Re: can FreeBSD run dos

2003-09-28 Thread Paul Everlund
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Jud wrote: On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 09:51:50 -0500, fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to different OS's . Can this Os run Wordperfect 5.1 for dos??? It might be possible with Wine, but you would need a FAT partition, so that would definitely be the long way round -

Re: a technical how to

2004-01-26 Thread Paul Everlund
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 02:51, homeyra g wrote: So, I hope this is the right address for this type of question. If not would you please forward this and/or let me know the correct address. Thanks, Here is the question: How to truncate a file from the begining to a certain point in the file?

RE: Problems with a C application that changes users and run 'screen-x'

2002-12-20 Thread Paul Everlund
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Aaron Burke wrote: 3. Avoid using system() which I vaguely recall being described with a lot of bad words in various places and use fork(), exec(), _exit(), waitpid() and exit() instead. How would I do this with exec. According to the man page for exec I have

RE: Problems with a C application that changes users and run 'screen-x'

2002-12-20 Thread Paul Everlund
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Paul Everlund wrote: Found an error in my reply... On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Aaron Burke wrote: [big snip] I think execlp is writing over your current process. So first your process is exchanged with ppp, then ppp is exchanged with screen. You have to make a copy of your

SunOS SPARC

2002-12-30 Thread Paul Everlund
Hi! Is it possible to run SunOS-binaries compiled on a SPARC on i386 FreeBSD? Are there some kind of emulation program for this? Thanks in advance! Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: SunOS SPARC

2002-12-30 Thread Paul Everlund
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Miguel Mendez wrote: On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:01:21 +0100 (MET) Paul Everlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a SPARC box, but thought of running proprietary SunOS-SPARC- binaries on a much better FreeBSD box (better because it's easier to maintain, upgrade

RE: Bios not recognizing correct HD size

2003-01-09 Thread Paul Everlund
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Mike Loiterman wrote: On Wednesday, January 08, 2003 5:54 PM Stephen Hovey mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you're right. So should I just define the drive correctlt in fdisk? If so, what would be the proper settings. usually a drive has em on the drive on

Re: Drive Image / Cloning

2003-01-09 Thread Paul Everlund
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Mike wrote: Hi All What's a good way to clone / Image to another HD? I have 3 boxes that are the same and I have one that is done and ready and want to copy that install to the others. Cheers M;) # /bin/dd if=/dev/ad4 of=/dev/ad6 bs=16384 This I use in a cron-job to

Re: Bios not recognizing correct HD size

2003-01-13 Thread Paul Everlund
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Jud wrote: On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:50:45 -0600 Mike Loiterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Also make sure the jumpers are correctly set on the drive. Sometimes the jumpers can be set to fake the disk size reported to the BIOS. [snip] Perhaps you've answered

Re: entropy

2003-01-15 Thread Paul Everlund
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 08:51:35AM +, P. U. Kruppa wrote: On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Kevin Stevens wrote: On Tuesday, Jan 14, 2003, at 22:46 US/Pacific, Wilkinson,Alex wrote: [big snip] Did you actually have to MOVE your browser from in front

WAP-server [Was Re: entropy]

2003-01-15 Thread Paul Everlund
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Scott Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 11:51:23AM +0100, Paul Everlund wrote: Maybe even more usual and a possibility today than before, as mobile phones are able to send/recieve e-mails (if I only could get my own phone to work as it should :-). All the good

Re: WAP-server [Was Re: entropy]

2003-01-15 Thread Paul Everlund
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Anand Buddhdev wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 04:53:25PM +0100, Paul Everlund wrote: Do anyone by the way know if a special web-server is required for serving wap-pages, i.e. can one use Apache? If not, what's out there? Will take a look in the ports tree to see if I

Re: Possible attack?

2003-01-18 Thread Paul Everlund
Alex wrote: Dear/Beste Bill, Friday, January 17, 2003, 4:01:43 PM, you wrote: I've seen the anonymous FTP denied off and on. I think that some folks just randomly attempt to connect to any FTP server they find in the hopes that there's cool stuff there. Or in the hopes that the can

Scanner Epson Perfecton 1260

2003-01-21 Thread Paul Everlund
Hi! Has anyone successfully used the scanner Epson Perfection 1260 with FreeBSD (Sane)? Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Scanner Epson Perfecton 1260

2003-01-21 Thread Paul Everlund
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-01-21T10:38:01Z, Paul Everlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone successfully used the scanner Epson Perfection 1260 with FreeBSD (Sane)? Yes, via USB. Thank you, Kirk Strauser! Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Problems with Netatalk 1.6

2003-01-22 Thread Paul Everlund
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to have netatalk 1.6 to run on it. But after ./configure comes only: error Berkeley DB3 not found What can I do? Helmut Are you installing it from the ports-system? Did you go to /usr/ports/net/netatalk and run make? If you want to

Re: Installing Stripped System

2003-01-24 Thread Paul Everlund
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Jens Haeusser wrote: On 1/23/03 2:30 AM, Paul Everlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Jens Haeusser wrote: I'd like to install a system lacking some of the binaries you can specify as make.conf knobs, such as NO_I4B= true NO_IPFILTER= true

Re: WILKO.NET

2003-01-29 Thread Paul Everlund
Please wrap your lines at a reasonable length, about 70 characters. On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?The Portal?= wrote: Dear Sir/madam, WILKO.NET -US $ 490 Please note that after years, the registration on the domain name WILKO.NET was not renewed and this domain became available to

re: Apache 5.0 - release

2003-01-31 Thread Paul Everlund
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Roger Bate wrote: I've looked through your documentation and can't seem to find anything. Does 5.0 Come with Apache and all other tools needed to set up a fully functioning web server? I would have expected this to be true since that's what the majority seem to use it

Re: I want using FreeBSD, but...

2003-07-25 Thread Paul Everlund
Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-07-25T14:33:09Z, Charlie Schluting [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess ...i'm a christian speaks for itself. On the behalf of Christian FreeBSD users everywhere: screw you. Isn't that a sin, to screw (anything other than screws)? Is it ok to be a Christian and

Re: I want using FreeBSD, but...

2003-07-25 Thread Paul Everlund
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a Christian too. I go to church in the DFW area, and have friends in the Internet business that are also Christians using FreeBSD for their web servers, mail servers, etc. Nothing in the Bible says you cannot use FreeBSD. When the bible was written I don't think

Re: Why people are not satisfied with FreeBSD?

2003-08-30 Thread Paul Everlund
Denis Troshin wrote: Hi! Looking at the field MAILER of e-mails' headers, I see that there a lot of people here who are using mail programs like Outlook, Eudora, Mozillafor win32. This means that they run windows systems. So I'm asking why still a lot of people here who hadn't

KDE startup slow

2003-03-31 Thread Paul Everlund
Hi all! After I got ADSL for my FreeBSD box the startup of KDE takes very long time. It stops at Initializing System Services, then after a while the splash screen disappears, and after some more waiting (about two minutes) the Desktop appears. It almost looks like a DNS query timeout, but I'm

Re: KDE startup slow

2003-03-31 Thread Paul Everlund
to work. After dhclient is started, and the interface has got an IP, one has to surf to the internal 10.0.0.0-network address to login. Best regards, Paul On Monday 31 March 2003 14:20, Paul Everlund wrote: Hi all! After I got ADSL for my FreeBSD box the startup of KDE takes very long

Re: KDE startup slow

2003-03-31 Thread Paul Everlund
is only made for this ISP provider. Best regards, Paul On Monday 31 March 2003 15:33, Paul Everlund wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, CARTER Anthony wrote: How do you start your ppp connection over ADSL? Is your modem internal, USB or Ethernet? Anthony Thank you for your answer

Re: which script will be executed when the adsl IP up

2002-07-14 Thread Paul Everlund
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have use the adsl to connect the internet. As the ppp link will be disconnect, I want the gateway the send me the new IPaddress to my mail box. Could u tell me, when the ADSL link is up, which scripts will be executed. In linux that

Re: Using free BSD in medical equipment

2002-09-23 Thread Paul Everlund
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I work for a medical company situated in Andover England. We are currently looking at various software packages that we could use as a platform for a graphical user interface on a piece of medical equipment that is in an early design stage. I have

Cron leaving a zombie

2002-09-26 Thread Paul Everlund
Hi! I have this little script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d to start, stop and restart a daemon: adac.sh #!/bin/sh case $1 in start) echo -n ' adac' /usr/local/sbin/adac /dev/null ;; stop) /bin/kill `/bin/cat /var/run/adac.pid 2 /dev/null` 2 /dev/null

Re: Cron leaving a zombie

2002-09-26 Thread Paul Everlund
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Danny Pansters wrote: Thanks for your reply! On Thursday 26 September 2002 11:30, Paul Everlund wrote: case $1 in start) echo -n ' adac' /usr/local/sbin/adac /dev/null ^ [SNIP

Re: I'm New, Help, regarding Installation

2002-09-30 Thread Paul Everlund
Mooney Potter wrote: To the Support Group, When I download the iso images for freebsd5, do I just burn them tot he CD? Like do I need something else to read the iso-images when I boot or does my computer? ISO-images should not be burned to a CD as data, but as an ISO. If burning as data

Re: program to create partial invisable gifs

2002-10-01 Thread Paul Everlund
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, David Banning wrote: Is there anything in the ports to create a gif image with invisable edges? Maybe ImageMagick, in graphics, is what you're looking for? Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body

Re: How i can force a stream socket to wait as limited time in accept()function?

2002-10-08 Thread Paul Everlund
alireza mahini wrote: I am a C++ programmer and the platform that i develop my project on it is FreeBSD4.4 .I am aplaying the setsocketopt()function for seting the timeout into the stream socket that blocked in accept() function but i can't successful. You must include (at least part of)

aclocal.m4: AM_CONFIG_HEADER error

2002-10-27 Thread Paul Everlund
What does this mean, and how can one solve it? I'm using automake14 and autoconf213. I know little information is given, but someone must have seen this (and maybe know what's going on), or? aclocal.m4: 4716: `automake requires `AM_CONFIG_ HEADER', not `AC_CONFIG_HEADER' configure.in: 4716:

Re: looking for a lightweight web server

2002-10-30 Thread Paul Everlund
On 10/30/02 at 9:38 AM Rotaru Razvan wrote: I am looking for a lightweight web server with php support to set up on my FreeBSD system. It is very likely that the only use for that web server will be phpMyAdmin so it should be multithreading and all that stuff. I want something small and very

Re: Separating the OS from the data - tough to do?

2002-10-31 Thread Paul Everlund
Steve Warwick wrote: Hi, Hi Steve! -- Problem: Separating OS from underlying data. Which parts of the BSD OS are not part of the initial, never modified OS? Or, which pieces of the OS change due to useage. -- Goal: To have a slightly modified BSD OS structure where the OS can be upgraded,

Re: Separating the OS from the data [Addendum]

2002-10-31 Thread Paul Everlund
Steve Warwick wrote: [Addendum] Cvsup / makeworld: I apologize for missing that piece of information Yes, I could use the usual update procedure, however, this is a production machine. So my thought is: build a new OS on a staging machine, add required symlinks, pull the drive (sled) and slot

Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many?

2002-11-03 Thread Paul Everlund
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The traditional devil horns derive from goats, which if you have ever been around goats, seen how they can climb, eat all vegetation in sight, climb trees, get on roofs, etc., how kids gambol, is understandable. But it alienates so many. But as it alienates so many

Re: simple question

2002-11-06 Thread Paul Everlund
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Paul A. Scott wrote: On 11/6/02 1:43 AM, Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mike wrote: What would i type to make the output of that command not show but at the end simply do let me know its finished? thanks guys tar -xzf ports.tar.gz Turn off the verbose

Re: simple question

2002-11-06 Thread Paul Everlund
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Paul A. Scott wrote: Just a shot in the dark, but how about... # script tarout tar -xvzf ports.tar.gz Actually, that won't work. The 'script' command will redirect the output to a file, but it still outputs to the terminal, which is not what was originally

Re: Can I delete /usr/src ?

2002-11-06 Thread Paul Everlund
Darryl Hoar wrote: greetings, I cvsupped from 4.7-release to 4.7-stable. Followed all the steps to do that. I need to reclaim some disk space. Can I delete the files under /usr/src? Currently it's consuming roughly 340 MB of space ? thanks, Darryl You can delete /usr/src, and also /usr/obj,

Net connection problem: sis, miibus

2002-11-10 Thread Paul Everlund
Hi all! I have a friend who decided to try FreeBSD 4.6.2 and it works just fine except one thing, his connection to the internet. He has a sis network card, which is compiled into the kernel, with miibus that is required. He gets a connection just fine, for about half a minute, then it doesn't

Periodic mails and ipfw

2002-11-11 Thread Paul Everlund
Hi! After upgrading to 4.7 I do not get the log from my ipfw in my periodic mails. Is this as it should be, or is something wrong with my configuration (which I have not changed)? When I did mergemaster I did overwrite my old periodic config file with the new for 4.7 as this should be perfectly

Re: Net connection problem: sis, miibus

2002-11-13 Thread Paul Everlund
Toomas Aas wrote: Hi! I have never used sis-based network adapter, so I skip the miibus stuff (it seems very weird indeed) I guess miibus will be loaded if needed. Also, one last thing, ifconfig says the sis is using full-duplex. Is that ok, if maybe not the other side can handle

Re: Changing IP and ports served on

2002-11-14 Thread Paul Everlund
Hi Jay! Jay wrote: Hello, I am using freebsd 4.4 stable. I am also not a complete newbie but I definitely am a neophyte when it comes to unix. I recently left my job where they let me colo a server there. Since I left, I had to take my server with me. I had help setting it up but that help

Re: is there a replace command ?

2002-12-02 Thread Paul Everlund
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, [iso-8859-9] Malik Bülent wrote: On Freebsd4.x I have a file. I want to change some expressions with new ones For example a file touch /var/qmail/1 touch /var/qmail/2 touch /var/qmail/3 touch /var/qmail/4 touch /var/qmail/5 touch /var/qmail/6 I want to change

Re: is there a replace command ?

2002-12-02 Thread Paul Everlund
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, [iso-8859-9] Malik Bülent wrote: On Freebsd4.x I have a file. I want to change some expressions with new ones For example a file touch /var/qmail/1 touch /var/qmail/2 touch /var/qmail/3 touch /var/qmail/4 touch /var/qmail/5 touch /var/qmail/6 I want to change

Re: is there a replace command ?

2002-12-03 Thread Paul Everlund
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-03 11:13:39 +0100: On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Malik Bülent wrote: But my expression has / that is there is a / in a expression What shall i do ? my expression is new: 11 I want to change new: 11 with new/11

Re: Jail question

2002-12-04 Thread Paul Everlund
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Didier Wiroth wrote: Hey, I'm a freebsd newbie. I was experimenting with jails. I've build an entire jail under /usr/local/jail/test which I'm accessing through the network using ssh. I thought that you can't grep any path or any information outside the jail but when I

...changed from TIME to SPACE

2002-12-11 Thread Paul Everlund
Hi list! What does this mean? # sysctl kern.msgbuf [snip] 5/var: optimization changed from TIME to SPACE 118Dec 10 11:36:12 fw /kernel: /var: optimization changed from TIME to SPACE [snip] Thank you in advance! Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: ...changed from TIME to SPACE

2002-12-12 Thread Paul Everlund
Jens Rehsack wrote: Paul Everlund wrote: C J Michaels wrote: Some time in the recent past Paul Everlund scribbled: Hi list! What does this mean? # sysctl kern.msgbuf [snip] 5/var: optimization changed from TIME to SPACE 118Dec 10 11:36:12 fw /kernel: /var: optimization changed from TIME

Epson Perfection 1260 and SANE

2003-02-24 Thread Paul Everlund
Hi! Has anyone got this scanner to work with FreeBSD 4.7 and SANE? When issued sane-find-scanner it finds it, telling me it's on libusb:/dev/usb0:/dev/ugen0. It also seems to use the backend Plustek, and in the [usb] section I have entered the correct vendor- and product-id. I have tried various

VINUM: Disk crash with striped raid

2004-10-07 Thread Paul Everlund
Hi Greg and list! I did have two 120 GB's disk drives in vinum as a striped raid. One disk crashed, and is not found during boot. It starts up and makes the usual noises, but then it stalls with a katjing, katjing and so on. It seems like either the steering electronics, or the read/write-heads

Re: VINUM: Disk crash with striped raid

2004-10-08 Thread Paul Everlund
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 7 October 2004 at 18:11:52 +0200, Paul Everlund wrote: Hi Greg and list! Thank you for your reply! I did have two 120 GB's disk drives in vinum as a striped raid. Can you be more specific? My vinum.conf looks like this, if this is to be more specific

Re: Swedish language...

2005-04-30 Thread Paul Everlund
Hi Marie! M. IsaLonewolf Mattsson wrote: Hi! I just wonder, if there is any version of FreeBSD in Swedish available. I do hope, there is!! Kindly Marie That depends on what you mean by Swedish... I suggest you read the following: