On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Bob Bomar wrote:
> I have a machine that is about to turn 700 days uptime, and I have no
> plans on rebooting it any time soon. I just wanted to see if there was
> any infomation from the machine that anybody wanted.
Its IP address would be a good start :-)
Two years of pa
You know, for some odd reason the word "troll" springs to mind...
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Benjamin Rossen wrote:
> > To never hear from us again
> > just1ce.com/gone.asp
>
> Hey! Is that possible? Spamming on the list! What can be done?
It's an open list i.e. you don't have to be a subscriber, and is therefore
a spammer's wet dream. There seem to be some anti-s
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Anthony Atkielski at Wanadoo.FR wrote:
[ Not a lot ]
Wanadoo.FR - says it all, really.
No sane sysadmin accepts mail from that spam-house.
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On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> The only long term solution that is going to work is modding the
> DNS records to designate an official SMTP server for each domain, such
> a plan has been in the works for a while among the standard bodies
> that know what they are doing.
Which, of
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Luciano Musacchio wrote:
> I'm wondering, how does this mailing list doesn't get any spam? :),
It does, and I report it (but not the mailing list itself).
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On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> In my opinion, absolutely none at all. People should never change the
> default shell of root from /bin/csh and "toor" is just a hack to please
> those who are too bored to type: % exec bash
I'm not sure what's worse: using anything other than /bin/
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote:
> > Just another dirty spammer trick...
>
> The timing on this was nothing less than eerie because less than an hour
> before that post came over, I'd been sitting on their site reading up on
> FAQ's, forum problem posts etc with a view to installing the
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote:
> > This is what's known as a "joe job". Now, who has an interest in
> > discrediting php-fusion?
>
> eh?
> Could you perhaps...ermmm...expand on that just a tad?
> for the benefit of us uninitiated folks...
> inquiring minds etc.
A "joe job" is a forg
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Loren M. Lang wrote:
> What do you do with ham radio on freebsd? I haven't looked into it
> much, but it seems that there isn't nearly as many programs/device
> drivers for freebsd as linux has. I like how debian actually has a ham
> radio section for it. I'd like to try o
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote:
> > Note: The paypal payment still stands, please provide us with proof
> > you have forwarded the email to 250 people and include your paypal
> > email address where we can send the money!!!
>
> What you're suggesting is spammy. I don't doubt your goo
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> > I agree. I even would bring back the issue of a separate freebsd.com
> > website presenting the business case of FreeBSD while freebsd.org is
> > perfect as it is now for people looking for technical information
> > about how to use the system.
>
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, markzero wrote:
> These switches should technically not be able to work without a power
> supply but evidently they work just fine. I don't question the
> arrangement, I just observe it from across the room. We get along fine.
Many KVMs draw power from the mouse/keyboard por
On Mon, 30 Jan 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > > /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so: Undefined symbol
> > > "__cxa_atexit"
> > >
> > > and it promptly exits (no core dump).
> > >
> > > This used to work pre-JDK... As I don't "do" Java, where did I go wrong?
> > > In the meantime, I
Opera 7.54 from ports, FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE
After have gone through the traumatic experience of installing JDK 142 (to
get OpenOffice using it), I find it's broken Opera.
When selecting a page that uses Java, I get:
/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1:
/usr/local/jdk1.4.2/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so: Und
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, DanGer wrote:
> > No. It means "Berkeley Software Distribution".
>
> but what about:
> "**BSD is a registered trademark of Berkeley Software Design, Inc." ?
> taken from www.bsd.org
That would be BSDI, a commercial venture who (until they were done over by
WinDriver) gave
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> Someone else has answered your specific question, but I can't help
> but wondering how an image of Beastie (BSD) swinging a large rubber
> mallet fits in your project on menstrual cycles, fertility and
> contraception. My guesses might be a bit far
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote:
> [RHETORICAL_MODE=ON]
> Where, I wonder, are all these folks suddenly coming from?
> [SUPREME_IRONY_MODE=ON]
> Well anyway, it's nice to know I'm a grizzled old graybeard unix admin.
I'll bet my beard's greyer than yours! Edition 5, on a PDP-11/40, in
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Chris wrote:
> > Rarely have I found such an amateurish installation procedure.
> *Stuff cut due - idiot has no clue what word wrap is etc.*
>
> Where are we getting these 'tards from as of late. Hmm, could be just
> the one that keeps plastering essance of the same post.
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Timothy Luoma wrote:
> Oh well, I'll have to see if the local WalMart (our closest thing we have to
> an electronics store) has an external, non-USB modem. This outta be good.
You're saying that USB modems are not good? Are they winmodems too?
I'm looking for a fax-modem fo
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote:
> 4.10 *is* supported, and 5.3 works "as advertised" - what the hell is your
> *problem* exactly???
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On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > 2. You need to install java/jdk14 before you try to build OpenOffice
> > (even though this is not listed as a dependency).
>
> It is, actually. You only need linprocfs in order to build jdk14,
> because bootstrapping a java compiler requires a java c
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Christian Hiris wrote:
> I think the "official" FreeBSD download page is
> http://oootranslation.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/ooomisc/FreeBSD/
> All the packages I have seen there are ver. 1.1.3. for various FreeBSD
> branches including 5.3.
Yes!!! I knew I go
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> You need to instead block Tm[0-9]+ because he likes to change his
> address every few weeks [1].
Ah, thanks; filter updated accordingly :-)
> [1] Perhaps the counter reflects the number of times his AOL account
> has been deleted.
Indeed,
PS: cable.ro
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Scott Bennett wrote:
> Ah. So the troll didn't really expect *anybody* reasonably to
> have provided support. It just wanted something to bitch about on this
> list. It should go back to the bit bucket it came from.
Procmail is your friend. Something like:
#
# Wel
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> The OpenOffice port really is a bit of a monster: non-gurus are strongly
> advised to install OpenOffice via packages.
Well, I wouldn't call myself a non-guru (I've been dealing with Unix since
Edition 5 back in 1975) but this one definitely has me bea
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
> direction of http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.4/index.html
And if you follow the ports route instead, just how many more bloody hoops
do we have to jump through?
===>Verifying install for /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/bin/javac in
/usr/por
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
> > Maybe it's just me, but I can't actually see a package for 1.1.4 there.
> > unless those Japanese versions will work in Australia (and I don't read
> > JP)...
>
> OOPS. Looks like I did not look too closely. It certainly looks like
> they have
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
> There's been quite a few reports of people having trouble getting past
> the java tools install which is needed to build the port. Unless that
> challence is interesting in itself, it's probably more convenient to
> download and install a binary pa
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Scott Bennett wrote:
> As root, I did the following (assuming I remember the Windows path
> correctly:-):
>
> mount -t ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt
[...]
Try copying the file to a local BSD file-system; the NTFS semantics could
be getting in the way. Also try write-once media, if
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Scott Bennett wrote:
> I've also tried burning the first file to CD-Rs using Windows XP Home's
> own facilities and using Sonic RecordNow! under said system, but did not
> get bootable CDs either way. I also tried mounting the Windows
> partition onto /mnt under 5.2.1 and u
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Tabor Kelly wrote:
> Of note: I have an Intel i810 video chipset and Xorg 6.8.1 "broke" the
> driver for it, but I set NoAccel in my xorg.conf file and that was
> supposed to take care of it (now X at least starts). Does anyone think
> this could be related to my specific ha
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Adam Fabian wrote:
> I upgraded from 6.7.0 to 6.8.1 and also got obscure (but different)
> error messages. The 5.3 packages on FreeBSD's FTP servers are 6.7.0.
> After looking a bit and not really finding a solution to my problem, I
> just downloaded the binary packages and d
On Thu, 29 Dec 2004, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> It kind of depends on your X configuration, I would think. Were you
> using DRI or not? If so, did you rebuild it? Were you using
> third-party drivers (e.g., NVidia)?
DRI is not supported (the reason for one of the errors) because hardware
cursors
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Eric F Crist wrote:
> How can I monitor my processor temperature from the command line? I'm looking
> at possibly writing a script that will allow me to average the CPU temps and
> report them as part of the periodic/daily report.
/usr/ports/sysutils/xmbmon/pkg-descr:
This
Was running 5.3-RELEASE (from CD) on R31 Thinkpad, when I decided to take
advantage of the excellent upgrade guide posted here recently by Richard
Bejtlich, and give -STABLE a spin, followed by a "portupgrade". Now, it's
unclear at what point the breakage happened, because one followed the
oth
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004, Chris Hill wrote:
> MAKEDEV doesn't exist on 5.x, so if you're running 5.x that might also
> explain it not working.
That's because on 5.x you don't need it; devices live in their own special
filesystem, and are created on the fly:
stinky% df /dev
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used
FreeBSD 5.3, Imation USB floppy drive (a rebadged Mitsumi).
Works OK, but the probe messages are annoying (and fill my log):
Dec 26 22:23:05 stinky kernel: umass0: MITSUMI MITSUMI USB FDD, rev 1.10/1.00,
addr 3
Dec 26 22:23:07 stinky kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
Dec 26 22:23:07
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Murray Taylor wrote:
> IBM Think pads seem to go ok -- 4.8, 4.9, 4.10
I've had better luck with 5.3 on my R31 - it recognises ACPI and the 32-bit
CardBus slot, amongst others. Witl laptops you really want the latest, to
support their weird hardware.
-- Dave
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, David Gerard wrote:
> Does sound work properly in 5.3 on a laptop?
Sound is not one of my priorities (as long as the speakers go "beep"), but
a working PC-card slot (so I can lose the umbilical cord in favour of a
WiFi connection back to my server) and USB-serial cables (so
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Uwe Laverenz wrote:
> You should use 5.3, it will run much better on your ThinkPad, it not
> only supports Cardbus but also has support for ACPI, which I think is
> quite necessary on a notebook.
I downloaded the 5.3 mini-install ISO and tried it out, and yes, it
"finds" a
This was going to be a long story, involving why I'm having trouble
getting both USB-serial cables and PC-cards to work on this thing, but
eventually after Googling around and sorting out the wheat from the chaff
it boils down to this:
IBM R31 Thinkpad 2656KAM.
PC-card slot doesn't work, yet s
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Tabor Kelly wrote:
> How I got Openoffice 1.1.3 to compile on my laptop:
>
> portinstall java/jdk14
> portinstall openoffice
>
> note: 'portinstall java/jdk14' installs the natively compiled FreeBSD version
> of Java, and as a dependency (for the build only) installs the lin
I'm trying to compile OpenOffice 1.1 for FreeBSD 4.10 (may as well
exercise the lap-top). After grabbing all the Linuxy bits for Java JDK14,
I now find it wants a Solaris library under /compat/svr4/lib (libc.so.2 or
similar), and this is found only on a Solaris/86 CD, which of course not
being
Whilst upgrading another laptop to FreeBSD, a thought occurred to me: is
there a source of "Designed for FreeBSD" stickers (with Beastie logo) that
can be used to replace the "Designed for M*cr*s*ft W*nd*ws XP" ones?
PS: No need to Cc: me, as I'm on the list.
-- Dave
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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > > Meanwhile, back in the real world, we like to be able to help our
> > > users by letting them easily post questions.
> >
> > And nothing's stopping them from doing so. In which real world are you?
>
> By trimming everything away and replying to
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Jerry McAllister wrote:
[ Do Not Feed The Trolls ]
> > \||/ | | | jgs (__Y__)
> > /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\//\/\\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
>
> Nice artwork. I think I will appropriate it just for fun.
> I hope it is under
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > I think we all agree that you wouldn't let a windows tech touch your
> > unix-like box, but you'd have no problem having a unix tech install a
> > windows application. 'nuf said.
>
> Does this make you think at all?
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Matt Navarre wrote:
> Isn't linux_base based on RedHat? There are ls and mkdir binaries in
> /usr/compat/linux/bin, I suppose those could be affected by this.
Over on Full-Disclosure they reckon it's a trojan, as it's unsigned and
not in the usual format for such announcement
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Meanwhile, back in the real world, we like to be able to help our users
> by letting them easily post questions.
And nothing's stopping them from doing so. In which real world are you?
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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Rob wrote:
> I think spamfilters are doing already a good job here; spam that makes
> it through to the lists, seems to be fairly small. In addition, I
> believe it's the policy of the list maintainers, to keep the thresshold
> as low as possible for participation in the Q&
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Dave Horsfall wrote:
[ Anyone can post to -questions ]
> Gawd; I hope it's moderated in that case...
And several spams later, received via this very list...
So, is this list a spam-magnet i.e any spammer can post to it without
fear? If so, not only have you just
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > [ Re-sent; I forgot I wasn't on the list ]
>
> No need to resend: non members are allowed to post to freebsd-questions@
Gawd; I hope it's moderated in that case... Anyway, I believe in joining
a list if I'm going to want to use it.
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