Re: Strange messages by fetchmail: Server certificate verification error

2008-11-11 Thread David Kelly
it. Generated files unlike anything I had previously. Deleted extra and everything works anyway. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: hundred files to tar and untar

2008-11-10 Thread David Kelly
/data/root/cc.html ; tar -xvf somewhere/html.tar ) The above does not store the path prefix in the tar archive, which is perhaps the problem you were trying to solve? -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers

Re: DHCP release/renew lease - elegant solution?

2008-10-20 Thread David Kelly
ISPs charge extra for this feature. One ISP I deal with rotates our IP address every 18 to 48 hours and isn't courteous enough to do it on a regular schedule or wait until off hours. Means we have a couple of minutes of down time most every day when the router recovers. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL

Re: New PATA Drive

2008-10-13 Thread David Kelly
to upgrade the MB? -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread David Kelly
-Questions is not the right place to say, 2 years!, FreeBSD-Chat is the right place, and that's exactly what I did several days before this one appeared on Questions. Meanwhile, you should know where the off switch is to unsubscribe as somehow you managed to subscribe. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread David Kelly
. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: silicon Graphics hardware

2008-09-21 Thread David Kelly
performance and/or reliability doesn't justify their cost. OTOH if you are trying to resurrect free hardware then just try it, nothing to lose. But at some point one must consider whether the cost of electricity to run old hardware is worth it. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-03 Thread David Kelly
/2008/09/03/google_chrome_eula_sucks/ -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Streamripper 1.63.5 / FreeBSD7 - No artitst / track saved?

2008-08-19 Thread David Kelly
the FreeBSD version even less of a priority for me. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: [OT] Re: apple mac laptop.

2008-08-08 Thread David Kelly
. Then again I think Xcode was pre-installed on my Mac Pro. Xcode is Apple's software development environment. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: joining 2 files together ?

2008-08-07 Thread David Kelly
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 11:39:09AM -0400, David Gurvich wrote: You might try the old 'cat file1 file2 ... fileN'. % cat file1 file2 ... fileN fileconcatenated -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would

Re: general questions about 7.0 and computer efficiency......

2008-08-05 Thread David Kelly
reason: [EMAIL PROTECTED] {1004} uptime 1:30PM up 670 days, 21:08, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 I found a 10G drive in the trash yesterday. Would one day be a nice upgrade for the 4G drive in the above. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: general questions about 7.0 and computer efficiency......

2008-08-05 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:56:12AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: the datasheets for the 40G drives are lost lost. Oh, come now! If you still know what make and model the drives are, the datasheets are available online. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: general questions about 7.0 and computer efficiency......

2008-08-05 Thread David Kelly
detach/attach You think I could replace the system drive that way? :-) -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd

Re: Find what options a precompiled package uses

2008-08-01 Thread David Kelly
the defaults are for your particular precompiled port. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Find what options a precompiled package uses

2008-08-01 Thread David Kelly
for the options. If you got the precomipled port from official sources then that which is in /usr/ports *is* how it was optioned, with the possible exception of the X stuff. If someone else precompiled the port, then ask them. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: help

2008-07-29 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 09:09:15AM +0300, John Dakos [ Enovation Technologies ] wrote: [2224 lines deleted] If you want help, start by learning that quoting entire email digests is frowned upon. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: another beginner-type question.

2008-07-21 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:51:28PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: i could do this kwik and dirty, and type in/fix any anomalies later, but it would be nice to know. I've already tried 1, /CENTER d and a other such. zip. % sed -e 1,/CENTER/d junk.in junk.out -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL

Re: another beginner-type question.

2008-07-21 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 01:32:57PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 03:09:46PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:51:28PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I've already tried 1, /CENTER d and a other such. zip. % sed -e 1,/CENTER/d junk.in

Re: why is this script failing?

2008-07-15 Thread David Kelly
spaces the space will probably cause a break between arguments. The first time the wildcard expands to a filename with a space the space will be escaped. But the second time you use it that escape is lost. So its best to expand it in the place its needed. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: why is this script failing?

2008-07-15 Thread David Kelly
On Jul 15, 2008, at 4:50 PM, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:02:24PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: Is probably best to postpone wildcard expansion until the last moment because if any of the filenames contain spaces the space will probably cause a break between arguments

Re: why is this script failing?

2008-07-14 Thread David Kelly
/bin/rm $i fi done But why do it the hard way? #!/bin/sh /bin/rm /tmp/kde-kline/*wav /dev/null 21 -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: why is this script failing?

2008-07-14 Thread David Kelly
/kde-kline/*log /dev/null 21 The other advantage of the simple version above is that it handles spaces in the file name. The others need a bit more care to make sure spaces are quoted else they will separate arguments in the shell interpreter. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Simple Text Mail Setup

2008-06-23 Thread David Kelly
to comcast and let them figure out how to deliver, don't be too smart and try to deliver direct yourself. In postfix its the relayhost variable in main.cf. This email was brought to you with mutt and postfix, via smtp.knology.net. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Simple Text Mail Setup

2008-06-23 Thread David Kelly
delivery point and then postfix will send everything there that doesn't belong here. In all probability that is the only edit you will need for postfix. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy

Re: clone a drive, no raid involved

2008-06-19 Thread David Kelly
/mnt dump -0aL -f - / | ( cd /mnt/ ; restore -r ) -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Stripe sizes with gstripe

2008-06-13 Thread David Kelly
? On a non-striped filesystem the same operation runs 126k to 127k transfers. Transfer bandwidth seems to be limited by the number of transactions per second more than the size of the transaction. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Stripe sizes with gstripe

2008-06-12 Thread David Kelly
on outer, reading with md5). Anyway, throughput was terrible with the default 4k stripe. If there is a tuning knob that I have missed, would appreciate being told what. IIRC vinum's default stripe was about 87.5kB and systat -v reported transactions of that size. -- David Kelly N4HHE

Re: Duplex printer advice

2008-06-04 Thread David Kelly
to the printer by Adobe. Adobe does not allow it to be crippled as conspiracy-theory Ted claims. All genuine Postscript printers ship with similar CPUs, originally Motorola 68000 family, for this very reason. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Duplex printer advice

2008-06-04 Thread David Kelly
. Believe it was the first episode interviewing Andy Hertzfeld. When the discussion rolled around to open source software Andy said someone he knew was making a very good living porting and supporting Ghostscript to embedded printers. Possibly one of the principals behind ghostscript. -- David

Re: Duplex printer advice

2008-06-02 Thread David Kelly
over qualified. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Duplex printer advice

2008-06-01 Thread David Kelly
-8660DN on sale for $200. Appears to be the same printer and features plus scanner with paper feed, and fax. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: Duplex printer advice

2008-06-01 Thread David Kelly
when buying for spare parts its just as good as a 5250. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Duplex printer advice

2008-06-01 Thread David Kelly
on a Kyocera printer. Ironically the Kyocera has a postscript interface but we never figured out how/who was turning it off. Know the hooks are there in the print system to enable duplex but haven't made much use of them from FreeBSD. Most all of my 12,000 pages were duplex. -- David Kelly N4HHE

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-30 Thread David Kelly
is among the best content management systems available. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread David Kelly
, and only when you are on the server itself. Unless one has a file with that exact same name and path. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: Lock down the all-staff email list? sendmail, alias, majordomo?

2008-05-19 Thread David Kelly
security by obscurity but when absolute security is not needed and all that is needed is protection from the ignorant its often plenty good enough. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must

Re: time drift

2008-05-15 Thread David Kelly
calculates a correction coefficient and (under FreeBSD) stores it in /var/db/ntpd.drift for use on next start so as to more quickly establish a lock. So in short ntpd calibrates your clock in order to minimize the corrections required. Is The Right Thing To Do. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL

Re: download source code on Linux

2008-05-14 Thread David Kelly
://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.3-RELEASE/src/ then to get the files out of, say, scontrib, do something like this: % cat scontrib.* | tar -xvzf - -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy

Re: download source code on Linux

2008-05-14 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:56:06AM -0500, David Kelly wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:08:08PM +0530, Onkar wrote: But I am finding no files with extension .c or .h [image: File:]generic.aaftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/6.1-RELEASE/kernels/generic.aa

Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?

2008-05-06 Thread David Kelly
to block some of these script kiddies proactively. Unfortunately, these attempts have become a fact of life. I probably get 20 - 30 attempts a day between my various servers. Depending on how you use ssh from external systems you could add firewall rules to disallow all but known sources. -- David

Re: Any Known Issues when using both RS-232 and Native Serial Ports?

2008-04-22 Thread David Kelly
it will be rarely ever used. Problems with two lousy little serial ports running at the same time under FreeBSD? Heck no! Just use something better than a 16 MHz 386SX with 640K and you'll be fine. BTDT, and even that little system had no problems with serial I/O. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Can't log in as root on new 7.0 install

2008-04-14 Thread David Kelly
there was a space at the end of their entry in /etc/passwd. Not hardly believing it myself, made a link copy of csh with a space at the end and the user could login. Fixed /etc/passwd, deleted the link, and placed a trouble report with SGI. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to instal my NIC Card?

2008-04-04 Thread David Kelly
em0 is listed by ifconfig. If sysinstall didn't see em0 then there wouldn't be anything for em0 in rc.conf. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-27 Thread David Kelly
out of it? -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Mac osX drivers

2008-03-24 Thread David Kelly
. Many of the key developers came from FreeBSD. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Subversion and FreeBSD permission problems

2008-03-23 Thread David Kelly
into the machine you can do svn. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: more on FreeBSD and Brother HL-5250-DN

2008-03-20 Thread David Kelly
use the Kyocera printer (above) is to print man pages. man -t man | lp. Very pretty and impressive man pages. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: bsdlabel, now no boot

2008-03-19 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:31:18AM -0400, Walker wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:26 PM, David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: System is now booting ad0 by starting at ad4 and hopping to ad6, then to ad0. Yes, you've discovered a feature of the 400SC (I have 3). If you have PATA

Re: OT: brother hl-5250dn here.

2008-03-19 Thread David Kelly
between your printer and cable or DSL modem then suspect the modem issued (or refused to issue) and IP address. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

bsdlabel, now no boot

2008-03-18 Thread David Kelly
to recover from this situation. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Warnings after overclock

2008-03-18 Thread David Kelly
, 18 Mar 2008 22:32:03 +0200 From: Ghirai [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom

Re: bsdlabel, now no boot

2008-03-18 Thread David Kelly
On Mar 18, 2008, at 1:45 PM, David Kelly wrote: Cutting to the chase, my Windows-style partition table is sane (does the FreeBSD partition need to be marked bootable?), and my BSD slice table appears to be reasonable and sane. But the drive is not bootable. fdisk -B ad0 didn't hurt nor

Re: Urgent: filesystem full, though space is available

2008-03-17 Thread David Kelly
. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Urgent: filesystem full, though space is available

2008-03-17 Thread David Kelly
inconvenience in retrospect. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Looking for a FTP sync'er suggestion

2008-03-11 Thread David Kelly
one has more control over the http server than one usually gets. Must install rsync on each end. If one has that much control then I'd say use svn or cvs to keep the website in sync. You need version control anyway, might as well use it as your synchronization utility. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL

Re: USB printer

2008-03-10 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:59:38PM -0700, Gligor Lucian wrote: Does FreeBSD support a USB printer? Yes. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: subversion -make error

2008-03-09 Thread David Kelly
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] {1009} which python /usr/local/bin/python -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: subversion -make error

2008-03-07 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 10:34:55AM -0800, comperr wrote: Hey - when I try make install clean on subversion I get make install clean usually works but it only says to build the install and clean targets, doesn't say in what order. make install make clean resolves the ambiguity. -- David Kelly

Re: DJ500 dead after = 16 years.

2008-02-21 Thread David Kelly
manuals, 24 is better if you are mailing a flyer that is folded and taped without an envelope. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: DJ500 dead after = 16 years.

2008-02-20 Thread David Kelly
is better suited for my uses as its very quick to warm up from sleep, maybe as fast as my DJ-990. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: License Question

2008-01-21 Thread David Kelly
doesn't distinguish between individuals, corporations, hobby use, etc. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd

Re: rough method of cleaning the ports tree

2007-12-19 Thread David Kelly
work files, and remove all distribution files that are not current with the ports' Makefiles: # portsclean -CD Requires the portupgrade port. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must

Re: rough method of cleaning the ports tree

2007-12-19 Thread David Kelly
On Dec 19, 2007, at 8:47 PM, Chuck Robey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Kelly wrote: Remove all the temporary work files, and remove all distribution files that are not current with the ports' Makefiles: # portsclean -CD Requires the portupgrade port

Re: top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-23 Thread David Kelly
want some of my time then you had better take the minimal effort to phrase and format your communication. Less effort, actually. A trimmed insert-reply is not only a more accurate communication, but faster to create, as well as faster to read and comprehend. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL

Re: top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-22 Thread David Kelly
that they would not. Anyone else feel the same? No. Heck no. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd

Re: Can anyone recommend an external firewire-based drive?

2007-11-14 Thread David Kelly
of Firewire's parents its pretty sad if a Firewire product doesn't work with a Mac. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: Can anyone recommend an external firewire-based drive?

2007-11-14 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:23:53PM -0800, George Hartzell wrote: David Kelly writes: I haven't used it with FreeBSD but my Seagate 300G works very with Macintosh. LaCie is another highly respected brand among Mac users. Are you running Mac OS X on your mac, or FreeBSD? I see little

Re: Formatting man pages - txt file

2007-10-12 Thread David Kelly
already said. What I like is man -t man man.ps to create a Postscript file. Prints beautifully. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: cron jobs not done during sleep

2007-09-17 Thread David Kelly
with the formatting options to make the output compatible with input to touch. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd

Re: ntpd time server

2007-09-15 Thread David Kelly
local st poll reach delay offsetdisp === =andraia.local 192.168.123.177 2 40963 0.00085 -0.231870 3.95285 Do the same thing on the server to see what it thinks of the servers it is connected to. -- David Kelly

Re: Good FreeBSD Supported Gigabit Ethernet Card?

2007-09-14 Thread David Kelly
it work under DOS. Today gigabit and plain old fast ethernet are virtually the same price. Is best to go ahead and get gigabit. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: Good FreeBSD Supported Gigabit Ethernet Card?

2007-09-14 Thread David Kelly
mounted, striped, on Mac Pro, and will sustain 90+ MB/sec peaking at almost 100. Between those two filesystems I can usually ftp at over 50 MB/sec. Limited by disk bandwidth. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom

Re: Which versioning system is the simplest to use??

2007-09-11 Thread David Kelly
underneath. A negative to Subversion is that it tries to be everything for everyone. Doesn't appear to be a subversion-lite version available. At the moment I continue to use CVS for older stuff that was started under CVS, and SVN for new stuff. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: IPFW and HTTPS problem

2007-08-25 Thread David Kelly
, add log to it. Probably best to duplicate that rule with a lower number so the log version is used first. And easy to remove the logging version later without touching the original. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ports clean

2007-08-15 Thread David Kelly
. portsclean -C does rm -r /usr/ports/*/*/work You might add nice +20 (or whatever the syntax is for your shell) in front of that. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: Convince me, please!

2007-08-09 Thread David Kelly
is the one wanting to be a better Windows than Windows. For the best user experience, and Unix too: MacOS X. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: Convince me, please!

2007-08-09 Thread David Kelly
standard utilities than does FreeBSD, for instance procmail, fetchmail, sqlite3, Apache, php 4.4.7, ... -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: Convince me, please!

2007-08-09 Thread David Kelly
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 12:33:20PM -0500, Reid Linnemann wrote: Written by David Kelly on 08/09/07 12:30 On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 06:54:37PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: For the best user experience, and Unix too: MacOS X. a very little unix (few tools and kernel) + lots of bulky overhead

Re: Convince me, please!

2007-08-09 Thread David Kelly
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 01:34:47PM -0500, Reid Linnemann wrote: Written by David Kelly on 08/09/07 12:56 What standard utility in FreeBSD didn't start somewhere outside of BSD? I'm not talking about origins, I'm talking about maintainers. The software you've listed are maintained by third

Re: /usr/ports/packages cleanup

2007-07-12 Thread David Kelly
, and only keep the latest version of each package? Install the portupgrade port and use portsclean -CD to sweep /usr/ports/ of spare working files and to clear /usr/ports/distfiles/ of all non-current source files. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 10Mbps versus 100Mbps Cable Modems

2007-07-12 Thread David Kelly
packet at 100Mbps to move the same amount of data. No, MTU stays the same. Jumbo packet support is popular for gigabit ethernet but MTU is generally limited to 1500 for external internet connections. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 10Mbps versus 100Mbps Cable Modems

2007-07-11 Thread David Kelly
the ethernet port. The Motorola that replaced it is much better. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: password failure- after mergmaster

2007-07-09 Thread David Kelly
, mount -a, then use vipw to recreate your accounts in the password database. On exit from vipw use passwd to set the passwords. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: password failure- after mergmaster

2007-07-09 Thread David Kelly
that up). -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: (no subject)

2007-06-07 Thread David Kelly
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:15:16PM -0500, Benton, William E wrote: does BSD have any compilers onboard that the user can access? ANSI c??? or others?? Yes. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would

Re: Seeking recommendation for anti-spam software

2007-06-06 Thread David Kelly
of that one ought to have some means of global spam filter database in addition to per-user databases. This is such a good idea am sure somebody has done it already, I just don't know where. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: recreating directory structure

2007-05-29 Thread David Kelly
of the FreeBSD mirrors. For 6.2 download all of: /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/src Then simply untar them into /usr/src. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: Newby with Bother Printer

2007-05-28 Thread David Kelly
thread and changing the subject? -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: laser printer - which one?

2007-05-25 Thread David Kelly
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 08:49:17PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2007, David Kelly wrote: Have been very happy with performance and operating costs of HP 4000's, 5000N, and 8100N. Couldn't find one used for what my Brother HL-5250DN cost new, so I bought the Brother. Only

Re: laser printer - which one?

2007-05-24 Thread David Kelly
of the question as operating costs are higher even when printing BW. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: laser printer - which one?

2007-05-24 Thread David Kelly
is based on the apparent observation the HP inkjet crew has been designing lasers lately. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: customized strip down freebsd OS (less than 50MB)

2007-05-18 Thread David Kelly
that only the necessary libraries were moved to my CF card. I kept a file listing all the files I considered mandatory. Had several Makefiles, one for each stage of the build. Started by using cvs checkout to start with fresh source code. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-04 Thread David Kelly
. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-04 Thread David Kelly
on his utilities. We found they were statically linked, in /usr/bin/. That sounds fishy. As for running out of ram, if the whole system was built statically linked then such would not be surprising. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-03 Thread David Kelly
not destroy the original. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-03 Thread David Kelly
Correction: On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 07:10:37AM -0500, David Kelly wrote: Can't keep from thinking somehow your hardware is broken because myself and others have been gzip, bzip, zipping, large files for a long time under FreeBSD without problems. BUT on 6.0 I had intermittent problems

Re: can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-02 Thread David Kelly
run to completion? Are the output zip files reasonable in size? Are the expanded files reasonable in size? If so where does the mismatch start? Is the problem always in the same place for the same input file? -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Code beautification and/or printing utilities that are not part of an editor

2007-04-19 Thread David Kelly
indent is a very useful code reformatter. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: every two weeks

2007-04-18 Thread David Kelly
dates. Is there a pattern? When it restarts does it complain about an improper shutdown? Think this should be noted in /var/log/messages. Does a cleaning crew come around about the time the machine dies? Is the machine on a UPS? -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED

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