Hello,

Hello, I'm just wondering why I couldn't install FreeBSD 5.1 (I've tryed 4.9 also) on my Sony PCG-GRX550 notebook. When I insert boot disk, it tries to load setup to install FBSD and freezes and I can do nothing but restart. I've searched the internet for answers about solving this problem

Re: Hello,

[Eng] Did u tried to boot from floppy?.. instalation from network [Lit} Na tu is flopiko kraut bandei? ant kurios vietos freezinasi? Treiadienis 12 Lapkriio 2003 09:22, Tomas ra: Hello, I'm just wondering why I couldn't install FreeBSD 5.1 (I've tryed 4.9 also) on my Sony PCG-GRX550

ssh has a delay when typing

List, I have searched the list and have not found a solution. I have also upgraded to the latest in the ports tree. I am running FreeBSD 4.9 Release. I can connect to the machine fine, but after connected I get random pauses and delays while typing. Any ideas? --will

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:00:33PM -0500, Lucas Holt wrote: I'm also starting to learn objective C (the competitor to C++) so that I can utilize my Macintosh as a development platform. The reason apple used objective C was because Mac OS X is really Nextstep which

converting real media audio

[please honour Mail-Followup-To:, not subscribed] Hi, I've found two speeches in Real Audio format I'd like to burn on a CD. I'm able to reproduce them fine with linux-reaplayer, but sox doesn't understand the format. What's the one liner to dump what is sounding on my speakers to a file sox can

Re: owner of dir/files

First of all please don't reply to an old thread when posting a new topic - it messes the threading up and confuses things generally. On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:58:20AM -0500, M.D. DeWar wrote: I just noticed that when I d/led a program and un-tarred it and set it up that the directory in the

Re: portupgrade -arR

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, William O'Higgins wrote: Quite foolishly, I ran this command without thinking it through: portupgrade -arR It's been running for 15 hours or so now, and I'm wondering how much longer it is likely to take? I realize that that depends grin / Well, that depends; many

md5/des ?

Hello! /usr/bin/passwd does my passwords MD5 encrypted (accordingly to /etc/login.conf) But /usr/sbin/adduser creates users with DES encrypted passwords. How do I make it use MD5 instead of DES? Seems like it's perls crypt() problem, and the DES is the default...

Re: Windows XP

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:44:50 -0600, Henrik Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 15:34, Eric Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent a missive stating: Hello. I would like to learn to use FreeBSD. I would also like to have the ability to choose between either Win XP Pro and

Re: ssh has a delay when typing

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:15:45AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List, I have searched the list and have not found a solution. I have also upgraded to the latest in the ports tree. I am running FreeBSD 4.9 Release. I can connect to the machine fine, but after connected I get random

5.1 current on intel 865 motherboard

Also posted to freebsd-current mailing list: Hi, Having lots of probs with a machine based on an Intel 865 motherboard. Any pointers? Please let me know if you need more info. It seems to run OK unless userland ppp is invoked, after which it falls over within about 30 minutes. External ISDN

Re: DVD

Hallo Bryan Cassidy, mplayer -brightness 9 -autosync 30 -dvd 1 /dev/dvd I can play the DVD without ANY problems what so ever. The problem is this. Say I just booted into FreeBSD, did a startx, loged into root and ran mplayer with those options. It will play fine and no sound problem. After

Undocumented kernel panic during installation

I've tried to install FreeBSD-4.8, 4.9 and during the boot time from cd-rom kernel panics with those mesg: ... pci_cfgintr_virgin: using routalbe interrupt 3 Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0xeb902 falut code = supervisor read, page not present instruction

RE: Routing problems

Hi Dimitris, snip lots of relevaent info The 10.X.X.X subnet will never need to use any of the services of the 193.X.X.X subnet or the 193.R.R.R router. It will always access internet via its own 10.R.R.R router, which only routes packets towards the internet and never towards the

Programmatic control of screen-saver

I have a machine controlling a tester. Tester control and display is via a virtual console terminal. (X is not installed on the machine) I need to blank the screen (screen saver style) when there is no terminal activity for some time -- much the same as as normal screen-saver operation except

Re: KCron error - SOLVED

On Tuesday 11 November 2003 02:26 pm, Charles Howse wrote: Hi, FBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13, KDE 3.1. When I click menu/system/KCron, I get an error: The following error occurred when initializing KCron, No password entry for user '#' KCron will now exit. I've searched using Google and searched

Re: Mailing binary files

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Carlos A. Carnero Delgado wrote: Hello, Uuencoding works fine... yup, that's what I thought. And it works fine indeed. However, I was thinking into more of a MIME or multi-part message, much like a regular attachment. That's not really essential, however. This just

Adding packages to the 4.7-RELEASE

Hello: I'm having difficulty locating a download site where I can get a python interpreter. I am running 4.7-RELEASE and both /stand/sysinstall and browing mirror sites using a web browser turn up nothing. Can you either mail me the python package or point me to a site where I get retrieve it?

Re: serial ports from additional old IDE ISA card

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:41:29AM +0200, Rolandas Naujikas wrote: I'm tried to poke into ISA slot additional old IDE card (from old 486 computer) with serials and paralell ports. With jumpers on it I'm disabled IDE, floppy and parallel port. I'm tried to use only serial ports, configured at

I need Help Please.

Hello My name is Ron. I'm a newbie to FreeBSD. I downloaded a copy to my machine and created a iso. Burned it and installed the system with not much trouble. The problem is I have a old Gateway G6-266m with 128mb ram , a CDrom, burner and 2 Drives One has XP Pro on it and is switchable by the

Help

Hi i have already installed Freebsd i my computer i have a x86, but i have been trying to run de graphic mode, i think i somenthing called XFree86 or X server, but i can't do it it says taht X server is already active for display 0; that's waht appear when i try to run startkde and it also says

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Wednesday 12 November 2003 04:10, Tom Munro Glass wrote: Thanks Chris. Please take a look at my reply to Scott because the two of you seem to be suggesting contradicting ideas, and I'm keen to learn why! Have done. It's just my preference

cdbakeoven doesn't see atapi burner

Hi, I have an atapi cd burner that cdbakeoven doesn't see when starting. (output from dmesg) acd0: CD-RW AOPEN CD-RW CRW5224 1.06 20030110 at ata0-slave UDMA33 I know I can use burncd, although I haven't tried it. I want to get cdbakeoven working. I assume I have to load ATAPI/CAM in the kernel,

Re: pkgdb / portupgrade segfault

On Tuesday 11 November 2003 01:08 pm, Will Yardley wrote: I have portupgrade version 20030723, installed from ports. I'm having some problems with it. Running pkgdb -Fv gives a segfault. aura# pkgdb -Fv Try this: pkgdb -fuF -- Best regards, Chris

HighPoint RocketRAID 454

Hi All, is anyone using the HighPoint RocketRAID 454 controller in RAID level 5 under FBSD 4.9 or 5.1 ? Thanks, Lutz Rabing ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Any way to lock down disk errors?

Jim Hatfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Strictly speaking OT but the machine is running FreeBSD. While copying a file I got I/O errors. The console shows: ad0: hard error cmd=read fsbn 31891359 of 31891359-31891486 status=59 error=40 ad0: hard error cmd=read fsbn 31891231 of

Re: converting real media audio

Joan Picanyol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [please honour Mail-Followup-To:, not subscribed] Hi, I've found two speeches in Real Audio format I'd like to burn on a CD. I'm able to reproduce them fine with linux-reaplayer, but sox doesn't understand the format. What's the one liner to dump

Re: cdbakeoven doesn't see atapi burner

On Wednesday 12 November 2003 14:38, Charles Howse wrote: Hi, I have an atapi cd burner that cdbakeoven doesn't see when starting. (output from dmesg) acd0: CD-RW AOPEN CD-RW CRW5224 1.06 20030110 at ata0-slave UDMA33 I know I can use burncd, although I haven't tried it. I want to get

Re: md5/des ?

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:23:35PM +0200, Oles Hnatkevych wrote: /usr/bin/passwd does my passwords MD5 encrypted (accordingly to /etc/login.conf) But /usr/sbin/adduser creates users with DES encrypted passwords. How do I make it use MD5 instead of DES? Seems like it's perls crypt() problem,

RE: How to find our what version of ports your running?

Thanks, Horio and Kris for the CVS solution. Is there a way to find out the ports version, from a CD upgrade? i.e.. initial install was 4.2 then a 4.6 upgrade, then a 4.7 and then a 4.8 upgrade. Hmm, was the ports tree upgraded along with main upgrades or not? Cheers, Paul Hamilton

Re: recover from failed make build

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:30:31PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 12:18 pm, Marty Landman wrote: I just tried doing a make build for Apache2 from the FBSD 4.8 mini port. Here's what I got fetch: httpd-2.0.44.tar.gz appears to be truncated:

Re: Programmatic control of screen-saver

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:33:07PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: I have a machine controlling a tester. Tester control and display is via a virtual console terminal. (X is not installed on the machine) I need to blank the screen (screen saver style) when there is no terminal activity for some

Re: I need Help Please.

On Tuesday 11 November 2003 08:15, darkstarmaster21 wrote: Hello My name is Ron. I'm a newbie to FreeBSD. I downloaded a copy to my machine and created a iso. Burned it and installed the system with not much Hmm, you can download iso. There's no need to do them yourself. trouble. The problem

Re: How to find our what version of ports your running?

Paul Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to find out the ports version, from a CD upgrade? i.e.. initial install was 4.2 then a 4.6 upgrade, then a 4.7 and then a 4.8 upgrade. Hmm, was the ports tree upgraded along with main upgrades or not? Ports are not updated along with

Re: Adding packages to the 4.7-RELEASE

Steve Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having difficulty locating a download site where I can get a python interpreter. I am running 4.7-RELEASE and both /stand/sysinstall and browing mirror sites using a web browser turn up nothing. Can you either mail me the python package or point

Re: converting real media audio

[please honour, Mail-Followup-To:, not subscribed] * Dan Pelleg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20031112 15:12]: Joan Picanyol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [please honour Mail-Followup-To:, not subscribed] I've found two speeches in Real Audio format I'd like to burn on a CD. I'm able to reproduce them

backup drive scheme

FreeBSD 4.8 -STABLE I currently have two 120GB SCSI drives in a machine. one drive is the main disk and the other drive is a complete exact copy of the first drive. I am using rsync every 24 hours to backup drive 1 to drive 2. can somebody recommend another backup solution here? Things are

FYI: {CD,DVD}-ROM ATA mode, 5.1R

Hi, Just for information, may be it is already well known: I found that by default all ATA CD- and DVD-ROMS have PIO4 mode (at least on my machines, 5.1R). Changing mode to at least UDMA33 (atacontrol) improves performance dramatically - not just transfer speed increased, but (and this is more

backup drive bootabel

FreeBSD 4.8-stable I have about three different sources for making a drive bootable. well I have a machine with two drives and the second drive is an exact backup of the first. but I need to make the 2nd drive bootable as well since this drive will be plopped in if the first drive goes bad.

Re: backup drive scheme

Noah wrote: FreeBSD 4.8 -STABLE I currently have two 120GB SCSI drives in a machine. one drive is the main disk and the other drive is a complete exact copy of the first drive. I am using rsync every 24 hours to backup drive 1 to drive 2. can somebody recommend another backup solution here?

Re: backup drive bootabel

Noah wrote: FreeBSD 4.8-stable I have about three different sources for making a drive bootable. well I have a machine with two drives and the second drive is an exact backup of the first. but I need to make the 2nd drive bootable as well since this drive will be plopped in if the first drive

Re: cdbakeoven doesn't see atapi burner

On Wednesday 12 November 2003 08:22 am, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: Try reading 'man atapicam'. It tells you what needs to be done. Actually, I read the Handbook section on CD's, added device atapicam to my kernel config file, rebuilt the kernel. Now my burner is detected in scanbus. Still

Re: converting real media audio

Joan Picanyol i Puig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [please honour, Mail-Followup-To:, not subscribed] * Dan Pelleg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20031112 15:12]: Joan Picanyol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [please honour Mail-Followup-To:, not subscribed] I've found two speeches in Real Audio format I'd

lnc0 problems on vmware

I Am using FreeBSD 4.9 and it works very nice with vmware. my guest host is windowsXP and I Am running FreeBSD from vmware inside windows XP. I have these errors in the logs lnc0: Missed Packet -- no receive buffer lnc0 what does it mean ? I Tried to search on the archives but no useful

Re: cdbakeoven doesn't see atapi burner

On Wednesday 12 November 2003 17:13, Charles Howse wrote: Try reading 'man atapicam'. It tells you what needs to be done. Actually, I read the Handbook section on CD's, added device atapicam to my kernel config file, rebuilt the kernel. Now my burner is detected in scanbus. Hmm...

Re: portupgrade -arR

- Original Message - From: Jan Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 2:37 AM On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, William O'Higgins wrote: Quite foolishly, I ran this command without thinking it through: portupgrade -arR It's been running for 15 hours or so now, and I'm

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

I would recommend not trying to learn C or C++ by yourself from a book. The fastest (and best way) to learn the right stuff is to take coursework from a university or community college. Not that I like disagreeing for no good reason, but I wholeheartedly disagree with that statement. If the

RE: Routing problems

Hi Vince, Hi list, --- Vince Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 10.X.X.X subnet will never need to use any of the services of the 193.X.X.X subnet or the 193.R.R.R router. It will always access internet via its own 10.R.R.R router, which only routes packets towards the internet

Re: backup drive bootabel

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:00:38 -0500, Jason Stewart wrote Noah wrote: FreeBSD 4.8-stable I have about three different sources for making a drive bootable. well I have a machine with two drives and the second drive is an exact backup of the first. but I need to make the 2nd drive

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

On 11/12/03 12:09 PM, yo _ sat at the `puter and typed: I would recommend not trying to learn C or C++ by yourself from a book. The fastest (and best way) to learn the right stuff is to take coursework from a university or community college. Not that I like disagreeing for no good reason,

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

I would recommend not trying to learn C or C++ by yourself from a book. The fastest (and best way) to learn the right stuff is to take coursework from a university or community college. If the courses are any good, you'll get feedback, and you'll be paced and challenged with projects

ip-up script of pppd no triggered

Hi list, I need persuade pppd to call its ip-up script in order to add a non-default route when the link is up and running. Unfortunately it seems that my ip-up script is not being called. The mode of the file is rwxr-xr-x and the owner root:wheel. I am calling the pppd from inside a

Newbie: Touchy Travan tape drive rewind problem

I've installed FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE on a Dell 400SC with an ATA Travan tape drive, accessing it through /dev/ast0. On linear writing operations, it works great... but there appears to be some kind of timeout problem on rewind: # mt -f /dev/nast0 rewind mt: /dev/nast0: rewind: Input/output

Re: backup drive scheme

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:46:39AM -0800, Noah wrote: FreeBSD 4.8 -STABLE I currently have two 120GB SCSI drives in a machine. one drive is the main disk and the other drive is a complete exact copy of the first drive. I am using rsync every 24 hours to backup drive 1 to drive 2. can

Re: converting real media audio

* Dan Pelleg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20031112 17:23]: Joan Picanyol i Puig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Dan Pelleg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20031112 15:12]: Joan Picanyol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've found two speeches in Real Audio format I'd like to burn on a CD. I'm able to reproduce them

Multiple IPs in Jail

Hey all - We patched mijail5 (http://garage.freebsd.pl/mijail.README) against RELENG_5_1. Most of the patch was successful with a little fuzz, except for a couple lines in jls which didn't patch due to cosmetic changes (easily fixed). Before the patch was applied, the jail

Re: backup drive bootabel

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:20:14AM -0800, Noah wrote: I will consider it. in the mean time can somebody explain to me how to make the 2nd drive bootable. I have seen many different ways to do this. can you direct me to the most optimal. I want to place a boot section that has no menu and

Re: ssh has a delay when typing

List, Yes, I am connecting to the machine remotely via the internet.. The lag is not acceptable, and this same lag and delay happened when I had another FreeBSD machine on our local network. Any more ideas? I have never experienced this behavior on any other unix machines. TIA will On Nov

Re: converting real media audio ... ENCODING working?

While we're on the subject, has anyone gotten the Linux version of the Real Audio Producer (encoder) to work? It's a commercial app from RealNetworks that I downloaded and did a core dump when trying to run. (Sorry I forget details now.) Just wondering if anyone's ever successfully done

RE: internet setup

B F wrote: Can someone just tell me step by step how to get my internet running starting from a FreeBSD clean install? I have spent days trying different things I've read on websites and books, but have yet to get it working. Thanks. I'm new to BSD, but if it was Windows I'd just

Re: Newbie: Touchy Travan tape drive rewind problem

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003, Christophe wrote: I've installed FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE on a Dell 400SC with an ATA Travan tape drive, accessing it through /dev/ast0. On linear writing operations, it works great... but there appears to be some kind of timeout problem on rewind: A good general rule about

Mysterious manpage *roff problems solved (SOLUTION)

I had posted recently regarding a mysterious problem I had with my manpage subsystem not working properly. This has been a problem for quite some time. After analyzing ktrace/kdump outputs, removing any conflicting *roff files in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/share, we still couldn't get it

FreeBSD Essay.

Hey guys, I'm a first year CS student at Manchester and I've been given the task of writing a 1,000 word essay on something computer-related. It can be pretty much anything I want (I think). I've decided FreeBSD is interesting, the OS I advocate and that I shall write about this. I am

invalid argument

I have used mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom and mount_cd9660 /cdrom It tells me that it is an invalid argument. I have a toshiba satelite laptop and I am running ver 4.7. My cdrom is a cdrw. What should I try next? Thank you -- __ Sign-up

Re: pkgdb / portupgrade segfault

Chris wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 01:08 pm, Will Yardley wrote: I have portupgrade version 20030723, installed from ports. I'm having some problems with it. Running pkgdb -Fv gives a segfault. aura# pkgdb -Fv Try this: pkgdb -fuF That seems to work - thanks. Presumably a

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

Thanks Chris and Scott for your input on this subject - I've found it most helpful. The freedom to tweak the system to your own way of working is great, and I now feel I am better informed on how to do this without doing anything radical that I will regret in years to come. Thanks again to

Re: statvfs.h

find brings back nothing on my system. mark - Original Message - From: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: M.D. DeWar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 5:17 PM Subject: Re: statvfs.h M.D. DeWar wrote: were do yo u get header

symlink confusion

Could someone please briefly describe the reactions to the following actions? Sometimes I delete the original directories by deleting links, and hopefully someone can give me some insight. # ln -s /home/steve/directory /tmp/directory # rm /tmp/directory In testing, the original directory

Re: invalid argument

Gregory Stearns wrote: I have used mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom and mount_cd9660 /cdrom It tells me that it is an invalid argument. I have a toshiba satelite laptop and I am running ver 4.7. My cdrom is a cdrw. What should I try next? Thank you You syntax looks good, but do you have acd0c

Re: FreeBSD Essay.

Lewis Thompson wrote: Hey guys, I'm a first year CS student at Manchester and I've been given the task of writing a 1,000 word essay on something computer-related. It can be pretty much anything I want (I think). I've decided FreeBSD is interesting, the OS I advocate and that I shall write

Re: md5/des ?

+++ Oles Hnatkevych [freebsd] [12-11-03 13:23 +0200]: | Hello! | | /usr/bin/passwd does my passwords MD5 encrypted (accordingly to /etc/login.conf) | But /usr/sbin/adduser creates users with DES encrypted passwords. | How do I make it use MD5 instead of DES? Seems like it's perls crypt() |

newbie dns mess w/ nic

I had everything working as evidenced by installing a port or two - including the Lynx browser which worked; then rebooted last night and now can't get dns working again. My LAN has a windoz xp box with dial up and ICS enabled. It is 192.168.0.1 on the network. My FBSD box will ping to

french accent + keyboard

hello, i have a freebsd 4.8 release and i have an azerty keyboard, but accents doesn't functions. I have the line : keymap=fr.iso.acc in the rc.conf file but nothing could you help me please Thank you ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: pkgdb / portupgrade segfault

On Wednesday 12 November 2003 01:38 pm, Will Yardley wrote: Chris wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 01:08 pm, Will Yardley wrote: I have portupgrade version 20030723, installed from ports. I'm having some problems with it. Running pkgdb -Fv gives a segfault. aura# pkgdb -Fv

Re: I need Help Please.

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:15:28 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) darkstarmaster21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello My name is Ron. I'm a newbie to FreeBSD. I downloaded a copy to my machine and created a iso. Burned it and installed the system with not much trouble. The problem is I have a old Gateway

Re: newbie dns mess w/ nic

I had everything working as evidenced by installing a port or two - including the Lynx browser which worked; then rebooted last night and now can't get dns working again. My LAN has a windoz xp box with dial up and ICS enabled. It is 192.168.0.1 on the network. My FBSD box will ping to

symlink confusion

At 03:00 PM 11/12/2003, you wrote: # ln -s /home/steve/directory /tmp/directory # rm /tmp/directory In testing, the original directory (/home/steve/directory) did not get removed I'm a newbie Steve so maybe will be asking more than answering here. But isn't it the case that with a soft link as

Re: FreeBSD Essay.

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:01:36PM +, Lewis Thompson wrote: Hey guys, I'm a first year CS student at Manchester and I've been given the task of writing a 1,000 word essay on something computer-related. It can be pretty much anything I want (I think). I've decided FreeBSD is

Downloading OOo, other ports outside of the system?

I have what may seem like an odd question. I have a new FreeBSD 4.9 system that I want to install OpenOffice and some other stuff on. Most of the stuff left to install is pretty big and thus will be hard to download via ports over my dial-up connection (yes, I use dial-up). I know it's possible

Which version of Java to use?

I want to install Java to use Ant/Tomcat/Struts stuff like that. Which JDK is the right one to install to get these to work properly? Can anyone tell me? Preston ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: symlink confusion

On Wednesday 12 November 2003 20:38, Marty Landman wrote: At 03:00 PM 11/12/2003, you wrote: # ln -s /home/steve/directory /tmp/directory # rm /tmp/directory In testing, the original directory (/home/steve/directory) did not get removed I'm a newbie Steve so maybe will be asking more

Re: symlink confusion

On Wednesday 12 November 2003 19:48, Steve Bertrand wrote: Could someone please briefly describe the reactions to the following actions? Sometimes I delete the original directories by deleting links, and hopefully someone can give me some insight. # ln -s /home/steve/directory /tmp/directory

crontab

Greetings, I am running 4.7 and want to use cron to run a command. when I look in /var/cron/tabs, there is not a file for root. If I do a crontab -e its blank. I thought there was a template already, with example commented out. Do I have to create this file from scratch ? thanks, -D

Re: Downloading OOo, other ports outside of the system?

On Wednesday 12 November 2003 20:48, Preston Crawford wrote: I have what may seem like an odd question. I have a new FreeBSD 4.9 system that I want to install OpenOffice and some other stuff on. Most of the stuff left to install is pretty big and thus will be hard to download via ports over my

Re: symlink confusion

# ln -s /usr/X11R6 /home/steve/X11R6 Which put a new link from the original to the new location. If I # rm /home/steve/X11R6, will I be safe as to not delete the original directory? I'm sorry, the above line should have read: # rm /usr/X11R6 not the other way around. In essence, if

Re: Downloading OOo, other ports outside of the system?

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:48:20PM -0700, Preston Crawford wrote: I have what may seem like an odd question. I have a new FreeBSD 4.9 system that I want to install OpenOffice and some other stuff on. Most of the stuff left to install is pretty big and thus will be hard to download via ports

Re: crontab

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:13:34 -0600 Darryl Hoar [EMAIL PROTECTED] granted us these pearls of wisdom: Greetings, I am running 4.7 and want to use cron to run a command. when I look in /var/cron/tabs, there is not a file for root. If I do a crontab -e its blank. I thought there was a

ER schema design

Hi, Anyone know of a good program to create an ER diagram? Tnx, -- robert tan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: newbie dns mess w/ nic

At 03:32 PM 11/12/2003, Steve Bertrand wrote: Add the following to your /etc/rc.conf file: default_router=192.168.0.1 and then perform the following command to get it online without a reboot: # route add default 192.168.0.1 Steve, I decided to add the line to rc.conf and then shutdown... have

Re: crontab

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Wednesday 12 November 2003 21:13, Darryl Hoar wrote: commented out.  Do I have to create this file from scratch ? Yes. 'man 5 crontab' for examples. - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:

RE: Mount SMB share on bootup

Ed - that worked great... Thanks!! I am not sure what I did, but it worked. What language is that script in? It isn't perl - is it C? -Original Message- From: Edward Epstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 5:43 PM To: Chirhart, Brian; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD Essay.

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 21:41:40 +0100, Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:01:36PM +, Lewis Thompson wrote: Hey guys, I'm a first year CS student at Manchester and I've been given the task of writing a 1,000 word essay on something computer-related. It

Re: Re: Downloading OOo, other ports outside of the system?

Look into the makefile for the port. There's a line starting with MASTER_SITES, you can download from any of these. The variable DISTFILES contains the name of the file. Thanks! I'll take a look when I get home and maybe download them tomorrow. Will it list dependencies as well? Preston

file sizes

Trying to figure out how to find out the size of a file. thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdbakeoven doesn't see atapi burner

Hmm... interesting. I've done everything described in man/handbook. The drives shows up (correctly) in dmesg and with camcontrol. So *why* will cdbakeoven not detect the drives? Could anyone point me to some documentation for cdbakeoven, or help me get started? I did find *some*

Re: file sizes

On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 00:01, Bryan Cassidy wrote: Trying to figure out how to find out the size of a file. Try... ls -l filename ls -lh filename du -h directory -- Jakob Breivik Grimstveit, http://www.grimstveit.no/~jakob, +47 48298152 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

HP JetDirect EX printer problems ...

Hello ... I have an older J2383 Jet Direct box which I am trying to setup for a FreeBSD 4.9/x86 box. I have tried various things in /etc/printcap, but still I get nothing reasonable. I know the box is working because if I telnet to port 9100 on the Jet Direct and type in some lines and then

Re: file sizes

In the last episode (Nov 12), Bryan Cassidy said: Trying to figure out how to find out the size of a file. ls -l myfile -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: HP JetDirect EX printer problems ...

--On Wednesday, November 12, 2003 17:13:06 -0500 David Bein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello ... I have an older J2383 Jet Direct box which I am trying to setup for a FreeBSD 4.9/x86 box. I have tried various things in /etc/printcap, but still I get nothing reasonable. I know the box is

Re: HP JetDirect EX printer problems ...

In the last episode (Nov 12), David Bein said: I have an older J2383 Jet Direct box which I am trying to setup for a FreeBSD 4.9/x86 box. I have tried various things in /etc/printcap, but still I get nothing reasonable. I know the box is working because if I telnet to port 9100 on the Jet

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