Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-26 Thread Glen Barber
. :-) I like that idea, actually.. Not for faking cumulative uptime. It'd be kinda nice knowing how long a particular machine has been 'alive' without looking through service tag records. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Streaming server

2009-05-25 Thread Glen Barber
such a stream service/server into FreeBDS 7.2? In ports/multimedia, there are a few tools to do streaming. I found a few by doing: make search key=streaming in the ports directory. IMHO, streaming versus downloading is more bandwidth intensive overall. HTH -- Glen Barber

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-25 Thread Glen Barber
CPU time, disk I/O results etc.. (*) - for example waiting on tty read is not calculated to load average as it's depends on human not computer. What? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: updating from 7.1 to 7.2 AMD64

2009-05-25 Thread Glen Barber
you just like to contribute more nonsense to the list by asking irrelevant questions to the OP's topic? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: updating from 7.1 to 7.2 AMD64

2009-05-25 Thread Glen Barber
for this thread. It was about 'freebsd-update' not working. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-24 Thread Glen Barber
/ (not necessarily a reputable source I suppose, but explains it well...) -- Glen Barber 570.328.0318 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-24 Thread Glen Barber
is counter productive...  It helps if the working set is already in the L3 cache -- so having the correct amount[*] of cache RAM available is an important design criterion. Makes sense. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Win4BSD 1.1 on 7.1

2009-05-24 Thread Glen Barber
as RESTRICTED because redistribution is prohibited. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: silly Q: any script running before make install /w ports ?

2009-05-24 Thread Glen Barber
. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-24 Thread Glen Barber
promise because ARM CPUs use very little power.  I expect there will be lots of them by the end of the year. Is there a FreeBSD ARM port? There's not one for 7.2. How did this topic get switched to netbooks? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Dell 610 and Dell 710

2009-05-21 Thread Glen Barber
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Re: What is the highest hard drive read/write speed you were able to achieve by entire disk mirroring or striping?

2009-05-18 Thread Glen Barber
factors like bus speed that would potentially limit the speed in such case. No, that is not reasonable (but in a perfect world, would be correct). You are limited by the bus speed and controller buffer speed (whichever is slower). -- Glen Barber

Re: dell broadcom nic fbsd 7.1 AMD64

2009-05-18 Thread Glen Barber
nic, nothing. Linux in 3 other same machines works fine. Could you paste the output of the following: cat /etc/rc.conf | grep bc0 and output from: dhclient bc0 -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: dell broadcom nic fbsd 7.1 AMD64

2009-05-18 Thread Glen Barber
255.255.0.0 and output from:   dhclient bc0 I ran that on a local machine and it hung up the interface, requiring a warm reboot. I'll see what happens with my client's machine. I assume you substituted the correct interface name? (bce0 in place of bc0) -- Glen Barber

Re: no pkg for apache13 in 7.2

2009-05-18 Thread Glen Barber
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Building from port does not address the posted problem. Can also get pkg from 7.1. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/All/apache-1.3.41.tbz -- Glen Barber

Re: 4.11 panic every 23 hours 55 minutes or so

2009-05-17 Thread Glen Barber
think this rules out cron jobs, external attacks, and load-based issues. Perhaps a bad CMOS battery causing the system time to become corrupted? (I know it's a long shot...) -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Error compiling Kernel

2009-05-17 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, Jose On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez jlalar...@gawab.com wrote: Hi Folks!. I am trying to compile the Kernel, but it stop at this point: When was your last c(v)sup? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Error compiling Kernel

2009-05-17 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: [snip] Try adding options AH_SUPPORT_AR5416 to your kernel configuration. Should this be ATH_SUPPORT_AR5416? (Just making sure it's not a typo.) -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd

Re: Emailing 100+ PDFs, one at a time, to a given address

2009-05-14 Thread Glen Barber
script to BASE64 encode them and MIME-wrap them, but is there an existing tool for this? If you can install mail/mutt, you can replace (for the most part) /usr/bin/mail with /usr/local/bin/mutt and still script it. HTH -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Welcome to the freebsd-questions mailing list

2009-05-13 Thread Glen Barber
ball of FreeBSD kernek source code. You can install using sysinstall, but that will be out of date. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Reading warnings when installing multiple ports

2009-05-12 Thread Glen Barber
description. Perhaps he is talking about the 'make options' output, such as what is displayed right before x11-wm/fluxbox begins to build. That is the only type of output I can ever remember seeing before a build begins. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Processors

2009-05-11 Thread Glen Barber
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: yes. FreeBSD/amd64 Or i386. if you want limited system - yes If by 'limited' you mean being able to use nVidia drivers, that's not very 'limited' to me. -- Glen Barber

Re: Processors

2009-05-11 Thread Glen Barber
drivers (?!) nVidia was just an example. Yes, the nv driver will do the job, but 3D is lacking. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Tips Trix: Eclipse on 7.1 STABLE and swt-gtk issue

2009-05-10 Thread Glen Barber
-pr.html Regards, -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Booting question

2009-05-10 Thread Glen Barber
. Just a side-thought.) -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Booting question

2009-05-10 Thread Glen Barber
assume?) and this has been happening since 7.1, it's not something that has changed recently. I don't recall seeing issues like this on this list (or stable@ for that matter). Perhaps it is a hardware problem, but I've never been good at diagnosing hardware issues. -- Glen Barber

Re: Reading warnings when installing multiple ports

2009-05-10 Thread Glen Barber
a look at: /usr/ports/category/port/pkg-message Some ports have the message output in the Makefile instead. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: source for sysinstall

2009-05-03 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: How can i just download the source for sysinstall? http://svn.freebsd.org/base/release/7.2.0/usr.sbin/sysinstall/ -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: source for sysinstall

2009-05-03 Thread Glen Barber
not aware of SVN being on it's way out. Either way, either source could have been located with a little Google effort. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: source for sysinstall

2009-05-03 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Wouldn't that be the binary and not the source? It would be the binary once the source is compiled, yes. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Cant connect to SVN server

2009-05-01 Thread Glen Barber
, 2009. [1] http://miwi.bsdcrew.de/2009/03/area51-repository-moved-to-pcbsd/ [2] http://area51.pcbsd.org/ -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Has SVN server changed ?

2009-04-28 Thread Glen Barber
to a recent post [1], the SVN server has changed [2] since March 22, 2009. [1] http://miwi.bsdcrew.de/2009/03/area51-repository-moved-to-pcbsd/ [2] http://area51.pcbsd.org/ -- Glen Barber 570.328.0318 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-26 Thread Glen Barber
-BSD) if it's important for you. This discussion is not about Linux or Windows. It is about a graphical installer. If you are not going to contribute anything useful to the discussion, close your email client. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-26 Thread Glen Barber
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Re: /etc/crontab won't run my script

2009-04-24 Thread Glen Barber
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote: Ok i just changed 'who' column to root and it works. Why won't it work as any other user? Permissions for myscript.py are 555. Who owns the file? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd

Re: Spam from your domain

2009-04-23 Thread Glen Barber
. Please answer me. That is not the FreeBSD website. The Official domain is 'freebsd.org' not 'free-bsd.org'. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Vim port problem

2009-04-19 Thread Glen Barber
the file in /usr/ports/distfiles/vim and I could install the package... Don't confuse ports and packages. They are two different ways to install third-party software (until they are installed -- then everything is a package). Any ideas on this problem? Thanks in advance. -- Glen Barber

Re: Upgrading from 6.3 to 7.1 -- how dangerous?

2009-04-19 Thread Glen Barber
on. Is this a good idea? Or am I just a nervous Nellie? Get a test box to do this on first. :) -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: CUPS

2009-04-16 Thread Glen Barber
. Is this by chance a HP printer? (Particularly, a DeskJet?) I have seen this particular foomatic error, and the Works For Me(TM) resolution was to install print/foomatic-dp-hpijs HTH. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: questions about Fatal Trap 12

2009-04-14 Thread Glen Barber
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Ray r...@stilltech.net wrote: I Just had the power supply die on this machine. Could  a failing power supply cause this type of issues? Absolutely. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: (OT) good laptop hardware repair group or forum

2009-04-12 Thread Glen Barber
and I'm in shock :(( Even though it's (OT), maybe some of us could be able to help. What's the problem? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: openoffice.org-3.01 packages available (i386)

2009-04-10 Thread Glen Barber
. Of course, unless I am misunderstanding your intentions. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: openoffice.org-3.01 packages available (i386)

2009-04-07 Thread Glen Barber
.  If this proves to be successful, we could also build and host other packages as well. Any problems with the site, please contact me so I can notify my hosting provider, as I don't have physical access to the server. Thanks! -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped)

2009-04-06 Thread Glen Barber
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:03 PM, alexus ale...@gmail.com wrote: r...@mx1 ~ 496$ csh Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped) r...@mx1 ~ 497$ Segmentation Fault 11 is typically indicative of hardware failure (CPU, RAM, motherboard). Can you run memtest86+ and test that theory? -- Glen Barber

Re: anybody know about a 3.01 package *With* browser?

2009-04-06 Thread Glen Barber
. If you need a place to host this, I have plenty of space available on my site. I don't, however, have anything *on* my site. (I've been redeveloping it, and haven't uploaded any content yet.) If you want space to host this package, drop me an email off-list. -- Glen Barber

Re: portupgrade question

2009-04-06 Thread Glen Barber
on those. You could add: BATCH=yes to /etc/make.conf. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: how to recover after power outage

2009-04-05 Thread Glen Barber
change something and not/forget to restart the service? Have you tried ssh-ing to port 22 to see if the setting was changed back to default? Are there any other services on this box? If so, are they running? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions

Re: range of IPs in rc.conf

2009-04-05 Thread Glen Barber
could create a customized rc file (I personally use rc.local) which will be run at boot. You could then use #!/bin/sh and a 'for' loop to create the devices. IMHO, this solution is a lot uglier than 30 extra lines in rc.conf. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd

Re: anybody know about a 3.01 package *With* browser?

2009-04-05 Thread Glen Barber
/freebsd/#obtain ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/ HTH. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: anybody know about a 3.01 package *With* browser?

2009-04-05 Thread Glen Barber
version and put them up on my site. (I know that doesn't fix your *need* now, but I will take the time when the time is right.) Regards, -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: anybody know about a 3.01 package *With* browser?

2009-04-05 Thread Glen Barber
notify you when it's up. I'll race you. :) Seriously, though. This is something I've been meaning to do, but just haven't had time. Since 7.2-R is upcoming, I figured that'd be the perfect time, and now I have the web hosting for the package(s). Regards, -- Glen Barber

Re: How to Update my Freebsd packages kernel and Core

2009-04-02 Thread Glen Barber
is located here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html Some of my packages are from ports and some using the sysinstall and I install them from the cd. I use Freebsd 7.1 -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: qemu and kqemu - Version mismatch after upgrade

2009-04-01 Thread Glen Barber
00010400) - disabling kqemu use Have you read /usr/ports/UPDATING ? The qemu/kqemu ports were mentioned a few days ago. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: qemu and kqemu - Version mismatch after upgrade

2009-04-01 Thread Glen Barber
at 14:28 +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 00:04 -0400, Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: I just ran portsnap fetch update portupgrade -a and I've ended up with a complete disaster with qemu. Am I the only one

Re: mod_php5 and apache22

2009-03-31 Thread Glen Barber
ports that do the same thing. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

[OT] - Best Practices(TM) for Configuration File Changes

2009-03-29 Thread Glen Barber
is *your* favorite/suggestion solution to keep (working) versions of configuration files, in case something goes awry? I am specifically targeting configuration files because they are what I change the most, in avoidance of It worked 10 minutes ago... situations. Cheers, -- Glen Barber

Re: [OT] - Best Practices(TM) for Configuration File Changes

2009-03-29 Thread Glen Barber
extensively, but it seems similar to cvs / svn -- which I personally like. I was more curious if people actually do use rcs for this purpose. It appears rcs is the right tool for the job. Thanks for the reply! -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions

Re: [OT] - Best Practices(TM) for Configuration File Changes

2009-03-29 Thread Glen Barber
with this -- interesting. Thanks! -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: analyzing httpd-error.log

2009-03-29 Thread Glen Barber
to be 'warn' and everything more critical than that.  I don't care about the size of the log, or the amount of garbage per line. The 'debug' log level will provide the most verbosity. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: [perl] sysopen(CD, /dev/cd0, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK) fails

2009-03-26 Thread Glen Barber
? Is sysopen a linuxism? Any help is greatly appreciated. Regards Tobias -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: How to list all the installed packages...

2009-03-26 Thread Glen Barber
to make a list of what is removable (that I did not install, and that is not required). Have a look at the ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves port. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Desktop environments

2009-03-25 Thread Glen Barber
wondering as to how it would function if i were to switch desktops constantly. Why wouldn't you be able to? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: unix admin incident levels

2009-03-23 Thread Glen Barber
. :) ) -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: installing ports xorg

2009-03-22 Thread Glen Barber
the above install every time.  Nothing works. What to do? I have seen this behavior before, and resorted to removing all packages and rebuilding. (Probably not the solution you are after.) -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Sysinstall cannot find snapshot releases

2009-03-22 Thread Glen Barber
for freebsd-update, as it clearly states you cannot use it with -STABLE and -CURRENT. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: networked audio

2009-03-22 Thread Glen Barber
on the distant computer and the audio play thru the nice speaker system in my office? The only suite I tried was NAS but that was years ago.  I've found MuSe and NMM on both FreeBSD and Linux, but still need some clues. Perhaps icecast or musicpd are what you're looking for. HTH. -- Glen Barber

Re: Fluxbox problem..

2009-03-17 Thread Glen Barber
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Ricardo Jesus ricardo.meb.je...@gmail.com wrote: If I recall correctly it should be exec startfluxbox in .xinitrc. Try it. Or, the full path in .xinitrc : /usr/local/bin/startfluxbox -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd

Re: 7.1 64 bit

2009-03-17 Thread Glen Barber
try to boot the disc on a different machine? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Fluxbox problem..

2009-03-17 Thread Glen Barber
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Fabian Krook nevadadir...@gmail.com wrote: I tested that and just went as usual. X starts but not Fluxbox even so when i type fluxbox on the consol and not while being in X it comes up: Error: Couldn't connect to XServer Did you 'startx' ? -- Glen Barber

Re: Stop all manner of periodic scripts from running

2009-03-17 Thread Glen Barber
cripple a FreeBSD machine, so the system actually realizes that it can not send any email, and everything it tries to send email will realize this? (preferably a more subtle approach than simply rm'ing the sendmail binary :) echo 'sendmail_enable=NONE' /etc/rc.conf -- Glen Barber

Re: [OT] Server hosting with FreeBSD

2009-03-05 Thread Glen Barber
.        The one thar we use today, only install a fixed image. Just a simple custom partition modification, cannot be done. http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=freebsd+dedicated+serverbtnG=Google+Searchaq=0oq=freebsd+dedicatedsafe=images -- Glen Barber

Re: the yes comand

2009-03-04 Thread Glen Barber
, but you only had to type y (those cheap blokes :P) So... what's going on ? man yes -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Cron Not Sending Mail

2009-03-03 Thread Glen Barber
=...@localhost You've replaced a problem with another problem. Have you tried to send the mail locally first? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Cron Not Sending Mail

2009-03-03 Thread Glen Barber
or the other work first. Change the MAILTO back to root and retest. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Xorg is now broken

2009-03-03 Thread Glen Barber
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: something useless, again. I don't see your Xorg.0.log attached. Did you read /usr/ports/UPDATING regarding the X11 upgrade? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions

Re: who took my cd drive?

2009-03-02 Thread Glen Barber
it is not a lost cause by any means, but what's going on here?) Try the atapicam kernel module. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Cron Not Sending Mail

2009-03-02 Thread Glen Barber
, -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Root shell

2009-03-01 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Sniper kkil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I heard that changing root shell to bash is not good idea, also programing in any C shell not applicable. So which shell is the most appropriate for root user ? /bin/csh -- Glen Barber

Re: Root shell

2009-03-01 Thread Glen Barber
I can see how that can cause troubles. But are there any other reasons? Unstability in bash? Unexpected behaivor causing more harm in a root shell? This explains one of the reasons not to change root's shell: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/security.html#TOOR-ACCOUNT -- Glen Barber

Re: Root shell

2009-03-01 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Daniel Lannstrom o...@trekdanne.se wrote: On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 11:11:56AM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: This explains one of the reasons not to change root's shell: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/security.html#TOOR-ACCOUNT Yes that's exactly what I

Re: OT: The official stool for FreeBSD users?

2009-02-24 Thread Glen Barber
was thinking of stool in the medical sense shudder I wondered for a minute whether the link was work-safe ;) Sadly, you're not alone here. I was thinking similarly. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: new hardware platform?? :-)

2009-02-24 Thread Glen Barber
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote:        Has any one seen more on this?        http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10170648-1.html I think I found a new wish-list item for my birthday. ;) -- Glen Barber

Re: portupgrade question

2009-02-24 Thread Glen Barber
shall i do so that i don't have to start over again? Next time, use sysutils/screen. You *should* just be able to restart the portupgrade, and (ideally) it should start where it left off. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: portupgrade question

2009-02-24 Thread Glen Barber
, yes, it is too late. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: portupgrade question

2009-02-24 Thread Glen Barber
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:29 PM, gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com wrote: Thanks Glen: So use portupgrade -fa -y again or a bit different knobs? Please stop top-posting. Continue with the command you had already used. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions

Re: portupgrade question

2009-02-24 Thread Glen Barber
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Glen Barber writes:   Never used screen. Does that mean it is too late and I have to    start over again?  Note that I said: You *should* just be able to restart the  portupgrade, and (ideally) it should start where

Re: FreeBSD multiboot question.

2009-02-23 Thread Glen Barber
from FreeBSD to something like: F1 FreeBSD 7.1 F2 FreeBSD 7.0 F3 FreeBSD 6.4 The standard bootloader cannot be configured after install. Other options to do this would be to install GRUB or LILO. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: hi

2009-02-22 Thread Glen Barber
) solution is: don't use it. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: No mirrors remaining, giving up. when trying to update(minor or version )

2009-02-22 Thread Glen Barber
to). -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Aliassing 'svn log' to 'svn log -v'

2009-02-20 Thread Glen Barber
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Frank Staals franksta...@gmx.net wrote: Glen Barber wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Frank Staals franksta...@gmx.net wrote: A bit of an off-topic question, but is there a neat way of aliassing 'svn log' to 'svn log -v' in zsh ? I chould just write

Re: Ports Options

2009-02-20 Thread Glen Barber
is that saved configuration kept ?? How to get a menu displayed again so you can see and check the options you want? `make config' -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Fwd: Aliassing 'svn log' to 'svn log -v'

2009-02-19 Thread Glen Barber
Forgot to CC list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:52 PM Subject: Re: Aliassing 'svn log' to 'svn log -v' To: Frank Staals franksta...@gmx.net On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Frank Staals franksta...@gmx.net wrote

Re: printer hp officejet pro k8600

2009-02-17 Thread Glen Barber
you tried print/foomatic-db-hpijs ? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: (no subject)

2009-02-16 Thread Glen Barber
http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/ports/print/acroread8 Regards, -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Mixer resets

2009-02-15 Thread Glen Barber
' output after a reboot, even with gmixer enabled? Perhaps as a 'hack', you could do something @reboot via cron to set mixers start levels. I know it's not a real fix, but it'll work as a, so I've heard, quirkaround for now. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd

Re: Assigning static ip address

2009-02-12 Thread Glen Barber
, not the DHCP server. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: upgrading xorg - no mouse

2009-02-10 Thread Glen Barber
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Re: xorg 7-current ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash

2009-02-09 Thread Glen Barber
that kde is trying to use, but I'm at a lose as to what ... Are you starting hald and dbus via rc.conf? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: xorg 7-current ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash

2009-02-09 Thread Glen Barber
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Marc G. Fournier scra...@hub.org wrote: Are you starting hald and dbus via rc.conf? Yes ... both mouse and keyboard have been working great ... Well, that's good to hear. ;) Thought I'd as to be safe. -- Glen Barber

Re: How to compile a network driver given source code

2009-02-08 Thread Glen Barber
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Amer Alhabsi amer.alha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have Benq Joybook R43 notebook. It has network interface based on SiS 191. However, I can't configure it as it does not show up

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