Re: freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup?

On Monday 17 January 2005 04:55 pm, Gene wrote: Ever thought about starting one of your own? Gene Actually, yes, if I didn't find one. Anyone interested? Mailing list? Wiki? Whatever? -Jim Jim Durham wrote: On Saturday 15 January 2005 01:12 pm, Chuck Swiger wrote: Jim Durham wrote: I

Re: freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup?

On Saturday 15 January 2005 01:12 pm, Chuck Swiger wrote: Jim Durham wrote: I am the sys admin for a company of about 500 people and I am running Sendmail/Procmail/Spamassassin, Samba, Apache/PHP/MySql on FreeBSD..about 8 servers in 3 offices across the US and soon to be more. OK

Re: freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup?

On Saturday 15 January 2005 03:05 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Have you seen my book and website? http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com It is out of print now but still available on Amazon. I have the book and I contributed some stuff to you a few years ago 8-) . -- -Jim

Re: freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup?

On Saturday 15 January 2005 03:15 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Durham wrote: I am the sys admin for a company of about 500 people and I am running Sendmail/Procmail/Spamassassin, Samba, Apache/PHP/MySql on FreeBSD..about 8 servers in 3 offices across the US and soon to be more

freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup?

on freebsd.org. If such a list or newsgroup does not exist, would there be any interest in starting one or both? -- -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

boot up notification

I would like one of my servers to send me an email when it boots. I envision a script in rc.conf to do this. Is there an easier way, or an automatic system which can do this? Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

rc.d execution was:boot up notification

Gregor Mosheh wrote: I would like one of my servers to send me an email when it boots. I envision a script in rc.conf to do this. Is there an easier way, or an automatic system which can do this? I put this script in my /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory. I want it to run last, so I name it

4.9 rebooting

server which will take a fairly expensive trip to get hands-on with. I'd like to have ammunition at hand before I commit to the trip. Thanks, Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Installing Flashblock for Firefox in FreeBSD

Has any gotten this extension to work on their FreeBSD version of Firefox and tell me how they did it? I installed in on my OS X box but it won't install on FreeBSD's Firefox. Thanks, Jim __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about

p5-GDBM on FreeBSD 5.3

this? Is it possible to re-compile perl to include GDBM natively? If so, how would I accomplish that? Thanks. -- Jim Pazarena ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

p5-GDBM on FreeBSD 5.3

this? Is it possible to re-compile perl to include GDBM natively? If so, how would I accomplish that? Thanks. -- Jim Pazarena ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

phpMyAdmin on 5.3

phpMyAdmin is marked as broken on my 5.3 release. has it since been fixed? (I've never tried cvsup, but will if it will help me with phpMyAdmin). Thanks! Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: iTunes server SUCCESS (NOT ME)!! Here are my notes

I've hit a wall getting this to work: spike# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mDNSResponder.sh start .: Can't open /etc/rc.subr: No such file or directory Any ideas? __ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com

Re: iTunes server SUCCESS (NOT ME)!! Here are my notes

I've hit a wall getting this to work: ?spike# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mDNSResponder.sh start .: Can't open /etc/rc.subr: No such file or directory I created a symlink to /usr/local/etc/rc.subr from /etc and it now works like a charm! Thanks for posting this. Jim

Re: Wine 20041201 on FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE

, now I'm really confused as to what needs to be done. -Jim Durham ___ 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 it online

. BTW, I'm using Cox as a ISP. Not if you haven't reconfigured the router; the default is http://192.168.0.1. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Hostmaster, Huie Kin family website

Re: Strange startup behavior on 5.3-release

/NO change. It would be nice to be able to read the reasoning for such changes. Jim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hardware support question

, Audio, Video, LAN) Motherboard Chipset VIA VT8375 ProSavageDDR KM266 Thanks! Jim Driggers ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

signal 4 core dumped

My 4.10-STABLE has started dumping core on these apps: Nov 10 17:06:42 spike /kernel: pid 195 (jpilot), uid 1001: exited on signal 4 (c ore dumped) Nov 10 17:07:14 spike /kernel: pid 252 (firefox-bin), uid 1001: exited on signal 4 (core dumped) Nov 10 17:07:22 spike /kernel: pid 253 (gaim),

5.3 release and mysql

Just installed 5.3 release, and attempted to install mysql40-server from the ports. while compiling mysql I got the following error: item_strfunc.h:542: internal compiler error:segmentation fault not sure what to do or who to turn to with this. This makes me want to stay with 4.10 :-( what is the

ATA Slave Devices

I have 2 devices that will not work as slaves. They are a CD-RW drive and an IDE tape drive. They both work fine as masters. They give a message ATA identify retries exceeded during the boot. I have tried different combinations of masters and slaves and different cables. The bios recognizes

Seeking help resolving an apparent device conflict

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Re: flash

or ix86, not mixed. So you'd need a mozilla (and any needed shared libraries) built for ix86. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Hostmaster, Huie Kin family websiteXHELP CURE

Problem connecting with Netatalk 2.0

} timelord_enable=${timelord_enable-NO} When I start netatalk I do get this warning - spike# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/netatalk.sh start dc0: multicast may not work correctly. - but it then starts up jim 72165 0.0 0.7 4044 1740 ?? I 9:41AM 0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/afpd -s /usr/local/etc

Re: ipnat and udp consistent translation (Skype related)

- - 195.74.141.61 5132 [210.221.94.233 5387] The machine running Skype is 172.16.64.16 and Skype's Options-Connections property page shows 13432 as the port number. I presume 5132 is the translated port number. Looks pretty consistent to me. So it was a red herring and I'll have to look elsewhere. jim

Re: Is there a reverse Network Address Translation???

not be better? Any password would still be guessable. Jim Mozley ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ipnat and udp consistent translation (Skype related)

experienced this and if so what their resolution was. It would be a shame to have to switch to a different firewall when ipf/ipnat is so easy to use and works so well for everything else, but at the same time I don't like the idea of someone else having to relay the Skype traffic unnecessarily. jim

Re: /etc and /usr/local/etc directories

-party applications and /usr/local only for locally-developed applications. /opt/etc will be a symbolic link to /etc/opt as well.) Note that I'm using a symbolic link; this is because /etc is on the root filesystem while /usr and /opt will be separate filesystems. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High

Re: Blackberry Sendmail

to use procmail as the local deliver agent. Since the mail is plain text anyway, I don't understand the 'secure' question.. Hope this helps.. -JIm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

New-style PHP and Sybase DB-Lib

recall I did try SYBASE_CT last time I installed but had no success. So now I'm concerned that if I upgrade PHP I will lose Sybase connectivity. If anyone has upgraded and think they previously used DB-Lib I'd appreciate knowing whether everything was OK after the upgrade. jim

Transparent proxying in 4.x with squid and ipf?

I used to do transparent http proxying with ipfw and Squid, but lost that when I switched from ipfw to ipf. The Squid port Makefile says: #This option does not work on FreeBSD at the moment: # #--enable-ipf-transparent # Enable Transparent Proxy support for IP-Filter systems (incl

Is there a solution to this problem? (Install troubles on IBM x-series 345 and ServeRaid 6i)

Is there a solution to this problem - IBM x-Server 345 with Raid Controller 6i? Thanks, Jim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Growisofs and etc/crontab

. The exact error message was growisofs: not found. The command was 1 2 * * * root growisofs -dvd-compat -Z The path should be /usr/local/bin/growisofs. jim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Freebsd com/non-com user list

I'm trying to find out where the hyperlink to the commercial and regular users of FreeBSD went! This is where I found the HungryProgrammers I'm not looking for their site but the link you guys had that listed many many many com/non-com users who use FreeBSD? I've looked at it in the past but

Support for Promise pdc20378 SATA controller

documentation but am getting buried under a wealth of new information. Any clues would be helpful. Thanks, Jim Mozley ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Guide to x.org update?

to be a real way to tell the ports system that you want X ports to depend on xorg instead of xfree. Every X port appears to have xfree hardcoded. Jim Trigg -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Hostmaster

Re: Guide to x.org update?

On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 01:22:32PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:17:56 -0400 Jim Trigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAICT, this won't really do anything -- there does not appear to be a real way to tell the ports system that you want X ports to depend on xorg instead

Re: Centrino - Made for Microsoft Windows XP?

talk to my SCSI Adaptec 1460 card and won't talk to the internal wireless adapter. No special setup on 5.2.1. I had a Dell Inspiron 4000 before and lots of ACPI troubles. I had to select the #2 choice on the boot menu to even boot it. -- -Jim ___ [EMAIL

missing ports; portsdb problem

I'm missing a few ports collections such as Japanese and Russian. Now when I try to run portsdb -Uu after CVSUPing the ports collection I get an error of a missing japanese port. The strange thing is that my cvsupfile is set to fetch ports-all. Why is it not pulling in the missing ports? I don't

Re: missing ports; portsdb problem

Jim, You mentioned that you didn't have a refuse file. You might want to double check that /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/refuse or [other_default_base_specified_by_your_ports_supfile]/sup/refuse does indeed not exist. find / -name refuse -print#also a handy way, providing your user

Re: The FreeBSD Diary: 2004-05-30 - 2004-06-19

--On Sunday, June 20, 2004 12:10 AM -0700 Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These are the articles posted during this period: 15-Jun : IBM ThinkPad T41 Installing and configuring FreeBSD and XFree86 http://freebsddiary.org/ibm-thinkpad-t41.php?2 'Tain't there, McGee... Jim Trigg

Re: natd firewall settings for vpn

come AFTER the divert rule. These rules look a little different. Should adding the AH be all I need or do I need to replace my rules with the one you list above? -- Jim Freeze Anarchy may not be the best form of government, but it's better than no government at all

natd firewall settings for vpn

behind it. I would greatly appreciate any help. Thanks -- Jim Freeze There was a young poet named Dan, Whose poetry never would scan. When told this was so, He said, Yes, I know. It's because I try to put every possible syllable into that last line that I can

Re: Mail

advisories for either on the CERT website; that actually covers their entire lifecycles. Jim Trigg -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Hostmaster, Huie Kin family websiteXHELP CURE HTML

Re: mpd3.18

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:14:23 +0100, in local.freebsd.questions you wrote: I have a box that is having a 24th hour crash, I have narrowed it down to mpd 3.18 as the cause, kill mpd and the box will hum right along for days, restart mpd 24 hrs later it goes into kernel panic and reboots. Anyone

Issues with large files on nfs-mounted filesystems?

I've made a large .mpg file on a Linux machine (because some tools, such as mplex, are newer than available in FreeBSD ports). Here's a directory listing: -rw-r--r-- 1 jim users 4388444160 Jun 2 23:15 movie.mpg I want to burn it to DVD but the burner is on a BSD box, so I nfs-mount the /home

Re: blacklist(s)

blacklist is somewhat controversial; some people find it too prone to false positives. I personally won't use it to bounce mail, just to mark mail as suspected spam. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /\ \ / ASCII RIBBON

Max size of file on ISO filesystem?

I used to think that ISO filesystems were limited to a maximum size of 2 Gb for each file, but now I'm not sure sure. mkisofs from sysutils/mkisofs will not accept files over 2 Gb but the one in syutils/mkisofs-devel will without a problem. So if you install mkisofs-devel you can then use

Re: IMAP server and client recommendations?

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 05:42:00 +0100, in local.freebsd.questions you wrote: Almost right, but not quite. You set up an IMAP server that stores mail in the desired format, add the IMAP support to Outlook, and then drag/drop the mail into the IMAP mailbox. There is no equivalent client-side

help with /cdrom

and it still says permission Denied. I don;t know what to do to fix this. I want to be able to do quick installs from the cd instead of going into sysinstall all the time. I use Kde as my xwindows. Thanks, Jim -- __ Check out the latest SMS services @ http

Re: Re: Security related questions

could anyone explain some examples of setting up a restricted group for limiting users? using chmod and chown.. i\'ve had a little luck, but not overall. Is this what you\'re asking for? #echo \jamesgroup:*:5000:james,me\ /etc/group #touch /home/me/james-file #chgrp jamesgroup

DVD - SVCD with FreeBSD?

for this. jim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DVD - SVCD with FreeBSD?

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:13:18 +0100, in local.freebsd.questions you wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Jim Hatfield wrote: I tried mencoder. The ports version won't produce mpeg2 (at Here's what I do: I decode the MPEG to YUV using mplayer, then reencode back to MPEG using mjpegtools. Interesting - I

Re: S/KEY ftp logins

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 15:31:50 - , in local.freebsd.questions you wrote: Is there some way to tell if ftp logins are successfully using S/KEY or falling back to cleartext? Is there some way to require S/KEY only? I believe the password prompt includes required if a static password would not be

Re: OT: transcode, ffmpeg, mencoder

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 22:01:35 - , in local.freebsd.questions you wrote: #convert a quicktime file into an mpg mencoder -of mpeg -o example.mpg -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video example.mov mencoder -of mpeg -o example.mpg -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video

4.9 kernel error

sbp # SCSI over FireWire (Requires scbus and da) #device fwe # Ethernet over FireWire (non-standard!) -Jim McIver ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

cvs source tag

Does anyone know the correct cvs source tag for Freebsd 4.9 stable? thx, jm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

generic won't make depend

GENERIC' and it won't even complete the make depend. What am I missing? -Jim McIver ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: generic won't make depend

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 02:32:44PM +, Jim McIver wrote: I did a minimal install of a Freebsd 4.9(small hard drive) on a 486 and wanted to customize my kernal, so I cvsup'ed only the src-sys directory. After several attempts at a new kernel with no success, I thought I'd try

(Re) mp4 spliter

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 04:00:20 -, in local.freebsd.questions Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi freebsders, I have a movie file ended with mp4 and it's bigger than 700mb, does anybody know how I can split the file into 2 so I can make a CD out of it? thanks a lot! Best Regards, :-)

make installworld touch error

search, but no answer that works. Has someone got the solution? thx, -Jim McIver ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

upgrade problem

Trying to upgrade from Freebsd 4.6 to 4.9...haven't got it working yet, but I am getting strange message from the machine. newsyslog: illegal flag in config file -- N Any idea where this is coming from? -Jim McIver ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: upgrade problem

Matthew, On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:04:20PM +, Jim McIver wrote: Trying to upgrade from Freebsd 4.6 to 4.9...haven't got it working yet, but I am getting strange message from the machine. newsyslog: illegal flag in config file -- N Any idea where this is coming from? You

rocketport serial

access to the 16 serial ports? I do not see any new devices added in /dev ? Thanks! -- Jim Pazarenamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.qcislands.net/paz ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

serial multi-port

I purchased a comtrol rocketport (PCI) with the intention of loading on FreeBSD. I cannot see where/how I get the kernel to acknowledge the card. Can anyone offer suggestions? TIA -- Jim Pazarenamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.qcislands.net/paz

DHCP access

directly and then I know the IP (at least for this session). There has gotta be a better way. suggestions please. -- Jim Pazarenamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.qcislands.net/paz ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Input/output error report

: Input/output error find: /usr/local/share/texmf/doc/latex/sidecap/sidecap.dvi: Input/output error ... Is this indicated of a disk going bad? If so, is there a way to confirm it? Thanks -- Jim Freeze -- For I perceive that behind this seemingly unrelated sequence of events

problems reading compactflash with USB

#0: Mon Oct 27 17:51:09 GMT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 I'm not sure where to go from here, and any advice would be greatly appreciated. Please CC me on replies, as I'm not subscribed to this list. Jim Blomo ___ [EMAIL

Re: DSS for freeBSD

Hi, I received responses from the lister that there is a port, and also it's possible to use the source code for DSS 5 and run it on freeBSD 5.1. I found a port in /usr/ports, but when i run it, it ask me to go to apple web site to download freebsd version of DSS. However freeBSD version of DSS is

Re: kazaa client

I may figure out for myself how to make a port of it, but please don't hold your (or anyone else's) breath. -- Jim Ramsay ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: kazaa client

gift-openft and gift-gnutella too, for more excellent search possibilities. The 'fasttrack network' is kazaa. -- Jim Ramsay ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

4.5 - 5.1, rlogin works but rsh fails

I'm trying to use rdist to mirror a tree from a 4.5 machine (speyburn) to a 5.1 machine (banff). So firstoff rsh has to work. This is root-to-root. I've set up the /root/.rhosts on the target 5.1 machine and also on the 4.5 machine so I can check it both ways round. Logged on as root on the 5.1

Re: Changing /etc/termcap in 4.8 - How can I?

Malcolm Kay wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 06:47, Jim Ramsay wrote: I have tried to add an extra entry to /etc/termcap: rxvt-cygwin-native|rxvt terminal emulator (native MS Windows/Cygwin):\ :pa#64:Co#8:AF=\E[3%dm:AB=\E[4%dm:op=\E[39;49m:\ : :ac=+\257,\256-^0\333`\004a\261f\370g\361h\260j\331k

Changing /etc/termcap in 4.8 - How can I?

in the termcap. Is there some step I'm missing here to make tcsh recognize the new termcap info? Is termcap cached somewhere that I haven't updated or something? -- Jim Ramsay ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

ypserv cpu-loop with group.bygid?

I'm trying to chase down an intermittant problem with ypserv, running on a FreeBSD 4.8 p-14 system, configured as a slave server. Periodically the ypserv process starts burning huge amounts of CPU -- top will show it at 70%-80% of the system, where normally the usage is well under 10%. In

Building Automated Custom Install CD

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Re: Building Automated Custom Install CD

for responding! Jim On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 19:10:19 -0500 fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe this is what you are looking for http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/fbsd-from-scratch/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim Sims Sent: Monday

Re: ip-up script of pppd no triggered

Hi Alex, hi list, On Thursday, November 13, 2003, at 04:23 AM, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:31:29PM +0200, Jim Xochellis wrote: Hi list, I need persuade pppd to call its ip-up script in order to add a non-default route when the link is up and running. Unfortunately it seems

ip-up script of pppd no triggered

/local/etc/rc.d/ppp.sh script by using the following command: /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/cuaa0 115200 A.A.A.A:B.B.B.B noauth persist netmask 255.255.255.252 Am I doing something wrong? Best Regards Jim Xochellis ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Any way to lock down disk errors?

Strictly speaking OT but the machine is running FreeBSD. While copying a file I got I/O errors. The console shows: ad0: hard error cmd=read fsbn 31891359 of 31891359-31891486 status=59 error=40 ad0: hard error cmd=read fsbn 31891231 of 31891231-31891486 status=59 error=40 Given that the disk is

Update module ports after Perl upgrade?

place to use with the upgraded perl version but it seems a bit hit-or-miss on establishing the new dependencies. What is the right, or at least preferred, way to do this? Thanks. -- Jim Flowers[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: sftp mount?

about vi or emacs. So, it's not exactly what you had in mind, but it works for me. -- -Jim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

php4-cli with mod_php4

this? Thanks -- Jim Flowers[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Drive Geometry -- confusion.

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of nw1 Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 5:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Drive Geometry -- confusion. FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13 This document can also be viewed @

Confused about perl versions and perl modules

I'd love to understand the interaction between perl versions, FreeBSD versions and perl modules. Frinstance I have a 4.7 system with only the base system perl, and a number of perl modules from the ports collection. The perl modules seem to install themselves under

chmod after installworld

New to FreeBSD. Version 4.8 stable. Fresh install. Why am I allowed to chmod 000 a file after installation (ex: /usr/bin/rsh, or /usr/bin/yppasswd), but cannot following a cvsup and installworld? I get an Operation not allowed message after updating. A listing of the file shows -r-sr-xr-x

RE: chmod after installworld

-Original Message- From: Edward Epstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 8:23 AM To: Jim; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: chmod after installworld On October 28, 2003 5:56 am, Jim wrote: New to FreeBSD. Version 4.8 stable. Fresh install. Why am I

Re: Using poptop....

the XP client said it was. Jim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Using poptop....

If anyone can give me a recipe for setting up poptop I'd be very grateful. I want to run it on a machine which is a gateway/firewall. One NIC has a public address and the other is on a private network, ie 192.168.1.x. I want to allow XP clients to connect into the private network. I found the man

Re: Using poptop....

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:11:40 +0100, in local.freebsd.questions you wrote: I would use mpd but it has problems with XP clients. What type of problems are you seeing with MPD (Netgraph variety) and WinXP? That's my VPN terminator software and all of my remote XP systems seem to have no

Re: Using poptop....

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:00:00 +0100, in local.freebsd.questions you wrote: If anyone can give me a recipe for setting up poptop I'd be very grateful. I want to run it on a machine which is a gateway/firewall. One NIC has a public address and the other is on a private network, ie 192.168.1.x. I

Re: GAIM and Yahoo.

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline Although GAIM's website (http://gaim.sourceforge.net) doesn't mention that their client still doesn't work for Yahoo, I'm still unable to connect with the error that my username is invalid.

make makesum build deinstall reinstall ???

to watch out for? I like to use the latest stable version of applications but the port is often 1 or more versions back. Thanks -- Jim Flowers[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Strange behaviour of pkg_ commands

While upgrading ports/packages on a 4.5 machine I noticed some strange behaviour of the pkg_ commands. For example pkg_info with no parameters produces output which ends: bash-2.05b.007 The GNU Bourne Again Shell pkg_info: read_plist: bad command '@conflicts bison-[0-9]+' And now I cannot

Added Enet drivr to kernel

Hi, I added a new Ethernet driver for FreeBsd. My new kernel now boots up and talks over the new Enet driver correctly. How do I now burn a CD with my present kernel, so I can allow other users to boot up with this ENET device on a CD? Thanks. -- Jim

RE: Script doesn't complete via Cron

try the same job using root's crontab, it fails (timeout waiting for a password response). Hopefully that drivel made some sense. Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gerard Samuel Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 1:26 PM To: FreeBSD

RE: 5.1 WD 80.0GB SE Drive Geometry

(the latest). Thanks much to everyone who helped with this. Jim -Original Message- From: Hendrik Hasenbein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 3:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jerry McAllister; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 5.1 WD 80.0GB SE Drive Geometry

Worms/FreeBSD servers/Windows clients

are the ones that bring in the worms when coming back from a road trip where they were plugged into who-knows-what networks. -- -Jim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: virus scan programs

could put a startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d to start Sophos sweep. There are other virus software companies that support *nix, but Sophos was one that I know has a FreeBSD version. -Jim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: rsync problem

4.8 system I see that this would create about 60Mb extra. You might do better with dump and restore: # cd /miiror/rootfs # dump -0 -a -f - / | restore -r -f - Malcolm rsync -H preserves hard links. Maybe try rsync -Hax --delete ? -Jim

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