Re: nologin: Attempted login by root on UNKNOWN

2006-07-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: Jul 18 14:08:47 asgard nologin: Attempted login by root on UNKNOWN Something running *as* root is trying to su to an account which has /bin/nologin as a shell e.g. # su avahi cartman nologin: Attempted login by alex on /dev/ttyp7 avahi:*:558:558:Avahi

Re: tempreture shutting down.

2006-07-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
is that the ACPI contains some duff builtin max temperature for a zone because a temp of 0.0c isn't really that hot for a PC! --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: tempreture shutting down.

2006-07-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: At 11:28 AM 7/19/2006, Marwan Sultan wrote: I Finally installed 6.1 on my HP Laptop dv5000 serios. when i restarted for the first time, and During booting, it gives the following error and it shuts down immediatly Warning: System tempreture too

Re: LinkLib Issues In freebsd Lazarus

2006-07-18 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
some ifdefs or similar in the Makefile. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: swiN: clock sio process taking 75% CPU

2006-07-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
. I appreciate that you are frustrated because it *is* happening to you, but your problem is not a common one so may take more than a post on questions to resolve. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: defining dependencies for ports

2006-07-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
, and feels more robust and well maintained. If you have multiple machines you keep in sync, then portupgrade -p or pkg_create -b can be used to create local packages with *your* compile-time options that other local machines can use. --Alex ___ freebsd

Re: defining dependencies for ports

2006-07-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
- of course, hard depends on your experience! Comparing to a port which *does* support make config (mozilla, samba3, portupgrade) may help you do it for yourself; the Porters Handbook on the website may also have helpful info. hth, --Alex ___ freebsd

Re: What is wrong in my conf file?

2006-07-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
.something? See the handbook for the correct make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL procedure for a modern FreeBSD. Of course, with a bad config file, that will fail the same way so see 2) first. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: What is wrong in my conf file?

2006-07-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: mr thooL wrote: Hi, a attached my kernel configuration file, can you find the problem, please? config command went OK make depend - error code 1 thank you for help No one can help you with this limited information: 1) attachments are not allowed on questions@ so

Re: building new kernel failed

2006-07-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
. Your kernel is simply not GENERIC any more, and may get overwritten by the real GENERIC when you cvsup. From the file it looks like you are editing GENERIC in place which is a very bad idea and definitely not what the handbook recommends. --Alex

Re: Best way to create a large data space

2006-07-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
? (With duplicates in a fire safe!). Less resilience but again frees up all the disks for data. Might depend on what else you want the machine to do. Reader emptor - I've never done this, just read about it! And test your backups especially if you stripe! Best, --Alex

Re: Boot hangs at /bin/sh?, can't see USB keyboard

2006-07-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
the boot option you want. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sil3112 question

2006-07-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Eugeny Kuzakov wrote: On 7/11/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Er, no, unless I am much mistaken it doesn't imply that at all (see man ataraid). FreeBSD handles plenty of software (metadata only) RAIDs, though I believe that an archive search will turn up

Re: sil3112 question

2006-07-11 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
google. SiL are listed among the controllers supported by ataraid on 6.1 so I would expect the RAID to be recognised even if it performed badly. I've not used such a RAID so perhaps some specific action with atacontrol is required. --Alex

Re: aterm -e screen does not source .bashrc

2006-07-11 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
as a login (as opposed to a scripting) shell. These days, of course, a modern shell like bash has many of the best features of both, and even sh can (finally) do command line editing. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

termcap problems

2006-07-11 Thread Alex Push
/misc/ termcap) by running cap_mkdb termcap, but this didn't fix the terminal. I also tried rebuilding and reinstalling the termcap source from /usr/ src/share/termcap, but I am still getting this error, and it's making my box pretty unusable. Any thoughts? Thanks a lot in advance. Alex

Re: aterm -e screen does not source .bashrc

2006-07-11 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
to get set in the shell that owns all the others. And if you have things like mail notifications, or fortune, they just become irritating if you get them in every single xterm. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Interrupts question

2006-07-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
: ata 409 46: amr 450 64: em0 4 65: em1 106: ah 107: ah Any insight appreciated, --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: using fping to monitor internet connection status

2006-07-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
and if succeeds, increment variable End foreach If variable == 0 then all pings failed. Variable contains number of successfully pinged servers. From sh ping -c 1 -q host /dev/null 21 will ping host and set status with no actual output. Never heard of fping. --Alex

Re: problems with Nice and Dump in FreeBSD 6.1-Current (Stable-#5)

2006-07-03 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forgot about nice being interal to csh, that is likely to source of my problems... I use this for a dump dump -0 -C 32 -f - |bzip2 --best | dd of=/foo/bar.dbz2

Re: Frustration

2006-06-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
release; nearly had catch 22 where ethernet wouldn't work without update, but update couldn't be obtained without ethernet. Joy. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Slow server

2006-06-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
the machine end up swapping? Try tracking memory usage. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problems with Nice and Dump in FreeBSD 6.1-Current (Stable-#5)

2006-06-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
restore, but comeplete the dump. I've been tarring things up lateley, probably will keep dumping to just the root system and tar var once I have websites on it. Show us the error message! And the dump command while you are at it. --Alex ___ freebsd

Re: problems with Nice and Dump in FreeBSD 6.1-Current (Stable-#5)

2006-06-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
on an active file system. and I think it must be some artefact of the snapshot/dump interaction. If you use -L and *still* have trouble then it sounds like a bug. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: problems installing 6.1-RELEASE on Dell PowerEdge 1855

2006-06-29 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
there is a bug, then, in general, only one hardware driver will ever recognise any specific device/chip. If it really is the mpt driver which should be loaded, then, as Lowell says, asking the driver author (or trying hardware@) would be your best bet. Did you try google for Dell 1855 Freebsd? --Alex

Re: mbmom and xmbmon - how to compile WITHOUT_SMB?

2006-06-29 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
/333/400/600/880)] found, but No HWM available on it!! Using ISA-IO access method!! * Winbond Chip W83627HF/THF/THF-A found. Then try mbmon -p winbond and make that an alias for mbmon in your shells. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: How do I add more aliases to my .forward vacation file?

2006-06-29 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
: \myusername, |/usr/bin/vacation -a myalias myusername I have tried a few things, but just get error messages. And what are the error messages? --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-06-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
independent of OS - also remote CD/floppy so you can install BSD from 300 miles away (as long as you have a windows(!) machine with a CD/floppy locally). Of course, their OpenManage software isn't, it's closed and only works on Linux/Windows. --Alex

Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alex Franks wrote: Sadly, amrstat-20060414 doesn't build on FBSD 6.0 or earlier (or so says the error msg I get when trying to build it). I've got megarc installed but have no idea how to use it and no man page was included with the port. Anyone more familiar with this utility? Type

Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
, but help seems to. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help with 'tar|rsh tar'

2006-06-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
. No idea if it will match the ttcp solution, but much safer than enabling rsh :-) --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Opinions Wanted: Dell PowerEdge Servers ... ?

2006-06-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
and auto boot from whichever you last booted from, so the diags can stay invisible until you need them. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: problem creating filesystem snapshot

2006-06-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
will make its snapshots. --Alex PS We use snapshots on the same hardware as you - 2850 PERC4e/Di but with RAID-1 rather than whatever you are running. I don't think any of that makes any difference though. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alex Franks wrote: Hello all, I'm getting ready to install 2 identical drives into the available drive bays in my 2850. However, it would be highly preferable that this machine NOT be shut down in order to install these drives. I know from looking at the docs that these drive bays are hot

Re: Tracking if disk is busy

2006-06-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
this information, but I can't seem to mimic this functionality with FreeBSD. Are there other ways in FreeBSD to pull the percentage of time the disk is busy? You can use plain old vmstat to see blocks being transferred. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-23 Thread Alex Franks
On 6/23/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Franks wrote: Hello all, I'm getting ready to install 2 identical drives into the available drive bays in my 2850. However, it would be highly preferable that this machine NOT be shut down in order to install these drives. I know from

Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-23 Thread Alex Franks
On 6/23/06, Joao Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/23/06, Alex Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The controller is a Perc 4e/Di as assumed, and I'm still a little unsure as to whether the 2 drives that shipped with the machine are currently set up in a RAID array. The current filesystem

Re: NFS Server and MS Windows

2006-06-22 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
programmers to implement it. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AMD64 Desktop Support

2006-06-22 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
work just fine in i386 mode and dollar for dollar will outperform Intel and run cooler and use less power. There is no need to discount AMD just because you don't want to run 64 bit version. No, I don't work for AMD, I just recognise a better product. ducks for cover --Alex, my 2 pence

Re: Does anyone run VNC with 64-bit FreeBSD (amd64)?

2006-06-22 Thread Alex Savovski
I have the same ,problem,But I have never run on other version,I use RELENG_6_1, AMD64 On 6/22/06, Greg Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day everyone, I recently had to replace a disk and took the opportunity to upgrade from 5-stable to 6-stable. I also changed from the 32-bit to the 64-bit

Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-22 Thread Alex Franks
to know before I attempt this that someone else out there has successfully performed a hot-swap or hot-install of drives on a 2850 or comparable Dell PowerEdge running FreeBSD. Thanks! Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Python port problems

2006-06-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Joe Auty wrote: On Jun 18, 2006, at 1:28 PM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Joe Auty wrote: On Jun 15, 2006, at 6:16 AM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Joe Auty wrote: jauty# python -v /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner [...snip...] # /usr/local/lib/python2.4/getopt.pyc matches /usr/local/lib/ python2.4

Re: smoke and mirrors - any way to trick an app into thinking I'm running linux?

2006-06-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
? Fat chance. That way lies doom... --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: smoke and mirrors - any way to trick an app into thinking I'm running linux?

2006-06-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
effor, more like a $20 effort. Better not tell you my hourly rate then ;-) --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Python port problems

2006-06-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
could just pop the full output and the script there and email the links to the list. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: smoke and mirrors - any way to trick an app into thinking I'm running linux?

2006-06-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: smoke and mirrors - any way to trick an app into thinking I'm running linux?

2006-06-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alex wrote: The glibc you have might just do fine. Just make a symlink from the one you want to the one you have and try! Jim Stapleton wrote: The problem is I don't already have one, though there is a reply to my other post that I'll be looking at in a few minutes, maybe something

Re: portupgrade confusing '-P' and '-p'?

2006-06-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
afterwards with pkg_create. So no, you won't have to build it every time. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I need a freebsd 5.3 desktop server; recommendations?

2006-06-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
if they are a bit less efficient. AMD64s are nice though :-) --Alex I see it was our perennial 5.X basher Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] you are quoting. He's a bit of a troll, in case you hadn't noticed ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: monitoring raid arrays

2006-06-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] B-deps: R-deps: WWW:http://support.dell.com/ Never tried it but it looks like your best bet. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Python port problems

2006-06-18 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Joe Auty wrote: On Jun 15, 2006, at 6:16 AM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Joe Auty wrote: jauty# python -v /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner [...snip...] # /usr/local/lib/python2.4/getopt.pyc matches /usr/local/lib/ python2.4/getopt.py import getopt # precompiled from /usr/local/lib/python2.4

Re: smoke and mirrors - any way to trick an app into thinking I'm running linux?

2006-06-18 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
can almost certainly tell you how to fool it. Of course, if you have the source code, it should be easy as you can just comment out the test and recompile. Mind you, if the app is as short-sighted and bloody-minded as its developers, maybe you should just look for an alternative. --Alex

Re: Random panics on FreeeBSD 6.0

2006-06-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chris Hill wrote: On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Matthew Navarre wrote: Is there a way to get the CPU temp in FreeBSD? sysutils/mbmon And if that doesn't work, try healthd. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Random panics on FreeeBSD 6.0

2006-06-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
for memtest86, go to the website for memtest86+ and download the ISO, burn to CD. The freebsd port is just out-of-date. Might be better done from a reliable PC :-) --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: monitoring raid arrays

2006-06-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
logical drives supported by controller amrd0: LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive on amr0 amrd0: 139900MB (286515200 sectors) RAID 1 (optimal) What are my options to monitor the status of these arrays? From memory sysutils/megarc. Search for LSI in the INDEX if that's wrong. --Alex

Re: Python port problems

2006-06-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Joe Auty wrote: On Jun 14, 2006, at 1:10 PM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: And one which may spew quite a lot. Cut it off if it gets to printing help. $ python -v /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner jauty# python -v /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner [...snip...] # /usr/local/lib/python2.4/getopt.pyc

Re: Upgrading Ports on 5.3

2006-06-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
RW wrote: On Wednesday 14 June 2006 11:12, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: [portversion -L =] would be quicker. Any needs upgrading. Any would mean you somehow had an installed version newer that the port version! Presumably that could happen if the port were reverted. For completeness

Re: Sendmail patch; brings up a questions about buildworld

2006-06-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
depend make # cd /usr/src/lib/libsmutil # make obj make depend make # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail # make obj make depend make make install --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Python port problems

2006-06-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
# and exit with ^D (control D) egrep -i -A 2 -B 2 python /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf /etc/make.conf egrep -i -A 2 -B 2 mailman /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf /etc/make.conf head -5 /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Upgrading Ports on 5.3

2006-06-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
/UPDATING to see if any of the ports you will upgrade have issues --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: top

2006-06-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
have got me through most common situations where I want to know what's going on. kserel is the only common one I have no clue about. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Python port problems

2006-06-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Joe Auty wrote: On Jun 14, 2006, at 6:01 AM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Joe Auty wrote: Sorry for the delay in response here. This is still a problem for me, and I would still like this problem resolved. Yes, I've tried reinstalling both Python and Mailman, and upgraded to newer port

Re: man pages in plain text - how to?

2006-06-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
| colcrt Man is just calling nroff (unless there's a pre-cat-ed page). --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wikipedia article [completely OT]

2006-06-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
in one day. I heard nothing until Masscomp were taken over several years later, at which point is was my pleasure to inform the caller that the machine was in the skip. Happy days :-) --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: restoring deleted files

2006-06-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
files. By using file name expansion (TAB, ^D etc) you can also check whether file names exist already or not. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: is there an ies4linux port for FreeBSD?

2006-06-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
then try posting the script, or a link to it if it's big. Was there a README or INSTALL file? --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Question in occasion of SCSI devices (the tape store)

2006-06-09 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nick wrote: thanks for help Alex I found the best way for me to write info to the tape. Can You answered on the last question How can I see free size on the tape or size what I filled? My experience is that you can't really do either. If anyone know better, I'd be glad to know

Re: troubleshooting network settings

2006-06-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: On 08/06/2006, at 12:06 AM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: On 29/05/2006, at 11:37 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Hmm, is that all? Unusual; I'd think the loopback _should_ be set up correctly. `ifconfig lo0 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

Re: On mail principles

2006-06-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
addresses when sending mail externally. Haven't tried it: just noted the feature in some email somewhere for future evaluation, so take with the usual pinch of salt. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Question in occasion of SCSI devices (the tape store)

2006-06-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
? Write something to it? Perform backups? Without that basic information it's hard to actually help. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Question in occasion of SCSI devices (the tape store)

2006-06-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
it, but you'd probably want to set a blocksize with e.g. bs=32k or bs=64k but that depends on how the tape was written. So how was the tape written? --Alex You should copy freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org on your replies. That way everyone sees the whole conversation, and someone else may have newer

Re: Question in occasion of SCSI devices (the tape store)

2006-06-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
to a 40Gb compressing tape drive, what should I use?. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: troubleshooting network settings

2006-06-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
...) egrep lo0 /etc/rc.conf /etc/defaults/* Mine shows: /etc/defaults/rc.conf:ifconfig_lo0=inet 127.0.0.1 # default loopback device configuration. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: how to avoid recompiling applications?

2006-06-05 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
to compile the same version of a port more than once. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Removing Port Directories

2006-06-04 Thread Alex de Kruijff
a 'rm -fR' relatively safely. Many port rely on other ports. If these live in the the categories you have removed then upgrading or installing these port could fail. This is nothing critical and you should be able to fix this later. -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may

Re: how to instaal

2006-06-04 Thread Alex de Kruijff
is: This is the mailing list for questions about FreeBSD. You should not send how to questions to the technical lists unless you consider the question to be pretty technical. -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. Howtos based on my personal use, including

Re: i wish to buy your site

2006-06-04 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 08:52:18AM +, Hunter Fuller wrote: Whose again? Mine? You sent this mail to quite a few people! So did you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Restrict access to custom shell scripts

2006-05-29 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
it, so value is limited. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 21

2006-05-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
), in this case, the bit bucket. man sh, or any basic Unix book worth it's salt. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sharing /usr/local/www

2006-05-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
. You are wrong. CVS is a version control system. It's often used to control software development, but can be used to control any kind of text(*) document development. --Alex (*) You can store binary files as well, but it is less efficient when they change as it cannot keep diffs, just complete

Re: Can drive with 6.1 be directly transferred from one machine to another?

2006-05-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
. As long as you didn't compile stuff with processor specific options then stuff just works. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: quota and /var/mail

2006-05-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
up. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: upload-only ftp server

2006-05-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
is pretty mind-boggling, though, and always leaves me with the nagging doubt that I didn't get everything right, so testing always takes longer too :-( I'm not sure I'd recommend it unless it did really did have a feature that was required. --Alex

Re: Spam problem!

2006-05-25 Thread Alex de Kruijff
once. You can reject spammails if you like. Don't send bounce messages since these will not end up with the spammers but those who abuse the email adress. -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. Howtos based on my personal use, including information

Re: Traffic shaping with ipfw/DUMMYNET when using natd

2006-05-25 Thread Alex de Kruijff
it should work to. -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. Howtos based on my personal use, including information about setting up a firewall and creating traffic graphs with MRTG http://alex.kruijff.org/FreeBSD

Re: Best Practices - interrupt storm

2006-05-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
since. man ppc for the flags to use and get into practice converting hex to binary and vice versa :-) Never used lptcontrol. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Python port problems

2006-05-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
, in which case the output you have won't help. Have you tried simply re-installing mailman? Maybe you upgraded python at some point after installing mailman and that is throwing something. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-22 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
different, but the risk analysis that led to the different answers would (theoretically) be the same. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: moving /usr

2006-05-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
mirror and change mounting in fstab and reboot? Or is there something more I need to do? I suppose that should do it, but I'd just wanna be sure so I ask first and not after it's broken. :) I believe that is exactly enough. Move the data with dump/restore. --Alex

Re: Questions about monitoring Dell servers

2006-05-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
:-( --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Buildworld fails 6.0-RELEASE-p4

2006-05-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
. If buildworld fails at a different place every time then you probably have bad memory*. Try memtest86+, memtest86 or if you have multiple sticks, try using each one in turn on its own and see if you still get the failure. --Alex (*) It might be some other hardware problem, but bad memory

Re: newly installed apps not in path?

2006-05-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
; other shells too, perhaps, but I can't say never having tried them. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 6.1RC2 regression and a BIG question.

2006-05-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
multiple keyboards to work, but I've never tried that. Can't promise that this is it, but the symptoms suggest it might be. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

FreeBSD in the DS?

2006-05-13 Thread Alex Johnson
I am aware that FreeBSD's claim to fame is that it has been ported to anything with a processor. So, I am wondering if it'd be possible to get my hands on a method for modding the DS's boot EPROM to load a FreeBSD operating system, and with it a means for storing or retrieving data along the

Re: FreeBSD in the DS?

2006-05-13 Thread Alex Johnson
game store just ask for a Nintendo DS - if someone on the list doesn't already own one, I don't really want to ask people to buy things they'd never use. On 5/13/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14/05/06, Alex Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am aware that FreeBSD's claim to fame

Re: FreeBSD in the DS?

2006-05-13 Thread Alex Johnson
Yes, the Nintendo kind. It seems more than capable, technologically, of supporting a REAL OS such as FreeBSD, something beyond its standard EPROM startup screen, to me. Is that a supported architecture? And if not, is NetBSD free or open source? On 5/13/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: FreeBSD in the DS?

2006-05-13 Thread Alex Johnson
Alright. That's all I needed to know, thanks! On 5/13/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14/05/06, Alex Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the Nintendo kind. It seems more than capable, technologically, of supporting a REAL OS such as FreeBSD, something beyond its standard EPROM

Re: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

2006-05-04 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
or weren't available to the developer when originally written. If you really care then check out the CVS history for your driver from the FreeBSD site (developer / CVS Repository / web interface). --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: which graphics card?

2006-05-04 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
difference. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

2006-05-04 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Paul Schmehl wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: It's working fine since I installed 6.1. The odd thing is, I thought I needed the bce driver, but the 6.1 install detected the NIC and used the bge driver. That driver is available in 6.0 as well, yet it didn't work in that install. Why

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