Quota Questions 5.3 Release

2005-02-15 Thread Jon Adams
why quota support is left our of the stock FreeBSD Kernel, I am assuming there must be a compelling reason for this... and are there any alternatives (short of me writing lots of ugly code - which I have lacking time and motivation for) -- ... Jon

Re: Quota Questions 5.3 Release

2005-02-15 Thread Jon Adams
Benjamin Dover wrote: Take a look at this section of the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/quotas.html Yes, I've read this and am aware of the process of recompiling the kernel to implement quotas (done it before). What I am looking for is an alternative to

FTP server problem

2005-02-14 Thread Jon Bruce
Hi there, just trying to install FreeBSD, I am in the install section and can seemingly login to an ftp server. However everyone I try just brings me back to the ftp server listing. Any help would be great. Thanks Jon ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-13 Thread Jon Drews
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:10:58 -0600, David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look closely at the Linux community and you'll find its mostly ex-Windows users focused on what Microsoft is doing. The desire is to one-up Microsoft at Microsoft's own game. Their definition of computer and human

Installation Fails (trap 12)

2005-02-11 Thread Jon Francis
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What does sbwait mean in top ?

2005-02-06 Thread Jon Drews
of sbwait and for that matter semwait too. Kind regards, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and sshd

2005-02-02 Thread Jon Krause
are you using? Pre (Version 0.56) has known problems with ssh2, try updating your version of PuTTY. Best, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Free BSD 5.3 SMP Kernel

2005-01-29 Thread Jon Mercer
. Personally I find the whole process much simpler than configuring a Linux kernel. Regards, Jon On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 11:12 +, Robert Slade wrote: Hi, I am new to Free BSD ( and Linux) and have just setup a rather old Proliant 5000 as a test machine. It has Quad PII processors and I would

Re: Xmms FreeBSD and buzzing or skipping sound

2005-01-25 Thread Jon Drews
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:57:12 -0500, Derek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a 5.3-STABLE SMP machine, with a promise RAID controller, RAID1, with snd_emu10k1.ko, and I get the same results... Re-nicing xmms doesn't help either... Derek: You may want to up the buffering. See

Re: freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup?

2005-01-20 Thread Jon Drews
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:05:41 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you seen my book and website? http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com It is out of print now but still available on Amazon. Ted; Will you do an updated version of the book some day ? I see it has 4 and 1/2

Re: SIR

2005-01-20 Thread Jon Drews
Ali: The ltmdm port may work: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/comms/ltmdm/pkg-descr I have a feeling Matthew Seamen is right though. You may have to use an external modem. See this e-mail: Help: Tip on Buying External modem

Re: anyone using Putty and ssh-agent?

2005-01-13 Thread Jon Krause
: http://www.langille.org/ : BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/ : What version of Putty are you using? There are know issues with ssh2 on earlier versions of Putty. Try Putty Release 0.56 Best, Jon ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Cut and paste in Emacs

2005-01-13 Thread Jon Drews
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:24:49 +0700 (ICT), Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I select some text with the mouse in Emacs, i can copy it into another X window application, but I cannot copy it in a Win2K application. When I select some text in any other X Window application, I can

Re: I quit

2005-01-09 Thread Jon Drews
Hi Bill: Sorry you had such a miserable time with this. You may want to get either of these two books, as helps in installing and configuring FreeBSD. FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your Personal Computer, by Annelise Anderson Absolute BSD: The Ultimate Guide to FreeBSD by Michael

Re: copy file to cd-rw

2005-01-09 Thread Jon Drews
Hi: This section of the handbook gives very good instructions on how to save files to CD: 16.6 Creating and Using Optical Media (CDs) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 16:45:01 +0100, mess-mate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys,

Re: Problem when SSH-ing to FreeBSD 5.3 using PuTTY?

2005-01-07 Thread Jon Krause
. There was a problem in earlier versions of Putty with keyboard-interactive method of authentication. Best, Jon ___ : freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list : http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions : To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup

2005-01-03 Thread Jon Drews
It appears that you should use the C82 driver. From: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_C84 Parallel and USB ports. With Gimp-Print 4.2.2 or newer it will work (except full-bleed) when choosing the Epson Stylus C82 as printer model, with older Gimp-Print versions

RE: Ndisulator - Linksys wireless-g PCI card Project Evil

2004-12-29 Thread Jon Knight
Hi all, I don't think I received a reply on this one; can some one please help me out? The Ndis0 seems to go up only when I ifconfig adhoc mode, when I try autoselect the ndis0 link goes down. Thanks Jon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: Ndisulator - Linksys wireless-g PCI card Project Evil

2004-12-29 Thread Jon Knight
linksys-jon wireless# ifconfig xl0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=8VLAN_MTU inet 192.168.0.8 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 inet6 fe80::2c0:4fff:fe9a:ccd5%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether 00:c0:4f:9a:cc:d5 media

RE: Ndisulator - Linksys wireless-g PCI card Project Evil

2004-12-29 Thread Jon Knight
ether 00:0f:66:6e:ed:f7 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps adhoc) status: associated ssid linksys-jon 1:linksys-jon channel 10 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS wepmode OFF

Ndisulator - Linksys wireless-g PCI card

2004-12-22 Thread Jon Knight
intended) ? Many thanks Cheers, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Redirect to /dev/null

2004-12-21 Thread Jon Essen-Moller
Hi, I saw this thread and wish to now what /21 /does and maybe you know a place where I can find out more about this? Best regards - Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

RE: Xorg and mouse....

2004-12-14 Thread Bomgardner,Jon
-Original Message- From: Dan Kilbourne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 12:22 PM To: Bomgardner,Jon Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Xorg and mouse Bomgardner,Jon extolled: I'll let you know how things go after tonight Thanks

RE: Xorg and mouse....

2004-12-14 Thread Bomgardner,Jon
-Original Message- From: Louis LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 2:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Xorg and mouse On 12/14/04 01:59 PM, Bomgardner,Jon sat at the `puter and typed: SNIP I tried typing in 'xev' but got the error

Xorg and mouse....

2004-12-14 Thread Bomgardner,Jon
the success I've had with answers from the group so far, I expect it won't take long to lick this problem as well... Thanks in advance for the help, Jon Bomgardner == This communication, together with any attachments hereto

RE: Xorg and mouse....

2004-12-14 Thread Bomgardner,Jon
-Original Message- From: Dan Kilbourne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 12:10 PM To: Bomgardner,Jon Subject: Re: Xorg and mouse Just create it in your home directory - do you use xdm/kdm or startx to start X up? Actually, I've just been typing

Re: web-based password checking tool?

2004-12-14 Thread Jon Krause
Usermin (found from the same link) is probably a better tool, less security concerns. Also, both can be run with ssl and non-standard ports. Best, Jon - Original Message - From: Alexander Chamandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: web-based password checking tool? : The solution I've

Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-13 Thread Bomgardner,Jon
-Original Message- From: Henry Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 4:28 PM To: Bomgardner,Jon Subject: RE: Xorg/laptop As a followup to my last message, I found this in one of the readmes. Partial or complete DDC support is available in most of the video

RE: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-13 Thread Bomgardner,Jon
-Original Message- From: Doug Poland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 8:54 AM To: Bomgardner,Jon Cc: Henry Miller; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop snip For some reason, FreeBSD and Xorg is only using a small square

RE: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-13 Thread Bomgardner,Jon
-Original Message- From: Peter Risdon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 11:08 AM To: Bomgardner,Jon Cc: Henry Miller; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop snip OK, so I found a BIOS option that enabled me to stretch

RE: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-13 Thread Bomgardner,Jon
-Original Message- From: Dan Kilbourne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 1:05 PM To: Bomgardner,Jon Cc: Peter Risdon; Henry Miller; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop Bomgardner,Jon extolled: Other than that I've just been

RE: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-10 Thread Bomgardner,Jon
Tried that... it doesn't do anything... the only way I've been able to shut it down is by CTRL-ALT-DEL. I've left it sit for hours before resorting to this. Jon Bomgardner TSC - St. Paul Password Team -Original Message- From: Lowell Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday

Xorg/laptop

2004-12-10 Thread Bomgardner,Jon
be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jon Bomgardner == This communication, together with any attachments hereto or links contained herein, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain information

RE: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-10 Thread Bomgardner,Jon
Oh, forgot to mention the important part: Trident CyberbladeAi1d Video card 8MB memory Thanks, Jon Bomgardner -Original Message- From: Bomgardner,Jon Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 3:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Xorg/laptop Greetings! I'm relatively new

Looking for a good NSS/Pam_LDAP/Open LDAP how-to for 5.x

2004-11-21 Thread Jon Adams
I tried this one: http://www.cultdeadsheep.org/FreeBSD/docs/Quick_and_dirty_FreeBSD_5_x_and_nss_ldap_mini-HOWTO.html and it emphatically does not work, and I followed it to the letter I think it has something to do with NSS only using SSL/port 636. so then I tried it with that added

Alsmost have NSS/PAM/LDAP... neew a lil help ( was Re: Looking for a good NSS/Pam_LDAP/Open LDAP how-to for 5.x)

2004-11-21 Thread Jon Adams
are compiled in:: {SSHA} {CRYPT} {SHA} {MD5} {LANMAN} {SASL} {UNIX} {CLEARTEXT} Jon Adams wrote: I tried this one: http://www.cultdeadsheep.org/FreeBSD/docs/Quick_and_dirty_FreeBSD_5_x_and_nss_ldap_mini-HOWTO.html and it emphatically does not work, and I followed it to the letter I think

Re: Looking for a good NSS/Pam_LDAP/Open LDAP how-to for 5.x

2004-11-21 Thread Jon Adams
Cezar Fistik wrote: Hello Jon, Sunday, November 21, 2004, 3:16:27 PM, you wrote: JA I tried this one: JA http://www.cultdeadsheep.org/FreeBSD/docs/Quick_and_dirty_FreeBSD_5_x_and_nss_ldap_mini-HOWTO.html JA and it emphatically does not work, and I followed it to the letter I JA think it has

Re: [OT] Re: Remember to Vote!

2004-11-02 Thread Jon Adams
Several decades ago, the original Mayor Daley would say... vote early, vote often. I know I put my vote in already... gonna order a pizza in an hour, and watch the drama as the polls close -- ... Jon Adams - Chance favors the prepared mind web: http

Re: Oracle 8i on FreeBSD 5.1

2004-10-31 Thread Jon Adams
Michael L. Squires wrote: Search the freebsd-messages mailing list, I think there is a web site which discusses Oracle installations later than 7.x. I am using a tutorial I found using this method, but this person's install didn't run into the ins_precomp.mk bug which requires the glibc

Re: sun box

2004-10-31 Thread Jon Adams
Scott W wrote: Hexren wrote: KC Hi there KC Two very simple questions, can I run FreeBSD on a Sun box and is it possible to run BSD on VMware http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/sparc.html there are a long list of supported hardware using the Sun Sparc chip, essentially everything except stuff

Re: Oracle 8i on FreeBSD 5.1

2004-10-31 Thread Jon Adams
Nikolas Britton wrote: Jon Adams wrote: BTW: please do not tell me to try Oracle 9i, or that I should use another version of FreeBSD, or something like that, I am locked in this hardware and OS, so I need to get it to work with the current setup as much as possible. What about PostgreSQL

Oracle 8i on FreeBSD 5.1

2004-10-30 Thread Jon Adams
I am installing Oracle 8i (8.1.7) on FreeBSD 5.1 I am following this doc: http://iamphet.nm.ru/misc/linuxemu-oracle8i.html I get as far as the linking of Oracle 8i, when I am prompted with errors in linking $ORACLE_HOME/precomp/lib/ins_precomp.mk I know that this means I need the Glibc 2.1.3

Re: Ipfw accept rule

2004-09-24 Thread Jon Simola
? Write your ruleset appropriately, or stick not layer2 on your pipe rules. --- Jon Simola [EMAIL PROTECTED] | In the near future - corporate networks Systems Administrator | reach out to the stars, electrons and light ABC Communications | flow throughout the universe. -- GITS

Re: File Manager

2004-08-21 Thread Jon Drews
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 01:59:23 GMT, Emon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second, I did create a new user, but I wasn't sure wich group to put it in, so I kept the GROUP field blank. Now I can't su to root cos it say that I am not in the right goup(wheel). So what does it mean how do I solve this prob?

Re: FreeBSD 5.x /usr Partitioning advice

2004-08-18 Thread jon
I'm planning on making two partions for data found on /usr: Does this stretegy sound at all intelligent? Yes, it sounds like a good plan for all the reasons you stated. I'm planning on making /usr 4G, and /usr2 6G. Does that sound sane? I'm running 5.2.1 with X, apache, samba, and 162 ports

Re: 802.1x

2004-08-17 Thread Jon Drews
Hello Cubicool: The only thing I can think of is this book on WiFi security: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/80211security/desc.html You might want to look at /usr/ports/net-mgmt/bsd-airtools The home page is here http://www.dachb0den.com/projects/bsd-airtools.html On Tue, 17 Aug 2004

Re: FreeBSD scanners

2004-08-15 Thread Jon Drews
Hello Anton: I would suggest going to the SANE website: http://www.sane-project.org/ I have an E640U USB scanner working under FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.2 CURRENT. That one works very well. On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 01:46:17 +0300, Anton Alin-Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, if any of you has

Re: freeBSD How to you set the prompt

2004-07-29 Thread Jon Drews
Hello Dan: This may be of help: Understanding Shell Prompts http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/09/20/FreeBSD_Basics.html On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:29:30 -, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where and how do you set the prompt to show what user name that your on IE ROOT or user johndoe.

mount_smbfs

2004-07-29 Thread jon
The mount_smbfs(8) command on 5.2.1 allows multiple mounts using the same source and mount point. This sounds like a bug to me since other file systems such as ufs return an error on such attempts. Anyone know of a reason why this is allowed in mount_smbfs? J

Re: X: bad display name

2004-07-24 Thread Jon Drews
Hello Maksym: You need to have the proper hostnames in /etc/hosts: ::1 localhost localhost.covad.net notebook.covad.net 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.covad.net notebook.covad.net where notebook is my hostname. On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 21:24:21 +0200, Maksym Marchenko

Tutorials on the Gimp

2004-07-23 Thread Jon Drews
Gimp ver 2.0 (prerelease) FreeSBIE 1.0 and FreeBSD 5 CURRENT Hi: I tried to use the GIMP's (ver. 2.0) intelligent scissors to crop around a complicated image and I could not figure out how to get it to work. I and another co-worker googled for some tutorials but none of the ones we came across

Re: FreeBSD Hosting

2004-07-16 Thread Jon Drews
Hello Joseph: I don't know about the jails part but you might want to inquire with http://www.liquidneon.com/ I use them for hosting and they are very good. They are an all FreeBSD hosting company. On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:16:26 -0500, Joseph Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regardless of which

hi res logo ?

2004-07-16 Thread Jon Barnard
Hello, Is a hi resolution logo available of the FreeBSD (with tagline, Daemon and yellow behind text? GIFS are just too small. Many THX. Best regards, Jon Barnard Marketing Communications Manager PFU Systems, Inc. a Fujitsu company 1331 Lawrence Expressway, Suite 200 Santa Clara, CA 95051

Re: Is it possible to set-up a USB Printer in Freebsd?

2004-07-15 Thread Jon Drews
Hi Mark: The Epson Stylus C20UX is fully supported according to LinuxPrinting.org: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_C20UX Use the gimp print drivre they suggest at that URL. That means that you can use CUPS and Gimp Print in FreeBSD. 1) Install cups and gimp

Re: Mysql Client and Freebsd 5.2-RELEASE

2004-07-14 Thread Jon Lyons
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 02:48:19PM -0700, Jon Lyons wrote: I've been trying without success to get the mysql client(any version) built from ports collection to connect to a remote mysql server, get Lost connection to MySQL server. I've read the mysql site

Mysql Client and Freebsd 5.2-RELEASE

2004-07-13 Thread Jon Lyons
Hi, I've been trying without success to get the mysql client(any version) built from ports collection to connect to a remote mysql server, get Lost connection to MySQL server. I've read the mysql site, google, but it's only a problem on my 5.2 machine. Locally the client works fine, and other

Re: Large Backup with Amanda

2004-07-12 Thread Jon Mercer
. This is not much of an answer, so I hope it helps you a little. Regards, Jon Hello List, i have a little question. I have to backup nearly 330GB of Data in my company from different hosts. At this moment we have installed 2 Servers. One server catches all the backups from the different

Re: 802.11b with FreeBSD

2004-07-12 Thread Jon Drews
Hello Josh: I use a Proxim Harmony 8430 card that works well (wi0). I would suggets looking in the PCMCIA section of The FreeBSD Laptop Compatibility List: http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/ There are some Cisco Aironet 350 cards listed here:

Re: Printer problems

2004-07-12 Thread Jon Drews
Hello Earl: Linux Printing Org does not show your particular printer: All Compaq printers http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=Compaq Linux Printing Org lists the availability of CUPS drivers. You may be able to get it working with CUPS. I have a short tutorial here for NetBSD.

Re: Moving my Outlook PST file to any BSD E-mail client

2004-07-09 Thread Jon Drews
From the Ximian Evolution support knowledge base: http://support.ximian.com/cgi-bin/ximian.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=yOj4eYfhp_lva=p_faqid=59p_created=995655179p_sp=cF9ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTg1JnBfc2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9JnBfcHJvZF9sdmwxPTImcF9wYWdlPTE*p_li= How do I import my Outlook .pst

Re:

2004-07-08 Thread Jon Mercer
Easiest way would be to reboot into single user mode, start the /bin/csh shell from the prompt, mount all the file systems and edit the /etc/passwd file back to a sensible shell. Following that, keep your linux administrator away from it, or put him on a course. ;-) I have a question. One of

max mount points

2004-07-08 Thread jon
Does FBSD enforce a maximum number of mounted file systems? If so, is it configurable? Jon ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DHCPD 2 mac adresses for one host

2004-07-08 Thread jon
Have you tried separating the MAC definitions? host chues { hardware ethernet 00:0b:db:e7:2a:06; } host chues { hardware ethernet 00:60:73:ea:3f:60; } Jon ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: GUIDE

2004-07-05 Thread Jon Drews
Hi: You can follow the instructions here: http://www.silbsd.org/cvsup_instructions2.html However in step B change: # src-all tag=RELENG_4_8 # to: # src-all tag=RELENG_4_9 # I also urge you to read Section 9 of the FreeBSD handbook:

NATD Port Forwarding question

2004-07-04 Thread Jon Kurjakovich
- it'd be greatly appreciated. I have been trying to resolve the problem on-and-off for months now to no avail. I finally decided I should try the mailing list. Thanks. Regards, Jon ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

RE: NATD Port Forwarding question

2004-07-04 Thread Jon Kurjakovich
is greatly appreciated. Rgds, Jon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Micheal Patterson Sent: Sunday, 4 July 2004 8:12 PM To: Jon Kurjakovich; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NATD Port Forwarding question Is the system configured to accept remote

Re: pattern replacement

2004-07-04 Thread Jon Drews
Hi: Sed is useful for this. Here are some good tutorials on it: Common threads: Sed by example: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sed1.html http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sed2.html http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sed3.html On

Re: Newbie

2004-07-01 Thread Jon Drews
Hello Chintan: In addition to Chris' advice I heartily recommend the tutorials at FreeBSD basics: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/ct/15 I also find Greg Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD to be a very good reference book. On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 23:03:14 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD

2004-06-28 Thread Jon Noack
look results (note the Pentium 4-M had a battery with over 20% greater capacity!): http://www.tomshardware.com/mobile/20030205/centrino-17.html If you value battery life, go with the Pentium-M. If you *most highly* value performance, the Athlon64 is probably the way to go. Jon

Re: wpc54g pcmcia

2004-06-22 Thread jon . mercer
suggest following this thread and building against CURRENT when it appears to be fixed? 5.2.1p1 has been subject to a few advisories anyway so you really should be running a later patch set. Jon Heya, I'm trying to get linksys wireless adapter to work with my laptop. I have Compaq Evo n610c

Slocate?

2004-06-21 Thread Jon Adams
Okay, I am a relative FreeBSD newbie, my main question is Is there a tool similar to Linux secure locate (slocate) that can be used on FreeBSD. I dont want to do a complicated find with 50 million options to find a file. I downloaded the slocate-2.7 source and I get a weird makefile error I

Re: Slocate?

2004-06-21 Thread Jon Adams
Thanks for handling my (really dumb) question... -- Jon Quoting Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 06:24:58AM -0400, Jon Adams wrote: Okay, I am a relative FreeBSD newbie, my main question is Is there a tool similar to Linux secure locate (slocate

Re: Newbie Issues (networking w/ FreeBSD).. Solved

2004-06-15 Thread Jon Adams
the kld) (doh)... Still havent figured out how i was able to NMAP it from outside my net... oh well.. it works now.. Thanks -- Jon Quoting Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Jun 14, 2004, at 05:08, Jon Adams wrote: My network connectivity is ridiculously slow... I had OpenSSH timeout

Newbie Issues (networking w/ FreeBSD)

2004-06-14 Thread Jon Adams
Hi all, First a qualifier: I am FreeBSD noob, I have had exposure to it for about two years, but I just built my first FreeBSD box last nite... fresh install over an old (and extremely tweaked) Red Hat Linux box After much procrastination, I have finally made the change (been stuck on

Re: Disk geometry salad...

2004-06-02 Thread jon
From a high level view, it means you don't have access to 4.6 meg of data space on a 40 gig hard drive. That represents 1/1 of the disk space you do have available to you. Don't worry about it, install the OS and enjoy FreeBSD. 2) When installing FreeBSD, sysinstall warns that a geometry

bento and the ports system

2004-05-31 Thread Jon Noack
ports. This would speed things up for them while preserving the flexibility of compiling from source for those who want to do so. This is a simple enough idea; surely others have considered it as well. Any thoughts? Jon Noack P.S. The opinion on the DragonFly kernel list

Re: Zyxel Prestige 630

2004-05-29 Thread Jon Mercer
Oops! Sorry for the bum steer! Jon On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 10:11, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 01:41:08AM +0100, Jon Mercer wrote: Without double checking, the 630 is just an ADSL router running a connection to FreeBSD over ethernet. In short, so long as the ADSL parameters

Re: Zyxel Prestige 630

2004-05-28 Thread Jon Mercer
Without double checking, the 630 is just an ADSL router running a connection to FreeBSD over ethernet. In short, so long as the ADSL parameters are configured on the 630 it should all work just fine. Hope this helps. I'm running a 600 series myself. Jon On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 00:49, Alexander

Re: Restoring system files from CD

2004-05-06 Thread jon
First, check the live filesystem cd to see if the one you want is on there. If not, you'll have to extract the files you want out of the distribution tar files. There are quite a few of them so you'll have to try to figure out which tar file holds the particular file you are interested in. It

recursive 'make config'?

2004-04-20 Thread Jon Noack
rather annoying to start a kde compile before you go to bed and wake up with only a few ports installed... Thanks, Jon Noack ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: recursive 'make config'?

2004-04-20 Thread Jon Noack
On 4/20/2004 2:46 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 02:15:19PM -0500, Jon Noack wrote: I love the 'make config' option. Is there a way to recursively 'make config' before installing a port with a lot of dependencies (similar to the way sysutils/portupgrade can recursively fetch

Re: portupgrade -arR fails - port/pkg-system no longer usable

2004-03-22 Thread jon . mercer
Have had the same problem. Easiest solution is to cd to /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade and make deinstall clean install Once that completes all is well again. Jon Mercer http://www.achean.com Hi, Doing a portupgrade -arR rendered my system (esp. the parts that refer to ports/packages

promise sata tx4 and 3 monitors [long]

2004-03-13 Thread jon
Promise card http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?productId=108familyId=2 Thanks in advance. -- Jon uname -a FreeBSD new52.foo.com 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 #0: Thu Mar 11 20:04:08 EST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/521/src/sys/NEW521 i386 diff dmesg.boot.with

road warrior VPN solution needed

2004-03-02 Thread Jon Wilson
. Alternatively, if anyone has advise on other solutions to this problem (including paying small sums for alternative software/hardware) then I'm all ears. Jon ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

CUPS + GDI(GNU Ghostscript)

2004-02-14 Thread Jon-Eirik Pettersen
I'm trying to use a Samsung ML1710 laster printer on FreeBSD. It's connected via USB and is detected: ulpt0: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Samsung ML-1710, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 3, iclass 7/1 It is Linux-drivers on the CD that does not work with FreeBSD (not Linux either), but the Samsung ML1210

Re: Daemon Monitor

2004-02-08 Thread Jon Mercer
Have you looked at DJB's Daemontools? They are in ports. Regards, Jon Mercer On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 14:13, Loren M. Lang wrote: Is there a good program that can monitor a daemon and take an appropriate action if the daemon dies? I am having trouble with ClamAV dying in certain circumstances

Re: phpBB problems with mysql? [OT?]

2004-02-02 Thread Jon-Eirik Pettersen
Eric F Crist wrote: This may be a little off-topic, if so, I apologize. I'm running phpBB2 on my webserver. I finally got it working, and it's been great since Friday. This afternoon, when I try to load the page, I get the following error: phpBB : Critical Error Error creating new session

Re: apache is seg faulting. why ?

2004-01-31 Thread Jon-Eirik Pettersen
Melvyn Sopacua wrote: On Friday 30 January 2004 13:40, julien Beauviala wrote: the following : pid 72041 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11 pid 72040 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11 pid 72099 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11 pid 72039 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11 pid

Re: apache is seg faulting. why ?

2004-01-30 Thread Jon-Eirik Pettersen
julien Beauviala wrote: Hello, since about four days, the daily security logs are reporting the following : pid 72041 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11 pid 72040 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11 pid 72099 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11 pid 72039 (httpd), uid 80: exited on

Re: Code highlighting

2004-01-28 Thread Jon-Eirik Pettersen
You can use :syntax on parahat melayev wrote: I am using Vim but it doesn't. Did I miss something? On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 14:52:27 +0100, Massimiliano Stucchi wrote On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:43:15 +0200 parahat melayev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seen on linux. when you open for example C

Re: Dynamic Router IP.

2004-01-28 Thread Jon-Eirik Pettersen
Peter Risdon wrote: Mike wrote: that it's his dsl router that gets the dynamic ip address, not the freebsd box. Presumably, the router has a static 192.168.1.x address facing the LAN and the freebsd box uses this as its gateway. I doubt you can install a daemon on the router. The

Re: hi from california

2004-01-27 Thread Jon-Eirik Pettersen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am soo sorry to ask for help, but ...i try for 1 week now, am running a free shell server in spanish http://shelgratis.org ; and i starting to offer access to individuals for free on my web server; my old server was red hat linux 9, and i change main main server (got 3

saving downloaded packages with pkg_add -r

2004-01-18 Thread Jon
Hi, When I do, say... pkg_add -r foo ... is foo-version.tar.gz stored anywhere? With ports, the source tarballs are saved in /usr/ports/distfiles. But I can't find the downloaded packages anywhere. Can't find mention of this either. Reason I ask is that I'm going to reinstall after using FBSD

Re: Compaq Proliant 1500 / SMP - Success

2004-01-16 Thread Jon Gross
Have you seen this after setting all of this up? MODE_SENSE_BIG resetting ata0... repeat ad nauseum - Original Message - From: Jason Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 12:40 AM Subject: Compaq Proliant 1500 / SMP - Success The info on

Re: Good BSD/Linux Article (somewhat off-topic)

2004-01-16 Thread Jon Noack
to bring others into the fold. Matt, let me know if this was unwanted/damaging -- I can help pay for bandwidth as penance if needed... Jon Noack ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Support for affordable S-ATA RAID controllers (xs4)

2004-01-04 Thread jon
On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 14:09, Rogier Krieger wrote: What we've come up with so far are the Adaptec 1210SA S-ATARAID controller and a Promise S150 TX2Plus RAID which seem affordable. %grep -iE '(release|promise)' /var/run/dmesg.boot FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p10 #0: Mon Oct 6 21:44:56 EDT 2003

Re: Clamd sendmail ??

2004-01-02 Thread Jon Mercer
on. Hope this helps, Jon Mercer On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 16:27, Greg Bernard wrote: Hello, I am trying to have sendmail used clamd in order to filter incoming mail for viruses on my mail server. I have configured clamav following the instruction found here : http://linux-sxs.org/administration

Re: DHCP-server - suggestions?

2003-11-26 Thread Jon Mercer
Been using the ISC DHCP server for years now. No problems to report, and not too onerous to set up. Also allows you to do dynamic updates to the ISC BIND port as well. Jon On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 15:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm about to set up a DHCP-server. In the ports-coll I found

Beginner Security Question

2003-11-17 Thread Jon Cavalier
hello, after lots of research and configuration, i finally have a freebsd box with a comfortable custom interface, lots of multimedia bells and whistles, and shortcuts to all of my most-used applications. i'm still fumbling with text, in that i haven't found a way to cut and paste from one

cannot find -lsysdeps error

2003-11-04 Thread Jon Reynolds
seem to find an answer to this error. What is this telling me do I need to install something else? Thanks for any help, Jon ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

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