Re: Accessing Windows Share

2002-11-29 Thread Jason Hunt
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Chris Brotherton wrote: > I tried to install smbfs with ports and received the following message: > > smbfs-1.4.1 OS versions subsequent to 440002 include smfs > > I was under the impression that smfs is part of the base system, but > that I had to include options in the kerne

Re: Accessing Windows Share

2002-11-29 Thread Jason Hunt
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Jason Hunt wrote: > > Hrmm, I've never even heard of smbfs before :) > Oops, I meant I have not heard of smfs before. Unless, that was a typo for smbfs. Either way, I had heard of smbfs before. I remember a year or two ago mount_smbfs was not available on Fr

disklabel device busy

2002-12-04 Thread Jason Morgan
t try: # disklabel -e /dev/ad0s1e disklabel: Device busy Second try (completely empty disk): # disklabel -e /dev/ad2s1f disklabel: Device busy Then I tried 'disklabel -e -r' for each of these and still: Device busy. Could someone point me in the right direction? Thanks, -Jason To Un

Re: disklabel device busy

2002-12-04 Thread Jason Morgan
I'll answer my own question. The devices were mounted. They shouldn't be. -Jason On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 01:48:16PM -0500, Jason Morgan wrote: > I am attempting to set up a new system with vinum. I've never used > vinum before, but I found a good guide for what I want

vinum and a BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG

2002-12-05 Thread Jason Morgan
with my newfs usage: newfs -v /dev/vinum/usr newfs -v /dev/vinum/var newfs -v /dev/vinum/public Last thing; When I run vinum and issue the list command, it says everything is 'up', including ad0s1e and ad2s1e. Many thanks for any help you can give. -Jason To Unsubscribe: send

Re: vinum and a BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG

2002-12-05 Thread Jason Morgan
Yes, that was the problem - coupled with my ignorance. When I tried removing these before, I still had an error, which was caused by a mistake in my moving /usr and /var. Thanks for the help and thanks for vinum. -Jason On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:29:55AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey w

Cisco/Aironet 350 & LEAP? Anyone?

2002-12-09 Thread Jason Edwards
I'm having no luck getting my Aironet 350 card to authenticate via LEAP at my worksite. I'm using a Dell Latitude C600 running 4.7-STABLE ( upgraded as recently as Dec 2002 ). The same hardware utilizing Windoze and the Cisco ACU tools works without any trouble, and I can use the Aironet card un

Re: testing memory speed

2002-12-09 Thread Jason Hunt
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, David S. Jackson wrote: > Is there a utility to test memory speed? I looked at memtest in ports, > but it looks like that mainly tests for faulty memory. I did a > websearch and found a command: dd /dev/null, but that > doesn't seem to summarize the memory speed easily for m

Using the OpenSSH Port

2002-12-16 Thread Jason Morgan
I would like to use the OpenSSH port instead of the default install. I tried setting NO_OPENSSH= true in my /etc/make.conf file and then doing a build- / installworld. Didn't work. Is there some easy way to do this? Thanks, Jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using the OpenSSH Port

2002-12-16 Thread Jason Morgan
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 09:36:43PM -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote: > Jason: > I believe you should use this: > # OPENSSH_OVERWRITE_BASE= true # Use to make it update from the ports Where is that in the docs? I couldn't find it in /etc/defaults/make.conf. > > Best rega

Re: Using the OpenSSH Port

2002-12-17 Thread Jason Morgan
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 05:09:34PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you >wrote: > > I would like to use the OpenSSH port instead of the default install. I > > tried setting > What's the reason ? I'we missed some CERT advisories about 4.7 builtin > ssh ? I am

Re: windows 2000 & FreeBSD?

2002-12-23 Thread Jason Hunt
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Yes, of course. You can even use the Windows 2000 boot menu to boot > your FreeBSD installation. I've done it recently, and it works fine :) > FYI, I tried booting FreeBSD from the Win2k loader and it wouldn't work. The machine would just reboot w

Re: MSN Messenger

2002-12-24 Thread Jason Hunt
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Wayne Swart wrote: > Is there an equivalant for msn messenger on X ? > I use everybuddy. It supports a number of different IM protocols. One thing I liked is there are not too many dependancies. Now, I have not tried any of the other IM programs (for more than a few minute

Re: possible problems in bootup

2002-12-24 Thread Jason Hunt
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Asenchi wrote: > I am having what seem to be problems in the boot process. When it gets to > the ata0 device it sits for about a minute then continues like normal. Is > this supposed to happen, am I doing something that I just don't know about > to make this happen? > One o

Horde breaks apache config

2002-12-28 Thread Jason End
Having installed Horde, Imp and Turba, --clean install, no config files edited yet-- apachectl configtest gives: Processing config directory: /usr/local/etc/horde Processing config file: /usr/local/etc/horde/httpd.conf.horde Processing config file: /usr/local/etc/horde/httpd.conf.imp Processing

FreeBSD 4.7: Perl Questions

2003-06-12 Thread Jason Lieurance
make /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach/CORE/opnames.h. Stop'. That's why I'm trying to upgrade in the first place. Thanks. -- Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: SIS 900 card not being detected.

2003-06-13 Thread Jason Stewart
; sis0: Ethernet address: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > sis0: MII without any PHY! > device_probe_and_attach: sis0 attach returned 6 > > Can someone tell me what this means / is wrong? > Hi Leon, What version of FreeBSD are you using? Jason > __

RE: SIS 900 card not being detected.

2003-06-13 Thread Jason Stewart
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 12:18, Leon Botes wrote: > 4.7-RELEASE-p10 Upgrade to 4.8-RELEASE. There have been similar reports to yours that have disappeared with 4.8. Cheers, Jason > > -Original Message- > From: Jason Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 13 June

vmstat question

2003-06-26 Thread Jason Lieurance
Hello, I have FreeBSD 4.7 on a P3 933mhz, 18 GB U320 HD, Adaptec 29160 controller, and 512 MB DDR ram. When I ran vmstat -w 3 the b under processes shows a constant 10 forever. Is this a concern or is it nothing? Our system is a DNS, web, and email server. Thanks. -- Jason

vmstat question

2003-06-27 Thread Jason Lieurance
hanks. -- Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: lucent winmodem

2003-06-30 Thread Jason Stewart
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Jason Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Right to Life of Michigan ___

Re: Seperate fields in File

2003-06-30 Thread Jason Stewart
If you know how to write the script, then you would also know how to put it in a file too... Smells like a homework assignment to me. A google search turned up this: http://www.devhood.com/tutorials/tutorial_details.aspx?tutorial_id=468 On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 13:43, Moritz Fromwald wrote: >

UDP port question

2003-06-30 Thread Jason Lieurance
I get rid of it? Thanks. -- Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD as NAS

2003-07-01 Thread Jason Stewart
r uptimes, less hassle, and a better performing OS. > Thanks in advance > > lk > > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail

FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE and Adaptec 2400A Controller

2003-07-02 Thread Jason Sopko
e had a similar issue, and if so what was the solution? ///Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Apache Security

2003-07-03 Thread Jason Morefield
As I recall Microsoft offered a Unix version of frontpage server extensions actually. I do however remember it being a serious pain in the neck that wasn't worth the time it took to manage it. But that's just my $0.02. Jason - Original Message - From: "Matt Heath&quo

Re: Opinions on ftp-server

2003-07-03 Thread Jason Morefield
Or Setup skey and use that through FTP. Just my $0.02. Jason - Original Message - From: "Chuck Swiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Per olof Ljungmark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "FreeBSD-questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 03,

Re: Setting up a NAT Router that will route between 3 networks

2003-07-28 Thread Jason Hunt
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 06:14:29PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was wondering how to modify the appropriate files to setup a FreeBSD > computer to act as a NAT Router, that would do the following: > Check the natd(8) man page, it should give you a good start. Chapter 19.12 in the handbook

Re: Newbie's installation of portupgrade fails...

2003-07-29 Thread Jason Stewart
uldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again. *** Error code 1 I would really appreciate it if you could give any advice regarding this one... How old is your ports tree, asin when was the last time you cvsupped a new ports tree? Ja

Chroot directory for user not working

2003-07-30 Thread Jason Lieurance
false ..and of course when you login with winscp it takes you to the regular system root. Any help would be appreciated as always. -- Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Hard drive performance question

2003-08-05 Thread Jason Lieurance
, or other is appreciated, thanks. -- Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Hard drive performance question

2003-08-08 Thread Jason Lieurance
Hello, Ok, I guess I thought 14 was high but it's ok then? I'm not sure what is acceptible but I guess sometimes I thought it would go down instead of always being constant. So I assumed(ignorantly) that there is a disk i/o problem. -- Jason Dan Nelson said: > In the last ep

Re: What ports need to be open on a firewall to allow cvsup?

2003-08-08 Thread Jason Stewart
t for some reason, you'll have to pick a port range for incoming passive connections and specify those ports with -P in the cvsup args. See cvsup (1) for more details. Good Luck, Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: Help me on my freebsd machine

2003-08-14 Thread Jason Stewart
amin wrote: HI I don't know is that true that they are saying that freebsd is a perfect machine for your network and acce ok I don't know how to start but I have been reading freebsd books for about 8 weeks but I have about tons of problems that I seems it was not a problem for any body else or

lpd logging

2003-08-14 Thread jason fiddian
help please we have lpd -l running to log daemon activities but where does it log to? also we can print header pages to the local printer but not the network printers whose queues are on the same host. any ideas please? h.a.n.d fiddo -- www.tasmail.com

Re: FreeBSD as router - performance vs hardware routers

2003-08-14 Thread Jason Stewart
right now. The machine has been stable and works well since it was put into service 61 days ago. I've even heard of people using 486's as firewalls, but havent tried it myself. Good Luck, Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists

Re: Writing FreeBSD device drivers

2003-08-14 Thread Jason Stewart
unix wrote: Hi, I am looking for some good documentation to get a head start in FreeBSD device driver programming. Can any of you gurus provide me with some pointers regarding the availability of such documentation? Thanx in advance... ___ ___

Adobe fonts (installed in Win2k) use

2003-02-26 Thread Jason Morgan
I have several Adobe fonts that I would like to use in FreeBSD. It appears that by their extensions (.pfb, .pfm) that they are postscript fonts. Can I use these in X? Thanks, Jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

CUPS server-error-service-unavailable error

2003-02-27 Thread Jason Barnes
or your help, - Jason Barnes Jason Wayne Barnes -- "Active on the internet." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

unable to subscribe

2003-03-10 Thread Jason Cribbins
d. To accomplish this, another request must be sent in with an authorization key, which has been sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- And yes I am 100% certain I have not mistyped my own email address 7 times in a row. Jason Cribbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Fwd: unable to subscribe

2003-03-10 Thread Jason Cribbins
security-notifications [EMAIL PROTECTED] must be authenticated. To accomplish this, another request must be sent in with an authorization key, which has been sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- And yes I am 100% certain I have not mistyped my own email address 7 times in

Re: unable to subscribe

2003-03-10 Thread Jason Cribbins
myself to. As a matter of fact I just recently unsubscribed my old email from the list just before trying to subscibe again with my new mail accounts. On Monday 10 March 2003 11:51 pm, fil_foster wrote: > Jason Cribbins wrote: > > I am unable to subscribe to freebsd-security-notification

Re: Installing Freebds

2003-03-10 Thread Jason Cribbins
mail clients that do not support html...I am able to flip a switch to view html...but in doing so it causes me to send email in html. Jason Cribbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

possible typo on site?

2003-03-16 Thread Jason Sjobeck
smime.p7m Description: S/MIME encrypted message

OpenOffice build problem - 4.8 RC #1

2003-03-19 Thread Jason Morgan
fails on me, without explaination. Anyone have any suggestions? I just built this on a 4.7 machine less than two weeks ago, went perfectly. Thanks, Jason Morgan Error output: In file included from ../../inc/docfilt.hxx:65, from ../../inc

Re: OpenOffice build problem - 4.8 RC #1

2003-03-20 Thread Jason Morgan
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 12:22:53AM -0500, Jason Morgan wrote: > I have been trying to build OpenOffice 1.0.2 for the last couple days, > and this is what I get. I have tried cvsuping my source, reinstalling > all installed packages, and whatever else I could think of. Still no go.

NFS, something I should know?

2003-03-20 Thread Jason Morgan
. It worked fine before I moved /home to the server. I have tried mounting with -2, as was suggested some time ago on a mailing list I found through google. Didn't work. Thanks, Jason Morgan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in

dc0: TX underrun -- increasing TX threshold ?

2003-03-20 Thread Jason Morgan
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dc0: TX underrun -- increasing TX threshold ?

2003-03-20 Thread Jason Morgan
What does this mean? dc0: TX underrun -- increasing TX threshold To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: X w/ on board video....

2003-03-20 Thread Jason Morgan
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:11:38AM -0800, Rodney Salomon wrote: > Is it possible to install X with on-board video? I use X with an onboard GeForce4 MX card, works great. Haven't tried the nVidia drivers yet, but the docs say they work. -JM > > TIA! > > = > Look at all the pretty C shell

Re: NFS, something I should know?

2003-03-22 Thread Jason Morgan
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 11:05:44AM +0100, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Jason Morgan wrote: > > > I have set up NFS for the first time and am having a few problems; > .. > > Does this look correct? OpenOffice crashes everytime I try

Re: where packets are dropped in route

2003-03-23 Thread Jason Hunt
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 11:32:15PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Maybe your ISP is blocking port 22 after all. nmap will tell you. > > > > can nmap (which i don't have installed) tell me more > than telnet - as far as a where a specific IP/port packet > is being blocked/dropped? > If you

Re: Open Source

2003-03-25 Thread Jason Morgan
platforms are in various stages of development." FreeBSD is not Linux. To install: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html Jason > > Greatings Dan Gaute > -- > __ > Sign-up for yo

Re: Content Filtering on Exim

2003-03-26 Thread Jason Hunt
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 01:54:19PM +0200, Wayne Swart wrote: > > Does anyone know of a content filtering app that can check the body, and > headers of emails for certain keywords and stuff, and then decide weather > the mail should be delivered or not? > Check out procmail (http://www.procmail.o

Re: Freebsd - restarting itself?!

2003-03-27 Thread Jason Hunt
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:20:56AM -0800, Steve Warwick wrote: > Hi All, > > Is it possible for FreeBSD to shut itself down and restart for no reason? > > My machine was restarted last night and my hosting company claims they did > not touch the server or have any problems. This has been going o

Re: Freebsd - restarting itself?!

2003-03-27 Thread Jason Hunt
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 01:28:53AM +0100, Siegbert Baude wrote: > > > > > >If there was not a clean shutdown, I would start looking for faulty > >hardware, assuming the power was not interrupted. Any machine that > >spontaniously reboots on its' own usually has a bad power supply, but it > >could

Re: Running X from a windows PC

2003-03-28 Thread Jason Hunt
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 08:27:34PM +0100, Pierrick Brossin wrote: > Marcel Stangenberger wrote: > > >You will need something like Hummingbird Exceed or > >X-win32 to access the Xclient (which is running on your freebsd server) > > Do you know any free software to do display exporting on Windows ?

write failed, disk is full

2003-03-30 Thread Jason End
Installing 4.7 through ftp, I get a series of errors that say things like: / write failed. disk is full failed to create /usr/src disk is full The disk is new, and certainly isn't full, so I'm thinking it could be a problem of where I've place the partitions on the disk. The disk is a new 120Gb WD

Smbfs woes

2003-04-01 Thread Jason Stewart
ave worked before. Also, using a default password does not seem to work, as the mount_smbfs always asks me for my password no matter what is in the /etc/nsmb.conf file. Questions: Did I break something when I made a new kernel? Why can smbfs not find a broadcast int

Re: Smbfs woes

2003-04-01 Thread Jason Stewart
Here is my Kernel Config: Thanks again. Jason # # GENERIC -- Generic kernel configuration file for FreeBSD/i386 # # For more information on this file, please read the handbook section on # Kernel Configuration Files: # # http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig

Re: Smbfs woes

2003-04-01 Thread Jason Stewart
A Ethernet NICs. # 'device ed' requires 'device miibus' device ed0 at isa? port 0x280 irq 10 iomem 0xd8000 There it is. Thanks again. Jason On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 13:17, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: > perhaps i'm overlooking it, but i don't see your netw

Re: Smbfs woes

2003-04-01 Thread Jason Stewart
Certainly, The interface is actually ed1 and it is a pcmcia network card. ed1: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 10.0.0.74 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255 ether 00:04:5a:91:31:ac media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active Jason On Tue, 2003-04-01 at

Re: Gnome screenshots

2003-04-01 Thread Jason Stewart
Hi Rodney, Try using the gimp. Aquire->Screen Shot. Good Day, Jason On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 16:15, Rodney Salomon wrote: > How can I get a screenshot of my desktop? > > TIA > > = > Look at all the pretty C shells! > > __

RE: How much RAM is needed for FreeBSD

2003-04-05 Thread Jason Burgess
I've never had any luck below 8MB. Jason Burgess -Original Message- From: kitsune [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 12:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How much RAM is needed for FreeBSD On Sat, 05 Apr 2003 18:23:18 +0200 Clemens Jaeger &l

Install SCSI CD-R

2003-04-03 Thread Jason Cribbins
FreeBSD...and if not is there an driver I can load before the kernel boots much like then one I use for my sb live? THanks Jason Cribbins 12:53pm butters:/var/log # cat dmesg.today Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993

Re: FreeBSD HAM (Amateur Radio) ports

2003-05-29 Thread Jason Stewart
ill put in another wote for it! > > 73s de Kjell (LA3SG/EA7AVP) > > > > > Best regards, > > > > > > -Harry (DG6MFE) > > > > > > Hey guys, count me in too. I got my Ham license in '94 >

Re: Source Upgrade

2011-08-03 Thread Jason Helfman
=RELENG_8_2 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default tag=. src-all ports-all Based on this configuration, you grabbed CURRENT, and not 8.2. Have a look here and alter your configuration, and rebuild. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html Hope this helps -jgh -- Jason

Re: ports make search not working in jails

2011-08-11 Thread Jason Helfman
. It's a specific couple of jails that doesn't work and I never tried to fetchindex again. I tried in other servers and jails and make fetchindex works perfectly. Thanks! But does make search now work? -jgh -- Jason Helfman System Administrator experts-exchange.com http://www.experts-ex

Re: How to allow Amanda to install as operator?

2011-08-23 Thread Jason Helfman
't make see that the file exists? Thanks, Ricky If you update your portstree, this should be fixed now. I notificed crees@ and he committed to UIDs/GIDs the operator user and group, so they may be used for installing. -jgh -- Jason Helfman System Administrator experts-exchange.com http://www.e

How can I disable hyperthreads, but NOT smp ?

2011-09-20 Thread Jason Usher
FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE system with two physical CPUs, each of which are HT capable. From dmesg: cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 6 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 7 I also see this: machdep.hyperthreading_allowed: 0 The problem is, I have reason to believe that my workload be

Parallel fscks on large filesystems ... wondering about maxdsiz setting...

2011-10-05 Thread Jason Usher
Old 6.4-RELEASE system. Two filesystems exist, each of which is on its own raid controller. (Background fsck is not workable for various reasons that are tl;dr.) So, theoretically, doing both fscks at the same time is workable, since each of them are on their own controller, and no disk/control

Re: FBSD82 sec patch -p4, uname still -p3

2011-10-07 Thread Jason Helfman
linux emulation mode, which I don't have installed is this why it is still -p3 ? If your kernel wasn't touched during the update, then uname won't bump. -jgh -- Jason Helfman System Administrator experts-exchange.com http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_4830110.html E4AD 7CF1 1396

USB thumb drives for bootable flash FreeBSD installation...

2011-10-17 Thread Jason Usher
I'm going to run FreeBSD off of a flash drive on some older mac mini systems. Before I begin, though, I'd like some advice on the best USB thumb drives for this. These systems will be deployed and left in place, hopefully for YEARS in a remote, inaccessible location. So, I'd like to make sure

Re: pkg_version: corrupted record (pkgdep line without argument), ignoring

2011-10-20 Thread Jason Helfman
54d1cfadc0e3a/66c038dfffb36d40?lnk=raot&pli=1 Try looking into reporting pkgs from the output of this too: #!/bin/sh grep -A1 "^@pkgdep $" /var/db/pkg/*/+CONTENTS -jgh -- Jason Helfman System Administrator experts-exchange.com http://www.experts-exchange.com/

Re: idletime in login.conf

2011-10-31 Thread Jason Helfman
in the base system. [...] idletime timeMaximum idle time before logout. You may want to look into /usr/ports/sysutils/doinkd for this. I use it on many systems, and it works remarkable well, and it is highly configurable. -jgh -- Jason Helfman System Administrat

Re: idletime in login.conf

2011-10-31 Thread Jason Helfman
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 08:11:57PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey thus spake: Hi, Reference: From: Jason Helfman Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:25:32 -0700 Message-id: <20111031182532.gf82...@eggman.experts-exchange.com> Jason Helfman wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:0

Re: freebsd-update (custom kernel)

2011-11-03 Thread Jason Helfman
, though. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-update-server/ -jgh -- Jason Helfman System Administrator experts-exchange.com http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_4830110.html E4AD 7CF1 1396 27F6 79DD 4342 5E92 AD66 8C8C FBA5 ___ freebsd-questi

Re: freebsd-update (custom kernel)

2011-11-03 Thread Jason Helfman
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 09:19:29AM -0700, Michael Sierchio thus spake: On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Jason Helfman wrote: I does work fine with a custom kernel, as long as you are running and maintaining the actual update server that distributes. I don't think that's relevant.

Re: freebsd-update (custom kernel)

2011-11-03 Thread Jason Helfman
update servers myself, however if you run your own update server based on your own signatures, it will patch your custom kernel and distribute it, as well. I didn't know it would skip it, though, with the main update servers. Interesting. -- Jason Helfman System Administrator experts-exchange.co

Re: sed vs gnu sed

2011-11-09 Thread Jason Lenthe
On 11/09/11 05:30, Vincent Hoffman wrote: 'Hi all, I'm trying to move a script from a linux box to a freebsd box. All going well as its just a bash script and bash is bash, however there is one line I'm unable to use directly, as bsd sed (correctly according to SUS at least, I believe[1]

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-30 Thread Jason Lenthe
On 12/30/11 09:59, Jerry wrote: > If FreeBSD really wanted to make a quality product they would hire > competent programmers to create the drivers, etcetera that are seriously > needed. They do. See this for a list of FreeBSD Foundation funded projects that have been completed: http://freebs

Re: pkg_add -r and a local package repo

2012-01-11 Thread Jason Helfman
s a problem. Can I get it to search and install dependencies somehow? Does the package in question have its dependencies properly specified? Regards, -- -Chuck Why not just point the PACKAGESITE to the Latest directory of the tree you want to install? -jgh -- Jason Helfman System Admi

What is the FreeBSD mdoc (man) to HTML toolchain?

2012-01-30 Thread Jason Massey
(1) and groff's [Tex]info document. Most respectfully, Jason ___ 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: HowTo easy use IPFW

2012-02-02 Thread Jason Hellenthal
You are welcome to create a port and submit it for reccomendation... For that you should review the documents etc... at http://freebsd.org/docs Good Luck On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 11:33:14AM +0200, Коньков Евгений wrote: > this is the mine script which helps me keep my firewall very clean and saf

Re: DELL idrac embedded BMC- good console server replacement?

2011-01-17 Thread Jason Helfman
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 05:09:34PM +, Paul Macdonald thus spake: Does anyone use the (dell) idrac embedded bmc on their bsd boxes.. I'm only interested in easy 'serial' access to the bios, and the running system, no need for any grpahical interfaces obviously. From what i've read they can

Re: Run your own portsnap mirror?

2011-02-10 Thread Jason Helfman
bscr...@freebsd.org" I would be highly interested in running my own internal portsnap mirror based on an internal ports tree with local ports, as well. Has anyone done this? -- Jason Helfman System Administrator experts-exchange.com http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_4830110.html E4AD 7CF1 1

BSD Magazine inquiry, question

2011-02-21 Thread Jason Helfman
Hi, I was wondering if anyone has a hardcopy of BSD Magazine listed here: http://bsdmag.org/magazine/1021-bsd-as-a-desktop I wrote an article for the magazine, and would very much like to get a hardcopy of it. I am willing to purchase it. Thanks so much! Jason Helfman -- Jason Helfman

Re: bash can not find most of my commands

2011-02-22 Thread Jason Helfman
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:08:30PM -0500, Randy Ramsdell thus spake: Alokat wrote: On 02/22/11 17:49, Paul Macdonald wrote: On 22/02/2011 16:40, Alokat wrote: Hi, I have changed my shell from csh to bash ... But after that I have to call "reboot" like /sbin/reboot. How can I change that with

Re: freebsd-update housekeeping?

2011-02-28 Thread Jason Helfman
s safe to remove the directory, and recreate it. If your update didn't go so well, you will lose the ability to use the 'rollback' feature, which will uninstall previously applied update. -jgh -- Jason Helfman System Administrator experts-exchange.com http://www.experts-exchange.com/

Re: determining freebsd-update status

2011-03-04 Thread Jason Helfman
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:32:11AM -0500, Tom Worster thus spake: to determine roughly where a server is in its updates (we're running only RELEASE) i do: 1 - check the 1st 4 fields of the tag file in the freebsd-update working dir. Just because the 1st 4 fields are populated, doesn't necessar

Re: determining freebsd-update status

2011-03-04 Thread Jason Helfman
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 02:05:15PM -0500, Tom Worster thus spake: thanks for the answers, jason. two more questions below. np On 3/4/11 1:09 PM, "Jason Helfman" wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:32:11AM -0500, Tom Worster thus spake: to determine roughly where a server is in i

Re: lost network during freebsd-update install

2011-03-10 Thread Jason Helfman
initial upgrade command. I would highly recommend using tmux, and also installing a remote console/management card for your system so you can control it remotely. The cost of the card is probably less than remote-hands cost on one support call. -jgh -- Jason Helfman System Administrator

Re: logging to dmesg from userland

2011-03-13 Thread Jason Helfman
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 07:08:20PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com thus spake: I am looking for a way to write into the kernel message buffer -- the one that dmesg prints out -- from a userland program, to help in relating kernel printf messages to the userland operations which provoked them. (Yes,

Re: Using "/etc/rc.d/netif start"

2011-03-29 Thread Jason Helfman
things such as packet routing that the corresponding "/etc/rc.d/netif start" command won't start back up. So what is the best way to bring down the network and bring it back up again for purposes of testing /etc/rc.conf syntax? In my experience, I've found it best to re

Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-29 Thread Jason Hsu
is Hilton or Jessica "Chicken of the Sea" Simpson can handle it? Please keep in mind that I have a slow Internet connection, and these BSD distros are ENORMOUS. It took some 12-14 hours to download PC-BSD. -- Jason Hsu ___ freebsd-questions

Ethernet connection and monitor resolution in DesktopBSD

2011-03-31 Thread Jason Hsu
tion in my host OS, so no external factors are stopping my Internet connection in DesktopBSD (guest OS). Also, my screen resolution is stuck at 800x600. How do I change it to 1024x768? -- Jason Hsu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: can't determine sound card driver to use in /etc/rc.conf

2011-04-21 Thread Jason Garrett
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 07:38, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > So you can exclude media error. > > > > Maybe this "diagnostic script" from my outbox can > > help you to track down the error. It has been "made" > > on 7-STABLE i386 with mplayer-0.99.11_3 - a quite > > old system. See if the steps descr

Re: Unusual Error while compiling from Portstree

2011-05-26 Thread Jason Helfman
or nmap-5.51_1 ===> Applying FreeBSD patches for nmap-5.51_1 [jhelfman@eggman /usr/ports/security/nmap]$ -jgh -- Jason Helfman System Administrator experts-exchange.com http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_4830110.html E4AD 7CF1 1396 27F6 79DD 4342 5E92 AD66 8C8C FBA5 __

openldap24-sasl-client preventing kde4 from installing

2011-07-08 Thread Jason Garrett
Even after I pkg_delete -f openldap-sasl-client* trying to compile kde4, or in this case I narrowed it down to kdepimlibs4, I always end up with this. How do I get myself out of this dependency? ===>>> Starting check for runtime dependencies ===>>> Gathering dependency list for net/openldap24-sasl

Re: openldap24-sasl-client preventing kde4 from installing

2011-07-09 Thread Jason Garrett
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 14:35, Jason Garrett wrote: > Even after I pkg_delete -f openldap-sasl-client* trying to compile kde4, or > in this case I narrowed it down to kdepimlibs4, I always end up with this. > How do I get myself out of this dependency? > > ===>>> St

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