Re: printing over the network

2002-12-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:02 PM +0200 12/21/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Are you using lpd or lprng (have to get that out of the way) lpd Is lpd running / listening? - Show me iulian#ps -ax | grep lpd 4544 ?? Is 0:00.01 lpd What does "lpc status all" return? Nothing What version of freebsd are yo

Re: 5.0-RELEASE under VMWare 3 : slowdown and even hangup

2003-02-13 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:51 AM +0100 2/13/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm kinda in the same situation : XP Pro, WMWare 3.2, several virtual machines running fine (linux,w2k), but the freebsd 5-RELEASE is quite a pain to use in this env. The guest OS keeps on slowing down, to the point that it's unusable. Kris Ken

Re: machine accounts and samba

2003-03-02 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:48 AM +0100 3/2/03, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: charles pelletier wrote: how do you add a machine account in samba? i've already added users using 'smbpasswd -a username password' but cannot for the life of me remember how to add a machine to the samba domain. man smbpasswd smbpasswd -m Then

Re: Installing CUPS pkg

2003-03-12 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:58 AM -0600 3/12/03, Bob McCarty wrote: JBMAC# make install ===> Installing for cups-1.1.18.0_4 ===> cups-1.1.18.0_4 is already installed - perhaps an older version? If so, you may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properl

Re: question on samba install

2003-03-19 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:01 AM -0500 3/19/03, David Banning wrote: If I install samba without cups, is it still possible to print with samba? I have a small network with a few win boxes and the samba install is older. It doesn't have cups. I am just wondering, since samba now installs cups by default, whether it is a

Re: Personal development CVS question

2003-03-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:04 PM -0500 3/24/03, Steve Bertrand wrote: The current state of my app is ready for production, so I would like to take a snapshot of it as is, then implement it. I would like to leave this snapshot alone, and further develop in other aspects of the program now. Am I correct with this method?

Re: VMware 3.1 and FreeBSD

2002-07-16 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:49 AM -0400 7/17/02, Bob Bomar wrote: >I was trying to install VMware 3.1 on my FBSD box, when I got >to the configureing part, it gave me this error: > >[bob@warrior] ~>sudo vmware-config.pl >Password: >Setup is unable to find the "insmod" program on your machine. >Please make sure it is in

Re: Question on order and targets of kernel and world builds

2002-07-17 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:04 PM -0400 7/16/02, John Mills wrote: >Hello - > >I would appreciate a bit more information on the 'world' and 'kernel' >building process. Please point me at the right section of the Handbook >or Greg's book if there is a succinct description. > >I have been doing 'CVSUP' followed by: > >#

Re: strange errors in /var/log/lpd-errs

2002-07-21 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:17 PM +1000 7/21/02, Danny wrote: >I have a FreeBSD running samba with a shared printer. > >Everytime I want to print something FreeBSD suddenly halts (keyboard >doesn't work etc) and the OS produces the following error messages in >/var/log/lpd-errs > > lpd[344]: lpd startup: logging=0 > l

Re: Best way to "renice" a process by name?

2006-09-26 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:32 AM -0600 9/26/06, Brett Glass wrote: Is there a "renice by name" utility for FreeBSD (sort of an equivalent of "killall")? I could gin one up, but since this seems like something that people would want to do frequently, find it hard to believe that someone hasn't already written one.

Re: non-ATA66 cable?

2006-10-22 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:15 PM -0500 10/21/06, David Kelly wrote: Dell PowerEdge 400SC, 6.2-PRERELEASE (altho this is an old issue) dmesg says: acd0: DMA limited to UDMA33, controller found non-ATA66 cable acd0: DVDR at ata1-master UDMA33 cd0: 33.000MB/s transfers The controller is properly probed as,

Re: chmod / files and directories

2007-09-10 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:38 PM -0400 9/10/07, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Daniel Bye wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 10:01:35PM +0530, Shantanoo Mahajan wrote: >> # find /usr/local/www/data/wp -type f -exec chmod 644 '{}' \; # find /usr/local/www/data/wp -type d -exec chmod 755 '{}' \; To be on safer side. :)

Re: lpr on KDE

2007-02-15 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:32 PM -0500 2/15/07, Gary Schenk wrote: When trying to print from KDE applications, I get the following error: "/usr/local/bin/lpr: Connection refused" This is on a new install of 6.2-RELEASE. KDE was installed from a package during install. Printing works fine from the commandline as root a

Re: rsync and moving files [Re: backup w/ snapshots]

2005-08-30 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:32 AM +0200 8/30/05, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: The solution: Somehow, I need to mirror all the move ops on the remote system before doing the rsync. This could probably be done by making a hash table of inodes/filenames pairs (or triplets, etc) each time i sync. Then the next time, I c

Re: problem with printf in a shell script

2007-06-19 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:09 PM +0200 6/19/07, Olivier Regnier wrote: Olivier Regnier a écrit : Hi everyone, I want to insert text in my file, rc.conf : update_motd="NO" I tried printf in my shell script with this command : printf "update_motd="\"NO"\"\" >> /etc/rc.conf then, that works well in console but not with

Re: Determining what a port will install... (more than pretty-print-*)

2005-05-02 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:25 PM -0500 4/30/05, Eric Schuele wrote: Philip Hallstrom wrote: The "portupgrade" port can do this. Something like... portupgrade -n -Rr someport The -n tells it not to do anything, just show you what it would do. This sounds like what I'm looking for... so I tried it. But its giving me dif

Re: Determining what a port will install... (more than pretty-print-*)

2005-05-02 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:42 AM -0500 5/2/05, Eric Schuele wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: I believe that 'portupgrade -n' only works right for ports which you have already installed. Yes... That is the conclusion I have come to. I'm sure what I am trying to accomplish is just one savvy shell script aw

Re: is 4.11 still a good idea?

2005-05-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:02 PM +0800 5/9/05, Foo Ji-Haw wrote: Hi guys, I'm thinking of installing 4.11 on my next server, seeing that we have some Java issues on the 5.x series (I've been informed that native Java on 5.x is not a good idea). Can I get some feedback on whether development and/ or support on 4.11 is s

Re: is 4.11 still a good idea?

2005-05-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:02 PM +0800 5/9/05, Foo Ji-Haw wrote: Can I get some feedback on whether development and/ or support on 4.11 is still active and updated? I've spent quite some time on the 4.x series, so I am quite comfortable with it. Let me also mention that 5.3-release was a little rocky for some users, bu

Re: moving /var/mail to another machine

2005-05-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:24 PM -0400 5/24/05, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I want to move all of the mailboxes (all of /var/mail/*) on one machine to another one across a network. I need to preserve permissions, uid's and gud's. (It would probably be good to preserve modification times as well). I can move a file using sc

Re: VMware2 build under -CURRENT ... is Broken?

2003-04-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:49 PM -0700 4/1/03, Danilo Fiorenzano wrote: 5.0-CURRENT with sources cvsup'd on March 30. "portinstall vmware2" aborts with: .../vmmon-only/freebsd/hostif.c: In function `FindMPN': .../vmmon-only/freebsd/hostif.c:186: invalid operands to binary >> *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators

Re: customizing printcap to email file

2003-04-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:33 PM -0500 4/3/03, David Banning wrote: what I would like to do is have windows boxes print to a unix printer filter which would convert the file into pdf format and put the file into a directory where it could be emailed out. Anyone tried this? First off, I tried modifying the printcap if

Re: About newsyslog behavior

2003-07-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:08 PM +0300 7/2/03, Jim Xochellis wrote: I suspected that some processes are confused because a *new* log file is created and these processes are making the assumption that their log file will be always the same and perhaps they open it once and then work with the FILE pointer. If a program

Re: Which Sata-controller card?

2004-11-22 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:33 AM +0100 11/22/04, Stephan Fiebrandt wrote: If you just need to expand your Mainboard with a SATA Controller, all you need is a poor card with a Silicon chip on it (Sil 3112 etc). I've seen cards starting at 10$. Almost all low-cost cards have this chip series, meanwhile on 5.3 it should wo

Re: Which Sata-controller card?

2004-11-22 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:08 AM +0100 11/22/04, Questions wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 9:33 AM +0100 11/22/04, Stephan Fiebrandt wrote: If you just need to expand your Mainboard with a SATA Controller, all you need is a poor card with a Silicon chip on it (Sil 3112 etc). Unless something happened in the past

Re: Which Sata-controller card?

2004-11-22 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:08 AM +0100 11/22/04, Questions wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: Unless something happened in the past week or so, you can still have WRITE_DMA problems with the SiL 3112 if you connect a "fake SATA" drive to it, such as some of the Western Digital drives. ... These drives seem to

Re: make -j$n buildworld : use of -j investigated

2004-11-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:51 PM +0900 11/23/04, Rob wrote: Laurence Sanford wrote: Rob wrote: With these simple tests, I come to the conclusion that "make -j$n buildworld" is best with n = number of CPUs. Does that make sense? Rob. This is what I've been telling people and usin

Re: make -j$n buildworld : use of -j investigated

2004-11-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:41 AM +0900 11/24/04, Rob wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: Also, did you do your benchmarking before or after the recent fixes to -j processing? I haven't redone them after that change, and I think it will be interesting to see what effect that has. These tests were done on 5.3-Stable

Re: HD Space

2004-12-05 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:02 AM -0200 12/6/04, Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote: People, After a cvsup, installworld and portupgrade ... I have installed a new optimized kernel. After that I have installed KDE3 in my FreeBSd 5.3 machine. The problem is now /usr is 4 GB used against 1 G free. How is possible to clean /us

Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults

2010-02-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:59 PM -0700 2/2/10, Steve Franks wrote: On a running system. I mean, I know I should quit being a &%^#& and read the manpage for bsdlabel, but sysintall really does have a nice tui.'C'reate slice goes straight to 'd', even on a 'fresh' disk. I see in the handbook, this is alluded to, bu

Re: Should root partition be first partition?

2010-02-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:09 AM -0600 2/8/10, Peter Steele wrote: I've set up a system with gpart and have the swap partition first followed by root, var, and so on. This works fine but I've seen documents that always have root first, then swap. Is there any reason that root should be the first partition or can it

RE: Samba and $

2003-08-14 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:41 PM +0800 8/12/03, Katinka Mills wrote: I thought in the version with Freebsd 4.8 that you could now use accounts with $ signs in them The 'pw' command has been changed so that you can create user accounts (and user groups) which end in a $. That's all samba should need. I'm pretty sure th

Re: lpd logging

2003-08-14 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:13 PM +1000 8/5/03, jason fiddian wrote: help please we have lpd -l running to log daemon activities but where does it log to? It depends on what lines you have in /etc/syslog.conf. You would want to check /var/log/lpd-errs, and you may also see the lines in /var/log/messages. If /var/log/lpd

Re: Bind query logging stops after a logrotate.

2003-09-08 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:04 PM -0700 9/8/03, Charlie Schluting wrote: FBSD 5.1: Using Bind9.2.2, and I have query logging turned on: logging { channel "querylog" { file "/var/log/query.lo~g"; print-time yes; }; category queries { querylog; }; }; After a logrotate, it stops logging completely. The permissions ar

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-13 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:28 PM -0400 5/13/06, fbsd wrote: To all question list readers; Now with 14576 ports in the collection where do you draw the line that its too large to be downloading the whole collection when you just use 10 or 20 of them? This is a good question. For all those people who want to roll th

Re: Anyone using sysutils/nut ?

2006-05-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:54 AM -0400 5/22/06, Scott "Tuc" Ellentuch at T-B-O-H wrote: Hi, I'd like to find out where to put the "upsdrvctl shutdown" in the shutdown process. Putting it in rc.shutdown causes me to have dirty filesystems constantly that sometimes don't allow the system to come up. I seem t

Re: Anyone using sysutils/nut ?

2006-05-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:54 AM -0400 5/22/06, Scott "Tuc" Ellentuch at T-B-O-H wrote: Hi, I'd like to find out where to put the "upsdrvctl shutdown" in the shutdown process. Putting it in rc.shutdown causes me to have dirty filesystems constantly that sometimes don't allow the system to come up. It occur

Re: Newsyslog problem using Apache 2.2.x

2006-05-29 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:22 AM +0200 5/29/06, Pelle Andersson wrote: A number of days ago I sucessfully upgraded Apache from 2.0.x series to 2.2.x series. Everything worked perfekt except newsyslog. I'm using the following in newsyslog.conf (worked perfect in Apache 2.0.x): /var/log/apache/*.log root:wheel 640 7 *

Re: Freebsd-Devel

2006-06-12 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:46 AM -0400 6/11/06, Jim Stapleton wrote: I was looking at the mailing list, and I couldn't find a "freebsd-devel" list, though I thought I heard of one's existance. What am I missing here? I'm looking here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOUR

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386 will changing root shell break anything?

2009-01-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:09 PM -0800 1/4/09, David Christensen wrote: I have changed the root shell to Bash on another machine I use as a CVS server and haven't noticed any issues yet, but I've been wondering if I'm setting myself up for problems by doing so. Does anybody know if it's okay to change the root shel

Re: filesystem permissions using dump on live filesystem

2004-02-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:47 PM -0500 2/23/04, Aaron Peterson wrote: > i put a user in the operator group in /etc/group: -snip- and attempted to dump a live filesystem: -snip- what am i missing here? nevermind. i had to log out and log back in. that solved my problems. now my only question is why does one ha

Re: LPD's emailing of errors to user@hostname

2004-02-29 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:45 PM -0600 2/29/04, freebsd wrote: lpd will generate error messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] specific email addresses. Is there a way to have lpd deliver to a single account (e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]) regardless of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] that originated the job? Not right now. I could change that

Re: redirecting /tmp

2004-03-04 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:37 PM -0500 3/4/04, Robey Holderith wrote: I'm trying to find a way to set an environmental variable so that the system will use /usr/tmp or something instead of /tmp as a temporary directory. Some utilities will pay attention to the TMPDIR environment variable. The story is that I was attemp

Re: Usability Of NOCLEAN

2004-03-06 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:37 PM -0600 3/6/04, Peter Schultz wrote: Hi, I'm just curious about the usability of NOCLEAN. If I've just updated world and things are fine with the installation, is it considered safe to use NOCLEAN? If we thought that behavior was always safe, then that would be the default behavior. It

Re: Moving SSH port off of port 22

2004-03-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:01 AM -1000 3/9/04, Jason Halbert wrote: Hello All: I need some help moving SSH off of port 22, preferably onto port 23 and disabling telnet. Can I do this just by changing something in /etc/services or by means of a firewall? You change the configuration for sshd in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, un

Re: AFS 1.2.11 compilation on FreeBSD 5.2?

2004-03-17 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:03 AM -0800 3/17/04, Matt Weatherford wrote: Has anyone done this? Care to share your notes? :) I want the AFS server, mainly. I dont care about the client. I have not compiled or run the server, but some friends of mine claim "it wasn't too hard to do". Compiling and running a server on

RE: newsyslog and apache

2004-03-22 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:19 PM -0800 3/22/04, Noah wrote: I ask that you please be specific as to what you think is wrong with my newsyslog.conf file because I cant seem to figure out what you are talking about here? Looks like my newsyslog.conf file matches the recommended config: Hi. I do not run apache at all, bu

Re: installworld failing on sparc64

2004-04-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:48 AM + 4/3/04, Andy Miller wrote: I am currently upgrading a Sparc64 system from 5.1 to 5.2.1. buildworld was successful, as well as the build and install of the kernel. After a reboot, I ran installworld and received the following error message: ===> bin/csh install -s -o root -g wheel

Re: Portsnap vs CSup

2009-03-19 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:39 PM +0100 3/19/09, Kalle Møller wrote: Hi I've been digging around, but I can't find a clear answer, which of those two is the "correct" to use. Hence I don't use one now, so if I'm going to learn one, I would prefer it to be the right one. That's a reasonable question to ask. Unfortun

Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?

2008-06-19 Thread Garance A Drosihn
Seeing the question: > Is anyone here using RootBSD? At 10:55 AM +0700 6/19/08, OutBackDingo wrote: I was going to go with them for their XEN based hosting, but i sent them an email, asking a couple questions, they never replied, so went with Verio instead I notice the rootbsd guys did a m

Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?

2008-06-19 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:37 PM -0400 6/18/08, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:27 PM, cpghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:31:31 +1000 Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm looking for somebody to host some web sites for me. Ideally I'd like a complete machine

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

2006-08-11 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:49 AM -0500 8/11/06, Paul Schmehl wrote: I would note that these issues appear to be impacting the project. As of right now, there are only 1612 systems reporting in, ... For my part, I've submitted two public hosts. I have four others I will not submit until I'm certain the data are

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