Re: How to safely merge two slices on harddisk?

2004-02-11 Thread Rob
Malcolm Kay wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 04:19, Rob wrote: Malcolm, Thank you for your detailed answer to my question. Malcolm Kay wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:46, Rob wrote: Do not change the offset of 'f'. If 'g' does not physically follow 'f' on the disk

Re: How to safely merge two slices on harddisk?

2004-02-09 Thread Rob
Malcolm, Thank you for your detailed answer to my question. Malcolm Kay wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:46, Rob wrote: Do not change the offset of 'f'. If 'g' does not physically follow 'f' on the disk then this is not going to work -- give up now!!! How

How to safely merge two slices on harddisk?

2004-02-08 Thread Rob
destroying the data in the one afer (ad1s1h) is no problem. Is there a way to do this? What is the safest one? (without having to backup the whole disk). Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

How to query the computer's ip address?

2004-02-08 Thread Rob
Hi, Silly question, maybe, but is there a simple command to query the computer's ip address? Something similar to 'hostname' for finding the computer's hostname. I need the four dot-separated ip numbers. I can analyze the output of 'ifconfig', but isn'

bug in bootpd for FreeBSD-Stable ?

2004-02-06 Thread Rob
hy is this well-documented feature not working for bootpd on FreeBSD-stable? Regards, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: diskless operation: swapfile setup

2004-02-02 Thread Rob
Rob wrote: Hi, I had trouble to get the swapfile setup, as explained in the handbook (chapter "diskless operation"). I failed and then decided to do it in a more manual fashion: Maybe I should illustrate also what actually failed with the swapfile setup from the handbook. When my /et

diskless operation: swapfile setup

2004-02-02 Thread Rob
etc/bootptab sets the two T128 and T129 variables (note that in this case I need to tell /etc/bootptab the exact size of the swapfile via T129) ? Any ideas? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

vinum - device crashed.

2004-02-01 Thread Rob
t just be better to stick to 4.9 for now? I would like to get this working - I've had rather too many hard discs die in the past and would like to have some resilience in this new machine. Thanks in advance for any ideas, Rob 2 drives: D UpWindow State: up /dev/ad2s1h

Re: Tracking local port hacks?

2004-01-28 Thread Rob Ellis
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 04:06:44PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jan 27), Erik Trulsson said: > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 02:05:16PM -0500, Rob Ellis wrote: > > > We sometimes find it necessary to make some small change to a port > > > before insta

diskless boot: console via serial port?

2004-01-28 Thread Rob
on? Once I have this working, it'll be much easier for me to further investigate the diskless boot problems. Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Tracking local port hacks?

2004-01-27 Thread Rob Ellis
de" and it has some suggestions for managing a local branch. Is that the best way to do it? Anyone know how BIG the ports tree is if we get it via cvsup in "cvs mode"? Thanks. - Rob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.fre

Mozilla & flash: crash with Gdk-ERROR message.

2004-01-27 Thread Rob
denied) serial 37 error_code 10 request_code 144 minor_code 1 Does someone have any idea what is going wrong here? Thanks, Rob. PS: I'm fighting against the dominance of Windows in my office. Convincing collegues starts with showing that simple applications work as good as on Windows. An

mplayer screws up audio device access

2004-01-27 Thread Rob
yer!) and start another one, I get this dialog from mplayer: "Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound" and, of course, there's no sound. This is quite a nuissance. Any idea what is going wrong here? Thanks, Rob. ___ [E

Re: mod_perl with FreeBSD (stock perl vs perl 5.8 port)

2004-01-27 Thread Rob
Forrest Aldrich said on Tue Jan 27, 2004: > No, use /usr/bin/perl (SYSTEM) versus /usr/local/bin/perl and adjust my > makepl_args file accordingly. > > > At 06:39 AM 1/26/2004, you wrote: > >Forrest Aldrich asked on Mon Jan 26, 2004: > > > > > > > I'm working with mod_perl-1.x *current* on FreeBS

mplayer screws up audio device access

2004-01-26 Thread Rob
player: "Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound" and, of course, there's no sound. This is quite a nuissance. Any idea what is going wrong here? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

Re: mod_perl with FreeBSD (stock perl vs perl 5.8 port)

2004-01-26 Thread Rob
Forrest Aldrich asked on Mon Jan 26, 2004: > I'm working with mod_perl-1.x *current* on FreeBSD-4.9. > > For some time, I've had some difficulty getting this lot to work correctly, > as an OBJ (non-DSO). During the compile, I get a slew of > Dynaloader-related errors in the linking process. > >

Re: Help with CUPS

2004-01-21 Thread Rob
fo of the cups-log files in /var/log/cups give a clue? Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: how to force network interface ?

2004-01-20 Thread Rob
Frank asked on Tue Jan 20, 2004: > > I have a HP Proliant DL380 with two broadcomm 10/100/1000 RJ45 interfaces > my problem is the interface does not negociate properly with the switch > interface ( Alcatel 7700 ) and each time I start the server the DUPLEX mode > is set to HALF that I do not want

Re: usernames with uppercase

2004-01-19 Thread Rob
Spades asked on Sun Jan 18, 2004: > Hi, > > I tried to add a username ie. Bryan, but FreeBSD doesn't allow me > to do so. It gives me illegal username error. Any idea how to go > about adding usernames like 'Bryan-admin' etc. > Are you sure that it's the uppercase and not the dash that's the p

Re: awk vs. nawk [Was: stumped... .]

2004-01-19 Thread Rob
David Fleck asked on Mon Jan 19, 2004: > What does 'nawk' do that 'awk' doesn't? I've got both binaries on my > system, but the nawk manpage is just a link to awk(1). I believe that awk is the GNU version while nawk is the (rewritten) Bell Labs original: > awk --version GNU Awk 3.0.6 Cop

Re: Text parsing?

2004-01-18 Thread Rob
Eric F Crist asked on Sun Jan 18, 2004: > For what purposes will I find I need to use all these tools you write about? > I'm talking about awk, ed, ex, etc. I haven't found the need to do so, yet, > but I'd like to possibly learn this stuff before I really do need it. Logfiles and config files a

Re: stumped... .

2004-01-17 Thread Rob
David Fleck wrote on Sunday January 18, 2004: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > I've written scores of scripts to hack text files, but this > > one has me dead in the water. > > > > How can I delete all lines from /^PATTERN to EOF?? > > > > ed - < > > > /^PATTERN > > (.,$)d > >

Re: trouble mounting a zip drive on parallel port

2004-01-16 Thread Rob
Alex Walker asked on Saturday January 17, 2004: > > Here's on of those things that should be simple but is giving me a > surprising number of headachs... > > I'm trying to mount a parallel zip drive on FreeBSD 4.8. I did re-configure > my kernel to include the vpo driver and I get the following me

Re: General UNIX puzzle

2004-01-16 Thread Rob
Brett Glass asked on Saturday January 17, 2004: > I was asked a good question today about how to do some simple tasks using > standard UNIX tools, and am curious what answers people on the list might > come up with. > > What are the simplest, most efficient ways to: > > 1) Delete the Nth line fro

Re: choice of boot manager

2004-01-14 Thread Rob
Lee Shackelford wrote on Thursday January 15, 2004: > I am planning a multiple operating system installation on a Compaq Proliant > 5000. The purpose of the installation is hobbyist and instructional. The > computer does not provide network management services. The proposed > operating systems a

Re: [OT] Configuration file parsing

2004-01-12 Thread Rob
Philip Schulz wrote on Monday January 12, 2004: > I'm currently working on a program which will be used in a closed company > environment. The programm is written in C. For this program, I need to find > a > way of parsing a configuration file. I found a library which can do exactly > what I nee

Re: install.cfg

2004-01-10 Thread Rob
Vahric MUHTARYAN asked on Saturday January 10, 2004: > Hi , > > You can see my install.cfg output below. I can't set hostname , ip address > I'dont understand why ? and I red sysinstall but it's funny I cant find any > variable for hostname and ip address . They are only available for > mediaSetNF

Re: ps: warning: /var/run/dev.db: No such file or directory

2004-01-07 Thread Rob
David Landgren asked on Wednesday January 07, 2004: > > I watched the server boot, and I saw nothing that resembled a shell > error. Is there a way to tee the output of /etc/rc to a file, so that I > could scan it afterwards? > If you uncomment the 'console.info' line in /etc/syslog.conf, and to

Re: jails; sharing parts of file system; mounting pieces of file system in other positions, etc.

2004-01-07 Thread Rob
Chad Leigh asked on Wednesday January 07, 2004: > > On linux you can do a > > % mount -bind olddir newdir > > to remount a piece of the FS somewhere else. The NullFS on FBSD seems > to allow similar things. However, as much as I could find on NullFS in > Google seems to indicate that it is pret

Re: netgear nic

2004-01-02 Thread Rob
David Bear asked on Wednesday Dec 31, 2003: > the NIC selection at the local store was terrible. I ended up buying a > netgear FA311. I cannot tell what chipset this has.. It is the > numbers VS318AG in it.. > > anyone used a netgear nic with fbsd 4.9? > I've got 3 of these in one box and 1 i

How to build diskless kernel?

2004-01-02 Thread Rob
ommand as explained in Chapter 9? Thanks for clearing up this matter for me. Regards, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Complex quoting task in tcsh

2003-12-30 Thread Rob
On Wednesday 31 December 2003, Daniela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 29 December 2003 05:06, Rob wrote: > > Daniela, > > > > This isn't the answer you would like, but tcsh is generally considered a > > bad language for writing scripts*. It'

Re: Fuzzy out of focus console w/new flatscreen monitor on bootup

2003-12-29 Thread Rob
I'm guessing that this switch changes the video mode in Linux - have a look at vidcontrol(1) to achieve the same thing here. The command vidcontrol -i mode will list your available modes - for console work, you're probably only interested in the text ones. Note also that if you load the vesa

Re: Complex quoting task in tcsh

2003-12-28 Thread Rob
Daniela, This isn't the answer you would like, but tcsh is generally considered a bad language for writing scripts*. It's an excellent command-line shell, but scripts are not its strong point. One reason is the one you've just run into - quoting is a little flakey, especially when you try to do s

Re: IPFW Rule set question...

2003-12-24 Thread Rob
Just a very quick suggestion - when you get an initial connection that closes almost immediately, it is usually TCP wrappers rather than a firewall. Have you checked /etc/hosts.allow? - Original Message - From: "Drew Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: IPFW Rule set question... > > H

Re: IMAP and IMAP-SSL login problems

2003-12-22 Thread Rob
ct: RE: IMAP and IMAP-SSL login problems > Hi Rob, > This is the only thing that shows when I try and connect. I seem to have > IMAP and IMAP-SSL running fine since I can telnet to port 143 and 993. The > problem with IMAP seems to be some kind of authentication issue that I just > ca

Re: What's the purpose of the 2nd CD?

2003-12-21 Thread Rob
This is the Live Filesystem CD, used for rescue boots. It also contains the CVS repositry, which gives you a head start if you want to update your source tree. Only the 1st CD is required for an installation - the 3rd and 4th contain extra packages (which are useful but not essential). - Orig

Re: spamassassin

2003-12-20 Thread Rob Ellis
isd-new' in the ports tree. It's a good way of running spamassassin with postfix. It has install instructions. - Rob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Disabling devices @ boot time? (5.1)

2003-12-19 Thread rob cook
y I'd like to get it working, but not a priority right now.) dmesg.boot is below - the references to umass0: and da0: are the problem areas. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks Rob Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1

PLEASE IGNORE - EMAIL TEST

2003-12-19 Thread Rob Cook
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Need help: HyperThreading-CPU + FreeBSD-Stable + Multi-threading

2003-12-12 Thread Rob
rmore, I need to set "machdep.hlt_logical_cpus" to 0 (zero). How do I add this to "the loader" so that it is set to zero at every boot up? Should I simply add to my /boot/loader.conf a line like: machdep.hlt_logical_cpus="0" After that, I'm done with the hyperthre

Re: Missing machdep.hlt_logical_cpus on hyperthreading..

2003-12-12 Thread Rob
CPU: PSE disabled" means. Stefan, In your kernel configuration file, you need following: optionsSMP# Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel optionsAPIC_IO# Symmetric (APIC) I/O Then machdep.hlt_logical_cpus is in your sysctl. Can't help you with the

Re: onboard-nic "Kinnereth-R chipset / intel 82547EI (KENAI IICSA)" supported?

2003-12-12 Thread Rob
Rob wrote: Hi, I'm running FreeBSD-Stable. Will I have support for this onboard network card: Kinnereth-R chipset / intel 82547EI (KENAI II CSA) If yes, what tuning of the kernel is needed for this? I already found out myself that it is supported. Use as kernel configuration: d

onboard-nic "Kinnereth-R chipset / intel 82547EI (KENAI II CSA)" supported?

2003-12-12 Thread Rob
Hi, I'm running FreeBSD-Stable. Will I have support for this onboard network card: Kinnereth-R chipset / intel 82547EI (KENAI II CSA) If yes, what tuning of the kernel is needed for this? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

NFS problem at boot-up: "nfsd: RPCPROG_NFS: RPC: Port mapperfailure - RPC: Unable to send"

2003-12-11 Thread Rob
lue what's going on here and have also no idea in what direction I should go for solving this. Any hints? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ipfw keep-state (ASAP anwser need)

2003-12-09 Thread Rob
y Edigarov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: ipfw keep-state (ASAP anwser need) > On Tue, 09 Dec 2003, Rob wrote: > > > ipfw add 4100 allow udp from me to any 53 keep-state > > ipfw add 4200 allow udp from any to me 53 keep-state > It doesn't work. >

Re: ipfw keep-state (ASAP anwser need)

2003-12-09 Thread Rob
I would suggest ipfw add 4100 allow udp from me to any 53 keep-state ipfw add 4200 allow udp from any to me 53 keep-state which allows either side to initiate the connection. You will also need TCP versions of these rules (DNS uses both). If you use ipfw2, which is the default in 5.x, yo

lame converts music-CD/wav-file to mp3? how?

2003-12-07 Thread Rob
ng but silence and a scratchy 'blurp' every now and then. Any idea what's going wrong here? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: chroot environment

2003-12-06 Thread Rob
If you've already built the environment, you're halfway to having a jail(8) - this extends chroot(8) by creating a private process tree and network interface. You can run an entire system inside a jail, including sshd(8) to accept logins. For ftp logins, ftpd(8) has builtin support for chrooting c

Re: protecting loader

2003-12-05 Thread Rob
I habitually put autoboot_delay="0" in /boot/loader.conf because I'm impatient. It doesn't stop me from booting into single-user mode - you just have to hit a key while loader(8) is spinning, before it starts the kernel. As far as I can tell, the options in /boot.config apply to boot2, which

Re: serial port programming

2003-12-03 Thread Rob Lahaye
etospeed(&t); } But what is fd in this context of serial port communication? And eh, is this actually the right way to go for data acquisition? Thanks, Rob Lahaye Seoul National University - Korea Thanks ! Jean-Marc Francois Université de Liège --- I got a strange problem. I wa

Why no FreeBSD ftp site in India?

2003-12-02 Thread Rob
with possibly the highest potential on software development. But not even one FreeBSD ftp server!! No one interested there to set up an ftp.in.FreeBSD.org server? Or is the FreeBSD community in India simply too tiny? Regards, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

amd documentation: why is it so confusing?

2003-12-02 Thread Rob
or so complicated that nobody dares explaining it? Anyone who can point me to better help on this? Thanks! Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to &q

Re: Remove ^M characters from xhtml file

2003-12-02 Thread Rob Ellis
i prefer the > "perl pie" solution myself. To rectify the situation... > > # one way to type ^M is: Ctrl-V followed by Ctrl-M > sed -e 's/^M$//' old > new && mv -f new old > Freebsd's sed has -i sed -ie 's/^M$//' old - Rob

Re: network security sysctl mib's

2003-12-02 Thread Rob
Using apropos sysctl we get a list of several manpages, including blackhole(4), sysctl(3), sysctl(8) and sysctl.conf(5). These refer to several other sources, including ip(4), tcp(4), udp(4) and rc.conf(5) - they also mention , , , and if you want to study the variables first-hand. -

Re: Controlling init on shutdown/reboot

2003-12-02 Thread Rob
27;m not sure what ppp(8) does with script output. - Original Message - From: "Daniel Rudy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Controlling init on shutdown/reboot > Somewhere around the time of 12/01/2003 03:32, the world stopped and > listened as Rob contributed this to

Re: Controlling init on shutdown/reboot

2003-12-01 Thread Rob
>From line 99 of /usr/src/sbin/init/init.c, #define DEATH_SCRIPT 120 /* wait for 2min for /etc/rc.shutdown */ and on line 1576 it looks like you can change this with the sysctl 'kern.shutdown_timeout'. But 2 minutes is a long time for a shell script - are you sure that everything is working

100 MHz pentium: can that play avi-file movies?

2003-11-30 Thread Rob
Hi, 100 MHz pentium with up-to-date FreeBSD-stable; would that allow me to play avi-file movies with mplayer or equivalent media player? Videocard is a Riva TNT2 with 16 Mb. Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: migrating users

2003-11-27 Thread Rob Evers
server is a fresh FBSD install. Sander. The problem is I need to put the users in a database (virtual mail users). So I need to crypt the passwords with the database crypt function. Rob -- "Those who don't read have no advantage over those who can't" -Mark Twain

migrating users

2003-11-27 Thread Rob Evers
? Or maybe just pointers where to look. Thanks Rob Evers ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: RSS/RDF feed reader

2003-11-26 Thread Rob Ellis
> available feeds, for the user to choose. > > I was hoping for something under KDE.. and installing Evolution just to > use it as a RSS feed reader, seems like overkill ;) You could try 'snownews' http://home.kcore.de/~kiza/software/snownews/ It's text-based. -

Re: Building Automated Custom Install CD

2003-11-25 Thread Rob
Have a look at sysinstall(8) - the interesting bit is If sysinstall is compiled with LOAD_CONFIG_FILE set in the envi- ronment (or in the Makefile) to some value, then that value will be used as the filename to automatically look for and load when sysinstall starts up and with no user inte

Re: hostnames and interfaces

2003-11-21 Thread Rob
My non-technical understanding: * A BSD system has a fully qualified domain name that is set and retrieved by the hostname(1) command. This is normally defined in /etc/rc.conf and considered the 'true name' of the system. If this name does not resolve to an IP address, many network services will c

Re: DHCP

2003-11-15 Thread Rob
A couple of things: The range statement is for unknown clients - they will be given a lease in this range by the server. It doesn't control the host definition, which will use the address in the fixed-address statement. The host definition would normally go inside the subnet definition - at the m

Re: CVSUP server

2003-11-15 Thread Rob
Have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/hubs/ - Original Message - From: "dvv" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: CVSUP server > Hi! > Can you tell me thesize of FreeBSD src+ports. Couple of guys including me > are exploring the possibility to run a CVSUP server in Nulgaria and u

Re: FreeBSD Essay.

2003-11-13 Thread Rob
[Apologies for not quoting - braindead MUA] A good overview of BSD history is at http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/03/17/bsd.html - you could then research some aspect of the story that interests you. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http:/

Re: Adding packages to the 4.7-RELEASE

2003-11-13 Thread Rob
If you've installed the ports collection from the 4.7 CD-ROM, you should be able to say cd /usr/ports/lang/python make install and as long as the source tarballs are still available, you will have python. - Original Message - From: "Steve Blair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Addin

Re: Extracting individual Files via tar

2003-11-06 Thread Rob
You should always use the f option to specify the archive - for example tar -tzf archive.tgz to list or tar -xzf archive.tgz to extract. In your example below, you didn't specify an archive so it defaulted to the device /dev/sa0, which it couldn't open. Any extra arguments are treated

Re: dhcp question

2003-11-05 Thread Rob
If you're running dhcpd(8) on two interfaces, the command should probably be /usr/sbin/dhcpd -q rl1 rl2 Have you checked /var/log/messages for errors? - Original Message - From: "Your Name" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: dhcp question > > -- > Hi all > > I would like to configure 2 n

Re: creating a small FreeBSD box

2003-11-05 Thread Rob Evers
n/moin.cgi/NodeFactory Dw Thanks, I have some reading to do :-) Rob Evers ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Can't edit rc.conf. FS mounted in read-only mode!

2003-11-05 Thread Rob
mount -a will mount all filesystems, and remount root as read/write. - Original Message - From: "Сергей Куликов" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Can't edit rc.conf. FS mounted in read-only mode! > I made a mistake while editting /etc/rc.conf. > Now my system boots only in single-user mode

creating a small FreeBSD box

2003-11-05 Thread Rob Evers
efficient manner.) Thanks Rob Evers ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Okay, who broke sysutils/eject?

2003-11-01 Thread Rob
Does 'cdcontrol eject' work? - Original Message - From: "J. Porter Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Okay, who broke sysutils/eject? > eject from /usr/ports/sysutils/eject used to work fine. Now, on a > 4.9-STABLE system: > > % eject -v acd0c > eject: trying device /dev/acd0cc > eject

Re: IPFW strange events

2003-11-01 Thread Rob
Not a direct answer, but you should generally put add allow all from any to any via lo0 near the start of a rules list. Some things may break if you block loopback conections. - Original Message - From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: IPFW strange events Hello, This is occur

Re: MultiLinking ADSL connections

2003-11-01 Thread Rob
Have you looked at /usr/ports/net/mpd? It's designed for multilinking and understands ADSL. (I use it for a single PPPoE link.) - Original Message - From: "Leon Verheem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: MultiLinking ADSL connections Just curious if anyone has experimented with multilinking

Re: Patching source in a port

2003-10-20 Thread Rob
Any patches named files/patch-* in the port's directory will be applied as the port is built. So you should be able to add your patch and do a 'make clean build' to create patched binaries. You can also 'make patch' to just apply the patches, then inspect the results under the work directory. Hav

Re: Sanity and /var/tmp

2003-10-20 Thread Rob
But rc.local runs at the end of the startup - if something has already put files in /var/tmp, they're going to disappear Can't you use /etc/fstab to create & mount a memory disk? - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Sanity and /var/tmp > This may be an incredibly

Re: data flow diagrams

2003-10-15 Thread Rob Ellis
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:48:30PM -0400, William O'Higgins wrote: > Is there any software in the ports tree that will help build data flow > diagrams? I've done some looking but haven't come up with anything. /usr/ports/g

mounted hard disc gave "device not configured"

2003-10-14 Thread Rob .
t would you recommend to avoid problems in the future? I think it's time to build a new server anyway (this is only an AMD K6 2/500) - Would it be best to run a RAID filesystem, and would 1+0 be better than RAID5 for reslilence on future failures? Is this reliable on cheap IDE drives? Th

Re: Keyboard behaviour in console

2003-10-12 Thread Rob
And read the manpage for syscons(5) - describes virtual terminals and scrollback. - Original Message - From: "Malcolm Kay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Keyboard behaviour in console On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 20:12, Eric Dillenseger wrote: > Hi, I'd like to get correct keyboard layout in co

Re: Can't run a port right after an install

2003-10-12 Thread Rob
Assuming tcsh, the command is: rehash Causes the internal hash table of the contents of the directo- ries in the path variable to be recomputed. This is needed if new commands are added to directories in path while you are logged in. This should be necessar

Re: Beep when tab cannot incomplete

2003-10-12 Thread Rob
Assuming that you're running tcsh, the relevant part of the manpage is: matchbeep (+) If set to `never', completion never beeps. If set to `nomatch', it beeps only when there is no match. If set to `ambiguous, it beeps when there are multiple matches

Re: var partition is too small

2003-10-03 Thread Rob
[ sorry about not quoting - braindead mail client ] Moving a filesystem on a live server is *never* a risk-free activity. If you intend to do this, use tar(1) or dump(8) instead of cp(1) - they will deal with special files and other unusual conditions. But if you haven't done this often enough to

Re: FreeBSD & SPAM

2003-10-03 Thread Rob
about spamassassin ? (/usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin) It works great here and catches about 95% of the spam hitting us. Rob Evers ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: creating a package

2003-10-01 Thread Rob
AFAIK, once you've defined a port you can just say make package and the package will magically appear in the current directory. It installs itself to do this. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: creating a package Hi all, I want to distribute my software as a F

Re: Firewall problem

2003-10-01 Thread Rob Ellis
ill getting pounded by the > listed addresses. Can anyone explain why this isn't working? > Your deny rules have to be added before the 'allow ip from any to any'. ipfw add 100 deny tcp from 24.92.226.153 to any - Rob ___ [EMA

Re: Cgi help - malformed header from script. Bad header

2003-09-30 Thread Rob Ellis
read the Apache2 documentation on CGI, and troubleshooting errors, > no joy. > > How can I fix this? > you need a blank line after the content-type header: > #!/bin/sh > echo Content-type: text/plain echo > /usr/bin/calendar - rob

Re: What means 'architecture'?

2003-09-29 Thread Rob Lahaye
;regular' PC type) and Alpha workstations. See, f.ex. the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-start.html Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsu

Re: ripping CDs, encoding into MP3s, and labeling later

2003-09-29 Thread Rob
e CD at a later time (when I have access to the internet and freedb). Is there a program that WILL do this? 3.) How do you usually handle this situation? Thanks! You could use easytag, (/usr/ports/audio/easytag) It allows you to lookup cddb info and apply it to a d

Re: Sendmail: Do I need it running?

2003-09-28 Thread Rob
With the default configuration, this may disable sending mail from the command line (eg cron jobs). Have a look at /etc/defaults/rc.conf for the different sendmail_* variables, and read /etc/mail/README for more information on mail submission. - Original Message - From: "Chris Pressey" <[

Re: Default route dissapears constantly

2003-09-24 Thread Rob Lahaye
Scott Schappell wrote: > John Straiton wrote: > >> Hello, >> I'm having a doozy of a problem keeping a default route set up >> > This has been discussed heavily in the -stable list. It seems the arp > patch (incorporated into the world of 4.9, 4.8, et al) caused a loss of > default routes

Re: A question about host...

2003-09-24 Thread Rob Lahaye
Thomas Spreng wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:51:38AM -0400, Payne wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>I am wanting to use host.allow and host.deny to make my box more secure. >>Is there a site that can explain how to use them. > > > hosts.deny is depricated just use hosts.allow. Hmmm, "man h

How to patch and fix a broken port?

2003-09-21 Thread Rob Lahaye
ils about the molden port on the freebsd-ports mailing list). Regards, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Port: while installing gnome2: "gnome-config: not found" ??

2003-09-21 Thread Rob Lahaye
me2 port? What to do? Thanks, Rob. # portinstall /usr/ports/x11/gnome2 ---> Installing 'gnome2-2.4.0' from a port (x11/gnome2) ---> Building '/usr/ports/x11/gnome2' [...] ===> Registering installation for libglade2-2.0.1_1 ===> Returning to build of gnomeapplets

Re: Problem installing/upgrading QT3.2

2003-09-20 Thread Rob Lahaye
Dragoncrest wrote: > I agree. I'm waiting till someone totally sorts this out. > Cause it seems like the Band-Aid to get one thing fixed breaks something > else. So for the time being I'm not touching anything. > > At 08:19 PM 9/20/03 -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote: > >> and then Arts

Re: Problem installing/upgrading QT3.2

2003-09-20 Thread Rob Lahaye
for now. Bad philosophy! In that case, revert the Qt port back to the previous working Qt 3.1 port ASAP and fix it in the meantime. Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: mysql error and phpmyadmin how-to

2003-09-18 Thread Rob
# mysql -u root -px (xxx=password) That is how I got around the same error Hope it helps. ROb On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 22:57, Shawn Guillemette wrote: > get the following error when trying to log in to mysql as root like so .. > > # mysql -u root -p > Enter password: > ERR

Re: XFree86 -- Gamma Correction

2003-09-18 Thread Rob Lahaye
d command line option '-gamma'. The XFree86 version > is 4.3.0 (compiled from ports). Use xgamma instead. It allows you to change gamma on a running X. "man xgamma" will tell you more. Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http:

Re: randomize execution the a script?

2003-09-18 Thread Rob Lahaye
Charles Howse wrote: > > I don't happen to have random installed on my system, however jot is It's in /usr/games/random of FreeBSD 4.8. > Won't randomNumber=$? Just return 0 if the previous command completes > successfully? > Shouldn't it be: > randomNumber=`random -e 60` No. In 'man 6 random'

Re: randomize execution the a script?

2003-09-18 Thread Rob Lahaye
: #!/bin/sh while true do random -e 60 randomNumber=$? sleep $randomNumber done Where '60' means, maximum 60 seconds between two script calls. There might be better or nices ways of doing this :). Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing l

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