Re: Best solution - mobile wifi hotspot

2008-06-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Stapleton wrote: >> >> My dad makes instruments and goes to a lot of festivals. They are >> typically in the middle of nowhere, without internet. Many vendors >> still bring noteb

Best solution - mobile wifi hotspot

2008-05-30 Thread Jim Stapleton
g? Heads ups and pointers? 3) Does anyone have experiences with these and a given wireless adaptor, How good/bad is/was it? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-question

Re: is my eyesight THAT bad?!

2008-04-25 Thread Jim Stapleton
e standard notation. Yeah, yeah, standard and a MS or Sun product, I know, silly me. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

RE: is my eyesight THAT bad?!

2008-04-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
fter installing the abiword-plugins port (grammar was not turned on by default), a 'check grammar as you type' showed up in the edit->preferences window. "I don't know to how check grammar", had a green line under 'how' when I was done. T

Re: QEMU networking quirkiness on 7.0

2008-04-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Mario Lobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 17 April 2008, Jim Stapleton wrote: > > Sorry for the delayed reply, I didn't see this sent. > > > > On Thursday 10 April 2008 22:01:32 Mario Lobo wrote > > >

Re: QEMU networking quirkiness on 7.0

2008-04-17 Thread Jim Stapleton
This is the tun/tap configuration script, the IP on the last line is the IP I want the guest to look like to the network (i.e. 192.168.1.85)? Thanks, I'll play with this more when I get home (I don't want to mess with my machine's network configuration while I've only got ne

Re: QEMU networking quirkiness on 7.0

2008-04-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
gure I made a mistake (obviously), any ideas what? Thanks, -JIm Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: QEMU networking quirkiness on 7.0

2008-04-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
lrond.var-dev.net" ifconfig_re0="inet 192.168.1.84 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_re0_alias0="192.168.1.85 netmask 255.255.255.255" defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" #adding... Should I use an IP not aliased by re0? ifconfig_bridge0="inet

Re: QEMU networking quirkiness on 7.0

2008-04-09 Thread Jim Stapleton
sd.org/~maho/qemu/qemu.html > I just C&Ped a huge section and tacked it on to the end of this mail. It says to do this within the emulator, but the emulator is supposedly running win2k. I take it this is done on the host system? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton Networking Defaul

QEMU networking quirkiness on 7.0

2008-04-08 Thread Jim Stapleton
ay that QEmu is given network access. Is there any way to set up QEmu to access the network through an aliased IP address, and hence look like any other machine on my network, rather than to hide behind my BSD box? Is there another route I should take?+ Thanks,

requesting 'QA' assistance

2008-04-08 Thread Jim Stapleton
and giving both the users and maintainers of the ports tree more flexibility in organization. Should I post the tbz file on my web server, and post a link on a mailing list, or post the copied/pasted shar to the mailing list (466kb, so I'm guessing /no/ to that one). Should I post here or

FreeBSD 7, network dies, console shows: nfe0: tx v2 error 0x6004

2008-04-04 Thread Jim Stapleton
I got this on a bootup after a power blink. I had added aio_load="YES" and kqemu="YES" to my loader.conf beforehand. Removing them + reboot didn't fix the issue. I switched to the nve driver - no luck, but even fewer useful diagnostic error messages I swaped the network cable with a known good, no

Re: virtual machine software

2008-04-03 Thread Jim Stapleton
OK, it's working now. Slowly, but working (I'm guessing the lackluster performance is due to having it use 768MB memory, when the host only has 1GB, easy enough to fix, there are several solutions). -Jim Stapleton On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Bruce Cran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: keyboard initialization in freebsd

2008-03-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
> Yeah, does anyone have an idea of what changes would cause my keybaord to act differently between 6.2 and 7.0. Specifically - I suspect it rests in the keybaord initialization routines, but I don't know what files I'd find those in. Does anyone know if/what chan

Re: keyboard initialization in freebsd

2008-03-26 Thread Jim Stapleton
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Tim Judd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jim Stapleton wrote: > > Can anyone give me information on keyboard initialization during > > boot-up related to my issues listed below? > > > > In 6.2, my system booted up, an

keyboard initialization in freebsd

2008-03-26 Thread Jim Stapleton
he alternate F# mode? Note, xev didn't recognize a keypress from any [F#] key when it was in the alternate mode. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsu

RE: desktop dominance

2008-03-26 Thread Jim Stapleton
> I have had Linux for a long time. I have a different desktop coming > that I am eager to play with FreeBSD on. It is a dual processored > Intel Xeon @ 3.2ghz (64-bit). How are HP workstations with FreeBSD? As already said by another user, most things won't be too bad, but vendors use a lot of d

Is this safe? Copying a complete install from one HD to another

2008-03-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
eboot. Should this work? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: virtual machine software

2008-03-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Bruce Cran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Stapleton wrote: > > Sorry, QEmu crashes when I try to boot the CD. Same happens with Bochs. > > > > -Jim Stapleton > > If it crashes with 'Bad system call' make sure you ha

Re: virtual machine software

2008-03-22 Thread Jim Stapleton
Really? And runs on FreeBSD (or does it use Linux Compat?) On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Bruce Cran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jim Stapleton wrote: > > I need to get a VM work for XP. I tried QEmu, but XP wouldn't install. > > I wouldn't mind VMWare

Re: virtual machine software

2008-03-22 Thread Jim Stapleton
Sorry, QEmu crashes when I try to boot the CD. Same happens with Bochs. -Jim Stapleton On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:37:50PM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: > > I need to get a VM work for XP. I tried QEmu,

virtual machine software

2008-03-21 Thread Jim Stapleton
I need to get a VM work for XP. I tried QEmu, but XP wouldn't install. I wouldn't mind VMWare, but I want to run it under trial first if possible. Any documents/suggestions that anyone can point me to? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd

Re: ports makefile stuff (bsd.lib.mk)

2008-02-08 Thread Jim Stapleton
PREFIX=$(OBJPATH) OBJDIR=$(OBJPATH) .OBJDIR=$(OBJPATH) Any suggestions on what I am doing wrong? Thank you, -Jim Stapleton #directories/requirements #In order of most likely to least likely to change #what we are building OBJNAME=vp_backend_core VERSION=1.0 SRCS=back_end_core.c HDRS= ../../i

Re: ports makefile stuff (bsd.lib.mk)

2008-02-08 Thread Jim Stapleton
ly. > On Wednesday 06 February 2008 16:49:46 Jim Stapleton wrote: > > > 1) Initially, this library will actually build several sublibraries. > > To keep my code neat, each library has it's own source directory. > > So you set SUBDIR. That was background not a question. I manag

Re: ports makefile stuff (bsd.lib.mk)

2008-02-06 Thread Jim Stapleton
LIBMODE} \ ${_INSTALLFLAGS} ${LINTLIB} ${DESTDIR}${LINTLIBDIR} .endif --- 237,247 .endif .endif .endif .if defined(INSTALL_PIC_ARCHIVE) && defined(LIB) && !empty(LIB) ${INSTALL} -o ${LIBOWN} -g ${LIBGRP} -m ${LIBMODE} \ ! ${_INSTALLFLAG

ports makefile stuff (bsd.lib.mk)

2008-02-06 Thread Jim Stapleton
ly have the final output files sent to that directory? 2) How likely is it to cause compatibility erros if I simply go through the bsd.lib.mk file, and grab out all of the parts I need, and manually assemble them into my makefile? i.e. does this makefile vary much from release-to-release/hardw

Re: Removing FreeBSD

2008-02-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
, are you looking for it under "My Computer" or are you looking for it under [rightclick "My Computer"]->Manage->[Drive Management, or whatever it is called, not currently on a windows box to follow the path right now]? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton __

Re: C interpreters

2008-02-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thanks, it's decent, seems to not act like a full shell though. If I ctrl-z while in emacs, it drops me out of CH as well as emacs. still, it's a nice play toy. thanks, -Jim Stapleton On Jan 31, 2008 9:54 PM, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 31, 20

Re: C interpreters

2008-01-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
wrapped: open, query, close. Open returns that void* pointer, query and close take it as the first argument. Any ideas on the C interpreter? It's been a while since I've done a lot of C/C++. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions

C interpreters

2008-01-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
stupid) question: how hard is it to write a library in C++ and allow C programs to use it? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

CPu Questions

2008-01-17 Thread Jim Stapleton
nswer it. How fast will the machine need to pull data off the disk? How fast will it need to write the data? How much of the data can reside in memory (if it'll all fit in memory, then disk IO isn't nearly as big of a deal?), and how calculation intensive is your code?

RE: How to run GUI under root in FreeBSD?

2008-01-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
I would suggest using > I ran following before become root: > xhost localhost > > Under root: > echo $DISPLAY > :0.0 > > When I run ddd: > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: No protocol specified > > Error: Can't open display: :0.0 why not sudo ddd instead? That should work just

RE: Python threading - some ports depend on it, others break with it

2008-01-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
r, and sending it to jail for life, where it can run for life in a nice little cell with it's own pet python. Would that work? It's probably a bit more work than a desirable solution, but if you don't need them running in the same "spa

Re: I installed FreeBSD, but managed to completely fail at getting the man pages installed.

2007-12-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
efore. Is this new, or is my memory going/gone? -Jim On Dec 31, 2007 9:55 AM, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In response to "Jim Stapleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > None of the default man pages were installed on my system when I > > installed F

I installed FreeBSD, but managed to completely fail at getting the man pages installed.

2007-12-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
None of the default man pages were installed on my system when I installed FreeBSD recently. I figured I forgot some part of the install (accidentally forgot to click something). Does anyone know how I can trivially obtain the base install's man pages? Thanks, -Jim Stap

Re: experience with a Logitech Internet 1500 wireless keyboard/mouse?

2007-12-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
maybe 2 years before they died - not nearly long enough in my oppinion. The MS mouse I got won't work in FreeBSD or Linux due to some of the power indicator stuff confusing the lower level drivers in the OS. Since the Logitech has some battery indication stuff, I figured I'd ask. Thanks,

experience with a Logitech Internet 1500 wireless keyboard/mouse?

2007-12-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
ly), and I really need wireless on this system. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Mouse/Keyboard recommendation?

2007-10-19 Thread Jim Stapleton
I found the Intellimouse Wireless 2.0 was not. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Mouse diagnostics tools?

2007-10-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
uot;Card0" Monitor"Monitor0" SubSection "Display" Viewport0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1920x1080" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" En

Mouse diagnostics tools?

2007-10-14 Thread Jim Stapleton
ou need to work with xmodmap to get the left click functional. There are no hits for FreeBSD. I've tested with an old mouse (wired) and it works fine, however in this situation, a wired mouse is not a solution. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ fr

Questions on the scheduler

2007-09-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
in general)? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
hings on which I don't care about the security (ex. reading mailing lists). I care about the security of my server. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
much paranoia when setting up a server. I know to find out and learn what I don't know, rather than to just stumble along blindly. There, that about covers everything that I do/don't know. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: questions on setting up a mail server

2007-09-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
, that's almost all of what I needed there. You insinuated (but I don't think explicitly stated) that LOGIN is in fact encrypted in some form? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
for me and maybe a few friends. I plan on running incoming SMTP, maybe at some point outgoing (requiring authentication/SSL, definetly no relay), no relay, no webmail, POP, if possible only under SSL. I think there's enough here for me to do my research and get what I need. Thank you, -Jim Staple

mail server setup questions

2007-09-04 Thread Jim Stapleton
done in FreeBSD? Please cc me, as I have the list subscribed in digest mode. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: problems with a rc.d script I'm creating

2007-09-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thanks, I'll play with that a bit more. -Jim Stapleton On 9/2/07, Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 02 September 2007 14:18:17 Jim Stapleton wrote: > > > I haven't figured out the proper way myself, but the problem is that the > > > defaults

Re: problems with a rc.d script I'm creating

2007-09-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
ve something that *works* now, even if it spews errors. Thank you. Also, if you reply, could you please reply-all? Sorry, I have this list in digest mode due to volume, and I can't do a proper reply that keeps thread information without having a normal copy. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton

problems with a rc.d script I'm creating

2007-09-01 Thread Jim Stapleton
sn't show an akpop3d process. When I run it manually (akpop3d -d -s -L .akpop3d), it starts just fine. Could anyone suggest what I am missing here? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton The script: #!/bin/sh # # $FreeBSD: N/A # # PROVIDE: akpop3d # REQUIRE: DAEMON # # Add the following line to /etc/

questions on setting up a mail server

2007-09-01 Thread Jim Stapleton
ow clear text is not what I want - if I remember, that's unencrypted. Does TLS/SSL make this a non-issue? What about the other methdods? Aside from keeping it in a quiet comfortable jail (done) and not on a server with anything else important, any suggestions

file patterns and tar

2007-08-30 Thread Jim Stapleton
this issue). What should I do, short of running tars for /, /usr/ and /usr/local, or is that the only real option? But then there is always the possiblility of missing something because its name just happens to contain bin, or more likely contains lib. Thanks, -Jim

Re: I was a dolt and killed my pkgdb

2007-08-29 Thread Jim Stapleton
fixed. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 8/29/07, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Stapleton wrote: > > I was building a couple of packages, figured I'd do it while at work. > > I was using portupgrade, and accidentally hit enter before typing all > > the packa

I was a dolt and killed my pkgdb

2007-08-29 Thread Jim Stapleton
r www/lynx .. done] It will check for dependancies for the packages I want to install, but it won't actually install them. I've tried: pkgdb -f pkgdb -af mv /var/db/pkgdb/pkgdb.db ~; pkgdb -af and always end up with the same build results. What is the next step? Th

Re: /bin/[

2007-08-26 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thanks everyone for the help. I tried using man, but it didn't find anything. Glad to know my system isn't compromised. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mai

/bin/[

2007-08-26 Thread Jim Stapleton
Sorry if you get this question a lot - a few searches didn't find results for me. I have a "/bin/[" file in my system - I just want to make sure it's not a sign of someone having hacked my machine. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton _

Re: attaching a terminal to 'join' another?

2007-08-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
On 8/2/07, Jeremy Gransden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 8/2/07, Jim Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/2/07, Jeremy Gransden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On 8/2/07, Jim Stapleton &l

Re: attaching a terminal to 'join' another?

2007-08-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
On 8/2/07, Jeremy Gransden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 8/2/07, Jim Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry if my question is a bit confusing - I'm not even sure the proper > > terminology, so I don't know what the best way to start

attaching a terminal to 'join' another?

2007-08-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
d miss what I was looking for without having a clue in advance. I'm guessing something like /dev/?tty?? might work, but how do I figure out which tty to use? Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: ppp/peers/* files

2007-06-26 Thread Jim Stapleton
Hmm, would it be easier for me to setup a 127.0.0.2 loopback and my gateway, and alway point that to the proper gateway, to make things easier when I'm switching between VPN and no VPN? Thanks -Jim Stapleton On 6/26/07, Artyom Viklenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 26 Ju

cvsup question

2007-06-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
I've had this answered before, but for some reason, I can't seem to get it working. I am having problems with something in WINE and I want to see if it's the version of WINE, thus I'd *like* to reinstall WINE 0.9.39 and put 0.9.36 back. I have my supfile set to 2007.06.15... and use these command

Re: /etc/devfs.conf not working properly

2007-05-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, I couldn't find the user mount flag. It's not in the files comments, the sysctl (3)(8) man page or the sysctl.conf (8) man page. Where can I find it listed? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 5/15/07, Daniel Molina Wegener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: El Mar, 15 de Mayo de

/etc/devfs.conf not working properly

2007-05-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
wheel4 May 10 05:32 dvd1 -> acd1 Their permssions are not correct at all, except for acd0/acd1. Any suggestions on what would cause this one? Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questi

Re: CUPS + FreeBSD 6.2 + HP Laserjet 5

2007-04-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thanks. My printer is attached straight to the network (RJ-45), but I check /var/db/pkg, and saw no mention of cups-pdf or cups-pstoraster, so I am installing those... I'll try setting up my printer when I get home. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 4/22/07, Jared Barneck <[EMAIL PROTECTED

CUPS + FreeBSD 6.2 + HP Laserjet 5

2007-04-20 Thread Jim Stapleton
t/cups*' -L 2 /etc/supfile-ports and none of the above updated any files according to the output (I usually see a list of files updated). Since ports were updated this morning, without the date line (so to today's ports layout), I should have seens something. Thanks, -Jim Stapl

network/IP notation question ##.##.##.##/??

2007-04-20 Thread Jim Stapleton
I am looking at something that has the following line as a demo: set iface route 192.168.0.0/24 what does the "/24" mean? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Given this evidence, should I be worried that I may have been hacked

2007-04-14 Thread Jim Stapleton
I have DSA. I will change it to a nonstandard port, but I was wondering what your oppinion on a good way to check if this is the result of me being hacked, or just someone loosing interest. On 4/14/07, Gabor Kovesdan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jim Stapleton schrieb: > Once I opened

Given this evidence, should I be worried that I may have been hacked

2007-04-14 Thread Jim Stapleton
It's interesting, but the major drop in attempts has me more worried than the attempts (could this drop off be because they no longer need to hack me? Could they have hacked me an that be the reason why?) How worried should I be, and what's the best recourse for this? Thanks,

Re: Verifying that I have SMP up and running

2007-04-09 Thread Jim Stapleton
Ahh, yes, I see that. And high-cpu multitasking seems to run a lot better too Thank you, -Jim Stapleton On 4/9/07, Michael K. Smith - Adhost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Jim: > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] O

Verifying that I have SMP up and running

2007-04-09 Thread Jim Stapleton
o indicate it's up an running. Can someone verify this, and are there any good tools to show how much each CPU is using in the way of resources? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994

Re: creating rc.d scripts

2007-03-26 Thread Jim Stapleton
oops, sent a reply to the wrong list a bit ago... Anyway, it is still not working. I forgot to mentions, sorry, doing $ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sb_server start works just fine. I used "/usr/bin/env python" because I would like to add this to the port that installs the server this script starts, an

Re: creating rc.d scripts

2007-03-22 Thread Jim Stapleton
usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald /usr/local/etc/rc.d/fusefs /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ffserver /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cupsd /usr/local/etc/rc.d/avahi-daemon.sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/avahi-dnsconfd.sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/001slpd.sh Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 3/21/07, Brian A. Sekle

creating rc.d scripts

2007-03-21 Thread Jim Stapleton
uld anyone advise me? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton rc.conf: == #hostname/ifconfig/defaultrouter omitted usbd_enable="YES" linux_enable="YES" sshd_enable="YES" ntpdate_enable="YES" ntpd_enable="YES"

Verifying my 3D drivers set up properly for my nVidia based graphics card

2007-03-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
ed for the libraries mentioned on nVidias web site, and they are all in the right spots, which leads me to suspect it's an xorg.conf error, but I'm not sure. I've attached the xorg.conf file to the end, just in case. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton /etc/X11/xorg.conf: # nvidia-xconfig: X con

Re: hauppauge PVR 150 problem loading modules

2007-03-04 Thread Jim Stapleton
mp; with cat /dev/cxm0 | some_app & Thanks, -Jim Stapleton #!/bin/sh INC=0.10 START=740.00 STOP=750.00 P=$START cat /dev/cxm0 > test_$START.mpg & TEST=$(echo "$P <= $STOP" | bc) while [ "$TEST" -eq "1" ] do echo $P pvr250-setchannel -m 2 $P P=

Re: hauppauge PVR 150 problem loading modules

2007-03-04 Thread Jim Stapleton
OK, I'm working on that, what's the most trivial method of finding out if the tuner is working? I saw a cat /dev/cxm0 > test.mpg comment, do I have to set channel before I do that, should I use the pvr250_setchannel application? Thanks, -

Re: hauppauge PVR 150 problem loading modules

2007-03-04 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, I'll call hauppauge tomorrow, they seem to be quite friendly about it. I was trying to find the file that spat out the error message but was lost. Thanks again, -Jim Stapleton On 3/4/07, Josh Paetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 02 March 2007 20:34, Jim Stapleton

Re: hauppauge PVR 150 problem loading modules

2007-03-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
I appologize -questions, disregard this, it was supposed to go to multimedia. On 3/3/07, Jim Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After being unable to get the WinTV-Radio work, I replaced it with a PVR-150. I followed the instructions here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mult

hauppauge PVR 150 problem loading modules

2007-03-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
e to say I have an unknown tuner on this card, what would my next step from here be? Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Asking for bugs instead of about them, for a change.

2007-02-28 Thread Jim Stapleton
ile (CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS/CPUTYPE) [b] the entire dependancy trace (the list of ports that the system is backtracking out of), and the last 15 to 20 lines of the actual build (be it the configuration steps, the compilation commands, etc). Also nice would be [c] How you fixed it or plan to fix it. Thank

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, that fixed it. After all the other stuff (some of which also had it broke), it was a 1... ARGH! Thanks again, I am now the proud owner of a shiny new jail to put all my processes behind bars inside of. :-) On 2/24/07, Philipp Wuensche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jim Stapleton

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
th kbd* hide 2200 path fd* hide 2300 path fid* hide 2400 path net* mode 777 2500 path show 2600 path * unhide Still no luck. Thanks everyone for all the help, hopefully this is enough information to indicate the problem. -Jim Stapleton sockstat (referenced at the end of the netstat m

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
addendum, I fixed syslogd by adding this to my rc.conf: syslogd_flags="-b 192.168.1.84" However, looking through netstat's man page, I couldn't find the name of the flag (if it exists) that will show the process name. Does that require a different tool? Thank you, -Jim Sta

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
tive Internet connections (including servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address(state) udp6 0 0 *.syslog *.* On 2/24/07, Harald Schmalzbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am Samstag, 24. Februar 2007 04:21 schrieb Jim Stapleton: > I did

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
t I don't know where to find documentation on them, X, and KDM. I can't find anything on limiting sockets of these to a specific IP only. -Jim STapleton On 2/24/07, Harald Schmalzbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am Samstag, 24. Februar 2007 04:01 schrieben Sie: > I saw them

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
m starting. I did turn off sendmail, but that didn't fix the problem. named is not running, and hasn't run on this machine. and I did read the jail man page, I'm still stuck. -Jim Stapleton On 2/24/07, Harald Schmalzbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am Samstag, 24. Februar 200

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
un/moused.ums0.pid 1957 ?? Ss 0:00.09 /usr/sbin/moused -p /dev/ums1 -t auto -I /var/run/moused.ums1.pid Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 2/23/07, Philipp Wuensche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: > new host rc.conf: > > hostname="elrond.ameritech.net" > #ifc

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
/23/07, Jeff Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 02:38 PM 2/23/2007, Jim Stapleton wrote: >new host rc.conf: > >hostname="elrond.ameritech.net" >#ifconfig_nve0="inet 192.168.1.84 netmask 255.255.255.0" >ipv4_addrs_nve0="192.168.1.84-85/24 n

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
85 netmask 255.255.255.0" #defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" rpcbind_enable="NO" ifconfig_nve0="" I have tried this with both the above setup, and one setup commenting out the ifconfig_nve0="" line, and uncommenting the other ifconfig_nve0/defaultroute

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
92.168.1.85 /bin/csh %ping 192.168.1.1 PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes ^C --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss %exit exit On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 03:25:00PM +, Jim Stapleton wrote: > Thank you, it still did not conne

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
JID IP Address Hostname Path 1 192.168.1.85legolas /jail Is that what you needed Thanks, -Jim Stapleton Jim Stapleton wrote: > Thank you, that's at least useful testing, but it did not work. Jail > is definetly not gettin

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, that's at least useful testing, but it did not work. Jail is definetly not getting any network action. Would a host netstat output be useful? I looks pretty cryptic. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 2/23/07, Jeff Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 08:22 PM 2/22/2007, you

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, it still did not connect using that. The mail server is a SMTP server. Also I copied over my host's resolve.conf file. With all these hassles/headaches, would it be better/more secure for me to settup Bochs or QEmu running a virtual BSD server? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 2/

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-22 Thread Jim Stapleton
ot; Connecting to cvsup12.FreeBSD.org Name lookup failure for "cvsup12.FreeBSD.org": hostname nor servname provided, or not known Will retry at 20:52:12 I'm only using one jail (it'll run apache, mysql and possibly sftp) Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 2/23/07, Jonathan Chen <[E

problems with jail

2007-02-22 Thread Jim Stapleton
l narrow it down to a less privledged host/jailed system user later) jail /jail/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 192.168.1.85 /bin/csh The machine was rebooted since I set everything up. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: CPU Intel core 2 (64bits). Which freeBSD should I install?

2007-02-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
Hi all; I looked up on the Free archives and what I found was that I should either install amd64 ( if I use lots of multimedia stuff) or i386 (later compiling for SMP). I tried ia64 (which I thought means Intel Architecture) but the image won't even boot. This machine is going to be exclusively

Re: x86 emulators that can handle partition devices instead of slices.

2007-02-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
Jim Stapleton wrote: > I have two hard drives in my machine (ad8, ad10), ad10 is the system > disk, ad8 has a few GB of swap at the end and 2 fat32 partitions. > Mostly I'm using the fat partitions for a windows install to use as > the base for WINE, but occasionally I'll wa

x86 emulators that can handle partition devices instead of slices.

2007-02-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
o I figured I'd ask here before I put a lot of time into it (i.e. I'll try with no response or some "I don't knows", but if I get a "can't be done", then I won't waste my time). Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___

Re: I'd like to do my bit to support FreeBSD

2007-02-06 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thanks, that doesn't look like a challange at all. Guess I'll have some fun with it when I get home. -Jim Stapleton On 2/6/07, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In response to "Jim Stapleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've found quite a few tricks and t

I'd like to do my bit to support FreeBSD

2007-02-06 Thread Jim Stapleton
I've found quite a few tricks and techniques for handling FreeBSD's ports system when things go south. I'd like to add them to the handbook, adding, lets say "4.5.6 - When Ports Attack". OK, really it'd be more along the lines of "4.5.6 - Installing Ports When Things Go Wrong" It would give hint

NVidia troubls with AMD64..

2007-02-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
#x27;t want to take their time away from keeping this great OS great. (Don't bother searching if you don't know, just asking if anyone reading this knows off the top of their heads): Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

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