Re: allowing access to a single directory

2003-02-16 Thread Walter
Bill Moran wrote: Walter wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2003-02-16 09:30, Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to allow an anonymous FTP user to see a directory in another slice, so I put a symbolic link to it. But then anyone could access my entire file system by appending

Re: monochrome monitor

2003-02-13 Thread Walter
Doug Reynolds wrote: On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 20:05:46 -0500, Walter wrote: I have no manual for this (used) Acer Pentium 120. The Acer web site does not appear to have schematics or other MB information (that I could find). And looking at the MB I see nothing that leads me (a non-tech) to think

Re: Memory disk

2003-02-12 Thread Walter
, is it possible to use the new memory cards (for digital cameras) instead of a hard drive? The capacity on those is getting pretty large. Then you could drop even the CD. (I hoping to see them completely replace floppies, even as a boot device, some day.) Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: XF86Config.

2003-02-11 Thread Walter Spierings
Hello Peter, Your modeline is far to fast, Try the one which has a 48Mhz bandwidth. (Look in the lint). Most smaller and older monitors just need low refresh. Find the modeline for 1024x768 and 60Hz refresh. Greetings, Walter Spierings At 02:59 PM 2/11/03 +0100, you wrote: Thanks John

monochrome monitor

2003-02-07 Thread Walter
. Any thoughts? (I didn't find anything useful in the handbook or archives, but maybe I missed something.) TIA. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: monochrome monitor

2003-02-07 Thread Walter
the display type as VGA/CGA but stippled out, as it also stipples out the amount of memory. There are other video related memory settings to be played with, but I'm guessing monochrome is not an option. True?? Thanks. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: monochrome monitor

2003-02-07 Thread Walter
mono, or maybe just this mono card. Thanks for your help so far and whatever other things you might suggest to look at, but it seems like a dead end at the moment. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: monochrome monitor

2003-02-07 Thread Walter
either the BIOS does not handle mono, or maybe just this mono card. Thanks for your help so far and whatever other things you might suggest to look at, but it seems like a dead end at the moment. Walter I would suggest that you change your boot loader to use the serial console as default. You'll

Re: monochrome monitor

2003-02-07 Thread Walter
might look for? (Good thought.) James Long wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 01:10:09PM -0500, Walter wrote: I'm guessing either the BIOS does not handle mono, or maybe just this mono card. Long, long, ago, motherboards had a jumper on them, with one position for monochrome, and another position

handling non-printable characters in file names

2003-02-05 Thread Walter
to see the directory either, but maybe because it began with a . - I don't know. Also, is there a way to configure FBSD from accepting non-printable characters in file names? Thanks in advance. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions

Re: handling non-printable characters in file names

2003-02-05 Thread Walter
Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:28:57PM -0500, Walter wrote: Leaving out the details, I need to know how to navigate directories and remove files that use non- printable characters in their names. du and ls show me they're there, but I can't figure out how to make cd work

Re: virtual tape or streamer device for backup purposes possible

2003-01-21 Thread Bernd Walter
#define LANG de_DE On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 01:54:33PM +0100, Christian Tanghe wrote: Hello, is it possible to configure a virtual tape, just working on an other harddisk? Lokaly or on any other Server in the network Writing an reading on it should be transparent for commands like tar, cpio

Re: virtual tape or streamer device for backup purposes possible

2003-01-21 Thread Bernd Walter
Sorry - for the german reply, but Christian has BBC'ed his message to the german Cosmo-Project mailing list. I did noticed it to late... -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usergroup [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe:

Re: USB Mass Storage device

2002-12-13 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:36:45AM +0800, Seo Boon, NG wrote: This is the dmesg when the notebook during my reboot. The message doesn't appear when the USB device connects to notebook when it's running, hence I'm assumming that the kernel couldn't see the device. Is there any means to get the

Re: USB Mass Storage device

2002-12-13 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 07:31:00AM +0800, Seo Boon, NG wrote: | Do you have /dev/usb* entries for all usb channels? I don't seems to have all the usb* entry. Sorry I'm unfamiliar with usb setup, any idea how do I get it fixed? Thanks. cd /dev sh MAKEDEV usb1 usb2 -- B.Walter

can't load kernel on 386 system

2002-12-01 Thread Walter
partitions never use over a few hundred blocks on my Pentium computer, I made them 32Mb each for the 386, but accepted the defaults for the / and the Swap partitions; the /usr partition got the remainder of the HD. Am I seeing a configuration error, a MB error, other? Any thoughts? Thanks. Walter

Re: Epson Stylus Color installation problem

2002-11-17 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 06:37:38PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did not see any recommendation in the Handbook to set up communication mode with usb printers. When I run lptcontrol ... the answer is ioctl : Operation not supported by the device. Is it normal ? Is there anything to

Re: FreeBSD filesystem 1TB Limit

2002-11-05 Thread Walter
This is no doubt heresy coming from a newbie especially, but I was reading that NetBSD can support at least up to 4TB: http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/features.html#large-filesystems Walter Lowell Gilbert wrote: Joseph Gleason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IIRC There was a 1TB limit on the size

HTTP access

2002-11-04 Thread Walter
build. Thanks. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: HTTP access

2002-11-04 Thread Walter
port number also. I guess time will tell. Walter Ty Hoeffer wrote: It will probably require a call to their tech support. One thing you could try is trafshow. It will display incoming outgoing traffic, its port, the protocol being used, and the chars/sec invilved in the conversation

incorrect super block

2002-11-03 Thread Walter
Hi, I added a 3 GB HD to my FreeBSD computer (as a second drive). I used /stand/sysinstall to 'fdisk' and 'label' it. But when I try to mount it with 'mount /dev/ad3s1e /data' it complains of an incorrect super block. Any solutions? Thanks. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: incorrect super block

2002-11-03 Thread Walter
OK, Thanks. Fixed. It looks like I forgot to W (Write) the partiion edit when doing the label. Thanks and sorry for the bother. Matthew Seaman wrote: newfs /dev/ad3s1e When I do this it says the 'e' partition is unavailable What's the output from: disklabel -r ad3s1 There

4.6.2 spurious reboot, fwiw

2002-10-26 Thread Walter
on the 4.7 is rebooting on its own posts, maybe not, but I'd thought I'd mention this, as the best hidden bugs are the ones that have been there for a while but only really manifest themselves later on.) Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body

Re: 4.6.2 spurious reboot, fwiw

2002-10-26 Thread Walter
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 08:56:58AM -0500, Walter wrote: .. my FBSD 4.6.2 system rebooted a little after 2 last night. Do you have a UPS? Sounds to me like you had a momentary dip in the mains voltage. PC's can be very sensitive to that sort of thing

kernel optimization

2002-10-24 Thread Walter
I586_CPU cpu I686_CPU Q: Do I comment out the I386_CPU and I486_CPU lines to optimize for a Pentium, ( if not, how do I,) and Q: Does it make a significant difference? TIA. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body

BBS

2002-10-24 Thread Walter
I see just a few BBS packages in the Ports area, is there one that considered best; or are there better solutions to offering simple user interfaces? Such as Apache+Perl scripts? Others? Thanks. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions

Re: Mac can't connect to Internet

2002-10-23 Thread Walter
I pulled the 'nameserver' addresses from /etc/resolv.conf. That seems to fix it. Thanks! W. Tony M. wrote: It sounds like you don't have the DNS entries correct on the Mac. Make sure to set up your Name Server Entries in your tcp/ip control panel. Tony But, after several minutes I

Re: Mac can't connect to Internet

2002-10-22 Thread Walter
fine. (The firewall is disabled. And I can ping, telnet, FTP from the Mac to FBSD just fine.) Thanks. Walter Alex wrote: Friday, October 18, 2002, 6:31:35 PM, you wrote: snip I added a Powerbook, OS X, to the local network, configured /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf. PB can ping

Re: Mac can't connect to Internet

2002-10-22 Thread Walter
and tested. (Fwiw, the configuration I'm trying to implement is: Cable-Modem = FBSD = hub = Mac, PC, etc.) Walter David Kelly wrote: On Tuesday 22 October 2002 01:24 pm, Kevin Stevens wrote: Two things: - Is the FreeBSD box set to act as a router (packet forwarding on)? If another machine

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