Re: More info Re: ports/46523: make index is broken

2002-12-25 Thread Cliff Sarginson
uby-shim-ruby18-1.8.0.p1 > ===> Cleaning for ruby_static-1.6.8 > ===> lang/ruby_static-devel > "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.ruby.mk", line 135: "Ruby 1.7 is obsolete; set > RUBY_VER to 1.8 instead." > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/lang. > *** Err

off topic .. interpretation of tcpdump

2002-12-28 Thread Cliff Sarginson
just would like to know :) 17:22:00.343309 M 0:1:71:2:e6:61 > 1:0:0:0:0:0 802.1d ui/C 17:22:02.443185 M 0:1:71:2:e6:61 > 1:0:0:0:0:0 802.1d ui/C -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROT

Re: off topic .. interpretation of tcpdump

2002-12-29 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 05:01:55PM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: > On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 16:26, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > Hello, > > This is my festive season question. > > I was having some problems with my SMTP mail connection to my ISP. > > So I tcpdump'ed the

Re: off topic .. interpretation of tcpdump

2002-12-29 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 07:28:40PM +0100, Andrew Prewett wrote: > Today Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > > Hello, > > This is my festive season question. > > I was having some problems with my SMTP mail connection to my ISP. > > So I tcpdump'ed the ethernet ADSL conne

adduser

2002-12-29 Thread Cliff Sarginson
adduser is broken. Jeez, people wonder why FreeBSD is not more popular. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: adduser

2002-12-29 Thread Cliff Sarginson
ooner it will be realised that it is streets ahead of most other OS'es. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: adduser .. revisited, an apology

2002-12-29 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Ok, Two things. One is I should not have mouthed off such a stupid email. I apologise. Secondly, adduser sucks. Let's end this thread, blame it on me. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROT

Re: adduser

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
So why the fuck do things get more difficult ? -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: adduser .. revisited, an apology

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
t should be as easy as pie to add a user. Why the hell does FreeBSD go on and on shooting itself in the foot ? RTFM has become a bad joke. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: adduser .. revisited, an apology .. oh come on

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Adding a user should not be rocket science, If the old time Bill Joy lovers would realise that 'csh" sucks big time, we may avoid a lot of problems. If anyone can prove to me that "csh" is superior in any respect to bash, then please tell me. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson

Re: procmail and anti-spam ..sendmail is dead

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Use postfix. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Finding type of memory

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
t kind of memory that server is using ? > It is an old server running P III 450 Mhz, so it must be using PC 100, > but what kind of PC 100 ? ECC or non ECC ? > Phone, -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Water Damage

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Drink it. Water and alcohol have quite different somatic effects. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Water Damage

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
nks for the info. > > You know insurance adjustors are easily killed. Stuff bluetack down their gobs. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: 5.0-RC2 sendmail msp-queue gizmo running REAL slow?

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Sendmail is dead. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: 5.0-RC2 sendmail msp-queue gizmo running REAL slow?

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
No BSD is not dead, It is alive and well, and living in my house. Sendmail is antique, no-one should have to read an 1100 page book to get mail. It had it's time. It's time is now over. Use Postfix or Qmail, your life may not be longer, bit will seem so. -- Regards Cliff Sargins

Re: Water Damage

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
. These devices should be reserved only for use in hell. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Portupgrade vs. multiple versions of packages

2003-01-01 Thread Cliff Sarginson
> Do get confirmation of that rm command I listed, though. > # cd / # rm -rf * No problems anymore. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: promiscuous mode / strange ethernet packets duplication problem

2003-01-07 Thread Cliff Sarginson
about it. Listening Greg ? -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

vnc slowness when freebsd is server

2003-01-30 Thread Cliff Sarginson
, so I don;t think that is a bottleneck. Thanks for any help. p.s. To the people I was rude to earlier on this year I apologise, I was in a strange mood. I am a reformed character now. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe

Re: restricting user's directory listing and changing

2003-01-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
gt;``cd'' and ``ls'' so that it will only work within their home directories. > > You could, but that's probably a more difficult solution. > WIth "cd" it's effectively impossible to write a replacement for it. It's builtin into the shell, an

Re: Bootable CD

2003-02-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
f_cd_burner_device name_of_iso_file fixate -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Multiple solutions for a problem (Re: How to map bad sectors on IDE?)

2003-02-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
here is a limit to how much of a CD can be marked "bad". -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: How to map bad sectors on IDE?

2003-02-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
e measure, and if everything is backed up somewhere you could use the manafacturer's test disk to do a low level format -- may or may not help, but sounds like you do not have a lot to lose ! -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To

Complaints about disk slice sizes on SCSI disk

2003-02-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
practise. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

SCSI Disk slice warning question

2003-02-03 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Hello, fdisk complains as follows..does this matter ? ÚÄÄ Disk slicing warning: ÄÄÄ¿ ³chunk 'da0s1' [32..63487] does not start on a track boundary ³chunk 'da0s2' [63488..35860479] does not start on a track boundary

Mounting a linux logical partition

2003-02-04 Thread Cliff Sarginson
backup purposes. Thanks. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: CUPS instalation question

2003-02-07 Thread Cliff Sarginson
the manual page entries for the old lpr system from /usr/share/man ... Otherwise "man lpr" will not give you the CUPS lpr man page ;) -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: languages [OT]

2003-02-08 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Hey nobody mentioned cobol :) I had a friend once who was thinking about suing ICL for teaching him cobol as a junior programmer, which he believed caused him permanent brain damage... Do you know the number of reserved words in Cobol ? Lots 'n lots... -- Regards Cliff Sarginson

Re: how to you intiate a passive ftp when you are building packages?

2003-02-09 Thread Cliff Sarginson
y putting this in your environment ? FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: installworld fails

2003-02-10 Thread Cliff Sarginson
; it's hard to say for sure unless you tell us what you did. > > > I did the following: > 2 steps missing... > make buildworld > make buildkernel > make installkernel > < reboot into single user mode > mount -a > mergemaster -p > make installworld mergem

USB printing or failure therof

2002-10-04 Thread Cliff Sarginson
"PRINTER" seems to be ignored now by lpr. Any suggestions anyone ? It used to work ! -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : +31 (0)10 4764595 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questio

Re: killing an application through code

2002-10-04 Thread Cliff Sarginson
er > Well if he has control over the application he could make it record it's pid somewhere as many system programs do, and use that. He should bear in mind of course he will only be able to kill them stone dead if he owns them or is root. This is definitely portable ! -- Regards Cl

Re: burncd error

2002-10-04 Thread Cliff Sarginson
s, > Marco I am just guessing here, but if you have just blanked it, there isn't anything to mount is there ? Also I am not entirely sure you should fixate it after blanking it, there isn't anything on it to fixate. Just some wild guesses on my part. -- Regards Cliff Sarginso

Re: USB Printing

2002-10-05 Thread Cliff Sarginson
# Keyboard device ulpt# Printer (needed) device ums # Mouse device uscanner# Scanners Good Luck ! -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : +31 (0)10 4764595 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMA

Re: Mutt and Filters

2002-10-05 Thread Cliff Sarginson
u filter out spam according to a set of rules. It's in the ports. I don't know how you point sendmail into using procmail since I use a sane MTA called postfix. Basically mutt does not have inbuilt filtering, so you have to use an external agent like procmail. I think there are others

Re: Mail client preferred?

2002-10-10 Thread Cliff Sarginson
ation is MTA = Postfix, MDA = procmail, MUA = Mutt, Spam catcher = Spamassassin. It works well except I hate procmail beyone rationality, but the setup works well. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : +31 (0)10 4764595 To Unsubscrib

Re: help with ln "linking" Please! [attn manpage authors!]

2002-10-10 Thread Cliff Sarginson
ite a wrapper script to order the arguments the way they like ! I agree it is unfortunate that symlinks got made an option to "ln" since they bear about as much relationship to hard links as a donkey does to a cigarrette. But that's UNIX for you :) -- Regards Cliff Sarginson

[cls@raggedclown.net: Re: disappearing job]

2002-10-10 Thread Cliff Sarginson
From: Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: disappearing job Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 18:20:11 +0200 To: David Banning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:11:14PM -0400, David Banning wrote: > I was editing a job in vi, then my hand slipped and I was back

message for David Banning

2002-10-10 Thread Cliff Sarginson
to non-existent hosts: it appears that the DNS operator for this domain has installed an invalid MX record with an IP +address instead of a domain name on the right hand side -- -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The

mozilla

2002-10-10 Thread Cliff Sarginson
E #4: Thu Oct 10 14:52:12 CEST 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WILLOW i386 -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : +31 (0)10 4764595 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions&q

Re: Please help me

2002-10-12 Thread Cliff Sarginson
> > As someone else mentioned, it's from the g/re/p idiom in sed, which is > > vocalised as "global regular expression print" (print all lines containing the > > regular expression). > > As a couple of people have pointed out in private mail, I typed "

DDR Memory

2002-10-23 Thread Cliff Sarginson
I ferreted around but could not find a definitive answer. Does FreeBSD support DDR memory ? -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : +31 (0)10 4764595 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-question

Re: DDR Memory

2002-10-23 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:08:27AM -0400, John Bleichert wrote: > On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 14:05:41 +0200 > > From: Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: FreeBSD List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject:

Re: DDR Memory

2002-10-24 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Ok, thanks for the answers, I am now 0.001% less ignorant than I was :) -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : +31 (0)10 4764595 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the b

Keyboard maps

2002-10-27 Thread Cliff Sarginson
key symbol ! Anyone know a solution to this ? -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : +31 (0)10 4764595 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: USB Printer Problem

2002-10-28 Thread Cliff Sarginson
act that it is recognised means it is in the file of signatures for USB devices, that does not always mean it will work. I am sending this, not saying this is your problem, but the symptoms are so similar I thought I would pass it on. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands E

Re: Concatenating 2 or more mbox format files

2002-10-28 Thread Cliff Sarginson
gt; > > Does anyone have a quick and easy way to concatenate two or more MBOX > > > format mailbox files? I tried: > > > > > > cat mboxfile1 mboxfile2 > newfile > > > > > > but it didn't really work... > > > > > > T

Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many?

2002-11-03 Thread Cliff Sarginson
is a debate going on there at the moment about a name for Release 5... -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : +31 (0)10 4764595 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: internal compiler error during make buildworld

2002-11-04 Thread Cliff Sarginson
e. I just thought "Signal 11" might be a slightly amusing one ... -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Clarification of "eject" question

2002-11-04 Thread Cliff Sarginson
knows, I may just do that. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: non-writeable directory - can't be removed

2002-11-04 Thread Cliff Sarginson
y useless. > I have a feeling that something was said about this on the list awhile back, I think there was a reason for it. I have a hunch it was something to do with X11 V4, but I cannot be sure. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free

Mysterious emails

2002-11-05 Thread Cliff Sarginson
e are very unlikely names, and non of the normal aliases are tried. I don't think it is a DoS either, since although they come in bursts they are usually in groups of up to 7 or so...and not every day..which is not going to grind me to a halt. I am curious as to the motive. -- Regards Cliff Sa

Re: Mysterious emails

2002-11-05 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:24:46PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:59:07PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > > I wonder if anyone can throw some light on this. > > I get a *lot* of emails addressed to non-existant users > > on my domain "ragg

Re: FS options for FreeBSD

2002-11-05 Thread Cliff Sarginson
available > for FreeBSD (I ran across some flames about it, actually) - I wonder what > alternatives exist out there, etc. Pointers/reference appreciated. > There is a facility in UFS called "soft-updates" which you may care to investigate... -- Regards Cliff Sarginson

Re: file permissions

2002-11-05 Thread Cliff Sarginson
to a file, I want the owner and the > groups to use it, but not "world" or "anyone". > > - rwxrwx - - - > > This question arose because I use a shared hosting. Bye. > Well for "user" files I don't see a problem. Maybe you ought to sa

Re: xfree86 failing

2002-11-06 Thread Cliff Sarginson
s was dropped in V4...I believe this includes all the old S3's. Check that I am right, but I am pretty sure. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD filesystem 1TB Limit

2002-11-06 Thread Cliff Sarginson
gt; No you are wrong and right..vis-a-vis hard disks. Some manafacturers do use powers of 2, and some do not. And which one they use may be quite hard to find out until you install it, or maybe use a magnifying glass on the small print. I am running FreeBSD on a disk that is living proof of this ! --

bootloader grub

2002-11-11 Thread Cliff Sarginson
about it I don't see why it shouldn't... -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: bootloader grub

2002-11-11 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Ok, thanks for all the responses..looks like Grub is not a problem. Anything must be better than the way I am currently booting one of my systems that has 6 OS'es on it :) -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send

Re: UDMA ICRC error's

2002-11-12 Thread Cliff Sarginson
se can I do besides running fsck? Are there any other utilites to > check the disk, maybe something from the ports tree? > Most (all?) disk manafacturers have free diagnostic programs you can download from their websites. Take a look -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherl

Multiple copies of messages

2002-11-12 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Hello, For some time now I have been receiving duplicate copies sent to this list and the other BSD ones I susbcribe to. Somethimes they arrive together and sometimes the second one somewhat later. Is anyone else suffering from this ? -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This

Re: Thanks guys

2002-11-13 Thread Cliff Sarginson
pite FreeBSD's long pedigree and quite well-known fame for stability. > Well, I just like to say that I think FreeBSD is great. My first real unix > experience and I couldn't have done it without the support of the FreeBSD > lists and free tutorials. Well I think it's jo

What is it precisely that is happening to the ports setup ?

2002-11-13 Thread Cliff Sarginson
currently installed ports (in general I mean, I realise ports are updated quite often anyway). -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

spamassassin port ...

2002-11-14 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Hello, Where is the spamassassin port these days ? I see lots of things like it, but I thought it was under spamassassin as a name. I am running it and it has a bug, which I would like to report to the maintainer... -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked

Re: spamassassin port ...

2002-11-14 Thread Cliff Sarginson
#x27; > > won't find a port, it can usually be found with "grep" or an editor in > "/usr/port/INDEX". > I think I was having a bad hair day, I was convinced it was called spamassassin when I installed it, but I probably left out some s's somewhere. --

Re: spamassassin port ...

2002-11-14 Thread Cliff Sarginson
he maintainer, he said I need to report the bug to the author(s). The bug, for anyone interested, is that text within () brackets in a Subject line causes spamassin to gob up a high scoring error about the Subject having a unique identifier (something like that). -- Regards Cliff Sarginson

Re: Multiple copies of messages

2002-11-14 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 12:48:32AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-11-12 22:06, Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For some time now I have been receiving duplicate copies sent to > > this list and the other BSD ones I susbcribe to. Somethimes they &g

extracting example startx

2002-11-18 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Hi, After a slight boo-boo I had to do some finger-poking with X11. Startx disappeared in the process. I can find "startx" related files lurking deep in the bowels of the imake ports directory. Anyone know how to actually build and install it. I tried all the obvious things. -- Regard

Re: extracting example startx

2002-11-18 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 02:48:55PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 01:15:03PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > > After a slight boo-boo I had to do some finger-poking with X11. > > Startx disappeared in the process. > > I can find "startx"

Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild?

2002-11-20 Thread Cliff Sarginson
e been occasional emails, and some published stuff that says it works fine. Just be a bit careful ! -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Complaints on X startup about knonsole_grantpty

2002-11-21 Thread Cliff Sarginson
/home/cls/bin:.:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games "ls" also reveals crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel6, 2 Nov 21 07:33 /dev/ptyp2 ^^ crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel5, 2 Nov 21 09:03 /dev/ttyp2 ^^ Clues ? Thu Nov 21 09:05:14 CET 2002 -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherland

Re: passwords in /etc/group

2002-11-21 Thread Cliff Sarginson
s in the appropriate groups for their work. I have never seen them used on any Unix system I have worked on, and I seem to recall from some ancient documentation that they are more trouble than they are worth. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-fr

Re: Portsupgrade -uU

2002-11-21 Thread Cliff Sarginson
uzzled. I get the odd one for chinese, but none for any of the other languages I don't install. Co-incidentally I have literally just run make index, afre a cvsup a few hours ago, and it still whines about missing japanese dependencies. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild?

2002-11-21 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:09:12PM -0800, David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > LINT says: > > > ># > > > ># Add support for the EXT2FS filesystem of Linux fame. Be a bit > > > ># careful wi

Aging Apple LaserWriter

2002-11-21 Thread Cliff Sarginson
provision for plain-text, but I am more interested in using it to print larger PostScript files). Word on the street is that any PS printer should work on FBSD. True ? -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

A question of where to put swap

2002-11-21 Thread Cliff Sarginson
...). Thanks for any input. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: terminal incompatibility

2002-11-22 Thread Cliff Sarginson
o tell you frankly i don't like > the sound of it. > I believe Linux compatibility has no discernible effect on the speed of anything. Rumours are that some apps even work faster under BSD/Linux compat. than under native Linux .. but others may have proof of that. -- Regards Clif

Re: A question of where to put swap

2002-11-21 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:04:58AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:44:54AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > I am in the business of re-arranging my disk layouts to reflect the > > realities if life :) > > My FreeBSD system currently runs on a SCSI-3

Re: terminal incompatibility

2002-11-22 Thread Cliff Sarginson
mplies they are possibly buggy however. Yup good old vt100, it will never die... -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Directory

2002-11-22 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 11:47:02AM -0500, Kliment Andreev wrote: > > Is it because of the space between the words? How do I get around this? > Maybe avoid spaces in filenames :) Use a _ or a - or a . or something printable... -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This

Re: passwords in /etc/group

2002-11-22 Thread Cliff Sarginson
t care to know that in the language of your forefathers a blank line is often ommitted between paragraphs. Thanks. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Desktop Menu in latest KDE

2002-11-22 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Hello, I am trying to disable the Desktop Menu in KDE, but it ignores me. Anyone happen to know a manual method of doing this, I searched around the kde files, but my experiments proved fruitless. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To

Re: cvsupit - file system 105% - what have I done ?

2002-11-22 Thread Cliff Sarginson
e. Docs ? It's all online, so you could leave them out if you are really tight on space. I have never upgraded this way, so the chance of success of using the above to jump from 4.4 to 4.7 in one bound is not something I could comment on. Good luck :) -- Regards Cliff Sarginson Th

Re: cvsupit - file system 105% - what have I done ?

2002-11-22 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 06:30:00AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE > > After that change this to "RELENG_4_5" which should start to get you the > security updates when you again run cvsupit. > > -And -ditto- to go up the release chain

Re: How to deinstall openoffice?

2002-11-22 Thread Cliff Sarginson
ctory under the port you want to remove. If you see it.. delete it. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Interesting modem problem

2002-11-23 Thread Cliff Sarginson
nd > > what port it's on? Thanks. > > Modems need to be connected to serial ports, not parallel ports. > Mmm. It is conveivable (but not definite) you may have done a little damage here so a little system checkout may be in order, -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The

Re: Desktop Menu in latest KDE

2002-11-23 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 12:25:16PM +0100, Lauri Watts wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 23 November 2002 01.33, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > Hello, > > I am trying to disable the Desktop Menu in KDE, but it ignores me. > > Anyone

Re: Mail to News software suggestions?

2002-11-24 Thread Cliff Sarginson
bilities. I know squat about it, I just pass this on for your information. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

SCSI Disk question

2002-11-24 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Hi I have a chance to get at a good price a IBM 73LZX 18GB 160 drive I know there was a mechanical problem with one of the IBM SCSI ranges. Does anyone know anything about this particular model ? -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To

Re: Mutt / NNTP_patch.

2002-11-24 Thread Cliff Sarginson
course, this is my 7 a.m. in the morning suggestion :) -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD?

2002-11-24 Thread Cliff Sarginson
ther day, I knew they should all work without problem but I wanted to see it in writing :). But since a PS printer is a very intelligent device, really a specialised computer with a Risc processor, they may require a second mortgage to buy .. luckily someone is going to sell me a second hand one :) -

Re: using 5.0-RELEASE

2002-11-24 Thread Cliff Sarginson
a Linux basher (I use it as well as FreeBSD) but the 2.4 series of Linux kernels was checkered with disasters, very serious ones. Probably because it does not follow an intelligent release cycle by any stretch of the imagination. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mai

Re: Wierd message followed mem prob

2002-11-25 Thread Cliff Sarginson
= 402669568 (393232K bytes) > avail memory = 386879488 (377812K bytes) > > Anyone know what's going on/how to fix it? > You might look at the "NO_MEMORY_HOLE" option in /usr/src/i386/conf/LINT. No idea if it is relevant to you, but it maybe worth looking at. -- Regard

Re: The FreeBSD Diary: 2002-11-03 - 2002-11-23

2002-11-25 Thread Cliff Sarginson
supposed to edit. > Anyway there is an 1100 page book you can buy that tells you all about sendmail.cf :) -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: starting, stopping, and reloading services

2002-11-25 Thread Cliff Sarginson
services along the the lines of the rc... files SuSE uses. Maybe if it was done properly you could submit it to SuSE, since their rc.. scripts don't work properly when run as cron jobs...they obviously never tested them for this (one of my network machines run SuSE so I speak from experience). T

Re: Ports base? [hear me roar]

2002-11-25 Thread Cliff Sarginson
he program you are looking for without having to ask for it. If you are so tight on disk space you may have a problem building anything anyway. Get someone to buy you a bigger disk for Christmas :). -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: FIGURED IT OUT!!! (was): Can't seem to assign a different port for http (apache)

2002-11-25 Thread Cliff Sarginson
d up a buddy of mine and had him try from the outside and BANG > there it was. > > So thought I would follow up with all of you to 1: Thankyou and > 2: Let you know about EVIL IE. > Shhh. That kind of blasphemy wakes the trolls up ! -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [

Re: any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD?

2002-11-26 Thread Cliff Sarginson
(Some of the larger > Canon models seem ok too) Die, Xerox, Die. > Panasonics are good if you like the smell of ozone in the morning. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

interpretation of arp output

2002-11-28 Thread Cliff Sarginson
PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WILLOW i386 -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

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