question on manpages/hier(7)

2013-05-09 Thread Paul Beard
. -- Paul Beard Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem? ___ 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: question on manpages/hier(7)

2013-05-09 Thread Paul Beard
so I have no idea how this is getting all futzed up. I am finding files in /usr/local/share/man/man1 that were updated yesterday with others dating back to 2007. -- Paul Beard Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem? ___ freebsd

securing MySQL: easiest/best ways?

2012-05-08 Thread Paul Beard
=127.0.0.1 to /etc/rc.conf. This seems to work as netstat and sockstat no longer show port 3306 listening and database connections are happening. Is this the preferred/best way? -- Paul Beard Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem?

Re: database apps that ignore sockets? [was: Solution: mysqld fails to run, can't create/find mysql.sock]

2012-01-15 Thread Paul Beard
socket. I'll quote your definition in the bug report as it seems crystal clear. -- Paul Beard Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem?

Re: database apps that ignore sockets? [was: Solution: mysqld fails to run, can't create/find mysql.sock]

2012-01-15 Thread Paul Beard
domain socket, in UNIX, just that it does in this app. I learned a couple of things here. I hope I can make them clear to the people who need 'em. -- Paul Beard Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem?

Solution: mysqld fails to run, can't create/find mysql.sock

2012-01-14 Thread Paul Beard
be created or give any indication of the actual problem. This is all more a problem for the mysql developers than FreeBSD but I am posting it to the list in case anyone else gets bitten by it. -- Paul Beard Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem?

Re: Solution: mysqld fails to run, can't create/find mysql.sock

2012-01-14 Thread Paul Beard
port want to keep the socket under /var/run/mysql/mysqld.sock or some such, to avoid issues with /tmp? Apparently not, as I commented out any reference to it in my.cnf and still saw the same messages about /tmp/mysql.sock. It seems to work if spelled out explicitly. -- Paul Beard Are you

database apps that ignore sockets? [was: Solution: mysqld fails to run, can't create/find mysql.sock]

2012-01-14 Thread Paul Beard
/cacti-spine. -- Paul Beard Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem?

Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

2011-08-28 Thread Paul Beard
as many as the *-wrt variants. *grumble* -- Paul Beard Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Closed [was Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2]

2011-08-28 Thread Paul Beard
to refresh my memory on adding a swapfile). I'm calling it closed for now. Better use of my time to just find a backup AP. -- Paul Beard Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

2011-08-28 Thread Paul Beard
as an access point, no? -- Paul Beard Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

2011-08-28 Thread Paul Beard
benefits. — interesting. I assume you could figure them out from wardriving? -- Paul Beard Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

2011-08-27 Thread Paul Beard
Yes, I am trying it without any encryption until I see some packets being passed. It seems like a lot of people are getting this to work but I'm not able to follow how they did it. -- Paul Beard Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem

Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

2011-08-27 Thread Paul Beard
to figure this out. -- Paul Beard Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

screen and curses(?) output

2008-07-13 Thread paul beard
erase2 intrkill ^O ^Y ^D undef undef ^? ^H ^C ^U lnext min quitreprint start status stopsusptime ^V 1 ^\ ^R ^Q ^T ^S ^Z 0 werase ^W -- Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard.org

Re: kernel debugging: seeing swap issues in 7.0

2008-05-24 Thread paul beard
site or built on another machine. That's as may be, but the initial warning/error message was that the gcc folks wanted a big filed. If there is a package for this, I'll go that route. -- Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED

kernel debugging: seeing swap issues in 7.0

2008-05-23 Thread paul beard
128 0 Any ideas what I can do (besides buy more hardware)? -- Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: kernel debugging: seeing swap issues in 7.0

2008-05-23 Thread paul beard
1 -200 101M 70340K swread 3:04 0.93% cc1 I have filed a bug against gcc, per instructions. There seems to be an issue somewhere in py-gtk that is exacerbated by the low resources on this system. Thanks. -- Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL

Re: what is pkg_create doing?

2007-05-31 Thread paul beard
in how ports are done in the Moderne Age. -- Paul Beard words: http://paulbeard.org/wordpress pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pdb206/ Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem? PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

what is pkg_create doing?

2007-05-29 Thread paul beard
0 1852K 1232K RUN 0 2:38 95.73% pkg_create I am new to 6.2 (being a belated migrator from 4.x): is there a knob somewhere to turn off pkg creation? Not that I see any packages being kept anywhere . . . . I'm not subscribed, so CCing would ensure I get your reply. - -- Paul Beard

verbose sysctl messages in dmesg?

2005-10-12 Thread paul beard
in dmesg. Is this something I can toggle off? This is in FreeBSD 4.11, built from sources pulled just a couple of days ago. - -- Paul Beard contact info: www.paulbeard.org/paulbeard.vcf Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1

Still have questions on portupgrade database problems

2005-07-19 Thread paul beard
on the one by one. -- Paul Beard contact info: www.paulbeard.org/paulbeard.vcf Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem? PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: portupgrade error [cannot convert nil into String (PkgDB::DBError)]

2005-07-09 Thread paul beard
On Jul 9, 2005, at 6:01 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote: Did you read /usr/ports/UPDATING? The last change I found mentioned the use of libc and the PORTSDB_DRIVER. I made that change ages ago and have tried the other variants to get around this. -- Paul Beard contact info

portupgrade error [cannot convert nil into String (PkgDB::DBError)]

2005-07-08 Thread paul beard
/portupgrade:1869 -- Paul Beard contact info: www.paulbeard.org/paulbeard.vcf Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

one for the archives

2004-06-06 Thread paul beard
will add this info to the PR as well. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

lingering problems with ports collection

2004-05-25 Thread paul beard
}/work/portname). But that doesn't get it registered and if I got back up to the port's directory, the make commands will kick back errors I didn't see in the source directory. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL

port installation problems progress

2004-05-20 Thread paul beard
), and I was getting cc errors - the reboot appears to have fixed those. My build machine is now happily running a new kernel/world. Some packages are building OK but I still see issues on some ports. Any ideas how this might have gotten into this state and how I can resolve it completely? -- Paul

Re: some anomalies in my system?

2004-04-02 Thread paul beard
(that was where the inability to build shlibs was getting in the mix). As noted in my followup post to the list, once I installed from the {$PORTDIR}/work/portname directory, all went well and I have now resolved my problem. Apologies if I offended. The insight on libtool is appreciated. -- Paul

Re: workaround for the expat problem

2004-04-02 Thread paul beard
system infrastructure allowed the shlibs to be created and install and then -- and only then -- could the dependent ports find the expat.5 library and complete their upgrades. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

libtool/shared libraries problem

2004-04-02 Thread paul beard
about the popt port in UPDATING. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
from CVS so this shouldn't be an issue of being out of sync, I don't think. ruby is at 1.8.1, per someone else's advice, as well. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
]# pkg_info -g /var/db/pkg/expat-1.95.7/ Information for expat-1.95.7: Mismatched Checksums: pkg_info: /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so doesn't exist pkg_info: /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.5 doesn't exist I think something's broken. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
mysterious port problems you can always just install the packages instead. I tried that, but some ports want to rebuild their dependencies and I'm back where I started. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
there might be). -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to makestuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
/releases/i386/4.9-RELEASE/packages Thanks. I'll see if those will work. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
/local/bin/xmlwf /usr/local/include/expat.h /usr/local/lib/libexpat.a /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.4 gettext 0.13.x wants expat.5, so that's not as up to date as it might be. I've dropped a note to the maintainer: perhaps there's something he can point out. -- Paul Beard

some anomalies in my system?

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
shared libs and what's that funky system type? Other ports don't have this issue, at least from the others I chose at random. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: some anomalies in my system?

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
install for /usr/local/libexec/libtool13/libtool in /usr/ports/devel/libtool13 === NOTICE: This port is deprecated; you may wish to reconsider installing it: Please use devel/libtool15 instead. It is scheduled to be removed 31st December 2004. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
. this would/should give me expat.5. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: some anomalies in my system?

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
step to getting this fixed or at least worked around. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

workaround for the expat problem

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
has any ideas what this is all about and how best to cope with it going forward, I'd be grateful to know about it. Thanks. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
On Mar 31, 2004, at 9:21 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: You want the packages-4-stable directory; RELEASE packages are not updated. See http://www.freebsd.org/ports for more details. Ah, I see. There was an earlier email to the effect that the packages I needed were under 4.9-RELEASE. -- Paul Beard

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-30 Thread paul beard
the most thorough. I need to explore the docs and get a better understanding of the ports tools: I seem to find this happening again and again. Thanks for the quick and detailed reply. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

wrestling with b*rked package/ports collection

2004-03-30 Thread paul beard
something: Error: shared library expat.5 does not exist portupgrade -f, installing from source, installing from a package: all seem to fail. And since it and/or gettext are core dependencies for everything else, it seems, there's not much progress being made. Any other sage advice? -- Paul Beard

port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-29 Thread paul beard
any problems (I have run it enough times today), cvsup has done its magic a couple of times. I thought portinstall/upgrade -rR would fix any out-of-date ports and make everything happy? What am I doing wrong to make this libraries not get installed? -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard

Re: MySQL 3 server problems: mysqlclient.10 not found?

2004-03-17 Thread paul beard
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 132515 Oct 5 19:24 libmysqlclient.so.10 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 222510 Mar 16 14:08 libmysqlclient_r.a I ended up using pkg_add to fix this: not entirely satisfactory, but I'm up and running. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

MySQL 3 server problems: mysqlclient.10 not found?

2004-03-16 Thread paul beard
ldconfig /sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib/mysql === Registering installation for mysql-client-3.23.58_2 === Returning to build of mysql-server-3.23.58_2 Error: shared library mysqlclient.10 does not exist *** Error code 1 Stop in /opt/ports/databases/mysql323-server. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org

Re: Yahoo! and GAIM

2004-01-09 Thread paul beard
On Jan 9, 2004, at 8:27 PM, Eric F Crist wrote: I have those packages installed, just MUCH newer versions. How do I work around this and force the install? any reason not to build from the port? -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: Plan 9 style backup utility for FreeBSD?

2004-01-02 Thread paul beard
understanding it, in 1999/1/1 you might have a file tree that looks like the live one with only files that were modified on 1999/1/1, but all other files would be links back to their unchanged versions. I like the idea of it. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: Samba, Cups and Printing: Windows client gives Access denied

2004-01-02 Thread paul beard
was having this same problem and your smb.conf helped me out. I added these two lines to the stanza for the printer itself: guest ok = yes use client driver = yes And that seemed to make my access denied error go away. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: Automated reply from mattm@mail.citystamp.com

2003-12-30 Thread paul beard
On Dec 30, 2003, at 11:20 AM, Eric F Crist wrote: Is there a way we can filter out these types of messages or perhaps can someone tell me how to do it fairly easily? I think your better autoresponders don't send these to mailing lists: not sure why these are getting through. -- Paul Beard

Re: kern.maxfiles questions

2003-12-29 Thread paul beard
On Dec 29, 2003, at 7:24 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Is there some way to find out what's tying up the file descriptors? fstat(1) Of course. I had been thinking of that in terms of files, not file handles. D'oh. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

kern.maxfiles problem resolved

2003-12-29 Thread paul beard
. That seemed to do it. Now openfiles are sitting in the low 200s . . . . I've posted this on my weblog with the relevant image (didn't want to send an attachment to the list). http://www.paulbeard.org/movabletype/archives/001347.html -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: How can I automatically mount a windows-xp share from a freeBSD box using windows username andpassword?

2003-12-29 Thread paul beard
the procedure should be similar: you need to use .nmbrc to store your authentication details, but it should just work. man nsmbrc for more specifics. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: How can I automatically mount a windows-xp share from a freeBSD box using windows username andpassword?

2003-12-29 Thread paul beard
, but there is a wealth of good information here: http://www.google.com/search?q=nsmbrcie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8 -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Does FreeBSD allow one to use the Floppy Drive on a SunBlade 100 ?

2003-12-29 Thread paul beard
. No one would dispute using a floppy on x86 hardware. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 5.2 where is /kernel.GENERIC

2003-12-29 Thread paul beard
On Dec 29, 2003, at 3:08 PM, fbsd_user wrote: You are talking about the kernel source. I am talking about the /kernel.GENERIC binary execution file. locate kernel.GENERIC and see what it turns up. find / -name kernel.GENERIC -print cd / ls -l kernel* -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org

kern.maxfiles questions

2003-12-28 Thread paul beard
: Sun Dec 21 14:01:26 PST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RED i386 -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: kern.maxfiles questions

2003-12-28 Thread paul beard
Some updates to this. The machine was unresponsive this AM so I had to reboot it. I'm used to 90-100 day uptimes (as the power company permits) so this is quite unusual. On Dec 27, 2003, at 11:03 PM, paul beard wrote: [/usr/home/paul]:: sysctl kern.openfiles kern.maxfiles kern.openfiles: 257

Re: ghostview missing libc.so.4?

2003-12-27 Thread paul beard
for libc.so.4. This is what I have for libc (which I think is pretty darn integral to your system): what does ls -l /usr/lib/libc.so* show? lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9 Nov 22 23:04 /usr/lib/libc.so - libc.so.4 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 578964 Nov 22 23:04 /usr/lib/libc.so.4 -- Paul Beard

Re: Dynamic DNS Updates

2003-12-27 Thread paul beard
simulated woodgrain). -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ghostview missing libc.so.4?

2003-12-27 Thread paul beard
don't even work properly. You could fake it out with a symlink, but the Real Solution may be to rebuild whatever that file is part of, which I assume means a buildworld. I'm only running 4.9: I assume you're on 5.x if you have a higher file number? -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard

kern.maxfiles limit exceeded: what to investigate?

2003-12-21 Thread paul beard
slowly eating up file descriptors. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Page faults every few days

2003-12-13 Thread paul beard
On Dec 13, 2003, at 8:50 PM, Jaime wrote: current process = 26642 (perl5.00503) any idea what perl-based job is running and if moving to a newer perl version would have any effect at all? -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: Page faults every few days

2003-12-13 Thread paul beard
-- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Perl 5.8.2 problems (was Re: how to build Spamassassin)

2003-12-11 Thread paul beard
to use portinstall perl5.8 and portinstall spamassassin? You may need to install the portupgrade package if you haven't already done so. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Perl 5.8.2 problems (was Re: how to build Spamassassin)

2003-12-11 Thread paul beard
and spamassassin. You may need to run use.perl port between those steps to ensure that spamassassin gets built against perl5.8 and doesn't complain about the wrong version. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

how to make dhclient give up its lease and get a new one with routes, etc. ?

2003-12-09 Thread paul beard
but not as pressing: I think they work with dyndns and of course I chose no-ip.org. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: NATd question

2003-12-08 Thread paul beard
On Dec 7, 2003, at 11:15 PM, Matt Edwards wrote: consumer: I have two computers. I need to make sure they can both get on the internet. (Thinking: I know my buddy did this with his setup) ISP: Oh you mean you need a second IP address, right? (Thinking: The poor guy doesn't know he can do it

Re: Why would drive run at UDMA33? (Segate 80GB)

2003-12-07 Thread paul beard
On Dec 7, 2003, at 10:07 PM, JacobRhoden wrote: I typed 'man atacontrol' and it didnt seem to help! (grin). Seriously, i had a look and worked out how to list/display the modes of drives, and i am not sure what commands i would type to help fix the speed? mode Without the two mode

Re: the proces that can be monitored

2003-12-05 Thread paul beard
against the host you want to monitor and see what's available. There are a lot of variables to look at. -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: config(8) out of sync with source

2003-12-03 Thread paul beard
installed initially. If that works, you can rest assured the procedure is sound, and it's the configuration that needs tweaking. -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: games that don't need X-11

2003-12-01 Thread paul beard
in the ports tree or porting other games that are not there yet? -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: ports problems

2003-12-01 Thread paul beard
On Dec 1, 2003, at 7:28 PM, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: when i run portsdb -Uu i get many errors like the one below is there anyone who can help me try pkgdb -F and see how that goes. -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: Remove ^M characters from xhtml file

2003-11-30 Thread paul beard
if you're editing in vi, for example. But for yet one more solution, you can search and replace ^M as Control V Control M in vi. I also use perl -pi s#\\r#\\n#g filename all the time. -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: adaptive stealth in ipfw?

2003-11-28 Thread paul beard
that to be the case as well. It looks like there is a kernel of truth to some of the allegations (ie, a false sense of security is worse than no security at all), but if anyone can recommend a reliable and accurate security scanner (other than a friend with netsaint), could they share it? Thanks. -- Paul

Re: Adding new IP's without reboot?

2003-11-26 Thread paul beard
device name). [/usr/home/paul]:: ifconfig xl1 192.168.2.100 up -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: advice needed on creating hmtl docs?

2003-11-23 Thread paul beard
the baroque HTML that Word generates and run it through htmltidy. It can strip out all the deprecated tags and generate CSS styles for you, giving you both the appearance and the maintainability you may need later. -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

POLA violation?: snmp renumbering stuff

2003-11-23 Thread paul beard
? 8015 ? 7 HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageFixedDisk /proc 4096 Bytes ? 1 ? 8 HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageFixedDisk /usr/ports 512 Bytes ? 35548516 ? -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: remote mount hangs sysstem

2003-11-23 Thread paul beard
. -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: remote mount hangs sysstem

2003-11-23 Thread paul beard
when they appear to be quiescent. -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: POLA violation?: snmp renumbering stuff

2003-11-23 Thread paul beard
, / might be 3. -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Perl configuration

2003-11-22 Thread paul beard
-effects are too hard to predict or rectify, in my experience. -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: make vs. pkg_add

2003-11-22 Thread paul beard
and make install clean interchangeably, though I prefer working from source. -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: FreeBSD Motherboard survey...

2003-11-21 Thread paul beard
On Nov 21, 2003, at 9:53 AM, Philip Hallstrom wrote: Hi all - I'm wanting to build my own computer to run FreeBSD, but don't have the slightest idea (well, maybe the slightest :) what motherboard to buy. I'd like one that has built-in lan/audio that works in FreeBSD, but in my searching

Re: Can I install packages only for my release?

2003-11-20 Thread paul beard
On Nov 20, 2003, at 5:06 PM, Rahul Fernandez wrote: Hi, I'm am running 4.9 release. A package called hpijs1.4.1 is installed. I now would like to upgrade to hpijs-1.5. However, this package is only available in 4.9-stable. Can I install the package from 4.9-stable or is it advisable to stick to

Re: Monitoring

2003-11-19 Thread paul beard
On Nov 19, 2003, at 8:59 AM, Rus Foster wrote: Does anyone have a recommendation for a good system monitoring (swap,I/O monitor) from ports? Ideally I want something that runs out of cron and emails me if usage goes above a certain point net/mrtg has some threshold/alerting stuff builtin in

Re: Network messaging

2003-11-19 Thread paul beard
On Nov 19, 2003, at 11:51 AM, Feltis, Ralph C. wrote: Is it possible to set some type of simple messaging system between networked FreeBSD machines? For example, client A pings client B, and then client B sends some prespecified text reply to client A. to what end? I don't know how you

Re: Network messaging

2003-11-19 Thread paul beard
On Nov 19, 2003, at 1:21 PM, Feltis, Ralph C. wrote: Ahh yes, I see how preparing an elegant solution would provide greater flexibility. However, Cordula's solution (ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] strings somefile) is about a 15 second fix, whereas setting up a server is, well, not so much a 15 second

Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2003-11-16 Thread paul beard
On Nov 16, 2003, at 2:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I has a G3 iMac that has broken CD-Rom drive, can it be reformated comppletely from the web? To expand on another answer, you can install NetBSD for PowerPC over the net, but I think you need a floppy or some kind of startup image to boot

Re: FreeBSD Essay.

2003-11-12 Thread paul beard
please suggest just the same ;). -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Who messed with my anti-paranoia shot? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Mozilla 1.5 errors?

2003-11-03 Thread paul beard
Lowell Gilbert wrote: paul beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's wrong here? I've updated ports today, if that's useful to know. Just built fine for me. -STABLE. Anything funny in your make.conf? My problem was that some ports were out of sync. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org

Re: Recommendations for wireless networking and FreeBSD

2003-11-03 Thread paul beard
solution if possible, as opposed to the much slower B solutions available. man 4 wi. there you can find a list of support cards. man 4 an has the straight dope on the aironet driver: I have been using it for awhile with FreeBSD 4.4 - 4.8. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h

Mozilla 1.5 errors [resolved?]

2003-11-02 Thread paul beard
no idea what the Real Solution for this is, but I leave these workaround steps in the archive in case anyone finds them useful . -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Greener's Law: Never argue with a man who buys ink

Re: Mozilla 1.5 errors [resolved?]

2003-11-02 Thread paul beard
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 02:02:31PM -0800, paul beard wrote: I ended up tracking down what port owned Xos.h [XFree86-4-libraries] and rebuilding/installing it. At that point, Mozilla would build and install just fine. However, it wouldn't run: it need libintl.so.4 and I

Mozilla 1.5 errors?

2003-11-01 Thread paul beard
/mozilla/config/mkdepend' gmake[1]: *** [export] Error 2 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/ports/www/mozilla/work/mozilla/config' gmake: *** [default] Error 2 *** Error code 2 -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Remember, even if you win

Fwd: Re: kernel make error.

2003-10-30 Thread Paul Beard
Reply-to: risto phario [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: risto phario [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO: paul beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Date: Thu Oct 30, 2003 11:38:05 AM PST Subject: Re: kernel make error. Ok, I have attached the error msg. Thanks. Risto - Original Message - From: paul beard [EMAIL

Re: Should I upgrade to 4.9?

2003-10-29 Thread paul beard
if it ain't broke, don't fix it. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain

Re:

2003-10-15 Thread paul beard
, and do a lot of the same things. http://www.opendarwin.org/en/news.php#29 -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Innovation is hard to schedule. -- Dan Fylstra ___ [EMAIL

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac G3?

2003-10-10 Thread Paul Beard
break the base install. Very nifty. Works very well. I used Fink for quite a while but it seemed to lose focus on reliability. I moved to darwinports (which offers source code ports and packages) and it seems to work just fine. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard

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