd -Duane Duane Winner wrote: Found a solution! In ~/.bashrc, put this: cd () { builtin cd $@ /usr/local/bin/xtset [EMAIL PROTECTED]:`pwd` } -Duane Duane Winner wrote: Hello, Hey, does anybody know of any useful tricks

Re: xtset or xtermset tricks?

2004-08-17 Thread Duane Winner
Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 12:41:02PM -0400, Duane Winner wrote: Found a solution! In ~/.bashrc, put this: cd () { builtin cd $@ /usr/local/bin/xtset [EMAIL PROTECTED]:`pwd` } -Duane Duane Winner wrote: Hello, Hey, does anybody know of any useful tricks for automating xtset

what's wrong with my ports???

2004-08-11 Thread Duane Winner
Hello all, This problem has been recurring on my laptop (5.2.1-RELEASE-p9) for the past few weeks and I'm scratching my head. Very frequently, I'll go to portinstall something, and I'll get several stop errors, and the build will fail. But if I do a rm -rf /usr/ports, then re-cvsup my ports

Re: what's wrong with my ports???

2004-08-11 Thread Duane Winner
Will wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duane Winner wrote: | Hello all, | | This problem has been recurring on my laptop (5.2.1-RELEASE-p9) for the | past few weeks and I'm scratching my head. | | Very frequently, I'll go to portinstall something, and I'll get several | stop

Re: what's wrong with my ports???

2004-08-11 Thread Duane Winner
horio shoichi wrote: On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 20:43:45 -0400 Duane Winner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duane Winner wrote: | Hello all, | | This problem has been recurring on my laptop (5.2.1-RELEASE-p9) for the | past few weeks and I'm scratching

order of starting services at boot?

2004-08-10 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, Can anybody explain to me how FreeBSD 5.2.1 controls the start order of the scripts in /etc/rc.d ? I've looked all over and am having trouble gleening what controls this. For instance, if I would like to start ipfw before dhclient (right now dhclient starts, then ipfw starts), how would

Re: order of starting services at boot?

2004-08-10 Thread Duane Winner
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 10), Duane Winner said: Can anybody explain to me how FreeBSD 5.2.1 controls the start order of the scripts in /etc/rc.d ? I've looked all over and am having trouble gleening what controls this. The rc manpage explains rc.d/ and the magic keywords used

openoffice on freebsd broke?

2004-08-06 Thread Duane Winner
having this problem? I've reported this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], but have not seen or heard anything else. Thanks for any feedback, Duane Winner ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

pgadmin3 and py23-wxpython conflict?

2004-07-23 Thread Duane Winner
be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Duane Winner ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

save-entropy cronjob Added: not found every 10 minutes

2004-07-19 Thread Duane Winner
FreeBSD 5.2.1 boxes, and the only thing I can figure that is causing it (different from other boxes) is that it is running the dhcpd server. Any thoughts? Thanks, Duane Winner [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help. /var/mail/dwinner: 2 messages 2 new N 1 [EMAIL

Re: save-entropy cronjob Added: not found every 10 minutes

2004-07-19 Thread Duane Winner
Thanks! Using your technique, I discovered that I stupidly forgot to put a '#' before one of my comments in /etc/rc.conf. Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 19), Duane Winner said: Does anybody know what is going on with the cronjob /usr/libexec/save-entropy that by default is scheduled

Problem trying to rebuild mozilla from port

2004-07-09 Thread Duane Winner
and how can I reinitialize it so that I can build mozilla again with different options? Thanks for any info. Duane Winner [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Problem trying to rebuild mozilla from port

2004-07-09 Thread Duane Winner
I found it: /var/db/ports Duane Winner wrote: Hello all, I am trying to reinstall mozilla from port and I'm not getting the options screen that allows me to select which options I want to compile into Mozilla. When I did a portinstall mozilla yesterday, I got the standard curses menu

newbie ACPI questions

2004-07-08 Thread Duane Winner
be better (if I can get it to resume correctly)? If S1 is all I can use, what can I do to blank the screen as well as suspend the system? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Following is info I thought would be pertainent. Thanks, Duane Winner [EMAIL PROTECTED] System: Dell Precision 650n

Re: newbie ACPI questions

2004-07-08 Thread Duane Winner
, 8 Jul 2004, Duane Winner wrote: Hi all. I'm just getting my feet wet with using basic ACPI functionality. Up until my FreeBSD release and/or hardware only supported APM, so that's all I have used until now. I have a Dell Precision 650n running RELEASE-5.2.1p9, and it seems that ACPI works

APM and DRI lockups when suspending

2004-07-07 Thread Duane Winner
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USB Tape Drive (Seagate Travan)

2004-06-23 Thread Duane Winner
ATAPI tape devices (/dev/ast*). Am I just SOL or is there hope of getting it working? I don't see it (or any USB tape drive) listed on the FreeBSD supported hardware. But I thought I would try anyway. If anybody has any success or just plain info on this, I would appreciate it. Thanks, Duane Winner

Apache2 and UserDir in FreeBSD

2004-06-16 Thread Duane Winner
and restart, I have found that users can still create public_html directories in their home directories, and publish content. Why is this happening? Thanks, Duane Winner [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

IPv6 and PPP problem

2004-06-10 Thread Duane Winner
anybody know why PPP does not work when IPv6 is disabled in the kernel and what can I do about it? I am running: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8 mozilla-1.6_4,2 To disable IPv6, I simply edited my custom kernel config and commented out: #options INET6 and recompiled. Thanks for any info, Duane

openoffice-1.1

2004-05-27 Thread Duane Winner
Does anybody know what happened to OpenOffice-1.1 port? I just did a portinstall on it last week with no problems, but now the port is marked as broken for FreeBSD 5.x. ** 'editors/openoffice-1.1' is marked as IGNORE: is marked as broken: Does not compile on 4.x (tries to link to

stupid sendmail question (did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN)

2004-04-23 Thread Duane Winner
Hello all: I am getting this in my /var/log/maillog: Apr 23 15:23:39 library sm-mta[169]: i3NJNd8g000169: localhost [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA when my Tomcat serlvets attempt to send an email from my web app. I only want sendmail listing on

method to test for link before dhclient at boot?

2004-02-19 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, I'm wondering if anybody knows a technique for this problem: I have a laptop that I frequently boot when it is not plugged into an ethernet network. In these circumstances, I would like to add some logic during boot time that looks at at the status of my fxp0 interface. If status: no

Re: Mounting to freebsd ufs under WinXP

2004-02-13 Thread Duane Winner
I look into this issue an average of once a year, because it's always been my dream to have a dual boot machine in which XP can read/write my UFS/ext2/etc. partitions and FreeBSD/Linux/etc. can read/write my NTFS partitions. I've seen a handful of 3rd party software out there that seems to come

Re: Problem with ssh

2004-02-12 Thread Duane Winner
On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 14:49, Dragoncrest wrote: Hi again everyone. Ok, this issue just popped up today on a different machine, but it's still bugging me either way. My home mail server (freebsd 4.8) has SSH available to the internet so I can get into the box from work if need be. That is

stupid packages question

2004-02-12 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, I'm sure there is an easy answer to this that I just haven't been able to gleen from reading stuff: How can I make packages for all the depencies of a package that I'm trying to create in one fell swoop? Example: If I go into /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade and type make package it

com ports in freebsd

2004-02-11 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, I have a question about how FreeBSD handles the serial ports. After messing around for 2 days, I finally got my PCMCIA modem working on my laptop. All I really had to do was to cd /dev/ ./MAKEDEV cuaa4 I did this because dmesg kept reporting the Megahertz modem at sio4. What I don't

another PPP question

2004-02-11 Thread Duane Winner
Hello again, I'm still messing around with trying to trim down my kernel as much as possible with just the functionality I need. After much trial and error, I found the line that kept PPP from functioning: #options INET6 (commented this line out) I really have no need at all for IPv6

gnome screensaver

2004-02-09 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, I've searched all over and posted a question to gnome mailing lists, and still don't have an answer to this annoyance. Hopefully somebody here might know a solution, even though this isn't freebsd-specific. How can I fix the gnome screensaver so that it utilizes my full 1280x1024 screen

Re: Building JDK14

2004-01-30 Thread Duane Winner
This might be a moot point by now, but you you should also double-check to make sure that your non-native java is working before you start to build the native version. I don't use blackdown, I use the linux-sun flavor, but before building native jdk14, I make sure the other is running by typing:

Re: Building JDK14

2004-01-29 Thread Duane Winner
That's about right. Give or take several hours, YMMV depending on your hardware :) I did jdk14 patch5 a couple of weeks ago and it took over 4 hours on my laptop (~1GHz). I'm doing jdk14 patch6 right now at this moment on Dell Precision 420. I started it about 3 hours ago, and I'm about to go

dual-booting with xp

2004-01-15 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.9 on a machine that already has XP installed. It has 3 SCSI drives. I would like to keep XP on the first drive, and install FreeBSD on the third drive and make it dual-boot. What's the easiest way? When I installed, I made a slice on the 3rd disk (using

How do YOU stay up to date?

2004-01-14 Thread Duane Winner
Hello all again, I'm finally getting my arms around FreeBSD and the updating processes and tools. But I'm still trying to come up with good habits/methods/instructions for updating routines for both myself and my colleagues who also want to switch to FreeBSD. I now understand how to use cvsup to

Re: How do YOU stay up to date?

2004-01-14 Thread Duane Winner
for ports). I just want to make sure I understand all of this correctly. Thanks again, Duane On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 23:27, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Wednesday 14 January 2004 10:11 pm, Duane Winner wrote: Hello all again, I'm finally getting my arms around FreeBSD and the updating

staying 'up-to-date' questions

2004-01-07 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, I'm suffering from some confusion regarding keeping my FreeBSD systems up-to-date. Does anybody have any 'best practices' advice? I've been reading three books (Complete BSD, Absolute, Unleased) as well the handbook, but I'm still not clear about how I should manage my up-to-date

Slow boot when not plugged into network

2004-01-06 Thread Duane Winner
Does anybody know of a workaround for this? When I'm not connected to my ethernet network, it takes an extra 90 seconds to boot my FreeBSD laptop, as it hangs on this boot message before timing out: Doing initial network setup: hostname I'm guessing it has something to do with DNS lookup and