Re: Korn shell script Question

2007-02-02 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 1/31/07, kris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:27:24PM -0500, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: Thanks a lot , I test ran it. This is great No problem. I should add that if this is to be part of a long running script, you should close the co-process (the while-loop running cat),

Re: Does KDE on freeBSD use Qt toolkit or some other one?

2007-02-02 Thread Pieter de Goeje
Yes, KDE uses the Qt toolkit. - Pieter de Goeje ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Flash Player

2007-02-02 Thread RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN
Hello again all i have been having a really hard time figuring out how to get flash to work on my Freebsd machine. I go to lots of sites and they tell me to get the plugin but i have tried everything and cannot get it to work. I am running firefox from the ports and have the following ports

unexpected result from sh script with `date`

2007-02-02 Thread Tigger
Hello, the following simply sh script is outputting unexpected results. Any idea why? --script-- #!/bin/sh started=`date` echo Started at: $started echo Finished : `date` exit --output-- Started at: Fri Feb 2 22:13:51 EST 2007 Finished : Fri Feb 2 22:13:51 EST 2007 --problem-- Between

Re: unexpected result from sh script with `date`

2007-02-02 Thread J65nko
On 2/2/07, Tigger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, the following simply sh script is outputting unexpected results. Any idea why? --script-- #!/bin/sh started=`date` echo Started at: $started echo Finished : `date` exit --output-- Started at: Fri Feb 2 22:13:51 EST 2007 Finished : Fri

CVSup Touch

2007-02-02 Thread Cy Schubert
What is a CVSup Touch? What is it? (A touch, right?) Why does it happen? What triggers it? e.g. Touch ports/devel/makeplus/files/patch-main.mk,v Touch ports/devel/makeplus/pkg-descr,v Touch ports/devel/makeplus/pkg-plist,v I have a CVSup that's been running here for 15 minutes touching every

Tapecopy(1) Function Query

2007-02-02 Thread Leigh Thomas
Hi, Will the above tapecopy facility copy a tape from one format to another? i.e. DAT to AIT for instance and does the format of the tape matter? i.e. will it copy a windows format tape? Many thanks for your time. Any answer would be very much appreciated. Regards, Leigh

Re: windows behaviour on installing new packages

2007-02-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Gobbledegeek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi I noticed over the past few weeks, that after installing numerous packages (pkg_add -r), I could not execute them (not found). They were standard packages installed in the standard locations like /usr/local/bin or sbin (already in

Dyscalculia

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Glavin
Hi, My name is Chris Glavin. I run a website devoted to providing resourceful information for a number of topics in education and disabilities and disorders. I have created an information page on Dyscalculia including symptoms, causes, students with dyscalculia, support services, special

SSH woes

2007-02-02 Thread Arindam
I have a Pentium III 733 Mhz box with 512 MB RAM running FreeBSD 6.1. I also have a second box with Fedora Core 2. I tried connecting to my FreeBSD box using ssh from my Fedora Core 2 machine. # ssh -l root myFreeBSD box Password: Password: Password: It kept asking me for Password: although

Re: SSH woes

2007-02-02 Thread usleepless
Arindam, On 2/2/07, Arindam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Pentium III 733 Mhz box with 512 MB RAM running FreeBSD 6.1. I also have a second box with Fedora Core 2. I tried connecting to my FreeBSD box using ssh from my Fedora Core 2 machine. # ssh -l root myFreeBSD box Password: Password:

Re: Synaptics touchpad freezes

2007-02-02 Thread Gábor Gábris
The SHMConfig option seems to have no effect on the problem. It is rather some ACPI-related thing, as I could figure out from the Linux ACPI mailing list archives (on linux the same problem occurs, but more severely - no recovery from freezes), the problem seems to be with the access of

Re: SSH woes

2007-02-02 Thread Vince
Arindam wrote: I have a Pentium III 733 Mhz box with 512 MB RAM running FreeBSD 6.1. I also have a second box with Fedora Core 2. I tried connecting to my FreeBSD box using ssh from my Fedora Core 2 machine. # ssh -l root myFreeBSD box Password: Password: Password: It kept asking me

Re: unexpected result from sh script with `date`

2007-02-02 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:48:31PM +0100, J65nko wrote: On 2/2/07, Tigger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, the following simply sh script is outputting unexpected results. Any idea why? --script-- #!/bin/sh started=`date` echo Started at: $started echo Finished : `date` exit

Re: SSH woes

2007-02-02 Thread cknipe
# ssh -l root myFreeBSD box Password: Password: Password: It kept asking me for Password: although everytime I put the correct value. I tried out clearing the .ssh* files in my home directories and trying to reconnect. None of it worked. Don't login as root... It's not good practise,

Re: SSH woes

2007-02-02 Thread Jeffrey Belles
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 18:37:14 +0530, Arindam wrote I have a Pentium III 733 Mhz box with 512 MB RAM running FreeBSD 6.1. I also have a second box with Fedora Core 2. I tried connecting to my FreeBSD box using ssh from my Fedora Core 2 machine. # ssh -l root myFreeBSD box Password: Password:

Re: USB TV Tuner vs. FreeBSD

2007-02-02 Thread Simon Phoenix
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello. Share successes who has forced to work the given device. I have AverTV USB 2.0 Plus, but i can't make it working for this time. :( - -- Best regards, Simon Phoenix (Phoenix Lab.) -

Re: CVSup Touch

2007-02-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Cy Schubert wrote: What is a CVSup Touch? What is it? (A touch, right?) Why does it happen? What triggers it? e.g. Touch ports/devel/makeplus/files/patch-main.mk,v Touch ports/devel/makeplus/pkg-descr,v Touch ports/devel/makeplus/pkg-plist,v I have a CVSup that's been running here for 15

Determining daylight savings changes on BSD

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I use the following command on our CentOS Linux servers to find out if the system is ready for the daylight savings changes coming up, but it does not seem to work the same on our FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.1 servers. How can I do this? I see the zdump command and the man page seems to suggest the same

Re: Korn shell script Question

2007-02-02 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 1/31/07, kris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:27:24PM -0500, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: Thanks a lot , I test ran it. This is great No problem. I should add that if this is to be part of a long running script, you should close the co-process (the while-loop running cat),

Re: Tapecopy(1) Function Query

2007-02-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 02), Leigh Thomas said: Will the above tapecopy facility copy a tape from one format to another? i.e. DAT to AIT for instance and does the format of the tape matter? i.e. will it copy a windows format tape? You mean the tcopy command? Yes, it can read from one tape

Re: Determining daylight savings changes on BSD

2007-02-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick said: I use the following command on our CentOS Linux servers to find out if the system is ready for the daylight savings changes coming up, but it does not seem to work the same on our FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.1 servers. How can I do this? I see the

File won't move

2007-02-02 Thread Jay Chandler
Have a file mounted on an NFS share. I attempt to move it, rename it, copy it, or just about ANYTHING to it as root, and get a Permission Denied error. How can I figure out what's going on? -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's

Re: File won't move

2007-02-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 02), Jay Chandler said: Have a file mounted on an NFS share. I attempt to move it, rename it, copy it, or just about ANYTHING to it as root, and get a Permission Denied error. How can I figure out what's going on? Root usually has no permissions over NFS (it gets

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2007-02-02 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ 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

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2007-02-02 Thread Greg Lehey
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 computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

Re: Flash Player

2007-02-02 Thread youshi10
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN wrote: Hello again all i have been having a really hard time figuring out how to get flash to work on my Freebsd machine. I go to lots of sites and they tell me to get the plugin but i have tried everything and cannot get it to work. I am running

Re: Flash Player

2007-02-02 Thread Michael M. Press
I am running firefox from the ports and have the following ports installed to try and make this work but it will not. flashplugin-mozilla-0.4.13 A GPL standalone Flash (TM) plugin for Mozilla web browser libflash-0.4.13_1 GPL Flash (TM) Library linux-flashplugin-7.0r69 Adobe Flash Player

Re: Flash Player (fwd)

2007-02-02 Thread youshi10
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Michael M. Press wrote: I am running firefox from the ports and have the following ports installed to try and make this work but it will not. flashplugin-mozilla-0.4.13 A GPL standalone Flash (TM) plugin for Mozilla web browser libflash-0.4.13_1 GPL Flash (TM) Library

Re: CVSup Touch

2007-02-02 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 02 February 2007 07:26, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Cy Schubert wrote: What is a CVSup Touch? What is it? (A touch, right?) Why does it happen? What triggers it? e.g. Touch ports/devel/makeplus/files/patch-main.mk,v Touch ports/devel/makeplus/pkg-descr,v Touch

Recovering a file on an msdosfs partition

2007-02-02 Thread Tore Lund
The thing that should never, ever happen did happen yesterday. I lost a file and was not able to recover it. ROX-filer said NewFile where I should have seen a familiar filename. I tried fsck_msdosfs and got this meaningful answer: isidoros# fsck_msdosfs /kdisk ** /kdisk (NO WRITE) Invalid

Re: Determining daylight savings changes on BSD

2007-02-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 10:36:37AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick said: I use the following command on our CentOS Linux servers to find out if the system is ready for the daylight savings changes coming up, but it does not seem to work the same on

Re: Flash Player

2007-02-02 Thread RW
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 12:23:42 -0500 Michael M. Press [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running firefox from the ports and have the following ports installed to try and make this work but it will not. flashplugin-mozilla-0.4.13 A GPL standalone Flash (TM) plugin for Mozilla web browser

Re: Recovering a file on an msdosfs partition

2007-02-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
Tore Lund wrote: The thing that should never, ever happen did happen yesterday. I lost a file and was not able to recover it. ROX-filer said NewFile where I should have seen a familiar filename. [ ... ] My question is whether I could have done anything else to make FreeBSD correct the goof

Re: CVSup Touch

2007-02-02 Thread Cy Schubert
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kent Stewart writes: On Friday 02 February 2007 07:26, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Cy Schubert wrote: What is a CVSup Touch? What is it? (A touch, right?) Why does it happen? What triggers it? e.g. Touch ports/devel/makeplus/files/patch-main.mk,v Touch

Help! Sata controller reset failure after 6.2 upgrade!

2007-02-02 Thread Steve Franks
Everything looks spiffy after my upgrade except all my sata disks are gone. Thank goodness the os in on a pata controller: atapci1: AcerLabs M5287 SATA150 controller port 0xec00-0xec0f,0xe880-0xe887,0xe800-0xe80f,0xe480-0xe487,0xe400-0xe41f mem 0xd800-0xdbff irq 21 at device 31.1 on

Re: Korn shell script Question

2007-02-02 Thread Kris Maglione
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:10:02AM -0500, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: { while cat /tmp/availspace.$$; do false; done } | exec 5p cat /tmp/reprocesses.$$|awk '/DATAFILE/ { print $0 }'|tr -d ' '| while read file_b do read -u5 file_a echo $file_b $file_a done /tmp/reprocessrecset.$$

Re: Determining daylight savings changes on BSD

2007-02-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 02), Jerry McAllister said: On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 10:36:37AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick said: I use the following command on our CentOS Linux servers to find out if the system is ready for the daylight savings

Re: Korn shell script Question

2007-02-02 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 2/2/07, Kris Maglione [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:10:02AM -0500, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: { while cat /tmp/availspace.$$; do false; done } | exec 5p cat /tmp/reprocesses.$$|awk '/DATAFILE/ { print $0 }'|tr -d ' '| while read file_b do read -u5 file_a

Re: Determining daylight savings changes on BSD

2007-02-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:18:14PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 02), Jerry McAllister said: On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 10:36:37AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick said: some deleted I don't know how to read this. There was

Re: php 5.2.0... go boom!

2007-02-02 Thread Spil Oss
Hi Jonathan, Dunno if you managed to solve it, but I found out what my problem was. My kernel config has INET6 commented out My /etc/make.conf has NO_INET6 After adding WITHOUT_IPV6 to my /etc/make.conf, a newly built php 5.2 runs fine (need to check with suhosin patch) Kind regards, Spil

FreeBSD6.2 DIY wireless AP?

2007-02-02 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear mailing list, One of the many ideas, inspired by FreeBSD, that passed through my head is the one about making my own wireless access point using an old computer with FreeBSD and a wireless nic. First question, will a Fujitsu USB D1075 wireless nic work for this purpose? Second

Re: Determining daylight savings changes on BSD

2007-02-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 02), Jerry McAllister said: On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:18:14PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: $ TZ=America/New_York ; export TZ $ date -r 1173592860 Sun Mar 11 01:01:00 EST 2007 $ date -r 1173596460 Sun Mar 11 03:01:00 EDT 2007 $ date -r 1173679260 Mon Mar 12

Re: FreeBSD6.2 DIY wireless AP?

2007-02-02 Thread Gable Barber
On 2/2/07, Roger Olofsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear mailing list, One of the many ideas, inspired by FreeBSD, that passed through my head is the one about making my own wireless access point using an old computer with FreeBSD and a wireless nic. First question, will a Fujitsu USB D1075

Re: FreeBSD6.2 DIY wireless AP?

2007-02-02 Thread Kris Maglione
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 09:07:52PM +0100, Roger Olofsson wrote: First question, will a Fujitsu USB D1075 wireless nic work for this purpose? Second question, any pointers to how to make this small project happen would be appreciated. I've googled and found some but I like to read up on

Re: Recovering a file on an msdosfs partition

2007-02-02 Thread youshi10
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Chuck Swiger wrote: Tore Lund wrote: The thing that should never, ever happen did happen yesterday. I lost a file and was not able to recover it. ROX-filer said NewFile where I should have seen a familiar filename. [ ... ] My question is whether I could have done

Re: Help! Sata controller reset failure after 6.2 upgrade!

2007-02-02 Thread youshi10
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Steve Franks wrote: Everything looks spiffy after my upgrade except all my sata disks are gone. Thank goodness the os in on a pata controller: atapci1: AcerLabs M5287 SATA150 controller port 0xec00-0xec0f,0xe880-0xe887,0xe800-0xe80f,0xe480-0xe487,0xe400-0xe41f mem

Re: Help! Sata controller reset failure after 6.2 upgrade!

2007-02-02 Thread Steve Franks
Upgraded from 6.1 release to 6.2 release. Kernel is generic, which is to say I'm pretty much a newbie, haven't hacked anything. I can configure unix reasonably well, but I haven't tweaked it. If there are specific files you'd like a look at besides the dmesg output, you'll have to name them.

trouble using raidtest on gstripe array

2007-02-02 Thread Peter
On 6.2 STABLE GENERIC, I have set up RAID0 using gstripe on two SATA drives and installed benchmarks/raidtest for testing. The array is known as /dev/stripe/data. These were my steps: # export mediasize=`diskinfo /dev/stripe/data | awk '{print $3}'` # export sectorsize=`diskinfo

Re: Problem of segmentation fault with a lot of KDE programs

2007-02-02 Thread Gregory Nou
Hi again ! Replying to myself, as I made some progress, and would like to share them. I put the line : libpthread.so.2 libpthread.so.1 (which are /lib/libpthread.so.2 and /usr/local/lib/compat/libpthread.so.1) in /etc/libmap.conf and now, kdevelop, kdvi and amarok work... but with this tuning,

Re: Easy USB-drive automounter and filemanager for nontechies?

2007-02-02 Thread Dave
On Friday 02 February 2007 00:52, Chris Shenton wrote: I'm a longtime FreeBSD user but my S.O. just barely uses the machines -- Pine and Firefox mostly. Doesn't even know she has a homedir or that there's a bunch of stuff in it. She now has a digital recorder with a 1GB CF card that

Re: Easy USB-drive automounter and filemanager for nontechies?

2007-02-02 Thread dgmm
On Friday 02 February 2007 00:52, Chris Shenton wrote: I'm a longtime FreeBSD user but my S.O. just barely uses the machines -- Pine and Firefox mostly. Doesn't even know she has a homedir or that there's a bunch of stuff in it. She now has a digital recorder with a 1GB CF card that

Problem with mod_fcgid inside a jail.

2007-02-02 Thread Vincent Bolinard
Hi, I'm getting trouble if I run Apache with mod_fcgid in a jail. If I run Apache outside the jail, it works. But, here is the error message when I start Apache inside a jail : [emerg] (2)No such file or directory: mod_fcgid: Can't create share memory for size 316628 byte I tried to set

Re: Problem with mod_fcgid inside a jail.

2007-02-02 Thread Ivan Voras
Vincent Bolinard wrote: [emerg] (2)No such file or directory: mod_fcgid: Can't create share memory for size 316628 byte I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, Apache 2.0.59 and mod_fcgid 1.09. Try running v1.10, here's what it says in changelog: 3. Use anonymous shared memeory to make OS X happy.

Re: FreeBSD6.2 DIY wireless AP?

2007-02-02 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 03:30:53PM -0500, Kris Maglione wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 09:07:52PM +0100, Roger Olofsson wrote: First question, will a Fujitsu USB D1075 wireless nic work for this purpose? Second question, any pointers to how to make this small project happen would be

Re: Problem with mod_fcgid inside a jail.

2007-02-02 Thread Josh Tolbert
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 10:51:32PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: Vincent Bolinard wrote: [emerg] (2)No such file or directory: mod_fcgid: Can't create share memory for size 316628 byte I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, Apache 2.0.59 and mod_fcgid 1.09. Try running v1.10, here's what it

Re: FreeBSD6.2 DIY wireless AP?

2007-02-02 Thread Brian
Kris Maglione wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 09:07:52PM +0100, Roger Olofsson wrote: First question, will a Fujitsu USB D1075 wireless nic work for this purpose? Second question, any pointers to how to make this small project happen would be appreciated. I've googled and found some but I

Fast SCSI RAID controller

2007-02-02 Thread Josef Grosch
Can anyone suggest a fast SCSI RAID controller for FreeBSD 6.2 ? Our vendor is having trouble with the latest Adaptec Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 6.2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Micro$oft free world | Berkeley, Ca. pgpoSZ9E60HbC.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Determining daylight savings changes on BSD

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 10:36 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick said: I use the following command on our CentOS Linux servers to find out if the system is ready for the daylight savings changes coming up, but it does not seem to work the same on our

Re: Determining daylight savings changes on BSD

2007-02-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick said: On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 10:36 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick said: I use the following command on our CentOS Linux servers to find out if the system is ready for the daylight savings changes

Re: SSH woes

2007-02-02 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Don't login as root... It's not good practise, SSH on BSD by default does also not allow for it. Add your normal user to the wheel group, use that to login The top Linux distros screw up a bunch of the ssh_config(5) and sshd_config(5) defaults. ~BAS

Re: interpreting top output (computing n% cpu usage in actual megahertz)

2007-02-02 Thread pete wright
On 2/1/07, Mark Jayson Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, My goal is to find out how much CPU a program consumes when I execute it. In the manual, it says I can toggle from raw cpu mode to weighted cpu. However, I can't still understand the difference between the two and how it has

305 GB hard drive reduced to 266 GB (why?)

2007-02-02 Thread Peter
I am installing a new 6.2 STABLE system and I am troubled by the amount of available disk space I'm getting on one of my IDE devices: # df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on ... ... /dev/ad1a 289G4.0K266G 0%/ad1 This drive is 320 GB by the

Backspaces converted to ^? -- want to get rid of ^? -_-...

2007-02-02 Thread youshi10
Ok, this happens regularly on my FreeBSD box at home when I'm not su'ed in as root using vim, or the SuSe box at work when I VNC into it (using vim once again), and I'm frankly quite tired of lame control characters screwing up my day. Is there any way to fix this behavior so pressing

Re: 305 GB hard drive reduced to 266 GB (why?)

2007-02-02 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 2007/02/02 14:39, Peter seems to have typed: I am installing a new 6.2 STABLE system and I am troubled by the amount of available disk space I'm getting on one of my IDE devices: Its in the FAQ: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#MANUFACTURER-DISK-SIZE

Re: Backspaces converted to ^? -- want to get rid of ^? -_-...

2007-02-02 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, this happens regularly on my FreeBSD box at home when I'm not su'ed in as root using vim, or the SuSe box at work when I VNC into it (using vim once again), and I'm frankly quite tired of lame control characters

Re: 305 GB hard drive reduced to 266 GB (why?)

2007-02-02 Thread Peter
Le Vendredi 2 Février 2007 18:46, Peter A. Giessel a écrit : On 2007/02/02 14:39, Peter seems to have typed: I am installing a new 6.2 STABLE system and I am troubled by the amount of available disk space I'm getting on one of my IDE devices: Its in the FAQ:

Re: 305 GB hard drive reduced to 266 GB (why?)

2007-02-02 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 2007/02/02 15:18, Peter seems to have typed: So now my question becomes Where does FreeBSD get 289 from 305?. Well, for one thing, you never have 305GB. 1024MB = 1GB. You only had 298GB UNFORMATTED. Formatted, you had 289GB. With 8% reserve, you're down to 266GB. Remember the 2MB

firefox, extensions, and *.php pages

2007-02-02 Thread Gary Kline
i've been experimenting with the firefox plugins in recent days, and hhave slammed into something I don't understand. Many web pages are on domain are in pHP. Now when I try to view myown pages, I get a popup dialog named Opening that reads: You have

Re: Fast SCSI RAID controller

2007-02-02 Thread Derek Ragona
Take a look at LSI controllers. With any SCSI make sure you get one for the correct slot you have, i.e. PCI, PCI-X, etc. -Derek At 04:22 PM 2/2/2007, Josef Grosch wrote: Can anyone suggest a fast SCSI RAID controller for FreeBSD 6.2 ? Our vendor is having trouble with the latest

Re: Backspaces converted to ^? -- want to get rid of ^? -_-...

2007-02-02 Thread youshi10
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Bill Campbell wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, this happens regularly on my FreeBSD box at home when I'm not su'ed in as root using vim, or the SuSe box at work when I VNC into it (using vim once again), and I'm frankly quite tired

configuring all dependancies before making in ports

2007-02-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
Quick question, I'm trying to build a couple of packages that take a long time to build, even longer because they just stop when it's time to configure something. That's a problem if it's configure time, say when I need to sleep, or am at work. Is there a way to have the make run through all the

Re: Determining daylight savings changes on BSD

2007-02-02 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 02 February 2007 17:35, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick said: On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 10:36 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick said: I use the following command on our CentOS Linux servers to find out

Re: configuring all dependancies before making in ports

2007-02-02 Thread Jonathan Horne
try: make config-recursive or, if i want to just take all the default options (like, for kde which is a ridiculously long build): make BATCH=yes install clean cheers, jonathan On Friday 02 February 2007 20:55, Jim Stapleton wrote: Quick question, I'm trying to build a couple of packages

Re: 305 GB hard drive reduced to 266 GB (why?)

2007-02-02 Thread Peter
Le Vendredi 2 Février 2007 19:41, Peter A. Giessel a écrit : On 2007/02/02 15:18, Peter seems to have typed: So now my question becomes Where does FreeBSD get 289 from 305?. Well, for one thing, you never have 305GB. 1024MB = 1GB. As I said, I already accounted for that. 320 000 / 1024 =

firefox, mozilla won't display PHP (Was: Re: firefox, extensions, and *.php pages)

2007-02-02 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 04:53:39PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Well, the fact that my trying seever firefox addson and the failure of firefox and mozilla to display my PHP files just happened to be co-incident. As of this writing, none of my browsers displays my

Help with autostarting Apache

2007-02-02 Thread Belanger, Benoit
Hi, It seems that I am unable to autostart apache 2.2.4 at boot time with FreeBSD 6.2. Apache is working fine once loaded manually but I really need it to run by itself at system startup since this system will be left unattended for long periods. It seems that adding apache2_enable=YES in

Fwd: 305 GB hard drive reduced to 266 GB (why?)

2007-02-02 Thread Amitabh Kant
-- Forwarded message -- From: Amitabh Kant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Feb 3, 2007 11:11 AM Subject: Re: 305 GB hard drive reduced to 266 GB (why?) To: Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2/3/07, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Vendredi 2 Février 2007 19:41, Peter A. Giessel a écrit: On

Re: firefox, mozilla won't display PHP (Was: Re: firefox, extensions, and *.php pages)

2007-02-02 Thread Joe Holden
Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 04:53:39PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Well, the fact that my trying seever firefox addson and the failure of firefox and mozilla to display my PHP files just happened to be co-incident. As of this writing, none of my browsers

Re: firefox, mozilla won't display PHP (Was: Re: firefox, extensions, and *.php pages)

2007-02-02 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 06:38:10AM +, Joe Holden wrote: Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 04:53:39PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Well, the fact that my trying seever firefox addson and the failure of firefox and mozilla to display my PHP files just happened to