Re: [nycbug-talk] Minimum Install w/ X11 on Virtual PC

2005-07-07 Thread Scott Robbins
, but does require some other program to do that--some people use feh, xv and xli are two other programs that can work with fbsetbg to set your background. I hope I've understood that aspect of your question. If not, apologies for wasting your time. - -- Scott Robbins GPG KeyID EB3467D6 ( 1B848

Re: Sshd fix

2004-09-24 Thread Scott Robbins
, until I renamed /usr/sbin/sshd, it kept giving me the old version number--so, stop sshd, and rename /usr/sbin/sshd to something else. Then, start the new one /usr/local/sbin/sshd This seems to work. HTH Scott Robbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: `pkg_info | grep -i openssh` ; echo 2.9 vs 3.0.2?

2004-09-24 Thread Scott Robbins
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Re: 2 odd net work problems...

2003-01-29 Thread Scott Robbins
--this wasn't a power blackout, or the modem totally dying--it was simply a killing of the connection between the modem and the outside--the LAN connection et al was fine. HTH though I realize it's unlikely it will -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34

Re: Problem upgrading from 4.6 to 5.0 - RELEASE (lib.a not found)

2003-01-20 Thread Scott Robbins
, the path is off? (The error message seems to point in other directions, but I know this has happened to a few people. I Just for the heck of it, try cd /usr/src/sys/boot (or cd sys/boot) -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg

Re: newbie fetchmail help

2003-01-19 Thread Scott Robbins
on it, mostly as a reminder to myself that might be useful at http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/getmail.html HTH -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: I don't get your crazy

Re: annoying fetchmail issue

2003-01-17 Thread Scott Robbins
it will deliver the mail, with Getmail you won't. HTH -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: This is just too much. I mean, yesterday's my life like, uh oh, pop quiz. Today, it's rain

Re: Shell scripting tutorial

2003-01-02 Thread Scott Robbins
://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/shellscripting.html There is also http://www.shelldorado.com HTH -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Faith: When I'm fighting, it's like the whole world

Re: FreeBSD Installation on HP Pavilion ZT1130

2003-01-01 Thread Scott Robbins
) which went fairly well, but it was unable to install the ports collection. This was fixed after the first reboot, I ~was~ able to install cvsup, so I simply cvsup'd the ports collection. Sorry for the lengthy message, but hope it's of some use. Sincerely, -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6

Re: Error when trying to mount cd

2002-12-31 Thread Scott Robbins
when I thought I had the CD in drive 0 and it was in drive 1 and I was doing burncd. That's probably not the issue, but worth mentioning, even if most people are more observant than I am. HTH but sort of doubt it did -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575

Re: Using multiple window managers

2002-12-31 Thread Scott Robbins
;; *) echo echo Please choose 1, 2 or 3 echo (or hit Ctrl+C to exit) echo esac done Even as I look at this, it looks pretty lame, but should get you started. HTH and happy new year all -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver

Re: Laptops w/ FreeBSD pre-loaded (somewhat OT)

2002-12-29 Thread Scott Robbins
. Thanks -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Drusilla: Your face is a poem. I can read it. Xander: It doesn't say 'spare me' by any chance? msg13646/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: XFree86 4.2.1 Signal 11 on start

2002-12-25 Thread Scott Robbins
installs of both Linux and FreeBSD that I had much better luck selecting S3 Virge (Generic) for an S3 Trio card in xf86config. Not sure if it'll help, but probably worth a shot. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver

Re: What is the Command to Get Web Pages?

2002-12-24 Thread Scott Robbins
doubts) -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 (After finding Spike outside her house.) Buffy: What are you doing here, Spike? Five words or less! Spike: (counting on fingers) Out

Re: About Samba

2002-12-23 Thread Scott Robbins
. HTH -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Anya: You know this isn't your world, right? I mean, you know you don't belong here. Willow: No. This is a dumb world. On my world, there are people

Re: CDRW drive

2002-12-22 Thread Scott Robbins
mount the drive, just do the dd if=/dev/acd0c thingie, as explained in the handbook HTH -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Spike: Should I really trust you? Adam: Scout's honor. Spike: You

Re: Drawing diagrams a-la-Visio

2002-12-21 Thread Scott Robbins
suitable for technical use. Does anyone have any suggestions ... ? I haven't used it, but according to some folks on NYLUG, Dia works well. http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/ Hope this is of use. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg

Re: Drawing diagrams a-la-Visio

2002-12-21 Thread Scott Robbins
some fellow named Mr. Gates. :) (Not 100 percent sure of my info though--I know it was bought by MS at one point, but haven't kept up with it.) -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Riley

Re: OpenOffice.org1.0 and much death

2002-12-19 Thread Scott Robbins
with it--when it works it's great, but OpenOffice can sometimes be a pain to get working. My hope is that you're running FreeBSD 5.x, in which case my page ~should~ solve your problem. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu

Re: FreeBSD 4.7 + WinXP + GRUB problem

2002-12-16 Thread Scott Robbins
my FreeBSD install on the second? Shouldn't be too late. I have a page on Grub that might or might not be of use, as it's dated, at http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/grub.html HTH -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg

Re: Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...)

2002-12-13 Thread Scott Robbins
might be fixed by now). I should also add that we never fully determined that was the problem--it was usually a matter of trying this and that and eventually the box would get an address and only afterwards did we think of the switch as the culprit. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D

Re: Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...)

2002-12-13 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 04:15:34PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 23:05:57 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: ... is that if one moves a computer from one location to another, the switch seems to take its time flushing its tables and the box won't immediately

Re: Make Installworld problem

2002-12-07 Thread Scott Robbins
correct. :-( . The instructions are fairly straightforward. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: It's time for me to act like a man... and hide. msg11382/pgp0.pgp Description

Toshiba Satellite won't boot 5.0

2002-12-07 Thread Scott Robbins
necessary information, or am supplying too much unecessary information. -- Sincerely, Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: Well, yeah. I'd give anything to be able to turn invisible. I wouldn't

Re: Opera

2002-12-03 Thread Scott Robbins
that one or two others were as well. So, I then installed Linux-opera from ports. That worked. A day or two later, I tried the normal opera again. And that worked. shrug I can't see one being connected to the other, but who knows? -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6

Re: FreeBSD as Desktop OS with support for Windows

2002-11-28 Thread Scott Robbins
MS. :) Hope this is of some help -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: It's time for me to act like a man... and hide. msg10462/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: using 5.0-RELEASE

2002-11-24 Thread Scott Robbins
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:26:32AM +0100, Jens Rehsack wrote: Hi, just a question to the possibilies using 5.0-RELEASE. In the early adopters guide (chapter 1) it's written, that 5.0-RELEASE should be as stable as possible to getting a large number of users to test. But if it's not

Re: openoffice install

2002-11-22 Thread Scott Robbins
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 04:00:59PM -0800, paul beard wrote: Daniel Harris wrote: Note that http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ has binary packages which won't require those 4GB :-) So being likewise strapped for diskspace, I used the package also. It looks nice, but I am having a

Re: How to deinstall openoffice?

2002-11-22 Thread Scott Robbins
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 09:43:51PM -0800, paul beard wrote: Does anyone know what file the installer might be finding that prevents it from reinstalling? I am giving up the FreeBSD package and trying the linux version, but whatever I deleted when cleaning up the old install left something

Re: OpenOffice

2002-11-13 Thread Scott Robbins
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 05:31:18PM -0800, Ted Brenner wrote: I have FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE installed on a Pentium III machine and I installed OpenOffice but when ever I try and open up a Word2000 document that I saved on my Windows machine, OpenOffice closes sayin an unrecoverable error. Has

Re: Window/File Manager

2002-11-03 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 09:55:37PM -0600, Ryan Sommers wrote: What are your favorite ultra-light WM's and/or FMs? I'm just looking for something that does the job, looking nice would be an added benefit but I doubt I'll have a high color depth to play with anyway. I'm a wm slut, but always

Fetchmail and mailbox in use error

2002-10-29 Thread Scott Robbins
I usually use either a FreeBSD box or another box running Gentoo Linux, as my workstation. Lately, (I don't remember this happening before upgrading to 4.7-STABLE) I've had a problem with fetchmail. As I'm the only user on the box, rather than run sendmail or others, I use fetchmail which goes

Re: cdparanoia users?

2002-10-27 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 09:37:16PM -0800, chip wiegand wrote: I am wondering if the linux app cdparanoia works on FBSD-4.7? It's not in the ports, so I would have to download the source from their web site. There's a good section in the handbook on this

Re: Install FreeBSD 4.4 into EXTENDED Partition

2002-10-26 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 01:29:55PM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote: In installation programm of FreeBSD 4.4 I have select extended partition, Unless I'm mistaken, FreeBSD cannot use DOS Extended partitions for disk space. -- Matt Emmerton You're not mistaken. FreeBSD requires a primary

mutt in rxvt problem--solved

2002-10-23 Thread Scott Robbins
A day or so ago, I posted that I couldn't get mutt working if I declared the termName as rxvt in .Xdefaults, but that it would work in a non-color terminal. Embarrassing as the solution turned out to be, it's probably worth posting in case someone else is as careless--I don't mind being ignorant,

Problem with rxvt and termName

2002-10-22 Thread Scott Robbins
that I can't have colors in mutt while running X (I get my colors in console) TIA -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Cordelia: What's going on? Oh god, is the world ending? I have to research

Re: Re Ports Ymessenger

2002-10-18 Thread Scott Robbins
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:59:41PM -0600, MIKE wrote: Fire up KDE. Create an icon for /usr/local/bin/ymessenger or just use the Run... dialog. so, here's where I am stuck. How do I start the program. It's a common question for folks new to Unix. Yes, you've been spoiled by MS. :)

Failure to build Xfree86 from ports

2002-10-17 Thread Scott Robbins
I just did a fresh install of 4.7. Did a cvsup, build world, new kernel, cvsup'd ports, all without problem. I then went to install Xfree--it was going fine, then gave me an error code saying there was no #2 source tarball in /distfiles/xc. I cvsup'd ports again, tried again, same result.

Re: Como utilizar CUPS

2002-10-17 Thread Scott Robbins
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 06:35:11PM -0500, DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions people' wrote: English at bottom...for those interested... :-) From: Julio Cesar Estrada Rico [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have configured CUPS to print in a servant of Windows cons SAMBA and if it works. The problem is that

Re: New to BSD and have a few questions.

2002-10-17 Thread Scott Robbins
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 04:30:37PM -0700, paul beard wrote: Mike Hogsett wrote: My question is what are common pitfalls a Linux user finds in a BSD world? Ok, time for the honest answer... Coming from Linux to BSD you'll find that many of the various utilities (ps, ifconfig, route,

Re: Regarding Upgrade

2002-10-08 Thread Scott Robbins
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 12:24:00AM -0400, Matt Garcia wrote: Hi, I finished doing an upgrade for freebsd from 4.5-stable to 4.7RC. I had a question regarding the mergemaster. After everything is done when running the mergemaster everything on the LEFT side is new and everything on the

Re: Mutt and Filters

2002-10-05 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 07:58:08PM -0500, Bryan Cassidy wrote: OK. I am going to try this one last time. I really want to keep using Mutt because it's small, fast and I like console based apps anyways. I am new at this stuff ok. I have asked a couple places on the net many times in the last 2

Re: Fetchmail and Mutt

2002-09-25 Thread Scott Robbins
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 06:48:17PM -0500, Bryan Cassidy wrote: I am using FreeBSD 4.6.2 on my system now. I am new to Unix/Linux but liking bsd alot. Anyways. I use fetchmail 5.9.13 and mutt 1.2.5.1i and I am using Fluxbox as my window manager. I want to know what can I add to my .fluxbox/menu

Re: install questions

2002-09-17 Thread Scott Robbins
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 05:38:25PM -0700, Mike Shlitz wrote: I have an older machine, Pentium 233 MMX, 256MB SDRAM, 512 cache, (2) Western Digital 8.4 GB HDD, 24X CDROM, 2X CDRW. My intention is to run a tri-boot machine letting Slackware 8.1 and FreeBSD 4.6.2 split the second drive.

Re: Sendmail Problem during boot

2002-07-24 Thread Scott Robbins
On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 11:21:09AM +0200, Pascal Giannakakis wrote: Please explain a sendmail idiot WTF this message means, and why it still appears after setting sendmail_enable=NO in /etc/rc.conf. It's actually covered somewhere in /usr/src/UPDATING sendmail_enable=NO

Re: /usr/share/examples

2002-07-22 Thread Scott Robbins
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 05:54:49PM -0700, Ross Lippert wrote: I just installed 4.6 and found that many of the /usr/share/examples were missing such as /usr/share/examples/ppp and /usr/share/examples/BSD_Daemon were empty. What gives? Is there something I should have checked off in