Re: mailman problems

2003-07-12 Thread User QUADRANT
Already ran newlist... On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Chuck Swiger wrote: User QUADRANT wrote: [ ... ] Warning! You may encounter permission problems. Site list is missing: mailman and it exits. Run newlist mailman first. I've tampered with this program for hours now, trying every possible

Serious problems here

2003-07-12 Thread quadrant
Last night I had a very serious encounter with cc. I worked my way up to a cc of the following statement, but the compiler gave me ALL kinds od errors... what in the world did I do wrong?? # cc -u -I /usr/local/bin -q -C /usr/local -i CC -d -O useput --DMYFILE INSEQUENCE -oI /home -C_MAOUTPUT

mailman problems

2003-07-11 Thread User QUADRANT
Sorry, but this is probably a rudimentary question for some of you. Using mailman, I've created a list. But when I do (as root) a python mailmanctl -u start I get a Warning! You may encounter permission problems. Site list is missing: mailman and it exits. I've tampered with this program for

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2003-07-11 Thread User Quadrant
Sorry, but this is probably a rudimentary question to some of you. I've created a list (using mailman) but when I do a python mailmanctl -u start as root I get a Warning! You may encounter permission problems. Site list is missing: mailman and it exits. I've tampered with this program for hours

Re: Virus Alert

2003-07-08 Thread quadrant
Good, I'm glad! I hope this ruins all micro$oft computers On Tuesday 08 July 2003 08:13 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The mail message (file: your_details.zip) you sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] contains a virus (WORM_SOBIG.E) . ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

/var/mail question

2003-07-07 Thread quadrant
I was temporarilly using pine to retrieve my email, and upon exiting the program, pine notified me that the /var/mail directory was vulnerable, and advised a chmod 1777 of such. The default is 775. What are the implications of this, and won't 1777 make the folder more vulnerable? My understanding

buildworld errors

2003-07-03 Thread quadrant
I did a cvsupit from FreeBSD 4.8 to current ( =. ) I did a make buildworld 3 times so far with different errors each time. Between each buildworld, I did the rm -rf /usr/obj and started over again. It goes for about 4 hours each time, and this is now the error I received while doing a make

Fwd: Re: mounting a floppy

2003-07-01 Thread quadrant
You need to mount the file system 'somewhere.' mount /dev/fd0 /mnt or similar. mount [device] [location] On Tuesday 01 July 2003 02:25 pm, Robert Gallimore wrote: Hello I am having a slight problem with FreeBSD 4.8. I cannot seem to mount a floppy drive. I tried mount /dev/fd0 but it

performance tuning?

2003-06-30 Thread quadrant
Hi all. I have a question about the speed at which my applications are running. I have a dual boot Win98 and FreeBSD 4.8-stable (separate hard drives). In winblows, my multimedia is great - no hesitations, smooth audio and video, etc. But in FreeBSD, any application I run seems to go MUCH slower.