Re: flashpluginwrapper question

2002-12-31 Thread Wayne Lubin
--- dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30 Dec Wayne Lubin wrote: I downloaded the flashpluginwrapper tarball, untarballed it, and /usr/local/lib/libflashplayer.so.1 exits. What additional things do I need to do to get flash going on my native mozilla? Thanks. There is an

RE: mac os x 10.2.3 jaguar and port forwarding?

2002-12-31 Thread Aaron Burke
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ralph Freibeuter Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 04:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mac os x 10.2.3 jaguar and port forwarding? Ho can I exactly define a rule (and where?) that forwards

Re: Re: /usr/ports/x11/kde3 error??

2002-12-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 03:10:44AM -0400, AlanE wrote: Easy solution. cd /usr/ports/portupgrade make install clean cd /usr/ports/audio/arts make install clean cd ../../x11/kdelibs3 make install clean cd ../kde3 make install clean That won't take care of the XFree86 3.x - 4.x upgrade

Re: do we have to wait for PHP 4.3 port?

2002-12-31 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 10:19:20PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 30), Brian said: hmm code freeze applies to ports as well, that is surprising. Ports and packages get put on -RELEASE cds just like kernel and userland; they get the same code-freeze treatment. Yeah, but

RE: flashpluginwrapper question

2002-12-31 Thread Wayne Lubin
--- Ian Watkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Wayne Lubin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 31 December 2002 01:21 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: flashpluginwrapper question Hi, I downloaded the flashpluginwrapper tarball, untarballed it, and

Re: procmail and anti-spam

2002-12-31 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 31 Dec Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2002-12-30 13:24, dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/bin/procmail') a) Why /usr/bin/procmail and not the default path of the procmail port installation [/usr/local/bin/procmail]? I use procmail for local

Re: flashpluginwrapper question

2002-12-31 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 31 Dec Wayne Lubin wrote: --- dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is an info file in the /usr/ports directory about this program. It's better to install trought ports anyhow. I followed the directions in the info file and mozilla still doesn't recognize the plugin. Strangly

Re: do we have to wait for PHP 4.3 port?

2002-12-31 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 30 Dec Brian wrote: BTW I'd love to see sendmail and named removed from the installs and moved to ports/packages only. I hope not. I like sendmail and bind and getting them out-of-the-box is perfect for me ;-)) -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD

Re: SunOS SPARC

2002-12-31 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 18:18:34 -0800 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Actually they should run fine as long as you roll your own emulation environment by copying the necessary libraries and any other needed files from your sun box into the compat directory. The SVR4 kernel binary

RE: flashpluginwrapper question

2002-12-31 Thread Ian Watkinson
On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 08:30, Wayne Lubin wrote: --- Ian Watkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip of flashpluginwrapper Do you think this pluggin requires 4.7 bacause I am using 4.6. Well if it's in the ports tree, I'd guess it would work, if it doesn't the wonderful thing about ports, is

Error when trying to mount cd

2002-12-31 Thread Kevin Greenidge
I get the following error message when trying to mount a cd: sentinel# mount /dev/acd0c cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Input/output error What could I be doing wrong? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Water Damage

2002-12-31 Thread Rob O'Donnell
At 22:24 30/12/2002 -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: The one server that I have responsibility for (mailserver running FreeBSD 4.6) took awhile to get rewired properly. When it was yanked out, some of the internal cables were disconnected. Had to find the motherboard book to figure out how to set

Re: Error when trying to mount cd

2002-12-31 Thread Scott Robbins
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 02:37:19AM -0800, Kevin Greenidge wrote: I get the following error message when trying to mount a cd: sentinel# mount /dev/acd0c cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Input/output error What could I be doing wrong? Too obvious, but it does happen. I've gotten that error

Re: Port 4976 ?

2002-12-31 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 07:52:28PM -0800, Steve Warwick wrote: Hi All, Just checking my security and noticed port 4976 is open. I cannot find a listing / notation for this and it appears to be under named - do I need this? It's an FAQ, Steve.

Re: Pw - name too long ??

2002-12-31 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 07:50:33PM -0800, Steve Warwick wrote: Hi All, I am trying to add a user name with the pw command and get the name too long error after 15 or 16 characters. However, I also use Webmin which has allowed me to use much longer user names. Is there a switch or setting I

Re: forcefully killing login and changing the shell [was: ]

2002-12-31 Thread Shantanu Mahajan
+++ shen chao [freebsd] [30-12-02 19:43 +0800]: | Hi: | | 1.Can you tell me how to log off the user who had logged in manually. check out the port ports/sysutils/Slay | 2.how to add a Tab-reminding function for a new user.I want to change his | shell . chsh user as

Re: interactive fdisk

2002-12-31 Thread Shantanu Mahajan
+++ Norbert Koch [freebsd] [30-12-02 08:58 +0100]: | | # mount /dev/da1s1e /1 # Mount the partition(s) | | # vi /etc/fstab # Add the appropriate entry/entries to your /etc/fstab. | | | | If you have an IDE disk, substitute ad for da. On pre-4.X systems use wd. ^^^

Re: Error when trying to mount cd

2002-12-31 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hi Kevin, On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 10:37, Kevin Greenidge wrote: I get the following error message when trying to mount a cd: sentinel# mount /dev/acd0c cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Input/output error You might want to try: mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom But I believe that with FreeBSD 4.7, you

Re: how to use ndc when running in bind in a sandbox

2002-12-31 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 03:21:02PM +0100, Didier Wiroth wrote: dns# ll total 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 bind bind 4 Dec 30 11:39 named.pid srw--- 1 root wheel 0 Dec 30 11:39 ndc dns# pwd /etc/namedb/var/run dns# ndc reload ndc: error: ctl_client: evConnect(fd 3): No such file or directory

Re: LPRng pkg issue

2002-12-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 05:59:42PM -0700, David Bear wrote: I just installed Freebsd 4.6.2 and used /stand/sysinstall to install various packages. One of them was LPRng -- It seems the package is broken or I've overlooked something that I haven't need to do in the past. When I try to use any

psmintr: out of sync (0000 != 0008)....

2002-12-31 Thread Arun G Nair
Hi, I get this mesg when the mouse freezes in X.any idea what this is. psmintr: discard a byte (1). psmintr: out of sync ( != 0008). psmintr: discard a byte (2). /kernel: psmintr: delay too long resetting byte count This the part from my X config file... Section InputDevice # Identifier

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD and XFree86

2002-12-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 08:46:28PM -0500, Alvaro Gil wrote: I am trying to get a GeForce 2 MX 400 to work properly on FreeBSD 4.7. A few requirements for the nvidia drivers are... (yes the nv driver works, but it does not support TV out on X) Upgrade to FreeBSD 4.7 STABLE or newer.

Re: Problem running newsyslog

2002-12-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 05:56:10PM -0600, Jamie wrote: I am trying to get newsyslog running, and for some reason when I run newsyslog, it skips over my syslog entry. /home3/jo/mail/SPAM jo.admin600 3 * * B Two things: Use a colon to separate the user

Re: Error when trying to mount cd

2002-12-31 Thread Kevin Greenidge
I am running 4.7 and mount /cdrom does not work. I have yet to try mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom and maybe this one will --- Stacey Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kevin, On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 10:37, Kevin Greenidge wrote: I get the following error message when trying to

Re: Error when trying to mount cd

2002-12-31 Thread John Bleichert
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Kevin Greenidge wrote: Subject: Error when trying to mount cd I get the following error message when trying to mount a cd: sentinel# mount /dev/acd0c cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Input/output error The mount command is used to mount a device at a directory. Above, you're

Re: Error when trying to mount cd

2002-12-31 Thread Stacey Roberts
On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 13:40, Kevin Greenidge wrote: I am running 4.7 and mount /cdrom does not work. I have yet to try mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom and maybe this one will Out of curiosity, what does /etc/fstab look like? Also, what kind of CD is it that you're trying to mount?

RE: Multimedia question

2002-12-31 Thread John Bleichert
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Thomas Connolly wrote: Subject: RE: Multimedia question Appreciate the information. I'll try them. Thanks, Tom snip I use 'mtv' for mpegs and 'xanim' for AVI files. They both work great. (Sorry, got into this thread a little late). JB # John Bleichert #

RE: Error when trying to mount cd

2002-12-31 Thread Aaron Burke
(snip) (and fix of earlier top-post) --- Stacey Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kevin, On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 10:37, Kevin Greenidge wrote: I get the following error message when trying to mount a cd: sentinel# mount /dev/acd0c cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Input/output

developer list

2002-12-31 Thread Steve Bertrand
I'm sorry to ask this here, but can someone point me in a direction for a perl/c developer list specifically for FreeBSD? I have been developing a VPN/Firewall automation program with perl, but it's up to a few thousand lines of code and would like to convert to C before I go much further.

Re: do we have to wait for PHP 4.3 port?

2002-12-31 Thread paul
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 10:19:20PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 30), Brian said: hmm code freeze applies to ports as well, that is surprising. Ports and packages get put on -RELEASE cds just like kernel and userland; they get the same code-freeze

cisco unix vpnclient

2002-12-31 Thread Brian Henning
i have have am successfully running cisco vpnclient software on a linux box. I would like to run it on my bsd box instead. is there a port of the cisco vpnclient software for bsd? has anyone had any success will it? is there a howto out there for setting up a cisco vpn client under bsd? thanks,

Portupgrade vs. multiple versions of packages

2002-12-31 Thread Scott Mitchell
Hi all, I've just spent a fun day upgrading ~180 ports that were about a year out of date, which will teach me not to be so lazy in future :-( Anyway, portupgrade coped with most of this mess admirably, except for (unsurprisingly) the KDE2 -- KDE3 upgrade. Portupgrade simply refused to upgrade

Virtual interface support?

2002-12-31 Thread Jeff Penn
Does freebsd support virtual interfaces? (i.e. a network interface not associated with a hardware interface). My system is running 4.7 release with only a dialup ppp POTS connection, which is a bit limiting if you want to learn about networking. Ideally I would like to set up a private network

Re: Virtual interface support?

2002-12-31 Thread paul beard
Jeff Penn wrote: The html documentation supplied with apache2 appears to require the server to be running for browsing (many of the links appear broken). why not bind it to the loopback and browse it there (assuming its the machine you're sitting in front of)? -- Paul Beard: seeking

Hangs on boot.

2002-12-31 Thread bryan cassidy
Hello. I am using FreeBSD 4.7 right now and was wondering something. In my /etc/rc.conf file I made sendmail_enable=YES sendmail_enable=NO and when I boot the system hands for a few minutes at the most when trying to start the sendmail daemons. Is there a way to stop the system from hanging at

Re: Virtual interface support?

2002-12-31 Thread Steve Bertrand
For testing purposes, I have used the gif interface several times. I know man(8) gif states it is a tunnelling interface, but from stations on the network, the interface can be seen all the same. (I normally use the gif interface for simulating several interfaces for IPFW configuration).

Re: Using syslog to seperate out log messages

2002-12-31 Thread Drew Tomlinson
- Original Message - From: David Dooley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 4:18 PM Subject: Using syslog to seperate out log messages Hi, I have a small problem, well more of an annoyance than anything, but I was hoping that someone would be able

Re: psmintr: out of sync (0000 != 0008)....

2002-12-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Arun G Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I get this mesg when the mouse freezes in X.any idea what this is. Did you look at the FAQ on this? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: psmintr: out of sync (0000 != 0008)....

2002-12-31 Thread Tuc
Arun G Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I get this mesg when the mouse freezes in X.any idea what this is. Did you look at the FAQ on this? I did since it happens to me on a daily basis. I think I tried everything and didn't get any of it to work. Tuc/TTSG

Re: Error when trying to mount cd

2002-12-31 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Kevin Greenidge wrote: I am running 4.7 and mount /cdrom does not work. I have yet to try mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom and maybe this one will does not work could be more detailed... Are you trying to mount a UDF-formatted CD from a Windows system, or maybe a

Re: Error when trying to mount cd

2002-12-31 Thread Kevin Greenidge
I was trying to mount a Windows XP disk to use as a test. --- Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Kevin Greenidge wrote: I am running 4.7 and mount /cdrom does not work. I have yet to try mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom and maybe this one will does

Re: Virtual interface support?

2002-12-31 Thread Bill Moran
From: Jeff Penn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does freebsd support virtual interfaces? (i.e. a network interface not associated with a hardware interface). Yup. My system is running 4.7 release with only a dialup ppp POTS connection, which is a bit limiting if you want to learn about networking. Ideally

RE: Hangs on boot.

2002-12-31 Thread Aaron Burke
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of bryan cassidy Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 09:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hangs on boot. Hello. I am using FreeBSD 4.7 right now and was wondering something. In my /etc/rc.conf file I

[OT] Happy New Year to all of you

2002-12-31 Thread Pierrick Brossin
Hi ! In Switzerland it's 7pm and I'm not going to be in front of my computer tonight at 00h00 to tell you what I want. So here we go :) Happy New Year to all of you and I hope 2003 will be an even better year for you than 2002 ! Best Wishes! God Bless You! -- Pierrick Brossin IT Employee 15,

Re: adduser

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
So why the fuck do things get more difficult ? -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Ports question: mozilla-vendor/jdk13

2002-12-31 Thread Scott Ballantyne
Last night I built the mozilla-vendor port and followed the instructions for adding java by building jdk1.3.1. The build/install completed with no errors, but when I run mozilla I am getting the following error: gLoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library

Krb5 build problem

2002-12-31 Thread Bruce Pea
I'm trying to install Krb5-1.2.6 via ports on FBSD v4.7. I keep getting the following error, can someone tell me what I need to do to fix this? Thanks - Bruce make === Extracting for krb5-1.2.6 Checksum OK for krb5-1.2.6.tar. === krb5-1.2.6 depends on

Re: adduser .. revisited, an apology

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
t should be as easy as pie to add a user. Why the hell does FreeBSD go on and on shooting itself in the foot ? RTFM has become a bad joke. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: adduser .. revisited, an apology .. oh come on

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Adding a user should not be rocket science, If the old time Bill Joy lovers would realise that 'csh sucks big time, we may avoid a lot of problems. If anyone can prove to me that csh is superior in any respect to bash, then please tell me. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [

hangs on boot

2002-12-31 Thread bryan cassidy
When I try to send e-mails to the *freebsd mailing lists* from my *SMTP* also *ISP* e-mail account it never makes it to the list. I was able to send e-mails to the list at one point then all of a sudden I can't. What about the sendmail hang? Do you know how to stop it from hanging like that at

Re: hangs on boot

2002-12-31 Thread Matthew Emmerton
When I try to send e-mails to the *freebsd mailing lists* from my *SMTP* also *ISP* e-mail account it never makes it to the list. I was able to send e-mails to the list at one point then all of a sudden I can't. What about the sendmail hang? Do you know how to stop it from hanging like that

installing software question

2002-12-31 Thread Michael Grant
When I install something from the ports collection, the makefile nicely generates a packing list so I can deinstall it at a later time. Is there an easy way to do this if I download some random tar file for which I would normally untar it, ./configure, and make install? In other words, I

Re: installing software question

2002-12-31 Thread Matthew Emmerton
When I install something from the ports collection, the makefile nicely generates a packing list so I can deinstall it at a later time. Is there an easy way to do this if I download some random tar file for which I would normally untar it, ./configure, and make install? In other words, I

Re: mac os x 10.2.3 jaguar and port forwarding?

2002-12-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
Ralph Freibeuter wrote: Ho can I exactly define a rule (and where?) that forwards incoming requests to port 445 (samba?) to an internal machine with lan ip 192.168.2.50 ? The routing Macs IP is 192.168.2.1 and the external IP is given by ISP via pppoe. As someone else mentioned Darwin (aka

Re: adduser .. revisited, an apology .. oh come on

2002-12-31 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 19:16:31 +0100 Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adding a user should not be rocket science, It isn't. If the old time Bill Joy lovers would realise that 'csh sucks big time, we may avoid a lot of problems. You can always use /bin/sh, and yes, it does history

Re: Water Damage

2002-12-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jim Durham wrote: [ ... ] That's an excellent idea because the alcohol will absorb the water (I believe the correct term is that water is misable in alcohol), so when the alcohol evaporates it takes the water with it. Yes, water and alcohol are misable in any proportions, but there's slightly

Re: adduser .. revisited, an apology .. oh come on

2002-12-31 Thread Stacey Roberts
On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 18:30, Miguel Mendez wrote: On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 19:16:31 +0100 Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adding a user should not be rocket science, It isn't. If the old time Bill Joy lovers would realise that 'csh sucks big time, we may avoid a lot of

Re: procmail and anti-spam

2002-12-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-12-31 09:56, dick hoogendijk wrote: On 31 Dec Giorgos Keramidas wrote: b) You don't really need to use procmail as the delivery agent of ALL the local users. You can enable procmail on a per-user basis by proper .forward files in their home directories. Yeah, I've heard.

NFS problems -- performance degraded after upgrade to 4.7

2002-12-31 Thread Daniel Schrock
Hello all, I'm having some problems with nfs performance. Here is a bit of background. I have a fileserver running FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE. This has a 3ware Escalade with 4 x 80GB Maxtors in a RAID 5 config. I am exporting /usr/ports, among other things - 5 exports total to 2 clients. The clients

Re: flashpluginwrapper question

2002-12-31 Thread Wayne Lubin
--- dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 31 Dec Wayne Lubin wrote: --- dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is an info file in the /usr/ports directory about this program. It's better to install trought ports anyhow. I followed the directions in the info file and

Re: Error when trying to mount cd

2002-12-31 Thread John Bleichert
On 31 Dec 2002, Stacey Roberts wrote: Subject: Re: Error when trying to mount cd On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 17:28, Kevin Greenidge wrote: I was trying to mount a Windows XP disk to use as a test. Hi Kevin, To test what? Instead of Error when tryign to mount cd as a subject, don't

ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2002-12-31 Thread Bruce Campbell
I am seeing a problem with ata disks on 4 new systems, which I believe is either a bug in the ata driver, or a problem with the onboard IDE controller, or something else. Systems are as follows: Motherboard: ASUS A7M266-D CPUs : 2 x 2000+ AMD MP Memory : 2 x 512MB Crucial part:

Re: flashpluginwrapper question

2002-12-31 Thread Wayne Lubin
Hi, I downloaded the flashpluginwrapper by hand. You know, I went to the ftp server into the flashpluginwrapper directory and simply downloaded all files to a directory that I created on my box called /usr/ports/www/flashpluginwrapper/ and now when I do a make I get

Re: procmail and anti-spam ..sendmail is dead

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Use postfix. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: flashpluginwrapper question

2002-12-31 Thread Matthew Emmerton
Hi, I downloaded the flashpluginwrapper by hand. You know, I went to the ftp server into the flashpluginwrapper directory and simply downloaded all files to a directory that I created on my box called /usr/ports/www/flashpluginwrapper/ and now when I do a make I get

Re: Water Damage

2002-12-31 Thread Doug Hardie
On Tuesday, Dec 31, 2002, at 02:32 US/Pacific, Rob O'Donnell wrote: If it's a PS/2 type keyboard connector (small plug) there is a plastic pin that often gets broken off and left in the socket if connectors are pulled out violently, blocking a new keyboard being inserted. (Seen it often with

Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2002-12-31 Thread Matthew Emmerton
[ cc'ing Soren since he's the ATA guru ] I am seeing a problem with ata disks on 4 new systems, which I believe is either a bug in the ata driver, or a problem with the onboard IDE controller, or something else. Systems are as follows: Motherboard: ASUS A7M266-D CPUs : 2 x 2000+ AMD

Re: flashpluginwrapper question

2002-12-31 Thread Wayne Lubin
--- Matthew Emmerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I downloaded the flashpluginwrapper by hand. You know, I went to the ftp server into the flashpluginwrapper directory and simply downloaded all files to a directory that I created on my box called /usr/ports/www/flashpluginwrapper/

Re: Finding type of memory

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 11:46:18AM -0700, Irwan Hadi wrote: Hi, I need to find out what kind of memory a server is using, while the distance between me and the server is pretty far (on different continent if anyone cares). My question is how can I find what kind of memory that server is

Re: Error when trying to mount cd

2002-12-31 Thread Kevin Greenidge
--- Stacey Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 17:28, Kevin Greenidge wrote: I was trying to mount a Windows XP disk to use as a test. Hi Kevin, To test what? Instead of Error when tryign to mount cd as a subject, don't you think that the fact that the CD is

Re: Water Damage

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Drink it. Water and alcohol have quite different somatic effects. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Water Damage

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 01:22:37PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: On Tuesday, Dec 31, 2002, at 02:32 US/Pacific, Rob O'Donnell wrote: If it's a PS/2 type keyboard connector (small plug) there is a plastic pin that often gets broken off and left in the socket if connectors are pulled out

Re: flashpluginwrapper question

2002-12-31 Thread Matthew Emmerton
Hi, I downloaded the flashpluginwrapper by hand. You know, I went to the ftp server into the flashpluginwrapper directory and simply downloaded all files to a directory that I created on my box called /usr/ports/www/flashpluginwrapper/ and now when I do a make I get

Re: Error when trying to mount cd

2002-12-31 Thread Stacey Roberts
On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 21:29, Kevin Greenidge wrote: --- Stacey Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 17:28, Kevin Greenidge wrote: I was trying to mount a Windows XP disk to use as a test. Hi Kevin, To test what? Instead of Error when tryign to mount cd

Re: ata fallback to PIO mode on dual processor AMD systems

2002-12-31 Thread Bruce Campbell
Quoting Matthew Emmerton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [ cc'ing Soren since he's the ATA guru ] Dec 30 23:27:00 ecserv13 /kernel: ad0: trying fallback to PIO mode Dec 30 23:27:00 ecserv13 /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done The test continues to run with the ata controller in PIO mode, with

Re: 5.0-RC2 sendmail msp-queue gizmo running REAL slow?

2002-12-31 Thread Brian
sounds an awful lot like the bsd is dead posts on slashdot.. Bri - Original Message - From: Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 1:38 PM Subject: Re: 5.0-RC2 sendmail msp-queue gizmo running REAL slow? Sendmail is dead. --

Re: 5.0-RC2 sendmail msp-queue gizmo running REAL slow?

2002-12-31 Thread Stacey Roberts
On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 22:00, Brian wrote: sounds an awful lot like the bsd is dead posts on slashdot.. Bri Oh dear, Stacey - Original Message - From: Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 1:38 PM Subject: Re: 5.0-RC2

Re: Portupgrade vs. multiple versions of packages

2002-12-31 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 31 December 2002 07:41 am, Scott Mitchell wrote: Hi all, I've just spent a fun day upgrading ~180 ports that were about a year out of date, which will teach me not to be so lazy in future :-( Anyway, portupgrade coped with most of this mess admirably, except for (unsurprisingly)

(OT) non-keyboard ascii characters

2002-12-31 Thread John Bleichert
Hello All Is there anyway to get e.g. a u with an umlaught over it (ASCII 159 I think) in a text emailer like pine or mutt, if your keyboard doesn's have said character? How about text editors like nedit? Hopefully not too, too offtopic. Thanks - JB # John Bleichert #

Re: developer list

2002-12-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-12-31 09:29, Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry to ask this here, but can someone point me in a direction for a perl/c developer list specifically for FreeBSD? I have been developing a VPN/Firewall automation program with perl, but it's up to a few thousand lines of

Re: (OT) non-keyboard ascii characters

2002-12-31 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 31 December 2002 01:51 pm, John Bleichert wrote: Hello All Is there anyway to get e.g. a u with an umlaught over it (ASCII 159 I think) in a text emailer like pine or mutt, if your keyboard doesn's have said character? How about text editors like nedit? Hopefully not too, too

Re: Water Damage

2002-12-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 12:07:41PM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jim Durham wrote: [ ... ] That's an excellent idea because the alcohol will absorb the water (I believe the correct term is that water is misable in alcohol), so when the

Re: adduser

2002-12-31 Thread Adam Weinberger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (12.31.2002 @ 1005 PST): Cliff Sarginson said, in 0.3K: So why the fuck do things get more difficult ? end of Re: adduser from Cliff Sarginson Not that you gave any context to this, your latest helpful question, but I'd guess the answer is your

Re: Error when trying to mount cd

2002-12-31 Thread Mike Jeays
Stacey Roberts wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 21:29, Kevin Greenidge wrote: --- Stacey Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 17:28, Kevin Greenidge wrote: I was trying to mount a Windows XP disk to use as a test. Hi Kevin, To test what?

Re: (OT) non-keyboard ascii characters

2002-12-31 Thread John Bleichert
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Danny Horne wrote: Subject: Re: (OT) non-keyboard ascii characters Hello All Is there anyway to get e.g. a u with an umlaught over it (ASCII 159 I think) in a text emailer like pine or mutt, if your keyboard doesn's have said character? How about text editors like

Re: (OT) non-keyboard ascii characters

2002-12-31 Thread Danny Horne
I find holding down 'Alt' typing in the number of the character works for me (though I don't use Pine or Mutt). Didn't wok for me in pine or nedit, although this may be charset dependent. Which apps does this work for you in? xterm? I don't use any Unix / Linux MUA's, it works for me in

Re: Error when trying to mount cd

2002-12-31 Thread Kevin Greenidge
--- Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stacey Roberts wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 21:29, Kevin Greenidge wrote: --- Stacey Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 17:28, Kevin Greenidge wrote: I was trying to mount a Windows XP disk to use as

Re: adduser

2002-12-31 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 7:05 PM Subject: Re: adduser So why the fuck do things get more difficult ? WTF is not going to solve your problem; RTFM will. If anyone can prove to

FreeBSD vs webcams

2002-12-31 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello, Are there any webcams (usb, parallel, whatever) that will work with FreeBSD4.x I'm hoping that I'll be able to view content via http off a website. I wasn't sure if this is the right list, point me to which I should ask, if I'm in the wrong, please. Thanks. Regards, Stacey --

Kerb.5 login hangs when uplink (internet) is down

2002-12-31 Thread Peter Much
This one is mostly for the records, as I recently had to fix it. If you - run the Kerberos5 kdc as distributed with FreeBSD (4.4, maybe others as well), - and have DNS nameservice running - and DNS configured to access the root-nameservers of the internet (or some equivalent

Re: Portupgrade vs. multiple versions of packages

2002-12-31 Thread paul beard
Brian Astill wrote: Scott Mitchell wrote: Hi all, I've just spent a fun day upgrading ~180 ports that were about a year out of date, which will teach me not to be so lazy in future :-( Anyway, portupgrade coped with most of this mess admirably, except for (unsurprisingly) the KDE2 -- KDE3

ssh from one box behind firewall to another

2002-12-31 Thread BSD baby
FreeBSD box A | | v HOME FIREWALL | | | internet | | | WORK FIREWALL | | V FreeBSD box B Can you copy files from box A to box B? Box A can SSH into Work Firewall. Work Firewall can SSH into Box B. Box B can SSH into Home Firewall. Home Firewall can SSH into Box A. So - I can SEE the files I

Re: Using multiple window managers

2002-12-31 Thread Scott Robbins
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 01:20:40AM -0500, Bob Bomar wrote: I want to set up a demo box that shows diffrent Window Managers. What is a good way to swith between window managers? A simple shell script would do it--it's 1:30 am here, but quick hack #!/usr/local//bin/bash #script to select

Re: Using multiple window managers

2002-12-31 Thread Bob Bomar
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 01:40:11AM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 01:20:40AM -0500, Bob Bomar wrote: I want to set up a demo box that shows diffrent Window Managers. What is a good way to swith between window managers? A simple shell script would do it--it's 1:30 am

Re: Water Damage

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Listen. I have a friend, an electronic genius. He, one night dunked his incredibly expensive, state of the art. mobile phone in a glass of Baileys Irish Cream Whiskey, The next day he washed it in distilled water. It works again. The only moronic thing about him is that he uses a mobile phone.