Re: ghostview missing libc.so.4?

2003-12-27 Thread paul beard
t for libc.so.4. This is what I have for libc (which I think is pretty darn integral to your system): what does ls -l /usr/lib/libc.so* show? lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9 Nov 22 23:04 /usr/lib/libc.so -> libc.so.4 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 578964 Nov 22 23:04 /usr/lib/libc.so.4 -- Pa

Re: Dynamic DNS Updates

2003-12-27 Thread paul beard
for me so far (touch simulated woodgrain). -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ghostview missing libc.so.4?

2003-12-27 Thread paul beard
the apps I need don't even work properly. You could fake it out with a symlink, but the Real Solution may be to rebuild whatever that file is part of, which I assume means a buildworld. I'm only running 4.9: I assume you're on 5.x if you have a higher file number? -- Paul

kern.maxfiles questions

2003-12-28 Thread paul beard
4.9-RELEASE #3: Sun Dec 21 14:01:26 PST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RED i386 -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, s

Re: kern.maxfiles questions

2003-12-28 Thread paul beard
Some updates to this. The machine was unresponsive this AM so I had to reboot it. I'm used to 90-100 day uptimes (as the power company permits) so this is quite unusual. On Dec 27, 2003, at 11:03 PM, paul beard wrote: [/usr/home/paul]:: sysctl kern.openfiles kern.maxfiles kern.openfiles

Re: kern.maxfiles questions

2003-12-29 Thread paul beard
On Dec 29, 2003, at 7:24 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Is there some way to find out what's tying up the file descriptors? fstat(1) Of course. I had been thinking of that in terms of files, not file handles. D'oh. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [a

kern.maxfiles problem resolved

2003-12-29 Thread paul beard
-P. That seemed to do it. Now openfiles are sitting in the low 200s . . . . I've posted this on my weblog with the relevant image (didn't want to send an attachment to the list). http://www.paulbeard.org/movabletype/archives/001347.html -- Paul Beard pa

Re: How can I automatically mount a windows-xp share from a freeBSD box using windows username andpassword?

2003-12-29 Thread paul beard
procedure should be similar: you need to use .nmbrc to store your authentication details, but it should "just work." man nsmbrc for more specifics. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: How can I automatically mount a windows-xp share from a freeBSD box using windows username andpassword?

2003-12-29 Thread paul beard
, but there is a wealth of good information here: http://www.google.com/search?q=nsmbrc&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To uns

Re: Does FreeBSD allow one to use the Floppy Drive on a SunBlade 100 ?

2003-12-29 Thread paul beard
one would dispute using a floppy on x86 hardware. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: 5.2 where is /kernel.GENERIC

2003-12-29 Thread paul beard
On Dec 29, 2003, at 3:08 PM, fbsd_user wrote: You are talking about the kernel source. I am talking about the /kernel.GENERIC binary execution file. locate kernel.GENERIC and see what it turns up. find / -name kernel.GENERIC -print cd / && ls -l kernel* -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at]

Re: Automated reply from mattm@mail.citystamp.com

2003-12-30 Thread paul beard
On Dec 30, 2003, at 11:20 AM, Eric F Crist wrote: Is there a way we can filter out these types of messages or perhaps can someone tell me how to do it fairly easily? I think your better autoresponders don't send these to mailing lists: not sure why these are getting through. -- Paul

Re: Plan 9 style backup utility for FreeBSD?

2004-01-02 Thread paul beard
duplicated hierarchy. If I'm understanding it, in 1999/1/1 you might have a file tree that looks like the "live" one with only files that were modified on 1999/1/1, but all other files would be links back to their unchanged versions. I like the idea

Re: Samba, Cups and Printing: Windows client gives "Access denied"

2004-01-02 Thread paul beard
ks. I was having this same problem and your smb.conf helped me out. I added these two lines to the stanza for the printer itself: guest ok = yes use client driver = yes And that seemed to make my "access denied" error go away. -- Paul Beard paulbea

Re: Yahoo! and GAIM

2004-01-09 Thread paul beard
On Jan 9, 2004, at 8:27 PM, Eric F Crist wrote: I have those packages installed, just MUCH newer versions. How do I work around this and force the install? any reason not to build from the port? -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL

port installation problems progress

2004-05-20 Thread paul beard
ed a buildworld (against a fresh source tree), and I was getting cc errors - the reboot appears to have fixed those. My build machine is now happily running a new kernel/world. Some packages are building OK but I still see issues on some ports. Any ideas how this might have gotten into this state

lingering problems with ports collection

2004-05-24 Thread paul beard
e directory (/usr/ports/{PORTNAME}/work/portname). But that doesn't get it registered and if I got back up to the port's directory, the make commands will kick back errors I didn't see in the source directory. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com

one for the archives

2004-06-06 Thread paul beard
culprit. I will add this info to the PR as well. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com

MySQL 3 server problems: mysqlclient.10 not found?

2004-03-16 Thread paul beard
8_2 ===> Running ldconfig /sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib/mysql ===> Registering installation for mysql-client-3.23.58_2 ===> Returning to build of mysql-server-3.23.58_2 Error: shared library "mysqlclient.10" does not exist *** Error code 1 Stop in /opt/ports/databases/mysql

Re: MySQL 3 server problems: mysqlclient.10 not found?

2004-03-17 Thread paul beard
client.so.10 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 132515 Oct 5 19:24 libmysqlclient.so.10 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 222510 Mar 16 14:08 libmysqlclient_r.a I ended up using pkg_add to fix this: not entirely satisfactory, but I'm up and running. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com

port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-29 Thread paul beard
em to have any problems (I have run it enough times today), cvsup has done its magic a couple of times. I thought portinstall/upgrade -rR would fix any out-of-date ports and make everything happy? What am I doing wrong to make this libraries not get installed? -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-30 Thread paul beard
is will do any harm, it seems the most thorough. I need to explore the docs and get a better understanding of the ports tools: I seem to find this happening again and again. Thanks for the quick and detailed reply. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com

wrestling with b*rked package/ports collection

2004-03-30 Thread paul beard
something: Error: shared library "expat.5" does not exist portupgrade -f, installing from source, installing from a package: all seem to fail. And since it and/or gettext are core dependencies for everything else, it seems, there's not much progress being made. Any other sage a

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
and I have been pulling from CVS so this shouldn't be an issue of being out of sync, I don't think. ruby is at 1.8.1, per someone else's advice, as well. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
es to show for it. [/usr/ports/textproc/expat2]# pkg_info -g /var/db/pkg/expat-1.95.7/ Information for expat-1.95.7: Mismatched Checksums: pkg_info: /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so doesn't exist pkg_info: /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.5 doesn't exist I think something's broken. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
ork around mysterious port problems you can always just install the packages instead. I tried that, but some ports want to rebuild their dependencies and I'm back where I started. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
like 4.9 there might be). -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to makestuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
eeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RELEASE/packages Thanks. I'll see if those will work. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
man1/xmlwf.1.gz /usr/local/bin/xmlwf /usr/local/include/expat.h /usr/local/lib/libexpat.a /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.4 gettext 0.13.x wants expat.5, so that's not as up to date as it might be. I've dropped a note to the maintainer: perhaps there's somethi

some anomalies in my system?

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
build shared libs and what's that funky system type? Other ports don't have this issue, at least from the others I chose at random. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: some anomalies in my system?

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
libtool - not found ===>Verifying install for /usr/local/libexec/libtool13/libtool in /usr/ports/devel/libtool13 ===> NOTICE: This port is deprecated; you may wish to reconsider installing it: Please use devel/libtool15 instead. It is scheduled to be removed 31st December 2004. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
5.7. this would/should give me expat.5. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: some anomalies in my system?

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
t was the first step to getting this fixed or at least worked around. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com

workaround for the expat problem

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
nyone has any ideas what this is all about and how best to cope with it going forward, I'd be grateful to know about it. Thanks. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
On Mar 31, 2004, at 9:21 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: You want the packages-4-stable directory; RELEASE packages are not updated. See http://www.freebsd.org/ports for more details. Ah, I see. There was an earlier email to the effect that the packages I needed were under 4.9-RELEASE. -- Paul Beard

Re: some anomalies in my system?

2004-04-02 Thread paul beard
doing (that was where the inability to build shlibs was getting in the mix). As noted in my followup post to the list, once I installed from the {$PORTDIR}/work/ directory, all went well and I have now resolved my problem. Apologies if I offended. The insight on libtool is appreciated. -- Paul

Re: workaround for the expat problem

2004-04-02 Thread paul beard
system infrastructure allowed the shlibs to be created and install and then -- and only then -- could the dependent ports find the expat.5 library and complete their upgrades. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com

libtool/shared libraries problem

2004-04-02 Thread paul beard
15 is preferred. There is no warning about the popt port in UPDATING. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com

question on manpages/hier(7)

2013-05-09 Thread Paul Beard
up-to-date there too. -- Paul Beard Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem? ___ 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: question on manpages/hier(7)

2013-05-09 Thread Paul Beard
I have no idea how this is getting all futzed up. I am finding files in /usr/local/share/man/man1 that were updated yesterday with others dating back to 2007. -- Paul Beard Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem? ___ freebsd-quest

Re: Should I upgrade to 4.9?

2003-10-29 Thread paul beard
4.x branch, so if it ain't broke, don't fix it. -- Paul Beard <http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/> whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat m

Re: kernel "make" error.

2003-10-29 Thread paul beard
what to do. I have attched a copy of my custom kernel "MYKERNEL". Any help with this problem would be great!!! Thank you. Sending the error message would be a big help. -- Paul Beard <http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/> whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Kansas st

Fwd: Re: kernel "make" error.

2003-10-30 Thread Paul Beard
Reply-to: risto phario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: risto phario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TO: paul beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Date: Thu Oct 30, 2003 11:38:05 AM PST Subject: Re: kernel "make" error. Ok, I have attached the error msg. Thanks. Risto - Original Me

Mozilla 1.5 errors?

2003-11-01 Thread paul beard
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/ports/www/mozilla/work/mozilla/config/mkdepend' gmake[1]: *** [export] Error 2 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/ports/www/mozilla/work/mozilla/config' gmake: *** [default] Error 2 *** Error code 2 -- Paul Beard <http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movablety

Mozilla 1.5 errors [resolved?]

2003-11-02 Thread paul beard
text. I have no idea what the Real Solution for this is, but I leave these workaround steps in the archive in case anyone finds them useful . -- Paul Beard <http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/> whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Greener's Law: Never argue with

Re: Mozilla 1.5 errors [resolved?]

2003-11-02 Thread paul beard
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 02:02:31PM -0800, paul beard wrote: I ended up tracking down what port owned Xos.h [XFree86-4-libraries] and rebuilding/installing it. At that point, Mozilla would build and install just fine. However, it wouldn't run: it need libintl.so.4

Re: Mozilla 1.5 errors?

2003-11-03 Thread paul beard
Lowell Gilbert wrote: paul beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: What's wrong here? I've updated ports today, if that's useful to know. Just built fine for me. -STABLE. Anything funny in your make.conf? My problem was that some ports were out of sync. -- Paul Beard <ht

Re: Recommendations for wireless networking and FreeBSD

2003-11-03 Thread paul beard
nd adapter solution if possible, as opposed to the much slower B solutions available. man 4 wi. there you can find a list of support cards. man 4 an has the straight dope on the aironet driver: I have been using it for awhile with FreeBSD 4.4 - 4.8. -- Paul Beard <http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movablety

Re: FreeBSD Essay.

2003-11-12 Thread paul beard
xplain something /very/ complicated (although please suggest just the same ;). -- Paul Beard <http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/> whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Who messed with my anti-paranoia shot? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing lis

Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2003-11-16 Thread paul beard
On Nov 16, 2003, at 2:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I has a G3 iMac that has broken CD-Rom drive, can it be reformated comppletely from the web? To expand on another answer, you can install NetBSD for PowerPC over the net, but I think you need a floppy or some kind of startup image to boot f

Re: Monitoring

2003-11-19 Thread paul beard
On Nov 19, 2003, at 8:59 AM, Rus Foster wrote: Does anyone have a recommendation for a good system monitoring (swap,I/O monitor) from ports? Ideally I want something that runs out of cron and emails me if usage goes above a certain point net/mrtg has some threshold/alerting stuff builtin in addi

Re: Network messaging

2003-11-19 Thread paul beard
On Nov 19, 2003, at 11:51 AM, Feltis, Ralph C. wrote: Is it possible to set some type of simple messaging system between networked FreeBSD machines? For example, client A pings client B, and then client B sends some prespecified text reply to client A. to what end? I don't know how you respond

Re: Network messaging

2003-11-19 Thread paul beard
On Nov 19, 2003, at 1:21 PM, Feltis, Ralph C. wrote: Ahh yes, I see how preparing an elegant solution would provide greater flexibility. However, Cordula's solution (ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] strings somefile) is about a 15 second fix, whereas setting up a server is, well, not so much a 15 second fi

Re: Can I install packages only for my release?

2003-11-20 Thread paul beard
On Nov 20, 2003, at 5:06 PM, Rahul Fernandez wrote: Hi, I'm am running 4.9 release. A package called hpijs1.4.1 is installed. I now would like to upgrade to hpijs-1.5. However, this package is only available in 4.9-stable. Can I install the package from 4.9-stable or is it advisable to stick to th

Re: FreeBSD Motherboard survey...

2003-11-21 Thread paul beard
On Nov 21, 2003, at 9:53 AM, Philip Hallstrom wrote: Hi all - I'm wanting to build my own computer to run FreeBSD, but don't have the slightest idea (well, maybe the slightest :) what motherboard to buy. I'd like one that has built-in lan/audio that works in FreeBSD, but in my searching effor

Re: Perl configuration

2003-11-22 Thread paul beard
is cheap). The side-effects are too hard to predict or rectify, in my experience. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: make vs. pkg_add

2003-11-22 Thread paul beard
ing. I have used both pkg_add and make install clean interchangeably, though I prefer working from source. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

Re: advice needed on creating hmtl docs?

2003-11-23 Thread paul beard
e the baroque HTML that Word generates and run it through htmltidy. It can strip out all the deprecated tags and generate CSS styles for you, giving you both the appearance and the maintainability you may need later. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] ma

POLA violation?: snmp renumbering stuff

2003-11-23 Thread paul beard
5 ? 7 HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageFixedDisk /proc 4096 Bytes ? 1 ? 8 HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageFixedDisk /usr/ports 512 Bytes ? 35548516 ? -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: remote mount hangs sysstem

2003-11-23 Thread paul beard
boot. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: remote mount hangs sysstem

2003-11-23 Thread paul beard
cally unmounted when they appear to be quiescent. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: POLA violation?: snmp renumbering stuff

2003-11-23 Thread paul beard
nd swap in the table, / might be 3. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Adding new IP's without reboot?

2003-11-26 Thread paul beard
device name). [/usr/home/paul]:: ifconfig xl1 192.168.2.100 up -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: adaptive stealth in ipfw?

2003-11-28 Thread paul beard
e the case as well. It looks like there is a kernel of truth to some of the allegations (ie, a false sense of security is worse than no security at all), but if anyone can recommend a reliable and accurate security scanner (other than a friend with netsaint), could they share it? Thanks. --

Re: Remove ^M characters from xhtml file

2003-11-30 Thread paul beard
at all that stuff if you're editing in vi, for example. But for yet one more solution, you can search and replace ^M as Control V Control M in vi. I also use perl -pi "s#\\r#\\n#g" all the time. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___

Re: games that don't need X-11

2003-12-01 Thread paul beard
games in the ports tree or porting other games that are not there yet? -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ports problems

2003-12-01 Thread paul beard
On Dec 1, 2003, at 7:28 PM, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: when i run portsdb -Uu i get many errors like the one below is there anyone who can help me try pkgdb -F and see how that goes. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: config(8) out of sync with source

2003-12-03 Thread paul beard
e you a kernel remarkably similar to the one you installed initially. If that works, you can rest assured the procedure is sound, and it's the configuration that needs tweaking. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: the proces that can be monitored

2003-12-05 Thread paul beard
pwalk against the host you want to monitor and see what's available. There are a lot of variables to look at. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

Re: Why would drive run at UDMA33? (Segate 80GB)

2003-12-07 Thread paul beard
On Dec 7, 2003, at 10:07 PM, JacobRhoden wrote: I typed 'man atacontrol' and it didnt seem to help! (grin). Seriously, i had a look and worked out how to list/display the modes of drives, and i am not sure what commands i would type to help fix the speed? mode Without the two mode argu

Re: NATd question

2003-12-08 Thread paul beard
On Dec 7, 2003, at 11:15 PM, Matt Edwards wrote: consumer: "I have two computers. I need to make sure they can both get on the internet." (Thinking: "I know my buddy did this with his setup") ISP: "Oh you mean you need a second IP address, right?" (Thinking: "The poor guy doesn't know he can

how to make dhclient give up its lease and get a new one with routes, etc. ?

2003-12-09 Thread paul beard
needit is welcome, as well but not as pressing: I think they work with dyndns and of course I chose no-ip.org. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscr

Re: Perl 5.8.2 problems (was Re: how to build Spamassassin)

2003-12-11 Thread paul beard
were to use portinstall perl5.8 and portinstall spamassassin? You may need to install the portupgrade package if you haven't already done so. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: Perl 5.8.2 problems (was Re: how to build Spamassassin)

2003-12-11 Thread paul beard
in your case perl5.8 and spamassassin. You may need to run "use.perl port" between those steps to ensure that spamassassin gets built against perl5.8 and doesn't complain about the wrong version. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com __

Re: Page faults every few days

2003-12-13 Thread paul beard
On Dec 13, 2003, at 8:50 PM, Jaime wrote: current process = 26642 (perl5.00503) any idea what perl-based job is running and if moving to a newer perl version would have any effect at all? -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL

Re: Page faults every few days

2003-12-13 Thread paul beard
ppgsout: 283967 -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

kern.maxfiles limit exceeded: what to investigate?

2003-12-21 Thread paul beard
a flaky binary were slowly eating up file descriptors. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

restoring disklabel from an active disk?

2002-07-25 Thread paul beard
not on the list, so direct replies would be most helpful. Thanks. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -- A

Re: restoring disklabel from an active disk?

2002-07-25 Thread paul beard
;> f: 524288 12791524.2BSD 2048 1638494 # (Cyl. >> 84*- 119*) >> g: 14586640 1803440 4.2BSD 2048 1638489 # (Cyl. >>119*- 1083*) >> >>I guess what I need is how to map the mounted filesystems to the >>right disklabel values. >

Re: restoring disklabel from an active disk?

2002-07-25 Thread paul beard
Assuming I work out the partition sizes with the output of df -k, is there a way to determine the starting point for the slice that contains all my BSD partitions? As long as I don't reboot, things seem to be hunky-dory, but that's not the most practical way to continue. -- Paul Be

RE NEdit dead outta nowhere

2002-10-01 Thread paul beard
he best list to find out about pitfalls like this? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ <http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/> "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes

Re: netscape: locale `C' not supported.

2002-10-05 Thread paul beard
mozilla or galeon? They're both in ports and run fine. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ <http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/> Philadelphia is not dull -- it just seems so because it is next to exciting Camden,

Re: creating boot disk

2002-10-06 Thread paul beard
ible, what and > how would I install the boot, root, and/or kernel the 100MG zip drive? FreeBSD won't run on the PBook G3. I would suggest burning a default/clean install to CD and keep that in your case. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot

Re: make world script

2002-10-08 Thread paul beard
it happen. I think doing a kernel install and build/installworld hands-free is asking for trouble. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ <http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/> Egotist, n.: A person of lo

/etc/malloc.conf? java FreeBSD expertise?

2002-10-09 Thread paul beard
Linux, but I can't get anywhere with it in FreeBSD. The most recent version dumped core when a non-root user runs it. Root gets to see it spawn half a dozen processes and suck up all the CPU, to no practical purpose. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac

Re: /etc/malloc.conf? java FreeBSD expertise?

2002-10-09 Thread paul beard
paul beard wrote: > Two questions, perhaps I should break them out. > > First off, why, when I use truss(1) to look at what a program is doing, > does it look for /etc/malloc.conf? Never finds it, carries on anyway. I mean to say, the program being examined looks to /etc/mal

Re: /etc/malloc.conf? java FreeBSD expertise?

2002-10-09 Thread paul beard
UI: this version fails to get that far. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ <http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/> "No, `Eureka' is Greek for `This bath is too hot.'" -- Dr. Who

Re: /etc/malloc.conf? java FreeBSD expertise?

2002-10-09 Thread paul beard
Weston M. Price wrote: > In earlier versions on FreeBSD I assume. No, in earlier JDKs. > I have noticed a number of instabilities on 1.4.1 on FreeBSD. Have you tried > using the native JDK? I didn't realize there was one: I was using the 1.4.1 version in ports. -- Paul Bea

Re: /etc/malloc.conf? java FreeBSD expertise?

2002-10-09 Thread paul beard
Weston M. Price wrote: > Yeah, that could be the issue. The native JDK is at > > /usr/ports/java/jdk13 > well, the application requires 1.4. Looks like I'm SOL for now. Thanks for the help. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] c

Re: /etc/malloc.conf? java FreeBSD expertise?

2002-10-10 Thread paul beard
Weston M. Price wrote: > But wait, why does the application require 1.4? What in the code dictates use > of the 1.4 JDK? > It used NIO from 1.4, from what the author tells me. Perhaps I should take this to the java list. Join me there? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle

Re: /etc/malloc.conf? java FreeBSD expertise?

2002-10-10 Thread paul beard
Oliver Fromme wrote: > paul beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > First off, why, when I use truss(1) to look at what a program is > > doing, does it look for /etc/malloc.conf? Never finds it, carries > > on anyway. > > man 3 malloc > Hmm, I should have u

problems installing gimp-devel/gtk20

2002-10-15 Thread paul beard
code 1 [/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gtk20]# locate libX11 /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 /usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 /usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.2 I'm trying gtk12 and it seems to have found X11 just fine. -- Paul Bear

questions on swap_pager messages

2002-10-23 Thread paul beard
ut about trends. http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/mrtg/blue/blue-mem.html Any suggestions besides more swap? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ <http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/> Newton's Fourth Law: Every action

Re: Re Ports & Ymessenger

2002-10-18 Thread paul beard
ion and use the information you learned from the terminal to create a button for it. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ <http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/> "All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I sho

Re: FTP Server Configuration

2002-10-20 Thread paul beard
f file. > for user ftp, you might be already in business. try accessing your machine as a user (like yourself) and see what happens. for anonymous ftp, the fine handbook, er, manual, has this to say about it. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-post.html#ANON-FTP2 -

Re: FreeBSD Help Channels

2002-10-17 Thread paul beard
Bryan Cassidy wrote: What servers and channels would you recommend going to for FreeBSD help? The handbook is nice. So is Google. Depends on the question. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ <http://paulbeard.no-ip.

Re: upgrading installed ports after CVSup

2002-10-17 Thread paul beard
es before building from source). -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ <http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/> He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace. -- John Mason Brown, drama critic

Re: Mozilla and Sylpheed

2002-10-17 Thread paul beard
it to open Mozilla Mail. I want it to open Sylpheed. If someone could tell me "exactly" how to do this I would appreciate it. Thank You. Given any thought to using a mozilla-based browser if you don't need the other components? Galeon is quite nice -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th

Re: New to BSD and have a few questions.

2002-10-17 Thread paul beard
You have this mailing list and others like it, as well as up to date man pages and a handbook that reflects the current state of the code base. This goes more to the first answer you got than the second, I realize, but it reflects my experience. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattl

Re: Phoenix browser and FreeBSD (Linux binaries) 4.6.2?

2002-10-22 Thread paul beard
re is only the linux-phoenix port. I tried to build it the other week and it failed, I forget why. If this attempt fails, I'll post a request for a package. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ <http://paulbeard.no-

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