Re: Adjusting time on a secured FreeBSD machine.

2005-02-05 Thread Stan
Thanks as well to both of you. I too learned something new. Scott Robbins wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 01:41:39PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 16:29:03 -0500 From: Scott Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adjusting time on a secured FreeBSD machine.

2005-02-04 Thread Stan
I ran into this same problem. After trying various things, I finally gave up and did it the easy way. If you don't mind rebooting, the easiest thing to do is set the clock in the BIOS as accurately as possible, then let ntpd fine tune it from there. Regards, Stan Marco van Lienen wrote: On Thu

Re: Adjusting time on a secured FreeBSD machine.

2005-02-04 Thread Stan
Hmmm. My rc.conf has ntpd_enable-YES, but not ntpdate_enable=YES. Thanks! Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 04), Stan said: I ran into this same problem. After trying various things, I finally gave up and did it the easy way. If you don't mind rebooting, the easiest thing to do

2nd X server, howto?

2002-07-29 Thread stan
I need to run a 2nd X server on my STABLE machine, so that I can use it to display a brain dead commercial app from a remote machine. This app will core dump, if the server has more than 256 colors, and I don't want to live with that for normal operation. So I need a 2nd X server on this

Gnome/Sawfish problems after portupgrade

2002-07-07 Thread stan
After last weekends cvsup portupgrade I am unable to run Sawfish as the window manager fro Gnome on both machnes I track STABLE on Basicly Gnome starts up (after a _very long_ time) and there is no window manager runing. If I try to start Sawfish from an xterm within the Gnome session, I get

Re: libusb build problems

2002-03-12 Thread stan
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:29:31AM +, Josef Karthauser wrote: On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 07:05:06PM -0500, stan wrote: I have been having problems building the libusb port for the last couple of weeks. More and more of teh ports I use are becoming dependent on it. I'm enclosing

Can I get a report of portupgrade's results?

2002-03-07 Thread stan
U've been strugling with portupgrade for the last week or so, and I was wondering if it was possible to get it to ouput the little summary of waht it did/did not do to some report fiile somewhere? What's hapening to me is that the results are larger than my scrollback buffer on the console, and

Re: XFree86 4.2

2002-03-05 Thread stan
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 09:31:47AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: From: Mike Murphree [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 06:32:34 -0600 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 05 March 2002 04:03 am, Herve Quiroz wrote: I have not been member of this list until recently so I have

Upgrading to Xf864, how do I get wheel moyse to work?

2002-03-04 Thread stan
I'm upgrading to Xf6864 from the ports tree. I am using mousedd to handle the mouse and pass it on to X. What configuration changes do I need to make to moused, and X to take advantage of my wheel mouse? -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty

Best way to upgrade all installed ports?

2002-02-17 Thread stan
After cvsup'ing the ports tree, whats the best way to upgrade all of the installed ports? Probably involves portugrade, but I'm not certain how to use it for this? -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Troubles upgradeing 3.4 to STABLE

2001-02-09 Thread Stan Brown
. as recomended, and finally in desparation blew away /usr/src/gnu, and re cvsup'ed. Still not go. What am I doing wrong? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch

Character loss on serial port input

2000-12-31 Thread Stan Brown
, such that hardware handshaking does not work, this should work with xon/xoff handshaking, right? The characters I am streaming are all 7 bit ASCII. Any sugestiosn? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless

Roadmap for perl upgrades to STABLE?

2000-12-24 Thread Stan Brown
Is there a plan to upgrared the perl in the STABLE tree to something a bit newer (5.6) than the somewhat old 5.03 that's there now? If so, whne should I expect to see this? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n

Follies

2000-10-11 Thread stan deese
t into bsd, and find out what all the hoopla is about. What I really get is "write timeout on ads1 resetting", FOREVER! Stan, pal, something ain't right here, it's time for a trip to the bookstore. It can't all be my fault, all I did was install the stuff. So I take a couple of pills, an

4.0 RELEASE - 4.0 STABLE = panic!

2000-06-20 Thread Stan Brown
as though the documented procedure does this, but has more "by hand" steps in it. What is the correct procedure for making a kernel in 4.x? Thanks. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlant

IP Tunneling, is it possible?

2000-01-13 Thread Stan Brown
this request before, I have submited it on questions, and networking, but the only response I got was a flame about my typing. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95

Parallel port ZIP drive?

1999-12-05 Thread Stan Brown
. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! Pay no attention to that cliff ahead...Henry Spencer (c) 1998 Stan Brown. Redistribution via

How to determine IRQ usage?

1999-11-22 Thread Stan Brown
. Is ther any way to determine what IRQ's are in use, and or being generated? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! Pay no attention

Broken ports

1999-07-05 Thread Stan Brown
xscrabble? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Westvaco Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system

ATAPI_STATIC ?

1999-07-05 Thread Stan Brown
was not found at boot up. Is this the expected behavio? If so what use is makeint this a loadable module, if it won't be found at power up? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Westvaco Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n

Default gnome configuration

1999-07-05 Thread Stan Brown
. Still it seems we may be missing the boat here for desktop/client machines. I believe that the gnome (or KDE) environment will be an important part of wining the desktop back. So, could we perahps build a little nicer set of defaults for gnome? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL