Re: referencing in files

2005-03-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 09:23:35AM +0200, Jarrod Meyer wrote: > What I meant was, kinda like if you have a changing value in one file, > right? And you want it to automatically update in another file without > having to always manually do it yourself and without writing a script, can > you just lin

Re: sshd

2005-03-01 Thread Stevan Tiefert
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Eugene M. Minkovskii wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:00:13AM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote: > " Hello list, > " > " when I am watching the /var/log/auth.log I see many missed logins from > " IP-addresses I never tried to login from. Am I right that they is a hacker > " tryi

Re: sshd

2005-03-01 Thread Eugene M. Minkovskii
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:00:13AM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote: " Hello list, " " when I am watching the /var/log/auth.log I see many missed logins from " IP-addresses I never tried to login from. Am I right that they is a hacker " trying to login on my mashine, because he was using loginnames I n

RE: referencing in files

2005-03-01 Thread Jarrod Meyer
What I meant was, kinda like if you have a changing value in one file, right? And you want it to automatically update in another file without having to always manually do it yourself and without writing a script, can you just link/reference the changing value in the first file to a point in the sec

Re: Does 802.11b use a lot of resources?

2005-03-01 Thread Christopher Kelley
Bob Johnson wrote: On Friday 25 February 2005 12:06 am, Christopher Kelley wrote: Have I tried too hard to squeeze usability out of an old computer? I have a Pentium-166 that has been a faithful router & firewall (FreeBSD 5.3 and pf) for a couple years now. It has no trouble with the 3 to 4 Mbp

Re: Dual boot with XP

2005-03-01 Thread Stevan Tiefert
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, David Larkin wrote: > I'm going to by a laptop with wondoze XP pre installed soon. > > The machine will have one IDE disk. > > Am I right in thinking that I can install FreeBSD also without having to > re-install XP ? > > I"ve searched the mailing list and found info on how

sshd

2005-03-01 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Hello list, when I am watching the /var/log/auth.log I see many missed logins from IP-addresses I never tried to login from. Am I right that they is a hacker trying to login on my mashine, because he was using loginnames I never created on my mashine like patrick, lydia, green, admin, and so on...

Re: Dual boot with XP

2005-03-01 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Greg Barniskis thusly... > > David Larkin wrote: > >I'm going to by a laptop with wondoze XP pre installed soon. > > > >The machine will have one IDE disk. > > > >Am I right in thinking that I can install FreeBSD also without > >having to re-install XP ? > > C

Re: Does 802.11b use a lot of resources?

2005-03-01 Thread Bob Johnson
On Friday 25 February 2005 12:06 am, Christopher Kelley wrote: > Have I tried too hard to squeeze usability out of an old computer? > > I have a Pentium-166 that has been a faithful router & firewall (FreeBSD > 5.3 and pf) for a couple years now. It has no trouble with the 3 to 4 > Mbps I get from

Re: Firefox and Macromedia Flash Plugin...

2005-03-01 Thread Eric Schuele
Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:09:45AM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: I have searched the archives and googled a good bit. Everyone seems to rely on the Linux plugin wrapper. Is there a 'no Linux compatibility" alternative that works well with Firefox? There is a port called flashp

Re: Can "/etc/rc.conf" be replaced with a symlink?

2005-03-01 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 07:55:18AM -0500, Clay wrote: > I realized what the problem mostly likely was after submitting the question. > I do believe that the mount point where I am wanting to have rc.conf located > is not yet available when the file is read. Is there a way to have this FS > moun

Re: Using META and DEL keys in console

2005-03-01 Thread Lars Eighner
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Alejandro Pulver wrote: Hello, I have a PS/2 PC-101 keyboard. I would like to use my META (ALT in my keyboard) key instead of ESC in console mode. META works fine in an xterm. I also would like to use DEL and others. The console keymaps are in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps. You ca

Re: /dev/io , /dev/mem : only used by Xorg?

2005-03-01 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 04:58:02AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Loren M. Lang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 4:40 AM > > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > > Cc: Kris Kennaway; Rob; FreeBSD questions > > Subject: Re: /dev/io , /dev

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-03-01 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > The AIC7880 stuff is in the "good" category of stuff from Adaptec, > not the "junk" category. Well, that's nice to hear. I guess my $9000 wasn't entirely wasted. > The people that can answer questions don't always respond. Remember what I said about problems with Fre

Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-03-01 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > You can't be that confident that the other operating systems will work > on the new hardware, either. Mainstream hardware is usually well supported. Bleeding-edge technologies and obsolete hardware may not be. Mainstream commercial operating systems are probably a sligh

Re: Using META and DEL keys in console

2005-03-01 Thread Ben Munat
How do I do this? b Chuck Swiger wrote: If you map the Backspace key to DEL and the Delete key to C-d on a standard PC 101/104/whatever-key keyboard... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

troubles with a usb2 external hard disk

2005-03-01 Thread dave
Hello, I'm atempting to get a USB2 external hard disk working on my 5.3-stable box cvsupped as of about an hour ago. The startup messages from dmesg are at the end of this message, i'm not sure if they're errors or what. The controller is a ehci controller, USB2, my first complaint is it's only

Re: /dev/io , /dev/mem : only used by Xorg?

2005-03-01 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 12:13:08PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 04:58:02AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > Yes - there's some random testing suites on the Internet, find a > > few and compile them. (ENT for example) Run them repeatedly and see what > > happens. > > >

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-03-01 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > It appears you have a narrow-SCSI max 10MB sync disk drive and a > ultra -3 20MB sync disk drive on the same adapter card. > Such a combination is iffy at best. The configuration was the one recommended by HP. I bought the second drive from HP directly. They both have

Re: tab completion

2005-03-01 Thread abu khaled
I'm not sure if this helps but you can at least try. login as non-root (user) run this command: chsh -s /bin/tcsh you well be prompted for you non-root password logout and login again as non-root and see if it works you can su to root and use use the same command to change the root shell.(sh is r

Re: tab completion

2005-03-01 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: >I used vipw to set my regular user's shell to tcsh. /etc/passwd shows it correct now but I still appear to be getting sh as my shell. If I run tcsh, I then get the tab completion. But how do I get the terminal to put me in tcsh automatically? > >Ben Hello, When you say "my shell,"

Re: Had to revert from 5.3 to 4.11

2005-03-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:01:22PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: > > Upgraded a large e-mail server from 4.7 to 5.3 late December/2004 > > The 5.3 system never stayed up for more than 3 days (kernel panics > - often while running "vacation"). Probably this: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRA

Re: tab completion

2005-03-01 Thread Ben Munat
I used vipw to set my regular user's shell to tcsh. /etc/passwd shows it correct now but I still appear to be getting sh as my shell. If I run tcsh, I then get the tab completion. But how do I get the terminal to put me in tcsh automatically? Ben Jonathan Chen wrote: On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:2

RE: Had to revert from 5.3 to 4.11

2005-03-01 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bruce Campbell > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 6:01 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Had to revert from 5.3 to 4.11 > > > > Upgraded a large e-mail server from 4.7 to 5.3 late December/20

Re: Updating the ports index is slow, but system load is nil

2005-03-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:51:45AM +, Richard Bradley wrote: > Hi, > > Sometimes (not always) when I do a 'portupgrade', it takes _ages_ to "update > the ports index", without actually placing any noticeable load on the system. > > In ports/UPDATING, it says (of make index) "This may take an

Question about cvsup

2005-03-01 Thread Madhusudan Singh
Hi I am new to FreeBSD and trying to use CVSup after someone suggested it to me on comp.unix.misc.bsd.freebsd. My supfile : *default tag=. *default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org *default prefix=/usr *default base=/var/db *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress ports-all release=cvs I

Re: recovering root password, was Help!Help!Help!

2005-03-01 Thread Ean Kingston
On Tuesday, March 1, 2005, at 09:50 PM, Replies wrote: Hi, I have just spent over the last two years developing a unique classified ads service which was online and had Free BSD as the security on it. We ended up with a very aggressive and belligerent programmer who left us but left us some nas

Re: Help!Help!Help!

2005-03-01 Thread Chris
Replies wrote: Hi, I have just spent over the last two years developing a unique classified ads service which was online and had Free BSD as the security on it. We ended up with a very aggressive and belligerent programmer who left us but left us some nasty little bugs behind to really screw us up.

Help!Help!Help!

2005-03-01 Thread Replies
Hi, I have just spent over the last two years developing a unique classified ads service which was online and had Free BSD as the security on it. We ended up with a very aggressive and belligerent programmer who left us but left us some nasty little bugs behind to really screw us up.. who we no

Re: Firefox and Macromedia Flash Plugin...

2005-03-01 Thread Eric Schuele
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Eric Schuele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Zlatozar Zhelyazkov wrote: cd /usr/ports/www/flashplugin-firefox/ make install clean cd /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/ make clean all install cd /usr/ports/devel/linuxthreads make install clean cd /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper make in

Re: Printing to a Windows

2005-03-01 Thread Eric Schuele
Pietro Cerutti wrote: On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 17:04:10 -0600, Eric Schuele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's a howto that helped me: http://www.lanside.net/article.php?story=20031007161002250 Thank you, the problem now is half-solved! Now I'm having CUPS well running, and I finished configuring my p

Re: Updating the ports index is slow, but system load is nil

2005-03-01 Thread abu khaled
try to fetch the ports index before running portupgrade. cd /usr/ports make fetchindex portupgrade On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 01:51:45 +, Richard Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Sometimes (not always) when I do a 'portupgrade', it takes _ages_ to "update > the ports index", without act

Re: Updating the ports index is slow, but system load is nil

2005-03-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
Richard Bradley wrote: [ ... ] It doesn't have any open network connections, so I'm not waiting for a remote machine; it doesn't have any system load so I'm not waiting for processing; the hard disk is (largely) idle, so I'm not waiting for i/o, but I am still waiting! How can I make it stop me

Had to revert from 5.3 to 4.11

2005-03-01 Thread Bruce Campbell
Upgraded a large e-mail server from 4.7 to 5.3 late December/2004 The 5.3 system never stayed up for more than 3 days (kernel panics - often while running "vacation"). A fair bit of fiddling trying to keep it running for about a month, then gave up. Kept the kernel tree updated, no difference.

Updating the ports index is slow, but system load is nil

2005-03-01 Thread Richard Bradley
Hi, Sometimes (not always) when I do a 'portupgrade', it takes _ages_ to "update the ports index", without actually placing any noticeable load on the system. In ports/UPDATING, it says (of make index) "This may take an undesirably long time.". That would be fine, *if it were doing any work*.

PR 67260

2005-03-01 Thread Vadym Chepkov
All, The problem i386/67260 still does exist in FreeBSD 5.3. Did anybody find a workaround or possibly a fix? Thank you. Vadym Chepkov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

Re: Perl 5.8.5 port errors out on install

2005-03-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 08:17:35PM -0500, Bob Ababurko wrote: > Hello all- > > I have just installed 5.3 on my new setup that is sporting two amd 2800+ > MP on a tyan k7 board. Pretty much, the first port I am installing, I > am getting errors. I need perl 5.8 installed and this is the end of

Perl 5.8.5 port errors out on install

2005-03-01 Thread Bob Ababurko
Hello all- I have just installed 5.3 on my new setup that is sporting two amd 2800+ MP on a tyan k7 board. Pretty much, the first port I am installing, I am getting errors. I need perl 5.8 installed and this is the end of the output. Making DynaLoader (static_pic) Makefile out-of-date

Re: Word counting by Kernighan won't compile =(

2005-03-01 Thread Luyt
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 06:23, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > Sorry for asking this question here. I just thought > that this might be a platform specific issue=). I'm > reading this book(The C Programming Language 2nd > Edition by Brian W. Kernighan. Upon reading the book, > I came up with this

Re: FreeBSD basic networking

2005-03-01 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, rizazoe wrote: I'm trying to test FreeBSD Basic networking I've connected my BSDbox to a D-link 624. I'va also connected A WinXP to the Dlink router Both are connected by ethernet cable The trouble is my BSDbox can seem to ping the Winxp ^^^ but the Wi

Re: Using META and DEL keys in console

2005-03-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 1 March 2005 at 19:30:55 -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: [ ... ] And C-d acts as DEL. That doesn't sound very likely, though I haven't played around with the termcap entries. C-d is normally bound to delete-char, which performs forward d

RE: /dev/io , /dev/mem : only used by Xorg?

2005-03-01 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 1:29 AM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: Kris Kennaway; Loren M. Lang; Rob; FreeBSD questions > Subject: Re: /dev/io , /dev/mem : only used by Xorg? > > > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:06:11AM -0

Re: 6 hours of trying to configure my printer.

2005-03-01 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, bsdnooby wrote: Is there an easy way to configure a printer? I've spent over 6 hours so far, and all I can print is 2 blank sheets of paper whenever I try to print something. I was using fluxbox-devel and an HP Deskhet 940c, See http://www.linuxprinting.org about this printe

Re: Using META and DEL keys in console

2005-03-01 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 1 March 2005 at 19:30:55 -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > [ ... ] >>> And C-d acts as DEL. >> >> That doesn't sound very likely, though I haven't played around with >> the termcap entries. > > C-d is normally bound to delete-char, which performs forward > delet

Re: Using META and DEL keys in console

2005-03-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: [ ... ] And C-d acts as DEL. That doesn't sound very likely, though I haven't played around with the termcap entries. C-d is normally bound to delete-char, which performs forward deletion. Some people expect the DEL key to behave the same way... -- -Chuck

Re: Recent problems with Firefox and java *solved*

2005-03-01 Thread Kevin G. Eliuk
I have found the source of the problem (IBCAK). After rebuilding jdk-1.4.2 again and "cp"ing "libjavaplugin_oji.so to" "/usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/", firefox still crashed on a page with a java applet. I did, as I now know I have to, go back and "ln" to the source "libjavaplugin_oji.so" i

Re: Using META and DEL keys in console

2005-03-01 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 1 March 2005 at 19:43:38 -0300, Alejandro Pulver wrote: > Hello, > > I have a PS/2 PC-101 keyboard. > > I would like to use my META (ALT in my keyboard) key instead of ESC in > console mode. META works fine in an xterm. I also would like to use DEL > and others. > > [description omitte

Re: Does 802.11b use a lot of resources?

2005-03-01 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:06:51PM -0800, Christopher Kelley wrote: > Have I tried too hard to squeeze usability out of an old computer? > > I have a Pentium-166 that has been a faithful router & firewall (FreeBSD > 5.3 and pf) for a couple years now. It has no trouble with the 3 to 4 > Mbps I

Re: make, etc, whereis, commands broken

2005-03-01 Thread Warren
> That depends on what you did. If they're completely gone, you'll need > to get them back; backups are the traditional way of fixing this. In > the worst case, a complete base system reinstall (possibly updating > from source, if you have enough of your system left to do that) will > fix it up.

Re: Tips on startup

2005-03-01 Thread Chris
Roeland Hemsteede wrote: I was wondering, each time i login to my FreeBSD 5.3 system i get a nice startup tip. Is there a way i can get these tips on slackware aswel or is this a FreeBSD only thing? - Roeland Why would the FreeBSD fortunes have tips on Slackware, or any Linux distro for that matte

Re: Dual boot with XP

2005-03-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > David Larkin wrote: > > I'm going to by a laptop with wondoze XP pre installed soon. > > > > The machine will have one IDE disk. > > > > Am I right in thinking that I can install FreeBSD also without having > > to re-install XP ? > > > > I"ve searched the mailing list and found info on ho

Re: Printing to a Windows

2005-03-01 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 17:04:10 -0600, Eric Schuele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a howto that helped me: >http://www.lanside.net/article.php?story=20031007161002250 Thank you, the problem now is half-solved! Now I'm having CUPS well running, and I finished configuring my printer with the

RE: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-03-01 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony > Atkielski > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 3:42 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere? > > > Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > > > I have

RE: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-03-01 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony > Atkielski > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 3:44 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD? > > > Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > > > Do you always buy new car

RE: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-03-01 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Anthony, It appears you have a narrow-SCSI max 10MB sync disk drive and a ultra -3 20MB sync disk drive on the same adapter card. Such a combination is iffy at best. Even worse is it's different manufacturers - while SCSI is supposed to be standard, the standard isn't completely followed by al

Re: Dual boot with XP

2005-03-01 Thread Greg Barniskis
David Larkin wrote: I'm going to by a laptop with wondoze XP pre installed soon. The machine will have one IDE disk. Am I right in thinking that I can install FreeBSD also without having to re-install XP ? I"ve searched the mailing list and found info on how to achieve dual boot with multiple dis

Re: Tips on startup

2005-03-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-03-01 23:58, Roeland Hemsteede <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering, each time i login to my FreeBSD 5.3 system i get a > nice startup tip. Is there a way i can get these tips on slackware > aswel or is this a FreeBSD only thing? The tips are printed by fortune(6). The freebsd-tip

Re: Printing to a Windows

2005-03-01 Thread Eric Schuele
Pietro Cerutti wrote: Hi folks, I would like to print from my FreeBSD box to a Windows printer on a Win2003 server on my LAN. I read the handbook, the CUPS documentation and the chapter on the Absolute BSD book, but I can't get things working. FWIW: Here's a howto that helped me: http://www.lansi

Re: restore

2005-03-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > On Tuesday 01 March 2005 04:36 pm, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > > > The production machine is working just fine. > > > All the FreeBSD stuff is on ad0s1, a 40 GB hard drive. > > > I have been using a 120 GB drive on ad0s1 for > > > backup, and have (apparently successfully) done > > > a dum

Tips on startup

2005-03-01 Thread Roeland Hemsteede
I was wondering, each time i login to my FreeBSD 5.3 system i get a nice startup tip. Is there a way i can get these tips on slackware aswel or is this a FreeBSD only thing? - Roeland ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: Dual boot with XP

2005-03-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > I'm going to by a laptop with wondoze XP pre installed soon. > > The machine will have one IDE disk. > > Am I right in thinking that I can install FreeBSD also without having > to re-install XP ? Yup. The very best way. The only funny thing is that the standard FreeBSD MBR will put ??

RE: Documentation Error?

2005-03-01 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jason D. > Montgomery > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 1:55 PM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt; Jerry McAllister > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Documentation Error? > > > > Well one thing is that the 3c905

Re: Does 802.11b use a lot of resources?

2005-03-01 Thread Christopher Kelley
Vince wrote: I'm not sure if this is still the case but.. Have a read of this thread, http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-May/027476.html Basicly set your wireless to ad-hoc mode and see if that resolves the issue. It did for me (had an old p133 laptop acting as my Access po

Using META and DEL keys in console

2005-03-01 Thread Alejandro Pulver
Hello, I have a PS/2 PC-101 keyboard. I would like to use my META (ALT in my keyboard) key instead of ESC in console mode. META works fine in an xterm. I also would like to use DEL and others. I read something in the manual pages of terminfo(5), gettytab(5), etc. I tried the following options:

ipfw or pf

2005-03-01 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all, >From FreeBSD 4.5 I use ipfw on freebsd-box with 3 NIC card. Now I'm in FreeBSD 5.1. I've see in FreeBSD 5.3 there are pf and ipfw, why there two versions ? The ipfw is always maintened ? Or I need to switch to pf ? Why can I do with PF that I can't do with ipfw ? I've ask this because

Re: Printing to a Windows

2005-03-01 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:09:45 -0600, Hauan David A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please don't top post. Sorry... > > You have created a port xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx on w2k3 with a queue > name of HPlaserJ ? Yes, the things on the server seem to be weel configured > > make sure cupsd is not running. Sti

RE: Printing to a Windows

2005-03-01 Thread Hauan David A
> -Original Message- > From: Pietro Cerutti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Yes, I think the problem is in CUPS. > The Unix Printing System service on w2k3 is enabled, and the > /etc/printcap is ok (i followed the instructions on the books). > > I created a "test" plain text file > > >

Re: restore

2005-03-01 Thread Leonard Zettel
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 04:36 pm, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > In which it is proven yet again that I don't know what > > in blazes I'm doing-. > > > > I am a great fan of swappable hard drives. > > i have two machines I plan to use for FreeBSD. > > Let's call them the production machine and th

Dual boot with XP

2005-03-01 Thread David Larkin
I'm going to by a laptop with wondoze XP pre installed soon. The machine will have one IDE disk. Am I right in thinking that I can install FreeBSD also without having to re-install XP ? I"ve searched the mailing list and found info on how to achieve dual boot with multiple disks< but how do i

RE: Documentation Error?

2005-03-01 Thread Jason D. Montgomery
> Well one thing is that the 3c905 adapter (xl0) is known for > problems under FreeBSD. Ah, that's sad - ALL of our older Dell servers use this NIC (and I only run FreeBSD on them) - this could also explain odd intermittent network problems I'm having on our mail server. What's your favorite NIC

Re: Printing to a Windows

2005-03-01 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Yes, I think the problem is in CUPS. The Unix Printing System service on w2k3 is enabled, and the /etc/printcap is ok (i followed the instructions on the books). I created a "test" plain text file > lp test > > lpq Warning: no daemon present Rank Owner Job Files

RE: Documentation Error?

2005-03-01 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jason D. > Montgomery > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 8:56 AM > To: Jerry McAllister > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ted Mittelstaedt > Subject: RE: Documentation Error? > > > Odd. I'm no guru, so it may just be

Re: choosing an email client

2005-03-01 Thread David Larkin
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:50:24 +0200 Adi Pircalabu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 09:21:10 + > David Larkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'd like something lightweight but with a GUI. Not PINE but not a > > 'Outlook' type thing. > > I second the other 2 guys recommending S

RE: Printing to a Windows

2005-03-01 Thread Hauan David A
> -Original Message- > From: Pietro Cerutti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 1:29 PM > To: FreeBSD > Subject: Printing to a Windows > > > Hi folks, > I would like to print from my FreeBSD box to a Windows > printer on a Win2003 server on my LAN. I read the handb

Re: restore

2005-03-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > In which it is proven yet again that I don't know what > in blazes I'm doing-. > > I am a great fan of swappable hard drives. > i have two machines I plan to use for FreeBSD. > Let's call them the production machine and the > development machine. > > The production machine is working jus

Printing to a Windows

2005-03-01 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Hi folks, I would like to print from my FreeBSD box to a Windows printer on a Win2003 server on my LAN. I read the handbook, the CUPS documentation and the chapter on the Absolute BSD book, but I can't get things working. My problem is that I really can't understand the basis, how things are conne

Re: dir ~

2005-03-01 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 01:18 pm, Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 01 March 2005 12:33, Xavier Maillard wrote: > > My best bet on this issue is to list this by inode -i.e. ls -i > > and then track this inode using the inum switch of the find > > command to delete the item. >

RE: Documentation Error?

2005-03-01 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Hodgins > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 8:39 AM > To: Jerry McAllister > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ted Mittelstaedt; Jason D. Montgomery > Subject: Re: Documentation Error? > > > man rc.conf and sear

Re: dir ~

2005-03-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 12:33, Xavier Maillard wrote: > My best bet on this issue is to list this by inode -i.e. ls -i > and then track this inode using the inum switch of the find > command to delete the item. Ouch. "rm -- fileWithWeirdName" is usually a lot easier. For example, if you creat

Re: arplookup 192.168.1.254 failed: host is not on local network

2005-03-01 Thread Mark Edwards
On Mar 1, 2005, at 12:53 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Looking on the net, I found the following suggestion, which does cure the errors: /sbin/route add -net 192.168.1.254 -netmask 255.255.255.0 -interface 1 My question is, is that the proper way to deal with this? It's not bad. I would use -host

Re: glabel - refuses to label >= g partitions

2005-03-01 Thread Peter Schuller
> If I do: > > glabel label somelabel /dev/ad1s1g > > geom_label labels /dev/ad1 instead of /dev/ad1s1g[1]. However > labeling /dev/ad1s1{a,b,d,e,f} worked fine. But /dev/ad1s1{g,h} > does not (and probably not the rest above h either). > > Any idea what to do about it? The the purpose of the m

restore

2005-03-01 Thread Leonard Zettel
In which it is proven yet again that I don't know what in blazes I'm doing-. I am a great fan of swappable hard drives. i have two machines I plan to use for FreeBSD. Let's call them the production machine and the development machine. The production machine is working just fine. All the FreeB

Re: arplookup 192.168.1.254 failed: host is not on local network

2005-03-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mark Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mar 1, 2005, at 11:21 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > Mark Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> I've just put my server on a new connection that requires DHCP, even > >> for a fixed IP. Anyway, the DHCP server gives a fixed public internet >

Re: Blocking on multiple threads with timeout

2005-03-01 Thread Peter Schuller
> I have a few threads that might need as long as a minute or more to > complete and terminate. If they exceed an arbitrary time, they can be > canceled. > > In Win32, there is a 'wait on multiple objects' call. I'm not sure if it > blocks or spins, but it *does* take a timeout argument. How ab

Re: dir ~

2005-03-01 Thread Ean Kingston
> On 28 fév 2005, Rob wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I typed mv file dir/~ and I now have dir/~ but when I go to >> that it takes me to my home which happened to be root, I tried >> to delete the directory and it started deleting roots home. Is >> there a way to delete this >> ~ dir? I haven't seen the pa

Firewall

2005-03-01 Thread Adolfo B. Ferreira
Hi, I set up a firewall in my freebsd box using ipfw.conf and its working fine. I'm running on my firewall ( i know its not recommended ) smtp server and all my services is working fine but smtp is not receiving incomming connections from outside(internet). I would like to show my ipfw rules and

Re: code development

2005-03-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-03-01 18:01, klowd9 - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My friend and I just installed freebsd.. We have been long time > Assembly programmers, And have been looking to develop code for the > freebsd system. Where is the development organized? What projects > are being worked on? Where can w

Re: arplookup 192.168.1.254 failed: host is not on local network

2005-03-01 Thread Mark Edwards
On Mar 1, 2005, at 11:21 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Mark Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I've just put my server on a new connection that requires DHCP, even for a fixed IP. Anyway, the DHCP server gives a fixed public internet IP to my server, but it communicates on 192.168.1.254, which angers

Re: Strange SCSI logs

2005-03-01 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Andrea Venturoli wrote: And I was wrong to blame healthd, even after I stopped it, I'm still getting these messages. Hemm, I was meaning smartd, not healthd, sorry. bye av. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Strange SCSI logs

2005-03-01 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Anthony Atkielski wrote: I've been getting strange messages of similar character on my system, too. I'm running FreeBSD 5.3 on a dual-processor PPro with an Adaptec AIC7880 controller and two 4.5 GB SCSI drives. There doesn't seem to be any data corruption occurring, but the process doing the I/O

Re: Firefox and Macromedia Flash Plugin...

2005-03-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Eric Schuele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Zlatozar Zhelyazkov wrote: > > cd /usr/ports/www/flashplugin-firefox/ > > make install clean > > cd /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/ > > make clean all install > > cd /usr/ports/devel/linuxthreads > > make install clean > > cd /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper

Re: arplookup 192.168.1.254 failed: host is not on local network

2005-03-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mark Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've just put my server on a new connection that requires DHCP, even > for a fixed IP. Anyway, the DHCP server gives a fixed public internet > IP to my server, but it communicates on 192.168.1.254, which angers > FreeBSD (4.11). I get a lot of the follo

RE: tab completion

2005-03-01 Thread Hauan David A
> -Original Message- > From: Jonathan Chen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 10:20 AM > To: Ben Munat > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: tab completion > > > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:28:02AM -0800, Ben Munat wrote: > > None of those commands work

Re: crontab synatx

2005-03-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Eugene M. Minkovskii" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I put in my crontab following string: > > # min hour mday month wday command > 0 7*/3 * * echo "Hello world" > > So, I hope, this command will be workind every third day: > 3,6,9,12 etc, because at man crontab we read: > > >

Re: Cannot compile koffice - missing libfpx-1.2.0.11.tar.bz2

2005-03-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'm trying to compile and install koffice BUT freeBSD 5.3 doesn't find the > libfpx-1.2.0.11.tar.bz2 (see below an extract of the log). I've checked > the various directory searched and a more recent version > libfpx-1.2.0.12.tar.bz2. Mikhail Teterin updated the port

Re: dir ~

2005-03-01 Thread Xavier Maillard
On 28 fév 2005, Rob wrote: > Hi, > > I typed mv file dir/~ and I now have dir/~ but when I go to > that it takes me to my home which happened to be root, I tried > to delete the directory and it started deleting roots home. Is > there a way to delete this > ~ dir? Dunno if my answer got lost but

Re: tab completion

2005-03-01 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:28:02AM -0800, Ben Munat wrote: > None of those commands worked... However, I've also found that echo $SHELL > in my regular user's terminal says /bin/sh, while as root it says /bin/csh. If you're using /bin/sh, then of course none of the given commands will work as th

Re: Perl out of memory [sbrk()]

2005-03-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 01), Per olof Ljungmark said: > I'm running imapsync that also uses p5-Mail-IMAPClient-2.2.9 to transfer > mailboxes between imap servers. > > The following error occurs when a message has an attachment of more that > approx 35MB in size: > "Out of memory during "large"

Re: didn't work "pipe" on keyboard

2005-03-01 Thread Anthony Atkielski
âÁËÁÌÑÓ óÔÅÐÁÎ ÷ÌÁÄÉÍÉÒÏ×ÉÞ writes: > hello all! > > sorry for my english. > > So i hawe small problem with my keyboard on notebook (Roverbook) > freebsd-5.2.1. > Were i push slash (" \ ") or (with SHIFT pipe) (" | ") tere not > display any simbols on terminal. How may this trouble to solve? You

code development

2005-03-01 Thread klowd9 -
Dear All, My friend and I just installed freebsd.. We have been long time Assembly programmers, And have been looking to develop code for the freebsd system. Where is the development organized? What projects are being worked on? Where can we contact the developers? And so on.. Sincerely, My frien

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