Vinum Concat Data Recovery

2004-09-08 Thread Thomas Spreng
Hi, I have made concat drive using 3 hard disks using vimum vm. Some weeks ago one of those 3 disks crashed completely (bios can't even detect it anymore). My question now is: is there any chance to recover the data that resides on the 2 (working) remaining disks? I cant provide more info than

Re: help !!!!!

2004-08-18 Thread Thomas Spreng
hi, please be more specific when asking a question. Read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/ about how to ask question on this list. as a second note, read the User Account Management documentation

Re: howto dissallow upgrade for specific port?

2003-10-24 Thread Thomas Spreng
hello, Read the portupgrade manpage. I think the --exclude parameter is what you want. cheers, tom On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:23:03AM -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote: Howdy list, I have a port that I do NOT want to upgrade: python-2.2.2 If I do upgrade it, some of the software on my

Re: writing pdfs

2003-10-10 Thread Thomas Spreng
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 08:31:41AM -0400, William O'Higgins wrote: I have grown tired of using MS Word as my standard document output format. I haven't gotten OpenOffice to work under FreeBSD (and it isn't my favourite tool by a long shot) and I am most happy generating text in vi. PDF is

Re: Question for ipf setting on single NIC box

2003-09-24 Thread Thomas Spreng
Hello, On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:38:11PM +0800, Michael Lee(HINET) wrote: Hi all, I only have a NIC on my FreeBSD Box. Here is my configuration: ifconfig de0 aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd netmask 255.255.255.0 ( My External Interface ) ifconfig de0_alias0 192.168.1.254 netmask 255.255.255.0 ( My

Re: A question about host...

2003-09-24 Thread Thomas Spreng
Hello, On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:51:38AM -0400, Payne wrote: Hi, I am wanting to use host.allow and host.deny to make my box more secure. Is there a site that can explain how to use them. hosts.deny is depricated just use hosts.allow. please read 'man 5 hosts_options' or if you dont like

Re: Can you help me find a small (old ?) FreeBSD release?

2003-08-22 Thread Thomas Spreng
hi On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 03:46:40AM -0700, Dorin-Constantin Scutarasu wrote: Hi, My name is Dorin Scutarasu. I have an old computer (AMD 80486 DX2 @ 80MHz with 16 MB of RAM) an I want to install FreeBSD on it in a 50 MB partition. Can you help me find a small release that includes all

Re: Hi Quick question

2003-08-14 Thread Thomas Spreng
hi, On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:52:33PM -0500, Eric Murphy wrote: Is there a command to browse files by pages? When ever I ls in a big dir, I can't shift page up for some reason. This is very annoying =( # ls | more cheers.. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installation problems (was: empty)

2003-08-14 Thread Thomas Spreng
Hi, please read http://www.lemis.com/questions.html On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 07:43:18AM +, Mike Dem wrote: Hey I Decided To Get your Unix Based OS Because I need More of a Challeng I Do Have Two Questions, First Can I install FreeBSD without using Partition magic Of course you can

Re: backup static routes for freebsd (default)

2003-08-14 Thread Thomas Spreng
hi, On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:52:54PM -0700, Ezra Banoba wrote: Hello, I have a gatway box running freebsd 4.8 and several links to the internet via different ISP's. This box is connected directly to one of the ISP's but also has access to the other gatways via the LAN. I would like to

Re: X-server must be suid or root!!

2003-08-04 Thread Thomas Spreng
hi, On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:28:24PM +0300, Alex Zivenko wrote: When I am starting my XFree86 with command startx it gives me eroor Server must be suid or root But when I am root - all perfect. How I can fix it? have you installed /usr/ports/x11/wrapper ? If not then do so... cheers

Re: OT: MUTT folders

2003-02-20 Thread Thomas Spreng
Hi, On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 03:36:35PM -0600, Brian Henning wrote: Hello- i have been reading throught the file /usr/local/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt and i cannot figure out how to change which folder i am reading. i have some mail folders in ~/Mail that i cannot figure out how to access from

Re: shell prompt question

2003-02-17 Thread Thomas Spreng
Hi, On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:46:24AM -0500, David Banning wrote: The way that the shell prompt is set depends on the particular shell. What shell does your `david' user have? What shell does `root' have? they both use bash. How do I get the super-user prompt when I just use the

Re: problem with install

2003-02-14 Thread Thomas Spreng
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:41:17PM -0800, joseph grundy wrote: I just went through the bios, I can only change acpi from state 1 to state 3 both still give the same problem. I don't know what else I can do, unless there is a way to install without acpi somehow. Sorry forget what i have

Re: problem with install

2003-02-13 Thread Thomas Spreng
Hi, On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:55:49PM -0800, joseph grundy wrote: I am having problems trying to install FreeBSD. I have installed in before on different machines, but now this is the only one I have. I would like to have FreeBSD as my main OS on the machine. When I put in the bootable cd

Re: Voice Chat ( Instant Messaging )

2003-02-11 Thread Thomas Spreng
hi, On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 06:55:20PM +1000, Tech Support wrote: Hi I am looking for a Voice chat server to install on a FreeBSD server I have played around with a couple of voice chat servers on the windows platform however I no longer run windows servers The Clients will need to

strange linux binary problem

2003-02-09 Thread Thomas Spreng
Hi, i have a problem running a linux binary. I have an old (running for 2 years now) and a new freebsd server. I'm trying to run a linux gameserver (sof2) on the new machine, but when i start the binary (./sof2ded) nothing happens, no output, no log entries just nothing, it just hangs. If i try

Re: resolv.conf

2003-02-09 Thread Thomas Spreng
hi, On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 07:03:43PM +0100, Per Nilsson wrote: I have this problem: when i run me mailserver (postfix), I gotto have theese lines in resolv.conf: domain sparbanken.org nameserver 10.0.0.1 nameserver 10.0.0.2 I got to have this to be enable to send mail, and from

Re: mutt and xterm-color problems

2003-01-28 Thread Thomas Spreng
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 06:04:27PM +, Daniel Bye wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 02:00:23PM +0100, Thomas Spreng wrote: Hi, im using 'xterm-color' as TERM. I have a mutt color config that displays the headers in the message index with different colors (depending on sender). New

mutt and xterm-color problems

2003-01-26 Thread Thomas Spreng
Hi, im using 'xterm-color' as TERM. I have a mutt color config that displays the headers in the message index with different colors (depending on sender). New and unread messages are colored with the same color but they are bright, or better should be. Heres the appropriate section: color index

Re: FTP Mirror software?

2003-01-20 Thread Thomas Spreng
Hi, On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 06:16:53PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: I'm looking for a good FTP mirror package to mirror the FreeBSD FTP site. I had been using ftpmirror for over a year now, and it just now deleted my entire mirror overnight. Now, I can't get it to redownload the site.

Re: /usr/src/UPDATING

2003-01-13 Thread Thomas Spreng
Hi, On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:42:27AM -0500, JoeB wrote: I have installed FBSD 4.7 using cdrom and /stand/sysinstall, selected standard install with user distribution which does not install any source. This install config does not install /usr/src/UPDATING directory. Where else can I find

Re: /usr/src/UPDATING

2003-01-13 Thread Thomas Spreng
Hi, On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 01:00:20PM -0500, JoeB wrote: Thanks this is what I was looking for, But after viewing the URL you posted I see info for all the releases of FBSD. I thought the /usr/src/UPDATING file that was on the install CD for FBSD 4.7 only contained the detail info on the

Re: MSDOS Install

2003-01-13 Thread Thomas Spreng
Hi, On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 06:41:02PM +, Ian Watkinson wrote: Trying to install 5.0 RC3 Because of the strange way that my sony vaio laptop sees it's CDROM, I can't do a cdrom install, so was looking as the MSDOC partition install. However, the readme, and the handbook both refer to a

Re: Video card with TV OUT

2002-12-26 Thread Thomas Spreng
Hi, On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 12:25:49PM -0500, Alvaro Gil wrote: Can anyone recommend a video card with TV out that can be used with FreeBSD. I would like the TV to be the only monitor connected. Also it should do 800X600. Anything out there that works like I want it to? Its for a

Re: rc.conf

2002-12-17 Thread Thomas Spreng
Hi, On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 01:32:03PM +, Tiago Andre wrote: How do i compile my rc.conf you dont need to, its read on each startup... Thanks Tiago Camilo To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: sudo in syslog.conf

2002-11-11 Thread Thomas Spreng
Hi Gustaf, On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 08:14:18PM +0100, Gustaf Sjoberg wrote: Hi, what would an entry in syslog.conf look like if i want to send all information on sudo attempts to /dev/console? any ideas? ;-) thanks in anticipation, Gustaf Sjoberg you can do that with syslog-ng. It's in the

Re: bridging the right way?

2002-11-05 Thread Thomas Spreng
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 10:09:16AM +0100, Jonas Sonntag wrote: hi list i'm looking for a little advice here. i've got a fbsd server conected to the internet via rl0. there are about 30 workstation in 192.168, fbsd does nat for, those are connected via rl1. now, on rl1, behind nat there's

Re: Freebsd, Apache and .htacess files

2002-10-31 Thread Thomas Spreng
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 03:26:11PM +0100, Erik Mattsson wrote: Hi Ive installed the apache-1.3.26_3 port and trying to get it to work with TWiki (an intranet discussion/note board). But I cant limit the access of the sites. Ive made the following test: created a test dir in the

Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie

2002-10-17 Thread Thomas Spreng
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:24:43AM -0700, J. Foobar wrote: I have been unable to get X to start successfully. Hopefully I am overlooking something stupid. FreeBSD 4.6.2 on an Intel machine My graphics card is an Intel 82845G/GL. I searched for info on the Intel site and it mentioned