Hylafax on FreeBSD 5.4x (upgrading from 4.11)

2005-05-24 Thread Stephen Hilton
install the uucp port first before Hylafax? or can Hylafax operate in fax receive mode without needing uucp installed (external 56k serial Fax/Modem) and a manually added uucp user. Thanks, Stephen Hilton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: ports problems

2003-12-02 Thread Stephen Hilton
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 13:36:52 -0600 Stephen Hilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 11:28:22 -0500 > "Jonathan T. Sage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > > >RYAN vAN GINNEKEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ports problems

2003-12-02 Thread Stephen Hilton
n my logs, it looks as if i almost > always have at least a few of these types of errors Try using 'make index" then 'portsdb -u' instead, this seems to almost always give me better results. Set your /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf variables appropriately. Regards, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Cannot perform make install

2003-11-29 Thread Stephen Hilton
inal time, I think > I use a Python tool included in the cvsup tarball contrib folder called cvsupchk to check the "basic sanity" of my src tree. Here is the shell script I made to automate this process: #!/bin/sh # mycvsupchk.sh

Re: usb digital camera

2003-11-28 Thread Stephen Hilton
l for an updated list. WWW: http://www.gphoto.org/gphoto2/ And recheck your USB permissions in /dev. Regards, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: (Semi)hot swap IDE

2003-11-28 Thread Stephen Hilton
ain needed the 'fwcontrol -r' to work properly. YMMV This reconnect issue may be fixed now in 4-STABLE for my firewire on-board interface :-) --- Another option to research would be the new SATA IDE drives and controllers and trays. Anyone

Re: CUPS problem

2003-11-24 Thread Stephen Hilton
quot; after you get your printing system working properly!) Then start monitoring your cups error_log file for information: # tail -f /var/log/cups/error_log Then restart the cups daemon in another terminal: # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cups.sh stop # /usr

Re: Logitech MX Duo troubles (fast RF wireless keyboard and mouse)

2003-11-18 Thread Stephen Hilton
print. > > > > > > -kirt > > > > Ahh, I think someone else had this problem fairly recently with a USB > > keyboard thinking about it, possibly on the hackers list. Possibly fixed > > in -CURRENT *but I am not sure!* You may want to give -CURRENT a shot or > > perhaps try 4.9? Sorry I am not much help :oP I am pretty sure I remember > > your keyboard problem being mentioned on either questions or hackers though. > > > > k, thanks for the headsup, i checked through the mailing lists once already, > and i didn't have time again this morning to search too much before work. > > if i don't find anything i'll ask over at -hackers. anyone else that has any > ideas, feel free to chime in ;D Kirt, here is a pointer, long url coming: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=bl1vr6%241v46%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dplasma%2Busb%2Bgroup:mailing.freebsd.*%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dmailing.freebsd.*%26selm%3Dbl1vr6%25241v46%25241%2540FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw%26rnum%3D2 PR = kern/57273 HTH, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: vidcontrol 132x43 mode help

2003-11-05 Thread Stephen Hilton
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 10:00:14 -0600 Stephen Hilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cheers all, > > I am trying to get 132x43 mode in my consoles and need a little help :-) > > Matrox G400 video card, Hitachi CM771 monitor, FreeBSD 4.9 > > # vidcontrol -i adapter > fb0

vidcontrol 132x43 mode help

2003-11-03 Thread Stephen Hilton
clicks, then no video. I do have VESA in my kernel. Thanks in advance, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: The find command

2003-10-13 Thread Stephen Hilton
nd me data as to where this info is, I would appreciate it). > I may try to fix it if I can get that info on inodes that I > mentioned, if no one else can do it. This works on my 4.9-RC and a 4.8 system. $ find /usr/home -inum 22050 /usr/home/findme.test $ HTH, Stephen Hilton [EM

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac G3?

2003-10-10 Thread Stephen Hilton
t;> - --Brian > > I believe 10.3 is going to introduce a "blessed" ports system, which > I'd imagine would immediately be adopted by Darwin. Just FYI. I have been following the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list for quite a while, and if this is so, then it is a prett

Re: ghostscript-gnu distfile checksum error - WORKAROUND (was: Stop error installing /usr/ports/mail/evolution)

2003-09-17 Thread Stephen Hilton
; on its own, and I *suspect* that the ports system will get it right. I ran into this problem also a while back, just deleted the distfile "Samsung-SmartGDI-all-GS.tar.gz" and fetched it again. Problem solved! Regards, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: /dev/null permission issues

2003-09-13 Thread Stephen Hilton
7;m doing other administrative stuff I think to look at the router also. (:->) Ed Alley [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---snip----- You did not mention running Netscape 4.67 as root, but I thought I would throw this out here, in case

Re: newbie

2003-09-04 Thread Stephen Hilton
ctions. A mounted MSDOS floppy that developes a "disk error" can cause a perfectly healthy FreeBSD system to crash, with mtools this possible crash will not happen :-) Regards, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail

Re: Is CIFS available already on FreeBSD?

2003-08-26 Thread Stephen Hilton
# mchain library. It can be either loaded as KLD or compiled into kernel options LIBMCHAIN #mbuf management library # Kernel side iconv library options LIBICONV

Re: Using bc in bash script

2003-08-14 Thread Stephen Hilton
> > et=`echo "$end_time - $start_time" | bc` > > Hi Jez, thanks for the reply! > > As my daughter would say, "Well, DUHHH!" > That worked fine, it reported 0 seconds. > Can I refine it to give me something like: .784 seconds? Charles, Th

Re: Using bc in bash script

2003-08-14 Thread Stephen Hilton
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 18:34:25 +0100 Jez Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:23:34PM -0500, Stephen Hilton wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:11:55 -0500 > > "Charles Howse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Ch

Re: Using bc in bash script

2003-08-14 Thread Stephen Hilton
rocess and the time consumed by system overhead. -snip-- So that looks like seconds only also. A quick browse through "man sh" and "man bash" look like their builtin time commands also resolve to seconds. Curiousy, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL

Re: X screen.

2003-07-19 Thread Stephen Hilton
ote support for Mum on her FreeBSD/Gnome2 desktop :-) Anyone else out there using the beta and have any comments? Regards, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Change terminals

2003-07-09 Thread Stephen Hilton
et to pts/0?? > > > TIA Marvin, Try the program called "screen" in the ports tree at: /usr/ports/misc/screen A very usefull utility to allow you to attach and detach from terminal sessions. Once you start using it you will never go back, like FreeBSD. Regards, Stephen Hi

Re: "pkg_add -r ..." from a url other than the default (usingPACKAGESITE, PACKAGEROOT or smth. else)

2003-06-02 Thread Stephen Hilton
net' So now on my local machine that I want to install "foo-package" I can: portupgrade -NviPPr www/foo-package And it will install a package from "mypackagemachine.mynet.net" If the package is not there it errors out with a descriptive message. Regards, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Problems making "ogle" and "libdvdread"

2003-03-23 Thread Stephen Hilton
libdvdread. Can someone please comment? > > I emailed [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking for an ogle package but I don't know > where that request will go... Thanks everybody, please CC replies to me. Peter, Have you tried using the ports/multimedia/ogle port ? it is working well for me on

Re: video

2003-03-14 Thread Stephen Hilton
to try to get DMA mode working for his CD/DVD-ROM (acd1) ad0: 6149MB [13328/15/63] at ata0-master BIOSDMA acd0: CD-RW at ata1-master PIO4 acd1: DVD-ROM at ata1-slave PIO4 Anyone else out there have any input on this ? Thanks, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMA

Re: Arplookup - what gives ?

2003-03-14 Thread Stephen Hilton
gt;> ip addresses 192.168.1.x. I have two machines on my > >> internal lan, not including the firewall box. > >> > >> I am getting > >> /kernel arplookup failure: 10.1.1.1 not on local network. > >> > >> my ISP assigns a real IP to my ep0 int

Re: Arplookup - what gives ?

2003-03-14 Thread Stephen Hilton
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 11:43:11 -0600 Stephen Hilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 11:33:08 -0600 > "Darryl Hoar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Greetings, > > I have posted several questions regarding an arplookup failure > >

Re: Arplookup - what gives ?

2003-03-14 Thread Stephen Hilton
to block 10.x.x.x in, but it has not stopped the messages. > > I can ping 10.1.1.1, and if I down ep0, I cannot ping 10.1.1.1. > > I have alerted my ISP to this problem (thought 10.x.x.x weren't > suppose to be routed). Darryl, What IP addresses does your DSL router use, possibl

Re: video

2003-03-14 Thread Stephen Hilton
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:38:00 -0600 "Brian Henning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Original Message - > > From: "Stephen Hilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Brian Henning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: video

2003-03-14 Thread Stephen Hilton
de ? # atacontrol mode 0 -or- # atacontrol mode 1 from my system: daggar># atacontrol mode 1 Master = WDMA2 Slave = ??? With my CD-DVD ROM as master on 2nd onboard ata controller. Regards, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: difficulties with BIND going from 8.* to 9.*

2003-03-11 Thread Stephen Hilton
" and Ralf Hildebrandt for his excellent piece on chrooting Bind on HP-UX 9/10 at http://www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb/bind/. Bind9_FreeBSD_chroot.txt v0.9 2002-04-27 Phil Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = -- Philip J. Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium ---snip--- Regards, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: 4.7-STABLE, 4.8-RC! don't recognize 2nd SCSI disk

2003-03-09 Thread Stephen Hilton
^^^ > am I the only one that thought Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) first here? Just to isolate out 1 factor you could reverse the drive id jumpers and boot the CDROM again and see if the problem persists. I am using 2 SCSI HD's on a Tekram DC390U2W cont

Re: AbiWord

2003-03-05 Thread Stephen Hilton
on the internet somewhere) > and "./configure; gmake; gmake install". Or you could: # portupgrade -Nivr editors/AbiWord I really like AbiWord also. The version in the ports tree cvsupd today is 1.0.4 which is what I believe you were referring to. Regards, Stephen Hilton [E

Re: Multiple Versions of Same Port

2003-03-04 Thread Stephen Hilton
ld possibly accomplish this by having different httpd.conf files for your different Apache setups. Then by hacking the apachectl/httpd -f argument you could specify which configuration you wanted to start up. Regards, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: SAMBA performance and FreeBSD

2003-03-04 Thread Stephen Hilton
rmance loss? > > Or what typical read/write speeds do usually achieve on your samba > +freebsd machine? I have had better results on "older" hardware by using this in the smb.conf file: socket options = TCP_NODELAY HTH Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscri

Re: SCSI Devices Delay

2003-02-26 Thread Stephen Hilton
this has not helped either. Mike, You can control the settle time with this kernel config option: options SCSI_DELAY=3000 #Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI Add this line to your kernel config and set the SCSI_DELAY= to a reasonable option, then rebuild and install the new

Re: portsentry in combination with ipfilter

2003-02-11 Thread Stephen Hilton
in /usr/ports/security/aide but tripwire is probably a more commonly used tool. Using a tight ipf firewall in conjunction with snort on a gateway firewall is a common and well liked setup. Regards, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: browsing windows drives with samba

2003-02-07 Thread Stephen Hilton
#x27;s you > do it as well? Can anyone enlighten me? I have used and like /usr/ports/net/xsmbrowser. You do need Samba installed on the FreeBSD box used to browse the networks SMB shares. Regards, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Buildworld Failing

2003-02-05 Thread Stephen Hilton
s :-) and I am thinking about giving it an update. Not having a strong programming background sure makes getting a better understanding of some of these topics difficult. Better get that "Learn C in 24 Hours" book out again ;-) Regards, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: snort installation issues

2003-02-05 Thread Stephen Hilton
bout this? cd /usr/ports/security/snort make extract This will create the work directory for you below the /usr/ports/security/snort dir. Regards, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Buildworld Failing

2003-02-04 Thread Stephen Hilton
On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 15:47:04 -0500 Gerard Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried searching for termcap via "whereis termcap" on both the affected > box, and another box running 4.7-p3, and couldn't find it. > Is termcap a f

Re: Buildworld Failing

2003-02-04 Thread Stephen Hilton
it. > > You actually want 'make cleandir' Is running make cleandir twice no longer recommended/needed in 4.7-STABLE ? 'make cleandir && make cleandir' -- > > >/usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -ltermcap This represents "-l ter

Re: Ooups! What happening on my dear freebox?

2003-02-03 Thread Stephen Hilton
n somebody help me? > > my system: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE / STABLE-branch of ports > note that i use openssl-overwrite-base port > > Thank you. Have you generated an updated ports INDEX file? this can take a while to run ... cd /usr/ports make index Or if using the portupgrade tools from ports/sysutils: cd /usr/ports portsdb -uU You may see some of the messages as you described above as the INDEX is generated, but when completed your pkg_version command should run OK. Regards, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: How to cleanly remove bind before using bind9

2003-01-24 Thread Stephen Hilton
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 05:26:44 -0500 stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:50:08PM -0600, Stephen Hilton wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:29:22 -0500 > > stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I want to use bind 9 from the po

Re: How to cleanly remove bind before using bind9

2003-01-23 Thread Stephen Hilton
ortant ones to rename/remove: /usr/bin/dig /usr/bin/dnsquery /usr/bin/host /usr/bin/dnskeygen /usr/libexec/named-xfer /usr/sbin/named /usr/sbin/ndc /usr/sbin/nslookup /usr/sbin/nsupdate Regards, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: back up Win2k workstations?

2003-01-23 Thread Stephen Hilton
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 20:59:32 + (GMT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (P. U. Kruppa) wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Stephen Hilton wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 05:41:07 + (GMT) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (P. U. Kruppa) wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > &g

Re: error during mysql323-server installation, how to configurehostname command.

2003-01-23 Thread Stephen Hilton
n the DNS server. Alternatly you could not use DHCP for this machines IP address, and give it an IP address in your subnet that is not part of your DHCP pool of available addresses and add static DNS and /etc/hosts entrys for this PC. Regards, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: back up Win2k workstations?

2003-01-23 Thread Stephen Hilton
backup tools to backup to the Samba share. Archive backups on the FreeBSD/Samba machine to tape/CDRW etc... with tar. If file compression is enabled in the windows backup utility then avoid using compression in your tar command as you will waste a lot of CPU power for very little compression. Re

Re: ipfilter/ipmon log msgs

2003-01-15 Thread Stephen Hilton
ot updated > into the new FBSD release of ipfilter which happened in FBSD 4.7 http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ Regards, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: execution sequance of IPFW/IPFILTER when used together

2003-01-13 Thread Stephen Hilton
s regarding this sequence changing depending on whether IPF or IPFW are compiled in the kernel or loaded as modules, does this have any affect on this rule ? Regards, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Strange behavior with /dev/null

2003-01-11 Thread Stephen Hilton
using some of my other problems with fvwm > menu/keystroke xterm execution. > Louis, My 4.7-STABLE system shows: BSD1># ls -la /dev/null crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel2, 2 Jan 11 09:31 /dev/null Regards, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: adduser .. revisited, an apology

2002-12-30 Thread Stephen Hilton
lly unfriendly to a very new admin/user, who should probably be referred to /stand/sysinstall post-install configuration. Remember that as a new user to FreeBSD/UNIX one of the first recommended steps is to get a non-root login, and use it!. Regards, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsub