Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2005-07-02 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Dec 25, Nikolas Britton responded thusly: Colin J. Raven wrote: On Dec 25, Dag-Erling Smørgrav launched this into the bitstream: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One does not need to know how to rebuild an engine to know how to drive the car. One should not criticize the design

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2005-07-02 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Dec 25, Dag-Erling Smørgrav launched this into the bitstream: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One does not need to know how to rebuild an engine to know how to drive the car. One should not criticize the design of an engine while vehemently claiming to have no interest in how enginges

Strange kernel messages

2005-05-14 Thread Colin J. Raven
Hi all! I occasionally get these in my daily security run output (which is worrying in itself) Limiting closed port RST response from 1629 to 200 packets per second the number of these can range from one or two, to sometimes 25 - 30 although the latter case is rarer. Usually there's about six

Re: Strange kernel messages

2005-05-14 Thread Colin J. Raven
On May 14 at 09:19, Daniel Gerzo responded helpfully: Limiting closed port RST response from 1629 to 200 packets per second your kernel is limitting number of icmp ping requests to 200, someone is possibly trying to ping -f you. You can also decrease/increase this limit with net.inet.icmp.icmplim

*attaching* a file to /usr/bin/mail message

2005-04-02 Thread Colin J. Raven
Does anyone happen to know how you would *attach* *not readin the contents of, but actually *attach*) a file using /usr/bin/mail? On my system mail has no -a (attach) flag, and some Googling told me mailx might solve the problem, but /usr/bin/mailx just invokes mail Regards TIA, -Colin

Re: *attaching* a file to /usr/bin/mail message

2005-04-02 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Apr 2 at 15:47, Giorgos Keramidas launched this into the bitstream: On 2005-04-02 14:08, Colin J. Raven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone happen to know how you would *attach* *not readin the contents of, but actually *attach*) a file using /usr/bin/mail? Not very easily, is one answer. You

Re: Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay

2005-03-26 Thread Colin J. Raven
not to for reasons best known to yourself. Thus - I think - it's time to put this down and give everyone a much deserved rest from the eternally utterly futile series of exchanges. sigh Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven Sat Mar 26 13:08:00 CET 2005 ___ freebsd

Illogical usage of swap

2005-03-16 Thread Colin J. Raven
could the workload on the new box be described as heavy. Can anyone suggest *anything* that might cause this uttely illogical situation to exist? We're frankly baffled. Regards TIA, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven Wed Mar 16 12:54:00 CET 2005 ___ freebsd

Re: Illogical usage of swap

2005-03-16 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Mar 16 at 07:29, Lowell Gilbert launched this into the bitstream: Colin J. Raven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hard to believe, but this beast is swapping. Here's a typical top snapshot: load averages: 0.75, 0.36, 0.23 up 14+12:39:04 12:40:02 128 processes: 1 running, 125 sleeping, 2 zombie CPU

Re: Illogical usage of swap

2005-03-16 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Mar 16 at 14:54, Giorgos Keramidas asked: On 2005-03-16 13:36, Colin J. Raven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 16 at 07:29, Lowell Gilbert launched this into the bitstream: Colin J. Raven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mem: 479M Active, 2470M Inact, 337M Wired, 101M Cache, 199M Buf, 5468K Free Swap

Re: Illogical usage of swap

2005-03-16 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Mar 16 at 15:07, Giorgos Keramidas said: On 2005-03-16 14:02, Colin J. Raven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 16 at 14:54, Giorgos Keramidas asked: Free memory (or the lack thereof) isn't the issue though. The issue is this: Swap: 8192M Total, 116K Used, 8192M Free and that's the piece

Re: Illogical usage of swap

2005-03-16 Thread Colin J. Raven
? Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven Wed Mar 16 14:43:00 CET 2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Illogical usage of swap

2005-03-16 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Mar 16 at 09:24, Lowell Gilbert then said: Colin J. Raven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mar 16 at 07:29, Lowell Gilbert launched this into the bitstream: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM Hmm, yeah I should have included what I've actually read

Re: Illogical usage of swap

2005-03-16 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Mar 16 at 09:47, Jerry McAllister commented: Colin J. Raven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mar 16 at 07:29, Lowell Gilbert launched this into the bitstream: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM Hmm, yeah I should have included what I've actually read

Re: Forcing upgrade of port

2005-02-25 Thread Colin J. Raven
of non-sequiturs on the ports collection which inevitably leads to light switches and good environmental pracctices in pig farming. As always, just my $0.02 worth. Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only ONE Fri Feb 25 09:11:00 CET 2005 9

--memory/uptime stats shell script?

2005-02-23 Thread Colin J. Raven
, otherwise I could prolly do something with that (it's not running for security reasons)...so my options as I see 'em now are somewhat limited. Suggestions, guidance, advice, a kick in the rear...all would be appreciated! :-) Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http

php [re]compile help - sessions

2005-02-13 Thread Colin J. Raven
IMAGICK is the only reference I can find to magic...and support for that is set to off The objective is to enable session management, and it seems an excessively convoluted path to follow in order to get that accomplished. In a wordHelp!! Regards TIA, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3

Re: Ports

2005-02-13 Thread Colin J. Raven
know a tad more now, than back then :). Nonetheless, I've never gone near the frontpage module since! (sad, since I do so like FP personally) Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only One Sun Feb 13 15:07:00 CET 2005 3:07PM up 1 day, 20:22, 9

Re: FusionPHP.net - Online Again Now!!!

2005-02-13 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Feb 13 at 10:11, Dave Horsfall broke the silence and said: On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote: Note: The paypal payment still stands, please provide us with proof you have forwarded the email to 250 people and include your paypal email address where we can send the money!!! What you're

Re: WEIRD: telnet

2005-02-13 Thread Colin J. Raven
, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only One Sun Feb 13 16:04:00 CET 2005 4:04PM up 1 day, 21:19, 9 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FusionPHP.net - Online Again Now!!!

2005-02-13 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Feb 14 at 06:36, Dave Horsfall explained: On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote: This is what's known as a joe job. Now, who has an interest in discrediting php-fusion? eh? Could you perhaps...ermmm...expand on that just a tad? for the benefit of us uninitiated folks... inquiring minds etc

Re: FusionPHP.net - Online Again Now!!!

2005-02-12 Thread Colin J. Raven
, much success and good luck with php-fusion and its various Infusions. Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only One Sat Feb 12 13:21:00 CET 2005 1:21PM up 18:36, 6 users, load averages: 0.71, 0.87, 0.87

Re: make world: HOW CLEAN IS IT?

2005-02-12 Thread Colin J. Raven
really great tips 'n tricks. Also the FreeBSD handbook is helpful when read *in conjunction* with the OnLamp articles: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html Regards HTH, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only One

Re: favor

2005-02-05 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Feb 4 at 23:43, Mike Hauber opined: On Friday 04 February 2005 10:39 pm, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt writes: TM If you post on a public forum, by implication you are giving that TM forum permission to publish your copyrighted material. The only way to get around this is

Re: favor

2005-02-05 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Feb 5 at 08:35, Erik Norgaard wondered out loud: Mike Hauber wrote: Fact is, the cats out of the bag, and I have yet to meet a cat that likes bags. :) I went on radio some years ago, now I realize that the radiowaves are about to hit alien civilizations. In order not to embaras my

Re: OT: Funny disclaimers (Was: Re: ssh root@localhost)

2005-02-04 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Feb 2 at 22:49, Erik Norgaard said with a chuckle: Sorry to join in on the noise: Occasionally noise on this otherwise studious list is fun. This is one time. *This* subscriber likes the change of pace :) Both statements are backwards and can't impose any responsibility on my behalf nor

make.conf syntax question (MODULES_OERRRIDE)

2005-02-04 Thread Colin J. Raven
I'm considering *not* loading unecessary modules in a new kernel, so I need to ask what seems like some dumb questions. In the kernel config file (MYKERNEL in this case) does commenting out stuff there stop some modules from loading? So for example if I comment out SCSI support are the

Re: make.conf syntax question (MODULES_OERRRIDE)

2005-02-04 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Feb 4 at 12:55, Lowell Gilbert launched this into the bitstream: Colin J. Raven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm considering *not* loading unecessary modules in a new kernel, so I need to ask what seems like some dumb questions. In the kernel config file (MYKERNEL in this case) does

vnc server install fails on Xorg code

2005-01-31 Thread Colin J. Raven
, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only One Mon Jan 31 21:20:00 CET 2005 9:20PM up 11 days, 10:10, 9 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.03 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: NFS Mounting, client credentials too weak

2005-01-27 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 26 at 12:48, Kris Kennaway said: On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:40:58PM +0100, Joachim Dagerot wrote: On 2005-01-26 Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:25:08AM +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: On Jan 25 at 12:04, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 12:39:59PM +0100

Re: NFS Mounting, client credentials too weak

2005-01-26 Thread Colin J. Raven
exercise of mounting an NFS share from one machine to another. Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only One Wed Jan 26 09:24:00 CET 2005 9:24AM up 5 days, 22:14, 9 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Re: Cannot connect to printer...

2005-01-22 Thread Colin J. Raven
on the assumption you want to enable printing via Samba/CUPS. Should you wish to approach the matter from a Unix-only perspective, YMMV. Good Luck! Regards HTH, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only One Sat Jan 22 13:21:00 CET 2005 1:21PM up 2 days

Re: Cannot connect to printer...

2005-01-22 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 22 at 16:40, Kiffin Gish responded: On Jan 22 at 12:27, Kiffin Gish launched this into the bitstream: I have read the manual carefully, looked in the forums and tried everything, but for the life of me I just cannot get my printer to work under FreeBSD. Actually my setup is

Re: Network Printing - Please put me out of my misery

2005-01-22 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 22 at 15:02, Gerard Samuel launched this into the bitstream: gabriel wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by try the jetdirect, PORT STATE SERVICE 9100/tcp open jetdirect === This One Jetdirect is HP's print server You mean the blackbox (JetDirect) sold in better stores is

Re: Network Printing - Please put me out of my misery

2005-01-22 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 22 at 18:10, Chris Hill launched this into the bitstream: On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote: Damn, I was on the *verge* of heading out next week to buy one of those given that I could *not* get my all-in-one HP psc2105 to function at all. I'd given up after days of struggle

courier-imap install from ports *fails*

2005-01-21 Thread Colin J. Raven
to fix the issue? (worth a try methinks) Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only One Fri Jan 21 10:24:00 CET 2005 10:24AM up 23:14, 3 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Spontaneous reboot problem

2005-01-21 Thread Colin J. Raven
so, please feel free to ship it across the North Sea to me, I'll be happy to pay for the shipping, deal with its little idiosyncracies and give it a second life :-) Regards HTH, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only One Fri Jan 21 12:56:00

Re: I do not understand kernel modules

2005-01-21 Thread Colin J. Raven
-- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only One Fri Jan 21 15:57:00 CET 2005 3:57PM up 1 day, 4:47, 5 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

location of kernel modules

2005-01-21 Thread Colin J. Raven
..and I'm assuming there must be some method for doing this for someone of my (thus far) hopelessly limited experience. Regards TIA, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only One Fri Jan 21 16:02:00 CET 2005 4:02PM up 1 day, 4:52, 5 users, load

Re: location of kernel modules

2005-01-21 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 21 at 14:27, Gardner Bell launched this into the bitstream: On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 04:02:57PM +0100 Colin J. Raven wrote: Can anyone please tell me where the kernel modules are located, and where are they described? I ask this so that I can figure out which to include/exclude

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Colin J. Raven
mean destructively formatted... Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only One Thu Jan 20 13:11:00 CET 2005 1:11PM up 2:01, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 20 at 14:55, Erik Norgaard launched this into the bitstream: Colin J. Raven wrote: Eh? Surely you don't meant trashed - physically annihilated? Phew! I believe in radical solutions certainly, but..umm..isn't that going just a little bit too far? :-) I'm assuming you mean

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 20 at 15:10, Matthew Seaman confidently asserted: On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 02:59:13PM +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: I always thought that formatting/fdisk'ing twice completely erased *permanently* whatever had been on the disc. You make an interesting case that previously I never

Re: Mrs. Butterworth vs Vermont Maid

2005-01-19 Thread Colin J. Raven
caused. And now...onwards. I shall endeavor not to repeat this transgression in the future. Sorry folks. Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only One Wed Jan 19 18:10:00 CET 2005 6:10PM up 7 days, 6:58, 9 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00

Re: phpMyAdmin installation troubles.[RE-POST]

2005-01-18 Thread Colin J. Raven
. On behalf of Eric and myself - since within a 24 hour period we both encountered precisely the same issue: Has anyone else experienced this, and/or is there a known workaround? Regards TIA, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only One 9:54AM

Re: Mrs. Butterworth vs Vermont Maid

2005-01-18 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 18 at 17:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ejaculated this: In a message dated 1/18/05 4:41:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gary, Maybe if you offered solutions instead of whining and bashing all the time people would be interested in what you have to say. All we've ever

Re: DNS: querying route DNS

2005-01-16 Thread Colin J. Raven
. Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only One 9:06AM up 3 days, 21:54, 7 users, load averages: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: 5.3 Install

2005-01-16 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 16 at 03:26, Eric F Crist arrived at this conclusion: On Jan 16, 2005, at 12:41 AM, Lyn Robie wrote: snip beast in the jungle. It's perfectly clear to me that you guys are not into winning converts from the Linux camp. I suppose you can draw some cold comfort from knowing your

Re: 5.3 Install

2005-01-16 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 16 at 23:14, Dave Horsfall launched this into the bitstream: On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote: [RHETORICAL_MODE=ON] Where, I wonder, are all these folks suddenly coming from? [SUPREME_IRONY_MODE=ON] Well anyway, it's nice to know I'm a grizzled old graybeard unix admin

Samba3/CUPS printing

2005-01-16 Thread Colin J. Raven
It would seem as if my HP psc2105 printer is recognised under FreeBSD-5.3, but of course there are some minor issues. Without reopening old wounds lpd(?) vs CUPS, this is what I'm getting from /var/log/messages: Jan 16 14:54:13 kenmore smbd[65656]: [2005/01/16 14:54:13, 0]

Re: phpMyAdmin installation troubles...

2005-01-15 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 14 at 16:17, Eric F Crist reported: I'm trying to install phpmyadmin from ports. I keep getting an error about PDF-Lite-6.0.0p1.tar.gz. The only files available now are 6.0.1. I've done a cvsup, but to no avail. Several days ago I encountered the same situation. FreeBSD

Re: Odd (alarming) http log exerpt [followup]

2005-01-15 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 14 at 10:22, Duo made this excellent suggestion: On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote: I noticed something extremely odd this morning in my http access log. There's the usual activity, then suddenly this (about a hundred lines are snipped) Is there anything within...say

Apache2 Conditional Logging help

2005-01-15 Thread Colin J. Raven
I'm trying to supress logging of such things as favicon.ico, gifs and jpegs. In a home server environment (right now anyway) I just don't think it's necessary to log serving of those items. Accordingly, some googling seemed to point me towards doing something like this:

Re: Apache2 Conditional Logging help [Followup]

2005-01-15 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 15 at 12:26, I said: I'm trying to supress logging of such things as favicon.ico, gifs and jpegs. In a home server environment (right now anyway) I just don't think it's necessary to log serving of those items. Accordingly, some googling seemed to point me towards doing something

Re: Memory Question

2005-01-14 Thread Colin J. Raven
If you want to be made fun of, this is the type of question that will push you in that direction (references 'Thanks You!' thread). ;) Your colleague is probably running more applications/services than you, which is why he has less available memory. To use up some of that memory, simply

Odd (alarming) http log exerpt

2005-01-14 Thread Colin J. Raven
I noticed something extremely odd this morning in my http access log. There's the usual activity, then suddenly this (about a hundred lines are snipped) 62.241.98.151 - - [14/Jan/2005:01:29:44 +0100] SEARCH /\x90\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x

Re: Odd (alarming) http log exerpt

2005-01-14 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 14 at 10:17, Jacob S launched this into the bitstream: On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 07:00:30 -0900 Andy Firman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:08:20PM +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: What is this person doing? or attempting to do? I'm guessing nothing good

Re: Odd (alarming) http log exerpt

2005-01-14 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 14 at 07:00, Andy Firman wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:08:20PM +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: What is this person doing? or attempting to do? I'm guessing nothing good. Is there anything within...say httpd.conf..that I could do to prevent this..or curtail it before it grows

Re: Odd (alarming) http log exerpt

2005-01-14 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 14 at 10:22, Duo suggested this hysterically funny remedy: On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote: I noticed something extremely odd this morning in my http access log. There's the usual activity, then suddenly this (about a hundred lines are snipped) Yeah, someone is trying a M

Re: Backups / Dump etc

2005-01-14 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 14 at 13:00, Jeff MacDonald launched this into the bitstream: I've also been told that dump lacks network support I'm not sure that's true. I sometimes take my laptop with me when I take a dump. It's got a wireless card in there so I'm able to sit there and catch up on

Re: NFS Mount Issue

2005-01-13 Thread Colin J. Raven
Colin J. Raven wrote: I'm trying to mount my home directory on my office box (5.3-RELEASE) on my home box (5.3-RELEASE) and there is _no_ _way_ I have ever been able to make this work. /etc/exports on the NFS server is configured correctly (other exports to other boxen work fine

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-13 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 13 at 09:57, Boris Spirialitious vomited up some 1's and 0's thusly: I just wanted to thank you for making Freebsd 5.3 so badly. We changed to linux and our application runs so much faster its unbelievable. I report a small problem and they work hard to fix it. Not like freebsd do they

Memory Question

2005-01-13 Thread Colin J. Raven
I'm wondering seriously about this top output: (2.6 GhZ Celeron 1GB RAM) Mem: 52M Active, 316M Inact, 134M Wired, 111M Buf, 494M Free Swap: 2023M Total, 2023M Free This does add up to the 1GB of memory that my 5.3-RELEASE box has, that's not my question. I always understood in FreeBSD that

Re: Memory Question

2005-01-13 Thread Colin J. Raven
. Gentlemen, thank you for the feedback and guidance. My appreciation for this OS and this group grows exponentially - daily. Boris and fellow trolls, please take note. Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only One Thu Jan 13 21:41:00 CET

Trouble starting MySQL

2005-01-12 Thread Colin J. Raven
appreciated. Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There IS only One - OS Wed Jan 12 10:27:00 CET 2005 10:27AM up 2 days, 13:56, 6 users, load averages: 0.06, 0.47, 0.65 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

RE: Trouble starting MySQL

2005-01-12 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 12 at 09:35, Walker, Michael launched this into the bitstream: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Colin J. Raven Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 9:30 AM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Trouble starting MySQL Greetings all, I

RE: Trouble starting MySQL

2005-01-12 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 12 at 09:35, Walker, Michael suggested: I installed MySQL from ports (mysql-4.1.7) then tried to start it. Nothing doing - wo way. Starting it from /usr/loca/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh nothing happens. No error message is emitted, but no running instance of mysql either. snip Read

RE: Trouble starting MySQL

2005-01-12 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 12 at 10:20, Walker, Michael then said: Colin J. Raven wrote: On Jan 12 at 09:35, Walker, Michael suggested: I installed MySQL from ports (mysql-4.1.7) then tried to start it. Nothing doing - wo way. Starting it from /usr/loca/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh nothing happens. No error

RE: Trouble starting MySQL [SOLVED?]

2005-01-12 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 12 at 11:17, Colin J. Raven launched this into the bitstream: On Jan 12 at 09:35, Walker, Michael suggested: I installed MySQL from ports (mysql-4.1.7) then tried to start it. Nothing doing - wo way. Starting it from /usr/loca/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh nothing happens. No error

Re: Trouble starting MySQL

2005-01-12 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 12 at 05:09, Eric F Crist launched this into the bitstream: Did you added mysql_enable=YES to /etc/rc.conf? Yes, it's in there, as per your instructions :-) That is *actually* supposed to be mysqld_enable=YES. You're missing the 'd'. If you read the script located in

Re: Trouble starting MySQL

2005-01-12 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 12 at 05:36, Eric F Crist then said: On Jan 12, 2005, at 5:22 AM, Colin J. Raven wrote: I would check the /var/log/messages log file for anything related to mysql, in this case. There's a reason it won't start, and it'll be indicated there. There is nothing related to mysql in /var

Re: Trouble starting MySQL

2005-01-12 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 12 at 12:46, I said: PHP 4.3.10 (cli) (built: Jan 11 2005 23:15:42) (DEBUG) mysql-4.1.7 both installed from ports FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE When I take a look at a phpinfo page, it shows no mention that MySQL exists. AFAIK this ought not to be so. I installed php last night (again, from

RE: Trouble starting MySQL

2005-01-12 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 12 at 14:12, Walker, Michael said (somewhat confusingly): [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 12 at 12:46, I said: PHP 4.3.10 (cli) (built: Jan 11 2005 23:15:42) (DEBUG) mysql-4.1.7 both installed from ports FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE When I take a look at a phpinfo page, it shows no mention

Re: Trouble starting MySQL

2005-01-12 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 12 at 15:41, Nico Meijer launched this into the bitstream: Hi Colin, I missed part of the thread, so I'm sorry if I'm dead wrong here. Do you mean that one (or other, or both) must *also* be installed for php to have any clue that MySQL exists? You need php4-mysql for that.

Re: Trouble starting MySQL [SOLVED] [CLOSED]

2005-01-12 Thread Colin J. Raven
. Warm thanks to one and all who have jumped in on this today, it's now solved and closed (for the archives, that is) This wouldn't have happened without the list crew. Until the next problem then Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can

Re: Trouble starting MySQL

2005-01-12 Thread Colin J. Raven
. Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only One Wed Jan 12 17:36:00 CET 2005 5:36PM up 6:24, 6 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 on Dual Opteron -- experiences?

2005-01-12 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 12 at 12:12, sp0ng3b0b launched this into the bitstream: I would like to get a box with 2x AMD Opterons and an Intel MF 1000 fiber gigabit card. Err, ahem I'd like to get one of those too! With 16GB of ECC DDR400 RAM and 10 15K RPM SCSI Ultra's in a RAID0/1 array naturally. Yeah,

Re: Apache Log Rotation Statistics

2005-01-12 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 12 at 18:03, Gadi Golan wondered aloud: I have Apache 2.x running with a collection of virtual hosts, each logging to their own access.log file. I want to offer log statistics to all of my virtual hosts on an individual basis. I want them to be able to go to say log.theirdomain.com

Re: Webmail Frontend to mailboxes.

2005-01-08 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 7 at 23:53, Tabor Kelly launched this into the bitstream: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: snip 5) many issues with getting Apache mod-SSL running properly with a self-signed key (you have to generate it manually with openssl, the apache docs that say use make key or whatnot don't work) I am not

NFS mount issue

2005-01-08 Thread Colin J. Raven
Hi all, I feel as if I've been grappling with this problem for months (I have, at least for 2 months AFAIK) I'm trying to mount my home directory on my office box (5.3-RELEASE) on my home box (5.3-RELEASE) and there is _no_ _way_ I have ever been able to make this work. /etc/exports on the

Re: Running top on system console without being logged on

2005-01-07 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 6 at 21:04, Anthony Atkielski launched this into the bitstream: Reko Turja writes: RT Actually not command line options as such, but you can make a login RT class for the top user in /etc/login.conf and feed the options via TOP RT environment variable from there. RT RT You cant shell out

RE: Webmail Frontend to mailboxes.

2005-01-07 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 6 at 21:41, Ted Mittelstaedt launched this into the bitstream: Use IMP. Of course, some people pooh-pooh it saying it's hard to setup. However, IMP is one of those programs that is worth the effort, as if you install the entire suite of programs you have a very powerful front end mail

RE: Webmail Frontend to mailboxes.

2005-01-07 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 7 at 09:41, Peter Risdon launched this into the bitstream: On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 09:59 +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: On Jan 6 at 21:41, Ted Mittelstaedt launched this into the bitstream: Use IMP. Of course, some people pooh-pooh it saying it's hard to setup. However, IMP is one of those

Re: error in burning v5.3 disc 2.iso

2005-01-06 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 6 at 13:08, Rowdy launched this into the bitstream: John W Ward II wrote: I can burn the other downloads but disc2.iso freezes up the system and won't respond. I have a PIII 1ghz w/512 ram, XPPro and Nero v5 software. I have never had a problem burning an iso before and even downloaded the

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-06 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 5 at 19:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] launched this into the bitstream: In a message dated 1/5/05 7:16:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why are you here? I wish I could be as arrogant and condescending as you, but clearly you were born with an advantage in that are He has a

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-04 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 3 at 13:44, Timothy Luoma launched this into the bitstream: On Jan 3, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Eric F Crist wrote: I'm trying to create a shell script for firewalling. What I'm hoping to do is create a generic script that looks for variables in /etc/rc.conf. I've tried looking at other scripts

Re: New FreeBSD 5.3 e-mail server extremely slow...

2005-01-04 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 4 at 16:58, Timothy Luoma launched this into the bitstream: On Jan 4, 2005, at 4:45 PM, Bruce Campbell wrote: The only processes for which we have hundreds running would be sendmail, procmail, ipop3d and imapd. I love procmail and would hate to live w/o it, but that would be my first

HP psc2105 all in one printer under 5.3?

2005-01-01 Thread Colin J. Raven
Has anyone sucessfully gotten an HP psc2105 printer to work on 5.3-RELEASE? I have a box that I'd like to put to use as (in addition to his other tasks) a workgroup print server for a herd of XP/2000 PC's. I don't see *any* *nix drivers for this device on the HP site, and buying another

Re: 5.3 in diskless cluster: irregular reboots at 14:09 hr. ?!?!

2004-12-29 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Dec 29, Rob launched this into the bitstream: I'm running 5.3-Stable on all PC's. I have a master/router with 7 diskless slaves. One of the slaves shows irregular reboots, without a trace, not even a shutdown message in the logs. Until now I have the following sudden reboots of one particular

Re: 5.3 in diskless cluster: irregular reboots at 14:09 hr. ?!?!

2004-12-29 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Dec 29, Rob launched this into the bitstream: Colin J. Raven wrote: On Dec 29, Rob launched this into the bitstream: I'm running 5.3-Stable on all PC's. I have a master/router with 7 diskless slaves. One of the slaves shows irregular reboots, without a trace, not even a shutdown message

Re: Minimal system installation

2004-12-28 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Dec 28, Dinesh Nair launched this into the bitstream: On 28/12/2004 05:08 Greg 'groggy' Lehey said the following: On Monday, 27 December 2004 at 13:21:51 -0600, Dan Thomas wrote: A friend gave me a laptop with a Pentium 100 and 24 megs of ram. It only has a floppy drive. What version of

RE: Minimal system installation

2004-12-28 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Dec 28, Ted Mittelstaedt launched this into the bitstream: Your just not going to be able to do this one as it is, you need to boot into FreeBSD in order to write a FreeBSD boot selector or boot loader on the hard disk. Borrow another laptop and temporairly move the hard drive from the first

Re: Minimal system installation

2004-12-28 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Dec 28, Tom Vilot launched this into the bitstream: Colin J. Raven wrote: How about this one...a laptop with the CD inoperable and the floppy missing. The PCMCIA controller may/may_not be fried... I'm assuming built-in networking is asking too much of this poor old machine? Sadly yes. It's

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-26 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Dec 25, Nikolas Britton responded thusly: Colin J. Raven wrote: On Dec 25, Dag-Erling Smørgrav launched this into the bitstream: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One does not need to know how to rebuild an engine to know how to drive the car. One should not criticize the design of an engine

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-25 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Dec 25, Dag-Erling Smørgrav launched this into the bitstream: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One does not need to know how to rebuild an engine to know how to drive the car. One should not criticize the design of an engine while vehemently claiming to have no interest in how enginges are

Re: glxgears

2004-12-25 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Dec 25, Peter Harmsen launched this into the bitstream: I have a FreeBSD box on a Elitegroup K7S5A mobo with a Asus TI4200 AGP 8x graphics card and AMD 512 MB sdram XP2000+ CPU.I get 3600 FPS with glxgears after i recompiled the kernel without agp and tweaked the Nvidia driver source a

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-24 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Dec 24, Josh Paetzel launched this into the bitstream: On Friday 24 December 2004 16:06, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Friday 24 December 2004 09:53 am, Andy Firman wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:54:51PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: Then the thing to do is create another root account and make

Re: Running own servers

2004-12-22 Thread Colin J. Raven
The Netherlands, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven Wed Dec 22 21:43:00 CET 2004 9:43PM up 6 days, 2:33, 7 users, load averages: 1.16, 1.36, 1.40 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: web calendar recommendation

2004-12-21 Thread Colin J. Raven
://www.opengroupware.org/en/applications/calendar/index.html Screenshots: http://www.opengroupware.org/screens/index.html It does also play nicely with Palm. http://www.opengroupware.org/en/applications/palm/index.html I hope this is of some use to you. Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven

Re: Reasonable Hyperterminal Alternative [solved]

2004-12-18 Thread Colin J. Raven
imagine that the more feedback he gets, the more he'll be motivated to continue improving on an already impressive piece of software. Thanks for the advice and help everyone. Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven Sat Dec 18 11:42:01 CET 2004 11:42AM up 1 day, 17:32, 5 users, load averages: 1.38, 1.26

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