Frank Shute wrote:
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 06:57:09AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote:
On December 14, 2007 at 08:03PM Frank Shute wrote:
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 06:00:14PM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote:
On December 14, 2007 at 04:10PM Frank Shute wrote:
[ snip ]
I'm happy with sh as the system
Hi All
I've just installed Freebsd 7-Beta4 and I cannot get my mouse to work.
During the boot I can see that the mouse is detected
ums0: Microsoft Microsoft USB Wireless Mouse, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.13,
addr 2 on uhub1
ums0: 5 buttons and a TILT dir.
but it doesn't move
I tested with
O. Hartmann wrote:
Hello,
after installing a fresh copy of FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 on a new box I also
tried installing rubygem-postgres/ruby-dbd_pg (ports/database). But I
get this error:
=== Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
= postgres-0.7.1.2006.04.06.gem is not in
Zbigniew Komarnicki wrote:
Hello!
Is there a good programming book for csh as for example for bash (free
available) ?
For bash is here:
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
Is such book for csh on the net (free available) ?
Thank you for any hints.
Best regards,
Zbigniew
Hi everyone,
I have a Motorola v3x mobile phone, which I use with my 3G enabled phone
provider ( Hutchinson's 3 , in Australia). I was wondering if anyone managed to
get this phone to work as a modem.
This is what I do and have :
- FreeBSD 7 Beta-4, kernel + world from today. Ports up to
snip
Code re-use is a good thing. Intricate, far-reaching dependencies are
not. While package managers attempt to mitigate the underlying issue,
using code re-use as an excuse for the fragility of a system design,
is unfortunate. I do not pretend to have all of the answers, but I
feel that
Gary Kline schrieb:
Can anybody explain what causes xmms to give me this output::
Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to load module libgnomebreakpad.so: Shared object
libgnomebreakpad.so not found, required by xmms
and then to proceed to work very well? I thought xmms was'
Hello,
1. I didn't set NOPORTDOCS in /etc/make.conf, yet there's nothing there
besides some html files.
2. /usr/ports/devel/boost-python/work/boost_1_34_1/tools/build/v2/tools
for example contains plenty of .jam files that are needed by bjam to
run. Those are *not*
Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007 03:12:53 schrieb Chuck Swiger:
Install the following:
/usr/ports/mail/postfix-policyd-weight
/usr/ports/mail/postgrey
Just as an added suggestion: these two (very!) lightweight packages suffice to
keep SPAM out of our
-Original Message-
From: Tino Engel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, 16 December 2007 4:53 AM
To: Remko Lodder
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; W. D.; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Yikes! FreeBSD samba-3.0.26a_2, 1 is forbidden: Remote Code
Execution...
Konstantinos Pachnis wrote:
O. Hartmann wrote:
Hello,
after installing a fresh copy of FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 on a new box I also
tried installing rubygem-postgres/ruby-dbd_pg (ports/database). But I
get this error:
=== Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
=
-Original Message-
From: Tino Engel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 12:58 PM
To: 'V.I.Victor'
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Changing /var/mail to a symlink
V.I.Victor schrieb:
Because of /var size considerations, I'd like to use a symlinked
Hello.
I use FreeBSD 7.0-BETA on servral boxes with different architectures
(i386/amd64). Users within our network have to autheticate against an
OpenLDAP Server via PAM. I have the annoying problem that every user
getting autenticated needs a public key and the passphrase set in the
ssh
Hello,
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:15:16 +
Snow Mountains [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
People, I have FreeBSD install on 80G disk that looked like this:
ad1s1 ~ 2.4G
ad1s2 ~23.0G
ad1s3 ~19.1G
ad1s4 ~38.0G, FreeBSD partition, sliced like this:
^ ^^
At 07:32 PM 12/15/2007, jekillen wrote:
On Dec 15, 2007, at 5:21 PM, jekillen wrote:
Hello;
I have had an AMD64 754 system that I have 64 bit SCSI card and
two 15k rpm SCSI drives. It has been running fine with FreeBSD v 6.0
for about two years now. I have several things I wanted to change
V.I.Victor schrieb:
Also, a suggestion was made off-list that moving /var/mail was better-done
via mounting a nullfs. I'm reading up on that now.
ndeed, moving the system maildir to another location using a
configuration file or similar is obviously the better solution.
Hi all,
I need to know how to migrate a HD from my actual Server to another
recently made up. This HD has the base operating system and i want to move up
it to the other server but surely it'll carry up a kernel panic error :s
does Anybody know how to do it?
Thanks in advance
Gaston
Hi all,
I need to know how to migrate a HD from my actual Server to another
recently made up. This HD has the base operating system and i want to move up
it to the other server but surely it'll carry up a kernel panic error :s
does Anybody know how to do it?
Thanks in advance
Gaston
Gaston Rey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I need to know how to migrate a HD from my actual Server to another
recently made up. This HD has the base operating system and i want to
move up it to the other server but surely it'll carry up a kernel panic
error :s
Please wrap your lines
Hello!
I want to use freeBSD vary much, but I have a problem with instalation (freeBSD
6.2-RELEASE). It goes very slow (30% after 2 hours). Moreover I don't know
exactly which version (platform) I should use. For now I have used i386, but I
have the Intel E6600 (64bit) processor on motherboard
scurvy schrieb:
Hello!
I want to use freeBSD vary much, but I have a problem with instalation (freeBSD
6.2-RELEASE). It goes very slow (30% after 2 hours). Moreover I don't know
exactly which version (platform) I should use. For now I have used i386, but I
have the Intel E6600 (64bit)
scurvy wrote:
Hello!
I want to use freeBSD vary much, but I have a problem with instalation (freeBSD
6.2-RELEASE). It goes very slow (30% after 2 hours). Moreover I don't know
exactly which version (platform) I should use. For now I have used i386, but I
have the Intel E6600 (64bit) processor
On 14:48:35 Dec 15, Jorn Argelo wrote:
Greylisting only works so-so nowadays. There was a couple of months it was
very effective, but that is long gone. Spammers aren't stupid, and they
follow the development of anti-spam techniques as much as e-mail admins do.
Greylisting is a start, but
I have a perl script that I can execute from the command line as root. It runs
fine.
When I try to automate it using the root crontab, the script fails.
The lines from my script that are causing the problem are:
my $scomd = /usr/local/bin/ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress
Am Samstag, 15. Dezember 2007 14:48:35 schrieb Jorn Argelo:
snip
Also I believe that rejecting e-mail is a big point of discussion. We
had an internet e-mail environment built about 3 years ago, and there
the users were terrorized by spam. We had some users getting 30 spam
mails a day at
Hi,
On 16/12/2007, David Goodnature [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
The cron message to mail/root ends with:
exec: ps2pdf12: not found
I am assuming that cron cannot find a path or a config file for ghostscript,
but I don't have any idea how to fix this problem.
Any help would be
--On December 16, 2007 8:13:34 PM +0100 Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Neither of the two packages I recommended are anything close to bayesian
filtering, as they don't actually take measure on the content of the
mail (which isn't available anyway when the corresponding rules
Christian Walther wrote:
Hi,
On 16/12/2007, David Goodnature [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
The cron message to mail/root ends with:
exec: ps2pdf12: not found
I am assuming that cron cannot find a path or a config file for ghostscript,
but I don't have any idea how to fix this problem.
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Hi Sten and the rest,
We have a need for a relatively painless anti-spam solution that would
reduce the amount of incoming spam (via postfix mail router). The problem
is that i have little knowledge on what this actually means. Googling
reveals a
Konstantinos Pachnis wrote:
Zbigniew Komarnicki wrote:
Hello!
Is there a good programming book for csh as for example for bash (free
available) ?
For bash is here:
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
Is such book for csh on the net (free available) ?
Thank you for any hints.
Best regards,
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 03:58:10PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 01:03:14PM -0700, Elliot Finley wrote:
I have:
dumpdev=AUTO
in /etc/rc.conf and:
...
in the kernel and I'm still unable to obtain a crash dump. Hopefully
there is enough info in this email for a
Whenever I load up green_saver to turn off the monitor when the
console's inactive, I get a message on the console saying kldload:
Unsupported file type. The module still loads and is active, it all
works, but there's still that message that makes it seem as though it
fails. Does anyone
On Dec 16, 2007, at 7:58 AM, Derek Ragona wrote:
At 07:32 PM 12/15/2007, jekillen wrote:
On Dec 15, 2007, at 5:21 PM, jekillen wrote:
Hello;
I have had an AMD64 754 system that I have 64 bit SCSI card and
two 15k rpm SCSI drives. It has been running fine with FreeBSD v 6.0
for about two
Hello:
On Dec 16, 2007, at 7:06 AM, O. Hartmann wrote:
Hello.
I use FreeBSD 7.0-BETA on servral boxes with different architectures
(i386/amd64). Users within our network have to autheticate against
an OpenLDAP Server via PAM. I have the annoying problem that every
user getting
On 14/12/07 Giorgos Keramidas said:
Tcsh is a fine shell. I'm using it all the time (that's how I found out
that a buglet reported by Kris Kennaway a few months ago was indeed a
bug which I could reproduce too).
I always found csh/tcsh aliases annoying, since there are no shell functions.
I
On 14/12/07 Giorgos Keramidas said:
Do you have any _particular_ parts of the csh-whynot article that you
would like to discuss, or this is a free for all flame? :)
It's the lack of shell functions that gets me.
Once a script reaches a certain size, I just move to Perl, Python, Tcl, Ruby,
On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 04:13 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2007-12-14 21:10, Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I used bash for an interactive shell for about 5 years until I
discovered the goodness of pdksh. About half the size, statically
linked, not full of bugs and better editing
Michael P. Soulier wrote:
On 14/12/07 Giorgos Keramidas said:
Tcsh is a fine shell. I'm using it all the time (that's how I found out
that a buglet reported by Kris Kennaway a few months ago was indeed a
bug which I could reproduce too).
I always found csh/tcsh aliases annoying, since there
On 16/12/07 Chuck Robey said:
There;s one item that is much more easily done in csh/tcsh than in the
sh based ones that's redirecting the stderr along with the stdout.
with tcsh, when I do a make, I commonly do a:
make | tee makeout
which causes both the stdout and stderr files
Tom McLaughlin wrote:
Now that you mention pdksh, have you tried mksh (in Ports too)?
I've installed it and successfully run moderately large ksh scripts
(like the webrev(1) utility of OpenSolaris), and it is about an order of
magnitude smaller than pdksh here:
% [EMAIL
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 08:32:04 -0800 (PST)
Gaston Rey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I need to know how to migrate a HD from my actual Server to another
recently made up. This HD has the base operating system and i want to move up
it to the other server but surely it'll carry up a
On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 22:26 -0500, Chuck Robey wrote:
Tom McLaughlin wrote:
Now that you mention pdksh, have you tried mksh (in Ports too)?
I've installed it and successfully run moderately large ksh scripts
(like the webrev(1) utility of OpenSolaris), and it is about an order of
On Monday 17 December 2007 04:27:03 Norberto Meijome wrote:
FBsd isn't windows - go ahead and do it - if u can get the new HD and hook
it up to the old box, go into single user mode , partition the new disk as
you wish, mount each partition at a time and transfer the data.
I understood that
Michael P. Soulier wrote:
On 16/12/07 Chuck Robey said:
There;s one item that is much more easily done in csh/tcsh than in the
sh based ones that's redirecting the stderr along with the stdout.
with tcsh, when I do a make, I commonly do a:
make | tee makeout
which causes both the
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 12:42:42PM +0100, Tino Engel wrote:
Gary Kline schrieb:
Can anybody explain what causes xmms to give me this output::
Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to load module libgnomebreakpad.so: Shared object
libgnomebreakpad.so not found, required by xmms
and then to
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 02:57:12PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote:
Actually, I like ksh better, if you are really going all out for a
programming shell, but if you're really after a scripting language, why
restrict yourself to shells? things like Python Ruby knock hell out
of both ksh and
Gary Kline schrieb:
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 12:42:42PM +0100, Tino Engel wrote:
Gary Kline schrieb:
Can anybody explain what causes xmms to give me this output::
Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to load module libgnomebreakpad.so: Shared object
libgnomebreakpad.so not found, required by
Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As long as folks don't stop me from running whatever I want, I don't
care if you use bash, but it really irks me, that most Linux systems
are broken in that respect: Most of them break badly in random ways,
if you don't run bash as your shell.
A friend
I'm planning a reinstall on my laptop from scratch (making sure I have an
up-to-date backup first, of course) as soon as there's a 7.0-RELEASE
available, in which I will reorganize the filesystem and set up a FreeBSD
and Linux dual-boot system. While the bulk of my work will be done on
the
Hello Gentlemen:
The NVidia Ethernet card, nve0, seems to burp on transfers
of large files. After browsing the Web, apparently this
is a fairly common problem:
http://www.google.com/search?q=nve0+device+timeout+FreeBSD
From what I can tell, this seems to be the best, most recent
fix:
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 11:34:50PM -0500, Tom McLaughlin wrote:
On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 22:26 -0500, Chuck Robey wrote:
Tom McLaughlin wrote:
Now that you mention pdksh, have you tried mksh (in Ports too)?
I've installed it and successfully run moderately large ksh scripts
(like the
On 2007-12-16 19:36, Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael P. Soulier wrote:
On 14/12/07 Giorgos Keramidas said:
Tcsh is a fine shell. I'm using it all the time (that's how I found out
that a buglet reported by Kris Kennaway a few months ago was indeed a
bug which I could reproduce
On 2007-12-16 19:10, David Goodnature [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a perl script that I can execute from the command line as root.
It runs fine. When I try to automate it using the root crontab, the
script fails.
The lines from my script that are causing the problem are:
my $scomd =
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