Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Vizion
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 08:27, the author Josh Ockert contributed to the dialogue on- Re: Bye-bye beastie ...: >Kirk Strauser wrote: >> On Monday 26 September 2005 22:54, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >>>Here you are, I'm sure this sort of thing is what you are really >>>dying to have on there;

Re: PHP4 & PHP5 on same server?

2005-09-27 Thread Vizion
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 02:16, the author [EMAIL PROTECTED] contributed to the dialogue on- Re: PHP4 & PHP5 on same server?: >Mark Bucciarelli wrote: >> Is it possible install both php4 and php5 on the same server using >> ports? >> >> I'm using fastcgi so two different interpreters shoul

Re: jack audio server - it won't work

2005-09-27 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 9/27/05, James McNaughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone ever gotten jackd to work. I'm having no > luck. Should I keep trying or is it a lost cause? > > Jim > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Sep 27, 2005, at 8:00 PM, Danny Pansters wrote: But I think what may be a problem is that the normal? people don't see any "progress" or rather movement then. Which may lead them to think that the system is stalled. It's my understanding that somethi

Re: FreeBSD Upgrade from 5.2 to 5.4

2005-09-27 Thread Jay Moore
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 08:43 pm, Peter Clutton wrote: > > What's the deal? I've read the upgrade documentation, but it's just not > > clear > > to me what's going on - can someone point me to a better/more detailed > > source > > of documentation on the upgrade process (in particular wrt HD c

Re: FreeBSD Upgrade from 5.2 to 5.4

2005-09-27 Thread Beecher Rintoul
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 07:18 pm, Jay Moore wrote: > On Tuesday 27 September 2005 09:36 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 07:41:57PM -0500, Jay Moore wrote: > > > I started an upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.4 earlier, but postponed it until > > > I can understand why the upgrade re

Re: FreeBSD Upgrade from 5.2 to 5.4

2005-09-27 Thread Jay Moore
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 09:36 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 07:41:57PM -0500, Jay Moore wrote: > > I started an upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.4 earlier, but postponed it until I > > can understand why the upgrade requires input re the hard drive > > configuration. > > What are y

quick TTY Question

2005-09-27 Thread Eric Murphy
Hey all after installing the newest version of Xorg I am uable to switch consoles... with CTRL-ALT-F# Im running AMD64 version of BSD 6.0 this worked in i386 wonder why its not working in amd64 I have gdm set in /etc/ttys instead of xdm... didnt see anything that wouldnt allow me to set c

Re: FreeBSD Upgrade from 5.2 to 5.4

2005-09-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 07:41:57PM -0500, Jay Moore wrote: > I started an upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.4 earlier, but postponed it until I can > understand why the upgrade requires input re the hard drive configuration. What are you talking about? :-) Please describe your problem in more detail, e.g.

Re: Which freebsd for newer server?

2005-09-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 06:16 PM 9/27/2005, Jason Lieurance wrote: Hello, I have a dell poweredge 1425sc 1U server that's a few months old. It has dual zeons w/HT. I tried at the time to install freebsd 5.3 and 5.4 on it but it would have a fatal error with both randomly while running. I posted here and of the ve

Re: FreeBSD Upgrade from 5.2 to 5.4

2005-09-27 Thread Peter Clutton
> > What's the deal? I've read the upgrade documentation, but it's just not > clear > to me what's going on - can someone point me to a better/more detailed > source > of documentation on the upgrade process (in particular wrt HD config)? This might help: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-

jack audio server - it won't work

2005-09-27 Thread James McNaughton
Has anyone ever gotten jackd to work. I'm having no luck. Should I keep trying or is it a lost cause? Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL

Which freebsd for newer server?

2005-09-27 Thread Jason Lieurance
Hello, I have a dell poweredge 1425sc 1U server that's a few months old. It has dual zeons w/HT. I tried at the time to install freebsd 5.3 and 5.4 on it but it would have a fatal error with both randomly while running. I posted here and of the very few responses to fix my problem, someone said

FreeBSD Upgrade from 5.2 to 5.4

2005-09-27 Thread Jay Moore
I started an upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.4 earlier, but postponed it until I can understand why the upgrade requires input re the hard drive configuration. I don't understand what this screen is asking for - or why. I have a HD config I am happy with, and don't wish to change it, but this screen ins

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Sep 27, 2005, at 8:00 PM, Danny Pansters wrote: But I think what may be a problem is that the normal? people don't see any "progress" or rather movement then. Which may lead them to think that the system is stalled. It's my understanding that something like a "progress" bar like WinXP

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread jonas
> Sincerely, > Someone of a religion that's none of your business who wants the > inter-religion bickering to end and for people to respect eachother's > beliefs and preferences taking the risk of starting the 'ultimate-religion-flame-war' (please not!)... ;) religion (of any kind!) limits the s

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread jonas
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:40:01 -0500 Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get your point - truly, I do. I also get that Ted was being, well, > Ted. However, there *have* been people claiming that their Christian > sensibilities were offended by Beastie. you must be kidding ;) on the oth

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Danny Pansters
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 21:28, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Mike Jeays wrote: > >As well as turning off the beastie, is there a way to suppress all the > >dmesg and other output, so that the first thing to appear is the KDM or > >GDM login screen? When I show FreeBSD to people who have only seen > >

Re: user account changes lost on reboot

2005-09-27 Thread Jarrod Harch
Hi Lowell, yes the home directory is intact. I built and installed a new kernel, and after the reboot the accounts are now staying intact. So it's a mystery. Perhaps it was some unfinished sysinstall business, somehow overwriting the password database with the defaults? I'll reboot again tonight

Re: Submitting PR without outgoing mail

2005-09-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-09-27 16:16, Micah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>On 2005-09-27 15:50, Micah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>Hey there, >>> >>>Just been reading >>>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/index.html >>>It says that send_pr needs outgoing

Re: Submitting PR without outgoing mail

2005-09-27 Thread Micah
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-09-27 15:50, Micah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey there, Just been reading http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/index.html It says that send_pr needs outgoing mail from the system in order to work. Is there anyway to send a PR

Re: Submitting PR without outgoing mail

2005-09-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-09-27 15:50, Micah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey there, > > Just been reading > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/index.html > It says that send_pr needs outgoing mail from the system in order to > work. Is there anyway to send a PR without having to se

Submitting PR without outgoing mail

2005-09-27 Thread Micah
Hey there, Just been reading http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/index.html It says that send_pr needs outgoing mail from the system in order to work. Is there anyway to send a PR without having to set up outgoing mail? Thanks, Micah __

RE: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Thompson, Jimi
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Re: New user

2005-09-27 Thread Xian
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Tharaka Abeysekera wrote: > > I'm a new to UNIX, I got to know about your services recently. Please > > tell me ware to start FreeBSD(UNIX) . Because I'm pissed off with Windows On Tuesday 27 September 2005 14:29, Derrick Test wrote: > thats a big question. the handbook off

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 17:28, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Mike Jeays wrote: > > > > >As well as turning off the beastie, is there a way to suppress all the > >dmesg and other output, so that the first thing to appear is the KDM or > >GDM login screen? When I show FreeBSD to people who have only seen > >

Re: Monitoring network connections recomendations please

2005-09-27 Thread Xian
On Monday 26 September 2005 17:49, vladone wrote: > Ntop, traffic, bwm-ng. U can find more in ports at /net/ location. nload is good too /Xian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

Re: Tried everything to create a new slice...

2005-09-27 Thread Micah
Paul Clark wrote: Hi all, I have a 6gb slice on a 10gb drive. I want to make use of the unused 4gb by creating a new slice in it and mounting /home on it. If I use sysinstall in multi or single user mode it says: "ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad0!" I have tried using the live cd but

OT: moving address book from mozilla-mail to sylpheed-claws

2005-09-27 Thread Robert Marella
Good Morning As the subject states I am moving from Mozilla-mail to Sylpheed-Claws. I can't seem to find a way to convert the mozilla.mab file to anything that Sylpheed will import. Anybody have experience or clues on this problem? Thanks Robert ___ f

Re: file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread martinko
Micah wrote: I've found the troubled piece of code, just gotta figure out the best way to fix it. I'll come up with a patch and submit it as a PR I guess. (never done either, but I'm sure I'll figure it out. :) Later, Micah thanks, micah! ___ fre

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Mike Jeays wrote: As well as turning off the beastie, is there a way to suppress all the dmesg and other output, so that the first thing to appear is the KDM or GDM login screen? When I show FreeBSD to people who have only seen Windows before, their first reaction is how geeky all that text lo

NextCom or eRacks?

2005-09-27 Thread Tom Vilot
Hello, all. I'm trying to choose between two laptops for FreeBSD: eRacks/Centrino: http://eracks.com/products/Laptops/config?sku=CENTRINO 1.5GHz, $1,699 base price vs: NextCom NextBook: http://www.nextcomputing.com/nextbook.htm 3GHz, $2,050 base price. Does anyone have any experience with the

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Mike Jeays wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 11:34, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > > > >>Kirk Strauser wrote: > >> > >>>On Monday 26 September 2005 22:54, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >>> > Here you are, I'm sure this sort of thing is what you are really > dying to have on there; > >>> > >>>You ow

Re: file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread Micah
martinko wrote: Micah wrote: RW wrote: On Tuesday 27 September 2005 15:56, Micah wrote: The directory structure of fat32 is still the same as from dos. In order to create long filenames, Windows uses subsequent directory entries to store the extra filename characters. If a filename fi

Re: vqadmin

2005-09-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
tethys ocean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want setup vqadmin-2.3.6. FreeBSD 5.4 and qmail-1.03_4 and > qmailadmin-1.2.7,1 apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 mysql-server-4.0.24_1 is > running on my system. Install vqadmin from ports and than setting up depens > on http://freebsd.qmailrocks.org/vqadmi

Tabela de precos MI

2005-09-27 Thread
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Re: file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread martinko
Micah wrote: RW wrote: On Tuesday 27 September 2005 15:56, Micah wrote: The directory structure of fat32 is still the same as from dos. In order to create long filenames, Windows uses subsequent directory entries to store the extra filename characters. If a filename fits the 8.3 format, W

Re: file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread martinko
RW wrote: On Tuesday 27 September 2005 14:22, martinko wrote: ok. unfortunately i forgot most of my knowledge from the old days of ms-dos but what i can say even without it is this -- it's not about windows explorer only. i can see the correct file names in all applications (under windows of c

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Mark Cullen
Mike Jeays wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 11:34, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Kirk Strauser wrote: On Monday 26 September 2005 22:54, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Here you are, I'm sure this sort of thing is what you are really dying to have on there; You owe me a new keyboard, preferably a spewed

Re: file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread martinko
Micah wrote: The reason is as follows: a.txt is an 8.3 filename and is stored on fat32 in the old dos format. a.txt~ is NOT an 8.3 filename and is stored on fat32 in the extended long filename format. Case information is not stored in 8.3's file names. They're always the same case, but I

Tried everything to create a new slice...

2005-09-27 Thread Paul Clark
Hi all, I have a 6gb slice on a 10gb drive. I want to make use of the unused 4gb by creating a new slice in it and mounting /home on it. If I use sysinstall in multi or single user mode it says: "ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad0!" I have tried using the live cd but the keyboard map is wr

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 11:34, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Kirk Strauser wrote: > > >On Monday 26 September 2005 22:54, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > > >>Here you are, I'm sure this sort of thing is what you are really > >>dying to have on there; > >> > >> > > > >You owe me a new keyboard, prefera

Re: Sharing /usr/ports

2005-09-27 Thread Robert Marella
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:46:49 +0400 "Andrew P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/24/05, Gordon Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've got two FreeBSD 5.4 machines. One is a server, the other is a > > desktop. > > > > Like others have already told you here, the best solution > is packaging. The

Re: Portsdb returns error after cvsup - How to Proceed?

2005-09-27 Thread Mark Kane
Kent Stewart wrote: On Tuesday 27 September 2005 12:33 pm, Mark Kane wrote: Hi everyone. I CVSupped yesterday to make sure I got the Firefox fix. My plan was to do the following: # cvsup -g -L 2 ports-supfile # portsdb -Uu # portversion -l "<" # portupgrade -arR After cvsupping and running po

Re: Portsdb returns error after cvsup - How to Proceed?

2005-09-27 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 12:33 pm, Mark Kane wrote: > Hi everyone. I CVSupped yesterday to make sure I got the Firefox fix. > My plan was to do the following: > > # cvsup -g -L 2 ports-supfile > # portsdb -Uu > # portversion -l "<" > # portupgrade -arR > > After cvsupping and running portsdb -U

Re: Firefox won't stay as default browser ...

2005-09-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
Kiffin Gish wrote: Every time I fire up firefox it claims it is not the default browser. If I click on yes to make it the default browser or go into Prferences | General and hit the Default Browser [Check Now]-button and/or I restart firefox, I still get the message that it is NOT the default

Re: file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread Micah
RW wrote: On Tuesday 27 September 2005 15:56, Micah wrote: The directory structure of fat32 is still the same as from dos. In order to create long filenames, Windows uses subsequent directory entries to store the extra filename characters. If a filename fits the 8.3 format, Windows (at leas

Portsdb returns error after cvsup - How to Proceed?

2005-09-27 Thread Mark Kane
Hi everyone. I CVSupped yesterday to make sure I got the Firefox fix. My plan was to do the following: # cvsup -g -L 2 ports-supfile # portsdb -Uu # portversion -l "<" # portupgrade -arR After cvsupping and running portsdb -Uu, I got an error which is at the end of my email. Today I tried a

Re: Limit client connections ssh

2005-09-27 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 02:27:26PM -0500, Efren Bravo wrote: > I'm using ssh to connect me to fBSD server, how can I limit the client > connections?, I mean, I only only that the server(ssh) accept incoming > connections from a specific IP or IPs range? You can restrict to a subset of your system

Re: Limit client connections ssh

2005-09-27 Thread Jon Krause
- Original Message - From: "Efren Bravo" : Hi, : : I'm using ssh to connect me to fBSD server, how can I limit the client : connections?, I mean, I only only that the server(ssh) accept incoming : connections from a specific IP or IPs range? : : Thanks : Look at/etc/hosts.allow

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Sep 27, 2005, at 12:40 PM, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Tuesday 27 September 2005 10:27, Josh Ockert wrote: There isn't a fuss. Someone asked for help. The only fuss is coming from Ted, who insists that any slight against Beastie is a Fundamentalist Christian Crusade. I get your point - trul

Re: hdparm like program for freebsd?

2005-09-27 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 9/27/05, Vincent Stipo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a hdparm like program which can benchmark individual harddrives. > "hdparm -tT" > and give the burst rate, allong with sequencial read / write? You can also use dd for that, at least for the sequential read / write thing, probably wit

Firefox won't stay as default browser ...

2005-09-27 Thread Kiffin Gish
Every time I fire up firefox it claims it is not the default browser. If I click on yes to make it the default browser or go into Prferences | General and hit the Default Browser [Check Now]-button and/or I restart firefox, I still get the message that it is NOT the default browser. Nothing I

Re: PHP4 & PHP5 on same server?

2005-09-27 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 11:16:04AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mark Bucciarelli wrote: > >Is it possible install both php4 and php5 on the same server using > >ports? > > > >I'm using fastcgi so two different interpreters should be fine. (Rename > >/usr/local/bin/php to /usr/local/bin/php5-

Dead links everywhere ...

2005-09-27 Thread Kiffin Gish
If I click on hyperlinks (email wherever) nothings happens. I'm afraid I messed up my xfce desktop and need to restore this (using mimetypes)? Thanks alot in advance. -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherland ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Backup

2005-09-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hi list, > > can I make a copy using dd command from a HD scsi > Maxtor 36 GB to a HD IDE Sansung 40 GB ? You can, but you probably do not want to. Although you don't say much about what you are trying to do, I am guessing you want to "duplicate" the 36 GB disk on the 40 GB drive. Since

Re: 5.4 installation trouble

2005-09-27 Thread Ivailo Bonev
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 06:52:55 +0300, James Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a toshiba satelite a25 laptop running windows xp right now pentium 3 with 512mb ram, with 40 gb unpartitioned space (35 or so has been reserved for bsd). I made 3 .iso's from nero, taken from the files on www.freebs

Re: Limit client connections ssh

2005-09-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, I'm using ssh to connect me to fBSD server, how can I limit the client connections?, I mean, I only only that the server(ssh) accept incoming connections from a specific IP or IPs range? Thanks Why not limit the traffic to/from the ssh port via a firewall, like ip

Limit client connections ssh

2005-09-27 Thread Efren Bravo
Hi, I'm using ssh to connect me to fBSD server, how can I limit the client connections?, I mean, I only only that the server(ssh) accept incoming connections from a specific IP or IPs range? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: pfctl not found

2005-09-27 Thread Björn König
XBO wrote: Hello, I've tried to enable pf on my 5.4-RELEASE installation recently. It was installed behind the firewall before, so back then I turned PF off in /etc/make.conf. After removing the line from /etc/make.conf and rebuilding the kernel, it still failes to load pf and it seems to me tha

libssl, &c, briefly...

2005-09-27 Thread Gary Kline
Just a short ACK to those who offered clues on howto get my ssh/scp apps working again. Thanks! times 25! Dunno what I bungled, but rebuilding /usr/src/secure/openssl/* fixed just about everything on my ThinkPad. Now, after spending 14+ hours yesterday, it

Re: XFig and more?

2005-09-27 Thread Soo-Hyun Choi
Nothing wrong with XFig for me. Just my curiosity to know what kind of tools there are. SH On 27 Sep 2005 09:48:10 -0400, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Soo-Hyun Choi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In the Unix world, XFig has been one of the popular programmes to > > produce diagr

RE: server reboots every 9 hrs like clock-work

2005-09-27 Thread Bob Middaugh
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gayn Winters > Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 1:20 PM > To: 'Jason Lieurance'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: server reboots every 9 hrs like clock-work > > > -Original Message

Re: Mounting NetBSD disk under FreeBSD.

2005-09-27 Thread FC
On Sep 27, 2005, at 9:57 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: *** This message was sent to your KasMail disposable email address: FC [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I am switching from NetBSD to FreeBSD and I have to get some data from a disk labeled on NetBSD 2.0. I would like to

Re: hdparm like program for freebsd?

2005-09-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 27), Vincent Stipo said: > Is there a hdparm like program which can benchmark individual harddrives. > "hdparm -tT" > and give the burst rate, allong with sequencial read / write? Try rawio, iozone, or bonnie in ports. There's also the base system command "diskinfo" which

RE: server reboots every 9 hrs like clock-work

2005-09-27 Thread Gayn Winters
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Jason Lieurance > Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 9:57 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: server reboots every 9 hrs like clock-work > > > Kris Kennaway said: > > > Check powe

Re: Set options to deamons

2005-09-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 12:32:14PM -0500, Efren Bravo wrote: > Hi, > > How do I set options to deamons? > > For instance, I've been reading a security doc and it says: "Syslogd can > be attacked directly and it's strongly recommended that you use -s option > whenever possible, and the -a option

Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...

2005-09-27 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 06:27 am, martinko wrote: > Jerry McAllister wrote: > >>John Hoover wrote: > >>>On 9/26/05, Kiffin Gish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a dual-boot laptop running on the one hand Windows XP > (sorry) and on the other hand good old FreeBSD. > > My q

pfctl not found

2005-09-27 Thread XBO
Hello, I've tried to enable pf on my 5.4-RELEASE installation recently. It was installed behind the firewall before, so back then I turned PF off in /etc/make.conf. After removing the line from /etc/make.conf and rebuilding the kernel, it still failes to load pf and it seems to me that the kernel

Re: Unable to install 5.4 from CDROM

2005-09-27 Thread Mark Jones
On 9/16/05, Mark Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having an odd problem installing 5.4 release from CDROM. > > The machine is an HP ProLiant DL145. It didn't come with a CDROM drive, I > borrowed one from a Dell PowerEdge SC1425. > The CDs are good, I've installed on other machines with the

Re: dockapp virtual desktop switcher

2005-09-27 Thread Eric Schuele
Brian John wrote: Hello, I am running fluxbox and I don't like the method of using the scrollbar and/or hotkeys to switch desktops (even though it is easy). On my windows box at work I have an app called 'goscreen' installed. It allows me to see a preview of what is on each desktop and click

Re: server reboots every 9 hrs like clock-work

2005-09-27 Thread Jason Lieurance
Kris Kennaway said: > Check power supply, CPU cooling, try putting it behind a UPS in case > your AC power is dropping out (e.g. due to increased load from > something kicking in every 9 hours, etc). I will check PS and cooling. It's on a good apc ups so that's not it. Also, forget 9 hrs, it jus

hdparm like program for freebsd?

2005-09-27 Thread Vincent Stipo
Is there a hdparm like program which can benchmark individual harddrives. "hdparm -tT" and give the burst rate, allong with sequencial read / write? -- Vincent Stipo ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 10:27, Josh Ockert wrote: > There isn't a fuss. Someone asked for help. The only fuss is coming from > Ted, who insists that any slight against Beastie is a Fundamentalist > Christian Crusade. I get your point - truly, I do. I also get that Ted was being, well, Ted.

Re: XFig and more?

2005-09-27 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: >Hi, >In the Unix world, XFig has been one of the popular programmes to produce >diagrams. Would there any more tools like XFig which is very suit to use >together with LaTeX? >(For example, I have heard that there is a text-base graphic tool or >somethi

Re: Set options to deamons

2005-09-27 Thread Micah
Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, How do I set options to deamons? For instance, I've been reading a security doc and it says: "Syslogd can be attacked directly and it's strongly recommended that you use -s option whenever possible, and the -a option otherwise". If Syslogd start when the OS start, ho

Re: Set options to deamons

2005-09-27 Thread RW
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 18:32, Efren Bravo wrote: > Hi, > > How do I set options to deamons? > > For instance, I've been reading a security doc and it says: "Syslogd can > be attacked directly and it's strongly recommended that you use -s option > whenever possible, and the -a option otherwise

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread John Adams
-Original Message- From: Josh Ockert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >There isn't a fuss. Someone asked for help. The only fuss is coming from Ted, who insists that any slight against Beastie is a Fundamentalist Christian Crusade. It was particularly funny to see it directed against someone whose e

Set options to deamons

2005-09-27 Thread Efren Bravo
Hi, How do I set options to deamons? For instance, I've been reading a security doc and it says: "Syslogd can be attacked directly and it's strongly recommended that you use -s option whenever possible, and the -a option otherwise". If Syslogd start when the OS start, how do I set the -s option

Re: Questions regarding FreeBSD packages and dependancies

2005-09-27 Thread RW
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 17:15, RW wrote: > I don't use packages much, but I think it's the case that a package won't > install if it was built against a dependency that is newer that the one you > have installed. > > Note GTK1 and GTK2 are separate and can co-exists, so I think you need to

Re: New user

2005-09-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:04:06 -0400 (EDT) > Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > Hi > > > > > > I'm a new to UNIX, I got to know about your services recently. > > > Please tell me ware to start FreeBSD(UNIX) . Because I'm pissed off > > > with Windows . > > > > On

Re: Questions regarding FreeBSD packages and dependancies

2005-09-27 Thread RW
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 16:21, Milscvaer wrote: > I tried to use pkg_add to install a new program from > stable, however, it complained about older versions of > gtk being installed and refused to continue. Why not > just leave the old versions of Gtk there so existing > programs may continue

Re: DPMS on laptop not working

2005-09-27 Thread Fabian Keil
"Paul Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed Freebsd on a Dell Latitude C600 with 14" SXGA screen. It > needs to be on all the time so I need a way of turning the screen off. > I want to get DPMS working so I can do "xset dpms force off" but it doesn't > work. Nothing happens a

Re: tar -u adds all files regardless of mod date

2005-09-27 Thread Tim Kientzle
Thanks, Gareth. I'm hoping to get some time this week to backport a lot of changes from bsdtar/libarchive in -CURRENT back to 5-STABLE. I'll let you know when I get that done. Tim Gareth Bailey wrote: Just to add, I seem to be experiencing similar behaviour using the -P option: # tar -P -cvf

Re: server reboots every 9 hrs like clock-work

2005-09-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:17:02AM -0400, Jason Lieurance wrote: > Hello, > > Our file server is a compaq proliant 320DL 1U w/ 512MB ram, 18GB 320 scsi, > 73GB 320 > scsi, P3 1 Ghz, running FreeBSD 4.9, samba 3.0.5. > > HAd it for about 16 months, been running great. About 3 months ago it > reb

Re: file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread RW
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 15:56, Micah wrote: > The directory structure of fat32 is still the same as from dos. In > order to create long filenames, Windows uses subsequent directory > entries to store the extra filename characters. If a filename fits the > 8.3 format, Windows (at least Win98)

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Kirk Strauser wrote: On Monday 26 September 2005 22:54, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Here you are, I'm sure this sort of thing is what you are really dying to have on there; You owe me a new keyboard, preferably a spewed-coffee-proof one. Sincerely, A sincere Christian who doesn't underst

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Josh Ockert
Kirk Strauser wrote: On Monday 26 September 2005 22:54, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Here you are, I'm sure this sort of thing is what you are really dying to have on there; You owe me a new keyboard, preferably a spewed-coffee-proof one. Sincerely, A sincere Christian who doesn't understand wha

Questions regarding FreeBSD packages and dependancies

2005-09-27 Thread Milscvaer
When I upgrade a package, say Gaim, and if I would also like all of its library dependancies to be upgraded, if new versions of certian libraries, such as Gtk are installed, will the old versions of Gtk remain in place and older programs that had been using the older version will continue to use

Re: New user

2005-09-27 Thread Ashley Moran
Tharaka Abeysekera wrote: Hi… I’m a new to UNIX, I got to know about your services recently. Please tell me ware to start FreeBSD(UNIX) . Because I’m pissed off with Windows . Regards, Tharaka It might be worth looking for local users group near you. If you haven't got a lot of experi

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Monday 26 September 2005 22:54, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Here you are, I'm sure this sort of thing is what you are really > dying to have on there; You owe me a new keyboard, preferably a spewed-coffee-proof one. Sincerely, A sincere Christian who doesn't understand what all the fuss is about

Re: file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread Micah
RW wrote: On Tuesday 27 September 2005 15:15, Micah wrote: ps: and, btw, how freebsd knows there's a capital A in "A.txt~" ? because it's stored on the filesystem in that way, i guess. being case-insensitive doesn't (necessarily) mean a FS doesn't keep a case, imho. The reason is as follo

Re: tar -u adds all files regardless of mod date

2005-09-27 Thread Gareth Bailey
Just to add, I seem to be experiencing similar behaviour using the -P option: # tar -P -cvf archive.tar /usr/archive/Pimani/ .. files get added # tar -P -uvf archive.tar /usr/archive/Pimani/ a /usr/archive/Pimani/Pimani Presentation/multimedia/August 2005/LM_001_PRINT_050119/Thumbs.db a /usr/archi

Re: New user

2005-09-27 Thread jonas
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:04:06 -0400 (EDT) Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > Hi > > > > I'm a new to UNIX, I got to know about your services recently. > > Please tell me ware to start FreeBSD(UNIX) . Because I'm pissed off > > with Windows . > > One place to wstart is to bre

Re: file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread RW
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 15:15, Micah wrote: > > ps: and, btw, how freebsd knows there's a capital A in "A.txt~" ? > > because it's stored on the filesystem in that way, i guess. being > > case-insensitive doesn't (necessarily) mean a FS doesn't keep a case, > > imho. > > The reason is as fol

Re: Webcams and FreeBSD

2005-09-27 Thread Ned Harrison
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 13:23 +0200, vittorio wrote: > Alle 12:05, domenica 25 settembre 2005, Ned Harrison ha scritto: > > I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 as a desktop operating system on my home > > computer. I would like to set up a webcam for physical security/nature > > observation while I'm away from

Re: sendmail or another mail server?

2005-09-27 Thread Randy Schultz
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Efren Bravo spaketh thusly: -}Hi, -} -}I've installed a fBSD and now I'm tuning it 'cause I need to put it to -}serve as mail server. -} -}My questions is if sendmail is able to serve as a serious mail server or I -}should try with another software for this job. -} -}I

Re: Webcams and FreeBSD

2005-09-27 Thread Ned Harrison
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 13:40 +0200, John Oxley wrote: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 05:05:24AM -0500, Ned Harrison wrote: > > I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 as a desktop operating system on my home > > computer. I would like to set up a webcam for physical security/nature > > observation while I'm away from t

Re: file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread RW
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 14:22, martinko wrote: > ok. unfortunately i forgot most of my knowledge from the old days of > ms-dos but what i can say even without it is this -- it's not about > windows explorer only. i can see the correct file names in all > applications (under windows of course)

Re: tar -u adds all files regardless of mod date

2005-09-27 Thread Gareth Bailey
Hi Tim, > 5-STABLE is sufficiently different that the patch doesn't apply, > unfortunately. It will take me a few days to figure out whether > it's best to work up a different patch for 5-STABLE or whether > I should MFC a lot of work from 6-STABLE to 5-STABLE. Unfortunately our server is also o

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