Re: Can't login as root after changing the shell to bash

2008-10-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
and then su(1) to get to root.Don't forget to add your non-root account to the 'wheel' group. Edit the /etc/group file. This is safer than logging in over the net directly to a root account because you can make sure your transmissions are encripted before going in to root. jerry

Re: Can't login as root after changing the shell to bash

2008-10-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
assume you also cannot log in as yourself. Thanks for your help! I changed the default shell back to /bin/csh but I still can't login as root?! I get the same message (can't find /bin/csh). Your path is most likely screwed up.Probably it never got set correctly. Can you reboot? jerry

Re: Problems with portupgrade or db

2008-10-14 Thread Jerry
/ports/distfiles' directory 2) Run 'make clean' in /usr/ports/databases/db42 3) Run 'portsclean -CLPP' 4) Update your ports tree. Use whatever method works for you. 5) Run 'make install' and see what transpires. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd like to meet the guy who invented beer and see what he's

Re: Need help installing on SATA

2008-10-11 Thread Jerry
, is of any use if it does not work, and work well. A pseudo elitist attitude is just not acceptable in a corporate atmosphere. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bubble Memory, n.: A derogatory term, usually referring to a person's intelligence. See also vacuum tube. signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
this, I'll donate and use other platforms. Please don't send any other emails Kind of touchy, wouldn't you think? People are giving you some perspective. Well, anyway, you have the choice of using a superior system or let scratchy responses lead you to something less suitable. jerry On Oct 8

Re: Mailman + Apache + Cookies + FreeBSD

2008-10-09 Thread Jerry
? Just out of morbid curiosity, why did you build it from source? Mailman is available in the ports. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me. Miguel de Cervantes signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
ad4 only had fdisk read out stuff and there isn't anything there yet to read - so of course it is invalid. jerry Geometry output: Geom name: ad4 Providers: 1. Name: ad4 Mediasize: 1000204886016 (932G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r0w0e0 fwsectors: 63 fwheads: 16

Re: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 12:07:08PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:03:46AM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: I just swapped out an old 500G disk with a 1TB one and I'm trying to label it and mount it... If I run bsdlabel -w ad4, I get: bsdlabel: Geom

Re: analyzing freebsd core dumps

2008-10-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
, but can often be cured by reseating everything. If it is bad enough, it could also be exacerbated by reseating everything. jerry -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems

Re: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
:30 kermit kernel: ad0: 76293MB Maxtor 6L080P0 BAH41G10 at ata0-master UDMA33 Oct 4 04:07:30 kermit kernel: ad4: 953869MB Seagate ST31000340AS SD15 at ata2-master UDMA33 etc. jerry Oct 4 04:07:30 kermit kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Oct 4 04:07:30 kermit kernel

Re: Cant remove /var, in relocating /var to a symbolic link

2008-10-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
. jerry -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Cant-remove--var%2C-in-relocating--var-to-a-symbolic-link-tp19847627p19847627.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
used on FreeBSD. On the other hand, I see no reason to not use the slice+partition system that is most standard. fdisk to create slices and bsdlabel to create partitions and then newfs each partition except swap. jerry I would be wary of doing it that way. Using slices is the preferred

Re: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
it. Anyway, it is getting near Halloween, so these mystery fixes may be appropriate... jerry Thanks!!! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-02 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 14:36:26 -0800 Henrik Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 01 October 2008, Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent a missive stating: On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:25:19 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In all likelihood, the probability of any vendor creating

Re: newsyslog and apache

2008-10-02 Thread Jerry
/docs/2.0/programs/rotatelogs.html to facilitate the rotating of logs. If you need further information, contact me OL. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To see a need and wait to be asked, is to already refuse. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 06:04:24PM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:25:19 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In all likelihood, the probability of any vendor creating FBSD specific drivers is directly proportionate to the expenditure of funds to create

Re: newsyslog and apache

2008-10-02 Thread Jerry
: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/logs.html#rotation -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Surely you can't be serious. I am serious, and don't call me Shirley. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-01 Thread Jerry
to the expenditure of funds to create and maintain the driver versus the expected revenue from such an expenditure. Unfortunately, doing a quick search, I was not able to locate the article(s) you referenced above. I would like to see exactly what NVIDIA is requesting. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Many people

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-01 Thread Jerry
is foolish. It certainly is not a well thought out business model. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] If man is only a little lower than the angels, the angels should reform. Mary Wilson Little signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-01 Thread Jerry
since then. It would appear that they are genuinely interested in at least attempting to get a fully functional driver in place for the FBSD architecture. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 installation problems.Please help!

2008-09-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
the magic step. I don't remember the necessary letter just at this moment, but you must hit the letter to tell it to actually write the stuff or it won't do it. That is normal behavior. jerry Hope this helps, Steve ___ freebsd-questions

Re: blocksize when using dd to copy disks? bigger = better?

2008-09-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
operations in which an error can occur. jerry thanks Joe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: looking for a disk partition (slice) editor

2008-09-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 09:19:40AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:25:19 -0400 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 07:00:39AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: I would like to find a disk partition (slice in FreeBSD nomenclature

Re: FreeBSD Port of mrtg Not Happy when Trying to Start

2008-09-22 Thread Jerry
}. If not, try installing it yourself and see if the problem goes away. If you have 'portmanager' installed, you could try: portmanager net-mgmt/p5-SNMP-Util -l -p -y Check the '/var/log/portmanager.log' to see what transpired. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] A beautiful woman is a blessing from Heaven

Re: looking for a disk partition (slice) editor

2008-09-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
partitions with the system running - even if you can find a way. jerry Thanks much! Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu

Re: Realtek 8111C?

2008-09-19 Thread Jerry
was supported. Unfortunately I don't have a PCI slot on this mobo to use a different NIC. Is anyone working on this driver? :) Have you checked this out: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Soldiers who wish to be a hero Are practically

Re: Being a shell provider - good business?

2008-09-14 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:34:16 +0200 Art Vandelay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. My friend thinks that being a shell provider for IRC bots and bouncers is very good business. How do I convince him it's not? Ask him what the pay scale is. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ask not what's inside your

Re: Being a shell provider - good business?

2008-09-14 Thread Jerry
, what business of yours is it what he does? I would personally be quite annoyed if some buttinsky http://www.thefreedictionary.com/buttinsky continually interfered with my business. Just my 2ยข. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Prunes give you a run for your money. signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: File Descriptor Leak in Freebsd 4.9 - any known issue?

2008-09-12 Thread Jerry
shortly)? -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fortune favors the lucky. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Copying a FreeBSD install to a smaller disk

2008-09-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
there are more than one bootable disks now on the machine, it should give you a menu of bootable slices from which you can select. Have fun, jerry -- -Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: restricted users

2008-09-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
also want to run it in a jail, though I don't know if that will work, never used jails other than casual tinkering. jerry -- Don Wilde ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: portmanager errors

2008-09-11 Thread Jerry
this 'top posting' fetish. It is really annoying. Second, you did not post the portmanager log output as I requested. Either post it here or send it to me directly so I can see what it is attempting to do. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] F.S. Fitzgerald to Hemingway: Ernest, the rich are different

Re: switching discs during install

2008-09-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
part of the reason for the question/comment. Although I enjoy having a 100MB line to my office into a 10GB backbone, still not all people are that fortunate and I don't even have a good line at home where I am still stuck with dialup (so I drag my machine in to the office for installs). jerry

Re: file root partition

2008-09-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
is inside of it. If it is junk, get ride of it. jerry thanks Nicholas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-09-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
maintaining the happy condition in which individuals are able to work at tasks that are more closely in line with their own propensities and talents. jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-09-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
creating the /mnta.../mnth mount points - which you probably already have created, but are not there on a base system. jerry Maybe there is a better or simpler way, but I have been doing this for years and never had any issues. YMMV -JD

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-09-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
on restore if files are missing that show up in the dump directory and will not even know about files that are created after the dump directory was created. If you can tolerate that, then it is not a requirement. jerry ___ freebsd-questions

RE: OT:KVM Switch

2008-08-28 Thread Jerry Dunham
IOGear KVMs with great success, from 2-port to 8-port. In fact, I'm using a 4-port IOGear MiniView as I type this. -- Jerry Dunham Volunteer, Etosha Rescue Adoption Center Volunteer, American Black Tan Coonhound Rescue [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd

Re: I can't make world without the games group?

2008-08-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
, but that is really too overwhelming. I would suggest this be a separate list, mostly limited to those things that many people want (but others don't) in the base system. Some of these pretty much stand alone and shouldn't add complications of dependancies, but I suppose some might. jerry

Re: turn on beastie beside the 'Welcome to FreeBSD' boot optionsmenu

2008-08-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
in loader.conf will bring the old text menu back. Well, at least that's the plan. :-) Sounds great to me. Any prognosis info? jerry Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606

Re: Format USB stick in FreeBSD

2008-08-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 08:49:53AM -0700, Andrei Iarus wrote: Hello, How can I format a USB stick in FreeBSD? Thank you, Andrei Just like any other device. Or, if it already has an MSDOS filesystem on it, then you can just mount it as type msdosfs and use it like that. jerry

Re: installing in a ext3 partition?

2008-08-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
in MS terms). You may be able to cobble up some tricks to do otherwise, but don't. Can freebsd make use of a linux-swap as swap space? I don't think so. jerry how? _ ___ freebsd

Re: Video streaming with freeBSD

2008-08-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
to Linux with this being my first install. Could you please elaborate a little more on your initial responce if thats ok. I will point out that FreeBSD is a version of UNIX and is not a Linux Distro. As for capture of streaming, someone else might better respond than me. jerry Cheers

Re: Video streaming with freeBSD

2008-08-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
to save alot of time with untested and not always proven methods. Could you please advise me if this indeed possible and secondly if you could recommend any possible tv cards compatible with your OS It can be done. But why such an ancient version. The latest full release is 7.0. jerry

Re: crontab mails

2008-07-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
crontab mails. or set the variable MAILTO null on corntab MAILTO= Better. jerry Regards, jyuny1 2008/7/26 Yavuz Maslak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello On freebsd7.0, my crontab sends many mails about its jobs. I want crontab not to send these mails How can I do

Re: upgrade from 6.3 to 7.0

2008-07-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 09:25:12PM -0400, David Gurvich wrote: You should not do the upgrade, Whatever would cause you to give such poor advice? though you can. ZFS is still experimental on FreeBSD though you can certainly use zfs pools on your existing system. It works. jerry

Re: Free BSD 6.3 Export Control Classification

2008-07-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 06:54:39PM -0400, darko gavrilovic wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/where.html I don't see anywhere in that reference that the question is answered or even alluded to. It does give information on how to obtain a copy of FreeBSD, but nothing about ECC. jerry

Re: FreeBSD for webserver?

2008-07-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
. jerry -- Sahil Tandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Free BSD 6.3 Export Control Classification

2008-07-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
made things difficult for some people using FreeBSD, but the Gov standards were changed and the issue quieted down. I don't know if it is solved. jerry Connie -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:12 AM To: darko

Re: What price at the license of FreeBSD 7?

2008-07-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
, the dollar would be high, and the economy would be totally stagnant. Who knows, maybe that would be better than what we have now. jerry -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] They always say that when life gives you lemons you should make lemonade. I always wonder

Re: What price at the license of FreeBSD 7?

2008-07-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
boot CD. You can download it all freely from the www.freebsd.org website.The handbook on that site will tell you how. Read it carefully first. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Linux for freebsd admins

2008-07-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
have the problem of running that application. Sorry, that's no help, but, really, you are asking for FreeBSD. jerry I gotta admit mabe the three I tried was able to do that, but I'm so negative about linux thay maybe I didn't see the good point of it. Could you tell me which

Re: User properties and how to make files with a specific group owner

2008-07-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
the files writeable by the webserver, generally not something you want to do. Only if the files have group write permission. Or was that covered in this thread already? jerry It's better to create a seperate group, say 'wwwadmin'. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software

Re: Why can't ping

2008-07-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
does not find it. Check dmesg(8) to see if the system finds an ed0 NIC. jerry I use ifconfig -a to show my ip,like follows: le0: flags=8843 UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8 VLAN_MTU either 00:0d:18:23:32:7a inet6 fe80::20c:29ff:fe76:365a%le0

Re: User properties and how to make files with a specific group owner

2008-07-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 05:32:15PM +0200, Mel wrote: On Thursday 10 July 2008 17:12:36 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 01:45:00PM +0200, Mel wrote: On Thursday 10 July 2008 04:26:42 Andrew Falanga wrote: How do I get this to stop working like this and create files

Re: bsdlabel has no effect

2008-07-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
mount points (and root) are in a memory file system and will be gone after the next boot. I hope you have a good backup of your 'a' partition because it may now not be happy. jerry Anselm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: how to mount USB drive on system startup

2008-07-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
, but check it out and see if it makes any difference. eg change 'rw' to 'rw,noauto' in fstab, boot and then try to do the mount. If it makes a difference, then maybe there is something to file a PR on, but it would take further investigation to nail it down. jerry -- Zbigniew Szalbot

Re: OT: anyone been crazy enough to mirror wikipedia?

2008-07-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
is the equivalent of asking Bunny Watson for an answer, and Wikipedia is like asking Cliffy on Cheers. Now, if you think Print Encyclopedias and/or Wikipedia are incomplete and inaccurate, try checking out textbooks for Middle school, High school and even undergraduate college. jerry DAve

Re: .htaccess or OS related?

2008-07-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
done by Apache and is common to all implementations unless you change it. I never looked, but I think it uses one of the commonly use encryption algorithms, maybe even the same one used for regular passwords. jerry Jos ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Adding a new hard drive, and using geom

2008-07-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
the tar piped to a tar with an embedded cd and it would also work just fine. I also like to name the directories I move mnemonically such as the usr.local (or usr.src or var.log, etc) because it keeps things clear. jerry ___ freebsd-questions

Re: multi-platform dump and restore?

2008-07-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
to OS and OS version. There are many that it cannot cross, but some it can. The main thing is to check it before depending on it. jerry Thanks, m P.S. Please CC, I'm not subscribed. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: multi-platform dump and restore?

2008-07-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 11:35:30AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 10:59:27AM -0400, Mark B. wrote: If I dump on amd64 should I be able to extract files from the dump on i386? If so, should it be possible to restore a FreeBSD amd64 dump on OpenBSD i386

Re: Windows Unix volunteers

2008-06-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
well find some in one of these lists. jerry Warm regards, -- Zbigniew Szalbot SGM Lifewords www.sgmlifewords.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Windows Unix volunteers

2008-06-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
on your desktop but it is only available for Windows. Is the modification of Windows source code legal? I don't think he is proposing modifying or distributing any Microsloth code.I understood this to be something he or his company wrote and now wants to port to other systems. jerry

Re: Installation error. Command returned status 36

2008-06-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 08:36:11PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 01:55:51AM +0300, Viacheslav Chumushuk wrote: And at the start of installation process I have warning about wrong disk geometry. Probably your best bet is to ignore

Re: restart named in a cron

2008-06-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
/named/dev devfs: not found devfs: not found I can restart named manually, but not with a cron. Do you have an idea to solve this problem? Why could I restart it manually and not with a cron? The CRON jog is missing /sbin and /usr/sbin from its path. Try setting $PATH in the script. jerry

Re: Which file can I find the error message that shows on the screen when I build my kernel?jj

2008-06-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
terminal session and then stop it when you are finished with it. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Installation error. Command returned status 36

2008-06-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
. But hardware looks good, because Linux and OpenBSD was installed without any problems. Probably your best bet is to ignore the geometry stuff and just let it do its own thing. Do not try to set the geometry. In reality, geometry is generally 'virtual' nowdays. jerry Thanks for help

Re: FreeBSD as VOIP PBX

2008-06-20 Thread Jerry B. Altzman
. Shane //jbaltz -- jerry b. altzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jbaltz.com foo mane padme hum ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD fdisk how to?

2008-06-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
in to partitions. jerry Regards Unga ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: New to FreeBSD

2008-06-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
the FreeBSD Handbook, are great helps. But, there is nothing like installing FreeBSD on a machine or two and loading them up with things you want to use and doing a lot hands on - with these resources kept handily nearby. jerry -- To be or not to be. -- Shakespeare To do

Re: clone a drive, no raid involved

2008-06-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
of unformatted disk access or whatever. Also, using dump/restore will allow for those small differences from disk to disk that are usually there without causing the problems dd copies of whole disks can have. jerry Brad Mettee PC HotShots, Inc. Baltimore, MD

Re: Flashplugin

2008-06-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
. jerry -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxce snv90 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

2008-06-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 04:40:36PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:50:36PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I brought a new ThinkPad T61 for work, the hardware is as follows: T7300(2GHz), 2GB RAM, 120GB 5400rpm HD, 15.4in

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

2008-06-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
compatibility lists to check for specific peripherals. The Linux compatibility layer worked well. Should be no problem. jerry Thanks a lot. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Remind me which filesystems exactly can be background fscked?

2008-06-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 05:15:51PM -0400, Martin Cracauer wrote: I'll have to repartition my 6.3 notebook anyway. Can you remind me which filesystems I can have background fsck on? My current single filesystem install checks it in foreground. Pretty much anything but / (rot). jerry

Re: Flashplugin

2008-06-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
and desktop use -- which is sometimes impossible anyway since many systems, such as the one I am typing on right now, are used for both. jerry Don't beat me up, I'm for the support - even if I'm not using FreeBSD as a desktop OS. Thanks and happy weekend - Tobias

Re: Installing freeBSD

2008-06-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
. It might put up a boot menu, but you should be able to just wait and take the default. Past that, there should be no other prompt or menu after that besides install selection stuff. jerry Thank you for your help huu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Installing freeBSD

2008-06-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 06:33:56PM +0200, Filippo Moretti wrote: Jerry McAllister ha scritto: On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 08:24:13AM -0700, Huu Daud wrote: Hello, Greetings, Iam new to this forum and to the Unix. My interest is to install and configure freeBSD on my desktop computer.I

Re: Installing freeBSD

2008-06-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
to, or seem to encourage selecting, the wrong options. But, you're right, the CD easily be burned on a Win machine with many different pieces of software. jerry -- Jos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Flashplugin

2008-06-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
... and counting... may be a total of 100,000 notebooks in 5 years... Sounds like you should also install the BSD Stats utility on those machines so they will report their existence to the stats. It would significantly update the numbers. jerry Because of special taxes applied

Re: Flashplugin

2008-06-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
the necessary information out of Adobe. jerry -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Lead-Gen Help

2008-06-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
will get you nowhere. At least look at the home page first. jerry ? Low up-front costs ? High ROI ? Direct-response campaigns ? SEO and SEM services ? Flat fee, hourly or performance-based pricing Any help you can offer is much appreciated. A name, an email contact or a forward

Re: appropriate 64 bit version?

2008-06-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
someone thought of that at the time they were naming it. Actually, I think there was some thought that and64 and the Intel attempt would actually be different and so needed distinguishing. But, apparently the Intel differences didn't hold enough sway in the market place. jerry -Sean

Re: Looking for gurus willing to help write Freebsd tutorials

2008-06-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:18:26PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeffrey Goldberg Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 1:34 PM To: Jerry McAllister Cc: FreeBSD List Subject: Re: Looking for gurus

Re: Upgrading Kernel on a Remote Server

2008-06-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
do something to lock yourself out, then you should be OK. Hopefully others with remote experience will respond to that. jerry Thanks for any suggestions/help/etc, ~Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Looking for gurus willing to help write Freebsd tutorials

2008-06-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
them. Ted's narrative is pretty much how I remember it. Maybe everyone should make their own and use it. FreeBSD is a user created Open Software project after all. jerry frase ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Looking for gurus willing to help write Freebsd tutorials

2008-06-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
that. :D Still, you need to add the sex toy in a nice dignified, well designed way to your banner. jerry Steven Lake Owner/Technical Writer Raiden's Realm www.raiden.net Bringing Linux and BSD to the World ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Looking for gurus willing to help write Freebsd tutorials

2008-06-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
. Have fun y'all. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd

Re: logo

2008-06-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
- in the questions list and occasionally others such as advocacy for years. I have been administering some FreeBSD systems for about 12 years and it started before then. It resurects itself about every three months. jerry Thanks =) -- Blessings Gonzalo Nemmi

Re: Looking for gurus willing to help write Freebsd tutorials

2008-06-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
logo without a delay. It clearly shows your bias. Yep, he definitely likes birds better than red sex toys... Yah, but he's in therapy for it. Give him something to live for and help his desparate attempt to crawl out of the pit. jerry Ted

Re: small office backup hardware advice

2008-06-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
fun, jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Renaming root to homer?

2008-05-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
, window manager, etc But is still bad to log in directly as any of these roots from a remote location. As has been mentioned, you should ssh in to a non-root account and then su to the root. You can su to the alternate root and then not give the main root a password if you like. jerry

Re: Delayed cronjobs

2008-05-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
track of when it was last run and then either have cron run it often or add it to /usr/local/etc/rc.d to be run at startup. Then if the script was run sufficiently recently, just exit - maybe with an appropriate message/error code. jerry -- Jos

Re: Need to build a new mail server

2008-05-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
large numbers of Email users - even heavy users. jerry However, it's been some time since I looked into options for mail servers. I'm interested in both suggestions for hardware and mail servers that would make for the best FreeBSD based mail server. I've only got about two dozen

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

2008-05-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
editing your HTML files and doing your own CSS, then you don't need it at all. That web verification site might be an interesting thing to try now and then, though. jerry Christian Zachariasen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

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

2008-05-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
' ... i'm still chiuckling over that tool that requires a GIG to load. gary ps: thanks to Google: CMS == content mgnt system Yup.That is one of the more common. jerry DAve -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix http

Re: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Jerry B. Altzman
and Juniper might actually be on to something, there, and that ASICs might actually be worth what you paid for them. YMMV, HTH, HAND. Erik Trulsson //jbaltz -- jerry b. altzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jbaltz.com foo mane padme hum ___ freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Jerry B. Altzman
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:31:24AM -0400, Jerry B. Altzman wrote: And all this just to *pass packets*; if you're making real *routing* decisions based upon that (i.e. you're making a router rather than a switch), which

Re: Which version

2008-05-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
it is an unfortunate choice of words and naming conventions, but that is the way it is. jerry The handbook is still an excellent resource. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook good luck, feel free to ask questions, after searching a bit. It makes us understand the question better

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