On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Bob Bomar wrote:
I have a machine that is about to turn 700 days uptime, and I have no
plans on rebooting it any time soon. I just wanted to see if there was
any infomation from the machine that anybody wanted.
Its IP address would be a good start :-)
Two years of
You know, for some odd reason the word troll springs to mind...
-- Dave
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Benjamin Rossen wrote:
To never hear from us again
just1ce.com/gone.asp
Hey! Is that possible? Spamming on the list! What can be done?
It's an open list i.e. you don't have to be a subscriber, and is therefore
a spammer's wet dream. There seem to be some anti-spam
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Anthony Atkielski at Wanadoo.FR wrote:
[ Not a lot ]
Wanadoo.FR - says it all, really.
No sane sysadmin accepts mail from that spam-house.
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On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
The only long term solution that is going to work is modding the
DNS records to designate an official SMTP server for each domain, such
a plan has been in the works for a while among the standard bodies
that know what they are doing.
Which, of
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Luciano Musacchio wrote:
I'm wondering, how does this mailing list doesn't get any spam? :),
It does, and I report it (but not the mailing list itself).
-- Dave
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On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
In my opinion, absolutely none at all. People should never change the
default shell of root from /bin/csh and toor is just a hack to please
those who are too bored to type: % exec bash
I'm not sure what's worse: using anything other than /bin/sh
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote:
Just another dirty spammer trick...
The timing on this was nothing less than eerie because less than an hour
before that post came over, I'd been sitting on their site reading up on
FAQ's, forum problem posts etc with a view to installing the
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote:
This is what's known as a joe job. Now, who has an interest in
discrediting php-fusion?
eh?
Could you perhaps...ermmm...expand on that just a tad?
for the benefit of us uninitiated folks...
inquiring minds etc.
A joe job is a forgery designed
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote:
Note: The paypal payment still stands, please provide us with proof
you have forwarded the email to 250 people and include your paypal
email address where we can send the money!!!
What you're suggesting is spammy. I don't doubt your good
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Loren M. Lang wrote:
What do you do with ham radio on freebsd? I haven't looked into it
much, but it seems that there isn't nearly as many programs/device
drivers for freebsd as linux has. I like how debian actually has a ham
radio section for it. I'd like to try out
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
I agree. I even would bring back the issue of a separate freebsd.com
website presenting the business case of FreeBSD while freebsd.org is
perfect as it is now for people looking for technical information
about how to use the system.
That
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, markzero wrote:
These switches should technically not be able to work without a power
supply but evidently they work just fine. I don't question the
arrangement, I just observe it from across the room. We get along fine.
Many KVMs draw power from the mouse/keyboard
On Mon, 30 Jan 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
/usr/local/jdk1.4.2/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so: Undefined symbol
__cxa_atexit
and it promptly exits (no core dump).
This used to work pre-JDK... As I don't do Java, where did I go wrong?
In the meantime, I've disabled Java within
Opera 7.54 from ports, FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE
After have gone through the traumatic experience of installing JDK 142 (to
get OpenOffice using it), I find it's broken Opera.
When selecting a page that uses Java, I get:
/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1:
/usr/local/jdk1.4.2/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so:
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Jerry McAllister wrote:
Someone else has answered your specific question, but I can't help
but wondering how an image of Beastie (BSD) swinging a large rubber
mallet fits in your project on menstrual cycles, fertility and
contraception. My guesses might be a bit far
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, DanGer wrote:
No. It means Berkeley Software Distribution.
but what about:
**BSD is a registered trademark of Berkeley Software Design, Inc. ?
taken from www.bsd.org
That would be BSDI, a commercial venture who (until they were done over by
WinDriver) gave us
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote:
[RHETORICAL_MODE=ON]
Where, I wonder, are all these folks suddenly coming from?
[SUPREME_IRONY_MODE=ON]
Well anyway, it's nice to know I'm a grizzled old graybeard unix admin.
I'll bet my beard's greyer than yours! Edition 5, on a PDP-11/40, in
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Chris wrote:
Rarely have I found such an amateurish installation procedure.
*Stuff cut due - idiot has no clue what word wrap is etc.*
Where are we getting these 'tards from as of late. Hmm, could be just
the one that keeps plastering essance of the same post.
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Christian Hiris wrote:
I think the official FreeBSD download page is
http://oootranslation.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/ooomisc/FreeBSD/
All the packages I have seen there are ver. 1.1.3. for various FreeBSD
branches including 5.3.
Yes!!! I knew I got it
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote:
2. You need to install java/jdk14 before you try to build OpenOffice
(even though this is not listed as a dependency).
It is, actually. You only need linprocfs in order to build jdk14,
because bootstrapping a java compiler requires a java
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote:
4.10 *is* supported, and 5.3 works as advertised - what the hell is your
*problem* exactly???
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On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Timothy Luoma wrote:
Oh well, I'll have to see if the local WalMart (our closest thing we have to
an electronics store) has an external, non-USB modem. This outta be good.
You're saying that USB modems are not good? Are they winmodems too?
I'm looking for a fax-modem for
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Scott Bennett wrote:
Ah. So the troll didn't really expect *anybody* reasonably to
have provided support. It just wanted something to bitch about on this
list. It should go back to the bit bucket it came from.
Procmail is your friend. Something like:
#
#
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote:
You need to instead block Tm[0-9]+ because he likes to change his
address every few weeks [1].
Ah, thanks; filter updated accordingly :-)
[1] Perhaps the counter reflects the number of times his AOL account
has been deleted.
Indeed,
PS:
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
There's been quite a few reports of people having trouble getting past
the java tools install which is needed to build the port. Unless that
challence is interesting in itself, it's probably more convenient to
download and install a binary
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
Maybe it's just me, but I can't actually see a package for 1.1.4 there.
unless those Japanese versions will work in Australia (and I don't read
JP)...
OOPS. Looks like I did not look too closely. It certainly looks like
they haven't
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
direction of http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.4/index.html
And if you follow the ports route instead, just how many more bloody hoops
do we have to jump through?
===Verifying install for /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/bin/javac in
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Matthew Seaman wrote:
The OpenOffice port really is a bit of a monster: non-gurus are strongly
advised to install OpenOffice via packages.
Well, I wouldn't call myself a non-guru (I've been dealing with Unix since
Edition 5 back in 1975) but this one definitely has me
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Scott Bennett wrote:
I've also tried burning the first file to CD-Rs using Windows XP Home's
own facilities and using Sonic RecordNow! under said system, but did not
get bootable CDs either way. I also tried mounting the Windows
partition onto /mnt under 5.2.1 and
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Scott Bennett wrote:
As root, I did the following (assuming I remember the Windows path
correctly:-):
mount -t ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt
[...]
Try copying the file to a local BSD file-system; the NTFS semantics could
be getting in the way. Also try write-once media, if
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Tabor Kelly wrote:
Of note: I have an Intel i810 video chipset and Xorg 6.8.1 broke the
driver for it, but I set NoAccel in my xorg.conf file and that was
supposed to take care of it (now X at least starts). Does anyone think
this could be related to my specific
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Adam Fabian wrote:
I upgraded from 6.7.0 to 6.8.1 and also got obscure (but different)
error messages. The 5.3 packages on FreeBSD's FTP servers are 6.7.0.
After looking a bit and not really finding a solution to my problem, I
just downloaded the binary packages and
On Thu, 29 Dec 2004, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
It kind of depends on your X configuration, I would think. Were you
using DRI or not? If so, did you rebuild it? Were you using
third-party drivers (e.g., NVidia)?
DRI is not supported (the reason for one of the errors) because hardware
cursors
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Eric F Crist wrote:
How can I monitor my processor temperature from the command line? I'm looking
at possibly writing a script that will allow me to average the CPU temps and
report them as part of the periodic/daily report.
/usr/ports/sysutils/xmbmon/pkg-descr:
This is
Was running 5.3-RELEASE (from CD) on R31 Thinkpad, when I decided to take
advantage of the excellent upgrade guide posted here recently by Richard
Bejtlich, and give -STABLE a spin, followed by a portupgrade. Now, it's
unclear at what point the breakage happened, because one followed the
FreeBSD 5.3, Imation USB floppy drive (a rebadged Mitsumi).
Works OK, but the probe messages are annoying (and fill my log):
Dec 26 22:23:05 stinky kernel: umass0: MITSUMI MITSUMI USB FDD, rev 1.10/1.00,
addr 3
Dec 26 22:23:07 stinky kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
Dec 26
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004, Chris Hill wrote:
MAKEDEV doesn't exist on 5.x, so if you're running 5.x that might also
explain it not working.
That's because on 5.x you don't need it; devices live in their own special
filesystem, and are created on the fly:
stinky% df /dev
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Murray Taylor wrote:
IBM Think pads seem to go ok -- 4.8, 4.9, 4.10
I've had better luck with 5.3 on my R31 - it recognises ACPI and the 32-bit
CardBus slot, amongst others. Witl laptops you really want the latest, to
support their weird hardware.
-- Dave
This was going to be a long story, involving why I'm having trouble
getting both USB-serial cables and PC-cards to work on this thing, but
eventually after Googling around and sorting out the wheat from the chaff
it boils down to this:
IBM R31 Thinkpad 2656KAM.
PC-card slot doesn't work, yet
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Uwe Laverenz wrote:
You should use 5.3, it will run much better on your ThinkPad, it not
only supports Cardbus but also has support for ACPI, which I think is
quite necessary on a notebook.
I downloaded the 5.3 mini-install ISO and tried it out, and yes, it
finds a lot
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, David Gerard wrote:
Does sound work properly in 5.3 on a laptop?
Sound is not one of my priorities (as long as the speakers go beep), but
a working PC-card slot (so I can lose the umbilical cord in favour of a
WiFi connection back to my server) and USB-serial cables (so I
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Tabor Kelly wrote:
How I got Openoffice 1.1.3 to compile on my laptop:
portinstall java/jdk14
portinstall openoffice
note: 'portinstall java/jdk14' installs the natively compiled FreeBSD version
of Java, and as a dependency (for the build only) installs the linux
I'm trying to compile OpenOffice 1.1 for FreeBSD 4.10 (may as well
exercise the lap-top). After grabbing all the Linuxy bits for Java JDK14,
I now find it wants a Solaris library under /compat/svr4/lib (libc.so.2 or
similar), and this is found only on a Solaris/86 CD, which of course not
Whilst upgrading another laptop to FreeBSD, a thought occurred to me: is
there a source of Designed for FreeBSD stickers (with Beastie logo) that
can be used to replace the Designed for M*cr*s*ft W*nd*ws XP ones?
PS: No need to Cc: me, as I'm on the list.
-- Dave
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
Meanwhile, back in the real world, we like to be able to help our
users by letting them easily post questions.
And nothing's stopping them from doing so. In which real world are you?
By trimming everything away and replying to just one
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Matt Navarre wrote:
Isn't linux_base based on RedHat? There are ls and mkdir binaries in
/usr/compat/linux/bin, I suppose those could be affected by this.
Over on Full-Disclosure they reckon it's a trojan, as it's unsigned and
not in the usual format for such
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
I think we all agree that you wouldn't let a windows tech touch your
unix-like box, but you'd have no problem having a unix tech install a
windows application. 'nuf said.
Does this make you think at all?
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Jerry McAllister wrote:
[ Do Not Feed The Trolls ]
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Nice artwork. I think I will appropriate it just for fun.
I hope it is under the
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Rob wrote:
I think spamfilters are doing already a good job here; spam that makes
it through to the lists, seems to be fairly small. In addition, I
believe it's the policy of the list maintainers, to keep the thresshold
as low as possible for participation in the QA.
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
Meanwhile, back in the real world, we like to be able to help our users
by letting them easily post questions.
And nothing's stopping them from doing so. In which real world are you?
-- Dave
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On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Dave Horsfall wrote:
[ Anyone can post to -questions ]
Gawd; I hope it's moderated in that case...
And several spams later, received via this very list...
So, is this list a spam-magnet i.e any spammer can post to it without
fear? If so, not only have you just lost me
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote:
[ Re-sent; I forgot I wasn't on the list ]
No need to resend: non members are allowed to post to freebsd-questions@
Gawd; I hope it's moderated in that case... Anyway, I believe in joining
a list if I'm going to want to use it.
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