excluding a particular filename from rsyncing ... help

2006-01-29 Thread Ensel Sharon
Every night I rsync a directory tree from one system to another. Easy. However there is a particular set of files that could exist anywhere in that directory at any depth, and it is unknown how many there are at any given time. I want to make sure that rsync skips over those files regardless o

Re: Vinum & FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE

2006-01-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 30 January 2006 at 10:31:13 +0300, Forth wrote: > Hi, > I am trying setup a vinum mirrored plex with two disks: >> ad2: 38204MB [77622/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA33 >> ad3: 38204MB [77622/16/63] at ata1-slave UDMA33 > Disks are new and fully functional, but when i do: > #vinum start > #

Vinum & FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE

2006-01-29 Thread Forth
Hi, I am trying setup a vinum mirrored plex with two disks: >ad2: 38204MB [77622/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA33 >ad3: 38204MB [77622/16/63] at ata1-slave UDMA33 Disks are new and fully functional, but when i do: #vinum start #vinum vinum -> mirror -v -n mirror /dev/ad2 /dev/ad3 i get this: drive vi

CVS Import Permissions

2006-01-29 Thread david bryce
> david bryce wrote: > > I am having some confusion regarding the way CVS works with permissions > > under unix when importing a new project. Currently, when I import a > > project, I get this sort of permissions on the project directory: > > > > drwxr-x--- 2 jim cvs 512 Jan 27 12:31 test_proj

Re: FTP Automate Shell Script

2006-01-29 Thread Angelo Christou
> > A .netrc file (read the ftp man page) may work for > you. > > > > Cheers > > Gavin > > If you have shell access on the destination host, > you can also try mirror. Thanks for the many suggestions, I will be looking into them all (.netrc doesn't work yet, still trying). I am still curious w

Re: Elegant delete of word ~tmp files in all sub / dirs

2006-01-29 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi Mathieu, > useless to do -r while you search only files (-type f) > the delete function of find seems more apropriate to me But the -exec mode is more general (understand you put whatever command you want there) and beside, the first question was refeering to a syntax using {}. But I guess t

Re: CVS Import Permissions

2006-01-29 Thread Duane Whitty
david bryce wrote: Hi All, I am having some confusion regarding the way CVS works with permissions under unix when importing a new project. Currently, when I import a project, I get this sort of permissions on the project directory: drwxr-x--- 2 jim cvs 512 Jan 27 12:31 test_proj Notice t

Re: Portsnap

2006-01-29 Thread Chris
On 29/01/06, Donald J. O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 28 January 2006 19:19, Chris wrote: > > > > Concerning speed I discovered the version in the ports tree is very > > slow, I have portsnap running zippy when using fetch on 2 5.4 boxes > > which I use the version in the base s

Re: FTP Automate Shell Script

2006-01-29 Thread a non y mouse
Gavin Cameron wrote: A .netrc file (read the ftp man page) may work for you. Cheers Gavin If you have shell access on the destination host, you can also try mirror. -- ``Were you arrested under false circumcisions?'' ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

CVS Import Permissions

2006-01-29 Thread david bryce
Hi All, I am having some confusion regarding the way CVS works with permissions under unix when importing a new project. Currently, when I import a project, I get this sort of permissions on the project directory: drwxr-x--- 2 jim cvs 512 Jan 27 12:31 test_proj Notice that the group (cvs) i

pptp server

2006-01-29 Thread gahn
Hi all: I configured pptp server on 5.4 and it seems to be working (kinda): 1) From log file Jan 30 03:07:03 home mpd: [pptp0] using interface ng0 Jan 30 03:07:03 home mpd: [pptp1] ppp node is "mpd5309-pptp1" Jan 30 03:07:03 home mpd: [pptp1] using interface ng1 Jan 30 03:07:03 home mpd: [pptp2]

pptp server

2006-01-29 Thread gahn
Hi all: I configured pptp server on 5.4 and it seems to be working (kinda): 1) From log file Jan 30 03:07:03 home mpd: [pptp0] using interface ng0 Jan 30 03:07:03 home mpd: [pptp1] ppp node is "mpd5309-pptp1" Jan 30 03:07:03 home mpd: [pptp1] using interface ng1 Jan 30 03:07:03 home mpd: [pptp2]

Re: FTP Automate Shell Script

2006-01-29 Thread Gavin Cameron
A .netrc file (read the ftp man page) may work for you. Cheers Gavin On 1/30/06, Angelo Christou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello. I am using FreeBSD 6.0 and Bash as my shell. I > am following a tutorial to create a shell script to > copy some files. It works perectly exept for 2 points. > >

FTP Automate Shell Script

2006-01-29 Thread Angelo Christou
Hello. I am using FreeBSD 6.0 and Bash as my shell. I am following a tutorial to create a shell script to copy some files. It works perectly exept for 2 points. Here is the article - http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/printerfriendly.asp?p=170517 Here is the script - #!/bin/sh temp="/tmp/$

Re: serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Duane Whitty
Scott I. Remick wrote: Hello... I'm trying to set up a serial console for watching console error messages while in X, but am having a real hard time getting my head around the concepts of what I need to do (and don't need to). I've seen http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/serialconsole-setup.htm

Re: serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:32:46 -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Can't you just run xconsole? Doesn't help me if xconsole is hidden by another window at the time of the halt. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:01:54 -0500, Ken Stevenson wrote: > I was trying to accomplish the same thing a couple weeks ago and > somebody recommended the following: > > touch /var/log/console.log > > Edit /etc/syslog.conf and uncomment the line that begins with > console.info. > > Reboot (you mi

Re: Ctrl+Alt+number terminal switching stopped working

2006-01-29 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Ian Moore thusly... > > I've just noticed I can't switch from my X session back to the > other vtty screens using Ctrl+Alt+1, Ctrl+Alt+2 etc. I can't seem > to find any info on this - is it a known issue or is it just my > system? I can't say if "XkbDisable"

Re: serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:21:23 +, Robert Slade wrote: > I can't help you directly, but have you looked at the error logs? they > should give you a clue, especially Xorg.log Last few times I remember looking, there was nothing logged. This lead me to believe that the lockup happened too fast for

Re: ports : make index failed

2006-01-29 Thread Duane Whitty
Pirat SRIYOTHA wrote: hi sirs, after cvsup the ports tree , i make index but get errors. it said inspiron# cat /usr/ports/make-index Script started on Mon Jan 30 07:10:38 2006 You have mail. inspiron# uname -a FreeBSD inspiron.thai-aec.org 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #3: Tue Jan 24 18:17:0

Re: freebsd hosting

2006-01-29 Thread a non y mouse
RJ wrote: They are the best I know of for cost and support. Cperciva posts in their forums and they have their own mirror. Without starting a "war" does anyone know of any provider that can match or beat what LT has to offer? I have a machine with dedicatednow. They've been alright so far

can't build Apache::MP3

2006-01-29 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people, I'm trying to build Apache::MP3, but I'm seeing failures. ===> Configuring for mod_perl-1.29_1 Will configure via APXS (apxs=/usr/local/sbin/apxs) PerlDispatchHandler.enabled PerlChildInitHandlerenabled PerlChildExitHandlerenabled PerlPostReadRequestHandler..

Re: 6.0 Migration Guide?

2006-01-29 Thread Chris Shenton
Rowdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Does anyone have a pointer to a FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE Migration Guide? > Try /usr/src/UPDATING, search for "To upgrade in-place from 5.x-stable > or higher to 6.x-stable" (near the end of the file). I *just* went through this on two 5-STABLE systems, worked lik

Re: Gnome's bottom panel doesn't display running programs

2006-01-29 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Sunday 29 January 2006 12:36、Derrick Ryalls さんは書きました: > Greetings, > > I did some searching, but didn't find anything so I was hoping someone > might have a clue on this. > > I just did the compile for gnome 2.12 on FreeBSD 6 and so far most > everything seems to work except the lower panel does no

Re: gcc options when building kernel

2006-01-29 Thread Andrew Chace
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 08:27 +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote: > Hi all, > I'm rebuilding my kernel and I noticed some gcc (I believe ) options > being used that I don't think I set anyway. > > The options are : > -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2 > > Does this mean that the kernel won't make u

ports : make index failed

2006-01-29 Thread Pirat SRIYOTHA
hi sirs, after cvsup the ports tree , i make index but get errors. it said inspiron# cat /usr/ports/make-index Script started on Mon Jan 30 07:10:38 2006 You have mail. inspiron# uname -a FreeBSD inspiron.thai-aec.org 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #3: Tue Jan 24 18:17:06 ICT 2006 [EMAIL

Re: freebsd hosting

2006-01-29 Thread RJ
They are the best I know of for cost and support. Cperciva posts in their forums and they have their own mirror. Without starting a "war" does anyone know of any provider that can match or beat what LT has to offer? - Original Message - From: "Philip Hallstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: freebsd hosting

2006-01-29 Thread Philip Hallstrom
www.LayeredTech.com is good for FreeBSD servers, they are flexable and offers any version of FreeBSD you need. They might. But by default they install 5.3. I just signed up with them and that's what they gave me... I upgraded to 6 though and so far have been happy with them.

what am I doing wrong with edquota ?

2006-01-29 Thread Ensel Sharon
(edquota man page has no examples) # edquota -u -e /mnt/fs1:810:900:81:90 test200 # # quota test200 Disk quotas for user test200 (uid 1002): none # # So I run the edquota command non-iunteractively, and it produces no errors, and it seems to follow the format specified in the

Re: Firefox 1.5

2006-01-29 Thread David Scheidt
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 10:13:23PM +, Adam Nealis wrote: > > I hate the "friendly" HTTP error messages. I haven't worked out how to > get bare HTTP error messages yet. > set browser.xul.error_pages.enabled to false David ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Re: Firefox 1.5

2006-01-29 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 10:22:45PM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Frank Staals wrote: > > >Hmm I got a question regarding to Fx 1.5. Has anyone else noticed a > >tremendous slowdown when using 1.5 ? I especially mean when the > >popup-window opens to ask what you want to do

Re: Firefox 1.5

2006-01-29 Thread Adam Nealis
Andreas Davour wrote: On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Frank Staals wrote: Hmm I got a question regarding to Fx 1.5. Has anyone else noticed a tremendous slowdown when using 1.5 ? I especially mean when the popup-window opens to ask what you want to do with a download ( save it or open it ) then Fx hangs

Re: Starting mysql at boot time.

2006-01-29 Thread Adam Nealis
fbsd_user wrote: I installed the mysql-server port. How do I get it to start at boot time? Is there some how-to for apache/mysql? If you are using FreeBSD 6, then read the start-up scripts that were installed as part of the ports. The scripts are in /usr/local/etc/rc.d _

Re: gcc options when building kernel

2006-01-29 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 08:27:29AM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote: > Hi all, > I'm rebuilding my kernel and I noticed some gcc (I believe ) options > being used that I don't think I set anyway. > > The options are : > -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2 > > Does this mean that the kernel won't

Re: sendmail, sasl, ldap

2006-01-29 Thread Ilias Sachpazidis
Hi, A comprehensive tutorial, in German, could be found at: http://wiki.bsd-crew.de/index.php/Projektseminar_Mailserver#Einf.FChrung Best regards, Ilias Martin Schweizer wrote: Hello Jon I'm in a similar situation as you. I play now a long time with this. You have to use cyrus-sasl2-saslau

Re: pf and scrubbing bubbles

2006-01-29 Thread Russell E. Meek
J.D. Bronson wrote: At 02:31 PM 1/29/2006, Russell E. Meek wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: J.D. Bronson wrote: I am using this in my pf.conf (on 6.0) and was wondering if these settings are appropriate. While 'scrub' by itself is always recommended, I added a few more things that seem to o

Re: gcc options when building kernel

2006-01-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 08:27:29AM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote: > Hi all, > I'm rebuilding my kernel and I noticed some gcc (I believe ) options > being used that I don't think I set anyway. > > The options are : > -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2 > > Does this mean that the kernel won't

Re[2]: what with privileges

2006-01-29 Thread Playnet
Hello Robert, Sunday, January 29, 2006, 11:26:05 PM, you wrote: RS> Hmm I think the 1st line says it all. You are not using the correct RS> admin user ie one with sufficient privileges. to add the user to ldap. RS> This is really a question for the samba mailing list. How subscribe to samba ma

gcc options when building kernel

2006-01-29 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi all, I'm rebuilding my kernel and I noticed some gcc (I believe ) options being used that I don't think I set anyway. The options are : -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2 Does this mean that the kernel won't make use of these cpu features, even though they are supported by the cpu (see

Re: pf and scrubbing bubbles

2006-01-29 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 02:31 PM 1/29/2006, Russell E. Meek wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: J.D. Bronson wrote: I am using this in my pf.conf (on 6.0) and was wondering if these settings are appropriate. While 'scrub' by itself is always recommended, I added a few more things that seem to ought to be there? I use t

Re: S-Video to TV

2006-01-29 Thread Nick Larsen
By The Way; the American Standard is NTSC (*National Television System C ommittee*) not NTCS (otherwise you may find it not working as expected). On 1/23/06, David Raison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Oh, and you most probably have to use the nv

RE: question of kernel options

2006-01-29 Thread fbsd_user
Look in the same directory where the default kernel source is. One of the files has all the options. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of gahn Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 3:33 PM To: freebsd general questions Subject: question of kernel options

Re: Starting mysql at boot time.

2006-01-29 Thread Garrett Cooper
fbsd_user wrote: I installed the mysql-server port. How do I get it to start at boot time? I assume that you can do this by adding mysqld_enable="YES" to rc.conf. Is there some how-to for apache/mysql? Uhm, there's a manual that's served by apache by default, so that's a good start for

Re: Starting mysql at boot time.

2006-01-29 Thread Robert Slade
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 20:32, fbsd_user wrote: > I installed the mysql-server port. > How do I get it to start at boot time? > Is there some how-to for apache/mysql? > > Thanks > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: question of kernel options

2006-01-29 Thread Garrett Cooper
gahn wrote: Hi: Where can I find the list of all options of kernel file for freebsd 5.4? Thanks cd /usr/src/sys/[insert_your_arch_here]/conf; make LINT; All you have to do is fire up your favorite editor and open up the LINT file that's been created. Of course you have to be root t

Starting mysql at boot time.

2006-01-29 Thread fbsd_user
I installed the mysql-server port. How do I get it to start at boot time? Is there some how-to for apache/mysql? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any ma

question of kernel options

2006-01-29 Thread gahn
Hi: Where can I find the list of all options of kernel file for freebsd 5.4? Thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-qu

Re: pf and scrubbing bubbles

2006-01-29 Thread Russell E. Meek
Chuck Swiger wrote: J.D. Bronson wrote: I am using this in my pf.conf (on 6.0) and was wondering if these settings are appropriate. While 'scrub' by itself is always recommended, I added a few more things that seem to ought to be there? I use this for all the NICs...WAN and LAN... with the

Re: what with privileges

2006-01-29 Thread Robert Slade
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 20:06, Playnet wrote: > Hello freebsd-questions, > > I try add machine into domain. If i run smbldap-useradd manually, all > ok. But from samba i get errors: > > Jan 29 22:47:04 sstand net: smbldap_open: cannot access LDAP when not root.. > Jan 29 22:47:04 sstand net: [200

Re: No success with make buildworld

2006-01-29 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hello Garrett, * Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [29-01-06 09:15]: >The simple answer to your problem is that you haven't cvsupp'ed all > of the sources required to build your system. The more difficult answer > is that you need to find out which category you are lacking in order to > co

what with privileges

2006-01-29 Thread Playnet
Hello freebsd-questions, I try add machine into domain. If i run smbldap-useradd manually, all ok. But from samba i get errors: Jan 29 22:47:04 sstand net: smbldap_open: cannot access LDAP when not root.. Jan 29 22:47:04 sstand net: [2006/01/29 22:47:04, 0] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_search_suffix(

mysql & unixodbc

2006-01-29 Thread fbsd_user
I installed unixodbc & mysql2odbc from the ports system. The /usr/local/etc files odbc.ini & odbcinst.ini were empty. A mysql reference says odbcinst.ini should look like this [MySQL] Description = MySQL Driver Driver= /usr/local/lib/libmyodbc.so Setup = /usr/local/

Aureal Kernel Sound Drivers

2006-01-29 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello all, I am the not-quite-proud owner of a Dell system that comes with an aureal sound card inside of it. In any event, I found the aureal-kmod kernel module and have gotten it to work on my machine (following directions on http://www.matey.org/au88x0/). In the process of doing this I

Re: Can not deliver to cyrus imapd

2006-01-29 Thread Anish Mistry
On Sunday 29 January 2006 13:12, Martin Schweizer wrote: > Hello > > On my two machines (FreeBSD 5.4) I'm not able to compile sendmail > with other mailer then the default ones. The hole thread and the > details you can see in comp.mail.senmdail (link: > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.sen

Re: Can not deliver to cyrus imapd

2006-01-29 Thread Martin Schweizer
Sorry but the Google link was wrong. I attached the hole thread at the end from this post. Am Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 07:12:08PM +0100 Martin Schweizer schrieb: > Hello > > On my two machines (FreeBSD 5.4) I'm not able to compile sendmail with other > mailer then the default ones. The hole thread

Can not deliver to cyrus imapd

2006-01-29 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello On my two machines (FreeBSD 5.4) I'm not able to compile sendmail with other mailer then the default ones. The hole thread and the details you can see in comp.mail.senmdail (link: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.sendmail/browse_thread/thread/a9c1364a7b98be36/0e04b81274290cb3#0e04

FreeBSD 6.0: Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop -> mouse not working???

2006-01-29 Thread FreeBSD Prospect
Hi! I just finished my first FreeBSD 6.0 installation using the two CD image files, and my first problem is, that I can't get this optical wireless mouse to work. The Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop consists of the receiver, connected to the PC by USB (also has a PS/2 connector, but it is n

Jagged Alliance 2 for Linux on FreeBSD not working

2006-01-29 Thread Iwan Gabovitch
I hope it is ok to post such a problem in this list. I have installed Jagged Alliance 2 for Linux using the setup.sh on the first disc and then tried to play it, mounting the game disc to the directory the installation disc was mounted to whilst installation and also to /cdrom, as wanted by

Re: Ctrl+Alt+number terminal switching stopped working

2006-01-29 Thread Nicolas Blais
On Sunday 29 January 2006 12:27, Erik Osterholm wrote: > On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 10:58:10PM +1030, Ian Moore wrote: > > Hi, > > I've just noticed I can't switch from my X session back to the other vtty > > screens using Ctrl+Alt+1, Ctrl+Alt+2 etc. > > I can't seem to find any info on this - is it a

Re: sendmail, sasl, ldap

2006-01-29 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello Jon I'm in a similar situation as you. I play now a long time with this. You have to use cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd (is in ports). After the installation man saslauthd will explain more details. saslauthd will check the secrets against other backbone services (saslsb2, ldap, etc.). Am Tue, J

Freebsd verlihub machine hang

2006-01-29 Thread Mihai Tanasescu
Hello, I've started to experience some system hangs on my Freebsd 5.4-RELEASE-p8. I'm running it on a P4 3Ghz machine with SMP support. My make.conf looks like this: CPUTYPE?=pentium4 CFLAGS= -O2 -pipe After 1-2 weeks of functioning the machine core dump a "verlihub" process and gdb gives:

Re: serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 29/01/06 Scott I. Remick said: > Hello... I'm trying to set up a serial console for watching console error > messages while in X, but am having a real hard time getting my head around > the concepts of what I need to do (and don't need to). Can't you just run xconsole? Mike -- Michael P. So

Re: Ctrl+Alt+number terminal switching stopped working

2006-01-29 Thread Erik Osterholm
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 10:58:10PM +1030, Ian Moore wrote: > Hi, > I've just noticed I can't switch from my X session back to the other vtty > screens using Ctrl+Alt+1, Ctrl+Alt+2 etc. > I can't seem to find any info on this - is it a known issue or is it just my > system? It seems to happen when

Re: A strategic question

2006-01-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-01-28 03:16, Jozef Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This posting doesn't contain a technical question about FreeBSD, > rather a strategic one. > > Some time ago, I wanted to migrate to a Unix environment, because I > wanted to have a secure, stable, convenient and efficient environment > f

Re: No success with make buildworld

2006-01-29 Thread Garrett Cooper
Matthias Fechner wrote: Hi, i had checked out the tree RELENG_5 and RELENG_6 and tried to compile /usr/src with make buildworld, but I always get the errormessage: --- cut --- rpcgen -C -h -o crypt.h /usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include/rpcsvc/crypt.x rpcgen -C -l -o crypt_clnt.c /usr/obj/usr/src

Re: GEOM - how do we replace a failing HDD?

2006-01-29 Thread Derek Ragona
This depends on your RAID card. Most RAID cards report the failure of a drive and will do the rebuilding of a failed drive within the RAID firmware, outside any OS. So if a drive fails and you replace the drive, on the next system boot you would have the RAID firmware duplicate the existing d

Re: Is there a how-to super-page for FreeBSD?

2006-01-29 Thread Xn Nooby
On 1/28/06, fbsd_user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Give the install guide at www.a1poweruser.com a try. > What you call add-ons is what FreeBSD calls the port/package > environment. > A very simple command of pkg_add -r flash will download and install > it. That's a very good website, it is b

Re: Ctrl+Alt+number terminal switching stopped working

2006-01-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ian Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've just noticed I can't switch from my X session back to the other vtty > screens using Ctrl+Alt+1, Ctrl+Alt+2 etc. > I can't seem to find any info on this - is it a known issue or is it just my > system? It seems to happen when running both kde & twm, s

Re: Shell Script Help

2006-01-29 Thread Angelo Christou
Hello Patrick, Your suggestion works perfectly. Thank you very much for helping a learner such as myself. Ang. Proniewski Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 29 janv. 06, at 16:10, Angelo Christou wrote: > list.txt contains: > > bob home 9002 > jim data 9005 > Running the following for e

Re: Shell Script Help

2006-01-29 Thread Proniewski Patrick
On 29 janv. 06, at 16:10, Angelo Christou wrote: list.txt contains: bob home 9002 jim data 9005 Running the following for each line is what I'm trying to do: myprogram bob home 9002 myprogram jim data 9005 and so on.. give this a try: while read myline; do set -- $myline myprogr

Shell Script Help

2006-01-29 Thread Angelo Christou
Hello, I am running FreeBSD 6.0 with Bash as my shell. I am trying to automate a task and I have been reading a lot about Bash, but I haven't been able to get a script working. I have a program that I need to pass 3 variables. I have a text file called list.txt that has the variables separated

Re: serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Ken Stevenson
Scott I. Remick wrote: Hello... I'm trying to set up a serial console for watching console error messages while in X, but am having a real hard time getting my head around the concepts of what I need to do (and don't need to). I've seen http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/serialconsole-setup.htm

Lockup when suspending from X

2006-01-29 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi all, I need some help trying to understand why this is happening. apm -z (or zzz) works just fine from any of the text-based virtual consoles. If I run it from a shell in X, either as root or myself with sudo, the computer locks up - no panic, nothing . The only change I can see is the lig

Re: gamin vs fam

2006-01-29 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 13:17:28 +0100 Michael Nottebrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dick hoogendijk schrieb: > > Running pkgdb -F everytime is not pleasant. What is (are) the > > advantage (s) of gamin over fam? Is it wise to change to gamin? > > The recent change of the USE_FAM default was done w

Re: rm - Argument list too long

2006-01-29 Thread RW
On Sunday 29 January 2006 03:27, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Sat, Jan 28, 2006, Kirk Strauser wrote: > >On Friday 27 January 2006 17:52, Paul Schmehl wrote: > >> for files in *.* > >> do > >> rm $files > >> done > > > >Don't ever, *EVER* blindly unlink glob expansions. It's bad for you. > > > >Inste

No success with make buildworld

2006-01-29 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, i had checked out the tree RELENG_5 and RELENG_6 and tried to compile /usr/src with make buildworld, but I always get the errormessage: --- cut --- rpcgen -C -h -o crypt.h /usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include/rpcsvc/crypt.x rpcgen -C -l -o crypt_clnt.c /usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include/rpcsvc/c

Re: Xorg6.9 XkbLayout us_intl *SOLVED*

2006-01-29 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:52:43 +0100 dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After upgrading Xorg to 6.9 the keyboard option "XkbLayout" "us_intl" > does not work anymore. so, I don't have accents :-( > Does anybody know how to (re) install international keyboard layout? Options "XkbLayout" "

Re: GEOM - how do we replace a failing HDD?

2006-01-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
Yance Kowara wrote: > We are trying to use GEOM to make a RAID-1 system > (using a pair of identical IDE) and it is quite simple > to setup. > > Does anyone know how to replace the hard disk if any > of the two disks fails? There does not seem to be much > clear documentation, if any exists, abou

Re: serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Robert Slade
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 08:39, Scott I. Remick wrote: > Hello... I'm trying to set up a serial console for watching console error > messages while in X, but am having a real hard time getting my head around > the concepts of what I need to do (and don't need to). > > I've seen http://www.freebsd.org

Re: Sony Vaio & sound

2006-01-29 Thread Evgeny Solovyov
Chris wrote: Evgeny Solovyov wrote: Chris wrote: > Ariff Abdullah wrote: >> On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:43:50 -0600 >> Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Additional info via pciconf -vl >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:27:0:class=0x040300 card=0x81a0104d >>> chip=0x26688086 rev=0x03 hd

Answering machine / voicemail --> email?

2006-01-29 Thread Nick Triantos
Hi all, I'm running a decently fast server with FreeBSD 5.4. I'd like to set up a way that the box can act as a voicemail server, and turn the messages into emails. I see Asterisk as a possible solution, but it seems awfully heavyweight for what I want. Are there any lighter-weight ways to

serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Scott I. Remick
Hello... I'm trying to set up a serial console for watching console error messages while in X, but am having a real hard time getting my head around the concepts of what I need to do (and don't need to). I've seen http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html but I'm not clear about

Quickcam Orbit MP on FreeBSD?

2006-01-29 Thread Xn Nooby
I bought a fancy Quickcam (face-tracking), though I have no idea how to make it work with FreeBSD. I installed qcamview, but when I run it as root, it says "Not found Quickcam, or Permission denied". Anyone know anything about Quickcams on FreeBSD? I don't expect it to work, but it would be cool

The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-01-08 - 2006-01-28

2006-01-29 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the maili