Re: Sendmail / Fetchmail / Procmail / Mozilla

2002-12-02 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-01 12:03:18 -0800: On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 07:45:37PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: snip If I want to use fetchmail to snag email from say 4 different pop acounts and then filter it with procmail and use mozilla to read it (which I've read is trivial to

Opti 931

2002-12-02 Thread Tibor Selesi
Hello to all, I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but I wasn't subsrcribed to the group so I haven't received any reply's. I'm sending my problem: I managed to compile my kernel and included the device pcm line for my sound card to work. BSD has found my sound card on pcm0. When I launched xmms,

DNS Entries?

2002-12-02 Thread Mark-Nathaniel Weisman
Anyone need a primary or secondary DNS server? I'll host any DNS registry you may need for only $10 a year! As many as you want, only $10. Feel free to email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll get you set up. It's all setup on a 4.4 FreeBSD box, so I feel like I ought to offer it here just

Re: Mail Reader Clients

2002-12-02 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-01 15:33:04 +: Please CC me on the reply again. Thanks. I'm looking for a good graphical mail reader client (to handle appx 3000 mails per day) I know this is not what you asked for, but I'm sure mutt would do you much better service. I've got

Re: directory listing doesn't show all files

2002-12-02 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-01 10:28:47 -0800: I have a mixed network of FreeBSD boxes and Win98 boxes. On one FBSD box I use shlight to mount the c: drive of one win98 box. Works fine. When I browser, in any file manager or command line, a directory on the win98 box which contains almost

Re: Strange WWW problem

2002-12-02 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-02 00:37:48 -0800: The weird part is that there will be periods of time when I can access any of my web sites just fine for about 5 minutes or so before I start getting The page Could not be found errors in IE. Nothing has changed recently in the configuration, so

Re: rndc-conf is freezing..

2002-12-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 06:08:44PM -0500, Jeff MacDonald wrote: I've read a few threads that say rndc-confgen may freeze because /dev/random isnt' random enough. I've set the rand_irqs in rc.conf, as well hammered on the keyboard some while rndc-confgen is runnning and it still sits there.

Re: ports-multimedia ?

2002-12-02 Thread Jens Rehsack
Ilia Chipitsine wrote: On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Jens Rehsack wrote: Ilia Chipitsine wrote: Sure that your cvsupfile get's the most up-to-date version of the ports tree? Maybe you just cvsup'ing against a release version. sure. Can you send me your cvsupfile, please. *default

Re: Find abandoned packages

2002-12-02 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-26 13:41:36 -0800: Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 4. You have already shown that you (falsely) think MIME email == HTML email. I surely didn't think that, but HTML was all I mentioned because I did (falsely) think that MIME email was

Re: physically mounting a FreeBSD drive on a WinXP box

2002-12-02 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: Bsd Neophyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 8:08 AM Subject: physically mounting a FreeBSD drive on a WinXP box i don't know if posting this question is relavant to this group... but i was wondering if it was possible

Re: Always mystified by this. /stand file sizes

2002-12-02 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have been meaning to ask this since I started using FreeBSD but have never dared to, since I thought I ought to know :) Excerpt from /stand -r-xr-xr-x 31 root wheel 1865544 Sep 18 2001 -sh -r-xr-xr-x 31 root wheel 1865544 Sep 18 2001

Re: Poor server response

2002-12-02 Thread Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg
Derrick Ryalls wrote: I built a FreeBSD box using a 4.7-release mini cd distro from freebsd.org. I then updated to stable via cvsup and did a buildworld/kernel. The machine needed linux support, so I installed linux-base (6?) from the ports. Things were going fine until I started stressing the

Hostname failure

2002-12-02 Thread Ian Moore
Hi, I'm having a frustrating time witht a recently built 4.7-RELEASE box. It seems like it can't resolve it's own hostname! hostname returns the hostname OK: daemon:/home/imoore # hostname daemon but running cvsup gives: daemon:/home/imoore # cvsup /usr/local/etc/cvsup/supfile Cannot get IP

4.7: Odd 'man' behavior

2002-12-02 Thread Clint Olsen
It's possible this is cockpit fog, but I didn't notice this until I upgraded to 4.7. Certain manpages are being rendered in such a way that when I type 'q' to exit my PAGER (less), the pager returns to the beginning of the document as if it doesn't exit. But what appears to be happening is that

/usr/bin/finger problems...

2002-12-02 Thread J R Matthews
Whom it concerns, I just upgraded a myriad of my systems from 4.6R-p2 to 4.7 and lo-and-behold I could no longer use /usr/bin/finger to get a finger from remote Ascend NAS. Funnily enough, it still worked on remote Cisco and unix boxen. Still - i got shitty with it, and dug into the problem.

Re: Hostname failure

2002-12-02 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:25:28PM +1030, Ian Moore wrote: and /ect/hosts looks like: 127.0.0.1 localhost deamon ^^ That's not spelt like 'daemon'. Typo? --Stijn -- Tact, n.: The unsaid part of what you're thinking.

Re: Hostname failure

2002-12-02 Thread Ian Moore
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 21:33, Stijn Hoop wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:25:28PM +1030, Ian Moore wrote: and /ect/hosts looks like: 127.0.0.1 localhost deamon ^^ That's not spelt like 'daemon'. Typo? --Stijn Oops! Yes, I is. I could

Re: Always mystified by this. /stand file sizes

2002-12-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:25:59AM -0800, David Schultz wrote: Thus spake Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have been meaning to ask this since I started using FreeBSD but have never dared to, since I thought I ought to know :) Excerpt from /stand -r-xr-xr-x 31 root wheel

Re: Always mystified by this. /stand file sizes

2002-12-02 Thread Rob O'Donnell
At 12:21 02/12/2002 +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:25:59AM -0800, David Schultz wrote: See crunchgen(1). Oh, that looks interesting :) I never knew of such a thing, is it a well kept secret or am I not widely read-enough ? In point of fact I am slightly puzzled by

Re: Always mystified by this. /stand file sizes

2002-12-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:34:50AM +, Rob O'Donnell wrote: At 12:21 02/12/2002 +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:25:59AM -0800, David Schultz wrote: See crunchgen(1). Oh, that looks interesting :) I never knew of such a thing, is it a well kept secret or am I

is there a replace command ?

2002-12-02 Thread Malik Blent
On Freebsd4.x I have a file. I want to change some expressions with new ones For example a file touch /var/qmail/1 touch /var/qmail/2 touch /var/qmail/3 touch /var/qmail/4 touch /var/qmail/5 touch /var/qmail/6 I want to change touch with rm How can i replace a newones in stead of a lot of

Re: is there a replace command ?

2002-12-02 Thread Paul Everlund
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, [iso-8859-9] Malik Bülent wrote: On Freebsd4.x I have a file. I want to change some expressions with new ones For example a file touch /var/qmail/1 touch /var/qmail/2 touch /var/qmail/3 touch /var/qmail/4 touch /var/qmail/5 touch /var/qmail/6 I want to change

Re: dump/restore after filesystem layout changes

2002-12-02 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 01-Dec-2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 10:40:58AM -0600, Conrad Sabatier wrote: Ok, now on to my question: I'd like to do a full backup on each of my filesystems, zap all the partitions and do a new fdisk/disklabel with more filesystems than I'm currently using. For

Re: is there a replace command ?

2002-12-02 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Malik Bülent wrote: On Freebsd4.x I have a file. I want to change some expressions with new ones For example a file touch /var/qmail/1 touch /var/qmail/2 touch /var/qmail/3 touch /var/qmail/4 touch /var/qmail/5 touch /var/qmail/6 I want to change touch with rm How can i

Re: dump/restore after filesystem layout changes

2002-12-02 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 01-Dec-2002 Mark Stosberg wrote: On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Conrad Sabatier wrote: Ok, now on to my question: I'd like to do a full backup on each of my filesystems, zap all the partitions and do a new fdisk/disklabel with more filesystems than I'm currently using. For example, create a new

Re: is there a replace command ?

2002-12-02 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 02-Dec-2002 Malik Bülent wrote: On Freebsd4.x I have a file. I want to change some expressions with new ones For example a file touch /var/qmail/1 touch /var/qmail/2 touch /var/qmail/3 touch /var/qmail/4 touch /var/qmail/5 touch /var/qmail/6 I want to change touch with rm How

Re: is there a replace command ?

2002-12-02 Thread Alan Day
sed -e 's/touch/rm/' FILENAME OUTPUT_FILE or something like, perl -pi -e 's/touch/rm/;' FILENAME man 1 sed for a lot more detail - Original Message - From: Malik Blent [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 7:18 AM Subject: is there a replace command ?

Re: /usr/bin/finger problems...

2002-12-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:01:22PM +1100, J R Matthews wrote: I can submit a patch to fix this if you want or not.. I honestly dont give a damn to be honest ;) Submitting a PR containing a patch is the best way to get this fixed. Thanks! Kris msg10762/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: is there a replace command ?

2002-12-02 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Conrad Sabatier wrote: On 02-Dec-2002 Malik Bülent wrote: On Freebsd4.x I have a file. I want to change some expressions with new ones For example a file touch /var/qmail/1 touch /var/qmail/2 touch /var/qmail/3 touch /var/qmail/4 touch /var/qmail/5 touch

Re: is there a replace command ?

2002-12-02 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-02 14:20:44 +0100: Today Conrad Sabatier wrote: Recent versions of FreeBSD now have a version of 'sed' that can do these types of replacements in place, i.e., without the need for a temporary file: sed -i -e 's/^touch /rm /' infile No. I'm pretty sure,

RE: rndc-conf is freezing..

2002-12-02 Thread Jeff MacDonald
I actuallly ran rndc-confgen -r somefileonmysystem it worked great. Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matthew Seaman Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 4:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: rndc-conf is freezing.. On

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2002-12-02 Thread BaD PiG
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Re: physically mounting a FreeBSD drive on a WinXP box

2002-12-02 Thread Kenzo
Would ms services for unix do it? I know that it can mount remote unix slices to windows, but don't know about physically. - Original Message - From: Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bsd Neophyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 1:52

Re: Mail?

2002-12-02 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
* aSe [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20021202 13:04]: Hello, I'm trying to find a guide/walk-through/howto on installing postfix/qmail on freebsd, along with a pop3 server. I've been searching on google for awhile now, anything i've found is old and/or doesn't talk about setting up pop3. For qmail

Re: List of big names ...

2002-12-02 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: Adam Weinberger wrote: Please take this to advocacy. This banter doesn't belong on the questions list. FWIW: If you examine the history of this thread, you will see that it was posted to -questions, and Bcc:'ed to -advocacy. If you need to assign

Evolution trash emptying

2002-12-02 Thread Steve Wingate
Anyone else noticing that Evolution (1.08) is not emptying the trash on exit, even with the relevant option selected in the configuration? -- +-+ |Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] |MCSE, CCNA

Re: dump/restore after filesystem layout changes

2002-12-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
First of all, I just gotta say: ATAPICAM rocks!!! I can now use my ATAPI CD burner with dump/restore! Awesome!!! Ok, now on to my question: I'd like to do a full backup on each of my filesystems, zap all the partitions and do a new fdisk/disklabel with more filesystems than I'm

Re: Sendmail / Fetchmail / Procmail / Mozilla

2002-12-02 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:35:40AM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-01 12:03:18 -0800: On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 07:45:37PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: snip If I want to use fetchmail to snag email from say 4 different pop acounts and then filter it with

Re: Sendmail / Fetchmail / Procmail / Mozilla

2002-12-02 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-02 08:38:48 -0800: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:35:40AM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-01 12:03:18 -0800: On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 07:45:37PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: snip If I want to use fetchmail to snag email from say 4

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Re: Not upgrading sendmail when upgrading ?

2002-12-02 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-02 17:58:42 +0100: I plan to upgrade our mailhub from 4.4R to 4.7-STABLE because of running Postfix instead of sendmail I do not want the upgrade process to upgrade sendmail. Given that you already have that cruft lying around your disk, what is your

Re: is there a replace command ?

2002-12-02 Thread Paul Everlund
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, [iso-8859-9] Malik Bülent wrote: On Freebsd4.x I have a file. I want to change some expressions with new ones For example a file touch /var/qmail/1 touch /var/qmail/2 touch /var/qmail/3 touch /var/qmail/4 touch /var/qmail/5 touch /var/qmail/6 I want to change

STATEFULL IPFW AND NATD (Was: NAT IPFW)

2002-12-02 Thread BigBrother (BigB3)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nelis wrote ... inside machines cannot telnet... #allow all outbound and only inbound TCP connections I've created add 0301 divert natd all from any to any via rl0 add 00302 check-state add 00303 allow tcp from any to any established add 00304

Re: is there a replace command ?

2002-12-02 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-02 16:36:21 +0100: On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, [iso-8859-9] Malik Blent wrote: On Freebsd4.x I have a file. I want to change some expressions with new ones For example a file touch /var/qmail/1 touch /var/qmail/2 touch /var/qmail/3 touch /var/qmail/4

Re: is there a replace command ?

2002-12-02 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-02 16:53:01 +0100: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-02 16:36:21 +0100: On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, [iso-8859-9] Malik Blent wrote: On Freebsd4.x I have a file. I want to change some expressions with new ones For example a file touch /var/qmail/1 touch

File Counts

2002-12-02 Thread Doug Hardie
How do I get a count of the files in directories? I need to be able to get a listing of the number of files in a directory and counts for the files in each sub-directory. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

flash for opera

2002-12-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
Any news about some project to use flash and native opera? Or do mozilla and galeon stay the only fbsd browsers supporting flash as well as java? -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.7 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Poor server response

2002-12-02 Thread george vagner
same board here and the network card died after 2 weeks of use. i installed a kingston fa311. - Original Message - From: Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Derrick Ryalls [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 11:26 AM Subject: Re: Poor server

Re: flash for opera

2002-12-02 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 07:26:01PM +0100, dick hoogendijk wrote: Any news about some project to use flash and native opera? Or do mozilla and galeon stay the only fbsd browsers supporting flash as well as java? -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD

RE: Mail Server Advice

2002-12-02 Thread Joshua Lokken
I'm sure the difficulty of setup has something to do with it, at least for the newer folks. Joshua -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Moti Levy Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 5:52 AM To: John Von Essen; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

cp/mv verbose options.

2002-12-02 Thread lewiz
Hi, This might sound like quite an odd questions but does anybody know if there is a way to have a simple verbose cp/mv output that shows a time elapsed/remaining counter, or the number of bytes copied? Very much like the copy progress bar used in wget or something similar. Mostly this would

Re: File Counts

2002-12-02 Thread Kliment Andreev
How do I get a count of the files in directories? I need to be able to get a listing of the number of files in a directory and counts for the files in each sub-directory. % ls -l | wc -l(In a directory) % ls -lR | wc -l (Including sub-directories) To Unsubscribe:

RE: Power Management

2002-12-02 Thread R. Zoontjens
Hello, Could someone advise on UPS systems and Power Management related software for FREE BSD systems. i.What systems are dependable and reasonable priced, esp. at the low end for use with workstations ii. Is it possible to power down several work stations simultaneously from one

Re: Power Management

2002-12-02 Thread R. Zoontjens
The following URL has a link to a windows NT client: http://www.sibbald.com/apcupsd/ manual: http://www.sibbald.com/apcupsd/3.8manual/index.html --- Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards, R.J. Zoontjens __ / __ \ _/ /_/ _ ___ / /_/ / __

Re: File Counts

2002-12-02 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:42:28PM -0500, Kliment Andreev wrote: How do I get a count of the files in directories? I need to be able to get a listing of the number of files in a directory and counts for the files in each sub-directory. % ls -l | wc -l(In a directory) % ls

Re: /dev/ums0 not initialized

2002-12-02 Thread Adam Bender
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Mark Stosberg wrote: That didn't work, I get the same error. What I have gotten to work is using it in the PS/2 port and setting the X mouse device to /dev/psm0. Any idea why it doesn't work with USB anymore? Do you have this set in your rc.conf file?

Re: File Counts

2002-12-02 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Mon, 2 Dec 2002 it looks like Nathan Kinkade composed: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:42:28PM -0500, Kliment Andreev wrote: How do I get a count of the files in directories? I need to be able to get a listing of the number of files in a directory and counts for the files in each

Power Management

2002-12-02 Thread Joseph Maxwell
Hello, Could someone advise on UPS systems and Power Management related software for FREE BSD systems. i.What systems are dependable and reasonable priced, esp. at the low end for use with workstations ii. Is it possible to power down several work stations simultaneously from one UPS. I

Re: Power Management

2002-12-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 02), Joseph Maxwell said: Hello, Could someone advise on UPS systems and Power Management related software for FREE BSD systems. i.What systems are dependable and reasonable priced, esp. at the low end for use with workstations ii. Is it possible to power

Re: Printing with Opera

2002-12-02 Thread Vivek Khera
TP == Travis Poppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TP I recently installed apsfilter from the FreeBSD ports sytem, and seem TP to have successfully configured a local printer, and a remote samba TP printer using the apsfilter setup script. Some apps are wired for A4 sized pages. Be sure to configure

Re: kde3.05 port

2002-12-02 Thread Vivek Khera
DH == Dick Hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DH My question is: is it better to install the complete (renewed and old) DH packages for kde3? If so, how do I force teh reinstall of already DH installed packages? My solution: portupgrade -Rrv kde go home for the night. in the morning,

EMail evolution with procmail/fetchmail

2002-12-02 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
I've decided on my EMail Client - Evolution. I've got fetchmail polling my 6 different email addresses. I've got procmail running to a small extent. What I need are: a) a better tutorial then the man pages for procmail. b) how do I get evolution to play nice with procmail mail ? c) assume I

Re: List of big names ...

2002-12-02 Thread Terry Lambert
Marc G. Fournier wrote: FWIW: If you examine the history of this thread, you will see that it was posted to -questions, and Bcc:'ed to -advocacy. If you need to assign blame, assign it to the original poster, which the headers claim is Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Ummm, I never

Re: File Counts

2002-12-02 Thread Alan Day
$ find . -type file | wc -l - Original Message - From: Kliment Andreev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Doug Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 2:42 PM Subject: Re: File Counts How do I get a count of the files in directories? I need to be able to get

Re: cp/mv verbose options.

2002-12-02 Thread Christian Weisgerber
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], lewiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This might sound like quite an odd questions but does anybody know if there is a way to have a simple verbose cp/mv output that shows a time elapsed/remaining counter, or the number of bytes copied? Very much like the copy

Re: EMail evolution with procmail/fetchmail

2002-12-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 04:12:04PM +, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: I've decided on my EMail Client - Evolution. I've got fetchmail polling my 6 different email addresses. I've got procmail running to a small extent. What I need are: a) a better tutorial then the man pages for procmail.

Re: Sendmail / Fetchmail / Procmail / Mozilla

2002-12-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-12-02 08:38, Nathan Kinkade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK. I apologize if I mis-interpreted your post. It wasn't clear to me that your were making a distinction between Sendmail and sendmail, as you don't point out such a distinction. Still, how does one totally disable sendmail

best way to back up entire disk?

2002-12-02 Thread Ray Kohler
[please CC me, I'm not subscribed] I'm looking for a way to back up my entire system in such a manner that if it fails and I need to restore it, I would be able to do it to any arbitrary disk without having to first install the base OS before restoring. I'm running -CURRENT. What I have at my

add users

2002-12-02 Thread Brian Henning
Hello, typically when i add users to my machine i use /stand/sysinstall and go through the menu and add users. I usually change the path to the shell to /bin/tcsh. when the user logs in for the first time they get a '' for a prompt. Is there a way i could set a different prompt as a default when i

Re: location for supfiles

2002-12-02 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 05:18 PM 12.2.2002 -0600, Brian Henning wrote: Hello, I have been using cvsup for a while now. I typically put the ports-supfile and the other supfiles in /root. Is this a good place for it? where do most admins put these kind of files? any good ideas? thanks, brian Usually in /usr/src

Re: Mail Server Advice

2002-12-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-12-02 11:17, Joshua Lokken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure the difficulty of setup has something to do with it, at least for the newer folks. It's not *that* hard if one reads the example files in /etc/mail, and the relevant Handbook section. If it is, then it's a bug of the

Re: File Counts

2002-12-02 Thread Doug Hardie
Thanks to all who responded. The approach below does just what I needed. On Monday, Dec 2, 2002, at 12:02 US/Pacific, Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:42:28PM -0500, Kliment Andreev wrote: How do I get a count of the files in directories? I need to be able to get a listing

Re: directory listing doesn't show all files

2002-12-02 Thread chip wiegand
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 09:51:01 +0100 Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-01 10:28:47 -0800: I have a mixed network of FreeBSD boxes and Win98 boxes. On one FBSD box I use shlight to mount the c: drive of one win98 box. Works fine. When I browser, in any

Find the artist behind the signature

2002-12-02 Thread Signaturehelp.com
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Re: best way to back up entire disk?

2002-12-02 Thread Michael
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 18:25:48 -0500 Ray Kohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a way to back up my entire system in such a manner that if it fails and I need to restore it, I would be able to do it to any arbitrary disk without having to first install the base OS before restoring. I'm

Re: add users

2002-12-02 Thread Dru
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Brian Henning wrote: Hello, typically when i add users to my machine i use /stand/sysinstall and go through the menu and add users. I usually change the path to the shell to /bin/tcsh. when the user logs in for the first time they get a '' for a prompt. Is there a way i

Re: location for supfiles

2002-12-02 Thread Tim Peters
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 05:18:19PM -0600, Brian Henning wrote: Hello, I have been using cvsup for a while now. I typically put the ports-supfile and the other supfiles in /root. Is this a good place for it? where do most admins put these kind of files? any good ideas? I put them in

Re: location for supfiles

2002-12-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-12-02 17:18, Brian Henning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have been using cvsup for a while now. I typically put the ports-supfile and the other supfiles in /root. Is this a good place for it? where do most admins put these kind of files? any good ideas? I have saved mine under

How do I use uvisor?

2002-12-02 Thread Pat Lashley
I've been syncing my Handspring Visor over the USB cable using coldsync and ugen0 for a couple of years now. One of the recent system updates introduced ucom and uvisor; and now I can't get the Visor to sync. (I'm currently running FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE as of about 29 October.) The uvisor man page

Re: Strange WWW problem

2002-12-02 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 12:37:48AM -0800, Rick Hamell wrote: For the last two weeks or so, my web server has stopped processing requests after about 5:30pm or so until about 9:30 or later. I've checked the logs and thought that the Nimbda virus was bogging my server down, this was after I

Re: location for supfiles

2002-12-02 Thread Jud
On Mon, 02 Dec 2002 17:42:03 -0600 Jack L. Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:18 PM 12.2.2002 -0600, Brian Henning wrote: Hello, I have been using cvsup for a while now. I typically put the ports-supfile and the other supfiles in /root. Is this a good place for it? where do most admins

Re: Start deamon by cron

2002-12-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
From: Chatchawan Wongsiriprasert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 7:28 PM Subject: Start deamon by cron Does anyone have any experience start daemon process from cron?. Yes. But, a quid pro quo, this question seems to deal with stopping a daemon, which I

Re: location for supfiles

2002-12-02 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 10:00 PM 12.2.2002 -0500, Jud wrote: On Mon, 02 Dec 2002 17:42:03 -0600 Jack L. Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:18 PM 12.2.2002 -0600, Brian Henning wrote: Hello, I have been using cvsup for a while now. I typically put the ports-supfile and the other supfiles in /root. Is this a

Re: /usr/bin/finger problems...

2002-12-02 Thread J R Matthews
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:01:22PM +1100, J R Matthews wrote: I can submit a patch to fix this if you want or not.. I honestly dont give a damn to be honest ;) Submitting a PR containing a patch is the best way to get this fixed. Thanks! Well the

Re: 4.7: Odd 'man' behavior

2002-12-02 Thread Marco Radzinschi
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Clint Olsen wrote: It's possible this is cockpit fog, but I didn't notice this until I upgraded to 4.7. Certain manpages are being rendered in such a way that when I type 'q' to exit my PAGER (less), the pager returns to the beginning of the document as if it doesn't

Re: 4.7: Odd 'man' behavior

2002-12-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 02), Marco Radzinschi said: On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Clint Olsen wrote: It's possible this is cockpit fog, but I didn't notice this until I upgraded to 4.7. Certain manpages are being rendered in such a way that when I type 'q' to exit my PAGER (less), the pager

Re: Strange WWW problem

2002-12-02 Thread Rick Hamell
Are you saying that your httpd access log shows the hit and that the document was served, yet the client is getting 404 (or some such) errors? If so, have you tried launching `ethereal` (or your favorite protocol analyzer) to see exactly what is going on at all levels? If nothing is

Re: File Counts

2002-12-02 Thread Adam Weinberger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (12.02.2002 @ 1901 PST): Peter Leftwich said, in 1.6K: I was not complaining. My comment was meant to draw a paralell or attention to the disparity between unix and Windows' File Explorer (which constantly lists in the status bar at the bottom,

New install won't boot off A7V133

2002-12-02 Thread Scott I. Remick
I just got in an ATA133 30GB drive that I am going to dedicat to FreeBSD on my main system (an Asus A7V133). I took off the existing 20GB (Win2000), put the 30GB in its place (primary master). I boot from a 4.7-REL CD I made, install goes fine... it detects the controllers, drive, I partition the

updating troubles.

2002-12-02 Thread Gary D Kline
Hey Gang, Can anybody clue me in on why this port errors out? I mannaged to leave the linux_base-6 world behind,' but am wedged here, trying to bring several other ports current. No-joy. Looks like something is hosed with the dependencies

Re: 4.7: Odd 'man' behavior

2002-12-02 Thread Clint Olsen
On Dec 02, Dan Nelson wrote: 38704 is /bin/sh, which spawned 37085, which is writing to your TTY. Do you maybe have two thttpd manpages, possibly an uncompressed and a compressed version? When you hit q in less, it exits, and the only way it could return to the beginning of the document if

Re: 4.7: Odd 'man' behavior

2002-12-02 Thread Alex(ander Sendzimir)
I experience the same symptoms, so I'll third this topic. I've noticed that it appears to happen only with man pages that belong to the system. When I man a non-system manpage, it works as expected whether running with X or without. (I was wondering if it might be X related. Just a thought.

Bootable FreeBSD cd

2002-12-02 Thread Nick Twaddell
How can I make a bootable cd of freebsd 4.7-CURRENT The iso on the mirrors is -RELEASE I believe. Nick To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Ports base? [hear me roar Cliff]

2002-12-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:37:00PM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote: On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Cliff Sarginson wrote: Took the words right out of my mouth. Peter, these things get done by people doing them. That is the tautology of the situation. You might find your name in lights if you become that

Re: New install won't boot off A7V133

2002-12-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 08:19:36PM -0800, Scott I. Remick wrote: I just got in an ATA133 30GB drive that I am going to dedicat to FreeBSD on my main system (an Asus A7V133). I took off the existing 20GB (Win2000), put the 30GB in its place (primary master). I boot from a 4.7-REL CD I made,

hello

2002-12-02 Thread ?? ?
Dear sir, Having seen the Freebsd website branch of China,I feel sorry about it.For the purpose of learning the BSD OS, I visit the Chinese BSD website and wanna obtain the learing resources about BSD,so I selected the Chinese official website of FreeBSD. I supposed that she must have the