Re: splash_bmp_load problems.

2003-01-13 Thread richard childers / kg6hac
"bitmap_load="NO" bitmap_name="/boot/splash.pcx" splash_pcx_load="NO" I was looking at the splash(4) stuff myself last week, and I seemed to recall it expected a '.bmp' file, by default. I note this is described (see above) as a type '.pcx' file, and further, that you seem to have 'splash_pcx_load

Re: replacement for byteorder.h ? (re olvwm(1))

2003-01-09 Thread richard childers / kg6hac
someone else, down the line. -- richard richard childers / kg6hac wrote: > I'm trying to compile olvwm(1), v4.4, for FreeBSD 4.6 on an i386 > box. > > It's looking for sys/byteorder.h and not finding it. > > My research indicates that linking sys/byteorder.h to >

replacement for byteorder.h ? (re olvwm(1))

2003-01-09 Thread richard childers / kg6hac
I'm trying to compile olvwm(1), v4.4, for FreeBSD 4.6 on an i386 box. It's looking for sys/byteorder.h and not finding it. My research indicates that linking sys/byteorder.h to netinet/in.h doesn't work. (It was a workaround suggested on one of the URLs I read.) I understand the issues being add

Re: Working around problems when an NFS server dies / is unavailable.

2003-01-05 Thread richard childers / kg6hac
2003 at 04:52:48PM -0800, richard childers / kg6hac wrote: > > I seem to recall a 'nomount' option in fstab(5), the manual page that > > describes the contents of the /etc/fstab ('filesystem table') file. > > > > That plus amd(8) should, in theory, get

Re: Working around problems when an NFS server dies / is unavailable.

2003-01-04 Thread richard childers / kg6hac
I seem to recall a 'nomount' option in fstab(5), the manual page that describes the contents of the /etc/fstab ('filesystem table') file. That plus amd(8) should, in theory, get you a relatively stateless NFS connection. Personally, I don't trust amd(8). It's not clear to me that it's any smarter

Re: Working remotely.

2002-12-29 Thread richard childers / kg6hac
-- richard lewiz wrote: > On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 01:19:03PM -0800, richard childers / kg6hac wrote: > > Reading your questions, I am left unclear as to whether the NFS, NIS/YP, and > > server are at home, or at work. > > Sorry, I have the NFS, NIS/YP stuff at home. > > >

Re: Working remotely.

2002-12-29 Thread richard childers / kg6hac
Lewiz, Reading your questions, I am left unclear as to whether the NFS, NIS/YP, and server are at home, or at work. However, I'll try to answer your questions, based on about 15 years of administering these sorts of setups. "I have considered writing a script that uses rsync to synchronize the l