Re: freebsd-update problems

2013-02-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
... they should tell you. HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 08:11:50PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: is it possible to speed up port make ?? i want to install openbox and xorg on a Pentium 4 and 2gb ram, compiling xorg takes about 2 hours 2 hours only?? Try lang/gcc46 or 47 or science/paraview

Re: An idea I have!

2012-06-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
. Kevin Kinsey PS I found it for ya: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2004-March/002195.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: (no subject)

2012-01-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 04:43:03AM +0200, Rares Aioanei wrote: On 01/11/2012 02:25 AM, Glen Davenport wrote: My name is Glen Davenport. I am trying to download freebsd but haven't a clue as to how the FTP function works.When I go to download I am given a directory listing. Needless to say, I

Re: difference between cvsup and csup?

2011-12-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
this helps. Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: For My Edification

2011-05-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
On 05/02/11 19:44, Polytropon wrote: Although others have already given you excellent replies, I would like to add a few comments. I have a couple of suggestion that I've not yet seen in the thread ... and kudos to you for a] asking, and nicely done, and b] gathering your courage to give

Re: Thunderbird segfaults if UID 0

2011-04-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 06:09:21PM +0200, Damien Fleuriot wrote: Create a new user account, log in to it, run tbird ? Would that be any different then moving ~/.mozilla and trying to run it? Because that was a total failure ;-) KDK P.S. I'm thinking the answer is NO. I can give it a try

Thunderbird segfaults if UID 0

2011-04-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
CALL wait4(0x,0xbfbfe778,WUNTRACED,0) 54137 sh RET wait4 54141/0xd37d 54137 sh CALL exit(0x8b) Anyone got a clue what I've done? Thanks, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Shopping cart other than OSCommerce?

2010-12-08 Thread Kevin Kinsey
who has no inkling of the existence of carnivorous animals will not build his house in a tree. My $.02, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: About FreeBSD command question

2010-12-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
kan wrote: Hi Support, I have a FreeBSD server for mailing, I must make backup and check the which bit (32bit/64bit) is now use in FreeBSD, so can you provide the command for me? Regards, Kan What output does: $ uname -m produce? Kevin Kinsey

Re: freebsd PHP extensions: missing option ?

2010-11-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
be able to hack the Makefile, but that's just what it is ... a hack ;-) Good luck! Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Dave wrote: Hi. Sorry ... snip Hello, and welcome. And I made it a bit shorter ;-) I'd like to:- Have a ssh login via LAN available, I believe that's a standard feature, but I expressedly disabled that (well, told it not to implement it) when I orignaly installed the OS. Or have a VNC

Re: Thanks.

2010-11-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Ryan Coleman wrote: On Nov 18, 2010, at 9:14 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:25:31 +0330, Mohsen Mostafa Jokar mohsenjo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. Didn't Mohsen Mostafar Jokar post this same

Re: need help with php.

2010-10-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
;-) HTH, Kevin Kinsey P.S. I do think you might be able to turn them back on via php.ini ... but it's not recommended. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: How to confirm/deny ntp is working?

2010-08-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
a new ntp.conf and this is the exact stuff in there ;-) Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-29 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Antonio Olivares wrote: But yes we are in difficult times and then the 2012 saga, will the world end? I have it on good AUTHORITY: $dig @daleco.biz daleco.biz | grep AUTHORITY: ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1 That we're perfectly OK:

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
... Of course not. Even Jesus knows RedHat sucks. Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: apache22 build problem: cgi disabled

2010-07-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
: disabled cgid: disabled If make show-modules says enabled and the port still configures with --disable-cgi, I'd definitely contact the maintainer and see what's up. My $.02, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Convert all packages to ports

2010-07-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
servers. You end up with some problems because the system expects version $n.123 of somepackage but the installed somepackage is $n.121, and vice-versa problems can happen as well. They are fairly minor to fix if you've done it much, but can be responsible for a heckuva lot of list traffic. Kevin

Re: rc.conf: gnome_enable=YES - which instructions executed?

2010-06-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
is this working? Thank you, Err, Magic? More seriously, `man rc` and several hours of cross-references (rc.subr., rc.conf., rc.local, etc. etc.) might be enlightening. HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: pkg_add fails due to 'broken pipe'. Is my system in a consistent state?

2010-06-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chris Stankevitz wrote: pkg_add -r gnome2 This command fails repeatedly with broken pipe because the FTP connection breaks. When it dies, I just re-run the command. I'm now on the fifth attempt. The gnome2 package is a meta package that installs many other packages. Q1: Is it bad for

Re: Copy a FreeBSD 8* install to larger HD

2010-06-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
or cp or some other to copy the files. I'd recommend dump and restore ... possibly piping dump *to* restore, something like: dump -0 -a -L -u -f - /usr | ( cd /newusr ; restore -ruf - ) HTH. Thanks You're welcome :-) Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd

Re: debian compatibility

2010-05-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jim Pazarena wrote: can I please be directed to any on-line reference as the procedures involved in executing a Debian binary on FreeBSD 8? Thanks! http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/linuxemu.html HTH, KDK ___

Re: user friendliest gui

2010-05-13 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Ok so I have my new box setup and I have installed Clamav-devel Tcl86 Dialog First question is , I have only ever used clamav-clamd in the past which I start with /usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-clamd start to run it, how do I run devel? Second question is , where to o

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
/FreeBSD/ports/i386/Packages-8-stable/devel/libpciaccess-0.10.6_1.tbz Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
the writer himself if you're wearing your lucky sneakers. Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: dhcpd doesn't sent route information

2010-04-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Onur Aslan wrote: I tried, but It doesn't helped. Please show us the revised dhcpd.conf. Also, did you -HUP your named? Kevin Kinsey A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying

[Fwd: Re: dhcpd doesn't sent route information]

2010-04-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Onur Aslan wrote: I tried, but It doesn't helped. Please show us the revised dhcpd.conf. Also, did you -HUP your named? Sorry! That should be dhcpd. $kill -HUP `pgrep dhcpd` should do the trick. KDK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: bsdstats country

2010-04-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Aiza wrote: How does bsdstats know what country the PC posting its info is from? Probably via a lookup in the regional registry; see RFC 2050. Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: dhcpd doesn't sent route information

2010-04-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Onur Aslan wrote: $ cat /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf option domain-name-servers 8.8.8.8, 8.8.8.4; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; default-lease-time 3600; max-lease-time 86400; ddns-update-style none; option routers 192.168.1.1; subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range 192.168.1.4

Re: dansguardian + squid running on local machine

2010-04-15 Thread Kevin Kinsey
, Kevin Kinsey P.S. You'll get some recommendations for other firewalls, too. Use which ever one makes sense to you :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: internet connection tester script

2010-03-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
this script is needed. In ~/.cshrc: alias upping -t3 yahoo.com ... or something (your .bashrc equivalent, or .shrc, etc.) should do the trick, with much less effort on all fronts. HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine

2010-03-16 Thread Kevin Kinsey
alexus wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:21 PM, andrew clarke m...@ozzmosis.com wrote: On Fri 2010-03-12 00:16:35 UTC-0500, Steve Bertrand (st...@ibctech.ca) wrote: The machine has a Motherboard that supports 2 double pentium III processors with 1GB of ram and a hard disk with 40GB. I run

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
mikel king wrote: Way back about 10 years ago, I was playing around with IPFW a lot. I wrote a script to update IPFW from changes made to a MySql db. It was a just for fun project, that turned out to be rather useful I have some developers that I managed who like you were road warriors.

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/03/2010 16:12:11, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Matthew == Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk writes: Matthew On 05/03/2010 15:51:52, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: The spamtrap is a shiny object for spam, and

Re: How to check a ext3 partition ?

2010-02-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
zaxis wrote: There is a ext3 partition used to share data between linux and freebsd. Sometimes freebsd cannot mount this partition as abnormal poweroff. I have to enter linux to do `fsck.ext3` . Can freebsd fsck ext3 partition ? Not natively, AFAIK. Check out

Re: Mozilla Updates

2010-02-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Programmer In Training wrote: Since the advisories from Mozilla[0-1] have been released, and updates for at least FireFox and Thunderbird are available, when will they be made available via ports (especially FF 3.6 TB 3.0.2)? Should I deinstall the ports version and go ahead and compile from

Re: ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address

2010-02-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
GLADtr GLADtr wrote: Hello my friends! Help me please with its problem. I`m don`t understood what it is problem... I doubt I do either, but I'll bite. *mx# uname -a* FreeBSD mx.taricat.ru 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #1: Mon Jan 25 09:28:38 UTC 2010 r...@mx.taricat.ru:/usr/obj/

Re: X11/freebsd problem

2010-02-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chuck Robey wrote: I have this problem with my built-under-freebsd-current Xorg, it gives me this following sort of error everytime it starts up: (pts/2):{14}% Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0.

Re: /root permission reset on boot

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
installworld, etc.). I do this often (every time a release patch is released). So, perhaps this only happens during these upgrades? Yup, 99% sure of that. Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Problems with make clean

2010-01-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
/debug/obj/VBoxRT/VBox: Directory not empty No explanation, sorry. Have you tried $chflags -R nosch work $rm -rf work ? HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: can't load smbfs kernel module

2010-01-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: This is on FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0 r202964M ia64 I've built a kernel with smbfs module: # ls -al /boot/kernel/smb* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 265579 25 Jan 13:36 /boot/kernel/smbfs.ko -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 680186 25 Jan 13:36 /boot/kernel/smbfs.ko.symbols but

Re: FreeBSD sources from svn repos

2010-01-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
developer's heads rolling, most likely, but stuff is Merged-from-Current (or wherever) fairly continually, and, as such, is occasionally susceptible to hiccups. Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev!

2010-01-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
insecur...@malandrines.net wrote: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev! help me please $ grep ad /var/run/dmesg.boot Is /dev/ad0 there? /dev/ad0s1b ? Do you have SCSI disks instead? A RAID? Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Server set up

2010-01-16 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chad Perrin wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 04:34:17PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: NTFS comes with NT versions of Windows, that is, NT, Windows 2000, and everything since then. W95 and W98 used FAT filesystems. Fat32 was the default for Win98 IIRC. I know a lot of MS Windows users like

Re: Server set up

2010-01-15 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jerry McAllister wrote: Of course, if you plan to dual boot FreeBSD along with the existing installation of W98, then you need enough disk for both of them. Probably 20 Gbytes each as a minimum. More is nicer. If you want to dual boot, then you will need to acquire a utility that will allow

Re: Failed to Load Kernel

2010-01-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
disconnecting one optical drive and trying again. Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Failed to Load Kernel

2010-01-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
also not burned a CD for FreeBSD on Windows *ever*, so I'm thinking it could be related to that, somehow or other, despite the fact that you can see everything. But then again, maybe I just don't trust Windows programs ;-) Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd

Re: problem with php5-snmp

2009-12-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Remote ssh tunnel in background or script?

2009-11-09 Thread Kevin Kinsey
, or write some daemon that would monitor the connection and fix it if it gets reset. At any rate, if I could get this SSH process to detach from a terminal, it'd be great. Any suggestions? Kevin Kinsey * I'm sorry, but I can't reproduce the error message this morning. IIRC, something

Re: Remote ssh tunnel in background or script?

2009-11-09 Thread Kevin Kinsey
). You could do this as root on the local side, but shouldn't connect *to* root on the remote computer. On Nov 9, 2009, at 7:30 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Greetings! sudo ssh -L thisbox:24:remotebox:52525 m...@remotebox I've got Sendmail listening there on 52525, and it works fine; the local

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
to end this holy war on this list once and for all. I'm sharpening blades in the shop even as I write this! DEUS VULT 'Nuff ... please? Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: changing cron's From: address in emails

2009-10-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
of a message with mail(1), so I can have whatever subject header I want, and the envelope data comes from the user (usually m...@myhost.tld). Cron sees nothing because stdout/err is redirected to dev/null. Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
. HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
to add a KLD to loader.conf or something ... at the very least, it should say what variants are expected to work with msk(4). HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Question about FreeBSD syscall usage

2009-10-21 Thread Kevin Kinsey
. Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: sysinstall colours

2009-10-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
... Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Tcpwrappers, sendmail, and unknown hosts...

2009-10-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Seems like a lot of the spam we fight comes from hosts with no DNS entries. What about using this? -- $grep sendmail /etc/hosts.allow sendmail : KNOWN : allow sendmail : UNKNOWN : deny - Comments? anyone tried it? Kevin

Re: Tcpwrappers, sendmail, and unknown hosts...

2009-10-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jeff Laine wrote: On Sat,10-10-2009 [12:31:01], Kevin Kinsey wrote: Seems like a lot of the spam we fight comes from hosts with no DNS entries. What about using this? -- $grep sendmail /etc/hosts.allow sendmail : KNOWN : allow sendmail : UNKNOWN : deny

Security cams/DVR, using FBSD?

2009-08-21 Thread Kevin Kinsey
you use or recommend for video monitoring? TIA, Kevin Kinsey -- There is a Massachusetts law requiring all dogs to have their hind legs tied during the month of April. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: freebsd

2009-08-17 Thread Kevin Kinsey
BONGANI MANGANYE wrote: am doing research about freebsd ,so can you help me with this information 1. features, benefits and setbacks 2. Functionality and features 3. versions, strong and weak points 4. Unique features www.freebsd.org :-) Kevin Kinsey -- Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still

Re: freebsd

2009-08-17 Thread Kevin Kinsey
BONGANI MANGANYE wrote: i dont know if is me or what but you havent answerwd my question,please take ur time ad give me reply Kevin Kinsey k...@daleco.biz 08/17/09 2:18 PM BONGANI MANGANYE wrote: am doing research about freebsd ,so can you help me with this information 1. features, benefits

Re: FTP

2009-07-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
truss truss(1) - trace system calls ... so you can use the above tool to see what's going on from the server's point of view. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re. Se non e vero, e ben trovato. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: upgrade almost done on ns1.thought.org

2009-06-14 Thread Kevin Kinsey
2.us.pool.htp.org driftfile /var/db/ntp.drift restrict 10.47.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 nomodify notrap anybody? Not certain, Gary, as IANAE; here, /etc/ntp/holds ntpd.conf, and /etc/ntp.conf is a symlink to said file. No issues with ntp; I'm running 7-STABLE from last summer. Kevin Kinsey

Re: GSM to Serial Converter

2009-05-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
leave it to another troll to quote the relevant RFC's. ;-) Oh, and upgrade your keyboard to one with an ENTER key as well, please. :-P Kevin Kinsey -- Ring around the collar. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: loader.conf

2009-04-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
of hw.physmem, and why would you *want* to limit it? On my systems, both 7x and 6x, hw.physmem is something like 4G by default---despite the fact I've nothing like that amount of RAM onboard. Any guru here give me some enlightenment? IANAE, but am willing to accept correction. Kevin Kinsey -- When

Re: installing freebsd 7.1 ( error mounting /dev/acd0 input/output error)

2009-03-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
..regardsAjeesh /dev/acd0 is your CDROM drive. Try using a different CD for starters ... (a 2nd copy) ... if that doesn't work, it might be a bad CDROM drive. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants. -- A. Einstein

Re: phpBB3, php5 and mysql

2009-03-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
now from ports with the apache mod_php5 module being installed. PHP is great about telling what's wrong ... if it's configured to do so. Once you have an error message, it'll be easier to know how to fix it. Kevin Kinsey -- Ever wonder if taxation without representation might have been

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chris Rees wrote: 2009/3/12 Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr: Hello I'd like to download information from our competitor's web site, without their knowing it's from us. The Tor network works fine, but they don't seem to provide a *nix version, much less a command-line version (the download

Re: Which install ?

2009-03-09 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Darryl Hoar wrote: From this, I believe I should install the i386 version of Freebsd. Do I have to do anything to enable multi-processors in Freebsd ? AFAIK you need apic and smp options in your kernel config; of course, the good news is that 7.0 and up have this enabled by default. Kevin

Re: Apache 1.3.41

2009-03-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
, you'll need to rebuild all the extensions. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Our business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in high spirits. -- Robert Louis Stevenson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

2009-03-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
making more noise; you didn't give any hardware details. Some manufacturers (I have a SanDisk Cruzer) are now putting multiple partitions on a flash stick; the Cruzer has one which, on Windows,emulates a CD-ROM drive (dunno why a CD emulation would take up 3.5 GB, tho). Kevin Kinsey -- It is sweet

Re: OT: what is the X11 equiv of /dev/null

2009-03-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
it up. My usual workaround is: 1. xterm in Terminal one. 2. appname in the new Xterm, then CTL-D. I also have a couple of buttons in XFCE that simply call ssh $somehost $someapp. I've no idea where it puts the stderror/stdout, but I never see it. Kevin Kinsey -- Surely

Re: RELENG_7 != STABLE?

2009-02-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
that was what your question actually was. Kevin Kinsey -- Are you a turtle? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: hi

2009-02-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
of the community. By way of evidence, I present the following terms, used frequently in correspondence on these lists: It Just Works(tm) The Right Way(tm) canonical P.O.L.A. And be sure and check today's .sig ;-) Kevin Kinsey -- Grandpa used to say --- What is right

Re: desktop app/config

2009-02-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
not seen XFWM mentioned yet, which is pretty user friendly and a tad more lightweight than KDE or Gnome ... which could be important if you're talking about recycled hardware. My $.02, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: pkg_info php

2009-01-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
that doing the following would help: *Pick one version or the other, probably v 5, as v4 is EOL'ed. *Uninstall both versions and Apache, and all php-extension ports. *Reinstall the PHP$n port with Apache module enabled via OPTIONS. *Reinstall the correct php-extension ports. HTH, Kevin Kinsey PS

Re: running asfiles on windowmaker...

2008-12-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
/include/bitmaps/bargraph.xbm ... and now we know why looking for asfiles doesn't help much. Try running files, Luiz. Kevin Kinsey -- If it's Tuesday, this must be someone else's fortune. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: install/upgrade FREEBSD on a remote server

2008-12-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
. It involves fetching the source code via cvsup/csup, and rebuilding the kernel and world(userland), etc. The entire process is covered in Chapter 24 of the handbook; see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html for the beginning of the old way part. HTH, Kevin

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-21 Thread Kevin Kinsey
, that doesn't work, either. Shows why csh(1) is considered bad for snow removal, as the story, maybe, goes Joy to the world, Kevin Kinsey -- Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. -- Lord Chesterfield

Re: kldload: can't load /usr/local/modules/fuse.ko: Exec format error fusefs-ntfs-1.2531

2008-12-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Dino Vliet wrote: Hi people, kldload: can't load /usr/local/modules/fuse.ko: Exec format error What does $file /usr/local/modules/fuse.ko say, and do you have Linux support built and enabled? Kevin Kinsey -- A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection

Re: How do I permanently set the numerical ip in dmesg?

2008-11-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ifconfig) and possible the manpage for rc.conf(5) for more information. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Many hands make light work. -- John Heywood ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: PHP Session Support in /tmp

2008-11-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
of an alternate suggestion, remember that cron(8) recognizes an @reboot special string instead of the normal five-field time indicators. @reboot /bin/mkdir /tmp/php_sessions HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- It's amazing how many people you could be friends with if only they'd make the first approach

Re: Soundcard problem

2008-11-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
soundcard from `dmesg` or /var/run/dmesg.boot, if it's there. Also, output of `cat /dev/sndstat` and perhaps a listing thus: ls -l /dev/dsp* /dev/mixer for starters. Kevin Kinsey -- Fortune favors the lucky. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Segmentation fault (core dumped)

2008-11-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
, or some other module (like Perl, PHP, Python) that is used by Apache? Kevin Kinsey -- If it ain't baroque, don't fix it. ---P.D.Q. Bach ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: tool to recover fat partition

2008-11-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
sysutils/ddrescue for recovery from a FAT partition, but I'm not at all sure if it will help in your situation. Kevin Kinsey -- Seems this guy showed up at a party, and all of his friends jumped for Joy. But she sidestepped, and they missed. ___ freebsd

Re: Large discrepancy in reported disk usage on USR partition

2008-10-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
, but, as you mention, no nfs mounts appear. I may be mistaken, but I think it's also possible to get into this sort of situation by mounting a local partition on a non-empty mountpoint---at least, it happened to me recently. Kevin Kinsey -- A triangle which has an angle of 135 degrees is called

SSH Port forwarding when PermitRootLogin==no ?

2008-10-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
. Any suggestions how I might get this to work? TIA, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MTA on non-standard port

2008-10-26 Thread Kevin Kinsey
it ;-) Thanks again, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

MTA on non-standard port

2008-10-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
(currently I'm running dual-sendmail with Amavisd-new and spamassassin). Anyone doing such a thing, or have a few hints handy? TIA, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Scanner

2008-10-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
. Please bear in mind that this is my first time that I am using the command line. I have been able to thanks to the very easy and instructive FreeBSD's handbook. It is nice, isn't it? :-) Thank you, John Vliouras Kevin Kinsey -- Don't despise your poor relations, they may become suddenly rich

Re: Command to rechown

2008-09-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
. As for restoring permissions on /etc/, mtree(8) is your friend ... I'd recommend taking a look at the manpage, however, because IANAE. However, all disclaimers included, I *think* you want % cd / % mtree -U -f /etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist Kevin Kinsey -- It is now pitch dark. If you proceed, you

Re: X server crashes on exit

2008-09-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
to diagnose and fix this problem? Thanks Herman Have you looked at the logfiles? (/var/log/Xorg.$n.log) Kevin Kinsey -- Let your conscience be your guide. -- Pope ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: NATD Reverse Proxy

2008-09-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
, for perusal, at least: http://www.shmoo.com/~bmc/software/wicap/announce.html The tarball is still up there. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one. -- John Galsworthy ___ freebsd-questions

Re: nat and firewall

2008-09-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
someone a tad more in the know to straighten that out for us. Kevin Kinsey -- A wise man can see more from a mountain top than a fool can from the bottom of a well. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: branches, updates, buildworld

2008-09-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
until everything's back up-to-date. But, then again, that's what the ports-mgmt tools are supposed to help with. snip Last but not least: Thanks for the fast and detailed response. I appreciate it very much. Well, welcome to *the* community. FBSD's community is often that way. Kevin Kinsey

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
for port 25. So a common thread is that traffic on the ISP's net isn't going out via yourserver.com:25 --- would seem to indicate port blocking, which is quite common for port 25. Tried 587 or some weird alternate? Kevin Kinsey -- If the odds are a million to one against something occurring

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Andrew Falanga wrote: *Not having* a reverse entry for a mail server is often the cause of issues. This I do know very well. I had similar problems when running a sendmail backup spooler for Syracuse Networks back in 2000. The eventual solution was that our ISP delegated control of our

Re: ssh

2008-09-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
config file. And as an aside ... don't do it. ;-) Just my guess. Kevin Kinsey -- Reactor error - core dumped! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
for ESMTP is #2821. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- In Denver it is unlawful to lend your vacuum cleaner to your next-door neighbor. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

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