Re: ELF binary type 0 not known ??

2004-03-22 Thread Joshua Lokken
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-22 07:39]: Also i was wondering what the asterisk at the end of this line means: -rwsr-x--- 1 root apache 9873 Oct 22 2002 chpasswd* It means that chpasswd is an executable file. but when i run ls -l it says -rwsr-x--- 1 root

Re: FreeBSD 4.9 freezes

2004-03-22 Thread Chris
On Monday 22 March 2004 03:26 pm, Jesse A. Coddington wrote: After doing a little more research, I found out that it is the GDT8546RZ SATA raid card causing the freezing within FreeBSD. I took out the raid card and used the onboard SATA controller and installed FreeBSD 4.9 on one hard drive.

XFree86 and ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro Turbo and 15.4 screen

2004-03-22 Thread Manfred Riem
Hi all, Does someone has the following specs working on a FreeBSD 5.2.1 release? 1. Dell Inspiron 8600 2. ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro Turbo 3. 15.4 screen If someone has a XF86Config file for it please email it to me off list. Kind regards, Manfred Riem [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MAKEDEV - where is it?

2004-03-22 Thread lists
Hey, you know, I was JUST reading this once again: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.html#WHERE- IS-MAKEDEV On Mar 22, 2004, at 3:46 PM, GP wrote: Hi, would anyone know where the MAKEDEV file in FreeBSD version 5.1 resides if it does? I cannot find the file anywhere!

Re: FreeBSD 4.9 freezes

2004-03-22 Thread Elvedin
Jesse A. Coddington wrote: After doing a little more research, I found out that it is the GDT8546RZ SATA raid card causing the freezing within FreeBSD. I took out the raid card and used the onboard SATA controller and installed FreeBSD 4.9 on one hard drive. It has been running smoothly since I

RE: FreeBSD 4.9 freezes

2004-03-22 Thread Jesse A. Coddington
Elvedin, I'm using the newest drivers (iir), which are the ones that are already built into FreeBSD. Jesse A. Coddington -Original Message- From: Elvedin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 4:51 PM To: Jesse A. Coddington Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: MAKEDEV - where is it?

2004-03-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, would anyone know where the MAKEDEV file in FreeBSD version 5.1 resides if it does? I cannot find the file anywhere! Better do some studying or searching. THis has been covered dozens of times lately in the lists. It is documented as well. Check on devfs as well as MAKEDEV.

Re: directories like Hotel California

2004-03-22 Thread Andrew Elmore
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 02:15:29PM -0700, Elliot Finley wrote: I have a directory that I export via NFS. I want people to be able to do a directory listing to see whats there. I also want them to be able to copy files into this directory. but I don't want them to be able to copy files out

DHCP dynamic IP address

2004-03-22 Thread JJB
I have 24/7 cable connection to public internet and get dynamic IP address assigned by ISP. Problem is now that I have started to stay connected 24/7 my dynamic IP address has not changed in 5 weeks and all the script kiddies are beating on my firewall front door. I now want to make my self harder

Re: Portupgrade mod_php4 problems.

2004-03-22 Thread samy lancher
Hey, I did make uninstall in usr/ports/databases/mysql323-client. and than i gave the command portupgrade -NPRri mod_php4. This time, mysql-client-4.0.18_1 was installed and at the end of php installation i got the following error: --- Registering installation for mysql-client-4.0.18_1

Re: FreeBSD 4.9 freezes

2004-03-22 Thread Mark
Jesse A. Coddington wrote: After doing a little more research, I found out that it is the GDT8546RZ SATA raid card causing the freezing within FreeBSD. I took out the raid card and used the onboard SATA controller and installed FreeBSD 4.9 on one hard drive. It has been running smoothly

RE: directories like Hotel California

2004-03-22 Thread Nick
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Elliot Finley Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 4:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: directories like Hotel California I have a directory that I export via NFS. I want people to be

Re: freebsd ipsec vs. freeswan ipsex with x.509

2004-03-22 Thread Gczi Szabolcs
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 03:24:37PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2004-03-22T19:41:52Z, Gczi Szabolcs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is there any useful rtfm how to establish vpn connection between freebsd ipsec gateway and linux ipsec (freeswan, x.509) gateway? How entrenched is the Linux

mount ext2fs

2004-03-22 Thread Johnny
i'm trying to mount ext2 partitions from an install of rh8 on my freebsd box. simple process i'd think, but apparently not with the current setup. the bsd box is 4.8-stable with a custom kernel including the ext2fs module, so i'd like to think that isn't the source of the problem. here is some

Re: freebsd ipsec vs. freeswan ipsex with x.509

2004-03-22 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-03-22T22:29:48Z, Géczi Szabolcs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: freeswan still works for me. and I won't upgrade linux kernel to 2.6 series. so I need solution for freeswan x509 and freebsd ipsec. is there any? Well, going to freeswan.org, going to the docs for the most recent release,

Virtual terminal buffer?

2004-03-22 Thread Eric F Crist
Hello list, Is there a way to clear the buffer after you've logged out of a virtual terminal? TIA Eric ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DHCP dynamic IP address

2004-03-22 Thread Joshua Lokken
* JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-22 14:27]: I use the FBSD built-in DHCP client to get my IP address and lease renewal. I would like to know if there is some DHCP client option to tell my ISP at lease renewal time to force the issuing of an different dynamic IP address? Well, the -r

RE: MAKEDEV - where is it?

2004-03-22 Thread GP
I am very sorry Jerry but I bought the software as a package!!! I would expect to be working!!! I cannot imagine that I would by Microsoft product to find out that the manuals do not match the enclosed software. On the package it said SOLID OPERATING SYSTEM BY FREEBSD!!! Also, it Runs on every

Trend Micro Medium Risk Virus Alert - WORM_NETSKY.P

2004-03-22 Thread Trend Micro Newsletters Editor
Dear Trend Micro customer: As of March 22, 2004 7:05 AM PST, TrendLabs has declared a Yellow Alert to control the spread of WORM_NETSKY.P. TrendLabs has received numerous infection reports of this malware spreading in the US and Europe. This new NETSKY variant propagates via email using

Re: FreeBSD 4.9 freezes

2004-03-22 Thread Elvedin
Jesse A. Coddington wrote: Elvedin, I'm using the newest drivers (iir), which are the ones that are already built into FreeBSD. Jesse A. Coddington -Original Message- From: Elvedin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 4:51 PM To: Jesse A. Coddington Cc: [EMAIL

Re: Unexpected inet6 in FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE

2004-03-22 Thread Robert Huff
Chris Pepper writes: Well, I really do want to disable the IPv6 interface entirely, so it doesn't show up in ifconfig, ... and that's not gonna happen unless you rip IPv6 out of the kernel. The next best thing I can think of would be to install ipfw6 and put in a rule

--enable-local with openldap21-server

2004-03-22 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Can't seem to find where or how to add the config arg for openldap '--enable-local'. No mention in the Makefile or should I just add it to CONFIGURE_ARGS? Also, the openldap package was loaded at system build and found is currently in /usr. I did portupgrade on it a while back and now at

Re: MAKEDEV - where is it?

2004-03-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
I am very sorry Jerry but I bought the software as a package!!! I would expect to be working!!! I cannot imagine that I would by Microsoft product to find out that the manuals do not match the enclosed software. On the package it said SOLID OPERATING SYSTEM BY FREEBSD!!! Also, it Runs on

Re: FreeBSD 4.9 freezes

2004-03-22 Thread Jesse A. Coddington
On Monday 22 March 2004 03:26 pm, Jesse A. Coddington wrote: After doing a little more research, I found out that it is the GDT8546RZ SATA raid card causing the freezing within FreeBSD. I took out the raid card and used the onboard SATA controller and installed FreeBSD 4.9 on one hard

Mounting a temporary filesystem

2004-03-22 Thread Jason Williams
Hello everyone. I'm trying to mount a certain part of my filesystem as a temporary file system to improve performance. I'm running a Mail gateway server, with FreeBSD 4.9, Sendmail 8.12.11, MailScanner, ClamAV and spamassassin. I have a incoming mail queue directory that I wanted to mount as a

RE: FreeBSD 4.9 freezes

2004-03-22 Thread Jesse A. Coddington
Sorry if I am hijacking your thread. But I was told (here) that 4.9 only has very limited support for SATA. What onboard SATA controller are you using that actually works? Perhaps some of the gurus here would be willing to share what SATA controllers are supported by 4.9R (-STABLE?). -

wraparound value for time

2004-03-22 Thread Chris Landauer
hihi, all - i am running some very long programs, and it appears that time wraps around in its counting (the 72 cpu hour program did not wrap, the 164 cpu hour program did) i am running 5.1 with the GENERIC kernel, and using /bin/csh with 'time pgm' (i also tried SuSe Linux 9.0, but i

Is this the right / best way of updating zoneinfo only

2004-03-22 Thread Murray Taylor
Is this the right way to update the zoneinfo data used for the time / timezone related calls.. cvsup -STABLE cd /usr/src/share/zoneinfo make make install I need to ensure that the zoneinfo is upto date on say a monthly cycle and dont really want or need to recompile everything... I looked at

RE: DHCP dynamic IP address

2004-03-22 Thread JJB
You said- Well, the -r flag will release the current lease, then you could immediately request another lease... I ask Put the -r flag where and how to immediately request another lease Looking for statements to put in /etc/dhclient.conf so every time lease gets renewed an new dynamic IP

FreeBSD link aggregation / trunking / channel bonding

2004-03-22 Thread lrnobs
I have been googling for a while now and I can't find a how to on doing this with FreeBSD. Please point me to a book, or white paper, or site if you know of one. Thanks, Larry Nobs ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Mutt / IMAP question

2004-03-22 Thread Trey Sizemore
I've got a question...is it possible to retrieve mail from an IMAP server (fetchmail or like) pass to procmail for filtering, then to mutt (leaving messages on the server)? The trick here being if I delete in mutt I want to be able to have it deleted off the server. I like what procmail can do,

Re: mount ext2fs

2004-03-22 Thread uidzero
Johnny wrote: i'm trying to mount ext2 partitions from an install of rh8 on my freebsd box. simple process i'd think, but apparently not with the current setup. the bsd box is 4.8-stable with a custom kernel including the ext2fs module, so i'd like to think that isn't the source of the problem.

page fault while in kernel mode?

2004-03-22 Thread chris
Hello, I am having the following problem. About a week or so ago this started. My box running 4.9-STABLE keeps panicing and rebooting, below is an output of dmesg -a. Also i have tried to replace the memory and the hard drive is only 5 months old or so. Here is the error i recieve Fatal

Re: Virtual terminal buffer?

2004-03-22 Thread Chris Pressey
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:57:26 -0600 (CST) Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, Is there a way to clear the buffer after you've logged out of a virtual terminal? TIA Eric Well, you could call 'echo' a hundred times in your .logout script :) -Chris

Re: Mutt / IMAP question

2004-03-22 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Why don't you just have mutt read mail from the imap server? That's what I do. Check the docs on the following configs: set folder set spoolfile set imap_user set imap_pass set imap_home_namespace set realname My folder and spoolfile configs are set like this: imaps://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/INBOX

Re: MAKEDEV - where is it?

2004-03-22 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-03-22T23:01:30Z, GP [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Several things: I am very sorry Jerry but I bought the software as a package!!! That was pretty stupid since it's a free download. I'd cheerfully buy a FreeBSD box set *after* I've confirmed that it would work on my system, but not before.

Need help -- Mozilla, no running window. Firefox, even less...

2004-03-22 Thread epilogue
[belated follow-up] so, i rebuilt a minimal version of mozilla _with debugging_ like so. # make --WITH_DEBUG=yes --WITHOUT_XFT=yes --WITHOUT_MAILNEWS=yes --WITHOUT_COMPOSER=yes --WITHOUT_LDAP=yes --WITHOUT_CHATZILLA=yes install #rehash # mozilla No running window found. # i don't haven't

Re: Dell Servers

2004-03-22 Thread Tim Hawkins
On Monday 22 March 2004 18:06, Denny Jodeit wrote: - Original Message - From: George Simonishvili [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 11:50 AM Subject: Dell Servers To whom it may concern. We need to install FreeBSD 4.9 on Dell server , and we

Re: Dell Servers

2004-03-22 Thread Tim Hawkins
On Monday 22 March 2004 18:29, Jerry McAllister wrote: To whom it may concern. We need to install FreeBSD 4.9 on Dell server , and we need to find out on which Dell server it supports. Currently we have Dell Power Edge 1600C server it's a small business level server and on that same

Java runtime?

2004-03-22 Thread Ralph M. Los
Hi, Coming from the windows world I'm used to having the Sun java run-time. I went to install it from ports, naturally...and can't figure out what I should be installing! Can someone give me a clue? Thanks! Ralph ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

RE: newsyslog and apache

2004-03-22 Thread Noah
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:57:03 -0500, JJB wrote Do you have your newsyslog configured the way it's pointed out in the archive thread about rotating the apache logs? That may be the root cause of your problem, and the memory thing is an result, not an cause. Look closer at that tread. Hi,

Re: Virtual terminal buffer?

2004-03-22 Thread Peder Blom
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:51:49 -0800 Chris Pressey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:57:26 -0600 (CST) Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, Is there a way to clear the buffer after you've logged out of a virtual terminal? TIA Eric Well, you

To use.perl port or not?

2004-03-22 Thread Keith Beattie
Hi all, I recently installed the perl-5.8.2_5 port and ran 'use.perl port' to make that new perl the default system perl. I did several other upgrades at about the same time and since then: kernel cvsup and rebuild to 4.9-RELEASE-p4, and weekly cvsup to update my installed ports. It seemed

Re: Cannot find libpthread on 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3

2004-03-22 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 05:24, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 22), Matthew Emmerton said: libpthread does not exist anymore. Use libc_r instead. Actually, libpthread exists in -current, but not in 5.2. Linking with -lc_r should work, and in 5.2 it'll really give you libkse

RE: newsyslog and apache

2004-03-22 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:19 PM -0800 3/22/04, Noah wrote: I ask that you please be specific as to what you think is wrong with my newsyslog.conf file because I cant seem to figure out what you are talking about here? Looks like my newsyslog.conf file matches the recommended config: Hi. I do not run apache at all,

Re: Virtual terminal buffer?

2004-03-22 Thread Michael W. Oliver
On 2004-03-23T02:29:04+0100, Peder Blom wrote: And if you run csh/tcsh you can put these two lines in your .logut script: vidcontrol -C clear and if you run bash, you could create a sym link in your home directory like so... cd ln -s /dev/null .bash_history this is what I do on free shell

RE: newsyslog and apache

2004-03-22 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 13:07, Garance A Drosihn wrote: Hi. I do not run apache at all, but I am the guy who has done the most-recent work on the newsyslog command. If I were to guess, I think your problem might be that you end up sending multiple USR1 signals to apache. I haven't looked

Where is OpenSSH?

2004-03-22 Thread Miguel
Greetings: I have several RH-9 servers that I'd like to migrate to FreeBSD 4.9 latter this year. So I put up a test 4.9 server to get fully acquainted before heading off to a new universe [grin]. My Question: I read a CERT notification about the OpenSSH vulnerability (just a few days ago) so

Re: disconnect usb device

2004-03-22 Thread Chris Hill
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Brian H wrote: what is the proper way to disconnect a usb device in bsd. I have a lexar 128mb drive that i want to move to another computer. I know in windows there is a way to stop the device before removing it from the system. is there a command to run to do this in

Re: Where is OpenSSH?

2004-03-22 Thread chris
Openssh is part of the base system so you wont see it via pkg_info. If you are looking to upgrade to a version other than what is in the base system look at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html. Once you are familiar with ports take a look in

Re: Do I really need to rebuilding *everything*

2004-03-22 Thread Rilindo Foster
Well, as a footnote, I went right ahead and patched the machine, then did make buildworld, installworld, make kernel, install kernel. . . . . and so far, everything is a-okay. :D On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 03:17, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 21), Mark said: Pardon my daftness, but

Re: Portupgrade mod_php4 problems.

2004-03-22 Thread samy lancher
Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2004-03-22T20:25:54Z, samy lancher writes: Hey, Quit top posting. I did make uninstall in usr/ports/databases/mysql323-client. and than i gave the command portupgrade -NPRri mod_php4. This time, mysql-client-4.0.18_1 was installed and at the

Re: Cannot find libpthread on 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3

2004-03-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 01:04:53PM +1030, Wayne Sierke wrote: On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 05:24, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 22), Matthew Emmerton said: libpthread does not exist anymore. Use libc_r instead. Actually, libpthread exists in -current, but not in 5.2. Linking

ZIP DRIVE

2004-03-22 Thread Shawn Guillemette
I have a 100M zip drive in my machine and want to start using it for some backups. I have a script working (always looking for more if you have urls) so it will erase the data on the zip disk using rm and then write some tar'ed files to the disk. I cant seem to get the drive to release the disk

Olympus D-400 camera on FreeBSD

2004-03-22 Thread David Syphers
Hi, I sent a couple messages to the gphoto list a few weeks ago, but they never showed up on the archives. So I'm trying again. I'm not sure if my problem is with gphoto or FreeBSD, though I'm leaning towards gphoto... I was just given an old Olympus D-400 Zoom camera (which I think gphoto2

List of compatible hardware

2004-03-22 Thread roy
Do you have a list of hardware , such as scanners ,that work well with FREE BSD , or does all the scanners that were compatible with win 95, 98 , X P PRO ,etc . work well with Free B S D ? OR ,can you steer me to a list , book etc. that will serve my question ? Thank You , very much !

using make to use a specific mirror while building ports

2004-03-22 Thread Tadimeti Keshav
hi 2 questions pls. 1.I happened to come across a fairly fast mirror while doing a CVSup. How can I configure make to use this mirror (as a first preference over ftp.freebsd.org) while making apps from ports. 2. Instead of using cvsup to upgrade the ports tree, is there a command to upgrade a

ZIP DRIVE

2004-03-22 Thread Shawn Guillemette
I have a 100M zip drive in my machine and want to start using it for some backups. I have a script working (always looking for more if you have urls) so it will erase the data on the zip disk using rm and then write some tar'ed files to the disk. I cant seem to get the drive to release the disk

Sorry I sent 2

2004-03-22 Thread Shawn Guillemette
DUH!!! Shawn Guillemette There is no place like 127.0.0.1 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The chown command

2004-03-22 Thread Gerald S. Stoller
In freeBSD 4.3 4.7 ( others), the chown command only works for root , for other users the command responds (if one actually tries to change the ownership) chown: file name: Operation not permitted where file name is the first file name in the argument-list. This command does work in

Enabling linux compatibility

2004-03-22 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
When I installed my system, it asked if I wanted to enable linux compatibility, and I said no. Now I think I may need it, and am wondering if I need to do anything special to enable it, other than setting linux_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf. -ste

Re: make options

2004-03-22 Thread Jason
Tadimeti Keshav wrote: hi, I am trying to install some ports. But I do not know the various options we can specify during make such as WITH_GUI=yes How can I know them for a given port? thanks in advance ___ Yahoo! Messenger -

disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!

2004-03-22 Thread Rob
Hi, For some reason, I needed to borrow the keyboard from my FreeBSD PC (running 4.9 STABLE). So I disconnected the keyboard. When I reconnected it some time later, the system refused to use the keyboard. Key hits were totally ignored. I had to brutally reset my PC to get it back to work

Re: Enabling linux compatibility

2004-03-22 Thread Aaron Peterson
When I installed my system, it asked if I wanted to enable linux compatibility, and I said no. Now I think I may need it, and am wondering if I need to do anything special to enable it, other than setting linux_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf. -ste

Re: using make to use a specific mirror while building ports

2004-03-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 04:28:41AM +, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: hi 2 questions pls. 1.I happened to come across a fairly fast mirror while doing a CVSup. How can I configure make to use this mirror (as a first preference over ftp.freebsd.org) while making apps from ports. cvsup mirrors

disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!

2004-03-22 Thread Robert Huff
Hello: For some reason, I needed to borrow the keyboard from my FreeBSD PC (running 4.9 STABLE). So I disconnected the keyboard. When I reconnected it some time later, the system refused to use the keyboard. Key hits were totally ignored. Is the keyboard USB or PS/2?

Re: disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!

2004-03-22 Thread Rob
Robert Huff wrote: For some reason, I needed to borrow the keyboard from my FreeBSD PC (running 4.9 STABLE). So I disconnected the keyboard. When I reconnected it some time later, the system refused to use the keyboard. Key hits were totally ignored. Is the keyboard USB or PS/2? Sorry, forgot

Re: installing foomatic

2004-03-22 Thread Norhisham Khalil
thanks to all of you i got my xerox 3110 working i downloaded foomatic-rip and foomatic-gswrapper to my /usr/local/bin i also dload Samsung-ML-1210-gdi.ppd into /usr/local/lib chmod 755 for both files edit my printcap lp|Xerox Phaser 3110:\ :lp=/dev/ulpt0:\

gaim error

2004-03-22 Thread Adam Bozanich
Hi all. I am trying to get the gaim port to work. If I build with: make WITHOUT_NSS=1 everything is fine, but I can't connect to msn. If I don't send any arguments to make, when I run gaim, I get: Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded.' at line 83 in file

Re: disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!

2004-03-22 Thread Steve Ireland
- Original Message - From: Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 00:42 Subject: Re: disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?! Robert Huff wrote: For some reason, I needed to borrow the keyboard from my FreeBSD PC (running 4.9 STABLE). So I

Re: disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!

2004-03-22 Thread Rob
Steve Ireland wrote: Robert Huff wrote: For some reason, I needed to borrow the keyboard from my FreeBSD PC (running 4.9 STABLE). So I disconnected the keyboard. When I reconnected it some time later, the system refused to use the keyboard. Key hits were totally ignored. Is the keyboard USB or

Re: disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!

2004-03-22 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
Steve Ireland wrote: This is a PS/2 thing, not an operating system thing. You really can fry your motherboard plugging and unplugging PS/2 devices while the system is powered up. I suppose it's possible, but I know I 've never fry'd one. I'm always unplugging and pluging mine back in. The key to

Re: Root posting

2004-03-22 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Henrik W Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The ongoing debate about top posting vs. bottom/random posting has sparked a somewhat related question in me: what about root posting (e.g. posting to the root of the list, instead of in the relevant thread)? Some mail clients support a digest mode

Re: special characters, ie spanish accents

2004-03-22 Thread chip
Thanks for the tip. I just gave that a try and it works fine, a little cumbersome though. But I'm sure I can get used to it. :) -- Chip On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, david wrote: This may be of limited use to you, but the vim editor has this ability built-in (if compiled that way). To see what's

Re: disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!

2004-03-22 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 16:52, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: Steve Ireland wrote: This is a PS/2 thing, not an operating system thing. You really can fry your motherboard plugging and unplugging PS/2 devices while the system is powered up. I suppose it's possible, but I know I 've never fry'd

Re: Top posting

2004-03-22 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 12:13:49PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: [Format *not* recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] RFC 1855 violation. On Saturday, 20 March 2004 at 20:53:18 +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: So far I only see argument agains top-posting. Why

modifying makefiles

2004-03-22 Thread Tadimeti Keshav
hi SInce I am behind a modem, I downloaded my fav ports (source files) and copied them to /usr/ports/distfiles. Some of the makefiles in the ports target a higer version of the application than I have, and some the lower version. I made the changes in the makefile and adjusted the MD5 values in

Re: modifying makefiles

2004-03-22 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 07:25:11 + (GMT) Tadimeti Keshav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi SInce I am behind a modem, I downloaded my fav ports (source files) and copied them to /usr/ports/distfiles. Some of the makefiles in the ports target a higer version of the application than I have, and

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