Re: startx and xinit under FreeBSD8

2009-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
partition. Now it complains that xinit doesn't exist. Why didn't these two get laid-down by the install?? Well, you now need to either select X during install or install it from ports after the installation. jerry ___ freebsd-questions

Re: HP USB 2.0 Tape Drive

2009-12-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
you can search for it. jerry ~Doug ___ 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: Dangerously Dedicated

2009-12-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
this for sure because I'm not a multi-booter. :-) It is dangerous because other systems cannot talk to it. It is dedicated because only FreeBSD can talk to it. It is a somewhat redundant term but it sounds good and important. jerry ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Dangerously Dedicated

2009-12-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:43:37AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Jerry McAllister writes: It is dedicated because only FreeBSD can talk to it. Is this correct? What about {Net, Open, DregonFly}BSD, or Linux? Not Linux without some programming, but maybe some of the other BSDs

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Jerry
they should be doing. The bottom line is if they are not smart enough to follow company directives, they are certainly not capable of instigating their own protocol. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | Grandpa Charnock's Law: You never really

Re: dd (to erase disk) from emergency holographic shell

2009-12-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
. jerry I'd like to erase my disk with dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/ad0 Please advise many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

Re: Mount dump0 as ISO9660 filesystem?

2009-12-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
on that file for some of them. But some might work. I usually make a directory I call 'unroll' somewhere with lots of extra space, put stuff there and work on things from there and clean up afterwards. But, you are welcome to experiment. jerry

Re: Mount dump0 as ISO9660 filesystem?

2009-12-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
. I think you have to create the ISO with the normal makeiso. Then, it might be mountable. But, I could be wrong. jerry I took my dump in the following fashion: dump -0Lan -C 16 -f - /usr | gzip -2 | ssh-to-some-remote-location So, I have a file named dump0-var.gz

Re: authdaemond issues / breakage after upgrade to 8.0

2009-12-02 Thread Jerry
a while ago on the SASL forum. I know that there is a problem that Wietse Venema (Postfix) has with 8.0 and created a hack to correct. I don't believe it has anything to do with SASL though. You might want to try the cyrus-sasl2 list: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/sasl/ or the Postfix forum. -- Jerry ges

Re: 8.0-RELEASE and dangerously dedicated disks

2009-12-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:34:05PM -0800, Randi Harper wrote: I'm going to just reply to all of these at once. On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 07:59:42AM -0500, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Peggy

Re: 8.0-RELEASE and dangerously dedicated disks

2009-12-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 09:48:05AM -0800, Randi Harper wrote: On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Some of the responses have said that UFS handling of 'Dangerously dedicated' has not gone away, just sysinstall handling of it. That may be true

Re: 8.0-RELEASE and dangerously dedicated disks

2009-12-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
documentation still mucks this up and occasionally refers to slices as partitions. Maybe we can come up with some new terminology like 'blobs' and 'dollops' to get away from the problem. jerry -- -- Bob Johnson fbsdli...@gmail.com

Re: 8.0-RELEASE and dangerously dedicated disks

2009-12-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
. You might also want to turn on softupdates with '-U'. jerry Thanks for helping to clear up my confusion... plw Peggy, Were you able to find an answer for this? I also have a number of servers and firewalls that use dangerously dedicated disks (boot and data). I don't see why

Re: mysql60-server??

2009-11-26 Thread Jerry
for my mail system and several other sundries. It is only under a light load; however, I have never had a single problem with it. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | Luke, I'm yer father, eh. Come over to the dark side, you hoser. Dave Thomas

Re: ifconfig - GUI interface available?

2009-11-26 Thread Jerry
in a non-Windows environment. Just my own 2¢. \rant -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | There are no emotional victims, only volunteers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: php4-gd

2009-11-21 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:23:39 +0100 Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org replied: Like COBOL and FORTRAN are dead? Maybe not DEAD, but definitely comatose. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | A friend of mine won't get a divorce, because he hates lawyers

Re: 7.2, usb mouse, uhub0: device problem (IOERROR),

2009-11-20 Thread Jerry
Logitech and Microsoft. I also got 68 matches; however, under 'wireless' I found '0'. Either I am searching incorrectly, or nobody has a 100% compliant wireless mouse. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | So little time, so little to do. Oscar

Re: 7.2, usb mouse, uhub0: device problem (IOERROR),

2009-11-20 Thread Jerry
there as well, like: http://www.usb.org/kcompliance/view/view_item?item_key=04bb314c07a5f1822148869b329d73a40fe82eae ...aka Cordless Desktop Receiver / C-BU44. Thanks! I guess the 'wireless' menu item is either not working, or I am using it incorrectly on that site. -- Jerry ges

Re: Dump

2009-11-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
Is it possible that '/mnt' does not exist? jerry How does one set the nodump flag on a filesystem/directory ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: freebsd partitions on a dos/fat slice?

2009-11-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
and it for a new install it should not be a problem. jerry ]Peter[ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Trivial questions about CNTL-ALT-DEL and CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE

2009-11-16 Thread Jerry
to non Window's platforms when a simple thing like adding a keyboard or mouse to a system becomes a challenge. /rant -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | Do unto others before they undo you. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Partition naming, fstab, and geli

2009-11-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 07:23:15PM -0700, David Allen wrote: Say I have performed a standard installation of FreeBSD onto a single IDE drive with the following entries in /etc/fstab: /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s1d /var ufs rw

Re: Partition naming, fstab, and geli

2009-11-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
' for extra partitions and skipping 'd'. But, whatever that old convention was, it has not been used for so long that it is meaningless nowdays and 'd' can be used for whatever extra partition you want. jerry But if you're doing it manually starting with 'e' is fine. I suspect

Re: how to do a custom install?

2009-11-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
that does not get mounted. jerry /, /var, /tmp, /usr/local/ SWAP, and /usr anybody remember what keys to hit in the installation procedure? tia, gary I can't say that I remember the keystrokes, but you can have multiple disk

Re: ATI Eyefinity support in FreeBSD

2009-11-14 Thread Jerry
to other platforms commences. It would be nice if some patronage were shown to FreeBSD earlier in the cycle though. I cannot help but wonder if this will turn into a nVidia-64 debacle; i.e., waiting years for a serviceable solution. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com

ATI Eyefinity support in FreeBSD

2009-11-13 Thread Jerry
I recently came across this web page regarding ATI: http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/eyefinity/Pages/eyefinity.aspx Is this supported under FreeBSD also? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | No one gets sick on Wednesdays

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
). jerry Thank you, -r ___ 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: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 05:12:06PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 03:28:04PM -0500, Roger wrote: Hello all, I'm in control of a dedicated server and I would like to re-install FreeBSD. I found the following guide: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote

Re: cannot boot freebsd

2009-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
response, I have heard of people having problems with dual booting with Vista and having to follow some other procedure for that. But, I haven't used Vista (and do not intend to) so you will have to do some archive searching to find those pieces of information. jerry 2009/11/11 Jerry

Re: cannot boot freebsd

2009-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
in the wrong - or inconvenient - order on the controller. Or, I suppose there might be a jumper issue. jerry 2009/11/12 Jesús Abidan jabi...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: cannot boot freebsd

2009-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
on the FreeBSD web site:http://www.freebsd.org/ jerry http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=32084seqNum=4; as i see, do i need to create a partition(located in the first 1024cylinders) to BOOT from? (sorry) 2009/11/12 Jesús Abidan jabi...@gmail.com no, it's

Re: cannot boot freebsd

2009-11-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
different, but if so, please elaborate. jerry ___ 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: cannot boot freebsd

2009-11-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
to handle it correctly, but I don't know details and I do not (lucky me) have any Vista machines to joust with. jerry 2009/11/11 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:02:35AM -0600, Jesús Abidan wrote: Hi there, i have a problem here, i installed windows in mi box

Re: cannot boot freebsd

2009-11-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
. In FreeBSD, to create a filesystem from a partition, you run newfs(8) on it. jerry Thanks a lot. 2009/11/11 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:27:13PM -0600, Jesús Abidan wrote: i pressed f2 for freebsd and nothing happens... i pressed f1 for windows. I

Re: 8.0-RC3?

2009-11-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
. It is all on the FreeBSD web side.http://www.freebsd.org/ jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time)

2009-11-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
luck, jerry Thanks in advance for any help. David ___ 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: /etc/fstab + embedded spaces

2009-11-03 Thread Jerry
either. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance money. Sherlock Holmes ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Jerry
. A common user should not be required to have a working knowledge of XHTML and obscure directives in order to get a piece of equipment working. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | If you cannot in the long run tell everyone what you have been doing

Re: win 7 dual boot

2009-10-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
, it will probably work with this too. I don't think anything much has changed in that area. jerry On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: I am about to go out and buy windows 7 to replace my vista partition... when I installed vista I had to do

Re: How do I replace the built-in OpenSSL with a source tarball ?

2009-10-28 Thread Jerry
always end up having two binaries in two different locations. Can someone tell me how to just cleanly replace the built-in OpenSSL with the source tarball ? I use this in my /etc/make.conf file: WITH_OPENSSL_PORT=yes -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-28 Thread Jerry
is in reality a niche OS. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | I am more bored than you could ever possibly be. Go back to work. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-27 Thread Jerry
, to waste valuable time getting a simple plug-in to work; especially since I can do it in a matter of seconds on a Microsoft product. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | Nuclear war would really set back cable. Ted Turner

Re: Bad sectors: how bad can it be

2009-10-27 Thread Jerry
on the disk. It ran for 97 hours; however, when completed, the disk worked like new. While replacing the drive is certainly a good idea, if you need information on it that you cannot otherwise extract, you might want to try another method. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
sort of entertainment. Bikesheds are cheap. jerry ___ 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: Bad sectors: how bad can it be

2009-10-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
luck and have fun, jerry -- Thank you in advance for your advices, Michaël___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
and an earlier post described well how to do it. As for putting it in ports and taking it out of base, well, some message system is often needed before ports are installed. Sendmail fills the bill.Some other could also, but since Sendmail works just fine and is already there, then it is. jerry

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 08:45:59PM -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: On Tuesday 27 October 2009 7:31:34 pm Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 05:03:12PM -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: On Tuesday 27 October 2009 4:32:45 pm Erik Norgaard wrote: Jonathan McKeown wrote: Just

Re: incorrect info in mysql docs

2009-10-25 Thread Jerry
it via /etc/rc.conf however. Perhaps MySQL could be prodded to post a reference to this on their website. It might help to avoid confusion. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | Death is Nature's way of recycling human beings

Re: Force installation of dependencies

2009-10-21 Thread Jerry
of it's dependencies to be rebuilt portmanager x11/gnome2 -l -f -- Jerry |=== ges...@yahoo.com|=== |=== |=== | From 0 to what seems

Re: (no subject)

2009-10-21 Thread Jerry
to it here. You might also consider cleaning out the /usr/ports/distfiles' directory and then running: portsclean -C -L -PP if you have it installed before attempting a new build. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | An idea is not responsible for the people

Re: (no subject)

2009-10-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
in the post - such as just what you tried and what happened along with what messages that were displayed. jerry :49:13 UTC 2009 r...@walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i 86 Send instant messages to your online friends http

Re: (no subject) Gnome

2009-10-21 Thread Jerry
/doc/en/books/handbook/ports-using.html Running as root: pkg_add -nr gnome2 It works here. Is your ports tree up-to-date? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | The sudden sight of me causes panic in the streets. They have yet to learn - only

Re: small question about tape-based dumps

2009-10-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 06:49:02PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: On 10/17/09, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: snip You do not need to. dump alrady writes that when it finishes each time. If you to that, you will get a second one at that location. You do not need to do the rewind

Re: small question about tape-based dumps

2009-10-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 08:09:22PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: On 10/17/09, Stevan Tiefert stevan-tief...@kabelmail.de wrote: Am Samstag, den 17.10.2009, 18:49 -0600 schrieb Tim Judd: On 10/17/09, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: snip You do not need to. dump alrady writes that when

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
systems. ??? That means it is a BUG that it won't work on an active files system - eg that someone should fix this defficiency and make it so it will work on an active filesystem. The man writer thinks it 'should' be able to work that way. jerry To change the root file system

Re: small question about tape-based dumps

2009-10-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 08:43:26PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: Replies inline On 10/16/09, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:13:21PM +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, one example: If I have three partitions and I want to backup every day

Re: Best procedure for full backup of live system

2009-10-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
anything important please let me know. Are you clear about what you have to run on the other machine to receive the data and put it where you want? jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: small question about tape-based dumps

2009-10-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
more like: dump 1af /dev/nsa0 etc. jerry With regards Stevan Tiefert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: clone-dump-restore

2009-10-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
them to pay attention to standard out/in. You can cause dump to send standard out over the net and restore to read standard in from the net.I used to do that, but it has been a long time and I don't have time at the moment to go and check the details to make sure I tell it correctly. jerry

Re: Best procedure for full backup of live system

2009-10-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
for if the change dump starts to take a lot of extra time. As for media, it can be to an external disk, a tape or over the net to some big storage space. Try to spread it out so that each set of dumps is not on the same physical media as other ones - eg rotate your media. jerry

Re: FWD: is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

2009-10-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
. It is a I686 which is the long standing ...86 family which, in 64 bit is supported on FreeBSD by AMD64. jerry Len ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread Jerry
) is not supported in 7.x versions of FreeBSD as far as I know. There was some talk of it being supported in 8.x, but I have not heard from anyone actually doing so. All my machines use nvidea cards, and the lack of support for it in FBSD, even after an extended period of time, is a real PIA. -- Jerry ges

Re: NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008

2009-10-13 Thread Jerry
compatible (less strict) way to adjust its time with a Windows Server? You might want to check out these two URL's for starters: http://lists.ntp.isc.org/pipermail/questions/2007-January/012469.html http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms884917.aspx -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com My folks didn't come

Re: server specification.

2009-10-13 Thread Jerry
that a company is suppose to support any product that they are not actively associated with. There cheaper models do use quite a bit of legacy products; however, the intermediate and top end machines are far better. They also offer the customer far more ways to customize the product. -- Jerry ges

Re: best FBSD version for commercial use.

2009-10-10 Thread Jerry
in the late 1990's, If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. Ovid (43 B.C. - A.D. 18) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: binutils

2009-10-10 Thread Jerry
to continue to use the older version {GNU assembler 2.15 [FreeBSD] 2004-05-23} or are they updating to the latest version. If the obsolete version is all ready causing compiler problems, it would seem like the logical thing to do. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com There is brutality and there is honesty

Re: binutils

2009-10-10 Thread Jerry
to place in the '/etc/make.conf' file that would force the use of the 'port' version instead if it was available in a fashion similar to what is done with OpenSSL; i.e. WITH_OPENSSL_PORT=yes. Perhaps, WITH_BINUTILS_PORT=yes. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully

Re: binutils

2009-10-10 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:35:01 -0700 Chuck Swiger (cswi...@mac.com) replied: On Oct 10, 2009, at 9:34 AM, Jerry wrote: On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:53:35 -0400 Lowell Gilbert (freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org) replied: Unfortunately, it's under an unacceptable license. I was not aware

Re: best FBSD version for commercial use.

2009-10-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
with 7.1 when I had to make the switch from 7.0 a few months ago. 8.0 was not out at that time. I don't think that is correct. There must be something unclear there. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: windoz, how do i install it last

2009-10-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
it will not be necessary to reinstall the FreeBSD. jerry Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Getting lphoto to run

2009-10-02 Thread Jerry
: Communication problem with lphoto, it probably crashed. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com In the beginning was the word. But by the time the second word was added to it, There was trouble. For with it came syntax ... John Simon ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Swap and memory optimization

2009-10-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
. Unless something else is going on or you are running some commercial server that gets huge amounts of traffic, you should have no capacity problem with this setup. You might want to upgrade to a more recent FreeBSD. jerry Thanks

Re: backups cloning

2009-09-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
of that. jerry ___ 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 ___ freebsd

Re: backups cloning

2009-09-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
- it has to be on the new filesystem you will be writing to. jerry The first time I tried with -L the error was 20 blocks... Both the slices for dump from and to are same size (2gb) and certainly not full by a long shot ( if I reccall correctly, only about 14% is used

Re: backups cloning

2009-09-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
and accomodate any changes in size and sector addressing. dd cannot do that. jerry -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Swaping Fs (from ntfs to ufs), or ntfs3g?

2009-09-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
... will be fine? Are their subdirectories that need copying too. If so, use the -R flag. You might want to do cp /media/DATAWIN/* /media/UFShd/. jerry Thanks! 2009/9/28 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu: On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 05:06:34PM +0100, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: Hi folks

Re: Whic mail server?

2009-09-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
and special-cased stuff. Then they become religious zealots about their favorites. Any suggestions on spam filters like spam-assassin? Learn to use procmail. jerry Thank you ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Whic mail server?

2009-09-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 09:49:37AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 06:01:22AM -0700, Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: Hi, I am running a server that is acting as the mail server for only internal users (about 50 users). Currently we are running Sendmail, but reading

Re: Question about FreeBSD installation procedure

2009-09-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
in the drive and boot it up. You might have to tinker with the BIOS if the CD is not in the BIOS boot list. jerry Thank you in anticipation. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means

Re: Swaping Fs (from ntfs to ufs), or ntfs3g?

2009-09-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
on the NTFS organized reasonably in directories.If you don't and they are interspersed with lots of files you do not want to copy, then it can get tedious but you can still do it. It will just need much more manual attention. jerry BR

Re: Requesting Service

2009-09-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
to be transferred into the new server. We will provide the hardware. Can you please advise if you do such services or if you could refer us. In what part of the world would this be? jerry Many Thanks, Don ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Whic mail server?

2009-09-27 Thread Jerry
://www.mailscanner.info/ though. The Postfix author discourages its use and Postfix does not support it. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Every cloud has a silver lining; you should have sold it, and bought titanium. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Warning: PHP Update from 5.2.10 to 5.2.11 and FastCGI

2009-09-27 Thread Jerry
. Did you file a PR for this? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Remembering is for those who have forgotten. Chinese proverb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Warning: PHP Update from 5.2.10 to 5.2.11 and FastCGI

2009-09-26 Thread Jerry
Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies Did you rebuild all of the ports that depend on PHP? I used portmanager with the '-p' option to update all dependencies. portmanager -u -l -y -p That should get everything working.Update you ports system first however. -- Jerry ges

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
everything you are asking for? jerry Anyway, I have been given a few ideas to follow upon. Thanks! -- Carmel car...@hotmail.com SAFETY I can live without Someone I love But not without Someone I need. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
more than do it. jerry Meanwhile others have listed a multitude of utilities for shooting files across multiple machines, including simple terminal login and more advanced GUI X11 login. None of which use shared file systems as their core connection method. Expanding on what I said

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:27:35PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:53:17 -0400 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: [snip] Am I missing something or would ssh, scp and directing your Xwindows display from the headless machine to a desktop X server cover everything

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:22:54PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:46:49PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:27:35PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: I was just playing around with ssh. Would it be possible to store multiple keys in the ~/.ssh

Re: postfix + cyrus sasl: no go

2009-09-19 Thread Jerry
the output if it still does not work. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com I was in Vegas last week. I was at the roulette table, having a lengthy argument about what I considered an Odd number. Steven Wright ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: postfix + cyrus sasl: no go

2009-09-19 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:12:40 -0700 (PDT) Colin Brace c...@lim.nl wrote: Jerry-107 wrote: 2) Post the contents of: /usr/local/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf Jerry, this file doesn't exist on my system. Please, check the URL I sent previously. You have SASL2 configured incorrectly. It needs

Re: Killfiles (was Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security...)

2009-09-17 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:04:58 +0200 Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote: On Wednesday 16 September 2009 16:59:27 Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Wednesday, September 16, 2009 06:08:50 -0500 Jerry ges...@yahoo.com The backscatter is useful in a way, in that it confirms that my original

Re: CD doesn't eject from the drive.

2009-09-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
, it quit right there and stayed CD-ed to the image. In that case, it will not eject, either under program control or manually. The solution is to make sure there is no process or shell that is CD-ed to the image. jerry 72-STABLE. Yuri messages acd0: WARNING

Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

2009-09-16 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:47:10 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: Waiting until someone is harmed is tantamount to being an accomplice to the act. And providing details of a currently-undefendable vulnerability to a black hat who did not previously know about

Re: portupgrade broken

2009-09-16 Thread Jerry
I have had great success in getting updates completed successfully with portmanager when portupgrade and portmaster both crapped out. I would suggest that you consider deleting the contents of the /usr/ports/distfiles prior to running any of the above port utility programs. -- Jerry ges

Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

2009-09-15 Thread Jerry
problems with updates I receive from http://www.us-cert.gov/. Aren't FreeBSD security problems reported to their site? If not, why? IMHO, keeping users in the dark to known security problems is not a serviceable protocol. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com If there is a possibility of several things going

Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

2009-09-15 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:13:31 -0400 Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: In response to Jerry ges...@yahoo.com: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:18:26 -0400 Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Monday 14

Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

2009-09-15 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:18:29 -0400 Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:03:50 -0400 Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:13:31 -0400 Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: In response to Jerry ges...@yahoo.com: I usually

Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

2009-09-15 Thread Jerry
? I fine that extremely disturbing. As you can no doubt tell, I am not a believer in the Ignorance is bliss theory. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com In the days of old, When Knights were bold, And women were too cautious; Oh, those gallant days, When women were women, And men were

Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

2009-09-15 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:28:59 -0400 DAve dave.l...@pixelhammer.com wrote: Jerry wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:51:40 +0200 Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: Please inform yourself properly before assuming you're right. Mozilla does not by default publish

Re: Dump/Restore?

2009-09-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
directory and untar stuff in there and move whay I want to where I want it. This may seem to be an extra unnecessary step, but it cuts down on errors, in my handling directories and file locations. jerry Sorry if the question seems stupid. Chris KQ6UP

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