domain required for FreeBSD install and isc dhcp

2012-04-20 Thread Chris Whitehouse
pplied a domain name when installing FreeBSD and it doesn't seem to have been a problem. I'm just setting up dhcp for the first time and I don't know if it matters here. thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: pcmcia wifi adapter that can be purchased?

2012-04-11 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 10/04/2012 23:47, Kendall Shaw wrote: Chris Whitehouse writes: On 10/04/2012 18:37, Kendall Shaw wrote: Do you happen to know of a PCMCIA Type II wireless adapter that is currently being sold online that supports WPA under freebsd 9.0? Alternately, a USB 1.0 adapter? I would rather keep

Re: pcmcia wifi adapter that can be purchased?

2012-04-10 Thread Chris Whitehouse
driver (check the man page if you get one) and is available on ebay. I haven't had one in regular use but I just did a flood ping on 9.0R i386 and it showed less than 1% packet loss. Chris Kendall ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-03-30 Thread Chris Hill
S, no drivers, no ghostscript, no filters. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubs

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-28 Thread Chris Hill
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Mike Jeays wrote: I saw a demo of a device about 30 years ago that you held in one hand. It had about five buttons positioned under your fingers, and various combinations would produce all the regular characters. Sounds like learning to play the saxophone. -- Chris Hill

Re: Can't install WindowMaker

2012-03-20 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 20/03/2012 04:58, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 March 2012 04:17, Sabine Baer wrote: Sorry if I'm totally wrong here but I don't know where to ask. I'm using WindowMaker as my window manager for some years. I do not remember why, but some days ago, I deinstalled ist. Now, I can't install it

Re: USA Anonymous CVS

2012-03-17 Thread Chris Rees
us CVS server no longer operational? > > It's just ssh that isn't working as documented; this may have changed > for security reasons. > The pserver method still works, so things aren't completely offline. > If ssh access is no longer supported, it should be removed fro

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-12 Thread Chris
On 3/12/2012 2:00 PM, Paul Macdonald wrote: > On 12/03/2012 18:40, Chad Perrin wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:20:03AM -0500, Chris wrote: >>> ... One word that is rampant... Alligations >> Is that where someone makes a claim that someone else is an alligator? >>

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Chris
... One word that is rampant... Alligations Sent from my HTC. - Reply message - From: "Alejandro Imass" Date: Sun, Mar 11, 2012 10:04 am Subject: Suggestion To: "Chris" Cc: "FreeBSD" On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Chris wrote: > ... Ah yes, tryi

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Chris
... Ah yes, trying to feed the world where hunger is rampant is an evil thing when done by corporate "insert name here". Yes, I believe I see the relationship Sent from my HTC. - Reply message - From: "Alejandro Imass" Date: Sun, Mar 11, 2012 9:46 am Subject: Suggestion To: "FreeBSD

Re: port to package amd64 to i386

2012-03-05 Thread Chris Whitehouse
x? This thread http://www.marcuscom.com/pipermail/tinderbox-list/2011-June/002177.html discusses it a bit with a possible solution. Things have probably moved on since then which may or may not help. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: semi OT: correct CIDR block?

2012-03-05 Thread Chris Knipe
                               Robert Huff > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-q

RE: Email issues, relay failure

2012-02-27 Thread Bender, Chris
Hi Joe So from the rules below, I can see my network to and from in tables to . However when pfctl is enabled that traffic fails with # tcpdump -ni bge0 host 10.156.81.10 and port 25 tcpdump: listening on bge0, link-type EN10MB 14:26:50.220591 10.156.81.10.60809 > 172.19.4.41.25: S 31

RE: Email issues, relay failure

2012-02-27 Thread Bender, Chris
How would I whitelist SMTP speakers? I am thinking it would be ok to reload the rules, would that clear the issue with SMTP users for now? Whats the harm? Thanks -Original Message- From: Jon Radel [mailto:j...@radel.com] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 11:58 AM To: Bender, Chris Cc

RE: Email issues, relay failure

2012-02-27 Thread Bender, Chris
the adaptive behavior away or Would all that still be in some sort of bruteforce file to protect the firewall? Thanks -Original Message- From: Jon Radel [mailto:j...@radel.com] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 11:39 AM To: Bender, Chris; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Email

RE: Email issues, relay failure, perhaps Jails is causing it.

2012-02-27 Thread Bender, Chris
Does anybody have an idea on how to clear the bruteforCE TABLE ON PFCTL ? An adaptive fw or pftcl device is blocking some of my email? Thanks -Original Message- From: Bernt Hansson [mailto:b...@bananmonarki.se] Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 2:20 AM To: Bender, Chris Cc: freebsd

RE: Email issues, relay failure, perhaps Jails is causing it.

2012-02-27 Thread Bender, Chris
Message- From: Bernt Hansson [mailto:b...@bananmonarki.se] Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 2:20 AM To: Bender, Chris Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Email issues, relay failure, perhaps Jails is causing it. 2012-02-26 00:54, Bender, Chris skrev: > Hi Brent > > Yes the

RE: Email issues, relay failure, perhaps Jails is causing it.

2012-02-25 Thread Bender, Chris
...@bananmonarki.se] Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 6:11 PM To: Bender, Chris Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Jon Radel Subject: Re: Email issues, relay failure 2012-02-25 23:29, Bender, Chris skrev: > Hi Brent, > Thanks for that, I am still digesting it. > > tools2# uname -a > FreeBSD tools2

RE: Email issues, relay failure

2012-02-25 Thread Bender, Chris
wouldn't have changed. And how do I run smtp as a non mail user when I am root? Hopfully we are getting somewhere. Thanks -Original Message- From: Bernt Hansson [mailto:b...@bananmonarki.se] Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 5:09 PM To: Bender, Chris Cc: freebsd-questions@freebs

RE: Email issues, relay failure

2012-02-25 Thread Bender, Chris
/postfix/master I don't see sendmail or smtp -Original Message- From: Bernt Hansson [mailto:b...@bananmonarki.se] Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 4:53 PM To: Bender, Chris Cc: Jon Radel; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Email issues, relay failure 2012-02-25 22:44, B

RE: Email issues, relay failure

2012-02-25 Thread Bender, Chris
PM To: Bender, Chris Cc: Jon Radel; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Email issues, relay failure 2012-02-25 19:39, Bender, Chris skrev: > There aren't any firewalls between the devices but they are far apart. I can telnet from x to a and I can ssh from a to x. Have you tried the

Re: Email issues, relay failure

2012-02-25 Thread Bender, Chris
I am not sure Which services. I see postfix and sendmail running and I have restarted them. I never see mail delivery from A in mailog on X Thanks On Feb 25, 2012, at 1:03 PM, "Jon Radel" wrote: > On 2/25/12 10:26 AM, Bender, Chris wrote: > >> >> On teln

RE: Email issues, relay failure

2012-02-25 Thread Bender, Chris
ort 25 Traffic seemingly working on system X. Thanks, any postfix/mail braniacs out there? Regards From: Paul Macdonald [mailto:p...@ifdnrg.com] Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 9:47 AM To: Bender, Chris Subject: Re: Email issues, relay failure i just tried a dns l

RE: Email issues, relay failure

2012-02-25 Thread Bender, Chris
what to do need a mentor on this. Please help Thanks From: Paul Macdonald [mailto:p...@ifdnrg.com] Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 5:42 AM To: Bender, Chris Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Email issues, relay failure On 24/02/2012 21:52, Bender, Chris wrote:

Re: mount options display (detailed)

2012-02-24 Thread Chris Hill
the -v option. 'mount -p' shows me something that looks a lot like my own /etc/fstab. It appears to be showing me what's mounted right now, but it does not display any mount options. This is on 8.0-STABLE; maybe things have changed in the Brave New World of Nine. -- Chris

Re: Email issues, relay failure

2012-02-24 Thread Chris Hill
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Robison, Dave wrote: On 02/24/2012 13:52, Bender, Chris wrote: Sendmail all of a sudden stopped working...the sendmial is supposed to send to another machine. ...snip... echo "test email from ccl `date` " | mailx -s "test email from ccl `date` " c.

Email issues, relay failure

2012-02-24 Thread Bender, Chris
Hi, I am responsible for a system I know little about. Sendmail all of a sudden stopped working...the sendmial is supposed to send to another machine. The senmail locally looks to deliver email to a que and the que looks to forward to another machine. However this looks to break.Can someb

Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.

2012-02-23 Thread Chris Rees
the picture, both > of which I strongly recommend that you remove. > > I am highly educated and qualified. > > From > Roy Mathew Your signature doesn't match your gecos. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Chris Hill
. This, or something very similar, seems to me like the best way to go. I am not a professional sysadmin, but have been using FreeBSD since 2.2.6. FWIW, I prefer the multi-partition approach for all the reasons already mentioned. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org

Re: gpt zfs raidz1 boot failure

2012-02-08 Thread Chris Jones
On 2/8/2012 12:42 PM, George Kontostanos wrote: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Chris Jones wrote: If you build a zfs in degraded mode, it's not bootable. But if you build it normally, then remove a disk to put it in degraded mode, it is bootable. I might be missing something here b

Re: gpt zfs raidz1 boot failure

2012-02-08 Thread Chris Jones
This actually made for an interesting bug, once I dug into it some more: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=164861 If you build a zfs in degraded mode, it's not bootable. But if you build it normally, then remove a disk to put it in degraded mode, it is bootable. Chris On 2/4/2

Re: where is plig.net

2012-02-06 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 06/02/2012 22:33, Mark Blackman wrote: On 6 Feb 2012, at 21:51, Chris Whitehouse wrote: About the first thing I ever learned about FreeBSD was the uk mirror ftp.plig.net and cvsup.plig.net which I think used to be ftp2.uk.freebsd.org. Since then I have always used them as a file source for

where is plig.net

2012-02-06 Thread Chris Whitehouse
happened to them, have they stopped being a mirror? thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: ath and how to control wireless light

2012-02-05 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 04/02/2012 16:49, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: On 04/02/2012 08:37, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hello I have FreeBSD 9R amd64 installed on a HP G60 laptop. This machine has a

gpt zfs raidz1 boot failure

2012-02-04 Thread Chris Jones
sloader; correct? The first line of error text seems to indicate that the bootstrap thinks my pool isn't a raidz1; but the output of zpool says otherwise. Any thoughts? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: ath and how to control wireless light

2012-02-04 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 04/02/2012 08:37, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hello I have FreeBSD 9R amd64 installed on a HP G60 laptop. This machine has a combined wireless switch and led. The switch turns the wifi on and off but the light stays red. The light is

Re: Possible move back to FreeBSD

2012-02-02 Thread Chris
ok) or even 2.x Nonetheless, thanks for the info. I'll have time tomorrow to read up a bit and perhaps next time I post, it'll be under 9 Sent from my HTC. - Reply message - From: "Adam Vande More" Date: Fri, Feb 3, 2012 12:10 am Subject: Possible move back to Fre

Re: Possible move back to FreeBSD

2012-02-02 Thread Chris
Heya Mikel! Yeah, its been a spell. Lookin to climb back onboard. Talk soon. Sent from my HTC. - Reply message - From: "mikel king" Date: Thu, Feb 2, 2012 11:40 pm Subject: Possible move back to FreeBSD To: "Chris" Cc: "FreeBSD questions" On Feb 3,

Re: Possible move back to FreeBSD

2012-02-02 Thread Chris
FreeBSD To: Cc: "Chris" Hi, On Friday 03 February 2012 12:34:57 Chris wrote: > Hi > > I have been using Debian for a few years now (previous BSD user) and I'm > considering moving back. > > Admittedly, I have gotten used to the simplicity of using apt-get

Possible move back to FreeBSD

2012-02-02 Thread Chris
and I don't intend on using ports (it was the many hours spent keeping the ports tree current along with installed ports). If someone would suggest the material to read and perhaps a synopsis of the process, I would be happy to do the leg work. TIA Chris Sent f

Re: OT: Slackware: Starting Servers at Boot

2012-02-02 Thread Chris Maness
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Waitman Gobble wrote: > > On Feb 2, 2012 12:22 PM, "Chris Maness" wrote: >> >> I have been using FreeBSD for so long I forgot how to configure >> services and startup.  I now also have a Slack box.  What file do I >> e

OT: Slackware: Starting Servers at Boot

2012-02-02 Thread Chris Maness
inetd. Thanks, Chris Maness ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

ath and how to control wireless light

2012-02-02 Thread Chris Whitehouse
#x27;t turn the wifi on again, which would be much easier to test if the light worked. Also what is ledidle and what do different settings do? Thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

2Wire Router and Host Discovery

2012-02-01 Thread Chris Maness
for that address and cache the response just like any other host on the local net. AT&T is just suggesting that I buy a Motorola router and be done with it. I would prefer to fix it in software if I can. Any suggestions and advice on this? Thanks, Chris Ma

Re: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config

2012-01-30 Thread Chris Whitehouse
and install it. reboot if it works re-enable firewire in BIOS. The reason you didn't see it in some versions is because GENERIC was shipped with sbp disabled (I think). Someone is/was working on a fix. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: Displaying Routing Tables

2012-01-27 Thread Chris Maness
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Bernt Hansson wrote: > 2012-01-28 05:40, Chris Maness skrev: > >> Executing route under linux displays all of the routing info for that >> host.  For the life of me I cannot figure out how to get the BSD route >> command to dump the whol

Displaying Routing Tables

2012-01-27 Thread Chris Maness
route command? Thanks, Chris Maness ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Mounting (read/write) ext4

2012-01-08 Thread Chris
Can the upcoming FreeBSD 9 mount ext4 file systems out of the box? Sent from my HTC.___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...

Re: FBSD-9.0-RC3 Disk 1 ISO Bootable?

2012-01-04 Thread Chris
Can't speak for the 64 bit but the I386 does. As for a DVD, look for that at the release. Chris Sent from my HTC. - Reply message - From: "Drew Tomlinson" Date: Wed, Jan 4, 2012 9:23 pm Subject: FBSD-9.0-RC3 Disk 1 ISO Bootable? To: "FreeBSD Questions" I d

Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?

2012-01-04 Thread Chris Whitehouse
shiba U505-S2950. Or maybe you could advise how to replace the wireless card in this particular machine... cheers Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?

2012-01-04 Thread Chris Whitehouse
ikipedia.org/wiki/File:MiniPCI_and_MiniPCI_Express_cards.jpg It may require removing the keyboard which is a bit harder but quite doable. Generally you get into a laptop by carefully levering off the cover at the back of the keyboard. A service manual is a big help and can often be found with some

ZFS & NFS

2011-12-25 Thread Chris Brennan
. The samba share block for /tank/store is as follows: [tank] comment = ZFS Tank path = /tank valid users = chris admin users = chris read list = chris write list = chris read only = No 'chris' being the uid I use everywhere on my l

Re: Revision control advice

2011-12-24 Thread Chris Hill
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Chris Hill wrote: I'm looking to set up some sort of revision control system at work. Thank you to everyone who replied. Based on what I've found out, I think I will be setting up git on a test server so I can get familiar with it. Thanks again, and a happy $

Revision control advice

2011-12-21 Thread Chris Hill
hich looks like the heavy hitter of RCSs, but it's not at all clear to me how to handle the multiple-project scenario. Still working on it. - git looks promising, but I have not installed it yet. If anyone can point me to a tool that might be suitable, I would be most grateful. -- Chris

Re: BWN Driver

2011-12-19 Thread Chris Brennan
o be sure. I tried this as well, still no blue light. > -- > Chris Brennan > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http

BWN Driver

2011-12-19 Thread Chris Brennan
ess device. I've gotten it to work in linux but not reliably and of course it does work in Windows. So I am a bit stumped as to what is wrong or what I am missing. > -- > Chris Brennan > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversa

Re: I am FreeBSD user.

2011-12-14 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 05/12/2011 13:35, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 05/12/2011 12:39, Chris Whitehouse wrote: I thought the odd bit was ssuuddoo --VV | --hh | --ll | --LL | --vv | --kk | --KK | --ss | [ --HH ] [--PP ] [--SS ] [ --bb ] | [ --pp prompt ] [ --cc class|- ] [ --aa auth_type ] [ --uu username

Re: OT: C|Net's Download.com adware, spyware, malware hijinkx.

2011-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
te to get the program anyway? Some people just don't get that idea, they stumble onto a piece of software they like and don't bother to think much farther beyond that, as long as it works for them, they don't care. > -- > Chris Brennan > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? &

OT: C|Net's Download.com adware, spyware, malware hijinkx.

2011-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
op were affected. Being a part of emergeDesktop's community, I know the author their has instructed the community to not download his software from download.com, I'm not sure what steps have been taken for paint.net and VLC though. > -- > Chris Brennan > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you

Re: Playing .ASX files via/within Firefox ?

2011-12-07 Thread Chris Hill
at I see is mplayer-plugin starting, then buffering, then a blue rectangle. The "live camera" link is what goes to the .asx, which is what the OP was asking about. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ] _

Re: I am FreeBSD user.

2011-12-05 Thread Chris Whitehouse
[ --uu username|#uid ] from the first link. Does anyone else see that or is it my browser? firefox-3.6.10,1 Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Weird stuff

2011-12-01 Thread Chris Brennan
in /usr/home/bernt/disk8/ports/**graphics/jasper. > > I did this also, as root > > cd /usr/ports (it's a link) > mkdir 1 > > cd /usr/home/bernt/disk8/ports/**graphics/jasper > > mkdir 1 > mkdir: 1: File exists > > Creating files/dirs don't seem to be a pr

Re: Still stalls on xpt_config

2011-11-12 Thread Chris Whitehouse
DEFEND PRIVACY Glad to hear it. I hope you won't mind that I've cc'd the list. cheers Chris On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, Chris Whitehouse wrote: On 11/11/2011 00:21, Chuck Bacon wrote: Every 9.0 version I've tried has failed to boot, ending up with: Still waiting after {60,..,300

Re: Still stalls on xpt_config

2011-11-11 Thread Chris Whitehouse
e amd64 x4. Any additional info I can provide? Try disabling firewire in your BIOS. If that lets you boot then rebuild your kernel without device sbp and re-enable firewire. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: operapluginwraper

2011-11-08 Thread Chris Hill
st a moment ago. HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any m

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-08 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 05/11/2011 19:47, Chris wrote: I'm having difficulty copying a directory tree from my FreeBSD server to USB storage. The problem is that the tree contains file and folder names which have spaces, similar to the following: ./foo bar/some name.tar.gz ./foo bar/child dir/some other name.t

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-05 Thread Chris
On a hunch, I gave the following a shot: tar -cvlf - '/usr/local/etc/transmission/home/Downloads'/ | split -a 2 -b 3900m - /mnt/usb/TX_DL.tar. which created a split tar archive of the files on /mnt/usb. I'm still thinking there's something with the source path/file names that the msdosfs driver o

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-05 Thread Chris
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote: > On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Chris wrote: >> I apologize for the lack of detail. The command I'm using is: >> ( cd /usr/local/etc/transmission/home/Downloads/ ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd >> /mnt/usb ; tar xf - )

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-05 Thread Chris
I apologize for the lack of detail. The command I'm using is: ( cd /usr/local/etc/transmission/home/Downloads/ ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd /mnt/usb ; tar xf - ) I've also tried: cp -afv /usr/local/etc/transmission/home/Downloads /mnt/usb rsync -aq /usr/local/etc/transmission/home/Downloads /mnt/usb find

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-05 Thread Chris
The tar one-liner is similar what I used to use on Gentoo and Arch linux, so I thought it strange that it isn't working here. I'm still having problems though, since the command returns " Can't create '$FILENAME' " for all files found. I quick tested by telling the tar command to copy to /tmp inst

recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-05 Thread Chris
I'm having difficulty copying a directory tree from my FreeBSD server to USB storage. The problem is that the tree contains file and folder names which have spaces, similar to the following: ./foo bar/some name.tar.gz ./foo bar/child dir/some other name.tar.gz I've tried various combinations of c

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Solution for school lab

2011-10-30 Thread Chris Whitehouse
think I had FreeBSD, Windows and Netware). Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Freebsd, Virtual OSs and GUI

2011-10-14 Thread Chris Brennan
rge as kde or Gnome where flu box/openbox/blackbox or KFCE will suffice. Why overburden yourself with extra's that could potentially ruin any testing? Especially if all of the os's you mention will be running at once. You could also look at qemu, it isn't the easiest to use at

Re: Samba

2011-10-06 Thread Chris Brennan
ne thing I haven't done yet is a reboot of that windows client, I will try that later today. > -- > Chris Brennan > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > http://xk

Samba

2011-10-05 Thread Chris Brennan
y.xaerolimit.net PORTSTATE SERVICE 139/tcp open netbios-ssn Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.09 seconds [root@ziggy ~]# So I don't get what gives. > -- > Chris Brennan > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of co

Re: "dvd1" in CD image names? (was Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 available here)

2011-09-30 Thread Chris Hill
of the full CD images? These *are* CD, not DVD images, aren't they? They are ISOs. You can burn them to either a CD or a DVD, since they are small enough to fit on a CD. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org **

Re: Firefox clean installation but does not execute

2011-09-20 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 20/09/2011 15:04, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:44:31PM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:40:42PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:26:29PM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 01:40:56PM +0100, Anton Sht

Re: 9.0 bata2 & keymap

2011-09-18 Thread Chris Rees
On 17 September 2011 22:42, Fbsd8 wrote: > Chris Rees wrote: >> >> On 17 Sep 2011 17:25, "Fbsd8" wrote: >>> >>> Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 09/15/11 14:57, Fbsd8 wrote: >>>>>>&g

Re: 9.0 bata2 & keymap

2011-09-17 Thread Chris Rees
dress the problem, which is the lack of knowledge of the standard bsdinstall user. I've been using Freebsd since 4.0 and never used the kbdmap command or for that matter even knew it existed. > Wait, are you suggesting that everyone on Earth can "make do" with the "standard&qu

Re: How to check current port options before updating

2011-08-31 Thread Chris Hill
x27;d appreciate if you can point me to a reference or a command that does it. Will "make config" show it? make showconfig -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: wlan setup

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Hill
does not get an IP. Not to belabor the obvious, but do you have a working DHCP server available to the WAP? -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: missing ORIGIN

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Brennan
On 8/30/2011 1:26 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 30/08/2011 06:24, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> On 30/08/2011 06:18, Chris Brennan wrote: > >>> As you could imagine, it's pretty damned annoying, what can I do to make >>> it go away (without uninstalling the HPT uti

editors/zim

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Whitehouse
sion (0.52)." Are there any plans to bump it to Python and a recent release? I emailed the maintainer a while back but got no response. thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

missing ORIGIN

2011-08-29 Thread Chris Brennan
ardware array w/ ZFS ontop. [root@ziggy ~]# cat portmaster_out.log | grep origin | wc -l 264 [root@ziggy ~]# As you could imagine, it's pretty damned annoying, what can I do to make it go away (without uninstalling the HPT utilities?) -- > Chris Brennan > -- > A: Yes. > >Q:

Re: How to allow Amanda to install as operator?

2011-08-23 Thread Chris Rees
On 23 Aug 2011 21:42, "Morse, Richard E.MGH" wrote: > > On Aug 23, 2011, at 4:01 PM, Chris Rees wrote: > > > "Morse, Richard E.MGH" wrote: > >> GID_FILES="/usr/ports/OP_GROUP" UID_FILES="/usr/ports/OP_USER" > >> AMANDA

Re: How to allow Amanda to install as operator?

2011-08-23 Thread Chris Rees
ge), I can see the file I created just fine. > > Is there something that I'm missing? How am I supposed to install a port as > a user that already exists? Why doesn't make see that the file exists? > Update your ports tree and try again. Let me know if

RE: First World (Was: What dialup modem WILL work with 8.x and uart?)

2011-08-22 Thread Chris Hill
the sender by return email and delete this email from your system." ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Chris

Re: No Attachments Please

2011-08-22 Thread Chris Brennan
On 8/22/2011 11:00 AM, Lyris ListManager wrote: > > You sent an email to the Exchange list > with an attachment. We have disabled this > option as recently a virus was attached. > Please resend your posting without it? > So does this mean signed signatures will be rejected

Re: ZFS and NFS or CIFS

2011-08-20 Thread Chris Brennan
On 8/19/2011 4:05 PM, Henry M wrote: > Hi Chris, > > If you are transferring data from a Windows machine, your best bet would > be to use SAMBA. Windows communicates with samba pretty easily. You > essentially just mount a network drive, and transfer the files you want. > >

Re: wpa_cli issues

2011-08-19 Thread Chris Brennan
ing about and also jumped to the conclusion of shell environment variables. A rather blunt note for you (and I've learned this first hand). If you are rude on an Open Source mailing-list, the chances of you getting help drop, dramatically. The chances of you getting flamed for your rudeness bec

ZFS and NFS or CIFS

2011-08-18 Thread Chris Brennan
ght now (I should learn both). I just have tons and tons of data to move from my Windows desktop to this server and I'd like to use something other then SFTP, even over my LAN, it's very slow. Many thanks to anyone who can point me in the right direction... -- > Chris Brennan > -

Re: unprivledged users (for a service)

2011-08-15 Thread Chris Brennan
ust use the standard adduser script. -- > Chris Brennan > -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/54

unprivledged users (for a service)

2011-08-15 Thread Chris Brennan
rly add an unprivledged user that will only be used for running a specific system service. So it doesn't need a login shell or $HOME. If someone could point me in the right direction, I would be most appreciative. -- > Chris Brennan > -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >

Re: extracting text from docx files

2011-08-09 Thread Chris Hill
like a monster of a package, so I'm not sure. Maybe an online service? If you don't have too many to convert at one time, and there's nothing secret in them, you could try http://www.doc2pdf.net/ - I've never used it, so caveat clicktor. -- Chris Hill

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-05 Thread Chris Whitehouse
ight still be worth pursuing but I will reply separately to Polytropons post. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-05 Thread Chris Brennan
ec. of '09. Good lucj on your quest for a WM and maybe ... document it for us, others might learn something from your trials and tribulations. [1] http://www.emergedesktop.org [2] http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/ [3] x11/gnome2-lite -- > Chris Brennan > -- > A: Yes. > &g

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-03 Thread Chris Whitehouse
:-) Still thanks for the pointer about lpr, I should have read the man page. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-03 Thread Chris Whitehouse
ick one thqt corresponds to a 'more-or-less recent' model. I can't give specific advice, as I don't have ghostscript installed on my FreeBSD server. (it's remote and I never actually print from it.) Rechecking gs -h there is a pcl3 driver so I'll give it a try a

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-03 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 03/08/2011 18:58, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote: On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:41:44 +0100 Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hi, before I use up too many trees experimenting, could some kind soul tell me how I can get OpenOffice to print to this printer. This is the first time I have tried to get anything

printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-03 Thread Chris Whitehouse
inter? I'm using 8.1-RELEASE, openoffice.org-3.2.1, ghostscript8-8.71_6 thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

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