Re: Newbie question about freebsd-update: single user mode is not needed anymore?

2013-01-02 Thread ASV
Hi Jose, with the freebsd-update method you don't need to pass through the "make installworld" as it's a binary patch/upgrade system. Using "freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RELEASE" for example allows you to get your system patched directly without recompiling the kernel and the userland but getting

Re: Newbie question about freebsd-update: single user mode is not needed anymore?

2013-01-02 Thread ASV
For some reason my email hasn't apparently been delivered so I'm re-sending it. "From: ASV To: Jose Garcia Juanino Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie question about freebsd-update: single user mode is not needed anymore? Date: Mon, 31 De

Re: Newbie question about freebsd-update: single user mode is not needed anymore?

2013-01-02 Thread ASV
Well, I understand your concern. I've been using the freebsd-update method since several years now and mostly remotely. I've never encounter a problem. I haven't recompiled everything many times as I didn't really found a tangible advantage in this method but I've never thought about this. I believ

Re: Newbie question about freebsd-update: single user mode is not needed anymore?

2012-12-31 Thread Jose Garcia Juanino
El lunes 31 de diciembre a las 16:27:44 CET, ASV escribió: > Hi Jose, > > with the freebsd-update method you don't need to pass through the "make > installworld" as it's a binary patch/upgrade system. > Using "freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RELEASE" for example allows you to > get your system patch

Re: Newbie question about freebsd-update: single user mode is not needed anymore?

2012-12-31 Thread Zyumbilev, Peter
On 31/12/2012 14:13, Jose Garcia Juanino wrote: > Hi, > > I am planning to upgrade from FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE to > FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE. With upgrade source method, it is always needed to > do the "make installworld" step in single user mode. But it seems to > be that single user is not required wi

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-13 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:16:18 -0500, Chris wrote: > On 6/13/2012 6:23 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: >> On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:21:31 -0500, Dan Lists wrote: >> >>> The syntax of his crontab file is correct. Vixie cron does care about >>> leading spaces, tabs, extra spaces, or leading zeros. Earlier >>>

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-13 Thread Chris
On 6/13/2012 6:23 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:21:31 -0500, Dan Lists wrote: > >> The syntax of his crontab file is correct. Vixie cron does care about >> leading spaces, tabs, extra spaces, or leading zeros. Earlier versions >> of cron are much pickier about the crontab file

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-13 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:21:31 -0500, Dan Lists wrote: > The syntax of his crontab file is correct. Vixie cron does care about > leading spaces, tabs, extra spaces, or leading zeros. Earlier versions > of cron are much pickier about the crontab file. The cron logs show > that it is starting his

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-12 Thread Dan Lists
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:29:02 -0500, Mark Felder wrote: >> On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi >> wrote: >> >> > Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) -- >> > you >> > are *strongly* encocuraged to

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-12 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:29:02 -0500, Mark Felder wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi > wrote: > > > Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) -- > > you > > are *strongly* encocuraged to remove them. Yes, that means numbers will > > not > >

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-12 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:36:37 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: I don't have ready access to source at the moment, but I would expect (like the normal C I/O functions) it will be interpreted as octal. Suppose we could always ask Paul Vixie :-) ___ freeb

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mark Felder writes: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi > wrote: > >> Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) -- >> you >> are *strongly* encocuraged to remove them. Yes, that means numbers >> will not >> be column aligned, but it is a small price

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-12 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) -- you are *strongly* encocuraged to remove them. Yes, that means numbers will not be column aligned, but it is a small price to pay to avoid the hair-tearing

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-12 Thread Ramiro Caso
On 11/06/2012 23:10, Michael Sierchio wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: As the subject says, this is probably a newbie question (I am new to FreeBSD but quite experienced at Linux). FreeBSD9 on x86_64. Cron is running: $ ps -ax|grep cron 1513 ?? Is 0:00.01

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Robert Bonomi
Walter Hurry wrote: > > As the subject says, this is probably a newbie question (I am new to > FreeBSD but quite experienced at Linux). > > FreeBSD9 on x86_64. > > Cron is running: > > $ ps -ax|grep cron > > 1513 ?? Is 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/cron -s > > 2283 0 S+ 0:00.00 grep cron > >

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Chris
On 6/11/2012 9:25 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:10:21 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote: > >> Have you installed bash? It's not in the system base. >> >> What's in your shell scripts? > > Thanks for the quick response. > > $ pkg_info|grep bash > > bash-4.2.28 The GNU Pro

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:36:28 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote: > cat /etc/shells $ cat /etc/shells # $FreeBSD: release/9.0.0/etc/shells 59717 2000-04-27 21:58:46Z ache $ # # List of acceptable shells for chpass(1). # Ftpd will not allow users to connect who are not using # one of these shells. /bin/

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:21:12 -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > You really have bash in /bin ? Are your scripts executable? What does > /var/log/cron say? $ file /bin/bash /bin/bash: symbolic link to `/usr/local/bin/bash' $ sudo tail -50 /var/log/cron (result snipped at 02:22:00 for brevity) Ju

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: cat /etc/shells ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:10:21 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote: > Have you installed bash? It's not in the system base. > > What's in your shell scripts? Thanks for the quick response. $ pkg_info|grep bash bash-4.2.28 The GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell $ which bash /bin/bash $ $ le

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: > > #min hr dom month dow command > > SHELL=/bin/bash > > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/home/ > daddy/bin > > HOME=/home/walterh > > 00 02 * * * /home/walterh/exports.sh > > 05 02 * * * /

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: > As the subject says, this is probably a newbie question (I am new to > FreeBSD but quite experienced at Linux). > > FreeBSD9 on x86_64. > > Cron is running: > > $ ps -ax|grep cron > >  1513  ??  Is     0:00.01 /usr/sbin/cron -s > >  2283   0

boot-time daemon startup (was Re: Newbie question)

2008-11-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Gary Hartl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been out of the bsd loop for a bit, i'm trying to setup nagios which is > fine > > > > There are a couple of settings that I either don't remember or never > remembered and forgot that I never knew it. > > > > Ok so nagios is asking me for an rc

Re: Newbie question

2008-11-18 Thread matt donovan
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Gary Hartl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all; > > > > Quick newbie question. > > > > I've been out of the bsd loop for a bit, i'm trying to setup nagios which > is > fine > > > > There are a couple of settings that I either don't remember or never > remembered an

Re: Newbie question about pkg_add (Canhua)

2008-10-29 Thread Kayven Riese
> > > -- > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:12:52 +0800 > From: Canhua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Newbie question about pkg_add > To: "Steven Susbauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: freebsd-questions@

Re: Newbie question about pkg_add

2008-10-29 Thread Thiago R. Santos
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 22:41 +0800, Canhua wrote: > Wonderful place~ thank you > > However I could not pkg_add py25-networkx still, being told that > pkg_add: unable to fetch > 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/py25-networkx.tbz' > by URL Oh, sorry. I

Re: Newbie question about pkg_add

2008-10-29 Thread Canhua
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Thiago R. Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 11:14 +0800, Canhua wrote: >> Hi, good day all. I am new to FreeBSD. >> I tried to pkg_add -r a package (py-networkx), which tell me that: >> Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/ >> F

Re: Newbie question about pkg_add

2008-10-29 Thread Thiago R. Santos
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 11:14 +0800, Canhua wrote: > Hi, good day all. I am new to FreeBSD. > I tried to pkg_add -r a package (py-networkx), which tell me that: > Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/ > FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/py-networkx.tbz: > File unavailable (

Re: Newbie question about pkg_add

2008-10-29 Thread Canhua
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Steven Susbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ports-mgmt/portupgrade is a useful tool for easily getting packages and > ports, it includes the tool portinstall which does what it says it does. > By running "portinstall -P pkgname", it will install a port and > depend

Re: Newbie question about pkg_add

2008-10-28 Thread Steven Susbauer
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:14:34AM +0800, Canhua wrote: Hi, good day all. I am new to FreeBSD. I tried to pkg_add -r a package (py-networkx), which tell me that: Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/ FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/py-networkx.

Re: Newbie question about pkg_add

2008-10-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:14:34AM +0800, Canhua wrote: > Hi, good day all. I am new to FreeBSD. > I tried to pkg_add -r a package (py-networkx), which tell me that: > Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/ > FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/py-networkx.tbz: > File unavai

RE: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...

2007-05-16 Thread Ian Lord
x27;Oliver Peter'; 'Jerry McAllister'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs... On 2007-05-16 03:21, Ian Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Oliver Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent:

Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...

2007-05-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-05-16 03:21, Ian Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Oliver Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 16 mai 2007 03:18 > To: Jerry McAllister > Cc: Oliver Peter; Ian Lord; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Newbie Quest

Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...

2007-05-16 Thread Schiz0
On 5/16/07, Ian Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -Original Message- From: Oliver Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 mai 2007 03:18 To: Jerry McAllister Cc: Oliver Peter; Ian Lord; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs... On Tu

RE: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...

2007-05-16 Thread Ian Lord
-Original Message- From: Oliver Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 mai 2007 03:18 To: Jerry McAllister Cc: Oliver Peter; Ian Lord; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs... On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:38:15PM -0400, Jerry McAllister

Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...

2007-05-16 Thread Oliver Peter
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:38:15PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:26:03PM +0200, Oliver Peter wrote: > > > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:26:36PM -0400, Ian Lord wrote: > > > ... > > > > > > Where can I change the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? >

Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...

2007-05-15 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 15 May 2007 12:26:36 -0400 "Ian Lord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [] > The problem, is that the mail is coming from > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > We have a spamfirewall and it rejects the mail saying localhost.mydomain.com > is invalid. > > Where can I change the address [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...

2007-05-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:26:03PM +0200, Oliver Peter wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:26:36PM -0400, Ian Lord wrote: > > ... > > > > Where can I change the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? Look in the file /etc/mail/aliases You can alias root to go to your favorite add

Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...

2007-05-15 Thread Oliver Peter
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:26:36PM -0400, Ian Lord wrote: > ... > > Where can I change the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? Did you set up your hostname correctly in /etc/rc.conf ? Furthermore you need to tell your MTA how your hostname is called. -- Oliver PETER, email: [EMA

Re: Newbie Question - looking for suggestions of small ports to install on stand-alone system without internet connection

2006-10-07 Thread Jim Stapleton
On 10/6/06, ograbme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would like a few recommendations for small "ports" to try to install on my stand-alone machine. The stand-alone machine does not have connection to the internet; however, I do have a set of four (4)CD from the FreeBSD Mall and two (2) of the CD's

Re: Newbie Question - looking for suggestions of small ports to install on stand-alone system without internet connection

2006-10-07 Thread Tyop?
On 10/6/06, John Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: there's always the shells, bash for example asciiquarium is a good start. *A Must* -- Tyop? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-question

Re: Newbie Question - looking for suggestions of small ports to install on stand-alone system without internet connection

2006-10-07 Thread John Hoover
there's always the shells, bash for example -- - John F Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Newbie Question - looking for suggestions of small ports to install on stand-alone system without internet connection

2006-10-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 12:14:29PM -0400, ograbme wrote: > > I would like a few recommendations for small "ports" to try to install > on my stand-alone machine. > > The stand-alone machine does not have connection to the internet; > however, I do have a set of four (4)CD from the FreeBSD Mall an

Re: Newbie Question - what does the "...-p6" mean?

2006-09-14 Thread Bill Moran
In response to ograbme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello All. > > Thursday, September 14, 2006, 4:24:43 AM, RJ45 wrote in regards to his > message titled "Memory problem": > > > > R> I am running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p6 build with buildworld. > > > > What does the "-p6" nomenclature represent

Re: Newbie question: Is this something I should send to buglist?

2006-07-30 Thread Nicolas Blais
On Sunday 30 July 2006 13:09, Oliver Iberien wrote: > After running portsnap this morning: > > bsd# pkg_version -v > /home/oliver/version.txt > "Makefile", line 54: Could not > find /usr/ports/print/cups-lpr/../../print/cups/Makefile.common > make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue > pkg_

Re: Newbie question - cannot add new disk

2006-04-22 Thread Oliver Iberien
Thanks for your interest in this. A large part of the problem was in fact a bad cable. I went back and forth between the command line and sysinstall. They seem not to do the same things. It did seem to me that the disklabel in sysinstall and the disklabel command-line tool did not necessarily p

Re: Newbie question - cannot add new disk

2006-04-20 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 01:40:09PM -0700, Oliver Iberien wrote: > Hi, > > I have been trying to add a second IDE hard drive. I can't seem to get it > mounted, or to get what I put into sysinstall and what comes out when I use > the command line to agree. Are you using the command line interface

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-18 Thread Eric Schuele
Oliver Iberien wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 on a home machine and backing up to a DVD Burner, probably using kdar, the dar archiver that comes with KDE. My question is : which system files to back up, along with my personal stuff? I'm used to using linux distributions that do your system bac

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-18 Thread Derek Ragona
The short answer is to backup the files you want to save. As a general rule, I suggest backing up: /etc /usr/local/etc /usr/local/www The last one assumes you have some website(s). If you are also worried about email, if you are using the standard sendmail, also backup: /var/mail I would

Re: Newbie question - using sysinstall "Upgrade an existing system" - easy?

2006-04-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Oliver Iberien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What actually happens when you use "Upgrade an existing system" in > sysinstall? Do you end up with the X-server, etc., all functioning > as before, or is there a lot of cleanup to do afterwards? X doesn't get automatically updated by that path; just

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-16 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 09:08 AM 4/16/2006, Oliver Iberien wrote: On Sunday 16 April 2006 09:00, Glenn Dawson wrote: > At 09:58 PM 2/22/2006, Andy Reitz wrote: > >Hi Oliver, > > > >At a minimum, you will probably want to back up the following directories: > > > > /etc > > /usr/local/etc > > /h

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-16 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Sunday 16 April 2006 09:00, Glenn Dawson wrote: > At 09:58 PM 2/22/2006, Andy Reitz wrote: > >Hi Oliver, > > > >At a minimum, you will probably want to back up the following directories: > > > > /etc > > /usr/local/etc > > /home > > > >That will get all of the configurati

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-16 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 09:58 PM 2/22/2006, Andy Reitz wrote: Hi Oliver, At a minimum, you will probably want to back up the following directories: /etc /usr/local/etc /home That will get all of the configuration files for FreeBSD and the software thar you installed from ports. Actually,

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-16 Thread Andy Reitz
Hi Oliver, At a minimum, you will probably want to back up the following directories: /etc /usr/local/etc /home That will get all of the configuration files for FreeBSD and the software thar you installed from ports. The last directory will det all of your user's data.

Re: newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jim Stapleton wrote: [ ... ] When it comes to changing the default compiler a good rule of thumb is that if you need to ask how to do it, then you should not do it. That seems to be a general *nix world rule of thumb for just about everything... The UNIX world is willing to give you a loaded

Re: newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-10 Thread RW
On Monday 10 April 2006 16:01, Jim Stapleton wrote: > how do I setup make.conf to automatically use the new compiler? > > Is there any way to set this new compiler as the default (such as > building the OS), without causing issues? Or would that be just a > royal pain in the posterior that is not w

Re: newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
> > When it comes to changing the default compiler a good rule of thumb is > that if you need to ask how to do it, then you should not do it. > That seems to be a general *nix world rule of thumb for just about everything... ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-10 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 11:01:21AM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: > how do I setup make.conf to automatically use the new compiler? Don't. But if you insist on doing that you could try putting CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc40 CXX=/usr/local/bin/g++40 into /etc/make.conf. Just be aware that it will probabl

Re: newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
how do I setup make.conf to automatically use the new compiler? Is there any way to set this new compiler as the default (such as building the OS), without causing issues? Or would that be just a royal pain in the posterior that is not worth the effort? On 4/10/06, Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-10 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:43:51AM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: > I did a "make install clean" in the lang/gcc40/ directory to get a > newer version of GCC, and it seems happy, so the next thing I did was > I replaced my /usr/bin/gcc, /usr/bin/g++, etc. binaries with hard > links to the /usr/local/b

Re: Newbie question about ports.

2005-06-27 Thread RW
On Friday 24 June 2005 19:36, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Sam Ip wrote: > >I'm trying out FreeBSD for the first time for use at work. However, > >there is a corporate firewall and hence ftp traffic doesn't get > >through. I can access http sites. So if a selling point of FreeBSD is > >its ports collect

Re: Newbie question about ports.

2005-06-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 24 June 2005 01:01 pm, Sam Ip wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying out FreeBSD for the first time for use at work. However, > there is a corporate firewall and hence ftp traffic doesn't get > through. I can access http sites. So if a selling point of FreeBSD > is its ports collection > > 1. Can

Re: Newbie question about ports.

2005-06-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Sam Ip wrote: I'm trying out FreeBSD for the first time for use at work. However, there is a corporate firewall and hence ftp traffic doesn't get through. I can access http sites. So if a selling point of FreeBSD is its ports collection 1. Can you do a CVSup to update your ports via http?

Re: newbie question

2005-05-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > last year i downloaded the miniinst iso disc 3 from the official ftp > mirror, now i cant find it > does 5.4 miniinst disc will be available only in the official 5.4 > release announcement? or it has been permanently removed This has been well documented in the installation instruction. The

Re: newbie question

2005-04-18 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "Chad Morland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 1:10 PM Subject: Re: newbie question On 4/17/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > Can anyone give me a

Re: newbie question

2005-04-18 Thread Chad Morland
On 4/17/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > Can anyone give me a very rough estimate on how much time is required on an > ongoing basis, after a server is set up with FreeBSD and Apache, to maintain > everything. By everything I am referring to everything required to keep

Re: newbie question

2005-04-18 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Sunday, April 17, 2005 11:52:36 AM -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone give me a very rough estimate on how much time is required on an ongoing basis, after a server is set up with FreeBSD and Apache, to maintain everything. By everything I am referring to everything required to kee

Re: Time spent on server maintenance (was Re: newbie question)

2005-04-17 Thread Kevin Kinsey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Can anyone give me a very rough estimate on how much time is required on an ongoing basis, after a server is set up with FreeBSD and Apache, to maintain everything. By everything I am referring to everything required to keep the server up, and host about 100 do

Re: newbie question

2005-04-17 Thread Joost van Dijk
On Sunday 17 April 2005 17:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can anyone give me a very rough estimate on how much time is required on an > ongoing basis, after a server is set up with FreeBSD and Apache, to maintain > everything. By everything I am referring to everything required to keep > the s

Re: Newbie question regarding Virtual Hosts setup

2004-05-05 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
mark wrote: On May 5, 2004, at 11:54 AM, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: David H. Ingham wrote: Hopefully, a simple question. I have set up a FreeBSD server to develop a web app for a client. my system is: FreeBSD Version 5.2 Apache

Re: Newbie question regarding Virtual Hosts setup

2004-05-05 Thread mark
On May 5, 2004, at 11:54 AM, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: David H. Ingham wrote: Hopefully, a simple question. I have set up a FreeBSD server to develop a web app for a client. my system is: FreeBSD Version 5.2 Apache Version 2.0

Re: Newbie question regarding Virtual Hosts setup

2004-05-05 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
David H. Ingham wrote: Hopefully, a simple question. I have set up a FreeBSD server to develop a web app for a client. my system is: FreeBSD Version 5.2 Apache Version 2.0.47 MySQL Version 4.0.16 My

Re: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade

2004-04-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:03:16AM -0700, Joshua Lokken wrote: > * Lucas Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-22 11:32]: > > > > The problem only seems to be with X11. I tried running several commands in > > console mode that I can normally run from any location and they all worked > > fine. so far

Re: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade

2004-04-23 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Lucas Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-22 11:32]: > > > The problem only seems to be with X11. I tried running several commands in > console mode that I can normally run from any location and they all worked > fine. so far startx seems to be the only thing that won't run like it used This

RE: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade

2004-04-22 Thread Lucas Holt
The problem only seems to be with X11. I tried running several commands in console mode that I can normally run from any location and they all worked fine. so far startx seems to be the only thing that won't run like it used to. I read something about shells having to be rehashed to update th

Re: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade

2004-04-22 Thread Ian Bowers
From: Ewald Jenisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ian Bowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:16:14 +0200 On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 10:16:25AM -0400, Ian Bowers wrote: > I'm having trouble upgrad

RE: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade

2004-04-22 Thread Ian Bowers
something will jump out in the logfile. From: "Lucas Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Ian Bowers'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:44:22 -0400 I would run portvers

Re: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade

2004-04-22 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 10:16:25AM -0400, Ian Bowers wrote: > I'm having trouble upgrading to gnome 2.6. I had gnome 2.4 > installed and running just fine. I cvsup'd with the ports-supfile, > and ran the gnome_upgrade.sh file. Maybe dumb question: Did you upgrade "ruby" as instructed in /usr

RE: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade

2004-04-22 Thread Lucas Holt
I would run portversion -v | grep "<" and make sure everything was upgraded to start with. If all the gnome and X11 related stuff appears to be upgraded, it might be hard to track down which build was at fault. I think the gnome upgrade script made a logfile in tmp. I would check to see if the

Re: Newbie Question

2004-04-19 Thread Remko Lodder
> Hello All, > >How do I uninstall or disable snmpd. I have spent too many days > trying to find this info. pkg_info |grep -i snmp Check which snmpd you have installed. then do pkg_delete $return_information_from_pkg_info_command HTH!, > > Thank you. > > Jeff > > -- Kind regards,

Re: Newbie Question

2004-04-18 Thread freebsduser
> Hello All, > >How do I uninstall or disable snmpd. I have spent too many days > trying to find this info. > > Thank you. > > Jeff > > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To un

Re: Newbie question: Imager module and p5-Imager in /usr/ports/

2004-01-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"meimi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have tried to add Perl module "Imager" using CPAN. However, it failed. > Then, I find a p5-Imager port. I think they are the same thing, isn't it? The port includes, but is a bit more than the CPAN module; it also includes solutions to the problems you h

Re: Related Q: (was) Re: Newbie question

2004-01-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:23:57AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:59:25AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > > It sounds to me as if your new machine has hardware which is supported > > under 5.x but not 4.9. That's a very good reason to install 5.2 -- > > caveats about "ea

Related Q: (was) Re: Newbie question

2004-01-20 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:59:25AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > It sounds to me as if your new machine has hardware which is supported > under 5.x but not 4.9. That's a very good reason to install 5.2 -- > caveats about "early adopters" notwithstanding, by all accounts 5.2 is > turning out ni

Re: Newbie question

2004-01-20 Thread Gafgo
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 12:37:05AM +0100, Gafgo wrote: Hello there! I am a newbie to FreeBSD but have read a lot of handbooks. I have also installed different versions on my old computer just to practice (incl 4.8, 4.9, 5.0, 5.1). Now I have bought a new computer and wante

Re: Newbie question

2004-01-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 12:37:05AM +0100, Gafgo wrote: > Hello there! I am a newbie to FreeBSD but have read a lot of handbooks. > I have also installed different versions on my old computer just to > practice (incl 4.8, 4.9, 5.0, 5.1). Now I have bought a new computer and > wanted to install 4.9 f

RE: newbie question

2004-01-19 Thread Didier WIROTH
ne; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: newbie question On Monday 19 January 2004 09:25 am, Larry Rosenman wrote: > --On Monday, January 19, 2004 15:24:18 + marlon corleone > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > forgive me if ever this is a off topic, how do i create this sample &

Re: newbie question

2004-01-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 19 January 2004 09:25 am, Larry Rosenman wrote: > --On Monday, January 19, 2004 15:24:18 + marlon corleone > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > forgive me if ever this is a off topic, how do i create this sample > > message, i want to change my motd default to this one, thanks > > > > :

Re: newbie question

2004-01-19 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Monday, January 19, 2004 15:24:18 + marlon corleone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: forgive me if ever this is a off topic, how do i create this sample message, i want to change my motd default to this one, thanks :##:# :### :# :#:# :#:#:### :###:## :# :# :# # :# :#:# :#:# :#:#:# :#:

Re: NEWBIE QUESTION

2004-01-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 15 January 2004 09:47 am, Donald Turnbull wrote: > I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome GUI already > installed? Do you have plans in making the installation more user friendly > in the future? > > > > Donald M. Turnbull MCSE, MCDBA KDE and Gnome are on the in

RE: NEWBIE QUESTION

2004-01-15 Thread Philip Payne
> I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome > GUI already > installed? Do you have plans in making the installation more > user friendly > in the future? Like any newbie I heartily recommend reading through the "handbook" under the documentation section of www.freebsd.org .

Re: NEWBIE QUESTION

2004-01-15 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:47:08 +, Donald Turnbull wrote: > I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome GUI already > installed? "Already" installed? No. A large number people want to run FreeBSD on their servers, and having a GUI on a server isn't usually a good or desired t

Re: NEWBIE QUESTION

2004-01-15 Thread Rus Foster
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Donald Turnbull wrote: > I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome GUI already > installed? Do you have plans in making the installation more user friendly > in the future? cd /usr/ports make search name=kde cd /usr/ports/x11/kdebase3 make install wait..

Re: Newbie question with Squirrelmail 1.41 and IMAP

2003-11-24 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 10:34:40AM -0500, Matthew A. Lee wrote: > I just recently installed 4.9 on a fresh server. I was also > installing squirrelmail 1.41 from the ports directory and also imap-uw > (imap4rev1). I pointed my virtual server to the squirrelmail > directory. I can get the login

Re: newbie question - how to pass textfile as an argument

2003-10-01 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 01), Martin Vana said: > > I was just wondering if there is a way how to pass a text file with > > list of path/files to programs like cp/mv. > > If the list is small (less than 65000 characters total): > > cp $(cat myfile) /othe

Re: newbie question - how to pass textfile as an argument

2003-10-01 Thread Andy Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- ~ On 01-Oct-2003, Martin Vana wrote message "newbie question - how to pass textfile as an argument" ~ > I was just wondering if there is a way

Re: newbie question - how to pass textfile as an argument

2003-10-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 01), Martin Vana said: > I was just wondering if there is a way how to pass a text file with > list of path/files to programs like cp/mv. If the list is small (less than 65000 characters total): cp $(cat myfile) /otherdir/ If the list is large: xargs < myfile -J% cp

Re: Newbie question - package versions in FreeBSD 5.1

2003-10-01 Thread Felix 'buebo' Kakrow
Darren Phillips schrieb: Sorry for the dumb-sounding question - is having multiple package versions installed in 5.1 going to burn me ? I (think I) understand the install process but not the consequences. How do all the versions coexist ? eg. install another linux base package. Normally coexiste

Re: Newbie question - package versions in FreeBSD 5.1

2003-10-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:53:35PM +0100, Darren Phillips wrote: > Sorry for the dumb-sounding question - is having multiple package versions installed > in 5.1 going to burn me ? > > I (think I) understand the install process but not the consequences. How do all the > versions coexist ? > eg. i

Re: Newbie question

2003-08-03 Thread B.Bonev
Thanks, for all. And... i have another question! On 3rd subnet that must be used for internet connection(192.168.0.x) have a small Internet Server (DLink - 192.168.0.1) who listening for http connections (192.168.0.0/24 Dial on Demand) and have NAT, FreeBSD gateway is on 192.168.0.2. What I want to

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