Need advice on Raid and FreeNas

2006-07-19 Thread Jim Freeze
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Re: Need advice on Raid and FreeNas

2006-07-19 Thread Jim Freeze
On 7/19/06, pete wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/19/06, Jim Freeze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am setting up a file server for a small office (10 computers). My first attempt at this I used FreeNas. It was easy to setup and I like that the system is dedicated. One downside

Re: Need advice on Raid and FreeNas

2006-07-19 Thread Jim Freeze
Have you checked to make sure the NIC is negotiating at the right speed? Sounds suspiciously like it's running at 10MB/sec. The 100MB light is lit up, but I did not turn off ICMP redirects. I think I'll try this tonight. -- Jim Freeze ___ freebsd

Re: coldfusion alternative

2006-07-19 Thread Jim Stapleton
. Effectively you are wasting time or giving a hacker a hackme howto. Any language that promotes either of those is a language I would never trust - who knows what they've done inside of it, away from prying eyes. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Blank screen after existing X windows

2006-07-17 Thread Jim Stapleton
with the driver fixed it. I can't remember what I did, but the xorg.conf file made the error pretty obvious. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Blank screen after existing X windows

2006-07-17 Thread Jim Stapleton
On 7/17/06, Martin Miedema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: On 7/17/06, Martin Miedema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed FreeBSD 6.1 on my Thinkpad T23 (one of my first times using FreeBSD) and after wrestling my self through configuring X I'm having the following

Re: Upgrading Included GCC

2006-07-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
of the compiler. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FreeBSD X.org lock key issue

2006-07-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
I am running x.org 6.9 and when I hit a lock key (caps, scroll, etc), X.org sucks almost all of my CPU for about a second. This doesn't always happen, but it usually happens, and I've yet to isolate it to haing any particular application open, It might be due to the number of applications open,

Re: k3b package

2006-07-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
but the package not downloading? I recently installed this also without any mishaps. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: FreeBSD for kids...

2006-07-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
I don't know of any. You could do a minimal install, install X + WM of choice (probably one that dosn't add games), and thend add the educational and math/sci related packages in ports? I think the directories they are in are relatively limited, and so finding them shouldn't be too hard. -Jim

Re: KDE Text to Speech

2006-07-04 Thread Jim Stapleton
for *nix some day, as it can't be much worse than windows/jaws. You may want to try some Festival or KDE Text-to-Speech groups also. If you get a response faster there, please post it here, as I am interested. -Jim Stapleton On 7/4/06, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: System Info

Re: sudo and LDAP

2006-07-03 Thread Jim Lester
Ya, that worked. I didn't think about it from that angel. I suppose it has to auth the user somehow and I don't have ldap in system, I just have it in ssh. Thanks. On 7/2/06, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Jul 02), ACM Staff said: Ok, so I am running a box with

Re: cannot upgrade

2006-07-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
I would guess that means the file was corrupted somehow, though I don't know how. At any rate, I don't know how to fix that, and not loose the stored information. On 7/2/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/07/06 Michael P. Soulier said: Cannot update the pkgdb!]: Cannot

Re: one more question, related to java/CLASSPATH

2006-07-01 Thread Jim Stapleton
-root_01_jul_2006_07_53) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0-p3-root_01_jul_2006_07_53, mixed mode) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11:54:43 (0) ~/dev/java/test ls test.class test.java I don't know what other info to send. Running 6.1, the specific port was ports/java/jdk15 Thanks, -Jim

Re: Questions on EXT3 vs standard BSD partitions

2006-07-01 Thread Jim Stapleton
/home, and the third would be my /data mount point, where I'd keep a synced copy of my Windows My Documents Folder (synced with my BSD desktop and my windows machine), as well as choice music files (it's too small for all that FLAC). Thanks -Jim On 7/1/06, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 30

Re: one more question, related to java/CLASSPATH

2006-07-01 Thread Jim Stapleton
wow, I feel dumb now. It's been a few years since I've dealt with Java. Thank you, -Jim On 7/1/06, Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: OK, sorry for being a continuous bother on this, but google is failling me, and I cannot find a reason for this issue. Java will not run

Questions on EXT3 vs standard BSD partitions

2006-06-30 Thread Jim Stapleton
in terms of flexibility and speed. Is there anything that should absolutely stay in UFS (such as /boot?) Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

requesting some info on CVSUP (some is help related, others are your own personal preferences)

2006-06-30 Thread Jim Stapleton
for the noob, and since I need to get some java experience to make myself look good for prospective employers, I'm going to try it. Don't worry, I plan to make a clone in a better language when I'm done. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions

Re: requesting some info on CVSUP (some is help related, others are your own personal preferences)

2006-06-30 Thread Jim Stapleton
OK, thanks. I knew about the date part, but as I could simply do three drop downs (month, day, year), date isn't too difficult. -Jim On 6/30/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) *default release=cvs tag=. OK, what other options

Re: one more question, related to java/CLASSPATH

2006-06-30 Thread Jim Stapleton
nevermind, the documentation I had read is misleading, the problem isn't the classpath, but I have no clue what exactly it is... Anyone have some suggestions for a good forum to go to, everything I've read suggested my attempts should work. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton On 6/30/06, Jim Stapleton

one more question, related to java/CLASSPATH

2006-06-30 Thread Jim Stapleton
:/usr/local/jdk1.4.2/lib/jre/lib:. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: which options/files/chunks of the kernel source define xpt_done and xpt_release?

2006-06-26 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, -Jim Stapleton On 6/25/06, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Jun 25), Jim Stapleton said: I am trying to work on some stuff, and it references those functions, but I can't seem to find where they are in the kernel. xpt_done and a lot of xpt_release_

Re: Cant buildworld

2006-06-26 Thread Jim Stapleton
Also, I've had issues with custom CFLAGS, CPUTYPE, and CXXFLAGS settings in my make.conf file, you may want to look at that as well, that seems to stop the process at semi-random points (at least it seems that way with my limited knowledge). -Jim Stapleton On 6/26/06, pid42 [EMAIL PROTECTED

which options/files/chunks of the kernel source define xpt_done and xpt_release?

2006-06-25 Thread Jim Stapleton
I am trying to work on some stuff, and it references those functions, but I can't seem to find where they are in the kernel. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Any generic (non-wm-specific) audio players?

2006-06-22 Thread Jim Stapleton
-preferences come out. http://www.xmms.org/ http://www.xmms.org/docs/readme.php -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

openwebmail

2006-06-20 Thread Jim Pazarena
does anyone have any recent how-to pages on setting up openwebmail on FreeBSD? a google shows lots of Linux stuff, most referring back to Openwebmail website, but FreeBSD setup is virtually non-existent. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Serious breach of copyright -- First post

2006-06-20 Thread Jim Stapleton
of, but you could have handled this infinetly more effectively. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ 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 Jim Stapleton
7851 rm CALL unlink(0x804f7a8) 7851 rm NAMI preuninstall 7851 rm RET unlink 0 7851 rm CALL unlink(0x804f8a8) On 6/19/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: I don't know how to find out, except that the app is the Crossover Office demo

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

2006-06-19 Thread Jim Stapleton
. I really want to proove to these people that the port will not be a $60k effor, more like a $20 effort. On 6/19/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: I don't know how to find out, except that the app is the Crossover Office demo installer. I'd like to try to find

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

2006-06-19 Thread Jim Stapleton
found it; uname -a, I fixed that line, now I just need to figure out how to get the appropriate libs (glibc) into my compat dir... it isn't in any of the linux compat ports. -Jim Stapleton On 6/19/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: OK, that was easier than

where does one find glibc for /usr/compat/linux/lib ?

2006-06-19 Thread Jim Stapleton
. Is there any port I can install to get this? Or should i just make a link to my systems libc? Thanks -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

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

2006-06-19 Thread Jim Stapleton
they are meant to upgrade something, but creat no glibc. What I was considering was linking my libc.so.6 file (no g) to a glibc file in compat. -Jim Stapleton Good stuff. The glibc you have might just do fine. Just make a symlink from the one you want to the one you have and try! There's an FC4

Re: where does one find glibc for /usr/compat/linux/lib ?

2006-06-19 Thread Jim Stapleton
that's libc, not glibc, the stuff I'm working on is specifically looking for a glibc.so file. Am I missing something? -Jim Stapleton On 6/19/06, Pablo Marín Ramón [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked at a few of the emulator/linux* ports, and it was not in their pkg-plist files, only something

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

2006-06-18 Thread Jim Stapleton
! $ pretend_os generic-i386-linux some_app Hello world! Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

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

2006-06-18 Thread Jim Stapleton
I don't know how to find out, except that the app is the Crossover Office demo installer. I'd like to try to find a way to trick it into running in the linux compatability mode of FreeBSD if I can. On 6/18/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: Basically, I have

Re: FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-13 Thread Jim Stapleton
Heh, FreeBSD is #1 to me because it is the most painless operating system I've ever used... Ignoring the 5.x installer. Never used pre-5.x -Jim On 6/12/06, Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Freebsd 4.x no doubt :) --- Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found this on Netcraft

Re: Im new to FreeBSD

2006-06-13 Thread Jim Stapleton
[resending to newsgroup, since I only replied to the OP] Well, if Crossover Office ran on FreeBSD, I would probably never boot my windows machine except as reference to help family with windows problems. Your hardware issues are quite good enough. Applications: Most non-windows operating

cron job limits

2006-06-13 Thread Jim Pazarena
I have a fairly lengthy routine which runs each Sunday morning in a cronjob. For many months now it has never completed, and I have to manually run it from the CLI. (which runs fine). The cronjob runs as root. It isn't failing because of a PATH problem, (it's just /usr/local/bin/analog running

Re: Freebsd-Devel

2006-06-13 Thread Jim Stapleton
) to write. Sadly, the willingness is the only one of the three I have. Thanks -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

is there an ies4linux port for FreeBSD?

2006-06-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
cabextract version 1.1 Wine 0.9.14 initAndConfigure: not found source: not found source: not found section: not found run_ies: not found ask_for_translation: not found Thanks, -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Freebsd-Devel

2006-06-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
I was looking at the mailing list, and I couldn't find a freebsd-devel list, though I thought I heard of one's existance. What am I missing here? I'm looking here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL Thanks, -Jim

Re: lm/temp monitoring

2006-06-07 Thread Jim Stapleton
That works well enough, thank you! -Jim Stapleton On 6/6/06, Toni Schmidbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Tue, 6 Jun 2006 19:33:33 -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: What package contains the lm utility (driver?) use for temperature monitoring? What is a good package to get a reading of my CPU

lm/temp monitoring

2006-06-06 Thread Jim Stapleton
What package contains the lm utility (driver?) use for temperature monitoring? What is a good package to get a reading of my CPU/Motherboard temperature reading in a semi-usr friendly format? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

building xgl

2006-06-04 Thread Jim Stapleton
tutorial, changeing the names as appropriate, is only producing errors). Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: building xgl

2006-06-04 Thread Jim Stapleton
disregard: it seems I went to a website that mislead me into thinking I had found XGL, when it was in fact, something else (and smaller), on Novel's website. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton On 6/4/06, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have experience building XGL on Freebsd

Re: building xgl

2006-06-04 Thread Jim Stapleton
everything up to this working... *sigh* -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to get MAC address using C program

2006-05-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
Could you exec() ifconfig? On 5/30/06, girish girishlc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pls any body tell me how to find out a MAC address in a program, Because I want to generate pseudo random number of IP address of some range for that MAC address and IP range will be the input and it should

libgnome-keyring.so.0 not found

2006-05-30 Thread Jim Angstadt
... have:gnome-keyring-manager-2.14.0 and CURRENT I also ran portsnap fetch and update, just after geting status and -sl What happened to this slippery keyring devil? Did I do something wrong? How do I fix this? Thanks, Jim __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired

Re: Portmanager Output Resolution

2006-05-25 Thread Jim Angstadt
--- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Angstadt wrote: Hi All, Having run portmanager -u several times now, I am very pleased to say that my times have decreased from an initial 38 hours to about 2 hours, per run. Along the way, I have cleaned up conflicts and did

Re: X11R7 through ports?

2006-05-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
, that link was useful. -Jim Stapleton [from another thread, as reference] subject: Which xorg driver/setup to use to get all the buttons for a Logitech MX518 On 5/19/06, Marshall Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim, I was catching up on my freebsd lists, and saw this... Note that you can't use evdev

Portmanager Output Resolution

2006-05-24 Thread Jim Angstadt
limited exposure to using make to build packages. Any links to dealing with portmanager output would be appreciated. Jim __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: Portmanager Output Resolution

2006-05-24 Thread Jim Angstadt
--- Aaron Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Angstadt wrote: Hi All, Having run portmanager -u several times now, I am very pleased to say that my times have decreased from an initial 38 hours to about 2 hours, per run. Along the way, I have cleaned up conflicts and did

X11R7 through ports?

2006-05-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
Is there any way to get X11R7 through ports? The Xorg and XFree86 packages all seem to be 6.8/6.9 Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: X11R7 through ports?

2006-05-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
I was informed in another post that X11R7 has a mouse driver I need, and through several posts that X11R6.x does not. (and previously I had tried using this driver, and verified that it is not in there) On 5/23/06, Chris Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 24 May 2006 03:05, Jim

Re: Which xorg driver/setup to use to get all the buttons for a Logitech MX518

2006-05-19 Thread Jim Stapleton
completely from Windows to BSD :-) thanks, -Jim On 5/19/06, Marshall Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim, I was catching up on my freebsd lists, and saw this... Note that you can't use evdev unless you're using Xorg 7, as far as I know. Once you're on xorg7, you can use evdev as the driver for your

CVSUP date for a successful x11-toolkits/fox-devel

2006-05-18 Thread Jim Stapleton
of the compilation error message: Thanks, -Jim c++ -DHAVE_XFT_H=1 -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -DHAVE_XSHAPE_H=1 -DHAVE_XSHM_H=1 -DFOX_THREAD_SAFE=1

portaudit report vs. portupgrade report

2006-05-18 Thread Jim Angstadt
Hi All, I'm new to FreeBSD. The daily security report lists 9 problems with installed packages. In an earlier message I was advised to use the ports system to avoid dealing with package dependencies. Thanks to all for that advice. So I have done the cvsup, buildworld, buildkernel, ...,

Re: CVSUP date for a successful x11-toolkits/fox-devel

2006-05-18 Thread Jim Stapleton
ahh, yeah, that's the cvsup date: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14:25:54 (1) ~ uname -a FreeBSD aragorn.ameritech.net 6.1-RC FreeBSD 6.1-RC #0: Thu Apr 13 13:54:03 EDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 weird., I had a custom kernel I compiled, I wonder why it's using GENERIC...

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
is too farr off the topic (or already been posted, I got about half way through, and found I need to get to work...) Thanks, -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
Just remember it has to be a /better/ mousetrap. wouldn't it be a peopletrap in this case, since it's for people? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: 1 cpu + 2 monitors + 2 keybord/mouse is it possible

2006-05-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
I know someone did it in linux for a booth at the mall for his company within the last year and a half, but I don't know the info. He had something like 4 consoles per machine. I'll ask, you'll find a response on this link, if one comes:

Re: OT: Torn between SCSI and SATA for RAID

2006-05-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
I've found that scsi isn't exceptionally faster given similar RPMs, or even slightly higher RPM (ex. a 10K RPM SCSI vs. 10K RPM SATA drive would have simlar performance). However, SCSI tends to high tighter standards, and you get the following advantages, which in some cases are worth the money,

securing beyond the handbook

2006-05-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
PHP MySQL SSH/SFTP OpenRPG (only occasionally, from a special nonpriv account) Any suggestions, any of these that you know are such huge security holes that you would absolutely demand something else be run? Any other security suggestions? Thanks, -Jim

Re: securing beyond the handbook

2006-05-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
between a dynamic and static ip address from the point of the firewall. If you felt secure before, then getting a static ip address will have no effect on that. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim Stapleton Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 9:18 AM

named / bind on 6.1RC2

2006-05-07 Thread Jim Pazarena
something seems to have changed with named on 6.1 compared to 6.0 using defaults named cannot create the /var/run/named.pid file. after changing permissions of /var/run to 777, THEN named runs and creates a named.pid of: bind:wheel upon reading I see a new rc.conf variable - named_uid I added

Re: named / bind on 6.1RC2

2006-05-07 Thread Jim Pazarena
Jim Pazarena wrote: something seems to have changed with named on 6.1 compared to 6.0 using defaults named cannot create the /var/run/named.pid file. after changing permissions of /var/run to 777, THEN named runs and creates a named.pid of: bind:wheel upon reading I see a new rc.conf variable

Newbie Package Questions

2006-05-07 Thread Jim Angstadt
accept my apologies for the long message, I wanted to give a fuller picture of these problems. Jim __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

BSD equiv of /proc?

2006-05-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
I have a proc filesystem on my computer, but it's empty. I'm used to linux, where you can do stuff like 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' to get information about the system. What is the BSD equivalent of this, or is it /proc, and I'm just missing something? ___

Re: dd issues

2006-05-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
That doesn't sound like a backup to me. dd isn't a backup program, and CDs are not normally things you back up. A backup is just a copy of the data on a different media than the source (in this case, a hard drive). People back up CDs alll the time, in case they get scratched or damaged, and

dd issues

2006-05-01 Thread Jim Stapleton
I'm trying to back up some of my software, and I'm having some problems, I found something in the archives specifying the need to set a block size of 2k or greater. This makes a backup (I've not tested it yet). My questions are: (1) Why does this work? (2) Is it possible that not using the

Re: dd issues

2006-05-01 Thread Jim Stapleton
On 5/1/06, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday, 1 May 2006 at 19:44:00 -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: I'm trying to back up some of my software, and I'm having some problems, I found something in the archives specifying the need to set a block size of 2k or greater

Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread Jim Stapleton
them go back home to play. Thanks -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread Jim Stapleton
/29/06, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 April 2006 09:06, Jim Stapleton wrote: Anyone have experience with ClamAV? Good, Bad, Ugly? Should I use something else, or is the only good alternative pay/expensive (such as avast)? Am I better at leaving the antivirus stuff

Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thanks everyone. Virii would be the correct spelling we biologists use, but viruses is standard in normal-people-speak, and gets the meaing across. I doubt I need to scan my entire machine, just my /winbackup/ directory (about 10-15GB max) Thanks again!

Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread Jim Stapleton
related problem. -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

rsnapshot: /bin/cp failed

2006-04-28 Thread Jim Stapleton
Anyone know what would cause this? I am on a 6.0 system, an installed rsnapshot via ports. It looks like it wants to use the -a option, and cp doesn't like that, what's the fix? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09:19:03 (0) ~ sudo /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot hourly cp: illegal option

Re: rsnapshot: /bin/cp failed

2006-04-28 Thread Jim Stapleton
with gcp? Thanks, -Jim gcp version check: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10:48:53 (0) /music/backup gcp --version cp (coreutils) 5.2.1 Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering. Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free

Re: Dell vs. Silicon Mechanics vs. FreeBSD Systems

2006-04-26 Thread Jim Stapleton
that required it, and they didn't complain), however Java is a pain to setup (I gave up and just installed the i386 FreeBSD). I hope this is helpful, -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: from Mongolia

2006-04-19 Thread Jim Stapleton
I should probably leave it be. On 4/19/06, Azarsuren A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jim How are you? I need your answer in this week. Because, our company is assisting tender. Could you help me. I hope hearing from you Bye azaraa --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Jim Stapleton [EMAIL

Re: where/under what do I look for relaxing the privlege requirements for mounting/accessing devices?

2006-04-19 Thread Jim Stapleton
sorry, I sent a second reply to the newsgroup, here's the error: mount_smbfs: can not setup kernel iconv table (ISO8859-1:tolower): syserr = Operation not permitted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: where/under what do I look for relaxing the privlege requirements for mounting/accessing devices?

2006-04-19 Thread Jim Stapleton
On 4/18/06, Patrick Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: That did not work either. Jim; Unless I'm mistaken, smbfs_load=YES should go into /boot/loader.conf. Use kldstat to see if the module is loaded. Patrick

clustering question.......

2006-04-18 Thread Wright Jim Contr 14MDSS/SGSI
me to somewhere else on the Web, etc. Please use small words.=0) Thanks a bunch for any and all help offered ! jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: where/under what do I look for relaxing the privlege requirements for mounting/accessing devices?

2006-04-17 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, both of you, this should be useful, and I'll try it later when I get home. Thanks, -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: where/under what do I look for relaxing the privlege requirements for mounting/accessing devices?

2006-04-17 Thread Jim Stapleton
these two lines to rc.conf to no avail: smbfs_load=YES smbfs_enable=YES Any other suggestions? Thanks, -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

TV Tuner viewing software suggestions

2006-04-16 Thread Jim Stapleton
, at around the 28th of last month, py-kde seems to work pre-cvsup, but I don't know how to fix it now, nor do I know a good cvsup date to grab the clean pykde. Thanks, -Jim The last of the xawtv compile: cc -shared -Wl,-soname,read-qt.so -o libng/plugins/read-qt.so libng/plugins/read-qt.o -L

where/under what do I look for relaxing the privlege requirements for mounting/accessing devices?

2006-04-16 Thread Jim Stapleton
I want a non-root user (I'm happy to limit it to wheel users), to be able to mount smb shares and rip music, but I don't know how to do this. Where can I find documentation on this? Thanks, -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

I think I butchered my supfile - can anyone tell me why I get this result?

2006-04-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
=. Thanks, -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I think I butchered my supfile - can anyone tell me why I get this result?

2006-04-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thanks, I'll try that again, however, when I've tried to do that, it has refused to update. On 4/12/06, David Stanford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim, You currently have your default tag set to RELENG_6 (which is correct), but when you place tag=. next to your src, ports, and doc entries, you

Re: I think I butchered my supfile - can anyone tell me why I get this result?

2006-04-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
the former gave me the wrong kernel, the latter nuked my /usr/ports/*/ directories, except for distfiles, and one or two others. -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Wanted: Flash player for browser_of_choice....

2006-04-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
I'm not a lawyer either, but frankly I think their EULA is unenforceable and their attitude ought to cost them customers. This isn't the most abusive thing they've done to date, not even close, and people still use their software (unfortunately), I doubt it'll change much... Overall, their

make buildword problem/documentation

2006-04-11 Thread Jim Stapleton
=sse #CXXFLAGS=-finline-functions -msse -msse2 -msse3 -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make buildword problem/documentation

2006-04-11 Thread Jim Stapleton
ahh, thanks everyone, I was looking through the document, and focused on finding buildworld. Still, anyone know why those particular cflags would cause problems? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: make buildword problem/documentation

2006-04-11 Thread Jim Stapleton
ok, thanks, I won't worry about it then. I just like to have everything as optimised as possible. Guess it'll have to wait here... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Newbie help!

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
I appologize is this stuff is too basic for you, but it sounds as if you need a crash course in Unix basics, not just FreeBSD. This will tell you how to do the basics. My suggestion is to go to the library and pick up some books on Unix use/administration and/or FreeBSD. O'Reily makes some nice

Re: Newbie help!

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
/lynx, porgupgrade, and a couple others, in semi-random order at first). On 4/10/06, Andy Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/10/06, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I appologize is this stuff is too basic for you, but it sounds as if you need a crash course in Unix basics, not just

newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
it with a hard link to the gcc-freebsd-4.0 biary, although when I run cc --version, it tells me that it is gcc 3.4.x, which is the default gcc install. Thanks, -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
] wrote: On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:43:51AM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: I did a make install clean in the lang/gcc40/ directory to get a newer version of GCC, and it seems happy, so the next thing I did was I replaced my /usr/bin/gcc, /usr/bin/g++, etc. binaries with hard links to the /usr

Re: newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
When it comes to changing the default compiler a good rule of thumb is that if you need to ask how to do it, then you should not do it. That seems to be a general *nix world rule of thumb for just about everything... ___

Free BSD Mirror

2006-04-08 Thread Jim Gonzalez
Hello, I am interested in donating a server and bandwidth for a freebsd mirror site. Can some one help me with this request. If you have any questions please call 443-807-8076 Thanks Jim Gonzalez ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Security logfile

2006-04-06 Thread Jim Csoka
I accidentally deleted my security log file - /var/log/security I used touch to recreate the file, but logging is no longer occurring. I'm not sure why. It doesn't appear to be a permissions issue.I tried chmod 755 (I won't leave it that way) just to confirm that it wasn't a matter of

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