Re: Strange Files/Directories

2005-05-26 Thread James Alexander Cook
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 08:09:12PM -0400, jbw wrote: I backed up a few DVDs to my harddrive using dvdbackup. However I cannot However I cannot cd into the directories that were created to view the files as a normal user or as root. I can do an ls -lR and it will show me all of the files in

Re: Clock running fast

2005-05-04 Thread James Alexander Cook
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:51:05PM -0500, W. D. wrote: At 14:49 5/4/2005, Ryan Winograd, wrote: Hi all, I recently noticed that the system clock on a machine i recently set up is running very quickly, about 2x realtime by my measuring. What can i do to solve/investigate this problem? What

Re: test

2005-04-27 Thread James Alexander Cook
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Re: fsck in securelevel 2?

2005-04-24 Thread James Alexander Cook
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 03:49:27PM +0200, K?vesd?n G?bor wrote: Hi, I tried to check the root partition with fsck and it found errors and for my greatest surprise, it answered its questions automatically with no. It is due to the securelevel 2? I've been thinking whether fsck uses direct

Re: Would like to get back my command prompt!

2005-04-24 Thread James Alexander Cook
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 02:37:23PM +, Michael Neeff wrote: A newbie with installing FreeBSD 5.3...I installed X and got excited to direcly log on to X (xdm) with the dialog box. I modified the lineto turn xterm on: ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm - nodaemon xterm ON secure. Now I am stuck in a

Re: no freebsd-beginners list?

2005-04-16 Thread James Alexander Cook
On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 07:30:17PM -0400, Brian Kinsey wrote: I went to sign up for the freebsd beginners list and got a response that the list was closed and I should use freebsd-questions instead. It seems to me that a newbie list would be beneficial to many of us. I see a lot of very

Re: No ports without ftp ?

2005-02-27 Thread James Alexander Cook
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 09:41:42AM -0800, Claudiu Bichir wrote: Hello guys ! I'm on a LAN which has the ftp port blocked. Is there any chance for me to install aplications from ports ? Thank you ! - Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you

Re: logging proftpd question

2005-02-23 Thread James Alexander Cook
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:31:03PM -0500, David Banning wrote: I believe the syntax you want is ftp.* /var/log/proftpd.log Make sure the logfile exists (and is writable), otherwise I think syslog will complain. Thanks, fellow Torontonian, for your reply.

Re: logging proftpd question

2005-02-22 Thread James Alexander Cook
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 01:35:25AM -0500, David Banning wrote: Presently all my proftpd logging goes to /var/log/messages but it is clogging that file because I have an ftp login every couple of minutes. I want to redirect proftpd logging. I tried putting proftpd:*

Re: Very general shutdown question

2005-02-07 Thread James Alexander Cook
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 11:49:22AM +, Dick Davies wrote: * Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0203 23:03]: Hello Ned, you can add the user to the operator group. it is possible to run shutdown then (but not halt etc). Be caneful of that, I think operator has other privileges too (can

Re: Memory and Battery applets

2005-02-06 Thread James Alexander Cook
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 02:11:45AM -0500, Matt Aasted wrote: I'm running Gnome 2.8 on a recent version of FreeBSD Stable 5.3 on an x86 (dell latitude d600) processor, and whenever my system is on the memory usage shown in the gnome memory monitor slowly climbs to 100% over the course of about

Re: trouble mounting partition on hard drive

2005-02-05 Thread James Alexander Cook
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 02:39:44PM -0600, Brian John wrote: Hello, I am unable to mount one of my ntfs partitions. When I try to mount it I get this: # mount /hd2_4 fstab: /etc/fstab:12: Inappropriate file type or format fstab: /etc/fstab:12: Inappropriate file type or format mount: