Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

2006-02-07 Thread a non y mouse
FreeBSD Prospect wrote: with having a stable OS all the lastest add-on software installed. How does this work out in the FreeBSD world? do you install every single piece of third party software onto your machine? no... of course not 3rd party software is just that--it has no relevance to the

Re: Optimize shell

2006-02-06 Thread a non y mouse
Olivier Nicole wrote: I am setting up a machine to work as a mail back-up. It receives copy of every email for every user. When the disk is almost full, I want to delete older messages up to a total size of 40. Any idea how to speed up the things? look into the squirrel webmail proon

Re: Alternative to Running Portupgrade -rf In Upgrade of expat2

2006-02-05 Thread a non y mouse
Bob Perry wrote: I have 48 dependencies on one box and 151 on another and only use a dialup service. Disconnections are common and can be a real problem in this situation. sounds like it's time to start downloading them all and go to bed ;) i feel you...when I got my first UNIX workstation i

Re: ftpd: Passive mode isn't working

2006-02-05 Thread a non y mouse
Kristian Vaaf wrote: ftp is working. Active mode works, passive mode doesn't. i just scanned over your ruleset...so forgive me if i am way off base with that said, are you using the freebsd ftpd? did you change the portrange.hifirst and .hilast sysctl values? because it would appear to me

Re: SCSI on v6.0

2006-01-30 Thread a non y mouse
On the same subject, Q: What is the best way to proceed with formating and partitioning the drives? Redo installation process, or is there away to set them up without reinstallation? I will want to assign one of the SCSI drives to the /usr file system and the other to the /var file system when

Re: freebsd hosting

2006-01-29 Thread a non y mouse
RJ wrote: They are the best I know of for cost and support. Cperciva posts in their forums and they have their own mirror. Without starting a war does anyone know of any provider that can match or beat what LT has to offer? I have a machine with dedicatednow. They've been alright so far.

Re: FTP Automate Shell Script

2006-01-29 Thread a non y mouse
Gavin Cameron wrote: A .netrc file (read the ftp man page) may work for you. Cheers Gavin If you have shell access on the destination host, you can also try mirror. -- ``Were you arrested under false circumcisions?'' ___

Re: question on the firefox port...

2006-01-28 Thread a non y mouse
Evgeny Solovyov wrote: $ make -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER install clean or $ make FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=YES install clean will set the variable FORCE_PKG_REGISTER to YES FWIW, you can also do: % env FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=yes make install clean :) ___

Re: ARP CACHE

2006-01-28 Thread a non y mouse
KRISTA BALL wrote: My systems arp cache needs cleaning, how do I go about it? arp -a -d (man arp) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL