Re: If you shop on the internet, please read this,,, then forward.

2002-12-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-12-08T06:24:15Z, Darren Pilgrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, thank you. I was bored, so I forwarded a copy of this to the provider > of your webpage. BTW, did you know hypervine's ToS states that you may > not use their service for commerical purposes without their written > permis

Re: If you shop on the internet, please read this,,, then forward.

2002-12-07 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Eric wrote: Thank you for reading this. I have been unemployed since mid April, 2002, and things don't look good. I am currently on extended unemployment and it runs out the last of December. You can help me and it won't cost you anything extra. If you use my Home Page to get to the stores you

Re: update strategies

2002-12-07 Thread Mike Hoskins
On 7 Dec 2002, David Magda wrote: > # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/named > # make > # make install Since I already portupgrade things like postfix, handling all upgrades in a similar manner has prooved useful here... Patching the latest BIND hole doesn't mean I have to cvsup the FreeBSD sources. (BIND i

Re: pw useradd not atomic?

2002-12-07 Thread Wes Peters
"Geoffrey C. Speicher" wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Don Bowman wrote: > > > Sometimes after this script been run I end up with only the > > last few lines of the groups file. > > > > Is 'pw' not atomic somehow? The lines that are there seem > > complete, i'm just missing the first 100 lines or

If you shop on the internet, please read this,,, then forward.

2002-12-07 Thread Eric
Thank you for reading this. I have been unemployed since mid April, 2002, and things don't look good. I am currently on extended unemployment and it runs out the last of December. You can help me and it won't cost you anything extra. If you use my Home Page to get to the stores you want to shop

Re: update strategies

2002-12-07 Thread David Magda
Mike Hoskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I often build things like BIND from ports so I can portupgrade as needed > without building world. In many cases I think using ports makes sense, [...] You don't have to rebuild world: # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/named # make # make install should work fin

Re: update strategies

2002-12-07 Thread Mike Hoskins
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, The Anarcat wrote: > It's pretty simple. Agreed... > I guess you tried choice 3, but failed to disable sshd in the base > system. Look for NO_SSHD or something like that in make.conf to > disable the building of sshd. I often build things like BIND from ports so I can portupg

Re: CVSup vs. src/contrib/gcc/INSTALL: the fix

2002-12-07 Thread Mike Hoskins
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, John Polstra wrote: > > Delete src/contrib/gcc/INSTALL > > Cannot delete "/usr/src/contrib/gcc/INSTALL": Directory not empty This is an excellent guide... I've seen this behavior in the past, and followed similar steps to resolve... Can/should this be added to the FAQ? (Dro

Re: cvs -d /home/ncvs checkout src and cvsup stable-supfile

2002-12-07 Thread pirat
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 10:09:50AM +0100, Johan Karlsson wrote: > Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:09:50 +0100 > From: Johan Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: pirat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: cvs -d /home/ncvs checkout src and cvsup stable-supfile > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2002

Re: RELEASE crash - SCSI related?

2002-12-07 Thread Mike Hoskins
On 7 Dec 2002, Dan Pelleg wrote: > level I could be doing. For example, am I more likely to come up cleanly if > I turn softupdates off? FWIW, I believe the mythos around softupdates faded some time ago. According to LINT, # Soft updates is technique for improving file system speed and # making a

Re: Vaio, firewire and DVD drive

2002-12-07 Thread Ben Hockenhull
>On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 15:04, Ben Hockenhull wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I have a Sony Vaio R505EC with a SlimDock that contains, among other >> things, a DVDROM/CDRW drive. As I understand it, the connection for this >> drive is firewire, but it doesn't show up in dmesg and I'm not sure why. >> I'd

Re: Vaio, firewire and DVD drive

2002-12-07 Thread James Pole
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 15:04, Ben Hockenhull wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a Sony Vaio R505EC with a SlimDock that contains, among other > things, a DVDROM/CDRW drive. As I understand it, the connection for this > drive is firewire, but it doesn't show up in dmesg and I'm not sure why. > I'd like