Re: Which versioning system is the simplest to use??

2007-09-12 Thread Tom Huppi
On 22:44 Tue 11 Sep , David Christensen wrote: Agus wrote: I am doing a little bit of security and log watching with sec.pl and was trying to mantain de secconf files organized... So whenever one is changed it keeps track of the change and can rollback O that is what i am going

amd /home /usr/home mounts

2005-03-20 Thread Tom Huppi
I've got 'amd' starting with -F /etc/amd.conf from /etc/rc.conf: amd_enable=YES # Run amd service with $amd_flags amd_flags=-F /etc/amd.conf amd_map_program=NO# Can be set to ypcat... and my /etc/amd.conf file has, amoung other things...: #

Re: NIS login - argh!

2005-02-27 Thread Tom Huppi
Follow-up Follow-up (for google'rs): On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Tom Huppi wrote: *NOTE* to those fighting these issues (and seeing this via google or some such...): There seems to be some sort of a bug which is tickled by this kind of fooling around. It manifests itself by setting the user's

NIS login - argh!

2005-02-17 Thread Tom Huppi
I've never had much trouble getting NIS to work before. Can anyone make any debugging suggestions? ... My machine: 5.3-STABLE (makeworld update from 5.1 orig circa early Jan 05.) NIS actually seems to be working fine... gila# ypcat -k passwd | grep tomh tomh tomh:$1$hZ...UK/:1012:500:Tom

Re: NIS login - argh!

2005-02-17 Thread Tom Huppi
, that the $1$xxx style (md5) password hash from the Linux side _does_ work and is _not_ a problem. Thanks, - Tom On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Tom Huppi wrote: I've never had much trouble getting NIS to work before. Can anyone make any debugging suggestions? ... My machine: 5.3-STABLE (makeworld update

Re: Traffic upgrade 5.2.1 to 5.3

2005-02-07 Thread Tom Huppi
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Florian Hengstberger wrote: Hi! I want to upgrade my box from 5.2.1 to 5.3 stable. I have limited download, so, if I update the sources using cvsup in order to make buildworld ..., is there a way to roughly estimated the traffic. Case it's impossible, what's the

Re: tinderbox ?

2005-02-04 Thread Tom Huppi
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Isaac Yonemoto wrote: A tinderbox is a server dedicated to compiling (or burning) the latest edition of software into binaries, usually for an operating system. I think it fair to say that in it's most useful form, a 'tinderbox' would be set up to build the latest code

Re: what are patches ?

2005-02-04 Thread Tom Huppi
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Gert Cuykens wrote: On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 18:28:23 -0600, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: They are all located under files right ? But what are they and what do they do ? Patch what's not correct. Then there are alot of things broken in

Re: ppp -auto my_provider

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Huppi
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Alexander Bubnov wrote: could you help me, please? (I have FreeBSD 5.3) this question: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/ppp.html#PPP-AUTO-NOREASONDIAL Why does ppp(8) dial for no reason in -auto mode? I've fought the same irritating issue now and

Re[2]: ppp -auto my_provider

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Huppi
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Alexander Bubnov wrote: Hello Tom, Wednesday, February 2, 2005, 11:02:04 AM, you wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Alexander Bubnov wrote: could you help me, please? (I have FreeBSD 5.3) this question:

Re: Getting a microphone to work

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Huppi
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Joachim Dagerot wrote: snip I don't even know what a microphone device would be named and how to access it. I've recently been screwing around with a few pieces of software which take input from a mic (and other) devices. The device (under FreeBSD 5.3) seems to be of

Re: Getting a microphone to work

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Huppi
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Chris Hodgins wrote: Steven Friedrich wrote: On Wednesday 02 February 2005 04:44 pm, Tom Huppi wrote: BTW, does anyone know off-hand how to set 'mixer' settings as default (so I would not have to re-set them after a re-boot?) snip Wrote a little shell script

Re: I only want stable software

2005-01-30 Thread Tom Huppi
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Pat Maddox wrote: Thanks for the help there. I just followed the example in the Handbook, though to be honest I'm not quite sure what everything means. Here's my ports-upfile: *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default

Re: FreeBSD 4.7

2005-01-23 Thread Tom Huppi
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, agent0013 wrote: Hello, i'm a very very newbie in FreeBSD, so i tried to install it and start the X windows system, but when I type startx the screen stays black, how can i do to laucnh it correctely ? thanks for you answer. When I used to use distributions of that

NAT/DNS question/recommendation?

2005-01-19 Thread Tom Huppi
I have a FreeBSD 5.3 workstation connected to the net via user-ppp with a dynamic IP. I have user-ppp doing both NAT and simple firewall. I have a headless server box, also 5.3, set up as a NAT client. I run it only when I need the horsepower since it's loud and sucks power. My problem is that

Re: NAT/DNS question/recommendation?

2005-01-19 Thread Tom Huppi
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Erik Norgaard wrote: Tom Huppi wrote: I have a FreeBSD 5.3 workstation connected to the net via user-ppp with a dynamic IP. I have user-ppp doing both NAT and simple firewall. I have a headless server box, also 5.3, set up as a NAT client. I run it only when

Re: NAT/DNS question/recommendation?

2005-01-19 Thread Tom Huppi
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Erik Norgaard wrote: Tom Huppi wrote: snip So, what do you use for firewall/nat? ipfw/ipf/pf? I think I can help you with ipf, if you use something else then I'm sure someone can help you once they know they have the knowledge you need. user-ppp has it's own firewall

Re: automake, autoconf compiling

2005-01-13 Thread Tom Huppi
Hi Keith, I've recently been struggling with similar issues, and would be interested to know what others might have found effective. I have a number of different versions of the auto-tools on my machine, almost certainly as a result of installing various ports. It is worth note that one can

Re: automake, autoconf compiling

2005-01-13 Thread Tom Huppi
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: snip I use autoconf/automake and libtool daily at work[1]. The programs I write have to run on at least 3 different operating systems (FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris) without the need for constant manual tweaking of the source. At work (former),

RCS tutorial (was: Re: $Id: index.html,v 1.46 2004...)

2004-10-02 Thread Tom Huppi
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: [redirected to FreeBSD-questions; this is a technical issue] snip You can also check out older versions and compare things; somewhere there must be a tutorial. snip I've found Dave Plonka's tutorial to be most usefull. It's all over the