Re: gateway_enable="NO"

2010-11-29 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 339, Issue 1, Message: 20 On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 01:40:21 +0100 Lokadamus wrote: > Am 25.11.2010 05:38, schrieb Lamac Lamaco: > > The system installed now and in adresses /etc or /etc/rc.d there is no > > script. > > Does system work in default as ROUTER? > > I a

Re: USB Thumb Drive

2010-12-01 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 339, Issue 6, Message: 22 On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 15:59:30 -0500 Jerry wrote: > On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 12:36:43 -0600 > Ryan Coleman articulated: > > > As the page says, it's READ ONLY in Linux... kinda pathetic. Thanks, > > Microsoft, for changing things AGAIN so yo

Re: regex question....

2010-12-05 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 339, Issue 11, Message: 30 On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 18:23:08 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: > On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 05:56:59PM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > Joshua Gimer wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > I have tried

Re: printer recommendations?

2010-12-05 Thread Ian Smith
On 4 Dec 2010 17:25:34 - John Levine wrote: > >> My printer is a sturdy old Lexmark Optra T610. CUPS has a driver, > >> which does duplex, N-up, and so forth. Each toner cartridge is good > >> for over 10K pages, so I buy one about every two years, and I can > >> usually find one for $10

xpbargains.net spam [was: Re: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)']

2010-12-10 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 340, Issue 11, Message: 27 On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:54:37 -0500 > On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Paul B Mahol wrote: No, he didn't. These mails are FORGED as being from freebsd-questions participants, and on first glance may appear to be list postings. They us

Re: xpbargains.net spam [was: Re: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)']

2010-12-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 11:30:19 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: > > > On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:41:48 -0500 > > Chris Brennan wrote: > > > > > Does GMail provide access to the full headers? > > > > Click the down arrow and select "Show original

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2010-12-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 00:48:21 +1100 (EST) > Ian Smith wrote: > > > If nothing else, might adding a quick "(try Options/Rescan Devices)" > > to the "No USB devices" message text help some folks out of this >

Re: ACPI error message

2010-12-14 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 341, Issue 3, Message: 2 On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:26:35 +0100 Davide Petilli <7h3.k3r...@gmail.com> wrote: > During the boot I can see these error mesages related to acpi. > I've built my kernel but the error messages come up on the default kernel > too. > Does

Re: boot, rc script and logs

2010-12-14 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 341, Issue 3, Message: 17 On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:02:54 +0100 Samuel Mart?n Moro wrote: > Hi, > > I'm adding some scripts to FreeBSD boot. > One of this script runs a binary that checks our postgres database, its > output being redirected to a dialog --gauge.

Re: boot, rc script and logs

2010-12-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:42:29 +0100, Samuel Martín Moro wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:57 AM, Ian Smith wrote: [..] > > > Dec 14 13:26:47 camtrace13 kernel: ^[[m > > > Dec 14 13:26:47 camtrace13 kernel: ^[[39;49m^[[=1S > > > Dec 14 13:26:47 camtrace13 kern

Re: Spam with fake address from the list?

2010-12-16 Thread Ian Smith
Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 341, Issue 6, Message: 27 On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:44:09 + Bruce Cran wrote: > On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:40:35 +0100 > Michelle Konzack wrote: > > > does someone get this kind of spam too? > > Yes, lots of people have been getting that for a few months. >

Re: FBSD Realtime

2010-12-20 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 342, Issue 1, Message: 14 On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:49:08 -0600 Brandon Gooch wrote: > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Da Rock > wrote: > >> I can't seem to get my head on straight with the realtime scheduling in > >> FBSD despite all my googling. Can someone g

Re: kernel config file according to config(5): inconsistent ?

2010-12-26 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 342, Issue 9, Message: 1 On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 04:38:08 -0800 Rob wrote: > I read the guidelines in the man pages of config(5) on how to make a > customized > kernel config file: > > nooption name [, name [...]] > nooptions name [, name [...]] >

Re: kernel config file according to config(5): inconsistent ?

2010-12-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 26 Dec 2010, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:29:47 +1100 (EST) > Ian Smith wrote: > > > Arguably unforgiving parsing and/or imprecise description. Try eg: > > > > nooptions NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER, NFSLOCKD, NFS_ROOT > > > >

Re: kernel config file according to config(5): inconsistent ?

2010-12-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 26 Dec 2010, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 01:50:45 +1100 (EST) > Ian Smith wrote: > > > Probably should be easy, but from trying to parse that and lang.l I > > get the vague impression (at best) that Rob's original should have > > work

Re: what process is sending this packet?

2010-12-27 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 3, Message: 10 On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 06:30:05 -0800 S Mathias wrote: > I can see, that theres a program that keeps sending packets on port 25: > > Dec 27 14:11:46 a kernel: [ 6336.992320] O_D_LOG: IN= OUT=lo SRC=127.0.0.1 > DST=127.0.0.1 LEN=60 TOS=

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2010-12-29 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 5, Message: 10 On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:02:45 -0500 Chris Brennan wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Michael Powell > wrote: > > > Try zeroing out the mbr: > > > > Boot a LiveFS CD, then at a root prompt do: > > > > sysctl kern.geom.debugf

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2010-12-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:17:48 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > > > I don't expect this to be anything like that. Please show a) how many > > slices you allocated and how big this FreeBSD slice is and b) how you >

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-01 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 10, Message: 23 On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:37:10 -0500 Michael Powell wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 5, Message: 10 > > On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:02:45 -0500 Chris Brennan > > wrote

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-01 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 2 Jan 2011 01:15:35 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Ian Smith wrote: [..] > > The bsdlabel lives in sector 1 (counting from 0) of the slice concerned, > > specifically the first 0x114 (276d) bytes, in the second sector of the > > b

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 2 Jan 2011 10:22:55 +, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 01:13:57 -0500 > Chris Brennan wrote: > > > No worries on missing it, I'm not sure that helped, I farted around > > with it again earlier today with little more in the way of success. > > What I tried was to just set

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Ian Smith wrote: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da4 skip=N > > where N is the known total number of sectors minus 34, should do it? Argh .. that should be seek=N, not skip. Up way too late .. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Smith
I've offended some gods? > Well, the irony here, the failing drive is *ALSO* 8.1, I can slap > that back in and fire it up, it still boots and works, I just didn't > want to take the risk of the drive's cheese sliding off it's cracker. How hard is it to re

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Chris Brennan wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:56 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 16:31:17 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > > > [.. trimming ccs, selec

Re: a perl question

2011-01-05 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 344, Issue 4, Message: 14 On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 23:24:01 -0700 Chad Perrin wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 09:33:03AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > > "Patrick" == Patrick Bihan-Faou > > > writes: > > > > Patrick> cat asdf.txt | grep -v XYZ | gr

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > > > > Saw Chris' later message that -F isn't there for him, but here's what > > should be, on the data, the sure-fire way to clobber that last sector: > &g

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 09:11:55 +, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 20:06:42 +1100 (EST) > Ian Smith wrote: > > > Just be sure NOT to use the 'A' option for auto-partitioning again; > > I'm sure I saw some problem with that on 8.1, not sure if

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Ian Smith wrote > > > Your dd of the first 71 sectors looked right, MBR looks ok, sectors 1-62 > > are zeroes, boot1 and boot2 from sector 63-70 seem normal, after you > > used 'W&#x

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop [solved]

2011-01-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 21:41:11 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition has a good guide for > > installing the base manually (you can ignore the gpart and zfs > > commands if you want). I found I ha

Re: Which php??

2011-01-13 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 345, Issue 7, Message: 11 On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:13:02 + Paul Macdonald wrote: > On 13/01/2011 00:18, Gary Kline wrote: > > autoconf: required version 2.68 not found > some stuff here to try for autoconf issues > > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php

Re: httpd-modsec2_debug.log: Operation not permitted

2011-01-14 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 345, Issue 9, Message: 10 On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:35:26 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:08:33 +0100, Swe Gill wrote: > > That is the problem. One file sizes upto 50GB and other 3 GB... > > > > 52872944 -rw-rw 1 root wheel 50G Jan

Re: httpd-modsec2_debug.log: Operation not permitted

2011-01-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > > Swe, I suspect the reason you can't just delete these files is > > likely because something has them open for writing, and the system > > won't let you remove such files, naturally

Re: httpd-modsec2_debug.log: Operation not permitted

2011-01-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Ian Smith wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: [..] > > Last I knew having a file open, even for writing, was no protection > > against its last link being removed. The _inode_ won't go away > > until the last handle is

Re: [RELEASE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 349, Issue 8, Message: 15 On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:53:53 -0800 Devin Teske wrote: > Hi All, > > I'd like to announce the release of a new script. A script that I've > developed for our field engineers that I'd like to share with the rest > of the world. > >

Re: [RELEASE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Eitan Adler wrote: > Nice Script! > I intend to steal parts of it for my own use. It's great when you can plunder without robbing anyone :) > > P.S. Maybe I ought to expand it to IPv6 considering that the IPv4 > > address space has [reportedly] finally ran out (is that t

Re: ipfw counters for tables

2012-07-22 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 424, Issue 10, Message: 10 On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:55:46 +0300 Eugen Konkov wrote: Hi Eugen, > I use ipfw tables to allow host to access to internet. > is there counter for matched packets/bytes for table entry like for > ipfw rule? > > #ipfw show 901 > ru

Re[2]: ipfw counters for tables

2012-07-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:13:47 +0300, Eugen Konkov wrote: > , Ian. > ?? ?? 23 2012 ?., 8:27:50: > IS> In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 424, Issue 10, Message: 10 > IS> On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:55:46 +0300 Eugen Konkov > wrote: > IS> Hi Eugen, > > >> I use ipfw tables to

Re: Waking system up from suspend-to-ram at specified time.

2012-07-30 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 425, Issue 13, Message: 13 On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 21:37:48 +0200 Piotr Czachur wrote: > Dear users, > > Does FreeBSD support waking system up from S3 (suspend to RAM) state > at specified time? On Linux, it can be achieved using rtcwake command > that uses RTC s

Re: weird problem with 9.0 Release and ed0

2012-08-11 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 427, Issue 6, Message: 16 On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:39:36 +0200 "Christoph P.U. Kukulies" wrote: > Am 10.08.2012 11:40, schrieb Christoph P.U. Kukulies: > > Am 10.08.2012 11:28, schrieb Christoph P.U. Kukulies: > >> The problem need not to be confined to 9.0. It s

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X

2012-08-19 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 428, Issue 7, Message: 4 On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:51:07 -0600 Gary Aitken wrote: > On 08/16/12 00:04, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On 16/08/2012 05:45, Gary Aitken wrote: > ... > >> Running 9.0 release on an amd 64 box, standard kernel, 16GB, SSD (/, > >> /usr, /va

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X [Solved]

2012-08-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:54:14 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > Having run for a couple of days now without problems, > I'm guardedly optimistic I've solved this problem. > It appears the problem had nothing to do with screen blanking. > The solution was to disable memory mapping in BIOS, > whose pu

Re: kinternet alternative in FreeBSD

2012-09-16 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 432, Issue 6, Message: 15 On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:26:57 +0200 Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:05:03 +0200, suseuse...@lajt.hu wrote: > > Matthias, Polytropon: [..] > > Thank you for your answers. > > I am using KDE 3.5.10. I would like to use FreeBSD

Reprieve [was: Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available... (fwd)]

2012-09-19 Thread Ian Smith
Folks, Seems that those (like me) concerned about 9.1 release branch activity not having been exported to CVS, requiring moving to SVN and abandoning c*sup source updating 'all of a sudden', can relax migration schedules a bit, for now .. though it's been a good 'gee-up' for me, at least. Prob

Re: audio playback with variable tempo

2012-12-13 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 445, Issue 4, Message: 12 On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:27:16 -0700 Gary Aitken wrote: > Can anyone suggest an audio playback application that allows you to vary the > tempo? I've used audacity on win systems, but I don't see that in ports. You'll have found audacity

Re: audio playback with variable tempo

2012-12-14 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 445, Issue 5, Message: 25 On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:52:53 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:56:51 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: > > On 12/12/12 23:51, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:27:16 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: > > >> Can anyone sugge

Re: shell script problem

2012-12-24 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 447, Issue 1, Message: 13 On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 18:48:12 +0100 Dh?nin Jean-Jacques > 2012/12/23 Polytropon > > #!/bin/sh > > > > cat foo.txt | while read LINE1 > > do > > cat bar.txt | while read LINE2 > > do > > if [ "$LINE1

Re: pkg_add and 9.1 Release

2013-01-02 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 448, Issue 3, Message: 24 - please pardon the loss of threading - On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 02:47:41 -0500 (EST) d...@safeport.com wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jan 2013, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > On 02/01/2013 05:20, doug wrote: > >> Is this command being phased out? pkg_ad

Re: Reading the handbook from console

2013-01-11 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 449, Issue 9, Message: 25 [ pardon loss of threading ] On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:56:24 -0800 wrote: > > From: Polytropon [mailto:free...@edvax.de] [..] > > > > There is no text mode web browser in the base system. > > > > Installing one is easy: As the HTML files

Re: FreeBSD and snd_hdspe last-ditch attempt

2013-01-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Cc: FreeBSD quest > Hi :) Hi Ralf, I've been following this saga for a while, with interest but no specific knowledge of your gear nor how you intend to use it. All I can comment on is the way you're going about reporting and debugging your issues

Re: zoneedit.com

2013-02-04 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 452, Issue 11, Message: 9 On Sat, 2 Feb 2013 11:45:05 -0500 Nick K wrote: > I am posting here hoping that a "Dan" from ZoneEdit.com still monitors this > mailing list. > I am in a very bad situation and my mail forwarding has been down for over > a week -- no r

Re: question about /etc/rc.firewall

2003-01-07 Thread Ian Smith
Hi Serg, On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, questions-digest V5 #1826 wrote: > Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 16:07:20 +0300 > From: Serg Repalov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: question about /etc/rc.firewall > > Hi. > > Can anyone make clear for me one thing. In file /etc/rc.firewall > we have two sections

HPFS filesystem

2002-11-12 Thread Ian Smith
Having tens of thousands of files collected over about seven years on numerous HPFS volumes on a couple of OS/2 machines, and being tired of shuffling between in .zip files, I'd love access to HPFS volumes (all within extended DOS partitions) from the FreeBSD installs on those boxes. I'm well tune

Re: Top not showing cpu usage even remotely accurately

2006-09-14 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2006-09-14 00:48, "Tamouh H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think TOP and load averages are no longer accurate on FBSD 5.x and > > 6.x with SMP kernel. As far as I've seen. Load averages hit sometimes > > 8.0 without a noticable degradation

Re: Top not showing cpu usage even remotely accurately

2006-09-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Sep 14), Ian Smith said: > [..]> > > However that doesn't explain this typical top view when the system is > > quiescent or nearly so, as it mostly is, with only 5-minutely crons and > > 11-m

Re: triouble with my Deskjet 500

2006-10-01 Thread Ian Smith
Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 152, Issue 13 On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Message: 30 > Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:12:10 -0700 > From: Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: triouble with my Deskjet 500 Hi Gary, > The trouble is that it only prints in ASCII Aand fa

Re: Strange X problem

2006-10-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Message: 26 > Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:36:32 -0500 > From: Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --On October 6, 2006 5:23:45 PM -0700 backyard > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > "For FreeBSD, edit /etc/ttys and find the line like > > this: >

External touchpad?

2006-10-13 Thread Ian Smith
Hi, running a Thinkpad T23 on 6.1-RELEASE. Happy but for the 'stickmouse', finding it tediously unproductive after using a nice touchpad for years. Does anyone know of a usable compact external touchpad? The Cirque Easy Cat (http://www.cirque.com/cpages/?page=24) looks about a useful size, but

Re: Non English Spam

2006-10-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:47:37 +0200 > From: Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > >> I have noted however, that some subscribers to this list write english > >> encoded in one of the above character set

systat -vm not seeing /dev/acd0

2006-10-31 Thread Ian Smith
Hardly a showstopper, but .. Burned a backup CD on a 4.10-RELEASE system downtown; no problem. Being important, I checked by mounting it (/dev/acd0) and running 'cat /cdrom/* >/dev/null' which was useful verification given all were big compressed files in the CD's root directory. That was taking

Re: lpt0 printer slows system response significantly

2006-11-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 10:49:36AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > * Change the printer port to polled mode. ["lptcontrol -p"] > >With this kind of hardware, it may even speed up your printing as well. > > Thanks a lot, I think it doe

deleting automatically the oldest file from a harddisk

2006-11-14 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 Koen de Wijs wrote: > I have a ftp -server. I use a harddisk of 9 Gb for the ftp-directory. > > This isn't very big so I want to throw away the oldest file if the disc > is full. I'd tend to define 'full' as perhaps 8GB in that situation, and likely protect at least som

Re: Blank screen after using X

2006-11-14 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 Christian Walther wrote: > I forgot to mention that the machine is an IBM Thinkpad T23 with S3 > Savage chip, max. resolution is at 1024x768. Ok, now your first problem becomes one that I've had :) > > I'm using FreeBSD 6.x for a couple of month now, and I'm quite happy wi

Re: Blank screen after using X

2006-11-16 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Christian Walther wrote: > I edited /etc/sysctl.conf and /boot/loader.conf, adding the > parameter/values you've given me, and rebooted the machine afterwards, > but it didn't change anything. They might regarding suspend/resume video, but no, not for this one .. > As lo

Re: IPFW & NFS

2006-11-22 Thread Ian Smith
vittorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have two FreeBSD 6.1 boxes one of which (IP 10.0.0.1) is an NFS server and > the other one (IP 10.0.0.2) is, among other things, an NFS client sharing > directories with the NFS server. > It all works correctly and I can mount_nfs all the directories f

Re: IPFW & NFS

2006-11-24 Thread Ian Smith
lso, digests often arrive after quite some delay] > Help please > Vittorio > > Alle 05:25, giovedì 23 novembre 2006, Ian Smith ha scritto: > > vittorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have two FreeBSD 6.1 boxes one of which (IP 10.0.0.1) is an NFS serve

Re: Installing in a logical partition

2007-07-14 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:44:57 +0200 h p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I try to install FreBSD 6.2 as third OS on my laptop (after Windows XP > and Gentoo Linux). > > I only have a logical partition left for it. sysinstall only shows > four slices on my hard drive, ad4s1 - ad4s4. ad4s4 is corre

fsck to fix HD problem

2007-07-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:27:27 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got a Charlie report: > +WARNING: / was not properly dismounted > +WARNING: /var was not properly dismounted > +/var: mount pending error: blocks 8200 files 43 > +/usr: mount pending error: blocks 4552 file

Re: USB Mouse not Working

2007-07-29 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:58:39 +0100 Adam J Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I beleive in the past I have checked with > >>> #cat /dev/ums0 > >>> and if things are working corectly, cat display binary garbage on the > screen when you wiggle the mouse. Try this after killing moused (

Re: logging system load

2007-08-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:52:20 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 13:44:33 +0300, Nikos Vassiliadis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 July 2007 20:50, Momchil Ivanov wrote: > >> На Wednesday 25 July 2007 19:38:41 Zbigniew Szalbot написа:

Re: Bizzare routing table entry.

2007-08-08 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 15:37:50 -0700 Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 7, 2007, at 3:13 PM, Adam J Richardson wrote: > > Modulok wrote: > >> 0&0xc0a80132 link#1 UCS 00 bge0 > > > >> 1. The first entry, it's not IPv4, IPv6 or a MAC address that

Re: what to do with this..?

2007-08-08 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 07:35:42 -0400 Tsu-Fan Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i have a serial files named as 1.zip, 2.z01, 3.z02, etc. what to do with > this? I tried unzip but have trouble, thansk!! assuming that you have installed port or package archivers/unzip .. You can 'unzip 1' for 1.

(no subject)

2007-08-18 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:32:28 +0200 Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 08:21:42PM +0100, Christopher Key wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm having some rather strange behaviour with fsck. > > > > When I boot the system, it asserts that all the file systems are clea

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-19 Thread Ian Smith
Sorry for the repeat post folks, but I goofed last time, leaving out the subject line while replying to the digest. Still curious .. Ian === On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:32:28 +0200 Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 08:21:42PM +0100, Christopher Key wrote: > > Hel

Re: Trying to move /usr

2007-08-20 Thread Ian Smith
Michael, firstly let me quote the head of your original message, just so I/we don't get too confused, especially by all the gratuitous re-quoting of subsequent 'relative irrelevancies' like your dmesg .. >I am trying to migrate my /usr to a newly installed >SCSI drive. Up until yesterday I had /,

Re: Trying to move /usr

2007-08-20 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Michael S wrote: > Thanks for your help Ian, > I got it fixed. Had to remove /home and recreate it > once again. Good to hear, Michael! > --- Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [blah] Cheers, Ian ___

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: > On 20/08/07, Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry for the repeat post folks, but I goofed last time, leaving out the > > subject line while replying to the digest. Still curious .. Ian > > === > > > >

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: > > > If its bad to run fsck on a mounted read,write then why does > > > background fsck do it? or you talking about foreground fsck only? > > > >

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: > > > Ian Smith wrote: > > > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: > > > > > If its bad to run fsck on a mounted read,write then wh

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > My knowledge of this is thin, despite reading McKusick's paper through > > several times, but we're told that background fsck runs on a snapshot of > > the fs concerned. How any bg fsck corr

Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot

2007-08-24 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:49:30 + <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am unable to boot from 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso. I have >downloaded it and burned it three times without success. See (4) >I am currently running Win98SE and FreeBSD 5.4 on a dual boot. I had >decided to ref

Re: lpt attachment problem

2007-08-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:07:54 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when i set in BIOS my parallel port (it's IBM thinkpad T23 if it matters) > to standard paraller port it is detected fine > > ppc0: port 0x3bc-0x3be irq 7 on acpi0 > ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) i

Re: lpt attachment problem

2007-08-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > Only that it works fine on my T23 .. > > > > ppc0: port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77f irq 7 drq 0 > > on acpi0 > > ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode > > ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold > > ppbus0: on ppc0 > >

Re: Configuring FreeBSD 6.2 to use sendmail for sending only

2007-08-31 Thread Ian Smith
]; then echo "can't find ${maildir}/${mailrun} .. zipfile not unpacked?" elif [ -f ./mailout.done ]; then echo "'rm ${maildir}/mailout.done' if you wanna repeat mailout?" else umask 27 echo &

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 192, Issue 16

2007-08-31 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:55:49 -0500 Reid Linnemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Written by Nélio Mesquita on 08/31/07 06:44>> > > On 8/30/07, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "Nélio Mesquita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Hello to all! > >>> Just for curiosity, why the FreeBSD logo

Re: g_vfs write error = 28, bad memory?

2007-09-01 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:34:41 +0200 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > >>> Kris Kennaway wrote: > Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > > I use a memory file system for some tmp files and last night I sa

Re: g_vfs write error = 28, bad memory?

2007-09-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:34:41 +0200 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Per olof Ljungmark wrote: [..] > > > > amavisd_enable="YES" > > > > amavisd_ra

Re: g_vfs write error = 28, bad memory?

2007-09-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: [..] > > But is running out of memory with swap-backed md (with no swap) likely > > to be any prettier than the panics from (unreserved) malloc backing? > Probably not. No worse though. Couldn't be :) >

Re: loopback won't enable automatically

2007-09-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 01:47:47 + Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have to manually set the loopback interface after each reboot on one > machine > (it is a laptop): > > ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 > > Then everything is fine. > > I added ifconfig_lo0="127.0.0.1 n

php5-5.2.3_1 / website behaves as if not enabled in httpd.conf

2007-09-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:19:32 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > I decided to upgrade my home machine to php5.2.3 from 4.4.7. All went > fine. I had one error about hash extension already loaded which I > solved by deleting a duplicated entry from extensions.ini. The curious > thing is that once a

Re: php5-5.2.3_1 / website behaves as if not enabled in httpd.conf

2007-09-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:23:19 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > 2007/9/12, Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:19:32 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: [..] > No, it wasn't in there but I moved it to this section. There is no > difference. I cannot st

Re: php5-5.2.3_1 / website behaves as if not enabled in httpd.conf [SOLVED]

2007-09-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:45:29 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > > > > Actually, maybe my description should be corrected - that is when I > > > > want to access a directory where index.php resides, apache will just > > > > display this directory content. But when I click (not reload) the php > >

how to use iic(4)

2007-09-14 Thread Ian Smith
I don't know where else to post this, so I'm hoping someone here can spare me a clue. We're building a small board with two AVR Tiny MCUs chatting to each other over an opto-isolated I2C-compatible bus, hopefully at 400kHz. I hope to use the iicbb(4) on lpbb(4) parallel port interface to talk wi

Re: Mpd (3.x) & mpd4 config and differeces in reconnect/dial behaviour ?

2007-09-24 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:25:32 +0300 Alan Tamm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since upgrade from 3.x to 4.x I have to manually (re) open the bundle PPPoE > but I can't afford this system to be offline/needing manual intervention > from now on. When the connection times out mpd4 just won't reconnect

Re: Dumb IPFW Question

2007-09-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:46:29 +0100 Chris Yocum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just to explain a bit, I have installed a FreeBSD 6.2 system on a > machine to act as a natd router. I turned on the firewall and set the > firewall rule script to the one from the handbook > (http://www.freebsd.

Re: named already running?

2007-02-16 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 165, Issue 19 At Message: 33 On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:28:13 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-02-16 22:56, Andrea Venturoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I'm getting this on several different 6.x servers: > > > > > #

Re: ipfw limit src-addr woes

2007-02-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, admin wrote: > Andre Santos wrote: > > On 2/18/07, admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hi, I'm trying to use ipfw's limit clause to limit the number of > >> connections a single IP can have at the same time in a transparent > >> web-proxy environment: > >> > >> 0

Re: ipfw limit src-addr woes

2007-02-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, admin wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, admin wrote: > > > Andre Santos wrote: > > > > On 2/18/07, admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >> Hi, I'm trying to use ipfw'

Re: ipfw limit src-addr woes

2007-02-20 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Julian Elischer wrote: > admin wrote: > > > Wrong: the implied "check-state" done by the "limit" lets the connection > > through (i.e. performs the action) iff there's state recorded for it > > (src-addr+src-port+dst-addr+dst-port). If however it's a SYN packet > > in

Re: ipfw limit src-addr woes

2007-02-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Julian Elischer wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > admin wrote: > > > > > > > Wrong: the implied "check-state" done by the "limit" lets the > > connectio

Re: input/output error on hd

2007-02-22 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 166, Issue 12 At Message: 15 On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:12:48 -0500 Marty Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Derek, > > I tried deleting and recreating the one slice on that drive in sysinstall, > also rewriting the boot label. Didn't seem to help as show

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