RE: Question about background FSCK

2003-03-19 Thread John Straiton
704-365-9970x101 -Original Message- From: Andy Farkas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 8:18 AM To: John Straiton Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Question about background FSCK On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, John Straiton wrote: While I appreciate

Re: Question about background FSCK

2003-03-19 Thread Christian Laursen
John Straiton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So I ask the list again: Is there a way to disable the background checking of disks? Put the follwoing line in /etc/rc.conf: background_fsck=NO -- Best regards Christian Laursen To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: Question about background FSCK

2003-03-19 Thread Anti
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:52:32 -0500 John Straiton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the idea. While I'm not against the idea of the disk dying, this is reproduceable quite reliably. Foreground fsck -y in single user mode works in about 2 minutes (for the 119GB slice) flawlessly every time

RE: Question about background FSCK

2003-03-19 Thread John Straiton
background_fsck=NO How fantastically easy. I should have known. I guess it's time to peruse /etc/defaults/rc.conf again for other new things to play with now that I'm on the new branch. Thanks a lot to everyone who replied. I only wish I knew why it was both machines crap out while trying to

Re: question on samba install

2003-03-19 Thread David Banning
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:11:55AM +0100, Matthias Teege wrote: David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I install samba without cups, is it still possible to print with samba? Yes, you can use lpr or lprng with samba. Thanks Matthias. What is the reason that cups is the default

Re: question on samba install

2003-03-19 Thread Bill Moran
David Banning wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:11:55AM +0100, Matthias Teege wrote: David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I install samba without cups, is it still possible to print with samba? Yes, you can use lpr or lprng with samba. Thanks Matthias. What is the reason that cups is the

Re: question on samba install

2003-03-19 Thread David Banning
If I install samba without cups, is it still possible to print with samba? Yes, you can use lpr or lprng with samba. Thanks Matthias. What is the reason that cups is the default installation? Pretty much because CUPS is the next generation of printing protocols. New versions of

Re: question on samba install

2003-03-19 Thread Bill Moran
David Banning wrote: If I install samba without cups, is it still possible to print with samba? Yes, you can use lpr or lprng with samba. Thanks Matthias. What is the reason that cups is the default installation? Pretty much because CUPS is the next generation of printing protocols. New versions

Re: question on samba install

2003-03-19 Thread Matthias Teege
David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I install samba without cups, is it still possible to print with samba? Yes, you can use lpr or lprng with samba. Bis dann Matthias -- Matthias Teege -- http://www.mteege.de make world not war PGP-Key auf Anfrage To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: question on samba install

2003-03-19 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:01 AM -0500 3/19/03, David Banning wrote: If I install samba without cups, is it still possible to print with samba? I have a small network with a few win boxes and the samba install is older. It doesn't have cups. I am just wondering, since samba now installs cups by default, whether it is

Re: question newbie

2003-03-14 Thread Bill Moran
Ricardo Javier Aranibar León wrote: Hi I need your help, I'm new using FreeBSD and I have a doubt. I donwload the following programs if you can see the extension don't show me iso. Did you alter the name when you saved the file? What did you use to download? 5.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1

Re: question newbie (ANSWER IN SPANISH).

2003-03-14 Thread eric
Ricardo: Me encuentro en Merida Yucatan, Mexico. Tu problema es sencillo, puedes usar el Easy CD Creator para quemar esos archivos y crear una imagen iso en un CD virgen. Tambien puedes usar el Nero, debes escoger una opcion de crear una imagen a partir de un archivo. Esto lo puedes

Re: question newbie

2003-03-14 Thread Bill Moran
CD burning programs to believe that it really is an image. From: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ricardo Javier Aranibar León [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: question newbie Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 18:28:21 -0500 Ricardo Javier Aranibar León wrote: Hi I need your help, I'm new

Re: question [addendum to answer]

2003-02-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-02-26 05:54, Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:57:29AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html If, after reading through this, you still have questions about what ports or what packages

RE: question

2003-02-26 Thread Aaron Burke
I had installed the ports with sysinstall but how do I can start them loll thank you for your answer If you installed the ports collection via sysinstall you should have a folder under /usr/ports . For example to install (lets say) screen you would type the following as root or super-user: cd

Re: Question

2003-02-26 Thread Willie Viljoen
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 9:25, someone, possibly Darryl C Price, typed: I see a lot of message traffic on the net from people, like me, who are having problems with PAM authentication via LDAP. Why don't you guys focus on delivering a pam_ldap module that works without a lot of jumping

Re: question

2003-02-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-02-25 20:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had installed the ports with sysinstall but how do I can start them loll thank you for your answer The FreeBSD Handbook includes a nice chapter that explains how ports and packages are used. Take a look at it:

Re: question [addendum to answer]

2003-02-25 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:57:29AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2003-02-25 20:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had installed the ports with sysinstall but how do I can start them loll thank you for your answer The FreeBSD Handbook includes a nice chapter that explains how ports and

Re: question

2003-02-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-02-20 14:55, dark dragonz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem. I run /stand/sysinstall, then I go to configure the ttys file it invoke an editor and when I have modified and I want to save it it say that its a read only file when im logged as root what can i do for bypassing

Re: question

2003-02-19 Thread IAccounts
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 04:28:14PM -0500, IAccounts wrote: On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Cliff Sarginson wrote: is java or javascript goods languages to learn? if no what is the best language to start with, the second and the third thank you for your answer Depends on what you want to learn.

Re: question

2003-02-18 Thread IAccounts
is java or javascript goods languages to learn? if no what is the best language to start with, the second and the third thank you for your answer Depends on what you want to learn. Perl: Extremely flexible text string manipulation features and scripting features. Relatively easy to learn.

Re: question

2003-02-18 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: is java or javascript goods languages to learn? if no what is the best language to start with, the second and the third thank you for your answer Didn't you already ask this question? Didn't you get any of the replies asking what you wanted to do

Re: question

2003-02-18 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], IAccounts [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I would play with perl as it is easy and does not need to be compiled. Then move on to the much more powerful c++ I would play with Python because it comes with an interactive shell, which makes it a lot of fun to play with. The problem

Re: question

2003-02-18 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 04:28:14PM -0500, IAccounts wrote: is java or javascript goods languages to learn? if no what is the best language to start with, the second and the third thank you for your answer Depends on what you want to learn. Perl: Extremely flexible text string

Re: Question

2003-02-14 Thread Bill Moran
Michel wrote: Hi, I 'm working under linux platform (redhat advanced server with 20 web server computers): i'm wondering if i should use freebsd, what are his advantages ? Fiability ? Performances ? Network gestion ? The best argument I know of is that the Apache group uses FreeBSD for their

Re: Question

2003-02-14 Thread Toomas Aas
I 'm working under linux platform (redhat advanced server with 20 web server computers): i'm wondering if i should use freebsd, what are his advantages ? Fiability ? Performances ? Network gestion ? Advocacy aside, if things work fine wit RH then why change? -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: question

2003-02-09 Thread kirt
here is what i did recently (this is the very vanillla way) (as root) cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3/ make clean install if it completes the make without error, and you have already configured XFree86 then it's as simple as creating .xinitrc in your home directory containing 'startkde'. use your

Re: question

2003-02-08 Thread Jud
On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 11:02:33 -0800 (PST) dark dragonz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how many space the FULL FreeBSD installation can take?(with all the packages) thank you for your answer There are likely more accurate or helpful measures, but a rough estimate would be slightly more than a Windows

Re: question about install

2003-01-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Don't top-post, please. Joe Verba [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: still gets hung there down to waiting 15 secs for SCSI to settle it just hangs there, what more info do you need (the address above will bring up the hardware info), Try *not* eliminating the conflicts, and see what

Re: Question about serial connections via nullmodem

2003-01-21 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 10:50:33AM -0800, Marisa wrote: Hello! I have a FreeBSD3.2 PC connected to a LAN network. I would like to connect my Win98 notebok to it via a serial null modem connection in order to have access to the Lan network. I would like to do this with pppd command; I

Re: Question about serial connections via nullmodem

2003-01-21 Thread Marisa
Well I have seen with SLIP seems easier, but I need to do it with ppp if possible, because it gives me the possibility to negociate/change parameters (MTU , for example) between computers. --- Nathan Kinkade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 10:50:33AM -0800, Marisa wrote:

Re: question about install

2003-01-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joe Verba [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am trying to install FreeBSD 4.6 on a IBM 330 server http://www2.ibmlink.ibm.com/cgi-bin/master?request=salesmanualparms=SMSxh=%24wHQ8nFK*JbnRJ2USenGnN9332xhi=salesmanual%5Etype=HARDWAREsearch=title=Tproduct=8640-es2 the problem that I run into is that

Re: question about install

2003-01-20 Thread Joe Verba
still gets hung there --- Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe Verba [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am trying to install FreeBSD 4.6 on a IBM 330 server

Re: Question about the BSD License

2003-01-15 Thread Fernando Gleiser
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Michael Fischer wrote: Dear BSD Group, I am searching for a license model for my software. And I got some information from other people that I should use the BSD lisense. In this model it should be allowed to give away the product without the source files. It should be

Re: Question about the BSD License

2003-01-15 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Fischer) writes: But I could not found some of this information about the license. I only found a template: You should study your template better. It's quite clear about the issues you raised. Your best bet on the more tricky issues is to find past discussions in

Re: Question

2003-01-12 Thread Alex
Dear/Beste Steve, Monday, January 13, 2003, 12:23:09 AM, you wrote: Hey people, I'm having trouble limiting users to certain services on my LAN. Here's what im trying to do. Based on group membership, allow or deny certain users access to certain outgoing services (www, telnet, ftp,

Re: question about /etc/rc.firewall

2003-01-07 Thread Ian Smith
Hi Serg, On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, questions-digest V5 #1826 wrote: Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 16:07:20 +0300 From: Serg Repalov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: question about /etc/rc.firewall Hi. Can anyone make clear for me one thing. In file /etc/rc.firewall we have two sections which

Re: Question about Apache with ssl.

2002-12-06 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Mark-Nathaniel Weisman wrote: I've replaced the original httpd executable with a new improved apachectl, apachectl is only a wrapper script to start, stop, restart apache (httpd)... and of course need the startssl to fire up my ssl installed Web Server. When the web server fires up,

Re: Question from an Argentinian developer

2002-11-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-11-28 17:33, Diego Efe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've started a little program to try to manage filesystem quotas whitout having to manually edit (with $EDITOR) the parameters. quotactl(2) should be all you need. Investigating I found out that I have the quotactl() function to do the

Re: question on IP alias/broadcast

2002-11-20 Thread Rob O'Donnell
At 08:16 17/11/2002 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 02:04:57PM +0700, budsz wrote: On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 04:21:34PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: expressed as a hexadecimal or even decimal integer. thus: 192.168.100.1 is the same as 0xc0a86401 or 3232261121

RE: Question about memory usage

2002-11-19 Thread Barry Byrne
man top - Barry -- Barry Byrne, IT Manager, WBT Systems, Block 2, Harcourt Centre Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matt Winslow Sent: 19 November 2002 16:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: Question about memory usage

2002-11-19 Thread John Bleichert
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Matt Winslow wrote: Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:13:15 -0500 From: Matt Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Question about memory usage I'm running FreeBSD 4.5, on a P-133 system. I just upgraded my RAM yesterday from 80MB to 256MB, because it

Re: Question about memory usage

2002-11-19 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Matt Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm running FreeBSD 4.5, on a P-133 system. I just upgraded my RAM yesterday from 80MB to 256MB, because it always used to sit at 93-94% used when I had 80. Well now that I installed more, it's sitting at 93% used again. Being newer to BSD, is

Re: Question about memory usage

2002-11-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 11:13:15AM -0500, Matt Winslow wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 4.5, on a P-133 system. I just upgraded my RAM yesterday from 80MB to 256MB, because it always used to sit at 93-94% used when I had 80. Well now that I installed more, it's sitting at 93% used again. Being

Re: Question about memory usage

2002-11-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 11:13:15AM -0500, Matt Winslow wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 4.5, on a P-133 system. I just upgraded my RAM yesterday from 80MB to 256MB, because it always used to sit at 93-94% used when I had 80. Well now that I installed more, it's sitting at 93% used again.

Re: question on IP alias/broadcast

2002-11-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 02:04:57PM +0700, budsz wrote: On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 04:21:34PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: expressed as a hexadecimal or even decimal integer. thus: 192.168.100.1 is the same as 0xc0a86401 or 3232261121

Re: question on IP alias/broadcast

2002-11-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 06:03:10PM +0700, budsz wrote: Thank you for your explaination, But it's valid if I use [http/ftp/mailto/https]://interger_decimal ?, What part RFC explain this is? It's application dependent. Most modern web browsers (Netscape 6, Mozilla, probably the latest IE)

Re: question on su use

2002-10-30 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-30 13:16:10 -0500: I am attempting to create a simple user shell executable which will execute a root command. su root killall squid requests root's password, and then issues a; killall: /usr/bin/killall: cannot execute binary file while killall executes

Re: question: sending to stdout AND file

2002-10-18 Thread David Smithson
The tee command does the job. Thanks! - Original Message - From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Smithson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 12:35 PM Subject: Re: question: sending to stdout AND file How do I redirect output

Re: question: sending to stdout AND file

2002-10-18 Thread Kliment Andreev
One way is to use the tee command, e.g.: [johnnyb@zappa johnnyb]$ ls | tee listing.txt will send the results of the ls command to STDOUT and also to the file listing.txt. # man script To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of

Re: question: sending to stdout AND file

2002-10-18 Thread Larry Rosenman
On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 14:37, John Bleichert wrote: On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, David Smithson wrote: Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:33:46 -0700 From: David Smithson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: question: sending to stdout AND file Hi all. This question is not

Re: Question port in ipfw

2002-10-09 Thread budsz
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 09:43:37PM -0700, Michael wrote: This is a good question and maybe someone can answer the question with regards to using a variable to do it. I do know however that it does support a range because I've used it within my rules like this: 1030-1050 but not seperating

Re: Question on Multi OSes

2002-09-27 Thread John Bleichert
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Ryan Haarberg wrote: Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:52:43 - From: Ryan Haarberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Question on Multi OSes Dear Representative, I am planning on setting a Dell Inspiron 8200 over the weekend. I plan on installing Win XP,

Re: Question on Multi OSes

2002-09-27 Thread SweeTLeaF
Hello Ryan, Friday, September 27, 2002, 2:52:43 PM, you wrote: RH Dear Representative, RH I am planning on setting a Dell Inspiron 8200 over the weekend. I plan on installing Win XP, Free BSD, and BeOS. Are there any restictions I should keep in mind on partitioning? I plan on RH formating

Re: Question on Multi OSes

2002-09-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello Ryan, Friday, September 27, 2002, 2:52:43 PM, you wrote: RH Dear Representative, RH I am planning on setting a Dell Inspiron 8200 over the weekend. I plan on installing Win XP, Free BSD, and BeOS. Are there any restictions I should keep in mind on partitioning? I plan on RH

Re: Question on Multi OSes

2002-09-27 Thread Kevin Golding
Someone, quite probably SweeTLeaF, once wrote: What i would like to find out is how to have xp on its own drive and freebsd on its own drive and be able to boot either such as i do now. I saw a device that connected to each drive and jumps over the drive to make it primary, sec.etc... to boot the

RE: question about downloading iso images

2002-07-23 Thread Jesse Gross
The 4.6.1-RC2.iso is equivilent to the first CD from the full set. The RC stands for release candidate, so it has not been as fully tested as 4.6. It is similar to 4.6, but includes mostly security fixes that have been discovered since 4.6 was released. When 4.6.1 is released, which should be

RE: question about downloading iso images

2002-07-22 Thread Thomas Connolly
I could be mistaken about this but I believe that the *RC2 is the mini-install version. I'm not sure about the differences but I would go with the full set. If you don't need all the port binaries and extras, CD #1 from the 4 CD set should be sufficient. Tom -Original Message- From:

Re: Question on order and targets of kernel and world builds

2002-07-17 Thread Jim Arnold
Title: Re: Question on order and targets of kernel and world I would appreciate a bit more information on the 'world' and 'kernel' building process. Please point me at the right section of the Handbook or Greg's book if there is a succinct description. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1

Re: Question on order and targets of kernel and world builds

2002-07-17 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:04 PM -0400 7/16/02, John Mills wrote: Hello - I would appreciate a bit more information on the 'world' and 'kernel' building process. Please point me at the right section of the Handbook or Greg's book if there is a succinct description. I have been doing 'CVSUP' followed by: # make

RE: Question on order and targets of kernel and world builds

2002-07-17 Thread John Mills
Pavan - On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Balaji, Pavan wrote: make buildworld -- builds the kernel and the libraries (both kernel and user level) make buildkernel -- builds only the kernel Thanks - I didn't realize 'buildkernel' was redundant to 'buildworld'. You can build kernels with different

Re: Question on order and targets of kernel and world builds

2002-07-17 Thread John Mills
Garance - Thanks for the information and for replying. On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Garance A Drosihn wrote: You should check: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html Will do. If you are fairly up-to-date with freebsd-stable, the preferred order would be more

Re: Question on order and targets of kernel and world builds

2002-07-17 Thread John Mills
Thanks Jim, Garance, and Pavan - I think I have the information and references now. I also think I had didn't have trouble before because I was basically moving only by very small steps in my rebuilds: bugfixes rather than any changes of APIs. _Much_ better to do this a bit more knowledgably.

Re: Question on order and targets of kernel and world builds

2002-07-17 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote John Mills thusly... Pavan - On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Balaji, Pavan wrote: make buildworld -- builds the kernel and the libraries (both kernel and user level) make buildkernel -- builds only the kernel Thanks - I didn't realize 'buildkernel' was

Re: Question on order and targets of kernel and world builds

2002-07-17 Thread Brian T . Schellenberger
I'm pretty sure that that buildworld does *not* build kernels. If anybody has definitive information (like, proof) to the contrary I'd be interested in knowing. On Wednesday 17 July 2002 10:28 am, parv wrote: | in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], | wrote John Mills thusly... | | Pavan - | | On

RE: Question on order and targets of kernel and world builds

2002-07-17 Thread Balaji, Pavan
KDK From: Brian T.Schellenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: parv [EMAIL PROTECTED]; John Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Balaji, Pavan [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FreeBSD-questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 9:59 AM Subject: Re: Question on order and targets of kernel and world builds

Re: Question on order and targets of kernel and world builds

2002-07-17 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Balaji, Pavan thusly... Nope. buildworld != builkernel. But buildworld does link the libraries. thanks for clearing that up. for a moment you had me in utter amazement. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

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