Re: Dumb question about ports/packages

2005-02-10 Thread Matt Rechkemmer
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 09:45:07AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > Um, no, as the original poster pointed out, ssh is part of the base > system, and normally you don't need the port. > > Upgrading the base system *is* the best approach. It *doesn't* > normally require updating to the latest r

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > That is so not true that it makes me almost as angry as the original > debate. Maybe getting angry about a mere logo is a bad sign. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Technical Director writes: > "Okay Rob, you can have one FreeBSD box, on your desktop..." The first time I encountered FreeBSD, I dismissed it because of the name. It sounded like yet another geek hobbyist project, like Linux, and that was something I didn't think should run in a critical produc

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Frank J. Laszlo writes: > Who says it has to be small? Business cards and letterheads say that. Logos are often reproduced at very small sizes, even on large documents. They often appear in a corner or at the bottom of a page. Logos are not used in place of cover art, but they often are a _part

Re: I need a cuppa...

2005-02-10 Thread John
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:46:03PM -0800, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > On Thursday 10 February 2005 09:01 pm, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:53:21PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:10:00AM -0600, John wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 0

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Bob Johnson writes: > I work in an office largely populated by born-again Christians, and some > of them very definitely object to the BSD logo. Even after I explained > the "daemon" thing, they still didn't think BSD should use "The Devil" > as its logo. It doesn't help that some people use "d

Re: wireless-to-wired bridging

2005-02-10 Thread Hexren
RL> I have a question that is more of a networking question than a BSD RL> question, but I am hoping someone out there has faced this same dilemma RL> before and has some advice: RL> I have a FreeBSD machine running -current that servers as a router for my RL> home LAN, using nat. I recently toss

RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo suchasNetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Louis LeBlanc > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 7:59 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo > suchasNetBSD!!! > > > Those technical crite

RE: Please don't change Beastie to another logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Johnson > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 3:45 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: Jacob S > Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another logo such > asNetBSD!!! > > > It IS because

RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: Garance A Drosehn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 1:17 PM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org > Subject: RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as > NetBSD!!! > > > At 12:50 AM -0800 2/10/05, T

RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: Garance A Drosehn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 1:17 PM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org > Subject: RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as > NetBSD!!! > > > At 12:50 AM -0800 2/10/

Re: I need a cuppa...

2005-02-10 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Thursday 10 February 2005 09:01 pm, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:53:21PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:10:00AM -0600, John wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:05:22PM -0800, Tabor Kelly wrote: > > > > Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > >

RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo suchasNetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dick Davies > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:10 PM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo > suchasNetBSD!!! > > > * Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Garance A > Drosehn > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 11:26 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as > NetBSD!!! > > > It is interes

Re: I need a cuppa...

2005-02-10 Thread John
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:53:21PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:10:00AM -0600, John wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:05:22PM -0800, Tabor Kelly wrote: > > > Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:06:17PM -0600, John wrote: > > > > > > > >>OK, I mus

glade-2

2005-02-10 Thread Gert Cuykens
Does anyone know how glade-2 works ? I made a test gui and now i would like to make a test executable of the gui ? PS are there alternatives for glade ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 10 February 2005 07:13 pm, Mike Hauber wrote: > > I have two questions. These are not accusations, but questions > and I don't want accusations in response. > > 1. Why was this so hush-hush (ie, Why was it "leakable" (ie, why > the secrecy, if FreeBSD is supposed to be a project where

Re: Sending nightly cron job output without running sendmail

2005-02-10 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Thursday 10 February 2005 08:24 pm, Joshua Tinnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 10 February 2005 08:04 pm, Kyle Jensen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have deactivated sendmail via > > > > sendmail_enable="NONE" > > > > in my /etc/rc.conf. However, I > > would lik

Re: formatting a DVD+RW

2005-02-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
Xian wrote: I am trying to format a DVD+RW as I gather this kind of DVD needs. I tried growisofs and it told me: * DVD±RW/-RAM format utility by <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, version 4.10. :-( unable to open("/dev/acd0"): Inappropriate ioctl for device Did you rebuild your kernel with the ATAPICAM optio

Re: Sending nightly cron job output without running sendmail

2005-02-10 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Thursday 10 February 2005 08:04 pm, Kyle Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have deactivated sendmail via > > sendmail_enable="NONE" > > in my /etc/rc.conf. However, I > would like to receive the output > of my periodic cron jobs via email. > How can I configure my system for >

Sending nightly cron job output without running sendmail

2005-02-10 Thread Kyle Jensen
Hi, I have deactivated sendmail via sendmail_enable="NONE" in my /etc/rc.conf. However, I would like to receive the output of my periodic cron jobs via email. How can I configure my system for this? Thanks so much! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: Simulating webserver load balancing

2005-02-10 Thread Nick Pavlica
Here are a couple of other solutions to look at: http://www.inlab.de/balance.html http://pythondirector.sourceforge.net/ --Nick On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:07:20 -0500, Gerard Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im looking for suggestions for a port and/or tips that would assist me in > se

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Technical Director
Oliver, On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Oliver Leitner wrote: > im not rob, but thanks, already got one) Oh my that's so ... funny. > interresting thought, so its a sweet tasting thing that youd like to drink? > (in case i translated jello right, cause this is not my mother language...) Maybe where you

Re: Simulating webserver load balancing

2005-02-10 Thread Gerard Samuel
Gerard Samuel wrote: Im looking for suggestions for a port and/or tips that would assist me in setting up a webserver cluster. But the catch is, I only have one physical webserver. I want to simulate an environment to test some code that I wrote. Thanks for anything that you can provide... I just

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 8:13 PM -0500 2/10/05, Mike Hauber wrote: On Thursday 10 February 2005 05:49 pm, Technical Director wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > No. While Beastie is cute and well executed, it's not > professional graphic art. Here here... Rob. I have two questions. These are no

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Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:13 PM -0500 2/10/05, Mike Hauber wrote: And quite frankly, it doesn't take weeks to figure out how to use correct grammar in an announcement or a responce (and even if the grammar is left _so_ wanting, take a look at the archives for this list. It can't be all _that_ bad, can it?) Who are yo

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Oliver Leitner
On Friday 11 February 2005 04:15, Technical Director wrote: > > and for a personal thing of mine, would you please leave terms like > > "decision makers" out of here, i just have the certain feeling that youre > > referring to the manager type of person, who does not ever go to a > > serverroom or

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Technical Director
> > and for a personal thing of mine, would you please leave terms like "decision > makers" out of here, i just have the certain feeling that youre referring to > the manager type of person, who does not ever go to a serverroom or really > look at anything important anyways. > > of course thats my

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Oliver Leitner
for answering a discussion about a logo contest youre taking a quite wide turn, dont you guys think? On Thursday 10 February 2005 23:34, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Garance A Drosihn writes: > > You've never heard of a startup firm? Perhaps a startup made of > > recent college graduates? They mi

Simulating webserver load balancing

2005-02-10 Thread Gerard Samuel
Im looking for suggestions for a port and/or tips that would assist me in setting up a webserver cluster. But the catch is, I only have one physical webserver. I want to simulate an environment to test some code that I wrote. Thanks for anything that you can provide... _

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Oliver Leitner
On Friday 11 February 2005 03:49, Technical Director wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Mike Hauber wrote: > > weeks to figure out how to use correct grammar in an announcement > > or a responce (and even if the grammar is left _so_ wanting, take > > a look at the archives for this list. It can't be al

5.3-Stable network issue

2005-02-10 Thread Martin Minkus
I seem to have been having a rather strange networking issue in FreeBSD 5.3-Stable (it started happening immediately after 5.2.1 and has persisted since.. I keep ³hoping² that next time I cvsup it will be fixed, but no). I downgraded back to 5.2.1-p13 and it is perfectly fine once again. *** Som

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Technical Director
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Mike Hauber wrote: > weeks to figure out how to use correct grammar in an announcement > or a responce (and even if the grammar is left _so_ wanting, take > a look at the archives for this list. It can't be all _that_ > bad, can it?) You raise issue with the grammar of tec

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Nick Pavlica
Personally I'm very happy that they are changing the logo. Thanks to those that decided to take the plunge to do this! --Nick On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:42:32 +0100, Stephan Lichtenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am 10.02.2005 um 10:20 schrieb Anthony Atkielski: > > > Joshua Tinnin writes: >

Re: single box handling multiple ips, how?

2005-02-10 Thread Oliver Leitner
On Friday 11 February 2005 02:54, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Ken Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I do not know what the 'web1.a.net.' is about, more specifically he > > .net"." (dot on the end). i took this for the initial setup that was > > done on the box' initial entry in the /etc/hosts. >

Re: single box handling multiple ips, how?

2005-02-10 Thread Oliver Leitner
On Friday 11 February 2005 02:54, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Ken Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I do not know what the 'web1.a.net.' is about, more specifically he > > .net"." (dot on the end). i took this for the initial setup that was > > done on the box' initial entry in the /etc/hosts. >

Re: single box handling multiple ips, how?

2005-02-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ken Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I do not know what the 'web1.a.net.' is about, more specifically he > .net"." (dot on the end). i took this for the initial setup that was > done on the box' initial entry in the /etc/hosts. It looks like a DNS map, but that's not what should go in hosts(

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Mike Hauber
On Thursday 10 February 2005 05:49 pm, Technical Director wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > No. While Beastie is cute and well executed, it's not > > professional graphic art. > > Here here... > > Rob. I have two questions. These are not accusations, but questions and

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Oliver Leitner
alot of discussions going on the past 48 hours about this topic, i guess there is alot of room for explanations left, that ppls want to hear, why not give the ppls that actually stand behind FreeBSD and behind the logo contest or whatever it is a chance to tell us what they where thinking about

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 10 February 2005 06:00 pm, Mark A. Garcia wrote: > > > I'd like to hear a story of a system administrator who has chosen not > to use FreeBSD explicitly because of the logo. That would be way > more entertaining. Everyone could learn more about human nature. > > -.mag If you're tryi

Re: Secure file transfers

2005-02-10 Thread Danie Du Toit
I am sorry, the requirements was a bit vague. A customer will call in with a issue and I'll request they send me log files, crashdumps, sniffer traces, etc.If the info is, say less than 5MB, I request they mail me the file zipped (password encryped) as most users do not have pgp or a secure f

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Frank Laszlo writes: Yes, Process colors being 4 plates, but rendered properly, it could be less. All process printing requires four (or six) colors. That's what process means. The current "logo" as it is shown on freebsd.org, COULD be printed on 2 plates, as a 2

Re: Script Questions

2005-02-10 Thread Chris Sechiatano
This is close to what I was trying before. Is there a way I can pipe the output of locate into xargs? The filesystem is 680 Gigs and I'd like to only search it once if possible. This doesn't work: # slocate -i -d /tmp/04vfile001_db *.wmv | xargs -0 ls -l Thanks On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:33:1

Re: SQL Questions

2005-02-10 Thread Ean Kingston
On February 10, 2005 06:42 pm, Sean wrote: > I would like to install SQL here for my own use, not for any real life > currently, round now for learning. > > Right now plan to install MySQL. > Looking through the ports there is numerous version and some say for > server, some say for client. > > Loo

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Mark A. Garcia
Bob Johnson wrote: I work in an office largely populated by born-again Christians, and some of them very definitely object to the BSD logo. Even after I explained the "daemon" thing, they still didn't think BSD should use "The Devil" as its logo. It IS because of "Bible thumpers". If it wer

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Bob Johnson
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:31:30 -0600 > From: Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another logo such asNetBSD!!! [...] Maybe 'beastie' will turn away some potential users, and maybe it's not "politically correct", and maybe it's not the optimal "business image"

SQL Questions

2005-02-10 Thread Sean
I would like to install SQL here for my own use, not for any real life currently, round now for learning. Right now plan to install MySQL. Looking through the ports there is numerous version and some say for server, some say for client. Looking for some tips as to what version of SQL and tools

Re: formatting a DVD+RW

2005-02-10 Thread Xian
On Thursday 10 February 2005 21:51, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > Under 5.X or 4.X ? 5.3R -- /Xian "I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice." Albert Einstein ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Script Questions

2005-02-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-02-10 15:17, Chris Sechiatano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a filesystem which is being used by MS workstations. People > are storing mp3's, jpgs and other 'non work related files' on here and > the management asked me to find all the files and how much space they > are using. > >

Re: Script Questions

2005-02-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 10), Chris Sechiatano said: > I'm sure everybody loves these kind of questions, but I really > appreciate the help. > > I have a filesystem which is being used by MS workstations. People > are storing mp3's, jpgs and other 'non work related files' on here > and the manage

Script Questions

2005-02-10 Thread Chris Sechiatano
Hello, I'm sure everybody loves these kind of questions, but I really appreciate the help. I have a filesystem which is being used by MS workstations. People are storing mp3's, jpgs and other 'non work related files' on here and the management asked me to find all the files and how much space th

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 MySQL Performance

2005-02-10 Thread Ean Kingston
On February 10, 2005 04:53 pm, Jeff Behl wrote: > >Any so-called "benchmark" comparing Linux to anything else (especially > >windoze) has been polluted by the tradition in the linux/windoze world > >of running their disks in the completely unsafe "asynchronous" mode so > >popular with the ATA disk

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Frank Laszlo writes: > Yes, Process colors being 4 plates, but rendered properly, it could be > less. All process printing requires four (or six) colors. That's what process means. > The current "logo" as it is shown on freebsd.org, COULD be printed on 2 > plates, as a 2 color job. those colors

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Technical Director
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > No. While Beastie is cute and well executed, it's not professional > graphic art. Here here... Rob. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 5:27 PM -0500 2/10/05, Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 02/10/05 03:31 PM, Jacob S sat at the `puter and typed: And a very poor example, IMHO. Can you give any proof that it's a valid example to say that Christians object to the use of the acronym "daemon" in Unix-like operating systems? I have not be

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Jacob S writes: > You make it sound as if the FreeBSD project paid a million dollars for > the current drawing of "Beastie". No. While Beastie is cute and well executed, it's not professional graphic art. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Re: changing logo

2005-02-10 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Tom Mecke writes: > Many people may think twice about donating money to the project if > you are worrying about trivial complaints about a cute little "daemon" > logo instead of directing energy all to the project! No more than would worry about the possibly "demonic" connotations of a devil as a

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Jacob S writes: > And a very poor example, IMHO. I look forward to seeing yours. > Can you give any proof that it's a valid example to say that > Christians object to the use of the acronym "daemon" in Unix-like > operating systems? I have not been able to find any proof on this > list, the 19 L

Re: DNS virgin

2005-02-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
kilim wrote: Hello, being a DNS virgin I deceided to post this after reading through Dns & Bind book and various on/off-line documentation. I have loads of questions even though I've read through this stuff. And I'm hoping that you can help me clarify them. Thanks in advance ! Now that I've regis

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Garance A Drosihn writes: > You've never heard of a startup firm? Perhaps a startup made of > recent college graduates? They might not "kill" for the chance, > but if they do have some spare time they might find this an > attractive project to spend some time on. People who want to make money d

Re: Messed up my ports - "Can't find the `5.1-RELEASE' distribution on this FTP server."

2005-02-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Joachim Dagerot wrote: I have probably done something sometime on my 2 year+ server installation that wrecked my port installation. Whenever I try to install a port I get the "Can't find the `5.1-RELEASE' distribution on this FTP server." the same goes with "sysinstall -> configure -> Distributio

Re: Using FreeBSD to migrate Windows XP?

2005-02-10 Thread John
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 09:03:58AM -0600, John wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 02:17:56PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: > > John wrote: > > > OK - I've finally come to the realization (a little slow, I know) > > > that a 5.8Gb disk drive is just not enough to support a desktop > > > environment (inc

Re: DNS virgin

2005-02-10 Thread Mark A. Garcia
kilim wrote: Now that I've registered a certain domain through godaddy.com I wish to set up my own DNS server. In the Godaddy's web interface there is a way to set two new DNS server. Can I just put one of the server to be my DNS primary leaving out the secondary ? Or can I leave their se

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 02/10/05 03:31 PM, Jacob S sat at the `puter and typed: > > And a very poor example, IMHO. Can you give any proof that it's a valid > example to say that Christians object to the use of the acronym "daemon" > in Unix-like operating systems? I have not been able to find any proof > on this list,

How do I upgrade a 5.1 server?

2005-02-10 Thread Joachim Dagerot
I am running a 5.1 server (I think). It was atleast 5.1 when I installed it but after that I have cvsuped plenty of times and also re-built the kernal a few times. Is there a foolproof step by step guide on what I need to do to get my system into a the right version now and for ever? Somethin

Re: Messed up my ports - "Can't find the `5.1-RELEASE' distribution on this FTP server."

2005-02-10 Thread Joachim Dagerot
On 2005-02-10 Kent Stewart wrote: On Thursday 10 February 2005 07:14 am, Joachim Dagerot wrote: >> I have probably done something sometime on my 2 year+ server >> installation that wrecked my port installation. >> >> Whenever I try to install a port I get the "Can't find the >> `5.1-RELEASE'

Re: changing logo

2005-02-10 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 3:36 PM -0600 2/10/05, Tom Mecke wrote: Many people may think twice about donating money to the project if you are worrying about trivial complaints about a cute little "daemon" logo instead of directing energy all to the project! Oooo. I work on FreeBSD for free. I get zero money from it. Al

DNS virgin

2005-02-10 Thread kilim
Hello, being a DNS virgin I deceided to post this after reading through Dns & Bind book and various on/off-line documentation. I have loads of questions even though I've read through this stuff. And I'm hoping that you can help me clarify them. Thanks in advance ! Now that I've registered a c

wireless-to-wired bridging

2005-02-10 Thread Reid Linnemann
I have a question that is more of a networking question than a BSD question, but I am hoping someone out there has faced this same dilemma before and has some advice: I have a FreeBSD machine running -current that servers as a router for my home LAN, using nat. I recently tossed in a DLink DWL-G5

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Frank Laszlo
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Frank Laszlo writes: you are all looking at a web graphic. Allready rendered as process colors. Its impossible to say how many "printing plates" its on. Process is always four plates, except for the rare hexachrome offset, which is six plates. Spot colors require on

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 MySQL Performance

2005-02-10 Thread Jeff Behl
Any so-called "benchmark" comparing Linux to anything else (especially windoze) has been polluted by the tradition in the linux/windoze world of running their disks in the completely unsafe "asynchronous" mode so popular with the ATA disk drive manufacturers. This method means that you never actu

Re: formatting a DVD+RW

2005-02-10 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:47:10PM +, Xian wrote: > I am trying to format a DVD+RW as I gather this kind of DVD needs. I tried > growisofs and it told me: > > * DVD±RW/-RAM format utility by <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, version 4.10. > :-( unable to open("/dev/acd0"): Inappropriate ioctl for device

Re: How to Reset a Forgotten Root Password

2005-02-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thx You're welcome. Oh, whoops! You *did* have a question! Check the F.A.Q. I believe this one is in FAQ Chapter 10, subpoint 12. Good luck! Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

formatting a DVD+RW

2005-02-10 Thread Xian
I am trying to format a DVD+RW as I gather this kind of DVD needs. I tried growisofs and it told me: * DVD±RW/-RAM format utility by <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, version 4.10. :-( unable to open("/dev/acd0"): Inappropriate ioctl for device I then tried burncd format dvd+rw but that that just sat th

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:37:43 +0100 Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Julio Capote writes: > > > Untrue, I know a NUMBER of emerging graphic artists, who would kill > > for this kind of exposure, and are much better than any > > commercialized firm I've seen. > > If they are so good,

changing logo

2005-02-10 Thread Tom Mecke
I think the new logo contest is ridiculous! Do not change the logo for a tiny minority WHO MAY interpret the current logo as "evil". I like the logo very much as it is and I associate it automatically with FreeBSD. The only people who really think it is evil may be Microsoft and their spiritu

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Greg Barniskis
Anthony Atkielski wrote: I can almost guarantee that if everyone involved took a magic drug that eliminated testosterone, a new logo would be agreed upon in a day or so. LOL ...to which I would add two words: bike shed! I have a great fondness for Beastie; that is clearly not uncommon and obvious

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:25:32 +0100 Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Louis LeBlanc writes: > > > Neutrality is purely objective in this case (and many others). > > Uninformed neutrality can be highly inflammatory. Beastie is only > > considered inflammatory to those uninformed funda

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:37 PM +0100 2/10/05, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Julio Capote writes: > Untrue, I know a NUMBER of emerging graphic artists, who would > kill for this kind of exposure, and are much better than any > commercialized firm I've seen. If they are so good, why would they kill for this kind of expos

Re: Secure file transfers

2005-02-10 Thread Erik Norgaard
Gregor Mosheh wrote: I had a similar, perhaps related question. I'm making backups via tar to a SMB server, but I would rather use sftp/scp for it (the NAS supports both SMB and scp/sftp). I don't have enough disk space to make the backup to a tarchive and then scp that tarchive. Is there a way to

Re: Secure file transfers

2005-02-10 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Gregor Mosheh wrote: I had a similar, perhaps related question. I'm making backups via tar to a SMB server, but I would rather use sftp/scp for it (the NAS supports both SMB and scp/sftp). I don't have enough disk space to make the backup to a tarchive and then scp that tarchi

RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 12:50 AM -0800 2/10/05, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: No, sorry. The core team apparently feels that the way to do things now is to made decisions of this nature first, then have discussion later, rather than the reverse which previously has been the case. This contest came out because the developers

RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 12:50 AM -0800 2/10/05, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: It is clear from reading both lists that much of the anger is based upon false assumptions, misinformation and incomplete editing of the leaked document. Sorry, but that is false. Much of the anger is based on Robert Watson (and whatever other

How to Reset a Forgotten Root Password

2005-02-10 Thread noc
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Re: disappearance of /dev/mem

2005-02-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:00:51PM +0100, St?phane Le Maure wrote: > Hello all > > I have a big problem since the upgrade of 5.2 towards 5.3. > The file /dev/mem does not exist any more in /dev and thus all the > programs using this file does not function any more. > There of another person is wh

Re: groff/font/devX100 segfault in "make installworld"

2005-02-10 Thread Tom Trelvik
Bah, I knew I'd forget something ... Tom Trelvik wrote: {...} So, my questions: {...} 5) Is there documentation I haven't found on how to go about diagnosing a problem such as this? I was very surprised my problem was not in the build stage, but the actual install stage, which made me w

Re: Messed up my ports - "Can't find the `5.1-RELEASE' distribution on this FTP server."

2005-02-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 04:14:32PM +0100, Joachim Dagerot wrote: > > I have probably done something sometime on my 2 year+ server installation > that wrecked my port installation. > > Whenever I try to install a port I get the "Can't find the `5.1-RELEASE' > distribution on this FTP server." th

Re: Make fails because of missing library but I can see it's there, why???

2005-02-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 12:42:55AM -0800, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > Hi, > This always happens to me whenever I'm compiling > third party applications. Make fails because it says > that it cannot find a certain library.. and when I try > to search for that file, I usually finds it. For > exampl

disappearance of /dev/mem

2005-02-10 Thread Stéphane Le Maure
Hello all I have a big problem since the upgrade of 5.2 towards 5.3. The file /dev/mem does not exist any more in /dev and thus all the programs using this file does not function any more. There of another person is who has the concern. Thank you very much for your assistance.

Can't get anything better than 800x600 resolution

2005-02-10 Thread RL
I just got an Nvida PCI GeForce FX card, installed the NVIDIA drivers correctly (it loads), did an xorgconfig, and made the appropriate changed in xorg.conf. I have a "DefaultDepth 24" line and under depth 24 I have Modes "1024 x768" etc... However, when I load X, it loads at 800x600 and I can't

Re: groff/font/devX100 segfault in "make installworld"

2005-02-10 Thread Tom Trelvik
Okay, so, no response initially, hopefully you guys won't mind some quicker and more specific followups, then. I just reinstalled again, followed only the steps I documented below (minus the vim & portupgrade installs), and had identical results. This time, however, I tried changing the tag

Adding an usb harddisk

2005-02-10 Thread Jack Raats
I want to add an usb harddisk. Acoording to fdisk it's formatted as a "NTFS/HPFS/QNX" disk Can I add this disk and still using this file system? What kind of dev/fstab do I need to add? Do I need an extra swap slice? How to make one? I'm using FreeBSD 4.11. Thank you Jack Raats

Question reg. FreeBSD filesystem size

2005-02-10 Thread Sam Farmer
What is the maximum supported size for a single filesystem under Release 4.11 and under 5.3? Thanks! Sam Farmer Systems Engineer Cambridge Computer Services, Inc. Artists in Data Storage Tel: 781-250-3212 Fax: 781-250-3312 www.cambridgecomputer.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Messed up my ports - "Can't find the `5.1-RELEASE' distribution on this FTP server."

2005-02-10 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 10 February 2005 07:14 am, Joachim Dagerot wrote: > I have probably done something sometime on my 2 year+ server > installation that wrecked my port installation. > > Whenever I try to install a port I get the "Can't find the > `5.1-RELEASE' distribution on this FTP server." the same go

Re: Secure file transfers

2005-02-10 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 10 February 2005 02:28 pm, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Danie Du Toit writes: > > Which packages are available to upload /download large dumpfiles in > > a secure fashion (e.g. using SSL). The customer should not need any > > secure client installed on his PC. > > Anything that is secure

Re: Secure file transfers

2005-02-10 Thread Gregor Mosheh
I had a similar, perhaps related question. I'm making backups via tar to a SMB server, but I would rather use sftp/scp for it (the NAS supports both SMB and scp/sftp). I don't have enough disk space to make the backup to a tarchive and then scp that tarchive. Is there a way to make scp/sftp read

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Julio Capote writes: > Untrue, I know a NUMBER of emerging graphic artists, who would kill for > this kind of exposure, and are much better than any commercialized firm > I've seen. If they are so good, why would they kill for this kind of exposure? The world of commercial art is no exception to

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Louis LeBlanc writes: > If there were a *reasonable* basis for changing, I would be in favor > of the proposed change. Sadly, but in favor nonetheless. The > "business" reasons mentioned are not sound given the fact that there > are *real* devils used as mascots and logos in the food, sports, an

Re: Secure file transfers

2005-02-10 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Danie Du Toit writes: > Which packages are available to upload /download large dumpfiles in a > secure fashion (e.g. using SSL). The customer should not need any > secure client installed on his PC. Anything that is secure will require appropriate software at both ends of the transfer, and thus w

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