Re: Roasting Newbies

1999-10-12 Thread Ben Speirs
"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > Jamie Norwood wrote: > > > > On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 06:35:20PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > > [Hey, what about this "Roasting Newbies" subject? I have read all > > > messages so far in this thread, and couldn't find any tips or shared > > > experiences on the

Re: 3.5-stable ?

1999-10-12 Thread Alok K. Dhir
Would the fact that Yahoo! runs FreeBSD (it does) satisfy your client...? On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Michael Lucas wrote: > > > You know that, and I know that. > > > > Clients like the little piece of paper. Especially when I bill > > hourly, and they've

Re: 3.5-stable ?

1999-10-12 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:42 PM 10/12/99 , Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >At 06:35 PM 10/12/99 , Michael Lucas wrote: >> Traditionally, the best time to get on a FreeBSD branch has been when >> it hits *.5. Is this still true with 3.x? > >I guess you'll find out when we hit 3.5, won't you? :) This isn't >actually as flip

Re: NE2000

1999-10-12 Thread Chuck Youse
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Jimmy Zongos wrote: > Anyone know were to buy a NE2000 compatible card for pretty cheap > that will work in freebsd The D-Link ISA DE220PCT (I think that's the model) is more-or-less hardware-compatible with the NE2000. (From what I can see from reading the ed driver sour

Re: X won't start

1999-10-12 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 09:37 AM 10/12/99 -0400, Daniel Tso wrote: >> A link doesn't have (used) permissions. You must look to the permissions >> of the file where the link points to. >> >> Think about it. If the permissions of the link matter, everybody can make >> a link to every program and give himself the permis

make world failing because of missing unroff

1999-10-12 Thread Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe
While upgrading 3.2-RELEASE to 3.3-STABLE (Oct 11), a make world failed due to the non-existence of "unroff", which i found in the ports collection. Was this an oversight, or has unroff made it into the main distribution since 3.2-RELEASE? The point at which it halted was while building share/d

Re: X won't start

1999-10-12 Thread Daniel Tso
> > Thanks for a couple of previous suggestions, but I still have the same > > problem. I checked the symbolic link for X and it appeared correct, except > > for the group access: > > > > lrwxrwxr-x 1 root 12000 24 May 28 20:58 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -> > > /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach64* > > >

RE: wow - RE: stable build failing...

1999-10-12 Thread Jason Portwood
Well I guess I am the fool then. Sorry to waste everyone's time on this and thanks to all for solving my RTF-README problem. > > > softupdates were moved from /usr/src/contrib/sys/softupdates to > /usr/src/sys/contrib/softupdates . Update your links in /sys/ufs/ffs > Of course I did learn a v

Re: X won't start

1999-10-12 Thread Ronald 'Ko' Klop
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Paul Horechuk wrote: > Thanks for a couple of previous suggestions, but I still have the same > problem. I checked the symbolic link for X and it appeared correct, except > for the group access: > > lrwxrwxr-x 1 root 12000 24 May 28 20:58 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -> > /u

X won't start

1999-10-12 Thread Paul Horechuk
Thanks for a couple of previous suggestions, but I still have the same problem. I checked the symbolic link for X and it appeared correct, except for the group access: lrwxrwxr-x 1 root 12000 24 May 28 20:58 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -> /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach64* I recreated it as wheel. St

Re: Identifying an Unresolvable IP

1999-10-12 Thread Christoph Splittgerber
I wrote: > > Beside whois [-a | -r | -p | ...] , you could "traceroute Arrrgggh !!! I crosposted my last email to the wrong mailing list ... it was suppost to go to -security and not to -stable Sorry about this ! Christoph To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: Identifying an Unresolvable IP

1999-10-12 Thread Christoph Splittgerber
Beside whois [-a | -r | -p | ...] , you could "traceroute ", find a host nearby the destination, and see if you can resolve that hostname. Once you have the domain name of the nearby host, find the nameserver (NS-record) for the domain and check if you can find out more if you directly query that