Re: Logging and IPFW

2003-09-09 Thread Rob
What does 'ipfw list' show? - Original Message - From: Wayne Pascoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Logging and IPFW Hi all, We're moving from ipfilter to ipfw. Since we no longer run multiple platforms, the benefits that we used to derive from ipfilter are declining. Add to this the

removing swap space...only by reboot? A bug?

2003-09-08 Thread Rob Lahaye
from certain swap space and allows its removal? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: removing swap space...only by reboot? A bug?

2003-09-08 Thread Rob Lahaye
Ceri Davies wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:28:54PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: man swapon says: BUGS There is no way to stop paging and swapping on a device. It is therefore not possible to dismount swap devices which are mounted during system operation. Is that still

Re: information

2003-09-02 Thread Rob
/wantlist.html for examples of useful non-financial support. Financial donations are handled by the FreeBSD Foundation at http://www.freebsdfoundation.org Rob. - Original Message - From: Victoria Mah [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: information Hello, I am an attorney at Cisco Systems, Inc. and have

Mail notificator (iconized) for checking remote pop server ?

2003-08-31 Thread Rob Lahaye
). Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: exim configurations?

2003-08-28 Thread Rob
I'm using exim with virtual domains maildirs and without smarthost, so my config mightn't be useful to you. Look at http://www.exim.org/ftp/exim3/config.samples.tar.gz or http://www.exim.org/ftp/exim4/config.samples.tar.gz for some hints - you can find summaries in FAQ.txt.gz from the same

g++ vs. g++33: conflicts with qt 3.1.2 on FreeBSD 4.8

2003-08-20 Thread Rob Lahaye
()' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Any idea how I can fix this? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [kde-freebsd]

2003-08-20 Thread Rob Lahaye
backtraces in gdb. Or what else is it? 1. Have I misconfigured anything? Someone else seeing this? 2. Is it a FreeBSD bug/problem? 3. Is it a Qt bug/problem? 4. Is it a LyX bug/problem? I'm at a total loss here. Any ideas? Regards, Rob. $ gdb /usr/local/bin/lyx GNU gdb

Qt compiled from ports: inconvenient default to threaded libs?

2003-08-19 Thread Rob Lahaye
the threaded libs are choosen to be the default, without offering easy MAKE options to change this behaviour? Regards, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Cups / Mozilla printing issues.

2003-08-18 Thread Rob Lahaye
if you are running the troublesome version, try upgrading your ports collection and your ghostscript-gnu. Rob Lewis Thompson wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if this isn't a bit off-topic but I hope somebody might know the answer anyway. I'm running 5.1-R and I've cups-lpr (and all the other

/etc/daily.local : old and for backwards compatibility ? What isnew way ?

2003-08-16 Thread Rob Lahaye
anything else. Using /etc/daily.local makes things indeed very easy and straight forward. But since this is mainly for backwards compatibility, I wonder what is the new way of doing what I want to do. Appending my script to /etc/periodic/daily/999.local ? Thanks, Rob

Re: /etc/daily.local : old and for backwards compatibility ? Whatis new way ?

2003-08-16 Thread Rob
If you create the directory /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily, scripts placed there will be executed during the daily run. - Original Message - From: Rob Lahaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: /etc/daily.local : old and for backwards compatibility ? What is new way ? Hi, I want to run my

Re: Where can i download HANDBOOK?

2003-08-14 Thread Rob
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/handbook - Original Message - From: Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Where can i download HANDBOOK? Hi all! Does anybody knows where can i download HANDBOOK? I want to read it from WindowsXP... I know that handbook is in 5.1 freebsd. Best

Re: sendmail_enable=NO /YES/MAYBE ?

2003-08-12 Thread Rob
usefull for you too. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sendmail.html good luck Rob Evers ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Think outside of the box (Gawd, I hate that term)

2003-08-10 Thread Rob
It's a wonderful idea. To have a chance, you would need * leader(s) with a convincing vision for 'the new thing' * long-term financial backing * hardware design expertise * partnerships with major hardware manufacturers You also need a target market that is * under-serviced by the current

Re: shell scripting while if string length != 0

2003-08-01 Thread Rob
I'm not a shell guru, but pipelines don't necessarily run in sequence. In line 5 of your script, the part that says sed '1d' /path/to/file_o_commands will destroy all contents of the original file. This may or may not happen before cat /path/to/file_o_commands has finished reading it. If

Re: CUPS and HP LaserJet 4V printer: variable width font becomesfixed width

2003-07-31 Thread Rob Lahaye
Thank you Glenn, Confirmed that indeed now this problem has been solved. Great! Rob. Glenn Johnson wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 02:01:05PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: Glenn, According to your comments (see below), the problem I addressed some weeks ago, was caused by the FreeBSD port

tcsh script: quote and spaces problems

2003-07-31 Thread Rob Lahaye
(?) reduced to only one space!! The latter seems to be a general problem: set flag=f wil result in flag containing only f . Any solutions for this problem with quotes and spaces in tcsh script? Or is tcsh not suitable for this kind of things? Thanks, Rob

Re: tcsh script: quote and spaces problems

2003-07-31 Thread Rob Lahaye
to a b c, despite the quotes. I'd say very un-unix like behaviours Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CUPS and HP LaserJet 4V printer: variable width font becomesfixed width

2003-07-29 Thread Rob Lahaye
asking, since I am afraid it may be difficult/impossible to downgrade again, after upgrading the 7.07_3. My current version check says: cups-pstoraster-7.05.6needs updating (port has 7.07) ghostscript-gnu-7.05_4needs updating (port has 7.07_3) Thanks for your help, Rob. Glenn

Re: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device

2003-07-25 Thread Rob
-00CRA1/17.07W17 ATA/ATAPI rev 5 Slave: no device present Nothing interesting in /var/log/messages Other logs can be provided upon request. I just don't want to make the post too long. Thanks for your help. Ugo Bellavance Try man 8 atacontrol Especialy the 'mode' command Rob Evers

Re: Mass producing installs?

2003-07-20 Thread Rob
Yep - I've done it for FTP installs. sysinstall(8) prompts you for the floppy, so it presumably deals with the absence of its own media. - Original Message - From: stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mass producing installs? On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 11:51:58AM +0930, Rob wrote

Re: Mass producing installs?

2003-07-19 Thread Rob
And if this seems a little ambitious (DHCP, TFTP, PXE, NFS etc), you can just copy the install.cfg file to a floppy, boot from the install CD-ROM, and select 'Load config file' from the main menu. It's not completely automated, but it certainly is simple. See sysinstall(8) for more info. -

Re: mpd - question 3: 'it still doesnt work...'

2003-07-15 Thread Rob
Sounds like it hasn't loaded the config. Are the files in the default locations? What are the ownerships permissions? Make sure there is a blank line after each definition, including at the end of the file. (I spent a week getting mpd(8) to work - turned out that not all the kernel modules were

Re: sed(1) regular expression gurus

2003-07-14 Thread Rob
OK, here's a solution using awk - may be possible in sed, but awk has more control statements for this kind of thing: awk --posix -F'[^0-9A-Za-z.]+' ' $1 ~ /by/ { result = $2 for (i=3; i=NF; i++) { if ($i ~ /^([0-9]+\.){3}[0-9]+$/) { result = result $i } } print

Re: sed(1) regular expression gurus

2003-07-14 Thread Rob
15, at 12:49 AM, Rob wrote: awk --posix -F'[^0-9A-Za-z.]+' ' $1 ~ /by/ { result = $2 for (i=3; i=NF; i++) { if ($i ~ /^([0-9]+\.){3}[0-9]+$/) { result = result $i } } print result }' There may be 'neater' ways of doing it, but it's the most

Re: Can't make label for a new HDD

2003-07-12 Thread Rob Lahaye
froze. The problem turned out to be wrong cyls/heads/sectors settings of the HD. I fixed that, installed FreeBSD again and the system booted like a charm. So my 2 cents advice to your problem: double check the cyls/heads/sectors settings of your HD. Are these correct? Good luck! Rob. PS: my

Re: cvsup tag for 4.8-STABLE?

2003-07-10 Thread Rob Lahaye
this . The main branch (the `current' release). This is the default, if only the date keyword is given. But what is 'current'? Is that 5.2 at the moment? Or 4.8-current for me? (my FreeBSD version is 4.8). Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Why does cvsup + supfile delete all my ports ?

2003-07-10 Thread Rob Lahaye
ports? Thanks! Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apache 4.8 Stable

2003-07-09 Thread Rob
Only essential software is in the base system - for something like Apache, you have to install it from the ports collection. Here's a walk-through... Install the apache package: * If you have the 4 CD set for 4.8-RELEASE, mount CD 4 and do pkg_add /cdrom/packages/www/apache-1.3.27_4.tgz *

How can I verify my ISP internet speed?

2003-07-08 Thread Rob Lahaye
to the slow response of the sites I access. Is this situation I find it difficult to verify who is right. Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can I Set Process Name?

2003-07-08 Thread Rob
setproctitle(3) - but I don't know how you would call it from perl. - Original Message - From: Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 12:09 AM Subject: Can I Set Process Name? Is there a way to either change the name of a

How to restart my network without reboot?

2003-07-07 Thread Rob Lahaye
of settings and options there. I hoped that an easy command as: /etc/rc.network restart would do the trick, but that didn't work. Can someone help me out here? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: sendmail version

2003-07-06 Thread Rob Lahaye
into the sendmail source directory code? Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: boot hangs after install 4.8

2003-07-03 Thread Rob Lahaye
Toomas Aas wrote: From: Rob Lahaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have just installed FreeBSD 4.8 on a PC. Only FreeBSD, no other OS. The installation goes all well; I exit at the end and the PC boots. Immediately after the BIOS stuff, I get the first FreeBSD prompt: F1 FreeBSD Default: F1

Re: boot hangs after install 4.8

2003-07-02 Thread Rob Lahaye
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Rob Lahaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just installed FreeBSD 4.8 on a PC. Only FreeBSD, no other OS. The installation goes all well; I exit at the end and the PC boots. Immediately after the BIOS stuff, I get the first FreeBSD prompt: F1 FreeBSD Default: F1

FBSD 4.8 ftp install with 3c509B: ep0 device is not configure ??

2003-06-30 Thread Rob Lahaye
on here and why do I run into this trouble with the 3Com509B card? Is ep device not part of the kern.flp/mfsroot.flp kernel? Help is very much appreciated! Thanks so much, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

mount umount read-only floppy: unmount failed: Input/output error??

2003-06-30 Thread Rob Lahaye
the floppy out of the drive, make it read/write, put it back in the drive and do the umount. Then it's OK. The following is also fine: # mount -t ufs -o rdonly /dev/fd0 /mnt # umount /dev/fd0 Is this normal, or what? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: mount umount read-only floppy: unmount failed: Input/outputerror ??

2003-06-30 Thread Rob
So did you put a write-protected floppy in, and try and mount it read/write? That's not going to work - Original Message - From: Rob Lahaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mount umount read-only floppy: unmount failed: Input/output error ?? Hi, I created the installation floppy

Re: mount umount read-only floppy: unmount failed: Input/outputerror ??

2003-06-30 Thread Rob
on the (incorrectly) writeable floppy? - Original Message - From: Rob Lahaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mount umount read-only floppy: unmount failed: Input/output error ?? Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So did you put a write-protected floppy in, and try and mount it read/write

Re: mount umount read-only floppy: unmount failed: Input/outputerror ??

2003-06-30 Thread Rob Lahaye
Rob wrote: That's strange - I get errors as soon as I try and do this, before the filesystem is even available. Perhaps the updates from mounting the floppy aren't being written out to the actual media until you try to unmount it - some kind of caching issue? What happens if you try

Windows Mediaplayer equivalent for FreeBSD/Unix ?

2003-06-30 Thread Rob Lahaye
if this is true. Can someone give me a clue if there is indeed Windows Mediaplayer-like software for FreeBSD/Unix? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: mount umount read-only floppy: unmount failed: Input/outputerror ??

2003-06-30 Thread Rob
this on ttyv0, I see the errors on the console - but they don't appear in the typescript. I'm guessing that you're doing this in a non-console shell, and the errors are appearing elsewhere - maybe /var/log/messages? - Original Message - From: Rob Lahaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mount

Re: mount umount read-only floppy: unmount failed: Input/outputerror ??

2003-06-30 Thread Rob Lahaye
Rob wrote: I think I've figured it out - here's a script(1) of trying to mount a [...] I'm guessing that you're doing this in a non-console shell, and the errors are appearing elsewhere - maybe /var/log/messages? Yep, my console is indeed filled up with the corresponding error messages

Re: mount umount read-only floppy: unmount failed: Input/outputerror ??

2003-06-30 Thread Rob
- Original Message - From: Rob Lahaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mount umount read-only floppy: unmount failed: Input/output error ?? Rob wrote: I think I've figured it out - here's a script(1) of trying to mount a [...] I'm guessing that you're doing this in a non-console shell

Re: mount umount read-only floppy: unmount failed: Input/outputerror ??

2003-06-30 Thread Rob Lahaye
Rob wrote: I don't know if it's a bug - you've asked the OS to do something that is prohibited by the hardware, and (in the Unix tradition) it tries as hard as it can. What might be improved is an error message from mount(8) at the time of the problem - not everyone looks at their console

Re: mount umount read-only floppy: unmount failed: Input/outputerror ??

2003-06-30 Thread Rob Lahaye
Rob wrote: Yep - just tried mount -u -r -f /mnt and also umount -f /tmp Both fail with I/O errors, presumably from the fdc0 device. Also when rebooting, the failed sync interferes with unmounting other filesystems, causing fsck(8)s on the way back up. But mount/umount

Re: Help! I killed my rc.conf and cant boot correctly!

2003-06-28 Thread Rob
Once you're in single-user mode, try mount -a This should give you a writeable root as well as your other filesystems. - Original Message - From: Keith Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 3:34 PM Subject: Re: Help!

Re: DPMS not working

2003-06-25 Thread Rob Lahaye
on the same monitor, which is on !?!? My wild guess is, that this may be broken with recent Xfree 4.3.0. Or is only XFree broken in the FreeBSD ports collection? A wrong FreeBSD patch? You may try to convince the FreeBSD or XFree lists/people to comment on this. Regards, Rob. Guy Middleton wrote

Re: creating ftp users!

2003-06-23 Thread Rob Lahaye
the /etc/ftpchroot for sftp as well? Thanks, Rob. Jonathan Arnold wrote: How to create users for Ftp server(inetd)? You just use the 'adduser' command normally, to add a normal user. If they are just going to be doing ftp, you can use the /sbin/nologin for their shell, so they can't login. Doron

Re: creating ftp users!

2003-06-23 Thread Rob Lahaye
Raymond Sundland wrote: Rob, You can try setting the user's shell to /usr/libexec/sftp-server (or wherever the sftp-server binary exists under FreeBSD). This will give the user ability to SFTP into the box, but without a normal shell. /usr/lib/exec/sftp-server should be added to /etc

Re: FreeBSD vs The Others Brochure

2003-06-21 Thread Rob
You may be looking for the download link at the bottom of this article - http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/showtell/story/0,24330,3421080,00.htm l (FreeBSD promo on TechTV earlier this year) - Original Message - From: Peter Elsner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD vs The Others

CUPS and HP LaserJet 4V printer: variable width font becomes fixedwidth

2003-06-20 Thread Rob Lahaye
. Has anyone experience with this? Thanks, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CUPS and HP LaserJet 4V printer: variable width font becomesfixed width

2003-06-20 Thread Rob Lahaye
: Standard (001.007S) Standard ROM *Font ZapfDingbats: Special (001.004S) Standard ROM The line *DefaultFont: Courier is problably the reason for the fixed width font, isn't it? So am I using a font that is not defined in this ppd file? I never had this problem before! Thanks for help! Rob. Rob

Re: local patch to a /usr/ports file? how to do it?

2003-06-20 Thread Rob
Have a look at file://localhost/usr/share/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/x326.html The short answer is that any file with the name /usr/ports/misc/amanda-client/files/patch-* should be applied automatically. On the other hand, this particular port looks a little different - you may have to put the

Re: How to tailor installation set?

2003-06-14 Thread Rob
Unless you plan to rebuild the entire system from source, it's easier to exclude things during the install than to remove them later. Have a look at the manpage for sysinstall(8), particularly the description of distSetCustom under SCRIPT SYNTAX. Here's the config for a dedicated server with a

Re: * FreeBSD AntiVirus Solutions *

2003-06-12 Thread Rob
any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Clamav is a free virus-scanner, it has regular updates. I've been using it for a few months without any problems. Rob Evers -- f u cn rd ths u r usng unx ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

How to add full Korean language support to FreeBSD?

2003-06-11 Thread Rob Lahaye
not WANT to understand!), and I want to have FreeBSD on that fast PC, but I can't read the instructions Am I missing something here? Is Korean language support simply a matter of installing a few ports? Help is very much appreciated! Thanks / Kamsahamnida ! Rob

Re: ADSL: Using mpd(8) for PPPoE [solved?]

2003-06-09 Thread Rob
' network interface, which isn't even configured. And why does it load 6 ng modules, but not the last one? Anyway, I won't know if it really works until my provider starts routing packets in this direction, but it certainly looks hopeful. Thanks Rob. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi

ADSL: Using mpd(8) for PPPoE

2003-06-08 Thread Rob
appreciate your suggestions. Thanks. Rob. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoe.html [2] http://renaud.waldura.com/doc/freebsd/pppoe/ [3] http://logicsquad.net/freebsd/PPPoE-how-to.html [4] http://www.jraitala.net/comp/articles/2002/pppoe/ [5] http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le

Re: ADSL: Using mpd(8) for PPPoE

2003-06-08 Thread Rob
If I can't get mpd(8) to work, I won't have a choice :-) The difference between them (as far as I can tell) is that mpd keeps all the actual packet handling out of userland, so there's less overhead. I've only got 512k/128k ADSL on a Pentium 166, so it doesn't sound like ppp(8) will be a

Re: OpenOffice

2003-06-05 Thread Rob Lahaye
Larry Rosenman wrote: visit: http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice and you can download a pre-built package. Why has this not yet become part of the precompiled package selection of FreeBSD, so that everyone can find it where one expect it to be found? Regards, Rob

portupgrade issue 4.8-STABLE

2003-06-04 Thread Rob B
ended at: Tue, 27 May 2003 22:54:01 +1000 (consumed 00:00:01) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/root: pkgdb -F does the same thing. Any clues? INDEX has been rebuild as well. cheers, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED]/root: uname -a FreeBSD erwin.number6 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #1: Wed May 21 00:52:39 EST 2003 [EMAIL

Re: Apache problem

2003-05-31 Thread Rob O'Donnell
this port? Do the version 5 FP extensions still support Frontpage 2000 ? Thanks in advance Rob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: df -h reporting weird numbers (FreeBSD 4.8)

2003-05-31 Thread Rob
On my (much smaller) disk, this is the output for root: /dev/ad0s1a 126M42M74M36%/ And 42M + 74M is only 166M - 10M missing? Using dumpfs(8), I see that the value of minfree is 8%: magic 11954 timeTue May 27 07:38:32 2003 [ ...snip... ] minfree 8% optim

Re: Help..can I use DUMP? my drive is dying - VINUM ?

2003-05-31 Thread Rob
If you have ssh(1) installed on both machines, do something like this dump 0f - /filesystem | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'gzip filesystem.dump.gz' on the system to be backed up. That should write a compressed dump to the remote machine, assuming that * the local filesystem isn't changing (log

Re: How to find memory size of a running machine?

2003-05-29 Thread Rob
cat /var/run/dmesg.boot - Original Message - From: stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Free BSD Questions list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 11:19 PM Subject: How to find memory size of a running machine? I've got a STABLE machine that I need to determine the amount of

poc and serial port

2003-05-28 Thread Rob
?) Please let me know if you need any more information. Thanks Rob Evers ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 4.8-Installation floppies fail

2003-04-05 Thread Rob Lahaye
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 04:18:17PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: Does the official release come with broken floppy files? Anything I can do to avoid this? No, but floppy disks are notoriously unreliable. Sounds to me as if your mfsroot floppy has got some bad sectors

PPPoE as installation medium possible?

2003-04-05 Thread Rob Lahaye
Hi, I usually install FreeBSD via FTP on my PCs at work. These PCs have a fixed tcp/ip address. At home, however, I use PPPoE for my internet connection, without having a permanent tcp/ip address. Can I install directly via PPPoE medium too? Thanks, Rob

Long wait for harddisk detection during kernel boot

2003-04-03 Thread Rob Lahaye
is not going smooth at that point? Thanks! Rob. PS: the complete boot log is: avail memory = 518733824 (506576K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel kernel at 0xc03f1000. Preloaded mfs_root /mfsroot at 0xc03f1084. Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled md0: Preloaded image /mfsroot 4096 bytes at 0xc03ee354

merging discs / filesystems

2003-03-21 Thread Rob O'Donnell
elsewhere on the network to copy everything over, nor backup capacity to copy everything offline in any easy fashion. Current backups only concentrate on critical data and system files; the rest is replaceable, although I don't fancy the idea very much! Thanks in advance for any suggestions Rob

Re: newbie : no mouse in x

2003-03-11 Thread Rob
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 07:17:39PM +, Lee Harr wrote: Do you need mouse in the text console? I never use that, and so in all my XF86Config files, I just use the raw mouse device: /dev/psm0 usually, the type auto works, sometimes I have to use type microsoft. If you don't need mouse

Re: libstdc++.so.5 and linux compat

2003-03-08 Thread Rob
Try ln -s libstdc++.so libstdc++so.5 On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 05:45:35PM -0800, Remington L. wrote: I have a linux binary I wish to run on my FreeBSD 4.7 box. It has linux_base 7.1 installed. When I try to run the linux binary it says libstdc++.so.5 not found, but it is installed in the linux

UDMA ICRC error reading fsbn (Possible Fix)

2003-02-25 Thread Rob Clark
. Regards, Rob Clark To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

NIS/YP/LDAP question

2003-02-10 Thread Rob B
/YP or some such service? This way, I would only have to make a change on the server and have it reflected on the various hosts. What would be an alternative to NIS in this situation? LDAP? anything else? cheers, Rob Please cc me as I'm not on the list -- Evolution doesn't take prisoners

Re: Routing, NAT'ing and and external ADSL router.

2003-02-03 Thread Rob O'Donnell
At 23:01 02/02/2003 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 2 network cards in the gateway machine. rl0 is 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0 rl1 is 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 (p.s. I know realtek suck.. but they were just spare cards!) There is an external ADSL router connected to rl1, who's IP address

round robin routing - how?

2003-01-20 Thread Rob O'Donnell
versions of) Linux can have multiple default gateways and just use them in sequence. I don't want to have to swap over though... Many thanks in advance, Rob, -- APH Computers Ltd. Tel: 0161-442 2603 Fax: 0161-443 1162 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: XFree86 on Alpha and FreeBSD 4.7

2003-01-11 Thread Rob Evers
the FTP site. Thanks for the help! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message Check your /var/log/XFree86.0.log lots of usefull info there, maybe it will help you identifying the problem Rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Renaming files with spaces in the name to files without spaces..

2003-01-09 Thread Rob
Sorry for this OT but I am trying for some hours to achieve a massive rename of files using a simple script and I have not success yet. I want to rename files like RESULTS OF JAN 01 2002.txt to RESULTS_OF_JAN_01_2002.txt i.e. all the spaces, being substituted by '_', and the

Re: Installing FreeBSD 4.7 from ISO image

2003-01-06 Thread Rob O'Donnell
Burn! You can adjust the burn speed, simulation first, settings etc, if you wish or are not confident about how well your burner works. Regards Rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

RE: Internal mail server

2003-01-06 Thread Rob O'Donnell
of emails I get that are plainly tests or people not wishing to fill in real addresses in web forms is astonishing ... or maybe not.) You don't need to stick to the .com/.net/.org model of tlds if you are setting up a system that nobody else will access. Your imagination is the limit! Regards Rob

RE: opinions on my plan

2003-01-02 Thread Rob O'Donnell
, disc image, etc. [any technical questions on picobsd best addressed to freebsd-small mailing list]. Regards Rob -- APH Computers Ltd. Tel: 0161-442 2603 Fax: 0161-443 1162 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Water Damage

2002-12-31 Thread Rob O'Donnell
a backup solution Rob -- APH Computers Ltd. Tel: 0161-442 2603 Fax: 0161-443 1162 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: email addresses used for lists [was: L0phtcrack]

2002-12-24 Thread Rob O'Donnell
my end, and I know immediately whenever I get spam through that isp which web site gave it out. (Thank you, Paltalk..) I sort of forgot for this mailing list Rob I know others use special accounts for mailing lists which refuse to receive any mail that doesn't come from one of the lists

Re: Are these IPF - IPFW protocols equivalent?

2002-12-19 Thread Rob
# Inside Interface (ipfw) [IPFW] add 200 allow tcp from any to any out xmit via dc0 keep-state [IPFW] add 200 allow icmp from any to any out xmit via dc0 keep-state [IPFW] add deny ip from any to any out xmit via dc0 [IPFW] add 200 allow tcp from any to any in recv via dc0 keep-state [IPFW]

port make options

2002-12-18 Thread Rob B
but is it possible to install a port (Samba for instance), and rather than specifying the options a compile-time every time the port is upgraded, specify the options once only and have portupgrade or whatever follow those options? cheers, Rob -- What hair color do they put on the driver's

named problems

2002-12-13 Thread Rob B
; }; }; erwin:~$ uname -a FreeBSD erwin.number6.loop.bpa.nu 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #2: Sat Dec 7 09:55:15 EST 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ERWIN alpha cheers, Rob -- Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. - Albert Einstein

Re: Always mystified by this. /stand file sizes

2002-12-02 Thread Rob O'Donnell
small media (typically a single floppy disc) for use in niche aplications (eg a diskless pc as a router). Rob -- APH Computers Ltd. Tel: 0161-442 2603 Fax: 0161-443 1162 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: question on IP alias/broadcast

2002-11-20 Thread Rob O'Donnell
At 08:16 17/11/2002 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 02:04:57PM +0700, budsz wrote: On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 04:21:34PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: expressed as a hexadecimal or even decimal integer. thus: 192.168.100.1 is the same as 0xc0a86401 or 3232261121

ppp works, but natd not working

2002-11-20 Thread Rob B
for that matter) don't work from the LAN either. What could be wrong? TIA rob -- Today's subliminal thought is: This is quote 1102 of 1254. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: advice on fine tuning diskless boot

2002-11-14 Thread User Rob
Looks to me your rc.diskless script is usig the fstab you created in making the root file system look in man diskless for /conf/default/etc/fstab I think you'll find what you need there. Rob Joao Pedras wrote: Hello all! Two small issues... 1) After sucessfully configuring a set of systems

Re: mailing list software

2002-11-12 Thread Rob Ellis
follows below... - rob --- Mailman/MailCommandHandler.py.orig 2002-11-12 15:36:21.140003000 -0500 +++ Mailman/MailCommandHandler.py 2002-11-12 16:02:36.610014000 -0500 @@ -511,8 +511,8 @@ def ProcessUnsubscribeCmd(self, args, cmd, mail): if not len(args

diskless tty

2002-10-10 Thread rob
this one ?? thx! Rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: how to use 'dd' to create image of a hard drive?

2002-09-30 Thread Rob Ellis
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 05:39:51PM -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote: At 05:16 PM 9.30.2002 -0400, Rob Ellis wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 03:55:36PM -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote: At 03:50 PM 9.30.2002 -0500, Pranav A. Desai wrote: Hi all! Can I use something like dd if=/dev/ad0

Re: How to shut down cleanly by killing power

2002-09-26 Thread Rob B
system normally. Or maybe I can't understand what you are trying to do Cheers, Rob At 22:20 +0300 22.9.2002, Petri Riihikallio wrote: Hello I have a FreeBSD 4.6.2 box and an UPS. I have chosen NUT (http://www.exploits.org/nut) as my UPS monitor. Everything compiles and runs fine. No problems

tracking local changes to ports?

2002-09-23 Thread Rob Ellis
doing about things like that? Thanks. - Rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Being CREATIVE = RW8438E md5 mismatches

2002-09-20 Thread Rob Clark
this same CREATIVE drive in one other FBSD system, same issue with different checksums. THANKS IN ADVANCE: Any help or knowledge on this drive and its behavior with FBSD would be greatly appreciated. If this issue should be directed elsewhere please advise. Thank-you, Rob Clark To Unsubscribe

Re: Being CREATIVE = RW8438E md5 mismatches

2002-09-20 Thread Rob Clark
of the two dd commands used here. On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 01:08:15 -0700 Adam Weinberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (09.20.2002 @ 0044 PST): Rob Clark said, in 2.2K: #dd if=/dev/acd0c of=/usr/home/rclark/dup.iso bs=2048 dd: /dev/acd0c: Input/output error ^^ 0+0 records

Re: seting up advancesys SCSI card

2002-07-25 Thread Rob B
as to what i should do, it would be greatly apreciated. Have a look at the /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT file - there are two options there - one driver is adv (for older, narrow devices) and the other is adw (including the ADV940UW) Cheers, Rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

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