RE: /dev/eth0 question [FC4]

was just SO MUCH SIMPLER and inviting, and if I may venture to say... even easier than any M$FT one. {Doesn't get why Linux doesn't use ufs, instead of ext2 and ext3 for FS's!} -- Peter Leftwich, Owner Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039, USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com

Re: /dev/eth0 question - prefer reply in next 20mins

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Robert Slade wrote: As the problem is with FC4 why not ask on their mailing list? Rob Good point, and I apologize for the transgression. (With my PC off, I took out the NIC, tapped it, blew dust off it, rebooted and DSL worked fine! Go figure.) :) -- Peter Leftwich

/dev/eth0 question - prefer reply in next 20mins

need to replace the NIC (3Com Etherlink card that's about 7yrs old)?? Thank you in advance, I truly appreciate it, and have a joyous weekend. Wish I were in Vegas at C.E.S.! -- Peter Leftwich, Owner Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039, USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com

Who ever knew RTFM would work :)

it to mess up your ANSI) ...Well man -k shell gave me the answer so now I am STOKED!! chsh -- Peter Leftwich, Owner Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039, USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Suggestions for www.freebsd.org and questions

if each 'datasheet' or 'lab report' if you will, linked to the product listed at an official company URL e.g. http://store.ibm.com/products.php?ThinkpadXYZ1000 -- Peter Leftwich, Owner Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039, USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com

pkg_add -rf XFree86 (on 5.2-RELEASE)?

Hello again, List! It has been many months since my last confession, er, POST. :) My question. Generally, what is the easiest way to reinstall XFree86 to a 5.2-RELEASE working system? Is there a separately- hosted ports area, other than current? Thanks very much. -- Peter Leftwich, Founder

Re: pkg_add -rf XFree86 (on 5.2-RELEASE)?

!) with the 5.4-REL iso's. I had originally abandoned my 5.2-REL HDD since the cordless mouse krunked. Well thank you for your speedy replies, you and Mr. Kennaway, thank you!! -- Peter Leftwich Founder President, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039, USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com

Re: `pkg_info | grep -i openssh` ; echo 2.9 vs 3.0.2? [cjc]

protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090601f # mv /usr/bin/ssh /usr/bin/ssh_2.9_old_dont_use # ln -s /usr/local/bin/ssh /usr/bin/ssh I guess that last line isn't really necessary if I adjust my $PATH, huh? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403

Re: Microsoft Cordless Optical Mouse and 5.2

IntelliMouse(R) Explorer. It does not work with 5.2-RELEASE! :-( Regards, Chip -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Microsoft Cordless Optical Mouse and 5.2

of current anchor http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2.1R/hardware-i386.html ? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Microsoft Cordless Optical Mouse and 5.2

. -- Subhro Sankha Kar School of Information Technology, Block AQ-13/1 Sector V ZIP 700091 - India Almost a yeayyy out of me - Yes, I have the GENERIC kernel, and tried the very-comforting-to-rediscover /stand/sysinstall, tried various protocol types and ports to no avail. :( -- Peter Leftwich

Re: Microsoft Cordless Optical Mouse and 5.2

of the box and into USB that is...) Ppplllplplppplplp! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

25mb vs 300mb ports

. Is this a matter of compressed versus uncompressed? Why the discrepancy? By the way, thank you to the many erudite and friendly faces who responded to my lament -- I am happy to see a lot of devices now supported under 5.2.1!! -- Peter Leftwich, President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla

lament about freebsd sacrifices

and 2 devices * IM software features such as voice and video chat * websites that use ActiveX (Windows) controls * MP3 devices Any major sacrifices I've forgotten? :-\ -- Peter Leftwich, President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039, USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com

Re: Boot time, init? getty repeated too many times

Ryan Merrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Leftwich wrote: [snip] getty repeated too many times and that it will halt for 30 seconds. [snip] H, Review your #/etc/ttys and comment out any questionable lines. -Ryan Merrick / [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was able to get at my raw data (via mount -t ufs

Boot time, init? getty repeated too many times

. -- Peter Leftwich, President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039, USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Mounting to freebsd ufs under WinXP

] operating system and running a daemon. Thanks mucho diGiornio, -- Peter Leftwich, President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039, USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Share/Freeware to see FBSD from Win_XPproSP1?

Is there a program (go-between) that I can use to read my FreeBSD slices from Winbloze XP Pro SP1? I need to clean up some old OSs, make space...! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com

Re: fixit

On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I saw your post about the lack of documentation for fixit and wondered if you may be an expert or seasoned user on the topic? Thank you for any info you have! Fixit disks aren' really

fixit

/ and do I have to fdisk and label mountpoints in sysinstall ahead of time??)??! If anyone can clarify these three questions, I would forever be grateful. Thank you kindly. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com

Re: missing /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 ... not found

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 12:34:17AM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote: The problem I now have is that I would like to mount_msdos a regular floppy then copy (cp or cpio?) a file from it called ld-elf.so.1 to the mounted partition which contains FreeBSD

Re: missing /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 ... not found

or whichever way that www.freebsd.org takes donations!!! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: missing /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 ... not found

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Peter Leftwich wrote: On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Matt Emmerton wrote: (I am posting this because a search for the subject above in Google turned up not much... not much 'tall!) What should a user do if their, uhm, /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 file is missing on 4.7

Re: missing /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 ... not found

panic from this Knoppix 3.2 Debian Linux CD-R I am booted up into!! I better scoot. Help. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: missing /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 ... not found

Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] kindly transmitted: On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:32:07AM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote: What should a user do if their, uhm, /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 file is missing on 4.7-RELEASE? Can said user `touch /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1` as a decent fix? Or mount

Re: missing /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 ... not found

Ulf Zimmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ld-elf.so.1 should also be on the first CD. Its just inside the split tar.gz files which make up the base of FreeBSD. Check out the bin/ directory on the cd, all the bin.[a-z][a-z] files are a split of a large tar.gz, and that includes the ld-elf.so.1

Re: missing /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 ... not found

file is replaced then all should be fixed? Thanks Ulf! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

missing /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 ... not found

another OS and copy over a friend's or a web-hosted ld-elf.so.1 file? Or could I, I mean my friend, use some of the contents of src/ on a 4.7-RELEASE CD-R to recreate (via compiling) this needed file?? Please help. It could be your gift to me. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video

Re: www.knoppix.net and maybe one day FreeBSDCDR?

On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Daniela wrote: On Thursday 18 December 2003 03:33, Peter Leftwich wrote: Hi again, Could someone explain how to create a similar bootable CD-R of FreeBSD that, at boot-time, would mount root to a ramdisk and run Gnome or KDE automatically? Everything would have to use

Re: How to mount FreeBSD from Debian or any Linux possibly

364F 540E ACC4 6EF9 I love the smell of filtered spam in the morning - it smells like victory! Thanks Jonathan!!! :) The chown sshhtick did the trick!! I hope my changes were not permanent (i.e. to the live filesystem that I hope to be able to boot again one day)... -- Peter Leftwich President

Re: How to mount FreeBSD from Debian or any Linux possibly

Ruben de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 12:48:40AM -0500, Peter Leftwich typed: Here is how to mount your freebsd partition from Linux (in my case, it was a CD-R of the Debian-based bootable known as Knoppix available from www.knoppix.net). As long as your Linux

Re: How to mount FreeBSD from Debian or any Linux possibly

Ruben de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... currently-running X session. That would allow me to use KDE and Konqueror to browse graphically to the directory /mnt/freebsdpartition ... anyone know how? Not needed. try: `mount -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd,uid

[Fwd: fixit.flp or fixit via live filesystem CD]

a tricycle (that is, useless!) Someone please comment from experience!!! Thank you so much. Original Message Subject: fixit.flp or fixit via live filesystem CD From: Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, December 18, 2003 2:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RE: http

4.7-RELEASE bootable CD-R to replace files

, compat, libraries etc or will this possibly OVERWRITE a directory I currently have (mounted) such as /root/mydocuments/ ?? Thanks to anyone who can clarify this procedure. PS: Please reply CC: to my email address as well as the list. -- Peter Leftwich, President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692

Re: 4.7-RELEASE bootable CD-R to replace files

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Josh Paetzel wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:36:33AM -0800, Peter Leftwich wrote: Hello fellow BSD'ers! Happy holidays. I had 4.7-RELEASE on my box and then I accidentally deleted a file as root (I think it was /usr/lib/ld-elf.so.1 or .8) and now the system

www.knoppix.net and maybe one day FreeBSDCDR?

figure out how to mount the partition that has my 4.7-RELEASE root /) and worth checking out. Give it as a gift to a techie on your list!!! PS: Please CC my email address if you reply, thanks. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http

Suggestion to display date/time of port addition or modification

megs of unnecessary files that may never be used possibly. Thank you for listening, hopefully my remarks generate some discussion. -- Peter Leftwich, President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039, USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com PS: Please reply-to-all or explicitly CC me

Re: xv flag to not create ~/dir/dir/.xvpics/

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Vlad D. Markov wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 20:44:16 -0400 (EDT) Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The option vsmap is asking for an image browser. The program need not necessarily cache thumbnails on the hard disk. Perhaps this is a wish list item for xv

Re: xv flag to not create ~/dir/dir/.xvpics/

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I `cd ~/dir/dir` then run `xv -vsmap` xv creates cached thumbnails. Does anyone know of a flag for xv to -NOT- create a directory called .xvpics? I do not want xv

xv flag to not create ~/dir/dir/.xvpics/

If I `cd ~/dir/dir` then run `xv -vsmap` xv creates cached thumbnails. Does anyone know of a flag for xv to -NOT- create a directory called .xvpics? I do not want xv to create this directory. Thanks. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA

Re: Mirroring tool? web snake? getbot?

On 2003-07-29 21:54 -0700, Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All I'd like is a graphical tool that prompts the user for a URL then proceeds to mirror that URL to the working directory or to a base directory specified in its preferences. It would also be nice to filter by URL's ending

Mirroring tool? web snake? getbot?

successive run of the program, it deletes the results of the last run! Stupid! Thanks for any ideas you all may have. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL

Re: [SDBUG] Re: Monitor dimming

-- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: [SDBUG] Re: Monitor dimming

installation to control it too? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Mount My Creation [ls -c, -t -u etc]

is the switch to see the full date and time output, instead of this information being truncated to Dec 3 2002 instead of Dec 3 2002 15:16:01 for example? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com

Re: Mount My Creation [ls -c, -t -u etc]

-R Thanks Axel S. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

TZ

/* and /boot/* returns nothing relevant. I also can't remember if this is something that can be played with in userland, that is, as a postprocessor (e.g. the tcsh shell using set or setenv). Ideas, from any timezone? PS - Please CC: me in your reply -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video

Mount My Creation

this Leftwich guy ever shut up? :-o PS - Please CC: me in your reply! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Monitor dimming

to dim now. Thanks all, please CC: me! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Resetting ports and pkg's?

wrong and indicated by an error message. Help! Thanks CC: me please... PS - Is it as easy as just `rm -rf /var/db/pkg/` or just one directory? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com

/var/log/wtmp and /var/log/system/log.*

for that power-on session. Can someone comment on what to use for the at command command-line, and whether I'd put this in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/SOMETHING.sh or where? I think this is an interesting omission from Unixes in general. What's your opinion? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video

Re: Problems making ogle and libdvdread

On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Stephen Hilton wrote: On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 22:34:21 -0800 (PST), Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, switch the order of those. I'm trying to make or put libdvdread in the right place so when I run `./configure` in the ogle-0.9.0 directory it won't keep

Problems making ogle and libdvdread

where that request will go... Thanks everybody, please CC replies to me. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com Script started on Sat Mar 22 22:27:23 2003 Reading .cshrc file... Done reading .cshrc file! # pwd

Re: SBC DSL vs Fbsd 4.7 PPPoE?

dependent libs! :( PS - Thanks again Amit, early birthday present to me!! :-) B^] -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body

Re: Manually reinstall various lib's?

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 03:23:54AM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote: [PLEASE CC: ME IN YOUR REPLY - THANK YOU] I just upgraded from 4.6.2 to 4.7 after accidentally, yes, as root, wiping out my /usr/local/bin/ folder with an rm -rf (I thought I

Manually reinstall various lib's?

and now startx and lots of different pkg_add -rf package commands are giving me errors about expecting different libraries. Is there a way to manually install these? Please help, you're my only hope! =) Yours, faithfully as root right now, -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services

uscanner and ppbus0 webcam (Please CC me)

basis the billing might occur (hourly or by the job? ballpark estimate on the total? likelihood of success?) Thank you kindly, -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Softer crash a show-interrupter only (please CC me in reply)

of [EMAIL PROTECTED] | everything, and the value of nothing. Vienna, AUSTRIA | Oscar Wilde -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com To Unsubscribe: send mail

Softer crash a show-interrupter only (please CC me in reply)

both to the console and to a file, such as `startx 2 startx.out` or something? Thx!! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com box 1743 ~ # startx xauth: (argv):1: bad display name ...r.com:0 in list command xauth

Re: Power off problem [from Dec-08-2002]

holidays! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

uscanner and ppbus0 webcam

PPC2 Camera MEDIA CPIA_1-20 plip0: PLIP network interface on ppbus0 lpt0: Printer on ppbus0 ppi0: Parallel I/O on ppbus0 Really appreciate some leading ideas, -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com To Unsubscribe

Re: changing directory listing type

or install gnuls from ports /usr/ports/misc/gnuls and and run ls --color regard Easier yet, just add the following line in /etc/profile: # alias ls='ls -G' Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Peter

Re: Ports base? [hear me roar]

-0800, Peter Leftwich wrote: I tried to install just the ports base using sysinstall but it started to download the entire ports collection, and my HD space is limited. I didn't think that sysinstall allowed you to install parts of the ports collection, only the entire collection (which

Re: Seeking command similar to dd

On 15 Nov 2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a command similar to dd to analyze a CD that is in the drive? I use the dd bs=2k command on ISO 9660 CDs. Is there more to that command line? Or does it let you browse RAW data? I used mkisofs

Re: Show-stopping Galeon bug!

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Mike Erickson wrote: (11.12.2002 @ 2220 PST): Peter Leftwich said, in 1.3K: If you use the Galeon browser, be careful or mindful of the following bug that has actually crashed *look of awe!* my system 3 or 4 times now. For those of you just joining the thread

Seeking command similar to dd

Is there a command similar to dd to analyze a CD that is in the drive? I used mkisofs the other day, then burncd (forgot to say fixate on the end of the command line though), and now I cannot mount this CD. Ideas? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla

Searching for 'webcam' or 'cpia'

and the ported apps for either webcam or cpia there are no hits. Has anyone gotten a parallel cam working? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: burncd creates jittery audio cd's

] Melbourne University Mobile: +61 403 788 386 There is a flag to burncd of -s I believe. Try matching that to your hardware's speed or slower. Also, are you using mkisofs? (As far as I know, you should be.) -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039

Re: burncd creates jittery audio cd's

, it must mean that it works without mkisofs?). Thanks, Jacob Jacob RhodenPhone: +61 3 8344 6102 ITS DivisionEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Melbourne University Mobile: +61 403 788 386 I don't know, and turn this back over to the list... -- Peter Leftwich President

Show-stopping Galeon bug!

and keyboard?) I was forced to press my unit's Reset button (I waited until the mp3 finished playing due to HDD access). Has anyone else witness this or something similar with Mozilla? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http

Re: man 1 eject [Giorgos]

/man/man1/eject.1.gz) Don't know if that helps you. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: man 1 eject [DaleCo]

original /stand/sysinstall install. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: man 1 eject

On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Sue Blake wrote: On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 02:18:18AM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote: On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Hmm. Before we can improve the man page, we have to write it. Are you confusing FreeBSD with NetBSD? Greg I don't get it. Peter, I

Re: What is bsd.port.mk ?

looking for a way to download just one set of ported source by not using cvsup, then `make install clean` or `gmake install clean` whichever. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ntpdate problems in /etc/rc.conf

://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html The way I understand it, ntpd runs constantly, keeping your PC's clock accurate, whereas ntpdate is often called once via a cron or at boot time. My clock is accurate now, isc.org must not have set their time right away. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder

ld-elf.so.1 error

, is there some trusted place I can simply download libXaw3d.so.7 to trick emacs into working properly? Hope I can fix this! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

man 1 eject

using eject acd1 for example. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

mount transparently?

to convert filename.tgz to filename.iso Am I asking too much and at too many levels down? =) -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body

Re: ntpdate problems in /etc/rc.conf

a sysinstall-like interface. The manpage for tzsetup pointed me to /etc/localtime which, when viewed in the more viewer, had PST near the end so I'm assuming I'm setup okay now. But I wonder why there is no unix standard command to view and/or set the PC's current timezone! -- Peter Leftwich

Re: man 1 eject

On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Hmm. Before we can improve the man page, we have to write it. Are you confusing FreeBSD with NetBSD? Greg See complete headers for address and phone numbers I don't get it. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692

What is bsd.port.mk ?

/Mk/bsd.port.mk make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue What is bsd.port.mk, where can I get it or pkg_add it, then am I all set? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: What is vnlru really?

while ipconfig tells me another. Is that because I'm using DHCP, or is arp -a maybe reporting a DNS value, not my currently-assigned IP? PS - Yack! .biz?! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Port 514 unsafe? open to outside?

been able to send email to myself yet :( -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: du, find/xargs/sort, and MP3.tar

On 22 Oct 2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then I thought I'd get crafty and `tar tvf MP3.DONE0415021909MPT.tar the-tarfile.out` thinking I could later run things through `sort` but I am hung up on how to get similar output that shows the contents

What is vnlru really?

of way. What else is there to check, using `ps auxww`? Thanks as always and ever after, PS - Is `arp -a` the most reliable way to get one's current IP address? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail

Port 514 unsafe? open to outside?

? I know it works outbound because I am about to send this message ;-] -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

du, find/xargs/sort, and MP3.tar

/\/\aster$ work some unixiacal magic on my task? =^) It soothes my soul to know you care. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body

Didn't think it was possible

playing but The GIMP managed to force me to press the hard reset button and my box was not pleased. Oh my question: How was FreeBSD 4.6.2 able to log crash to wtmp? And how do you remember whether it is utmp or wtmp? What do they stand for? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services

learning about ./configure and pkg-config

in the colon-separated (on Windows, semicolon- separated) list of directories specified by the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable. I couldn't find my /lib/pkgconfig directory or locate sample PKG_CONFIG_PATH statements on the web. Can someone clue me in please? -- Peter Leftwich President

Gnome URL Launcher captions?

stored? In what path, files?? Thanks! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Ports FAQ is a great read [port.tar??]

certainly settling on a life of /stand/sysinstall and `pkg_add -r` :-( Can someone offer me hope? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body

Re: help with ln linking Please! [attn manpage authors!]

, what's the number? The said this for years was probably me cursing and drooling asleep. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body

Re: Please help me

know. Someone told me that only an old school unix person would be able to tell me. Please help? -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions

Re: How to create another account with root privileges ?

really want to do this. What problem are you needing to solve by having multiple root accounts? Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. Google doesn't have new pages saved and served up 1 second ago, nor does it have unique pages that a cgi script create(d/s). -- Peter Leftwich

Should I worry about having many X11 symlinks

(/etc/X11/..)? ln -s thanks help\! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: /dev/urandom is randomly cool

On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Oliver Fromme wrote: Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Fernando Gleiser wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Mikko Työläjärvi wrote: tr -cd a-zA-Z0-9 /dev/urandom | dd bs=$len count=1 2/dev/null It didn't work. My shell is tcsh so I tried

Re: /etc/make.conf and AMD Athlon 600

as HW allows. ;-) -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: help with ln linking Please! [attn manpage authors!]

filesystems, i will see the same contents. Thanks for any help. I think you just had it backwards. -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions

/etc/make.conf and AMD Athlon 600

CPUTYPE=i686 -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: /dev/urandom is randomly cool

. Fer They ought to build motherboards with tiny lava lamps for randomness :) Another answer is, as always, use perl :-) $.02, /Mikko Yeah yeah-yeah. It's just nice having an all-inclusive OS, that's all! -- Peter Leftwich President Founder Video2Video Services

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