Re: and the winner is...

2005-09-04 Thread Scott W
Mario Carugno wrote: I there, i was trying freebsd for a while, and comparing it against debian/linux. The winner was Debian by far... Freebsd could be stable, but it is not faster... and Debian is far much more 'usable'. Freebsd package installation is very laborious compared with Debian's

Re: sun box

2004-10-31 Thread Scott W
Hexren wrote: KC Hi there KC Two very simple questions, can I run FreeBSD on a Sun box and is it possible to run BSD on VMware KC Kim KC ___ KC [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list KC http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions KC To

Re: Rxvt replacement?

2004-03-19 Thread Scott W
Peter Schuller wrote: Is there any other xterm replacement which is small like rxvt? Or at least smaller than xterm. Grepping around the ports tree i found 'wterm' which is supposedly a fork/branch of rxvt (haven't tried it yet). There's also aterm (also forked off rxvt apparantly). aterm is

Re: Compiling Packages

2004-03-10 Thread Scott W
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:44:14AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: A few days ago, I posted that packages are not as current as ports are on FreeBSD. When I made that statement, someone, I forget whom, claimed that they need more

Re: calling xterm under KDE

2004-03-06 Thread Scott W
Ed Budd wrote: On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 19:14:13 +0800 Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - snip - You can add the fontsize as a parameter when you invoke it, like this: xterm -fn fontsize I use 'xterm -fn 9x15' on a high res monitor and set it (along with some other params) in my window manager

Re: 1 processor vs. 2

2004-03-03 Thread Scott W
Stefan Cars wrote: Ok. In this case the costs isn't really a problem, so both read and write will be faster with two disks in a RAID1 vs. three disks in a RAID 5 ? I've read that RAID5 would be faster in read ? Short answer- it depends. Bear in mind that there are some controllers that will do

Re: 1 processor vs. 2

2004-03-03 Thread Scott W
, which is great for the budget (ie 3 physical disks, but having a RAID-1 volume across _parts_ of two physical disks, and the rest being a RAID-5 volume), but again, you'll eventually run into disk seek and I/O issues... Scott On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Scott W wrote: Joseph Koenig wrote: I'm

Re: Can one compile khello.cc ?

2004-03-02 Thread Scott W
Charles McManis wrote: Ok, so this is now officially weird. I decided to try to compile khello.cc from the KDE tutorial on my 4.8 system that has never had me attempt to upgrade KDE on it. When I compile khello.cc, it compiles fine, when I link it I get this:

Re: 1 processor vs. 2

2004-03-02 Thread Scott W
Joseph Koenig wrote: I'm putting together a system that will host a relatively small database (around 20,000 records), as well as run Apache / PHP to search that database. I have the option in front of me to use a P III dual 1GHz machine with a SCSI Raid 5, or to use a single P4 2.8 GHz with a

Re: BSD on machines with RAID

2004-03-01 Thread Scott W
Jagadish N Vajha wrote: Hi, I would like to know if its possible to run Free BSD on IBM machines with a RAID controller (SCSI hard drives are used). I have tried installing it but the system keeps on freezing continuously during setup, the same system works perfectly with other OS's.

Re: Search Path in bash2

2004-02-28 Thread Scott W
Peter Risdon wrote: Martin McCormick wrote: I am trying to modify the execution path on a FreeBSD system for all the bash2 users on that system. The man page says that default path is system-dependent, and is set by the administrator who installs bash.A common

Re: NFS server usage

2004-02-28 Thread Scott W
Charles Swiger wrote: On Feb 26, 2004, at 4:57 PM, Michael Conlen wrote: [ ... ] The production system will use dual channel U320 RAID controllers with 12 disks per channel, so disk shouldn't be an issue, and it will connect with GigE, so network is plenty fine, now I'm on to CPU. Sounds

Re: seeking shell scripting resources

2004-02-22 Thread Scott W
Marty Landman wrote: I'm new to running my own unix systems and would like to start learning the ropes on shell scripting. I've looked at the handbook and a few other sources... maybe haven't looked closely enough. Any recommendations on more involved manuals/explanations/examples of how

Re: 5.2.1-RC1 and RC2

2004-02-19 Thread Scott W
ian j hart wrote: On Monday 16 February 2004 3:16 am, Kent Stewart wrote: On Sunday 15 February 2004 07:04 pm, Chris wrote: On Sunday 15 February 2004 09:00 pm, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Chris wrote: Is is me? Or has something changed in 5.2 that tends to make systems

Re: 5.2.1-RC1 and RC2

2004-02-19 Thread Scott W
ian j hart wrote: On Monday 16 February 2004 3:16 am, Kent Stewart wrote: On Sunday 15 February 2004 07:04 pm, Chris wrote: On Sunday 15 February 2004 09:00 pm, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Chris wrote: Is is me? Or has something changed in 5.2 that tends to make systems

Re: Win200 gateway blocking FBSD html?

2004-02-19 Thread Scott W
Robert Storey wrote: I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD client machine for a school. They have never used FBSD or even Linux, they are 100% Windows. They are interested in letting their students gain experience with non-Windows software. So I need to prove to them that FBSD can work, but I've run

Re: verify md5 for /sbin/init (v1.7.2.3 2002/08/12 11:17:37 ) on FreeBSD Stable 4.9

2004-02-04 Thread Scott W
Edmund Craske wrote: 1.2 is not greater than 1.7. Check your logic. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko Sent: 04 February 2004 13:17 To: treeml Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: verify md5 for /sbin/init

Re: Adding Packages and Ports

2004-02-02 Thread Scott W
Krikket wrote: On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Roop Nanuwa wrote: Krikket wrote: I've done a brand-new install of FreeBSD (4.9), and am a fresh user to this flavor of *nix. Welcome, we hope you enjoy your stay :). Thank you! The install went more or less without a hitch. For some

Re: Text parsing?

2004-01-18 Thread Scott W
Eric F Crist wrote: Hello group, 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. Depends on what your system is

Re: Using Vi through a Serial Console

2004-01-18 Thread Scott W
Mario Antonio wrote: Dear List, When I make a serial connection to a FreeBSD server that has its serial port configured as a console, how can I make the vi editor work? Mario --- [This e-mail was scanned for viruses by Webjogger's AntiVirus Protection System]

Re: ACPI errors at bit on Abit BP-6 mb (since 5.1) on 5.2RC

2004-01-15 Thread Scott W
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Hi. I have been getting these errors at boot time on a dual CPU Abit BP-6. This has been happening since I converted this old system into a test system a while back with 5.1R. It still happens with 5.2RC. I have not updated to 5.2R yet. It still seems

Re: Any comparison chart for FreeBSD and other OS about performans

2004-01-15 Thread Scott W
Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: Hi I found old chart about some comparison between some OS FreeBSD , Linux and like this . Does any body know any new report or chart about performans between Oss which included FreeBSD of course . Thanks Vahric ___

Good BSD/Linux Article (somewhat off-topic)

2004-01-15 Thread Scott W
Hey all, just wanted to share a link to an interesting article comparing/contrasting *BSD (primarily FreeBSD) and Linux, at http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php No affiliation, came across it on one of the bsd news sites...as a long time Linux

Re: How to Select Compiler Version when Installing Port

2004-01-14 Thread Scott W
Daniel J Cain Jr. wrote: I am trying to get vmailmgr-0.96.9 to build from the ports collection of FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE. I 'think' it will work if I can have the port use a different compiler version during the build. I have been unable to figure/find out how (if?) this is possible. By default

Re: Information

2004-01-14 Thread Scott W
Quintin Riis wrote: Berkeley Software Distribution Advanced Micro Devices Scalable Processor ARChitecture Quintin Kevin R. Lee wrote: Hello, I was wondering what BSD stands for? Also what does AMD and Ultra SPARC stand for? Any information would be very helpful.. Umm, and what does

Re: (Yet Another) Home Networking Question

2004-01-12 Thread Scott W
Rishi Chopra wrote: Perhaps someone can help me with this small part of rc.firewall: [Ss][Ii][Mm][Pp][Ll][Ee]) # This is a prototype setup for a simple firewall. Configure this # machine as a named server and ntp server, and point all the machines # on

Re: Alternatives to zcat ?

2004-01-11 Thread Scott W
rob.c wrote: Hello All, I used to peruse my logs (when prompted by events in the periodic script output emails) using zcat, however i've just tried again for the first time recently and appears the logfile compression format has changed. This is in turn means that i can no longer use a command

Re: Commercial Distribution?

2004-01-09 Thread Scott W
Shantanoo wrote: +++ Scott W [freebsd] [06-01-04 22:39 -0500]: | I know this one may be seen as sacrilege to some, but think about this: | | 1. *BSD uses a fairly significant amount of GNU and GPL licensed | (opposed to the BSD license) code in it. gcc, Perl, XFree86, Apache, | GNU Make

Re: how to use lseek() system call with over 2G files?

2004-01-06 Thread Scott W
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the last episode (Jan 06), Alex said: Hi everybody! Some time ago there wasn't any possibility to create disk file larger than 2G and there was no problem with lseek(). Some time ago meaning around 1997? FreeBSD has

Re: RCS

2004-01-06 Thread Scott W
Shawn Guillemette wrote: Once apon a time I worked for a company that had used somthing called RCS to protect files from being writen to by more then one user at the same time. Im now in a situation where that would become helpful. I have read the man pages on RCS and looked for documantation

Re: Commercial Distribution?

2004-01-06 Thread Scott W
Tillman Hodgson wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:14:41PM -0500, David D.W. Downey wrote: And how is that different from Linux? FreeBSD is an Operating System, so is Red Hat, Debian, Stampede, SLS, Slackware, and on and on. FreeBSD does the same thing. FreeBSD didn't develop OpenSSL but it

Re: Commercial Distribution?

2004-01-06 Thread Scott W
Scott W wrote: Tillman Hodgson wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:14:41PM -0500, David D.W. Downey wrote: And how is that different from Linux? FreeBSD is an Operating System, so is Red Hat, Debian, Stampede, SLS, Slackware, and on and on. FreeBSD does the same thing. FreeBSD didn't develop

Re: starting daemons at server start

2004-01-04 Thread Scott W
Micke P wrote: Right! Ok, it's definitely not inetd that I need. I'm thinking primarily of starting apache and a dynamic ip updater automatically at startup. Micke --- fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you just don't understand what you are seeing. Inetd is the Super server. Every

Re: starting daemons at server start

2004-01-04 Thread Scott W
Micke P wrote: If there is something that is done automatically, I swear my karma is that it won't be done! I did do a port apache install. And right, I don't remember that being asked. I'm assuming there's an easier way to get this set up besides redoing the install. Examples of this

Re: Fortune

2004-01-01 Thread Scott W
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:29:44AM -0500, Chuck PUP Payne wrote: Strange question, I have notice that in 5.1 there is no more fortune. Can you tell me where I can get it. Thanks. Install the games/freebsd-games port.

Re: What do you use?

2004-01-01 Thread Scott W
Scott Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 01:09:23PM +, Francisco Reyes wrote: On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Scott Mitchell wrote: As for RAID, we use Vinum, but only because I inherited a bunch of machines with hot-swap SCSI bays and no hardware RAID. It works well, once you have it set

Re: File system full?

2004-01-01 Thread Scott W
Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 06:00:23PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: How big is necessary for a /usr partition? Mine keeps filling up and I've deleted /usr/obj and /usr/ports/distfiles regularly. Here's my df -h readout: $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail

Re: File system full?

2004-01-01 Thread Scott W
Malcolm Kay wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 15:44, Brian Astill wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 10:30 am, Eric F Crist wrote: How big is necessary for a /usr partition? Mine keeps filling up and I've deleted /usr/obj and /usr/ports/distfiles regularly. Here's my df -h readout: $ df -h Filesystem

Re: What logs etc do I need to checkfrequently?

2003-12-28 Thread Scott W
Chuck Swiger wrote: Joachim Dagerot wrote: As you with good memories know, I lost 3000 pictures of my first sons first year this month. I did have a RAID-5 system with fresh disks, however, shit happens and I have a feeling that this could have been avoided if I read my log files better. I'm

Re: Dynamic DNS Updates

2003-12-28 Thread Scott W
Jud wrote: On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 02:02:53 +0100 (CET), Cordula's Web [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you decide to use a provider like dyndns.org, you can use the ipcheck port (http://ipcheck.sf.net) to keep your IP address and hostname in sync. Or use ddclient: /usr/ports/dns/ddclient Works

Re: Log Rotation

2003-12-28 Thread Scott W
Gerard Samuel wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2003 12:36 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Gerard Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In particular, Im looking to see if there is a FreeBSD way in rotating PostgreSQL logs. Any advise would be appreciated. newsyslog(8) is part of the base system... Yes, Im

Re: Any (easy)way to copy contents of a file into X clipboard?

2003-12-26 Thread Scott W
Pat Lashley wrote: --On Sunday, December 21, 2003 20:50:22 -0500 Scott W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all..was wondering if anyone knew of a utlity to copy the contents of a text file into an X clipboard buffer? It's possible via the use of xmessage or any other X editor that allows you

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

2003-12-24 Thread Scott W
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But no. I looked at /mnt/cdrom1/bin/* and tried a `tar -tzf binary-filename-here` to list the contents but it didn't work. Is there a ++CONTENTS or ls-laR.tgz file somewhere of the contents? In the tarfile, of course. ;-) Try

Re: Re: Question on PS/2 Wheelmouse through KVM

2003-12-24 Thread Scott W
User wrote: On Wednesday 24 December 2003 02:22, Scott W wrote: Via PS2 and through the KVM, it appears there's nothing I've found yet that will enable the wheel, although the wheel 'button' itself works. Are you sure that this part is located in your /etc/X11/XF86config file?: Section

Question on PS/2 Wheelmouse through KVM

2003-12-23 Thread Scott W
Hey all. Strange but not totally surprising behavior, anyone have any ideas? System: IBM Netfinity 4500R 1G RAM 2x 667MHz PIII CPUs Logitech Trackman Wheel PS/2 Mouse and KB through Belkin 8 port rackmount KVM Running recent 5.X current SMP kernel When I was running the mouse via USB/not

Re: Postscript printer, serial or parallel cable?

2003-12-21 Thread Scott W
Doug Poland wrote: Hi, I recently got my hands on a free (woowho!) HP 4050 printer. I'm going to hook it up to a FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE server. The printer has two serial (one male/one female) connectors, a Centronix port, and some odd looking port that looks like you plug a mouse into it. The

Question on Web/Content Management packages

2003-12-21 Thread Scott W
Hey all- while this isn't a FreeBSD specific question, I'm hoping someone may have an answere or two for me, for a system that's capable of running on FreeBSD. I've done a fair amount of searching (Google, FreshMeat, lists) and I seem to be unable to find exactly what I'm looking for- I'd

Any (easy)way to copy contents of a file into X clipboard?

2003-12-21 Thread Scott W
Hey all..was wondering if anyone knew of a utlity to copy the contents of a text file into an X clipboard buffer? It's possible via the use of xmessage or any other X editor that allows you to select all text, but something command line only would be useful...I'm sure something exists

Re: Different versions of ports...

2003-12-20 Thread Scott W
John Wilson wrote: Hi folks, I've recently started playing around with X and various desktop managers. There is one point that seems a little troublesome however... after recently browsing about the installed ports/packages on my system, it appears that different programs require different

Re: comparison of files

2003-12-16 Thread Scott W
Brent Bailey wrote: hello, I have been trying to write a shell script that will compare 2 files and generate a 3rd. i have a list of abusive IP's generated by our router. I want to compare it against a list of known abuse IPs ..and have it create a file of repeat offenders. ive tired to use comm

Re: usb wheel mouse

2003-12-16 Thread Scott W
marcelo cardoso martinelli wrote: i have a ms intellimouse optical usb mouse and i can't get the wheel to work in X. here is my InputDevice section in XF86Config: Section InputDevice Identifier IntelliMouse Explorer Driver mouse Option Device

Re: frustration

2003-12-16 Thread Scott W
richard michael bagstad wrote: i find this frustrating. on your website (page http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports- using.html) the following tells me that 'from cd' and 'from internet' are exactly the same... it does not tell me the directory of (ie.) lsof.

Re: Why userland , basesystem and Kernel are together?!

2003-12-10 Thread Scott W
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 03:42:17PM -0500, Scott W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 104 lines which said: 1. Kernel. Umm, I hope I don't have to expain this one ;-) 2. Core system- This one can likely be argued a bit with bsd (and 3

Re: export PATH ???

2003-12-09 Thread Scott W
Xpression wrote: Hi again list, I've posted a question recently about uninstalling packages, in fact, when I installing changin the prefix path (eg.--prefix=/usr/local/package_name) it creates me some subdirs. The trouble is that I can't execute any installed program, until I put, for example: cd

Re: Why userland , basesystem and Kernel are together?!

2003-12-09 Thread Scott W
Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: Hi Simon Barner , First thanks for your answer . Please correct me if I mis understand something . 1) You mean if I want to keep source up-to-date method and use make world process I must test it another test machine before apply it to the production server . I

Re: two questions,

2003-12-05 Thread Scott W
Gary Lum wrote: I have two questions, the first regarding CVSup and cron jobs, the second about port upgrade. I've gotten cvsup working correctly. It is following 5_1_RELENG and . for ports. I want to do a daily check using crontabs and have created one under root. However, my daily mail says

Re: serial port programming

2003-12-03 Thread Scott W
This may not help much, but I've done some serial port development in the past, across a fair number of *nix platforms. Regardless of 'what should happen,' aside from Linux and Solaris, other variants were just that- this unfortunately is from memory (from a WHILE back on this project), but

Re: Router question

2003-12-03 Thread Scott W
Bryan Cassidy wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone. Hows everyone doing tongith/today? Well, I'm taking a week off of work and thought I would read up on Security/Networking and anything else to do with making my system/webserver secure. I am going to Best Buy (ya i

Re: Questions about updating...

2003-12-03 Thread Scott W
rotten rottie wrote: I am a linux user that wants to switch to freebsd... I am a bit confused about applying updates etc.. I installed a box for trial it was 5.1, I wanted to see if I could use ports to update openssh for a test examp. After the port installed I noticed that another version of

Re: Adding new IP's without reboot?

2003-11-26 Thread Scott W
Ben Dover wrote: Is there a way to add new IPs to a FreeBSD 4.9 or 5.1 box without rebooting. I add them to /etc/rc.conf but they are not effective until a reboot. There are some webhosting assistant programs which allow instant use of IPs with *nix and I was hoping there was a way to do this

Re: (Semi)hot swap IDE

2003-11-24 Thread Scott W
Brent Wiese wrote: Hello! I'm looking for a cheap solution to back up a FreeBSD 4.8 machine. Cheap meaning that tape drives are out of question. Even external FireWire drives are deemed a bit too expensive by the folks for whom I'm doing this research. This leaves one option I

Re: remote mount hangs sysstem

2003-11-23 Thread Scott W
RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: Is there a way to mount a cdrom or remote file systems using fstab but not having it crash out the system. example if i have a nfs share set up to another machine and that machine goes down the next time i reboot my system the machine hangs when it cannot find the

Re: remote mount hangs sysstem

2003-11-23 Thread Scott W
RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: this is my fstabs file could you please explain where i enter and set values for the -R and -b options # See the fstab(5) manual page for important information on automatic mounts # of network filesystems before modifying this file. # # DeviceMountpoint

Re: while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6

2003-11-23 Thread Scott W
paul van den bergen wrote: Hi all, given how clearly you-all answered my query about 'hostname' (thanks folks) I thought I'd chance my luck. so, let me get this straight... in the IPv4 world there is this thing called DNS and domain names... I can buy my self a name off a name vendor - eg.

Re: telnet and ssh problem.

2003-11-23 Thread Scott W
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Every body; I have a FreeBSD Server. It has telnet and ssh up. They work, but not properly. When I ssh to the server or telnet from Linux shell by each Enter I see the following message: bash: \033]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]:${PWD/#$HOME/~}\007: bad substitution But

Re: Ooops - Re: while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6

2003-11-23 Thread Scott W
paul van den bergen wrote: Ooops... I forgot the most important part of my question... IPv6 how does this all work under IPv6? is the IPv6 domain name allocation as fully fledged as teh IPv4 services? I.e. are there and what are the restrictions on who can set up a name broker service for

Re: mounting windows FS questions

2003-11-23 Thread Scott W
paul van den bergen wrote: Hi all, I have a dual boot machine Win2k + BSD... obviously I can mount the windows partition under BSD. can I mount the BSD partition(s) under windows? I have been told that writing to the windows partition from BSD is kinda dubious. why is this? is it possible

Re: newbie: use CR in RE?

2003-11-22 Thread Scott W
Jerry McAllister wrote: Hello. Just want to know how to use special character in Regular Expression. I wish to remove all the carrier returns from a text file, I can use: tr -d \r text_file modified_text_file But if I do: sed -i s/\r//g text_file it actually removes all the character r from

Re: newbie: to pipe the result of a program as commandlineparameter for another.

2003-11-22 Thread Scott W
Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto wrote: You can use: find [whatever] -exec rm -rf '{}' \; or find [whatever] | xargs rm -rf Usually, the answer to your question would be: use xargs or put the second command between apostrophes. Something like: vi `which mozilla` I think if you use rm -rf

Re: (Semi)hot swap IDE

2003-11-22 Thread Scott W
Toomas Aas wrote: Hello! I'm looking for a cheap solution to back up a FreeBSD 4.8 machine. Cheap meaning that tape drives are out of question. Even external FireWire drives are deemed a bit too expensive by the folks for whom I'm doing this research. This leaves one option I can think of -

Re: Monitoring a file?

2003-11-22 Thread Scott W
Cordula's Web wrote: Hello list, maybe someone knows the answer for the following problem already? Summary: What is the canonical way to monitor accesses to a file? Problem description: A file, let's say, /path/to/a/file, is being modified by an unknown process

Re: a good way to save a keystroke?

2003-11-21 Thread Scott W
Marty Landman wrote: I wanted to look at a file and figured why not pipe the output of which to more, which of course didn't work so I figured if I backticked the which output with more in front that would work, and apparently it does (though I'm not sure that the cmd itself wasn't

Re: customized /usr/share/skel

2003-11-21 Thread Scott W
Dru wrote: I'd like to customize /usr/share/skel. It's an easy matter to edit /usr/src/share/skel/Makefile and to make my own dot files. However, will my customizations get overwritten when I make my next world? If so, what's the best way to go about preventing my files from being overwritten?

Re: Static IP and fully qualified domain names

2003-11-21 Thread Scott W
Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Hi! This question is inspired by a recent mail on this list. My ISP was so nice to give me a domain name (pukruppa.net) and assign it statically to an IP (213.146.114.24). [So now everybody in the world can telnet pukruppa.net and crack my private machine :-) ] From

Re: a good way to save a keystroke?

2003-11-21 Thread Scott W
Marty Landman wrote: At 08:40 PM 11/21/2003, Scott W wrote: So yep, it's doing what you want, the way you wanted to...use something similar fairly often myself, although note that the 'current' standard for executing commands is now $(cmd), eg more $(which apachectl) I get FreeB more

Re: FreeBSD, FHS, and /mnt/cdrom

2003-11-21 Thread Scott W
Frank Murphy wrote: The folks at the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) are discussing (again) where directories for recurring temporary mount points should go. Recurring temporary mount points are for things like cdroms, floppies, and digital cameras as well as HD partitions from other OSes

Re: CVS Server

2003-11-17 Thread Scott W
Aleksander Rozman - Andy wrote: Hi ! I was wondering if anybody knows about any tutorial on how to set CVS server? I would like to set it so that I could connect only through ssl (like on sourceforge). I need server for my personal projects, which are in last time getting quite numerous, and

Re: Make Problem

2003-11-17 Thread Scott W
BlackCat Hack Palace Admin wrote: I do: cd /usr/ports/emulators/wine make but it began to write me that local modification time doesnt match the remote ? What can I do ? thx ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Make Problem

2003-11-17 Thread Scott W
BlackCat Hack Palace Admin wrote: I do: cd /usr/ports/emulators/wine make but it began to write me that local modification time doesnt match the remote ? What can I do ? thx ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: mysql can't finf shared library

2003-11-16 Thread Scott W
Gary Kline wrote: After upgrading to the latest mysql323-client and reinstalling my root password, here is what happens: mysqladmin -u root password 'fooobar1234' /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libmysqlclient.so.10 not found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# locate libmysql

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-12 Thread Scott W
yo _ wrote: I would recommend not trying to learn C or C++ by yourself from a book. The fastest (and best way) to learn the right stuff is to take coursework from a university or community college. Not that I like disagreeing for no good reason, but I wholeheartedly disagree with that

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Scott W
Tom Munro Glass wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:31, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:53:20PM +1300, Tom Munro Glass wrote: On an intranet file server, the users' private files are obviously stored in /usr/home/username but where is the correct place to store files that are

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Scott W
Tom Munro Glass wrote: Depends on what philosophy you subscribe to- if it's on a local system only, then create a group for members that will need access to it, and create a directory in the /home tree, like /home/'project_foo If it's going to be NFS mounted by other systems, then create an

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-11 Thread Scott W
Alex Kelly wrote: Thanks for all of the great suggestions to my previous question! Yet, the responses have led me to another question. If C++ is newer and more advanced than C, will it replace C? If so, should I learn C++ and forget C? Alex Again, it depends on WHAT you'd like to program.

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Scott W
Tom Munro Glass wrote: Hi Tom- /usr doesn't _have_ to be mounted read-only, but it's not uncommon to do it on systems connected to the net/susceptible to hacking/just for security. Default Sun for home is /export home, primarily b/c Solaris thinks it's always the NFS server ;-) Most Linux

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-10 Thread Scott W
Alex Kelly wrote: I need to buy a book on C or C++ to help me in FreeBSD. Which would be better to buy? I first thought a book on C would be best, because the OS is written in C. But, now I'm not sure because I read that gcc can compile C++ too (so, I'm assuming C++ must get used too). Does it

Re: Problems installing 4.9 on IBM Xseries server

2003-11-06 Thread Scott W
Jason Williams wrote: Did some research and it appears that these IBM servers using ServRAID use the IPS Scsi host adaptor. Anyone know if 4.9 supports this or if there is a way to load the driver a different way? I do appreciate it. Jason At 01:04 PM 11/6/2003 -0800, you wrote: Hello

Re: kernel: ENOMEM

2003-11-06 Thread Scott W
Michael R. Jacalan wrote: Hello, What could be causing this... (excerpts from /var/log/messages) ? I am running 5.0-RELEASE on this box. Nov 7 10:46:21 hostname kernel: ENOMEM 0xcae7c180 on 0xcadb7400(ad0s1) Nov 7 10:46:21 hostname kernel: ENOMEM 0xcb342700 on 0xcadb7400(ad0s1) Nov 7

Re: NFS client mount options in CURRENT/5.1-

2003-11-06 Thread Scott W
Antoine Jacoutot wrote: Scott W wrote: mount -tnfs -orw,rsize=8196,wsize=8196,bg,hard,intr,async sol:/export /mnt nfs: -o rsize=: option not supported Try -r 8196 -w 8196 and have a look at man mount_nfs. Antoine Definite user error on my part, thanks. I couldn't find anything on hard vs

Re: creating a small FreeBSD box

2003-11-05 Thread Scott W
Rick Duvall wrote: I use a little box built by Intel in my house for my DSL. It's an ITX formfactor chassis. It has 1 ethernet on board and 1 PCI slot where you can put a second NIC. There are no drive bays, so you have to take the machine apart to plug a temporary CD-Rom drive into the

Re: which linux? (not flame bait, thank you)

2003-11-05 Thread Scott W
DavidB wrote: First I would like to say that FreeBSD rocks, and have been using it for more than a few years. I like the ports system, I like compiling from source so I can get the compile time features I want. Portupgrade really helps with maintaining ports. My question is this, I would

NFS client mount options in CURRENT/5.1-

2003-11-05 Thread Scott W
Hey all- Perusal of the man page for mount_nfs doesn't seem to shed any light here, so can someone tell me what is wrong with this mount command (namely half of the options)? mount -tnfs -orw,rsize=8196,wsize=8196,bg,hard,intr,async sol:/export /mnt nfs: -o rsize=: option not supported Likewise

Re: xinit: xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions

2003-10-30 Thread Scott W
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just installed a port (fluxconf).That port installed Xfree86 Libraries 4.3.0. Since then,when I invoke xinit, it exits with the error xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions I include the output of 'uname -a' and the brief output from xinit

Re: Problems with 'make world' stuff

2003-10-28 Thread Scott W
Jason Williams wrote: Once I had my sources updated, I did the following: I booted into single mode: cd /usr/src make buildworld cd /usr/src make buildkernel make installkernel I rebooted to test the kernel and that is where I ran into trouble. I did not type make installworld as suggested in

Re: X11 and Xfree86

2003-10-28 Thread Scott W
M.D. DeWar wrote: Thanks. Now for a more stupider question. What is the purpose of them exactly. I have read the sites but being alien to the unix world it confuses me. Do they just make unix a windows type enviroment ? Is KDE/GNOME the same or they like themes to X windows. ? So confused. but am

Re: RCS question

2003-10-26 Thread Scott W
No- IIRC, the default sis to look for an RCS subdirectory within the directory of the original file, failing that, the delta/file will be checked in to the local directory. This is generally 'the right behavior,' as RCS doesn't inherently store directory structures, so each file is in it's

Anyone know of a good way to handle mail for multiple domains (my own _and_ not my own)?

2003-10-20 Thread Scott W
Hey all- this is something I've looked for a good solution for for some time, and I'm sure someone else has already worked out. Any ideas appreciated. The scenario: I have entirely too many email addresses, several of which from domains that are mine, but others that are not mine, but am

Problem/question on second NIC (SMC 9452TX) on 5.1- CURRENT

2003-10-19 Thread Scott W
Hey all- if anyone could point me in the right direction here, I'd appreciate it. System: Asus BP6 Dual Celeron 366 768M ECC RAM 1st NIC (fxp0) in at time of install- Intel Pro/100 I'm trying to add an SMC gigabit enthernet NIC, model 9452TX into the system. Running a current snapshot from

Help- re-install of 5.1 release leaves bootloader unworkable

2003-10-16 Thread Scott W
Hey all- hopefully someone can point me in the right direction here. After problems with cvsuped 5.1 current, I did a re-install of 5.1 RELEASE on a system with two IDE drives. The install appears to go well, but on reboot, I'm faced with what appears to be 3(!!) options for booting BSD,

5.1 current make buildworld fails consistently on crtstuff.c- Help?

2003-10-15 Thread Scott W
Hey all. I've been unsuccessful at performing a 'make buildworld' for the past week based on a cvsup of 5.1-current. This is a fresh install as of ~10 days ago on a Dual Celeron BP-6 system, 784M RAM. To say this is getting frustrating at this point is an understatementanyone else

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