Re: next question....

2010-12-16 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: When sudo'ing, pass 'sudo su -' (same principle applies, but you don't need to to be in wheel to use this command) Is the end result of 'sudo su - ' any different from the simpler command 'sudo -i'?

Re: next question....

2010-11-28 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 11/27/2010 12:06 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: You need to add yourself to the 'wheel' group to su or you need to add the proper line to /usr/local/etc/sudoers to sudo correctly. no sudoers on my system: $ cd /usr/local/etc $ cd sudoers cd: can't cd to sudoers $ ls CORBA

Re: next question....

2010-11-28 Thread Chris Rees
On 27 November 2010 17:12, Paul Cartwright p...@pcartwright.com wrote: On 11/27/2010 12:06 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: You need to add yourself to the 'wheel' group to su or you need to add the proper line to /usr/local/etc/sudoers to sudo correctly. no sudoers on my system: $ cd /usr/local/etc

next question....

2010-11-27 Thread Dave
On 26 Nov 2010 at 12:11, Arthur Chance wrote: -- Although the wombat is real and the dragon is not, few know what a wombat looks like, but everyone knows what a dragon looks like. -- Avram Davidson, _Adventures in Unhistory_ Hmm.. A Wombat... That's a recoilless anti-tank gun if I

Re: next question....

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: $ su su: Sorry $ sudo sudo: not found $ uname -a FreeBSD FBSD.67MK181QZ 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Apr 14 22:55:09 BST 2010 r...@fbsd.67mk181qz:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PPSGENERIC i386 $ $ You need to add

Re: next question....

2010-11-27 Thread Dave
On 27 Nov 2010 at 12:06, Chris Brennan wrote: On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: $ su su: Sorry $ sudo sudo: not found $ uname -a FreeBSD FBSD.67MK181QZ 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Apr 14 22:55:09 BST 2010

next question: dvd-burner.

2005-12-14 Thread Gary Kline
I'm adding a DVD burner to my planned new platform. Since this is new technology, how careful do I have to be? In other words, does FreeBSD support most burners? Looks like the DVD/CDRW burner is a NEC... I'll 2-check. thanks in advance, gary

Re: next question: dvd-burner.

2005-12-14 Thread Mark Kane
Gary Kline wrote: I'm adding a DVD burner to my planned new platform. Since this is new technology, how careful do I have to be? In other words, does FreeBSD support most burners? Looks like the DVD/CDRW burner is a NEC... I'll 2-check. thanks in advance,

Re: next question: dvd-burner.

2005-12-14 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On 12/14/05, Mark Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary Kline wrote: I'm adding a DVD burner to my planned new platform. Since this is new technology, how careful do I have to be? In other words, does FreeBSD support most burners? Looks like the DVD/CDRW burner is a

Re: next question: dvd-burner.

2005-12-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:57:52 +0100 Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/14/05, Mark Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary Kline wrote: I'm adding a DVD burner to my planned new platform. Since this is new technology, how careful do I have to be? In other

Re: next question: dvd-burner.

2005-12-14 Thread Micah
Gary Kline wrote: I'm adding a DVD burner to my planned new platform. Since this is new technology, how careful do I have to be? In other words, does FreeBSD support most burners? Looks like the DVD/CDRW burner is a NEC... I'll 2-check. thanks in

Re: next question: dvd-burner.

2005-12-14 Thread Aaron Peterson
On 12/14/05, Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary Kline wrote: I'm adding a DVD burner to my planned new platform. Since this is new technology, how careful do I have to be? In other words, does FreeBSD support most burners? Looks like the DVD/CDRW burner is a

Re: next question: dvd-burner.

2005-12-14 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:14:23PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:57:52 +0100 Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/14/05, Mark Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary Kline wrote: I'm adding a DVD burner to my planned new platform. Since this

Re: next question: dvd-burner.

2005-12-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:04:53 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:14:23PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:57:52 +0100 Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/14/05, Mark Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary Kline wrote:

Re: next question re the Thinkpad.

2004-06-27 Thread Luke Kearney
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 22:24:47 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] granted us these pearls of wisdom: Is anybody using a Thinkpad among the list? I have found one with the ``SMC 2206 compact USB-Ethernet adapter for connecting to ethernet networks.'' In

Re: next question re the Thinkpad.

2004-06-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 05:19:09PM +0900, Luke Kearney wrote: On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 22:24:47 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] granted us these pearls of wisdom: Is anybody using a Thinkpad among the list? I have found one with the ``SMC 2206 compact USB-Ethernet

Re: next question re the Thinkpad.

2004-06-27 Thread j . e . drews
Hi Gary: You can look here and see if your Thinkpad runs FreeBSD: The FreeBSD Laptop Compatibility List http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/ This list is up to date. I had a 600E Thinkpad running 4.9. The USB printer, scanner and Lexar flash ram storage worked well on it.