Re: just general questions about fbsd

2007-05-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
. Oh, and Google is your friend. ;-) Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices, Will FreeBSD accept Office 98 + Publisher?

2007-04-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
will grant that the publisher wasn't quite Addison-Wesley in stature). It's pretty easy to understand why many people choose to publish their work privately these days. Kevin Kinsey -- Credit ... is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man. -- James Blish

Re: How to Upgrade Portupgrade?

2007-04-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
clean HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Schmidt's Observation: All things being equal, a fat person uses more soap than a thin person. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: How to Upgrade Portupgrade?

2007-04-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Drew Tomlinson wrote: So this seems like updating portupgrade should be trivial but I am stuck. Suggestions appreciated. Yeah, I missed the note on this one, too. Not the change note, but I don't recall seeing the instructions

Re: problem while setting refresh rate in xorg

2007-04-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
just allow DDC to do its thing; also, /var/log/Xorg.0.log might have some clues --- for example, what modelines are discovered for your hardware set? Kevin Kinsey Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0

Re: SMP only detects one CPU - help?

2007-04-21 Thread Kevin Kinsey
the application processor is unusable, whatever that means. I am now stuck. Kevin Kinsey -- He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. -- Friedrich Nietzsche ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: keeping all things up to date

2007-04-17 Thread Kevin Kinsey
, amateurish even ... no tests, etc. Since we know it works for us, didn't figure it was needed. YMMV, BSD license, include #disclaimer.h, etc. Kevin Kinsey -- You can observe a lot just by watching. -- Yogi Berra #! /bin/sh #DEFINE THE FOLLOWING: #Csup program CSUP=/usr/local

Re: using dd to dump an image file to a floppy

2007-04-16 Thread Kevin Kinsey
device if a filesystem is mounted. umount fd0 and try again Kevin Kinsey -- Satellite Safety Tip #14: If you see a bright streak in the sky coming at you, duck. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-13 Thread Kevin Kinsey
else? Kevin Kinsey -- Time and tide wait for no man. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Shell PATH not being reread

2007-04-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
fairly continuously (but then, I hardly use it for interactive use). A brief test here didn't show evidence that this would be a problem for sh, though. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all we can do to put up with constructive praise

Re: Forbidding or not access to webpages of network users

2007-04-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
For many people, yes. Kevin Kinsey -- Rules for Academic Deans: (1) HIDE (2) If they find you, LIE -- Father Damian C. Fandal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: sysctl invalid argument

2007-04-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
question is : why (and where) is it set 2 times and why is it the second time with an invalid argument ? Neither the C1 nor the invalid argument seems to be doing any harm to the (good) workings of the system... Check /etc/defaults/rc.conf. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Few things are harder to put up

Re: fetchmail checksum mismatch error

2007-04-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
, delete the partially-downloaded fetchmail tarball in /usr/ports/distfiles and try again? HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- We are the people our parents warned us about. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Erroneous delivery of list e-mail (was Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard )

2007-04-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
, , Yahoo!, Pravda, New York Times, etc., etc. Kevin Kinsey -- If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: get my off this list

2007-04-09 Thread Kevin Kinsey
the list (after another e-mail confirmation). If unsubscribing doesn't work, I'd set up a filter for the list traffic, and contact my ISP tomorrow. Hope this helps, Kevin Kinsey FreeBSD User ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: There's any other UI like GNOME or KDE available (like Mac) for FreeBSD

2007-04-09 Thread Kevin Kinsey
that might be considered helpful by some and as too much eye-candy by others. There are plenty of other possible combinations of window desktop managers available. The Macintosh computers have their own graphic interface, which, AFAIK, isn't available on FreeBSD. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Success

Re: Should sudo be used?

2007-04-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 11:28:34AM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Kevin Kinsey wrote: I thought I might also mention a potential sudo-shortcoming. :-D See: http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/wiki/Recognize_basic_recommended_access_methods.html Where I

Re: send email with mail command

2007-04-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
, if you're wanting to use mail from console, I'd recommend mutt over mail(1) any day of the week, unless you have some mitigating circumstance HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- One difference between a man and a machine is that a machine is quiet when well oiled

Re: Should sudo be used?

2007-04-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
think?) someone else mentioned, tools, not policy is a UNIX axiom. So, it's up to you to make your own policy. #include disclaimer.h, YMMV, and all that. Kevin Kinsey -- At social gatherings, I would amuse everyone by standing uponst the coffee table and striking meself repeatedly upon

Re: Should sudo be used?

2007-04-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jeremy Reed on this, who is closer to the Cert project and probably *can* speak for them. I'd imagine I need to find some way to fix that, because it sure seems to read as if *they* recommend using sudo ;-) Kevin Kinsey -- A general leading the State Department resembles a dragon commanding

Re: Should sudo be used?

2007-04-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
RW wrote: On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:56:28 -0500 Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Victor Engmark wrote: Hi all, I thought it would be a good idea to use sudo on my FreeBSD laptop, but I'm having doubts after checking the handbook (it's not mentioned at all) and Google (most of the articles

Re: Help! Mail to 'localhost' not staying local

2007-04-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
to lamedelegation.net? Did you leave an old credit card on file with your registrar? It *sounds* like a potential issue. Just, err, curious? Kevin Kinsey -- We have no scorched earth policy. We have a policy of scorched Communists. -- General Efrain Rios Montt, President of Guatemala, 1982

Re: var Filesystem Full Help

2007-04-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
is active but not yet written (and therefore visible to df(1)) and try du(1), because it may also show you the offending file. Kevin Kinsey -- Baruch's Observation: If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: error loading php5.so

2007-04-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
? Well, I'm not absolutely certain of anything. I'd make sure that make config under /usr/ports/lang/php5 indicated Apache module was to be built, and do something more like -rR php5 instead of -f. Did you add new extensions to php at the time of this build, also? ??, Kevin Kinsey -- I don't have

Re: Non Interactive passwd change via script....

2007-04-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
. pw(8) ?? thanks a lot... You're welcome ;-) Kevin Kinsey -- Good news from afar can bring you a welcome visitor. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: can I use info from gentoo installation?

2007-04-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
-chat@freebsd.org) and asking if anyone has experience with this particular model. Good luck! Kevin Kinsey -- Good news from afar can bring you a welcome visitor. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Non Interactive passwd change via script....

2007-04-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
PROTECTED] $ id test uid=1020(test) gid=1026(test) groups=1026(test) [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ finger test Login: test Name: User Test Directory: /home/test Shell: /bin/sh Never logged in. No Mail. No Plan. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- It took me fifteen years to discover

Re: php5 and SQL Scripts

2007-04-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
installed that as well (for example, session support, GD support, CURL support, SOAP, XML, etc.) HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- WARNING TO ALL PERSONNEL: Firings will continue until morale improves. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: automatically starting PostgreSQL

2007-04-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
for upgrading and/or de-installation. I'm not trying to stomp anyone, but this is an area that confused me Once Upon A Time, and we don't do anyone any favors by continuing to propagate this statement as an axiom. Kevin Kinsey *I'm ready to accept responses from a superior intellect who says I'm wrong

Re: error loading php5.so

2007-04-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
of Apache/PHP Possibly looks as if PHP is unaware of Apache's existence? (or at least it was at time of compile). How did you do the upgrade? Kevin Kinsey -- First rule of public speaking. First, tell 'em what you're goin' to tell 'em; then tell 'em; then tell 'em what

Re: FreeBSD X11/GNOME/KDM issue

2007-03-31 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Christian Walther wrote: On 30/03/07, Joseph Marah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi KK, thanks. I have tried ctrl+ald+bspace but got a black screen for a split sec abd got right back to KDM login. ALT+CTRL+Backspace shuts down the X Server the hard way. A Desktop Manager (KDM, GDM, XDM) is

Re: autostart nx server

2007-03-31 Thread Kevin Kinsey
, you could think about putting the command line to start the program in root's crontab with the @ reboot time target. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD X11/GNOME/KDM issue

2007-03-29 Thread Kevin Kinsey
console with CTL-F1, CTL-F2, etc. Edit the offending file (rc.conf?, /etc/ttys?) and try kill -HUP `pgrep Xorg`. And, if you can't get a virtual console, you'll want to reboot into single-user mode, I guess. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- 1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1

Re: How Write To Win Drive?

2007-03-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Stan Cooper wrote: Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Try /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs instead. It's newer and is supposed to support writing. Hmm. Well, there's no such port in FBSD. Are you certain? [EMAIL PROTECTED]/usr/ports] uname -s FreeBSD [EMAIL PROTECTED]/usr/ports] ll IN*6

Re: How Write To Win Drive?

2007-03-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Stan Cooper wrote: Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stan Cooper wrote: Roland Smith wrote:Try /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs instead. It's newer and is supposed to support writing. Hmm. Well, there's no such port in FBSD. Are you certain? [EMAIL PROTECTED]/usr/ports] uname -s

Re: hi

2007-03-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
a X-enabled browser to do this, drop to console and try lynx (/usr/ports/www/lynx) from the command line. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- We're happy little Vegemites, As bright as bright can be. We all enjoy our Vegemite For breakfast, lunch and tea

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
in the day, the the tools that are 'officially' documented became standard more or less by default. (and, come to think of it, are they at all, if so, where, etc., etc.) HTH, `cat flames /dev/null 21`, Kevin Kinsey [1] Since the punishment for these transgressions is basically just a temporal

Re: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
might hack the Makefile to read c instead of b (or whatnot) on that file and have the port work, although you might then have verification problems. The other way was discussed recently on the list. Search the archives, late February, early March. Good luck, Kevin Kinsey -- The devil can cite

Re: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Don O'Neil wrote: Well, since I didn't install it from source, but a snapshot, I don't have the northamerica source to get an MD5 # on. Sorry, you could also update your ports tree and install the port. KDK -- The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. -- William

Re: New to FreeBSD

2007-03-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
. How can i fix this? In short, add: snd_driver_load=YES to /boot/loader.conf. However, it'd be better to figure out which of the umpty-leven drivers is really being used, and only load it. See snd(4) for more details. Kevin Kinsey -- Don't knock President Fillmore. He kept us out of Vietnam

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-03-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 28/03/07 Kevin Kinsey said: Here is a time-honored and rather canonical diatribe on The Art of Pkgdb -F (a great thread title, BTW). Note also that it is nearly six years old, and that additional package-management tools have been proposed, created, and released

Re: Making Customized Bootable FreeBSD

2007-03-26 Thread Kevin Kinsey
with this Kevin Kinsey -- Fortune favors the lucky. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: redirect /dev/console to a file

2007-03-26 Thread Kevin Kinsey
to a file, and then run xrootconsole on that, I should imagine. ?? Details are found there, IIRC. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool. -- Katharine Whitehorn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: New to FreeBSD

2007-03-26 Thread Kevin Kinsey
--- you could check at www.freesbie.org. Good luck! Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Updating Bind OpenSSL on 6.1-Stable/Release

2007-03-26 Thread Kevin Kinsey
... I've seen this before, and it's annoying as heck when you go to patch/update something and it doesn't work because it's installing in a different location and looks for config files in different places. Because they are ports?? Kevin Kinsey -Original Message- From: Reko Turja

Re: new port

2007-03-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
decide to support our OS. Kevin Kinsey FreeBSD User -- Captain Penny's Law: You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you Can't Fool Mom. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Differences between BSD and Linux : got article link?

2007-03-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
the original article though.. -Garrett I think Matthew Fuller? http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- WOLF: A man who knows all the ankles. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Corrupted OS

2007-03-16 Thread Kevin Kinsey
terminal (which is an SSH session), what happens if I'm disconnected - will my upgrade continue? The answer is that it will not continue unless you've planned for that possibility. Are you familiar with job control, e.g.: $ make buildworld HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- A real diplomat is one who can

Re: Xfce 4.4 and Thunar automounting of USB stick

2007-03-16 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chess Griffin wrote: Hello! My first post to the list. :) I have FreeBSD 6.2 installed and running wonderfully. I have built Xfce 4.4from ports and it too, is working very well, but I have one problem -- the new Thunar file manager does not auto-mount USB sticks. snip I have installed

Re: Xfce 4.4 and Thunar automounting of USB stick

2007-03-16 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chess Griffin wrote: On 3/16/07, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed Hal, Dbus, and polkit and have those 3 things enabled in my /etc/rc.conf. I also installed thunar and the thunar-volman plugin. However, when I go to the Advanced tab in the File Manager settings manager

Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD?

2007-03-15 Thread Kevin Kinsey
that has up-to-date 6.2 sources. A good reason to give it a try, I suppose. The Friendly manual is what you need, plus a bit of time for reading/planning and a fairly fast build machine --- or a *lot* of time on a slower box. Happy release(7)-ing! Kevin Kinsey -- 1 + 1 = 3, for large values

Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD?

2007-03-15 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Ewald Jenisch wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:27:02AM +0100, cpghost wrote: He meant the command to create the iso image. Something like 'make release' or so... Hi, Yes you're right - the question is about how to create a *custom* ISO-image. I've already tried the following: cd /usr/src

Re: FreeBSD Devil Image

2007-03-13 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Pieter de Goeje wrote: Op dinsdag 13 maart 2007 20:34, schreef Jeff Rollin: On 13/03/07, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our beastie may be a bit devilish in some respects, but please don't call him just a devil. Some people stay away from FreeBSD for religious reasons. Feeding

Re: root login with telnetd

2007-03-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
, and publish it on the front page of your website/blog/whatnot. OK, cynicism aside, why on earth would you want to do this? That's a fool's errand in today's world. Or, are you on a 2-machine network via crossover cable in a lockdown facility? Kevin Kinsey -- For those who like this sort of thing

Re: FreeBSD/i386

2007-03-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
doesn't work, don't be alarmed---there are a few possibilities that might keep this from working; check the handbook, and, if needed, write again to the questions@ list with a new subject line describing your new problem. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Personifiers of the world, unite! You have nothing

Re: Western Australian Daylight Savings changes

2007-03-08 Thread Kevin Kinsey
; fortunately, no biggie as I have only a few servers/workstations running FreeBSD. HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Network Printing recommendations please

2007-03-08 Thread Kevin Kinsey
. Many thanks Andy. (newbness embodied) Kevin Kinsey -- All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific. -- Jane Wagner ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Network Printing recommendations please

2007-03-08 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Work quite happily without X :-D Come to think of it, maybe X isn't such a great idea, heh Apologies if this is the wrong forum or invalid posting, please advise. Many thanks Andy. (newbness embodied) Err, can't I have my body back, then? Kevin Kinsey -- All my life I wanted

Re: lsmod

2007-03-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/01/13/FreeBSD_Basics.html Regards, Paulette McGee Which begs the question *why* he's having this problem ... ? Johannes, are you installing via the ports tree, or trying to install from scratch? Kevin Kinsey -- If I knew what brand [of whiskey] he drinks

Re: mplayer (gmplayer) with xfce4.4.0

2007-03-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
the same command that you run in the terminal? Kevin Kinsey -- SPAGMUMPS: Any of the millions of Styrofoam wads that accompany mail-order items. -- Sniglets, Rich Hall Friends ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: can't install PHP5: missing pkg-descr

2007-03-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
, since there is such a file there. You might try something like: $ cd /usr/ports/lang/php5 $ make DESCR=/usr/ports/lang/php5/pkg-descr install clean Kevin Kinsey -- They call them squares because it's the most complicated shape they can deal

Re: mplayer (gmplayer) with xfce4.4.0

2007-03-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Gerard Seibert wrote: FreeBSD-6.2 xfce-4.4.0 Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is your mplayer/gmplayer version? `pkg_info | grep mplayer` will probably tell you. Is the underlying menu entry the same command that you run in the terminal? mplayer-0.99.10_5 I have tried running

Re: Portupgrade moved: use --origin to upgrade it?

2007-03-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
be able to avoid problems while still using portupgrade by simply setting the origin, ie portupgrade -NR --origin ports-mgmt/portupgrade portupgrade ? Jonathan I'm fairly certain that /usr/ports/UPGRADING said what to do. Kevin Kinsey -- Is death legally binding

Re: Portupgrade moved: use --origin to upgrade it?

2007-03-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Tuesday 06 March 2007 15:32, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Jonathan McKeown wrote: [can I upgrade portupgrade by] portupgrade -NR --origin ports-mgmt/portupgrade portupgrade ? I'm fairly certain that /usr/ports/UPGRADING said what to do. I checked UPDATING before I posted

Re: using sysinstall upgrade as a repair solution

2007-03-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Disclaimer: IANAE. Joshua Kordani wrote: Hello all! I was running 5.1 release till pretty much last week when I believe the machine experienced an unplanned powercycle. since then i get an error about libedit.so.4 being missing, and being required by sh, please input path to sh or hit enter.

Re: using sysinstall upgrade as a repair solution

2007-03-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
) Kevin Kinsey -- Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. -- John Lennon, Beautiful Boy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Changing Boot Loader

2007-03-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
/sysutils/gag). possibly extipl (ports/sysutils/extipl). Have used gag, worked fine here on 6.1 and older PII based system (from the 750 MHz era) with typical IDE/pATA disk. No experience with the latter. Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Changing Boot Loader

2007-03-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
/sysutils/gag). possibly extipl (ports/sysutils/extipl). Have used gag, worked fine here on 6.1 and older PII based system (from the 750 MHz era) with typical IDE/pATA disk. No experience with the latter. Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: defrag

2007-03-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-03-02 11:27, Mario Lobo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 01 March 2007 17:27, Pietro Cerutti wrote: On 3/1/07, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Kinsey wrote: groff /usr/share/doc/smm/05.fastfs/* ~/ffs.ps This is what worked for me: [~]gunzip

Re: Mounting an FTP space ?

2007-03-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
not be something you want to get into (lots of dependencies you may not want) c] possibly ditto with gftp--Gnome, and some others may be rather heavy iglooftp wxftp filezilla ftpcube gFTP JFTP Kasablanca Kbear KFTPGRabber llnlxdir multiget waiho wmget wxdfast Xrmftp Kevin Kinsey -- Early

Re: Mounting an FTP space ?

2007-03-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
suffice). And I'll have to apologize for the noise of my last, as John seems to have caught what you were Really Asking(tm). Kevin Kinsey -- panic: kernel trap (ignored) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Steve Franks wrote: How come I never hear defrag come up as a topic, and can't find anything related to defrag in the ports tree? Is it really not an issue on UFS? Can someone point me to an explantion if so? Thanks, Steve I'm thinking this one's in the FAQ at freebsd.org. Kevin Kinsey

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Steve Franks wrote: How come I never hear defrag come up as a topic, and can't find anything related to defrag in the ports tree? Is it really not an issue on UFS? Can someone point me to an explantion if so? Thanks, Steve I'm thinking this one's in the FAQ

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Steve Franks wrote: Excellent! Never had that one answered. I've gone down the typical road of being an MS booster (It doesn't take 10 hours to set up and configure) to experiencing glee when I find yet another way FBSD kicks the crap out of MS. Why? Because I've grown up, and learned that 2

Re: Best anoncvs Site to Update 6.2 Sources

2007-03-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
the time to install /usr/ports/sysutils/fastest_cvsup to help find the fastest/nearest servers for your installation area. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash. -- Lazarus Long

Re: Future of FreeBSD 7.0 and up

2007-02-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
done this; perhaps the most famous is Greg Lehey's instant-workstation port. The reason it's not done for you: the BSD's are all about flexibility, in line with the UNIX philosophy tools, not policy Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Squirrelmail Calendar Broken After Upgrade?

2007-02-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
at database authentication information ... the lack of which would, most likely, cause just the sort of effect you describe. Kevin Kinsey -- Calvin: I wonder where we go when we die. Hobbes: Pittsburgh? Calvin: You mean if we're good or if we're bad

Re: pkg_add problems

2007-02-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
port. Possible that CONTROL is open and DATA is blocked? Any thoughts on trouble shooting this would be appreciated. Thanks Those are mine. Good luck! Kevin Kinsey -- You may get an opportunity for advancement today. Watch it! ___ freebsd

Re: named not starting during boot

2007-02-26 Thread Kevin Kinsey
? There are a lot of really quick restarts in that log snippet around 5:20 snip any clues please? Not really, most of the time I think I'm completely clueless ;-) Kevin Kinsey -- I've been there. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Weather update plugin 0.6.0 fails to work

2007-02-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
~/.config/xfce* Are you behind a proxy by any chance? Kevin Kinsey -- The future is a myth created by insurance salesmen and high school counselors. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: SpamAssassin and the nonexistent home directory.

2007-02-21 Thread Kevin Kinsey
. Probably then I would try `id` and `finger` perhaps, on the spamd user, and hope that the output might give me a clue. Grasping a straw, Kevin Kinsey -- If you can lead it to water and force it to drink, it isn't a horse. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Java install problem

2007-02-21 Thread Kevin Kinsey
there's some magic in /etc/libmap.conf, also, but I think the port is supposed to do that for you Kevin Kinsey -- Whatever became of eternal truth? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: NTFS-3G driver problem

2007-02-21 Thread Kevin Kinsey
place? It would appear not Kevin Kinsey -- Each of us bears his own Hell. -- Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: How Do I Surf To My Server?

2007-02-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Drew Jenkins wrote: Will this help? $ ifconfig vr0 snip And on a Windows Laptop: C:\ more c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts snip Yes, that is a start. I added the domain mercury.com (a site I never visit) and pointed it to 192.168.1.255, the IP address given from the above. I also

Re: How Do I Surf To My Server?

2007-02-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
on my LAN, from a Windows laptop; the server is running on the FreeBSD box's vr0 interface (IP address 192.168.0.1), and the hosts file on the Winbox is telling it that webmail.daleco.biz is at that address. That's DNS, circa 1981. No charge ;-) Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. -- I never vote

Re: Can I Mount A Windoze Drive?

2007-02-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Drew Jenkins wrote: For some reason, I can no longer mount the Windoze drive! The first time I mounted it, I didn't even change the fstab! I just issued the command: mount_ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/win and it mounted! I copied off everything I thought I needed. But when I tried to go back in,

Re: Permission Denied

2007-02-18 Thread Kevin Kinsey
and run chpass. If su still doesn't ask you for a password after that, write the list back, as you likely have a more serious problem. Kevin Kinsey -- Jacquin's Postulate on Democratic Government: No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session

Re: diagnosing a reacurring system freeze

2007-02-15 Thread Kevin Kinsey
be worth a try. Or, you could always change your ethernet card (unless we're talking about laptops here). My $0.02 (at a lower exchange rate than Kris's), Kevin Kinsey -- Emersons' Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having

Re: Very Annoying PHP Errors

2007-02-14 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Peter Pluta wrote: I recently upgraded to 5.2.1_1. After upgrading (or before not exactly sure) I began getting errors ALERT - canary mismatch on efree() - heap overflow detected in my Apache logs. That sounds a tad troubling, and is rather over my head. It does appear that some people

Re: Cannot get freebsd up and running...

2007-02-14 Thread Kevin Kinsey
motherboard for this box. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- You should make a point of trying every experience once -- except incest and folk-dancing. -- A. Bax, Farewell My Youth ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Secure Telnet

2007-02-13 Thread Kevin Kinsey
to indicate that this isn't the case), you shouldn't allow rlogin; once again, ssh can do anything rlogin/rsh can, and do it with encryption. Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. (Jasper, MO!!! Hi!) [1] Keep in mind that there **must** be a reason why SSH is preferred over telnet, even if telnet supports

Re: One hurdle left to switch

2007-02-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Philip Hallstrom wrote: I'm chafing at the bit to get rid of Windows at home and move to FreeBSD. I've even got my wife convinced that she wouldn't have any more problems with KDE than she presently has with Windows. (Reality is she'd have less!) There's just one problem. I can use gnucash

Re: CVSup Touch

2007-02-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Cy Schubert wrote: What is a CVSup Touch? What is it? (A touch, right?) Why does it happen? What triggers it? e.g. Touch ports/devel/makeplus/files/patch-main.mk,v Touch ports/devel/makeplus/pkg-descr,v Touch ports/devel/makeplus/pkg-plist,v I have a CVSup that's been running here for 15

Re: (no subject)

2007-02-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
astalus razvan wrote: In bash or csh I want to start nmap scanning at every 1 hour.how can I do this? thanks If this is *your* network you're scanning, see cron(8), crontab(1), and - something I've not seen mentioned yet, at(1)**, all of which are

Re: ps oddity

2007-02-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, A couple of months ago I wrote a daemon process that opens up connections on TCP and listens for incoming data (that ultimately ends up in a database). Now, when I was writing it, I was debugging and what not under my own user id. However, the program now runs as

Re: thwarting repeated login attempts

2007-01-26 Thread Kevin Kinsey
/password combo, he can simple login via ssh, (provided that user has a shell account). Is there anyway to block multiple FTP login attempts? Kevin Kinsey -- Make it myself? But I'm a physical organic chemist! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: thwarting repeated login attempts

2007-01-26 Thread Kevin Kinsey
] Note that I'm _not_ trying to be critical. However, in the current state of things [2], I don't see anything involving unencrypted authentication as valid for WAN(Internet) operations. Kevin Kinsey [1] Granted, other strategies might work; firewalling and/or tcpwrappers might work. [2

Re: Blocking traffic by Mac address using IPFW

2007-01-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
of years ago: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ipfw/2004-September/001375.html Disclaimer: IANAE, and don't play one on television ;-) HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Heisenberg may have been here. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Remote Desktop Connection

2007-01-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
my FreeBSD desktop apps on my wife's lappy at the breakfast table ;-). With this setup, Windows actually is the window manager --- kinda disconcerting at first glance :-D Kevin Kinsey -- Condense soup, not books! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: nfs mount rw

2007-01-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
. See exports(5) for more information about the configuration file. You don't say much about whom should have access, and to what, but I suspect you want to either use -maproot=user or -public or ? Disclaimer: IANAE. Kevin Kinsey -- Ain't no right way to do a wrong thing

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