General bridging information

2002-12-20 Thread Edmond Baroud
Hi, I had bridge_cfg set to xl0:0,vmnet1:0 and bridge to 1 on 4.5-STABLE and it was working fine, but the only problem I had was that I couldn't ping my FreeBSD's xl0 IP from the vmware/win2k, both OSes were unable to talk to eachother using any protocol. (AFAIK..) Now on 4.7 bridge_cfg is null

RE: Problems with a C application that changes users and run 'screen -x'

2002-12-20 Thread Aaron Burke
You're not running the executable as `root'. Since you are not the superuser, you do not have permissions to operate on the pseudo-tty that login attempts to work with, and this is why you get the following error message: This is as I expected. And I dont know of a way to get around it.

FIXED: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB

2002-12-20 Thread David Gethings
Would you believe it was a jumper on the HD that was causing all the problems. The HD is setup as the primary IDE master, but the jumper settings on the HD were not configured as such. Once the correct jumper settings were in place fdisk behaved normally. I'd like to add that I bought the PC as

RE: Problems with a C application that changes users and run 'screen-x'

2002-12-20 Thread Paul Everlund
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Aaron Burke wrote: 3. Avoid using system() which I vaguely recall being described with a lot of bad words in various places and use fork(), exec(), _exit(), waitpid() and exit() instead. How would I do this with exec. According to the man page for exec I have

Re: FTP installation from the floppies through ADSL modem with P

2002-12-20 Thread Toomas Aas
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 11:03:25 +0200 From: Asker [EMAIL PROTECTED] What do you think about changing GENERIC or just the kernel in installation floppies in the future releases of FreeBSD? I think it will be very useful because ADSL (therefore PPPoE protocol) is very

ports upgrade

2002-12-20 Thread iuliand
Hello! If I cvsup'd ports what will I need in order to make my new ports to work? I mean I should make a buildworld? Thanks! -- Iulian ROMTELECOM. OM Network. IN Management Center To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: starting ppp on boot up

2002-12-20 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 08:47:33PM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 06:59:18AM +, P. U. Kruppa wrote: Hi! I have a well working user ppp configuration, which I run manually by # ppp -nat -ddial adsl What is the simpliest way to start this automatically on boot

RE: Problems with a C application that changes users and run 'screen-x'

2002-12-20 Thread Paul Everlund
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Paul Everlund wrote: Found an error in my reply... On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Aaron Burke wrote: [big snip] I think execlp is writing over your current process. So first your process is exchanged with ppp, then ppp is exchanged with screen. You have to make a copy of your

Re: ports upgrade

2002-12-20 Thread Ying-Chieh Liao
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 18:11:11 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! If I cvsup'd ports what will I need in order to make my new ports to work? I mean I should make a buildworld? no you wont just installs portupgrade (ports/sysutils/portupgrade), and then run portupgrade -R your_port_name

Re: ports upgrade

2002-12-20 Thread Jud
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 18:11:11 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! If I cvsup'd ports what will I need in order to make my new ports to work? I mean I should make a buildworld? Thanks! You will often be able to build most or all of your new ports without building the world, because cvsup-ing

Re: /etc/mail/access list to DENY spam?

2002-12-20 Thread Warren Block
I found this ironic: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Dec 20 05:25:11 2002 Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 04:20:19 -0800 (PST) From: Mail Delivery Subsystem [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details The original message was received at Fri, 20 Dec 2002 04:20:19

Re: OOPS....Re: ipf - IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK ...This is not working as predicted! Help?

2002-12-20 Thread Keith Spencer
--- Fernando Gleiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Keith Spencer wrote: sorry guys the copy paste mucked up on me... Here is the full rule set I am using... But the questions I sent in my previous mail remain unanswered. post the answers and maybe I can tell what's

Re: OOPS....Re: ipf - IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK ...This is not working as predicted! Help?

2002-12-20 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-20 23:28:01 +1100: --- Fernando Gleiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Keith Spencer wrote: your MUA screws the message text. get a better one. sorry guys the copy paste mucked up on me... Here is the full rule set I am using... OK

Re: what is a pps file?

2002-12-20 Thread Daniel Bye
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 11:37:02PM -0500, David Banning wrote: Someone from the Netherlands sent me a pps file. Anyone know what type of file that is? Powerpoint Slideshow format. Grrr... Yeuch! -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint:

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Re: Running X-clients on remote hosts.

2002-12-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:44:17AM +0100, dick hoogendijk wrote: How to make X listen on the network depends on how you start the X server. If you use startx(1), then you just need to invoke it as: startx -listen_tcp Hmm, well, this definately does not work for me ;-/ So, what

Re: Mounting XP partition

2002-12-20 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 02:37:53PM +0200, Wayne Swart wrote: Hi everyone, me again :) I have mounted a ntfs(WinXP) partition on my freebsd box, but i am unable to write anything to it? Any ideas? Check the WRITING section of man mount_ntfs. There are limits on writing to NTFS.

chown broken??

2002-12-20 Thread Andrew Cutler
Hello I just hosed one of my boxes by recursively setting all my file permissions incorrectly: $ su $ cd /data $ chown -R andrew:wheel * $ chown -R andrew:wheel .* For some reason the last command was interpreted as: $ chown -R andrew:wheel /*

Re: chown broken??

2002-12-20 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 12:22:32AM +1100, Andrew Cutler wrote: Hello I just hosed one of my boxes by recursively setting all my file permissions incorrectly: $ su $ cd /data $ chown -R andrew:wheel * $ chown -R andrew:wheel .* That matches ...

Re: chown broken??

2002-12-20 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 12:22:32AM +1100, Andrew Cutler wrote: I just hosed one of my boxes by recursively setting all my file permissions incorrectly: $ su $ cd /data $ chown -R andrew:wheel * This is all ok. $ chown -R andrew:wheel .* This isn't.

Re: starting ppp on boot up

2002-12-20 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Scott Mitchell wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 08:47:33PM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 06:59:18AM +, P. U. Kruppa wrote: Hi! I have a well working user ppp configuration, which I run manually by # ppp -nat -ddial adsl What is the

Re: chown broken??

2002-12-20 Thread Andrew Cutler
I realise that now, but why does chown not ignore the match since most other commands simply return? . is a directory -- ignored .. is a directory -- ignored This inconsistency is not logical. On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 00:26, Ceri Davies wrote: On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 12:22:32AM

Re: chown broken??

2002-12-20 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 12:36:36AM +1100, Andrew Cutler wrote: I realise that now, but why does chown not ignore the match since most other commands simply return? . is a directory -- ignored .. is a directory -- ignored This inconsistency is not logical. It is not

Re: chown broken??

2002-12-20 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Andrew Cutler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I realise that now, but why does chown not ignore the match since most other commands simply return? . is a directory -- ignored .. is a directory -- ignored This inconsistency is not logical. rm makes a special case for '.' and

Re: chown broken??

2002-12-20 Thread Fernando Gleiser
On 21 Dec 2002, Andrew Cutler wrote: I realise that now, but why does chown not ignore the match since most other commands simply return? . is a directory -- ignored .. is a directory -- ignored This inconsistency is not logical. It is not inconsistenct. chown can operate

Re: chown broken??

2002-12-20 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-21 00:59:24 +1100: So without further embarrassment, does anyone have any idea on what is the quickest and easiest way to correct the file ownership issues that I'm currently experiencing ? restore from backup. if you don't backup, then reinstall. -- If you

Re: chown broken??

2002-12-20 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 12:59:24AM +1100, Andrew Cutler wrote: Thanks for everyone's quick responses. I'm not going to delve any deeper as to why chown, chmod etc match .. for .* when other commands do not. I'm sure this is ground that has been covered many times before. And I'm sure its the

Re: chown broken??

2002-12-20 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: Andrew Cutler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 2:22 PM Subject: chown broken?? Hello I just hosed one of my boxes by recursively setting all my file permissions incorrectly: $ su $ cd /data $

Re: chown broken??

2002-12-20 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 03:12:17PM +0100, Mark wrote: I must say, though, that while I understand this behaviour, one can argue on what exactly recursive is to mean here. Intuitively, the definition of the current sub-directory and all sub-directories below the current directory (and that

help me plz

2002-12-20 Thread waqar hassan
We are living in Pakistan we went to almost all specialist Doctors related to Fatmia's problems but Doctors suggest us to take Fatmia abroad for treatment we tried are best since she was one Day old. her first Doctor was Dr. G.A. Shah (Ortho). Know she is 10 years old during 10 years we consult

Re: FIXED: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB

2002-12-20 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 11:18 AM 12.20.2002 +, David Gethings wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 11:15, Laszlo Vagner wrote: western digital is notorious for that, what brand are you using? just curious. Maxtor something-or-other. Dg Beware of Quantum Fireballs -- bought two of the 40GBers and the jumpers would

Re: chown broken??

2002-12-20 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Andrew Cutler [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 3:15 PM Subject: Re: chown broken?? On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 03:12:17PM +0100, Mark wrote: I must say, though,

Re: Mounting XP partition

2002-12-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi everyone, me again :) I have mounted a ntfs(WinXP) partition on my freebsd box, but i am unable to write anything to it? My understanding is that is the current state of ntfs support. You can read from, but not write to ntfs slices. I don't know if writing ability is being worked on.

Re: chown broken??

2002-12-20 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 03:48:41PM +0100, Mark wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 03:12:17PM +0100, Mark wrote: I must say, though, that while I understand this behaviour, one can argue on what exactly recursive is to mean here. Intuitively, the definition of the current sub-directory

Re: Mounting XP partition

2002-12-20 Thread Anthony Abby
Jerry McAllister said: Hi everyone, me again :) I have mounted a ntfs(WinXP) partition on my freebsd box, but i am unable to write anything to it? My understanding is that is the current state of ntfs support. You can read from, but not write to ntfs slices. I don't know if writing

Re: starting ppp on boot up

2002-12-20 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 02:31:20PM +, P. U. Kruppa wrote: In the meantime I found # man and copied/edited this - working - /usr/local/etc/rc.d - script: --- #!/bin/sh - # #initialization/shutdown script for pppd case $1

Re: chown broken??

2002-12-20 Thread Roman Neuhauser
please don't cc me, I'll pick up your reply from the list. # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-20 12:39:31 -0300: On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: apart from what others said about wildcard substitution: roman@freepuppy /usr 1005:1 ls -l .* zsh: no matches found:

Re: chown broken??

2002-12-20 Thread Fernando Gleiser
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: any problem with this? cd .. chmod -R . zsh's behavior actually allows you to chmod only dotfils/dotdirs: roman@freepuppy ~/tmp 1013:0 echo .* .htaccess .mail .vim roman@freepuppy ~/tmp 1014:0 Because zsh's *

41upgrade.tgz and 42upgrade.tgz gone??

2002-12-20 Thread Jay West
Has anyone seen: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/Latest/41upgr ade.tgz ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/Latest/42upgr ade.tgz These files appear to have disappeared. Can someone tell me where they are? I wanted the latest ones to go

IPX and ppp0 (tun0)

2002-12-20 Thread uzzver21
Hello guys, I wonna know is it possible to send ipx frames trough the tun0 interface. Indeed I need to bind my local network through the leased line to another LAN where is a Nowell NetWare 4.11. I can't use pure IP, only IPX over IP, coz soft wich I should use on the NetWare

Changing console refresh rate

2002-12-20 Thread Avleen Vig
This is getting quiet frustrating :-) I don't want to use X, because I like to use my lovely console :) Plus I'm only on a P233. I've compiled SC_PIXEL_MODE into my kernel, which means I can use vidcontrol to set the resolution to 800x600. Fantastic! Well, almost. When this happens, my video

Re: Tape Backup

2002-12-20 Thread Irwan Hadi
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 11:33:11AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: If your usage justifies the cost, you might want to consider DLT or LTO type drives. They handle the load with less failure and higher capacity and data rates. I'm using Sony AIT-2 and it works great. The benefit of using

Re: problem with installing new ports

2002-12-20 Thread Kliment Andreev
please let me know if i MUST hold a connection to the internet during the installations.if so, is there a way to avoid that connection? Download the tarball into /usr/ports/distfiles. Then do # cd /usr/ports/audio/mpeg123 # make all install clean To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: starting ppp on boot up

2002-12-20 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Scott Mitchell wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 02:31:20PM +, P. U. Kruppa wrote: In the meantime I found # man and copied/edited this - working - /usr/local/etc/rc.d - script: --- #!/bin/sh - #

Re: problem with installing new ports

2002-12-20 Thread David S. Jackson
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 09:23:01AM -0800 Ali Nasseh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i run freebsd 4.5 stable and when i try to install a new port like mpg123 it fails. my command to system and it's response is here: [...] mpg123-0.59r-pl1.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.

Re: FIXED: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB

2002-12-20 Thread Jud
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 08:29:56 -0600, Jack L. Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: At 11:18 AM 12.20.2002 +, David Gethings wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 11:15, Laszlo Vagner wrote: western digital is notorious for that, what brand are you using? just curious. Maxtor something-or-other. Dg

Re: FIXED: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB

2002-12-20 Thread Chad Albert
Beware of Quantum Fireballs -- bought two of the 40GBers and the jumpers would NOT work properly -- according to the BIOS on several different machines tried. Had to do the opposite of the diagrams for mastering, but slaves would NOT work period on either one. One died after a couple of

xdm setup for dummies?

2002-12-20 Thread J. Seth Henry
Hello, I have been struggling with setting up an X host and X terminals for a few weeks now. I figure it's time to stop and ask for directions :) I have a FBSD 4.7R server which I intend to host X sessions from. It has the libraries for Xfree86 4.2.0 and runs icewm. (X does work, but isn't

Re: FIXED: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB

2002-12-20 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 12:20 PM 12.20.2002 -0600, Chad Albert wrote: Beware of Quantum Fireballs -- bought two of the 40GBers and the jumpers would NOT work properly -- according to the BIOS on several different machines tried. Had to do the opposite of the diagrams for mastering, but slaves would NOT work

Networking hardware question

2002-12-20 Thread Christophe Simon
Hi, For one week, I have the responsability to administrate a LAN in a society where there's at least 5 swithes and 1 hub connected together in chain. I heard that plugging too many hubs or swithes in chain can cause network stability problems. Is that right, and what can I do. I have been

Re: Networking hardware question

2002-12-20 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hi Christophe, On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 18:47, Christophe Simon wrote: Hi, For one week, I have the responsability to administrate a LAN in a society where there's at least 5 swithes and 1 hub connected together in chain. I heard that plugging too many hubs or swithes in chain can cause

blank saver question

2002-12-20 Thread J. Seth Henry
Hello, I am working on adapting FreeBSD to a Compaq IA-1. The display on this system is not DPMS compliant, so shutting off the backlight requires writing to a PCI register. I currently have a small C program which I can use to manipulate this register from the command line, and I would like to

Re: problem with installing new ports

2002-12-20 Thread Shane Kinney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, David S. Jackson wrote: step 2: google search for the exact tarball name uncovered from the previous command. It should be found at http://www.mpg123.de/cgi-bin/sitexplorer.cgi?/mpg123/ step 3: copy said tarballs to

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2002-12-20 Thread Nina
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Re: PortUpgrade

2002-12-20 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 08:28:17PM +0100, Pierrick Brossin wrote: Hi ! I 'portupgrade -a' my system and figured out that it is recompiling every new port. It's taking a vry long time to do so. Is there a way to specify to portupgrade to get the compiled package instead of compiling

Re: chown broken??

2002-12-20 Thread Kurt Bigler
on 12/20/02 7:39 AM, Fernando Gleiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: apart from what others said about wildcard substitution: roman@freepuppy /usr 1005:1 ls -l .* zsh: no matches found: .* roman@freepuppy /usr 1006:1 IOW, the behavior is

adduser ownership of mounted home directory

2002-12-20 Thread Adam Lofstedt
I am trying to put user's home directories onto a mounted windows share (mounting via smbfs). When I run the adduser script (and specify /mountedshare/username as the home directory) it doesn't set the ownership of the home directory to the user. Root still owns the folder. If I add a user to

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2002-12-20 Thread Tim Strike
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Re: PortUpgrade

2002-12-20 Thread Joey Mingrone
From the man page: -P --use-packages Use packages instead of ports whenever available. portupgrade searches the local directories listed in PKG_PATH for each package to install or upgrade the

Re: chown broken??

2002-12-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 20), Giorgos Keramidas said: On 2002-12-20 14:00, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Dec 20), Kurt Bigler said: I don't know zsh, but if it has a setting that prevents wildcard expansion from including .. as a match for .* that strikes me as

ppp over usb

2002-12-20 Thread Michael Grant
Is it possible to run ppp between 2 freebsd boxes over a usb connection? If so, what's needed to wire them together, some sort of usb cross-over cable? Michael grant To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

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2002-12-20 Thread remstroy2000
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Re: problem with installing new ports

2002-12-20 Thread Daniel Schrock
If there is an easier way to make pkgdb -F complete its job successfully and not terminate with errors, I'm all ears by the way. :-) I'm not too sure on this one. I don't really use any of the `pkg' utilities ;) Someone else might be able to help with that. well... if your package db

Pike Spontanious reboot or crash

2002-12-20 Thread Darren Henderson
Have an odd one - looking for ideas. Have a 4.7-STABLE system running on a 1.8Ghz P4 with 256MB - works wonderfully - make buildworld takes 20 minutes, quite nice. For some time I've been trying to get a working copy of Pike (http://pike.ida.liu.se/) running on this box without much success.

Re: Mounting XP partition

2002-12-20 Thread Thomas Connolly
On Friday 20 December 2002 08:18 am, Anthony Abby wrote: Jerry McAllister said: Hi everyone, me again :) I have mounted a ntfs(WinXP) partition on my freebsd box, but i am unable to write anything to it? My understanding is that is the current state of ntfs support. You can read

RE: compact flash use

2002-12-20 Thread randall ehren
I took a look at the adapter, and it appears to support multiple formats. This could be the source of your problem. I use a much simpler CF - IDE adapter for programming FreeBSD images to CF devices for use in embedded systems. My adapter has an IDE header, CF slot and LED - that's it. CF

Re: Pike Spontanious reboot or crash

2002-12-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 20), Darren Henderson said: Have a 4.7-STABLE system running on a 1.8Ghz P4 with 256MB - works wonderfully - make buildworld takes 20 minutes, quite nice. For some time I've been trying to get a working copy of Pike (http://pike.ida.liu.se/) running on this box

print server (USB)

2002-12-20 Thread Paulo Roberto
Hello, I was reading the lpd man pages (and the web), but I did not find anything related to simultaneus printing. Sorry if this is a too lame question... I currently got two print servers (running 4.6.2 and lpd), one for each parallel printer, and since I have to substitute one printer (no

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2002-12-20 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update 3 September 1999 This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that at least one

The Complete FreeBSD, third edition: errata and addenda

2002-12-20 Thread Greg Lehey
Errata and addenda for the Complete FreeBSD, third edition Last revision: 2 August 1999 The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge

The Complete FreeBSD, second edition: errata and addenda

2002-12-20 Thread Greg Lehey
Errata and addenda for the Complete FreeBSD, second edition Last revision: 21 June 1999 The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge

Re: Tape Backup

2002-12-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 11:33:11AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: If your usage justifies the cost, you might want to consider DLT or LTO type drives. They handle the load with less failure and higher capacity and data rates. I'm using Sony AIT-2 and it works great. The benefit of

ELF docs

2002-12-20 Thread Alexander
Where I can find some docs about the freebsd elf binary structure ? I'm interested in more detailed docs (C examples would be great). thanks P.S. Please include my mail when responding, because I'm not subscribed for the mailing list. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: du -sh inconsistant with df -h

2002-12-20 Thread Mike Loiterman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul: You hit the nail right on the head! I did a lsof +L1 and found stunnel taking up a huge (2148999) amount of space. Killed it, restarted it and all my space is back! Now, the question is why does it keep accumulating all that

Re: 41upgrade.tgz and 42upgrade.tgz gone??

2002-12-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 09:55:07AM -0600, Jay West wrote: Has anyone seen: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/Latest/41upgr ade.tgz ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/Latest/42upgr ade.tgz These files appear to have disappeared. Can

Evaporators for sale

2002-12-20 Thread me
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Re: Pike Spontanious reboot or crash

2002-12-20 Thread Darren Henderson
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Dan Nelson wrote: If you get a kernel panic, enable crashdumps and post a stack trace. Thanks for the reply - with the current combination of version I haven't seen a panic, just the reboot. Was seeing the panics with 4.7, 4.6 and 4.5 of STABLE and versions of pike between

Re: problem with installing new ports

2002-12-20 Thread David S. Jackson
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 04:30:24PM -0600 Daniel Schrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well... if your package db has gotten way out of sync with your ports collection, it creates a nightmare that only time and effort will fix. You have a couple options, both equally suck, but have their merits as

How can I config Netgear MA401 PCMCIA card?

2002-12-20 Thread Boxuan Gu
hello! I want to install my netgear MA401 card into my freebsd4.5 sytem. I modified the config file of kernel according to the manual of wl, but, my netgear MA401 wireless card did not work. I do not know why? is there any available new driver of netgear MA401 in freebsd 4.5?:) Thank you :)

FTP installation from the floppies through ADSL modem with PPPoE or PPTP protocol.

2002-12-20 Thread Asker
The modem can be configured to use PPPoE or PPTP protocol for making the connection with my Internet Servise Provider. Well if the modem does PPPoE itself (and preusmably NAT) then you need no speical support from the OS. From its poitn of view you are just conencted via ethernet. If you need

Re: chown broken??

2002-12-20 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: Gary W. Swearingen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 10:28 PM Subject: Re: chown broken?? Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, the directories named on the command line within the CURRENT

How do you suspend and resume a remote shell session?

2002-12-20 Thread Andrew Cutler
Howdy All, Does anyone know of a method to suspend and resume a telnet / SSH session. I know that it is possible to suspend and resume a serial console session, but is there any way to do it remotely using SSH? Essentially I'd like to be able to disconnect my session and then reconnect,say a day

Re: How do you suspend and resume a remote shell session?

2002-12-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 21), Andrew Cutler said: Does anyone know of a method to suspend and resume a telnet / SSH session. I know that it is possible to suspend and resume a serial console session, but is there any way to do it remotely using SSH? Essentially I'd like to be able to

Help With Custom Kernel

2002-12-20 Thread elarsen2
I am building a custom kernel so I can use my sound card. I am building it the ``traditional'' way. And when I type the second make comand It ends with the fallowing: -include opt_global.h -elf -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 vers.c linking kernel umass.o: In function

Re: Help With Custom Kernel

2002-12-20 Thread Matthew Emmerton
Please read the comments in the kernel config file: device umass # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da You need to have 'device scbus' and 'device da' in your kernel to enable USB mass storage (umass) support. -- Matt Emmerton - Original Message - From: [EMAIL

Re: chown broken??

2002-12-20 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 07:49:27PM -0800, David Schultz wrote: Thus spake Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - Original Message - From: Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Andrew Cutler [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 3:15 PM

Greetings for the Holiday Season

2002-12-20 Thread nbbn
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