Re: /etc/malloc.conf? java FreeBSD expertise?

2002-10-09 Thread paul beard
Weston M. Price wrote: In earlier versions on FreeBSD I assume. No, in earlier JDKs. I have noticed a number of instabilities on 1.4.1 on FreeBSD. Have you tried using the native JDK? I didn't realize there was one: I was using the 1.4.1 version in ports. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave

Re: /etc/malloc.conf? java FreeBSD expertise?

2002-10-10 Thread paul beard
Weston M. Price wrote: But wait, why does the application require 1.4? What in the code dictates use of the 1.4 JDK? It used NIO from 1.4, from what the author tells me. Perhaps I should take this to the java list. Join me there? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115

Re: /etc/malloc.conf? java FreeBSD expertise?

2002-10-10 Thread paul beard
Oliver Fromme wrote: paul beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off, why, when I use truss(1) to look at what a program is doing, does it look for /etc/malloc.conf? Never finds it, carries on anyway. man 3 malloc Hmm, I should have used apropos, I see. Well, that page tells me

problems installing gimp-devel/gtk20

2002-10-15 Thread paul beard
.a /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 /usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 /usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.2 I'm trying gtk12 and it seems to have found X11 just fine. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529

questions on swap_pager messages

2002-10-23 Thread paul beard
. http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/mrtg/blue/blue-mem.html Any suggestions besides more swap? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite

Re: FTP Server Configuration

2002-10-20 Thread paul beard
be already in business. try accessing your machine as a user (like yourself) and see what happens. for anonymous ftp, the fine handbook, er, manual, has this to say about it. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-post.html#ANON-FTP2 -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE

Re: FreeBSD Help Channels

2002-10-17 Thread paul beard
Bryan Cassidy wrote: What servers and channels would you recommend going to for FreeBSD help? The handbook is nice. So is Google. Depends on the question. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org

Re: upgrading installed ports after CVSup

2002-10-17 Thread paul beard
). -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace. -- John Mason Brown, drama critic To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Mozilla and Sylpheed

2002-10-17 Thread paul beard
Mozilla Mail. I want it to open Sylpheed. If someone could tell me exactly how to do this I would appreciate it. Thank You. Given any thought to using a mozilla-based browser if you don't need the other components? Galeon is quite nice -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115

Re: New to BSD and have a few questions.

2002-10-17 Thread paul beard
this mailing list and others like it, as well as up to date man pages and a handbook that reflects the current state of the code base. This goes more to the first answer you got than the second, I realize, but it reflects my experience. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115

Re: Phoenix browser and FreeBSD (Linux binaries) 4.6.2?

2002-10-22 Thread paul beard
the linux-phoenix port. I tried to build it the other week and it failed, I forget why. If this attempt fails, I'll post a request for a package. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype

Re: Phoenix browser and FreeBSD (Linux binaries) 4.6.2?

2002-10-22 Thread paul beard
Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: Uh, what about /usr/ports/www/phoenix? [/usr/ports/www/linux-phoenix]:: file /usr/ports/www/ph php-dynphp-screw php-templates phpSysInfo phpbb phpnuke Good question. I don't have one of those. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA

Re: Sendmail .forward

2002-10-26 Thread paul beard
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] \your.local.mail.address -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Optimization hinders evolution. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: Using iBook OS X 10.2 CD Writer to create a FBSD on Intel BootCDROM

2002-10-30 Thread paul beard
and then burn that with whatever Apple provides. The image should be mountable with DiskCopy: that will indicate if it's what you want. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Garbage

Re: extracting kernel compilation options

2002-11-02 Thread paul beard
# Include this file in kernel and use this to extract it later: strings -n 3 /kernel | sed -n 's/^___//p' MYKERNEL -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Surprise due today. Also

caching nameserver (was Resolving hostnames takes forever)

2002-11-02 Thread paul beard
queries from my local network. // acl list acl home { 192.168.2/255.255.255.0 }; allow_query { address_match_list (home); }; -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype

Re: motherboard temperature/fan monitoring?

2002-11-05 Thread paul beard
Dan Pelleg wrote: Try healthd. The manpage says it does LM78. Healthd actually gets closer than anything else: it does pick up the voltages, but still no luck on temperature or fan speed. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400

Re: simple find command

2002-11-06 Thread paul beard
file that contains the word foo. If they're all in . and you need not descend into other directories, you can just use grep to find them. Replace ls -l with rm in the example: [/home/paul]:: grep -l foo * | xargs ls -l -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac

figuring out serial ports

2002-11-06 Thread paul beard
on isa0 sio1: type 16550A laptop: sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A The printer is an old Stylewriter bubblejet for which I found a driver and the necessary filters. Once I cable it all up, what next? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard

Re: figuring out serial ports

2002-11-06 Thread paul beard
Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, paul beard wrote: The printer is an old Stylewriter bubblejet for which I found a driver and the necessary filters. Once I cable it all up, what next? Chapter 11. Not bankruptcy, chapter 11 of the Handbook. It shows how to set up both parallel

Re: figuring out serial ports

2002-11-06 Thread paul beard
Warren Block wrote: Chapter 11. Not bankruptcy, chapter 11 of the Handbook. It shows how to set up both parallel and serial printers. Of course, now I get to ask a lot of dumb questions about tip(1). -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206

Re: regarding 4.7 stable

2002-11-06 Thread paul beard
Charles Pelletier wrote: will the ports-supfile ONLY upgrade ports? Yes, I use it everyday. cvsup and portupgrade -an are part of a nutritious breakfast. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org

tip(1) questions

2002-11-06 Thread paul beard
it, but that was it. tip was unable to do anything else for me and subsequent connections required me to kill the process. The baud rates should be OK (I am using 57600). -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org

[Fwd: Re: Apache and getting started!]

2002-11-07 Thread paul beard
I'm even less inclined to help now that I received this nasty-gram: looks like I need a few filters of my own. Original Message Subject: Re: Apache and getting started! Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 20:06:24 -0600 From: Bryan Cassidy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: paul beard [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Laptops FreeBSD?

2002-11-08 Thread paul beard
bias towards Win* systems (like Dell). Intel or AMD processors are both cool; they're both local companies for me. :) Thanks and i'm very sorry if this isn't the correct list for this. You could try the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard

Re: Upgrading from 4.6-RELEASE to 4.7-STABLE

2002-11-12 Thread paul beard
make buildkernel KERNCONF=KERNEL make installkernel KERNCONF=KERNEL -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently

Re: X Remotely on a Win2k Box

2002-11-12 Thread paul beard
to? If it's :0.0, you need to set it to be the host you're connecting from. try: export DISPLAY=remotehost:0.0 where remotehost is where your ssh connection originates. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http

serial printing to old inkjet (stylewriter)

2002-11-13 Thread paul beard
. Right now, I'd be happy to get some staircased gibberish to display, but I can't even get that far. 1. http://www.rube-goldberg.com/html/oversleeping.htm -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org

Re: serial printing to old inkjet (stylewriter)

2002-11-14 Thread paul beard
Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, paul beard wrote: You should probably set the baud rate and communications parameters in there. See man printcap. OK, I've looked into that and set the br value to be 57600. Here's an example of what I am doing: [/usr/home/paul/src/stylewriter

Re: serial printing to old inkjet (stylewriter)

2002-11-14 Thread paul beard
paul beard wrote: I've got the paper handbook 3/e open here and it gets me tantalizingly close. If I do anything to lpr (kill it or dequeue an job with lprm) the printer does it's paper-feeding dance. Still missing something, though. and as it turns out Windows can't do anything

Re: serial printing to old inkjet (stylewriter)

2002-11-14 Thread paul beard
Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, paul beard wrote: OK, I've looked into that and set the br value to be 57600. It probably can't go that fast. Try 9600 baud first, then 19200. Unless Apple was still totally nuts back then, it should also be 8N1, but who knows? Turn the printer

Re: bash .profile issues

2002-11-18 Thread paul beard
could look for some bash dotfiles. the ORA book is a good reference. see also: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8q=bash+tutorialbtnG=Google+Search -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org

Re: Syslog Piping

2002-11-19 Thread paul beard
a sample: [/home/paul]:: more test.pl #!/usr/bin/env perl while () { print $_; } Now just pipe something thru it: [/home/paul]:: cat .signature | test.pl Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no

Re: connecting to SCSI drive

2002-11-20 Thread paul beard
that the drive exists? man camcontrol(8) I think you need camcontrol rescan all | bus[:target:lun]: use dmesg or camcontrol devlist -v to get the target names. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org

Re: [oetiker@ee.ethz.ch: Re: MRTG problem]

2002-11-20 Thread paul beard
budsz wrote: it seems 2.9.26 is broken on freebsd ... I don't know why ... sorry ... hoping for a patch from some user of this system tobi I guess the next question is, how to downgrade a port? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529

Re: [oetiker@ee.ethz.ch: Re: MRTG problem]

2002-11-20 Thread paul beard
/mrtg2 cp -rp * /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/ -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Does the name Pavlov ring a bell? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: connecting to SCSI drive

2002-11-20 Thread paul beard
been that powering the device on and running some camcontrol commands which I don't recall off-hand would allow the device to be accessed. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ I

Re: wordperfect tarfile needed to port to install: missing?

2002-11-20 Thread paul beard
I'll hunt around from some kind of translator. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ UFO's are for real: the Air Force doesn't exist. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: wordperfect tarfile needed to port to install: missing?

2002-11-20 Thread paul beard
David Varieur wrote: Google is your friend. GUILG00.GZ ftp yields this link on the second result. http://www.linuxmafia.com/wpfaq/downloadwp8.html Of course it does: I cannot brain today. Thanks for doing it for me. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac

Re: Acroread5

2002-11-20 Thread paul beard
displayed when the port is installed? does it use /tmp or /var/tmp? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants

Re: playing realaudio files

2002-11-20 Thread paul beard
-- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes. I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em

portupgrade question: XFree86-libraries-4.2.1_3

2002-11-21 Thread paul beard
: No such file or directory ./config/imake/imake: Exit code 1. Stop. *** Error code 1 -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ An exotic journey in downtown Newark is in your future. To Unsubscribe

Re: Problem with the upgrade and now I need to rollback.. =/

2002-11-22 Thread paul beard
much. Mostly mysql documents which I find a little hard to believe that mysql has that much higher ranking pages then the FreeBSD site. that's understandable: rollback is a database operation and is likely to generate lots of pages, for reasons not dissimilar to yours. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th

Re: Problem with the upgrade and now I need to rollback.. =/

2002-11-22 Thread paul beard
and filename for the kernel backup? I got an email offlist that suggested a 5.0 system would have its kernels in /boot: it might be worth trying that. I'm not running -current, so I can't confirm. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog

Re: openoffice install

2002-11-22 Thread paul beard
as soon as it opens the blank workspace otherwise. Does anyone know what permissions problems this might indicate? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ She liked him; he was a man

How to deinstall openoffice?

2002-11-22 Thread paul beard
in /usr/local/bin. I can't figure out what it is or how to force it to install. Any ideas? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype

Re: How to deinstall openoffice?

2002-11-22 Thread paul beard
happy yet. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his head. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to deinstall openoffice?

2002-11-22 Thread paul beard
: that was it. The only place I didn't look, shame on me . . . -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ ASHes to ASHes, DOS to DOS. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: making source code changes to a port ?

2002-11-23 Thread paul beard
directory but not actually install anything until I finish with the edits, ect? then after that I would go do the `make install`. Anyone ? this sounds like a job for patch(1). -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http

Re: pybliographer does not install with pkg_add

2002-11-26 Thread paul beard
of missing dependencies (libgda and gconf) that wouldn't build, but pkg_add -rv took care of them. Now it seems gnome-db is needed as well: I'll see how that goes. Can you pass along an error message? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400

Re: pybliographer does not install with pkg_add

2002-11-26 Thread paul beard
. I emailed the required bits to the maintainer. pkg_add -v means verbose: useful at times. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ If entropy is increasing, where is it coming from

Re: pybliographer does not install with pkg_add

2002-11-26 Thread paul beard
with recode: I couldn't get it to install properly and it's annoying to have configure insist on a version of 3.5 when you just installed 3.6. and I don't even need this thing: I was just trying to see what was wroing with it. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac

Re: 4.7 changes to /bin/sh?

2002-11-26 Thread paul beard
it was complaining about running a command in the background and then trying to use the operator to run the following command. check to see how ${PREFIX} is being evaluated: I have found quite a few rc scripts where it never worked: I just hard-coded the necessary values. -- Paul Beard / 8040

[Fwd: Re: pybliographer]

2002-11-27 Thread paul beard
looks like the bug is in recode . . . . shouldn't that be a == not a =? Original Message Subject: Re: pybliographer Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:54:03 -0300 From: Fernan Aguero [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: paul beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Hardware test software for FreeBSD

2002-11-27 Thread paul beard
in test, I think. It seems to find lots of bad RAM. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt To Unsubscribe

Re: What is the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD...

2002-11-27 Thread paul beard
finely granular control and good design practices, but that puts the onus on the administrator to make the right choices for the situation at hand. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org

Re: FTP access via email (Was - OFF TOPIC - please help!!! etc...)

2002-11-27 Thread paul beard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for sending me the sh man page Paul (Beard) - unfortunately it was corrupted, with strange formatting and characters. This looks similar to when I have tried to pipe a manpage to a file, e.g. # man sh ~/sh.txt Maybe one of the list members could shed light

Re: How to enable telnet with root?

2002-11-27 Thread paul beard
or anywhere else ;-) Why can't sudo work for you here? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. Yes is the answer. -- Swami X To Unsubscribe

Re: A question on AppleLaser Writer 16/1600 PS [off-topic-ish]

2002-11-29 Thread paul beard
blue:netatalk 65280.220:4 -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Greener's Law: Never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: A question on AppleLaser Writer 16/1600 PS [off-topic-ish]

2002-11-29 Thread paul beard
Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, paul beard wrote: The PDF manual for this printer is available on the Apple web site, although it requires some hunting around. That manual says that it does lpr/lpd. Unfortunately I couldn't find anything about clearing the TCP/IP password, either

AppleTalk addressing/routing question

2002-11-29 Thread paul beard
bytes from 65522.222: aep_seq=4. time=2. ms 65522.222 AEP Statistics 5 packets sent, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 1/1/3 Darwin is not as conducive to knob-twiddling as netatalk, so I'm not sure how I would resolve this. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE

Re: HP COLORADO tape Backup

2002-11-29 Thread paul beard
Ismail YENIGUL wrote: hi i use FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i have a following tape ast0: TAPE at ata0-slave PIO4 (this is dmesg output) how can i backup ? and which device i should use ? dump(8) would be the best thing to start with. The handbook has a very useful chapter on this. -- Paul Beard

Re: List of big names ...

2002-11-30 Thread paul beard
to take this up on -advocacy. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Have you noticed the way people's intelligence capabilities decline sharply the minute they start waving guns around

Re: List of big names ...

2002-12-01 Thread paul beard
) was going to build IPv6-aware switching gear based on FreeBSD. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ She missed an invaluable opportunity to give him a look that you could have poured

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-07 Thread paul beard
of The Complete FreeBSD, and I was wondering if there was enough interest in this topic for me to include it in the book. If *you* are interested, please let me know. I'll make a decision depending on the amount of feedback I get. put me down as a yes, please. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet

Re: grip cd ripper - which one

2002-12-09 Thread paul beard
]:: pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/cdda2wav /usr/local/bin/cdda2wav was installed by package cdrtools-1.11.a39 -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work in Seattle area. Details available below: http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html The revolution will not be televised. To Unsubscribe: send

Re: signal 12 error means?

2002-12-10 Thread paul beard
128 #define SIGSYS 12 /* non-existent system call invoked */ some linux abi misfeature, perhaps? -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work in Seattle area. Details available below: http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html There is a certain impertinence in allowing

Re: FreeBSD Essay.

2003-11-12 Thread paul beard
please suggest just the same ;). -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Who messed with my anti-paranoia shot? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2003-11-16 Thread paul beard
On Nov 16, 2003, at 2:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I has a G3 iMac that has broken CD-Rom drive, can it be reformated comppletely from the web? To expand on another answer, you can install NetBSD for PowerPC over the net, but I think you need a floppy or some kind of startup image to boot

Re: Monitoring

2003-11-19 Thread paul beard
On Nov 19, 2003, at 8:59 AM, Rus Foster wrote: Does anyone have a recommendation for a good system monitoring (swap,I/O monitor) from ports? Ideally I want something that runs out of cron and emails me if usage goes above a certain point net/mrtg has some threshold/alerting stuff builtin in

Re: Network messaging

2003-11-19 Thread paul beard
On Nov 19, 2003, at 11:51 AM, Feltis, Ralph C. wrote: Is it possible to set some type of simple messaging system between networked FreeBSD machines? For example, client A pings client B, and then client B sends some prespecified text reply to client A. to what end? I don't know how you

Re: Network messaging

2003-11-19 Thread paul beard
On Nov 19, 2003, at 1:21 PM, Feltis, Ralph C. wrote: Ahh yes, I see how preparing an elegant solution would provide greater flexibility. However, Cordula's solution (ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] strings somefile) is about a 15 second fix, whereas setting up a server is, well, not so much a 15 second

Re: Can I install packages only for my release?

2003-11-20 Thread paul beard
On Nov 20, 2003, at 5:06 PM, Rahul Fernandez wrote: Hi, I'm am running 4.9 release. A package called hpijs1.4.1 is installed. I now would like to upgrade to hpijs-1.5. However, this package is only available in 4.9-stable. Can I install the package from 4.9-stable or is it advisable to stick to

Re: FreeBSD Motherboard survey...

2003-11-21 Thread paul beard
On Nov 21, 2003, at 9:53 AM, Philip Hallstrom wrote: Hi all - I'm wanting to build my own computer to run FreeBSD, but don't have the slightest idea (well, maybe the slightest :) what motherboard to buy. I'd like one that has built-in lan/audio that works in FreeBSD, but in my searching

Re: Perl configuration

2003-11-22 Thread paul beard
-effects are too hard to predict or rectify, in my experience. -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: make vs. pkg_add

2003-11-22 Thread paul beard
and make install clean interchangeably, though I prefer working from source. -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: advice needed on creating hmtl docs?

2003-11-23 Thread paul beard
the baroque HTML that Word generates and run it through htmltidy. It can strip out all the deprecated tags and generate CSS styles for you, giving you both the appearance and the maintainability you may need later. -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

POLA violation?: snmp renumbering stuff

2003-11-23 Thread paul beard
? 8015 ? 7 HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageFixedDisk /proc 4096 Bytes ? 1 ? 8 HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageFixedDisk /usr/ports 512 Bytes ? 35548516 ? -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: remote mount hangs sysstem

2003-11-23 Thread paul beard
. -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: remote mount hangs sysstem

2003-11-23 Thread paul beard
when they appear to be quiescent. -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: POLA violation?: snmp renumbering stuff

2003-11-23 Thread paul beard
, / might be 3. -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adding new IP's without reboot?

2003-11-26 Thread paul beard
device name). [/usr/home/paul]:: ifconfig xl1 192.168.2.100 up -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: adaptive stealth in ipfw?

2003-11-28 Thread paul beard
that to be the case as well. It looks like there is a kernel of truth to some of the allegations (ie, a false sense of security is worse than no security at all), but if anyone can recommend a reliable and accurate security scanner (other than a friend with netsaint), could they share it? Thanks. -- Paul

Re: Remove ^M characters from xhtml file

2003-11-30 Thread paul beard
if you're editing in vi, for example. But for yet one more solution, you can search and replace ^M as Control V Control M in vi. I also use perl -pi s#\\r#\\n#g filename all the time. -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: games that don't need X-11

2003-12-01 Thread paul beard
in the ports tree or porting other games that are not there yet? -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: ports problems

2003-12-01 Thread paul beard
On Dec 1, 2003, at 7:28 PM, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: when i run portsdb -Uu i get many errors like the one below is there anyone who can help me try pkgdb -F and see how that goes. -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: config(8) out of sync with source

2003-12-03 Thread paul beard
installed initially. If that works, you can rest assured the procedure is sound, and it's the configuration that needs tweaking. -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: the proces that can be monitored

2003-12-05 Thread paul beard
against the host you want to monitor and see what's available. There are a lot of variables to look at. -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Why would drive run at UDMA33? (Segate 80GB)

2003-12-07 Thread paul beard
On Dec 7, 2003, at 10:07 PM, JacobRhoden wrote: I typed 'man atacontrol' and it didnt seem to help! (grin). Seriously, i had a look and worked out how to list/display the modes of drives, and i am not sure what commands i would type to help fix the speed? mode Without the two mode

Re: NATd question

2003-12-08 Thread paul beard
On Dec 7, 2003, at 11:15 PM, Matt Edwards wrote: consumer: I have two computers. I need to make sure they can both get on the internet. (Thinking: I know my buddy did this with his setup) ISP: Oh you mean you need a second IP address, right? (Thinking: The poor guy doesn't know he can do it

how to make dhclient give up its lease and get a new one with routes, etc. ?

2003-12-09 Thread paul beard
but not as pressing: I think they work with dyndns and of course I chose no-ip.org. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Perl 5.8.2 problems (was Re: how to build Spamassassin)

2003-12-11 Thread paul beard
to use portinstall perl5.8 and portinstall spamassassin? You may need to install the portupgrade package if you haven't already done so. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Perl 5.8.2 problems (was Re: how to build Spamassassin)

2003-12-11 Thread paul beard
and spamassassin. You may need to run use.perl port between those steps to ensure that spamassassin gets built against perl5.8 and doesn't complain about the wrong version. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Page faults every few days

2003-12-13 Thread paul beard
On Dec 13, 2003, at 8:50 PM, Jaime wrote: current process = 26642 (perl5.00503) any idea what perl-based job is running and if moving to a newer perl version would have any effect at all? -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: Page faults every few days

2003-12-13 Thread paul beard
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kern.maxfiles limit exceeded: what to investigate?

2003-12-21 Thread paul beard
slowly eating up file descriptors. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ghostview missing libc.so.4?

2003-12-27 Thread paul beard
for libc.so.4. This is what I have for libc (which I think is pretty darn integral to your system): what does ls -l /usr/lib/libc.so* show? lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9 Nov 22 23:04 /usr/lib/libc.so - libc.so.4 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 578964 Nov 22 23:04 /usr/lib/libc.so.4 -- Paul Beard

Re: Dynamic DNS Updates

2003-12-27 Thread paul beard
simulated woodgrain). -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ghostview missing libc.so.4?

2003-12-27 Thread paul beard
don't even work properly. You could fake it out with a symlink, but the Real Solution may be to rebuild whatever that file is part of, which I assume means a buildworld. I'm only running 4.9: I assume you're on 5.x if you have a higher file number? -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard

kern.maxfiles questions

2003-12-28 Thread paul beard
: Sun Dec 21 14:01:26 PST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RED i386 -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

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