Re: simple question

2002-11-06 Thread Kent Stewart
mike wrote: Hello all, The easiest way of going about this is giving you a example. I am in /usr and i want to tar -xzvf ports.tar.gz, but i want to continue working in my shell while this process runs in the background. What would i type to make the output of that command not show but at the en

Re: cvsup done, now what

2002-11-06 Thread local.freebsd.questions
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 20:51:37 - , [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Darryl Hoar") wrote: >I downloaded the ISO image for 4.7-release and burned it to a cd. I >installed >this on a server of mine. I then copied >/usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile >to /etc. Edited stable-supfile to my desires. >then I

Re: Help with s/key

2002-11-06 Thread local.freebsd.questions
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 05:42:07 - , [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Odhiambo Washington) wrote: > >Sincerely, I don't understand this stuff. I've tried to read it. >Is anyone willing to tell me the advantages of s/key and whether I should use >it? Depends how you rate security over convenience. I have used i

Re: date set unable

2002-11-06 Thread iulian
Roman Neuhauser wrote: > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-05 16:55:42 +: > > I set the date back with an hour, looks fine, but if I want to see the > > current date, it's the same with the date before. > > I want to know why, please! > > is this the problem? > Yes, a minor one! > > roma

HTML editor

2002-11-06 Thread dslb
Hi FreeBSD'ers Will someone please recommend a wysiwyg editor for creating webpages? I have tried Bluefish and Screem, but they are to advanced, I need something like frontpage/dreamweaver. br socketd To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the bo

Re: date set unable

2002-11-06 Thread Adam Weinberger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> (11.06.2002 @ 0530 PST): iulian said, in 1.0K: << > I can modify the date, but doesn't remeains like I do! I mean when I do > date -v -1H > everything looks fine, but if I do > date > the output is the same with the date before. >> end of "Re: date

Re: NFS Performance woes

2002-11-06 Thread BigBrother
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Lasse Laursen wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for your reply. I have some additional questions: > > > Well the only rule for selecting the number of nfsiods and nfsd is the > > maximum number of threads that are going to request an NFS operation on > > the server. For example assume

Re: Sendmail questions

2002-11-06 Thread budsz
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 08:56:29AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: >I presume you've got mailwrapper set up such that /usr/sbin/sendmail >will pipe messages into qmail, rather than the standard BSD sendmail >--- check the contents of /etc/mail/mailer.conf if you need to make >sure. Thx Matthew, Yes,

Re: date set unable

2002-11-06 Thread iulian
Bill Moran wrote: > iulian wrote: > >>roman@freepuppy ~ 1030:0 > man date|col -b|grep -C1 securelevel > >> > >> Only the superuser may set the date, and if the system securelevel (see > >> securelevel(8)) is greater than 1, the time may not be changed by more > >> than 1 second. >

Re: date set unable

2002-11-06 Thread iulian
Adam Weinberger wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > >> (11.06.2002 @ 0530 PST): iulian said, in 1.0K: << > > I can modify the date, but doesn't remeains like I do! I mean when I do > > date -v -1H > > everything looks fine, but if I do > > date > > the output is the same w

Re: date set unable

2002-11-06 Thread Adam Weinberger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> (11.06.2002 @ 0556 PST): iulian said, in 1.1K: << > Adam Weinberger wrote: > > >> (11.06.2002 @ 0530 PST): iulian said, in 1.0K: << > > > I can modify the date, but doesn't remeains like I do! I mean when I do > > > date -v -1H > > > everything look

Re: csh conf

2002-11-06 Thread Unix Tools
Hi, I suppose you are not assigned a shell. Please finger to find out which shell you are being assigned. - Original Message - From: "Ivan S. Anisimov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 02:02 AM Subject: csh conf > Hello ! > > Please help: w

Re: BASH shell

2002-11-06 Thread Marcio Merlone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Naydoe Maung wrote: how would i go about fixing the shell so that it will always start with "bash"? thanks in advance. if bash is installed chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash else install it from /usr/ports/shells/bash2 or /usr/ports/shells/bash1 O

Re: ipsec, ESP & IKE, freebsd as vpn `client' <-> openbsd, how?

2002-11-06 Thread Boris Köster
Hello Palle, Wednesday, October 23, 2002, 12:24:53 AM, you wrote: PG> Hi! PG> We just moved our company to a new `office hotel', and they have an openbsd PG> firewall with an VPN setup that I should be able to use from home. A PG> consultant set the openbsd machine up, and the guys in the new

Re: FS options for FreeBSD

2002-11-06 Thread Fernando Gleiser
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > I'm looking for different filesystem options for FreeBSD. > > I'm ripping apart a Linux machine that's running a mail service which > utilizes the reiserfs for performance gain. Since that's not available > for FreeBSD (I ran across some flames about

Re: make fails during upgrade, so...

2002-11-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-11-06 02:00, parv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > wrote Giorgos Keramidas thusly... > > > > # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf > > # config -d /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NEWKERNEL NEWKERNEL > > # cd /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NEWKERNEL > > # make depend > > # make clean > ^

Re: date set unable

2002-11-06 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-06 13:56:02 +: > Adam Weinberger wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > >> (11.06.2002 @ 0530 PST): iulian said, in 1.0K: << > > > I can modify the date, but doesn't remeains like I do! I mean when I do > > > date -v -1H > > > every

Re: cvsup done, now what

2002-11-06 Thread Denis N. Peplin
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 23:51, Darryl Hoar wrote: > Greetings. > I downloaded the ISO image for 4.7-release and burned it to a cd. I > installed > this on a server of mine. I then copied > /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile > to /etc. Edited stable-supfile to my desires. > then I cvsup

renaming a machine, without a reboot

2002-11-06 Thread stan
OUr company is in the middle of a merger, as a result the domain all of my FreeBSD machine belong to is changing. I've made all the changes that I can think od (/etc/resolv.conf, /etc/rc.defaults ) but I really prefer _not_ to reboot the mahcines just to change the FQDN. Is there some way I can d

Re: renaming a machine, without a reboot

2002-11-06 Thread Akifyev Sergey
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 16:20, stan wrote: > OUr company is in the middle of a merger, as a result the domain all of my > FreeBSD machine belong to is changing. I've made all the changes that I can > think od (/etc/resolv.conf, /etc/rc.defaults ) but I really prefer _not_ to > reboot the mahcines jus

Re: 4.7 REL Install problem "Write failure on transfer!"

2002-11-06 Thread Curt Tyler
> > I'm trying to install 4.7-Release from CDROM. > > BootMgr is installed and works to boot Win98. > > The FreeBSD partition seems to get formated ok. > > But when the "/bin" files are copied: "Write failure on transfer!" > When I boot from floppies and use the 4.7 CD for sysgen I get a similar

Re: ipv6 conf

2002-11-06 Thread Andrey Simonenko
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 13:32:51 + (UTC) in lucky.freebsd.questions, Tiago Andre wrote: > Hello there... > iam trying to configure my little net ipv6, by > > ifconfig xl0 inet6 ::::1 > > and it work fine (using ping6), but the problem is when i restar my machine, > i have to do all ag

Getting the BIOS version without rebooting / 8Gb+ drives

2002-11-06 Thread Avleen Vig
Thre are utilities availible for Windows/DOS that allow you to get the BIOS and chipset versions etc from a command prompt. Some of these are written by the BIOS manufacturers or motherboard manufacturers but most are third party freeware jobs. Is anythign similar availible for FreeBSD? I have a s

Re: psminrt: Mouse problems

2002-11-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nov 5 16:31:59 snoopy /kernel: psmintr: out of sync ( != 0008). Have you already tried the suggestion in the FAQ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Follow-up: Yet Another make release fails on ghostscript-gnu

2002-11-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Michael Dexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Having complete control over the build of my network OS is simply > revolutionary... but I was hoping this revolution would not be so > bloody. You can get *that* with one of the supported update options. "make release" was never intended for anybody

ipv6 conf

2002-11-06 Thread Tiago Andre
Hello there... iam trying to configure my little net ipv6, by ifconfig xl0 inet6 ::::1 and it work fine (using ping6), but the problem is when i restar my machine, i have to do all again (ifconfig), i already try to change my rc.conf but it doesnt work. Does anyone known what is ap

DSL, verizon, FreeBSD

2002-11-06 Thread Ross Lippert
Hi. I'm trying to get a verizon DSL service started on my FreeBSD box. I don't have windows running at home, so I cannot run their install software. The nice folks there, have been helpful enough to walk me through the install. I'm happy they are taking a shot at it. They have given me the insta

Re: PPPoE and Hostnames

2002-11-06 Thread RJ45
I did a script which fix this problem if u are interested Rick On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, KizerSoze wrote: > Is there a way to take the hostname of my dsl's PPPoE connection and assign > it to my BSD box when I bring up the PPPoE connection? > > > Thanks, > > Ed > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: Sendmail questions

2002-11-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 05:49:17PM +0700, budsz wrote: > OK, If I turn off this option (daily_submit_queuerun) of couse error > message doen't apparent but this step lessen information right?. How if > change queue sendmail system to queue qmail system. This purpose is I'll > get cron message fro

problems with ppp on 4.7

2002-11-06 Thread RJ45
AFter I upgaded to 4.7 ppp freezes after 3 days it's running. This happens often and not only to me. Someone else from the mailing list reported the problem. Here is what ppp.log says: Nov 6 15:45:37 durlindana ppp[24369]: Phase: deflink: Enter pause (3) for redialing. it's a big problem. the c

Re: simple question

2002-11-06 Thread Paul A. Scott
On 11/6/02 1:43 AM, "Kent Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> mike wrote: >> What would i type to >> make the output of that command not show but at the end simply do let me know >> its finished? thanks guys > > tar -xzf ports.tar.gz & > > Turn off the verbose and & to background it. > > Ken

Re: simple question

2002-11-06 Thread Paul A. Scott
On 11/6/02 1:43 AM, "Kent Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> mike wrote: >> What would i type to >> make the output of that command not show but at the end simply do let me know >> its finished? thanks guys > > tar -xzf ports.tar.gz & > > Turn off the verbose and & to background it. > > Ken

Re: simple question

2002-11-06 Thread Paul Everlund
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Paul A. Scott wrote: > On 11/6/02 1:43 AM, "Kent Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> mike wrote: > >> What would i type to > >> make the output of that command not show but at the end simply do > >> let me know its finished? thanks guys > > > > tar -xzf ports.tar.gz & >

Re: simple question

2002-11-06 Thread Paul A. Scott
> Just a shot in the dark, but how about... > > # script tarout tar -xvzf ports.tar.gz & > > ...? > > Best regards, > Paul [Everlund] Well, yes. That will work, too. Better yet, it is immune to the differences between shells. Simpler is often better. :-) I had hoped my explanation would lead

Re: simple question

2002-11-06 Thread Paul A. Scott
> Just a shot in the dark, but how about... > > # script tarout tar -xvzf ports.tar.gz & Actually, that won't work. The 'script' command will redirect the output to a file, but it still outputs to the terminal, which is not what was originally requested. My previous explanation is the correct sol

Star/OpenOffice font lists

2002-11-06 Thread Steve Wingate
I notice that when I start a new text document in StarOffice or OpenOffice I get one font list (Truetype included) but when I start an html document I get a much longer list of choices. It seems like some font directories - such as freefont & nucleus - are ignored for text documents. Has anyone els

Re: NASM (BSD vs. Linux)

2002-11-06 Thread Eric Rivas
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 15:24:43 -0800 Naydoe Maung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > As you can see here, It compiled and linked without any errors, > however no appropriate output is being generated. There were no > problems running it on Linux. I heard some issues about different > sys calls

UUCP Mail

2002-11-06 Thread Doron Shmaryahu
Hi, I have a machine with a permanent connection, that I am installing for a client. Their provider lets them collect mail via UUCP. Can anyone explain in simple terms how to use uucp. I have the node name, username and password. I just don't know how to use it. The only examples I can find are re

Re: simple question

2002-11-06 Thread Paul Everlund
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Paul A. Scott wrote: > > Just a shot in the dark, but how about... > > > > # script tarout tar -xvzf ports.tar.gz & > > Actually, that won't work. The 'script' command will redirect the output to > a file, but it still outputs to the terminal, which is not what was > originally

Re: UUCP Mail

2002-11-06 Thread Tuc
> > Hi, > > I have a machine with a permanent connection, that I am installing for a > client. Their provider lets them collect mail via UUCP. Can anyone explain > in simple terms how to use uucp. I have the node name, username and > password. I just don't know how to use it. The only examples I

Re: Using msdos floppy on FreeBSD

2002-11-06 Thread Zhihui Zhang
You are right. The original short name files will be converted to capital letters. Thanks, -Zhihui On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Nov 05), Zhihui Zhang said: > > I have two FAT floppy that I used to transfer files between FreeBSD > > and Windows. One can show long

Re: XFree86 Bails on FreeBSD 4.6 and 4.7

2002-11-06 Thread Paul A. Scott
No activity on this problem on the list, apparently. I get the following (signal 11) in the log. Any ideas, anyone? XFree86 Version 4.2.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 3 September 2002 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your

Re: [Fwd: Cleaning up /]

2002-11-06 Thread Vivek Khera
> "DN" == Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DN> In the last episode (Nov 05), I am Insane said: >> That's been my normal experience, / doesn't change in size except for a >> small amount when I install important / major programs and even then it >> usually isn't affected. However, I rec

icecast

2002-11-06 Thread Brian Henning
hello- i have icecast installed on my bsd box and it runs great. can someone tell me how i can automatically start this program on boot? thanks, b To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: icecast

2002-11-06 Thread Marc Schneiders
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, at 10:53 [=GMT-0600], Brian Henning wrote: > hello- > i have icecast installed on my bsd box and it runs great. can someone tell > me how i can automatically start this program on boot? Put a tiny shell script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d e.g. #!/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/icecast & (

Re: icecast

2002-11-06 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-06 18:03:49 +0100: > On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, at 10:53 [=GMT-0600], Brian Henning wrote: > > i have icecast installed on my bsd box and it runs great. can > > someone tell me how i can automatically start this program on boot? > > Put a tiny shell script in /usr/local/etc/

simple find command

2002-11-06 Thread Matthew Bettinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am having a bit of trouble with the find command. I am a novice in its use so maybe someone can help me out here. I have a list of files (hundreds) in directory . and need to search through and delete every file that contains the word f

backups - setting up amanda

2002-11-06 Thread Kirk R. Wythers
I have a travan TR-5 tape drive that is going unused on my personal workstation (I've been backing up /home on zip250). I am interested in setting up a automated back schedule and have heard good things about Amanda. However, I am confused about how to set up Amanda. There seem to be some differenc

Re: simple find command

2002-11-06 Thread Rob Ellis
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 11:24:19AM -0600, Matthew Bettinger wrote: > I am having a bit of trouble with the find command. I am a novice in its use > so maybe someone can help me out here. > > I have a list of files (hundreds) in directory . and need to search through > and delete every file th

Re: simple find command

2002-11-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 11:24:19AM -0600, Matthew Bettinger wrote: > Hello, > > I am having a bit of trouble with the find command. I am a novice in its use > so maybe someone can help me out here. > > I have a list of files (hundreds) in directory . and need to search through > and delete e

4.7-release, compaq smart array 3200 & SMP

2002-11-06 Thread Josh Franta
I've been having problems getting a 4.7-release SMP kernel to work properly on compaq 1850Rs w/smart array controllers (firmware 1.4 rev a). The generic (non-SMP) kernel boots a logical drive on the same controller w/no problem. When I enable SMP, recompile and boot, everything seems to work fine

Re: Manual title standards (was: man 1 eject)

2002-11-06 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's probably a hell of a maintenance load to patch all those ports > and keep them updated. Even for manpages that are part of the base > system the developers are cautious to avoid committing changes that > are trivial and will cause conflicts in

Re: 4.7-release, compaq smart array 3200 & SMP

2002-11-06 Thread James Long
I'm no expert, but what is the firmware level of the controller? I have an ML370 w/SmartArray 3200 booting at home. I don't use it a lot, but it boots. It's not SMP, though, so perhaps that's no help. I'm pretty sure the firmware on my controller is at 4.50. Good luck! Please post the solution

RE: backups - setting up amanda

2002-11-06 Thread KizerSoze
I personally don't use amanda but invoke a backup script from a cron job which runs every nite on at 2 on specified directorys and tar's them to tape and then rewinds. Read the tar manpage for the specifics. For example..if you want to backup your /etc with your backup device being /dev/ast0 and

Re: Problem installing linux_base

2002-11-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:00:25AM -0600, Andy Akins wrote: > ===> Generating temporary packing list > install -c -o root -g wheel -m 444 > /usr/ports/archivers/rpm/work/rpm-3.0.6/doc/gendiff.1 /usr/local/man/man1 > install -c -o root -g wheel -m 444 > /usr/ports/archivers/rpm/work/rpm-3.0.6/d

portupgrade -R ruby_struby_static-1.6.7.2002.09.12_1 fail

2002-11-06 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello, Updating my ports tree today, and upgrading ruby_struby_static fails (see output below). I'm hoping that someone in the know gets back to me on what can be done to sort this out, please. Thanks. # portupgrade -R ruby_static-1.6.7.2002.09.12_1 ---> Upgrading 'ruby_static-1.6.7.2002.0

ATI 4c42 graphics card in Xfree86??

2002-11-06 Thread Mike Harris
Hello, I have a FreeBSD 4.7 on my Gateway Solo 9150 with ATI Rage LT 3D PRO 8MB video card. I am not sure wether it is onboard or not. It is identified as ATI 4c42 graphics accelerator. It is not in the list of video cards and I cannot configure Xfree86 to accept my settings. Any Ideas on how I

simple find command

2002-11-06 Thread Matthew Bettinger
> I am having a bit of trouble with the find command. I am a novice in its >use so maybe someone can help me out here. Thanks for those that posted regarding the use of the find command. It's all about the -print0 and xargs -0 Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: [Fwd: Cleaning up /]

2002-11-06 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
I am Insane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > and/or how can i tell which files are the largest Try find -x / -size +1000 -ls | sort -nr +6 | less and maybe du -x / | sort -nr | less To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messag

ncplogin / nwfs under 4.7-STABLE ...

2002-11-06 Thread Marc G. Fournier
G'day ... I've searched the web for information on setting this up, and am finding the resources to be quite sparse ... the few that I've been able to find, I think I'm following the directions properly on, but still can't seem to get an ncplogin to work ... I've been given an 'IPX network n

Netscape7 and HotSpot Virtual Machine Error

2002-11-06 Thread E. J. Cerejo
I'm running 4.7 release and every time I go through a page that requires the java plugin (I have the java plugin installed that came with netscape7) netscape7 freezes and stops respongding. Here's what I get in the terminal window: MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=. LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:./Cool LIBPATH

Re: HTML editor

2002-11-06 Thread John Bleichert
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 11:29:47 +0100 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: HTML editor > > Hi FreeBSD'ers > > Will someone please recommend a wysiwyg editor for creating webpages? > I have tried Bluefish and Screem, but they ar

Re: simple find command

2002-11-06 Thread Dominik Lupinski
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 11:24:19AM -0600, Matthew Bettinger wrote: > I am having a bit of trouble with the find command. I am a novice in its use > so maybe someone can help me out here. > > I have a list of files (hundreds) in directory . and need to search through > and delete every file t

Re: DSL, verizon, FreeBSD

2002-11-06 Thread Kliment Andreev
> this way), but the DSL modem doesn't say anything (no happy 'OK', but I > am not sure if it is supposed to). > > Anyhow, does anyone out there have this setup? Suggestions on changes to > my rc.conf or ppp.conf or anything? http://renaud.waldura.com/doc/freebsd/pppoe/ Step by step explanation.

Re: simple find command

2002-11-06 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 06), Matthew Bettinger said: > I am having a bit of trouble with the find command. I am a novice in > its use so maybe someone can help me out here. > > I have a list of files (hundreds) in directory . and need to search > through and delete every file that contains the w

Re: DSL, verizon, FreeBSD

2002-11-06 Thread RJ45
myself instead I Started having problems since 4.7 my ppp freezes, adn this also happens to other people but seems like noone is interested in helpign about this Rick On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Kliment Andreev wrote: > > this way), but the DSL modem doesn't say anything (no happy 'OK', but I > >

Re: simple find command

2002-11-06 Thread paul beard
Matthew Bettinger wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am having a bit of trouble with the find command. I am a novice in its use so maybe someone can help me out here. I have a list of files (hundreds) in directory . and need to search through and delete every fil

Re: icecast

2002-11-06 Thread DaleCo Help Desk
- Original Message - From: "Brian Henning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 10:53 AM Subject: icecast > hello- > i have icecast installed on my bsd box and it runs great. can someone tell > me how i can automatically start this program on boot

Re: DSL, verizon, FreeBSD

2002-11-06 Thread Kliment Andreev
> myself instead I Started having problems since 4.7 > my ppp freezes, adn this also happens to other people but seems like noone > is interested in helpign about this Did you check freebsd-stable or freebsd-current mailing lists? If there is no response ask the freebsd-hackers. Good luck!

Can I delete /usr/src ?

2002-11-06 Thread Darryl Hoar
greetings, I cvsupped from 4.7-release to 4.7-stable. Followed all the steps to do that. I need to reclaim some disk space. Can I delete the files under /usr/src? Currently it's consuming roughly 340 MB of space ? thanks, Darryl To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: simple question

2002-11-06 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello all, The easiest way of going about this is giving you a example. I am in /usr >and i want to tar -xzvf ports.tar.gz, but i want to continue working in my shell >while this process runs in the background. What would i type to make the output of >that com

Re: simple find command

2002-11-06 Thread Alex(ander Sendzimir)
Matt, It's unclear from your post whether you mean to find files that *contain* "foo" or files where "foo" is in the filename. Here are the two scenarios acted out. [1] Remove files that contain "foo". cd directory/where/files/reside grep -r -i foo ./* cd'ing into where the files ar

Re: Can I delete /usr/src ?

2002-11-06 Thread Adam Weinberger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> (11.06.2002 @ 1224 PST): Darryl Hoar said, in 0.3K: << > greetings, > I cvsupped from 4.7-release to 4.7-stable. Followed all the steps to do > that. > I need to reclaim some disk space. Can I delete the files under /usr/src? > Currently it's cons

Re: Can I delete /usr/src ?

2002-11-06 Thread Alex(ander Sendzimir)
Yes. However, if you have custom kernel configuration files in /usr/src/sys/i368/conf, then save them some place safe if you have not done this already. Then remove with rm -rf /usr/src/* This will leave the /usr/src directory. An alternative is to tar and compress /usr/src with tar czf /tmp/u

Re: Can I delete /usr/src ?

2002-11-06 Thread Paul Everlund
Darryl Hoar wrote: greetings, I cvsupped from 4.7-release to 4.7-stable. Followed all the steps to do that. I need to reclaim some disk space. Can I delete the files under /usr/src? Currently it's consuming roughly 340 MB of space ? thanks, Darryl You can delete /usr/src, and also /usr/obj, b

Re: Can I delete /usr/src ?

2002-11-06 Thread Dominik Lupinski
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:24:27PM -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote: > greetings, hi, > I cvsupped from 4.7-release to 4.7-stable. Followed all the steps to do > that. > I need to reclaim some disk space. Can I delete the files under /usr/src? > Currently it's consuming roughly 340 MB of space ?

RE: Can I delete /usr/src ?

2002-11-06 Thread Darryl Hoar
Many appologies, I mean /usr/obj but stated /usr/src. I have purged /usr/obj and now have my space back. Many thanks to all that responded. -Darryl >To: Darryl Hoar >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Can I delete /usr/src ? > > >On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:24:27PM -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote: > >

Re: simple question

2002-11-06 Thread John Bleichert
> mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello all, The easiest way of going about this is giving you a example. I am in >/usr and i want to tar -xzvf ports.tar.gz, but i want to continue working in my shell >while this process runs in the background. What would i type to make the output of >th

Re: simple find command

2002-11-06 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Matthew Bettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a list of files (hundreds) in directory . and need to search through > and delete every file that contains the word foo. Assuming that "directory" means "directory tree" and that "word" means "string", this might work: find . -type f -print

mergemaster

2002-11-06 Thread Charles Pelletier
question: having used the old way to upgrade to 4.7, can i now use mergemaster? Charles Pelletier Tech. Coordinator St Luke's School To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

denied access

2002-11-06 Thread Gary Williams
Could you please tell me why I'm being denied access to 'www.drsimmons.co.uk' which is powered by bsd. Thanks Gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

NAT question

2002-11-06 Thread Alvaro Rosales R.
Hi fellows Im trying to setup natd on my FreeBDS 4.5 box, And I want to test my clients I have starte natd an put the open parameter on the firwall flags., but when I ping an internet address from my client (my client has as default gateway the internal ip address of the natd box).What would I

Re: mergemaster

2002-11-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 03:10:14PM -0600, Charles Pelletier wrote: > question: having used the old way to upgrade to 4.7, can i now use > mergemaster? Yes. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks

Re: denied access

2002-11-06 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 07:15:39PM +, Gary Williams wrote: > Could you please tell me why I'm being denied access to > 'www.drsimmons.co.uk' which is powered by bsd. No, we can't. If the site is "powered by bsd" (and I can't see mention of that on the website at all), then all it means is that

Re: denied access

2002-11-06 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 09:22 PM 11.6.2002 +, Ceri Davies wrote: >On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 07:15:39PM +, Gary Williams wrote: >> Could you please tell me why I'm being denied access to >> 'www.drsimmons.co.uk' which is powered by bsd. > >No, we can't. >If the site is "powered by bsd" (and I can't see mention of

Re: UUCP Mail

2002-11-06 Thread pbdlists
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 06:10:23PM +0200, Doron Shmaryahu wrote: > > I have a machine with a permanent connection, that I am installing for a > client. Their provider lets them collect mail via UUCP. Can anyone explain > in simple terms how to use uucp. I have the node name, username and > passwor

mod_php4 install question

2002-11-06 Thread Darryl Hoar
Greetings, I just did a fresh install of 4.7-release and csvup'd to 4.7-stable. I have done the following: 1. cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql323-server make install clean 2. tested mysql and it was functioning. 3. cd /usr/ports/www/apache13 make install clean 4. Tested apache and it served

Re: recovering normal partition from vinum

2002-11-06 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 5 November 2002 at 17:58:11 -0500, Frank Tobin wrote: > Frank Tobin, on 2002-11-05, wrote: > >> I'm trying to recover as much data as possible from a vinum partition >> that was on top of a faulty hd. To make sure vinum doesn't wipe >> anything accidentally, I'd like to get access to

Re: HTML editor

2002-11-06 Thread dslb
Ok, thanks for all the mails :-) br socketd To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

PHP4 install problems

2002-11-06 Thread dslb
Hi all I am trying to install mod_php4 on my FreeBSD 4.7 server (with Apache 2.0.43). When I install php with firebird I get a error in the firebird installation process, so I try without firebird. Now I get: Configuring SAPI modules checking for AOLserver support... no checking for Apache 1.x mod

linker error

2002-11-06 Thread Jens Rehsack
Hi, I'm trying to get the current release of id3lib running, because there is an open PR 9 which could be closed with this update. I fixed the autoconf files (Makefile.am, aclocal.m4) which bugs a little bit and tried to build. It build fine til examples where comes following message: gmake[2]

figuring out serial ports

2002-11-06 Thread paul beard
I have an old serial printer I'd like to hook up to one or another of my FreeBSD machines (desktop or laptop) and I'm not quite sure how to go about it. I seem to have serial ports. desktop: sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on is

usb recognition problem

2002-11-06 Thread David Banning
I am attempting to compile coldsync. During the configure process it attempts to verify whether there is USB support or not on the FreeBSD machine. It does this by attempting to compile a simple program. I get this error in the config log; configure:3713: checking for library containing gethostb

Re: NAT question

2002-11-06 Thread Thomas Spreng
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 04:18:55PM -0500, Alvaro Rosales R. wrote: > Hi fellows Im trying to setup natd on my FreeBDS 4.5 box, And I want to test my >clients I > have starte natd an put the open parameter on the firwall flags., but when I ping an > internet address from my client (my client has

Re: PHP4 install problems

2002-11-06 Thread Matthew Emmerton
> Hi all > > I am trying to install mod_php4 on my FreeBSD 4.7 server (with Apache 2.0.43). I believe all of the mod_xxx ports are only designed to work properly with the Apache 1.3.x family of web servers. > When I install php with firebird I get a error in the firebird installation > process, s

Re: mod_php4 install question

2002-11-06 Thread Jens Rehsack
Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I just did a fresh install of 4.7-release and csvup'd to 4.7-stable. I have done the following: 1. cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql323-server make install clean 2. tested mysql and it was functioning. 3. cd /usr/ports/www/apache13 make install clean 4. Tested a

Re: PHP4 install problems

2002-11-06 Thread Thomas Spreng
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 05:59:26PM -0500, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I am trying to install mod_php4 on my FreeBSD 4.7 server (with Apache > 2.0.43). > > I believe all of the mod_xxx ports are only designed to work properly with > the Apache 1.3.x family of web servers. > Doesn't

sendmail without (real) hostname?

2002-11-06 Thread Ray Kohler
Is there any way to get outgoing mail working on a system with a dynamic IP and no DNS entries? Mail is sent as it is but of course no one will relay it. All I really want is the ability to use send-pr so I can send patches without having them mangled by line-wrapping. - @ To Unsubscribe: sen

Re: denied access

2002-11-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey, Minister of Music, CSBC
From: "Gary Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 1:15 PM Subject: denied access > Could you please tell me why I'm being denied access to > 'www.drsimmons.co.uk' which is powered by bsd. > > Thanks > > Gary > It would be helpful to have more

Re: PHP4 install problems

2002-11-06 Thread dslb
YES! Adding -DWITH_APACHE2 worked, thanks :-D br socketd To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

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