want sudo but not sudo su - how

2004-06-12 Thread John
of enforcing this? The reason being that if they do something and the server eg goes titsup, I want to see what was done in the logs. Would be grateful for any assistance the list may have. -- John ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: want sudo but not sudo su - how

2004-06-12 Thread John
with sudo it will be better to explicitly list each binary they can run as root and make sure there's no way they can modify those binaries. yeah, but too many binaries (or roles too diffuse, tightening up of which would be another way of handling it) cheers -- John

snort + trunk + cat6500 + vacls

2003-10-09 Thread John
i'm testing out alternatives for using span ports or inline taps and came across a doc on using vlan acls to capture data and send them to a port for sniffing. From what i under stand the sniffer port needs to be a trunk port. What i don't really understand is how freebsd is going to work with the

Updating DNS after DHCP

2004-01-12 Thread John
that they refer to and I didn't pick up any hints there. Can anyone give me a clue? (Yeah - I'm clueless...) Thanks! -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Problems with FreeBSD 4.8 on Compaq Armada M700 laptop

2004-01-14 Thread John
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 04:25:25PM +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, John wrote: I have an update, additional information... Instead of getting the device ID line, i.e. Jan 11 17:56:56 pearl /kernel: acd0: CDROM Compaq CRN-8241B at ata0-slave PIO I get Jan 11 18:09:55 pearl

Re: Updating DNS after DHCP

2004-01-15 Thread John
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:30:08PM +0200, Gilad Rom wrote: Scott Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 01:16:23PM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:09:38PM -0600, John typed: I see that some Microsoft systems send out an update to DNS with the system name. I

a sudo question

2004-02-01 Thread John
login. I can let him su to www. Should I be using sudo for this or is there another mechanism? thanks -- John - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.reiteration.net/~jfm For PGP public key finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] or see webpage ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

pop3 and pam

2004-02-06 Thread john
The USER command did not succeed. Mail server responded: Unknown AUTHORIZATION state command ** trying to set up pop3 to work with 5.2 and keep getting the above messages via netscape email (unix or pc) can someone share some help i think its the pam that is causing it i can

jailed system needs ipv4 access

2004-02-17 Thread John
Hello I made a jail for a domain I host, according to the man page for jail. It runs great and I can ssh and telnet on port 25 into it from the host. What I would like the root user to be able to do inside the jail is to ssh to other boxes and use the ports collection. I have set the following

problem starting X with normal user

2004-02-19 Thread John
Hi I install fbsd 5.2 on a imb thinkpad 240x. I have a siliconmoion LynxEM+, and when I start X, I got my system hang. then i do a make install clean under /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 I got some errors because some ports can't install, but i overcome it by installing them as packages. thn when i

Re: problem starting X with normal user

2004-02-19 Thread John
] wrote: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I install fbsd 5.2 on a imb thinkpad 240x. I have a siliconmoion LynxEM+, and when I start X, I got my system hang. then i do a make install clean under /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 I got some errors because some ports can't install

endless sysquery: no addrs found for root

2004-02-19 Thread John
as in the forwarders, I'm able to make queries from this same system, including resolving the root NS entries that are generating all these errors. I'm clearly assuming something I shouldn't, or think I know something I don't - because this just doesn't make sense to me. Help? TIA -- John Lind

Re: endless sysquery: no addrs found for root

2004-02-20 Thread John
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 06:35:51PM +1100, Tony Frank wrote: Hi, On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:25:04PM -0600, John wrote: OK. I'm stumped. Hopefully we can help. Thanks, Tony. Yes - forward-only does get rid of the symptom. I should have mentioned that. It also, however, prevents

can't boot linux after installing FBSD 5.2

2004-02-24 Thread John
hi i have a mandrax linux 9.2 installed on a IBM ThinkPad 24x, but now I can't boot it after I install FBSD 5.2. I can still see the FBSD boot manager displaying F1 F2 for the two linux partitions, but they can't be booted. j __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail

Re: Multiple network cards with IP addresses in the same network

2003-01-13 Thread John
to this issue is the same as the originally posted issue. Hopefully something will come out of it. Thanks, John Addtn'l info: I have a FreeBSD 4.7 Stable #2 (updated yesterday). - Original Message - From: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Anand Buddhdev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL

Re: Multiple network cards with IP addresses in the same network

2003-01-13 Thread John
... Any thoughts or suggestions as to how to get FreeBSD to simply allow for 2 interfaces on the same subnet??? Thanks, John - Original Message - From: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 6:21 PM Subject: Re: Multiple

Re: ipfw/natd questions

2003-01-16 Thread John
.. (or begin to see traffic on the internal interface in the logs for IPFW), you can start troubleshooting the IPFW rules, if necessary. HTH, John To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

IPFW stateful ruleset problems on 4.7 STABLE

2003-01-19 Thread john
? Thanks, ~John ... Some generic rules .. add 6700 skipto 22100 all from 10.10.10.10 to any add 6750 skipto 22100 all from any to 10.10.10.10 ... #ruleset for machine add 22100 check-state #allow in terminal services add 22200 allow tcp from any to 10.10.10.10 3389 in setup keep-state #allow out

Re: Neverwinter Nights Linux Beta on 4.7-RELEASE?

2003-04-02 Thread John
I was wondering if any gamer had tried to use Linux emulation to run the Neverwinter Nights Linux Beta Client under 4.7-RELEASE? Reports here of people who have gotten it running. http://nwn.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=203141forum=72sp=15 (I'm going to have to try too! :) John

Disk copy -- WAS: Re: Can you copy freebsd from one of my presentmachine and load itto a new

2003-06-07 Thread John
to spend the half day to a weekend necessary to backup the entire server to the network, reinstall Free on the new drives, and then restore everything.. I'm a lazy admin! :) Can someone point me to doc on the easy way? Thoughts? Thanks, John - Original Message - From: Jez Hancock [EMAIL

cron executes entries twice

2003-07-02 Thread John
process. The system is running 4.8-RC. Any thoughts of where to look and what to look for? Thanks! -John ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

kernel: arplookup error

2003-07-02 Thread John
. If there's anything else I can provide, please let me know. Thanks, John ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: kernel: arplookup error

2003-07-02 Thread John
I just checked out netstat, and also checked the arp table, just for fun. There's nothing in either table indicating the annoying IP address. Anything else you can think of would be most helpful. Thanks, John I had a similar problem on one of my machines recently. It turned out that I had

Re: cron executes entries twice

2003-07-03 Thread John
At 04:03 AM 7/3/2003, Andrew Boothman wrote: On Thursday 03 July 2003 1:23 am, John wrote: Hi All, For quite some time now my system has been executing all entries in the crontab twice, instead of the expected once. This happens most obviously for the periodic scripts, but also on some

ucom crash

2002-09-24 Thread john
and usually they are fine but every now then 'splat'. Ta John -- -- John HarnettAdhoc Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice 0414 501948 40 Martin Rd Fax +61 3 9889 1074

FTP and cron

2002-11-15 Thread John
, and apparently, no data transferred. The file NAME appears on the remote side, but is 0 length regardless of how long I wait. When I run the scripts from the terminal, it works fine. Can anyone lend any insight or point me in the right direction? Thanks! -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: FTP and cron

2002-11-15 Thread John
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:41:24AM -0600, John wrote: I'm having fits running ftp from cron jobs. Shell or expect scripts that execute perfectly from the terminal fail in a seeminly non- deterministic variety of ways when run from cron. Just for completeness, here are the cron results

Re: FTP and cron

2002-11-15 Thread John
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:30:59PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:39:31AM -0600, John wrote: No, it's not something simple like cron not running expect, or ftp being in non-interactive mode. The prework all runs correctly, I even set the hash byte count and get

Re: floppy install

2003-02-06 Thread John
boot.flp -rw-r--r-- 1 0 wheel 1474560 Feb 6 20:00 fixit.flp -rw-r--r-- 1 0 wheel 1474560 Feb 6 20:00 kern.flp -rw-r--r-- 1 0 wheel 1474560 Feb 6 19:59 mfsroot.flp 226 Transfer complete. Enjoy! John - [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s Original Message - I can't find the boot images for a floppy

freebsd-5-REL woes

2003-02-08 Thread John
gratefully received. -- John - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.reiteration.net/~jfm For PGP public key finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] or see webpage To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

FreeBSD trashed after installing Win98SE in lower partition - what to do?

2005-01-07 Thread John
problems in the future? 4) Is there any action I can take to help prevent others from experiencing the pain I have just unwittingly inflicted on myself? Any observations, information, or suggestions will be gratefully received. Thank you! -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED

Lost my X11 config - what was the old tool to build it?

2005-01-09 Thread John
there, even if I get it, won't work with the new stuff. Any pointers will be appreciated. -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Lost my X11 config - what was the old tool to build it?

2005-01-10 Thread John
after I log in), and how I resolve the apparent conflicts between xorg and XFree86 for OpenOffice.org, which I dearly want to have back up and running. John schrieb: Before Win98 destroyed my nice FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE installation on my Compaq Armada M700 laptop, I had a really good X

WiFi PCMCIA or CardBus cards with Compaq Armada laptops?

2005-01-10 Thread John
in this way. Thanks! -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need Guidance in my Internet Connection Sharing configuration

2005-01-10 Thread John
/information in the future... Srot BULL ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED

How to back-rev?

2005-01-11 Thread John
? I know that FreeBSD 5 added some really cool filesystem capabilities, like snapshots - but did that make changes in the filesystem format? Thanks! -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: How to back-rev?

2005-01-11 Thread John
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 04:25:38PM +0100, albi wrote: John wrote: I think I may have been too eager to go to Major Release 5 of FreeBSD. I'm having a lot of trouble with my laptop - with my WIFI cards freezing the system, and trying to make the swith from XFree86 to Xorg. if i were

Out of the frying pan...

2005-01-13 Thread John
a 5.3 installation set, and redo the installation, using only the distributions I need, and hope it fits. Other suggestions? Anything obvious I'm missing? You folks have been extrememly helpful so far, so I'm hoping there's a good solution I'm just missing! -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Out of the frying pan...

2005-01-13 Thread John
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:08:53PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Thursday 13 January 2005 03:24 pm, John wrote: I just keep painting myself into corners, and I'm hoping that people can point out some (presumably dumb) things that I am doing, and recommend a course of action that will get

Re: Out of the frying pan...

2005-01-14 Thread John
was when I ran out of room, and I still have room. This is a good thing! Kind regards, Benjamin -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Out of the frying pan...

2005-01-14 Thread John
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:32:03PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 14 January 2005 12:23 pm, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:19:20PM +0100, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: Hello, Andrew L. Gould wrote: 3. Definitely go with a clean installation of FreeBSD 5.3 rather

Re: Backups / Dump etc

2005-01-14 Thread John
method of having all data consistent from an application point of view. Maybe I should submit this to the handbook - or has it been covered already? I didn't see it when I was reading the backup section last night. -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Backups / Dump etc

2005-01-14 Thread John
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:49:44PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: John writes: J If you are running FreeBSD 5.x, you get the cool L option on J dump which will automatically snapshot the mounted filesystems. What exactly is meant by a snapshot, and how much extra disk space does

Re: Speed up dialin connection via proxy?

2005-01-14 Thread John
the point of demarcation is new, solid, and away from noise sources - like, not wrapped around flourescent light fixture and things). Other than that, I can't think of anything... TjL -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

I need a cuppa...

2005-01-15 Thread John
for FreeBSD. I don't need the JDK, unless that's the only way to get a viable JRE. Can someone point me in the right direction??? -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Out of the frying pan...

2005-01-15 Thread John
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 03:34:26PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 14 January 2005 02:12 pm, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:32:03PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 14 January 2005 12:23 pm, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:19:20PM +0100, Benjamin Walkenhorst

Re: Hardware assembly

2005-01-15 Thread John
for using the standard libraries is to put a layer of abstraction between you and the basic OS calling sequence. Just my $0.02. -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: I need a cuppa...

2005-01-15 Thread John
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:05:22PM -0800, Tabor Kelly wrote: Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:06:17PM -0600, John wrote: OK, I must be dumb as a rock, because this has to have been discussed and documented 16 ways from Sunday, but I've looked in the FAQ, and looked

Re: Out of the frying pan...

2005-01-15 Thread John
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:47:13PM -0800, Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Saturday 15 January 2005 07:23 pm, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, and figure out WHAT is going on with Konqueror. On some web sites, it is just fine and dandy, but on other web sites, it just is GLACIAL. I'm talking about

Re: I need a cuppa...

2005-01-16 Thread John
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 07:04:42PM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 11:34:04PM -0600, John wrote: On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:05:22PM -0800, Tabor Kelly wrote: Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:06:17PM -0600, John wrote: OK, I must be dumb

Re: Out of the frying pan...

2005-01-16 Thread John
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 01:20:58AM -0500, Timothy Luoma wrote: On Jan 13, 2005, at 5:18 PM, John wrote: Yeah - thinking about that - but should I really need SEVERAL Gb to support the environment I want? Maybe... FWIW, the day after Thanksgiving, BestBuy had a 250GB drive for $80

Re: Set up of Wireless on laptop

2005-01-16 Thread John
to the other parameters above. I don't know how to use Wep pass phrases, 'cause I don't use them. I think the pass phrases just provides data to munge to generate the keys. I use it - I love it - I'll be glad to help any way I can. -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Out of the frying pan...

2005-01-16 Thread John
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 11:35:49PM -0800, Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Saturday 15 January 2005 09:57 pm, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:47:13PM -0800, Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Saturday 15 January 2005 07:23 pm, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, and figure out WHAT

Re: Out of the frying pan...

2005-01-16 Thread John
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 06:21:32PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: John wrote: [ ... ] Well, I have a local-caching DNS server running on my gateway/NAT/ firewall FreeBSD system. DHCP is correctly populating /etc/resolv.conf with the correct value. SOME web sites work great, others show

Re: Out of the frying pan...

2005-01-16 Thread John
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 11:35:49PM -0800, Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Saturday 15 January 2005 09:57 pm, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:47:13PM -0800, Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Saturday 15 January 2005 07:23 pm, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, and figure out WHAT

Re: system time mysteriously changes

2005-01-17 Thread John
I'm not doing my real job, I'll look into this and see if I can figure out what's going on. It's something strange! -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3

2005-01-17 Thread John
that is running 5.3-STABLE was a good time keeper before this update (4.9-STABLE). -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3

2005-01-17 Thread John
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:22:48PM -0600, John wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:23:28PM +0900, Rob wrote: Ian Moore wrote: Hi, Ever since I upgraded from 5.2.1-RELEASE to 5.3-RELEASE, I've been getting the following error on boot: ntpd[380]: bind() fd 7, family 28, port 123

Kernel time-keeping adjustments - how to tune?

2005-01-17 Thread John
if there's a manual way to reach them. -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel time-keeping adjustments - how to tune?

2005-01-17 Thread John
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:05:22PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: John wrote: OK - on my FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE system, as I have documented (cf: message thread Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3), ntpd won't run, even with an identical configuation to the 5.2.1 system next

Re: Kernel time-keeping adjustments - how to tune?

2005-01-17 Thread John
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:12:46PM -0600, John wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:05:22PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: John wrote: OK - on my FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE system, as I have documented (cf: message thread Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3), ntpd won't run, even

Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3

2005-01-17 Thread John
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:49:00PM -0600, John wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:22:48PM -0600, John wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:23:28PM +0900, Rob wrote: Ian Moore wrote: Hi, Ever since I upgraded from 5.2.1-RELEASE to 5.3-RELEASE, I've been getting the following

Re: X11 configuration at 5.3 ?

2005-01-17 Thread John
or unreadable systems. -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel time-keeping adjustments - how to tune?

2005-01-17 Thread John
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 05:17:12PM -0700, Danny MacMillan wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:12:46PM -0600, John wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:05:22PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: John wrote: OK - on my FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE system, as I have documented (cf: message thread Re: ntpd

Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3

2005-01-18 Thread John
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 07:26:16AM +0100, Christian Hiris wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 January 2005 01:09, John wrote: This is what goes into the log: Jan 17 18:04:29 pearl ntpd[838]: ntpd 4.2.0-a Sun Jan 9 10:58:59 CST 2005 (1) Jan 17 18:04:29

Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3

2005-01-18 Thread John
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 07:23:41AM -0600, John wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 07:26:16AM +0100, Christian Hiris wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 January 2005 01:09, John wrote: This is what goes into the log: Jan 17 18:04:29 pearl ntpd[838

Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3

2005-01-18 Thread John
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 04:04:30PM -0600, John wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 07:23:41AM -0600, John wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 07:26:16AM +0100, Christian Hiris wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 January 2005 01:09, John wrote

X11 Monitor Database?

2005-01-19 Thread John
database. :) Not quite what I meant. -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hardware RAID Support (was RE: One Last Plea For Vinum Assistance)

2005-01-20 Thread John
FreeBSD, please let me know. -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Creator of 4.4 BSD

2005-01-20 Thread John
is that it is free of all proprietary intellectual property and legally unencumbered for unlimited distribution. Ew - English can get so odd: Proprietary property. But you all know what I mean. -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread John
rarely need backups. Your disk drive crash? Oh, just bring it to the local recovery service and they'll get all your data back for $9.95. NOT -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: hard drive errors

2005-01-20 Thread John
remote data replication. -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /var is lack of space!!

2005-01-24 Thread John
to descend into one of those, and run the command again, to drill deeper. This is slightly manual, but I find it helpful to stop and think at each level what it is telling me and what it means. -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions

Re: /var is lack of space!!

2005-01-24 Thread John
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:50:38AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: John writes: This is a good way to find out where the storage is being used: cd /var ; du -s * | sort -nr | more That will give you a list, sorted from most storage to least, of each directory (or file) at the /var level

Open source or *BSD/Linux compatible mapping software?

2005-01-24 Thread John
connection to function - anywhere I have my laptop, I can do mapping and even fix my position with my GPS. Is there anything like this available for us FreeBSD users? It doesn't have to be open source - I pay for ST and I'm happy to pay for its equivalent. Thanks! -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: sshd port number ?

2005-01-24 Thread John
below 1024, or have an application run to open a connection on a port below 1024. I'm sure the writer was aware of this - I just want to make sure that newcomers and lurkers don't put too much confidence in the port number of a connection. -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: /var is lack of space!!

2005-01-24 Thread John
deleted valuable, or were they junk mails? -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Partition Size

2005-01-24 Thread John
as yet unthoughtof. -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fragmentation

2005-01-24 Thread John
filesystem, just some statistics on how much those sub atomic allocation units are being used. Your filesystem is clean, is using some fragments, and may or may not be fragmented (data scattered in logically discontigous ways). -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED

DDB? Debugging kernel?

2005-01-27 Thread John
not in the handbook or in the NOTES file... -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dumping a samba directory

2005-01-28 Thread John
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Re: DDB? Debugging kernel?

2005-01-28 Thread John
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 07:53:27AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 27 January 2005 at 22:39:05 -0600, John wrote: OK, folks - I've looked in the Handbook, and I've looked in _The Complete FreeBSD_ and I just get more confused. Is the option DDB gone? In -CURRENT, yes

Re: BSD

2005-01-28 Thread John
as a trademark... You can hail them for doing this, as a way to protect it, or pan them for trying to coopt it - your choice. -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Elegant way to map UID's and GID's on dump/restore?

2005-01-28 Thread John
these in the dump/restore process, I'd love to know about it. Thanks! -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: having 1.5GB RAM I cannot allocate more than 512MB RAM in 4.10

2005-01-29 Thread John
guess just create a script that is just #/bin/sh ulimit $* or something like that... Did you try doing a man ulimit? It should give the builtin command support matrix... -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: having 1.5GB RAM I cannot allocate more than 512MB RAM in 4.10

2005-01-29 Thread John
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 03:04:51PM +, markzero wrote: what's the output of ulimit -d? What's the trick to running ulimit? command not found yet whereis sez it is a shell builtin command. Jack What about limits? Ah - there it is - thanks. (blush) -- John Lind [EMAIL

Re: I need a cuppa...

2005-01-29 Thread John
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:05:22PM -0800, Tabor Kelly wrote: Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:06:17PM -0600, John wrote: OK, I must be dumb as a rock, because this has to have been discussed and documented 16 ways from Sunday, but I've looked in the FAQ, and looked

Re: Xorg config failure - help requested

2005-01-29 Thread John
monitor, or dig up the monitor specs and build it by hand. Other than the monitor part, it is quick and easy. Now I have X.org up and runnning on four different machines - and I'm loving it! -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: I need a cuppa...

2005-01-29 Thread John
that I'll just wait a few days, and try the cvsup again, and see if I've gotten lucky. If anyone has a better, more active suggestion, I'm all for it. Being passive is OK, but it's not my cup of tea... -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions

What is popt and why is it giving me grief in ports?

2005-01-31 Thread John
/popt. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/archivers/rpm. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/java/linux-sun-jdk14. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/java/jdk14. Where do I go from here? -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED

Compiling/installing ports via NFS - any gotcha's? (while building linux_base-8-8.0_6, /usr/bin/build-locale-archive: cannot lock new archive: Operation not supported)

2005-01-31 Thread John
/emulators/linux_base-8. Any clues for me? -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how do you mount a sony usb memorie stick (camera)?

2005-02-01 Thread John
issue the mount command for you. -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Alright, you jdk14 geeks...

2005-02-01 Thread John
with the license agreement? -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alright, you jdk14 geeks...

2005-02-01 Thread John
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 04:15:20PM -0800, Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Tuesday 01 February 2005 03:10 pm, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally got around my problems by manually deinstalling and reinstalling all the packages that linux_base-8 depended upon. I have done a make install

Re: Compiling/installing ports via NFS - any gotcha's? (while building linux_base-8-8.0_6, /usr/bin/build-locale-archive: cannot lock new archive: Operation not supported)

2005-02-02 Thread John
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 01:19:18PM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 05:15:19PM -0600, John typed: I don't have enough storage on my laptop for the entire ports tree (surprise, surprise), so I'm trying to make install acroread and jdk14 via NFS mounts from a bigger server

Re: Unix equivalent of a variant??

2005-02-03 Thread John
you this shouldn't be done, but - just because MS has done it, does not mean it is a good thing to do in general. Or, just use PERL. :) -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: couldn't start KDE.

2005-02-03 Thread John
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Re: Freebsd firewall

2005-02-03 Thread John
may have an issue with FreeBSD 5.3 on older systems. Might I suggest FreeBSD 4-STABLE for this system? -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: running interactive program from shell script

2005-02-03 Thread John
for this sort of thing, and recommend it highly if you have to do automated interactions with telnet or ftp sessions. -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Help!

2005-02-03 Thread John
It means that there was an error in writing the data that the unit was able to take care of. You may still want to shutdown, restart, go into the ADAPTEC bios, and do a surface scan/error map on your drive. Sometimes, though, these things just happen... -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED

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