Need help with Supermicro MB

2003-02-20 Thread Lee Nelson
, but those examples are obviously out-of-date. Help would be much appreciated. Any pointers, ideas or musings welcome too. :) Thanks much, Lee Nelson To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Please help with SMBus on Serverworks III HE

2003-02-19 Thread Lee Nelson
pages, but those examples are obviously out-of-date. Help would be much appreciated. Any pointers, ideas or musings welcome too. :) Thanks much, Lee Nelson To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: UNIX and Macintosh

2002-11-27 Thread Lee Nelson
with empty folders, so if you want to delete a whole tree at once, use 'rm -rf'. But be careful, there is no way to recover! Hope this helps, Lee Nelson 11/27/02 2:44:08 AM, Doug Lawhead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This question pertains to the Unix flavor used in Apple's OSX 10.2

Apache not killing subprocesses, only on FreeBSD

2002-11-23 Thread Lee Nelson
= fork; exit if $pid; die ($pn couldn't fork $!\n) unless defined $pid; POSIX::setsid() or die ($pn can't start a new session: $!\n); Any clues or suggestions welcome. Thanks, Lee Nelson To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions

Re: Advantages over GNU/Linux?

2002-11-16 Thread Lee Nelson
I switched to FreeBSD earlier this year. Advantages that convinced me are: It comes from a single source. There are no arguments over this or that driver, kernel patch, whatnot. This means that I don't have to spend my time figuring out which patches to apply, or who's version of the

Re: Permissions user/group scheme for webserver?

2002-11-10 Thread Lee Nelson
This is an excellent question, and it's also an enduring problem. It's easy enough to make all files owned by user:nobody, but the problem is that CGI's executing as nobody can go off and read other peoples files! To counter this, I run all CGI's as suid the user. But this requires Apache's

Is Perl Fixed Yet?

2002-11-05 Thread Lee Nelson
Did they ever fix the bugs in the Perl that comes with FreeBSD? In FreeBSD 4.5 for example, setting $0 (the process name) causes a core dump. There are others - ones that I know exist but I can't find. I have an app, Minivend, that crashes after X thousands of hits (every few weeks) on

Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many?

2002-11-03 Thread Lee Nelson
JT32255 has a point. It's clear that we're not going to change how people react to the daemon logo. So, if advocacy is a goal, it makes sense to drop the daemon and come up with something more palatable to the general public. But a larger audience for FreeBSD may actually detract from its

Re: Disk activity leading to hangs

2002-11-03 Thread Lee Nelson
Jason, Just thought I should point out that you are probably seeing network activity from broadcast packets originating elsewhere. Your kernel may well be hung in this situation. -Lee On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 10:12:09PM -0800, Jeff Jirsa wrote: On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Jason Godfrey wrote: