Weirdness with sfte, screen, and FreeBSD.

2005-07-18 Thread Dan MacMillan
Hi, When I run sfte (20050108) inside of GNU screen (4.00.02) in FreeBSD (5.4-RELEASE-p2), I get some strange and irritating behaviour. If I hit alt-f to get the File menu, then press the right arrow key to move to the next menu over (Navigate in the directory view), then that portion of the

RE: Partition?

2004-11-14 Thread Dan MacMillan
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] How come i can't enter the #Freebsd channel ... im using the freenode server? i have some queries. I have no idea. I'm forwarding this to the list, maybe someone there can help you. -- Danny

RE: [OT] Sapir-Whorfian Advertising Clause (was Advertising clausein license)

2004-10-24 Thread Dan MacMillan
From: Ted Mittelstaedt From: Danny MacMillan Be that as it may, the term advertising clause seems strictly definitive, as it pertains to a clause that refers to advertising. That much at least seems obvious from what Nell fgrep'd for. I don't disagree with the substance of your

RE: Max # of Files in a Directory?

2004-09-16 Thread Dan MacMillan
stheg olloydson said: it was said: ... I started seeing all kinds of errors when trying to copy more than 16383 messages into one of my folders there. I'm retrieving mail from a pop3 server using Outlook then copying them into my imap folder, also using Outlook. Hello, 16383

RE: error during make buildkernel in 5.2.1

2004-08-10 Thread Dan MacMillan
From: Mike This is my first foray into 5.2.1. I installed and ran cvsup (standard and for ports). I went to build the kernel and and make buildkernel died. Here is the error message. Any comments or hints would be helpful. # make buildkernel KERNEL=TRITON ... I believe that should be:

RE: Sound Blaster Live

2004-07-12 Thread Dan MacMillan
From: Javier Ramirez there is no another way??? no exist module for this card?? I have a SoundBlaster Live! card in one of my FreeBSD (5.2.1) machines. I have the following in /boot/loader.conf: snd_emu10k1_load=YES And that's it. It automatically loads the (required) snd_pcm.ko module as

Moving HDD with FreeBSD installed between machines with different hardware.

2004-06-29 Thread Dan MacMillan
Hello, I have a machine with FreeBSD installed on it that is serving DNS, CVS, NTP and a few other things for our organization. I plan to add a mail gateway using Postfix, ClamAV, amavisd-new and SpamAssassin as well to protect the tender underbelly of our MS Exchange server. However the

RE: FreeBSD install on SCSI: Missing Operating System

2004-06-23 Thread Dan MacMillan
From: Jeremy Kister the whole installation process goes smooth, but upon reboot, I simply get 'Missing Operating System'. I usually see this sort of thing when I forget to remove a non-bootable floppy from the drive. -- Danny MacMillan ___ [EMAIL

RE: FreeBSD 5.2.1 - Joke-only release ? April Fools ??

2004-06-19 Thread Dan MacMillan
From: Joe Schmoe I have attempted to install 5.2.1-RELEASE on four (very) different computers today: Every single time, I boot off kern.flp, move on to mfsroot.flp, and as sysinstall is booting, after most of the dmesg has passed by, it suddenly starts spitting out error messages at an

RE: Pruning the Ports Tree

2004-06-16 Thread Dan MacMillan
From: Sergey Zaharchenko at June 16, 2004 06:18 On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:38:38AM +0100, Matthew Seaman probably wrote: On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 03:41:53PM -0700, Graham North wrote: Heh. There's nothing to worry about -- I don't own or use any Windows boxes, so there's no chance of

RE: Some Simple Questions

2004-06-14 Thread Dan MacMillan
From: Spuds 2) Is FreeBSD in any way affected by the SCO lawsuits ... What you're asking for is legal advice. No one here will indemnify you if in a perverse travesty of justice SCO does succeed in its goals. You will have to assume the risk yourself. Risk = probability * severity.

RE: Bash Startup Files

2004-06-14 Thread Dan MacMillan
On Behalf Of Arend P. van der Veen: ... I have a case where both ~/.profile and ~/.bash_profile exist and both are sourced. ... If this really is happening, it's likely one of your other startup files is explicitly sourcing ~/.profile. -- Danny

RE: web serving

2004-06-14 Thread Dan MacMillan
Goodleaf, John wrote: Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] So I have a FreeBSD server at home serving some web pages, mostly web mail (Apache). It's running on a DSL line behind a gateway that forwards port 80 requests to it. Now here's the problem. I need to serve also from an IIS

RE: sendmail only accepting local connections

2004-06-03 Thread Dan MacMillan
-Original Message- From: Andy Clements I'm having problems getting sendmail to accept anything but local connections. This may be a foolish question, but you don't have sendmail_enable=NO or some such in your /etc/rc.conf, do you? -Danny

RE: How do I enable sendmail ONLY for local system mail?

2004-06-02 Thread Dan MacMillan
-Original Message- From: Jonathon McKitrick I read /etc/mail/README and also a few posts while I was setting up my firewall. but I'm not getting any system mail like expected. What should the permissions be on my mqueue and clientmqueue dirs in /var? Here are the rc.conf mail

make world : did it fail?

2004-05-11 Thread Dan MacMillan
Hi. I just ran the make world procedure on a freshly installed FreeBSD system. After dropping to single user mode, I ran: cd /usr/src script /root/mw/mw-200405111310.out make buildworld make buildkernel KERNCONF=GOLLUM make installkernel KERNCONF=GOLLUM reboot I do things this way because I

RE: make world : did it fail?

2004-05-11 Thread Dan MacMillan
Of Dan MacMillan Sent: May 11, 2004 18:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: make world : did it fail? Hi. I just ran the make world procedure on a freshly installed FreeBSD system. After dropping to single user mode, I ran: cd /usr/src script /root/mw/mw-200405111310.out make buildworld make

RE: Beginning C++ in FreeBSD

2004-04-20 Thread Dan MacMillan
From: Daniela Sent: April 20, 2004 15:25 I don't really have a specific example, but it's quite the same with human languages. The more often a text is translated, the more useless information gets added to it. And if the original text is beautifully written, it is often total crap when you

RE: Beginning C++ in FreeBSD

2004-04-17 Thread Dan MacMillan
From: Daniela Sent: April 17, 2004 04:50 OO languages can be optimized differently than non-OO languages, and when you translate one language into another, this advantage gets lost. I challenge you to defend this claim with a specific example. I would rather say, assembly is fast and can be

RE: remote install of freebsd via ssh

2004-04-08 Thread Dan MacMillan
From: Brian Sent: April 8, 2004 05:21 Hello, Is there a way (or what is the best way) for installing freebsd remotely? I have a nontechnical person at the site that can put in a cd or enter a few commands, but the thought of walking through a full install via the phone is not fun. I

RE: Hi I have a suggestion! To Imporve the perfect Freebsd!

2004-03-28 Thread Dan MacMillan
From: Jorn Argelo Sent: March 28, 2004 13:43 ... By the way, I don't think that nerdly is an appropiate way to adress the folks. They do great work. Perhaps I always saw it wrong, but I find nerd a negative way to describe a person who has interests in computers. ... Agreed. The

RE: Need assitance installin FreeBSD

2004-03-26 Thread Dan MacMillan
-Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:42:04 -0500 (EST) Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Actually, I think the intention of the MINI-ISO is to boot and run the installation with everything loaded from one of the ftp sites.

RE: FreeBSD - Linux / Unix ?

2004-03-26 Thread Dan MacMillan
From: Jerry McAllister Sent: March 25, 2004 07:17 Much of what the responder said here is right, but I think there might be just one little point to pick. ... lots excised ... B. Unix Depends on what you mean by Unix. There is code in it that derives from the original ATT

RE: Virtual terminal buffer?

2004-03-24 Thread Dan MacMillan
From: Lowell Gilbert Sent: March 24, 2004 12:39 Dan MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Chris Pressey Sent: March 22, 2004 17:52 On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:57:26 -0600 (CST) Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to clear the buffer after you've logged

RE: Virtual terminal buffer?

2004-03-23 Thread Dan MacMillan
-Original Message- From: Chris Pressey Sent: March 22, 2004 17:52 On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:57:26 -0600 (CST) Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to clear the buffer after you've logged out of a virtual terminal? Well, you could call 'echo' a hundred times

RE: restricted shells

2004-03-22 Thread Dan MacMillan
Rick wrote: Hello, are there any restricted shells version in the ports collection? if there aren't where I Can find a restricted shell tar.gz to be compiled and isntalled? thanks I'm sure there are many shells that run in restricted mode. For example, I use zsh, which behaves as a

RE: time sync tool?

2004-03-20 Thread Dan MacMillan
Zhang Weiwu Sent: March 20, 2004 20:28 Hello. Is there a time sync tool for FreeBSD? My local clock seems alway several minutes late, can I run a daemon and sync with a time server once several day? Yes, there is. Take a look at man ntpd(8). -Dan

RE: The clock is running too fast

2004-03-19 Thread Dan MacMillan
Hola I'm sorry, I don't know what 'ntc' is. Do you mean 'ntp'? You can use ntp or not ... if your timing hardware is off, ntp will constantly try to slew the time back to where it should be, which will a) mean your systems concept of time is very non-linear and b) fill the log with warning

RE: Mail readers

2004-03-19 Thread Dan MacMillan
It's not just terminal mail readers that had the problem ... I'm using MS Outlook 2000 and your problem messages also appeared screwy to me. I don't have any suggestions to contribute, just this observation. -Dan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: How to get an overview of the installed ports

2004-03-19 Thread Dan MacMillan
pkg_tree is also available in the ports collection at /usr/ports/sysutils/pkg_tree -Dan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Arek Czereszewski Sent: March 19, 2004 02:47 To: Ronald Hoellwarth Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to get an

Impact of running pkgdb -fu

2004-03-19 Thread Dan MacMillan
port, but it's the removal of that first dependency that's keeping me up at night. Hence my question regarding pkgdb -fu. Does it restore everything to its neat-and-tidy state? Or am I cursed to live out my days with a besmirched (or befouled, your choice) package database? -Dan MacMillan

RE: Impact of running pkgdb -fu

2004-03-19 Thread Dan MacMillan
Kris Kennaway Sent: March 19, 2004 18:06 On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:56:08PM -0700, Dan MacMillan wrote: Kris Kennaway Sent: March 19, 2004 17:46 On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:34:38PM -0700, Dan MacMillan wrote: I have a question about the effect of running pkgdb -fu, besides making

RE: The clock is running too fast

2004-03-18 Thread Dan MacMillan
Hola, I had a similar problem on one of the machines at work. Here is a memo I made to myself to remind me of how to fix the problem in the future: The ACPI-safe Timecounter does not work (it is way, WAY too fast). To get around this, add the following line to /etc/sysctl.conf:

RE: Sound

2004-03-14 Thread Dan MacMillan
Put the following line in /boot/loader.conf: snd_emu10k1_load=YES You shouldn't need to compile pcm into your kernel -- there's a kld for it. It won't hurt though. - Danny MacMillan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Teilhard Knight Sent: