FreeBSD installed on a Sager One problem

2008-01-29 Thread Bob Richards
Hi: I have installed FreeBSD 6.3 RELEASE via FTP to a Sager P8880 Notebook computer I aquired cheap, and without an OS; 2.4ghz Pentium IV (desktop unit) half gig memory, cd r/w 30gig hd, firewire lots of good stuff. Installer set things up almost perfectly with all my favorite apps... XORG ..

Re: Producing a staticly-linked package from ports

2007-11-30 Thread Bob Richards
Colin Leroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: statically-linked version of CM Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:15:52 +0100 X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.1.0cvs44 (GTK+ 2.12.0; i686-pc-linux-gnu) On 30 November 2007 at 11h11, Bob Richards wrote: Hi, > I compiled

Producing a staticly-linked package from ports

2007-11-29 Thread Bob Richards
I have Claws-mail installed on my workstation. It's compiled here from ports. I need to generate a statically-linked package, for installation on an older install of FreeBSD. (6.1 RELEASE, but running Xorg 6.9.0, I am running Xorg 7.3) Can this be done? If so, what's the general procedure. Bob

Re: Getting around ISP SMTP firewall settings (Re: Submitting a new port if send-pr is broken)

2007-11-27 Thread Bob Richards
>To be perfectly clear this isn't really receiving mail. Your >configuring a system at dydns.org or some other mail forwarder to >receive your mail for you then forward it on to your system using the >alternative port. Not what I am doing. I only suggested that to the original poster who has an

Re: Getting around ISP SMTP firewall settings (Re: Submitting a new port if send-pr is broken)

2007-11-26 Thread Bob Richards
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:15:59 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't think there's an easy way to set up the local Sendmail > installation to *receive* email from the world without some sort of > `static address' though. Actually there is an easy way, I do it here at my w

Re: RELENG_6_1 to RELENG_6_2 upgrade question

2007-11-26 Thread Bob Richards
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:28:44 + Daniel Bye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes. You might prefer to wait a little while longer, and go straight > to 6.3, which is on its way soon. > Indeed. Thanks for the heads up. Guess I better subscribe to freebsd-announce! What sort of kick-started this was

RELENG_6_1 to RELENG_6_2 upgrade question

2007-11-26 Thread Bob Richards
I am currently running: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p20 #2 After reading the docs, it appears the procedure to upgrade from 6.1 to 6.2 is the following: 1) Change: default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_1 to tag=RELENG_6_2 in /usr/local/etc/cvsup/cvsupfile 2) run cvsup /usr/local/etc/cvsup/cvsupfile to get

Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-25 Thread Bob Richards
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 08:45:46 + Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sysutils/aaccli aaccli-1.0 Adaptec SCSI RAID administration > As I said in my previous post, this is EXACTLY what was wanted. Installation of aaccli was a snap. My only problem was the total lack of documen

Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-25 Thread Bob Richards
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 08:45:46 + Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... it's a rebadged Adaptec RAID controller using > the aac Wonderful; I can now look into and play with the RAID system without taking the OS off-line and going to the bios. Thanks! Bob -- _ /o\ // \\ The ASC

Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-24 Thread Bob Richards
> Compaq uses several RAID cards most are under the so-called > "SmartArray" using the ida driver. If this is yours, you can > use a utility called "idacontrol" that can monitor the array, Interesting discussion! I have a similar issue, only it is with a Dell server which has 6 SCSI drives in a

Re: Fwd: Upgrading X11 port

2007-11-24 Thread Bob Richards
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 07:09:20 + "Frank Shute" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 01:53:48AM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: > > The process described there should work for updating from 6.9 to 7.3 > It works just fine. I recently upgraded from 6.9 to 7.3. The procedure outlined

Occasional System Lockups

2006-08-22 Thread Bob Richards
Every couple of days, one of my Dell Work-Stations running freebsd 6.1 simply locks up. The box can be pinged only IE there are no services running, locked up screen/kbd/mouse. No caps-lock light action on kybd... On/OFF time. Actually OFF doesn't work either (It's a dell, with ACPI power swi

free?

2006-08-20 Thread Bob Richards
WhenI was using Linux, I got used to running "free"; a quick nd dirty way to ascertain memory/swap usage. Is there an equivalent command in freebsd? Bob pgptirgi6Rys6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Mount Point permissions

2006-08-10 Thread Bob Richards
On Thursday 10 August 2006 00:50, Micah wrote: > One possible workaround is to use msdosfs instead of ufs. Seems to work > fine for my regular user account. But I agree that floppy support sucks. > Try accidentally mounting a write-protected floppy as rw. You get a > flood of errors that cannot be

Re: Mount Point permissions

2006-08-09 Thread Bob Richards
On Wednesday 09 August 2006 23:23, you wrote: > > What about chowning the permissions on /dev/fd0 to be root:floppyusers, > I went so far as chown bob:bob /dev/fd0 But after newfs get's through with the new floppy, it's chowned to root. > add a group floppyusers to /etc/group and make bob a me

Re: Mount Point permissions

2006-08-09 Thread Bob Richards
On Tuesday 08 August 2006 17:44, you wrote: > The root directory of the filesystem mounted determines the ownership > and access rights on it. By default, newfs will assign is to root > and set the rights to 0755. You'll need to chown the directory to > the desired user. > Stefan: Yeah I n

Mount Point permissions

2006-08-07 Thread Bob Richards
Hi All: This is week 3 on a new freebsd 6.1 install. I LOVE it! I am having a silly problem using my floppy drive. I can successfully fdformat a new floppy, I can newfs it, I can mount it OK what I can not do is write to it! My fstab line is: /dev/fd0 /usr/home/bob/floppy ufs rw,noauto,u