Fortune

Is there a port for the game fortune? I recently installed 6.2 AMD64 and I can't find it when I do a 'pkg_add -rv fortune' or 'pkg_add -rv fortune-mod' The ones I find I am not interested in; such as: zh-fortunetw-1.3 wmfortune-0.241_2 fortune-mod-bible-1.0_1 fortune-mod-bofh-2.0_3 fortune-mod-cul

Re: is there a /bin/sh method to tell the ending of a file

o "Not a .gz suffix" ;; esac Sh is a pretty versatile creature; I'm sure there are a thousand more ways all of which work, and some of which will cause religious arguments for decades :) -- Jon Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ free

Re: VoIP and SSH

Andrew Falanga wrote: On Friday 04 January 2008 14:55:00 Jon Krause wrote: Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, I don't understand this one and I'm hoping someone here might know. My father's router wasn't forwarding connection requests for any port that we'd configu

Samba: changing UNIX passwords from Windows

DAP), but this seems to be a rather complicated issue too. Regards, Jon Theil Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: VoIP and SSH

t should be able to walk you through getting access (or check any documentation that came with the MTA) They may or may not have port options (open or forward) that may allow ssh to work for you. Good Luck, Jon Andy ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: Home Automation?

opefully someone else has/will share more current hardware experiences. -- Jon Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: disk drive serial number

serial number. I'm not sure if there's a simpler way, but smartctl (from the smartmontools port/package) will display a disk's serial number. [602] [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp$ smartctl -a /dev/ad0 | grep -i serial Serial Number:9QG386BV There's probably a better way, but th

Re: Mounting/examining dd image?

On Nov 7, 2007 4:52 PM, Chad Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # mount /dev/vn0s1a /mnt > > > mount: /dev/vn0s1a on /mnt: incorrect super block > > > > > > > You have to mount the device with 'mount -t cd9660' because it is an ISO > > which is a cd9660 format. > > > > > > Never mind I saw imagi

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

for that matter) on a snapshot. Of course, all bets are off since the disk is already failing. The common case is that the OP may get "most" of the files off in tact; probably not all. Backups are important if you care about your data. -- Jon Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: Mounting/examining dd image?

On Nov 3, 2007 9:23 AM, Warren Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > vnconfig is the predecessor of mdconfig. It should be present in 4.9. thanks, it is. however, i am unable to mount the vnconfig'd device. any ideas? i made the backup originally just by doing dd if=/dev/ad0 of=some.file then i r

Re: Mounting/examining dd image?

Hm, anything that works in Freebsd 4.9? I've never been able to install 5.0 or higher on this machine, it always freezes when booting. On Nov 2, 2007 10:22 PM, John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 02 November 2007, Jon Drukman wrote: > > I was trying to tr

Mounting/examining dd image?

I was trying to transplant my system from a small, old drive to a big, new one. I made a dd dump of the entire small drive, but then I accidentally destroyed the drive (be careful with bare drives and metal PC cases...) Anyway, I have the dd file but I don't have a spare drive onto which to copy

Re: What's best way to copy a filesystem? [was: Re: slight emergency here...]

ically some of those have had problems with some situations like sparse files, "extra" hard links, symlinks, etc. -- Jon Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Libtool cannot find correct libraries

something after the hyphen). When looking af the libtool configuration: libtool --config: ... # Library versioning type. version_type=freebsd- I don't know how to manually set the correct versioning type, and I dont know from which configuration file it tries to determine the type. Reg

Re: FreeBSD 4.11 binary compatibility (libm.so.2, etc)

On 8/28/07, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Have you tried the compat4 port: > > >/usr/ports/misc/compat4x > > > > thanks! that got me past one error, now i'm stuck on libcrypt.so.2 > > > > is there a port for libcrypt compat? (i didn't find anything obvious by > > searching

Re: FreeBSD 4.11 binary compatibility (libm.so.2, etc)

On 8/28/07, Duane Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have you tried the compat4 port: > >/usr/ports/misc/compat4x thanks! that got me past one error, now i'm stuck on libcrypt.so.2 is there a port for libcrypt compat? (i didn't find anything obvious by searching on *compat* or *crypt*) -

FreeBSD 4.11 binary compatibility (libm.so.2, etc)

I just installed FBSD 6.2, but I have a requirement to use some precompiled binaries from FreeBSD 4.11. They are failing because libm.so.2 is not available. Is there a compatibility package that I can install which will give me the older libraries? I do not have the source code to recompile the

FreeBSD 4.11 binary compatibility (libm.so.2, etc)

I just installed FBSD 6.2, but I have a requirement to use some precompiled binaries from FreeBSD 4.11. They are failing because libm.so.2 is not available. Is there a compatibility package that I can install which will give me the older libraries? I do not have the source code to recompile

Ftpd and man pages

atchs with the man pages for ftpusers and ftpd.conf? Thanks for your time, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: program recommendation: scheduling and project management

rogram? deskutils/planner Cheers, Cheers, Noah Have a look here: http://www.dotproject.net/ and here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/www/dotproject/pkg-descr Best, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: searching archives broken?

Ed Zwart wrote: Jon, where are you searching from? The link I gave in my initial question does not have the 'recent' limiter you mentioned. thanks e. On 3/10/07, Jon Wolfgang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ed Zwart wrote: > Hi there, I'm new to the list, and have b

Re: searching archives broken?

ecent". For example, if I search for "mount", and search all, nothing is displayed. However, searching for "mount" with recent selected, returns results. I think it has to do with how many results it finds. Hope this helps, Jon

mouse wheel sends incorrect buttons

8 8 9 9 Then I tried mapping the button 8 and 9 keys to other buttons, but xmodmap didn't allow it. Also, I'm not running moused if that is significant. Does anyone have any suggestions? I have seen some similar questions on forums and

Re: mounting usb flash drive as user [SOLVED]

Jon Wolfgang wrote: Did I miss a step somewhere? Any suggestions are appreciated. As soon as I sent the message I had a moment of clarity! I don't have the msdosfs compiled into the kernel and I don't load it at bootup. The user account couldn't load the module dynamically.

mounting usb flash drive as user

I am trying to mount a usb flash drive as a user under FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. I have followed the steps in the handbook, but it is not quite working. My user account is jon and is a member of the operator group. I have set the vfs.usermount variable to 1. I am trying to mount the drive at

Bandwidth limiting with ipfw and dummynet

I'd like to limit him to 384Kbit/sec.Can someone help me get bandwidth limiting working? I've tried all the examples I could find via google but none of them work. My roomate is frequently uploading stuff to his office, and when he does, it completely saturates our outbound link and makes

Re: What options to netstat will tell me what protocols are listeningon what ports?

t I need to use? : : Andy See "man sockstat" Best, Jon ___ : freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list : http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions : To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" __

Re: Software inventory management

ated' solutions, but Request Tracker could fill the need. Have a look at: http://bestpractical.com/rt/features.html It's avalable in ports: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/www/rt36/pkg-descr With this extension (AssetTracker): http://atwiki.chaka.net/ Good Luck, Jon : -- : Uni

Realtek (re(4)) Driver in 6.1

I'm about to install 6.1 on a machine that's been happily ticking away with 4.1.1 for years now. (I need to upgrade it to gigabit ethernet.) Does the default kernel on the 6.1-R installation CD include the realtek re(4) driver? If not, what would I have to do to enable it? -jsd- __

Re: Ethereal version for FreeBSD 6.2 RC1

rity Advisories. : : Thanks in advance. : : -- : thanks : Saifi. Try http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=wireshark&stype=all Ethereal is now Wireshark. Best, Jon : ___ : freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list : http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: Simple Mailing List with Sendmail

an/pkg-descr It sets up rather easily, is well documented, has a good mailing list/support. And it is very grainular in it's possible setups, allowing you to do just about anything you wish. Best, Jon > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: Word processor for 6.1

On 9/4/06, Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perry Hutchison wrote: > Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? > AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't build. There is a commercial program, textmaker (www.softmaker.com), which I have found much bett

problem creating filesystem snapshot

directory, and it worked fine. Is there some partition size restrictions? Thank you for your thoughts, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[

difference between deinstall and pkg_delete?

from within the ports directory? What does "make deinstall" do that pkg_delete does not do? What does pkg_delete do that "make deinstall" does not do? Thanks, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

transfer speed of USB on a Dell PE2650

well as uhci and ohci configured into the kernel. But looking at the boot messages I do not see that it finds an ehci device, only an ohci. Has anyone gotten a full USB2.0 throughput on Dell PowerEdge server hardware? Thanks, Jon ___ freebsd

machdep.hlt_logical_cpus being ignored

would mean that one of the system CPUs is halted. But dmesg output claims it launched four CPUs. Can someone fill me in on what this all means? Thanks, Jon %dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Rege

openldap-2.3 won't start on a 6.1R system

ng else. Any pointers are welcome. Thanks, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: MESS

end to mount before mounting them. You would be better off fsck'ing the device containing the /usr filesystem and mounting only that to get your editor up to change fstab. Hope that helps, Jon ------- Achean Ltd

virtual not looking up quota for all accounts

, but messages sent to test2 there is no LDAP lookup for the maildir quota. Below is my postconf -n output. Message delivery is being done with virtual that has the VDA patches. Is this a bug in the VDA patches or something more fundamental or my config messed up? Thanks for your input, Jon

portsnap question

Greetings, Is there a utility that whould show what ports will be updated from the current "fetched" files? The man page does not indicate that there is a "show what would happen but don't do it" option. Thanks, Jon ___ free

Re: hi

your sendmail queue is filling up but mails are being blocked by another server. Have you looked at the sendmail.mc or freebsd.mc file and reconstructed the sendmail.cf files using m4? Sendmail is a very complicated beast, but worth persevering with :-) All the best, Jon On Fri, April 21, 2006

Re: jdk15 on 6.0

then doing a pkg_add. -- Thanks! Jon Brisbin Webmaster NPC International, Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: flp wont load to floppies

- Original Message - From: "A B" Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 12:02 PM Subject: flp wont load to floppies > 1) either by copying to destop, then floppy, > or directly from FTP site, > the floppy disks does not have enough space for the > release 6.0 disks... boot, fixit, kern1.

newfs'ed partition, recovery?

I accidently newfs'ed a partition I didn't want to newfs. Is there a way to recover the data on that partition? _ Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, sen

Re: DNS control tools

] Steve, have a look at Webmin. You can create "client views" in the bind module allowing a very granular access to specific domains. Access can be limited to just the bind module, for specific clients, for specific domains, from specific IP addresses if needed. Jon __

Re: Using 'incorrect' HD geometry.

D drives and everything was fine. The message about write failure I guess is due to layers of scripting not being able to pass back enough information. Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: How to figure out who shutdown box (Kelly D. Grills)

For me, those show up in /var/log/messages: Jan 17 22:54:23 kmart reboot: rebooted by polandj But nothing for the particular shutdown in question... - JP On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 10:24:17AM -0500, Jon Poland wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I operate a colo box running FreeBSD 6.0-SECURI

How to figure out who shutdown box

Hi, I operate a colo box running FreeBSD 6.0-SECURITY. Yesterday the box shutdown and powered off. I didn't execute shutdown or halt, and I'm the only user who can. Here's what the logs tell me: /var/log/console.log: Mar 3 11:24:29 kmart kernel: Shutting down daemon processes: /var/log/mess

slapd and bdb-4.2.52

25:06 ecf3 slapd[23762]: conn=0 op=2 UNBIND Feb 15 15:25:06 ecf3 slapd[23762]: conn=0 fd=10 closed Note the complaint about needing a TXN patch. I looked at the four available patched for db-4.2.52 on sleepycat.com and none seemed related to TXN. Can this error be

Problems installing SNMP from ports

iated. I'm trying to get this development box added into the monitors for this management software I'm trying out... ( http://manageengine.adventnet.com/products/applications_manager/ ) My production box is already done, but I'd like to have developmen

sendmail, sasl, ldap

not quite getting it. Are there other how-to sites that others have used successfully? Do I need to use PAM or does cyrus-sasl know how to directly query an LDAP server? I'm running a fresh FreeBSD 6.0-Release system. TIA, Jon ___ freebsd-questi

Re: HP NetRAID 1Si trouble [SOLVED]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, warren schreiner wrote: > Jon Falconer wrote: > > >Hi Everyone, > > > >I'm trying to recycle an old HP NetServer LC2000r P3/733 with 256MB RAM. > >It's been running MS Win2K for several years with no problems, but has > >bec

HP NetRAID 1Si trouble

've run out of ideas of what to try next. Does anyone else have any suggestions? Thanks for your time, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Hardware graphics

Hi, I need some help getting hardware graphics going. I built radeon.ko and drm.ko from drm cvs and loaded them, a quick dmesg drm says the modules are loaded. (drm 1.21.0 20051229) I was told on here I would need the r300 DRI module for my ATI Radeon 9800 Pro which I got from the FreeBSD Ports 'd

I just can't find GCJ on my FreeBSD 6 box

ere: http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ClasspathShowcase#head-7d9a556e8485fc84fd5ce0e52be6104d85e24316 I have this in 4.1 on my PowerBook, but I can't find the darn thing on BSD. Where is it? How can I use gcj on BSD? Can I? Thanks! Jon Brisbin Webmaster NPC Int

Re: Java Server Pages

t. Maybe that's because I started with Tomcat back in the JServ days and am just more familiar with it. Good luck. Jon Brisbin Webmaster NPC International, Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

3D Hardware Graphics

> Hello all, > > I'm wondering how to get 3D Hardware graphics going > under FreeBSD. > I tried both the LibGL.so that came with the driver > for my graphics card and the default LibGL.so that > came with FreeBSD '/usr/X11R6/lib' but no go, still > slow software mode. I have a DRI radeon enabled

3D Hardware Graphics

Hello all, I'm wondering how to get 3D Hardware graphics going under FreeBSD. I tried both the LibGL.so that came with the driver for my graphics card and the default LibGL.so that came with FreeBSD '/usr/X11R6/lib' but no go, still slow software mode. I have a DRI radeon enabled driver and a rad

Re: I'm looking for school of freebsd in montreal

On 12/12/05, psiinformatique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #I'm looking for school of freebsd in montreal and i dont find any. Im > #not realy good in BSD, i start to use last year. I use as my main os > #on my laptop to become a normal user, but more i get into it, There is Marketbridge Technolog

installation

I use Linux, but for a project I am doing it involves the BSD port system so now I want to experience it for myself. As I said I have Linux and Windows with GRUB. If I try and install FreeBSD will it detect I already have grub, a swap drive? Will it also give me an option to partition it? _

Thanks for FBSD6

Just a note to say thanks to all the hard working people who created FBSD6. I spent an annoying week trying to get some minimal "lightweight" Linux distros to work "out of the box" on an ancient laptop that I had lying around. They all had various problems, such as: unable to recognize/confi

Re: Changing maximum number of groups in FBSD - is it feasible?

samba & nfs on the system? > > If not, I'll work around the problem a different way. > > (BTW I'm running 5.4-RELEASE) > > Cheers, > -- > Ian > gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc > Ian, Since you are running FreeBSD 5.x, have you considered using ACLs? See the handbook section 14.12. Jon pgpRQFNRzSigg.pgp Description: PGP signature

cvsup update and source sync confusion

I am confused about how to cvsup my freeBSD 6 system. I understand the ports update stuff. Lots of good doc on this. Its updating the rest of the system that don't understand. My current adventure beging when I read the 3ware knowledgebase article http://www.3ware.com/kb/article.aspx?id=14

CPU affinity in new ULE scheduler

t talks about setting CPU affinity, but I have yet to find one example of how to do this. On linux, I'm using a CK-patched kernel and "schedtool" Is there something similar on FreeBSD? Thanks! Jon Brisbin Webmaster NPC International, Inc. ___

Re: Web Balancing with multicast

- Original Message - From: Ian Lord To: Jon Krause ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 2:57 PM Subject: Re: Web Balancing with multicast Thanks for the hint, but this is an active/passive software so only one host can answer request while others wait to

Re: Web Balancing with multicast

; freebsd, I will simply use a cisco load balancer in front of my freebsd servers > > Thanks a lot > Please see CARP: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/net/ucarp/pkg-descr I think this might be what you are looking for. Best, Jon ___ >

54_STABLE kernel doesn't boot for me

thing in userland broke the new kernel, but I can't figure out what. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! :-) -- Thanks! Jon Brisbin Webmaster NPC International, Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Limit client connections ssh

etc/hosts.allow for a quick way to limit ssh to specific IP's. Otherwise you would need to activate 1 of several FBSD firewall options. Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: FreeBSD howto collection

On 9/5/05, Yance Kowara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am looking for a good article or collection of > howtos or something similar to Ted's FreeBSD Corporate > Networker's Guide. > > A book similar to Carla Schroder's Linux Cookbook > (http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/?XmlId=0

trying to use ACLs

;m guessing that the default ACLs are what are assigned to any file created inside the directory. Is this correct? If so, that is useful. Any ideas what I can try next? Thanks, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: resolv.conf

ot; { prepend domain-name-servers ; request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers, domain-name, domain-name-servers, hostname; require subnet-mask, domain-name-servers; } HTH, Jon On Tue, August 16, 2005 14:54, Ronny Machado C. wrote: > Hi list, > > I'

Question

When I get my new computer and I am going to run FreeBSD, also, I want to still run the browser Firefox. But if you go to Firefox's website it also lists other OS, but not FreeBSD. But I see that a lot of my friends that run FreeBSD use firefox. Would I install the Linux package because it is also

Vending

To make FreeBSD even bigger, can I myself upload the ISO images onto my website and become a mirror? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: ipfw loads with forwarding disabled

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Abu Khaled wrote: > On 7/22/05, Jon Falconer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE. When I load ipfw.ko I get: > > > > ipfw2 initialized, divert disabled, rule-based forwarding disabled, > > default to deny, l

ipfw loads with forwarding disabled

the default feature set of the ipfw kernel module? Or do I have to compile it into the kernel to alter this? Thanks for your suggestions, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To un

two default routes

me what package I should read up on (ip,ipf,ipfw,other)? or if I should just do this with a real router and not FreeBSD? Thanks for your insights, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

with the specification feature set, IF those semantics are actually present in the hardware. please see the thread beginning with the following commit message for an extensive discussion of these topics: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2003-April/001002.html -Jon On Thu, 14 Jul 2005,

Re: Trackball and graphics tablet recommendations

On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 22:11 -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 02:00:06 +0100 > Jon Mercer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 19:05 -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote: > > > On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:57:56 +0100 (BST) > > >

Re: Trackball and graphics tablet recommendations

On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 19:05 -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:57:56 +0100 (BST) > "Jon Mercer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, June 10, 2005 12:14, Mario Hoerich said: > > > # Vulpes Velox: > > >> &quo

Re: Trackball and graphics tablet recommendations

On Fri, June 10, 2005 12:14, Mario Hoerich said: > # Vulpes Velox: >> "Jon Mercer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [ graphics tablet and FreeBSD? ] >> > Only restriction is that it has to be relatively recent (i.e. still >> > in the shops) and

Trackball and graphics tablet recommendations

has to be relatively recent (i.e. still in the shops) and most of the functionality should work. PS2 or USB doen't matter. Any takers? --- Achean Ltdhttp://www.achean.com Jon Mercer

Re: Weird NFS problems

Yes, but surely you weren't bridging gigabit and 100Mbit before? Did you try my suggestion about binding the IP address of the NFS server to the 100Mbit side? -Jon On Tue, 31 May 2005, Skylar Thompson wrote: > Jon Dama wrote: > > >Try switching to TCP NFS. > > > &

Re: Weird NFS problems

Oh, something else to try: I checked through my notes and discovered that I had gotten UDP to work in a similar configuration before. What I did was bind the IP address to fxp0 instead of em0. By doing this, the kernel seems to send the data at a pace suitable for the slow interface. -Jon

Re: Weird NFS problems

identially, this has nothing to do with FreeBSD. So if using TCP mounts solves your problem, don't expect Solaris NFS to magically make the UDP case work... -Jon On Fri, 27 May 2005, Don Lewis wrote: > On 26 May, Skylar Thompson wrote: > > I'm having some problems with NFS servi

Re: Unable to set up LPD to use a HP Laserjet 5p in freeBSD 5.3

On 5/8/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I`m trying to install my HP laserjet 5p on freebsd 5.3. > The printer doesn`t understand postscript. > I`ve read the handbook and installed ghostscript and > lpd. > I changed rc.conf to start lpd for each system boot. > > dmesg p

Re: Learning UNIX internals

On 5/7/05, Chris Hodgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you are interested in Unix and FreeBSD this is a good choice: > > http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/0201702452/reviews/026-9762435-1924466 > Thank you Chris: The problem is I don't know what semaphores, mutex

Learning UNIX internals

Hi: I was thinking of getting one of these two books. I want to learn more about how UNIX and in particular, FreeBSD work. Has anyone read either of these books? UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers by Uresh Vahalia http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0131019082/ref=pd_bxgy_img_2/104-69

Suffix rules in Makefile

5.4-STABLE #0: Sun Apr 24 08:30:32 MDT 2005 Hi: I am having trouble with a .SUFFIXES based Makefile. If I use this Makefile containing .out: INCLUDES= -Wall -I/usr/local/include LINK= -L/usr/local/lib LIBS= -lgsl -lgslcblas -lm .SUFFIXES : .c .o .out .o.out: ${CC} ${LINK} -o $@ $< ${

[Fixed] Re: Getting CUPS to use hpijs

On 4/29/05, Lars Eighner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know what all I did to get my (different) hp printer > working, but everything got much better after I installed > foomatic. That fixed it Lars: I installed /usr/ports/print/foomatic-filters. Then I went to /usr/local/etc/rc.d and di

Getting CUPS to use hpijs

5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Sun Apr 24 Ports I have installed: cups-base-1.1.23.0_3 cups-lpr-1.1.23.0 cups-pstoraster-7.07_3 cups-lpr-1.1.23.0 hpijs-1.7.1 Printer: HP Deskjet 3740 Hi: I can't get my HP3740 Deskjet to print using CUPS. I installed cups from ports. I also installed print /

Acer Aspire 1804

ctly worry me too much... Any experiences gratefully received, Jon --- Achean Ltd http://www.achean.com Jon Mercer [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: installation ok, then what?

an can just type startx. However, for a "dummies style assistant" I would suggest using kdm, which is the KDE system login (much akin to the windows login screen). You can find info for this at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html HTH, Jon Bomgardner

RE: Dual-boot WinXP: FreeBSD slice within 8GB? Space for EasyBoot?

ion was the third partition, 12GB, and formatted as FAT32. FreeBSD was assigned the remainder of the 50GB harddrive and assigned into Partition 2. I installed WinXP first, then FreeBSD and allowed FreeBSD to install it's multi-boot manager and I haven't had any problems with booting either

RE: USB 2.0 wireless mouse

> -Original Message- > From: Bomgardner,Jon > Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 2:22 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org > Subject: RE: USB 2.0 wireless mouse > > > > > > Subject: Re: USB 2.0 wireless mouse > > > > > > > > &g

RE: USB 2.0 wireless mouse

> -Original Message- > From: Louis LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 1:06 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: USB 2.0 wireless mouse > > > On 03/24/05 12:36 PM, Bomgardner,Jon sat at the `puter and typed:

RE: USB 2.0 wireless mouse

out except this one and my sound card (I'm using a laptop and things are kinda sketchy). Thanks, Jon Bomgardner > Lou > On 03/24/05 12:21 PM, Bomgardner,Jon sat at the `puter and typed: > > Hello all! > > > > Can anyone shed some light on why FreeBSD 5.3-release

USB 2.0 wireless mouse

Uhid0: wireless inc tw product 0x3801, rev. 1.10/10.01, addr 2, iclass 3/1 When I plug this in it completely disables my keyboard and I am unable to type. Thought? Suggestions? Jon Bomgardner == This communication

Re: i need a file manager!

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:41:16 +0100, Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What shell file manager do you like or x file manager ? > Xfm (ports/x11-fm/xfm) is good and easy to use http://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-mainz.de/~ag/xfm/ ROX (ports/x11-fm/rox) is quite fast http://rox.sourceforge.ne

RE: Keyboard question...

> -Original Message- > From: Bomgardner,Jon > Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:39 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Keyboard question... > > > > Hello all! > > So, I've run into an interesting snag that I just can't seem t

Keyboard question...

ldn't type anything. I've since rebooted and can't login because it won't allow me to type. If I boot into single user mode I can type just fine. Any thoughts, suggestions, or ideas? I've searched the handbook and FAQs, and I tried searching this list but couldn

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