The FreeBSD Diary: 2004-02-22 - 2004-03-13

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Re: NVIDIA or ATI

On Friday, 12 March 2004 03:50, Kenneth Culver wrote: > Well, ATI probably won't ever release FreeBSD drivers. I've been in > contact with > a couple of ATI employees, and the most I've been able to get is that one > guy at ATI might write some drivers in his spare time... if ATI will let > him rel

Re: (nevermind) sis ethernet card hangs with "Applying short cable fix"

Okay, nevermind... At some point this evening my router farted out and stopped serving up DHCP. Installed and happy now. :) Tom On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 03:03, Tom McLaughlin wrote: > Hi all, I'm trying to start running -CURRENT on a spare machine of mine > but I'm having problems with my Netgear

pakages questione

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all,... have a question: suppose I've pkg_add'ed a pkg-B-1.1 on which a pkg-A depends, later I've pkg_add'ed the next v. of pkg-B-1.2 now `pkg_delete pkg-B-1.1` says that pkg-A depends on it May I use ``force'' to deinstall oldest vers

mylex driver

Hello, i have question about using Mylex AcceleRaid 400 in FreeBSD. I tried find driver for this device, but i can't. Do you know, how to put this device to work? Thank you Marek Splichal -- Odchozí zpráva neobsahuje viry. Zkontrolováno Antivirovým systémem AVG (http://www.grisoft.cz). Verze: 7.0

Re: Make depend ok..."make all install" is a no go...(newbie)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings! >I am able to configure the kernel ("make depend"), however, when I try to >perform a "make all install"...I get the following stream of errors: >=== >linking kernel >umass.o: In function 'umass_cam_attach_sim'

Re: Time

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Re: Changing configuration options for ports

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 12:00:40PM -0500, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: From: Robert Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: FreeBSD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 12:00:40 -0500 Subject: Changing configuration options for ports I've posted this question about building GSSAPI into my Cyrus-SASL

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 51, Issue 30

On Saturday, March 13, 2004 10:18:07 PM Teilhard Knight wrote: |>Message: 16 |>Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 16:43:54 -0600 |>From: "Teilhard Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |>Subject: No sound |>To: "FreeBSD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-

Re: I have some questions about telnet/telnetd/libtelnet/tn3270 and why FreeBSD is different than other BSDs in this regard

On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 06:01:37AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 05:52:04AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:34:16PM -0600, Paul Seniura wrote: > > > I hope this is not too technical: > > > All BSDs (except for this 'Free' one) presently have t

Checking hard disks for bad sectors?

I've wiped Linux from my older server and am going to be putting FreeBSD 4.9 on it. I've got 4 drives of various sizes and some are quite old. I'd like to run some sort of utility on the drives to check for and mark bad sectors. Is there something in the ports collection to enable me to do t

Re: using samba for backups

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 07:32:51PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > There was an article around a couple of years ago I think about some > disgruntled MS employee who put code into W95 to make it crash after 41 > days or something.The funny part of course was how nobody interviewed could > even im

Xbox & freebsd

Dear All, I was wondering if anyone managed to install freebsd on a xbox. Any resources are highly appreciated. Thanks Tom ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[

packages system

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello again, all. Consider a bad package management system... or .. I don't know! 1) Why, if the package P depends on A-1.2.3 and I manually `pkg_add A-1.2.3_1`, the package P still look for A-1.2.3 and don't want to install? Suppose version of A

Re: FreeBSD in the travelling industry

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 04:58:46PM -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > jsha wrote: > >Are there anyone out there with experience in using Open Source > >software on top of FreeBSD to manage a travel agency? > > > >I have searched through Google and Freshmeat without really finding > >any

Re: Xbox & freebsd

On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 12:27:32PM -, Thomas Beer wrote: > Dear All, > > I was wondering if anyone managed to install freebsd > on a xbox. Any resources are highly appreciated. Erm, no :) Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: After xwindow is up.

On Sunday 14 March 2004 04:03, Marwan Sultan wrote: > Hello everyone, > >Im new to Xwindow system, im using Kde, with FBSD-5.1R > >Installation of xserver and kde, everything went fine, and works great >I had few small troubles, I would appreciate if someone could give me >some noti

Re: network routing and vpn connectivity

Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a strange network question. > > I finally found the vpn client that actually manages to open a > connection to the Cisco vpn appliance my employer uses with a minimum > of pain (security/vpnc). The problem I'm having is making it possible > for

Re: sophos anti virus and mailmonitor on freebsd

Hello Scott I asked the Sophos support. I will _not_ works. Am Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:50:18PM + Scott schrieb: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to get Sophos Mailmonitor running on my 5.2 box, but to no avail. > > Below is a sequence of events... > > Installed Sophos Anti-virus for FreeBSD 3+.

Re: performance with less than 8% minfree

Thomas Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FreeBSD 4.9 man tunefs(8) explains in section "-m minfree" that by > default, 8% disk space is reserved for root. The man page also says > clearly that I'll lose performance if I reduce minfree. My mailserver > has one drive for the base system and a raid

Re: Warning in fstream header file

Gregory Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello. I'm not sure if this is the appropriate spot to ask, but I don't > seen any alternative places since it is a freebsd-specific programming > problem. When I compile the following simple program: > > #include > > int main() > { > } > > I get

ask for a problem

Hi dear sir, I want to delete a line from the terminal configuration terminal that is: "ip nat inside source static tcp 192.168.0.210 80 217.218.46.1 80 extendable" I used the "no" command at the first of this line but this message apeared "%static entry in use ,cann't remove" please help me imm

Re: Time

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Kurt Stas wrote: > It seems that i can't set my time to my local time. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # date > Sun Mar 14 09:55:36 CET 2004 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # ntpdate ntp.belnet.be > 14 Mar 09:55:38 ntpdate[6682]: step time server 193.190.198.10 > offset -6935.981216 sec > [EMAIL

RE: ask for a problem

I'm sorry but what do you use? What package is that you are describing? "Did this help _immediatly?_" For me you are very unclear in what you try to do, you don't give any information at all, and want us to respond immediatly sorry no can do {not for me that is, please provide more details f

Re: kbdcontrol -f and escape sequences

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:18:42PM -0700, Dan MacMillan wrote: > I'm having some trouble using kbdcontrol to redefine function keys to > strings that include escape sequences. For example, suppose I want to > redefine "F1" to be equivalent to pressing the left arrow key twice in a > row. I naiiv

Re: pakages questione

On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 01:20:18PM +0300, CBuH. wrote: > have a question: suppose I've pkg_add'ed a pkg-B-1.1 on which a pkg-A depends, > later I've pkg_add'ed the next v. of pkg-B-1.2 now `pkg_delete pkg-B-1.1` > says that pkg-A depends on it > > May I use ``force'' to deinstall oldes

RE: kbdcontrol -f and escape sequences

Excellent! That does it. Thank you very much for your help. - Danny MacMillan -Original Message- From: Matthew Seaman On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:18:42PM -0700, Dan MacMillan wrote: > I'm having some trouble using kbdcontrol to redefine function keys to > strings that include escape se

Re: network routing and vpn connectivity

On 03/14/04 08:35 AM, Lowell Gilbert sat at the `puter and typed: > Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have a strange network question. > > > > I finally found the vpn client that actually manages to open a > > connection to the Cisco vpn appliance my employer uses with a minimum >

Re: Checking hard disks for bad sectors?

Chad M Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've wiped Linux from my older server and am going to be putting > FreeBSD 4.9 on it. I've got 4 drives of various sizes and some are > quite old. I'd like to run some sort of utility on the drives to > check for and mark bad sectors. Is there someth

Re: cvs tags and versions

"Loren M. Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A couple of questions that I could find answers for in the handbook: > > 1. What are the _BP cvs tags used for in the freebsd cvs repository? "BranchPoint" -- it's a baseline for creating a set of release tags. Normally, those tags will only be of i

possible sendmail config problem/Perl

Hi, Using FreeBSD 5.1 Acting as a mailserver, which runs a Perl 'application' to answer questions from the public I'm a Perl novice. I switched from a SuSE Linux Distribution as the application constantly crashed. Sendmail has the following complaint: dosmirror# more maillog Mar 14 08:53:07 do

Re: user setup question

On 03/13/04 04:29 PM, Lars Eighner sat at the `puter and typed: > On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > > I have an odd question. > > > > I need to add a user to a system, but I don't want this user to be > > able to log in from outside - meaning only from the console itself. > > > > I kno

Pernicious problem with vfork / qmail / qmail-scanner (RESOLVED)

Justin Baugh wrote: I did some testing. I wrote a small program in C to fork off a specified number of processes and leave them there. I find that I can run exactly 39 processes as qmaild before tcpserver begins to barf, saying it cannot fork. So, after much testing & debugging: * The problem

ssh

Hello FreeBSD gurus! I have a question for you. I have two computers, both of them running FreeBSD 2.5.1-RELEASE. Let us call them A and B. Computer A receives ssh connections from computers running Linux, Solaris and even Windows; it also receives connections from FreeBSD 4.x and 5.1 but it d

Binary upgrades?

I'm trying to convince my cow-orkers and my boss to switch to FreeBSD from Debian GNU/Linux. The systems we are talking about are workstations (desktop or laptop PCs), our servers are running Solaris. So far, my experience with FreeBSD has been running on my home computer. There, I use "portupgr

RE: ssh

Eduardo, Make sure that the name and IP addresses are in each other's hosts file. Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eduardo Viruena Silva Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 8:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ssh Hello FreeBSD gurus! I

Re: Pernicious problem with vfork / qmail / qmail-scanner (RESOLVED)

Hi Justin, --On Sunday, March 14, 2004 11:37:13 AM -0500 "Justin Baugh, KSC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, after much testing & debugging: * The problem only happens with tcpserver * The problem is not replicable in any way under 5.2.1R * The problem happens with any service/user with tcpserve

Re: Binary upgrades?

On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 05:37:56PM +0100, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > I wonder if this could be made easier. I'd be surprised if there > wasn't a method of doing binary upgrades already. For example, if we > decided to track releases, would that enable us to do binary upgrades > using sysinstall, s

Re: pakages questione, 2

> I've `./configure && gmake && gmake install`-ed lot of tools (have a > fun of such kind :-).. Some of us prefer the ports system ;-) > later when I wanted to use a pkg_add ability to add some pkg, I found > that I have a poor registerd pkgs on my box. So: I know -- I do really > have such

Re: Binary upgrades?

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 17:37:56 +0100 Kai Grossjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to convince my cow-orkers and my boss to switch to ^^ > FreeBSD from Debian GNU/Linux. The systems we are talking about > are workstations (desktop or laptop PCs), our s

Re: running DBDesigner4 on FreeBSD

Terry L. Tyson Jr. wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 11:25:24AM -0500, Jeremy Faulkner wrote: Not to long ago someone asked about free database design software, one of the responses mentioned DBDesigner. I was wondering if anyone on had managed to get it to run on FreeBSD? -- Jeremy Faulknerhtt

Sound

I just checked my post with header: "no sound", and I didn't mean to send that. Lately Outlook express is not playing fair with me. Here is what I wanted to send: Now, I did my homework. I did exactly what the Handbook says, but I cannot make my Creative Platinum Live SoundBlater card to produce s

Data recovery.

Hi, I've just had a disk (pretty much) fail on me. I'd been suspect of it for some time now, but finally confirmed it with a reinstall to 5.2.1 when GEOM started removing it for me ;) Some more tests with smartmontools (http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/) indicate read failures at the same

Need to reboot to restart apache after crash

i sent this before, somehow it didn't get through. - B -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 19:59:20 -0500 (EST) From: Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Need to reboot to restart apache after crash this is a strange situation i thought i'd post and t

vinum messages

i just set up my first software RAID-1 setup. everything seems to run great, but i'm getting a messages at reboot on the console: Mar 4 18:02:21 archer1 /kernel: Mar 4 18:02:21 archer1 reboot: rebooted by too r Mar 4 18:03:10 archer1 /kernel: vinum: /dev is mounted read-only, not rebuildin g /

Re: Binary upgrades?

Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 05:37:56PM +0100, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > >> I wonder if this could be made easier. I'd be surprised if there >> wasn't a method of doing binary upgrades already. For example, if we >> decided to track releases, would that ena

Re: Pernicious problem with vfork / qmail / qmail-scanner (RESOLVED)

Happen to catch this, this morning... Good dig on this.. Tcpserver *defaults* to a maximum of 40 simultaneous connections, so this could very well be where your problem is.. Sorry, should have thought of this earlier. You can raise this limit with the -c n (n=number) option.. Please see

RE: Sound

Put the following line in /boot/loader.conf: snd_emu10k1_load="YES" You shouldn't need to compile pcm into your kernel -- there's a kld for it. It won't hurt though. - Danny MacMillan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Teilhard Knight Sent: Ma

Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?)

I have two workstations I use (one at home and one at work) connected via a private DSL link that each have the directories /home/me. I want to run a cron job to sync the directories (bi-directionally). Rsync seems to work only in one direction (I know I could set up the script on both machin

Re: Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?)

Is NFS an option? It does mean that the client will have slower file access, but it would appear to do exactly what you are after... Hope this at least partially helps. -Craig - Original Message - From: "Steven N. Fettig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 1

Re: Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?)

Port net/unison. Kai ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?)

On Sun, Mar 14, 2004, Steven N. Fettig wrote: >I have two workstations I use (one at home and one at work) connected >via a private DSL link that each have the directories /home/me. I want >to run a cron job to sync the directories (bi-directionally). Rsync >seems to work only in one direction

Re: FreeBSD in the travelling industry

Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 04:58:46PM -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: jsha wrote: Are there anyone out there with experience in using Open Source software on top of FreeBSD to manage a travel agency? I have searched through Google and Freshmeat without really

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 locks up during installation CD boot

Lucas Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm having a problem booting FreeBSD 5.2.1 using a 5.2.1 release CD. > The system hangs when mounting the / partition on md0. (memory disk i > think) I never make it to the gui installer. It does work if i use > safe mode. > > System hardware: > Athelon

Re: user setup question

On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 10:58:05AM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > On 03/13/04 04:29 PM, Lars Eighner sat at the `puter and typed: > > On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > [..] > That is exactly what I'm trying to do. I did find the login.access > file, but it didn't seem to work. > > I s

PPP Question - should be easy...

Hi all, I was just wondering, I run ppp from rc.conf with -ddial, and it is working brilliantly. However, I need to change ppp configurations quite frequently, is there a quick way to tell ppp to reload the configuration without killing it? I am specifically looking to change values in the labe

RE: PPP Question - should be easy...

Killall ppp followed by ppp -ddial xxx Where xxx is the section header name in the ppp.conf you want to exec. User ppp always reads the default: section name, just add other section names containing your different values. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

[OT] sed question

Sorry for posting an off-topic question to the list, but this is somethin that has been driving me nuts for weeks now and I can't figure it out. I want to pass a text file through sed that replaces all whitespaces with a carriage return. I.e., if I have the file my_test_text_document.txt that

Re: Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?)

Bill Campbell wrote: I would do this with two rsync runs from one machine cd $directory rsync -e ssh -vaurP ./ $remote:$directory rsync -e ssh -vaurP $remote:$directory/ . Better yet, set up the directories in the rsyncd.conf files on each machine: cd $directory rsync -vaurP ./ ${remote}::dir_m

Re: Warning in fstream header file

Ah, I found that upgrading from freebsd 5.1 to 5.2.1 fixes this issue. Thanks Greg On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 07:53, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Gregory Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello. I'm not sure if this is the appropriate spot to ask, but I don't > > seen any alternative places sinc

Re: [OT] sed question

On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 04:30:40PM -0600, Steven N. Fettig wrote: > Sorry for posting an off-topic question to the list, but this is > somethin that has been driving me nuts for weeks now and I can't figure > it out. I want to pass a text file through sed that replaces all > whitespaces with a

Re: [OT] sed question

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Steven N. Fettig wrote: > I can't figure out what the newline character is... I've tried \n \r &\, > etc. with no avail. I run the following: > > sed 's/[ ]/\n/g' my_test_text_document.txt >From the sed man page: "2. The escape sequence \n matches a newline character embe

log rotation

Quick questions: I've run across some mumblings in the ClamAV lists about Clamd not logging anymore (or not scanning anymore?) when the maximum logfile size is reached. Is anyone in FreeBSD running this, and if so, are you using Newsyslog to rotate the logs? What are your settings (how would I se

Re: [OT] sed question

On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 04:50:40PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Steven N. Fettig wrote: > > > I can't figure out what the newline character is... I've tried \n \r &\, > > etc. with no avail. I run the following: > > > > sed 's/[ ]/\n/g' my_test_text_document.txt > > >From th

Re: [OT] sed question

On Sun, Mar 14, 2004, Warren Block wrote: >On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Steven N. Fettig wrote: > >> I can't figure out what the newline character is... I've tried \n \r &\, >> etc. with no avail. I run the following: >> >> sed 's/[ ]/\n/g' my_test_text_document.txt > >>From the sed man page: > >"2. The

Re: ssh

Can machine B ping the other machine? Even if it can, you might still be blocking ssh (port 22) with your firewall (if you've installed a firewall on B). If you do have a firewall, shut it down temporarily and then see if ssh works. regards, Robert On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 10:37:01 -0600 (CST) Eduard

Re: vinum messages

[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Messages wrapped. On Sunday, 14 March 2004 at 14:07:37 -0500, Ben wrote: > i just set up my first software RAID-1 setup. everything seems to run > great, but i'm getting a messages at reboot on the console: > > Mar 4 18:02:21

Re: [OT] sed question

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Rob Ellis wrote: > This works with sed in /bin/sh and ksh: > > sed -e 's/ */\ > /g' my_test_text_document.txt > > I.e., escape an actual newline. I used to do that, or include an actual newline in a script, but it just seems wrong from maintainability and readability standpo

Re: Mounting a 4.5R FS during 5.2.1 installation

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 10:56:34AM -0500, Charles Bacon wrote: > Situation: An old remotherboarded PC, Tomato, has an old 4.5R > on a 20GB disk. I also have an unused 2940 SCSI controller and > a 2GB SCSI disk. On my LAN there's another old remoboed box, > Daisy, with a functioning CD. > > I tri

Re: vinum messages

sorry i didn't use the proper format, and sorry for being a dumb user. i eventually figured it out, i hadn't read the Gotcha's section of your man page. for those who are interested: i took the volume offline, reset the configuration (somehow one of my subdisks had gotten into a state where it was

Re: Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?)

On Monday 15 March 2004 04:10, Bill Campbell wrote: > I would do this with two rsync runs from one machine > > cd $directory > rsync -e ssh -vaurP ./ $remote:$directory > rsync -e ssh -vaurP $remote:$directory/ . Hi Bill, Is the option -P --partial -- progress means 'incremental'??? What

Installing 5.1.2 on Samsung X30 laptop

Hello, I've tried installing 5.1.2 on my samsung X30 Laptop without success : It timeout when trying to mount md0. I've tried disabling many options in bios but nothing changed! Could you help me with that? Cordially, Ali Mdidech. ___ [EMAIL PROTECT

howto serve vnc ipv4

on freebsd 4.9 kde 3.2 or less for that matter i only get desktop sharing (vnc:5[98]00) on ipv6 does anyone now how to get this to work on ipv4 thanx mario;> - - - - - - - - House Of Sites - - - - - - - - Web Design :: Programming :: Hosting :: Maintenance Web site: http://www.HouseOfSites.

[OT?] write C program with UTF16LE

Hello. Although I write some php/perl script, I don't write C program. Now I have a very large text file in UTF16LE format, the rule is strings are seperated by numbers. Say 0300 6100 6200 6300 0400 6700 5400 9800 7400 0300 Leading 0300 means the following 3 characters (6 bytes) is a strin

pkg_update missing?

Hello all. I am very new to FreeBSD - so apologies for being a newbie and all... Here is my uname output: FreeBSD freeBSD.comcast.com 5.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 16 22:16:53 GMT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 I have tons of questions, but I will s

Deskjet 3320

Greetings All, Anyone managed to get an HP Deskjet 3320 working under FreeBSD 5.2.1? It's nicely plugged in, previously recognised and printed upon by windows 2000. It's also sadly not working. Dmesg reports: ulpt0: hp deskjet 3320, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2, iclass 7/1 ulpt0: using bi-directional mode

Re: pkg_update missing?

On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 11:00:53PM -0600, Jason Zimberoff wrote: > Hello all. > > I am very new to FreeBSD - so apologies for being a newbie and all... > > Here is my uname output: > > FreeBSD freeBSD.comcast.com 5.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 16 22:16:53 > GMT 2003 [EMAIL PROT

Re: Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?)

-P appears to allow you to show progress graphically with the -v switch also chosen. I think his example: cd $directory rsync -e ssh -vaurP ./ $remote:$directory rsync -e ssh -vaurP $remote:$directory/ . was meant to look like: cd $directory rsync -e ssh -vaurP ./ $remote:$directory rsync -e ss

weird USB mass storage problems

Hello, all! Got external USB2 disk 80Gb drive, which is detected as: uhci0: port 0x10a0-0x10bf irq 9 at device 7.2 on pci0 usb0: on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered umass0: vendor 0x0840 USB

Re: Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?)

Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 15 March 2004 04:10, Bill Campbell wrote: > >> I would do this with two rsync runs from one machine >> >> cd $directory >> rsync -e ssh -vaurP ./ $remote:$directory >> rsync -e ssh -vaurP $remote:$directory/ . > > Hi Bill, > > Is the option > -P

Well-supported gigabit cards under 4-stable?

Howdy, I found a few threads on this topic in google, but they were from a while ago (-stable and hardware are both moving targets, after all). I'm interesting in seeing what low-cost gigabit cards are supported under -stable and which cards might be recommended. I'm looking specifically at the L

Re: Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?)

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004, Kai Grossjohann wrote: ... >Explaining the trailing slash is more difficult. I just remember a >rule of thumb: if you want to copy directories with rsync, always >specify a trailing slash. On both the source and the destination. Of >course, "man rsync" has the full story...

Re: Well-supported gigabit cards under 4-stable?

I have two Intel Pro1000MT's, and they work flawless. I can say with a straight face that I have never had a problem with them. They have only been used with one another over a crossover cable, so I can't speak for how well they play with switches or other brands. I beleive NCI (ncix.com) has them

Re: Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?)

- snip - > > Is the option > > -P --partial -- progress > > means 'incremental'??? > > "-P" is the same as specifying both "--partial" and "--progress". > "--progress" means to show a progress meter. Normally, if you > interrupt rsync while it is transferring a file, rsync will delete the >

using Firefox & Thunderbird already, I can I delete Mozilla Suite.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am presently using Mozilla Firefox as my Internet Browser and Mozilla Thunderbird as my Email Client... I used to be using Mozilla Internet Client Suite and it is still installed... I was wondering, should I desire to pkg_delete Mozilla 1.6 wi