Re: In the spirit of Godwin's law - I propose Beastie's law

2007-11-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
it is least understood or at least, least seen in perspective. Then, since it is written, we seem condemned to believing it rather than making it useful to our needs. jerry > > > - EvErY day is a rare gift - > > Have a gr8 day every one, it's unique...:-) > > -- >

Re: BSDs support for NTFS read-write (using ntfs-3g)

2007-11-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
; NTFS. Thank you. Someone on the list claimed good success just yesterday or the day before. Check in the questions archive.So far, I have only used NTFS in read only on FreeBSD, but if the ntfs-3g works it could be just what you want. jerry > _

Re: Terabyte drive

2007-11-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
d FAQs. I believe what you are now seeing is the difference between the total space and the space available to be written by a user process. There is an amount (8%, if I remember correctly) on each filesystem that is reserved for use by the system/root.You can change that but shou

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
appreciation of the item in question... Then again if you are part of one of those religious groups that like to perfume the place before praying, it would be censership. jerry > > -- > Gerard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 10:05:45AM +0300, Boris Samorodov wrote: > On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:26:11 -0500 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > the hitler example remain with it because it establishes > > a very strong case-in-point example. > > Yep, shoot someone and then say

Re: using dd to duplicate disks/partitions of slightly different sizes - works?

2007-12-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
ok? > > The other option is just to fdisk & label the other disk, then rsync > everything to it. Is that the wiser choice? Either rsync or dump/restore. skip the dd. It is not a good use of dd. jerry > > Thanks, > Steve >

Re: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?

2007-12-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
the new slice you created. It works the same as a single-boot install. jerry > > HP Compaq Presario V3000z > RAM - 1.5 GB DDR II 533MHz > NVIDIA Graphics Card 6150 > NVIDIA Chipset motherboard > 80GB Fujitsu HDD > > Thanks in advance > > Cheers > B.Manik

Re: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?

2007-12-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:26:07PM -0500, Chess Griffin wrote: > Jerry McAllister wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot (Windows > >> Vista + Free BSD), my system configuration details are as follow

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
sed(1). You would just ssh in (maybe using PuTTY if all you can get on is a Microsloth box), log in as you and then su to root and edit files directly. jerry > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
PuTTY. It is quite straightforward and does ssh. I have put it on machines all over the world with no problem. jerry > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
lock it, I suppose, but I haven't run in to any. You can also try running the 'portable' PuTTY from a USB stick as someone has suggested. jerry >I can log in to webmin and edit the files via their > file manager. The actual edit process does -not- appear to be java

Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
really needed. Then, run the dump/restore cd /newpart dump 0af - / | restore -rf - This will get all of / as you want. The other mountpoints for /tmp, /usr and /var will be copied, but not the contents of those filesystems. You probably want that. jerry > > Thanks, > Steve &g

Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 09:46:53AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > > dump 0af - / | restore -rf - > > Jerry - thanks a million. I was pouring over the dump/restore and > 'backup basics' in the handbook, and couldn't for the life of me > figure out how to get it t

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:33:10AM -0500, Bill Vermillion wrote: > > Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 15:35:02 -0500 > > From: Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: looking for online text editor > > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 02:11:31PM -0500, David Bannin

Re: BSDstats: Stand up and be counted! -- November Statistics

2007-12-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
ng countries, list month/year? > maybe go back 6 months? Gee, maybe you could mine the data to do a 'most recent 31 days' report. That should not show the dips and peaks in the middle of the month. jerry > > - > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Netwo

Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 04:48:40PM +0200, Konstantinos Pachnis wrote: > James Harrison wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 10:41 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:38:20PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > >> > >>> I hav

Re: FreeBSD on a PC with Windows

2007-12-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
be better. I happen to use AfterStep. There are a couple of others that are less bloated too. I can't think of the names at the moment. -- Get on the machine, log in and experiment around. Make sure you make a regular account for yourself and put that in the wheel group so you

Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:10:20AM -0700, James Harrison wrote: > On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 10:41 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:38:20PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > > > > > I have / on one slice, and [usr,tmp,var] on others. I want to move &g

Re: looking for ideas: triple booting and personal data

2007-12-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
one of them eg maybe Slice 1 = MS, 2 = FAT32, Linux = 3, FreeBSD = 4 might work. I have never done any testing writing/reading FAT32 from FreeBSD. It seems not to have any delays. jerry > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: does freebsd support Vostro 1400 notebook?

2007-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
new. I wonder if anyone has had a chance to get one and try it. You can get one and test it out. jerry > > which driver should i use? > > sound card/network card/etc > > i will update the > Video Cards > 128MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce? 8400M GS > > i found the

Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.

2007-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
piracy and I think people who assert this are moronic idiots. You are so right. Any backyard/foreign, etc software pirates have no problem defeating the copy protections and merrily go their way making thousands of pirate copies while ordinary folk out there who are copying for personal, home use,

Re: looking for ideas: creating a data partition for a dual boot system

2007-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
e f: It will not be root as far as I can tell. But it might be possible to make it your desktop. I avoid MS mostly. jerry > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questio

Re: looking for ideas: creating a data partition for a dual boot system

2007-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
mean desktop environments, it is also not true. According to > their respective documentations, KDE uses ~/.kde be default, and Gnome > uses ~/.gconf, ~/.gnome2 and ~/.local/share. I think he means his MS-Win desktop - not one in FreeBSD, but some other posters seem to be drifting from that. //

Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
s something like this: > > mail.local 1739 15 /tmp 4 -rw--- > 73917491734 rw Looks like something, maybe your mail program has a large file open - maybe trying to receive a huge file. Killing the process could get that file closed and either it would be gon

Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
how > >how much space it is holding. > > > >jerry > > > > > > I even restarted the server but the problem is still there. > this is what I got every amount of time (not always). > > root mail.local 89873 /tmp 4 -rw--- 61688

Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
t; >either nuke it or block it. > > > >jerry > > > > > >>___ > >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >>To unsubs

Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
r config file? Huh??? Where else would you put it? > > P.D. the server had 2 files of 4.1 G each in /var/spool/mqueue, I > deleted this files and no more error messages appeared. Good. That, for now, solved your problem.Probably some attempted virus or denial of service attack

Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive?

2007-12-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
h Partition Magic, but it failed because it wouldn't recognize USB disks - not even the 8.0 version which claims it will. I haven't had time to try gparted or any others. Will do so soon. jerry > > > >On 12/12/07, Patrick Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > &g

Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:10:33AM -0600, Cesar Amaya wrote: > > > > >Huh??? Where else would you put it? > > > > > > > In /etc/mail/sendmail.cf I think you want to put it in sendmail.mc and then run the make in /ec/sendmail rather than mod

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
rd' shell > now. Here it is. I find bash to be ugly and hate it for interactive use. I would rather just use /bin/sh. jerry > > -- > Mike Jeays > http://www.jeays.ca > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Yikes! FreeBSD samba-3.0.26a_2, 1 is forbidden: "Remote Code Execution...

2007-12-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
tury? > This year? When? I guess, if you are in a hurry, you are welcome to do the work. It will get done as soon as the volunteers who maintain it get to doing it.If you need it sooner, then get busy and do it yourself. You won't assist them any by getting sarcastic and juvenile

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > I need to buy a book on C or C++ to help me in FreeBSD. > Which would be better to buy? This doesn't answer your C++ part of the question, but you should have the Kernighan & Ritchie "The C Programming Language" and then get something like "C A Reference Manual" (Latest edition is 5th I t

Re: Super block errors

2003-11-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
you still have some questions. jerry > > Thank you > -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
having to spend so many years of rummaging around at the primative levels. Mostly, I am just responding to the making of a sweeping generalization that may apply to a very few, but for the most is meaningless. It seems to take a narrow viewpoint to make up a flame. jerry > -Rian Hunter > ___

Re: file sizes

2003-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Trying to figure out how to find out the size of a file. > Check man ls for "ls -l" jerry > thanks > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
until it becomes cost-ineffective to do > so - which is to say, probably indefinately.) As several have mentioned, it depends on what you are doing. For some things Fortran is still best. Not everyone spends all their time hacking OSen. Some try to do actual work with their machine (not me, o

Re: Recursion with grep?

2003-11-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > ls -laR | egrep *.c > > chris Not as elegant maybe, but you can also do something like ls -li string *.c ls -li string */*.c ls -li string */*/*.c etc... Using the shells uparrow to repeat the command makes that easy if you only have a few directory levels to peruse.

Re: C

2003-11-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
stall. Take a look at man cc and also look in the FreeBSD handbook. jerry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Boot-prompt (4.9) - where defined?

2003-11-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
d display "Beastie F1") This stuff is compiled in and in the plain vanilla MBR that comes with FreeBSD there are no options to change it. You would have to tinker in source and then build your own. There are some other MBRs out there that allow more options. I've not had a need for t

Re: floppy disk - device not configured error

2003-11-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
to make them (what happens after you get to 5.x I don't know yet, haven't been there) docd /dev ls -l *fd0* if you don't find an 'rfd0c' then make one ./MAKEDEV fd0 should do it You might need to delete some stuff first as in

Re: floppy disk - device not configured error

2003-11-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > > On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > Is the floppy formatted? Used fdformat for that or do it > > on a MS machine. > > > > Also, write to /dev/fd0c or /dev/rfd0c. > > > > Here is just what I do and have done many times. &

Re: floppy disk - device not configured error

2003-11-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > > > ./MAKEDEV fd0 should do it > > > > You might need to delete some stuff first as in > > > > rm *fdo* > > > > But, really, these should all be there because the system normally > > makes these by default.

Re: floppy disk - device not configured error

2003-11-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
GENERIC-to cd ../../compile/name-of-file-you-copied-GENERIC-to make depend make cp /kernel /kernel.save make install Then reboot -- shutdown -r now Of course, this all has to be done as root. jerry > > thanks, > Darryl > ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: website inquiry

2003-11-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
sional" web design mills!! Don't know anything about this shop, but I don't see the need either. jerry > In this instance, we would request that you place some small text on > the bottom portion of your website pages saying 'web design' with a > hyperlink t

Re: 200gb hard drive?

2003-11-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
ng it by decimal. This has been discussed so many times in the Email list, that if one does a little searching, it should be impossible to avoid finding this type of information. So, do a little searching. In this case Google and pretty much any search engine out there can be your friends. jerr

Re: FreeBSD, FHS, and /mnt/cdrom

2003-11-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > ... > > I imagine your answer will be something like "We don't care; do what you > want," but I would like to present the different ideas, and perhaps you > would prefer one. > > So, please put these in the order of most to least preferred, and say why > you like or dislike any of them. > O

Re: hostnames and interfaces

2003-11-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
ou have to have whoever is serving DNS for you (either yourself, your ISP or some DNS service) set up to translate IP <-> hostname and if it involves a new Domain name, you have to register it with the appro

Re: FreeBSD, FHS, and /mnt/cdrom

2003-11-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
ld be OK, but there might be a (yet > undiscovered) better name. Is this accurate? That seems like a pretty good summary. jerry > > Thanks for responding to me, > > Frank > ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: hostnames and interfaces

2003-11-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > At 10:35 AM 11/21/2003, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > >You can also configure your NIC to answer to multiple IP addresses > >and then configure your Apache to treat each as a virtual host with > >a separate hostname/URL. Yes, you have to have whoever is ser

Re: FreeBSD, FHS, and /mnt/cdrom

2003-11-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > > > > > It sounds like you think that a new root-level directory should be > > > created for this, and that /media would be OK, but there might be a (yet > > > undiscovered) better name. Is this accurate? > > > > That seems like a p

Re: FreeBSD, FHS, and /mnt/cdrom

2003-11-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
never liked it that way because we also use the name home for another directory someplace else plus opt ends up being a garbage dump for everything they haven't thought out well on Suns. jerry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lis

Re: newbie: use in RE?

2003-11-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
dn't be surprised if it was \l. It follows the usual conventions. There are more things besides -d that you can do with tr also. jerry > ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Material

2003-11-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD Mall is one such vendor: http://www.freebsdmall.com/ There are others. You could write and ask them. In the meantime you could get a FreeBSd T-shirt and a little beastie plush toy along with the book c

Re: i have linux mandrake

2003-11-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
e that. Reminder - make sure you do a good backup before starting this. Very important. Make sure you make a good backup before starting! Good luck, jerry ps, don't forget to make a good backup before changing any disk. ___ [

Re: HD error: BAD SUPER BLOCK

2003-11-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
-r" switch, then what you are seeing is the socalled 'in-cure' version of the disklabel and if no FreeBSD label has been written on the disk, the system will make up some default stuff. So, just seing # /dev/ad6 and type: , etc plus the line for c: followed by those messages saying cann

Re: HD error: BAD SUPER BLOCK

2003-11-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hi Jerry, > > Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > NOTE: If you run disklabel and do not use the "-r" switch, then > > what you are seeing is the socalled 'in-cure' version of the disklabel > > and if no FreeBSD label has been written on

Re: Resizing disk labels

2003-11-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
t/boot0 on it) and make the disk bootable with disklabel. (that includes writing a bootrecord - eg /boot/boot1 on the FreeBSD slice and marking it bootable, all of which disklabel does if told to) jerry > > Thanks again > > Roland Giesler > ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: questions to decide

2003-11-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
r may OEM the device - sell something built by another company, but put their own name on it. In that case, usually you have to find out who really built the device and look for that in the list because they don't always have all the names vendors put on the essentially same product. Go

Re: First time 5.1 install

2003-11-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
obably) be pulling the ports source down over the net to build as the CD versions can get out of date rather quickly. But, the ports tree skeleton from the CD should be good. jerry > > Thanks for your feedback. > -- > Trey Sizemore > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __

Re: Resizing disk labels

2003-11-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
his choice? No. It is because it is necessary to have /etc stuff there in times such as single user when only the root (/) filesystem is/can be mounted. So, if it was stuck somewhere else it would be a problem. jerry > > Marty Landman Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387 > Sign On

Re: Resizing disk labels

2003-11-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:39:33PM -0500, Jerry McAllister typed: > > > > > > At 07:42 AM 11/25/2003, Konrad Heuer wrote: > > > > > > >3) Try to identify subdirectories containing a lot of data within the > > > >filesystem

Re: delete first partition XP and reformat as ufs -> kernel not found

2003-11-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
disk from scratch. fdisk it to make it all one FreeBSd slice (slice 1) disklabel it to make the partitions in slice 1 that you want newfs the partitions to make file systems of them reinstall FreeBSD from scratch -- good time to go to 4.9 reload the backups over it. jerr

Re: No Kernel?

2003-11-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
as indicated above and it will all work just hunky dory. jerry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FIRST INSTALL QUESTION

2003-11-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
slices MSDOS and the XP unknown or something like that, but it works. jerry > But then I noticed a reference (link above) to booting from DOS using > FBSDBOOT.EXE and that got me to wondering if I could just partition ½ of the > 2d hard drive for FreeBSD, install FreeBSD on that part

Re: Compiling the kernel

2003-12-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
if you have CVSUPed and etc, then you will want to follow those instructions instead of merely building a kernel. Doing it the above way is only if you are just changing the kernel config and then recompiling. jerry ___ [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Remove ^M characters from xhtml file

2003-12-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
eeBSd system do: tr -d "\r" < oldfile > newfile and it will clear them up nicely. Note, only do this to text files. jerry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Compiling the kernel

2003-12-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
s the old tried and true way if you are only changing kernel config stuff and not any source. jerry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: fdisk question (long)

2003-12-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
ight. > it# fdisk ad0 Try doing" "fdisk -s ad0" To read the disk information. It gives you all the information that is usually meaningful and is less confusing. jerry > *** Working on device /dev/ad0 *** > parameters extracted from in-core dis

Re: apology

2003-12-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
place for any problems with billing. jerry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: free bsd !!!

2003-12-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
ter do some manual reading before actually trying this stuff out though. jerry > Regards=0D > Mark =0D > Europe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: a technical how to

2003-12-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
t to skip the bytes in front and start copying from there to end to the new file. You may also have to play around with blocksize and notrunc to get just what you want if you need to break it on some odd boundary. jerry > > Thanks, > > Here is the question: How to truncate a fi

Re: Installation question...

2003-12-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
ring the installation. I have had better luck sustaining the downloads when the install system is doing it rather than when I was trying to download the larger ISO, but that may just be my location. jerry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://

Re: Why userland , basesystem and Kernel are together?!

2003-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > I don't wish to get into a shouting match, but I don't think I > completely agree with some of the things you say here. > OK. Well, just toddle on over to the advocacy list where this can more appropriately be hashed out. jerry > On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 11:39,

Re: umounting /

2003-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
You can't un mount root. You can only reassert the mount. jerry > > Dru > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROT

Re: swap space

2003-12-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
cause of the efficient paging algorithm it will always show almost full swap space. Someone else can better explain it than I, but there have been several discussions of it on the lists so searching should dredge up some good information. jerry > > Mark > > ___

Re: Why userland , basesystem and Kernel are together?!

2003-12-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > On 11 Dec C. Ulrich wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 14:08, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > > > > > I don't wish to get into a shouting match, but I don't think I > > > > completely agree with some of the things you say here. > &

Re: growfs on /

2003-12-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
doing a bunch of development, they can accumulate a lot of junk. I wouldn't even consider growfs until after cleaning stuff up and would not be confidant of using it on root anyway. jerry > > Thanks in advance > Jeff LaMarche > >

Re: 2 ip-addr for 1 netcard...

2003-12-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
55.255.255.255" ifconfig_xl0_alias1="147.39.62.12 netmask 255.255.255.255" The quotes must be there, the aliasnn numbers must each be unique and the netmask must be as shown. The ip addresses abobe, of course, are fiction and must be replaced with correct ones. jerry >

Re: multiple dumps to single tape

2003-12-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
ores have worked fine on many different machines. jerry > > -- > David Bear > phone:480-965-8257 > fax: 480-965-9189 > College of Public Programs/ASU > Wilson Hall 232 > Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 > "Beware the IP portfolio

Re: CPU type

2003-12-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
a more specific variable on the sysctl call. auch as sysctl hw.model jerry > > -- > Best regards, > flux mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: /proc directory

2003-12-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > What is /proc -directory for in FreeBSD? What kind of data does it > store? How and for what could I use it? It is a psuedo file system that the system uses while running for process information. You should be able to find information on it in the handbook and by searching.

Re: shutting down network interfaces

2003-12-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > I have two netcards and want to shut down one of them without > rebooting. You have been directed to the man page for ifconfig several times now. Probably it is about time to look it over. Also, try setting your system clock correctly. jerry > > -- > Bes

Re: Must root be on slice 'a'?

2003-12-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
up your disk so that your root and boot partition is 'a' in whichever slice you boot from. For many things this is the default and there may be some things that just plain assume this. Enjoy, jerry > -- > Garance Alistair Drosehn= [EM

Re: I am a newbie

2003-12-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
and other gramatical niceties. It would make people more insterested in reading your messages and giving reasonable responses. jerry > > > >My name is Robert. I am 13 and I want to use a bsd distro because my of best friend > >uses it and he says you can really get

Re: The Booting Process

2003-12-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Is there a way, when booting, to have an application launch? > > Ex: > exec /usr/servers/bots/zDSBot3/zDSBot3 & > > Where would I add this line, if possible? If not, would it be possible to be > made in the next version? See man rc(8). jerr

Re: What logs etc do I need to checkfrequently?

2003-12-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
use more than one tape in a backup. I don't know how well that works in FreeBSD dump/restore. I don't have a big enough disk under FreeBSD to make it go to more than one tape yet. But, I have successfully dumped partitions that needed up to 10 DAT tapes before on other UNIX systems.

Re: Installation failure with version 4.9

2003-12-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
d definitely put more stuff (like maybe /usr and /var) in something other than root for reasons down the road. But there shouldn't be any technical reason that those numbers won't work and if there is room for that on the disk. jerry > > Did you try with a smaller root slic

Re: Copying a FreeBSD install to a smaller disk

2008-09-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
can take a while, especially the /home dump/restore if it is large. Once you are finished with this you need to fix up the /etc/fstab file on /newroot. After this, when you reboot, as long as ad0 is in front of ad4 in the BIOS boot sequence, the system will attempt to boot from ad0. Since the

Re: restricted users

2008-09-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
. Check out Squid. There are others as well as commercial proxy services. You may also want to run it in a jail, though I don't know if that will work, never used jails other than casual tinkering. jerry > > -- Don Wilde > ___

Re: looking for a disk partition ("slice") editor

2008-09-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
nerally, you don't want to mess with slices or in MS terminology "primary partitions" with the system running - even if you can find a way. jerry > Thanks much! > > > Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG > **

Re: looking for a disk partition ("slice") editor

2008-09-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 09:19:40AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:25:19 -0400 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 07:00:39AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > > > >> I would like to find a d

Re: blocksize when using dd to copy disks? bigger = better?

2008-09-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
there are more operations in which an error can occur. jerry > > thanks > Joe > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 installation problems.Please help!

2008-09-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
a box pop up on the partition/label page when you > hit write that mentions something about "doing newfs ", otherwise > just start over. I think that's the magic step. I don't remember the necessary letter just at this moment, but you

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 06:04:24PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:25:19 +0200 (CEST) > Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> In all likelihood, the probability of any vendor creating FBSD > >> specific drivers is directly proportionate to

Re: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
ething like that. I have run in to this a couple of times in the past where the dd seemed to fix it. Anyway, it is getting near Halloween, so these mystery fixes may be appropriate... jerry > > Thanks!!! > > ___ > freebsd-question

Re: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
you want to read/write the disk in a different system. You might not be able to do it because it does not follow the most standard way.It is not a problem for a disk that is only used on FreeBSD. On the other hand, I see no reason to not use the slice+partition system that is most standard.

Re: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
data for partition 3 is: > > The data for partition 4 is: > OK. That looks pretty normal. Did you try doing an: fdisk -I ad4 or maybe fdisk -BI ad4 It takes that to get fdisk to initialize the disk. (the -B puts the master boot block there. Just doing anfdisk ad4 onl

Re: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 12:07:08PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:03:46AM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: > > > > I just swapped out an old 500G disk with a 1TB one and I'm trying to > > > label it and mount it... > >

Re: analyzing freebsd core dumps

2008-10-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
a contacts if it is not the actual memory or board. A marginal contact where something is plugged in can over time build up deposits that make it fail. Of course, this is still a hardware problem, but can often be cured by reseating everything. If it is bad enough, it could also be exace

Re: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
he NVIDIA GeForce 6100 / nForce 430 and > Super I/O chip: ITE IT8716. > > Dmesg had no output pertaining to the partition/format/dd, etc... Just > messages from my ftp daemon. If you're wanting to see the boot messages, > this is from the last time I rebooted when I installed t

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