sendmail off - no more accounting message to root

2004-03-19 Thread epilogue
hello all, because i'm only running a desktop and sylpheed has it's own mail transport system, i shut down sendmail. however, since making this change, i've noticed that the root account is no longer receiving the daily accounting digest. i've had a look at the 310.accounting file in periodic, b

Re: Vinum, replaced disk -- fsck error.

2004-03-19 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 08:57:38AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 19 March 2004 at 3:03:34 +, Lewis Thompson wrote: > > In a reply to my original question you stated that ``dd if=ad3 of=ad1 > > bs=8192 conv=noerror'' ``may or may not work, depending on details you > > haven't r

Re: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:24:59PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:35:06PM -0500, Al Johnson wrote: > My standard response to top-posting: > > A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > Q: Why is putting a reply at the top of the message frowned upon? >

Re: sendmail off - no more accounting message to root

2004-03-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 06:58:23PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > because i'm only running a desktop and sylpheed has it's own mail transport > system, i shut down sendmail. however, since making this change, i've > noticed that the root account is no longer receiving the daily > accounting di

Impact of running pkgdb -fu

2004-03-19 Thread Dan MacMillan
Hi, I have a question about the effect of running "pkgdb -fu", besides making me laugh because of its whimsically profane command-line options. Suppose I have been running "pkgdb -F" as suggested by portupgrade, and I accidentally delete a stale dependency that should have been handled in another

Re: sendmail off - no more accounting message to root

2004-03-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 12:39:42AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 06:58:23PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > because i'm only running a desktop and sylpheed has it's own mail transport > > system, i shut down sendmail. however, since making this change, i've > > noti

Re: Vinum, replaced disk -- fsck error.

2004-03-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 20 March 2004 at 0:23:11 +, Lewis Thompson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 08:57:38AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Friday, 19 March 2004 at 3:03:34 +, Lewis Thompson wrote: >>> In a reply to my original question you stated that ``dd if=ad3 of=ad1 >>> bs=8192 conv=

Re: Impact of running pkgdb -fu

2004-03-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:34:38PM -0700, Dan MacMillan wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question about the effect of running "pkgdb -fu", besides making me > laugh because of its whimsically profane command-line options. > > Suppose I have been running "pkgdb -F" as suggested by portupgrade, and I > ac

RE: Impact of running pkgdb -fu

2004-03-19 Thread Dan MacMillan
> Kris Kennaway Sent: March 19, 2004 17:46 > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:34:38PM -0700, Dan MacMillan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a question about the effect of running "pkgdb -fu", > > besides making me laugh because of its whimsically profane > > command-line options. > > > > Suppose I have be

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2004-03-19 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2003/03/09 22:09:31 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that at

"The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

2004-03-19 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inev

Re: CMS on FreeBSD

2004-03-19 Thread Matt Staroscik
At 04:39 PM 3/19/2004, Dan Rue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Umm.. I don't know what other people think about this - but I really never run any PHP stuff from ports. It is easier, imo, to just download the tgz and unzip it to the directory you want it in. Yes, exactly. You can download the latest PH

Re: Impact of running pkgdb -fu

2004-03-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:56:08PM -0700, Dan MacMillan wrote: > > Kris Kennaway Sent: March 19, 2004 17:46 > > > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:34:38PM -0700, Dan MacMillan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a question about the effect of running "pkgdb -fu", > > > besides making me laugh because o

pkgtools.conf strangeness

2004-03-19 Thread jimmie james
It seems I can't get portupgrade -arR (or -f) to honor pkgtools.conf. I've run portsdb -Uu, I've rebuild mozilla almost a dozen times over the past few days trying to work this out, google and the lists gave some pointers, but they don't see to be working. Everytime I build it, it's using the d

Re: which 8-port 10/100 hub is best?

2004-03-19 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 19:45:12 -0800 Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > People, > > I'm upgrading my hub from a 5-port hub and thought I would > check with this list to see if the Linksys EFAH08W is still a > good deal. If there is somethng other that would work equ

Re: which 8-port 10/100 hub is best?

2004-03-19 Thread jdunham
On 20 Mar 2004 at 9:01, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 18 March 2004 at 22:54:49 -0600, W. D. wrote: > > > > If there is a possibility that you will have some heavy traffic > > at times, the best hub is a switch! You are likely to have > > less bandwidth wasting collisions during high

RE: Impact of running pkgdb -fu

2004-03-19 Thread Dan MacMillan
Kris Kennaway Sent: March 19, 2004 18:06 > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:56:08PM -0700, Dan MacMillan wrote: > > Kris Kennaway Sent: March 19, 2004 17:46 > > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:34:38PM -0700, Dan MacMillan wrote: > > > > > > > > I have a question about the effect of running "pkgdb -fu", > >

raid-1, Vinum

2004-03-19 Thread Me
I'm using vinum Raid-1. I have figured out how to recover from a failed disk. Does any one know what to do if the disk that has the vinum configuration/OS fails? lets say I have a disk with a vinum partition on it and I want to create a mirror out of it on an entire new system. how do i accom

RE: which 8-port 10/100 hub is best?

2004-03-19 Thread Kurt
Sayeth Volpes: I would suggest advoiding hubs, as switches are uber cheap nodays and give better performace... multiple collision zones and traffic is not broadcast to everyone. I am currently using a Zonet ZFS3008... it is cheap and works nicely... had one die on me from over heating thought...

Re: drive / IDE controller questions

2004-03-19 Thread Joey Mingrone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 19, 2004 18:37, Parv wrote: > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > wrote Joey Mingrone thusly... > > > I've been having problems with my western digital drive > > (http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=24) for about a > > year. > >

Re: Rxvt replacement?

2004-03-19 Thread Scott W
Peter Schuller wrote: Is there any other xterm replacement which is small like rxvt? Or at least smaller than xterm. Grepping around the ports tree i found 'wterm' which is supposedly a fork/branch of rxvt (haven't tried it yet). There's also aterm (also forked off rxvt apparantly). aterm is g

Re: deleting directories with ??? in name

2004-03-19 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Walter thusly... > I apologize for the late reply. > Parv wrote: > > > # find . \( -inum -o -inum \) -print0 \ > > # | xargs -0 rm -rfv > > > > Thanks, but when I did: > ls -i > and then typed in the inode in the command (saved in an old List > e-mail)

Re: which 8-port 10/100 hub is best?

2004-03-19 Thread Mark Terribile
[Greg Lehey] > [W. D.] >> [Gary Kline] >>> I'm upgrading my hub from a 5-port hub and thought I would check >>> with this list ... >> If there is a possibility that you will have some heavy traffic >> at times, the best hub is a switch! You are likely to have >> less bandwidth wasting co

Re: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread Mark Ovens
Jerry McAllister wrote: I'm with you... Top-posting makes the most sense for me. No, it is like reading all the answers and then being handed the questions. I know some college students like to function A. Top posters Q. What's the most annoying thing on Usenet? QED Mark __

Re: drive / IDE controller questions

2004-03-19 Thread Mark Terribile
[Jerry McAllister] >[Joey Mingone] >> [Jerry McAllister] >>> Another early guess might also be overheating problems. I am not sure >>> how you would check other than trying to make it cooler. >> Could be.. although I have almost always had the case open and I have >> two case fans. The CPU temp

Re: DVD R/W in FreeBSD?

2004-03-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
Ed Alley wrote: Does FreeBSD support ATA DVD writers the same way that it supports CD writers? I have been to SOS's web page, and have looked at hardware support info, but have found no hint at whether ATA DVD writers are supported under FreeBSD. Yes-- consider using "device atapicam" + the sysutil

Re: raid-1, Vinum

2004-03-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 19 March 2004 at 17:22:17 -0800, Me wrote: > I'm using vinum Raid-1. > I have figured out how to recover from a failed disk. > Does any one know what to do if the disk that has the > vinum configuration/OS fails? All Vinum drives have two copies of the configuration. They would all

sendmail off - no more accounting message to root

2004-03-19 Thread epilogue
that ought to do the trick. many thanks for your help, matthew. --- On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 00:44:07 + Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 12:39:42AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 06:58:23PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >

Re: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Mar 20, 2004, at 07:24, Tillman Hodgson wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:35:06PM -0500, Al Johnson wrote: I'm with you... Top-posting makes the most sense for me. It comes down to opinion I think My standard response to top-posting: A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q

Re: The clock is running too fast

2004-03-19 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Dan, The system clock has been running correctly more than 16 hours. > I'm sorry, I don't know what 'ntc' is. Do you mean 'ntp'? You can use ntp > or not ... if your timing hardware is off, ntp will constantly try to slew > the time back to where it should be, which will a) mean your systems

RE: KLD and UID

2004-03-19 Thread Simon Timms
>What version of FreeBSD are you trying this on? >You might want to look at this thread on hackers@, it's very similar to >what you're trying to do, I think: Yes, I think I found that thread yesterday. I am trying it on the 5.x series and I notice that the proc pointer argument of a syscall has

Starting a new thread (was Re: drive / IDE controller questions)

2004-03-19 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Joey Mingrone thusly... > > On March 19, 2004 18:37, Parv wrote: > > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > wrote Joey Mingrone thusly... > > > > > I've been having problems with my western digital drive > > > > What that has to do w/ the thread discussing wget &

Sparc Ultra 10 & X

2004-03-19 Thread Eduardo Viruena Silva
Saludos, FreeBSD gurus! I'm trying to configure X in an old sparc ultra 10. I tried without modifying GENERIC kernel, and I got: Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: No console driver found Supported drivers: syscons Check your kernel's console driver configuration and /dev ent

Re: Mail readers

2004-03-19 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Bart Silverstrim thusly... > > According to the FAQ, it (f=f) was developed (IIRC) by Qualcomm to Anybody still interested in this, should not miss ... RFC 3676, The Text/Plain Format and DelSp Parameters, Feb 2004 ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc367

Re: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread Chuck McManis
At 03:24 PM 3/19/2004, you wrote: Top-posting may be an opinion, but RFC 1855 makes it _standard_ opinion. Let's get serious for a minute here. Just because someone wrote up an INFORMATIONAL RFC does NOT make it STANDARD. It makes it INFORMATIONAL. Big difference. Go look up RFC 2026 for what it

KDE 3.2.1

2004-03-19 Thread Chris
Is it me? Or does KDE 3.2.1 seem to run much faster then 3.2.0? -- Best regards, Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Mozilla + realplay plugin: how to get this work?

2004-03-19 Thread John Merryweather Cooper
As a note, the current version of www/plugger no longer has a long dependency chain. By popular demand, I've moved the helper applications to a separate (and as yet, uncommitted) port. jmc Palle Girgensohn wrote: The realplayer plugin only works with a linux mozilla binary. I suggest you use

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