converting ext3 to ffs

Hello, Does anyone know if it's possible to convert an ext3 partition to an ffs partition? And if so, is it possible to do it without data loss? Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc not showing any messages?

lies gratefully received. dave ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

jail setup

le at: and understood that sendmail and perl and some other items would be available. When i do a pkg_info from within the jail there aren't any packages. did i miss a step? Is there something i should have installed to make this go easier? Thanks. Dave. ___

changing directory permissions recursively

t would do this? Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

APC 1000/1500va UPS

Hello, Does anyone have either an APC 1000va or an APC 1500va UPS? I was wondering how well it worked with FreeBSD 4.x/5.x? This would be for a single system, as a master, but would be responsible for two other machines. Any info or setup information appreciated. Thanks. Dave

fetchmail and spam assassin

gh postfix which is running on the same box and which has spamassassin and some other anti-uce filters in place. Also on the subject of spamassassin a lot of junk is still getting through, is there a FreeBSD specific spam assassin configuration tutorial or howto? Th

have i been hacked?

, and i had nearly 150 processes on the box, 9 running. When i got the daily run output i noticed the setuid files have changed. Wondering if this box got hacked and if so where to look to confirm this? And if so, what to do? Thanks. Dave. Checking setuid files and devices: ls: Terminated : No such

Re: have i been hacked?

Hi, Sorry i should have specified, that's a 4.9 box, with the latest patches and ports. Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: have i been hacked?

ox showed no unidentified open services. Keep the suggestions coming. Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

pure-ftpd

ility to specify user and group the server should run as. I've got a diff of changes i made to the pure-ftpd.conf file which i copied from pure-ftpd.conf.sample and would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks. Dave. My diff command was: diff pure-ftpd.conf pure-ftpd.conf.sample

ftp server

nications. Most importantly i need it to work with ipfilter/ipnat. Using the base ftp server on a test box i can connect but i keep getting an error, can not build data connection, this is from a box external to the firewall. Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PRO

chkrootkit reports infected date

Hello, I just ran chkrootkit -n -q on a 5.2.1 box, and it showed date as being infected, but nothing else, no worms, and it didn't say with what. Given my last experience i would appreciate any suggestions as to how to identify this anomaly and stop it. Thanks.

ipfilter allowing cvs

cvs server, all traffic external is allowed in, it's the internal interface that governs what can get to me. If anyone is running a cvs server behind a firewall, note, i'm using nat, please let me know your setup. Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTE

backing up cvs files

e a permissions issue, can anyone confirm this? Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Palm Zire syncing woes

Ok, after about an hour of Googling and following several sets of directions, I've not yet been able to sync my Palm Zire. Does anyone have any pointers or suggestions? Realivent information: Using 5.2.1-RELEASE ucom and uvisor compiled into kernel /etc/usbd.conf ..snip.. device "Palm Zire"

network routing, strange issue

My problem is machine a can not ping or ssh to machine b, from machine a's point of view it's as if machine b doesn't exist, yet machine c has no difficulties interacting with machine b. I hope the above made sense. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave. _

postfix port nullclient

es. Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

two nics, one dhcp server

x neither gets an IP, singley they work fine. Cabling is working, and i'm out of ideas as to what to try. Is this configuration possible? Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

backpack external rom

Hello, Does anyone have a backpack external cd-rom working under 5.2.1? It has three possible methods of operation, parallel, USB, and PCMCIA, in this case only parallel is applicable. I need to burn using this burner, but have not been able to make it work. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave

vinum primary master drive inconsistencies

w to go about this, any advice appreciated. Dave. PS, I love vinum! the secondary ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

apache2 startup flags

Hello, I just upgraded apache and now it starts via rc.conf. I want to use: apache_enable="YES" apache2ssl_enable="YES" but am unsure about the other options: apache2_limits, apache2_flags, and apache2limits_args what should these be

apcupsd port not starting

cupsd driver type usb not found" and it suggests i rerun configure with the --enable-usb option. I check the port and one of the args passed to it's configure is --enable-usb. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing li

pflogsumm and postfix2 logs

Hello, I've got pflogsumm running to analyze and summarize postfix logs. In the report it is reporting zero for all activities, even though i've sent mail during the period of the check. Any ideas? Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ma

ipfilter allowing samba

twork, not the net. Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

apache2 port

Any ideas? Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: apache2 port

. Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

limiting where a user can log in from

something to do with login.access or login.conf, but am unsure as to what? Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

mounting administrative xp share via smbfs on 5.4

The share itself as far as i know does not have a password. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

gmirror trouble with bsdlabel

gmirror load fdisk -v -B -I /dev/mirror/gm0 bsdlabel -w -B /dev/mirror/gm0s1 bsdlabel ad0s1 > label1 bsdlabel -R /dev/mirror/gm0s1 label1 bsdlabel -e /dev/mirror/gm0s1 change offset of partition a to 16 and save. This is where i get the error. Thanks. Dave. ___

usb2 external drive gets different designations

connected it is mounted and when disconnected it is unmounted cleanly. I was wondering if this was possible or if not if there was a way of giving it da0 or da1 everytime the drive was connected? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: usb2 external drive gets different designations

Hi, Thanks, do you have a usbd.conf entry that does this? I'm also seeing my cd-roms moving, they use scsi emulation and whenever the drive goes in they move as well and it makes it so i have to edit 4 scripts for custom burning. Thanks.

updating perl

Hello, Trying to update my perl port from 5.8.6 to 5.8.7. The updating of perl itself went fine, but all the dependent ports on it like swatch, php, etc. previously referenced modules that were included in 5.8.6, now they're not working. What extra step do i do? Thanks.

copying data from external disk freezes with errors and halts system

kill the process. The specific command is: cd /mnt cp -R * /backup/data I then try it with tar tar -cf - | (cd /backup/data; tar -xf -) This gets up to about 5.4g then the errors start again. I thought about dump but am not sure if that can read ext2 filesystems. Thanks.

DMA read/write errors while copying data, 5.4

fired LBA=7567655 ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA interrupt was seen but timeout fired LBA=7567659 etc. I've done this on another box, a test machine and did not experience this issue. Might one or more of these drives be going bad? Thanks. Dave. ___ fr

5.4 on Hp Vectra VL

xl0 never has an IP. In this box pnp os is again off, and integrated network was on, i turned it off without a change. I'm ready to point the finger at some bios setting, but i've been through each bios for several hours now and i am not finding the culprit. If anyone has seen this i'd

two 3C905B's in 5.4

the bios on this box and it's pnp os option is off. Any help appreciated. If more information is needed ask, i will send it. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

usr data/fax modem under 5.4

o2 port, it's i/o address, and the fact that fbsd sees the modem's uart as a 16550a which again if i remember right tells me that i've got the sio2 port and i/o right, just the irq is wrong. Did i miss something? Thanks. Dave. ___ fr

ipfilter4 on freebsd5

nks a lot. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

dhclient ddns update script

and update an A record. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

package database corruption

i don't have to uninstall and reinstall the packages on this box, any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

interrupt issue, storm on parallel port, 5.4

then, do i have to worry about this? This is on a 5.4-p1 system, if so is there a fix? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

binding lpd to a single IP

Hello, I've looked over the lpd man page but can't find what i want. I've got a box that does printing services, but now it also has jails. I want to lock lpd down to a specific IP, but don't see a flag to do so. Help appre

Re: binding lpd to a single IP

Hello, Thanks, i am atempting to bind lpd to one IP not the * which means it's listening everywhere, sorry if i was unclear. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questio

syslog in jail

In the host system and the jail i've got syslogd_flags="-ss" in their rc.conf files. Any pointers? Also, lpd is listening in the jail as well. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

two dc cards on 5.4

cards are to be probed to in, but nothing seems to work, and this only occurs when the second card is in the box. I've tried three separate cards, all give the same behavior. Some urgency! Any help greatly appreciated. Dave. ___ freebsd-q

Re: two dc cards on 5.4

Hi, Thanks for your reply. I'll give that a shot. My problem is the dc0 card gets it's ip via dhcp, can i still use media and mediaopt with dhcp? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

dovecot can not find mailbox

es and the directory name is /home/user/Maildir i edited my dovecot.conf file and changed the mail_env option, uncommented it and made it %h/%u/Maildir and no good. Any suggestions? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Carp and Apache

carp0 vhid 1 pass sdf899734h 10.0.241.140/24 ifconfig carp1 create ifconfig carp1 vhid 1 pass sdf899734h 10.0.241.143/24 ifconfig carp2 create ifconfig carp2 vhid 1 pass sdf899734h 10.0.241.144/24 ifconfig carp3 create ifconfig carp3 vhid 1 pass sdf899734h 10.0.241.145/24 ifconfig carp4

probably a simple routing or firewall question

It needs to be that simple, the person whose getting it has an impulsive habbit especially if something doesn't work right out of the box. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

fatal trap 12 in kernel mode

Hello, I'm trying to do a 5.4-release install on an older box, it's an AT motherboard, and i hope that's not my problem. I'm getting the below error and would appreciate any help. Thanks. Dave. Insert boot floppy and press Enter /acpi.ko text=0x414fc data=0x1dc4+0x112c

5.4 CD and floppies enter boot loop

y iso same behavior. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

compiling chrooted kernel makes drive unbootable

rd is different so i felt i had to. The compilation and installation of the chrooted kernel went fine, putting the drive in the new system yields an unbootable drive. I've checked the data and kernel are there. Any ideas why this procedure didn't give me a bootable drive

bitdefender port failing to start

Hello, I've just installed the latest bitdefender port, updated it then tried a scan. I used: bdc / and bdc / --files both cases i got the following error: error: core initialization failed: Libfn initialization failed This is on a 5.4-p6 system. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Re: New Logo

three groups are worth the calories being expended in this conversation. This entire thread is funny, and sad. DAve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

gmirror clearing configuration

from either the first or second drive so i can start again, i load gmirror then issue a gmirror clear and it says it can't clear the metadata. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

abcde ripping to mp3 and ogg using different folders

in separate folders under one root area. Has anyone done this? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

relocating /tmp to other media

e does not occur when scanning a 20 gb drive. I was wondering if it's possible to relocate /tmp to other media ramdisk, tmpfs, or the like? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

bruteforce not restarting pf?

ot restarted or informed about the updated table. In my pf.conf file i have: table persist file "/etc/bruteforce" set block-policy drop block in log quick on $ext_if inet proto tcp from to any port ssh Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

Re: bruteforce not restarting pf?

Hi, Thanks for your reply. I checked out the site and my configuration is good. The information bruteforce needs is being collected by syslog and placed in the table, when this table is updated pf doesn't update it's copy of it. Dave. - Original Message - From: "

freebsd 5.4 or 6 on a winbond motherboard

Hello, If anyone is running 5.4 or 6 on a winbond motherboard specifically a winbond w836627hf-aw please contact me. I'm having issues related to random reboots and i'd like to get them fixed. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@f

schedulers and compatibility options in 6.0-r

i find slightly disturbing: ahc0: (GIANT-LOCKED) and a little later: no suitable dump device was found this is on a geom gmirrored system updated from 5.4-RELEASE-p6 to 6.0-RELEASE. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: Carp and Apache

Danny Howard wrote: Dave, Yes. "Yes" both apache servers have the same IP in httpd.conf? or "Yes" I am completely off base in my understanding? Not certain I can go this route right now anyway as I do not have enough test boxes to setup a trial. There seems to be a s

ntp handling in 6.0

e_enable="YES" ntpdate_flags="-b local ntp server IP" ntpd_enable="YES" ntpd_flags="-c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid" /etc/ntp.conf server local-ntp-server-ip prefer driftfile /etc/ntp.drift Thanks. Dave. ___

converting a .chm file

Hello, I've got some .chm files i'd like to move. I was wondering if anyone know of a cli tool to convert them to another format, perhaps pdf, rtf, html, or plain text? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: converting a .chm file

Hi, Thanks, do you know of any non-x ports for converting .chm files? Thanks. Dave. - Original Message - From: "Roland Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 12:10 PM Sub

Re: ntp handling in 6.0

to $int_if port { 67, 68, 123 } keep state and ntpdc shows me a prompt. Hope this helps. Dave. - Original Message - From: "Lowell Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 10:00 AM Subject:

strange log output

Hello, Can anyone tell me what these log outputs mean? I'm seeing them in my daily security log reports. Thanks. Dave. +cmd mysqld pid 32880 tried to use non-present sched_yield +cmd mysqld pid 32880 tried to use non-present sched_yield +cmd cdrecord pid 26176 tried to use non-pr

webalizer monitoring apache logs on freebsd6

Hello, I'm trying to use webalizer to analyze apache2 web logs and report on traffic on my freebsd6 box. Both apache2 and webalizer are set to scan the combined log type. Webalizer runs via cron and this error is what i get that's it. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave. Error

Re: webalizer monitoring apache logs on freebsd6

Hi, Thanks. The problem is this is a nightly thing, webalizer always sends me this output. Thanks. Dave. - Original Message - From: "Robert Slade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 12:14 PM S

Re: abcde ripping to mp3 and ogg using different folders

the mp3's where they are and to create the same folder as the mp3's are in with a .ogg extension and put the .ogg files in there. I'm a bit new to shell scripting, can you get me pointed in the right direction? Thanks. Dave. - Original Message - From: "Lowell Gi

Re: Waaaaay OT, sorry.

xtension tubes on his old Cannon to copy slides and photograph postage stamps. It was amazing the clarity I got. A small stamp could fill a 35mm frame. DAve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

web content filtering with 6.0

nked in to squid to provide some of this functionality. The stuff i saw was for freebsd 4, nothing for 5 or 6. If anyone has web content filtering using these or other packages going under fbsd6 i'd like to know how you did it. Thanks. Dave.

locking down a scsi device

les i've seen reference a scsi controller, the burners use the atapicam driver not a scsi card. In the same context i'd also like to lock down the external devices, so that when they're inserted they'll always have known values. Does anyone h

subversion on 5.x

an error: /usr/ports/devel/subversion/work/subversion-1.0.6/subversion/bindings/swig/s wigutil_pl.c:1073: warning: data definition has no type or storage class then an error code 1 and the process aborts. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PRO

Via VT6202 USB2 controller, FreeBSD5?

assigned. I'm hoping all that is required is a line in device.hints or a kernel recompilation. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x06 card=0x1403147b chip=0x30991106 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc' device = 'VT8366/A

freebsd subversion server

Hello, I'm looking for a freebsd-specific howto or doc on setting up a subversion server. I can find via google several good ones on cvs, none freebsd-specific for subversion. Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebs

question

Hello, I'm new in freebsd..and want to ask something. 1. Can freebsd handle more than 80 giga Harddisk? (maybe I want to use 100-200 Giga HD for data) 2. If I plugin a new harddisk, can be outomatic detect or I use do manual configuration? Thank you, best Regards,

portsentry core dumps on 5.2.1

. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

connections from dialup IP's

32.58.56 Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

similar spec, to mess with, witn some sort of impunity. Unless there is a compelling argument to, I'd prefer to stick with V8.0 too. Advice please (and perhaps a little hand holding.) Cheers. Dave B. PS: I run one of these http://www.ncdxf.org/beacon/monitors.html ___

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

structure? Or, am I going about this all wrong. Problems and unfamiliarity asside, I'm sort of enjoying all this. But it's a near vertical learning curve, again... Best regards, time for the kettle to start work I think. Dave B. PS: I saw somewhere, that pureftp has had so

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

= "executing", so it sort of makes sense. I did find though, that the -R switch, doesn't always cause chmod to alter sub directories in the way one expects. One directory at a time then, but job done. It appears too, that if one of the

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

On 25 Nov 2010 at 21:25, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 20:00:21 -, "Dave" > wrote: > Lots is written about the 'x' bit, and allowing execution of > a file, but > not that it affects the ability to even use that > directory. I guess in > t

next question....

ogin over ssh. Yes, I realise the risks, but the ssh port will never be exposed to the world, just the rest of my lan, and yes, that could be bad if "something got in". Cheers. Dave B. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

On 26 Nov 2010 at 9:53, Ryan Coleman wrote: > > On Nov 26, 2010, at 8:53 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Dave > > wrote: > > > >> Yes, I found that, good info. I'm relying on the freebsd.org site > >> man

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ It appears to work well. I now have another problem of the BSD flavor (inabiltiy to 'su') but I've already asked that in another post. Thanks. Dave B. PS: Do I detect a Monty Python fan? ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

missing digest mail?

I just noticed, that I seem to have missed some digest mails, Vol 338, issues 4 to 7. (No list mail between the 24th and 27th November, only direct mails from list members.) Nothing in the spam bucket here either. Hopefully nothing useful to me passed by. Regards. Dave B

Re: next question....

On 27 Nov 2010 at 12:06, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Dave wrote: > > > $ su > > su: Sorry > > $ sudo > > sudo: not found > > $ uname -a > > FreeBSD FBSD.67MK181QZ 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Apr > > 14 22

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

On 27 Nov 2010 at 11:22, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Dave wrote: > > > > > > > /usr/ports/sysutils/screen/ > > > > > > > Ryan, thanks, but no 'ports' is installed on this box, it was built > > with a

pkg_add fail on FreeBSD V8.0

8.1, though to maintain my needed PPS support I guess I'll need to recompile the kernel again? Is the change from V8.0 to V8.1 realy that a big step? Or compile Hiawatha from sources? (I *Will* need guidance and hand- holding to do that!) Advice please, before I mess things u

Success! (Was Re: pkg_add fail on FreeBSD V8.0)

ve to look after themselves for a little while, till I catch up on things. I'm sure I'll be back when something else puzzles me. Many thanks again people. Best Regards. Dave B. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fr

Noob Jail question.

e jail in "read only" mode. (I suspect, maybe?) Or can an app outside the jail, drop stuff off inside the jail? (For whatever reason, I suspect not?) If anyone understands what the heck I'm blathering on about, please explain it to me, as I think I've lost the plot. Com

Re: Noob Jail question.

On 16 Dec 2010 at 14:50, Da Rock wrote: > On 12/16/10 09:32, Dave wrote: > > Hi. > > > > As some of you may remember, I've managed to build a F'BSD V8.0 > > based system that provides me with:- . . . . > Hi.. Indexer and Da Rock, many thanks, more re

Re: Noob Jail question.

s, I'd take paid for advice, and pass the cost on! Thanks for the encoragement.. Dave B. On 17 Dec 2010 at 12:14, Indexer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > > Indexer and Da Rock, many thanks, more reading, and some fiddling &g

Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove it! Bit of an oversight that I suspect Regards. Dave B. (Chief numpty!) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To uns

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

On 22 Dec 2010 at 11:41, b. f. wrote: > dave wrote: > ... > >I was trying to disable the console screensaver, and found that in > >sysinstall, there is no way to select "none" as an option. > > > >So I went and edited /etc/rc.conf to comment out the l

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

BASH > style structs. > Accepted and acknowledged as my finger trouble. As earlier, that issue is now fixed. Thanks. Dave B. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: disyfiles

ded to get things up and running, and can get more stuff as needed, when it's needed. OK, not as painless as having it all on a DVD locally, but it does work. You do need to download the bootable Network install CD first though. Is that how you started? Best Regards. Dave B

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

ou write one "sector" you actualy re-write a much larger block of memory. Wear leveling, not that common with SSD Hard Drives, but very common with USB (Flash) memory sticks, only goes so far. SSD's have a place, but not for things like swapfiles or working data that chang

postfix on fbsd 5

you send me your /etc/mail, /usr/local/etc/postfix, and your rc.conf or some pointers? Thanks. Dave. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

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