Re: Request to join id-freebsd denied
- Original Message - From: Yahoo!Groups Notification [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 28 Mar 2003 05:28:08 - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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_ -- http://www.operamail.com Get OperaMail Premium today - USD 29.99/year Powered by Outblaze ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how do i invoke the command ee or vi when system fails to load
- Original Message - 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_ -- ___ http://www.operamail.com Now with OperaMail Premium for only US$29.99/yr Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Screen Shots
- Original Message - 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 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_ -- ___ http://www.operamail.com Now with OperaMail Premium for only US$29.99/yr Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: TX underrun
- Original Message - 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, Franklin Pierce -- ___ http://www.operamail.com Now with OperaMail Premium for only US$29.99/yr Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: cat
- Original Message - 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 -- ___ http://www.operamail.com Now with OperaMail Premium for only US$29.99/yr Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: cat
- Original Message - 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. -- ___ http://www.operamail.com Now with OperaMail Premium for only US$29.99/yr Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: I wonder . . .
- Original Message - From: Pete C [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 19:41:41 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: unsubscribe To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message 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, Franklin Pierce -- ___ http://www.operamail.com Now with OperaMail Premium for only US$29.99/yr Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: No subject was specified.
- Original Message - 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 -- ___ http://www.operamail.com Now with OperaMail Premium for only US$29.99/yr Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: update all the live-long day
- 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 -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: adduser
- Original Message - 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 -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: ram swap whiskers on kittens
- 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 -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Going from Windows to X - suggestions
- 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 -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: dd
- 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 -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD Stability
- 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, Franklin Pierce -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: numb...network interfaces...
- 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 -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Cannot Install New Kernel
- Original Message - 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 -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: questions [OMG!]
- 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, Franklin Pierce -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: How do I patch my change into a source file in ports?
- 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, Franklin Pierce -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: your mail
- 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, Franklin Pierce -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Re: (?)
- 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. -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: xdm keeps showing me login window
- 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 -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: dc0: TX underrun
- 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. -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Upgrading kde with ports
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 . . . -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message