Re: shell script doesnot executing

2005-12-16 Thread Harley D. Eades III
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 01:51 -0600, Harley D. Eades III wrote: On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 11:23 +0530, Anirban Adhikary wrote: Hi guys This is Anirban here. I have the problem again with the previous shell script.Which was Write a shell script that will check whether a server is up or not(on

Re: shell script doesnot executing

2005-12-16 Thread Harley D. Eades III
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 11:23 +0530, Anirban Adhikary wrote: Hi guys This is Anirban here. I have the problem again with the previous shell script.Which was Write a shell script that will check whether a server is up or not(on ping) log the report to a file. I have tried to write the

Reproducable Panic 6.0-RELEASE i386

2005-12-16 Thread Anish Mistry
I'm getting the following panic, which I can reproduce easily. Let me know what other information I should provide. The backtrace seems really short for some reason. I get the panic when running a multi-threaded application I'm developing/modifying. kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled

Re: atheros wireless setup

2005-12-16 Thread Erik Norgaard
Jim Pazarena wrote: I can't believe how incredibly easy it was to get the wireless going in my laptop. add: if_ath_load=YES to /boot/loader.conf and: ifconfig_ath0=dhcp to /etc/rc.conf and it works ! please tell me where I can read up on how to control the wireless link. Such as how

Re: argh with freebsd's networking!

2005-12-16 Thread Erik Norgaard
Jeff D. Hamann wrote: the instructions seem to be clear enough but the problem is is that I don't have any network connection so I can't install ports and packages. You shouldn't need to download any packages, drivers should be with the source code which you have on the install cds. If

Re: Patching a port

2005-12-16 Thread Ian Moore
On Friday 16 December 2005 18:18, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: On 2005-12-16, Ian Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having some trouble with the www/sarg port. The writer has sent me a=20 couple of .patch files to apply and I'm wondering if there's some way to=20 apply those patches and

RE: pine

2005-12-16 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
I am able to telnet into the SMTP server on port 25 and have my way with it Why, exactly, is this a security problem? You do realize, don't you, that mailservers do not encrypt SMTP mail when they send it to each other. I would be more interested, if I were you, in what banners I got by

Re: argh with freebsd's networking!

2005-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I've been a big fan of FreeBSD for a few years now, expect for the fact that getting a NIC is always a gamble. Since time is limtied (and most costly) I can't afford to spend another minute trying to get my new laptop up and running with FreeBSD. trying to have modern laptop running anything

Re: argh with freebsd's networking!

2005-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Well, after a bit of searching it seems you have Marvell Yukon Gigabit ethernet. I have a similar controller on my Asus motherboard, and it works with: device sk in the kernel config. However, I am not positive this driver will work for you, as the chipset is slightly different. it

RE: Polling For 100 mbps Connections? (Was Re: Freebsd Theme Song)

2005-12-16 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Sasa Stupar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 12:34 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Drew Tomlinson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Polling For 100 mbps Connections? (Was Re: Freebsd Theme Song) Ted Hmmm,

pam_mysql problem

2005-12-16 Thread Scott Smith
Hi, I have an issue when using pam_mysql. I'm using it with ssh and it is unable to find the library after a reboot. After my machine reboots, I have to manually restart sshd in order for it to find the library. This leads me to believe it's related to when ldconfig is run, but I'm pretty stumped

PAM and OPIE and su

2005-12-16 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, this is sort of a wierd question, but bear with me. I notice that pam_securetty has a function that allows people to have to be secure before it will let them do something (for example, use login as root). I've recently enabled telnetd on my system because of people trapped behind

Order of rc file execution

2005-12-16 Thread Helge Preuss
Hello, I use a GBDE-encrypted /var partition which i attach and mount during boot in rc.local. Now this has worked flawlessly until my last portmanager -u run, after which the following happens during the boot sequence: - /etc/rc.d/ldconfig writes /var/run/ld.so.hints and

Re: Order of rc file execution

2005-12-16 Thread Erik Norgaard
Helge Preuss wrote: I use a GBDE-encrypted /var partition which i attach and mount during boot in rc.local. why don't you use /etc/rc.d/gbde? (btw, which version of FBSD?). As an ugly workaround i copied the ld*.so.hints to the encrypted /var/run, but obviously it is better to run

Re: Ebay Auction Win

2005-12-16 Thread deej
Ebay Item #6574118600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/12/15 Thu PM 11:28:35 EST To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Ebay Auction Win Dear CatBecca, I won you Ebay Auction for a Jolly N- Bank.  I paid and would like to receive this item. Sincerely, George

swap - 2 HDs

2005-12-16 Thread Aguiar Magalhaes
Hi list, I have a machine with: dual processor AMD 64 bits, 4 GB RAM and 2 HDs SCSI 73 GB. How can I configure the swap area ? Is It recommended to configure swap area in both HDs ?? How large ?? Aguiar

Re: Order of rc file execution

2005-12-16 Thread Helge Preuss
I use a GBDE-encrypted /var partition which i attach and mount during boot in rc.local. why don't you use /etc/rc.d/gbde? (btw, which version of FBSD?). Heh, because I didn't know about it! Thanks, this looks like the cleanest solution. How do I use this script? If I interpret the

Re: PAM and OPIE and su

2005-12-16 Thread Olivier Nicole
This would probably require modifications to either telnetd or sshd, as most of the playing I've done with PS to make a proof-of-concept shows both daemons as listing their terminals as ??, as opposed to showing the terminalid's being used. If I am not wrong, ssh do not use the same library as

Re: swap - 2 HDs

2005-12-16 Thread Will Maier
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 09:33:57AM -0300, Aguiar Magalhaes wrote: I have a machine with: dual processor AMD 64 bits, 4 GB RAM and 2 HDs SCSI 73 GB. How can I configure the swap area ? If you haven't completed the install, make the swap during the install when you configure the disks. If

RE: Polling For 100 mbps Connections? (Was Re: Freebsd Theme Song)

2005-12-16 Thread Sasa Stupar
--On 16. december 2005 3:36 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Sasa Stupar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 12:34 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Drew Tomlinson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject:

Re: Order of rc file execution

2005-12-16 Thread Erik Norgaard
Helge Preuss wrote: I use a GBDE-encrypted /var partition which i attach and mount during boot in rc.local. why don't you use /etc/rc.d/gbde? (btw, which version of FBSD?). Heh, because I didn't know about it! Thanks, this looks like the cleanest solution. How do I use this script? If I

SA-LEARN Keeps crashing at DBM.pm Line 624

2005-12-16 Thread Marc Dufresne
Posted this on the MailScanner Forum. I was told to post this also on the FreeBSD Questions Forum or SpamAssassin Forum. Hope this is the right forum Brief History on OS I'm using. FreeBSD 5.4 Perl 5.8.6 Installed MailScanner 4.44.6 and everything else using Install-Clam-SA.tar.gz from

Re: swap - 2 HDs

2005-12-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Will Maier wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 09:33:57AM -0300, Aguiar Magalhaes wrote: Is It recommended to configure swap area in both HDs ?? I don't see the point -- swap is where pages that don't fit in your real memory go. It's less optimal than real memory in terms of latency, but

Re: Problem installing devel/pear

2005-12-16 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:29:06PM +1300, Tom Munro Glass wrote: Uwe, I've seen the thread on the ports@ mailing list but there doesn't seem to It seems nobody else has this problem and nobody else cares. be any mention of a solution there yet. Have you managed to fix the problem on your

Re: Order of rc file execution [solved]

2005-12-16 Thread Helge Preuss
Erik Norgaard wrote: Helge Preuss wrote: I use a GBDE-encrypted /var partition which i attach and mount during boot in rc.local. why don't you use /etc/rc.d/gbde? (btw, which version of FBSD?). Heh, because I didn't know about it! Thanks, this looks like the cleanest solution. How

Applying short cable fix (reg=ee)

2005-12-16 Thread Thiago Esteves
Hi, I'm from Brazil. My ethernet interface is a sis. During boot it sends the message: sis0: Applying short cable fix (reg=ee) What's it ? Help me !

Re: swap - 2 HDs

2005-12-16 Thread Lars Kristiansen
Will Maier wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 09:33:57AM -0300, Aguiar Magalhaes wrote: Is It recommended to configure swap area in both HDs ?? I don't see the point -- swap is where pages that don't fit in your real memory go. It's less optimal than real memory in terms of latency, but I

Re: good nic for server??? 3com 3C2000-T driver support in freebsd 5.4 ????

2005-12-16 Thread Nathan Vidican
kyr wrote: I want to ask if 3com 3C2000-T network adapter is suported by freebsd 5.4 (i know that it is suported by release 6 but our server has 5.4). Anyway does anybody have any suggestion for a good network card for a server? We DONT need gigabit but if it worth the money ... ok thanks

Re: Applying short cable fix (reg=ee)

2005-12-16 Thread Fabian Keil
Thiago Esteves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm from Brazil. My ethernet interface is a sis. During boot it sends the message: sis0: Applying short cable fix (reg=ee) What's it ? Help me ! Excerpt from /usr/src/sys/pci/if_sis.c: /* * Some DP83815s

C++ compile error

2005-12-16 Thread David Miao
Dear list, I try to compile a hello world C++ program in FreeBSD 6.0, but get an error as below: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/cpp]% CC -o hello hello.C hello.C: In function `int main()': hello.C:5: error: `cout' undeclared (first use this function) hello.C:5: error: (Each undeclared identifier is

Newbie problems with svscan and arp

2005-12-16 Thread manish jain
Hi, I am trying my hand at FreeBSD administration and would greatly appreciate assistance with some problems I am facing with setting up mail services and the network properly. My system has 2 network cards (rl0 and dc0). rl0 has been assigned a local IP (192.168.10.37/255.255.255.0) and

Re: Re[4]: Polling For 100 mbps Connections? (Was Re: Freebsd ThemeSong)

2005-12-16 Thread Danial Thom
--- Cezar Fistik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Or maybe FreeBSD just sucks wind? I promise you that no machine known to man can pass 150Mb/s and be 99% idle. Get a god-damned clue for pete's sake. All polling does is screw up accounting so the timings are wrong. At best

Re: C++ compile error

2005-12-16 Thread Nathan Vidican
David Miao wrote: Dear list, I try to compile a hello world C++ program in FreeBSD 6.0, but get an error as below: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/cpp]% CC -o hello hello.C hello.C: In function `int main()': hello.C:5: error: `cout' undeclared (first use this function) hello.C:5: error: (Each undeclared

Re: C++ compile error

2005-12-16 Thread Nathan Vidican
David Miao wrote: Dear list, I try to compile a hello world C++ program in FreeBSD 6.0, but get an error as below: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/cpp]% CC -o hello hello.C hello.C: In function `int main()': hello.C:5: error: `cout' undeclared (first use this function) hello.C:5: error: (Each undeclared

Re: Polling For 100 mbps Connections? (Was Re: Freebsd Theme Song)

2005-12-16 Thread Danial Thom
--- Sasa Stupar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On 15. december 2005 6:33 -0800 Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/15/2005 12:33 AM Sasa Stupar wrote: --On 14. december 2005 20:01 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message-

Re: C++ compile error

2005-12-16 Thread Louis J. LeBlanc
On Fri, December 16, 2005 10:33 am, Nathan Vidican wrote: David Miao wrote: Dear list, I try to compile a hello world C++ program in FreeBSD 6.0, but get an error as below: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/cpp]% CC -o hello hello.C hello.C: In function `int main()': hello.C:5: error: `cout' undeclared

Re: SA-LEARN Keeps crashing at DBM.pm Line 624

2005-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Since my installation of MailScanner I have always been able to use sa-learn --spam --force-expire --mbox /var/mail/spammail with no issues. Over the last couple of days, when I try to run sa-learn against my spam mailbox, I receive the following error: sa-learn --spam --force-expire --mbox

Re: C++ compile error

2005-12-16 Thread David Miao
On 12/16/05, Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Miao wrote: Dear list, I try to compile a hello world C++ program in FreeBSD 6.0, but get an error as below: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/cpp]% CC -o hello hello.C hello.C: In function `int main()': hello.C:5: error: `cout'

Re: SA-LEARN Keeps crashing at DBM.pm Line 624

2005-12-16 Thread Chris
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Since my installation of MailScanner I have always been able to use sa-learn --spam --force-expire --mbox /var/mail/spammail with no issues. Over the last couple of days, when I try to run sa-learn against my spam mailbox, I receive the following

Re: SA-LEARN Keeps crashing at DBM.pm Line 624

2005-12-16 Thread Adi Pircalabu
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:24:19 -0500 Marc Dufresne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Over the last couple of days, when I try to run sa-learn against my spam mailbox, I receive the following error: sa-learn --spam --force-expire --mbox /var/mail/spammail bayes: expire_old_tokens: Out of memory during

Re: atheros wireless setup

2005-12-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-12-15 22:34, Jim Pazarena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't believe how incredibly easy it was to get the wireless going in my laptop. add: if_ath_load=YES to /boot/loader.conf and: ifconfig_ath0=dhcp to /etc/rc.conf and it works ! please tell me where I can read up on how

Re: C++ compile error

2005-12-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-12-16 23:09, David Miao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear list, I try to compile a hello world C++ program in FreeBSD 6.0, but get an error as below: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/cpp]% CC -o hello hello.C hello.C: In function `int main()': hello.C:5: error: `cout' undeclared (first use this

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2005-12-16 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2005-12-16 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

Adding lines to /etc/rc.conf during sysinstall wihout being REMOVED

2005-12-16 Thread Josh Endries
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone know the correct way to add lines to rc.conf without sysinstall commenting them out and prepending REMOVED to them, during an automated install.cfg routine? Currently I have a pkg I made that adds stuff like ntp.conf and rc.conf, but all

Re: C++ compile error

2005-12-16 Thread Harley D. Eades III
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 10:41 -0500, Louis J. LeBlanc wrote: On Fri, December 16, 2005 10:33 am, Nathan Vidican wrote: David Miao wrote: Dear list, I try to compile a hello world C++ program in FreeBSD 6.0, but get an error as below: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/cpp]% CC -o hello hello.C

Re: Newbie problems with svscan and arp

2005-12-16 Thread Odhiambo Washington
* On 16/12/05 07:23 -0800, manish jain wrote: Hi, I am trying my hand at FreeBSD administration and would greatly appreciate assistance with some problems I am facing with setting up mail services and the network properly. My system has 2 network cards (rl0 and dc0). rl0 has been

Re: SA-LEARN Keeps crashing at DBM.pm Line 624

2005-12-16 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 16 December 2005 08:18 am, Adi Pircalabu wrote: On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:24:19 -0500 Marc Dufresne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Over the last couple of days, when I try to run sa-learn against my spam mailbox, I receive the following error: sa-learn --spam --force-expire --mbox

Re: C++ compile error

2005-12-16 Thread Nathan Vidican
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-12-16 23:09, David Miao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear list, I try to compile a hello world C++ program in FreeBSD 6.0, but get an error as below: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/cpp]% CC -o hello hello.C hello.C: In function `int main()': hello.C:5: error: `cout'

Closing some open ports

2005-12-16 Thread BSD Mail
Greetings, I've finished installing a FreeBSD RELENG_6_0 which carries DNS/Apache/DHCP/SAMBA/TFTP Chrooted Bind9 / chrooted DHCP and tftp port is listening on the int_if only thru inetd. Apache is only serving intranet site for docs. I know too many services on one machine, but it's not my call.

Re: Adding lines to /etc/rc.conf during sysinstall wihout being REMOVED

2005-12-16 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Josh Endries wrote: Does anyone know the correct way to add lines to rc.conf without sysinstall commenting them out and prepending REMOVED to them, during an automated install.cfg routine? Currently I have a pkg I made that adds stuff like ntp.conf and rc.conf, but all the lines in my custom

Re: pine

2005-12-16 Thread gwen
* caleb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051215 01:39]: Thanks Gwen and Ted for your feedback. I am using an ADSL modem, basically a POTS network terminal. I am thinkng of You're welcome, and good luck. I run my own mail server myself, for very similar reasons. P.S - as for hollywood

Re: swap - 2 HDs

2005-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
This is contrary to the usual advice which is to split swap across disks AFAIK. I've never done any benchmarks, but my gut feeling would be that if the disks were on separate controllers, and if the machine did swap regularly then two swap partitions would be beneficial. Even on the same

Re: Adding lines to /etc/rc.conf during sysinstall wihout being REMOVED

2005-12-16 Thread Josh Endries
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Nørgaard wrote: Josh Endries wrote: Does anyone know the correct way to add lines to rc.conf without sysinstall commenting them out and prepending REMOVED to them, during an automated install.cfg routine? Currently I have a pkg I made that

Re: Adding lines to /etc/rc.conf during sysinstall wihout being REMOVED

2005-12-16 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Josh Endries wrote: Here is my install.cfg: debug=YES #nonInteractive=YES #noWarn=YES disk=ad0 partition=all bootManager=standard diskPartitionEditor #diskPartitionWrite ad0s1-2=swap 4194304 none ad0s1-1=ufs 524288 / ad0s1-3=ufs 19531250 /home 1 ad0s1-4=ufs 2097152 /tmp 1 ad0s1-5=ufs

Re: pine

2005-12-16 Thread gwen
* Igor Robul ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051215 10:50]: On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 12:21:19PM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The first thing you can do is go out and shoo the crackers off the telephone pole who are tapped into your phone line and sniffing your passwords. By the way, is there any

Re: Ebay Auction Win- Item 6574118600

2005-12-16 Thread gwen
* Kris Kennaway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051215 23:51]: The mind boggles how you managed to screw up this email :) A great story from another SysAdmin friend of mine: Mojo_Jojo PERFECT EXAMPLE OF WHY TAB-COMPLETION IS NOT ALWAYS A GOOD THING Mojo_Jojo Wookie has an email alias of lunchbox@

Re: Ebay Auction Win- Item 6574118600

2005-12-16 Thread Louis J. LeBlanc
On Fri, December 16, 2005 2:18 pm, gwen wrote: * Kris Kennaway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051215 23:51]: The mind boggles how you managed to screw up this email :) A great story from another SysAdmin friend of mine: Mojo_Jojo PERFECT EXAMPLE OF WHY TAB-COMPLETION IS NOT ALWAYS A GOOD THING

how to dual boot

2005-12-16 Thread Marty Landman
I'm trying to get a dual boot system set up with FBSD 5.3 and Win XP sp1. First I installed FBSD using 15GB of the HD, then installed XP on the remaining 5GB. However now it boots up XP automatically. I can get back to the FBSD installer by booting from the 5.3 CD but what do I do to provide a

Re: how to dual boot

2005-12-16 Thread Harley D. Eades III
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 16:31 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: I'm trying to get a dual boot system set up with FBSD 5.3 and Win XP sp1. First I installed FBSD using 15GB of the HD, then installed XP on the remaining 5GB. However now it boots up XP automatically. I can get back to the FBSD installer

Re: how to dual boot

2005-12-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:31:11 -0500 Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get a dual boot system set up with FBSD 5.3 and Win XP sp1. First I installed FBSD using 15GB of the HD, then installed XP on the remaining 5GB. However now it boots up XP automatically. I can get back to

Re: FreeBSD starter machine

2005-12-16 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Pietro Cerutti wrote: On 12/13/05, Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A way to use your current machine for both operating systems without dual booting is to install a second hard disk, install FreeBSD and select which to boot from in the bios. It's a slight faff changing boot disk but

Using S/MIME with KMail

2005-12-16 Thread Gerard Seibert
FreeBSD 5.4 I have been unable to get S/MIME to work in KMail. In the configuration section for KMail, the S/MIME section is grayed out. I have two valid certificates that I can view using FireFox installed on this system. I was told that I would need to install gpgme in order to use gpgsm to

Re: how to dual boot

2005-12-16 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 16 December 2005 01:31 pm, Marty Landman wrote: I'm trying to get a dual boot system set up with FBSD 5.3 and Win XP sp1. First I installed FBSD using 15GB of the HD, then installed XP on the remaining 5GB. However now it boots up XP automatically. I can get back to the FBSD

Courier and postfix

2005-12-16 Thread Playnet
Hello freebsd-questions, How i can install subj? Or i need use Exim? I have LDAP server and userlist within. What better for auth via LDAP and good work? Postfix + ... (cyrus?) or Exim + ... (courier?) ? Where i can read about pluses and minuses these MTAs? FreeBSD 5.3 -- Best regards,

ejabberd + Bandersnatch?

2005-12-16 Thread Kirk Strauser
I have ejabberd (version 0.9.8 from ports) running inside a jail on my FreeBSD 6-STABLE server. I'm trying to get Bandersnatch to run inside the same jail, but logging to a MySQL database inside a different jail. I've verified that I can use the mysql command line client to connect to the

Random password generation

2005-12-16 Thread Sean Murphy
When creating user accounts with adduser you can have the system generate a random password. Can you use a tool included in FreeBSD to change specific existing users passwords with a random one such as the one in adduser? it would also be usefull to do this from a input file to do multiple

Passing make options to portmanager

2005-12-16 Thread Dimitris Tsamis
I want to switch from portupgrade to portmanager, but I have a few questions. First of all, how do I pass make options to portmanager? (like the -m option for portupgrade). I often pass selected make options to multimedia players to choose what formats will be supported. Can someone verify that

test

2005-12-16 Thread Playnet
Hello FreeBSD, Subj... -- Best regards, Playnet mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: how to dual boot

2005-12-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
I'm trying to get a dual boot system set up with FBSD 5.3 and Win XP sp1. First I installed FBSD using 15GB of the HD, then installed XP on the remaining 5GB. However now it boots up XP automatically. I can get back to the FBSD installer by booting from the 5.3 CD but what do I do to provide

HP ScanJet 4100c?

2005-12-16 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, is this my big opportunity or what! :-) A friend bought an HP ScanJet 4100c for $15. For unknoen reason, it does not work wsith W-XP, but might this work with FBSD? Otherwise, I'm looking for a scanner with OCR-ware. For either my W2K

Re: ntp problems (strata too high)

2005-12-16 Thread Christopher McGee
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: On 12/8/05, Michael Wynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The information contained in this e-mail and its attachments ('the information) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed, is private and confidential, may be privileged

Re: HP ScanJet 4100c?

2005-12-16 Thread Anish Mistry
On Friday 16 December 2005 08:02 pm, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, is this my big opportunity or what! :-) A friend bought an HP ScanJet 4100c for $15. For unknoen reason, it does not work wsith W-XP, but might this work with FBSD? Otherwise, I'm looking for a

Re: how to dual boot

2005-12-16 Thread Dieter
The only odd thing is if the FreeBSD MBR detects a bootable slice with a filesystem type it does not know such as NTFS, it identifies it in the menu as '???' rather than with a name. I'm triple-booting FreeBSD, NetBSD and that penguin thingy. NetBSD's fdisk(8) allows setting the menu labels

Re: Passing make options to portmanager

2005-12-16 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 16 December 2005 16:31, Dimitris Tsamis wrote: I want to switch from portupgrade to portmanager, but I have a few questions. First of all, how do I pass make options to portmanager? (like the -m option for portupgrade). I often pass selected make options to multimedia players to

Re: how to dual boot

2005-12-16 Thread Payne
Jerry McAllister wrote: I'm trying to get a dual boot system set up with FBSD 5.3 and Win XP sp1. First I installed FBSD using 15GB of the HD, then installed XP on the remaining 5GB. However now it boots up XP automatically. I can get back to the FBSD installer by booting from the 5.3 CD but

Re: ntp problems (strata too high)

2005-12-16 Thread Christopher McGee
Christopher McGee wrote: Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: On 12/8/05, Michael Wynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The information contained in this e-mail and its attachments ('the information) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed, is private and

Re: test

2005-12-16 Thread Beecher Rintoul
On Friday 16 December 2005 03:37 pm, Playnet wrote: Hello FreeBSD, Subj... Please don't use this list to test. It's a waste of bandwidth and results in thousands of unnecessary emails being sent worldwide. The proper list for this is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beech --

Re: HP ScanJet 4100c?

2005-12-16 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 08:19:21PM -0500, Anish Mistry wrote: On Friday 16 December 2005 08:02 pm, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, is this my big opportunity or what! :-) A friend bought an HP ScanJet 4100c for $15. For unknoen reason, it does not work wsith W-XP, but might this

RE: Polling For 100 mbps Connections? (Was Re: Freebsd Theme Song)

2005-12-16 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Danial Thom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 11:42 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Polling For 100 mbps Connections? (Was Re: Freebsd Theme Song) --- Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Download the whole ports tree

2005-12-16 Thread James Long
Message: 20 Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:01:37 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Download the whole ports tree To: Simon Maginnity [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Fri, Dec

Re: shell script doesnot executing

2005-12-16 Thread James Long
Message: 24 Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:51:22 -0600 From: Harley D. Eades III [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: shell script doesnot executing To: Anirban Adhikary [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain On Fri, 2005-12-16 at

Re: HP ScanJet 4100c?

2005-12-16 Thread David Gerard
Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 08:19:21PM -0500, Anish Mistry wrote: Check out if sane supports it. I'm in a similar situation with a HP Scanjet 6200C. The driver on the HP isn't actually a driver so the scanner is useless in Windows. I booted into FreeBSD, kldload uscanner, and

Re: HP ScanJet 4100c?

2005-12-16 Thread Anish Mistry
On Friday 16 December 2005 11:31 pm, you wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 08:19:21PM -0500, Anish Mistry wrote: On Friday 16 December 2005 08:02 pm, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, is this my big opportunity or what! :-) A friend bought an HP ScanJet 4100c for $15. For unknoen reason,

Re: Download the whole ports tree

2005-12-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 11:12:39PM -0800, James Long wrote: Message: 20 Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:01:37 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Download the whole ports tree To: Simon Maginnity [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL