At 05:59 PM 12/11/2006, Gerard Seibert wrote:
Besides, how hard is it to subscribe to a list, post your question
and hopefully receive a satisfactory response and then terminate
your association with the list if you are so inclined.
Wasn't going to say anything, but...
I agree totally that
At 07:49 PM 12/12/2006, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
The reason that questions doesen't require a subscription ought to
be obvious to anyone with any experience with FreeBSD.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is used as the default contact e-mail address
for most non-financial FreeBSD dealings, such as on CD cases,
At 07:13 AM 11/18/2006, Andreas Rudisch wrote:
I would appreciate it if you would remove me from your mailing list.
Read the last line on _any_ email on this list.
Aww c'mon guys! He asked very nicely, and he's obviously a
non-techie. I sent an un-sub for him; hopefully he can handle
On 6/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm a newbie running 6.1 stable and I have what may be several
simple questions: What exactly is happening when I run make index
make readmes after I upgrade my ports tree? Why aren't the
indexes and readmes made when we run cvsup ports
I'm looking for a tool that will allow me to compare directories
(recursively) showing what files are different,etc. meld ( textproc/meld )
can do this to some extent, showing missing files,etc, but not showing
You said for X -- check out Kdiff3 -- it rocks if you're looking
for a visual
At 01:35 PM 5/13/2006, Tom Moore wrote:
Which program is best for retrieving and keeping the ports tree up
to date? What are some pros and cons of each approach? Is one method
better than the other?
I just discovered portsnap a couple months ago after loading a couple
new machines with 6.0.
At 04:25 PM 5/12/2006, you wrote:
inetd running is discouraged. Instead run the daemons on boot using
rc scripts. If you look back in the history, inetd running is a
security risk, and was discouraged in the 5.X releases.
Is that still really true? Waaayyy back when, inetd would have all
At 08:42 PM 5/12/2006, Eric Schuele wrote:
You say tcpwrappers are compiled into ftpd? Are you sure? How can
I enable or otherwise use them? If I add things to hosts.allow
they seem to have no influence. This would solve my problem as I
would not need inetd.
My Bad. It seems it does
At 07:01 AM 5/9/2006, you wrote:
I have to agree with the original poster. The logo is crap, and so
is the font they've started to use since the announcement of
FreeBSD6.1-RELEASE. At
Me Too. At first I thought it was just a petty complaint.
But if you're trying to sell FreeBSD to a boss or
Dang it!! Read the Fn HANDBOOK! This belongs under
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ! (yeah, I top-posted. But I edited.)
At 01:52 AM 4/29/2006, you wrote:
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At 05:19 AM 4/21/2006, Michael Landin Hostbaek wrote:
In a branch office, I've got two ADSL lines setup (with two
different ISPs) - one of them are supposed to work as backup line,
but since it is a ADSL flat fee line, I was wondering if there's a
way of setting up some sort of a trunk with
At 09:08 AM 4/15/2006, you wrote:
I have a sizable collection of mp3 files (most of my CDs, actually)
encoded at
high ratio for archiving. I'd like to put some of them on a
low-capacity player. Is there a utility (preferably -- a ported
one), that can reencode an existing mp3 file at lower
At 11:40 AM 4/14/2006, Jonathan Horne wrote:
i have read about 2 methods to sync the time on a freebsd box.
...i have a workstation and a server, which i originally did method
1 on, but soon enough, time drifted quite a bit. so i switched it
to the 2nd method, and they appear to be sync'd
At 04:36 PM 4/12/2006, Pete Slagle wrote:
Service instead of daemon? Our assimilation by the Borg proceeds apace.
C'mon don't be so paranoid. There's been an etc/services since,
well, probably since Billy Boy was living check to check ;)
-Wayne
At 11:09 PM 4/12/2006, you wrote:
question on . ports collection. I read in the handbook that the
cvsup tag for the ports-* collection should be .. In particular,
use only tag=. for the ports-* collections.
As I understand it, there is no most recent version of port that
still works
At 09:49 AM 4/6/2006, you wrote:
Don't use FreeBSD. I know this will be an unpopular post on this
list, but you've said a number of things that tell me that you will
be unsuccessful with FreeBSD:
Unpopular, perhaps. But good advice. If you're looking for a nearly
effortless desktop unix,
At 07:40 PM 4/6/2006, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
I would like to run a BSD distribution off a 1GB USB Flash drive...
That's possible. You do understand that flash drives only have
very limited # of write cycles before they fail, and should be
operated in read-only mode most of the time?
I've
At 10:37 AM 4/3/2006, Steve Douville wrote:
My server time is off by exactly 4 hours. (EDT) I've reset it at the
BIOS level, only to have it changed somehow during the boot process.
I've tried setting and resetting it through sysinstall, but nothing helps.
This sounds like an issue of the
At 11:35 AM 4/3/2006, Ewald Jenisch wrote:
o) Has anybody else experienced this behavior - possibly also on a
PC with Asus P3B-F motherboard?
I have a few systems around with that board, and have never
experienced such troubles with 4, 5, or 6. Just use the auto
setting. What do you have
Hi All,
I recently noticed if I update a package from ports, the package
manager looses the dependency data for the package. eg: updating
old version of gettext
# pkg_info -R gett*
Information for gettext-0.14.5_1:
Required by:
libgpg-error-1.1
libgcrypt-1.2.2
gnutls-1.2.9
p5-gettext-1.03
At 05:52 PM 3/31/2006, fbsd_user wrote:
Hay I am ran ata HD on 5.4 and now on 6.0 with out any
problems. Your problems may be caused by your HD starting to go bad.
You didn't say if you're running plain [parrallel] ATA or Serial
ATA. Nearly two years ago I tried to replace our Samba file
At 04:43 PM 3/31/2006, you wrote:
Your saying that dhcp client has no built in way to communicate to
dhcpd the dns ip address it receives at boot time or during the
normal lease update process?
Not that I've seen. The script is pretty one-minded. Impression I
get is you're expected to edit
At 07:11 AM 4/1/2006, you wrote:
I am using FreeBSD 6 and install samba from ports collection
/usr/ports/net/samba3. The make install download and install samba
3.0.14a. I noticed samba has new version 3.0.22. How can I install
the new version?
You need to update your ports. Read the
At 11:33 AM 3/30/2006, you wrote:
File /etc/hosts looks like:
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx mailsrv.mydomain.com mailsrv
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx mailsrv.mydomain.com.
don't have duplicate names to different IP's. Also be sure you have
dotted fully qualified names for both IP's.
FWIW, the double
Vaaf wrote:
I pointed out a flaw in FreeBSD's methodology. The fact that it
doesn't have one.
I thought you were using DragonFlyBSD now. Why are you complaining
on this list then?
If there is one thing Vaaf does well, it's annoying all of you. If
you judge it based on the number of
At 10:19 AM 3/29/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, I've just bought 2 soekris net4801-60 boxes and am having
trouble getting them to perform under FreeBSD. They are on a
100Mbit network and the network works fine for other machines
I've had trouble in the past with NICs using the Ethernet
At 11:08 AM 3/29/2006, Andy Greenwood wrote:
I'm having some trouble setting up ssmtp . but when I try to use
/usr/bin/mail, I get logs in my maillog trying to use sendmail,
which is set to none in rc.conf. How do I set this up so that all
mail sends out through ssmtp?
Edit
At 11:08 AM 3/28/2006, you wrote:
Selections 5 through 8 will no longer be valid in April. The list of
counties changed. More counties than #6, #7, #8 are going to Central
TZ, one county is going with Commerce Time, and item #5 (most
locations) is switching to DST.
Crikeys! When is Indiana
At 04:23 PM 3/28/2006, Mark Cullen wrote:
Upon further inspection of the motherboard, just before looking to
buy a new one, I noticed bulging / leaking capacitors around the CPU
socket. It looked like *all* of the most important caps were
knackered. I am suprised it managed to turn on and stay
Hi,
I have a script I would like to launch at boot time, as a non-root
user, to remain running in the background. What is the best way to
accomplish this? I looked through the rc* stuff, and it looks like
overkill for what I need, plus my scripting isn't that strong either.
I know I can
At 04:28 PM 3/6/2006, Huy Ton That wrote:
Would anyone happen to know where I may find tutorials on setting up
my FBSD 6.0 Release box as a router with the intention to add
firewall services?
It is not 'BSD based [wish it was] but rather than reinvent the
wheel, I would strongly recommend
At 03:49 PM 3/6/2006, Ensel Sharon wrote:
I am using the standard, stock FreeBSD ftpd, running out of inetd.
Is there any way to keep track of how much ftp traffic is generated
by each individual user ?
See man ftpd for the -l option. You can bump up the log level to
record file details.
At 05:30 PM 3/8/2006, you wrote:
I am a newbie trying to compile the program JACK that is required
for the midi sequencer Rosegarden. This program (JACK) is not
available through the ports collection and is intended for a Linux
system. I am
Perhaps I'm not understanding the whole scenario,
At 11:57 PM 3/6/2006, Bill Schoolcraft wrote:
I've lost my Lucent/Orinoco RG-1000 power supply.
The Access Point states it needs 9volts-DC @ 1.1amps.
All I can find at Radio Shack is 9volts-DC @ 1.0amps.
I did some quick googling, and it looks like the same unit is sold
under HP and some
WHY!!! Do we have to keep seeing a dozen messages a day about this?!
You found a bug. Congrats. Thanks. Report it and quit beating the
dead horse.
-Wayne
At 05:59 AM 3/5/2006, you wrote:
The reason I didn't send any PR back then I didn't know if it's a
bug or feature. Since there was
At 10:28 AM 3/5/2006, you wrote:
Wayne, you are over-reacting.
Yeah, you're right. My bad :(
I've just been deleting them, but I looked at a couple and it seemed
like silly repetition from my statistically invalid sample. Sorry...
-Wayne
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Hi All...
I'm looking to install a web-email package on our FreeBSD 6.0
system. Sendmail, Dovecot IMAP, and Apache 2.0 are already
installed. I'll be installing from ports or packages.
Was wondering what you recommend. We have a small 5 person user base
on a [fairly] screamin' new Dell
At 03:53 PM 3/1/2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
I'm looking for something 'cheap' that I can plug into a SCSI
controller on my desktop machine that will allow me to house
multiple SATA drives in it ... I don't need a lot of fancy features
on it, and performance isn't a big issue ... Anything
At 03:50 AM 2/23/2006, Lei Sun wrote:
1. ssh from Freebsd_A to Freebsd_B: I got Read from socket failed:
Connection reset by peer error.
2. ssh from windows xp (putty) to Freebsd_B: logs me in fine
3. try to ssh from Freebsd_A to Freebsd_B again, got the same error
I didn't did through your
Hi thanks to everyone who responded, Esp Tim D. on my question
about removing the FBSD boot manager. A plain old DOS FDISK /MBR
zapped it, and left my BSD installation untouched.
Problem is yet again, I needed a dang DOS boot disk. I've been
thinking for years it would be cool to
At 05:09 PM 2/21/2006, Jeffrey Shi wrote:
Hi, I am new to freebsd. My question is for my motherboard and VGA
CARD to work with freebsd, should I use linux driver or unix
driver? The freebsd I am thinking to install is version 6.0.
What do you plan to run on this system? Any video card is
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