Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-12 Thread Jerry
with them does not seem like a workable business model to me. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Therefore it is necessary to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it, according to the necessity of the cause. Machiavelli signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-12 Thread Jerry
of users. If FBSD wants to remain a 'niche' product with limited support for third party products, then the question of why FBSD is not more popular with hardware vendors has been answered. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com meeting, n: An assembly of people coming together to decide what person

Re: Release schedules

2008-12-12 Thread Jerry
separate entities, the current version and the beta one? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Many a bum show has been saved by the flag. George M. Cohan signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Double Posts

2008-12-12 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:56:30 -0800 Gabe n...@att.net wrote: -Original Message- From: Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 12:41 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Double Posts On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
FreeBSD questions of a sort, (even if kind of newbie-ish and maybe more rightfully belonging on a newbie list) and don't hurt anyone by showing up on the questions list. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: How to block NIS logins via ssh?

2008-12-11 Thread Jerry
really do not understand why so many users insist on using passwords anyway. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] A sadist is a masochist who follows the Golden Rule. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Jerry
playing an even smaller part in our corporate picture. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usually, when a lot of men get together, it's called a war. Mel Brooks, The Listener signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 08:46:49PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 08:29 -0500, Jerry wrote: snip IMHO, before FreeBSD can make a significant market share improvement, it has to improve its hardware support. NVidia, for one, has expressed a desire to support FreeBSD

Re: update packages or reinstall

2008-12-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
good backups and check their readability before burning any bridges. jerry Any suggestions for 7.0 or 6.4? Go with 7.1 jerry Thanks Gary All feedback welcome. Thanks Gary ___ freebsd-questions

Re: mounting /usr/local on separate drive

2008-12-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
to reduce confusion, the system won't care) and then remount the new partition as /usr/local from /junk. jerry I'm doing this from a fresh install, so no extra packages are being added yet. Thanks Gary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: bashrc configuration question: syntax error: unexpected end of file

2008-12-09 Thread Jerry
number given had nothing to do with where the actual error was. In my case, I had a duplicate ';' I believe located in the file. You will probably have to go through the file line by line to locate the problem. Perhaps commenting out sections and seeing if the problem continues might help. -- Jerry

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-07 Thread Jerry
. NVidia, for one, has expressed a desire to support FreeBSD; however, it needs the FreeBSD organization to improve its basic product, especially in the 64-bit systems, which are the future of computing. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are ten or twenty basic truths, and life is the process

Re: Locked myself out.. AGAIN!!

2008-12-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
trailing blanks on that line. Then reboot again. jerry Thanks y'all! -- http://www.home.no/reddvinylene ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
nothing important -- because it doesn't have a recognizable MBR. Yes, that could happen if you run a non-FreeBSD installer that doesn't know about FreeBSD and Dangerously Dedicated disks. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
a recognizable MBR. some people rarely boot other OS :) And, in that case, it probably doesn't matter. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-05 Thread Jerry
of possible configurations, systems, etc., getting a truly meaningful comparison would be a monumental undertaking. In any event, it would be obsolete before you ever finished it. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fortune's Office Door Sign of the Week: Incorrigible punster -- Do not incorrige

Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:47:23AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 11:39 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:17:40AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:56:44 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If FreeBSD is to put

Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
the system files is not what makes it bootable. Being bootable is dependant on the boot sector which gets the control from either the BIOS or an MBR and then finds the system partition (/), mounts it (Read Only) and finds system files and starts those things running. jerry

Re: G4U inquiry

2008-12-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
.Then you will not be stuck with geometry mismatches and wasted disk space. I have posted excruciatingly detailed instructions for this sort of things about every coupld of months on this list as other have asked.A little searching should find one. If not, I can give a basic rundown. jerry

Re: Uninstalling kde3 meta-port

2008-12-02 Thread Jerry
and running: make deinstall. Alternately, you could try running something like 'pkg_delete'; i.e.: pkg_delete -vdf kde-3.5.10. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
. As for ZFS issues, I don't know because I haven't had a place to play with it yet. Someday I will have a spare machine and extra disks... jerry this leaves 2420 Gb which is more than 2 Tb, so you can't put all that in 1 filesystem h /home, you will need to split that in 2 BSD-paritions

Re: (no subject)

2008-12-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
:4 GBswap d:7 GB/tmp e: 20 GB/usrports can just be left here then f: 1024 GB/vardatabases live here g: remainder /home (Approximately 1536 GB) You can shift this around as you need. Maybe 2048 GB /home and 512 GB /var jerry What

Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
\--/ one slice ad0s1X \--/\---/\-/\-/\---/\/ partitions a b d e f g / swap /tmp /var/usr /home mount point Have fun, jerry In case of dual booting, you usually have more than one slice on your

Re: To swap or not to swap

2008-12-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
it for paging and for crash dumping. The rule of thumb is 2.2 times memory size. jerry -- Regards, Anthony M. Rasat Manager - Technical, Network and Support Division PT. Jawa Pos National Network Graha Pena Jawa Pos Group Building, 5th floor Jln. Raya Kebayoran Lama 12, Jakarta Barat 12210

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-12-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
about drag and drop. That is harder. 2. Do an SMB mount of remote directories onto the desktop or your home directory. Open any application and access files in that directory as easily as when they are on the local drive. Works fine around here. jerry I have not been able to do either

Re: To swap or not to swap

2008-12-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
more character to type... jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-12-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
with his own problems. FreeBSD has done quite well and developed an excellent product when people applied themselves to create solutions for the problems they were actually having and allowed Most People to do the same with his issues. jerry

Re: Vishnu is out of the office.

2008-12-01 Thread Jerry
is incorrectly configured. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] In America, any boy may become president and I suppose that's just one of the risks he takes. Adlai Stevenson signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: openldap24-sasl-client conflicts

2008-12-01 Thread Jerry
to install the port(s) manually. Have you tried using a port management tool like 'portmanager' or 'portupgrade' to handle the task. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hoffer's Discovery: The grand act of a dying institution is to issue a newly revised, enlarged edition of the policies

Re: Segmentation fault (core dumped)

2008-11-24 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:33:47 + Marwan Sultan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Jerry, Its easy to fix, as they advised. Check the file file extensions.ini which is in /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini You will see your php modules, for some reasons the loading order of PHP modules

Re: Unix program that sends email directly using MX record

2008-11-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
. There are much better MTAs out there. For your needs, I think 'nullmailer' from Bruce Guenter would fit the bill and so would qmail in nullmailer mode. Postfix as well. Heavily prejudicial response.I haven't had any trouble using Sendmail for just about anything.But, whatever. jerry

Re: Log capturing program

2008-11-24 Thread Jerry
something? What's Tomato? Start here: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Tomato_Firmware -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Old age is always fifteen years old than I am. B. Baruch signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Segmentation fault (core dumped)

2008-11-23 Thread Jerry
Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped) I have been trying to correct it without results. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your lover will never wish to leave you. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 fdisk issue during installation

2008-11-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
'a' be the root (/) filesystem and 'b' be swap space on a bootable system slice. Some things assume these designations. Then you newfs partitions a, d, e, f, g, h or as many as you use. But don't touch c and don't newfs b if it is to be swap. jerry Error mounting /mnt/dev/X on /mnt/usr

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 fdisk issue during installation

2008-11-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:41:07PM +0100, Jonatan Evald Buus wrote: Hi Jerry, Thank you for the swift and very thorough response. If I understand you correctly, then I should only create 1 slice of the entire disk (seeing as FreeBSD will be the only OS) using fdisk and then partition

Re: Installation

2008-11-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
to set something in the BIOS. I don't know the key combination to hit on a VIO to get in to BIOS, but it should tell somewhere. jerry   Yours, Niyi NiyiChrist ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Hello just looking for info

2008-11-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
servicable desktop system You can download the install CD images, burn your own and distribute them with your systems if you wish. You could sell them with FreeBSD already installed if you like. There are no restrictions. jerry Thanks for your time

Re: Installation

2008-11-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
that first. Partition Magic (version 7.0 only, - version 8.0 is junk) will do fine except for USB devices/disk. But, I would suggest downloading and burning the gparted CD image and using that to shring the MS slice. jerry ___ freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
it. It will do everything you need except look like MS-Win and people who are trying to get out of MS-land are happy to find that to be true.Give them a hand rather than a kick in the face. jerry as linux tries for many years to be windows replacement - it's both low end unix and low end

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
better. Anyone serious about finding a good alternative will take on that challenge willingly. It is not reasonable to continue to throw up unnecesary barriers to people moving to improve themselves. jerry Anyhow, of course you can fully replace Windows with a unix(-like) system

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
can easily continue looking around. He asked for information about FreeBSD, not about finding a MS-Win look-alike. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
compared FreeBSD and Linux, I am not surprised to hear someone say there is this sort of difference. It is possible. Someone might investigate further and put out some verifiable numbers. jerry that's why i don't like benchmarks. ___ freebsd

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
to only put MS on their (the other maker) machines and put it on every machine they sold.No manufacturer or OEM could sell a machine with MS unless they sold EVERY machine they made with MS. That is crooked business.But they got away with barely a slapped wrist. jerry the problem

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
spinners. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions

Re: shrink ntfs

2008-11-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
the work. Or, buy Partition Magic 7.0 and build the floppies. Don't try using either on a running system.. jerry Regards. -- Albert SHIH SIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris Meudon 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Heure local/Local time: Mar 18 nov 2008 01:35:38 CET

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
of that mess without trying to play word games about alternatives on him. If he wants out of MS, then let him out of MS and not consign him to something he doesn't want. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 03:21:27PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 16:39 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 08:00:23AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 11:58 +0100, peter wrote: Dear

Re: root /etc/csh

2008-11-16 Thread Jerry
9536 May 3 2008 /usr/local/bin/perl* -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe. Mayor Frank Rizzo signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
, then it wouldn't fit that category. But that is not what he said. but exactly what he expected. and you know this. Now that wouldn't hold up in court. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
. no - because it's not alternative for Windows Vista. He is trying to get out of Vista, not trying to be Vista with another name. jerry Windows XP is an alternative. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
, but not be stuck with certain Northwest USA environments.So, let him learn a meaningful server environment. Quit niggling about things not part of the situation just because you have some prejudices. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
and the user will be merrily using something better. Of course, if the user had said he wanted something like Vista to run on his machine, then it wouldn't fit that category. But that is not what he said. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: High Noonn DVD??

2008-11-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
, it would be a waste to copy! gary I don't remember anyone making DVDs in 1952. Given that, I doubt there is any copy protection from then either. DVD copy protection is a DVD era thing, not built in to the movie. jerry -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thought.org

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
to learn the how and what and why of it. So, have fun, jerry -- Jim Pazarena [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
for some servers at work. You can learn them all if you want and use them all. But, don't be bullied in to believing that FreeBSD is any harder than the Lunix flavors out there. jerry My suggestion would be to get used to the *nixes with Ubuntu or even PCBSD (which is a FreeBSD variant

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
on religious, which an operating system should not be. The OP asked advice on an OS alternative to Vista and asked about FreeBSD. Telling him that FreeBSD is a good choice is not making a religious statement. It is just answering his question in an honest manner. jerry People

Re: port upgrade problem: libncurses.so.5.6 not found

2008-11-13 Thread Jerry
installed ports. After updating your ports tree, using 'portmanager -u -f -y -l' will update everything in the correct order. If you have 'java' installed, make sure you download the required files prior to starting the update procedure. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two kinds of pedestrians

Re: Release schedules

2008-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
. jerry Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full

2008-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
to it. It doesn't show up, but is still taking space. The processes do this so if they get killed, the space is automatically released. jerry Thanks and regards Alexander Varshavchick, Metrocom Joint Stock Company Phone: (812)718-3322, 718-3115(fax

Re: root /etc/csh

2008-11-12 Thread Jerry
use: #!/usr/bin/env bash It seems to work on both Linux and FBSD. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] His life was formal; his actions seemed ruled with a ruler. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: root /etc/csh

2008-11-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
is the main reason, though another is that some things may be written assuming a particular shell. Not a good practice, but happens. jerry -- Jim Pazarena [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: PATH problem

2008-11-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
/local/bin:/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/GraphViz.pm or whatever you want the path to be. The syntax may vary some between different shells. jerry Regards. -- Albert SHIH SIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris Meudon 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Heure local/Local

Re: hundred files to tar and untar

2008-11-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 08:10:36AM -0500, chloe K wrote: Hi I have hundred files to tar How can I make tar the file but untar in different folder? Just use cd. You can use cd in a script just like you would at the command line. cd /what/ever/the/source/directory/is tar

Re: Port Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD?

2008-11-09 Thread Jerry
interface. Gimp is fine for basic things; however for more finely granular work it just does not measure up. Just my 2¢. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. Christopher Morley signature.asc

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-08 Thread Jerry
people who will spend days attempting to get a video card fully functional will find placing the cursor at the end of an email message too daunting of a task. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sex discriminates against the shy and ugly. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-08 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 16:40:13 + RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Some people argue that the cursor should start-off at the top because you should start by removing superfluous quoted text before bottom posting. If only that were true. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you know

Re: what is your programming language on freebsd?

2008-11-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
. Are there any languages that have good optimization for running on FreeBSD. Maybe. Someone else may know more about that, than I do. jerry Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: hit some FS/slice size limit?

2008-11-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
. It is usually good to separate OS from services and data, but not always. It is also often helpful to divide things in to manageable sized chunks, but that is not always meaningful. jerry granulate this finer, but I didn' t want to bother right now). I got told that it could not create

Re: (no subject)

2008-11-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
or keep-its-distance-from-the-user type of system like MS-Win or even MAC-OSen.You can get right down to the bits if you want or need. But, there are very good tools and documentation (once you get used to the stule) that will make it all work just fine. jerry Thanks, Sam I Am

Re: Using csup

2008-11-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
for csup to work? I have mine all in one file and pull all the updates at once. You can name the supfile on your csup command line. Then put it anywhere you want. Mine is in /etc. jerry # /usr/local/etc/cvsup/standard-supfile *default tag=RELENG_7_0 *default host=cvsup10.us.FreeBSD.org

Re: XFCE4

2008-11-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
the xfce4 port build.That is what is so nice with the port system - or one of the big things anyway. Other than that, I don't understand what you could be asking. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Question: the stable edition of Freebsd

2008-11-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
- probably 7.1 if you can wait or 7.0 right now and track the security fixes by csup-ing to RELENG_7_1 or RELENG_7_0 Have fun, jerry jerry BR Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-03 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 12:38:30 -0400 Thomas Abthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I submit to the court of pulic opinion that KDE4 *IS* stable on FreeBSD. I would encourage you to check out the following resources Stable != Usable -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] My own business always bores me to death

Re: Question: the stable edition of Freebsd

2008-11-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 12:53:52PM -0600, Steven Susbauer wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:01:21PM +0800, Alex Zhang wrote: Dear Support: I'm a newcomer and want to install FreeBSD for study. Could you pls let me know which the stable edition of FreeBSD now

Re: fastest raw device copy?

2008-10-31 Thread Jerry McAllister
/homehackup /home etc for whatever file systems you want to back up. You will be much better off than with a sector by sector copy. jerry -- Christoph ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: fastest raw device copy?

2008-10-31 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 04:48:32PM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Jerry McAllister schrieb: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 09:48:16AM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Hi list, I'm considering using a bootable USB stick with FreeBSD to perform a backup of my notebooks' 500 GB hard disk

Re: Marvell 88E8052 PCI-E LAN on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-10-30 Thread Jerry
the same as yours (-txcsum, -rxcsum) or it randomly drop packets, probably because it calculates checksums wrong. I had a friend who used nvidia. They never complained about it. I will see if I can find out what model and how they got it to work. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] semper en excretus

Re: Script-friendly (parseble) ps(1) output?

2008-10-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
a language. This would be easy in PHP or Perl or other similar scripting interpreter languages. If you pick one and then study it a little - write a few simple practice scripts, you will probably quickly see how to do it. jerry Perhaps use cut(1) with -c or something similar in other

Re: freebsd installation order

2008-10-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
that now and daily.If it is a server for something, then don't do that. Just periodically or if some important patch comes put, pull in the latest security fixes with update. jerry there is some set of rules to be followed post-installation? since, i do not find any reference

Re: freebsd installation order

2008-10-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:56:01PM +, pwn wrote: Jerry McAllister escreveu: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:43:23PM +, pwn wrote: immediately after the installation of FreeBSD what steps should be performed by order 1 - Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel 2 - The Cutting Edge 3

Re: freebsd installation order

2008-10-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 06:39:16PM +, pwn wrote: Jerry McAllister escreveu: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:56:01PM +, pwn wrote: Jerry McAllister escreveu: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:43:23PM +, pwn wrote: immediately after the installation of FreeBSD what

Re: Looking for the right FreeBSD.iso

2008-10-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:16:04PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:56:56PM -0600, Steven Susbauer wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: Maybe I am wrong, but I feel it shouldn't be necessary to waste 3 CDs from installation if I have a high-speed permanent

Re: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD

2008-10-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
, wireless, camera. for about US$800 As I show them the numbers (about 40k machines/year...) I hope they will make a FreeBSD port... Good. I hope you can pull it off. jerry I count on people from FreeBSD list to show the numbers to adobe Sergio

Re: How to restore a lost root password...

2008-10-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
does not ask for the old password if you are root trying to change a password. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Looking for the right FreeBSD.iso

2008-10-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
the documentation.Unlike some other systems, it is actually helpful. jerry Thanks for your time! Greetings, Alois LennyCZ Mahdal -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: MTA on non-standard port

2008-10-27 Thread Jerry
. While that may not be RFC required, I really see no reason to complain about it. Actually, it is probably a good idea if it helps contain the spread of SPAM. However, at least in my case, both inbound and outbound port 25 traffic is open. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's kind of fun to do

Re: duplicate a drive

2008-10-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
rather go to a store and buy up a decently large USB hard drive and use it for your backups, rather than going back and forth with these drives. If you can manage to get both working in the machine, then just use both of them and use the USB for backups. Have fun, jerry Thanks, Joey

Re: GCC help

2008-10-23 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:26:40 +0100 Bruce Cran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Can't you set $CC to gcc44 or whatever to make the ports system use a different version of gcc? UNTESTED: in /etc/make.conf file: CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc44 -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] It doesn't matter

Re: samba - vista problems

2008-10-23 Thread Jerry
environment, then it is most certainly a FBSD related problem. try windows support and samba related mailing lists! In which case, if their users are as closed minded as you appear to be, they will refer the OP to the FreeBSD and/or Samba mailing list, depending on which list he contacts. -- Jerry [EMAIL

Re: Locked out of Root

2008-10-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
: $ su See su(1). On FreeBSD, unless it is reconfigured differently, the non-root user must be in the wheel group to su to root. Changing that configuration requires root as does putting the user in the wheel group. jerry -- Benjamin Lee

Re: Locked out of Root

2008-10-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
. jerry if course it's not bright to login as root over telnet through public network, but too - it's not security hole in system, just in administrator's brain if he/she do it this way. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Locked out of Root

2008-10-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:50:29AM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Another option would be if that umprivileged user is in sudoers with permission to run the root shell (sudo -s). It doesn't need to be in wheel to do that. Of course, it would take root to be put in. jerry

Re: Locked out of Root

2008-10-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
account to the wheel group (or have the _trusted_ local person do it). Have the local person log out and you can then immediately log in as the non-root, su to root, check if anyone else is connected and then change the root password. jerry Thanks for any help/advice

Re: man -t odd page size

2008-10-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
digit symbols. Through away some of the dross in plain ASCII and fit them in there. Quit trying to force people to count on their fingers. jerry In many places in the country both are used. Tue US Military uses Metric. The film and Video industry for example. Here in Hawaii

Re: need help with disklabel, expected rawoffset 0, found 32

2008-10-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
if someone else says otherwise, believe them. jerry Filesystem on SmartArray controller ciss(4): # /dev/da0s1d: type: SCSI disk: da0s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 53544 sectors/unit: 860192344 rpm

Re: bsdlabel partiton c error message on new install

2008-10-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
would let sysinstall do the disk mangling, but maybe he did something else. jerry -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA

Re: bsdlabel partiton c error message on new install

2008-10-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 03:31:07PM +0100, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Jerry, ok thanks for the answer, its not very good news for me ;( as Ive already done alot of config and installed alot of apps, but anyway thats my problem now! cheers Andy! Interesting, you seemed to have

Updating openssl

2008-10-20 Thread Jerry
the base version or do I have to do anything else? Thanks! -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that balances are correct. Princess Irulan, Manual of Maud'Dib signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: bsdlabel partiton c error message on new install

2008-10-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
and you don't have to do it separately unless you want to look and see what it did. jerry thanks Andy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system

2008-10-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
it for a rifle. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

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