Re: FreeBSD 7/OpenLDAP: Howto change passwords

2007-11-26 Thread James Harrison
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 21:23 +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Monday 26 November 2007 17:11, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello, trying to change passwords on a client machine for a LDAP authenticated user always fails due to the original passwd() command is not capable of changing passwords

RE: Has anybody written a script to automate CD duplication?

2007-11-24 Thread Jimmie James
I can live with gnome-cd to play my CD's ... or use sound-juicer to play and extract if I want to use up that much space. But nothing that we FBSDer's have will copy an audio CD using the ATAPI drive. From the Handbook:

Re: (no subject)

2007-11-21 Thread Jimmie James
If he's asking for a How-to install video, might want to look at youtube, http://youtube.com/results?search_query=install+freebsdsearch=Search or google video, http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=install+freebsdsitesearch= The same goes for assembling a laptop, google video is the best bet for

Re: 3Com 3c515-TX Fast Ethernet ISA Card

2007-11-20 Thread James Shaw
Of course, but I have 6 of these cards and would like to utilize them in FreeBSD. They seem to run great with OpenBSD and Linux, but my preference is FreeBSD. On Nov 19, 2007 2:59 PM, Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, James Shaw wrote: I'm trying to get an old 3Com

Re: evolution problems.

2007-11-19 Thread James Harrison
to get in touch with [EMAIL PROTECTED] James On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 09:30 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Has anybody had any recent problems exec'ing evo? Say, in just the past several days? Here is output to the screen when I involve it from the cmd line: p0 9:17 tao2

Re: mount -u -o rw / not working on NFS?

2007-11-19 Thread James Harrison
system etc. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

3Com 3c515-TX Fast Ethernet ISA Card

2007-11-19 Thread James Shaw
utilize this card instead of switching OS's? James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: evolution slow on 7.0

2007-11-16 Thread James Harrison
On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 11:44 +0100, Oliver Peter wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 03:45:28PM -0700, James wrote: Hi folks, first, I know the subject line is a goldmine for jokes, but I couldn't think of a better way to phrase it. Ever since I moved to FreeBSD 7.0, the evolution mail

Re: Can you help about script

2007-11-14 Thread James
whether the initial field conforms to a specific string, and assign each string to a variable. After six read ins, you have all the information you need and you ouput them however you want. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

evolution slow on 7.0

2007-11-14 Thread James
fetch extract 7. follow the instructions in UPDATING for updating gnome I tried cd /usr/ports/mail/evolution make deinstall make reinstall, to see if something had simply gone wrong during the build, but nothing changed. Any ideas? James ___ freebsd

RE: installing programs

2007-11-08 Thread James
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 15:46 -0800, Marc Fromm wrote: Hi James, Thanks for the extra tip on checking for installed packages. Here's another tip: use reply all, not reply. That way, we keep the whole list informed, which is a good thing :) I browsed the ftp site and found a firefox2

FreeBSD on a Mac

2007-11-08 Thread James Jeffery
Was wondering. Can i put FreeBSD on a Quicksilver G4? I know it already has Tiger on it, which is BSD based, but i have no use for Tiger at the moment. At college were using Windows, and my old BSD box now has windows on it so that i can keep up with college assignments. I still have BSD on the

usb dongle

2007-11-08 Thread Jimmie James
I have a Broadcom BCM92035DGROM dongle, and this is what I'm seeing. I'm assuming it's not supported, (from the handbook: The Broadcom BCM2033 chip based Bluetooth devices are supported via the ubtbcmfw(4) and ng_ubt(4) drivers) Is there anyone that's gotten this model to work, or is it an

Re: usb dongle

2007-11-08 Thread Jimmie James
Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: On 11/8/07, Jimmie James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Broadcom BCM92035DGROM dongle, and this is what I'm seeing. I'm assuming it's not supported, (from the handbook: The Broadcom BCM2033 chip based Bluetooth devices are supported via the ubtbcmfw(4) and ng_ubt(4

Re: usb dongle [solved]]

2007-11-08 Thread Jimmie James
Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: On 11/8/07, Jimmie James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: On 11/8/07, Jimmie James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Broadcom BCM92035DGROM dongle, and this is what I'm seeing. I'm assuming it's not supported, (from the handbook: The Broadcom BCM2033

Re: problems with old SSH client and

2007-11-07 Thread James
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 07:53 -0800, Juri Mianovich wrote: I have a machine with an older SSH client on it and I am trying to connect to my 6.2-RELEASE system. What operating system is the older machine running (I assume FreeBSD, and I assume 6.2 stable, but want to be sure). What version of

Re: installing programs

2007-11-07 Thread James
for pkg_add and they're known to be stable and not updated much at all, if ever. -stable has newer packages for pkg_add, and -current breaks sometimes. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-07 Thread James
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 20:50 +0100, cpghost wrote: On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 13:54:03 -0500 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (It is hard to admit, but) I generally agreed with Ted in this whole thing - at least on how the new logo thing missed its mark rather widely. But, it is

Re: make buildworld ....gcc bug

2007-11-07 Thread James
compiler Thread model: posix gcc version 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305 The current version of gcc for FreeBSD is 4.2. Sync your ports tree, follow the advice in UPDATING and update, and try again. If you're using pkg_add, sub in the appropriate commands. James [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src/gnu

Re: portupgrade questions

2007-11-06 Thread James
On Nov 6, 2007 8:16 AM, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 12:18:01AM +, James wrote: [...] So you don't need to uninstall pkgs before starting to use ports, but you can't go back once you've started using them. That's not true. Packages are just

Re: List of sites using FreeBSD?

2007-11-06 Thread James
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 10:15 +0100, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, Does anybody out there know where I can find a list of sites running FreeBSD? I expected it on www.freebsd.org, but couldn't find it (maybe overlooked?) Thanks in advance for any pointer. -ewald

Re: multiple autoconf versions

2007-11-05 Thread James
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 19:48 +, Pollywog wrote: I am running FreeBSD 6.2 and I discovered that I have four versions of autoconf installed. autoconf-2.13.000227_6 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms autoconf-2.53_4 Automatically configure source code on many

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread James
, but a lot of folks seem to prefer dd for this kind of thing. There was a thread not long ago about how best to duplicate a drive. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread James
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 14:04 -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, James wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 11:53 -0800, Sean Murphy wrote: I have a FreeBSD 6.2 Release box with a single ide that has user data and the FreeBSD OS on a hard disk that is failing. I need advice

Re: portupgrade questions

2007-11-05 Thread James
-a with a recently updated ports tree will update everything that has an update, and reverting to pkg_add after that could start creating dependency issues. So you don't need to uninstall pkgs before starting to use ports, but you can't go back once you've started using them. James

Re: cannot get screen out of black/black mode...

2007-11-04 Thread James
Xorg blanking can be set via xset. To see your settings run xset q. If you run xset without arguments, you can get hints on settings: For screen-saver control: s [timeout [cycle]] s defaults on s blank s noblanks off s expose

Re: Is there a way to compare what is in the ports tree with what is installed?

2007-11-04 Thread James
On 11/4/07, Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 05 November 2007 02:04:39 Robert Huff wrote: Brett Davidson writes: ie. If I had a particular version of the ports tree on a server, how could I check to see if any of the programs in that tree were actually installed?

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-02 Thread James
and the licensing terms are scarier than most MS EULAs. I think I will leave it for now... Thanks for the link though Ashley 1. Write to[EMAIL PROTECTED] asking permission to use a trademarked image 2. Include a trademark sign on your site 3. Include a line that says

Re: launcher problems...

2007-11-01 Thread James
instructions on installing Gnome last time; have you tried that yet? James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 'break' system call man page is missing?

2007-11-01 Thread James
On 11/1/07, Yuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the condition when errno=22 is returned? I figured this out myself by looking into the kernel source code. But there still should be a man page for this since this seems to be only (or at least one of the very few) system calls w/out

Re: Problem with Apache22

2007-11-01 Thread James
On 11/1/07, Peter Uthoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a problem where my Apache procs are dying almost exactly every ten minutes as you can from the messages and web logs below: Oct 25 10:34:44 kernel: pid 66337 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 4 Oct 25 10:35:33 kernel: pid

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 with Xorg 7.3

2007-11-01 Thread James
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 21:56 +, Tino Engel wrote: Unfortunately portsnap fetch has performed an upgrade to xorg-7.3_1 for RELENG_6_2. I do not trust this at all. I would bet doing a portupgrade would break xorg more or less irreversibly. I have already gone through this trying to upgrade

Re: ssh

2007-10-31 Thread James
On 10/31/07, Michael Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/07, Michael Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I'm sued as root and I ssh somewhere, ssh/scp reads it's files from /root/.ssh/. The docs say it reads from ~/.ssh which

Re: Issues Installing ImageMagick on FreeBSD 6.2

2007-10-31 Thread James
On 10/30/07, Brett Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Get this error... gdkdrawable-x11.c:32:24: cairo-xlib.h: No such file or directory gdkdrawable-x11.c: In function `_gdk_x11_drawable_update_size': gdkdrawable-x11.c:238: warning: implicit declaration of function

Re: ssh

2007-10-31 Thread James
On 10/31/07, Michael Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I'm sued as root and I ssh somewhere, ssh/scp reads it's files from /root/.ssh/. The docs say it reads from ~/.ssh which is what I want, but it's not doing that. When sued, the shell is properly expanding ~ to my home dir. Anyone know

Re: Primary group and parent dir

2007-10-31 Thread James
low level. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Primary group and parent dir

2007-10-31 Thread James
On 10/31/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/30/07, Alexey Vlasov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Linux: $ id uid=42451(u42451) gid=155(clients) groups=155(clients), 42451(u42451) $ ls -la drwx--x--- 7u42451 www 512 29 oct 19:33 . drwxr-x--x 254 root

Re: ssh

2007-10-31 Thread James
On 10/31/07, Michael Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/07, Michael Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/07, Michael Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I'm sued

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 with Xorg 7.3

2007-10-31 Thread James
On 10/31/07, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope this is an appropriate list for this type of question; please let me know if another list is more suitable to newbie-type quesions. I've been using Linux for a long time, and every year or so I have a crack at *BSD to see what I'm missing.

Re: memory pool, rfc

2007-10-31 Thread James
On 10/31/07, Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that in this list are FreeBSD *gurus*/hacks too which could say a try it or a are you crazy? answer. If other developers thinks that they need my rfc i'll add my code to FreeBSD. Agreed, so could it be added as a port, or can

Re: resolver problems

2007-10-30 Thread James
On 10/29/07, jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 28, 2007, at 3:53 PM, James wrote: On 10/28/07, jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am still having resolver problems with my 6.2 system. It has shown up with trying to install ports from the ftp site. I discovered

Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?

2007-10-30 Thread james
On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 15:54 -0700, Jeff D wrote: I've decided to try to build up my 1st FreeBSD server. Reading the Handbook is mostly helpful, but I' getting hit with a couple of problems I can't figure out. I was looking for a beginner's list. I think this is the closest to it. The

libXfont not installing

2007-10-30 Thread james
Hi folks, I'm having issues getting libXfont installed from ports. It's a requirement of a lot of different things, such as xorg, xpdf etc. The problem that ran up to this was a while back, upgrading x11 from 6.9 to 7.2, I apparently borked it but didn't notice. I remembered everything as going

Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?

2007-10-30 Thread james
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 07:15 -0700, Jeff D wrote: James, On 10/30/07, james [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What version of the operating system are you using? I'm using the Version 6.2 Release, updated with Patchset 7 When did you last update your ports tree? Last time

Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-10-30 Thread James
On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 20:50 +, Stephen Allen wrote: It's been drawn to my attention not to use bash from the ports collection, because if one of it's dependencies (gettext or libiconv) fails or is updated significantly, it could break, and prevent login. The suggested solution was to

Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?

2007-10-30 Thread James
that can help most problems. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Greeter application missing (??) gdm login ?

2007-10-29 Thread James
*imagine* that'll get it, and you should make sure that your xinitrc doesn't contain two copies of the line, but it mightn't be bad to start at the beginning. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: best way to distribute an item to everyones homedir?

2007-10-28 Thread James
On 10/28/07, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 28 October 2007 09:21:55 you wrote: maildir=/path/to/your/custom/maildir for dir in `ls /usr/home` do cp -r $maildir /usr/home/$dir/ done thanks james. quick question... will that put the proper owner and chmod

Re: can't upgrade - catch-22

2007-10-28 Thread James
needs this variable? James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: port xyz: the grey screen with all the checkboxes is wrong and won't come back

2007-10-28 Thread James
On 10/28/07, Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obviously, 'make clean' doesn't reset the configure screen. Don't know why. I recall there was a faster way to fix this than 'portsnap extract' but I'll be damned if I can remember, and the ports section of the handbook doesn't even

Re: cp --verify?

2007-10-28 Thread James
On 10/28/07, Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see a --verify switch on cp, so I presume it does not. Is there an automated way to ensure a copy has gone well byte-for-byte without writing a script to filter diff? I want to be relatively sure my family pics are in the

Re: resolver problems

2007-10-28 Thread James
On 10/28/07, jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I am still having resolver problems with my 6.2 system. It has shown up with trying to install ports from the ftp site. I discovered that there is no resolv.conf file, so I created one. The funny thing is if I ping one of my web sites

Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

2007-10-27 Thread James
Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work. It is not fun any more! Always an issue, either a port conflicts with another port or it fails

Re: Name resolution

2007-10-27 Thread James
is correct, great. If not, we'll work on fixing that. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-26 Thread james
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 23:19 +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Am Donnerstag, 25. Oktober 2007 20:22:26 schrieb Aryeh M. Friedman: Absolutely. (I just didn't mention it before because obviously Harald already has a beginner's book on the C programming language.) Herald does in fact

Re: libXfont install problems from ports

2007-10-26 Thread james
/work/libXfont- 1.3.1/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/libXfont/work/libXfont-1.3.1. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/libXfont/work/libXfont-1.3.1. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/libXfont. Can anyone see what's going on? Thanks! James I've

Re: portmaster question

2007-10-25 Thread James
as a regular expression. Try looking up the regex syntax for the shell it's implemented in (which I think is bourne) and using a grouping expression. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: how can i install gnome2 through console

2007-10-24 Thread James A. Harrison
cannot mix packages and ports, unless you want an inconsistent system. Ports are well worth learning. I remember when I started using them, they were confusing. But after I got used to them, I never, ever used/use anything other than ports. They start making sense after a while ;) James

Re: easiest way to install CPAN on FreeBSD

2007-10-24 Thread James A. Harrison
searching has revealed that most perl packages are part of the FreeBSD Ports collection. If you use more obscure CPAN packages, I can see there might be a need to install CPAN, but try ports first. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

libXfont install problems from ports

2007-10-24 Thread James
. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/libXfont/work/libXfont-1.3.1. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/libXfont. Can anyone see what's going on? Thanks! James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-23 Thread James
I switched after using linux for several years because things are more consistent in FreeBSD. These days, I still use linux for some things, but it often feels like things are slightly weird and kludgy. Which, in all honesty, they are. Linux is one of the greatest projects ever, creating

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread James
for something like a running process that wants to communicate via several computers as root, then I assume that: a) your program's broken ;) b) you wouldn't be using putty. So just add yourself to wheel and let the good times roll. James ___ freebsd

Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg

2007-10-22 Thread James
like this in conjunction with pkgdb -L would work. James I've been running this for a while now, and it looks like it's working, it just needs liberal doses of pkgdb -F occasionally. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: su: not running setuid

2007-10-22 Thread James
that, incidentally? Whatever result you were trying to achieve can probably be accomplished once your system is running correctly, so let's find out what it was. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg

2007-10-19 Thread James
On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 20:11 +0100, RW wrote: On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:51:33 -0600 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It depends what state the ports were in at the time of the accident. If you haven't run a leaf-cutting program recently you may have old dependencies and tools that have

Re: FreeBSD hang without panic

2007-10-19 Thread James
, came out of nowhere, weird problems as a result. But. In the interests of science: I know you said existing shells stop working, but does that include the secure shell? ssh into the box when it's frying itself and see what happens. Presumably you've checked the /var/log stuff already? James

RE: Evolution-data-server compiling errors.

2007-10-19 Thread James
On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 15:47 -0400, Lisandro Grullon wrote: Hi James, I follow your advise and even try upgrading the port recursively using portmaster -rf evolution-data-server , I think the port is broken for AMD64, I have been trying so many things without any success. Please advise

Re: Evolution-data-server compiling errors.

2007-10-18 Thread James
Hey Lisandro, I snipped out your log, if that confuses anyone reading, please be aware there was a large log file here. First things first: is you ports tree up to date? James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

RE: Evolution-data-server compiling errors.

2007-10-18 Thread James
a recursive upgrade of that package. On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 14:34 -0400, Lisandro Grullon wrote: Hi James, Yes my port tree is very up to date, I upgrade it daily. I still puzzle by the errors compiling evolution, I am using 6.2-R in a AMD 64 system

Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg

2007-10-18 Thread James
it a list from /usr/ports/distfiles and move on. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Install FreeBSD 6.2 and Windows XP prof in the same computer

2007-10-17 Thread James
are there that can handle windows, besides VMware? James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Regarding Flow of sendto (UDP) using IPv6.

2007-10-17 Thread James
On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 12:16 +0530, Prasad Dandra wrote: Dear All, First, I would like to thank you all for the wonderful work of developing FreeBSD. I have some doubts regarding the BSD stack flow. I am very much interested to know the code flow from sendto (UDP case) upto udp6_output

Re: apache mod_ssl chroot problem

2007-10-17 Thread James
Server beastie.mra.co.id:443 (RSA) Enter pass phrase:Apache:mod_ssl:Error: Private key not found. **Stopped Isn't the private key the one on the local machine? If so, is the private key visible with the chroot environment? ___

Re: [OT] proper editor

2007-10-17 Thread James
I made the decision to go with Emacs. Thank you for encouraging me ;; PAH! Entirely wrong! Vi forever! (kidding, kidding) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Strange perl script

2007-10-17 Thread James
-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...at this point, I'd probably perform a security audit, just to be sure. Check your access logs etc. James

Re: Why FreeBSD procfs is so different from the Linux one?

2007-10-17 Thread James
to *their* procfs. However, either way. I have 1 linux box, something like 15 FreeBSD boxen, and I have to say that on procfs, linux generally does a job that I prefer to see. On FreeBSD, it feels more tacked on, while on linux it feels like there's a lot of rich information there. James

Re: cvsup-mirror several questions

2007-10-16 Thread James
-October/160307.html You might find that a nice place to start. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions about HUP'ing nfsd

2007-10-12 Thread James
/etc/rc.d/nfs restart I think that does it all. Otherwise, there's always shutdown NOW and then a ctrl-d. If you're not sshing in, of course. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: 1 TB data copy

2007-10-12 Thread James
-alias%3Delectronicsfield-keywords=usb+2.0+pciGo.x=0Go.y=0Go=Go Should also be available from your local electronics retailer. Install that in the windows box and use the now native USB 2.0 connection to dump the data. James ___ freebsd-questions

Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg

2007-10-12 Thread James
But before I go that far, I wanted to see if anyone had an alternate idea for what might work. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: NFS export question diskless dirs

2007-10-11 Thread James
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 21:23 +0200, mr. phreak wrote: hi. I have a question regarding NFS-exports. /etc/exports /diskless/ro-ro -maproot=root leia /diskless/kernels leia /diskless/rw leia /usr-ro -alldirs leia /home -alldirs leia /etc-ro -alldirs -maproot=root leia but

I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg

2007-10-11 Thread James
other FreeBSD boxes available to me, none with the same pkg list, though. I'll be reading man pkgdb in the meantime.. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg

2007-10-11 Thread James
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 15:53 -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: James wrote: Call it a moment of sheer stupidity, call it a misremembering, call it whatever you want (and I imagine I'll hear a few different ones), but I just did an rm -r /var/lib/pkg. Before I type anything to damage things

Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg

2007-10-11 Thread James
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 23:13 +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 03:07:37PM -0600, James wrote: On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 15:53 -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: James wrote: Call it a moment of sheer stupidity, call it a misremembering, call it whatever you want (and I

Re: NFS export question diskless dirs

2007-10-11 Thread James
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 23:03 +0200, mr. phreak wrote: James wrote: On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 22:36 +0200, mr. phreak wrote: James wrote: On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 21:23 +0200, mr. phreak wrote: hi. I have a question regarding NFS-exports. /etc/exports /diskless/ro-ro -maproot

Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg

2007-10-11 Thread James
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 18:14 -0400, Robert Huff wrote: James writes: What has happened, though, is I've never ran rm in /usr/ports/distfiles. I'm going to think for a little bit about a script that can move through /usr/ports/distfiles and reinstall everything that exists

Re: TPM could not be initialized - bge0 has disappeared ... WTF ?

2007-10-10 Thread James
It's possible it's a hardware issue. Have you got a means to verify the hardware, such as a knoppix, sitting around? James On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 13:47 -0700, Gore Jarold wrote: I own a Dell Latitude X1. I installed FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on it. All is well. No problems. Have a nice day

Re: ffmpeg not installing

2007-10-09 Thread James
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 06:02 +1000, andrew clarke wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 01:51:03PM -0600, James wrote: /usr/local/include/log.h:112: error: syntax error before A_ I'm curious which port installed log.h. I don't have it on my system and it wouldn't surprise me

fatal: ssh_msg_send: write

2007-10-07 Thread James liu
i use google and no good answer. anyone know it ? freebsd 6.2 release. ssh use ports to setup. -- regards jl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-06 Thread James Jeffery
not machine portable and i dont like the whole drag and drop way of creating a program, seems like cheating. Thanks for reading James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-06 Thread James Jeffery
to create stuff that i can use in FreeBSD, i know i have years of learning to do but im up for it. On 10/6/07, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 08:53:00PM +0100, James Jeffery wrote: Evening to you all (or morning in some parts of the world). Im learning C

ffmpeg not installing

2007-10-04 Thread James
folks have any ideas on this one? I was attempting a make deinstall make reinstall to see if that would overcome it at the time. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: ffmpeg not installing

2007-10-04 Thread James
On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 21:42 +0200, Mel wrote: /usr/local/include/log.h:112: error: syntax error before A_ I'm curious which port installed log.h. I don't have it on my system and it wouldn't surprise me if a local log.h conflicts with this log.h. Could you show output of: grep

Re: ffmpeg not installing

2007-10-04 Thread James
On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 21:28 +0200, Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: Am Donnerstag 04 Oktober 2007 21:01:26 schrieb James: Do you folks have any ideas on this one? I was attempting a make deinstall make reinstall to see if that would overcome it at the time. Have you tried a make clean

Re: Installation problems

2007-10-03 Thread James
Hi Siraj, the first place to start looking is undoubtedly the CD itself. First, checksum your .iso image. If this passes, burn to a new CD and try again. Cheaper CD-R cds tend to have a lot of quality issues. James On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 17:41 +0100, Siraj Shaikh wrote: I am new to FreeBSD

WEP Mode: Bad Value?

2007-10-01 Thread James Jeffery
Right this is what im doing to connect my box to the internet. I have just added a 128-bit password to my wireless box because it was getting used by people outsid using standard WPA. This is what im doing: ifconfig rum0 inet 192.168.2.8 netmask 0xff00 ssid belkin54g \ wepmode on wepkey

Re: WEP Mode: Bad Value?

2007-10-01 Thread James Jeffery
Is it possible to use 64-Bit WEP? Im guessing its possible but ive tryed google, and it holds no answers. I will probably look into it over the weekend and see if i can get an article going. On 10/1/07, Timothy Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 1 at 08:44 +0100, James Jeffery wrote

7.0-CURRENT Ports Collection?

2007-09-29 Thread James Jeffery
Does 7.0 come with a disk for the Ports Collection or would they have to be downloaded from the internet? Im having trouble getting packages from the web, lots of errors when i try to install them. Everything seems dependant on everything else. Once i get the SSH to work i will post some output.

D-Link G122 C1 (USB WiFi)

2007-09-28 Thread James Jeffery
Ive tryed for ages to get this USB Wifi card to work with FreeBSD6.2. Many forums are saying its impossible, ive tryed ndis, project evil ect. Has anyone had any success with it? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Installing FreeBSD 6.2 on 9 TB RAID 6 disk - Guide to GPT?

2007-09-27 Thread James Riendeau
. I keep seeing a message about an invalid superblock whenever I try to mount the new partitions. I'm sure it's something simple I'm missing. Thanks, James Riendeau MMI Computer Support Technician University of Wisconsin-Madison ___ freebsd

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