Re: X11/glx question

2006-07-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
d nvidia-driver in the past? It (I think) overwrites X11R6 glx stuff. Make sure nvidia-driver isn't installed now and (hateful I know) try re-installing xorg-libraries and xorg-server. The nvidia-driver definitely won't help you if you have a matrox card! --Alex

Re: tempreture shutting down.

2006-07-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: At 11:28 AM 7/19/2006, Marwan Sultan wrote: I Finally installed 6.1 on my HP Laptop dv5000 serios. when i restarted for the first time, and During booting, it gives the following error and it shuts down immediatly Warning: System tempreture too

Re: tempreture shutting down.

2006-07-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
the boot CD. My theory is that the ACPI contains some duff builtin max temperature for a zone because a temp of 0.0c isn't really that hot for a PC! --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: nologin: Attempted login by root on UNKNOWN

2006-07-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: Jul 18 14:08:47 asgard nologin: Attempted login by root on UNKNOWN Something running *as* root is trying to "su" to an account which has /bin/nologin as a shell e.g. # su avahi cartman nologin: Attempted login by alex on /dev/ttyp7 avahi:*:558

Re: LinkLib Issues In freebsd Lazarus

2006-07-18 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
our problem, even if it's just some ifdefs or similar in the Makefile. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: defining dependencies for ports

2006-07-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
w how easy it is to add this to any port, but can't believe it's that hard - of course, hard depends on your experience! Comparing to a port which *does* support make config (mozilla, samba3, portupgrade) may help you do it for your

Re: defining dependencies for ports

2006-07-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
the former because it has never core-dumped on me, and feels more robust and well maintained. If you have multiple machines you keep in sync, then portupgrade -p or pkg_create -b can be used to create local packages with *your* compile-time o

Re: "swiN: clock sio" process taking 75% CPU

2006-07-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
es" would be "almost never". I appreciate that you are frustrated because it *is* happening to you, but your problem is not a common one so may take more than a post on questions to resolve. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: building new kernel failed

2006-07-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
thing else. Your kernel is simply not GENERIC any more, and may get overwritten by the real GENERIC when you cvsup. From the file it looks like you are editing GENERIC in place which is a very bad idea and definitely not what the handbook recommends.

Re: What is wrong in my conf file?

2006-07-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: mr thooL wrote: Hi, a attached my kernel configuration file, can you find the problem, please? "config" command went OK "make depend" - error code 1 thank you for help No one can help you with this limited information: 1) attachments are not

Re: What is wrong in my conf file?

2006-07-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
of building a kernel go out with 4.something? See the handbook for the correct "make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL" procedure for a modern FreeBSD. Of course, with a bad config file, that will fail the same way so see 2) first. --Alex _

Re: Best way to create a large data space

2006-07-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
SB, then perhaps a USB stick or somesuch for the OS? (With duplicates in a fire safe!). Less resilience but again frees up all the disks for data. Might depend on what else you want the machine to do. Reader emptor - I've never done this, just read about it!

Re: Boot hangs at "/bin/sh?", can't see USB keyboard

2006-07-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
it has the boot option you want. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: sil3112 question

2006-07-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Eugeny Kuzakov wrote: On 7/11/06, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Er, no, unless I am much mistaken it doesn't imply that at all (see man ataraid). FreeBSD handles plenty of "software" (metadata only) RAIDs, though I believe that an arc

Re: aterm -e screen does not source .bashrc

2006-07-11 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
ironment variables only need to get set in the shell that owns all the others. And if you have things like mail notifications, or fortune, they just become irritating if you get them in every single xterm. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

termcap problems

2006-07-11 Thread Alex Push
able. Any thoughts? Thanks a lot in advance. Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: aterm -e screen does not source .bashrc

2006-07-11 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
was miles ahead of sh as a login (as opposed to a scripting) shell. These days, of course, a modern shell like bash has many of the best features of both, and even sh can (finally) do command line editing. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Re: sil3112 question

2006-07-11 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
2 is possibly the worst such RAID ever and was a poor choice of RAID card, however cheap. Try google. SiL are listed among the controllers supported by ataraid on 6.1 so I would expect the RAID to be recognised even if it performed badly. I've no

Interrupts question

2006-07-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
an hundreds. Interrupts 1950 total 6: fdc0 128 8: rtc 13: npx 14: ata 450 16: uhc 409 18: uhc 19: uhc 23: ata 409 46: amr 450 64: em0 4 65: em1 106: ah 107: ah Any insight appreciated, --Alex ___ freebsd-questions

Re: using fping to monitor internet connection status

2006-07-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
server ping server and if succeeds, increment variable End foreach If variable == 0 then all pings failed. Variable contains number of successfully pinged servers. From sh "ping -c 1 -q host > /dev/null 2>&1" will ping host and set status with

Re: problems with Nice and Dump in FreeBSD 6.1-Current (Stable-#5)

2006-07-03 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forgot about nice being interal to csh, that is likely to source of my problems... I use this for a dump dump -0 -C 32 -f - |bzip2 --best | dd of=/foo/bar.dbz2 and t

Re: problems with Nice and Dump in FreeBSD 6.1-Current (Stable-#5)

2006-06-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
ng a dump created on an active file system. and I think it must be some artefact of the snapshot/dump interaction. If you use -L and *still* have trouble then it sounds like a bug. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

Re: problems with Nice and Dump in FreeBSD 6.1-Current (Stable-#5)

2006-06-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
my usr file system never works, gives errors during restore, but comeplete the dump. I've been tarring things up lateley, probably will keep dumping to just the root system and tar var once I have websites on it. Show us the error message!

Re: Slow server

2006-06-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
s the machine end up swapping? Try tracking memory usage. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Frustration

2006-06-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
abytes of fixes despite being the most recent release; nearly had catch 22 where ethernet wouldn't work without update, but update couldn't be obtained without ethernet. Joy. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: How do I add more aliases to my .forward vacation file?

2006-06-29 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
: \myusername, "|/usr/bin/vacation -a myalias myusername" I have tried a few things, but just get error messages. And what are the error messages? --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: mbmom and xmbmon - how to compile WITHOUT_SMB?

2006-06-29 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[VT8233/A/8235/8237(KT266/333/400/600/880)] found, but No HWM available on it!! Using ISA-IO access method!! * Winbond Chip W83627HF/THF/THF-A found. Then try "mbmon -p winbond" and make that an alias for mbmon in your shells. --Alex ___ fr

Re: problems installing 6.1-RELEASE on Dell PowerEdge 1855

2006-06-29 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
t. Did you try google for "Dell 1855 Freebsd"? --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-06-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
nsole independent of OS - also remote CD/floppy so you can install BSD from 300 miles away (as long as you have a windows(!) machine with a CD/floppy locally). Of course, their "OpenManage" software isn't, it's closed and only works o

Re: Opinions Wanted: Dell PowerEdge Servers ... ?

2006-06-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
l on slices 2-4 and auto boot from whichever you last booted from, so the diags can stay invisible until you need them. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, s

Re: help with 'tar|rsh tar'

2006-06-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
formance of ssh no end on internal gigabits. No idea if it will match the ttcp solution, but much safer than enabling rsh :-) --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
o commands, but help seems to. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alex Franks wrote: Sadly, amrstat-20060414 doesn't build on FBSD 6.0 or earlier (or so says the error msg I get when trying to build it). I've got megarc installed but have no idea how to use it and no man page was included with the port. Anyone more familiar with this utili

Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-23 Thread Alex Franks
On 6/23/06, Joao Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/23/06, Alex Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The controller is a Perc 4e/Di as assumed, and I'm still a little > unsure as to whether the 2 drives that shipped with the machine are > currently set up in

Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-23 Thread Alex Franks
On 6/23/06, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alex Franks wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm getting ready to install 2 identical drives into the available > drive bays in my 2850. However, it would be highly preferable that > this machine NOT be shut down in order

Re: Tracking if disk is busy

2006-06-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
t iostat on Solaris gives this information, but I can't seem to mimic this functionality with FreeBSD. Are there other ways in FreeBSD to pull the percentage of time the disk is busy? You can use plain old vmstat to see blocks being transferred. --Alex ___

Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alex Franks wrote: Hello all, I'm getting ready to install 2 identical drives into the available drive bays in my 2850. However, it would be highly preferable that this machine NOT be shut down in order to install these drives. I know from looking at the docs that these drive bays ar

Re: problem creating filesystem snapshot

2006-06-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
tory - just a convention and it's where dump will make its snapshots. --Alex PS We use snapshots on the same hardware as you - 2850 & PERC4e/Di but with RAID-1 rather than whatever you are running. I don't think any of that makes any difference though. _

Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-22 Thread Alex Franks
x27;d like to know before I attempt this that someone else out there has successfully performed a hot-swap or hot-install of drives on a 2850 or comparable Dell PowerEdge running FreeBSD. Thanks! Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Does anyone run VNC with 64-bit FreeBSD (amd64)?

2006-06-22 Thread Alex Savovski
I have the same ,problem,But I have never run on other version,I use RELENG_6_1, AMD64 On 6/22/06, Greg Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: G'day everyone, I recently had to replace a disk and took the opportunity to upgrade from 5-stable to 6-stable. I also changed from the 32-bit to the 64-bit

Re: AMD64 Desktop Support

2006-06-22 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
4bit processors work just fine in i386 mode and dollar for dollar will outperform Intel and run cooler and use less power. There is no need to discount AMD just because you don't want to run 64 bit version. No, I don't work for AMD, I just recognise a better product. co

Re: NFS Server and MS Windows

2006-06-22 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
RFC), even MS could find competent programmers to implement it. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: monitoring raid arrays

2006-06-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
://support.dell.com/ Never tried it but it looks like your best bet. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: I need a freebsd 5.3 desktop server; recommendations?

2006-06-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
ort newer hardware, I couldn't actually care less if they are a bit less efficient. AMD64s are nice though :-) --Alex I see it was our perennial 5.X basher Danial Thom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you are quoting. He's a bit of a troll, in case you hadn't noticed ;-) __

Re: portupgrade confusing '-P' and '-p'?

2006-06-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
ut you can create the package afterwards with pkg_create. So no, you won't have to build it every time. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: smoke and mirrors - any way to trick an app into thinking I'm running linux?

2006-06-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alex wrote: The glibc you have might just do fine. Just make a symlink from the one you want to the one you have and try! Jim Stapleton wrote: The problem is I don't already have one, though there is a reply to my other post that I'll be looking at in a few minutes, maybe some

Re: smoke and mirrors - any way to trick an app into thinking I'm running linux?

2006-06-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
linux you could try. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Python port problems

2006-06-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
an.sh Of course, if you have a Web site, you could just pop the full output and the script there and email the links to the list. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: smoke and mirrors - any way to trick an app into thinking I'm running linux?

2006-06-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
people that the port will not be a $60k effor, more like a $20 effort. Better not tell you my hourly rate then ;-) --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: smoke and mirrors - any way to trick an app into thinking I'm running linux?

2006-06-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
probably. Respect the wishes? Fat chance. That way lies doom... --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Python port problems

2006-06-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Joe Auty wrote: On Jun 18, 2006, at 1:28 PM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Joe Auty wrote: On Jun 15, 2006, at 6:16 AM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Joe Auty wrote: jauty# python -v /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner [...snip...] # /usr/local/lib/python2.4/getopt.pyc matches /usr/local/lib/ python2.4

Re: smoke and mirrors - any way to trick an app into thinking I'm running linux?

2006-06-18 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
ll us that, we can almost certainly tell you how to fool it. Of course, if you have the source code, it should be easy as you can just comment out the test and recompile. Mind you, if the app is as short-sighted and bloody-minded as its developers, maybe you should just look for an altern

Re: Python port problems

2006-06-18 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Joe Auty wrote: On Jun 15, 2006, at 6:16 AM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Joe Auty wrote: jauty# python -v /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner [...snip...] # /usr/local/lib/python2.4/getopt.pyc matches /usr/local/lib/ python2.4/getopt.py import getopt # precompiled from /usr/local/lib/python2.4

Re: monitoring raid arrays

2006-06-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
amrd0: on amr0 amrd0: 139900MB (286515200 sectors) RAID 1 (optimal) What are my options to monitor the status of these arrays? From memory sysutils/megarc. Search for LSI in the INDEX if that's wrong. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: Random panics on FreeeBSD 6.0

2006-06-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
.. Google for memtest86, go to the website for memtest86+ and download the ISO, burn to CD. The freebsd port is just out-of-date. Might be better done from a reliable PC :-) --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: Random panics on FreeeBSD 6.0

2006-06-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chris Hill wrote: On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Matthew Navarre wrote: Is there a way to get the CPU temp in FreeBSD? sysutils/mbmon And if that doesn't work, try healthd. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: Sendmail patch; brings up a questions about buildworld

2006-06-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
ibsm # make obj && make depend && make # cd /usr/src/lib/libsmutil # make obj && make depend && make # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail # make obj && make depend && make && make install --Alex ___ free

Re: Upgrading Ports on 5.3

2006-06-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
RW wrote: On Wednesday 14 June 2006 11:12, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: [portversion -L =] would be quicker. Any > needs upgrading. Any < would mean you somehow had an installed version newer that the port version! Presumably that could happen if the port were reverted. For comple

Re: Python port problems

2006-06-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Joe Auty wrote: On Jun 14, 2006, at 1:10 PM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: And one which may spew quite a lot. Cut it off if it gets to printing help. $ python -v /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner jauty# python -v /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner [...snip...] # /usr/local/lib/python2.4/getopt.pyc

Re: Python port problems

2006-06-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Joe Auty wrote: On Jun 14, 2006, at 6:01 AM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Joe Auty wrote: Sorry for the delay in response here. This is still a problem for me, and I would still like this problem resolved. Yes, I've tried reinstalling both Python and Mailman, and upgraded to newer

Re: top

2006-06-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
f" = locked file. See man lockf. Those have got me through most common situations where I want to know what's going on. kserel is the only common one I have no clue about. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

Re: Upgrading Ports on 5.3

2006-06-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
ewer that the port version! # less /usr/ports/UPDATING to see if any of the ports you will upgrade have "issues" --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Python port problems

2006-06-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
pt # and exit with ^D (control D) egrep -i -A 2 -B 2 python /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf /etc/make.conf egrep -i -A 2 -B 2 mailman /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf /etc/make.conf head -5 /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner --Alex ___ freebsd

Re: wikipedia article [completely OT]

2006-06-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
thing like 30 bug and security reports in one day. I heard nothing until Masscomp were taken over several years later, at which point is was my pleasure to inform the caller that the machine was in the skip. Happy days :-) --Alex ___ freebsd-questions

Re: man pages in plain text - how to?

2006-06-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
gzcat /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz | nroff -man -Tascii | colcrt Man is just calling nroff (unless there's a pre-cat-ed page). --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: is there an ies4linux port for FreeBSD?

2006-06-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
software quality). If that doesn't help then try posting the script, or a link to it if it's big. Was there a README or INSTALL file? --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: restoring deleted files

2006-06-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
t > etc do not overwrite existing files. By using file name expansion (TAB, ^D etc) you can also check whether file names exist already or not. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

Re: Question in occasion of SCSI devices (the tape store)

2006-06-09 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nick wrote: thanks for help Alex I found the best way for me to write info to the tape. Can You answered on the last question How can I see free size on the tape or size what I filled? My experience is that you can't really do either. If anyone know better, I'd be glad to know

Re: Question in occasion of SCSI devices (the tape store)

2006-06-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
ail files every day"; or "I have four 80Gb disks which I need to back up to a 40Gb compressing tape drive, what should I use?". --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Question in occasion of SCSI devices (the tape store)

2006-06-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
ad it, but you'd probably want to set a blocksize with e.g. bs=32k or bs=64k but that depends on how the tape was written. So how was the tape written? --Alex You should copy freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org on your replies. That way everyone sees the whole conversation, and someone else

Re: Question in occasion of SCSI devices (the tape store)

2006-06-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Read the tape? Write something to it? Perform backups? Without that basic information it's hard to actually help. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscri

Re: On mail principles

2006-06-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
ocal users with different external addresses when sending mail externally. Haven't tried it: just noted the feature in some email somewhere for future evaluation, so take with the usual pinch of salt. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: troubleshooting network settings

2006-06-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: On 08/06/2006, at 12:06 AM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: On 29/05/2006, at 11:37 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Hmm, is that all? Unusual; I'd think the loopback _should_ be set up correctly. `ifconfig lo0 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.

Re: troubleshooting network settings

2006-06-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
efaults as well...) egrep lo0 /etc/rc.conf /etc/defaults/* Mine shows: /etc/defaults/rc.conf:ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" # default loopback device configuration. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: how to avoid recompiling applications?

2006-06-05 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
-b for already installed stuff and you should never have to compile the same version of a port more than once. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: i wish to buy your site

2006-06-04 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 08:52:18AM +, Hunter Fuller wrote: > Whose again? Mine? You sent this mail to quite a few people! So did you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubs

Re: how to instaal

2006-06-04 Thread Alex de Kruijff
" The charter for freebsd-questions is: "This is the mailing list for questions about FreeBSD. You should not send how to questions to the technical lists unless you consider the question to be pretty technical." -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may no

Re: Removing Port Directories

2006-06-04 Thread Alex de Kruijff
-fR"? You could do a 'rm -fR' relatively safely. Many port rely on other ports. If these live in the the categories you have removed then upgrading or installing these port could fail. This is nothing critical and you should be able to fix this later. -- Alex Please copy the orig

Re: Restrict access to custom shell scripts

2006-05-29 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
er runs it, so value is limited. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Sharing /usr/local/www

2006-05-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
27;m wrong. You are wrong. CVS is a version control system. It's often used to control software development, but can be used to control any kind of text(*) document development. --Alex (*) You can store "binary" files as well, but it is less efficient when they change as i

freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2006-05-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
(aka stout), in this case, the bit bucket. man sh, or any basic Unix book worth it's salt. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Traffic shaping with ipfw/DUMMYNET when using natd

2006-05-25 Thread Alex de Kruijff
ber that the diverd rule changes the ip adress. Scanning outgoing traffic before the divert rule and incomming afther it should work to. -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. Howtos based on my personal use, including informatio

Re: Spam problem!

2006-05-25 Thread Alex de Kruijff
l though pop3 then you can use mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin as a (getmail) filter. It realy realy good. I only had one false positive once. You can reject spammails if you like. Don't send bounce messages since these will not end up with the spammers but those who abuse the email adress. -

Re: upload-only ftp server

2006-05-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
x27;s required. Configuration is pretty mind-boggling, though, and always leaves me with the nagging doubt that I didn't get everything right, so testing always takes longer too :-( I'm not sure I'd recommend it unless it did really

Re: quota and /var/mail

2006-05-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
s dead easy to pick up. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Can drive with 6.1 be directly transferred from one machine to another?

2006-05-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
recautions. As long as you didn't compile stuff with processor specific options then stuff just works. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Python port problems

2006-05-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
ories on the module patch, but more likely it just pushes its own directory of modules onto this path when it runs, in which case the output you have won't help. Have you tried simply re-installing mailman? Maybe you upgraded python at some point after installing mailman and that is throw

Re: Best Practices - interrupt storm

2006-05-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
do instead of EPP, or 0x28 instead of 0x24). Haven't had an interrupt storm or stray interrupt since. man ppc for the flags to use and get into practice converting hex to binary and vice versa :-) Never used lptcontrol. --Alex ___ freebs

Re: FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-22 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
swers would be quite different, but the risk analysis that led to the different answers would (theoretically) be the same. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscri

Re: Buildworld fails 6.0-RELEASE-p4

2006-05-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
. If buildworld fails at a different place every time then you probably have bad memory*. Try memtest86+, memtest86 or if you have multiple sticks, try using each one in turn on its own and see if you still get the failure. --Alex (*) It might be some other hardware problem, but bad memory is

Re: Questions about monitoring Dell servers

2006-05-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
ed to have :-( --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: moving /usr

2006-05-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
mirror and change mounting in fstab and reboot? Or is there something more I need to do? I suppose that should do it, but I'd just wanna be sure so I ask first and not after it's broken. :) I believe that is exactly enough. Move the data with dump/restor

Re: 6.1RC2 regression and a BIG question.

2006-05-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
which allows multiple keyboards to work, but I've never tried that. Can't promise that this is it, but the symptoms suggest it might be. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

Re: newly installed apps not in path?

2006-05-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
tcsh, then bash would do it for you; other shells too, perhaps, but I can't say never having tried them. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD in the DS?

2006-05-13 Thread Alex Johnson
Alright. That's all I needed to know, thanks! On 5/13/06, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 14/05/06, Alex Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, the Nintendo kind. It seems more than capable, technologically, > of supporting a REAL OS such as FreeBSD, som

Re: FreeBSD in the DS?

2006-05-13 Thread Alex Johnson
Yes, the Nintendo kind. It seems more than capable, technologically, of supporting a REAL OS such as FreeBSD, something beyond its standard EPROM startup screen, to me. Is that a supported architecture? And if not, is NetBSD free or open source? On 5/13/06, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: FreeBSD in the DS?

2006-05-13 Thread Alex Johnson
. Any used game store just ask for a Nintendo DS - if someone on the list doesn't already own one, I don't really want to ask people to buy things they'd never use. On 5/13/06, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 14/05/06, Alex Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > &

FreeBSD in the DS?

2006-05-13 Thread Alex Johnson
I am aware that FreeBSD's claim to fame is that it has been ported to "anything with a processor". So, I am wondering if it'd be possible to get my hands on a method for modding the DS's boot EPROM to load a FreeBSD operating system, and with it a means for storing or retrieving data along the li

Re: Software RAID guidance

2006-05-04 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
an support RAID1 using atacontrol to just make two disk into a RAID. Plenty of posts in the archive with more info. As an outsider (i.e. without any RAID) this option always seemed the simplest. No doubt other with experience can tell you the relative merits of atacontrol vs gmirror

Re: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

2006-05-04 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Paul Schmehl wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: It's working fine since I installed 6.1. The odd thing is, I thought I needed the bce driver, but the 6.1 install detected the NIC and used the bge driver. That driver is available in 6.0 as well, yet it didn't work in that install. W

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