Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

Zach Leslie xaque...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.fossil-scm.org/ l I'm not fossil user, but it's BSD licensed in written in C. Also, this particular tool bails out on the unix philosophy, with its web gui, ticket tracker etc. Do one thing. Do it well. I would argue that git bails on that

Re: Problems mounting nfs from freebsd to Mac.

On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:58:21 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Sep 25 03:29:33 2010 Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 04:01:18 -0400 From: Mike Meyer mike.w.me...@gmail.com To: questi...@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Problems

Problems mounting nfs from freebsd to Mac.

is? Is there some reason I've overlooked for the permissions to be denied? Anything I can do to get more information out of mountd (or whatever is causing the problem)? Any other things I might try? Thanks, mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/consulting.html

Re: weird restarts when compiling

failure rather than system shutdowns when they go flaky, so I'd try them last. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail

Re: network/multithreaded programming on FreeBSD

to be missing features, but more lenient about transgressions of the standard, than FreeBSD. On the other hand, my sample set is sufficiently small that this may not be a good indication of what it's like for others. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org

Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS

, this should be easy: drop into single user, and run an incremental since the last daily, which typically takes me a few minutes. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information

Re: Dual Core Or Dual CPU - What's the real difference in performance?

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cy Schubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Meyer writes: Generally, more processors means things will go faster until you run out of threads. However, if there's some shared resource that is the bottleneck for your load, and the resource

Re: Dual Core Or Dual CPU - What's the real difference in performance?

simultaneous access by all the cores, more cores can slow things down. Of course, it's not really that simple. Some shared resources can be managed so as to make things improve under most loads, even if they don't support simultaneous access. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: LinkLib Issues In freebsd Lazarus

/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html for details. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: LinkLib Issues In freebsd Lazarus

is the first I'd heard of it. I'm just trying to point out some ways you can deal with it. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information

Re: LinkLib Issues In freebsd Lazarus

Lazarus on freebsd I'd install the fpc and fpc-ide ports. If you want to continue the way you started, delete your bogus symlink, and install the graphics/gdk-pixbuf port to get the library you need. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html

Re: What's up with 6.1 and ATA????

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 09:05:54PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: Um, someone want to tell me what happened to the ATA drivers in 6.1-RELEASE? I tried to upgrade my desktop box from 5.4 to 6.1-RELEASE, only to have the CDROM fail

What's up with 6.1 and ATA????

from 4.X to 6.1. Same thing - the 6.1 CDROM boots, then fails to find the drive. Have the ATA drivers been mangled in some way? Or is this a problem with the CDROM, and if I install 5.X and then upgrade via CVS to 6.1, it'll work? Thanks, mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED

video playback not working

what's busted would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ freebsd-questions

Problems building OO

is happening on. Thanks, mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Finding a wireless lan card

that restriction. That lets me survey the local wireless networks, chose one, and connect to it. Worked like a charm. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information

Sudden need for a wireless card for 5.3

I suddenly find myself in need of a wireless card for a 5.3 desktop box. Anyone want to recommend something? Thanks, mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information

Problems with command line scratch files in zsh

with a patch, maybe (I couldn't find any such bug report)? Workarounds? Maybe this should go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information

Re: Problems with command line scratch files in zsh

[Format recovered from top posting.] In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christopher Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 03:31 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: Since going to 5.x with devfd, I've noticed that some of the shell constructs used by zsh (and other shells - I know zsh didn't invent

Re: Problems with command line scratch files in zsh

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: * Mike Meyer wrote [2005-06-12 03:31 -0500] guru% wc (cat /etc/motd) wc: /dev/fd/11: open: No such file or directory Did you mount the fdescfs filesystem? I have this in my /etc/fstab: fdesc/dev/fd

Re: Problems with command line scratch files in zsh

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: In the last episode (Jun 12), Mike Meyer said: [Format recovered from top posting.] In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christopher Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 03:31 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: Since going to 5.x

Problems with compat3x libraries.

this by installing compat4x, as the version from it seems to work. 2) getpwuid_r seems to no longer be in libc. In any case, the application in question worked fine with 3.x emulation on 4.x, but now complains about missing getpwuid_r on 5.3. Thanks, mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED

Can't compile kernel...

certainly relevant. Any help in getting this kernel to build would be greatly appreciated. Thanx, mike GURU Description: config file -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more

Strange startup behavior on 5.3-release

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Cross-compiling Linux binaries

Anyone ever tried building Linux rpm's on freebsd? If so, any hints for someone thinking of trying it? Thanks, mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information

Re: to make or add a package

built. Personally, I always build from ports. If nothing else, having the source handy is worth a little extra time. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information

Re: pkg_upgrade ?

between deinstalling and installing again. Try this: 1) cvsup ports collection 2) make 3) pkg_deinstall 4) make install If I cvsup ports and then make install, is there a fix to update the pkg data base? It's not needed. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: pkg_upgrade ?

anyway. Unfortunately, I still sometimes find the dependent ports need to be recompiled for the new version of the port you are installing. Yup. That's what portupgrade is for. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce

Re: Dangerously dedicated vs. fully dedicated, etc.

, clobbering my DD (type B) disklabel. It could be turned off in the BIOS, but caused me (not the kernel) to panic the first time it happened. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information

Re: Dangerously dedicated vs. fully dedicated, etc.

). This can also be referred to as /dev/ad0a, like your C case. I personally prefer that because it lets you know that the disk is DD. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information

Re: Fwd: How to read bad blocks error message marking of same

I'd greatly appreciate it (with many many many thanks in advance :) ) Modern drives deal with bad block substitution all by themselves. By the time you've got blocks going bad that the OS sees, the drive is in really sad shape. You should replace it with a new drive ASAP. mike -- Mike

xpdf help

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Re: xpdf help

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:58:43AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: For some reason, xpdf (version 3.00, as installed on FreeBSD 4.9 by the ports system) can't find the Courier, Times, Helvetica and Symbol fonts that are built

No networking on 4.9-PRERELEASE

network. The interface that's failing is xl0. Does anyone have an xl that's working with 4.9-prerelease? How about anyone else having network problems with 4.9-prelease. A solution would be best of all, of course. Thanks, mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: USB Printer

-dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=- -sDEVICE=ijs -sljsServer=hpijs -dljsUseOutputFD Are these right ^ ^ Do you really specify l and not i for the server and UseOutputFD? mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html

Re: paths - a newbie question

to make the OS make a link auto-majically? Thanks. This is your shell, not the OS. Without knowing which shell you are using, I can't say for sure, but you might try the rehash command. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network

Re: Fwd: Re: [Directoryadmin-list] compile trouble

-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: How to list installed ports that have no dependant ports

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 13:20, Mike Meyer wrote: Since you want to delete them, why don't you just use pkg_delete on them. If they something depends on them, they won't be deleted. I do use pkg_delete, but the idea here is to effectively

Re: Uninstalling dependencies

handle dependencies of the dependencies. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: How to list installed ports that have no dependant ports

in keeps. Generate a list of things to try and delete by (cd /var/db/pkg; ls | sort) | comm -23 - keeps | xargs pkg_delete and keep doing that as long as things are vanishing from /var/db/pkg. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent

Re: Daily Run Output error

daily_status_mailq_enable=NO to /etc/periodic.conf. You probably want to add daily_status_mail_rejects_enable=NO to /etc/periodic.conf in either case. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce

Re: Read-only /usr/ports (problem with fontconfig)

), which is in $(WRKDIRPREFIX). I'd contact the maintainer of the of the fontconfig port about this - it seems like it's touching something it shouldn't. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email

Re: #!sh grep and move files

for arguments, then you can use xargs: $ cd /dir $ grep -lr 1-TA- . | xargs -J % mv % /newdir mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information

Re: USB Printer

there may have just found the ijs documentation, and would be able to tell you where it is. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information

Re: USB Printer

: enscript -p - /etc/motd | gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=- [ijs options] /dev/ulpt0 If things are done right, you should get a copy of /etc/motd on the printer. After that, you need to set up a filter file and printcap. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org

Re: I damaged a disklabel

. Is there a way of fixing it? If you have the starting sector for each partition as well, you can fix it. You need to use disklabel to set those two numbers. See the disklabel man page for details. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html

Re: ata0-slave: ATA identify failed

information. Updating to -current may help you. Second, please put newlines in your mail messages. It makes them easier to read in mailers that follow the standards. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant

Re: rebuild one module

module. I am sure there's a way to only compile the emu10k1 module, but I don't know how. Well, what are you doing now to build the kernel? You should be able to use the classic kernel build method, except you don't have to repeat any of the steps but make. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL

Re: rebuild one module

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Antoine Jacoutot [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Wednesday 02 April 2003 20:23, Mike Meyer wrote: Well, what are you doing now to build the kernel? You should be able to use the classic kernel build method, except you don't have to repeat any of the steps but make. What

Re: VNC and blackbox

exist, you get an xterm in twm. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: USB Printer

. I prefer enscript for that. Either one will detect various graphics formats and automatically translate them to postscript to be printed via ghostscript. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email

Re: USB Printer

if you pay a licensing fee. How did this -questions get dropped from this? I've put it back. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information

Re: USB Printer

that. If it prints the text you sent, it's not a winprinter. If it does nothing, or prints gibberish, it's probably a winprinter. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information

Re: Spamassassin tools

you had a look in the ports plist? grep -v ^@ /var/db/pkg/portname/+CONTENTS pkg_info -L portname does the same thing. Using zsh you even get completikon of the portname against /var/db/pkg. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html

Re: audio question

it? There are lots. audio/sox includes both play and rec commands. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: How can I rescan the scsi-bus in freebsd?

machine. Camcontrol takes a rescan command. camcontrol rescan all is the simple way, but see the camcontrol man page for details on how to specify what to rescan. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix

Re: general email question

you've checked the ports documentation and the handbook. Once that's done, all that's left is tweaking your sendmail config for to set the SMARTER_HOST stuff up. Check the archives of this list for information on how to do that. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: USB Printer

the printer configured. What to do next depends on what you want to do with the printer - and whether or not the deskjet is a winprinter. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information

Re: switching IDE controllers

the kernel interleave paging across two drives improves paging performance. If you're not paging, it doesn't matter. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information

Re: fonts.alias / fonts.scale

in advance. See URL: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fonts/x141.html for instructions on adding fonts to fonts.dir and fonts.scale. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant

Re: wanna have a freebsd partition on extended partition

of the extended partition, most likely with ufs/ufs2? Unmount it, newfs it, and then mount it. The Freebsd disk tools handle extended partitions just fine, with a couple of exception. You shouldn't have problems with the exceptions for your application. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 'origin not recorded' error upon attempt to use pkg_add

error message in amongst these complaints? mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: db2

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Henning [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: is there a port for db2 for freebsd? make search key=db2 in /usr/ports turns up: Port: db-2.7.7_1 Path: /usr/ports/databases/db2 Info: The Berkeley DB package, revision 2 mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: disklabel - 8th partition shows X as Partition name

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Re: disklabel - 8th partition shows X as Partition name

tools for manipulating slices don't grok extended slices. I forget what I used to do this - possibly Linux fdisk - but it wasn't the FreeBSD tools. The alternative on FreeBSD is to do the calculation by hand, as you said. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org

Re: disklabel - 8th partition shows X as Partition name

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eric Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Mike Meyer wrote: [..snip..] Of course, one has to wonder why anyone needs as many as seven partitions on a single disk. It's far more common to want to go the other way, and have multiple disks in a single partition. Separating

Re: How to produce debugging symbols?

in the kernel debugging section of the developer's handbook link at URL: http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html . mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information

Re: Py22-Qt port problems...

, installing that should fix the pkg-plist to use the right thing. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: sendmail timeout

smtp server. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

RE: OpenSSL obstacle to PostgreSQL Installation

for the mergemaster step. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body

RE: OpenSSL obstacle to PostgreSQL Installation

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tamir Halperin [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: -Original Message- From: Mike Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 10:50 AM To: Tamir Halperin Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: OpenSSL obstacle to PostgreSQL Installation Right

RE: OpenSSL obstacle to PostgreSQL Installation

, and can be used as the value of the KERNCONF= parameter to make kernel. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: OpenSSL obstacle to PostgreSQL Installation

there for installing the OpenSSL distribution? mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body

Re: crashdumping on massive amounts of RAM

. Something about the days when I used to recompile LISP systems on memory-starved machines mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

RE: OpenSSL obstacle to PostgreSQL Installation

/libcrypto*? mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: crashdumping on massive amounts of RAM

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], The Anarcat [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Mon Mar 24, 2003 at 11:59:50AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], The Anarcat [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I am fortunate enough to have a box with a lot (by my standards) of RAM: Any brilliant ideas to work around

RE: OpenSSL obstacle to PostgreSQL Installation

mine - please hit carriage return every now and then! You're in danger of creating lines longer than the SMTP spec allows! mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information

Re: UML program

clearly isn't what you want. The other is /usr/ports/devel/umbrello, which is described as a UML diagrame programme for KDE. bwt please CC to me as I am _not_ on the list! That's SOP for this list. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html

Re: dd

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Hi again all, Are there any 'dd' experts out there who would be willig to talk of list. I'm pretty handy with dd. I'm not sure about talking off-list, though. What's the problem. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Stuck with pkg_info

, because one or more of the tools you are using to install ports is probably corrupt. The fix to that is probably to upgrade your system. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more

Re: pkg_upgrade ?

between deinstalling and installing again. Try this: 1) cvsup ports collection 2) make 3) pkg_deinstall 4) make install If I cvsup ports and then make install, is there a fix to update the pkg data base? It's not needed. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: pkg_upgrade ?

anyway. Unfortunately, I still sometimes find the dependent ports need to be recompiled for the new version of the port you are installing. Yup. That's what portupgrade is for. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce

Re: getting device for umass?

for the one that's not there. One simple solution is to note that the device numbers for the umass devices seldom change, so you can fix them in usbd.conf for each system. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD

Re: Pushing commands to the background

the other in a subshell, with output going to standard output. Just send that output to mail and you're done. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send

Re: apsfilter - exasperation - willing to pay

for your printer - which is likely, as it's old - you'll have to take one for a similar - meaning handles the same data formats - and modify it slightly. I'll be glad to help with that as well. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW

Re: usb printers

, it will show up as /dev/ulpt0. You just use that instead of /dev/lpt0 in the printcap file. No converter or any such thing is needed. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information

Re: a bit confused with new rc.d system in 5.0

please if anyone could point me to some kind of doc/info I'll appreciate it I don't know of any docs, and the info I'm using is the shell scripts proper. You might ask on -current if you want more information than I've provided. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Port that makes HTML from jpeg images?

to find anything searching the current ports for -STABLE. You probably want either www/WebMagick or www/thumbnail_index. make search key=thumbnail turned them both up. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD

Re: portupgrade mess

as well. It just doesn't have one by default, whereas 5.x does. You should *never* edit anything in /etc/defaults. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information

Re: portupgrade mess

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daxbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Quoting Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daxbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Quoting Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BTW, any idea how I could reduce the size of the /usr/ports slice - it's max is about

Re: bootloader configuration ?

to install a boot loader from ports. Personally, I use grub when I need a multiboot system. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: init and process restart

and will be passed to the daemon as the final argument on its com- mand line. This is similar to the facility offered in the ATT System V UNIX /etc/inittab. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix

Re: Possible drive failing??

that system is, I may have a backup ready, or replace the drive under controlled conditions before things get worse. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Kernel Panic in 5.0-RELEASE

PROTECTED] if you are still having problems. For dealing with panics, you should have a kernel with symbols built so you can provide a stack trace of the problem. Being able to identify the problem and provide a fix is strongly encouraged for -current users. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL

Re: portupgrade mess

ports in the system. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: ftp logging question

- /usr/libexec/ftpd - needs -ll - that's two els - to log each file transfer. With just one l, it only logs session information. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information

Re: why BIND and sendmail installed by default?

. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: how do i invoke the command ee or vi when system fails toload

skip the fsck -p, you just may have to run it then rerun the mount. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: your mail

of suid perl scripts. While it's easier to write secure suid program in Perl than in C or the shell, it's still difficult enough that I'd prefer having one trusted program to writing a number of such scripts. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org

Re: send-pr(1) requires local mail daemon,breach of contract for Comcast users

you are getting an error. If not, what behavior are you seeing other than it doesn't work. It's really hard to help diagnose a problem given no information whatsoever. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix

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