it would also be a good time to go to an additional or larger
disk as well.
jerry
TIA,
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. Compared to the CPU, disk
access is rather slow, so anything you can do to spread out
the work across more than one disk tends to speed things up.
But, if you are the only one using the machine and that is
mostly for one activity at a time you probably won't notice
any difference.
jerry
Topic
for FreeBSD Questions...
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Well, if you can spread it across multiple controllers, it can
speed things up.
Right.
But, generally I think that swap is used in
a serial manner, eg the first chunk gets used up before the
next one is started, etc
,
jerry
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a champ, and is
encrypted. Just for a point of clarification, omit the {} I added those
for readability.
Hope that helps.
Jerry
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I need to buy a book on C or C++ to help me in FreeBSD.
Which would be better to buy?
This doesn't answer your C++ part of the question, but you should have
the Kernighan Ritchie The C Programming Language and then
get something like C A Reference Manual (Latest edition is 5th I think)
for what was then called Mini computers - refrigerator
sized machines intended for use in labs and engineering workshops.
Alpha was one of their brand model lines of work stations.
jerry
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of places. Keep at least one of the addresses ready
at hand - bookmarked.
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. There are a bunch of then with
varying ease of use and varying size and prettiness.
jerry
Thanks,
Duane
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identified with the \r in the command.
You can also use dos2unix if you have it installed. But tr comes
with FreeBSD by default.
Have fun,
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it with both 'nslookup' and 'dig' correct?
Sure. just nslookup xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and if it comes back
with a good/authoritive hostname it should be OK.
Try man nslookup for more possibilities.
jerry
Anyone have a moment to help me out here? In the meantime, it's man page
time...
I
of short on information there. Maybe that is because I am not
registered on that site. Anyway, is that being deprecated sort of
a LINUXy thing? Does it apply to BSD, especaily FreeBSD too?
jerry
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Do note that nslookup is deprecated; see
http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=3D140 for a decent
explanation why.
Kind of short on information there. Maybe that is because I am not
registered on that site. Anyway, is that being
[nslookup being deprecated]
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:58:44PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
I don't mean to ask about the meaning of the word deprecated, but
rather, is nslookup being deprecated a LINUXy thing, or is that
going to happen in FreeBSD too?
No, it's neither Linux
installed this week.
Thanks for the further information,
jerry
Cheers,
Matthew
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What do people here use to edit HTML documents? I usually use Dreamweaver,
I usually use vi.
But, generally, the consultants here recommend Dreamweaver.
jerry
but I haven't gotten the time to try to get wine working so I can run
Dreamweaver on FreeBSD.
TIA
Eric F Crist
AdTech
to read you messages and will make it more likely that people
will respond to them.
jerry
Thank you for your time,
Allen Jaworski
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track gets necessary bug and
security fixes, etc now, but not any major new features.
The 4. track will soon be completely replaced by 5..
jerry
Besides, is there any way to make my UFS2 filesystem go
back to UFS1 without losing the data ?
Just dump(8) it to a tape or other disk
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Jerry McAllister wrote:
Just dump(8) it to a tape or other disk, create a new UFS2 file system
where the UFS2 now lives and then restore(8) the dump.
i'm sure you meant create a new UFS1 file system where the UFS2 now
lives. :)
Yup. My typing teacher would
or partitions or something. Hopefully someone out there can
offer some more useful suggestions.
jerry
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still guessing something to do with the MBRs and boot blocks
and whatever you called the 'a' partition in the slice, etc though.
jerry
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our thinking and decision making for us
which is _one_ of the big things that brings us to FreeBSD.
jerry
I did not modify anything in the kernel. Is that the problem? My computer
has a Soho P4X400 Dragon Lite MB, an Intel Celeron 2.2 GHz processor, 256 MB
of DDR400 memory, an Nvidia
(if it involves special characters).
jerry
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Wow,
Have you put this up as a FAQ somewhere? It seems like a good idea
to do so.
jerry
I find most of the BIOS/MBR/FDISK disk geometry gospel that has recently
appeared in freebsd-questions to be confusing if not actually incorrect.
In the interest of world peace of mind, I feel
).
jerry
Thanks in advance,
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way. There is
probably a procedure, but I don't know it. There is a doc Email list.
Actually, it wouldn't hurt to add that sort of background information
to the handbook, though it is probably a little deep for some people.
jerry
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. FreeBSD is organized a little
differently from LINUX. CHeck it out a little bit and maybe you will see
the efficiency of the way it is done.
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cant remember exactly what it says but it is something like
that. I would like to know if their is something I need to delete of edit to
stop this from coming up? Thank you.
I don't know in MS land. In FreeBSD world check out boot0cfg(8) and
related things.
jerry
system does some good for the ego... ;-) )
jerry
...
These were all question for now. I hope the story at
the beginning wasn't too much and didn't violate the
rules of this forum.
Thank you,
Mike Machuidel ;)
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Did enybody try to run AcuCobol 6.0 for Linux on FreeBSD's linulator?
I tried a couple of times (with old Debian libraries and more recently
Gentoo libraries) but runcbl keeps on getting a SIGSEGV right away.
ccbl (the compiler) seems to work, though.
Any clue?
--
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, it mounts as msdos type in FreeBSD, not ntfs type.
Fortunately I woke up in the middle of running Partition Magic and noticed.
So, check it out.
jerry
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but I suspect it was at least in part a little impish fun. Not
everything has to have a deadly dull logical reason.
jerry
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basis. Although it seems
fairly rare to run in to a jerk on these lists, it can happen. Those
would be volunteers too... As for IRC, I wouldn't know. I don't
have time to waste on that.
jerry
Sincerly,
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latest BSD. Check out information from the FreeBSD web page -
follow the appropriate links.
jerry
Thanks
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Basically, du and df look a slightly different things and there is
a difference between how much root and regular users are allowed to
write to a filesystem.
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Did you configure hosts.allow and such, for the ssh session.
Also is you PuTTY SSH set for ssh-1 or ssh-2?
jerry
BTW, searched the mailing list archives on freebsd.org , but didn't find
info about this.
thanks,
Darryl
Your firewall blocks the telnet port ...
Are you sure
to know more about it?
jerry
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Now if I can just figure out why dhcpd won't do dynamic DNS updates. :)
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On Feb 9, 2004, at 12:34 AM, Chad M Stewart wrote:
What
. But, make sure you
have the backups.
Good luck,
jerry
Is there a way to do this? What is the safest one?
(without having to backup the whole disk).
Thanks,
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on and file permissions work just fine)
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Subject: I'm really upset with my new computer
I can't even log in without permission errors, yet all
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:43:22PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
I've heard that Sony and Dell don't support UNIX permissions on their
proprietary hard drives. Stick with WinXP for now until a patch is committed
into the source tree.
That doesn't make any sense. No hard
develop in the UNIX world. So, in that sense, Perl
can be more secure than C code.
If you need something that runs in single user mode, then you
will want to use sh for that.
jerry
NOTE: Please CC me, as I am not currently subscribed. Thanks.
jm
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On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:48:48AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
:
:
: Now that I have a desktop workstation and network, I'm trying to learn the
: true admin side of BSD, such as the periodic tasks, and how to automate
: things. I see perl all over the system, and I know it's
of a rootkit or the original binary. Does Freebsd have a tool like
this ?
The checksums are available for the ISOs on the FreeBSd site
in the same directory as the ISOs.
As for individual routines, I don't know.
jerry
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Or am I missing something important here?
The real value of backing up everything and redoing the whole disk
from scratch.
/jrm
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would make the current stuff on the e partition of slice 1 on disk da1
unreadable short of using one of those heroic super recovery services.
If you want the old stuff back, sandwich that with the
backup and restore.
jerry
Robert Huff
Jerry McAllister wrote:
In any case, do not use /stand/sysinstall for this. You need more direct
control and should use disklabel directly. As mentioned in my previous
posting use the command
'disklabel -e -r asd1s1'
and then edit the tmp file
. Then you
can read and even write your msdos disk space while in FreeBSD. But,
going the other way, you cannot access FreeBSD disk while in
the MSwin side of the machine.
jerry
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have SUID root
ability.So, you either need to write a wrapper in C that calls
it or just rewrite the whole thing in C.
jerry
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, where is the .ch (from your Email address) from? I have
seen it several times lately.
jerry
Have anyone a idee how i can install Freebsd?
(at the moment only RedHut 9 it's working with this server, and i want not
use linux)
Very thanx, Michel
PS: Sorry for my english
very special situations.
This is true when you slice and parititon and then especially
when you boot.
jerry
PS: is there a way to do this in lilo or grub???
thanks in advance
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, but this strung out procedure
makes me feel more secure than piping tar to tar and such.
jerry
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it to update its hash list.
Note, just using the '' redirect command is enough to pipe the
file to STDIN. You don't need any other command such as 'less'.
jerry
TIA
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questinoer has perl installed presuming from the file name
that it is a perl script.
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video card anyway.
The Xfree86 page is: http://www.xfree86.org/support.html
Then do some serious digging.
jerry
Thank you very much for your help!!
Brad Fligor
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USERID
Disk quotas for user USERID (uid 1001): none
Well, what did you set quotas for [USERID] at?
I don't see that in your narrative.
jerry
Either I'm missing something or something isn't working. Where do I look next.
Sincerely,
Joel Eddy
Iowa Connect, Inc.
http
as download mirrors in France if that is helpful.
jerry
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thanks
pjr
until you track it down a little better.
You may need to either revise your disk layout or at least
move some thing to a bigger partition and make symlinks.
jerry
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You've got /dev/da0s1f listed twice. I'm not sure what mount does in that
case, but it's probably worth fixing.
It probably takes the first one and ignores the second one.
Sorry I missed that before.
jerry
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 15:10, Joel Eddy wrote:
I've followed
can add it, but
for starters, empty is good enough.
There is also another file like that too (eg non-existant) that needs
to be created but empty is enough. I don't remember the name right now.
It would help if their web page had some separate getting started
documentation.
jerry
effectively only knows how to boot FreeBSD.
jerry
What I want is to have the nt boot loader give the choice to boot into
bsd by using the boot1 - bootsect.bsd method in boot.ini.
What I'm I doing wrong here?
Thanks,
Joel
discover
the need.
Also, don't wory about when it complains some Java stuff isn't present
so certain features won't be available. I haven't found anything
that won't work because of it. Probably something obsure or cutsie.
Have fun,
jerry
Thank you
Martin
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:13:35 -0500 (EST), Jerry McAllister
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Hello All,
I'm having a hell of a time getting XP Pro and 4.9 on the same drive.
I've tried various ways to get them to co-exist to no avail.
Here's what I'm trying to accomplish;
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On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:13:35 -0500 (EST), Jerry McAllister
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Hello All,
I'm having a hell of a time getting XP Pro and 4.9 on the same drive.
I've tried various ways to get them to co-exist to no avail.
Here's what I'm trying to accomplish;
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partition and my XP partitions. I set it up, and I can safely boot
into either o/s fairly easily.
Gag is available on sourceforge.
If you want to use Gag, that's fine. It isn't necessary
if you don't mind limited labeling in the Boot Manager prompts.
That works fine too.
jerry
I would not delete them. A normal user, e.g., has to
be member of the group staff to su to root, etc.
It is group wheel they need to be in. I suppose someone
might have made staff work too, but wheel is the biggie.
jerry
Cheers Tom
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 11:51:03PM +0800
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jerry
Tips, URL's or a simple 'from personal experience, best to reinstall'
comments more than welcome.
Thanks for your time.
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hi,
is there a way to convert ms powerpoint presentation into jpegs?
or to view it under Freebsd?
Install Openoffice. It has a presenter that can open Powerpoint
files to show them or incorporate them
idea.
Chech out the FreeBSD documentation list and th doc project information
on the FreeBSD. From those you can learn how to get started.
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for external
lan users without them telnetting into the system?.Would i need a pop3
server?
Try squirrel/usr/ports/mail/squirrelmail
There are others too, but squirrel works well.
jerry
Thanks,
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themselves.
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Thanks in advance!
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created them or mounted them. Actually, I would use their mount names
rather than devices anyway. Or am I missing something here?
Using dump[/restore] won't speed anything up, but it would make sure
it is usable later.
jerry
Cheers,
Richard
across OS boundaries, then tar is a good choice. Otherwise, use dump.
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in this case is that you [or someone has] have left
some vi session[s] open when either a connection was ended or the system
was taken down. It tries to recover those edit sessions and let the id
that was editing know via an Email message where to get the information back.
jerry
, then
mount it one way and create a symlink to it with the other
name.
Or, if they don't need to both be mounted at the same time, you need to
umount it from one mount in order to mount it the other way. It doesn't
like two separate mounts of the same device at the same time.
jerry
and W2K or probably more likely
just doing something wrong.
Finally, you may be having a problem with dynamic device creation.
I haven't started pushing 5.xx beyond just minimal stuff yet.
So, someone else will have to comment on that.
jerry
Thanks
is larger than the amound of space
you have in your /tmp file system.
Try CDing to someplace convenient in /usr and doing the download.
That is where you have the most space.
jerry
df -H
FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad4s1a 132M54M68M44
not want your startx to fire off until after
you log in anyway.That would mean putting it in .login (if
you have a csh or tcsh shell) and that is what didn't work
for me, though I didn't try many variations.
But, someone else better weigh in on this.
jerry
Res Ipsa Loquitor,
Mark
copy of machines.
Unless you need to be portable across vendor OS I would be inclined
to prefer dump to tar.
jerry
EXCLUDE DIRECTORIES
--
/proc
/dev
/tmp
/usr/ports/
/var/tmp/
What else would be safe to exclude?
Thanks,
-Ben
to: http://www.freebsd.org/
and look for the appropriate links.
jerry
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is not officially available for it. I kind of with they (whoever does
this sort of official definition) would just officially redefine the
standard so the whole unused cylinder was official boot mangler space.
jerry
Res Ipsa Loquitor,
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Site Master
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of your message Jerry and it worked they way you said it would. All
is well, I'm on my way to prove that I can get twice the stuff I need
through the open source community than we can buy through Microsoft.
Thanks for all the posts and help. You guys rock!
Glad it is working. You can experiment
world calls a partition and, unfortunately so does a few FreeBSD
utillities that fail to follow the FreeBSD standard. All of which
can add to the confusion.
jerry
Thanks,
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that is it, but is something to check.
jerry
The sim.pl file is in that directory and it was given to me as am
working script.
Any idea what is wrong now
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just haven't notices.
There is probably something in the docs about those files, so, if
all else fails read the instructions...
jerry
Thanks,
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is when a disk was
not seated well and locked in to the slot.
You didn't post much information about what you saw, so it is hard to guess.
Maybe it would help to copy any messages that appear on the screen as it
attempts to boot that might relate to the SCSI controller or the HD.
jerry
with the FreeBSD ISOs.
jerry
# locate md5sum
/usr/X11R6/bin/gst-md5sum
/usr/X11R6/man/man1/gst-md5sum.1.gz
/usr/local/share/python2.3/Tools/scripts/md5sum.py
Is it gst-md5sum similar to md5sum. From 'man gst-md5sum' it seems a program
to generate sum but how to checksum.
Kindly
the rm -r again.
It will ask you if it is OK to remove those files and act like it
did, but it won't.kernel is one of those files that normally
have schg set on it. see man chflags
jerry
TIA
B.R.
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character strings are not
very helpful, even if there is a man page on every one.
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and so won't have to use that long name all the time, it doesn't
really matter. Best to leave the base path as /usr/local though.
Wherever you have put /usr/local and symlinked it if you have, is OK.
jerry
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| Remark: 'OpenOffice.org1.1.0' is a new folder generated during
extracting OOo
to create empty ones and
it will then start up fine.
jerry
Hi,
Tks for your advice.
I am aware of make install 'packagename'' on /usr/ports/. Because I am
running FreeBSD 5.2 on a slow PC I tried avoiding installing OOo from source
code. It will take lengthy time to go through
Hi Jerry,
Tks for your advice.
- snip -
I am presuming you have downloaded the appropriate binary install
from Openoffice.
Put the file in /usr/local
Do not unroll the file with tar
and run psk-add on itpkg-add openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz
During the process it will ask
, it could be OK. I hope
near the top of the LINT file there will be a comment referring us to
that NOTES file then. It will be helpful to keep down the high blood
preassure of those of us in a panic.
jerry
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it. Since you are asking volunteers for
free help, I would think you woul d want to make it as easy for
them as possible for them to respond.
Geez, now I have forgotten what the question was. Oh well.
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in 5.2 that is unavailable in 4.xx.
If it is yes to 1 and no to 2, then install 4.9.
If it is no to 1 and no to 2, then it is a coin flip. Maybe 5.2.1 just
to get in to the future or 4.9 for ease in installation and configuration.
If it is no to 1 and yes to 2, then install 5.2.1
jerry
thanks Jerry for this detailed reply. i really appreciate it.
from what you have said i think 4.9 might be indicated.
but i have one more question. device drivers.
i have kind of bleeding edge sound and ethernet cards.
in fact i've already had to put in an older NIC to get 5.1
Hi Jerry,
Tks for your 2 emails and detail advice.
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/home/user/Download/OpenOffice-1.1/
en-ooodict-GB-1.2.tgz
openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz
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Suggest:
cd /home/user/Download
cp openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz /usr/local/.
cd /usr/local
pkg_add openoffice
are all
moved to some big space and symlinked.
Without knowing more about what you have where, it isn't possible
to say anything more specific.
jerry
Any thoughts?
For background information:
The / filesystem is the suggested default of 128mb. The handbook says that
root is generally
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