Re: how to get system information
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: I am wondering how to find out system hardware information from a running system, I know for instance pciconf(8) but what are the corresponding ones for memory, cpu etc? more /var/run/dmesg.boot to get the info at boot time. vmstat 5 5 will give you 5 items 5 sconds apart to show you procs, memory, page, disks, faults and cpu info. Thanks, that was a good start. Now, if I wanted to see more detailed info on the processor than the dmesg.boot output: Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x673 Stepping = 3 Like cache size etc.? You could try seeing what values are available through SNMP, if you're interested in dynamic values like memory usage, CPU usage, disk usage, etc. Manufacturing details on the CPU won't change between reboots, but there should be other ways to find that out. dmesg.boot gives me all this data, some of which might be useful for what you're after. CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (233.29-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x634 Stepping = 4 Features=0x80f9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,MMX -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. -- John Ciardi ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to get system information
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: I am wondering how to find out system hardware information from a running system, I know for instance pciconf(8) but what are the corresponding ones for memory, cpu etc? more /var/run/dmesg.boot to get the info at boot time. vmstat 5 5 will give you 5 items 5 sconds apart to show you procs, memory, page, disks, faults and cpu info. Thanks, that was a good start. Now, if I wanted to see more detailed info on the processor than the dmesg.boot output: Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x673 Stepping = 3 Like cache size etc.? You could try seeing what values are available through SNMP, if you're interested in dynamic values like memory usage, CPU usage, disk usage, etc. Manufacturing details on the CPU won't change between reboots, but there should be other ways to find that out. dmesg.boot gives me all this data, some of which might be useful for what you're after. CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (233.29-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x634 Stepping = 4 Features=0x80f9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,MMX -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. -- John Ciardi ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD?
Lucas Holt wrote: Darwin (Apple's distro) isn't done yet for x86 platforms. Mac OS X runs the darwin system. Actually, it is running on x86 hardware and has for some time. http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/darwin/ -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Real programmers don't write in FORTRAN. FORTRAN is for pipe stress freaks and crystallography weenies. FORTRAN is for wimp engineers who wear white socks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Office 2000 Pro
Martin Rubenstein wrote: My question for you is simply; Will FreeBSD support windows Office 2000 Pro?My wife _must_ use MS Office for work at home in order to be compatible with her work in the office. Powerpoint, Word, Access, Excel Outlook. The question might be better phrased as will MSFT support FreeBSD and I think we know the answer. Why not buy a bargain-basement commodity PC for Office and network it through the freebsd system (some protection from the worms is always good)? -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Serenity through viciousness. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Soundblaster Live! on FreeBSD 4.8?
Adam McLaurin wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 19:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My understanding is that SBLive cards are not supported, and if you get one to work you're lucky. Is this correct, or should they work with no problem? Is there anything I can try, or are there any resources to check? This is incorrect. My SB Live has worked just fine on 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.8, and 5.1. I didn't do anything outside of what the handbook instructed me to do. I'd be suspicious of artsd causing you problems. I've heard of this before, but I don't know the solution. Check the mailing list archives. The SBlive is fine with FreeBSD: I also had troubles when I was running KDE (unloading/reloading the pcm driver would lock up and reboot my system). Try a different window manager or just try running a command line audio program before loading KDE/Xwindows and see how you get on. I found that artsd didn't always play well with others . . . . -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes ... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD install corrupts neighboring partitions
Brett Glass wrote: I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 4.8 on a system which will boot it and also Windows 2000 Server. I've done this with two multiboot utilities: the simple boot manager that comes with FreeBSD and V Communications' System Commander. In both cases, I have found that when I install FreeBSD it corrupts neighboring NTFS and FAT partitions. After the install, the OSes in these partitions fail to boot or the partitions become entirely unreadable. Whether I tell FreeBSD not to install an MBR or whether I tell it to install its boot manager, the result is the same: Neighboring partitions are being corrupted to the point where one can not get to data on them. I realize that dual booting is not common, but I need to do it on this laptop. Has anyone else on the lists encountered this problem? I have dual-booted this laptop (an IBM A20p) with Win2K and a succession of Linux, NetBSD, and FreeBSD. Other than the annoying problem of a couple years back when IBM chose to label its hibernation slice with the same ID as FreeBSD uses, thereby rendering FreeBSD unusable, it's worked just fine. Sounds to me like the partitions are overlapping or otherwise not being kept away from each other, but its hard to know for sure without any information off the system. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 A man said to the Universe: Sir, I exist! However, replied the Universe, the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation. -- Stephen Crane ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
anyone have any experience with SWIG?
I am trying to work with an extension to the gramofile analog - digital recording app, The stock version is in ports and works fine, but someone has written a clever extension to it that takes the track information for a recording (from freedb) and does all the track splitting, signal processing and encoding -- automagically. My problem is that the swig stuff doesn't build -- perhaps its for an older version -- and that's the key ingredient to making this work. With a little chainsaw modification, I have gotten a little further than the initial error diagnostics, but it's messy. The stuff I hope to use if this can be made to work can be found here: http://freeengineer.org/xmcd2make.html -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help Required
Ahmad Memon wrote: Hello.. We are having presentations on different OS in our class.. and i chose the Unix freeBSD for my group to do a presentation on.. i would like some info - if possible - on this system, or anything that could help me with that presentation. So i thought maybe u could give me some tips or some websites where i could find some info that could give me an edge over the other students of my class. Well, as other posters have suggested, install it and live with it: there's no better way. It's a bit much to expect anyone on this mailing list to help you get an edge over your classmates. But doing an installation and learning how it really works will certainly teach you a lot. When you have specific questions, come back and you'll get all the help you need (hint: this is one of the advantages of FreeBSD over the Leading Brand). -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 It may be that your whole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nachi Worm apparently causes Live Lock on 4.7 server
James C. Durham wrote: On Friday 29 August 2003 04:23 am, paul wrote: James C. Durham wrote: It turned out that we had several Windows boxes in the building that had been infected with the Nachi worm. This causes some kind of DOS or ping probe out onto the internet and the local LAN. Removing the inside interface's ethernet cable caused the ping times on the outside interface to go back to the normal .4 milliseconds to the router. Apparently, the blast of packets coming from the infected boxes managed to cause a live lock condition in the server. I assume it was interrupt bound servicing the inside interface. The packets were ICMP requests to various addresses. I could be way off here, but is there any way to isolate machines that send a sudden blast of packets, either by destination address (make a firewall rule that drops those packets) or working out their MAC addresses and dropping their connectivity? Or scan for open ports and block unsecured systems from connecting? What I did was go in the switch room and look for pulsing lights on the switch ports and pull the cables. That fixed it, but after much agony. well, that's a bit draconian, but effective ;-) My questions is.. what, if any, is a technique for preventing this condition? I know, fix the windows boxes, but I can't continually check the status of the virus software and patch level of the Windows boxes. There are 250 plus of them and one of me. Users won't install upgrades even when warned this worm thing was coming. But, i'd like to prevent loss of service when one of Bill's boxes goes nuts! Where I work, at the University of Washington, the network staff were dropping as many as 200 machines *per day* off the network. If a machine was found to have an open RPC port (we run an open network), that was enough to get your network access cut off. I realize these are political solutions more than technical ones, but they may be of some use. The trouble with that is that my users are largely untechnical and wouldn't have a clue what RPC is and cutting them off is not an option. Welcome to the world of corporate IT! It ain't a pretty job, but it pays the bills... been there, done that, the bruises have gone down now . . . One guy to 250 users is a bad ratio. It seems like there should be some centralized, ie, rule-based controls you can put in place. And you should have some leverage to force autoupdates on those client machines. I got the impression from some reading on Google Groups that there may be a way to tell the xl driver to use polling. I just don't know how. Well, this is the right place to ask. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Receiving a million dollars tax free will make you feel better than being flat broke and having a stomach ache. -- Dolph Sharp, I'm O.K., You're Not So Hot ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mod_perl configuration questions
Joey Teel wrote: By admin screen, you mean the screen where you access the blogs and modify them right? That's what you're wanting it to do as long as everything else is working correctly. All you need to do is modify your httpd.conf file to change the DirectoryIndex of movabletype to mt.cgi. Change your config to the one below and it should work (it's the same one you have already, just with the DirectoryIndex directive added): Location /movabletype/ DirectoryIndex mt.cgi SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler Apache::Registry Options +ExecCGI PerlSendHeader On allow from all /Location So J Random Websurfer hits the static path I have aliased, and I go to the admin interface. I'll try that. Thanks. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 In West Union, Ohio, No married man can go flying without his spouse along at any time, unless he has been married for more than 12 months. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
portupgrade problem (was Re: orphaned port?)
=== Installing for ruby-1.6.8.2003.04.19
=== Generating temporary packing list
=== Checking if lang/ruby16 already installed
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/lang/ruby16.
*** Error code 1
I am having this problem as well on any port I try to install. I
have rebuilt pkgdb from scratch.
=== Installing for p5-SNMP_Session-0.95
=== Generating temporary packing list
=== Checking if net/p5-SNMP_Session already installed
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/net/p5-SNMP_Session.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/net/mrtg.
Running make with -dl yields this:
=== Checking if net/p5-SNMP_Session already installed
already_installed=`/usr/sbin/pkg_info -q -O net/p5-SNMP_Session 2
/dev/null`; if [ -n ${already_installed} ]; then for p in
${already_installed}; do prfx=`/usr/sbin/pkg_info -q -p ${p} 2
/dev/null | /usr/bin/head -n 1 | /usr/bin/sed -ne '1s|[EMAIL PROTECTED] ||p'`;
if [ x/usr/local = x${prfx} ]; then df=`/usr/sbin/pkg_info
-q -f ${p} 2 /dev/null | /usr/bin/grep -v ^@ | /usr/bin/comm
-12 - /usr/ports/net/p5-SNMP_Session/work/.PLIST.mktmp`; if [ -n
${df} ]; then found_package=${p}; break; fi; fi; done; fi;
*** Error code 1
Then breaking it down to run just the first command makes me
wonder what's wrong with pkg_info.
[/usr/ports/net/mrtg]:: /usr/sbin/pkg_info -q -O net/p5-SNMP_Session
pkg_info: illegal option -- O
usage: pkg_info [-cdDfGiIkLmopqrRsvVx] [-e package] [-l prefix]
[-t template] [-W filename] [pkg-name ...]
pkg_info -a [flags]
the O option doesn't seem to be in the man page, so I'm not sure
what's up.
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Re: orphaned port?
Michelle wrote: That was clear and the start of the jurney. Please update libtool either using portupgrade or do it by hand as you do before. Jens I still cannot upgrade libtool. I can run make, but when I run make install I get the following error: === Installing for libtool-1.3.5_1 === Generating temporary packing list === Checking if devel/libtool13 already installed *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/libtool13 I tried to run make deinstall and received the following error: === Deinstalling for devel/libtool13 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/libtool13. what happens if you run make -dl install ? -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -- Oscar Wilde ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: orphaned port?
Michelle wrote:
On Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 05:03 PM, paul beard wrote:
Michelle wrote:
That was clear and the start of the jurney. Please update libtool
either
using portupgrade or do it by hand as you do before.
Jens
I still cannot upgrade libtool. I can run make, but when I run make
install I get the following error:
=== Installing for libtool-1.3.5_1
=== Generating temporary packing list
=== Checking if devel/libtool13 already installed
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/libtool13
I tried to run make deinstall and received the following error:
=== Deinstalling for devel/libtool13
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/libtool13.
what happens if you run make -dl install ?
I get this output:
echo === Checking if devel/libtool13 already installed
=== Checking if devel/libtool13 already installed
already_installed=`/usr/sbin/pkg_info -q -O devel/libtool13 2
/dev/null`; if [ -n ${already_installed} ]; then for p in
${already_installed}; do prfx=`/usr/sbin/pkg_info -q -p ${p} 2
/dev/null | /usr/bin/head -n 1 | /usr/bin/sed -ne '1s|[EMAIL PROTECTED] ||p'`; if [
x/usr/local = x${prfx} ]; then df=`/usr/sbin/pkg_info -q -f ${p} 2
/dev/null | /usr/bin/grep -v ^@ | /usr/bin/comm -12 -
/usr/ports/devel/libtool13/work/.PLIST.mktmp`; if [ -n ${df} ]; then
found_package=${p}; break; fi; fi; done; fi;
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/libtool13.
Well, that's what I have been getting in my recent attempts to use
portupgrade or make install. make works just fine in the port's
directory, but make install kicks back the same error. The error
seems to come from
/usr/sbin/pkg_info -q -O ${portcategorydir}/${portnamedir}
The man page for pkg_info doesn't show a -O argument.
Does anyone know what that -O flag is about?
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Re: orphaned port?
Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 20:56, paul beard wrote:
Michelle wrote:
On Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 05:03 PM, paul beard wrote:
Michelle wrote:
That was clear and the start of the jurney. Please update libtool
either
using portupgrade or do it by hand as you do before.
Jens
I still cannot upgrade libtool. I can run make, but when I run make
install I get the following error:
=== Installing for libtool-1.3.5_1
=== Generating temporary packing list
=== Checking if devel/libtool13 already installed
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/libtool13
I tried to run make deinstall and received the following error:
=== Deinstalling for devel/libtool13
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/libtool13.
what happens if you run make -dl install ?
I get this output:
echo === Checking if devel/libtool13 already installed
=== Checking if devel/libtool13 already installed
already_installed=`/usr/sbin/pkg_info -q -O devel/libtool13 2
/dev/null`; if [ -n ${already_installed} ]; then for p in
${already_installed}; do prfx=`/usr/sbin/pkg_info -q -p ${p} 2
/dev/null | /usr/bin/head -n 1 | /usr/bin/sed -ne '1s|[EMAIL PROTECTED] ||p'`; if [
x/usr/local = x${prfx} ]; then df=`/usr/sbin/pkg_info -q -f ${p} 2
/dev/null | /usr/bin/grep -v ^@ | /usr/bin/comm -12 -
/usr/ports/devel/libtool13/work/.PLIST.mktmp`; if [ -n ${df} ]; then
found_package=${p}; break; fi; fi; done; fi;
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/libtool13.
Well, that's what I have been getting in my recent attempts to use
portupgrade or make install. make works just fine in the port's
directory, but make install kicks back the same error. The error
seems to come from
/usr/sbin/pkg_info -q -O ${portcategorydir}/${portnamedir}
The man page for pkg_info doesn't show a -O argument.
Does anyone know what that -O flag is about?
Yes, it's a new option in FreeBSD 4.7's pkg_info. Install the
sysutils/pkg_install port, and you should be good to go. If you're
already running FreeBSD 4.7 or higher, you shouldn't be seeing this
problem if your world is in sync with your kernel.
The pkg_install port should be installed automatically if you're running
an affected version of FreeBSD, but due to a bug, it was not. This bug
is going to be fixed on the next commit to bsd.port.mk. Until then,
installing pkg_install manually is the thing to do.
Excellent. So I'm not crazy (at least no more than usual).
Thanks.
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Re: orphaned port?
Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 20:56, paul beard wrote:
Michelle wrote:
On Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 05:03 PM, paul beard wrote:
Michelle wrote:
That was clear and the start of the jurney. Please update libtool
either
using portupgrade or do it by hand as you do before.
Jens
I still cannot upgrade libtool. I can run make, but when I run make
install I get the following error:
=== Installing for libtool-1.3.5_1
=== Generating temporary packing list
=== Checking if devel/libtool13 already installed
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/libtool13
I tried to run make deinstall and received the following error:
=== Deinstalling for devel/libtool13
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/libtool13.
what happens if you run make -dl install ?
I get this output:
echo === Checking if devel/libtool13 already installed
=== Checking if devel/libtool13 already installed
already_installed=`/usr/sbin/pkg_info -q -O devel/libtool13 2
/dev/null`; if [ -n ${already_installed} ]; then for p in
${already_installed}; do prfx=`/usr/sbin/pkg_info -q -p ${p} 2
/dev/null | /usr/bin/head -n 1 | /usr/bin/sed -ne '1s|[EMAIL PROTECTED] ||p'`; if [
x/usr/local = x${prfx} ]; then df=`/usr/sbin/pkg_info -q -f ${p} 2
/dev/null | /usr/bin/grep -v ^@ | /usr/bin/comm -12 -
/usr/ports/devel/libtool13/work/.PLIST.mktmp`; if [ -n ${df} ]; then
found_package=${p}; break; fi; fi; done; fi;
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/libtool13.
Well, that's what I have been getting in my recent attempts to use
portupgrade or make install. make works just fine in the port's
directory, but make install kicks back the same error. The error
seems to come from
/usr/sbin/pkg_info -q -O ${portcategorydir}/${portnamedir}
The man page for pkg_info doesn't show a -O argument.
Does anyone know what that -O flag is about?
Yes, it's a new option in FreeBSD 4.7's pkg_info. Install the
sysutils/pkg_install port, and you should be good to go. If you're
already running FreeBSD 4.7 or higher, you shouldn't be seeing this
problem if your world is in sync with your kernel.
The pkg_install port should be installed automatically if you're running
an affected version of FreeBSD, but due to a bug, it was not. This bug
is going to be fixed on the next commit to bsd.port.mk. Until then,
installing pkg_install manually is the thing to do.
One of the problems I had figuring this out for myself was that
nothing claimed pkg_info: this command used to return nothing. My
first instinct was to reinstall it but I had no idea how to.
[/usr/ports/www/p5-libapreq]# pkg_info -W /usr/local/sbin/pkg_info
/usr/local/sbin/pkg_info was installed by package pkg_install-20030714
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mod_perl configuration questions
I finally got mod_perl to work properly after a few too many days: I was suffering from versionitis when my out-of-date pkg_info was getting in the way of clean installs. What I am trying to do is install mod_perl into an existing CGI-enabled environment with the MovableType weblog software. The super-simple, hey presto instruction I have found so far don't help at all: I can only get faster perl code and no access to any static html. Does anyone have any experience with mod_perl and plain old CGI they can share? -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 To generalize is to be an idiot. -- William Blake ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mod_perl configuration questions
Chuck Swiger wrote: paul beard wrote: [ ... ] What I am trying to do is install mod_perl into an existing CGI-enabled environment with the MovableType weblog software. By existing you mean, some vendor (MovableType?) has provided you with a precompiled version of Apache and you want to add mod_perl to the mix? No, it's all compiled from source. If so, you should look into compiling and adding the perl module via apxs. The super-simple, hey presto instruction I have found so far don't help at all: I can only get faster perl code and no access to any static html. When you try to add mod_perl, the result is your perl code runs faster, but apache no longer serves static HTML...? If so, that is remarkably odd. What does the Apache access and error log look like when you try to access a .gif or some such that worked before you added mod_perl? Well, I'm glad to know my situation isn't the expected result. I get 403 errors, which suggests I've munged my httpd.conf file somehow. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Universe, n.: The problem. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mod_perl configuration questions
Chuck Swiger wrote: When you try to add mod_perl, the result is your perl code runs faster, but apache no longer serves static HTML...? If so, that is remarkably odd. What does the Apache access and error log look like when you try to access a .gif or some such that worked before you added mod_perl? This is what I get when I uncomment the following lines: [Sun Aug 24 09:44:13 2003] [error] access to /usr/www/movabletype/index.html failed for 192.168.2.10, reason: file permissions deny server execution #PerlModule Apache::Registry #Location /movabletype/ #SetHandler perl-script #PerlHandler Apache::Registry #Options +ExecCGI #PerlSendHeader On #allow from all #/Location -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Q: How many heterosexual males does it take to screw in a light bulb in San Francisco? A: Both of them. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mod_perl configuration questions
Joey Teel wrote: Move all the static content (html, css, images, etc.) to a different directory (to use the example from the MT manual, use mt-static) and modify your mt.cfg file to add/change the StaticWebPath option to point to the location of the static files. OK, that's sensible. But then requesting /movabletype still gives the error and /mt-static yields content without any css or images, even though all the stuff is in there. Do i need to alias /movabletype as something else? It feels like there's missing step that any reasonably clever person would do automatically, but by definition, I'm missing. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 The primary requisite for any new tax law is for it to exempt enough voters to win the next election. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mod_perl configuration questions
Joey Teel wrote: Weird, that's all I had to mine to get it working, though I probably have a rather oddball setup anyway since I have mine set to call the mt.cgi file directly as the directory index file too. Try calling the mt.cgi file directly, and see what happens since it looks like yours is setup to use an index.html file instead of calling the script directly. If i call mt.cgi, I get the admin screen. I think it might be best to rip the whole damn thing out and start over. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Commitment, n.: Commitment can be illustrated by a breakfast of ham and eggs. The chicken was involved, the pig was committed. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: strange reboots
zhuravlev alexander wrote: [ please CC me, because I am not a list subscriber ] Hi! We encounter with strange casual reboots of our server. Does anyone know any tactics of investigation why this happens. anything in /var/log/messages that looks interesting? do you do any monitoring of the system at all? -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Earth is a great, big funhouse without the fun. -- Jeff Berner ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mod_perl 1.28 with apache 1.3.28 questions
I have been trying to get mod_perl and apache to play nicely together and they refuse. I have a couple of problems. 1. I can't build and install mod_perl 1.28. I get and Error 1 when make checks to see if any version is installed. I can then go into work/mod_perl-1.28 and make install, but something else seems to be wrong. I never get it to work with apache if I do that. [/usr/ports/www/mod_perl]# make install === Installing for mod_perl-1.28 === mod_perl-1.28 depends on file: /usr/local/sbin/apxs - found === mod_perl-1.28 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/LWP.pm - found === Generating temporary packing list === Checking if www/mod_perl already installed *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/mod_perl. [/usr/ports/www/mod_perl]# pkg_info | grep mod_perl mod_perl-1.28 Embeds a Perl interpreter in the Apache server I get the same error, whether or not it's installed. 2. I can install from the packaged version but it is built against perl 5.005 as best I can tell (I enable perl-status and check in a browser: Embedded Perl version 5.00503 for Apache/1.3.28 (Unix) mod_perl/1.28 DAV/1.0.3 process 12540 ) I'm running 5.8 and I'm not sure that's the best way to proceed. So ideally, I'd like to install from source through the ports system. As a side note, I have been through my ports/packages database with pkgdb: all seems to be clean, after after a few mismatches were cleaned up. I have also tried portinstall and port_upgrade: no joy there, either. Any help? -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Non-sequiturs make me eat lampshades. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mod_perl 1.28 with apache 1.3.28 questions
KONDOU, Kazuhiro wrote: do you want to make mod_perl with Perl 5.[68] on 5.x system? you must rewrite PERL5/PERL5/PERL_VERSION/PERL_VER in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk and rebuild mod_perl with portupgrade -f. /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk doesn't look like anything I want to mess with: it reads like it has the No User Serviceable Parts Inside label. if you execute cvsup/cvsync. these programs discards your changes. if you want to save your changes in bsd.port.mk, i recommend to use 'cvs up' from anonymous CVS repo. to sync ports tree. more easy way, use 5.x system. :) Well, I'm not ready for that yet. This is a production system for me, and I'm not tackling the 5.x learning curve just yet. People have been running mod_perl on 4.x systems, so there must be a way. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Keep emotionally active. Cater to your favorite neurosis. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quick Question
Jeremy D. Pavleck wrote: Greetings All, I initially tried to install FreeBSD something like 4 years ago and failed miserably, and went to linux. (Hardware wasn't completely compatible with FreeBSD). Recently my Debian server motherboard died on me, prompting me to prepare a list of new parts for a new box. Because I still use FreeBSD everyday (diffrent server) and the whole SCO thing, I want to try again to setup a freebsd box. To make sure I don't have a compatibility problem, I'd appreciate it if someone would look at this wish list http://secure.newegg.com/app/WishR.asp?ID=385191 And tell me if, in your opinion, all of these parts would be compatible with FBSD 5.1. (Of course, I'm mainly concerned about the MB - it's an all in one solution, and the NIC) Why go with 5.1? Try 4.8 for now and get used to FreeBSD. 5.2 will be ready when you are. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Anybody who doesn't cut his speed at the sight of a police car is probably parked. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is OUT OF THE BOX
On Friday, August 01, 2003, at 08:03AM, Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 03:24, W. D. wrote: You will then have had an out of the box experience, or OBE. Why must we insist on confusing non-English patrons? OBE means 'out of body experience', and is completely different from the current topic. No, it means Order of the British Empire, as English-speaking patrons are doubtless aware. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to remove ^M character
On Friday, August 01, 2003, at 01:31AM, Anil Garg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I ftp'd a file from windows to freebsdnot its every line has ^M at its end. Is there some command in vi (or some way) by whcih ^M can be removed. got room for one more? perl -pi -e s#\\r#\\n#g your file name -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Post about BSD's alleged demise on /.
On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 04:06PM, John Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Freebies - In fact there was an editorial suggestion in a recent _eWeek_ (should be [http://www.eweek.com], but I can't confirm that just now.) to the point that managers concerned about SCO's litigation should actively test and evaluate the *BSD family, specifically mentioning FreeBSD's excellent reputation for server quality. Chad Dickerson, the CTO of InfoWorld, made that suggestion in his weblog a couple of weeks back (possibly that's where you saw it?): I've been at him for awhile to upgrade to FreeBSD. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD to MP3
Dave McCoy wrote: I have been looking for an easy way to convert music cds to mp3 files. The ports collection hasn't been much help on this subject. Does anyone know of a plug-in for xmms or an easy utililty to acomplish this. [/usr/ports/audio]:: make search key=rip | egrep '(Port|Info)' Port: abcde-2.0.3_3 Info: Front-end sh script to encode CDs in ogg or mp3 format Port: abcmidi-36 Info: Convert abc music files to MIDI and PostScript Port: cdparanoia-3.9.8_1 Info: A CDDA extraction tool (also known as ripper) Port: chordpack-0.8.0 Info: Script to convert ChordPro files to HTML, ASCII, and TeX Port: glame-0.6.3 Info: A powerful, fast, stable, and easily extensible sound editor for GNOME Port: grip-3.0.4 Info: GTK-based front-end to external cd audio rippers and mp3 encoders Port: ripenc-1.1 Info: Script that automates the ripping, encoding, and naming of CD's Port: ripit-2.0_1 Info: A perl-script frontend for encoding audio CDs to MP3 files Port: streamripper-1.0.5 Info: Splits SHOUTcast stream into tracks Port: sweep-0.1.1 Info: A sound editor for GNOME desktop You can't go wrong with grip. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Scanner for FreeBSD
Pascal Giannakakis wrote: Hello, what do I have to consider when buying a flat bed scanner for a FreeBSD-CURRENT box? Is there any possibilty to share the scanner in an Network, pretty much like a printer? sure is Port: sane-backends-1.0.9_1 Path: /usr/ports/graphics/sane-backends Info: API for access to scanners, digitals camera, frame grabbers etc Port: sane-frontends-1.0.9 Path: /usr/ports/graphics/sane-frontends Info: Tools for access to scanners, digitals camera, frame grabbers etc Port: xsane-0.90 Path: /usr/ports/graphics/xsane Info: Gtk-based X11 frontend for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. -- John Ciardi To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: freebsd curiosity
I kicked this thread across to advocacy when it started, so it may be worth following it up over there. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Drgenius with gnome2
P. U. Kruppa wrote: Hi again! In the meantime I played around a little bit with DrGenius. (As I teach maths and physics - ) I think it is quite a valuable tool for visualization and exploration of geometry and and vector geometry. It seems to be competitive to commercial systems like dynageo's Euklid and it is part of the gnome project. Thus it would be a good idea if someone - who knows about these things - could write a port for it, to make it easily accessible for students and teachers. well, I got it built and played with it, but it crashed on me. Found a few other things that didn't work as well. I can drop a bug report to the developer(s) at their site. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 The meek shall inherit the earth -- they are too weak to refuse. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Cisco Aironet PCI card - Supported ?
Does anyone know if the Cisco Aironet 350 series PCI card works under FreeBSD-STABLE ? From what I can see in GENERIC and LINT, it looks like the 4500/4800 is supported as device an. Anyone know for sure though? I have a 340 card (PCMCIA) that works fine, and is identified thusly: an0: Aironet PC4500/PC4800 at port 0x240-0x27f irq 5 slot 0 on pccard0 an0: Ethernet address: 00:40:96:35:ff:20 Jan 9 07:08:41 green pccardd[74]: an0: Cisco Systems (340 Series Wireless LAN Adapter) inserted. might be worth asking on the mobile list about the 350. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 Cleveland? Yes, I spent a week there one day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Motd Updating
Coreix Systems - UNIX Developers wrote: Can someone tell me he name of the .c or .h file containing code to do the updating of MOTD, i want to add company specific support data to the source so it can be updated to motd on a daily basis, but do not want it to be easily accessiably be sysadmins. i have done it through a /etc/perodic/daily/script file, but clients can find it i want to complile it in the source. This is what I use. I run it from cron. #!/bin/sh cat /dev/null /tmp/motd.tmp echo /tmp/motd.tmp uname -a /tmp/motd.tmp echo /tmp/motd.tmp /usr/games/fortune /tmp/motd.tmp echo /tmp/motd.tmp df -k /tmp/motd.tmp echo /tmp/motd.tmp uptime /tmp/motd.tmp cp /tmp/motd.tmp /etc/motd -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 Faith, n: That quality which enables us to believe what we know to be untrue. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Motd Updating
Coreix Systems - UNIX Developers wrote: i want to add company specific support data to the source so it can be updated to motd on a daily basis, but do not want it to be easily accessiably be sysadmins. i have done it through a /etc/perodic/daily/script file, but clients can find it i want to complile it in the source. Sorry, I missed the bit about it not being accessbile by sysadmins. Though I have to wonder what you can keep a determined sysadmin out of, if they really want to mess with something. Sounds more like something you could achieve with permissions and/or something that checksums what's in MOTD versus what should be. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark Twain To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Motd Updating
Coreix Systems - UNIX Developers wrote: Can someone tell me he name of the .c or .h file containing code to do the updating of MOTD, i want to add company specific support data to the source so it can be updated to motd on a daily basis, but do not want it to be easily accessiably be sysadmins. i have done it through a /etc/perodic/daily/script file, but clients can find it i want to complile it in the source. from motd(5): DESCRIPTION The file /etc/motd is normally displayed by login(1) after a user has logged in but before the shell is run. It is generally used for important system-wide announcements. During system startup, a line containing the kernel version string is prepended to this file. so perhaps you need to look into how login(1) works. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 UFO's are for real: the Air Force doesn't exist. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: glibwww port - patch does not apply
Andrew wrote: Hi there, Maybe someone can help me, as I'm having trouble building evolution1.2.0 from ports. It seems to be stuck on the glibwww library, and I've had a look around and can't find an obvious solution. I've replaced the distfile, but I think the problem lies elsewhere. Anyroad, it's beyond my expertise, so if anyone can help, I'd really appreciate it. try a make clean to start with a clean slate. That should remove the work directory and any cruft therein. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 BE ALERT (The world needs more lerts ...) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: copying audio cd's
Roman Neuhauser wrote: Having searched the archives, I'm confused. it looks like you want this section of the handbook: 12.5.5 Duplicating Audio CDs http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 People will do tomorrow what they did today because that is what they did yesterday. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: dos attack
Michael wrote: Thanks for all that responded. Your ideas are great but they will just slow the dos down if even that. Well, that seems like it's better than nothing. I have always regarded DOS attacks as crimes of opportunity: as you say, it doesn't take a lot of smarts to pull one off. If you make it too hard, they'll give up. So take what steps you can. I guess no one has either thought of a true way to stop a DOS or maybe its really impossible because your allowing them in to begin with. Well, it is impossible unless you shut down your site. I figured it was worth a shot to ask. Ill just wait it out for now. Eventually they will go away. They can try to take us out the game but unixhideout isnt going anywhere. So they just better get used to being second place. What concerns me about this thread is that by doing nothing, it makes the choice of UNIX as a secure OS less credible. One of the strengths of open source is that it allows rapid response to threats. By not taking what steps you can, you risk undermining that point. My two cents, of course. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 To envision how a 4-processor system running [SunOS] 4.1.x works, think of four kids and one bathroom. -- John DiMarco To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: audio mixer doesn't work
Erik Sabowski wrote: i am running freebsd 4.7, and using the latest kde packages from freebsd.org (3.0.3). My soundcard is a soundblaster live. I have no problem setting up the soundcard, it works fine, except for the fact that the mixer does not work at all. using mixer from the command line does not change the soundlevel, nor does using another program such as xmms, opmixer, or kmix. any help would be appreciated. what specific values are you trying to change and what are you trying to do? can you supply the output of mixer? and tell us what you're like to change? -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 If you wish to live wisely, ignore sayings -- including this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: audacity is creating (??) unwritable-by-cdrecord wave files
joe wrote: As the subject says I am creating and manipulating wav files of audio tap recordings. The extent of manipulation is to join sides A B into one file and do some noise reduction cleanup, and write the file in wav format. then attempting to write the file to cd with cdrecord cdrecord -v -eject speed=12 -pad -audio file.wav results in the following error. cdrecord: Inappropriate audio coding can you play them with wavplay? How do they sound? If they're mono, do you want to immortalize them on CDs? I just made that mistake . . . 6 times. I don't know a lot about, just what I've managed to pick up in the past week or so, but I wonder if the file headers are correct for what you want to do. gramofile's extracts, for example, makde cdrecord/cdrdao complain, but once they're processed/filtered, all is well. I'd suggest gramofile to capture the audio unless there's a compelling reason to use audacity: you can always edit in audactity later. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 Why are we importing all these highbrow plays like `Amadeus'? I could have told you Mozart was a jerk for nothing. -- Ian Shoales To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: problems with gramofile
Dan Malaby wrote: Happy new year FSBD users!! I am trying to use gramofile to get some records made into CD's, Me, too. but I can not get gramofile to see any input. I can use the mixer and get the line in signal out of my PC speakers, so I know that I have signal to my sound card, but gramofile only makes a file with no music. I found that the mic input works fine but line in doesn't. I'm using a SoundBlasterLive, and I'm starting to wonder if my card is bad. It did occur to me that it may be gramofile . . . . If there is anyone who is using gramofile, please tell me how you configured gramofile or what magic needs to be done to the kernel to make it work. Also I have had problems with gramofile hanging up, it does not respond to any mouse or keyboard input, and I need to do a kill -9 to get out. I have found that gramofile doesn't clean up after itself very well: run ipcs and see if there are some semaphores that are blocking things up. I did add the semaphore stuff from LINT in vain hopes of making it behave better . . . . but I still end up falling back on ipcs and ipcrm. # System V semaphores and tunable parameters options SYSVSEM # include support for semaphores options SEMMAP=31 # amount of entries in semaphore map options SEMMNI=11 # number of semaphore identifiers in the system options SEMMNS=61 # number of semaphores in the system options SEMMNU=31 # number of undo structures in the system options SEMMSL=33 # max number of semaphores per id options SEMOPM=101 # max number of operations per semop call options SEMUME=11 # max number of undo entries per process -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 Talkers are no good doers. -- William Shakespeare, Henry VI To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: OT: [was: recording audio with SoundBlaster Live...]
Nathan Kinkade wrote: What are your mixer settings? Do you have the LineIn configured to record or just for playback? Check out the man page for mixer(8) on how to set an input for recording. There are also quite a few ports for various mixer interfaces in /usr/ports/audio. I've stared at the man page and now I think I see what needs to happen. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])-(07:01 PM / Thu Jan 02) [/usr/home/paul]:: mixer recsrc =rec line1 Recording source: line1 Many thanks. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 The sheep that fly over your head are soon to land. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
SBLive docs, it you need 'em
The nice people at Creative have PDF manuals on line if you ever need one. I didn't even know what card I had until I found this stuff. So all the SBLive and newer cards, as well as back to the SB 16: it's all there. http://www.americas.creative.com/support/ -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 All I can think of is a platter of organic PRUNE CRISPS being trampled by an army of swarthy, Italian LOUNGE SINGERS ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
recording audio with SoundBlaster Live/pcm cards: has anyone triedthis?
I have been working on recording vinyl LPs to digital files but have run into a problem. It turns out I misread the cryptic runes on the back of the sound card and was actually recording through the mic jack. It worked as far as I could tell -- I got sound -- but I now have audio that sounds suspiciously like mono. So after tracking down the manual for the card (an SB Live! Gamer or Platinum w/o the Live drive), I am now using the line in and running the audio through an stereo receiver. But now nothing registers on the level indicators in gramofile. According to Creative's open source site, audio in and out is supported, but there's supported and proven to work. Anyone have any experience with this or troubleshooting ideas I should be aware of? -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 A tautology is a thing which is tautological. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Virtual interface support?
Jeff Penn wrote: The html documentation supplied with apache2 appears to require the server to be running for browsing (many of the links appear broken). why not bind it to the loopback and browse it there (assuming its the machine you're sitting in front of)? -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 ... My pants just went on a wild rampage through a Long Island Bowling Alley!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Portupgrade vs. multiple versions of packages
Brian Astill wrote: Scott Mitchell wrote: Hi all, I've just spent a fun day upgrading ~180 ports that were about a year out of date, which will teach me not to be so lazy in future :-( Anyway, portupgrade coped with most of this mess admirably, except for (unsurprisingly) the KDE2 -- KDE3 upgrade. That upgrade is a doozie. Been there, done that! rm -fr qt2 is (I think) the correct thing to do (someone else on the list will correct me). Then port kde3. qt2 and qt3 will NOT live comfortably together. So delete qt2 and all the apps dependent on it (that includes kde2 and its apps). The kde3 port will look for the version of qt it needs, fail to find it, and fetch it for you. Ain't that nice? it would probably make sense to subscribe to the kde-freebsd list. I have learned a lot from just lurking and they work hard to make sure KDE stays up to date. http://lists.csociety.org/listinfo/kde-freebsd -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. -- Dave Barry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: do we have to wait for PHP 4.3 port?
BSD baby wrote: Sorry: new to FreeBSD (was an OpenBSD guy before this). I'm impressed with how fast FreeBSD puts new releases into its ports tree. Now that PHP 4.3 is out, I'm dying to use its new features, so I'm wondering if anyone knows a guesstimate on how long it should take for PHP 4.3 to be in the cvsup'd ports tree (/usr/ports/www/mod_php4) I wouldn't be surprised to see it in the tree when the code freeze is lifted: that's about 2 weeks off, so you may want to install from source now and do the ports/pkg housekeeping later. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: XFree86 troubles in 5.0 RC2
Stephan Assmus wrote: So, I'm stuck. I actually installed FreeBSD to check out the Gnome and KDE desktop and use Gimp. I don't know in which direction to investigate further. Thanks for any and all help. I would suggest installing 4.7, instead of 5.0-RC2. 5.0 hasn't been released yet, while 4.7 is an officially supported release. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 Some programming languages manage to absorb change but withstand progress. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
cdrecord coaster problem solved
I had some problems with cdrecord making audio CDs and some helpful person on this
list suggested I use cdrdao(1) instead. Well, that turned out to be the solution. I
did try using ATAPICAM with an IDE burner I had on hand, but it doesn't seem to be
able to write (good thing it didn't cost anything, though perhaps I see why).
The biggest problem I had with cdrdao was the need for a TOC file and the correct
syntax. Turns out there are some samples in the distribution's source files. They
don't work for me (you can't specify a driver as I need to do, just a device, and the
device is expressed in a linux-ish style), but it's often easier to work from
something that's broken that to start from scratch.
It's basic as can be, but it saves me from trying to remember this stuff, and isn't
that what scripts are all about?
[/usr/home/paul/bin]:: more wav2toc.sh
#!/bin/sh
# usage: $0 FILES *.wav
DIR=$1
TOCFILE=`basename $1`.toc
echo CD_DA ${TOCFILE}
echo ${TOCFILE}
for i in ${DIR}/*.wav
do echo TRACK AUDIO ${TOCFILE}
echo PREGAP 0:1:0 ${TOCFILE}
echo FILE \$i\ 0 ${TOCFILE}
echo ${TOCFILE}
done
echo File ${TOCFILE} written
Running with a path grabs all the WAV files, creates a file based on the basename of
the path, then writes out all the particulars.
([EMAIL PROTECTED])-(09:18 PM / Thu Dec 26)
[/usr/home/paul/bin]:: ./wav2toc.sh ~/cdimages/That_Summer
File That_Summer.toc written
([EMAIL PROTECTED])-(09:20 PM / Thu Dec 26)
[/usr/home/paul/bin]:: more That_Summer.toc
CD_DA
TRACK AUDIO
PREGAP 0:1:0
FILE /usr/home/paul/cdimages/That_Summer/new.wav 0
TRACK AUDIO
PREGAP 0:1:0
FILE /usr/home/paul/cdimages/That_Summer/side_1.wav 0
TRACK AUDIO
PREGAP 0:1:0
FILE /usr/home/paul/cdimages/That_Summer/side_2.wav 0
Dunno if it will be useful to anyone (like anyone else is converting vinyl LPs to CDs)
. . . .
and the incantation for cdrdao is as follows: I need to specify a driver for this unit
(it's branded as a Pinnacle CDR 5040S and is allegedly supported by cdrecord as a
workalike for a similar unit).
sudo cdrdao write --eject --device 0,1,0 --driver teac-cdr55 toc
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Re: cdrecord problems: too many coasters
Hanspeter Roth wrote: Maybe you need -doa. What does -toc say? doa is not supported, and -toc kicks back an error that it's not supported either. It's an older drive. cd0: PINNACLE RCD5040 1.51 Removable Worm SCSI-2 device cd0: 3.300MB/s transfers cd0: cd present [1 x 2048 byte records] It *has* worked but for audio CDs, just once. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: cdrecord problems: too many coasters
I wrote: It's an older drive. cd0: PINNACLE RCD5040 1.51 Removable Worm SCSI-2 device cd0: 3.300MB/s transfers cd0: cd present [1 x 2048 byte records] It *has* worked but for audio CDs, just once. HMm, looking around on Google for info on this drive's mechanism brings me *lots* of bad news. Looks like the $20 I paid for it on eBay might gave been too much after all. I couldn't have found this out before I bought it, since the seller didn't know what the internals were, but I know better now. It seems to work OK for data CDs, though. How annoying. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 I'd love to go out with you, but the man on television told me to stay tuned. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Argument list too long: limitation in grep? bash? FreeBSD?
Bill Moran wrote: d/l the entire php documentation as individual html files. This equates to a LOT of files in a single directory (how can I get a count of this?) Anyway, I'm trying to find the docs on some features that the www.php.net's search isn't really helping on (searching for __FILE__ doesn't search for __FILE__ ... it searches for file, and there's too many results) so I try: grep __FILE__ *.html and I get the error: -bash: /usr/bin/grep: Argument list too long Is this a shortcoming of bash, grep or FreeBSD? I'm assuming it's not grep, as the command: find . -name *.html -print | xargs grep __FILE__ yeilds: -bash: /usr/bin/find: Argument list too long try grep __FILE__ *.html. to get a file coun, 'ls | wc' might work. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
any way to tell what kind of drive this?
acd0: CD-RW IDE-CD ReWritable-2x2x6 at ata1-slave PIO3 Short of taking it out of the case, of course. burncd seems not to have the same inquiry tools as cdrecord. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 I'd love to go out with you, but the last time I went out, I never came back. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: any way to tell what kind of drive this?
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 24), paul beard said: acd0: CD-RW IDE-CD ReWritable-2x2x6 at ata1-slave PIO3 Short of taking it out of the case, of course. burncd seems not to have the same inquiry tools as cdrecord. Add device atapicam to your kernel config and it will show up as a SCSI drcom. Then use cdrecord :) You need to be running -current or 4-stable, though. It went in after 4.7. well, I'm off to run -stable then. I'm running 4.7-RELEASE and it ain't there, according to 'make buildkernel.' Thanks. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 Join the march to save individuality! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: L0phtcrack
Stacey Roberts wrote: Why would you want to do this? Personally, I figure its prudent to ask. It does have some legitimate uses, according to this page ( http://www.atstake.com/research/lc/ ): Consider that at one of the largest technology companies, where policy required that passwords exceed 8 characters, mix cases, and include numbers or symbols... * L0phtCrack obtained 18% of the passwords in 10 minutes * 90% of the passwords were recovered within 48 hours on a Pentium II/300 * The Administrator and most Domain Admin passwords were cracked It doesn't have to be this way. Crack-resistant passwords are achievable and practical. But password auditing is the only sure way to identify user accounts with weak passwords. LC4 offers an easy and adaptable way to address this threat and find vulnerable passwords. Take it from a 1998 Microsoft security bulletin: consider evaluating a tool such as L0phtcrack 2.0 for assisting in checking the quality of user passwords. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 Laughter is the closest distance between two people. -- Victor Borge To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
cdrecord problems: too many coasters
I have been trying to make some audio CDs from wav files and keep running into difficulties that aren't apparent until its too late. Symptomatically, here's what happens. I burn the CD with cdrecord, specifying that the files are audio files (I have played them with wavplay and they're fine). I get one track to record, but all subsequent tracks won't play in a CD player or computer. I just noise (sounds like the digital equivalent of a record skipping). here's the command I have used: sudo /usr/local/bin/cdrecord -pad -audio -vv speed=0 -eject dev=0,1,0 *wav -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 Disclaimer: These opinions are my own, though for a small fee they be yours too. -- Dave Haynie To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: CDRW drive
Thomas DeYoung wrote: Hello- I'm running 4.7 with a sony 48/24/48 cdrw drive. I try to mount it to burn cd's, using sudo mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom and get mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Invalid argument if there's nothing on the CD, there's nothing to mount, no filesystem. You have to burn something to it first, I think. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 This login session: $13.99, but for you $11.88 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Drawing diagrams a-la-Visio
Cliff Sarginson wrote: Ok, thanks for the answers. I shall have a look at the various suggestions... I may also mail whoever makes Visio and say what an excellent X11 application it would make :) That would be Microsoft: I wouldn't expect much . . . -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment. -- Gotama Buddha To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: gramofile, mkisofs howto??
Stijn Hoop wrote: An audio CD does *not* have a filesystem on it; you should not use mkisofs to make an iso before you burn one. Instead, use something like # burncd audio track1.wav track2.wav track3.wav fixate Then you'll be set. See also the handbook online, at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html especially the 'Duplicating Audio CDs' part. yes, of course. Cockpit fog . . . . I think I was fixated in mkisofs because I wanted a volume name to show up if I inserted the disk into one of the other Leading Brands' machines. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work in Seattle area. Details available below: http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
cdrdao toc-files/gcdmaster [was Re: gramofile, mkisofs howto??]
It looks like what I need to use to make audio CDs that look like the ones I can buy (ie, you insert into a Cd drive and the name of the CD shows up as a mountpoint) is cdrdao. I don't see any options for cdrecord to write a volume label. The port of cdrdao doesn't have the UI (gcdmaster) so I'll need to be making the necessary toc-files by hand. Has anyone done this? Any pointers? -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work in Seattle area. Details available below: http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence. -- Henrik Tikkanen To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
confidential to geeky@epals.com [Fwd: Undeliverable mail, returnto sender]
Original Message Subject: Undeliverable mail, return to sender Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:38:23 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: paul beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your message could not be delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] because their mailbox is full. Try resending your message at a later date. Your orginal message is attached to this email. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work in Seattle area. Details available below: http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html I found out why my car was humming. It had forgotten the words. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Any word on FreeBSD 5.0 release
Ray Seals wrote: I know that RC 1 was released and was wondering which mailing list would have any traffic concerning the issues and what's going on with 5.0. [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be my best guess. You can see the release schedule on the web site as well. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work in Seattle area. Details available below: http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html It's men like him that give the Y chromosome a bad name. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: cdrdao toc-files/gcdmaster [was Re: gramofile, mkisofs howto??]
Fernando Gleiser wrote: Look at the cdrdao docs. man cdrdao has a section explaining the format of the toc files. If that fails, you can try searching the cdrdao mailing lists and project's web page. Yeah, I've read those. They didn't help. Wading through the (to me) cryptic file format for this is joyless and it's made more os by the knowledge there is a UI that ships with this but isn't in ports. I was hoping someone who had used cdrdao would chime in. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work in Seattle area. Details available below: http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html Underlying Principle of Socio-Genetics: Superiority is recessive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Fwd: gkrellm2 port compile problems
Sean O'Neill wrote: I asked this of the freebsd-ports group and got no answer. Thought maybe someone here might know the answer. /usr/X11R6/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so: undefined reference to `FT_Seek_Stream' /usr/X11R6/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so: undefined reference to `FT_Get_Short' /usr/X11R6/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so: undefined reference to `FT_Forget_Frame' /usr/X11R6/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so: undefined reference to `FT_Access_Frame' /usr/X11R6/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so: undefined reference to `FT_Get_Long' gmake[1]: *** [gkrellm] Error 1 the problem appears to be with /usr/X11R6/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so: might be worth making sure it (pango-1.0.5) is up to date (make deinstall make reinstall). [/home/paul/src]:: pkg_info -W /usr/X11R6/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so /usr/X11R6/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so was installed by package pango-1.0.5 -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work in Seattle area. Details available below: http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html A raccoon tangled with a 23,000 volt line today. The results blacked out 1400 homes and, of course, one raccoon. -- Steel City News To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: signal 12 error means?
David Banning wrote: I got this error installing both netscape48-navigator and netscape48-communicator. Does anyone know what the catch is? [snip] *** Signal 12 Stop in /usr/ports/www/netscape48-communicator. su-2.03# [/home/paul]:: grep 12 /usr/include/sys/signal.h #define _SIG_MAXSIG 128 #define SIGSYS 12 /* non-existent system call invoked */ some linux abi misfeature, perhaps? -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work in Seattle area. Details available below: http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion. -- Anatole France To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: grip cd ripper - which one
John Bleichert wrote: Hello All I'm looking for a ripping utility to tell grip to use to pull tracks from an audio cd - which one does everybody use? The default is cdda2wav which isn't in the ports collection. is too . . . . ([EMAIL PROTECTED])-(04:20 PM / Mon Dec 09) [/usr/ports]:: pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/cdda2wav /usr/local/bin/cdda2wav was installed by package cdrtools-1.11.a39 -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work in Seattle area. Details available below: http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html The revolution will not be televised. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Interest in diskless booting?
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or reliability. I'm currently about to finish the manuscript of the fourth edition of The Complete FreeBSD, and I was wondering if there was enough interest in this topic for me to include it in the book. If *you* are interested, please let me know. I'll make a decision depending on the amount of feedback I get. put me down as a yes, please. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work in Seattle area. Details available below: http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do. -- R. A. Heinlein To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: List of big names ...
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Other then that I know Yahoo! uses FreeBSD ... is there a list that anyone is maintain about who is using it? I've been having discussions with a partner for awhile now about whether we should launch a product with a base OS of linux vs freebsd ... and its tiring to try and argue against but, nobody is accepting FreeBSD ... everyone (IBM, HP, Sun, etc) is falling behind Linux ... Apple seems to think pretty highly of FreeBSD. And there are the oft-repeated rumors that WinNT/2000/XP all use the BSD TCP stack. Having used both, I would never choose Linux over FreeBSD. Do we have *anything* ... case studies or the like, from big names that have decided *for* FreeBSD over Linux, with a sort of 'why' discusion? F5 Systems based their load balancers/switches on BSD and a follow-on company started by one of the founders (Ahaza Systems, now defunct) was going to build IPv6-aware switching gear based on FreeBSD. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ She missed an invaluable opportunity to give him a look that you could have poured on a waffle ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: List of big names ...
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Other then that I know Yahoo! uses FreeBSD ... is there a list that anyone is maintain about who is using it? I've been having discussions with a partner for awhile now about whether we should launch a product with a base OS of linux vs freebsd ... and its tiring to try and argue against but, nobody is accepting FreeBSD ... everyone (IBM, HP, Sun, etc) is falling behind Linux ... Do we have *anything* ... case studies or the like, from big names that have decided *for* FreeBSD over Linux, with a sort of 'why' discusion? you probably would be better to take this up on -advocacy. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Have you noticed the way people's intelligence capabilities decline sharply the minute they start waving guns around? -- Dr. Who To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: A question on AppleLaser Writer 16/1600 PS [off-topic-ish]
Cliff Sarginson wrote: Hi, I have been given on of these beasts. I am going to set it up as a network printer. Generally, these live on networks with Appletalk and the appropriate Windows and Apple client software: you would fire up a utility that would browse the network and let you set these options through Appletalk. You could test this by installing netatalk and running nbplkup to see if it appears in the listing of devices. [/usr/home/paul]:: nbplkup red:AFPServer 65280.153:132 red:netatalk65280.153:4 red:Workstation 65280.153:4 pink:Darwin 65522.222:128 pink:AFPServer 65522.222:129 blue:AFPServer 65280.220:134 blue:LaserWriter65280.220:132 blue:Workstation65280.220:4 blue:netatalk 65280.220:4 -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Greener's Law: Never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: A question on AppleLaser Writer 16/1600 PS [off-topic-ish]
Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, paul beard wrote: The PDF manual for this printer is available on the Apple web site, although it requires some hunting around. That manual says that it does lpr/lpd. Unfortunately I couldn't find anything about clearing the TCP/IP password, either there or with a couple of Google searches. I realize it does lpd/lpr: Apple has supported that for years. My suggestion was directed at seeing if and how it advertised itself on the network. Appletalk is useful, if annoying, in that devices broadcast their presence regularly. If it did show up, the Appletalk utility could perhaps be employed to fix the password/IP address problems. Google found some useful pages on this model: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8safe=offq=windows+apple+printer+utilitybtnG=Google+Search http://printserver.princeton.edu:8080/lw16600-caveats.html some of this stuff may be useful as well. http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/DOS-Windows/Printing/ -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Not Hercules could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none. -- Shakespeare To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
AppleTalk addressing/routing question
The question that was asked earlier about Appletalk printing reminded me of one of my own. I run netatalk here on my home network and I have noticed that my netatalk-ers all grab addresses in the 65280 range (as well as I can recall, the left side of the dot is the network range, the right side the host address, and the other side of the colon is a port or service identifier). [/usr/home/paul]:: nbplkup red:AFPServer 65280.153:132 red:netatalk65280.153:4 red:Workstation 65280.153:4 pink:Darwin 65522.222:128 pink:AFPServer 65522.222:129 blue:AFPServer 65280.220:134 blue:LaserWriter65280.220:132 blue:Workstation65280.220:4 blue:netatalk 65280.220:4 My Darwin-based machines live in the 65522 range. It looks like something is assuming a router. For example, I can use aecho to ping hosts in the same range with no qualifiers. [/usr/home/paul]:: aecho -c 5 pink Can't find: pink [/usr/home/paul]:: aecho -c 5 red 14 bytes from 65280.153: aep_seq=0. time=1. ms 14 bytes from 65280.153: aep_seq=1. time=1. ms 14 bytes from 65280.153: aep_seq=2. time=1. ms 14 bytes from 65280.153: aep_seq=3. time=1. ms 14 bytes from 65280.153: aep_seq=4. time=1. ms 65280.153 AEP Statistics 5 packets sent, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 1/1/1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])-(11:45 AM / Fri Nov 29) [/usr/home/paul]:: aecho -c 5 pink:Darwin 14 bytes from 65522.222: aep_seq=0. time=3. ms 14 bytes from 65522.222: aep_seq=1. time=1. ms 14 bytes from 65522.222: aep_seq=2. time=1. ms 14 bytes from 65522.222: aep_seq=3. time=1. ms 14 bytes from 65522.222: aep_seq=4. time=2. ms 65522.222 AEP Statistics 5 packets sent, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 1/1/3 Darwin is not as conducive to knob-twiddling as netatalk, so I'm not sure how I would resolve this. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ To generalize is to be an idiot. -- William Blake To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: HP COLORADO tape Backup
Ismail YENIGUL wrote: hi i use FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i have a following tape ast0: TAPE at ata0-slave PIO4 (this is dmesg output) how can i backup ? and which device i should use ? dump(8) would be the best thing to start with. The handbook has a very useful chapter on this. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ This is your fortune. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
[Fwd: Re: pybliographer]
looks like the bug is in recode . . . . shouldn't that be a == not a =? Original Message Subject: Re: pybliographer Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:54:03 -0300 From: Fernan Aguero [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: paul beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +[ paul beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] (26.Nov.2002 19:34): | | checking for GNU Recode in /usr/local... no | configure: error: please install GNU Recode (version = 3.5) first | +] This has already come up in the past. Look in the archives. Basically, pybliographer needs **exactly** v3.5, while the ports tree carries usually an up to date recode (v3.6 last time I tried pybliographer). Don't know if this recode version is buggy, according to pybliographer authors. http://canvas.gnome.org:65348/pybliographer/download.html#requirements Fernan -- F e r n a n A g u e r o http://genoma.unsam.edu.ar/~fernan -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ But officer, I was only trying to gain enough speed so I could coast to the nearest gas station. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Hardware test software for FreeBSD
Sostin Andrey wrote: Dear colleagues, Does anybody know about software tests for FreeBSD which could overload the whole system (like BurnIn Pro for Windows). Please give the url, if any. We need to test about 500 servers under FreeBSD... building a kernel is generally considered a good burn in test, I think. It seems to find lots of bad RAM. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: What is the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD...
Mark Phillips wrote: What is the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD? there are more similarities than differences. Which flavor of BSD is the most secure straight out of the box? Security is a philosophy and a set of practices, not a feature. The *BSDs offer a lot of security through finely granular control and good design practices, but that puts the onus on the administrator to make the right choices for the situation at hand. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ But what we need to know is, do people want nasally-insertable computers? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: FTP access via email (Was - OFF TOPIC - please help!!! etc...)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for sending me the sh man page Paul (Beard) - unfortunately it was corrupted, with strange formatting and characters. This looks similar to when I have tried to pipe a manpage to a file, e.g. # man sh ~/sh.txt Maybe one of the list members could shed light on why this corruption takes place? Yup, I forgot some of the *roff incantations that were necessary, and then I saw Dan Nelson's vastly more useful post. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Renning's Maxim: Man is the highest animal. Man does the classifying. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: How to enable telnet with root?
Alvaro Rosales R. wrote: Hi friends. I would like to enable root access to telnet (I know that it is not secure, but I need to make some tests and I don't want to su to root because I loose root variables. thanks a lot for your answers I'm not going to help you shoot yourself in the foot or anywhere else ;-) Why can't sudo work for you here? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. Yes is the answer. -- Swami X To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: pybliographer does not install with pkg_add
Kirk R. Wythers wrote: Is pybliographer available as a package (I'm getting tired of fighting with the port)? If so, does anyone know what to pass to pkg_add -r? pkg_add -r pybliographer, does not seem to work: what problems are you having with the port? I tried it and found a couple of missing dependencies (libgda and gconf) that wouldn't build, but pkg_add -rv took care of them. Now it seems gnome-db is needed as well: I'll see how that goes. Can you pass along an error message? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired. -- R. Geis To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: pybliographer does not install with pkg_add
Kirk R. Wythers wrote: I'll happily pass along any error messages that you might find useful. Are you talking about the build error message? I'm confused by the pkg_add -rv comment... When I try pkg_add -r I just get the can't seem to find that package on the ftp site... Attempting to build the port is a different issue. The build attempt gives me a you need GNU Recode 3.5 error, I have 3.6 on my system and I can pass the full message along if you like... make sure you keep replies on the list in case someone else knows the answer. So I hit the same roadblock you did with decode. I emailed the required bits to the maintainer. pkg_add -v means verbose: useful at times. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ If entropy is increasing, where is it coming from? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: pybliographer does not install with pkg_add
Kris Kennaway wrote: The port currently fails to build. It is unmaintained, so unlikely to get fixed unless someone submits patches. http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/4-latest/pybliographer-1.0.8_1.log Kris after exploring this a bit, it looks like the breakage is something to do with recode: I couldn't get it to install properly and it's annoying to have configure insist on a version of 3.5 when you just installed 3.6. and I don't even need this thing: I was just trying to see what was wroing with it. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ The voters have spoken, the bastards ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: 4.7 changes to /bin/sh?
Clint Olsen wrote:
Hi:
I installed the port for thttpd, and when I upgraded to 4.7, it
broke my
rc.d script, complaining about an unexpected ''.
The line it bitched about was something like:
[ -x ${PREFIX}/sbin/thttpd_wrapper ]
${PREFIX}/sbin/thttpd_wrapper
echo -n ' thttpd'
I presume it was complaining about running a command in the
background and
then trying to use the operator to run the following command.
check to see how ${PREFIX} is being evaluated: I have found quite
a few rc scripts where it never worked: I just hard-coded the
necessary values.
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Re: making source code changes to a port ?
Josh Brooks wrote: Hi folks, I have a piece of software that I want to install via the ports tree, but due to a specific custom behavior I want to add to it, I need to edit a few lines in one of the source files. Right now, I am doing the following: cd /usr/ports/category/package make install cd work/package-1.2.3/src (edit file) cd /usr/ports/category/package make deinstall make install and this works, but it is rather unelegant - can't there be a way to do this without install/deinstall/install ? that is, how can I get the port to download and unpack all the work into port/work directory but not actually install anything until I finish with the edits, ect? then after that I would go do the `make install`. Anyone ? this sounds like a job for patch(1). -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Problem with the upgrade and now I need to rollback.. =/
Ben Turner wrote: Ok well I attempted the upgrade on a remote machine from 4.6 to 5.0 and it failed, miserably. Before it failed, it was throwing a message across the screen as to the location where it backed up the existing kernel. Does anyone, by chance, know the default location and filename for the kernel backup? I may be off here, but mine always end up as kernel.old and kernel.GENERIC, both in / Also, if anyone has a link on the rollback procedure on a FreeBSD kernel (4.6) that would be greatly appreciated also. My searches on FreeBSD.org and google haven't turned up much. Mostly mysql documents which I find a little hard to believe that mysql has that much higher ranking pages then the FreeBSD site. that's understandable: rollback is a database operation and is likely to generate lots of pages, for reasons not dissimilar to yours. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Howe's Law: Everyone has a scheme that will not work. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Problem with the upgrade and now I need to rollback.. =/
Ben Turner wrote: Ok well I attempted the upgrade on a remote machine from 4.6 to 5.0 and it failed, miserably. Before it failed, it was throwing a message across the screen as to the location where it backed up the existing kernel. Does anyone, by chance, know the default location and filename for the kernel backup? I got an email offlist that suggested a 5.0 system would have its kernels in /boot: it might be worth trying that. I'm not running -current, so I can't confirm. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: openoffice install
Daniel Harris wrote: Note that http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ has binary packages which won't require those 4GB :-) So being likewise strapped for diskspace, I used the package also. It looks nice, but I am having a couple of problems. I can only run it as root/with sudo. It crashes as soon as it opens the blank workspace otherwise. Does anyone know what permissions problems this might indicate? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ She liked him; he was a man of many qualities, even if most of them were bad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
How to deinstall openoffice?
Does anyone know what file the installer might be finding that prevents it from reinstalling? I am giving up the FreeBSD package and trying the linux version, but whatever I deleted when cleaning up the old install left something that makes subsequent install runs think there's an installation in /usr/local/bin. I can't figure out what it is or how to force it to install. Any ideas? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Aaaackk! You brute! Knock before entering a ladies room! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: How to deinstall openoffice?
Cliff Sarginson wrote: Look for a file called .install_done in the appropriate work directory under the port you want to remove. If you see it.. delete it. I didn't use the port: that never worked for me. So I have tried the FreeBSD tarball/installer and the linux variant. Neither are quite happy yet. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his head. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: How to deinstall openoffice?
Scott Robbins wrote: In the home directory---there's an openoffice.bin or perhaps soffice.bin or even .openoffice.bin, something like that--the file that's most likely causing you trouble though is something .sversionrc in the home directory. Go to the head of the class: that was it. The only place I didn't look, shame on me . . . -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ ASHes to ASHes, DOS to DOS. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
portupgrade question: XFree86-libraries-4.2.1_3
When I run portupgrade -aP after running cvsup, I get this error: I think I have fixed it before by reinstalling lessTif and OpenMotif and possibly imake-4 but then I have gotten bitten by the broken widgets in some version of openmotif. Obviously, I'm going about this the wrong way: what is the right way to fix this? there's a slew of other ports that won't upgrade because of this one failing. === Patching for XFree86-libraries-4.2.1_3 === Applying distribution patches for XFree86-libraries-4.2.1_3 === Applying FreeBSD patches for XFree86-libraries-4.2.1_3 cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-libraries/work/xc/nls; for i in Compose XI18N_OBJS XLC_LOCALE; do /bin/ln -s zh_TW.big5 $i/zh_TW.Big5; done === Configuring for XFree86-libraries-4.2.1_3 cd ./config/imake make -f Makefile.ini BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS= CC=cc making imake with BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS= in config/imake cc -o ccimake -O -I../../include -I../../imports/x11/include/X11 ccimake.c cc -c -O -I../../include -I../../imports/x11/include/X11 `./ccimake` imake.c cc -o imake -O -I../../include -I../../imports/x11/include/X11 imake.o rm -f ./config/makedepend/Makefile.proto ./config/imake/imake -I./config/cf -s ./config/makedepend/Makefile.proto -f ./config/makedepend/Imakefile -DTOPDIR=../.. -DCURDIR=./config/makedepend In file included from Imakefile.c:14: config/cf/Imake.tmpl:1814: LessTif.rules: No such file or directory In file included from Imakefile.c:14: config/cf/Imake.tmpl:1827: LessTif.tmpl: No such file or directory ./config/imake/imake: Exit code 1. Stop. *** Error code 1 -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ An exotic journey in downtown Newark is in your future. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: connecting to SCSI drive
Bob Hall wrote: I use a DVD burner for backups, and I usually forget to turn it on when I boot my FBSD box. Turning it on and rebooting isn't a big deal, but is there a way to get FBSD to see the drive without rebooting? Is there a process that can be reset or a command that tells FBSD that the drive exists? man camcontrol(8) I think you need camcontrol rescan all | bus[:target:lun]: use dmesg or camcontrol devlist -v to get the target names. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: [oetiker@ee.ethz.ch: Re: MRTG problem]
budsz wrote: it seems 2.9.26 is broken on freebsd ... I don't know why ... sorry ... hoping for a patch from some user of this system tobi I guess the next question is, how to downgrade a port? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Today is the first day of the rest of your lossage. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: [oetiker@ee.ethz.ch: Re: MRTG problem]
budsz wrote: - Forwarded message from Tobias Oetiker - it seems 2.9.26 is broken on freebsd ... I don't know why ... sorry ... hoping for a patch from some user of this system tobi mrtg-2.9.25 seems fine: I removed mrtg, added it to HOLD_PKGS in my pkgtools.conf, and installed this version manually. this should all work ./configure --with-gd-lib=/usr/local/lib --with-gd-inc=/usr/local/include/ --exec-prefix=/usr/local then you'll find that /usr/local/mrtg2 needs to worked around: cd /usr/local/bin/ for i in /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/*; do ln -s $i ; done cd ../mrtg-2/lib/mrtg2 cp -rp * /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/ -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Does the name Pavlov ring a bell? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: connecting to SCSI drive
Dan Nelson wrote: Power it on once before reboot, then run camcontrol devlist. Note the bus, target, and lun numbers of the DVD drive. Then later you can use the camcontrol rescan b:t:l command to force the kernel to detect that device. I'm not sure you need to reboot: my experience has been that powering the device on and running some camcontrol commands which I don't recall off-hand would allow the device to be accessed. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that MMs really *do* melt in your hand ... -- Peter Oakley To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: wordperfect tarfile needed to port to install: missing?
Beech Rintoul wrote: From what I understand Corel is getting totally out of unix/linux. The dist. may no longer be available. You might want to consider one of the other office packages. Their site claims otherwise, from what I saw this AM. All I need is to open a wordperfect file, so I'll hunt around from some kind of translator. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ UFO's are for real: the Air Force doesn't exist. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: wordperfect tarfile needed to port to install: missing?
David Varieur wrote: Google is your friend. GUILG00.GZ ftp yields this link on the second result. http://www.linuxmafia.com/wpfaq/downloadwp8.html Of course it does: I cannot brain today. Thanks for doing it for me. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ The scum also rises. -- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Acroread5
Simon1 wrote: Could anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong or what I need to set to use acroread normally? Also, if the default behavior of acroread has been changed to require people to use their own personal temporary directories could this please be added to the documentation and information displayed when the port is installed? does it use /tmp or /var/tmp? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. -- Mark Twain To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: playing realaudio files
JacobRhoden wrote: Hi, I have searched the ports collection and can only find a realaudio server. How do you guys normally play real audio files. This is one that google wasnt to helpful on. I use the realplayer. # pkg_info -W `which realplay` /usr/local/bin/realplay was installed by package linux-realplayer-8.cs2 [/usr/ports]# make search key=realplay Port: linux-realplayer-8.cs2 Path: /usr/ports/audio/linux-realplayer Info: Linux RealPlayer 8.0 from RealNetworks Maint: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: audio graphics linux B-deps: rpm2cpio-1.1.20020306 R-deps: linux_base-7.1_1 -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes. I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Syslog Piping
Scott Pilz wrote:
In syslog, if you have:
*.* | /pipe.pl
The output should be piped to pipe.pl - how, in perl, would you
go about
capturing this output? I have tried everything I could think of. $1,
ARGV[#], STDIN, while ()
while () {
code
}
should work. It's not a linuxism.
here's a sample:
[/home/paul]:: more test.pl
#!/usr/bin/env perl
while () {
print $_;
}
Now just pipe something thru it:
[/home/paul]:: cat .signature | test.pl
Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 /
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weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/
I'm rated PG-34!!
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Re: bash .profile issues
Tamir Halperin wrote: Questions: what happens is you try something like this? 1) My aliases don't work. Why? your quotes are in the wrong place. try: alias seti = 'cat /var/db/setiathome/state.sah | grep prog' do these work for you? [/usr/ports/java/jdk13]:: bash --version bash --version GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) [/usr/ports/java/jdk13]:: cat /home/paul/.profile alias TEST='echo this is a test.' [/usr/ports/java/jdk13]:: . /home/paul/.profile [/usr/ports/java/jdk13]:: TEST this is a test. 2) When I make a change, let's say to the aliases, I don't know of any other way for it to take immediate affect unless I log out and log back in again. Is there a command approach to this? . ~/.profile will reread/reload it. 3) Is there a good tutorial about environment settings and other issues such as the ones I'm struggling with? you could look for some bash dotfiles. the ORA book is a good reference. see also: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8q=bash+tutorialbtnG=Google+Search -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. -- Elizabeth Taylor To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
