Re: broken link on http://www.freebsddiary.org/newbies.php

2009-07-22 Thread Glen Barber
for your broken link. Hi, Lisa The FreeBSD Diary site is not directly affiliated with the FreeBSD.org site -- however, the owner is subscribed to this list and will most likely see your message anyway, because of your Subject. Just a friendly FYI. :) -- Glen Barber

Re: Ports and package creation Automation

2009-07-22 Thread Glen Barber
i386 on 4 computers, I want to install gnome and firefox, k3b, compiz,openoffice etc... all in all it is like a 975 port count. Hi, Sam. I believe you are looking for the following: make package make package-recursive -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd

Re: rm -rf and fat fingers

2009-07-22 Thread Glen Barber
you had a 'cd' directory, of course. ;) -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: scontrib

2009-07-19 Thread Glen Barber
on such an old version. [1] - http://svn.freebsd.org/base/release/5.2.0/ -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Recover deleted file

2009-07-18 Thread Glen Barber
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Leonardo M. Ramémartinr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I deleted a directory using rm -rf directory in a mounted NTFS volume (with ntfs-3g) and I'm wondering if is there a way to recover this directory? Unless you can restore a backup of your data, no. -- Glen

Re: Resetting user password in cron

2009-07-16 Thread Glen Barber
use chpass(1) in root's crontab: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=chpasssektion=1 -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: make command fails and portupgrade fails

2009-07-16 Thread Glen Barber
-bdb (ruby18-bdb-0.6.5_1)        * ports-mgmt/portupgrade (portupgrade-2.4.6_2,2) Hi, Have you tried to manually upgrade databases/ruby-bdb ? Or, as the error suggests, you can specify '-k' to force it to upgrade the port. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd

Re: make command fails and portupgrade fails

2009-07-16 Thread Glen Barber
for this? is it portupgrade -fa -k? I suppose that would work. Or, 'portupgrade -fak' (which speaking in terms of internet memes, has 'fail' written all over it). I don't use any automated port building tools. I would try rebuilding the offending port manually, as I had initially suggested. -- Glen Barber

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-14 Thread Glen Barber
would kick in. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: 8.0 BETA1 LOR

2009-07-13 Thread Glen Barber
the -CURRENT branch should be asked on questi...@. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: 8.0 BETA1 LOR

2009-07-13 Thread Glen Barber
2009/7/13 Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com: Hi, Fernando 2009/7/13 Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteg...@gmail.com: Hi there, I downloaded FreeBSD 8.0 in order to help testing it. I have found several issues. This is the first one: Jul 13 18:37:43 beastie kernel: lock order reversal

Re: Make a FreeBSD instance within FreeBSD with Jail...

2009-07-12 Thread Glen Barber
/cgi/man.cgi?query=cpiosektion=1apropos=0manpath=freebsd -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Make a FreeBSD instance within FreeBSD with Jail...

2009-07-12 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Diego Montalvodmonta...@gmail.com wrote: so I have all this configured jail and needs to be recreated on the push of a button, can it be done? Yes, through a script usually. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Make a FreeBSD instance within FreeBSD with Jail...

2009-07-12 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Diego Montalvodmonta...@gmail.com wrote: would it be a shell script? Yes. You should read the handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Industrial Intelligent Wi-Fi (I2W)

2009-07-12 Thread Glen Barber
. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Subversion URL for FreeBSD souce...

2009-07-10 Thread Glen Barber
sources with it. A kick in the right direction would be great :) http://svn.freebsd.org/base/release/7.2.0/ -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Prevent reboot-after-panic behavior?

2009-07-10 Thread Glen Barber
can set the following sysctl to disable automatic reboot on panic: debug.debugger_on_panic: 1 HTH. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: FreeBSD for a high school class? (long)

2009-07-09 Thread Glen Barber
. Are the specs too low for *some* X environment? Constraint: I already broached the subject of putting FreeBSD on the G3s using the PowerPC version. Unfortunately, the 6 Apples are used by another class on OS-X. HTH -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Xorg - how can I configure this thing??

2009-07-09 Thread Glen Barber
-config /root/xorg.conf.new' If it works, copy /root/xorg.conf.new to /etc/X11/xorg.conf HTH -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Xorg - how can I configure this thing??

2009-07-09 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, Warren On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Warren Blockwbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Glen Barber wrote: Run 'X -configure' then add this to the end: Section ServerFlags        option  AutoAddDevices        off        option  AllowEmptyInput       off EndSection The first

Re: npviewer.bin

2009-07-09 Thread Glen Barber
the pkill is not even working anymore. Hopefully there is a better salutation then pkill ?? Try killall(1). -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Annoying problem with apache22 / php5 - how to investigate?

2009-07-05 Thread Glen Barber
an .htaccess file containing 'FAIL' and it will generate an 500 response. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: good morning to all

2009-07-05 Thread Glen Barber
can't get GUI. What did you change in rc.conf? It appears the system is booting into single-user mode. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: can't get atheros ar2413 to connect under freebsd 7.2

2009-07-05 Thread Glen Barber
.. ifconfig ath0 up scan    gives nothing..  not even an error message.. what shall i do ?? What is the output from `ifconfig ath0' ? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: can't get atheros ar2413 to connect under freebsd 7.2

2009-07-05 Thread Glen Barber
wpa_supplicant. Before rebooting, you could also try: /etc/rc.d/netif restart; dhclient ath0 -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: how to enable PAE?

2009-07-05 Thread Glen Barber
by step). cause i am new of freebsd. thanks you very much. Build the PAE kernel. Read the handbook. It is already documented, step-by-step. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd

Re: error when complie kernel.

2009-07-05 Thread Glen Barber
/sys/i386/MYKERNEL 5 - add line options      PAE If you read the kernel config for PAE, you would notice there are some options that are unavailable in the PAE kernel. Please reread the kernel config and adjust accordingly. Or, in your custom kernel config, add 'include PAE'. -- Glen Barber

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-01 Thread Glen Barber
is installed. Of course, when I can control it, I install FreeBSD, as I have greater control over everything. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: FreeBSD support for 64-bit x86 systems

2009-07-01 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Daniel Underwooddjuatde...@gmail.com wrote: Does FreeBSD currently support 64-bit x86 systems? I've been here, but my knowledge of hardware terminology is too limited to confidently draw conclusions: http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ amd64 -- Glen Barber

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom GNOME-based FreeBSD iso released

2009-06-30 Thread Glen Barber
the network configured? Unless I am misunderstanding your intention, it appears you are replacing ssh access with apacheXX (or lighttpd, etc). I like the idea, otherwise. [1] - http://pcbsd.org/ [2] - http://www.desktopbsd.net/ [3] - http://www.tomahawkcomputers.com/ -- Glen Barber

Re: Trouble Upgrading VIM

2009-06-30 Thread Glen Barber
) what is causing problems. I thought this was patched -- is your ports tree current? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Trouble Upgrading VIM

2009-06-30 Thread Glen Barber
-- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Trouble Upgrading VIM

2009-06-30 Thread Glen Barber
update because it hasn't been committed yet. Glad it worked though. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: (no subject)

2009-06-28 Thread Glen Barber
is explained here, but not included in the example. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: The question of moving vi to /binHi,

2009-06-28 Thread Glen Barber
vi -- in one weekend! ;) -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: what character is a physical newline

2009-06-28 Thread Glen Barber
language(s)? If I understand your question correctly, the C / C++ / Java / PHP (and I think Perl) 'newline' character is '\n' -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: what character is a physical newline

2009-06-28 Thread Glen Barber
correspond to (I assume CR but just making sure) Oh. IIRC, CR is the DOS way, and LR is the POSIX way. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: what character is a physical newline

2009-06-28 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Aryeh M. Friedmanaryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: Oh.  IIRC, CR is the DOS way, and LR is the POSIX way. Don't you mean LF not LR? I did. I realized it after Vince replied. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions

Re: what character is a physical newline

2009-06-28 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Vince Sabiovi...@vjs.org wrote: ** At 22:30 -0400 on 06/28/2009, Glen Barber wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:    What do you mean exactly?  What language(s)?  If I understand your  question correctly, the C / C++ / Java

Re: Other browsers show the same behaviour (Firefox crashes on yahoo.com)

2009-06-27 Thread Glen Barber
to point that out. I don't have FF3 on FreeBSD boxes to test. Just thought I'd share. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: apache22: Can't access startfile

2009-06-27 Thread Glen Barber
us snippets (if not all) of your httpd.conf ?        PS: yes, i edited the apache22/Includes/httpd-local.conf and restarted the        etc/rv.d/apache script... . Is this apache13, 20, or 22 by the way? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions

Re: apache22: Can't access startfile

2009-06-27 Thread Glen Barber
... I must really be loosing it... Forget I asked that last question. ;) Gary, if the problem persists after my previous suggestions, could you also include info from the error log? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: apache22: Can't access startfile

2009-06-27 Thread Glen Barber
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Gary Klinekl...@thought.org wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 06:41:22PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Gary Klinekl...@thought.org wrote:        Can anybody remind me what all I need to do to create a new virtual        website

Re: apache22: Can't access startfile

2009-06-27 Thread Glen Barber
remember. ;) -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: apache22: Can't access startfile

2009-06-27 Thread Glen Barber
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Gary Klinekl...@thought.org wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 07:38:35PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Gary Klinekl...@thought.org wrote:        :-) [above].   no the reboot got things launched.  my server

Re: The question of moving vi to /binHi,

2009-06-25 Thread Glen Barber
not need an editor programmers are used to edit their source files. I won't say anything different. For the usual maintenance and get the damn thing working again tasks the /rescue editor, especially vi, should be enough. Commands are i, a, and :wq. Don't forget about dd ;) -- Glen Barber

Re: Certified Hardware

2009-06-23 Thread Glen Barber
://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/hardware.html -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: CPU temperature on TUSL2-C

2009-06-22 Thread Glen Barber
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:13 PM, The Ghostthe-gh...@inbox.ru wrote: I am trying to find out the temperature of my CPU. If you have ACPI enabled, try: sysctl -a hw.acpi | grep temperature -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Intel i915 / Xorg issue

2009-06-21 Thread Glen Barber
'AutoAddDevices' in ServerLayout at first.. Still, give AllowEmptyInput off a shot. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Intel i915 / Xorg issue

2009-06-21 Thread Glen Barber
Xorg.0.log:    http://pastebin.com/f22d7e99c dmesg output:  http://pastebin.com/f7d02e787 Any help would be very much appreciated. Try this: http://www.dev-urandom.com/user/xorg.php -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Processes dying with signal 11

2009-06-19 Thread Glen Barber
normally happens when hardware's going bad? Unfortunately, yes. Does the build fail in the same place everytime? Usually hardware failure will cause randomly placed SIGSEGV errors. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Processes dying with signal 11

2009-06-19 Thread Glen Barber
/troubleshoot.html#SIGNAL11 and wondered if the collatoral is a normal symptom too. I would suspect hardware. Most probably RAM than anything else initially. Can you run memtest86+? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Processes dying with signal 11

2009-06-19 Thread Glen Barber
, motherboard, etc, etc) it turned out to the the CPU that was the problem. It was bad enough that I couldn't even do a 'portsnap fetch' because the checksum would be incorrectly calculated. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Processes dying with signal 11

2009-06-19 Thread Glen Barber
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Bruce Cranbr...@cran.org.uk wrote: Unfortunately memtest86+ runs on x86 hardware and this is a PowerPC iBook. Yeah... I apparently had already forgotten it was a PPC machine. Ooops. :) -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd

Re: Changing my login directory

2009-06-18 Thread Glen Barber
Steve, Thanks for that little tidbit in return -- I've been trying to figure how prompt settings. :) -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Changing my login directory

2009-06-18 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Polytroponfree...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:33:24 -0400, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for that little tidbit in return -- I've been trying to figure how prompt settings. :) See those:        set promptchars

Re: The short and curlies of vista networking

2009-06-18 Thread Glen Barber
network, it's not configured right). you need broadcast-address 192.168.2.255 That is not 100% correct. By default, dhclient will send an initial DHCPREQUST to 0.0.0.0 (meaning this network). The request is picked up from the DHCP server broadcasting on 255.255.255.255. -- Glen Barber

Re: right CPUTYPE

2009-06-18 Thread Glen Barber
-questions/2004-December/069358.html Regards, -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

PACKAGESITE Directory Structure

2009-06-18 Thread Glen Barber
.) Same pkg_add command from www.example.com/packages/mybinary/package -- should 'All' be a subdirectory of packages/ or mybinary/? It appears that this if 'Latest/' is not found, overwrite as 'All/' may be expected, but I am getting conflicting output. Any input is appreciated. -- Glen Barber

Re: startx does not work, startxfce4 does!

2009-06-17 Thread Glen Barber
and .xinitrc and they are the same as I have on another 7.2 system that works. I could need some help to find the problem. Hi, Leslie Try this. Create a file: $HOME/.xinitrc containing: /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 Then give 'startx' another shot. -- Glen Barber

Re: Changing my login directory

2009-06-17 Thread Glen Barber
/something to $HOME/.login -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Cannot login as root, exited on signal 11

2009-06-16 Thread Glen Barber
related error as the child process die when in root? What have you recently changed on the system? What did you do / were you doing right before you could no longer log in as root? When was the last time you checked your system for malware? security/rkhunter may be a good idea. -- Glen

VirtualBox Package Available

2009-06-16 Thread Glen Barber
/VirtualBox/virtualbox-2.2.51.r20457_2.tbz Of course, if there are any installation problems, please let me know. Cheers. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Cannot login as root, exited on signal 11

2009-06-15 Thread Glen Barber
not to screw around with the root account. Agree. I should bookmark this thread for when (not if) this discussion comes up again. Ruben -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: 100% Ot and self-serving...

2009-06-15 Thread Glen Barber
a preview this is the time. (and i thought it was for-nerds only) ! Congrats. :) -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Cannot login as root, exited on signal 11

2009-06-14 Thread Glen Barber
to bash. If so, reboot into single-user mode, and change it back. This is one of the best reasons not to screw around with the root account. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: vim question...

2009-06-14 Thread Glen Barber
know what the keybindings for [u]ndo in Vim versus Vi/Nvi are, but there was a recent thread about Vi keybindings for .vimrc. Perhaps that'll provide some insight. Cheers. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: vim question...

2009-06-14 Thread Glen Barber
, for what it's worth, I didn't even know *vi* had an 'undo' option. I thought that was what 'q!' was for. :) I'm as interested as you are now. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: vim question...

2009-06-14 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Gary Klinekl...@thought.org wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:24:29PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Gary Klinekl...@thought.org wrote: hi glenn, One 'n'. :) gotcha! and see, this is a case of my occasionally

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Installation Manual

2009-06-12 Thread Glen Barber
at this over the weekend and submit a patch for the handbook. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Installation Manual

2009-06-12 Thread Glen Barber
?: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html Nowhere, indeed. I missing the .xinitrc in the GNOME setup as well... Now I just feel like an idiot as usual. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Scripts to monitor host availability

2009-06-12 Thread Glen Barber
for a colleague. Thanks! -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: rc.conf when ssid has spaces in it: missing documentation or missing feature?

2009-06-11 Thread Glen Barber
be substituted for '_' like in Linux. But I remember I wasn't able to make it work for some reason. Did you try escaping it? My\ SSID\ Has\ Spaces -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: freebsd update question

2009-06-11 Thread Glen Barber
of us do), you can build from source. :) -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: flaw found....

2009-06-08 Thread Glen Barber
       where this code is?        gary        ? What about having it check a char array, similar to how programs like ls(1) does checking for command line arguments? http://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/7/bin/ls/ls.c - line 181 and on. -- Glen Barber http://www.dev-urandom.com http://www.linkedin.com

Re: please recommend a disk-exercising program?

2009-06-07 Thread Glen Barber
to fail, but it only sometimes errors when under stress. I need to see if it was a fluke or to really make it fail, so that I can get rid of it. You can use dd(1) to stress test disk I/O. Something like this should work: dd if=/dev/${YOURDISK} of=/dev/null bs=1024k -- Glen Barber http://www.dev

Re: please recommend a disk-exercising program?

2009-06-07 Thread Glen Barber
are happening. Something like scandisk for instance. Maybe I'm thinking the wrong way. Maybe see if they have SMART and read from there? Ah, I thought you wanted to stress test the throughput to get errors. In that case, have a look at sysutils/smartmontools in ports. -- Glen Barber http

Re: is this getting thru?

2009-06-06 Thread Glen Barber
recipients to the message.        i'm all for saving net bandwidth, but this is a new one! Did you 'reply-all' to too many lists? -- Glen Barber http://www.dev-urandom.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/glenjbarber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Glen Barber
the data stream. Scary, uh? My colleagues never understood (nor do they to this day) my paranoia regarding security and untrusted code. I always point them in the same direction: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html -- Glen Barber http://www.dev-urandom.com http://www.linkedin.com

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

2009-06-02 Thread Glen Barber
are currently limited to the i386 versions. If you have enough space and bandwidth to upload this somewhere please do. Otherwise, hopefully Glen Barber may be able to assist ;) Sergio, If you need space to host the packages, email me off-list. Regards, -- Glen Barber http://www.dev

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-02 Thread Glen Barber
at what I do, and better at troubleshooting my own code. On the same note, free software enables me to get experience with more applications without burning through my wallet. :) Your input would be really appreciated. Thanks madunix -- Glen Barber http://www.dev-urandom.com http

Re: Set task priority

2009-06-02 Thread Glen Barber
? You can use nice(1) or renice(1) to set priorities, but I/O and bandwidth will end up being your bottleneck. -- Glen Barber http://www.dev-urandom.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/glenjbarber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Set task priority

2009-06-02 Thread Glen Barber
when other processes are idle.  That should prevent any further self-incurred DOS symptoms for you. Very cool. I'll have to add that to my toolbox. :) -- Glen Barber http://www.dev-urandom.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/glenjbarber ___ freebsd

Re: Is gray listing blocking my server?

2009-06-02 Thread Glen Barber
something on your side was updated. Can you check for me please. I've received your message ok...and your last Test message. Steve Same here. -- Glen Barber http://www.dev-urandom.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/glenjbarber ___ freebsd-questions

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

2009-05-31 Thread Glen Barber
Please take this to chat@, because this is getting really old. -- Glen Barber http://www.dev-urandom.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Glen Barber
Polytropon, On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: You can even keep it out of /usr employing the /opt Linuxism. :-) For (my own) clarity sake, won't that take up space in '/'? (Not arguing, just never thought of using /opt on FreeBSD...) -- Glen Barber

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Glen Barber
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 30 May 2009 18:55:15 -0400, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: For (my own) clarity sake, won't that take up space in '/'?  (Not arguing, just never thought of using /opt on FreeBSD...) This depends on your

Re: difference between cvsup and portsnap

2009-05-29 Thread Glen Barber
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Neither one is right, per se.  However, if you use one, continue to use _that_one_ to avoid conflicts. Actually meant to say, neither one is wrong or better than the other. Came out wrong. :) -- Glen

Re: difference between cvsup and portsnap

2009-05-29 Thread Glen Barber
port that I knew of.  I think it has to pay attention to the version of the ports it is pulling. which is right?  This is a major issue with our production servers. Thanks Neither one is right, per se. However, if you use one, continue to use _that_one_ to avoid conflicts. -- Glen Barber

Re: Fresh install 7.2-RELEASE i386, X won't start

2009-05-29 Thread Glen Barber
Leslie, On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote: of course turn off hald, and run moused. Unfortunately that did not fix the problem :-( What do I test next? Could you paste the output of: cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg; make missing -- Glen Barber

Re: inserting cd locks up 7.2

2009-05-29 Thread Glen Barber
/browse_thread/thread/13d23481915cc938/77628119f5dedc5a?lnk=raot -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Glen Barber
...@amnesiac]~% ls -l /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  324 Apr 15  2008 /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub [ch...@amnesiac]~% I think I'd cry if I were to lose 553 days of uptime Missing the obvious is my way of noticing I'm sleep deprived... :) -- Glen Barber

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Glen Barber
... Steve, Just out of curiosity, what function did 'radius' serve? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Glen Barber wrote: Steve, Just out of curiosity, what function did 'radius' serve? RADIUS ;) I didn't think it could be that easy. :) -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Glen Barber
. Not just his opinion. Will you please stop spamming this thread with nonsense, so the OP can get a real answer? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: VM server sharing (OT)

2009-05-27 Thread Glen Barber
). Any thoughts on how such data could be kept secure? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-05-27 Thread Glen Barber
, and demeanor, I will be unsubscribing from this list. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: How to detect when gmirror sync is complete?

2009-05-27 Thread Glen Barber
recovered). -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: 7.2 Release kills my XP Dual Boot

2009-05-27 Thread Glen Barber
what you're describing (unless I overwrote my ${OTHER_OS} installation) -- are you sure the Windows install still exists? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-26 Thread Glen Barber
That beer you mentioned earlier.. I'm having it right now for you. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

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