Re: Upgrading to 6.1 (cvsup)

2006-05-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 13:06, John Cruz wrote: So I want to upgrade to 6.1, but I've never used cvsup before and all the documentation is confusing as can be. Would it be easier to download the install mediums and do an upgrade install or is cvsup the better way? if so how do I go about it?

Re: Upgrading to 6.1 (cvsup)

2006-05-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 15:48, Miguel wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 5/9/06, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) Create a supfile appropriate for your situation (and location). Here is mine: *default host=cvsup12.freebsd.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr

Re: Requiring Manual FSCK -y

2006-05-08 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 08 May 2006 17:19, Wil Hatfield wrote: It seems that my FBSD 6.1 machines are requiring a shell and manual fsck -y after a kernel panic and dump. Is there any way to automate this so that I don't have to get the guys at the datacenter to do it for me? %grep fsck

Re: Flash 7 and Firefox 1.5.0.2

2006-05-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 05 May 2006 11:59, Scott I. Remick wrote: On Mon, 1 May 2006 10:44:42 -0400, John Nielsen wrote: 1) I apply the rtld_dlsym_hack.diff patch after every time I update my sources and before I build / install world. Will this still be necessary in 6.1? Or has the patch already been

Re: newbie wanting to switch to FreeBSD - planning stage question

2006-05-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 04 May 2006 15:55, Barnaby Scott wrote: I am new to FreeBSD (or any other Unix operating system) but am very keen to make the switch. I have read as much as I can over the last couple of years, and am very nearly ready to ditch the various Windows versions on my network - however

Re: MAN pages authoritativeness

2006-05-02 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 06:18, Pietro Cerutti wrote: I just read the InformIT article on OpenBSD 3.9, available here: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=468055f1=rssrl=1 They state that the MAN pages are authoritative in OpenBSD, ... In OpenBSD, the UNIX manual pages are considered

Re: Flash 7 and Firefox 1.5.0.2

2006-05-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 01 May 2006 01:18, Norberto Meijome wrote: Jeff, please let me know how you go with this - I've tried this several times (all steps,including patchign for _dlsym) with no luck... maybe I missed something every time :-|... I'm thinking of using linux-firefox which , apparently, from a

Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 29 April 2006 09:06, Jim Stapleton wrote: Anyone have experience with ClamAV? Good, Bad, Ugly? Should I use something else, or is the only good alternative pay/expensive (such as avast)? Am I better at leaving the antivirus stuff to the Windows machine (which has McAfee

Re: squid and SQUID_FOLLOW_XFF

2006-04-27 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 27 April 2006 16:01, Miguel wrote: Hi, i just installed squid using ports in 6.1-RC1, i noticed that i forgot to enable the SQUID_FOLLOW_XFF flag where configuring the options, i want to add it now, how can i do that? btw, im using portinstall, and i have tried portinstall -m

Re: AWT

2006-04-25 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 11:53, Per Dahlstrøm wrote: I am a happy user of FREEBSD, or rather I were happy but still a user. Actually it is my WebHotel running FREEBSD, which I became aware of in a not so pleasant way. While developing my site I realised that I could not use Java AWT and

Re: Problem Restoring Dump Via Fixit Environment in FreeBSD 6.0 Release Boot Cdrom

2006-04-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 00:17, Brian McKeon wrote: Hello I'm having a problem restoring my backup of my FreeBSD installation. I recently upgraded hardrives in my laptop and made backups of my Gentoo and FreeBSD partitions. Gentoo restored with no troubles BSD however... I have made a dump of

Re: WAN setup help.

2006-04-12 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 03:08, Marwan Sultan wrote: Hello Gurus, I have a Head Office, and have 2 Restaurants in diffrent areas, I have been told that i can link them all together, WAN. them. Can please someone explain to me how to do that? all to be as a one network. I

Re: Faking multiple physical adapters for DHCPDISCOVER

2006-04-12 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 13:08, Terrence Koeman wrote: -Original Message- From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 6:17 PM Subject: Re: Faking multiple physical adapters for DHCPDISCOVER Terrence Koeman wrote: [ ... ] I need to 'clone'

Re: restarting sendmail after patching - help needed.

2006-04-11 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 16:35, Ensel Sharon wrote: Hello, I am patching for the recent sendmail advisory: snip and now all I need to do is restart sendmail so that the new binaries are loaded and running. I _think_ the correct method is: cd /etc/mail make restart You are correct. but

Re: Wine installation/configuration question

2006-04-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 07 April 2006 12:12, John Hoover wrote: I've having trouble with Wine. I'm getting the same error regardless if I compile from the ports tree, install a package, or compile from source. on FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE %wine program.exe fixme:msvcrt:_spawnve :not translating name

Re: version 6!

2005-12-13 Thread John Nielsen
After realizing how long I made this little explanation, I decided it might be helpful to someone if I made it available on the freebsd-questions mailing list. List: take the following for what it's worth. On Tuesday 13 December 2005 07:00 pm, ntkonn wrote: Crap amighty, I just upgraded

Re: FreeBSD and MySQL - mysqld eats CPU alive

2004-08-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 31 July 2004 21:08, adp wrote: I recently posted the following message to MySQL discussion list. The response there, and the one I keep finding on Google, is that this is a long-standing issue betweeen FreeBSD and MySQL. For me this has been happening since FreeBSD 4.4. I don't

installkernel signal 4 on Thinkpad 365XD

2004-03-25 Thread John Nielsen
I'm trying to get FreeBSD 5.2.1 going on an older thinkpad laptop. The install went smoothly from floppy and 5.2.1-RELEASE CD. Now I'm trying to do an installkernel and installworld from an NFS mount on my main machine. I did the buildworld and buildkernel on the faster machine, with these

no text in drscheme

2004-03-19 Thread John Nielsen
I don't know if this is a DrScheme issue or if it's a FreeBSD/X issue, so I hope you'll indulge the cross-post. I recently did an upgrade of several ports on my system, DrScheme being one of them. Now when I run it, there is no visible text in any of the menus or dialog boxes. The buttons

firebird, java, artsd, sound

2003-10-22 Thread John Nielsen
the bug is in. So I'm hoping someone can shed some light on the situation--ideally one that leads to a solution. Any takers? Please CC me on replies. Thanks, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

5.1 on a 386

2003-06-12 Thread John Nielsen
Hi folks- I am setting up FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on a 386DX. I'm mostly doing it as a learning exercise (or perhaps because I'm a masochist), but the machine may be used as a firewall at some point. I have the OS installed with a custom kernel, and things are actually going quite well. There

Re: 5.1 on a 386

2003-06-12 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 12 June 2003 13:58, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If this is the case, then the hardware notes need updated, I quote: All Intel processors beginning with the 80386 are supported, including the 80386, ... ... and ...

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