Re: sendmail woes

2003-04-05 Thread bastill
Quoting Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Looks like you forgot to run mergemaster. Wish it was that simple! :-) I actually ran mergemaster twice - the first time -p as recommended. However, I WILL run it again and hope that clears the problem. You have no idea how irksome it is to reboot to

Re: sendmail woes

2003-04-04 Thread bastill
Quoting Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hmmm, it looks like you have an old copy of freebsd.mc around. What is the output of this command? # ident /etc/mail/freebsd.mc /usr/src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ S ident /etc/mail/freebsd.mc

Re: sendmail woes

2003-04-03 Thread bastill
Quoting Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: but you should really read the README file for hints and pointers to more detailed documentation. I think the README to which you refer is elsewhere? /etc/mail/README is quite brief and refers to people who have sendmail_enable=NO and

sendmail woes

2003-04-02 Thread bastill
In discussion on -stable, people have been trying to help me with a sendmail issue. The effect is for sendmail to refuse to start, no matter what, and I cannot use the Internet from that box. (I am using webmail and Windoze - sob - to send this message) One problem is that the version of

Re: sendmail issue

2003-03-24 Thread bastill
Quoting William Palfreman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Extrafinally, how about we move this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've added to the CC. Please don't! I am going away for a few days, and as I have to rely on webmail and a restricted ISP mail storage limit, I have temporarily unsubscribed from -

Re: staroffice52

2003-02-20 Thread bastill
Quoting Konrad Heuer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Brian Henning wrote: i have a really silly question, but i have looked and tried different things. how do i start staroffice. i cannot find the binary? i ran the install program after i installed the port. i trying running

Re: installkernel first?

2003-02-20 Thread bastill
Quoting Peter Hollaubek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As of /usr/src/UPDATING: To update from 4.0-RELEASE or later to the most current 4.x-STABLE -- make buildworld make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE make installkernel

installkernel first?

2003-02-19 Thread bastill
I'm tracking 4.7 stable. The handbook asks me to: go to single user mode and fsck -p (etc ...) Can't. /dev/ad2s1a: NO WRITE ACCESS /dev/ad2s1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. (Mounted RW according to fstab). after make buildworld as single user and reboot also to single user

PS1 command! ?

2003-02-12 Thread bastill
My .bash_profile contains # First prompt is definitely PS1 (PSnumeral-one) PS1=\u@\h \w case 'id -u' in 0) PS1=$(PS1)# ;; *) PS1=$(PS1)S ;; esac My .bashrc contains: # same prompt lines from .bash_profile # note that it is PSnumeral-one not PSlowercaseL PS1=\u@\h \w case

Re: PS1 command! ?

2003-02-12 Thread bastill
Quoting Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:01:58AM +1030, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *) PS1=$(PS1)S ;; Yet on login I get this error message: bash: PS1: command not found $(foo) is the same as `foo`. It runs the command foo and uses its output. So

Re: Fixit disk documentation

2003-02-08 Thread bastill
Quoting Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Since the discussion about this went on here, I'm posting the URL here. Those of you interested in fixit disk documentation can see my contribution for the FAQ at: URL: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=48101 . A man of his word, no less! :-)

Re: BBS

2003-02-04 Thread bastill
Quoting Remington [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As a side project i would love to start my own telnet(ssh) BBS box using FreeBSD. I was looking through the ports and i could not find any software. Does such exist for FreeBSD. Any pointers/tips in the right direction would be a huge help. I found a

Re: Ooops.

2003-02-01 Thread bastill
Quoting Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've been quietly following this thread since it started and ... I can't reproduce this behaviour. I've created and deleted I don't know how many test directories and symlinks and I can't get it to do what you're claiming it did. As root, try copying

Re: Ooops.

2003-02-01 Thread bastill
Are we aiming at the wrong target, here? I used the fixit CD to examine ad0s3, where my missing files reside. What I found was that (eg) /bin, /etc, /dev were full of files/directories, but /var and /usr were empty. I didn't ask dump/restore to delete anything, and did not ask rm to remove the

Re: Using CDRW for backup

2003-02-01 Thread bastill
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I saw an article that explained how CDRW disks were constucted and how to both write to, and erase them so they could act as useful data backup disks. Bit can I find it? Can I - (insert expletive to taste)! (I made extensive use of google and the search facility

Re: Ooops.

2003-01-30 Thread bastill
Quoting Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, Two hard drives. da0s1 da1s1 da0 is primary boot and OS drive. da1 is a mirror drive. da1's filesystems are mounted on /mnt. Silly me runs a rm -rf * while in /mnt . Next thing I know EVERYTHING is gone. What did I miss here?

Re: Ooops.

2003-01-30 Thread bastill
Quoting Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can you explain what you think is a problem? Well - it's happened to two uf us in the past month! In both cases the operator was copying files from one drive to another and wished to delete files from the second drive on

Re: Fixit instructions

2003-01-29 Thread bastill
Quoting Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You don't have to boot the fixit cd - just mount it and look. I'm sure that what you will find on the CD is a pretty complete FreeBSD system, with the layout described in the hier man page. Close, but... root@BAPhD ~ #ls /cdrom .cshrc bin

Re: Fixit instructions

2003-01-29 Thread bastill
Quoting Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Are you familiar with the documentation provided for command-line mode or domain server recovery mode when booting recent M$ operating systems via their F8 boot menu? What a lovely queston! :-) SFIAK, no such exists. Up to DOS 6.2, documentaton was

Re: Fixit instructions

2003-01-28 Thread bastill
Quoting Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 2003-01-28 17:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There are also some writeups on the FreeBSD web site on troubleshooting. Don't doubt you, but that is the first place I looked on the Internet. That

Re: Fixit instructions

2003-01-27 Thread bastill
Quoting Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There are also some writeups on the FreeBSD web site on troubleshooting. Don't doubt you, but that is the first place I looked on the Internet. That info is well hidden, I think. However, The tips you and Chuck have offered will keep me quite sufficiently

Re: microuptime() went backwards

2003-01-19 Thread bastill
Quoting talon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: re microuptime. My guess is that you will get 10^7 replies to this chestnut! :-) 1. Reconfigure your kernel by deleting all reference to APM, Leaving it in the default disabled state will not be enough. 2. Remove APM from your BIOS settings. IIRC that's about

Re: Deleted files

2003-01-19 Thread bastill
Quoting Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED]: when I searched, this (http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/~mojo/undelete.html) was the best I found. Sadly, that URL refers to ext2, whereas BSD uses UFS sob I'm assuming that you didn't make backups before starting the conversion process, or you wouldn't be

Re: Deleted files - recovery

2003-01-19 Thread bastill
Though you might like to see the results of some relevant web-surfing. For data recovery on Windows and Ext2 file systems: R-Tools http://www.r-tt.com/ Tool to check and undelete partitions (not data) on: - FAT12 FAT16 FAT32 - Linux - Linux SWAP (version 1 and 2) - NTFS (Windows NT) - BeFS

Deleted files

2003-01-18 Thread bastill
I made a boo-boo! Two in fact! :-) In transferring directories from one disk to another using dump | restore I forgot at one point to cd and put a number of directories into the wrong partition. So I deleted the wrong directories using rm -rf directoryname. Unfortunately deleting the wrongly

Re: best way to back up entire disk?

2002-12-04 Thread bastill
Quoting Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] and others: May I put in a word for HD caddies? HDs are pretty cheap nowadays and purchasing two for your system instead of one is a perfectly reasonable option. OK, so now you can backup your in-the-case system and data complete onto your removable HD, and put it

Re: microuptime went backwards ??

2002-12-03 Thread bastill
Quoting Bertrand Habib [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BH microuptime() went backwards ( nnn.nn - mmm.m ) Sounds like an AMD Athlon. Yes Disable power management in your BIOS. Nop! It was disabled and this brough me to the microuptime problem. After having re-enabled it (i.e: ACPI