Re: Problem with cvs commit failed in cvs-freebsd setup [REVISED]

2006-03-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-03-07 01:59, Jose Liang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ cvs commit -f -m 'Forced commit to test the new CVSROOT scripts' avail Can't locate CVSROOT/cfg.pm in @INC (@INC contains: :local:/home/cvs/cvsroot /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd

Re: portsnap cannot change its default WORKDIR ?

2006-03-07 Thread Chandan Haldar
The two command line options -d WORKDIR -p PORTSDIR that portsnap accepts should be adequate for what you seem to be looking for. I use the second frequently. Chandan Yuan Jue wrote: On Tuesday 07 March 2006 15:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -On 3/6/06, Yuan Jue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: portsnap cannot change its default WORKDIR ?

2006-03-07 Thread Yuan Jue
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 16:24, Chandan Haldar wrote: The two command line options -d WORKDIR -p PORTSDIR that portsnap accepts should be adequate for what you seem to be looking for. I use the second frequently. yes, this method works for me. I am just wondering why portsnap.conf cannot

print question: cups and lpr

2006-03-07 Thread Gary Kline
On my test system I'm defaulting to cups; printing on any flavor of *nix has always been painful ... which is why I stick with plain ol' lpr::: it Just-Works{tm}. So on my printserver and everywhere else I have lpr/lpd going. Under Gnome on my test

Re: Problem with cvs commit failed in cvs-freebsd setup [REVISED]

2006-03-07 Thread Jose Liang
Sorry for not replying to the original post. I left it in my queue of incoming to-be-replied messages, and then got dragged into other things. It's fine, thanks help again! Can you show me the output of: $ ls -ld $CVSROOT/* $ ls -ld $CVSROOT/* ls: :local:/home/cvs/cvsroot/*: No such

Re: Problem with cvs commit failed in cvs-freebsd setup [REVISED]

2006-03-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-03-07 16:38, Jose Liang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for not replying to the original post. I left it in my queue of incoming to-be-replied messages, and then got dragged into other things. It's fine, thanks help again! Can you show me the output of: $ ls -ld $CVSROOT/*

Authentication with auto replication

2006-03-07 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have a system that needs user authentication. Right now I am using NIS to share the users password between all the machines that need it: one machine is the primary server, others clients are also running a secondary server: so would a machine get isolated, it could still do authentication

Re: Apache

2006-03-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
Pgold wrote: Hi guys, i'm trying to start apache using: apachectl start. But apache simply won't start, configurations files seems ok. If I try httpd -X i receive a Segmentation fault(core dumped). Anyone know what this could be? Nor help debugging the core output? segfaults on apache startup

Canon Pixma photo printers and Codehost brightq

2006-03-07 Thread Chandan Haldar
I read that the Codehost brightq Canon printer driver has a generic postscript driver that may be able to print on the new Canon Pixma IP series USB photo printers. Does anyone have any positive experience to share with this driver and any Canon Pixma IP * models on FreeBSD+CUPS? Chandan

Re: Accesing BSD disk under windows

2006-03-07 Thread Martin Tournoy
On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:01:21 -, Michael Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 12:14:43 +0100 (CET), you wrote: Hello, I found an old disk (24 Mo!) and I know I installed BSD on it... years ago. How can I read this disk under windows XP pro? Thank you for your help. Best

Re: Realplayer and firefox

2006-03-07 Thread Björn Sjöberg
On 3/7/06, Steel City Phantom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i just got realplayer installed and its recognized in firefox in the about:plugins screen. but when i go to a site that loads the reaplayer, firefox core dumps and crashes. snip ideas? I can't help you with your specific problem.

Re: New logo, new look

2006-03-07 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 05:01:43PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Ceri Davies wrote: On 6/3/06 14:56, fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So a little red ball with 2 little pointed ears is the new logo. It sucks big time. When you have a contest and none of the

Re: New logo, new look

2006-03-07 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 11:19:28AM +, Ceri Davies wrote: On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 05:01:43PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Ceri Davies wrote: On 6/3/06 14:56, fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So a little red ball with 2 little pointed ears is the new logo.

Re: How to figure out who shutdown box (Kelly D. Grills)

2006-03-07 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 10:22:08PM -0500, Jon Poland wrote: On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 10:24:17AM -0500, Jon Poland wrote: Hi, I operate a colo box running FreeBSD 6.0-SECURITY. Yesterday the box shutdown and powered off. I didn't execute shutdown or halt, and I'm the only user who

Re: Accesing BSD disk under windows

2006-03-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 3/7/06, Martin Tournoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:01:21 -, Michael Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 12:14:43 +0100 (CET), you wrote: Hello, I found an old disk (24 Mo!) and I know I installed BSD on it... years ago. How can I read this

Re: print question: cups and lpr

2006-03-07 Thread Danny Pansters
On Tuesday 7 March 2006 08:21, Gary Kline wrote: On my test system I'm defaulting to cups; printing on any flavor of *nix has always been painful ... which is why I stick with plain ol' lpr::: it Just-Works{tm}. So on my printserver and everywhere else I have

Problem with kernel kompiling

2006-03-07 Thread AxeL
I have some problem in my kernel kompiling.. config command was successful .. but the make command..not.. my hardware is : Celeron 533, mb Asus i810 , 3hdds and vineo nv GeFerce 2 mx400. here is my kernel. AxeLKERNEL Description: Binary data ___

Re: Problem with kernel kompiling

2006-03-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-03-07 14:48, AxeL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some problem in my kernel kompiling.. config command was successful .. but the make command..not.. my hardware is : Celeron 533, mb Asus i810 , 3hdds and vineo nv GeFerce 2 mx400. here is my kernel. Don't run config(8) manually. Use

Re: Problem with kernel kompiling

2006-03-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
AxeL [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have some problem in my kernel kompiling.. config command was successful .. but the make command..not.. my hardware is : Celeron 533, mb Asus i810 , 3hdds and vineo nv GeFerce 2 mx400. here is my kernel. You deleted a device that another device needed. In

Promise TX2200/2300 SATA RAID Controllers - New Driver/BIOS Problem

2006-03-07 Thread Jud
At the beginning of February, Promise released a new BIOS (version 2.5.0.3115) for the TX2300 and a new Windows driver (version 2.06.0.311) for the TX2200/2300. After installing the new BIOS and driver on my TX2300, neither the BSDINSTALLER iso from early December nor a -CURRENT installation iso

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-03-07 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 05:29:36PM +0100, Kristian Vaaf wrote: At 22:08 04.03.2006, Stijn Hoop wrote: On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 05:45:29PM +0100, Kristian Vaaf wrote: At 12:05 03.03.2006, Stijn Hoop wrote: On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 11:58:37AM +0100, Kristian Vaaf wrote: I run the script to

help

2006-03-07 Thread Indunil Jayasooriya
Hi, I installed FreeBSD 6. I set up sendmail , spamassassin , clamav, and spamass-milter. It does not worl as expected. it says, still running as root. user not specified with -u option. it can not create .spamassasin/.user_prefs files under user directiries. But it creats

Help Please

2006-03-07 Thread Marc Ravenor
Dear Sir/Madam I work for a systems integrator based in the UK. I have a client that is currently using FreeBSD version 4.11 and version 6. He currently wants to use the software on an HP DL320 G4 server. The problem he is facing at the moment is that when the software is loaded he is unable

Re: help

2006-03-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: [ ... ] It does not worl as expected. it says, still running as root. user not specified with -u option. it can not create .spamassasin/.user_prefs files under user directiries. But it creats .spamassasin/.user_prefs under root. Why ? pls help me. It told

Re: Help Please

2006-03-07 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello Marc, Marc Ravenor wrote: I work for a systems integrator based in the UK. I have a client that is currently using FreeBSD version 4.11 and version 6. He currently wants to use the software on an HP DL320 G4 server. The problem he is facing at the moment is that when the software is

Re: Help Please

2006-03-07 Thread Nils Vogels
Marc Ravenor wrote on 07-03-2006 11:58: I work for a systems integrator based in the UK. I have a client that is currently using FreeBSD version 4.11 and version 6. He currently wants to use the software on an HP DL320 G4 server. The problem he is facing at the moment is that when the software

Re: Help Please

2006-03-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Marc Ravenor wrote: [ ... ] I work for a systems integrator based in the UK. I have a client that is currently using FreeBSD version 4.11 and version 6. He currently wants to use the software on an HP DL320 G4 server. The problem he is facing at the moment is that when the software is loaded

Re: awk question

2006-03-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 6, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Noel Jones wrote: On 3/6/06, Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm totally drawing a blank on where to start out on this. If I have a list of URLs like http://www.happymountain.com/archive/digest.gif How could I use Awk or Sed to strip everything after

Tape backup / Bizzare Device Question

2006-03-07 Thread Graham Bentley
Is there a way to create a hdd resore solution with set of boot floppies that will support my tape drive access the tape and restore the entire hard disc in case of disc failure disaster ? ie So I could install a new disc and be up and running without doing any additional admin? I guess like a

Out of memory during large request

2006-03-07 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
FreeBSD 6-STABLE Got this when I ran a Perl script: Out of memory during large request for 33558528 bytes Would this be good syntax in /boot/loader.conf, the system has 2G RAM: vm.kmem_size_max=671088640 to try to cure the problem? Where do I best learn more about memory tuning?

Re: awk question

2006-03-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Mar 6, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Noel Jones wrote: On 3/6/06, Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm totally drawing a blank on where to start out on this. If I have a list of URLs like http://www.happymountain.com/archive/digest.gif How could I use Awk or Sed

Re: Tape backup / Bizzare Device Question

2006-03-07 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:09:40PM -, Graham Bentley wrote: Description: Glass bulb, similar to light bulb but with narrow end flared at bootom so it standsup. Inside, a rotating wire device that has 4 squares of card like material attached, like vanes. One one side they are black

Re: Tape backup / Bizzare Device Question

2006-03-07 Thread DAve
Graham Bentley wrote: Is there a way to create a hdd resore solution with set of boot floppies that will support my tape drive access the tape and restore the entire hard disc in case of disc failure disaster ? ie So I could install a new disc and be up and running without doing any

Re: Help with lost MBR on USB HDD

2006-03-07 Thread Jarrod O'Flaherty
For anyone who might be interested... Jarrod O'Flaherty wrote: And last but not least, I really hope someone can tell me how I can salvage my MBR other 3 partitions. If that is not possible, then perhaps you can point me in the direction of a tool which will salvage the files on the

Re: help decipher login msgs

2006-03-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Per olof Ljungmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to set up Webmin to administer mailboxes on a Cyrus-IMAP server with the help of an external module http://www.tecchio.net/webmin/cyrus/ and it works, sort of. The following messages are recorded in /var/log/messages: perl: No worthy

Re: New logo, new look

2006-03-07 Thread Danial Thom
--- Sam Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: Is there a reason why both the old and new logos cannot be used in tandem? I'd rather leave the old one up on my web site, since, personally, I like it better ... I understand the argument for a 'new logo', but,

Re: range of 32 bit unsigned int/long

2006-03-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
kamal kc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the 16 bit unsigned integer takes the value as i checked myself for 0 to 2^16-1 (=65535). but the 32 bit unsigned integer/long does not take the value from 0 to 2^32-1 (4294967295). instead 32 bit unsigned int/long takes the value from 0 to 2^31-1

Re: su: _secure_path: cannot stat .login_conf: Permission denied

2006-03-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Oles Hnatkevych [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to move FreeBSD 6.1 installation from one hard drive to another. I do stuff like newfs /dev/ad1s1a and so on, then I mount all new partitions to some tree in /mnt, then I do simple things: tar --one-file-system -cf - -C / .|tar xpvf - -C

192.168.0.1/24

2006-03-07 Thread Huy Ton That
Reading the handbook and I've seen /24 appended to an IP address often. I'm curious what this exactly means - I don't have strong networking skills; does this define what ip it goes up to? 192.168.0.1 through to 192.168.0.24? ___

linux iproute2 replacement

2006-03-07 Thread Petre Bandac
hallo I am trying to migrate a dual-homed linux box to freebsd; how can I achieve the src routing iproute2 does on freebsd ? thanks, petre -- Petre Bandac Network Scientist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Drivers Required

2006-03-07 Thread Marc Ravenor
Does anyone have drivers for an Intel 82801FR sata host controller? I have a customer using FreeBSD V 4.11 loaded on an HP DL 320 G4 server and he cannot see the drives. Thanks, Marc Marc Ravenor Account Manager Trans European Technology *DDI: 020 7553 3817 *Mobile: 07930

Re: 192.168.0.1/24

2006-03-07 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On 3/7/06, Huy Ton That [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reading the handbook and I've seen /24 appended to an IP address often. I'm curious what this exactly means - I don't have strong networking skills; does this define what ip it goes up to? 192.168.0.1 through to 192.168.0.24? No, It's a

Re: Drivers Required

2006-03-07 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
Marc Ravenor wrote: Does anyone have drivers for an Intel 82801FR sata host controller? I have a customer using FreeBSD V 4.11 loaded on an HP DL 320 G4 server and he cannot see the drives. FreeBSD 4.11 is obsolete and unsupported. Maybe you will find an appropriate driver in/for FreeBSD

Re[2]: su: _secure_path: cannot stat .login_conf: Permission denied

2006-03-07 Thread Oles Hnatkevych
Hello, Lowell. LG Oles Hnatkevych [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to move FreeBSD 6.1 installation from one hard drive to another. I do stuff like newfs /dev/ad1s1a and so on, then I mount all new partitions to some tree in /mnt, then I do simple things: tar --one-file-system -cf - -C

Re: linux iproute2 replacement

2006-03-07 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 12:58:59PM +0200, Petre Bandac wrote: hallo I am trying to migrate a dual-homed linux box to freebsd; how can I achieve the src routing iproute2 does on freebsd ? There isn't currently a direct routing equivalent. I cheat and use IPF like so (the IPs are faked): #

Re: linux iproute2 replacement

2006-03-07 Thread Petre Bandac
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 09:49:51 -0600 Anno Domini, the honourable Tillman Hodgson wrote using one of his keyboards: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 12:58:59PM +0200, Petre Bandac wrote: hallo I am trying to migrate a dual-homed linux box to freebsd; how can I achieve the src routing iproute2 does

Re: linux iproute2 replacement

2006-03-07 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 06:07:48PM +0200, Petre Bandac wrote: On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 09:49:51 -0600 Anno Domini, the honourable Tillman Hodgson wrote using one of his keyboards: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 12:58:59PM +0200, Petre Bandac wrote: hallo I am trying to migrate a dual-homed

suggestions for an ecomomy laser printer

2006-03-07 Thread David Banning
I have been looking at economy laser printers in the stores, only to discover that many will not print on FreeBSD. I have looked at some printers that -do- print on FreeBSD, but many are not made any more. Then there is the issue of dependability. I am looking for an economy laser printer; under

Re: 192.168.0.1/24

2006-03-07 Thread Petre Bandac
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 10:29:18 -0500 Anno Domini, the honourable Huy Ton That wrote using one of his keyboards: Reading the handbook and I've seen /24 appended to an IP address often. I'm curious what this exactly means - I don't have strong networking skills; does this define what ip it goes up

Re: Drivers Required

2006-03-07 Thread robert
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 16:40 +0100, Kövesdán Gábor wrote: Marc Ravenor wrote: Does anyone have drivers for an Intel 82801FR sata host controller? I have a customer using FreeBSD V 4.11 loaded on an HP DL 320 G4 server and he cannot see the drives. FreeBSD 4.11 is obsolete and

Re: suggestions for an ecomomy laser printer

2006-03-07 Thread robert
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 11:15 -0500, David Banning wrote: I have been looking at economy laser printers in the stores, only to discover that many will not print on FreeBSD. I have looked at some printers that -do- print on FreeBSD, but many are not made any more. Then there is the issue of

Re: print question: cups and lpr

2006-03-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 11:33:02AM +, Danny Pansters wrote: On Tuesday 7 March 2006 08:21, Gary Kline wrote: On my test system I'm defaulting to cups; printing on any flavor of *nix has always been painful ... which is why I stick with plain ol' lpr::: it

Re: Accesing BSD disk under windows

2006-03-07 Thread Nicolas BOUTIER
Hello, thank you again for your answers. I will try with cygwin and I'm downloading a Linux LiveCD (oops)... I used to be under Linux more time than BSD... Best regards, Nicolas --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : On 3/7/06, Martin Tournoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 06

Re: 192.168.0.1/24

2006-03-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Huy Ton That wrote: Reading the handbook and I've seen /24 appended to an IP address often. I'm curious what this exactly means - I don't have strong networking skills; does this define what ip it goes up to? 192.168.0.1 through to 192.168.0.24? Google for CIDR Notation. HTH, Kevin

Re: Accesing BSD disk under windows

2006-03-07 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 18:58:50 +0100 (CET) Nicolas BOUTIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, thank you again for your answers. I will try with cygwin and I'm downloading a Linux LiveCD (oops)... I used to be under Linux more time than BSD... That may be, but it is by far the most powerfull

Re: New logo, new look

2006-03-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Danial Thom wrote: The reason that BSD is what it is (that is, an obscure OS to the masses) is because BSD camps are run by a bunch of geeky programmers that have no sense of marketing. LINUX, which we'll all agree is an inferior technical product, gets a lot of milage out of their stupid

Re: 192.168.0.1/24

2006-03-07 Thread David Stanford
Hello Huy Ton That, The /24 is the bitmask. As stated previously, it's basically a shorter notation than having to write out the whole subnet mask (i.e. 255.255.255.0) associated with the IP address. Unfortunately, attempting to explain the whole concept of netmasks is just too time consuming for

Re: 192.168.0.1/24

2006-03-07 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On 3/7/06, Huy Ton That [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is great; thanks all for your assistance with the cidr notation information. I successfully configured my fbsd box as a router am now working on firewall rules. This has made me realize that my knowledge with networks, ips, and their

Re: suggestions for an ecomomy laser printer

2006-03-07 Thread Derek Ragona
I would look at low cost lasers that include postscript (along with PCL), one that has a CPU and renders the page in the printer (vs a Windows printer) and a network interface. Under $500 is easy to do in the samsung line, if you are willing to spend a couple more hundred you can get a color

Re: suggestions for an ecomomy laser printer

2006-03-07 Thread dataivNOSPAM
I recently bought a Brother HL-2070N for $200 Canadian, and it includes network interface, is a 20 ppm black white laser printer. It does, however, require a new drum every ~12,000 pages, and toner cartridges are estimated to last about 2,500 pages, so they aren't the biggest toner cartridges

is it safe to run sendmail on port 24?

2006-03-07 Thread Peter
Hi, is it safe to run sendmail on port 24? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: is it safe to run sendmail on port 24?

2006-03-07 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On 3/7/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, is it safe to run sendmail on port 24? Hi, it's surely not less safe than running it on port 25.. The point is: why? If it's a matter of security by obscurity, I would say better solutions should be found. -- Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: is it safe to run sendmail on port 24?

2006-03-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
Peter wrote: Hi, is it safe to run sendmail on port 24? It's neither more nor less safe than running it on port 25, but considerably less useful. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: 192.168.0.1/24

2006-03-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Huy Ton That wrote: This is great; thanks all for your assistance with the cidr notation information. I successfully configured my fbsd box as a router am now working on firewall rules. This has made me realize that my knowledge with networks, ips, and their classes is limited. Do you have

Re: suggestions for an ecomomy laser printer

2006-03-07 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:23:52PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently bought a Brother HL-2070N for $200 Canadian, and it includes network interface, is a 20 ppm black white laser printer. It does, however, require a new drum every ~12,000 pages, and toner cartridges are estimated to

Re: help decipher login msgs

2006-03-07 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Per olof Ljungmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to set up Webmin to administer mailboxes on a Cyrus-IMAP server with the help of an external module http://www.tecchio.net/webmin/cyrus/ and it works, sort of. The following messages are recorded in /var/log/messages:

Re: print question: cups and lpr

2006-03-07 Thread Bob Johnson
On 3/7/06, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my test system I'm defaulting to cups; printing on any flavor of *nix has always been painful ... which is why I stick with plain ol' lpr::: it Just-Works{tm}. So on my printserver and everywhere else I have

Re: suggestions for an ecomomy laser printer

2006-03-07 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote David Banning thusly... I have looked at some printers that -do- print on FreeBSD, but many are not made any more. Then there is the issue of dependability. I am looking for an economy laser printer; under $500 range and want dependability, and low cost

AND COBOL

2006-03-07 Thread Gabriel
HI, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF RMCOBOL RUNS IN FREEBSD, THANKS. GABRIEL ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Best practises in maintaining a small system

2006-03-07 Thread Steve P.
Greetings, I want to learn how to maintain a small server environment, focusing on installation and maintanance of kernel and software. My scope in this exercise is limited to a small ftp server in a production environment. I believe this means I want to track security branch. What I imagine is

Re: Kernel dump then what

2006-03-07 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 7 March 2006 at 10:01:48 +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, Now I managed to get a kernel dump. I even got two of them, with different panic, both page fault, one on read, one on write. The machine had been runing fine for a year when it started to panic on heavly load. I

Re: Problem with cvs commit failed in cvs-freebsd setup [REVISED]

2006-03-07 Thread Jose Liang
On 2006-03-07 16:45, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because $CVSROOT in your environment is not set correctly. You have obviously included the string ``:local:'' somewhere in there, which is wrong. I see. If I use pserver then $CVSROOT set like this: :pserver:[EMAIL

Re: Best practises in maintaining a small system

2006-03-07 Thread Steve P.
I apologize for the format of this text. I promise when I pasted it into my mail app, it did not look this way! Please let me get it looking right first. Thanks. - Original Message - From: Steve P. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Best practises in maintaining a small system

Re: AND COBOL

2006-03-07 Thread Chris Hill
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Gabriel wrote: HI, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF RMCOBOL RUNS IN FREEBSD, THANKS. GABRIEL DON'T KNOW ABOUT ANY RMCOBOL, BUT THERE EXISTS open-cobol AND tinycobol UNDER /usr/ports/lang. PS - NO NEED TO SHOUT, BUT I TRY TO ANSWER IN

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-03-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/5/06, Beastie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 3/3/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Please can you be careful when you attribute your comments. You've sent this email to me, and left only my name in the attributions as if I were

Re: AND COBOL

2006-03-07 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 7 March 2006 at 18:47:25 -0500, Chris Hill wrote: On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Gabriel wrote: HI, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF RMCOBOL RUNS IN FREEBSD, THANKS. GABRIEL DON'T KNOW ABOUT ANY RMCOBOL, BUT THERE EXISTS open-cobol AND tinycobol UNDER

Re: AND COBOL

2006-03-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 06:47:25PM -0500, Chris Hill wrote: On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Gabriel wrote: HI, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF RMCOBOL RUNS IN FREEBSD, THANKS. GABRIEL DON'T KNOW ABOUT ANY RMCOBOL, BUT THERE EXISTS open-cobol AND tinycobol UNDER

Xgl/Compiz port

2006-03-07 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I would like to know if there is someone working on a Xgl/Compiz port? I have searched the FreeBSD mailing lists and Google for a while, but I have not found anything about Xgl on FreeBSD. I have tried to get the Xgl sources and compile it, but it fails to configure with gnu-autoconf...

Re: Problem with cvs commit failed in cvs-freebsd setup [REVISED]

2006-03-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-03-08 07:07, Jose Liang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-03-07 16:45, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because $CVSROOT in your environment is not set correctly. You have obviously included the string ``:local:'' somewhere in there, which is wrong. I see. If I use

Re: AND COBOL

2006-03-07 Thread jdow
From: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give the poor guy a break; he's a COBOL programmer, so he's used to thinking and typing in all-caps :-) And just think, both COBOL and AOL end in OL. I wonder if there is a relationship? Exit stage left FAST--{O,o}

Re: print question: cups and lpr

2006-03-07 Thread Danny Pansters
On Tuesday 7 March 2006 17:44, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 11:33:02AM +, Danny Pansters wrote: On Tuesday 7 March 2006 08:21, Gary Kline wrote: On my test system I'm defaulting to cups; printing on any flavor of *nix has always been painful ... which is

Configuring for IP ports

2006-03-07 Thread Rem P Roberti
Hi Everyone, A BSD friend of mine set up my firewall, and he is out of town for a while. I am attempting to use a program that uses UDP packets on ports 5198 and 5199. So my firewall must be configured to allow my machine to accept UDP packets on either of those ports, and to send packets

Re: AND COBOL

2006-03-07 Thread hackmiester / Hunter Fuller
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 15:56, Gabriel wrote: HI, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF RMCOBOL RUNS IN FREEBSD, THANKS. HI, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF YOU COULD POSSIBLY TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK KEY. IT MAKES IT SEEM LIKE YOU ARE SCREAMING AND NO ONE WANTS TO ANSWER A QUESTION FOR SOMEONE WHO RANTS AND RAVES.

Re: AND COBOL

2006-03-07 Thread Bob Hall
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 04:33:05PM -0800, jdow wrote: From: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give the poor guy a break; he's a COBOL programmer, so he's used to thinking and typing in all-caps :-) And just think, both COBOL and AOL end in OL. I wonder if there is a relationship? LOL? Or

Problems mounting msdosfs

2006-03-07 Thread Jakob Breivik Grimstveit
I'm still experiencing same problems Christer Solskogen reported two years ago on FreeBSD 5.2.1 with msdosfs mount failure upon boot making it go into single-user-mode (having to press enter (into shell) and ctrl+d (to continue booting) to get box up after reboot:

RE: AND COBOL

2006-03-07 Thread fbsd_user
I have used this in the past. It's Cobol script for building web sites that r/w to flat files and mysql database. Works much Like php in the way it interfaces with native html code. Their website is built using it as a demo of how fast it runs. Can download version with mysql for testing.

Xen timeline for 6.x

2006-03-07 Thread Walter Hop
Hi all, I've been wondering about the status of Xen support and its possible inclusion in the 6.x branch. Originally it was mentioned in the FreeBSD status reports that full (domU and dom0) Xen support for the FreeBSD kernel would be merged in before 6.1-RELEASE. But I have also read

Re: AND COBOL

2006-03-07 Thread Noel Jones
On 3/7/06, Bob Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I couldn't figure out how to fit ALGOL in there. Ain't life a PISTOL? After that, I need a Tylenol... -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-03-07 Thread Beastie
Nikolas Britton wrote: On 3/5/06, Beastie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 3/3/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Please can you be careful when you attribute your comments. You've sent this email to me, and

Re: AND COBOL

2006-03-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Noel Jones wrote: On 3/7/06, Bob Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I couldn't figure out how to fit ALGOL in there. Ain't life a PISTOL? After that, I need a Tylenol... -- Noel Jones ... because the whole thing sounded like folderol. ;-) Nonetheless, I'm not sure if I have

Re: suggestions for an ecomomy laser printer

2006-03-07 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Parv thusly... Lexmark Optra E320 (black white laser; PCL PS[23] emulation) or similar should be around $200 ... ( Hmmm ... i just looked at Lexmark site which is missing above mentioned printer but there seems to be new replacements w/ lower

losing the -z option to moused worked?

2006-03-07 Thread John Reynolds
Hello all, I recently upgraded my system from an ancient 5.1-CURRENT to 6.1-BETA2 and all was going fine until my trusty Logitech plain-jane 3-button mouse with scroll wheel wouldn't scroll with the wheel :) I grepped the list archives and googled quite a bit and it appears that in Xorg 6.9.0

Trying to patch a beautiful desktop

2006-03-07 Thread Kristian Vaaf
Hello! I've done some research on how to make ones desktop look the best, without being too bloated in terms of looks and functionality but still classify as good design and give users a smooth experience. I've found that if done correctly, Openbox together with Gnome can look pretty darn nice.

Xgl/Compiz

2006-03-07 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I would like to know if there is someone working on a Xgl/Compiz port? I have searched the FreeBSD mailing lists and Google for a while, but I have not found anything about Xgl on FreeBSD. I have tried to get the Xgl sources and compile it, but it fails to configure with gnu-autoconf...

Re: Flash Player

2006-03-07 Thread Chris Maness
Joseph Vella wrote: On Monday 06 March 2006 22:34, Duane Whitty wrote: On Tuesday 07 March 2006 01:42, Chris I installed these ports. Is there anything I need to do to the browser to get it to recognize them, because flash is still not working. Sorry, I forgot to mention that for firefox

truss output of ssh Bus error (core dumped)

2006-03-07 Thread Jim Arnold
Thanks to member Lowell Gilbert I was able to run truss and generate output from my ssh Bus error (core dumped) problem. This only happens when I try to ssh out of the box as a normal user. I can ssh out as root. Ive posted the file at http://www.jimarnold.org/truss.ssh.txt to see if anyone

Re: Flash Player

2006-03-07 Thread Joseph Vella
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 21:22, Chris Maness wrote: Joseph Vella wrote: On Monday 06 March 2006 22:34, Duane Whitty wrote: On Tuesday 07 March 2006 01:42, Chris I installed these ports. Is there anything I need to do to the browser to get it to recognize them, because flash is

Portupgrade Operation

2006-03-07 Thread Chris Maness
If I manually rm -rf a port, manually untar (ie glib.tar.gz), and do a portupgrade -rR glib, will packages that have a specific dependency on the old glib version get rebuilt? Or if not will they break (I am just using glib as an example and looking for a very general answer)? I would like

Re: Flash Player

2006-03-07 Thread Rem P Roberti
Joseph Vella wrote: On Tuesday 07 March 2006 21:22, Chris Maness wrote: Joseph Vella wrote: On Monday 06 March 2006 22:34, Duane Whitty wrote: On Tuesday 07 March 2006 01:42, Chris I installed these ports. Is there anything I need to do to the browser to get it to

Re: Flash Player

2006-03-07 Thread Chris Maness
Joseph Vella wrote: On Tuesday 07 March 2006 21:22, Chris Maness wrote: Joseph Vella wrote: On Monday 06 March 2006 22:34, Duane Whitty wrote: On Tuesday 07 March 2006 01:42, Chris I installed these ports. Is there anything I need to do to the browser to get it to

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