Re: My unqualified host name

2008-09-26 Thread perryh
If you look for My unqualified host name unknown; sleeping for retry you will get a lot of possible answers; some suggesting to add your unqualified host name in /etc/hosts. That line is already in /etc/hosts, both with and without a trailing period. I still get the ~3 messages about a minute

Re: My unqualified host name

2008-09-25 Thread perryh
nyana sm-mta[803]: My unqualified host name (nyana) unknown; sleeping for retry ... sendmail expects your machine to have working DNS and for the machine to have a valid FQDN. Either set that up, or add sendmail_enable=NONE to /etc/rc.conf to disable sendmail ...

Re: My unqualified host name

2008-09-23 Thread perryh
nyana sm-mta[803]: My unqualified host name (nyana) unknown; sleeping for retry ... sendmail expects your machine to have working DNS and for the machine to have a valid FQDN. Either set that up, or add sendmail_enable=NONE to /etc/rc.conf to disable sendmail ... There is another

Re: Realtek 8111C?

2008-09-20 Thread perryh
... I thought I'd try copying the driver from 7.1. The module (if_re.ko) appears to load successfully at boot time, however the NIC is still not shown in dmesg and unavailable as re0. I admit I don't know if this should even work (7.1-compiled module on 6.3 kernel) ... That would indeed not

Re: server is crashing constantly

2008-09-13 Thread perryh
Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a new web server [which] is crashing 2-3 times a day ... That is what im getting in the /var/log/messages. Sep 13 20:09:25 rps savecore: reboot after panic: page fault Sep 13 20:09:25 rps savecore: writing core to vmcore.0 ... Any ideas or

Re: Capturing tar output

2008-09-11 Thread perryh
redirect stderr with 2 operator Using the following command, # /usr/local/gtar/bin/tar -cvf - /home/hallja 2 /var/log/test.txt | /usr/local/bin/gpg --encrypt recipient | dd of=/dev/nsa0 obs=128k I receive an error meesage stating, Ambiguous output redirect. Wojtek correctly pointed out

Re: Postfix issue

2008-09-09 Thread perryh
why are you not using your ISP to relay emails, using its mail gateway (which should have a static IP address)? ... I do not like the fact that a number of governments (including most european ones) now have the right to access all emails that pass through an ISP's server. They do not have

Re: rss-glx screen saver compilation fails?

2008-09-09 Thread perryh
spirographx.o(.text+0x30f): In function `getAll': : undefined reference to `sincosf' Per Google, it's a gnu-ism: http://linux.die.net/man/3/sincosf void sincosf(float x, float *sin, float *cos); Several applications need sine and cosine of the same angle x. This function computes

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-06 Thread perryh
So you're saying that the white on my [monster] CRT is not the same as on a future LCD Display? rats:) Not only that, but your monster CRT probably doesn't match a smaller CRT; and an old-ish CRT whose phosphors have aged (and whose focus may have gotten a bit fuzzy) probably doesn't match a

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE getting terrible throughput using sk0 adapter

2008-08-31 Thread perryh
Try disabling usb and firewire in BIOS. You may need to have a tech there do it for you. Your box has the sk NIC and usb sharing an irq. The NIC driver is MPSAFE but the usb stack is still under the GIANT lock. Disable usb and the NIC driver should perform better. Alternatively, to avoid

Re: Formatting dates to a specific pattern

2008-08-30 Thread perryh
I need to format the current date ... to the pattern m-d- ... date(1) seems to always put leading zeros. # date +%m-%d-%Y | sed 's/^0//g' 8-30-2008 Not quite. That fixes the month, but not the day: $ echo 02-04-2008 | sed 's/^0//g' 2-04-2008 (The g does nothing, because the ^ can

Re: FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Win XP on one system

2008-08-11 Thread perryh
I recommend installing FreeBSD first, then Windows and then Ubuntu ... Unless something has changed since the last time I was messing with this sort of thing, one hazard of installing a Linux last is that there may by then be no space left for the /boot partition, which has to be below cylinder

Re: Xerox Phaser 6110 printer

2008-08-11 Thread perryh
Does anybody have a Xerox Phaser 6110 printer working with FreeBSD? I've never had any trouble with my 6120, but I guess the crucial difference is the PostScript support in the 6120. The 6130 just works -- it internally supports lpr/lpd, not even needing CUPS -- but it, too, is PostScript.

Re: setting the other end's TCP segment size

2008-08-05 Thread perryh
1) create a static ARP entry, this will create an entry to the routing table i.e. arp -S IPADDR MACADDR 2) modify the mtu for that destination i.e. route change IPADDR -mtu MTU Seems to work fine :) One problem with this approach is that a hard-coded MAC address would break if the

Re: setting the other end's TCP segment size

2008-08-03 Thread perryh
Is there a simple way for a FreeBSD system to cause its peer to use a transmit segment size of, say, 640 bytes -- so that the peer will never try to send a packet larger than that? I'm trying to get around a network packet-size problem. In case it matters, the other end is

building only part of the world

2008-08-03 Thread perryh
How would I go about building, not the entire world, but only a small part of it? If I just cd to the desired subdirectory and type make -n -- intending to find out what it would try to do -- I get a warning about not having changed the object directory. I suppose I'm supposed to type something

undocumented tar --unlink switch

2008-08-02 Thread perryh
Around line 37 of /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add/extract.c there's an invocation of /usr/bin/tar with a --unlink switch, which I don't see mentioned in the tar(1) manpage. Anyone happen to know what this does, or do I need to dig into the code? ___

Re: setting the other end's TCP segment size

2008-07-31 Thread perryh
You can edit `/etc/hostname.foo0' in the Sun too, and add something like: 192.168.1.10/24 mtu 640 [getting OT for FreeBSD] Are you sure that works as far back as SunOS 4.1.1? /etc/hostname.le0 currently consists of the single word pluto and it looks as if this causes /etc/rc.boot to

Re: setting the other end's TCP segment size

2008-07-30 Thread perryh
Is there a simple way for a FreeBSD system to cause its peer to use a transmit segment size of, say, 640 bytes -- so that the peer will never try to send a packet larger than that? I'm trying to get around a network packet-size problem. In case it matters, the other end is SunOS 4.1.1

setting the other end's TCP segment size

2008-07-29 Thread perryh
[TCP] splits traffic to 'segments' using its own logic ... Is there a simple way for a FreeBSD system to cause its peer to use a transmit segment size of, say, 640 bytes -- so that the peer will never try to send a packet larger than that? I'm trying to get around a network packet-size problem.

Re: PACKAGESITE

2008-07-13 Thread perryh
Did you specify the -r flag? Without that, the PACKAGESITE environment variable is note used ... No, I didn't, because -- unless I am misunderstanding the description of the -r flag -- that will cause pkg_add to look *only* on the FTP site. I want it to use packages that have already been

Re: PACKAGESITE

2008-07-13 Thread perryh
As far as I know, pkg_add will only fetch dependencies recursively from the Internet when used with -r but it will then ignore PKG_PATH. Seems what you are asking cannot be done this way ... I wonder if portinstall -P (or even -PP) might do what the OP wants? You are correct,

Re: PACKAGESITE

2008-07-13 Thread perryh
... portinstall is part of portupgrade, which has its own boatload of dependencies. You must be used to sailing in very small boats. From lurking on questions@ for a while, I have gotten the impression that ruby alone would pretty well fill up a Panamax :)

PACKAGESITE

2008-07-12 Thread perryh
Can someone provide a correct example of setting PACKAGESITE so that pkg_add will find the 7-stable packages for i386? I have tried ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/Latest/ as shown in the handbook, and also:

Re: Data loss after power out - fsck: bad inode number to nextinode

2008-07-08 Thread perryh
What should I do? In theory, clri {special-file} 306176 should wipe the inode containing the bad pointer and allow fsck to continue, perhaps recovering the files pointed to by that directory into lost+found. Definitely try this on a copy first if at all possible.

Re: anyone been crazy enough to mirror wikipedia?

2008-07-06 Thread perryh
In my house, we had an encyclopedia because I was in school ... it was useful for research papers. I suspect the usefulness would depend on what one's teachers meant by research, which tends to change with grade level. In elementary and middle school, certainly. In high school, maybe. In

Re: mount_nfs not accepting syntax specified by its usage complaint

2008-07-05 Thread perryh
option 'g' has been removed temporarily, but usage() hasn't been updated accordingly. Aha! Removing the -g 8 fixed it, and the 512-byte read and readdir restrictions seem to be working well (albeit slowly). That a temporary removal present in 7.0 has been there at least since 6.1 reminds me

mount_nfs not accepting syntax specified by its usage complaint

2008-07-04 Thread perryh
How does this command: # mount_nfs -dis -g 8 -I 512 -R 3 -r 512 -w 512 solomon:/var/spool/uucp /solomon/uucp not comply with the resulting usage complaint? usage: mount_nfs [-234bcdiLlNPsTU] [-a maxreadahead] [-D deadthresh] [-g maxgroups] [-I readdirsize] [-o options] [-R

Re: Windows Unix volunteers

2008-06-27 Thread perryh
... the changing of wallpaper is VERY window manager centric ... xsetroot(1) would not work for all? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: sendmail's outgoing IPs

2008-06-15 Thread perryh
i have 3 different links to ISP all are ADSL's so outgoing bandwidth is low, i would like to spread the load generated by outgoing mails. Pardon my lack of imagination, but how could anyone -- other than a spammer -- be generating enough outbound email traffic to *need* to load-balance it, and

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-12 Thread perryh
How do you know that the bios has not been reflashed by a virus, trojan, or rootkit? For that matter, how do you know that the *original* bios was free of interesting non-essentials? It's been a few years since bios were delivered in socketed ROMs/EPROMs (readable by a standalone device,

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-12 Thread perryh
It is my understanding that since 1995 all computers must have a hardware back door that permits undetectable access by the government to the computer. This capability can be implemented using System Monitor(Maintenance) Mode which is built into all x86 computers now. It would

Re: Duplex printer advice

2008-06-01 Thread perryh
my own requirements list includes (color duplex printer scanner). I don't need it to be a laser, but I do need both color, multifunc, and duplex printing ... I begin to wonder if I could find one with the same specs ESCEPTING it was the cheaper technology of inkjet. ... please don't spend

non-RAID SATA

2008-05-25 Thread perryh
I am looking for a cost-effective way to add a SATA drive to an existing 7.0 system whose on-board controller is PATA, and am not getting very far at all in identifying an inexpensive controller which would be expected to work well. (I'd prefer PCI, since the USB in this box is probably 1.0 and

Re: time drift

2008-05-15 Thread perryh
FreeBSD 6.2 running on X86 hardware (FSC) shows a remarkable time drift running ntpdate every half hour shows that the system looses about 10-14 sec each time. 15 May 10:06:48 ntpdate[7200]: step time ... offset -13.799602 sec 15 May 10:36:48 ntpdate[7515]: step time ... offset -12.813941

Re: Belkin F5D9050 ver 4000

2008-05-15 Thread perryh
I checked the FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Hardware Notes before I bought this USB Ethernet device. It should be supported by the rum driver, but it gets picked up by ugen instead. The Hardware Notes mentions version 3 and the box says ver 4000, but I think it's probably actually ver 4. ... What am

Re: Belkin F5D9050 ver 4000

2008-05-15 Thread perryh
Doing a descriptor dump, and posting the results to freebsd-usb@, might find someone who knows how to get that particular device to work. Ok, I'll bite. How do you do a descriptor dump? One way is to use sysutils/udesc_dump, from ports, as recommended here:

Re: wine: notepad OK, others not

2008-05-04 Thread perryh
... very shortly after starting the actual install I got an error box: VISIO Setup ! Tried to create an invalid path using 'A:\' and 'clipart.vs_' and it locked up the display so that CtrlAltF1 would not switch to a text screen (although

Re: wine: notepad OK, others not

2008-05-04 Thread perryh
Wine has its own simple version of Wordpad though. Just run wine wordpad. This version has its own notepad, but it doesn't appear to have wordpad. (There's no wordpad.exe that I can find, but there are two identical copies of notepad.exe -- one in .../windows and the other in

wine: app won't install from floppy

2008-05-03 Thread perryh
What is the correct way of installing something into wine from floppy? The obvious approach: $ wine 'a:\setup.exe' did not work with a (fairly old version of) Visio: the option dialogs seemed to work properly, but very shortly after starting the actual install I got an error box:

Re: wine: notepad OK, others not

2008-05-01 Thread perryh
You have to mount the floppy and then link a: to the mount point. So if you mount it under /mnt you'd need this: mount -t msdosfs /dev/fd0 /mnt ln -s /mnt ~/.wine/dosdevices/a: That got only a little bit farther. It did find the setup program, and the option dialogs seemed to work properly,

Re: wine: notepad OK, others not

2008-04-29 Thread perryh
Wine has its own simple version of Wordpad though. Just run wine wordpad. This version has its own notepad, but it doesn't appear to have wordpad. (There's no wordpad.exe that I can find, but there are two identical copies of notepad.exe -- one in .../windows and the other in

Re: wine: notepad OK, others not

2008-04-26 Thread perryh
It's really easier to try to install an app under Wine ... With, it seems, at least two exceptions: * Some apps -- such as Wordpad and Write -- are packaged and installed with Windows, rather than on separate media. Are there instructions somewhere for installing such an app under wine?

Re: wine: notepad OK, others not

2008-04-23 Thread perryh
that it installs from floppies, rather than from CD :) and I've set it up in .wine/dosdevices according to the manpage: $ ls -la .wine/dosdevices total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 perryh staff 512 Apr 21 00:17 . drwxr-xr-x 4 perryh staff 512 Apr 22 21:07 .. lrwxr-xr-x 1 perryh staff8 Apr 21 00:17

Re: wine: notepad OK, others not

2008-04-23 Thread perryh
$ ls -la .wine/dosdevices total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 perryh staff 512 Apr 21 00:17 . drwxr-xr-x 4 perryh staff 512 Apr 22 21:07 .. lrwxr-xr-x 1 perryh staff8 Apr 21 00:17 a:: - /dev/fd0 Is the second colon intentional Yes! That is exactly what the manpage

Re: wine: notepad OK, others not

2008-04-21 Thread perryh
... If you want to run applications under Wine either install them under Wine or (with simple applications) copy them over from a Windows install into ~/.wine/drive_c. And specifically I'd populate ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts from a real windows installation. Which raises the

Re: wine: notepad OK, others not

2008-04-19 Thread perryh
I have installed wine-0.9.20 from ports, and there's a Win98 FAT32 slice mounted on /windoze deletia How do I fix this? I would start by upgrading and re-installing wine. You have 0.9.20; the current version is 0.9.55 and I believe there have been substantial

Re: Adobe Flash Player Petition

2008-04-10 Thread perryh
Where do such articles go for FreeBSD? ... I can make a website on my server for it, but it seems to be a kind of overkill, for just such installing sequence.. If you have things working for Flash 9, enough people /will/ be interested this is not overkill. My suggestion:

Re: pkg_add goofiness in 7.0

2008-03-31 Thread perryh
... extract: execute '/usr/local/bin/xmlcatmgr -sc /usr/local/share/sgml/catalog.ports add linuxdoc/catalog' xmlcatmgr: unbalanced arguments for `add' action pkg_add: command '/usr/local/bin/xmlcatmgr -sc /usr/local/share/sgml/catalog.ports add linuxdoc/catalog' failed ... That looks

pkg_add goofiness in 7.0

2008-03-30 Thread perryh
The first time I tried to add linuxdoc-1.1_1.tbz to a new-from-CD 7.0 installation, it complained about a missing dependency that was on the other CD. OK, I switched CDs and installed that, then switched back and retried linuxdoc-1.1_1.tbz, and it gave me some sort of error about an unbalanced

Re: pkg_add goofiness in 7.0

2008-03-30 Thread perryh
[trying to install linuxdoc-1.1_1.tbz] it gave me some sort of error about an unbalanced add operation. (I didn't try to copy down all the details, figuring instead to retry with a script(1) active so as to capture them.) Upon that retry, it now tells me that the package is already

Re: pkg_add goofiness in 7.0

2008-03-30 Thread perryh
What you showed does not indicate a failure. If you are saying that the package wasn't actually installed completely, then pkg_delete it and retry. I am not saying that the package was installed incompletely, incorrectly, or something else because I don't know which of those applies. *The

Re: pkg_add goofiness in 7.0

2008-03-30 Thread perryh
I believe this is the same as the error message I saw originally (when I had not specified -v, so it wasn't buried among a pile of other stuff): xmlcatmgr: unbalanced arguments for `add' action # pkg_add -Kv linuxdoc* Requested space: 36624 bytes, free space: 774946816 bytes in

Re: Mac osX drivers

2008-03-24 Thread perryh
I know I keep asking about drivers, but what about Mac drivers? I understand that Mac osX is based fairly well on BSD, so would the drivers be portable? Last I heard, MacOs X userland was based on FreeBSD but the MacOS X kernel was Mach. The part of a driver that deals with the hardware might

Re: List replies

2008-03-23 Thread perryh
There is a touching concern for newbies in all this, which is out of step with the somewhat edgy aspect of FreeBSD that most of you seem to embrace in other connections. And the bottom line is that most newbies end up elsewhere. If making FreeBSD more popular is a priority, there is long

dependencies in portmaster

2008-03-01 Thread perryh
I am trying to figure out what-all would happen if I were to install a particular port. IOW I want to do something like # portmaster {some set of options} name-of-port and have it report something along the lines of name-of-port vn #.## requires: port status

Re: dependencies in portmaster

2008-03-01 Thread perryh
If you truly are just looking at the dependency list and do not wish to have make do anything, wouldn't this do the trick: http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portdependencytree.py Not quite, because it doesn't show which of the dependencies I have already got installed, and which of those would need

Re: setting X11BASE

2008-02-24 Thread perryh
I'm finding it especially interesting that /etc/make.conf, which to judge from its location is part of the base, depends on a setting from something in the /usr/ports tree. Well, actually it doesn't. What gives you this impression? Paul Schmehl reported where LOCALBASE is

Re: setting X11BASE

2008-02-23 Thread perryh
LOCALBASE is /usr/local unless you've changed it (but then you would already know what it was if you had.) You can find its value in /usr/ports/Mk/ grep LOCALBASE?= /usr/ports/Mk/* /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk:LOCALBASE?= /usr/local Aha! In case it matters, I have not upgraded

Re: setting X11BASE

2008-02-23 Thread perryh
* What is the value of LOCALBASE? I'm not finding any definition, or other reference, in /etc/make.conf. Just set it to ${LOCALBASE} verbatim. Not what you think is the value of the variable LOCALBASE but the word ${LOCALBASE}. Academic interest :) I'm finding it especially interesting

Re: setting X11BASE

2008-02-23 Thread perryh
* What is the value of LOCALBASE? I'm not finding any definition, or other reference, in /etc/make.conf. Just set it to ${LOCALBASE} verbatim. Not what you think is the value of the variable LOCALBASE but the word ${LOCALBASE}. Academic interest :) I'm finding it especially

Re: DJ500 dead after = 16 years.

2008-02-21 Thread perryh
Guys, I need some input about what kind of _new_ printer to buy for my desktops. I'd like to hang the printer off my FBSD box; my Ubuntu platform is probably too far away. At least 3 meters. A few months ago I got a Samsung ML-2571N for well under $100 at Fry's. It is small,

Re: FreeBSD Linux distro

2008-02-21 Thread perryh
When defining the differences to my clients as to windows, Linux, and FreeBSD I use a 60's model VW beetle for windows ... Sheesh! What did VW do to you to deserve an insult like that? I still see the occasional beetle on the roads. I doubt that would be the case if they had to be rebooted a

setting X11BASE

2008-02-21 Thread perryh
After updating with portsnap, I am getting an insufficiently-helpful error message: On FreeBSD before 6.2 ports system unfortunately can not set default X11BASE by itself so please help it a bit by setting X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} in make.conf. On the other hand, if you do wish to

Re: DJ500 dead after = 16 years.

2008-02-20 Thread perryh
Guys, I need some input about what kind of _new_ printer to buy for my desktops. I'd like to hang the printer off my FBSD box; my Ubuntu platform is probably too far away. At least 3 meters. A few months ago I got a Samsung ML-2571N for well under $100 at Fry's. It is small, light, fast;

Re: Mounting a read-only md FS as read-only

2008-02-18 Thread perryh
does mount_ext2fs support readonly at all? The manpage implies that it does: The options are as follows: -o Options are specified with a -o flag followed by a comma sepa- rated string of options. See the mount(8) man page for possible options and their meanings.

wine: notepad OK, others not

2008-02-18 Thread perryh
I have installed wine-0.9.20 from ports, and there's a Win98 FAT32 slice mounted on /windoze % grep -w windoze /etc/fstab /dev/ad0s1/windozemsdosfsro00 If I run Notepad, like this, it seems to work % wine /windoze/WIN98/NOTEPAD.EXE but if I then try to run Write: %

Mounting a read-only md FS as read-only

2008-02-17 Thread perryh
? The backing file, and the mountpoint, do exist. # ls -ld [filename] -rw-r--r-- 1 perryh perryh 104857600 Mar 16 2007 [filename] # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f [filename] -o readonly md0 # ls -ld /dev/md0 /[mountpoint] crw-r- 1 root operator1, 15 Nov 24 21:17 /dev/md0 drwxr-xr-x 2 perryh perryh

Re: projectm questions

2008-02-09 Thread perryh
Linking CXX shared library libprojectM.so /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGLEW *** Error code 1 ... After a bit of poking around I found ln -s /usr/local/lib/libGLEW.a /usr/lib/libGLEW.a fixed it. I also had to do ln -s /usr/local/lib/libftgl.a /usr/lib/libftgl.a ln -s

Re: cron to attach a gz file

2008-01-31 Thread perryh
I know I can use mail -s logfile /var/log/httpd_access.log in cron to email the content of a log file to a particular email address but how do I make that log file a binary attachment (*.gz)? gzip -c /var/log/httpd_access.log | uuencode httpd_access.log.gz | mail -s logfile

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-28 Thread perryh
You need to set the default gateway in /etc/rc.conf. Without a default gateway, you will need to add a default route with the route command. Without a route your machine will only be able to ping itself. Unless something has changed dramatically -- and fairly recently -- a machine that

Re: mutt??

2007-12-27 Thread perryh
Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-12-27 11:02, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trtryinng to rebuild everything on tao to get my i810 graphics working. Somehow, mutt bbroke. It seems to break with something undefined in perl5.8. Anybody know what this is:

Re: FreeBSD for Sony Playstation3?

2007-11-30 Thread perryh
... will FreeBSD.org consider porting FreeBSD to Sony Playstation3? ... NetBSD works like a charm on Sony Playstation2 http://www.netbsd.org/ports/playstation2/. and my guess will be that NetBSD 4.0 which is supposed to be released about the same time as FreeBSD 7.0 will work on

Re: K3b

2007-11-25 Thread perryh
BTW: I really gets annoyed when people say by the way it works in Linux, Windows, Solaris or whatever. What is that suppose to mean? When someone describes a problem getting a certain hardware setup to work as desired in FreeBSD, and reports that it works in some other OS, I would take it to

Re: hidden disk geometry on Compaq Presario V2000

2007-10-25 Thread perryh
Lorin Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Compaq Presario Notebook in the V2000 series. I just replaced the hard drive because the original was getting disk errors. I have a WD Scorpio 120 GB. When I try to load FreeBSD I get an error message when I get to the partition the disk stage.

Re: add application names to the drop-down menu??

2007-10-22 Thread perryh
Can anybodytell me how to add apps to the Gnome drop-down menu beneath the string Applications? (Upper-left-hand corner) Try using deskutils/alacarte ... x11-wm/wmconfig is another possibility. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 on J7F4 locks up

2007-10-18 Thread perryh
I've now also experienced lock ups when building world in in single user mode, without using the nics. So the problem might not only be the nics. Cany anyone confirm this? ACPI, SATA, AC97 and USB were disabled when the lock up occurred. The canonical suspect would be flakey memory.

How to set up a network-attached printer

2007-10-13 Thread perryh
Where would I find a specific method for setting up a Samsung ML-2571N network-attached PostScript printer in FreeBSD 6.1? I'm hoping for something less generic than what I've found in the handbook. It just works from MacOS X, as did the old LaserWriter IIf that the Samsung replaced, so I suppose

Re: shooting oneself in the foot with ldconfig -v

2007-10-11 Thread perryh
The previously configured directory list was fully populated, so effectively there should have been no change as the previously configured directories were untouched and I specified no additional pathnames. ... Are you saying that by specifying -v I no longer satisfied the no

Re: Hello!

2007-08-21 Thread perryh
From a pilot's point of view: FreeBSD is an F-4 Phantom. Mac is a P-38 Trainer. Windows is a DC-10. (with a hydraulic leak) Nah, a pig. See RFC 1925 and/or Oliver Fromme's .sig. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

OT: good vs evil (Re: vlc won't play region encoded DVDs)

2007-08-19 Thread perryh
... another story in the neverending race between good and evil. ;-) For some reason, that reminded me of a John Byrom quote (which is likely better known than its author): http://www.born-today.com/Today/d09-23.htm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

X + WM != GUI? (Re: Convince me, please! - too much about GUI)

2007-08-10 Thread perryh
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i don't use GUI. it takes a lot and gives nothing. i use both text and graphic (X) based apps and no gui. i use fvwm2 with my config, there are plenty of nice other wm's good for that. I am not following this. If (X.org + some WM) is not a GUI, how

Re: what way to update named?

2007-08-01 Thread perryh
Are you sure your run the make with sufficient priviledges? I think this was it. I originally used sudo but second time I did it as su and it went very well. Thank you! If sudo to root does not give the same privs as su to root, I'd guess sudo is either buggy or not configured properly.

Re: non-interactive dump

2007-07-08 Thread perryh
Is there a way to tell dump to do it's working without it asking Is the new volume mounted and ready to go?: (yes or no) everytime it changes mount points? How else can it tell when you've swapped in new media? If it automatically continued it would just overwrite the previous segment.

Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

2007-07-04 Thread perryh
If one is going to require the installation of something that may not be part of a base system, that something might as well be bash :) Except that bash requires all the icky GNU utilities to build so you have to GNUify your system. And perl doesn't? It was GPL last I knew. The second

Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

2007-07-03 Thread perryh
This is actually just the difference between sh and bash ... differences in, say, arithmetic handling and loops can sometimes mean rewriting parts of shell scripts depending on whether it is going to run in BSD or Linux. That's a major argument for doing things in python or perl as they

Re: umount -f

2007-06-11 Thread perryh
1. If I use umount -f /dev/ad4s1a to forcefully umount a file system, does this jeopardize the integrity of said file system? Like...will it jerk the run out from under a process in the middle of a disk write, thus leaving a half written file, or will it wait until the write is

Re: laser printer - which one?

2007-05-31 Thread perryh
I've chosen Samsung ML-2571N. It was pretty cheap for it's features: 400 Mhz CPU, 32MB, USB 2.0, parallel, ethernet, PS3, PCL6. I haven't tried it with BSD / Linux, but it prints slow and well under Windows. Slow? I got one of those recently, to replace an old LaserWriter IIf that seems to

Re: OT: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

2007-05-31 Thread perryh
Favourite worst written error message in history: Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue. I have always loved this one!! Who made that up!? Someone at IBM. That's what the original IBM PC, PC-AT, and (presumably) PC-XT displayed if the keyboard was dead or not plugged in. It was

Re: connecting user root with ssh

2007-05-30 Thread perryh
you are warned, do not allow SSH to your box with user root at all. ... Having root logon enabled remotely is just asking for trouble. The O.P. might be interested in knowing *why* allowing remote root login is considered unwise: * The name root is very well known. * If root can log in

Re: Dell Inspiron 1501 Express PCI slot

2007-05-16 Thread perryh
Fed Ex delivered a Wistron Neweb CM9 Mini-PCI wireless nic to me ... U, now I find that it won't fit in the PCI slot in my Dell Inspiron 1501 because Dell no longer uses standard sized PCI slots. They call them Express PCI slots. Does anyone know of an adapter that will mate the one to

Re: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices, Will FreeBSD accept Office 98 + Publisher?

2007-04-28 Thread perryh
OpenOffice in OSX still isn't that great either because there still isn't a native (Aqua) build. I suspect the NeoOffice folks would be surprised to hear that :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

can't print to disk from Firefox

2007-04-14 Thread perryh
I got an error when trying to print *to disk* from Firefox/1.5.0.6: Printer Error There was a problem printing because the paper size you specified is not supported by your printer. This message makes no sense at all when printing to disk, since there's no way

Re: Append only directory ? Is this possible with unix permissions ?

2007-04-11 Thread perryh
Gore Jarold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a user whose home directory I would like to make append only. ... As someone else suggested, ACLs are likely the strongest way of handling this. On the other hand, if all that is needed is a way to make it a little tougher for said user to shoot

RESEND: Re: BSDstats report for Mar 1st, 2006

2007-03-04 Thread perryh
suggested adding a prompt to sysinstall asking if ppl wanted to participate, and the response I heard was that someone basically needed to submit a patch ... anyone here know enough about sysinstall to do so? If considering work on sysinstall to improve the stats, how about fixing some of the

What is an implicit destination

2007-03-04 Thread perryh
I go this auto-response after replying to a message on questions@ a few hours ago: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Your message to freebsd-questions awaits moderator approval Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 05:43:56 + Your mail to 'freebsd-questions' with the subject Re: BSDstats report

Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

2007-02-26 Thread perryh
How do I use the Cram-MD5 passwords with Outlook? Or do I have to go plain text? Off-topic for FreeBSD-Questions but I don't believe Outlook supports CRAM-MD5 out of the box. *Not* off-topic, the context being how best to configure Outlook for use with FreeBSD IMAP. One hopes something

Re: ssh to VMS - terminal problems

2007-02-22 Thread perryh
yes - VMS only knows about DEC-compatible terminals. None of the *BSD console emulators do well enough to be usable on VMS. xterm supports ANSI color, VT220 emulation and UTF-8 There's an faq at http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html

Re: GMail [and other free email] and these lists?

2007-02-15 Thread perryh
space on my ancient PII. wow, PII these days.. is anybody still running on 486? :D I am. :P As a small router, I does it's work just fine. :D I've got a 486 FreeBSD-based GNATbox firewall, temporarily in retirement until I get around to switching DSL ISPs, but my entry in the

Re: backup solution

2007-02-10 Thread perryh
Then I will install freebsd on the first disk and will use the two spare IDE-disks on the same cable as a geom-mirror. ... Please be aware that the ATA implementation of the VIA EPIA chipset isn't the greatest, especially when both are active at the same time. I've seen drive

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