Re: Dump/Restore?

2009-09-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
the underlying filesystem, so it is not transferable from one system to another and often even between one OS version to another, like tar tends to be.But, you can make the dump file move between where it is stored and a system that can restore from it using one of the network protocols. jerry

Re: linux-pango won't install

2009-09-11 Thread Jerry
) DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=yes .endif -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Go climb a gravity well. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: What I'd Like To See In A Netbook

2009-09-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
. That ain't a netbook. That is a fullsize laptop. jerry The best advice anyone has been able to give me is to buy a budget laptop, or an older model, perhaps used. The older Apple PowerPC laptops are the closest to what I want. What I want to do with this big netbook is to troll

Re: Using mdconfig for swap space

2009-09-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:57:07AM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:52:59PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:51:20PM -0500, Peter Steele wrote: Are there any advantages to using mdconfig and creating a virtual disk for swap space as opposed

Re: Using mdconfig for swap space

2009-09-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:23:14AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu writes: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:57:07AM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:52:59PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:51:20PM -0500, Peter Steele

Re: Using mdconfig for swap space

2009-09-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 04:46:56PM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:59:23AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:57:07AM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:52:59PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:51

Re: Using mdconfig for swap space

2009-09-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
, it is gone when you reboot. jerry mdconfig -a -t swap -f /var/swap0 -s 4g swapon -a /dev/md0 to add 4G to the system swap space backed by the file /var/swap0. How would this compare to repartitioning my hard drive and adding a new 4GB swap partition

Re: Opera 10.00 (native) flash

2009-09-07 Thread Jerry
advocate the use of another browser. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Necessity has no law. St. Augustine ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Replacing linux_base-fc-4_14 with linux_base-f10-10_1

2009-09-07 Thread Jerry
on the older version after installing the newer one. What version is the default for FreeBSD-8.0 that will soon be released? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. Dr. L. J. Peter

Re: Opera 10.00 (native) flash

2009-09-07 Thread Jerry
. However, if it meets your needs, then so be it. Please, do not CC me as I am subscribed to this list. I don't need two copies of the same post. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com If you're constantly being mistreated, you're cooperating with the treatment

Re: turn authentication on -- a simple how to please!!

2009-09-07 Thread Jerry
at: http://www.postfix.com/DEBUG_README.html -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay. Miguel de Cervantes ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: What invokes cricket on FreeBSD

2009-09-03 Thread Jerry
, and might this be the reason tha it's crontab entry is notbeing run? There is no native port for Cricket on FreeBSD; however, I did find this URL: http://cricket.sourceforge.net/support/doc/beginner.html Perhaps if might be of some assistance. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com If you sow your wild oats

Re: What invokes cricket on FreeBSD

2009-09-03 Thread Jerry
. The port creates the user and group if it does not exist. 1) pkg-delete -dfv cricket-1.0.5_5 2) Use pw to delete any reference to cricket 3) Then install cricket via the port -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com We are upping our standards ... so up yours. Pat Paulsen for President, 1988

Re: 'alias' + sudo

2009-09-03 Thread Jerry
without modifying the alias. I did not realize that sudo had such a limitation. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

'alias' + sudo

2009-09-02 Thread Jerry
'alias' are lost. How can I circumvent this annoyance. Example, I often use 'pico' from within 'xterm'. I set up an alias that causes pico to use the mouse; i.e., pico -m which works fine as long as I do not prefix the command with 'sudo' -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com I just need enough to tide me over

Re: 'alias' + sudo

2009-09-02 Thread Jerry
with the bash 'alias' feature. Is that correct? I Googled and found several references to sudo and alias; however, no consensus on how to circumvent the problem. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com In response to President Obama's complaint that FOX News doesn't show enough Black and Hispanic people

Re: Error compiling KDE 3

2009-09-02 Thread Jerry
of security/gnutls without deleting it first, set the variable FORCE_PKG_REGISTER in your environment or the make install command line. cd /usr/ports/security/gnutls make deinstall make reinstall make distclean cd - make install -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com It's sweet

Why /bin/sh doesn't like the line: if test x$my_var == xyes; then

2009-09-02 Thread jerry M
configure file got this line and it causes the message: test: xyes: unexpected operator But removing spaces around == or replacing == with = makes it to work. On Linux though this line works fine. Why spaces around == would cause failure? What is the version of /bin/sh currently used in 7.2?

itunes on FreeBSD

2009-09-01 Thread Jerry
for linux/bsd either. Is anyone aware of a similar programs that works on FreeBSD? I am looking for a full featured program that works along the same lines as itunes. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790

Re: questions about FreeBSD

2009-09-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 08:41:00AM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Monday 31 August 2009 17:00:07 Jerry McAllister wrote: Same response.   Do your homework. The nature of the OP's questions strongly suggested that we are doing his homework. I'm surprised so many people spoonfed

Re: remove newlines from a file

2009-09-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
line by removing all the newline characters at the end of each line. What's the best/most efficient way of doing that in a shell? Use tr(1) something like tr -d [\n] inputfile outputfile jerry -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious

Re: questions about FreeBSD

2009-08-31 Thread Jerry McAllister
and start reading - following the many links to the documentation. Some of those links will point you to other sites too, such as Onlamp.com and many other places. Try doing some Google searching for FreeBSD too. Do your homework. Have fun, jerry

Re: SUID permission on Bash script

2009-08-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
that but don't. The most common way to get around it is create a tiny binary that can run Setuid which merely invokes your script. The better way is to use Sudo as has been suggested already in this thread. jerry --Tim ___ freebsd-questions

Re: java config problem

2009-08-28 Thread Jerry
1.6.0_07.02 Please don't cross post. Check out: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com When you speak to others for their own good it's advice; when they speak to you for your own good it's interference

Removing firefox-2.0.0.20_9,1 from system

2009-08-26 Thread Jerry
. Is there any way I can safely remove Firefox-2 and force the use of Firefox-3.5 instead without breaking anything? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Harp not on that string. William Shakespeare, Henry VI ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Firefox 3.5...

2009-08-26 Thread Jerry
3.0.11,1 It worked fine. Then build and install the new version. Depending on how you manage your ports, you might need to run something like: pkgdb -Ffuv after installing the new port. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Parts that positively cannot be assembled in improper order

Re: hard disk failure - now what?

2009-08-26 Thread Jerry
than anything else I have tried on bonked discs. Use it on its highest recover level and it will recover the drive; although it may take a while. http://www.grc.com/intro.htm -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies. Charles D'Hericault

Re: question about security updates

2009-08-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
superior. jerry To me, it seems that anything that isn't *-RELEASE-p? would be applied to the distributed iso, but I could be wrong. Thanks, Jason ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: hard disk failure - now what?

2009-08-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
because I saw the live mouse. I didn't try the blood substitute. jerry Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321

Re: hard disk failure - now what?

2009-08-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
at Cray headquarters back when. I didn't try the blood substitute. How do you save a drowning mouse? Use mouse to mouse resuscitation. Thanks, I'll be here all week. Try the veal instead. Only with the asparagus. jerry -- George

Re: hard disk failure - now what?

2009-08-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
will barf on bad bits too. You can tinker to make it skip over the bad block, but it won't read it. jerry I am hoping most of my data is still there, but also don't want to damage it further. Good idea. This encourages you to follow the advice given above. I desperately

Equivilant of 'lsmod'

2009-08-24 Thread Jerry
What is the equivalent of the Linux 'lsmod' command in FreeBSD? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com To be or not to be, that is the bottom line. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Equivilant of 'lsmod'

2009-08-24 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:33:09 -0500 Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Aug 24), Jerry said: What is the equivalent of the Linux 'lsmod' command in FreeBSD? Remember to actually describe what you want, rather than just giving the linux command. To list the loaded

Re: Packages available for different FreeBSD versions

2009-08-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
and only release something after pretty much everything locked in before they let anyone in the public see it. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Desktop Install Option

2009-08-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
don't need or want like on some other systems. To add to that, some people have packaged desktop versions of FreeBSD with all those gui extras already included just to make you happy. Probably someone else will post their favorites with links. jerry -- No person has sustained greater loss

Re: freebsd

2009-08-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
passwords or use bad software, no system can help you with security.But FreeBSD gives the best tools of the generally available (and especially the freely available) operating systems for PCs. jerry Disclaimer

Re: Desktop Install Option

2009-08-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
who are building a good platform, just go and get one of those bundles. Seems you actually have already - a pretty close to FreeBSD based bundle anyway. jerry -- Beni. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: please help to uninstall FreeBSD!!!

2009-08-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
of those who want to create and universalize a character set that is international. jerry -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive

Re: freebsd

2009-08-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
/FreeBSD_Basics.html http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/ct/15 http://forums.freebsd.org/ http://www.math.colostate.edu/~reinholz/freebsd/freebsd.html But, the best thing is to get a computer, install FreeBSD and tinker around with it until you get a good feel for it. jerry

Re: freebsd

2009-08-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:19:25PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: But, the best thing is to get a computer, install FreeBSD and tinker around with it until you get a good feel for it. jerry 7 years later... It doesn't take that long. Using it for a couple of months begins

Re: freebsd

2009-08-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:51:37PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:19:25PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: But, the best thing is to get a computer, install FreeBSD and tinker

Re: Packages available for different FreeBSD versions

2009-08-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
-7-stable/ Note that these are packages, instead of ports. See discussion above. jerry My guess: The first is the packages that were made available in the 7.2 RELEASE CDs. The second is a directory that is re-created every 5 minutes by updating the ports collection and compiling

Re: df -k vs. du -s

2009-08-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
answered so many times on this list that people may not respond at all. It should easily be found by searching the archive and I think there is a FAQ on the FreeBSD web site about it. So, have fun searching. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
onto ad1 or can you grep that in /etc/something? :-) Nice response, but don't forget to have the OP read the man page -- egman dd jerry I'm being ultra careful and checking/regenerating the target disk and that will t ake another 4 or 5 hours. That's the usual amount of time

Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2

2009-08-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
with only occasional exceptions for less common arguments and features. So, you run whatever Lunix and keep a FreeBSD handy for the documentation.Of course, that begs the question of why even have the Linux at all then, but that isn't the topic of the post. jerry

Re: Boot failure

2009-08-08 Thread Jerry
that they are not supported in FBSD is rather pathetic. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. Susan Sontag ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: configuring X on the Presario with the 8200M driver

2009-08-08 Thread Jerry
use 0644 and it works well. Check out: man Xorg and man xorg.conf for further details. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision. Blake Clark ___ freebsd

Re: ftps ?(off-topic)

2009-08-04 Thread Jerry
information. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: problem with startx..!

2009-07-29 Thread Jerry
. Finally/ clean out your '/var/tmp' and '/tmp' directory before starting 'X'. there is always a possibility that something there has a permissions/file ownership problem. It can't hurt. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. Paul Gauguin

Re: ntpd / time synchronization

2009-07-28 Thread Jerry
be greatly appreciated! Thank you all very much! Are there any error messages logged? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Then you admit confirming not denying you ever said that? NO! ... I mean Yes! WHAT? I'll put `maybe.' -- Bloom County

Re: problem with startx..!

2009-07-28 Thread Jerry
as root might be an indication of it. You might want to check the appropriate directory and file ownership's and permissions. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Then you admit confirming not denying you ever said that? NO! ... I mean Yes! WHAT? I'll put `maybe

Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

2009-07-24 Thread Jerry
that some have suggested that, that is not the proper way to do it; however, the fact that it works is all I was interested in. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Conquering Russia should be done steppe by steppe. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: X won't start after port upgrade

2009-07-24 Thread Jerry
: portmanager x11/xorg -p -y -l If X still won't start, you may have to rebuild your window manager as well. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com If you could only get that wonderful feeling of accomplishment without having to accomplish anything. ___ freebsd

Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

2009-07-24 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:57:42 -0800 Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Friday 24 July 2009 09:51:18 Jerry wrote: On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:55:42 +0100 Daniel Bye danie...@slightlystrange.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote

Re: Can't login to the system...!

2009-07-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
new one after toor if you don't use toor. jerry FreeBSD/i386 (leonidas.MSHOME) (ttyv0) login: But I can access the system as another user, and when I type *su* I can login as root fine. I have no idea what i've done. Give me your lights please. Thanx

Re: backticks in rc.conf

2009-07-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
be further divided into partitions. Note, that confusion occurs here often as MS uses the terminology differently. The primary divisions that FreeBSD calls slices, they call primary partitions. jerry My latest test builds are pure zfs so wont be an issue there either 8) a=`echo

FreeBSD 8.0 updated OpenSSH version

2009-07-17 Thread Jerry
available? since the latest version was released in February, there appears that time was not a factor. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated but not be able to say it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD7.2 + Debian testing (Squeeze) dual boot

2009-07-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
it for FreeBSD login dirs. Then figure out how to mount the Debian partition on its own mount point - something like /dhome and access it separately. How well you can mount and access that device will depend on what type of device it was created as when Debian was built. jerry Thanks Anton

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
, any DNS lookup results are normally cached on the local machine for some period of time (set by the nameserver). jerry -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-07-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
)? It does that automatically.It will always default to the last one that you selected. So, it you have booted once and selected F1:FreeBSD then that will automatically selected the next time unless you change it. jerry - ___ - freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD for a high school class? (long)

2009-07-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
will be plenty. 10 GB of hard disk might be a little tight, but if you aren't doing databases and making big permanent sites, but only just small teaching web pages, then you should get by. jerry - - The district sadly is being forced to go to windows by the - state, and now only has

Re: what character is a physical newline

2009-06-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
10, Hex 0A, Octal 012 Carriage Return (CR) is: Decimal 13, Hex 0D, Octal 015 jerry HTH. __ Vince Sabio vi...@vjs.org

Re: what character is a physical newline

2009-06-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
correspond to (I assume CR but just making sure) On Unix, the end of line character is NL (012 octal, 10 decimal, 0x0a hex) -- see ascii(7). Some people know it as Ctrl-J Gee, wouldn't you know it, in FreeBSD, there is even a man page for it. jerry Cheers, Matthew

Re: how do I append a PR I submitted?

2009-06-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
with a text based Email reader that does not show the subject in the included text for a response. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Adding data to existing CD/DVD (FIXED)

2009-06-27 Thread Jerry
I found the problem. I had to manually set the '$dv variable. Actually, I have CDR_DEVICE=3,0,0 set in the environment so all I had to do was use for mkisofs. It still outputs some error notations; however, I assume that they are harmless. Thanks for your assistance. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com

Re: freeBSD logo

2009-06-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
on the FreeBSD web site. jerry Thanks! D. Keranov ___ 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

Re: ~/.ssh directory permissions

2009-06-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
of if access is not needed, then don't provide it, I would make it limited to 700. I just looked at mine and it is set to 700. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: problem upgrading ports : something wrong with cups ?

2009-06-22 Thread Jerry
: portmanager print/cups -l Be sure to update your ports tree prior to reinstalling anything. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com A pound of salt will not sweeten a single cup of tea. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com FORTUNE'S FUN FACTS TO KNOW AND TELL: #14 According to Kentucky state law, every person must take

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-22 Thread Jerry
. It will also fix up any outdated dependencies. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Genealogy, n.: An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Re: No sound, no mouse and now X applications won't start

2009-06-20 Thread Jerry
be useful. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com My Bonnie looked into a gas tank, The height of its contents to see! She lit a small match to assist her, Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: off topic: unmanageable switch?

2009-06-19 Thread Jerry B. Altzman
USD 100.) I've had Netgear switches run without a problem for *years*. Their managed switches, on the other hand, are a nightmare, and I wouldn't use them again if I had the choice. Nikos //jbaltz -- jerry b. altzmanjba...@gmail.com www.jbaltz.com foo mane padme hum

Unable to auto-mount a CD in XFCE4

2009-06-18 Thread Jerry
Environment version 4.6.1 (Xfce 4.6) This is being run from a FreeBSD-7.2 system. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com The only constant is change. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Unable to auto-mount a CD in XFCE4

2009-06-18 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:09:58 -0400 Chad Brown free...@gmail.com wrote: See here (#3): http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html Thanks, that works. In retrospect, 99% of PC users insert a CD and it just 'works'. Why can't FreeBSD make it that simple? Just my 2 cents. -- Jerry ges

Re: Unable to auto-mount a CD in XFCE4

2009-06-18 Thread Jerry
org.freedesktop.policykit.read org.freedesktop.policykit.revoke org.freedesktop.policykit.grant org.freedesktop.policykit.modify-defaults -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. George Bernard Shaw

Re: Updating linux-pango

2009-06-17 Thread Jerry
with a potential security problem; however, in this case I have no choice. Usually a search at archieves of FreeBSD maillists may be helpful: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-June/200565.html WBR That does not supply an answer. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com What I want is all

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
. They ran on the CDC 6000 and 170-180 mainframe systems. jerry -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Cannot login as root, exited on signal 11

2009-06-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
against root not being allowed to log in from a remote location that is the default in FreeBSD? You normally have to log in on a non-root account and then su(1) to be root. Or you have to change some configuration to allow root to remote log in (not advised!). jerry Any ideas for whats

Re: Problem with certain fonts when printing from firefox

2009-06-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
? or a firefox bug? I have something that sounds the same in Firefox 3 on FreeBSD. I just assumed I did something wrong with fonts - about which I know little.But, if someone has some helpful information I would be glad to know about it too. jerry cheers

Re: Problem with certain fonts when printing from firefox

2009-06-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:41:14AM -0800, Mel Flynn wrote: On Monday 15 June 2009 11:18:42 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 09:07:05PM +0200, Alexander Best wrote: hi there, when i try printing certain website the font looks very pixelated and i can't read anything

Re: Problem with certain fonts when printing from firefox

2009-06-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:34:19PM -0800, Mel Flynn wrote: On Monday 15 June 2009 12:00:52 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:41:14AM -0800, Mel Flynn wrote: On Monday 15 June 2009 11:18:42 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 09:07:05PM +0200, Alexander Best

Re: Problem with certain fonts when printing from firefox

2009-06-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
of sites I could remember that printed poorly since the upgrade. jerry Easiest way to check if the fonts are enabled is to pull up any font selector for an application and checking for Andale Mono and Arial black in the list. -- Mel ___ freebsd

Re: Unable to start clamsmtpd

2009-06-14 Thread Jerry
, clamdsmtp will not create its own clamsmtpd.pid file. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are. -- Victor Hugo signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Unable to start clamsmtpd

2009-06-14 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:55:03 +0300 Ott Köstner o...@zzz.ee wrote: On Sunday 14 June 2009 10:46:01 pm Jerry wrote: I had: ClamAddress: /var/run/clamav/clamd in my config file. I changed the clamd to clamd.sock but it did not make a difference. The clamd.pin, clamd.sock

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-10 Thread Jerry
to bet that I can find someone with a horror story to tell about them also. Would it be accurate; you tell me? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com QOTD: Every morning I read the obituaries; if my name's not there, I go to work. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Security Problem: linux-pango-1.10.2.3

2009-06-10 Thread Jerry
for awhile now. Does anyone know when this port will be fixed? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. George Herbert signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
months and this will be general unix support list for everybody. how about name change? WP. Don't start whining again. This list is about helping people, not making you comfortable. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
people The most off-topic stuff on this list lately has been your complaining about stuff being off-topic. On the other hand, using make to grow something running under FreeBSD is about as on-topic as one can get. jerry ___ freebsd-questions

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-08 Thread Jerry
and courteous response to my inquiry. I know nothing about their philanthropic practices, nor does it concern me, unless I happen to be the beneficiary of such acts. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com O'Reilly's Law of the Kitchen: Cleanliness is next to impossible signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 06:31:57PM +0400, Peter Andreev wrote: may be this solution will help you: * * 31 jan,mar,may,jul,aug,oct,dec * * * 30 apr,jun,sep,nov * * * 28 feb * or: * * 31 1/2 * * * 30 4/2 * * * 28 2 * Don't forget leapyear. jerry 2009/6/8 Jos Chrispijn j

NO_PROFILE option in FBSD-7.2

2009-06-08 Thread Jerry
Unless I am missing it, I do not see any mention of NO_PROFILE listed in the examples make.conf file. Has it been depreciated? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Serving coffee on an aircraft causes turbulence. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: NO_PROFILE option in FBSD-7.2

2009-06-08 Thread Jerry
to be a '/usr/share/examples/etc/src.conf' file either. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Your wig steers the gig. Lord Buckley signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days?

2009-06-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
. jerry Has anyone bought servers from one of the big manufacturers lately and had good luck with them? It seems hard to get them to tell you what controllers and chipsets they're using in servers, to compare against the supported hardware list. What I'm looking for isn't all that exotic

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-08 Thread Jerry
could inspect them myself. Thanks! -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com They're unfriendly, which is fortunate, really. They'd be difficult to like. Avon signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: please recommend a disk-exercising program?

2009-06-07 Thread Jerry
. Of course, it is not free, so you might not be interested. One feature I like about it is that it creates its own start-up disk. It is totally system independent. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Absence makes the heart forget. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Driver for nVidia Geforce 6150LE

2009-06-06 Thread Jerry
by nVidia. Would the x86 driver work in 64 bit FreeBSD or do I have to install the x86 version instead? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Diplomacy is about surviving until the next century. Politics is about surviving until Friday afternoon. Sir Humphrey Appleby signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: Driver for nVidia Geforce 6150LE

2009-06-06 Thread Jerry
a major player in the video card market, FreeBSD's inability to support nVidia 64 bit drivers is seriously detrimental to the overall usefullness of the OS and certainly will not help it capture a larger share of the market. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Bare feet magnetize sharp metal objects so

Re: Driver for nVidia Geforce 6150LE

2009-06-06 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:00:48 +0100 Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: On Saturday 06 June 2009, Jerry wrote: I did notice a driver on the nVidia page for FreeBSD x86, version # 185.18.14, released June 5, 2009; however, the version is the ports is: 180.44, which has actually been

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
and wherefor concepts. jerry -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list? ___ freebsd-questions

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Jerry
they are handling MX setting though. 8. Do you have complete reverse DNS? (They didn't know.) Heh. Can they find the bathroom in the dark? Now the rep should know that, especially if the caller is inquiring about a business account. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Why do so many foods come packaged

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
much of the why and wherefor. jerry q flag, or check for exit codes, or check the order of parameters to the _fillintheblank() library call. But if you're trying to figure out how to do X, or even how to do X correctly using this object ... many of the pages can leave you with the feeling

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