Re: Dowloading entire source code

2008-05-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
. The sources will be left in the ports tree source files. jerry regards, Onkar ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: coretemp 70C = CPU too hot?

2008-05-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
the air flow more directly from the front to the back of the case. Could be or some other bernouli/venturi effect. Many systems will get hot when the cabinet is opened because it breaks the airflow path in some way. jerry It seems the Xeon shuts down the system automatically

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
. It can easily be used in a script too. jerry I realize I could just make a script file with some tar commands, but I'm looking for something that is quicker to maintain and allows me to organize what I'm backing up. I have been using reoback but recently I ran into some

Re: a monster stole my /

2008-04-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
for /. Good luck, jerry To answer a couple of potential questions straight up, there is nothing in /root and /tmp is on a separate partition. intranet# df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 989M986M-76M 108

Re: a monster stole my /

2008-04-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
? *scratches head* It is possible that you have mounted a filesystem onto a non empty directory. The stuff in the dir used as a mount point will be hidden by the mount. Colin Good one. I had forgotten that one. jerry ___ freebsd-questions

Re: BSD Computers

2008-04-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
' systems will work fine, although the newest systems can sometimes be problematic. most desktop/servers. not laptops. all lenovo/ibm works fine but this is exception. most laptops can run only windoze. I don't think this is true. jerry

Re: Crontab @reboot directive

2008-04-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
it is in rc.conf. jerry Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: BSD Computers

2008-04-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 07:13:19PM -0700, Jerry Rukavina wrote: Hi, I can’t find any out of the box computers that have FreeBSD loaded. Do you know which computer manufactures, both laptop and desktop, which can run FreeBSD? Do you recommend any particular models or know of which ones

Re: Filesystem full......

2008-04-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
labeled a..h. Microsloth and some others use the word partition to mean other things. jerry /Leslie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Filesystem full......

2008-04-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
to small? Just to keep this clear. Your root file system is on a FreeBSD partition - partition 'a' Robert Huff uses the term correctly below, but you do not above. jerry Yes. :-) Start by cleaning up /; usually that starts with /tmp ... but you've already got

BSD Computers

2008-04-20 Thread Jerry Rukavina
some handholding. I will be using the computer to run a small business and online research. I would need the regular suite of productivity tools, hopefully an open source. I would like to punt MS. Thanks. Jerry Rukavina, MBA T: +1 (403) 229 - 2412 F: +1 (403) 229 - 1581 HYPERLINK http

Re: start up scripts stopped working

2008-04-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
is only setting a flag or value that scripts read up to see if they should run or not and what values to run with. Nothing actually starts (or shouldn't) from the rc.conf file. jerry does anyone know what could be causing this? ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Can't log in as root on new 7.0 install

2008-04-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
and then su to root? I have never used su with the '-' on it, but I presume that should be no problem. jerry Thanks very much. Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: HDD partitioning question...

2008-04-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
it with the FreeBSD system like you are, it should be no problem. If, before you get any further, you want to clean it up a little, post the full fdisk command you were using and the error message you got. jerry Thanks very much! dharma

Re: HDD partitioning question...

2008-04-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
. and then: ls /dev/da1* you'll get: /dev/da1 /dev/da1s1 which I believe is what you want. then you can: newfs -O 2 (-U) /dev/da1s1 then you can: mount /dev/da1s1 /whatever -- Mario Lobo Thanks Mario, and Jerry and Derek! Jerry, Introducing the idea

Re: dump restore pain and suffering

2008-04-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
. jerry Kevin ___ 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

Re: Mail Spool Problems / IMAP

2008-04-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
Thanks, How do I check it? Should I use another IMAP server? The best way is to look at the file with an editor such as vi. jerry Chris Maness ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Delete the Users

2008-04-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
delete ids so rarely that I have always done it by hand and not bothered to look. jerry I really need your HELP..Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Delete the Users

2008-04-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 12:49:23PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: Just a followup; It looks like rmuser(8) (/usr/sbin/rmuser) is the canonical way to remove a user from the system.You can still use vipw to check out the passwd file. jerry On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 01:46:50PM

Re: Mail Spool Problems / IMAP

2008-04-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
('') stuck in there. Try taking those away from in front of the initial From. jerry From MAILER-DAEMON Tue Apr 8 10:49:02 2008 Date: 08 Apr 2008 10:49:02 -0700 From: Mail System Internal Data [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X

Re: Does FreeBSD 6.3 network support TSO/LSO?

2008-04-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
body.So, now to see what you were asking, I have to get back out of the reply and look at the subject and then get back in to the edit to respond. Forget it, I don't have time for that. jerry Thanks, Yony ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Does FreeBSD 6.3 network support TSO/LSO?

2008-04-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 05:55:53PM +0300, Mr Y wrote: Sorry about that man. Its OK. Just something to learn. jerry On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 05:54:37PM +0300, Mr Y wrote: Where is your message

Re: freebsd 7 stable, which tag??

2008-04-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
. Probably you will want RELENG_7 if you want to pick up any changes since RELEASE. I think with RELENG_7_0 you only get security and critical error fixes. jerry On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just update to 7.0 using csup, I

Re: freebsd 7 stable, which tag??

2008-04-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
current is made which is 8.xxx now. If something is built in to current that is wanted more immediately, it gets merged in to the less bleeding edge tracks. The process for that is called 'Merge From Current' usually called MFC - as in 'that feature (or fix) was MFCed this morning'. jerry

Re: Problem In Saving inted.conf .

2008-04-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
machine. First ssh in with your non-root account so you are using an encrypted transmission and then use su to gain root status. That is all well documented and has been discussed on the questions list many times. So, a check of the archives will also get you the information. jerry

Re: Fwd: Remote backups using ssh and dump

2008-04-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
. jerry -- John ___ 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: which ports tag should i follow?

2008-04-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
didn't see you were talking about ports. Yes, for ports, use the '.' tag.USe RELENG_7 for the OS. jerry thanks tengcy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: which ports tag should i follow?

2008-04-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
to do. Why did you chooose 7.0-stable instead of 7.0-RELEASE which is the official release? Probably 'RELENG_7' is a good choice. using '.' will get you the bleeding edge development snapshot. jerry thanks tengcy ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Wake-on-LAN and the em driver (freebsd 7.x)

2008-03-31 Thread Jerry McAllister
a dead CD and dead floppy as well. Guess they are replaceable, but is it worth money and bother? I wouldn't be surprised if there are many like that sitting around. jerry And if your really a wizard you have a windows for workgroups 3.11 system tucked away as there are devices (notably HP

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
/kohjinsha Japanese website:http://kohjinsha.com/models/sa/lineupsa.html Of course, Dell and IBM models are more featured, but are much larger and much more expensive. The HP model is yet to be seen, but looks interesting. jerry They are a really great innovation, IMHO. I am really

Re: Understanding Flags, Refs, Use, Expire in Routing Table

2008-03-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 09:48:28AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: From: Robert Jesacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:39:31 +0100 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Daniel, you find mostl of you questions answered in man netstat (the relevant passage is posted below)

Re: Permission to publish article

2008-03-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
I've seen of it, though it does track my experience bying paint from airlines pretty well. jerry -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: desktop dominance

2008-03-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
several. Just make sure the video and NIC cards are supported. The rest of everything should not be in question. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: I'd like some help

2008-03-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
, then start over from scratch and set it up more to your liking. jerry -Thanks, Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: List replies

2008-03-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
lists. It is the most straightforward and makes sure that at least the poster gets the reply. Just to a reply-all (group reply) to include the list. jerry Curious... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: i have questions

2008-03-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
on this list. If you want help on a question, ask it. If you do not understand a response, then say so. But, do not use foul language or call people names.Quality people do not speak that way. jerry On 3/20/08, Paul A. Procacci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lawyer Q8 wrote: Hello

Re: help for a wounded disk drive...

2008-03-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
around. Then try this for any other slices+partitions you find that claim to be FreeBSD type. If this doesn't work, then you are in for a more difficult task. jerry Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...

2008-03-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
, probably), web server (Apache), office tools (OpenOffice) and maybe a few games from /usr/ports and learn to use those. You might want to add database (MySQL), interpreter (Perl, PHP) and other stuff as needed. Have fun. jerry Donald Laniohan MLAN Consulting San Diego, CA [EMAIL

Re: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...

2008-03-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:40:53AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:32:08PM -0800, Donald Laniohan wrote: My task is to build a BSD server and do something with it. That is all the information he gave me, that, and any questions I have to make Google my best

Re: bsdlabel offset

2008-03-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 04:38:00PM +0100, Adam Pordzik wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:40:55AM +0100, Tektonaut wrote: Hi, following bsdllabel output caught my attention: #sizeoffsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 2097152 0

Re: bsdlabel offset

2008-03-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 04:38:00PM +0100, Adam Pordzik wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:40:55AM +0100, Tektonaut wrote: Hi, following bsdllabel output caught my attention: #sizeoffsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 2097152 0

Re: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...

2008-03-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
. Spring is coming. Take a deep breath and enjoy it. jerry On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Donald Laniohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My task is to build a BSD server and do something with it. That is all the information he gave me, that, and any questions I have to make Google my best

Re: Why not a DVD iso version too?

2008-03-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
suggested and build your own DVD image from them and burn it. Of go to BSD Mall or one of the other places that sell them and buy one. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: That age old question again

2008-03-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
and fixes and experiments I am a little more foggy about how the next major (8.xx) fits in to the tag values. jerry . -CURRENT is the development tree that will eventually become the next major version of FreeBSD. The developers try to keep

Re: Urgent: filesystem full, though space is available

2008-03-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 08:34:18AM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: This is a FAQ and has to do with space reserved for root(system). Check the FAQs on the FreeBSD web site. jerry Hi, Ive got a big problem now on a production server. When i do various things, i am getting write

Re: Using Install CD To Prepare Hard Disk

2008-03-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
the disk build and just turn off all the stuff to install, but doing fdisk, bsdlabel and newfs is really quite easy and less trouble. jerry Thanks, -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http

Re: /usr/local/www a tradition?

2008-03-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
this problem. But, the time you find out is usually the most inconvenient time. So, you pays your money and you takes your chances. jerry Thanks. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: bsdlabel offset

2008-03-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
a whole track is held out, instead of just sector 0 and that is where some of the fancier MBRs such as GRUB get their extra space to work. But, the standard FreeBSD MBR sticks to the official standard of just one sector - which is why it is so plain vanilla. jerry Little bemused regards, Adam

Re: Superuser password lost

2008-03-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:14:32PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Because I don't think it's appropriate to drag this conversation on and on, I'm going to try to answer all the responses in a single email. Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:27:36AM -0400

Re: mount: /dev/ad1s1e: Operation not permitted

2008-03-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
/slice. jerry What's your securelevel? That is another possible issue if the OP messed around with it. /jrm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Low space on /

2008-03-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
. jerry Atm. i have no clue how df reports 454M used... Thanks. -- Regards, Ghirai. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Installation

2008-03-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
.Then there is no swapping of disks and you get the latest in ports.So, people tend not to feel the need for a DVD ISO. But, if you do not have an adequate internet connection, this becomes less practical, unfortunately. jerry Just a thought. Thanks, David

Re: Superuser password lost

2008-03-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
, then you will need to use an installation CD to get to the point you can write to the passwd and master.passwd files. jerry PC-BSD has several community lists, including a support list. Have you tried asking there?: http://www.pcbsd.org/content/view/22/29/ -- Bill Moran http

Re: Superuser password lost

2008-03-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:27:36AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 09:52:38AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Luigi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, Maybe it's a simple question but i'm a newbie lost

Re: Space needed on device

2008-03-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
. /var and /tmp. jerry This beeing the default base for my previous kernel / system update *default host=cvsup5.fr.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup *default prefix=/usr *default tag=RELENG_5_5 *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress src-all

Re: starting a program at boot time

2008-03-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
and documentation for that and some samples. jerry -- --- Bill Banks 508-829-2005 Wachusett Programming Ourweb http://www.ourweb.net http://www.ourwebtemplates.com

Re: SATA Tape drive

2008-03-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:22:09AM -1000, Kent Hauser wrote: Hi, I need to replace a failed DAT72 drive. My current one is SCSI, but I'd like to use a SATA replacement. Will this work? I have never seen a DAT drive on a SATA controller. Do they make them? jerry Thanks. Kent

Re: Trouble Rescuing a System

2008-03-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
in the Fixit shell contains the following lines: /dev/da0s1a /mnt/root ufs ro 0 /dev/da0s1d /mnt/var ufs rw 0 Well, when you have it marked as 'ro' as in the line above, it will be mounted read only. Try changing that to 'rw' Make sure it is not already mounted. Do: mount -u /mnt/root jerry

Re: starting a program at boot time

2008-03-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 02:21:25PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 07:24:07PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: how do i start a program at boot time? simplest to add to rc.local or as a user - add

Re: security/openssh-portable

2008-03-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
to /usr/local/libexec/sftp-server 3) change user's shell to a custom C wrapper around [2] 4) a combination of them The usual thing is make the shell /bin/nologin jerry -- Philip M. Gollucci ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) o

Re: security/openssh-portable

2008-03-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 06:26:51PM -0400, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: user:*:3000:3000::0:0:F L:/foo/./user:/bin/sh The usual thing is make the shell /bin/nologin Hi Jerry, Thanks -- but Changed to /usr/sbin/nologin So thats not in the 'chroot' aka /foo/user/usr/sbin/nologin Well, you can

Re: Which installation iso disc to download?

2008-02-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
is the same. jerry Zeeshan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd

Re: Disk Geometry

2008-02-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
, partition and build and ignore the message. That is with both IDE(SATA) and SCSI(SAS). So, your real problem is finding that elusive free slice space or freeing up a slice number to use for it. Good luck, jerry Mi laptop is Intel Core2 Duo and the Hard Disk is SATA 200 Gb Toshiba

Re: Disk Geometry

2008-02-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:30:19PM +0100, ras bsd wrote: On 28/02/2008, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:48:37AM +0100, ras bsd wrote: Hello list, this is my first post here. My problem is: I've installed the OS in my laptop

Re: FreeBSD 7.0

2008-02-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 02:50:32AM -0800, Danielisz Laszlo wrote: Hello! Do you have any idea the FreeBSD 7.0 when will come out? Pretty soon now. Looks like the final touches are being worked on now. jerry Laci

Re: FreeBSD Linux distro

2008-02-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
) that was made in some eastern bloc country before the wall went down?You were lucky to get from the house to the store in one of those, especially if there was a stop along the way that would require restarting the dead engine because they would not idle. jerry

Re: FreeBSD Linux distro

2008-02-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
, just to play about with line lengths and make up pretty patterns in your mail reader. I'll stop now or at least once I can taper down to the length of the given name I sign off with). Jonathan (Whew!) I'm impressed. jerry ___ freebsd

Re: IP Aliasing

2008-02-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
these entries to hold when I boot. Also, is there any shortcut to adding a range of net/host address or would I have to add a line for each address? Not that I know of. But, maybe someone has written something. jerry Thanks ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Question urgent!!!

2008-02-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
others. Almost any normally configured machine should be good. jerry Thanks Odeth Verónica Solano P. Clientes Estratégicos Diveo Internet de México Tel.: 5093-8058 Cel.: 04455-5506-3474 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Este mensaje contiene información privilegiada

Re: Computers that us FreeBSD. HELP!!!!

2008-02-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 03:42:52PM -0700, Ryan Jenkins wrote: Jerry, or Erich, I am wondering how I could Download the FreeBSD OS to a disk, so I could try and install it on the computers I am trying to get to work? Could you give me some pointers on the process? This is well documented

Re: Is my hard ware sufficient?

2008-02-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
install over the net could be newer than the one from the CD. jerry Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 01:19:51AM -0800, Lone Wolf wrote: I'm not going to serve any one, I just want to take a small test drive with FreeBSD . Regarding my graphic card

Re: Is my hard ware sufficient?

2008-02-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
, but you don't want to. jerry Thanks. Arthur ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Computers that us FreeBSD. HELP!!

2008-02-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:38:12AM -0700, Ryan Jenkins wrote: Jerry, The function of the machines we are looking for is a Tower and an All-in-One computer that will run a tracking software and only tracking software. The software is based off the FreeBSD operating system. The software

Re: diskLabelCommit fails within a sysinstall script?

2008-02-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:17:49PM -0500, Jeff Gold wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to be clear; I am not suggesting deleting that 'c' partition. Thanks for the warning. I never manually delete the ad0s1c partition, but I'm using

Re: security of a new installation / steps to take

2008-02-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 05:22:02PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: This is a very nice summary. I will steal it and post it on the wall in our cube-maze hallway. Thanks, jerry -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: So far I have had FreeBSD systems

Re: diskLabelCommit fails within a sysinstall script?

2008-02-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:48:53PM -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 16:32 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: I don't know about all you ask, but the 'c' partition should always be there and be set to identify the whole slice eg start at 0 and the size be the size

Re: Computers that us FreeBSD. HELP!!!!!!!

2008-02-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
, Please go here: http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/hardware.html Several of the hardware vendors on this list can supply you with ready-to-run FreeBSD workstations and servers, loaded to your specifications. Very good link. Covers all the ones I know of and a lot more. jerry

Re: FreeBSD Linux distro

2008-02-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
perspectives and even some more pro Linux. But most are pretty neutral, just giving information. So, do a little searching. jerry Erik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Is my hard ware sufficient?

2008-02-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
. Thanks demons! That is daemon, not demon. There is a big difference. jerry Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking to install FreeBSD on my old PC. --- Processor: Intel Celeron 1.3 GH RAM: 192 MB --- Is my hard ware sufficient? Sufficient to do what? Until

Re: We've discounted the freebsdnewbie.com domain name for you...

2008-02-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:08:16AM +, Ken Palm wrote: I doubt that anyone on this list wants to do any business with a domeain name ripoff clod. So, go harrass some less knowledgeable victim! jerry We've discounted the [1]freebsdnewbie.com domain name for you... Over

Re: FreeBSD Linux distro

2008-02-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:14:04AM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: Chad, A good rundown of some of the differences. Maybe you can put this on a web page and get it added to lists of comparrisons. jerry On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 05:14:45AM -0800, Lone Wolf wrote: But according to Wikipedia

Re: Is my hard ware sufficient?

2008-02-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
compatibility page for the version you intend to install, on the FreeBSD web site jerry Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dreamed before. E.A Poe

Re: diskLabelCommit fails within a sysinstall script?

2008-02-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
not get ad0s1a, swap, ad0s1d, etc. Maybe, if you deleted that special 'c' partition, it made the rest of the process screw up. jerry Jeff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: diskLabelCommit fails within a sysinstall script?

2008-02-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 04:49:25PM -0500, Jeff Gold wrote: On Feb 19, 2008 4:32 PM, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe, if you deleted that special 'c' partition, it made the rest of the process screw up. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll give that a try. Just to be clear; I

Re: FreeBSD Linux distro

2008-02-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
just meant that FreeBSD tends to get software loaded on it for server purposes more and Lunix tends to come bundled to be used as a desktop more. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Computers that us FreeBSD. HELP!!!!

2008-02-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
limit themselves to FreeBSD, but they claim support for it. jerry You might will have problems getting certain machines without operating system. Erich Ryan Jenkins wrote: Hello, I currently have a Computer System that is based off the FreeBSD Operating System and I am trying

Re: question about xwindow

2008-02-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
and just uses a simple /etc/printcap -- none of the cups setup or other stuff that seems to confound people. Of course, I print to a network attached printer that handles postscript so I don't have to do much. jerry I haven't a clue as to what is wrong, would someone help PLEASE? Thank

Re: Trying to recover data from FreeBSD 4.11 system

2008-02-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
and you may not be able to recover the data. Anyway, you will need to try more extreme measures. jerry Is there a way to mount these filesystems? -- Joe Demeny ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?

2008-02-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
or allow it to be built for FreeBSD. People can do some examination and create a working alternative, but it will always be based on a guess and not be able to be up-to-date without the real specs from the owner. jerry Andriy ___ freebsd

Re: Freebsd based server lacking chown command, where to get it.

2008-02-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
typed '/usr/sbin/chown ...' then it would probably work. The better thing is to put /usr/sbin in your standard path. You can to that in .login. The handbook and man pages cover modifying your path. jerry i find this pretty strange as ls -l shows: -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6688 Jan 12

Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?

2008-02-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
more questions - including why do you dis your customers in your web site. jerry I don't mean to ridicule your principles, I merely mean to point out that in my opinion it's not always as black and white as you make it seem. Alphons -- All right, that does it Bill [Donahue]. I'm

Re: Three wishes of a wannabe developer

2008-02-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
and object oriented approach - Squeak is a great learning tool, with excellent debugging tools Sounds like the main arguments that used to be made for learning Pascal. Might be good, but not subscribed to by very many. jerry - there are some great tutorials and tutorial-like Squeak books

Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
available on another, why not allow one partition to create an overflow file on another partition, or perhaps a dedicated You can do this alrady. Just move some directory tree in to the large space and create a synlink. I do it often. jerry amount of the swap partition if it's on the same

Re: rename and chmod (was: cp -p)

2008-02-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
the pointer/link or whatever it is called and doesn't change anything else. jerry Regards, Wouter -- Pietro Cerutti PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: A non FreeBSD question.

2008-02-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
of spouse. The person is busy somewhere or has the phone turned off. I don't know any spouses who check every hour -- at least any spouses in a good marriage relationship. jerry Thanks. :-) Anuj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
it by making it md, it might obviate the need for swap at all - anyway it would not be a faster system if the md had to be swapped out. It just adds another layer of interferrence. jerry Regards, Jason ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
and reading a swap partition is optimized for that in a way that writing to a file system cannot easily be optimized. At least that's what my mom told me. jerry Looking for last minute shopping deals

Re: OT: www search engines

2008-02-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
of that obscurity, my gmail account still gets a small amount of spam regularly. jerry Erik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Please help in diagnosing these smartmon messages

2008-02-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
to the disk. Agree. If it is seeing repeated errors, it is most likely about to die totally at any time. jerry Since it's a church disk, you might have better luck with your prayers then most people. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Preserving file permissions with dump and restore

2008-02-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
loss of permissions or flags or change of ownership. When the restore finished, did it ask you about setting owner/permissions on . ?If so, answer no. That is the only thing I can think of. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

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