RE: repeating error message from ssh

2009-06-04 Thread Dave
to hear it, googling hasn't shown me how to change the internal domain name. Thanks. Dave. -Original Message- From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 2:37 PM To: dave.meh...@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re

Samba3 domain controller howto?

2009-06-07 Thread Dave
Hello, I've found a lot of this for LInux, but am looking for something FreeBSD specific. I'm wanting to set up a FreeBSD 7.2 machine, samba3, dynamic dhcp and dns, to act as a domain controller. Has anyone done this and do you have some notes or a howto? Thanks. Dave

issue with dhcp and dns

2009-06-07 Thread Dave
files i do not see records for the new host. I do see two .jnl files. In /var/log/messages i do see the error about the working directory not being writable, other than that that is it, named indicates it is running. I'm wondering if it takes a while to update the records? Thanks. Dave

Authenticating users via openldap on 7.2

2009-06-11 Thread Dave
Hello, I had user authentication going about a year and some months back on a 6.2 box. Unfortunately that box is no longer under my control. I'm trying to duplicate what was done under 6.2. If anyone has this going can you write me offlist? Thanks. Dave

FreeBSD and apache 2.2 band width limiting

2009-06-14 Thread Dave
. I'm wondering if this is doable? Thanks. Dave. ___ 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

bannerfiltering

2009-06-17 Thread Dave
requests to add sites to nowhere. Any solutions appreciated. Thanks. Dave. ___ 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

freebsd cups port, pdf virtual printer, and encryption

2009-06-22 Thread Dave
this pdf printer to samba. Is there something new with encryption? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

restoring a dump file across the network

2009-06-30 Thread Dave
. Dave. ___ 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: much to my surprise.... [ now trending #OT ]

2011-09-23 Thread Dave
, if it runs down and cuts out. I'll do that manually if needed. (Not so far.) I never did get the BSD port of APCUPSD to work correctly. All works well. Also, easy to do a router Hard restart, without going to the router itself. And if it does all die, it fails safe. Regards. Dave B

Re: Installing free bsd

2011-12-13 Thread Dave
to boot from a CD, or know the hotkey to interupt it's normal boot sequence, and tell it to boot from an alternative drive. Hope this helps. Regards. Dave B. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Probable Hardware Failure

2012-01-15 Thread Dave
, and have the test gear to hand to fault find these things, and a source of parts. But it saves a shed load of money if you can afford the time to do it... Hope something helps. Best Regards. Dave B. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Very strange netstat -rna output

2012-01-30 Thread Dave
can see the second column which usually shows a MCA is showing some rather strange output? What could be the cause of this? Thanks Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Linux compatibility

2012-02-13 Thread Dave
is the mistake? I was going to wait and see if anyone else responded, but you are best off trying emulation@. Cheers Don't you have to install/load a module for Linux binary compatability to work in F'BSD? I seem to remember that being mentioned during a recent 8.something install. Dave B

Re: fixit disc for 7.3 #1?

2012-02-15 Thread Dave
plan. Regards. Dave B. ___ 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: laptop freebsd display not filling whole screen

2012-02-16 Thread Dave
laptops have a feature in the BIOS (Stretch or Expand) so that a 640x480 text screen (for example) will fill the full disaply, whatever the physical pixel resolution is. Looks weird, but it does what it says. Regards. Dave B. ___ freebsd-questions

Security? [Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.]

2012-02-24 Thread Dave
all those addresses from, are they publicly available, or is there a gaping hole in some server somewhere. Regards. Dave B. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Security? [Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.]

2012-02-24 Thread Dave
On 24 Feb 2012 at 17:28, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Friday 24 February 2012 17:10:21 Dave wrote: Can I please request, you all check your mail client reply to settings. I think, some - like me too - reply here always to all. Many of the replies to this thread, have also been

Re: Security? [Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.]

2012-02-24 Thread Dave
On 24 Feb 2012 at 12:37, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk writes: Also, just where did he originaly harvest all those addresses from, are they publicly available, or is there a gaping hole in some server somewhere. It is public information: http://www.freebsd. org

resizing partitions

2005-04-20 Thread dave
this or has a procedure i'd be interested. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

screen question

2005-04-22 Thread dave
Hello, I've got a screen session that has four windows in it. Data in window 1 needs to be in windows 2 3 and 4, which are all separate files. I do not want to manually retype all of this, was wondering if screen had a feature like a virtual clipboard? Thanks. Dave

Re: USB2.0 External IDE connections

2005-04-22 Thread dave
it in to the bsd box it moves my burners to a new bus, i have never seen that. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

usermin/webmin external access

2005-04-24 Thread dave
can have access. Is this config doable? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

external usb2 drive enclosure on 5.3

2005-05-03 Thread dave
Command (per Sense Data) (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR info?:202020 asc:11,20 That repeats. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave

gvinum, raid5 on 5.4

2005-05-20 Thread dave
of the drives in question and set them to master and the box goes on. I was wondering any experiences with this? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

root filesystem occationally not found

2005-05-20 Thread dave
. I am at a loss to explain this and wonder if anyone has seen anything similar? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: root filesystem occationally not found

2005-05-21 Thread dave
, can't remember the model number offhand, but it's brand new, as is the power supply. The ram and processor are from my old abyt board which is where this drive came from before that board went bad, but memtest86 on the ram didn't show anything there. It is frustrating! Dave

trouble booting 5.4 installation media (repost)

2005-05-27 Thread dave
result. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave. error: Uncompressing ... done Console: serial port BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS drive D: is disk2 BIOS 638kB/392192kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED], Sun May 8

5.4 nfs install

2005-05-28 Thread dave
Hello, Trying to do a 5.4 nfs install. I've copied both disks to an nfs share, however i'm getting an error that i'm only using disk0 and that perl is on disk1, insert it. I've only got the one nfs installpoint and it has both disks copied to it. Is there an extra step with 5.4? Thanks. Dave

jail on 5.4

2005-06-03 Thread dave
proceeds for a moment installing then it exits on the master.passwd file, error code 64, install complains about the wrong number of arguments. I've tried cvsupping to 5.stable, same results. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-02 Thread Dave
, or is there a Router involved somewhere? It makes a whole world of difference I.e. How Physically do you hook together, in each instance, for the XP box, and F'BSD box. Regards. Dave B. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-02 Thread Dave
ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ In the world of the blind, the one eyed bloke is promoted to near god like status! Dave B. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

making isos of dvd videos

2006-07-29 Thread Dave
Hello, I have some dvd videos i want to copy to isos, and then reburn them to dvd so i can have a backup copy. I've tried dd but keep getting an input/output error. Has anyone pulled this off? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

piperd in top

2006-08-01 Thread DAve
, man top gives no clues. Is this an issue or am I worried about nothing? Thanks, DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot who made

Re: piperd in top

2006-08-02 Thread DAve
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 01), DAve said: We are in the process of getting a good hammering of spam. I've been watching my mail gateways and they are keeping up well enough. But looking at top I am seeing a lot of processes with state of piperd. Piperd means the process

portupgrade ruby vulnerability

2006-08-03 Thread Dave
Hello, I'm getting an error from ruby whenever i run a portupgrade. Checking portaudit i see this is a vulnerability. Is there a fiix for it? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: piperd in top

2006-08-04 Thread DAve
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 02), DAve said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 01), DAve said: We are in the process of getting a good hammering of spam. I've been watching my mail gateways and they are keeping up well enough

Re: file restoration

2006-08-16 Thread DAve
, nearly an entire partition. The learning curve is a bit steep but there are several how-tos available. It is more intended as an 'after breakin' discovery tool, but it recovers files quite well. http://www.porcupine.org/forensics/ DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't

Re: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA errors

2006-08-25 Thread DAve
still fail within a few months. We since replaced the Maxtor and Fitzy drives with a specific model Seagate which seems to survive. Just one guys 2cents worth. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other

freebsd-specific postfix antispam howto

2006-08-28 Thread Dave
and would like to read someone's all-integrated freebsd-specific solution if any, to get an idea as to what i'm doing wrong? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

upgrading mysql client and server

2006-09-02 Thread Dave
everything. I'm also concerned about any compatibility issues. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

building and installing world on two separate machines

2006-09-04 Thread Dave
. Is there a way i can install this already compiled world on the slower box without having to remake it? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread DAve
that may change. For now I've changed far too many, I have a pop toaster down currently awaiting it's second SATA drive in 16 months. (Professional NOC, Temp, vibration, power all conditioned, this was a Seagate drive). Just my experience, not looking for agreement or argument. DAve -- Three

Using BSD as filter

2006-09-17 Thread Dave
also. Please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gmirror HD failure detection

2006-09-20 Thread Dave
, but am not sure which one. Thanks. Dave. - Original Message - From: Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 1:02 PM Subject: Re: gmirror HD failure detection On 9/20/06, Robin Becker

Re: PHP new vulnarabilities

2006-10-15 Thread DAve
quite valid. Upgrading mission critical systems without throughly understanding the implications just because someone screamed SECURITY!, now that is foolhardy. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non

new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-23 Thread Dave
numbers? Lastly, as I don't want to break the existing NTP server, I may find another PC of similar spec, to mess with, witn some sort of impunity. Unless there is a compelling argument to, I'd prefer to stick with V8.0 too. Advice please (and perhaps a little hand holding.) Cheers. Dave B. PS

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-24 Thread Dave
. What have I missed? Can I assign group rights to a folder structure? Or, am I going about this all wrong. Problems and unfamiliarity asside, I'm sort of enjoying all this. But it's a near vertical learning curve, again... Best regards, time for the kettle to start work I think. Dave B. PS

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-25 Thread Dave
, that inherits the permissions of the parent directory. Next task, to get the ftp server to work on another port. I might just quit while ahead, and go up the pub though, and leave that till tomorrow. Thanks again. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-26 Thread Dave
On 25 Nov 2010 at 21:25, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 20:00:21 -, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: Lots is written about the 'x' bit, and allowing execution of a file, but not that it affects the ability to even use that directory. I guess in this context, using = executing

next question....

2010-11-27 Thread Dave
, and yes, that could be bad if something got in. Cheers. Dave B. ___ 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: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Dave
On 26 Nov 2010 at 9:53, Ryan Coleman wrote: On Nov 26, 2010, at 8:53 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: Yes, I found that, good info. I'm relying on the freebsd.org site man pages and documentation among others, as I'm

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Dave
in indipendant windows on another box. (because I have it) I'm using PuTTY on Win2k. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ It appears to work well. I now have another problem of the BSD flavor (inabiltiy to 'su') but I've already asked that in another post. Thanks. Dave B. PS: Do I

missing digest mail?

2010-11-27 Thread Dave
I just noticed, that I seem to have missed some digest mails, Vol 338, issues 4 to 7. (No list mail between the 24th and 27th November, only direct mails from list members.) Nothing in the spam bucket here either. Hopefully nothing useful to me passed by. Regards. Dave B

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 r...@fbsd.67mk181qz:/usr

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Dave
On 27 Nov 2010 at 11:22, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: /usr/ports/sysutils/screen/ Ryan, thanks, but no 'ports' is installed on this box, it was built with a net install, from a V8.0 boot disk, earlier this year

pkg_add fail on FreeBSD V8.0

2010-11-30 Thread Dave
to maintain my needed PPS support I guess I'll need to recompile the kernel again? Is the change from V8.0 to V8.1 realy that a big step? Or compile Hiawatha from sources? (I *Will* need guidance and hand- holding to do that!) Advice please, before I mess things up. Regards. Dave B

Success! (Was Re: pkg_add fail on FreeBSD V8.0)

2010-12-01 Thread Dave
catch up on things. I'm sure I'll be back when something else puzzles me. Many thanks again people. Best Regards. Dave B. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Noob Jail question.

2010-12-15 Thread Dave
inside the jail? (For whatever reason, I suspect not?) If anyone understands what the heck I'm blathering on about, please explain it to me, as I think I've lost the plot. Comments, advice, brickbats etc? Best Regards. Dave B. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Noob Jail question.

2010-12-16 Thread Dave
On 16 Dec 2010 at 14:50, Da Rock wrote: On 12/16/10 09:32, Dave wrote: Hi. As some of you may remember, I've managed to build a F'BSD V8.0 based system that provides me with:- . . . . Hi.. Indexer and Da Rock, many thanks, more reading, and some fiddling needed I think. Cheers

Re: Noob Jail question.

2010-12-17 Thread Dave
on! Thanks for the encoragement.. Dave B. On 17 Dec 2010 at 12:14, Indexer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Indexer and Da Rock, many thanks, more reading, and some fiddling needed I think. It is the best way to learn. Setup a VM of fbsd 8.1 on your computer

Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Dave
, but not remove it! Bit of an oversight that I suspect Regards. Dave B. (Chief numpty!) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Dave
On 22 Dec 2010 at 11:41, b. f. wrote: dave wrote: ... I was trying to disable the console screensaver, and found that in sysinstall, there is no way to select none as an option. So I went and edited /etc/rc.conf to comment out the line:- Saver=fire (or whatever it is) I put

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-23 Thread Dave
as my finger trouble. As earlier, that issue is now fixed. Thanks. Dave B. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: disyfiles

2010-12-31 Thread Dave
on a DVD locally, but it does work. You do need to download the bootable Network install CD first though. Is that how you started? Best Regards. Dave B. (In the UK) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-12 Thread Dave
swapfiles or working data that changes a lot.. Regards. Dave B. ___ 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: cannot launch vsftpd at system startup

2007-01-27 Thread DAve
installed without errors? I would try running 'make deinstall;make clean;make install' and then see if the port properly installs the startup script with the vars expanded for you, or if an error pops up. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial

Re: Easy USB-drive automounter and filemanager for nontechies?

2007-02-02 Thread Dave
=`camcontrol devlist | grep USB2.0\ \(FS\)\ FLASH\ DISK\ 1.00 | grep -o 'da[0-9][0-9]*'` if [ `df | grep $dev | grep -o 'da[0-9][0-9]*'` ]; then echo MP3Player already mounted else mount_msdosfs /dev/${dev} /home/dave/mp3player ; echo Mounted MP3Player to ~/mp3player as /dev/${dev} fi

Re: Day Light Savings time changes on March 11

2007-02-21 Thread DAve
deal. I am not convinced that the DST rules will not change again and playing catch up with politicians is not a good use of my techs time. I noticed Yahoo switched to GMT. Is anyone else running all their servers on GMT? DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo

Re: Day Light Savings time changes on March 11

2007-02-22 Thread DAve
Christian Baer wrote: On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:55:05 -0500 DAve wrote: I noticed Yahoo switched to GMT. Is anyone else running all their servers on GMT? Actually, all of my Unix Boxes have been running UTC as far as I can remember. :-) Or am I missing the issue here? Not at all, I am

Re: Day Light Savings time changes on March 11

2007-02-27 Thread DAve
Christian Baer wrote: On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:46:08 -0500 DAve wrote: Or am I missing the issue here? Not at all, I am thinking my next staff meeting I am going to propose just that solution. Now it might be that I think about a few things a little 'differently' but as far as I can remember

Re: Day Light Savings time changes on March 11

2007-02-27 Thread DAve
just wanted on extra hour on the tee during the week after work. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot who made that choice

Re: Stability Issues on 5.4-RELEASE Box

2007-02-28 Thread DAve
and removing all cards/ram/cables, then reattaching everything. Mysterious failures, 3000 miles to the console, I don't envy you ;^) DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays

Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd

2007-02-28 Thread DAve
(and I have in production). If you need it there is a port of Slack to AMD64 called slamd64, http://www.slamd64.com/. FreeBSD users will appreciate it's simplicity and it's stability. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose

postfix and greylisting

2007-03-05 Thread Dave
, but not to add custom clients. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: zoneinfo FreeBSD 4.4 - 4.11

2007-03-09 Thread DAve
and it works fine. Just a heads up, that file is now tzdata2007c.tar.gz, created on Feb 26th. At least I couldn't grab tzdata2007b.tar.gz anymore. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non

Re: Manual updates

2007-03-11 Thread DAve
available to new users. Funny thing though, I used most of the Linux How To docs when first learning FreeBSD. As far as applications and services go like Samba, NIS, NFS, etc. Most of the Linux How To docs work with FreeBSD. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo

Re: DST

2007-03-16 Thread DAve
it with success on version 4.8 to 6.2 with no problems (Except the AMD64 port which has a zdump problem). See below, DAve -- Grant, Search for an email I sent to the list on 2/22 with Subject Determining daylight savings changes on BSD It has

optimizing squid and freebsd

2007-03-16 Thread Dave
of these the descriptors), maxproc, and Given this do i have to add an options maxfiles=8192 in my kernel config file? Any other suggestions welcome. Thanks. Dave. sbsize. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

unattended FreeBSD install

2007-03-19 Thread Dave
including patches is insalled and ready to go with custom packages already installed. If anyone has any working configs, so far my atempts to create an unattend file, have not been successful, i'd appreciate them. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions

quotas on 6.2

2007-04-03 Thread Dave
filesystems in /etc/fstab, other than that those entries are the same as in a default install. After doing all that i rebooted, and was under the impression the quota script would create the quota user and group files. This did not happen. I've included the errors. Any suggestions? Thanks. Dave. /etc

Re: .PICT mac file

2007-10-03 Thread DAve
). I used Graphic Converter on Macs since MacOS 7.1. It used to convert just about everything under the sun. It was always scriptable before so I would imagine it is under OSX. http://www.lemkesoft.com/ DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial

Re: system admin question...

2007-10-10 Thread DAve
the snmpget results or something. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible

Re: Strange perl script

2007-10-17 Thread DAve
? FTP, telnet, ssh, mysql, apache? DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible

OT: UltraDNS and dor org domains.

2007-10-22 Thread DAve
org, I sometimes get nothing but name server records. This happens when the root servers refer the query to TLSx.Ultradns.net. I see ultradns failing to return A records for slashdot.org and openoffice.org as well others. Is anyone else seeing this? DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why

Re: OT: UltraDNS and dor org domains.

2007-10-22 Thread DAve
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 22, 2007, at 11:43 AM, DAve wrote: It is only dot org domains, checking deeper it ain't us. If I do a domain query from dnsstuff for any org, I sometimes get nothing but name server records. This happens when the root servers refer the query to TLSx.Ultradns.net

Re: Live video streaming on FreeBSD?

2007-10-23 Thread DAve
the (streaming) standards. We have been using Apple's Darwin Streaming server with excellent results. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans

Re: Duplicate existing FreeBSD Server in VM

2007-11-01 Thread DAve
/tmp, or /var. I'll be out of the office for a week, but you can try and adjust as needed, it won't hurt anything and you can always overwrite and try again. WRITE IT DOWN. Works for us, I've used it several times, adjusting as needed for the system I am cloning. DAve

making packages from ports

2007-11-12 Thread Dave
it on another box it needed pcre and mysql-client packages. I had to run make package in each of their directories. I was wondering if there was a recursive way of package making? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: bash and strings

2007-11-16 Thread DAve
to keep around. DAve -- I've been asking Google for a Veteran's Day logo since 2000, maybe 1999. I was told they finally did a Veteran's Day logo, but none of the links I was given return anything but a normal Google logo. Sad, very sad. Maybe the Chinese Government didn't like

stability of FreeBSD 7 Beta 3?

2007-11-25 Thread Dave
Hello, How stable is FreeBSD 7 Beta 3? Is it near production are their any outstanding issues? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-26 Thread DAve
that things like the logo and that page can generate so much list mail. DAve -- I've been asking Google for a Veteran's Day logo since 2000, maybe 1999. I was told they finally did a Veteran's Day logo, but none of the links I was given return anything but a normal Google logo. Sad, very sad. Maybe

FreeBSD and WiFi with captive portal

2007-12-13 Thread Dave
this setup i'd appreciate knowing what software your using, and experiences with it, positive or negative. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

FreeBSD and WiFi with Captive portal, correction

2007-12-13 Thread Dave
. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to know total number of bytes of a directory

2007-12-17 Thread DAve
the subdirectories, otherwise you'll get permission errors and it'll skip those. Note that this displays usage in 512-byte blocks, not bytes, but you should be able to figure it out from there. -h provides human readable output. du -sh /etc 3.8M/etc DAve -- Google finally, after 7 years, provided a logo

backuppc port?

2007-12-17 Thread Dave
Hello, I've been googling and i've read that a FreeBSD port of backuppc is either in production or near completion or actually done. I haven't been able to find out anything else. Does anyone know anything about this port? Thanks. Dave

upgrading mplayer fails on linux-pango

2007-12-20 Thread Dave
Hello, Trying to upgrade my ports. And mplayer is failing on the linux-pango dependency. The error from linux-pango is that elf binary type 3 is not known and the install fails with an error 2. Does anyone have a fix for this? Thanks. Dave

increasing the size of a memory disk

2007-06-28 Thread Dave
Hello, I've got a memory disk that i made and now i have to increase it's size so i can add about 3 megabytes more information on to it. I'd rather not have to remake it. Is there a way i can use something to increase it's size without destroying/remaking it? Thanks. Dave

backing up dvds

2007-06-30 Thread Dave
the iso directly from the dvd. Any pointers on this? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backing up dvds

2007-06-30 Thread Dave
Hello, Thanks for your reply. I don't know if this will make a difference, and i should have mentioned it in my original posts these are dvd videos and i want to get the complete dvd, everything. Thanks. Dave. - Original Message - From: Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED

dvd configuration error

2007-06-30 Thread Dave
. I'm trying to blank a dvdrw so i can rewrite to it. I'm using dvd+rw-format /dev/acd1 i've also tried dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/acd1 and in both cases i'm getting the error: /dev/acd1: unable to open: inappropriate ioctl for device Suggestions appreciated. Thanks. Dave

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