vinum - device crashed.

2004-02-01 Thread Rob
like to get this working - I've had rather too many hard discs die in the past and would like to have some resilience in this new machine. Thanks in advance for any ideas, Rob 2 drives: D UpWindow State: up /dev/ad2s1h A: 0/8056 MB (0%) D YouCrazy State: up

diskless boot: console via serial port?

2004-01-28 Thread Rob
this working, it'll be much easier for me to further investigate the diskless boot problems. Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tracking local port hacks?

2004-01-28 Thread Rob Ellis
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 04:06:44PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 27), Erik Trulsson said: On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 02:05:16PM -0500, Rob Ellis wrote: We sometimes find it necessary to make some small change to a port before installing it, and need a way to track/merge

Re: mod_perl with FreeBSD (stock perl vs perl 5.8 port)

2004-01-27 Thread Rob
Forrest Aldrich said on Tue Jan 27, 2004: No, use /usr/bin/perl (SYSTEM) versus /usr/local/bin/perl and adjust my makepl_args file accordingly. At 06:39 AM 1/26/2004, you wrote: Forrest Aldrich asked on Mon Jan 26, 2004: I'm working with mod_perl-1.x *current* on FreeBSD-4.9.

mplayer screws up audio device access

2004-01-27 Thread Rob
another one, I get this dialog from mplayer: Could not open/initialize audio device - no sound and, of course, there's no sound. This is quite a nuissance. Any idea what is going wrong here? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Mozilla flash: crash with Gdk-ERROR message.

2004-01-27 Thread Rob
denied) serial 37 error_code 10 request_code 144 minor_code 1 Does someone have any idea what is going wrong here? Thanks, Rob. PS: I'm fighting against the dominance of Windows in my office. Convincing collegues starts with showing that simple applications work as good as on Windows. And I'm

Tracking local port hacks?

2004-01-27 Thread Rob Ellis
and it has some suggestions for managing a local branch. Is that the best way to do it? Anyone know how BIG the ports tree is if we get it via cvsup in cvs mode? Thanks. - Rob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: mod_perl with FreeBSD (stock perl vs perl 5.8 port)

2004-01-26 Thread Rob
Forrest Aldrich asked on Mon Jan 26, 2004: I'm working with mod_perl-1.x *current* on FreeBSD-4.9. For some time, I've had some difficulty getting this lot to work correctly, as an OBJ (non-DSO). During the compile, I get a slew of Dynaloader-related errors in the linking process. So

Re: Help with CUPS

2004-01-21 Thread Rob
files in /var/log/cups give a clue? Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to force network interface ?

2004-01-20 Thread Rob
Frank asked on Tue Jan 20, 2004: I have a HP Proliant DL380 with two broadcomm 10/100/1000 RJ45 interfaces my problem is the interface does not negociate properly with the switch interface ( Alcatel 7700 ) and each time I start the server the DUPLEX mode is set to HALF that I do not want.

Re: awk vs. nawk [Was: stumped... .]

2004-01-19 Thread Rob
David Fleck asked on Mon Jan 19, 2004: What does 'nawk' do that 'awk' doesn't? I've got both binaries on my system, but the nawk manpage is just a link to awk(1). I believe that awk is the GNU version while nawk is the (rewritten) Bell Labs original: awk --version GNU Awk 3.0.6

Re: usernames with uppercase

2004-01-19 Thread Rob
Spades asked on Sun Jan 18, 2004: Hi, I tried to add a username ie. Bryan, but FreeBSD doesn't allow me to do so. It gives me illegal username error. Any idea how to go about adding usernames like 'Bryan-admin' etc. Are you sure that it's the uppercase and not the dash that's the

Re: Text parsing?

2004-01-18 Thread Rob
Eric F Crist asked on Sun Jan 18, 2004: For what purposes will I find I need to use all these tools you write about? I'm talking about awk, ed, ex, etc. I haven't found the need to do so, yet, but I'd like to possibly learn this stuff before I really do need it. Logfiles and config files are

Re: stumped... .

2004-01-17 Thread Rob
David Fleck wrote on Sunday January 18, 2004: On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Gary Kline wrote: I've written scores of scripts to hack text files, but this one has me dead in the water. How can I delete all lines from /^PATTERN to EOF?? ed - foo /^PATTERN (.,$)d w q foo or

Re: General UNIX puzzle

2004-01-16 Thread Rob
Brett Glass asked on Saturday January 17, 2004: I was asked a good question today about how to do some simple tasks using standard UNIX tools, and am curious what answers people on the list might come up with. What are the simplest, most efficient ways to: 1) Delete the Nth line from a

Re: trouble mounting a zip drive on parallel port

2004-01-16 Thread Rob
Alex Walker asked on Saturday January 17, 2004: Here's on of those things that should be simple but is giving me a surprising number of headachs... I'm trying to mount a parallel zip drive on FreeBSD 4.8. I did re-configure my kernel to include the vpo driver and I get the following message

Re: choice of boot manager

2004-01-14 Thread Rob
Lee Shackelford wrote on Thursday January 15, 2004: I am planning a multiple operating system installation on a Compaq Proliant 5000. The purpose of the installation is hobbyist and instructional. The computer does not provide network management services. The proposed operating systems are

Re: [OT] Configuration file parsing

2004-01-12 Thread Rob
Philip Schulz wrote on Monday January 12, 2004: I'm currently working on a program which will be used in a closed company environment. The programm is written in C. For this program, I need to find a way of parsing a configuration file. I found a library which can do exactly what I need,

Re: install.cfg

2004-01-10 Thread Rob
Vahric MUHTARYAN asked on Saturday January 10, 2004: Hi , You can see my install.cfg output below. I can't set hostname , ip address I'dont understand why ? and I red sysinstall but it's funny I cant find any variable for hostname and ip address . They are only available for mediaSetNFS .

Re: jails; sharing parts of file system; mounting pieces of file system in other positions, etc.

2004-01-07 Thread Rob
Chad Leigh asked on Wednesday January 07, 2004: On linux you can do a % mount -bind olddir newdir to remount a piece of the FS somewhere else. The NullFS on FBSD seems to allow similar things. However, as much as I could find on NullFS in Google seems to indicate that it is pretty much

Re: ps: warning: /var/run/dev.db: No such file or directory

2004-01-07 Thread Rob
David Landgren asked on Wednesday January 07, 2004: I watched the server boot, and I saw nothing that resembled a shell error. Is there a way to tee the output of /etc/rc to a file, so that I could scan it afterwards? If you uncomment the 'console.info' line in /etc/syslog.conf, and touch

How to build diskless kernel?

2004-01-02 Thread Rob
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Re: netgear nic

2004-01-02 Thread Rob
David Bear asked on Wednesday Dec 31, 2003: the NIC selection at the local store was terrible. I ended up buying a netgear FA311. I cannot tell what chipset this has.. It is the numbers VS318AG in it.. anyone used a netgear nic with fbsd 4.9? I've got 3 of these in one box and 1 in

Re: Complex quoting task in tcsh

2003-12-30 Thread Rob
On Wednesday 31 December 2003, Daniela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 29 December 2003 05:06, Rob wrote: Daniela, This isn't the answer you would like, but tcsh is generally considered a bad language for writing scripts*. It's an excellent command-line shell, but scripts

Re: Fuzzy out of focus console w/new flatscreen monitor on bootup

2003-12-29 Thread Rob
I'm guessing that this switch changes the video mode in Linux - have a look at vidcontrol(1) to achieve the same thing here. The command vidcontrol -i mode will list your available modes - for console work, you're probably only interested in the text ones. Note also that if you load the

Re: Complex quoting task in tcsh

2003-12-28 Thread Rob
Daniela, This isn't the answer you would like, but tcsh is generally considered a bad language for writing scripts*. It's an excellent command-line shell, but scripts are not its strong point. One reason is the one you've just run into - quoting is a little flakey, especially when you try to do

Re: IPFW Rule set question...

2003-12-24 Thread Rob
Just a very quick suggestion - when you get an initial connection that closes almost immediately, it is usually TCP wrappers rather than a firewall. Have you checked /etc/hosts.allow? - Original Message - From: Drew Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IPFW Rule set question... Hi

Re: IMAP and IMAP-SSL login problems

2003-12-22 Thread Rob
login problems Hi Rob, This is the only thing that shows when I try and connect. I seem to have IMAP and IMAP-SSL running fine since I can telnet to port 143 and 993. The problem with IMAP seems to be some kind of authentication issue that I just can't figure out. Dec 21 22:38:14 phoenix

Re: What's the purpose of the 2nd CD?

2003-12-21 Thread Rob
This is the Live Filesystem CD, used for rescue boots. It also contains the CVS repositry, which gives you a head start if you want to update your source tree. Only the 1st CD is required for an installation - the 3rd and 4th contain extra packages (which are useful but not essential). -

Re: spamassassin

2003-12-20 Thread Rob Ellis
spamassassin with postfix. It has install instructions. - Rob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PLEASE IGNORE - EMAIL TEST

2003-12-19 Thread Rob Cook
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Disabling devices @ boot time? (5.1)

2003-12-19 Thread rob cook
to get it working, but not a priority right now.) dmesg.boot is below - the references to umass0: and da0: are the problem areas. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks Rob Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994

onboard-nic Kinnereth-R chipset / intel 82547EI (KENAI II CSA) supported?

2003-12-12 Thread Rob
Hi, I'm running FreeBSD-Stable. Will I have support for this onboard network card: Kinnereth-R chipset / intel 82547EI (KENAI II CSA) If yes, what tuning of the kernel is needed for this? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: onboard-nic Kinnereth-R chipset / intel 82547EI (KENAI IICSA) supported?

2003-12-12 Thread Rob
Rob wrote: Hi, I'm running FreeBSD-Stable. Will I have support for this onboard network card: Kinnereth-R chipset / intel 82547EI (KENAI II CSA) If yes, what tuning of the kernel is needed for this? I already found out myself that it is supported. Use as kernel configuration: device

Re: Missing machdep.hlt_logical_cpus on hyperthreading..

2003-12-12 Thread Rob
. Stefan, In your kernel configuration file, you need following: optionsSMP# Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel optionsAPIC_IO# Symmetric (APIC) I/O Then machdep.hlt_logical_cpus is in your sysctl. Can't help you with the PSE disabled thing. Cheers, Rob

Need help: HyperThreading-CPU + FreeBSD-Stable + Multi-threading

2003-12-12 Thread Rob
machdep.hlt_logical_cpus to 0 (zero). How do I add this to the loader so that it is set to zero at every boot up? Should I simply add to my /boot/loader.conf a line like: machdep.hlt_logical_cpus=0 After that, I'm done with the hyperthreading? Thanks, Rob. PS: if you're in the mood, I would

NFS problem at boot-up: nfsd: RPCPROG_NFS: RPC: Port mapperfailure - RPC: Unable to send

2003-12-11 Thread Rob
is there this RPC message and the long wait for nfs? I have no clue what's going on here and have also no idea in what direction I should go for solving this. Any hints? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: ipfw keep-state (ASAP anwser need)

2003-12-09 Thread Rob
I would suggest ipfw add 4100 allow udp from me to any 53 keep-state ipfw add 4200 allow udp from any to me 53 keep-state which allows either side to initiate the connection. You will also need TCP versions of these rules (DNS uses both). If you use ipfw2, which is the default in 5.x,

Re: ipfw keep-state (ASAP anwser need)

2003-12-09 Thread Rob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ipfw keep-state (ASAP anwser need) On Tue, 09 Dec 2003, Rob wrote: ipfw add 4100 allow udp from me to any 53 keep-state ipfw add 4200 allow udp from any to me 53 keep-state It doesn't work. What does /var/log/security show? it shows that all udp

Re: chroot environment

2003-12-06 Thread Rob
If you've already built the environment, you're halfway to having a jail(8) - this extends chroot(8) by creating a private process tree and network interface. You can run an entire system inside a jail, including sshd(8) to accept logins. For ftp logins, ftpd(8) has builtin support for chrooting

Re: protecting loader

2003-12-05 Thread Rob
I habitually put autoboot_delay=0 in /boot/loader.conf because I'm impatient. It doesn't stop me from booting into single-user mode - you just have to hit a key while loader(8) is spinning, before it starts the kernel. As far as I can tell, the options in /boot.config apply to boot2, which

Re: serial port programming

2003-12-03 Thread Rob Lahaye
in this context of serial port communication? And eh, is this actually the right way to go for data acquisition? Thanks, Rob Lahaye Seoul National University - Korea Thanks ! Jean-Marc Francois Université de Liège --- I got a strange problem. I want to send a binary string

Re: Controlling init on shutdown/reboot

2003-12-02 Thread Rob
with script output. - Original Message - From: Daniel Rudy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Controlling init on shutdown/reboot Somewhere around the time of 12/01/2003 03:32, the world stopped and listened as Rob contributed this to humanity: From line 99 of /usr/src/sbin/init/init.c

Re: network security sysctl mib's

2003-12-02 Thread Rob
Using apropos sysctl we get a list of several manpages, including blackhole(4), sysctl(3), sysctl(8) and sysctl.conf(5). These refer to several other sources, including ip(4), tcp(4), udp(4) and rc.conf(5) - they also mention sys/sysctl.h, sys/socket.h, netinet/in.h, netinet/icmp_var.h and

Re: Remove ^M characters from xhtml file

2003-12-02 Thread Rob Ellis
to type ^M is: Ctrl-V followed by Ctrl-M sed -e 's/^M$//' old new mv -f new old Freebsd's sed has -i sed -ie 's/^M$//' old - Rob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

amd documentation: why is it so confusing?

2003-12-02 Thread Rob
complicated that nobody dares explaining it? Anyone who can point me to better help on this? Thanks! Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Why no FreeBSD ftp site in India?

2003-12-02 Thread Rob
with possibly the highest potential on software development. But not even one FreeBSD ftp server!! No one interested there to set up an ftp.in.FreeBSD.org server? Or is the FreeBSD community in India simply too tiny? Regards, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Controlling init on shutdown/reboot

2003-12-01 Thread Rob
From line 99 of /usr/src/sbin/init/init.c, #define DEATH_SCRIPT 120 /* wait for 2min for /etc/rc.shutdown */ and on line 1576 it looks like you can change this with the sysctl 'kern.shutdown_timeout'. But 2 minutes is a long time for a shell script - are you sure that everything is working

100 MHz pentium: can that play avi-file movies?

2003-11-30 Thread Rob
Hi, 100 MHz pentium with up-to-date FreeBSD-stable; would that allow me to play avi-file movies with mplayer or equivalent media player? Videocard is a Riva TNT2 with 16 Mb. Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

migrating users

2003-11-27 Thread Rob Evers
just pointers where to look. Thanks Rob Evers ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: migrating users

2003-11-27 Thread Rob Evers
. Sander. The problem is I need to put the users in a database (virtual mail users). So I need to crypt the passwords with the database crypt function. Rob -- Those who don't read have no advantage over those who can't -Mark Twain ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: RSS/RDF feed reader

2003-11-26 Thread Rob Ellis
for something under KDE.. and installing Evolution just to use it as a RSS feed reader, seems like overkill ;) You could try 'snownews' http://home.kcore.de/~kiza/software/snownews/ It's text-based. - Rob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Building Automated Custom Install CD

2003-11-25 Thread Rob
Have a look at sysinstall(8) - the interesting bit is If sysinstall is compiled with LOAD_CONFIG_FILE set in the envi- ronment (or in the Makefile) to some value, then that value will be used as the filename to automatically look for and load when sysinstall starts up and with no user

Re: hostnames and interfaces

2003-11-21 Thread Rob
My non-technical understanding: * A BSD system has a fully qualified domain name that is set and retrieved by the hostname(1) command. This is normally defined in /etc/rc.conf and considered the 'true name' of the system. If this name does not resolve to an IP address, many network services will

Re: CVSUP server

2003-11-15 Thread Rob
Have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/hubs/ - Original Message - From: dvv [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CVSUP server Hi! Can you tell me thesize of FreeBSD src+ports. Couple of guys including me are exploring the possibility to run a CVSUP server in Nulgaria and update

Re: DHCP

2003-11-15 Thread Rob
A couple of things: The range statement is for unknown clients - they will be given a lease in this range by the server. It doesn't control the host definition, which will use the address in the fixed-address statement. The host definition would normally go inside the subnet definition - at the

Re: Adding packages to the 4.7-RELEASE

2003-11-13 Thread Rob
If you've installed the ports collection from the 4.7 CD-ROM, you should be able to say cd /usr/ports/lang/python make install and as long as the source tarballs are still available, you will have python. - Original Message - From: Steve Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Adding

Re: FreeBSD Essay.

2003-11-13 Thread Rob
[Apologies for not quoting - braindead MUA] A good overview of BSD history is at http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/03/17/bsd.html - you could then research some aspect of the story that interests you. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Extracting individual Files via tar

2003-11-06 Thread Rob
You should always use the f option to specify the archive - for example tar -tzf archive.tgz to list or tar -xzf archive.tgz to extract. In your example below, you didn't specify an archive so it defaulted to the device /dev/sa0, which it couldn't open. Any extra arguments are treated

Re: Can't edit rc.conf. FS mounted in read-only mode!

2003-11-05 Thread Rob
mount -a will mount all filesystems, and remount root as read/write. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can't edit rc.conf. FS mounted in read-only mode! I made a mistake while editting /etc/rc.conf. Now my system boots only in single-user mode and with root

Re: creating a small FreeBSD box

2003-11-05 Thread Rob Evers
/NodeFactory Dw Thanks, I have some reading to do :-) Rob Evers ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dhcp question

2003-11-05 Thread Rob
If you're running dhcpd(8) on two interfaces, the command should probably be /usr/sbin/dhcpd -q rl1 rl2 Have you checked /var/log/messages for errors? - Original Message - From: Your Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: dhcp question -- Hi all I would like to configure 2 network

Re: Okay, who broke sysutils/eject?

2003-11-01 Thread Rob
Does 'cdcontrol eject' work? - Original Message - From: J. Porter Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Okay, who broke sysutils/eject? eject from /usr/ports/sysutils/eject used to work fine. Now, on a 4.9-STABLE system: % eject -v acd0c eject: trying device /dev/acd0cc eject: trying

Re: Sanity and /var/tmp

2003-10-20 Thread Rob
But rc.local runs at the end of the startup - if something has already put files in /var/tmp, they're going to disappear Can't you use /etc/fstab to create mount a memory disk? - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sanity and /var/tmp This may be an incredibly

Re: Patching source in a port

2003-10-20 Thread Rob
Any patches named files/patch-* in the port's directory will be applied as the port is built. So you should be able to add your patch and do a 'make clean build' to create patched binaries. You can also 'make patch' to just apply the patches, then inspect the results under the work directory.

mounted hard disc gave device not configured

2003-10-14 Thread Rob .
problems in the future? I think it's time to build a new server anyway (this is only an AMD K6 2/500) - Would it be best to run a RAID filesystem, and would 1+0 be better than RAID5 for reslilence on future failures? Is this reliable on cheap IDE drives? Thanks in advance, Rob. luggage# df -h

Re: Beep when tab cannot incomplete

2003-10-12 Thread Rob
Assuming that you're running tcsh, the relevant part of the manpage is: matchbeep (+) If set to `never', completion never beeps. If set to `nomatch', it beeps only when there is no match. If set to `ambiguous, it beeps when there are multiple

Re: Can't run a port right after an install

2003-10-12 Thread Rob
Assuming tcsh, the command is: rehash Causes the internal hash table of the contents of the directo- ries in the path variable to be recomputed. This is needed if new commands are added to directories in path while you are logged in. This should be

Re: Keyboard behaviour in console

2003-10-12 Thread Rob
And read the manpage for syscons(5) - describes virtual terminals and scrollback. - Original Message - From: Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Keyboard behaviour in console On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 20:12, Eric Dillenseger wrote: Hi, I'd like to get correct keyboard layout in

Re: FreeBSD SPAM

2003-10-03 Thread Rob
-SpamAssassin) It works great here and catches about 95% of the spam hitting us. Rob Evers ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: var partition is too small

2003-10-03 Thread Rob
[ sorry about not quoting - braindead mail client ] Moving a filesystem on a live server is *never* a risk-free activity. If you intend to do this, use tar(1) or dump(8) instead of cp(1) - they will deal with special files and other unusual conditions. But if you haven't done this often enough

Re: Firewall problem

2003-10-01 Thread Rob Ellis
rules have to be added before the 'allow ip from any to any'. ipfw add 100 deny tcp from 24.92.226.153 to any - Rob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: creating a package

2003-10-01 Thread Rob
AFAIK, once you've defined a port you can just say make package and the package will magically appear in the current directory. It installs itself to do this. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: creating a package Hi all, I want to distribute my software as a

Re: Cgi help - malformed header from script. Bad header

2003-09-30 Thread Rob Ellis
after the content-type header: #!/bin/sh echo Content-type: text/plain echo /usr/bin/calendar - rob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ripping CDs, encoding into MP3s, and labeling later

2003-09-29 Thread Rob
(when I have access to the internet and freedb). Is there a program that WILL do this? 3.) How do you usually handle this situation? Thanks! You could use easytag, (/usr/ports/audio/easytag) It allows you to lookup cddb info and apply it to a directory. Rob Evers

Re: What means 'architecture'?

2003-09-29 Thread Rob Lahaye
) and Alpha workstations. See, f.ex. the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-start.html Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Sendmail: Do I need it running?

2003-09-28 Thread Rob
With the default configuration, this may disable sending mail from the command line (eg cron jobs). Have a look at /etc/defaults/rc.conf for the different sendmail_* variables, and read /etc/mail/README for more information on mail submission. - Original Message - From: Chris Pressey

Re: A question about host...

2003-09-24 Thread Rob Lahaye
Thomas Spreng wrote: Hello, On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:51:38AM -0400, Payne wrote: Hi, I am wanting to use host.allow and host.deny to make my box more secure. Is there a site that can explain how to use them. hosts.deny is depricated just use hosts.allow. Hmmm, man hosts_access

Re: Default route dissapears constantly

2003-09-24 Thread Rob Lahaye
Scott Schappell wrote: John Straiton wrote: Hello, I'm having a doozy of a problem keeping a default route set up This has been discussed heavily in the -stable list. It seems the arp patch (incorporated into the world of 4.9, 4.8, et al) caused a loss of default routes on some

Re: Problem installing/upgrading QT3.2

2003-09-21 Thread Rob Lahaye
Dragoncrest wrote: I agree. I'm waiting till someone totally sorts this out. Cause it seems like the Band-Aid to get one thing fixed breaks something else. So for the time being I'm not touching anything. At 08:19 PM 9/20/03 -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote: and then Arts blows

Port: while installing gnome2: gnome-config: not found ??

2003-09-21 Thread Rob Lahaye
? Thanks, Rob. # portinstall /usr/ports/x11/gnome2 --- Installing 'gnome2-2.4.0' from a port (x11/gnome2) --- Building '/usr/ports/x11/gnome2' [...] === Registering installation for libglade2-2.0.1_1 === Returning to build of gnomeapplets2-2.4.0 === gnomeapplets2-2.4.0 depends on shared library

How to patch and fix a broken port?

2003-09-21 Thread Rob Lahaye
the molden port on the freebsd-ports mailing list). Regards, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem installing/upgrading QT3.2

2003-09-20 Thread Rob Lahaye
port ASAP and fix it in the meantime. Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: randomize execution the a script?

2003-09-18 Thread Rob Lahaye
random -e 60 randomNumber=$? sleep $randomNumber do shell script here done Where '60' means, maximum 60 seconds between two script calls. There might be better or nices ways of doing this :). Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: randomize execution the a script?

2003-09-18 Thread Rob Lahaye
Charles Howse wrote: I don't happen to have random installed on my system, however jot is It's in /usr/games/random of FreeBSD 4.8. Won't randomNumber=$? Just return 0 if the previous command completes successfully? Shouldn't it be: randomNumber=`random -e 60` No. In 'man 6 random', it

Re: XFree86 -- Gamma Correction

2003-09-18 Thread Rob Lahaye
xgamma instead. It allows you to change gamma on a running X. man xgamma will tell you more. Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mysql error and phpmyadmin how-to

2003-09-18 Thread Rob
# mysql -u root -px (xxx=password) That is how I got around the same error Hope it helps. ROb On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 22:57, Shawn Guillemette wrote: get the following error when trying to log in to mysql as root like so .. # mysql -u root -p Enter password: ERROR 1045: Access denied

Re: Updating SSH, patch failed?

2003-09-17 Thread Rob Lahaye
, sshd_program and sshd_flags stuff, because I don't need them. Check your rc.conf file and do it manually: # kill `cat /var/run/sshd.pid` # /usr/sbin/sshd or # /usr/sbin/sshd [your sshd_flags here] Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

PRERELEASE kernel: top command gives rubbish output !?!

2003-09-17 Thread Rob Lahaye
? 48 0:00 0.00% 163623396.88% Is there a quicker fix than recompiling the whole base system (base system now is 4.8-RELEASE)? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: PRERELEASE kernel: top command gives rubbish output !?!

2003-09-17 Thread Rob Lahaye
. I got into it due to the security advisories and the delay of 4.9-RELEASE. Yes, I'm also reading the handbook on this! Bare with me, I'm a lonely FreeBSD sole in an MS Windows dominated evironment. Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Recompiled kernel PRERELEASE: top command gives rubbish output !?!

2003-09-17 Thread Rob Lahaye
Daniel wrote: On 18 Sep 2003 at 10:07, Rob Lahaye wrote: I have compiled and installed the STABLE cvsup'ed kernel sources, rebooted and discovered that the 'top' command now outputs rubbish: [Snip] Is there a quicker fix than recompiling the whole base system (base system now is 4.8

X -query localhost results in blank screen !?!

2003-09-16 Thread Rob Lahaye
At startup, I get an xdm/Xlogin on screen on display :0. With the above settings I expect the following should work for creating another Xlogin screen X :1 -query localhost Indeed it switches screen, but it is blank only; even no error messages from X. Any ideas? Thanks, Rob. PS: Unrelated: have you

Re: Q: mergemaster 'm'-merge option results in empty file

2003-09-16 Thread Rob Lahaye
Thank you so much for the long and detailed description. I'm waiting for the first release candidate of 4.9 to test it out. (BTW: RC1 should have been there already; is there a delay?). Regards, Rob. Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 08:46:52PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: What

RE: How to turn off FreeBSD

2003-09-15 Thread Rob
What command are you using ? If you want to cut the box off, shutdown -p NOW Hope this helps you. ROb -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tadimeti Keshav Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 1:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to turn off

RE: jdk13 port broken?

2003-09-15 Thread Rob
I had the same problem. I used make WITH_LINUX_BOOTSTRAP=yes install clean I think that was the correct command, look at the Makefile and look at the options.. Hope this helps ROb -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Reese Sent: Monday

mergemaster: schg flag for temproot/var/emtpy ??

2003-09-14 Thread Rob Lahaye
. Is there any reason why it is like that? If not, then do not create the empty directory with schg !! Regards, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Q: mergemaster 'm'-merge option results in empty file

2003-09-14 Thread Rob Lahaye
: verbosely include common lines q: quit What is left and right in the mergemaster context??? 'man sdiff' doesn't seem to help out here. I've tried a bit (I typed 'v' and 'q'), but then found /etc/hosts totally empty!! Any idea where I went wrong? Thanks, Rob

Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device busy ?

2003-09-14 Thread Rob Lahaye
killed xscreensaver. So for some reason xscreensaver kept /dev/dsp busy. Is there a command to find out directly which app. keeps /dev/dsp busy? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

RE: trouble with kernel

2003-09-14 Thread Rob
cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf ee GENERIC now just add the device like so device pcm then Esc and save then cd /usr/src/ make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC after its done building: make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC now shutdown -r now Hope this helps Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: Howto install ports collection?

2003-09-10 Thread Rob Lahaye
to exit sysinstall. After that, use cvsup, to bring them up-to-date. I suppose you know how to do the cvsup stuff. Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

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