Re: READ_BIG timed out errors on acd0

2007-10-09 Thread Scott I. Remick
pants here. Scott I. Remick wrote: Hello... I'm using 6.2-STABLE from Aug 8th. Trying to get a CD ripping program to work on this new box. Have used Grip in the past, also trying Sound Juicer but both are having issues... I think it's something to do with the drive. Here's what I get in /var

Re: Ports tree is already up to date.

2007-10-01 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:07:50 +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hard to believe that as I have not fetched the updates for the last 2 (or 3) days and there are always a few new or updated ones. Coincidence or the portsnap server is wrong? You're not the only one. I just hopped on here to check to

nVidia driver with Xorg 7.3?

2007-09-13 Thread Scott I. Remick
Anyone tried the current nVidia-driver with the new X.org 7.3? I heard that there was a general (non-FreeBSD-specific) incompatibility, but just saw that 7.3 was now in the ports system. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: READ_BIG timed out errors on acd0

2007-08-29 Thread Scott I. Remick
Predrag Punosevac wrote: How about if you read first page from Chapter 18 from the Handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html There are several rock solid command line programs for burning CDs and DVDs. Burn cd is the simplest one. cdrecord is

Re: READ_BIG timed out errors on acd0

2007-08-29 Thread Scott I. Remick
Garrett Cooper wrote: The big assumption is that the CD that you're ripping from doesn't have copyright protection on it. That kind of a CD will show that particular set of behavior in FreeBSD. I'm pretty sure I'm safe... the CD I'm testing with at the moment is from 1990. :) It

Re: READ_BIG timed out errors on acd0

2007-08-29 Thread Scott I. Remick
Predrag Punosevac wrote: Why don't you mount your cd as su - password mount-t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /mnt You should see you disk mounted and songs like files that you can transfer to hard disk. Of course you can convert them latter to some format you like best. # mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /mnt

Re: Podcast management software?

2007-08-28 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:53:37 +0200, Nikola Lecic wrote: Does any of these programs look good enough? Actually I had already looked into those before I posted. Neither castget nor podcatcher support any retention settings like the other software I listed. Castpodder hasn't seen development in

READ_BIG timed out errors on acd0

2007-08-28 Thread Scott I. Remick
Hello... I'm using 6.2-STABLE from Aug 8th. Trying to get a CD ripping program to work on this new box. Have used Grip in the past, also trying Sound Juicer but both are having issues... I think it's something to do with the drive. Here's what I get in /var/log/messages: Aug 29 00:30:52

Podcast management software?

2007-08-27 Thread Scott I. Remick
I think I must be the only one using FreeBSD who wants to listen to podcasts. :) I'm having trouble finding decent podcast downloading/management software to use on my FreeBSD desktop. Although a number of media player/ management programs (Exaile, Rhythmbox, Amarok, BMPx) have podcast-

Re: Thunderbird 2.0

2007-04-25 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:12:06 -0700, FreeBSD WickerBill wrote: I portupgraded thunderbird today (6.1 p11, KDE 3.5.6_2) and while it's semi-functional, it does seg fault as it checks the pop server. ... These problems were fixed by uninstalling all broken extensions and removing the theme I

Cannot route mail through an internal Exch5.5 SMTP server

2006-09-14 Thread Scott I. Remick
I am at my wits end with this... help please! FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE Sendmail 8.13.6 (base) I'm trying to accomplish what should be simple: 1) all outgoing From: email addresses should be stamped @ourdomain.com and not @server.corpdomain.com 2) All emails should be routed through the corp SMTP

Re: Flash 7 and Firefox 1.5.0.2

2006-05-05 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Mon, 1 May 2006 10:44:42 -0400, John Nielsen wrote: 1) I apply the rtld_dlsym_hack.diff patch after every time I update my sources and before I build / install world. Will this still be necessary in 6.1? Or has the patch already been included?

Re: Cheap FreeBSD hosting?

2006-03-27 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 07:53:50 -0900, Peter Giessel wrote: $8/month for what you were getting was a steal. I agree. I was otherwise happy. However this buyout is going to be bad, I fear. And the OS change makes me feel hypocritical since I have Powered by FreeBSD all over my pages and actively

Re: Cheap FreeBSD hosting?

2006-03-27 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 22:44:36 -0800, Sam Nilsson wrote: iweb.ca a canadian company has good deals on dedicated servers. mine has been up since i got it which makes 129 days now. there have been no network interruptions that i've been aware of in that time. i don't know how their shared

Re: Cheap FreeBSD hosting?

2006-03-27 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:48:21 -0500, RJ wrote: http://www.layeredtech.com/layer1.php?g=13 Those are for dedicated servers where the cheapest is $65/month. I guess I don't see how that is a suitable-replacement for my needs and budget...? ___

Re: Cheap FreeBSD hosting?

2006-03-27 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:38:37 -0800, Tim Traver wrote: Not exactly sure what your needs are, but we have a shared hosting system that uses FreeBSD as its back end, and we offer competitive features and prices, with a really cool control panel... Our main package for domains is only

Cheap FreeBSD hosting?

2006-03-22 Thread Scott I. Remick
Well it seems my perfect FreeBSD webhost, which had great service, great features, and a great support community has been sold-out to a large webhost consolidation company with a reputation for ruining every company they buy. They'll also be switching from FreeBSD to Linux. Since I desire to eat

VNC forwarding over sshd issue

2006-02-17 Thread Scott I. Remick
I'm having a weird problem that surfaces sometimes and I am having trouble pinning down the cause. What I do is use VNC to remote-control my home FreeBSD box remotely. Most of the time, this works fine. My home router forwards the external port to my FreeBSD (6.0R) box. I use PuTTY as a Windows

serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Scott I. Remick
Hello... I'm trying to set up a serial console for watching console error messages while in X, but am having a real hard time getting my head around the concepts of what I need to do (and don't need to). I've seen http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html but I'm not clear

Re: serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:21:23 +, Robert Slade wrote: I can't help you directly, but have you looked at the error logs? they should give you a clue, especially Xorg.log Last few times I remember looking, there was nothing logged. This lead me to believe that the lockup happened too fast for

Re: serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:01:54 -0500, Ken Stevenson wrote: I was trying to accomplish the same thing a couple weeks ago and somebody recommended the following: touch /var/log/console.log Edit /etc/syslog.conf and uncomment the line that begins with console.info. Reboot (you might be

Re: serial console for dummies?

2006-01-29 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:32:46 -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Can't you just run xconsole? Doesn't help me if xconsole is hidden by another window at the time of the halt. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: flash plugin in 6.0

2006-01-15 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:43:26 -0900, Beecher Rintoul wrote: Try starting firefox from a terminal and see if you get plugin errors before it starts. I was working on that port locally to fix the paths. I uninstalled everything and did an install with the fixed port and none of the plugins

Re: flash plugin in 6.0

2005-12-22 Thread Scott I. Remick
I had Flash6 working but have need to try Flash7 (I know it might crash, but some sites I use require at least Flash7). But I can't get it to work at all. I uninstalled linuxpluginwrapper and linux-flashplugin6 before I started. I've tried Beecher's instructions and about:plugins still doesn't

Weird nice behavior

2005-07-05 Thread Scott I. Remick
I'm seeing something strange/annoying tonight... maybe someone could help explain why it's happening. FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE I'm trying to do a large local rsync in the background, while listening to streaming audio via RealPlayer and do other stuff. I have the rsync running at nice level 20 (nice

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 05:50:02 -0700 (MST), Terry R. Friedrichsen wrote: Is anybody besides *me* having file system corruption problems with FreeBSD 5.3? I've looked around on several of the mailing lists and found no men- tion of this. Not the same problem as you, but I've been getting

Re: Man pages take forever on slow machine?

2004-12-29 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Ramiro Aceves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My pentium 100 MHz with 16 MB RAM runs smoothly with FreeBSD 4.10 , it even runs fvwm under X. I am not able to run 5.3 install, as I only have 16MB, I was suspecting that I need more memory for the install proccess. The reason I wanted 5.3 was

mpeg4ip require ipv6?

2004-12-28 Thread Scott I. Remick
I still can't get mpeg4ip upgraded from 1.0 to 1.1: cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -DDEBU G -I../.. -O -pipe -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wbad-function-cast -Wmissing-protot ypes -Wmissing-declarations -Werror -MT net_udp.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/net_udp.Tpo

Man pages take forever on slow machine?

2004-12-28 Thread Scott I. Remick
Ok so I got over my hurdle getting FreeBSD 5.3 installed on this old Presario (it ended up being RAM... needed more than 16MB to get through install, borrowed some and then could then back off to default 16MB after 5.3 was on). I thought I was on a roll until I accidentally tried to bring up a man

Hang on install of 5.3 on old Presario

2004-12-21 Thread Scott I. Remick
I'm trying to breathe some life into some old hardware by giving it a task of a server. I've burnt the full 5.3 ISO to CD. I can get it to read the CD fine and start to boot. I get as far as the Welcome to FreeBSD menu (with the ASCII daemon). No matter what option I choose, the bar then spins for

Restarting vino remotely

2004-11-08 Thread Scott I. Remick
So I had to restart my home box the other day then realized while away that I forgot to launch vino-session, so I am unable to VNC to my local desktop. This seems to work me into a corner, as while I can still ssh into the computer, I cannot start vino-session from the remote ssh session because

Re: Restarting vino remotely

2004-11-08 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That means your ssh(1) session isn't doing X11 forwarding. ssh has he capability to pose as an X server, usually on localhost:10.0 and transparently forwards all X session traffic over an encrypted tunnel back to your desktop display, but only if

How to NOT load AGP?

2004-10-07 Thread Scott I. Remick
Background: My computer likes to lock up sometimes in XFree86. This last time it was while doing an rsync between an internal drive and an external USB drive. But other times it's been random. Regardless, forced to do a reset, it then won't start XFree86. Sometimes unloading, rebuilding, and

Package database corruption... need assistance

2004-05-25 Thread Scott I. Remick
Hello. A friend of mine is running 5.1-REL and has somehow managed to get some serious corruption on her package database. It's more than I've come across before so I wanted to find out the easiest way to clean this up. The way things stand now, she gets lots of stale dependency errors when doing

CMS on FreeBSD

2004-03-19 Thread Scott I. Remick
I'm thinking about setting up a FreeBSD-based CMS/intranet and wanted to know what other people were doing. I have a tiny bit of experience with PHP-Nuke because my webhost uses it. Although I have no real complaints about it, I am not wedded to it. PHP-Nuke is in ports and was recently upgraded

Re: CMS on FreeBSD

2004-03-19 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:05:45 -0600, Dan Rue wrote: Umm.. I don't know what other people think about this - but I really never run any PHP stuff from ports. It is easier, imo, to just download the tgz and unzip it to the directory you want it in. Since there's no compiling, usually very

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-02-19 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try $ hd /dev/...| grep -A 5 02 00 00 00 0c 00 04 01 2e 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 Well that definitely produced something: bash-2.05b# hd /dev/ad2s1e | grep -A 5 02 00 00 00 0c 00 04 01 2e 00 00 00 02 00 00 002d 02 00 00 00 0c 00

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-02-18 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here you should have answered `y' (it doesn't ask you to change anything yet). Let's try that again, shall we? Sorry, ok I went through it again, saying Y to all the Continue? prompts but N to all the ones that talked about changing

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-02-04 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, you were recovering an 80G disk, and now you say the 80G has 4.9 on it. Did you erase anything? Is this a remote machine? No, it was not the drive that had the OS on it. It was originally mounted as /data on a system that had

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-02-04 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, as it's UFS1 as we've figured out, the next logical thing would be to try mounting /dev/ad2s1c r/o, and if that fails, try fscking it. bash-2.05b# mount -r /dev/ad2s1c /data mount: /dev/ad2s1c on /data: incorrect super block

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-02-04 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And /dev/ad2s1e? bash-2.05b# mount -r /dev/ad2s1e /data mount: /dev/ad2s1e on /data: incorrect super block bash-2.05b# fsck /dev/ad2s1e ** /dev/ad2s1e BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG LOOK FOR ALTERNATE SUPERBLOCKS? [yn] y USING

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-02-04 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try using fsck -n (answer `no'), and recording what else comes up. That won't work, because it answers no to the first question of looking for alternate superblocks, then aborts immediately. So I'm just going to manually say no to all

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-02-03 Thread Scott I. Remick
] at ata1-master UDMA33 I'm ready to proceed if you're still willing, if not I understand! :) (If anyone else new to this problem and would like to help, you can use google or the archives, or I can catch you up if you'd like) Many thanks already to all who have helped so far. = Scott I

Re: OpenOffice 1.1 port

2004-01-30 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:48:04 -0800, Derrick Ryalls wrote: Install the prebuild binary instead (saves a ton of time too): http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ Except then you don't get anti-aliased fonts :( ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Upgraded 5.1 - 5.2, now VNC over SSH fails w/ TCP_NODELAY

2004-01-29 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:42:28 -0500, Scott I. Remick wrote: Well crap, everything was going so well. I upgraded from 5.1 to 5.2 using cvsup, recompiled (nearly) all my ports (some KDE stuff is still complaining, but that shouldn't be relevant here). I have openssh installed via ports: su

Upgraded 5.1 - 5.2, now VNC over SSH fails w/ TCP_NODELAY

2004-01-20 Thread Scott I. Remick
Well crap, everything was going so well. I upgraded from 5.1 to 5.2 using cvsup, recompiled (nearly) all my ports (some KDE stuff is still complaining, but that shouldn't be relevant here). I have openssh installed via ports: su-2.05b# pkg_info | grep ssh openssh-3.6.1_5 OpenBSD's secure

Problems using portupgrade to recompile all ports

2004-01-15 Thread Scott I. Remick
So I'm upgrading my 5.1R desktop to 5.2R. Used cvsup, followed the instructions in UPGRADING, did a custom kernel, etc etc. That part went fine, no probs. I noticed some of my daemons (from ports) seemed a bit annoyed though upon booting up 5.2. I tried using portupgrade -Rf on them

Re: NEWBIE QUESTION

2004-01-15 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:47:08 +, Donald Turnbull wrote: I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome GUI already installed? Already installed? No. A large number people want to run FreeBSD on their servers, and having a GUI on a server isn't usually a good or desired

Re: Problems using portupgrade to recompile all ports

2004-01-15 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:02:44 + (GMT), Jan Grant wrote: On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Scott I. Remick wrote: So I'm upgrading my 5.1R desktop to 5.2R. Used cvsup, followed the instructions in UPGRADING, did a custom kernel, etc etc. That part went fine, no probs. I noticed some of my daemons

Re: Problems using portupgrade to recompile all ports

2004-01-15 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:12:27 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: Work out what went wrong, fix it and then just run: # portupgrade -af '2004-01-15' which does a forced update of all packages installed before the given date. (Note: -R and -r are unnecessary with -a). Rinse, repeat. Until

Re: Problems using portupgrade to recompile all ports

2004-01-15 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:38:41 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: portupgrade -rfx '=2004-01-15' foo will force re-install 'foo' and everything that depends on package 'foo', except those packages installed on or after the given date. Well, actually I want -R and not -r, but anyways.. almost,

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-12 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean trying to mount it, to fsck it, using dd|hd to find the superblock, etc. I just want to be *really* sure we know what we are doing. Well, I don't have experience making bootable FreeBSD floppies... it might be more useful for me

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Beware; if you write a disklabel (or presumably bsdlabel; I have no experience with 5.x) to ad6 you create a dangerously dedicated disk, i.e. a disk without slices. Ok. I am not saying that's what I want to do, I only mentioned it because the man

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And maybe prefix that by a $ bsdlabel -R /dev/ad6s1c dislabel.ad6s1c.new which would just check your new layout for errors, without writing anything, and print your file out as disklabel understands it. So you're saying, run it as

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry that was to be $ bsdlabel -R -n /dev/ad6s1c dislabel.ad6s1c.new :( No worries... I figured it out :) Indeed it's not like in 4.x, where they were the same. And what about # ls -l /dev/ad6s1a /dev/ad6s1b (these minor numbers

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in the process of downloading the floppies... ok cool And what about ad4? Does disklabel show different values for the slice and the `c' partition? Hmm not only are they different as w/ ad6, but I get the same error on the c

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't find a zero-bad floppy in this place! It's all the holidays! That's what AOL disks (vs. discs) used to be good for. :) With `c', they're all offset by 63(why?). But still, you can mount the partitions on the ad4s1, so the

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you already have a copy (the data at offset 32 seems to be it). If you want, do a # dd if=/dev/ad6s1 skip=16 count=16 of=/some/file ok, done. Is there a way to use fsck_ufs -b now to fix this? Or is that premature? And if I

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (is disklabel/bsdlabel only meant to be run on slices and not bsd-partitions?). You have it backwards in this question. Disklabel is meant to run only on bsd partitions and not slices. Slices (1-4) are the major divisions of the disk

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is true. That partition is labeled as unused. I believe you should be trying to mount /dev/ad6s1e. su-2.05b# mount -r /dev/ad6s1e /data mount: /dev/ad6s1e on /data: incorrect super block #/dev/ad6s1c/data ufs rw

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-05 Thread Scott I. Remick
Sorry for the delay... holidays had me busy. Hopefully you're still around and interested in picking up where we left off. I think we're definitely onto something... --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: su-2.05b# hd /dev/ad6s1 | grep 54 19 01 00 1620 54 19 01 00 74

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-05 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder whether editing the label and setting both offsets to 0 might solve the problem. It definitely seems like that, as the actual offset of the partition is 0, as dd shows. Ok, sounds like a plan. Not that I know what I'm

Re: kazaa client

2003-12-23 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 04:08:55 +0200, Anton Alin-Adrian wrote: Thanks. Seems I am going to develop a GTK UI for fasttrack ;P Hmm maybe as an easier start, someone can add giFToxic to the FreeBSD ports collection? http://giftoxic.sourceforge.net/ Porting is currently outside my own abilities.

Straightening out perl

2003-12-23 Thread Scott I. Remick
Maybe this belongs in the -ports list... I dunno. Anyways, saw a few messages recently that prompted me to check my perl situation: su-2.05b# pkg_info | grep perl- perl-5.6.1_15 Practical Extraction and Report Language perl-5.8.2_2Practical Extraction and Report Language And

Re: bad root shell

2003-12-20 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 09:44:17 -0800, Mark McConnell wrote: An error in a pw* script inserted a non-existent shell into the password database, effectively locking out root. I used a fixit disk to correct the problem, using this procedure: Unless I'm missing something, seems like the long way

Re: Xfree86 install on 5.1

2003-12-18 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:18:30 -0500, Chris Neustrup wrote: I recently upgraded from 5.0 to 5.1 on my thinkpad. When this worked OK, I tried to upgrade to the newest XFree86 4.30.x It filed due to patch mismatches. As I tried other earlier flavors of 4.X it never worked cleanly. Does

Re: Increase space for /var/db/

2003-12-17 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:04:58 -0800, samy lancher wrote: I have a 4.5 FreeBSD server with mysql database. only 250MB was allocated to /var/db. Our database is increasing so fast that now i need to expand the memory for /var/db. I guess one way to do is to install a new hard drive and then

Re: Increase space for /var/db/

2003-12-17 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 14:32:50 -0800, samy lancher wrote: thanks for the response. you are right, for 4.5 freebsd there is no reference of DB_DIR in mysql-server.sh. I looked for my.cnf in /etc and /usr/local/etc, but i did not find it in those folders. i feel that this file does not exist in

Re: Adelphia at home and NAT...

2003-12-11 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:42:39 -0500, Alex ander Sendzimir wrote: I chose Adelphia for my high speed internet service here in lovely Vermont. Same here! By the way, let me point you to a site I just started, http://www.vtbsd.net/ while we're at it. :) Feel free to stop by and hang out

Re: Ports + cpan question

2003-12-09 Thread Scott I. Remick
sorted everything out so I didn't get tons of errors everytime I ran portupgrade. Hope this helps! = Scott I. Remick --==-- ICQ: 450152 Save the internet - Use a Mozilla-based browser: http://vtbsd.net/mozilla/ FreeBSD: Because making unix user-friendly is easier than debugging Windows

Re: How to make printer print faster?

2003-12-09 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 12:29:15 -0600, Charles Howse wrote: With all due respect, do you know for a fact that your suggestion works? I have a HP1100, configured with apsfilter, and I have tried that very same thing, and it only prints at 600 dpi. Does anyone know the correct driver for the

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2003-12-08 Thread Scott I. Remick
for finding an intact superblock off this drive and repairing it? Anyone? = Scott I. Remick --==-- ICQ: 450152 Save the internet - Use a Mozilla-based browser: http://vtbsd.net/mozilla/ FreeBSD: Because making unix user-friendly is easier than debugging Windows. http://vtbsd.net/freebsd/ Voici

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2003-12-04 Thread Scott I. Remick
... don't wanna screw this up. Thanks everyone! = Scott I. Remick --==-- ICQ: 450152 Save the internet - Use a Mozilla-based browser: http://vtbsd.net/mozilla/ FreeBSD: Because making unix user-friendly is easier than debugging Windows. http://vtbsd.net/freebsd/ Voici mon secret. Il est

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2003-12-04 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to be more sure, try dd'ing your (suspectedly damaged) superblock and some of its (suspectedly OK) copies into different files: # dd if=/dev/ad6s1e skip=... bs=512 count=16 of=somefile As /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/fs.h

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2003-12-04 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a (probably bad) idea. If you say that the partition was mounted as /data, then you could do a # hd /dev/ad6s1 |grep /data It should come up soon (the superblock should be close to the beginning of the drive, right?).

Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2003-12-03 Thread Scott I. Remick
using dd: dd if=/dev/ad6s1c skip=32 of=/dev/ad6s1c seek=16 bs=512 count=16 But before I do that I definitely want confirmation. Please tell me there's hope for this drive...this Windows PC makes me feel dirty. Thanks in advance. :) = Scott I. Remick --==-- ICQ: 450152 Save the internet

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2003-12-03 Thread Scott I. Remick
copies of the superblock on the drive, right? * Depending on the architecture and the media, the superblock may * reside in any one of four places. Yeah, a lot more than four... Haven't tried anything yet. Awaiting expert advice first... Thanks! = Scott I. Remick --==-- ICQ: 450152

vncserver, rc.local, and blackbox problem

2003-10-21 Thread Scott I. Remick
Ok, for today's edition of Show Scott What Stupid Thing He Missed... Trying to set up a dedicated VNC/ethereal server, so I'm trying to have vncserver run from rc.local (using su to run it as a user and not root). Ran into some path issues to make vncserver happy, which I resolved, but for some

fonts question

2003-10-14 Thread Scott I. Remick
I understand a lot of things, but fonts sometimes confuse me. This is one of those times. I'm using FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE and XFree86 4.3.0. Most of the time, my fonts are beautiful and anti-aliased. However, I noticed some web pages some text wouldn't be. I narrowed down one site to it listing

Re: fonts question

2003-10-14 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:20:53 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: I know the page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html ...but it doesn't go this deep. Actually, the Anti-Aliasing section at the bottom does. Hey Marcus... thanks for jumping in. I didn't

Re: openoffice

2003-10-09 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:38:24 -0500, Aaron Sloan wrote: I'm trying to build openoffice or openoffice-devel from ports. CVS, portupgrade etc...completed. says there is a checksum mismatch with the OO source and stop 4.8 stable. It has been broken for about a week and a half. First off, I'd

Re: Screen size

2003-10-09 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:23:08 -0500, Talbot wrote: I recently installed FreeBSD 4.5 with desk top KDE using a CD that came with the book, FreeBSD Unleashed, by Michael Urban and Brian Tiemann. Everything seemed to go fine until I execute startx. The desktop environment on my screen seems to

Re: VNC ssh tunneling problem: getsockopt TCP_NODELAY error

2003-09-05 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 11:58:16 +0100 (BST), Jan Grant wrote: Loks like the VNC srever isn't listening at that location. Is it running? Yep: -bash-2.05b$ ps PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND 60273 p0- S 0:00.49 Xvnc :1 -desktop X -httpd /usr/local/share/vnc/classes 60277 p0- S 0:00.20

Re: VNC ssh tunneling problem: getsockopt TCP_NODELAY error

2003-09-05 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 14:51:08 +0100 (BST), Jan Grant wrote: I'd still recommend double-checking with sockstat on the BSD box, (and netstat -an on the windows box, but I don't think that's the problem). Sure... you help me, I help you help me. :) -bash-2.05b$ sockstat -l | grep vnc scottXvnc

Re: VNC ssh tunneling problem: getsockopt TCP_NODELAY error

2003-09-05 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:03:21 +0100 (BST), Jan Grant wrote: OK, two other things (increasingly bizarre) occur to me; after that, I'm stumped: 1. tcp wrappers or similar on your vnc? On the FreeBSD system? No. Well, not that I know of. I have not configured to use tcp wrappers w/ VNC so if

VNC ssh tunneling problem: getsockopt TCP_NODELAY error

2003-09-04 Thread Scott I. Remick
Figured I'd start with my FreeBSD friends first before bugging the VNC community. I used to have VNC tunneling over ssh just fine, but then had to redo my system drive. I used FreeBSD 5.1 before and still do now, however it's not working. I'm using the same PuTTY system so the config is the same

Re: VNC ssh tunneling problem: getsockopt TCP_NODELAY error

2003-09-04 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:31:56 -0500, Andrew L. Gould wrote: Is PuTTY expecting the server's key from the previous installation? Just a guess. Nope, that happens earlier in the process. I can ssh to my PC just fine, and already dealt with the message about the server's key having changed.

Re: preferred raid controller

2003-09-04 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:46:51 +0100, George Barnett wrote: I'm building a syslog server with some regular scsi disk shelves hanging off the back and I'm looking for a recommenedation on a raid controller. I currently have a (old) dpt smartcache iv, but it doesn't seem to have much in the way

search replace on multiple files

2003-07-23 Thread Scott I. Remick
Hello... I'm trying to figure out a way to pull off the following: I have a subdir with many different sorts of text files (some nested in additional subdirs, so recursion would be necessary) that need to have a search replace done on them. What's a quick way to script a global search replace

Re: Mucked up partitions, can't boot [REPOST]

2003-03-10 Thread Scott I. Remick
-4 are UNUSED. All used partitions are flag 80 (active) according to fdisk (I can't see how to make a partition UN-active, only active). Anyone willing to help me learn and guide me from here? Thanks = Scott I. Remick --==-- ICQ: 450152 Save the internet - Use a Mozilla-based browser

Mucked up partitions, can't boot

2003-03-07 Thread Scott I. Remick
that has data, and partitions 2-4 are UNUSED. All used partitions are flag 80 (active) according to fdisk (I can't see how to make a partition UN-active, only active). Anyone willing to help me learn and guide me from here? Thanks = Scott I. Remick --==-- ICQ: 450152 Save the internet - Use

(still) Having trouble compiling OO

2002-12-11 Thread Scott I. Remick
/STLport-4.5/src/fstream.cpp Fri Jan 11 17:22:40 2002 -- Patching file STLport-4.5/src/fstream.cpp using Plan A... Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [y] = Scott I. Remick --==-- ICQ: 450152 Save the internet - Use Mozilla: http

OO compile fails

2002-12-05 Thread Scott I. Remick
'build_all' ---* TG_SLO.MK *--- *** Error code 255 = Scott I. Remick --==-- ICQ: 450152 Save the internet - Use Mozilla: http://home.adelphia.net/~sremick/mozilla/ Voici mon secret. Il est tres simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. No trees

Re: New install won't boot off A7V133

2002-12-03 Thread Scott I. Remick
In article ashllk$28g0$[EMAIL PROTECTED], you say... On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 08:19:36PM -0800, Scott I. Remick wrote: I just got in an ATA133 30GB drive that I am going to dedicat to FreeBSD on my main system (an Asus A7V133). I took off the existing 20GB (Win2000), put the 30GB in its

XFree86-4-libraries broken?

2002-12-03 Thread Scott I. Remick
noticed this or had an idea? = Scott I. Remick --==-- ICQ: 450152 Save the internet - Use Mozilla: http://home.adelphia.net/~sremick/mozilla/ Voici mon secret. Il est tres simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. No trees were harmed

New install won't boot off A7V133

2002-12-02 Thread Scott I. Remick
drive off. Kind of bumming, as this was going to be my big exciting install (after playing around with installs on 3 other systems to polish my skills). Anyone up tonight who can offer some suggestions? = Scott I. Remick --==-- ICQ: 450152 Save the internet - Use Mozilla: http

prefetching port dependencies

2002-11-18 Thread Scott I. Remick
this but case-insensitivity (-fr is diff than -FR) in search engines was making it useless.] = Scott I. Remick --==-- ICQ: 450152 Save the internet - Use Mozilla: http://home.adelphia.net/~sremick/mozilla/ Voici mon secret. Il est tres simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel

Re: XFree86, Anti-aliasing, Truetype, Freetype

2002-11-05 Thread Scott I. Remick
but not XF86Config like the handbook says I should do? Is this the sign of a problem which is playing a role here? = Scott I. Remick --==-- ICQ: 450152 Save the internet - Use Mozilla: http://home.adelphia.net/~sremick/mozilla/ Voici mon secret. Il est tres simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec

XFree86, Anti-aliasing, Truetype, Freetype

2002-11-04 Thread Scott I. Remick
, but that's probably a whole 'nother problem... = Scott I. Remick --==-- ICQ: 450152 Save the internet - Use Mozilla: http://home.adelphia.net/~sremick/mozilla/ Voici mon secret. Il est tres simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux

gnome2 from ports fails (won't install)

2002-11-01 Thread Scott I. Remick
/gnome2. = Scott I. Remick --==-- ICQ: 450152 Save the internet - Use Mozilla: http://home.adelphia.net/~sremick/mozilla/ Voici mon secret. Il est tres simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. __ Do

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