Re: How to turn off keyboard bell

2004-06-09 Thread Chris Pressey
On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 07:14:50 -0700 "Bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm having a difficult time turning off the keyboard bell. I have > tried kbdcontrol -b off and setting keybell="NO" in rc.conf, but this > only shortens it down to a chirp. If I set kbdcontrol -b visual, then >

Re: OT: group coding standards

2004-06-07 Thread Chris Pressey
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:10:06 -0700 "Goodleaf, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, >I'm abusing the mailing list because many of you are sickeningly >clever and have long experience in IT. I'm working to establish a >document (yep) providing guidance for our company's >small

Re: Sharing Linux swap space on FreeBSD 4.9

2004-06-06 Thread Chris Pressey
On Thu, 13 May 2004 04:19:56 + "Richard Liang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am trying to enable the linux swap space I have under Red Hat on FreeBSD > 4.9. [...] > So I've tried "swapon /dev/ad0s4" from FreeBSD and it always says: > swapon: /dev/ad0s4: Device not confi

Re: bell through sound card

2004-05-25 Thread Chris Pressey
On 25 Apr 2004 00:07:40 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a Shuttle box that (to my surprise) doesn't have a standard PC > feeper. Has anyone done any work on making the standard bell go > through a sound card? Has anyone given any thought to what would be > the right way to do it? Would ad

Re: cd-rom drive on parallel port

2004-04-12 Thread Chris Pressey
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:02:03 +0200 Marc "UBM" Bocklet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, I'm posting this one last time in the hope that somebody can at > least tell me: "No, it does not work" :-) > > -- > > Hiho! :-) > > I've an old 8x cdrom that gets connected to a parall

Re: pseudo-device vn

2004-04-11 Thread Chris Pressey
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:32:01 +0200 (MET DST) Mipam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > > Should i just put > > > > > pseudo-device vn > > > > > in the kernel config file to make this work? > > > > In 5.x, `vn' was replaced by `md'. (Sorry, that's ab

Re: pseudo-device vn

2004-04-07 Thread Chris Pressey
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 15:12:21 +0200 (MET DST) Mipam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > Should i just put > > > pseudo-device vn > > > in the kernel config file to make this work? > > > > You didn't say which version of FreeBSD you were using. > > In ve

Re: Error During "Make Installworld"

2004-03-25 Thread Chris Pressey
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 01:13:06 -0600 "Kevin Greenidge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using FreeBSD 4.9. Does anyone know what can be causing this? Here > is the error below: > > install: rename: /sbin/init to /sbin/init.bak: Operation not permitted > *** Error code 71 > > Stop in /usr/src/s

Re: swap

2004-03-25 Thread Chris Pressey
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 08:38:07 +0200 "Olegs Sorokins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > Sure, anyone knows, except me. How can the additional swap space be > added to the working FreeBSD system without reinstalling the whole > system. > > Thanks in advance, > Oleg Hi Oleg, Have a look a

Re: kernel module

2004-03-23 Thread Chris Pressey
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:34:47 +1030 Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday, 23 March 2004 at 13:26:32 -0600, Brian Henning wrote: > > Greetings: > > > > Could someone explain howto move something that is part of the > > kernel and make it a kernel module? > > for example the pc

Re: disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!

2004-03-23 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:44:11 -0600 Nathan Kinkade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone on the list point me to a manufacturers site or > documentation that unequivocally states in clear terms the real > dangers of hotplugging a PS/2 device? How about http://www.heurtley.com/richard/maintenance

Re: wraparound value for time

2004-03-23 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:38:02 + Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 03:40:58PM -0800, Chris Landauer wrote: > > > i tried to figure out where the actual code for time is, but i can't > > quite tell - it appears to be buried inside csh somewhere (it also > > app

Re: Virtual terminal buffer?

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

Re: Top posting

2004-03-21 Thread Chris Pressey
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 01:50:14 -0500 "Denny Jodeit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It boils down to a 'When in Rome, do as Romans do' situation. The > charter states no top posting. I made sure to re-read the list charter when this thread started. I couldn't find a single mention of top posting. Th

Re: KLD and UID

2004-03-18 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 23:09:36 -0700 Simon Timms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, I am playing around with kernel modules trying to learn > something and hopefully not destroy my computer too badly. Right now > my goal is to print out the user id from an open() call. I am basing > my work ar

Re: Want complete list of freebsd commands in freebsd 5.2

2004-03-17 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:59:24 + Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:39:07AM +0500, Asghar Ali wrote: > > > Anyone have the complete list of freebsd 5.2 commands. I need it so > > please send to me on my mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > What you ask for is

Re: Server automatically Shuts down.

2004-03-17 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 06:33:33 -0800 (PST) samy lancher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My system does not auto reboot. It just crashes as if some one has > pressed the power off button. I think it is surely some thing to do > with power supply. I will open the case and leave for a day. I will > also

Re: issue with simple script

2004-03-15 Thread Chris Pressey
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:27:20 -0700 David Bear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought I had a tape issue.. Now its clear I have a script issue. > > Below is a script I use to perform level 0 dumps on all mounted file > systems. The problem seems to be that when the script runs, it does > not run

Re: [Fwd: Re: deleting directories with ??? in name]

2004-03-15 Thread Chris Pressey
On 15 Mar 2004 20:26:12 -0500 Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I managed to delete the files by recreating the directory. > > > > Not to seem ungrateful, but isn't it a Bad Thing that it > > is not straightforeward to delete any file on the sys

Re: Need bash help

2004-03-15 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 01:40:51 +0200 hugle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all. > I'm writing here, cause i think just here people can help me. > (p.s. didn't find bash mailing lists) > [...] > So what I wanna do is smth like: > > for i in `seq 1 254`; do > ./dc 192.168.1.$i > and if it returns

Re: pc speaker to sound card

2004-03-09 Thread Chris Pressey
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:31:17 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > FBSD 4.9R > > is there anyway to route PC speaker sounds to my sound card? > specifically, my PC speaker is fried, and i would like to > hear "ytalk" beeps thru my sound card ... > > thanks (please copy any replies off-list). Hi, (sorr

Re: one simple question

2004-03-03 Thread Chris Pressey
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 18:13:43 + chungwei Hsiung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello.. > I have a simple question, but I am not sure what the answer is. If > anyone can possibly help me, it is really appreciated. I compile a > test C file. I notice there are a few lines at the beginning of t

Re: How to remove a non-empty directory

2004-03-01 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 22:21:24 +0800 Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all folks, > > Kindly advise where can I find the small program 'midnight commander' > for FreeBSD. /usr/ports/misc/mc > OR what command line shall be applied on FBSD to remove a non-empty > directory together with i

Re: SoundBlaster 16 PnP ISA Card on 5.1

2004-02-27 Thread Chris Pressey
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:33:50 -0500 Philippe Vachon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Still, nobody has any clues as to what the problem could be? I've > loaded just snd_sbc and just snd_oss and even the "compressed" sound > thing doesn't occur. Sorry. The only thing I can think to suggest is to try t

Re: SoundBlaster 16 PnP ISA Card on 5.1

2004-02-27 Thread Chris Pressey
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:25:20 -0500 Philippe Vachon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I said before, the sound is compressed -- not in the data sense, > but rather in the analogue sense where the wavelength of a waveform > decreases, as does the period. I appologize if I had confused you, but > I'm

Re: stable version of technology release

2004-02-26 Thread Chris Pressey
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:31:07 +0200 siraj kutlusan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when will a stable version of the technology release of freebsd be > coming out? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/5-roadmap/schedule.html -Chris ___ [EMAI

Re: Shell scripting woes

2004-02-24 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:56:49 +0100 (CET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello guys! I have two questions about shellscripts: Your second question seems to have been addressed, so here's something for your first question... > 1) I have a backup job that 'tar's a lot of files and currently I > redirec

Re: Is inetd a proxy server?

2004-02-22 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 17:19:05 -0500 Marty Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My issue is one of UI, especially for "top". It would be nicer imo if > those 1/2 doz getty processes were to display on one line somehow... > maybe indicating the number running and a way for me to expand them if > need

Re: Installing 5.2 Trouble on 486 with 16Mb of memory

2004-02-05 Thread Chris Pressey
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 12:40:06 +0200 "igor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > System hangs when starting sysinstall :( > > On system with 8Mb of memory, when starting /stand/sysinstall happens > restart. > > > > There is piece of install.txt: > > ==

Re: dlopen() and parent symbols

2004-02-04 Thread Chris Pressey
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 19:48:31 -0700 (MST) "Joe Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've read that I can't export symbols from the parent executable to > modules opened with dlopen(). So, I have a (hopefully) quick > question. How can I export function(s) to those modules? Can you pass them a funct

Re: OT: sed problem

2004-02-01 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 15:33:58 + Daniela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 01 February 2004 01:34, Jez Hancock wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 01:38:44AM +, Daniela wrote: > > > I was wondering how I can do the following with sed (or another > > > program): 1. Output only the text fro

Re: OT: sed problem

2004-01-31 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 01:38:44 + Daniela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering how I can do the following with sed (or another > program): 1. Output only the text from the start of the line to the > first pipe character 2. Output only the text between the last and the > previous pipe chara

Re: What hostname should I set?

2004-01-31 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:02:01 -0500 "JJB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Assigning an Host name to your FBSD system > > Your FBSD operating system has internal software applications (like > sendmail for one) that needs to know the fully qualified domain name > of the PC it's running on. You do this

Re: showing total/free memory

2004-01-29 Thread Chris Pressey
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:29:07 + Jez Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 08:11:26AM +1100, Rowdy wrote: > > Chris Pressey wrote: > > > > >Well, I'm not sure if it works on 5.x, but you could try > > > > > > /usr/por

Re: Booting with 80 Gig hard drive

2004-01-29 Thread Chris Pressey
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:37:39 +0200 rk47 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi FreeBSD'ers > > I have a problem with booting from FreeBSD 4.8/4.9 and 5.2, they all > gave the same error. I have an 80Gig Seagate HD with a Pentium 4, Epox > motherboard and Phoenix version 2.2 BIOS. > [...] > I use Boot M

Re: showing total/free memory

2004-01-28 Thread Chris Pressey
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:26:00 +1100 Rowdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Hunt wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 08:03:46AM +1100, Rowdy wrote: > > > > > >>I am setting up MRTG and at the moment I am parsing /var/run/dmesg.boot > >>and the output from `top -b -d 1` to get total and free

Re: MBR

2004-01-27 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:10:35 +0100 Ruben de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 04:49:02PM +0100, Namik Dala typed: > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:10:51AM -0600, Brian H wrote: > > > Currently I have the BSD boot loader running in my MBR, but since I only > > > have BSD on

Re: open office install fails after two days of installing

2004-01-25 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 22:32:27 -0800 chip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, I downloaded and installed the .tbz file, moved it to /usr/local > and ran pkg_add. It finished, and the instructions on the screen say to > just run openoffice on the command line and answer a few questions. When > I ru

Re: CVSup newbies question

2004-01-25 Thread Chris Pressey
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 14:11:41 +0800 "meimi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > I have following the instruction on > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html > to install cvsup on my computer. I think CVSup is installed correctly > and running smoothly. >

Re: Intel 815 + Floppy

2004-01-25 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:45:59 -0600 (CST) David Short <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of my machines has a motherboard with and Intel 815 chipset. > Well, after installing the 5.x series (5.1, 5.2), you cannot mount a > floppy. It gives you Input/Output errors. However, in the 4.x series > (4.8

Re: Spam Assassin?

2004-01-24 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 22:51:05 -0600 Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where is the Spam Assassin port? The only thing I can find is > spamass-milter which just USES Spam Assassin. > echo /usr/ports/*/*Spam* /usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin /usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-snapshot

Re: Adaptec 2400A Performance

2004-01-24 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:48:15 -0800 Rishi Chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One other (slightly lamer) question: if my device configures as da0, is > that scsi or ide? SCSI. IDE would be "ad0". -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.

Re: System Startup Messages

2004-01-23 Thread Chris Pressey
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 21:54:37 -0800 Rishi Chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running a FreeBSD machine with no head (e.g. no monitor installed to > the machine). > > Is there a way to view the statup messages from the system once the > machine is up and running via SSH? What is the name of

Re: Dependencies of installed ports

2004-01-22 Thread Chris Pressey
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 17:00:05 +1300 Tom Munro Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) How can I display the dependencies between the ports I have > installed on my 4.9-RELEASE machine? There seem to be some ports in > /var/db/pkg that I haven't intentionally installed and I would like to > get rid of

Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS

2004-01-22 Thread Chris Pressey
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:24:19 -0800 "Keith Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for your thoughtful and helpful reply. I should have given > more technical details. > > I already tried (with both 4.9 and 5.1) letting the FreeBSD install > proceed with fdisk's geometry value assumptions, an

Re: grepping distinct lines from many text files ?

2004-01-20 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 20:56:21 +0200 Ion-Mihai Tetcu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > I know I have done this before, but I don't remember how ;) > > I have a collection of text files in one directory, and each file can > contain one or more lines of text, of which any of them could also be

Re: OT: Another perl question

2004-01-18 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 15:55:42 -0800 Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there an easy way of determining "file - determine file type" > in perl? at least as certain as magic(5) can ascertain? > > E.g: > > if (($ftype = file ($ARV[i])) eq "script){ >

Re: General UNIX puzzle

2004-01-17 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 14:50:18 -0700 Brett Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For example, while I received answers involving languages, such as > sed and awk, the simplest answer to at least one of them seems to use > grep. How so? My first thought for #3 was 'fgrep -v string', but on re-reading

Re: install 5.2 on Thinkpad T40 fxp problem

2004-01-17 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 02:22:32 +0800 "Zhang Weiwu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. I read some FreeBSD on Thinkpad T40 storis (prior to 5.2), these > guys have luckly have almost everything working! > > Now I just brought a new T40. The first problem is fxp0 autodetected and > always timeout:

Re: problems creating a bootable image using burncd

2004-01-13 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:07:20 -0600 Vulpes Velox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been trying to create a a bootable CD using freesbie. I ran into > problems getting that to work. It failed to boot and the same thing > happened upon reburn. > > I then went to download a the 4.9 install iso to see

Re: X problems

2004-01-11 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 09:36:39 -0700 (MST) "Lance Earl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Monitor section of XF86Config includes > Identifier "Monitor0" > VendorName "Monitor Vendor" > Model Name "Monitor Model" > HorizSync31.0 -70.0 > VertRefresh 55.0 - 120.0 If your aim is simply t

Re: Problems adding a second hard drive

2004-01-08 Thread Chris Pressey
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 21:02:01 - "Keith McKay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I had installed FreeBSD 4.7 on an old pentium I 100MHz with 128Meg RAM > and a 2Gig Hard drive. It worked, albeit a little slow but perfectly > usable for experimenting with and learningFreeBSD, and surfing t

Re: DNS resources or "toaster"

2004-01-05 Thread Chris Pressey
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 16:30:41 -0500 "Marius Kirschner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the task to set up a two DNS servers for my company, and while > I have administered their DNS servers using BIND for a number of years > I have never set them up from scratch. I have 2 boxes where FreeBSD >

Re: Mount /cdrom as non-root user - does this actually work for anyone?

2004-01-03 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 11:59:29 +1100 Gautam Gopalakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 12:53:52AM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: > > Hello, > > As root I can mount and read the CD fine.., checking for non-root > > user: exit > > ~ $ mount /cdrom > > cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operatio

Re: Where Live CD ISO image?

2003-12-30 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 12:35:54 -0800 Chris Pressey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:21:53 + (GMT) > Francisco Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Where can I download a Live CD ISO? > > > > > > The only place I was

Re: Where Live CD ISO image?

2003-12-30 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:21:53 + (GMT) Francisco Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where can I download a Live CD ISO? > > > The only place I was able to find was http://www.freesbie.org, but that's > basically some scripts on how to do an ISO from one's system. Was hopping > to find somethin

Re: Does FreeBSD allow one to use the Floppy Drive on a SunBlade 100 ?

2003-12-29 Thread Chris Pressey
> > -Original Message- > > I am looking for a replacement OS that I can put on my SunBlade > > 100. Currently I am using Solaris 9. I have looked at Debian and > > OpenBSD and both OS's cannot use the floppy drive. I have Googled > > and I know that FreeBSD 4.9 cannot utilize the flop

Re: grep, netstat, and bridging

2003-12-23 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 08:19:53 -0800 (PST) Dave McCammon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I this a feature, bug, or just some logical thing that > grep does( or perhaps netstat)? > > Scenario: > > IP addresses > comp1=xx.xx.xx.1 > comp2=xx.xx.xx.6 > comp3=xx.xx.xx.12 > > comp1 and comp3 run FBSD 4.9

Re: why do I need sendmail

2003-12-20 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:15:49 -0800 "Cybertime Hostmaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing to note in Matthew's reply: > > > that. However, automatic e-mails from your system -- usually from > > the periodic(8) scripts -- do require sendmail(8) or equivalent. > > Two words at the end, "or

Re: cvsup

2003-12-19 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:06:55 -0500 "fbsd_user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz > This points to the compressed file which contains the complete ports > tree. > > you mis-understood my question, I do not say I was trying to find > the single

Re: comparison of files

2003-12-16 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:38:15 -0500 (EST) "Brent Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yes sorted in numerical order by IP > -- > Brent Bailey CCNA > Bmyster LLC > Computer Networking and Webhosting > Network Engineer, Webmaster, President > http://www.bmyster.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 207-247-8330

Re: comparison of files

2003-12-16 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:31:22 -0500 (EST) "Brent Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > > I have been trying to write a shell script that will compare 2 files > and generate a 3rd. > > i have a list of abusive IP's generated by our router. I want to > compare it against a list of known abu

Re: Secure Deletion (Like shred for Linux)??

2003-12-15 Thread Chris Pressey
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:17:02 -0800 Chris Pressey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > You should be able to install the fileutils port, create a symbolic > link from 'shred' to 'gshred', and run the autoclave script. OK, looking more closely at the script

Re: Secure Deletion (Like shred for Linux)??

2003-12-15 Thread Chris Pressey
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:55:07 -0600 "Pratt, Benjamin E." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris - > > It doesn't look like they do quite what I'd like. Here's the man page > for shred (http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?shred+1). Shred is > used in a shell script called Autoclave > (http://staff.w

Re: Secure Deletion (Like shred for Linux)??

2003-12-15 Thread Chris Pressey
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:31:52 -0600 "Pratt, Benjamin E." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello - > > I'm fairly new to FreeBSD and was wondering if there are any other > programs out there for secure deletion. I know that you can use the > -P flag with rm to overwrite files but you can't specify the

How to list all packages in a given category?

2003-12-14 Thread Chris Pressey
Hi all, Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question, but I couldn't find anything relevant in the man pages or with Google: How can I list all the packages I have installed in a certain category? I'm thinking it should be something like 'pkg_info -C games', but AFAICT pkg_info doesn't have

Re: CVSUPIT pkg_add 90% good/10% strange

2003-12-12 Thread Chris Pressey
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:49:34 +1300 "Richard Shea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Chris - Thanks for the advice and sorry for the delay. I've taken > a look in /usr/ports/net/cvsupit but pkg-plist does not exist That's quite possibly why it failed to install in the first place :) > so given > a

Re: CVSUPIT pkg_add 90% good/10% strange

2003-12-09 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 15:14:38 +1300 "Richard Shea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 15:40:39 -0800, "Chris Pressey" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 12:00:15 +1300 > > "Richard Shea" <[EMAIL PROT

Re: CVSUPIT pkg_add 90% good/10% strange

2003-12-08 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 12:00:15 +1300 "Richard Shea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 14:53:33 -0800, "Chris Pressey" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 11:39:13 +1300 > > "Richard Shea" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: CVSUPIT pkg_add 90% good/10% strange

2003-12-08 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 11:39:13 +1300 "Richard Shea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi - I've just installed 4.8 from scatch. The next thing I wanted to > do was to CVSUP so I ... > > cd /usr/ports/net/cvsupit > make install distclean > > ... that was a bit strange because cvsupit seemed to start > a

Re: which tool for a screenshot?

2003-12-07 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 00:27:40 + (GMT) Bill Schoolcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Sat, 6 Dec 2003 it looks like Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. > composed: > > > > > Looks like: > > > > 1. Click File menu > > 2. Click Acquire > > 3. Select "screen shot" and follow prompts. > > > > In ano

Re: md5 newbie question

2003-12-06 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 16:52:42 -0500 Marty Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > Seems the problem here is that the md5 cmd's output is not simply the > result string but a description of the cmd together with the result. > If I need to do much of this guess a little pgm's called for. >From

Re: md5 newbie question

2003-12-06 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 09:59:07 -0500 Marty Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trying to verify a d/l before compiling: > > Swami: md5 -s 466c63bb71b710d20a5c353df8c1a19c /tmp/httpd-2.0.48.tar.gz > MD5 ("466c63bb71b710d20a5c353df8c1a19c") = 017b97dd023763b82a219bdfedd5cc29 > MD5 (/tmp/httpd-2.0.48

Re: Monitoring folder activity

2003-12-03 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 15:42:27 -0600 "Chad Albert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am in need of a way to trigger an action when a file is written to > user's home directories. I am sure there is a way to do this, but I > don't know where to look. What I want to do is allow users to sftp a > file in

Re: 4.9 install CD won't boot on Toshiba Tecra 8000

2003-12-02 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 07:21:56 -0800 (PST) Anon Nimus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've burned a 4.9 ISO onto a CD-R and it won't boot on > my Tecra 8000! This CD will boot on another PC but > just not on this one. Also, the Toshiba CAN and DOES > boot other CDs. For example, I was able to boot fr

Re: apache has fallen [and it won't get up]

2003-11-30 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:56:19 -0500 Marty Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interesting. /etc/resolv.conf has last been changed like 10 minutes > ago [not knowingly by me though]. All it says is > > search mshome.net > nameserver 192.168.0.1 > > Since my workstation is delliver.mshome.net and

Re: daemon monitoring

2003-11-25 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:51:20 -0800 Will Prater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also does one only need to create a log directory if the application > itself does not log? Or is this to log other information, I cant seem > to find an answer to this on DJB site. > > Thanks > > --will I'm pretty su

Re: startx and numlocks

2003-11-21 Thread Chris Pressey
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 08:38:24 -0500 (EST) Dru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know how to keep numlocks on when using "startx"? I have > numlocks on in all of my terminals, but when I start X, it goes off. > Is there a line I can add to ".xinitrc"? > > TIA, > > Dru Hi Dru, Have you

Re: Install X windows in Free BSD 4.8 - Help required.

2003-11-13 Thread Chris Pressey
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:53:44 +1100 "Verghese George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > Thanks for the help. > I still have a problem starting up the X windows. > First of all the login screen for X windows still does not allow me to > get into the system. When I type my login name and passwor

Re: quick question about turning the annoying beep off in X

2003-11-13 Thread Chris Pressey
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 13:44:43 -0800 (PST) twig les <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all, in my /etc/csh.cshrc I have > > xset b off > > which does what I want, which is to tell X to shut up without me > having to type the command in every X session. But it seems > clumsy as it puts up an error "

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-13 Thread Chris Pressey
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 11:01:54 -0800 "abowhill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am I missing something here? When does C have OO capability? > > Structs don't count. What about inheritance and polymorphism? > > >>That's in the implementation AND application. Just because you CAN > >>access part o

Re: ER schema design

2003-11-12 Thread Chris Pressey
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 22:17:42 +0100 "R.T.G. TAN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone know of a good program to create an ER diagram? > > Tnx, > > -- > robert tan I don't know if there is one specifically for ER diagrams, but Dia (/usr/ports/graphics/dia) has an ER sheet, if that's all

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-12 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:06:51 -0500 "Alex Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for all of the great suggestions to my previous question! > > Yet, the responses have led me to another question. If C++ is newer > and more advanced than C, will it replace C? Unlikely. Old languages die hard -

Re: recovering data

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Pressey
On 11 Nov 2003 11:41:15 -0500 Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > carmoda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I would like to know if there is a proceedure i might be able to > > follow to recover a file that was deleted on a FreeBSD fileserver > > with SAMBA from a Windows 2000 workstation

Re: [OT?] Tying a socket to stdin/stdout w/dup2() ?

2003-11-07 Thread Chris Pressey
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 12:35:55 -0500 Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 7, 2003, at 12:19 PM, Chris Pressey wrote: > > I've got a C program that opens a TCP/IP socket and makes a client > > connection. What I'd like to do is to 'tie' the sock

[OT?] Tying a socket to stdin/stdout w/dup2() ?

2003-11-07 Thread Chris Pressey
Hi all, Sorry if this question is a little off topic since it's not strongly FreeBSD-specific. I've got a C program that opens a TCP/IP socket and makes a client connection. What I'd like to do is to 'tie' the socket to this program's standard I/O, so that anything that is fed into this program'

Re: how do you get dump to assume "yes" to its questions

2003-11-07 Thread Chris Pressey
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 23:35:29 +1030 Malcolm Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 23:33, Scott Renna wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I've managed to start utilizing dump and the flags to exclude > > certain directories. The problem i've run into is when i try to > > back up/usrit's

Re: Trouble using the "man" subsystem

2003-11-06 Thread Chris Pressey
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 13:52:10 -0500 Forrest Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I posted about this a while ago. > > For some time, I've had a broken manpage system on my FreeBSB > box. Currently, it's at FreeBSD-4.9. > > The symptoms are: sometimes I get an error about not being able to >

Re: PLS answer my question!

2003-11-06 Thread Chris Pressey
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:51:48 -0800 (PST) Valerian Galeru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed x windows with sysinstall, then i installed blackbox (a > window manager). Then if x server is not started and i execute > blackbox command i get a error like this: x server not started > something lik

Re: Best Way to Fix a links Browser Compilation Problem

2003-11-05 Thread Chris Pressey
On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 13:48:31 -0600 Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am attempting to install a newer version of the "links" text > browser. The Makefile tells you to > define WITHOUT_X11 if you are not using X so I modified the Makefile > to define that parameter as follows:

Re: Overheating attributed to Freebsd --sysctl variablesnotavailable--

2003-11-03 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 00:07:14 -0500 "nw1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This does make absolute sense, but this isn't a publicly accessable > machine, so it would rarely reach that max_load to cause it to > overheat as its doing now, provided, I can find someone to answer the > second outstanding que

Re: Log every access to a file

2003-10-29 Thread Chris Pressey
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:00:15 + Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:07:26AM -0800, andi payn wrote: > > > The second is to use fam. I should mention that I've only used fam under > > linux, and, after a brief glance, it looks like the FreeBSD port > > (/usr/p

Re: Website up, then down, then up, etc.

2003-10-25 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 17:07:31 -0500 "Charles Howse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, the router has a web interface for configuration. It had been > set to forward requests on port 80 to the webserver on port 80. That > was working perfectly for over a year. I've now set it to port 8080, > in a

Re: isc-dhcp & dyndns

2003-10-15 Thread Chris Pressey
On 15 Oct 2003 11:39:49 -0400 "J. Seth Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I (finally) have my FBSD 4.8-REL internet gateway running, and have > replaced my old Netgear router with the new machine. Everything works > except for dynamic DNS updates. In fact, my Cisco ATA actually works > B

Re: How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2003-10-03 Thread Chris Pressey
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:02:00 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Lehey) wrote: > How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. > === > > Last update $Date: 2003/03/09 22:09:31 $ > [...] > II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions > ==

Re: is there a freebsd live cd or boot floppy?

2003-10-02 Thread Chris Pressey
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 09:55:02 -0700 (PDT) Daniel Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there a freebsd live cd or boot floppy? the reason > i want a bootable freebsd cd/floppy is i dont want to > reformat my hard drive or anything if you know what i > mean. thx Check out http://www.freesbie.org/

Re: [OT] C question (typedef & structs)

2003-10-02 Thread Chris Pressey
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 11:54:39 -0400 Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey gang, Hi Bill, > Actually, 2 questions: > > 1) What's the difference between: > > struct customStruct { > int RecID; > char *Name; > }; > > and > > typedef struct customStruct { > int RecID; >

Re: Install Trouble

2003-09-30 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:53:22 -0400 Tim Hawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, > > I disabled the serial ports and the install went fine. I did not need > to disable plug and play. I am now having difficulty getting the > ethernet card working > > It seems to detect that I have a RealTek 8139 ca

Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server

2003-09-30 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 12:18:54 -0500 Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Chris, Hey :) > [...] > --On Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:03:33 AM -0700 Chris Pressey > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Er - you mean running two different MTA's on different interface

Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server

2003-09-30 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:29:32 -0500 Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 09:02:22AM -0700 or thereabouts, Chris Pressey > wrote: > > ...except for some FreeBSD-specific info :) > > > > Here are some tips: > > > > 1) FreeBSD uses a &

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