Re: Request to join id-freebsd denied

2003-03-28 Thread Franklin Pierce
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Date: 28 Mar 2003 05:28:08 -
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Subject: Request to join id-freebsd denied 

 
 Hello,
 
 The moderator of the id-freebsd group has denied 
 your request for membership.
 

Like, okay, I HAD to read this and, to the same extent, I HAD
to mis-understand it, 'cos, you know, it's something which just
begs for a misinterpretation, mostly, I think, you can philtre it
through babelfish ruschish-francoesisch-deutsch-englisch
gives me the greatest 0.0% ennui (maybe) since 1776==1881,
you know (wink wink, nudge nudge).

Love,
Franklin Pierce


It's a new idea, said Jai.
I'd better go and share it with the club before I become rigid and defensive about 
it, he added hastily.
   --Joanna Russ, _And Chaos Died_

   
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Re: how do i invoke the command ee or vi when system fails to load

2003-03-11 Thread Franklin Pierce
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From: Tom Parquette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:55:07 -0500
To: NOEL BALANSAG [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: how do i invoke the command ee or vi when system fails to load
NOEL BALANSAG wrote:

hello.

pardon my stupid question, but how do i invoke the
command ee or vi?
*snip*
how do i invoke ee or vi? is it ok to just edit
the file /etc/fstab and reboot? is there anything
else i need to do?
*snip*
Noel,
 From your description I'm assuming you are going into single user mode. 
 It sounds like fstab is pointing in the wrong place.
*snip*

Don't forget you'll have to invoke it with a long path
name, /usr/bin/ee .  another option is to learn the
rather hideous syntax of /bin/ed .  OK, it's only
mildly non-intuitive.


It's a new idea, said Jai.
I'd better go and share it with the club before I become rigid and defensive about 
it, he added hastily.
  --Joanna Russ, _And Chaos Died_
  
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Re: Screen Shots

2003-03-07 Thread Franklin Pierce
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From: Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 08:41:44 +0200
To: Gerard Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Screen Shots

 On 2003-03-06 22:06, Gerard Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  For the life of me, I cannot remember the command line program to
  take screen shots.  Its been a while.  If someone could remind me
  with a man page would be great.
 
 There are quite a few ways.  ImageMagick that someone mentioned has an
 `import' command.  The netpbm collection of image conversion tools has
 xwdtopnm and pnmtopng:
 
   $ xwd -root | xwdtopnm | pnmtopng  desktop.png
 
 I have also used xv(1) from the graphics/xv port to grab, crop and
 convert parts of my desktop :)

xwd -root -out filename.whatever

both xv and gimp can display and manipulate and convert
these files at will, although an 8-bit greyscale of a
gnome app on a kde desktop, preferably last night's
mozilla (-fomit-frame-pointer -fmake-me-run-fast) . . .
I discounted an obvious reference to Hegel, but you
might get traction with something punkt-und-klikt.

It helps to have lots of transparent eterms, somehow
not as emacs as I'd envisioned, but if you use cat as
a pager, it could be right up your alley.

Love,
Franklin Pierce



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Re: TX underrun

2003-03-01 Thread Franklin Pierce
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From: default013 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 13:42:45 -0600
To: FreeBSD-Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TX underrun

 I recently moved my server from a 384 SDSL line to a colocation facility.
 Since the move, I've been receiving these messages about once a week (just
 one message, about once a week):
 
 dc0: TX underrun -- resetting

Faster network, the driver is doing what it's designed
to do, unless you get the fateful, and horrible:
store and forward mode

yeah, it's kind of a pain, cos I think, in a dimly held
kind of way, that there should be some mediaopts that'll
set a slightly higher threshold for this kinda thing
'stead of it wating until it wimps out.
Don't reboot so frequently.

Love,
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Re: cat

2003-02-27 Thread Franklin Pierce
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From: Shantanu Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:05:27 +0530
To: Tijl Coosemans [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: cat

 +++ Tijl Coosemans [freebsd] [26-02-03 17:56 +0100]:
 | I want to remove CRs from text files so what I did is this:
 | 
 | cat filename | tr -d '\r'  filename

Meow.

cat is short for concatenate, that is, to combine
sequantially.  if you are not combining, if you are, in
fact, just pumping a file through a command (as tr -d
'\r') try , it saves a processor cycle or twenty and
it's syntactically correct, AND ---
- i mean, why not?

cat filename  grep freaky deaky  quack-quack.txt  page filename  
bark-bark.txt  tr -d '\r'  filename  neue-filename  cd /usr/src  make 
buildworld  rm -r /


 | 
 | However, I often end up with an empty file. Just out of
 | interest, somebody who knows why that is?
 | 
 | --
 col -bx  filenam  filenam.new
 

or that, yes.

love,
Franklin Pierce

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Re: cat

2003-02-27 Thread Franklin Pierce
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From: Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:14:56 +
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: cat

 On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:56:13PM +0100, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
  I want

Sip

 (Note too the influence of the Society for the Suppression of Stray
 Cats -- save a process today!)
 

And the seven programmers did say, Amen and amen.
And the 60 managers of IT did say, Blessed be the name
of the process!
And the kernel did execute fewer instructions in the
midst of its manifold tasks.
And the 400 blessed hackers did give glory unto the
command (with flags) and the PID of the grep which
did confound Him Who Sloppily Abused His Terminal.
And the 924 sang, Glory everlasting, alleluia!
And the VAXen did open and from them poured myriads
of myriads of SIGHUP and SIGCONT, in alternating order,
but staggered slightly, to give it that two-layered
effect.

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Re: I wonder . . .

2003-02-27 Thread Franklin Pierce
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From: Pete C [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 19:41:41 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 

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a)  I've forgotten how

b)  All I have are these forceps and Ken Thompson's home address

c)  When in Rome, watch out how you ask for a shower.

Love,
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Re: No subject was specified.

2003-02-24 Thread Franklin Pierce
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From: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:10:28 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: No subject was specified.

 Harry Horse wrote:
  What are you doing on my home page?
  Who are you and what does your satanic imagery refer to?
  Harry Horse
 
 Who are you and what are you talking about?
 
 -- 
 Bill Moran

In a previous incarnation I insert ctl-M for DOS users
was a 1.9 metre long sac of insert ctl-M for DOS users
phospho-lipid barriers. insert ctl-M for DOS users
insert ctl-M for DOS users
How about you? insert ctl-M for DOS users
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Re: update all the live-long day

2003-01-01 Thread Franklin Pierce
- Original Message -
From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 01 Jan 2003 10:12:19 -0500
To: Morten Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: update

 Morten Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  Hi.. when 5.0 is out, should i update? 
  or wait for 4.8 ?
 
 That depends on what you want to do with your system.
 


It is ALWAYS a good idea to update without a clear 
need or reason to do so.  This makes you a volunteer
beta-tester of the third sort, +/-10 save v. bork,
dependant upon INT, DEX, LSD.
Anyway, if you're not tracking -CURRENT with custom
patches (lottery scheduler anyone?) you can hardly
call yousself a _-user-_ let alone an addict.

Love,
Franklin Pierce
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Re: adduser

2002-12-30 Thread Franklin Pierce
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From: Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 20:51:20 +0100
To: FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: adduser

 On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 08:31:58PM +0100, Alex wrote:
  
  Dear/Beste Cliff,
  
  Sunday, December 29, 2002, 7:53:02 PM, you wrote:
  
   adduser is broken.

Broken!


 I tried the simple act of adding a user to my system.

Simple!


 You should not have to have the brain of Einstein

But I keep one nearby just in case.


 I am sorry. A job that should take a few minutes, 
Pff!  What about the applications in triplicate?
What kind of users are you trying to let onto our
precious collective consciousness?

 
 It is no good pretending that FreeBSD
 sooner it will be realised that it is streets ahead of most other OS'es.
 

I use a sock filled with quarters.

Donny Thompson is not gay.

Je suis une concombre.

Love,
Franklin Pierce
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Re: ram swap whiskers on kittens

2002-12-25 Thread Franklin Pierce


- Original Message -
From: David Nicholas Kayal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 12:19:17 -0800 (PST)
To: Charlie Root [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ram  swap

 First . . .

[most of the top post snipped]

 On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Charlie Root wrote:
 
  Hey why everything on my machine goes into RAM? i have always 87% ram
  taken by every proccess running... i have 91 megs of ram what should
  i do? my swap is always empty...

[snip]

Swap:  that's good.
RAM:  Excellent!  When your machine isn't using all of
its delicious and spicy RAM it steals some for buffering
(to gerundise agressively) disk writes.  Once she gets
a tad more loaded, she'll just stop buffering so aggres-
sively.  It really isn't good, per se, to be using swap,
it's just a cheaper fallback than getting more RAM/a
motherboard that can take more RAM/hosed by $RETAILER.
Since I have no idea how it works I won't go into any
particulars, but if you ever want to hear about why we
let Kansas vote on becoming a free or slave state, and
why the compromise was made to appease the southern
Democrats, drop me a line.

Love,
Franklin Pierce
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Re: Going from Windows to X - suggestions

2002-12-18 Thread Franklin Pierce
- Original Message -
From: Derrick Ryalls [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:48:24 -0800
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Going from Windows to X - suggestions

 I have been using FreeBSD as a server via console for a while now, but I
 wanted to see what the GUI was like.  My only spare machine right now is
 a P-300 w/ about 16meg ram, so I won't be screaming along, but I wanted
 to start the process anyway.  I was looking through the ports, and I see
 a ton of options.
 
 What I am looking for is something simple to start with.  I figure a
 file manager of some sort, a web browser, and text editor for doing
 development work if I ever get to that point.
 
 I know I am being really vague, but there are so many options, I wanted
 to hear some recommendations.  Right now, I am thinking about going with
 KDE3 as I have heard the name before.
 

xset +dpms dpms 180 600 1200 
xsetroot -cursor_name ul_angle -solid grey36 -name No 
bclock -geometry -0-0 
xv -root -rmode 5 -maxpect -quit ~/cerenecrentiles.jpg 
#xv -root -rmode 2 -quit ~/pokey2\(sadness\).gif 
evilwm -fg DarkOrchid -bg grey34 -term /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm2 
exec launcher

# Notes:
# 1.  Very low memory $foosprintf() [garbled] without trimmings
# 2.  Understands swahili, supports locale en_BFE
# 3.  [garbled] but you'd better have thought w32${foo}${bark}
#  was at least a step backwards, sometimes two.
# 4.  [untranslated (profane)]
# 5.  Stop me if you've heard this one before:  evilwm is fscking
# unusable, isn't it?  I mean, paints that [untranslated (profane)]
# bikeshed some ${DIETY}-awful shade of blue that just goes
# with nothing.  It's like having an upside down 1973 DeTomaso
# Pantera filled with asthmatic squirrels in your living room.
# *** ACK ACK!!!  VORSICHT!!! ***
# 6.  Translates everything into profanity-laden French!
#
# 7.  Love, Franklin Pierce
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Re: dd

2002-12-16 Thread Franklin Pierce
- Original Message -
From: Brian Henning [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:52:11 -0600
To: freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: dd

 Hello,
 
 i have a floppy disk that is formated 1680 that i would like to make an file
 image of. I would also like to write the image back to a new floppy. Do i
 need a device /dev/fd0.1680?
 
 
 dd if=/dev/fd0 of=image.img doesn't seem to work.
 any advice?
 

Start working with unstressed disk formats?
make(1) hay while . . .
But seriously, are you running this as root or user?
Have you amortised the cost of acceptance across your 5 year plan?
Where is your darling /dev/rfd0, just in case you need a backup for the backup?
Oh yeah, it's probably still stressed on a 2.88 drive, but aren't we all?

Love,
Franklin Pierce
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Re: FreeBSD Stability

2002-12-16 Thread Franklin Pierce
- Original Message -
From: Romain Kang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:22:22 -0800
To: Mike Hogsett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Stability

 Hey, one of my acquaintences is running a 2.2.8-STABLE box
 which had 1048 days of uptime as of 32 days ago.  I bet it's
 still up...
 

I have an Aunt who's been up continually since 1947 all though the throughput on ipfw 
can make strong men cry, something to do with fuddy(4) missing an ECC module, et 
there's the forwarding between interfaces issue too.  And don't you dare mention 
promiscuous mode.

Love,
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Re: numb...network interfaces...

2002-12-15 Thread Franklin Pierce
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 23:16:46 +0200 (EET)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: number of network interfaces supported

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:

| Hello,
|
| Are there any restrictions on the number of network interfaces |supported
| by kernel? I need at least 6.
|
|   Where did Yoou get so many slots ? :)


The casinophobic reply includes the phrase, but you'd need eight  to make a spider.
Somewhere in an itchy corner of a biochemical memory system the number 4 (four) echos 
quietly.  Has that gone the way of the lumbering wd(4)?  Are the dual fang-marks 
circumscribing its skull an anthropological mystery?

If I pulled out an old 486dx2-80 and poked three NE2000, two EE-8/16, and three 
3c900TX how fast could I send my credit card numbers to Homeland Security (sic)?  
There's a child in British Honduras who could use those 72-pin SIMMs, won't you please 
think of him?

Love,
Franklin Pierce
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Re: Cannot Install New Kernel

2002-12-14 Thread Franklin Pierce
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From: Michael Whalen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 14 Dec 2002 10:10:22 -0600
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cannot Install New Kernel

 Greetings,

 kernel, 'make install' reports that cannot install new kernel,
 'permission denied'.  Cannot even 'mv' or 'rm -f kernel' as root.
 'Operation not permitted'.


sysctl -a | grep kern.secure
if it's not set to -1, try following instructions (argh! reading hurts!) and 
installing in single user mode, since at kern.securelevel=-1 noschg isn't properly 
honoured, at least in a very facist sense (haha!  I've never studied facism, since I 
only equate it with strictness!) it's only doing what it's supposed to be doing when 
it won't let you piddle all over the living room floor with that 12-inch root access, 
woof.  Try THAT with a PDP-11 running the mutant Rand Corp Tops, double ha!
There'll be a test on Tuesday.

Love, 
Franklin Pierce
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Re: questions [OMG!]

2002-12-13 Thread Franklin Pierce
- Original Message -
From: KvazaR [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 00:38:59 +0300
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: questions

 
 ðÒÉ×ÅÔÓÔ×ÕÀ ËÏÌÌÅËÔÉ× ÐÒÏÅËÔÁ FreeBSD.
[a bunch of stuff not in english]
1) ÷ÏÚÍÏÖÎÁ ÌÉ ÕÓÔÁÎÏ×ËÁ ÔÁËÉÈ ×ÉÄÅÏ ËÁÒÔ Ó ÐÏÍÏÝØÀ ÕÓÔÁÎÏ×ÝÉËÁ ×
 ÐÅÒÅÞÉÓÌÅÎÎÙÈ ×ÙÛÅ ×ÅÒÓÉÑÈ Unix'Á, ÉÌÉ ÉÈ ÎÁÄÏ ÕÓÔÁÎÁ×ÌÉ×ÁÔØ
 ÄÏÐÏÌÎÉÔÅÌØÎÏ, × ÒÕÞÎÕÀ ÉÚ Shell'Á?

If this were in english would it read something along the lines of How big is tha 
clam's shell?, in which case I will answer Tcsh!  What were you thinking? 658832!  
OMG!

2) åÓÌÉ ÎÅÔ, ÔÏ ÇÄÅ ÍÏÖÎÏ ÎÁÊÔÉ ÄÒÁÊ×ÅÒÙ ÐÏÄ ÜÔÕ ÉÎÔÅÇÒÉÒÏ×ÁÎÎÕÀ
 ×ÉÄÅÏ ËÁÒÔÕ, É ËÁË ÐÒÁ×ÉÌØÎÏ ÅÅ × ÄÁÌØÎÅÊÛÅÍ ÕÓÔÁÎÏ×ÉÔØ? é ÎÁÞÉÎÁÑ Ó
 ËÁËÏÊ ×ÅÒÓÉÉ ÅÅ ÓÏÂÉÒÁÀÔÓÑ ×ËÌÀÞÉÔØ × ÏÓÎÏ×ÎÕÀ ÂÁÚÕ ÕÓÔÁÎÏ×ÝÉËÁ?
 

This appears to be something about /usr/bin/ee, but as to the context, except that 
somewhere in the original message was something about x-windows (more properly 
XFree86, if we are truely dealing with FreeBSD here) . . . oh good lord, you made my 
brain hurt.

Love,
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Re: How do I patch my change into a source file in ports?

2002-12-12 Thread Franklin Pierce



- Original Message -
From: BSD baby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 21:17:00 -0800
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How do I patch my change into a source file in ports?

 I made a change . . .
. . .

A really dirty way to do it would be to:
make extract patch;
[patch your file here];
make install
[beam with joy/crestfallen sigh]

should actually make the patch stick for one compile \
(until you hit make clean or make distclean again)

make clean deletes all the files in ${WRKDIR}

to maek you pathc more permanent (on your system) \
you'll have to edit the Makefile and add a patch of \
your own to the proper directory.

Love,
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Re: your mail

2002-12-12 Thread Franklin Pierce

- Original Message -
From: Adam Weinberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 21:11:14 -0800
To: Vishal Sharda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: your mail

  (12.12.2002 @ 2104 PST): Vishal Sharda said, in \
0.2K: 
  I need information regarding functions splx() and \
splpe(). What do these functions do exactly.
  end of  from Vishal Sharda 
 
 RTFM.
 
 man splx
 
 # Adam
 

Which brings up an interesting set of points/questions:

1 Besides an occasional lark, who reads mails without \
subjects?

B man spix?  man man?

B.5  I hope that by the time I have a use for those \
functions I have enough savvy to FTM . . . err.

Love,
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Re: Re: (?)

2002-12-09 Thread Franklin Pierce

  - Original Message -
From: Sean O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 09:34:25 -0600
To: Voicu Liviu [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:


 At 05:19 PM 12/9/2002 +0200, Voicu Liviu wrote:
 On Monday 09 December 2002 17:15, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
   pkg_info -r packagename,  e.g.:
...
 I don't know of a command that will do that but you can look in the 
 Makefile of the port app you want to install to see what the dependencies 
 are.  For instance, these are the dependencies for Mozilla.  From the list 
,,,

make fetch-recursive-list is a VERY noisy way to do it without actually blunging any 
foo-backbacon-3.141592654_bc.tar.bz2 onto your /dev/ad0s1f or snarf(1)-ing too much of 
that 356kb DSL up downloading pkges you'll never actually want to add barring Sterling 
Haydem buying you shots of pure grain and distilled water.  I dunno, maybe a make 
recursive list would be an option without the ftp mirror list?  Maybe make 
fetch-salary-list will tell you what the maintainers are making, net of course, or we 
could break it out with make 
hotel-rooms-plus-nicotine-and-soda-pop-and-natalie-portman-posters-with-gratuitous-cleaveage-recursive-want-for-christmas.
  I'll test the beta.
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Re: xdm keeps showing me login window

2002-12-09 Thread Franklin Pierce
- Original Message -
From: Ali S. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 02:32:14 -0800 (PST)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: xdm keeps showing me login window


 i have installed freebsd 4.7 on 
 compaq proliant 1600 with cirrus 5446 vga card
 i have configured X with xf86config
 
 but
 when i run xdm and enter my username password 
 it refreshes the screen and shows me the login
 window again...
 
 any idea?


I have this recurring dream of running it as root . . . Wilford Brimley plays a 
high-powered lawyer who DOES NOT SELL OATMEAL.
But to stay on topic, I never had any luck at all with xdm, nor any skill, as if that 
would help, but I never thought to try running it as root until I'd given up and gone 
back to using startx.  suid mght be dangerous, reasons why? (this is a chance for that 
essay on the hazards of suid, wmd, ssh, and robotech to see the light of day) cos 
chmod 4766 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm ain't hard to type . . . I fear.

Love,
Franklin Pierce
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Re: dc0: TX underrun

2002-12-05 Thread Franklin Pierce



- Original Message -
From: bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 17:54:48 -0700
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: dc0: TX underrun


 question 1:) I keep getting this message??
 
 dc0: TX underrun -- increasing TX threshold
 
 Is this normal or do I need to buy a better nic? It's currently a Linksys
 10/100 pci nic ?
 

AFIK:  'tis but a message, nothing wrong per se, unless it's having to gurgle around 
in store and forward mode, it's just telling what it's doing.  Then again, I've never 
had anything but the incredible searing pain of being eaten by rabid goats with dc_ 
series nics, YMMV.

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Re: Upgrading kde with ports

2002-12-03 Thread Franklin Pierce
Without having to quote the etire email:

portupgrade can handle packages instead of source

portupgrade -PP

will force it to use packages only.  Of course, it does require the portupgrade be 
installed which requires ruby . . .

   
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