xpdf help

, mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: xpdf help

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:58:43AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: For some reason, xpdf (version 3.00, as installed on FreeBSD 4.9 by the ports system) can't find the Courier, Times, Helvetica and Symbol fonts that are built

No networking on 4.9-PRERELEASE

network. The interface that's failing is xl0. Does anyone have an xl that's working with 4.9-prerelease? How about anyone else having network problems with 4.9-prelease. A solution would be best of all, of course. Thanks, mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Deleted VAR

the daemons are logging to their files and not to an inode that no longer has a link on disk. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Deleted VAR

daemons that have files in /var open to close them - thus freeing the space - and reopen with real files is a good idea. The only thing magic in /var for sshd is /var/empty. Make sure that directory exists, is owned by root and is not group or world writable. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL

Re: security vulnerability in dump

-pr command so the security people will see it. They may read this list, but they may not. They do read PR's flagged as security issues. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more

Re: creating user dirs

}' | grep -v nobody) do mkdir $user # Copy whatever else you want into place, say /etc/skel/.* chown -R $user $user done mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information

Re: Deleted VAR

not working, what is it doing that you consider wrong - and provide the exact text of any messages, and what should it be doing. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information

Re: Deleted VAR

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Prewett [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Today Mike Meyer wrote: [Context lost to top posting.] In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kenzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Yes, that worked, but now I can't sshd to it anymore. looking in the auth.log file, it sais Bind to port 22

Re: Deleted VAR

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Prewett [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Today Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Prewett [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Today Mike Meyer wrote: [Context lost to top posting.] In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kenzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Yes, that worked

Re: security vulnerability in dump

not be a machine you'd want to use for what you use production machines for, but there are a fair number of production uses where you only have one hd, or where having /var and /etc on the same file system are acceptable. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org

Re: Deleted VAR

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nathan Kinkade [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 03:35:33PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Prewett [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: snip Right. Restarting a single process is easy. It's finding all the ones that might need restarting

Re: Mouse Murder

and they went away when I let X do things directly. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions

Re: web write-up

on it, which gets updated at regular intervals. So /var gets it's own file system, and /usr lives on /. On my test system, which gets config files stored in perforce, I just make everything one big file system. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org

Boot loader failing?

seems to work. Clues? Hints? Request for more information? Help? mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: attaching a umass device?

you tweak the kernel to reorder them so you can boot :-(. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: web write-up

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shaun Dwyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Mike Meyer wrote: [SWAG follows] I Disagree.. it will make a difference. If you partion /var near the beginning of the disk (the fastest part - outer tracks) it will force all the stuff in /var (being logs and stuff) to live

device probe order (Was: attaching a umass device?)

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 08:56:19AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robin Damm [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 01:13:24PM +1100, David Gerard wrote: This is probably really simple, but I couldn't see

Re: kernel won't compile

when you're updating the system, you should never use the config ... make depend method. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Scanner for FreeBSD

/ for a list of supported devices. Is there any possibilty to share the scanner in an Network, pretty much like a printer? Sane will do that for you. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email

Re: freebsd curiosity

carefully examined one Linux device driver, and done work on a couple of BSD ones, yes, I believe that to be the case. I still shudder whenever I think about the Linux device driver. And it was from one of the stars of the Linux community. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Recovering data from a faulty drive

before I figured out vinum. # fdisk /dev/ad0 partition # disklabel -r /dev/ad0s1 partition Then lpr partition and store a copy with the offsite backups. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix

Re: linked twice against libintl.so

changes. It does that so that upgrading the port doesn't cause other ports that depend on it to stop working. Personally, I disable this and resign myself to having a few things break and rebuilding them. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html

Re: Support for USB cable modems?

the device as, Thomson Consumer Electronics Thomson RCM245 Cable Modem, rev 1.00/26.00. The device doesn't seem to be attached by if_aue, if_cue, or if_kue. If it only shows up as ugen, then the answer is no. Not without more software than ships with the kernel, anyway. mike -- Mike Meyer

Re: Dangerously dedicated vs. fully dedicated, etc.

partition here since the OP used partition. The standard FreeBSD terminology is slice. -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: BSD libc

the FreeBSD user code - libraries and commands - to run on a Linux kernel. I'm not sure what happened to it. If you google through the FreeBSD mail archives, you can probably find a URL for more information. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html

Re: Dangerously dedicated vs. fully dedicated, etc.

you turning things into something more substantial than an archived message. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Dangerously dedicated vs. fully dedicated, etc.

disks, some slice table contents might work better than others. I've not read anything comparing your B and C or either with a slice table full of zeros or random bits.) As you can see, it's sector 1, not sector 0. Everything else seems to be correct. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL

Re: Make World Steps

, but if it is, how are you booting the system? mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body

Re: Directory hashing question

if it made no difference in performance, just to make it easier for humans to deal with. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: too old?

/port.mkversion exists. If not, then go to /usr/ports/Mk and do grep BSDPORTMKVERSION= bsd.port.mk, and put the numeric part of the output line in /var/db/port.mkversion. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD

Re: newbie mail help

it a look. I apologize for posting with OE. No need to apologies - the mail came through nicely formatted, as plain text only. That's all we ask for. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email

Re: Resizing partitions for 5.0

are administrative - meaning you have different backup or upgrade paths, different mounting options, or similar things. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information

Re: portupgrade of jasper-1.500.4 fails

got the latest version of the port. If you do and it still fails, do a make maintainer, and send the error report to the email address that this prints. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant

Re: Shutdown for APC Back-UPS 350 CS

. Anyone else worked on this one? Maybe in 5.0? mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions

Re: Deleted files - recovery

in the union. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: best method to upgrade 4.4 to latest?

be compiled. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Official configuration file backup/managing method/application?

. Personally, I check the files into perforce and use that to track changes and as a backup. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: too many kill()'s

-it shell, the computer finishes booting, it's like going into single-user mode upon boot) It's not like single-user mode upon boot, it IS single-user mode. They are one and the same. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW

Re: portupgrade of jasper-1.500.4 fails

In 1043094762.13652.9.camel@localhost, Stacey Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Hello, On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 14:59, Mike Meyer wrote: In 1043015655.51041.505.camel@localhost, Stacey Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Hello, After a fresh cvsup of my ports tree, I tried to update

Re: newbie mail help

to be applied, or something like that. If you're happy with the mail as it arrives at your ISP's pop server, you should use a client that can read mail directly from the pop server. I'm pretty sure pine qualifies. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org

Re: A little desperate for help with USB/Sony camera

is). mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: to make or add a package

built. Personally, I always build from ports. If nothing else, having the source handy is worth a little extra time. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information

Re: I would like to contribute.

with patches that they make you a committer so you can commit them yourself. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: NMBCLUSTERS and Kernel config

-- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Is the Kernel device config visual interface still necessary

giving me problems. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Kernel rebuild problems

. If you still can't figure it out, send the list lines 260-265 or something like that. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: USB Printer setup

for the printer, you might try something like: enscript -o - /etc/rc.conf | gs -sOutputFile=/dev/ulpt0 -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=... with ... replaced by the appropriate device driver and any driver-specific flags you may want to use. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Boot loader failing?

I know, it's poor form to followup to my own post, but I solved the problem and wanted to get the solution into the archives. In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I have a test machine that boots a number of things, FreeBSD -stable and -current among them. I tried

Re: Which files and directories to backup?

/spool/lpd line printer spool /var/spool/mqueue sendmail /var/spool/uucp,uucppublic uucp mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information

Re: freebsd as platform for video security?

about 5% of the cpu on a gigahertz athlon box - but memory bandwidth could be a problem if you want to keep four running videos on it. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more

Re: Which files and directories to backup?

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Francisco Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Mike Meyer wrote: It's a bad idea to exclude fstab. Why? At one point I had it included and it actually clobered a working one and just caused much more headaches. Because fstab tells you which disks

Re: playing CDs as non-root user

everyone indiscriminatly use the CD player, you've found it. If you only want to let users who are logged onto the console use it, you use fbtab. If you only want to let a specific set of users use it, you put those users in group operator. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Which files and directories to backup?

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Francisco Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Mike Meyer wrote: Other files won't create as much headaches as fstab if copied over by mistake. Oh yeah? What about rc.conf? Your firewall config, if any? password? Seems like they *all* create

Re: Installing new versions of GCC

suggested, but moving off -STABLE seems extreme when there are ports of the version you want. However, if you want to compile your system with 3.2, going to -CURRENT - via 5.0-RELEASE - is the easiest solution. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org

RE: Installing new versions of GCC

sure /usr/local/bin preceeds /usr/bin in your path. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: Fixit instructions

for each of those commands on Unix. There are also some writeups on the FreeBSD web site on troubleshooting. In general, fixit mode is only useful if you know how to fix a broken unix system using standard unix commands, as that what it gives you. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: FreeBSD 5.0 woes

versions, there was a noticable hit. If you're trying FreeBSD for the first time, you should probably start with 4.7. 5.0 is still the equivalent of what the Linux world calls a development branch. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html

Re: make fetch, recursive-fetch, package ... etc HOWTO?

in the man make pages. So where can I find all the available options? All of them? /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.ports.mk. However, a readable list of the most useful ones, with descriptions, can be found by man ports. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html

Re: A question asked many times-

, have you tried using the alt keys as meta keys? Here, in Xemacs, they work as a meta key out of the box. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe

Re: Fixit instructions

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Quoting Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You don't have to boot the fixit cd - just mount it and look. I'm sure that what you will find on the CD is a pretty complete FreeBSD system, with the layout described in the hier man page. Close

Re: How to use Port Collection without cd-rom and internet

recommend installing from packages whenever possible in that situation. You can get a list of the packages that a port depends on with make package-depends-list. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix

Re: CD installation problem

a shot in the dark, but is the CD on the secondary controller as a slave, and there's no master on that controller? That configuration causes problems for FreeBSD. I'm not sure it would cause the timeouts you are seeing, but it does cause FreeBSD to fail to recognize drives. mike -- Mike Meyer

Re: Modifying /etc/rc?

of trying to use the vnc script directly, use a script that sets the path and then invokes vnc. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Fixit instructions

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Quoting Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe what's needed is an Essential BSD commands handbook entry, that covers the lists the commands available in Fixit mode that are actually useful for fixing a broken system? Yes, that's exactly what I

Re: Why no /dev/one?

if you seek far enough into it? mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions

5.0 vs. extended slices...

Is it just me, or did 5.0 really lose the ability to have disk labels on extended slices? mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Slightly OT, OSX, terminals key combinations

to to Control-O, and I haven't changed it so I believe that is the default setting. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Why should I use `config;make depend;make...` instead of `make kernel`when building from a stock source tree? (ref. Handbook sec. 9.3)

to go through the config/depend steps. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions

Re: filesystem disappeared following 4.2 - 4.7 upgrade

, it also means that they won't move when you add a drive to the system. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Determining Ram

-- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Changing the FreeBSD boot loader options

floppy boots, and just put that in the boot menu as an option that won't change the default if I take it. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe

Re: Determining Ram

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Doug Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 20:02:30 -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Dragoncrest wrote: I've got a rather odd question, but I'm looking for the easiest way to determin how

Re: Getting patches applied?

or -CURRENT or all of the above. Sugestions please? Submitting patches against -CURRENT is the best solution. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information

Re: Booting issue.

the drives so Windows can boot off a second drive. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: 'origin not recorded' error upon attempt to use pkg_add

error message in amongst these complaints? mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: db2

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Henning [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: is there a port for db2 for freebsd? make search key=db2 in /usr/ports turns up: Port: db-2.7.7_1 Path: /usr/ports/databases/db2 Info: The Berkeley DB package, revision 2 mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: wanna have a freebsd partition on extended partition

of the extended partition, most likely with ufs/ufs2? Unmount it, newfs it, and then mount it. The Freebsd disk tools handle extended partitions just fine, with a couple of exception. You shouldn't have problems with the exceptions for your application. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Spamassassin tools

you had a look in the ports plist? grep -v ^@ /var/db/pkg/portname/+CONTENTS pkg_info -L portname does the same thing. Using zsh you even get completikon of the portname against /var/db/pkg. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html

Re: audio question

it? There are lots. audio/sox includes both play and rec commands. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: How can I rescan the scsi-bus in freebsd?

machine. Camcontrol takes a rescan command. camcontrol rescan all is the simple way, but see the camcontrol man page for details on how to specify what to rescan. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix

Re: general email question

you've checked the ports documentation and the handbook. Once that's done, all that's left is tweaking your sendmail config for to set the SMARTER_HOST stuff up. Check the archives of this list for information on how to do that. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: USB Printer

the printer configured. What to do next depends on what you want to do with the printer - and whether or not the deskjet is a winprinter. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information

Re: switching IDE controllers

the kernel interleave paging across two drives improves paging performance. If you're not paging, it doesn't matter. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information

Re: USB Printer

that. If it prints the text you sent, it's not a winprinter. If it does nothing, or prints gibberish, it's probably a winprinter. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information

Re: USB Printer

. I prefer enscript for that. Either one will detect various graphics formats and automatically translate them to postscript to be printed via ghostscript. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email

Re: USB Printer

if you pay a licensing fee. How did this -questions get dropped from this? I've put it back. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information

Re: USB Printer

: enscript -p - /etc/motd | gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=- [ijs options] /dev/ulpt0 If things are done right, you should get a copy of /etc/motd on the printer. After that, you need to set up a filter file and printcap. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org

Re: I damaged a disklabel

. Is there a way of fixing it? If you have the starting sector for each partition as well, you can fix it. You need to use disklabel to set those two numbers. See the disklabel man page for details. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html

Re: ata0-slave: ATA identify failed

information. Updating to -current may help you. Second, please put newlines in your mail messages. It makes them easier to read in mailers that follow the standards. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant

Re: rebuild one module

module. I am sure there's a way to only compile the emu10k1 module, but I don't know how. Well, what are you doing now to build the kernel? You should be able to use the classic kernel build method, except you don't have to repeat any of the steps but make. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL

Re: rebuild one module

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Antoine Jacoutot [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Wednesday 02 April 2003 20:23, Mike Meyer wrote: Well, what are you doing now to build the kernel? You should be able to use the classic kernel build method, except you don't have to repeat any of the steps but make. What

Re: VNC and blackbox

exist, you get an xterm in twm. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: #!sh grep and move files

for arguments, then you can use xargs: $ cd /dir $ grep -lr 1-TA- . | xargs -J % mv % /newdir mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information

Re: How to list installed ports that have no dependant ports

in keeps. Generate a list of things to try and delete by (cd /var/db/pkg; ls | sort) | comm -23 - keeps | xargs pkg_delete and keep doing that as long as things are vanishing from /var/db/pkg. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent

Re: Daily Run Output error

daily_status_mailq_enable=NO to /etc/periodic.conf. You probably want to add daily_status_mail_rejects_enable=NO to /etc/periodic.conf in either case. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce

Re: Read-only /usr/ports (problem with fontconfig)

), which is in $(WRKDIRPREFIX). I'd contact the maintainer of the of the fontconfig port about this - it seems like it's touching something it shouldn't. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email

Re: USB Printer

-dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=- -sDEVICE=ijs -sljsServer=hpijs -dljsUseOutputFD Are these right ^ ^ Do you really specify l and not i for the server and UseOutputFD? mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html

Re: paths - a newbie question

to make the OS make a link auto-majically? Thanks. This is your shell, not the OS. Without knowing which shell you are using, I can't say for sure, but you might try the rehash command. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network

Re: Fwd: Re: [Directoryadmin-list] compile trouble

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