Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent

2005-01-02 Thread Adam Fabian
, and sendmail still amounts to something of a de-facto standard. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Programming with Bourne or C shell

2004-12-31 Thread Adam Fabian
on anything vaguely UNIX-ish, but may not have a csh-based shell. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is mplayer port broken ?

2004-12-30 Thread Adam Fabian
manually from the MPlayer site and verify any checksum for yourself. If you're convinced the file is good and that there's a mistake in the port, define NO_CHECKSUM so that the checksum verification is skipped. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: urgent help

2004-12-30 Thread Adam Fabian
changes in, consulting any documentation available for the 4.6 - 4.7, 4.7 - 4.8, 4.8 - 4.9, and 4.9 - 4.10 upgrades to make sure you get your config files updated properly. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Upgrade to 5.3-STABLE broke X?

2004-12-29 Thread Adam Fabian
? Reinstall FreeBSD? Install XFree86 instead? Somehow downgrade to 6.7.0 until wiki.x.org gets its act together? Newer isn't always better... and it *is* X. It's been the same X11R6 for years. ;) -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-29 Thread Adam Fabian
to be pretty easy and intuitive. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cannot mount cdrom - not a newbie problem

2004-12-14 Thread Adam Fabian
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:43:49AM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote: is there a way i can delete /dev/acd0* and remake the device, could this be a fix? I believe that mknod would be used to do such a thing; but don't ask me how, I've never had to do it. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Reasonable Hyperterminal alternative?

2004-12-10 Thread Adam Fabian
. It locked up on just about anything higher that 9600 when switching from the bootloader to the rest of the system. I ended up using TeraTerm, which is free, and worked adequately. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

/usr/X11R6/include/X11 needed but not found during port builds

2004-12-06 Thread Adam Fabian
NOPERL=yo NO_PERL=yo NO_PERL_WRAPPER= I can tweak this to work with a symbolic link, (ln -s /usr/X11R6/include/X11 /usr/include/X11) but I can't figure out why it's suddenly broken when it used to work. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL

Re: /usr/X11R6/include/X11 needed but not found during port builds

2004-12-06 Thread Adam Fabian
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 07:43:30PM -0600, Adam Fabian wrote: My ports aren't finding the files in /usr/X11R6/include when they are That should be /usr/X11R6/include/X11. Sorry. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: cdrom mounting troubles

2004-12-05 Thread Adam Fabian
. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD or OpenBSD

2004-12-05 Thread Adam Fabian
a lot of time with FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD, and in the end, it's all really a matter of taste. Use them both for a while and see what you like. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: FreeBSD or OpenBSD

2004-12-05 Thread Adam Fabian
Oops. Meant to move the statisically thing up to the disclaimer, but didn't end up deleting it in the second location. Ah well, you probably understood despite the poor editing. ;) -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

firefox port fails to build.

2004-12-05 Thread Adam Fabian
what my problem might be? Thanks. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ftp login/password

2004-11-29 Thread Adam Fabian
using. Incidentally, there's a lot of stuff on the FTP site, and you're not going to know what to download without consulting further resources. The FreeBSD handbook is a good place to dive in. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Dear freebsd problem!

2004-11-28 Thread Adam Fabian
, which you should read the installation section of from FreeBSD's website. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Remembering defines for port upgrades.

2004-11-27 Thread Adam Fabian
), and USE_OPENSSL. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Running commands at startup

2004-11-26 Thread Adam Fabian
a display manager, and your .Xsession (I think) if you're not. (It will be X that executes the command, not fluxbox.) -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: shell programming challenge

2004-11-26 Thread Adam Fabian
with. You may also be trying to do something complex enough that it's just more trouble than it's worth to do it with shell programming. Anyway, good luck. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Xorg/Modes issue

2004-11-25 Thread Adam Fabian
Looking at (and/or posting) /var/log/Xorg.0.log could be very enlightening. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Xorg/Modes issue

2004-11-25 Thread Adam Fabian
(II) I810(0): Not using mode 1280x1024 (no mode of this name) [EMAIL PROTECTED] looks like it might be the name of a mode. Otherwise, you could just write a modeline that does what you want. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: shell programming challenge

2004-11-25 Thread Adam Fabian
of a program to emulate a terminal for. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: shell programming challenge

2004-11-25 Thread Adam Fabian
the --rcfile to see if it would work, and it worked like I expected and you described. For reference, it worked for me under FreeBSD 5.3 with bash 2.05b, which I believe was installed from FreeBSD's binary packages for 5.3 -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-25 Thread Adam Fabian
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 08:16:23PM +, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: Is this bad memory? If you're not getting the same error every time, it's almost certainly bad hardware, and memory is the most likely candidate. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: shell programming challenge

2004-11-25 Thread Adam Fabian
the bash session. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Trying to learn C -- some questions

2004-11-25 Thread Adam Fabian
the functions, but the actual machine code has to come from the library. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[OT] Re: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-25 Thread Adam Fabian
Does parity RAM reliably report on it's reliability? -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why can't I mount a Video CD in FreeBSD??

2004-11-24 Thread Adam Fabian
mount a video cd in his linux box. Do you happen to know why? A video CD does not have a filesystem, therefore it can't be mounted. You may be able to play it with the appropriate program, or extract the video data to files. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Question about old FreeBSD versions

2004-11-23 Thread Adam Fabian
, and there are probably known vulnerabilities, so it's probably not a good idea to actually run FreeBSD 4.3. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) pgpYp7Kzv7lgR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: XFree86 cut the screen

2004-11-22 Thread Adam Fabian
an XFree86 modeline out of them if you need to. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) pgpnSH8hVudzv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Sysinstall - why two different programs in 5.3 RELEASE?

2004-11-22 Thread Adam Fabian
) libftpio.so.5 = /usr/lib/libftpio.so.5 (0x2811d000) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x2812200 -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) pgpgYfXFg4InH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: diskcopy (dd) on 5.2.1 ?

2004-04-05 Thread Adam Fabian
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 02:32:37PM -0500, J.D. Bronson wrote: I have 2 100% identical SCSI drives on my freebsd machine.. What command can I do in freebsd to 'copy' one drive to another completely (including the bootsectors and partition table) ? da0 da1 dd if=/dev/rda0 of=/dev/rda1

make search name/key broken with ports directory moved

2004-04-04 Thread Adam Fabian
Since I moved my ports directory, I *think*, make search name and make search key don't do anything. I stuck my ports directory under /home since /usr was getting a bit tight. I set PORTSDIR=/home/usr/ports in make.conf, which is where my ports tree is. Now, make search name and make search key