Re: Best solution - mobile wifi hotspot

2008-06-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: My dad makes instruments and goes to a lot of festivals. They are typically in the middle of nowhere, without internet. Many vendors still bring notebooks as they provide quick easy access to many

Best solution - mobile wifi hotspot

2008-05-30 Thread Jim Stapleton
anyone have experiences with these and a given wireless adaptor, How good/bad is/was it? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: is my eyesight THAT bad?!

2008-04-25 Thread Jim Stapleton
. Yeah, yeah, standard and a MS or Sun product, I know, silly me. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: QEMU networking quirkiness on 7.0

2008-04-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Mario Lobo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 17 April 2008, Jim Stapleton wrote: Sorry for the delayed reply, I didn't see this sent. On Thursday 10 April 2008 22:01:32 Mario Lobo wrote I have a virtual Linux (Fedora 5) and winedows (XP

RE: is my eyesight THAT bad?!

2008-04-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
port (grammar was not turned on by default), a 'check grammar as you type' showed up in the edit-preferences window. I don't know to how check grammar, had a green line under 'how' when I was done. That was the closest I could find. Hope that helps -Jim Stapleton

Re: QEMU networking quirkiness on 7.0

2008-04-17 Thread Jim Stapleton
with my machine's network configuration while I've only got network access). Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: QEMU networking quirkiness on 7.0

2008-04-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
/qemu-ifup -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18 Apr 10 11:35 qemu-ifup* ifconfig ${1} up I tried to create tap4 to fix this, then it complained about tap5 not existing. It creates the /dev/tap device it wants when there is an error. I figure I made a mistake (obviously), any ideas what? Thanks, -JIm

Re: QEMU networking quirkiness on 7.0

2008-04-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_re0_alias0=192.168.1.85 netmask 255.255.255.255 defaultrouter=192.168.1.1 #adding... Should I use an IP not aliased by re0? ifconfig_bridge0=inet 192.168.1.85 netmask 255.255.255.0 Thanks for your help, -Jim Stapleton

Re: QEMU networking quirkiness on 7.0

2008-04-09 Thread Jim Stapleton
this within the emulator, but the emulator is supposedly running win2k. I take it this is done on the host system? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton Networking Default, network is configured inside of the emulator; not visible from outside. This is not absolutely confotable! There are pros

requesting 'QA' assistance

2008-04-08 Thread Jim Stapleton
the users and maintainers of the ports tree more flexibility in organization. Should I post the tbz file on my web server, and post a link on a mailing list, or post the copied/pasted shar to the mailing list (466kb, so I'm guessing /no/ to that one). Should I post here or to -ports? Thanks, -Jim

QEMU networking quirkiness on 7.0

2008-04-08 Thread Jim Stapleton
is given network access. Is there any way to set up QEmu to access the network through an aliased IP address, and hence look like any other machine on my network, rather than to hide behind my BSD box? Is there another route I should take?+ Thanks, -Jim Stapleton

FreeBSD 7, network dies, console shows: nfe0: tx v2 error 0x6004

2008-04-04 Thread Jim Stapleton
I got this on a bootup after a power blink. I had added aio_load=YES and kqemu=YES to my loader.conf beforehand. Removing them + reboot didn't fix the issue. I switched to the nve driver - no luck, but even fewer useful diagnostic error messages I swaped the network cable with a known good, no

Re: virtual machine software

2008-04-03 Thread Jim Stapleton
OK, it's working now. Slowly, but working (I'm guessing the lackluster performance is due to having it use 768MB memory, when the host only has 1GB, easy enough to fix, there are several solutions). -Jim Stapleton On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Bruce Cran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim

Re: keyboard initialization in freebsd

2008-03-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
would cause my keybaord to act differently between 6.2 and 7.0. Specifically - I suspect it rests in the keybaord initialization routines, but I don't know what files I'd find those in. Does anyone know if/what changes have been made with these? thanks, -Jim Stapleton

RE: desktop dominance

2008-03-26 Thread Jim Stapleton
I have had Linux for a long time. I have a different desktop coming that I am eager to play with FreeBSD on. It is a dual processored Intel Xeon @ 3.2ghz (64-bit). How are HP workstations with FreeBSD? As already said by another user, most things won't be too bad, but vendors use a lot of

keyboard initialization in freebsd

2008-03-26 Thread Jim Stapleton
, xev didn't recognize a keypress from any [F#] key when it was in the alternate mode. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: keyboard initialization in freebsd

2008-03-26 Thread Jim Stapleton
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Tim Judd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: Can anyone give me information on keyboard initialization during boot-up related to my issues listed below? In 6.2, my system booted up, and worked fine. [alt][ctrl][f#] would switch consoles

Re: virtual machine software

2008-03-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Bruce Cran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: Sorry, QEmu crashes when I try to boot the CD. Same happens with Bochs. -Jim Stapleton If it crashes with 'Bad system call' make sure you have aio support loaded. I missed it when I recently

Is this safe? Copying a complete install from one HD to another

2008-03-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: virtual machine software

2008-03-22 Thread Jim Stapleton
Sorry, QEmu crashes when I try to boot the CD. Same happens with Bochs. -Jim Stapleton On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:37:50PM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: I need to get a VM work for XP. I tried QEmu, but XP wouldn't install

Re: virtual machine software

2008-03-22 Thread Jim Stapleton
Really? And runs on FreeBSD (or does it use Linux Compat?) On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Bruce Cran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: I need to get a VM work for XP. I tried QEmu, but XP wouldn't install. I wouldn't mind VMWare, but I want to run it under trial first

virtual machine software

2008-03-21 Thread Jim Stapleton
I need to get a VM work for XP. I tried QEmu, but XP wouldn't install. I wouldn't mind VMWare, but I want to run it under trial first if possible. Any documents/suggestions that anyone can point me to? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions

Re: ports makefile stuff (bsd.lib.mk)

2008-02-08 Thread Jim Stapleton
=$(OBJPATH) OBJDIR=$(OBJPATH) .OBJDIR=$(OBJPATH) Any suggestions on what I am doing wrong? Thank you, -Jim Stapleton #directories/requirements #In order of most likely to least likely to change #what we are building OBJNAME=vp_backend_core VERSION=1.0 SRCS=back_end_core.c HDRS= ../../include

Re: ports makefile stuff (bsd.lib.mk)

2008-02-08 Thread Jim Stapleton
February 2008 16:49:46 Jim Stapleton wrote: 1) Initially, this library will actually build several sublibraries. To keep my code neat, each library has it's own source directory. So you set SUBDIR. That was background not a question. I managed that part. (I think it was from the zipped make

ports makefile stuff (bsd.lib.mk)

2008-02-06 Thread Jim Stapleton
sent to that directory? 2) How likely is it to cause compatibility erros if I simply go through the bsd.lib.mk file, and grab out all of the parts I need, and manually assemble them into my makefile? i.e. does this makefile vary much from release-to-release/hardware-to-hardware? Thanks, -Jim

Re: ports makefile stuff (bsd.lib.mk)

2008-02-06 Thread Jim Stapleton
${LIBMODE} \ ${_INSTALLFLAGS} ${LINTLIB} ${DESTDIR}${LINTLIBDIR} .endif =PATCH END= Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: C interpreters

2008-02-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thanks, it's decent, seems to not act like a full shell though. If I ctrl-z while in emacs, it drops me out of CH as well as emacs. still, it's a nice play toy. thanks, -Jim Stapleton On Jan 31, 2008 9:54 PM, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 10:12:35AM -0500, Jim

Re: Removing FreeBSD

2008-02-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
or are you looking for it under [rightclick My Computer]-Manage-[Drive Management, or whatever it is called, not currently on a windows box to follow the path right now]? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

C interpreters

2008-01-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
is it to write a library in C++ and allow C programs to use it? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: C interpreters

2008-01-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
, close. Open returns that void* pointer, query and close take it as the first argument. Any ideas on the C interpreter? It's been a while since I've done a lot of C/C++. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

CPu Questions

2008-01-17 Thread Jim Stapleton
data off the disk? How fast will it need to write the data? How much of the data can reside in memory (if it'll all fit in memory, then disk IO isn't nearly as big of a deal?), and how calculation intensive is your code? Does that help answer your question? -Jim Stapleton

RE: Python threading - some ports depend on it, others break with it

2008-01-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
pet python. Would that work? It's probably a bit more work than a desirable solution, but if you don't need them running in the same space, it should work. Or have I completely missed the point (very likely given me). -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd

RE: How to run GUI under root in FreeBSD?

2008-01-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
I would suggest using I ran following before become root: xhost localhost Under root: echo $DISPLAY :0.0 When I run ddd: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Error: Can't open display: :0.0 why not sudo ddd instead? That should work just as well if

I installed FreeBSD, but managed to completely fail at getting the man pages installed.

2007-12-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
None of the default man pages were installed on my system when I installed FreeBSD recently. I figured I forgot some part of the install (accidentally forgot to click something). Does anyone know how I can trivially obtain the base install's man pages? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton

Re: I installed FreeBSD, but managed to completely fail at getting the man pages installed.

2007-12-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
. Is this new, or is my memory going/gone? -Jim On Dec 31, 2007 9:55 AM, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: None of the default man pages were installed on my system when I installed FreeBSD recently. I figured I forgot some part

experience with a Logitech Internet 1500 wireless keyboard/mouse?

2007-12-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
really need wireless on this system. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: experience with a Logitech Internet 1500 wireless keyboard/mouse?

2007-12-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
2 years before they died - not nearly long enough in my oppinion. The MS mouse I got won't work in FreeBSD or Linux due to some of the power indicator stuff confusing the lower level drivers in the OS. Since the Logitech has some battery indication stuff, I figured I'd ask. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton

Mouse/Keyboard recommendation?

2007-10-19 Thread Jim Stapleton
Wireless 2.0 was not. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mouse diagnostics tools?

2007-10-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mouse diagnostics tools?

2007-10-14 Thread Jim Stapleton
to work with xmodmap to get the left click functional. There are no hits for FreeBSD. I've tested with an old mouse (wired) and it works fine, however in this situation, a wired mouse is not a solution. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions

Questions on the scheduler

2007-09-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
)? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
and maybe a few friends. I plan on running incoming SMTP, maybe at some point outgoing (requiring authentication/SSL, definetly no relay), no relay, no webmail, POP, if possible only under SSL. I think there's enough here for me to do my research and get what I need. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton On 9/5/07

Re: questions on setting up a mail server

2007-09-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
there. You insinuated (but I don't think explicitly stated) that LOGIN is in fact encrypted in some form? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
setting up a server. I know to find out and learn what I don't know, rather than to just stumble along blindly. There, that about covers everything that I do/don't know. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
the security (ex. reading mailing lists). I care about the security of my server. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mail server setup questions

2007-09-04 Thread Jim Stapleton
in FreeBSD? Please cc me, as I have the list subscribed in digest mode. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problems with a rc.d script I'm creating

2007-09-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
reply-all? Sorry, I have this list in digest mode due to volume, and I can't do a proper reply that keeps thread information without having a normal copy. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: problems with a rc.d script I'm creating

2007-09-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thanks, I'll play with that a bit more. -Jim Stapleton On 9/2/07, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 02 September 2007 14:18:17 Jim Stapleton wrote: I haven't figured out the proper way myself, but the problem is that the defaults you set at top, override the rc.conf variables

questions on setting up a mail server

2007-09-01 Thread Jim Stapleton
is not what I want - if I remember, that's unencrypted. Does TLS/SSL make this a non-issue? What about the other methdods? Aside from keeping it in a quiet comfortable jail (done) and not on a server with anything else important, any suggestions? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton

problems with a rc.d script I'm creating

2007-09-01 Thread Jim Stapleton
process. When I run it manually (akpop3d -d -s -L .akpop3d), it starts just fine. Could anyone suggest what I am missing here? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton The script: #!/bin/sh # # $FreeBSD: N/A # # PROVIDE: akpop3d # REQUIRE: DAEMON # # Add the following line to /etc/rc.conf to enable akpop3d

file patterns and tar

2007-08-30 Thread Jim Stapleton
). What should I do, short of running tars for /, /usr/ and /usr/local, or is that the only real option? But then there is always the possiblility of missing something because its name just happens to contain bin, or more likely contains lib. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton

I was a dolt and killed my pkgdb

2007-08-29 Thread Jim Stapleton
for www/lynx .. done] It will check for dependancies for the packages I want to install, but it won't actually install them. I've tried: pkgdb -f pkgdb -af mv /var/db/pkgdb/pkgdb.db ~; pkgdb -af and always end up with the same build results. What is the next step? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton

Re: I was a dolt and killed my pkgdb

2007-08-29 Thread Jim Stapleton
was fixed. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 8/29/07, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: I was building a couple of packages, figured I'd do it while at work. I was using portupgrade, and accidentally hit enter before typing all the package paths. I quickly ctrl-c'ed to exit

/bin/[

2007-08-26 Thread Jim Stapleton
Sorry if you get this question a lot - a few searches didn't find results for me. I have a /bin/[ file in my system - I just want to make sure it's not a sign of someone having hacked my machine. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: /bin/[

2007-08-26 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thanks everyone for the help. I tried using man, but it didn't find anything. Glad to know my system isn't compromised. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

attaching a terminal to 'join' another?

2007-08-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
a clue in advance. I'm guessing something like /dev/?tty?? might work, but how do I figure out which tty to use? Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: attaching a terminal to 'join' another?

2007-08-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
On 8/2/07, Jeremy Gransden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/2/07, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if my question is a bit confusing - I'm not even sure the proper terminology, so I don't know what the best way to start looking is. I'm rebuilding a system at home, and I'd like

Re: attaching a terminal to 'join' another?

2007-08-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
On 8/2/07, Jeremy Gransden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/2/07, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/2/07, Jeremy Gransden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/2/07, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if my question is a bit confusing - I'm not even sure the proper

Re: ppp/peers/* files

2007-06-26 Thread Jim Stapleton
Hmm, would it be easier for me to setup a 127.0.0.2 loopback and my gateway, and alway point that to the proper gateway, to make things easier when I'm switching between VPN and no VPN? Thanks -Jim Stapleton On 6/26/07, Artyom Viklenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Jim

cvsup question

2007-06-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
I've had this answered before, but for some reason, I can't seem to get it working. I am having problems with something in WINE and I want to see if it's the version of WINE, thus I'd *like* to reinstall WINE 0.9.39 and put 0.9.36 back. I have my supfile set to 2007.06.15... and use these

/etc/devfs.conf not working properly

2007-05-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
- acd1 Their permssions are not correct at all, except for acd0/acd1. Any suggestions on what would cause this one? Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: /etc/devfs.conf not working properly

2007-05-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, I couldn't find the user mount flag. It's not in the files comments, the sysctl (3)(8) man page or the sysctl.conf (8) man page. Where can I find it listed? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 5/15/07, Daniel Molina Wegener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El Mar, 15 de Mayo de 2007, 13:53, Jim

Re: CUPS + FreeBSD 6.2 + HP Laserjet 5

2007-04-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thanks. My printer is attached straight to the network (RJ-45), but I check /var/db/pkg, and saw no mention of cups-pdf or cups-pstoraster, so I am installing those... I'll try setting up my printer when I get home. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 4/22/07, Jared Barneck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim

network/IP notation question ##.##.##.##/??

2007-04-20 Thread Jim Stapleton
I am looking at something that has the following line as a demo: set iface route 192.168.0.0/24 what does the /24 mean? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

CUPS + FreeBSD 6.2 + HP Laserjet 5

2007-04-20 Thread Jim Stapleton
to the output (I usually see a list of files updated). Since ports were updated this morning, without the date line (so to today's ports layout), I should have seens something. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Given this evidence, should I be worried that I may have been hacked

2007-04-14 Thread Jim Stapleton
interesting, but the major drop in attempts has me more worried than the attempts (could this drop off be because they no longer need to hack me? Could they have hacked me an that be the reason why?) How worried should I be, and what's the best recourse for this? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton

Re: Given this evidence, should I be worried that I may have been hacked

2007-04-14 Thread Jim Stapleton
I have DSA. I will change it to a nonstandard port, but I was wondering what your oppinion on a good way to check if this is the result of me being hacked, or just someone loosing interest. On 4/14/07, Gabor Kovesdan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton schrieb: Once I opened up SSH

Verifying that I have SMP up and running

2007-04-09 Thread Jim Stapleton
it's up an running. Can someone verify this, and are there any good tools to show how much each CPU is using in the way of resources? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents

Re: Verifying that I have SMP up and running

2007-04-09 Thread Jim Stapleton
Ahh, yes, I see that. And high-cpu multitasking seems to run a lot better too Thank you, -Jim Stapleton On 4/9/07, Michael K. Smith - Adhost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Jim: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim

Re: creating rc.d scripts

2007-03-26 Thread Jim Stapleton
oops, sent a reply to the wrong list a bit ago... Anyway, it is still not working. I forgot to mentions, sorry, doing $ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sb_server start works just fine. I used /usr/bin/env python because I would like to add this to the port that installs the server this script starts, and

Re: creating rc.d scripts

2007-03-22 Thread Jim Stapleton
/local/etc/rc.d/hald /usr/local/etc/rc.d/fusefs /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ffserver /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cupsd /usr/local/etc/rc.d/avahi-daemon.sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/avahi-dnsconfd.sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/001slpd.sh Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 3/21/07, Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL

creating rc.d scripts

2007-03-21 Thread Jim Stapleton
advise me? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton rc.conf: == #hostname/ifconfig/defaultrouter omitted usbd_enable=YES linux_enable=YES sshd_enable=YES ntpdate_enable=YES ntpd_enable=YES sendmail_disable=YES sendmail_enable=NO mail_enable=NO inetd_flags=-wW

Verifying my 3D drivers set up properly for my nVidia based graphics card

2007-03-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
mentioned on nVidias web site, and they are all in the right spots, which leads me to suspect it's an xorg.conf error, but I'm not sure. I've attached the xorg.conf file to the end, just in case. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton /etc/X11/xorg.conf: # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia

Re: hauppauge PVR 150 problem loading modules

2007-03-04 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, I'll call hauppauge tomorrow, they seem to be quite friendly about it. I was trying to find the file that spat out the error message but was lost. Thanks again, -Jim Stapleton On 3/4/07, Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 March 2007 20:34, Jim Stapleton wrote: I

Re: hauppauge PVR 150 problem loading modules

2007-03-04 Thread Jim Stapleton
OK, I'm working on that, what's the most trivial method of finding out if the tuner is working? I saw a cat /dev/cxm0 test.mpg comment, do I have to set channel before I do that, should I use the pvr250_setchannel application? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton

Re: hauppauge PVR 150 problem loading modules

2007-03-04 Thread Jim Stapleton
/dev/cxm0 | some_app Thanks, -Jim Stapleton #!/bin/sh INC=0.10 START=740.00 STOP=750.00 P=$START cat /dev/cxm0 test_$START.mpg TEST=$(echo $P = $STOP | bc) while [ $TEST -eq 1 ] do echo $P pvr250-setchannel -m 2 $P P=$(echo $P + $INC | bc) TEST=$(echo $P = $STOP | bc) sleep 2 done kill

hauppauge PVR 150 problem loading modules

2007-03-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
2 21:27:53 elrond kernel: device_attach: cxm0 attach returned 6 So it's safe to say I have an unknown tuner on this card, what would my next step from here be? Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: hauppauge PVR 150 problem loading modules

2007-03-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
I appologize -questions, disregard this, it was supposed to go to multimedia. On 3/3/07, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After being unable to get the WinTV-Radio work, I replaced it with a PVR-150. I followed the instructions here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia

Asking for bugs instead of about them, for a change.

2007-02-28 Thread Jim Stapleton
/CPUTYPE) [b] the entire dependancy trace (the list of ports that the system is backtracking out of), and the last 15 to 20 lines of the actual build (be it the configuration steps, the compilation commands, etc). Also nice would be [c] How you fixed it or plan to fix it. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
ata* hide 2000 path atkbd* hide 2100 path kbd* hide 2200 path fd* hide 2300 path fid* hide 2400 path net* mode 777 2500 path show 2600 path * unhide Still no luck. Thanks everyone for all the help, hopefully this is enough information to indicate the problem. -Jim Stapleton sockstat

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, that fixed it. After all the other stuff (some of which also had it broke), it was a 1... ARGH! Thanks again, I am now the proud owner of a shiny new jail to put all my processes behind bars inside of. :-) On 2/24/07, Philipp Wuensche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, it still did not connect using that. The mail server is a SMTP server. Also I copied over my host's resolve.conf file. With all these hassles/headaches, would it be better/more secure for me to settup Bochs or QEmu running a virtual BSD server? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 2/23/07

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, that's at least useful testing, but it did not work. Jail is definetly not getting any network action. Would a host netstat output be useful? I looks pretty cryptic. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 2/23/07, Jeff Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:22 PM 2/22/2007, you wrote: I'd like

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
legolas /jail Is that what you needed Thanks, -Jim Stapleton Jim Stapleton wrote: Thank you, that's at least useful testing, but it did not work. Jail is definetly not getting any network action. Would a host netstat output be useful? I looks pretty cryptic. Can

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
%ping 192.168.1.1 PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes ^C --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss %exit exit On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 03:25:00PM +, Jim Stapleton wrote: Thank you, it still did not connect using that. The mail

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
commenting out the ifconfig_nve0= line, and uncommenting the other ifconfig_nve0/defaultrouter lines (just in case I misread something). Neither worked. Thanks -Jim Stapleton On 2/23/07, Philipp Wuensche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: Jail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14:04:11 (0) ~ sudo

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 On 2/23/07, Jeff Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:38 PM 2/23/2007, Jim Stapleton wrote: new host rc.conf: hostname=elrond.ameritech.net #ifconfig_nve0=inet 192.168.1.84 netmask

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
?? Ss 0:00.09 /usr/sbin/moused -p /dev/ums1 -t auto -I /var/run/moused.ums1.pid Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 2/23/07, Philipp Wuensche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: new host rc.conf: hostname=elrond.ameritech.net #ifconfig_nve0=inet 192.168.1.84 netmask 255.255.255.0

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
, but that didn't fix the problem. named is not running, and hasn't run on this machine. and I did read the jail man page, I'm still stuck. -Jim Stapleton On 2/24/07, Harald Schmalzbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 24. Februar 2007 02:06 schrieb Jim Stapleton: yes, I can ping it from

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
to find documentation on them, X, and KDM. I can't find anything on limiting sockets of these to a specific IP only. -Jim STapleton On 2/24/07, Harald Schmalzbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 24. Februar 2007 04:01 schrieben Sie: I saw them in there, but that section seemed to be lacking

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
connections (including servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address(state) udp6 0 0 *.syslog *.* On 2/24/07, Harald Schmalzbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 24. Februar 2007 04:21 schrieb Jim Stapleton: I did the ssh after you did

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
addendum, I fixed syslogd by adding this to my rc.conf: syslogd_flags=-b 192.168.1.84 However, looking through netstat's man page, I couldn't find the name of the flag (if it exists) that will show the process name. Does that require a different tool? Thank you, -Jim Stapleton On 2/24/07

problems with jail

2007-02-22 Thread Jim Stapleton
with 192.168.1.85 and with assigned to it also jail command (run from root for testing purposes only - I'll narrow it down to a less privledged host/jailed system user later) jail /jail/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 192.168.1.85 /bin/csh The machine was rebooted since I set everything up. Thank you, -Jim

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-22 Thread Jim Stapleton
.FreeBSD.org Name lookup failure for cvsup12.FreeBSD.org: hostname nor servname provided, or not known Will retry at 20:52:12 I'm only using one jail (it'll run apache, mysql and possibly sftp) Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 2/23/07, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 01:22

x86 emulators that can handle partition devices instead of slices.

2007-02-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
ask here before I put a lot of time into it (i.e. I'll try with no response or some I don't knows, but if I get a can't be done, then I won't waste my time). Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: x86 emulators that can handle partition devices instead of slices.

2007-02-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
Jim Stapleton wrote: I have two hard drives in my machine (ad8, ad10), ad10 is the system disk, ad8 has a few GB of swap at the end and 2 fat32 partitions. Mostly I'm using the fat partitions for a windows install to use as the base for WINE, but occasionally I'll want to install software

Re: CPU Intel core 2 (64bits). Which freeBSD should I install?

2007-02-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
Hi all; I looked up on the Free archives and what I found was that I should either install amd64 ( if I use lots of multimedia stuff) or i386 (later compiling for SMP). I tried ia64 (which I thought means Intel Architecture) but the image won't even boot. This machine is going to be exclusively

I'd like to do my bit to support FreeBSD

2007-02-06 Thread Jim Stapleton
I've found quite a few tricks and techniques for handling FreeBSD's ports system when things go south. I'd like to add them to the handbook, adding, lets say 4.5.6 - When Ports Attack. OK, really it'd be more along the lines of 4.5.6 - Installing Ports When Things Go Wrong It would give hints

Re: I'd like to do my bit to support FreeBSD

2007-02-06 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thanks, that doesn't look like a challange at all. Guess I'll have some fun with it when I get home. -Jim Stapleton On 2/6/07, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've found quite a few tricks and techniques for handling FreeBSD's ports system

NVidia troubls with AMD64..

2007-02-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
their time away from keeping this great OS great. (Don't bother searching if you don't know, just asking if anyone reading this knows off the top of their heads): Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

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