Re: Which versioning system is the simplest to use??

2007-09-12 Thread Tom Huppi
On 22:44 Tue 11 Sep , David Christensen wrote: > Agus wrote: > > I am doing a little bit of security and log watching with sec.pl and > > was trying to mantain de secconf files organized... So whenever one > > is changed it keeps track of the change and can rollback > > O that is what i am

amd /home & /usr/home mounts

2005-03-20 Thread Tom Huppi
I've got 'amd' starting with -F /etc/amd.conf from /etc/rc.conf: amd_enable="YES" # Run amd service with $amd_flags amd_flags="-F /etc/amd.conf" amd_map_program="NO"# Can be set to "ypcat... and my /etc/amd.conf file has, amoung other things...: # ---

Re: NIS login - argh!

2005-02-27 Thread Tom Huppi
Follow-up Follow-up (for google'rs): On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Tom Huppi wrote: > *NOTE* to those fighting these issues (and seeing this via google > or some such...): There seems to be some sort of a bug which is > tickled by this kind of fooling around. It manifests itself by

Re: NIS login - argh!

2005-02-17 Thread Tom Huppi
worth note, however, that the $1$xxx style (md5) password hash from the Linux side _does_ work and is _not_ a problem. Thanks, - Tom On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Tom Huppi wrote: > > I've never had much trouble getting NIS to work before. Can > anyone make any debugging suggestion

NIS login - argh!

2005-02-17 Thread Tom Huppi
I've never had much trouble getting NIS to work before. Can anyone make any debugging suggestions? ... My machine: 5.3-STABLE (makeworld update from 5.1 orig circa early Jan 05.) NIS actually seems to be working fine... gila# ypcat -k passwd | grep tomh tomh tomh:$1$hZ...UK/:1012:50

Re: Traffic upgrade 5.2.1 to 5.3

2005-02-07 Thread Tom Huppi
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Florian Hengstberger wrote: > Hi! > > I want to upgrade my box from 5.2.1 to 5.3 stable. > I have limited download, so, if I update the sources using cvsup > in order to make buildworld ..., is there a way to roughly estimated > the traffic. > Case it's impossible, what's th

Re: what are patches ?

2005-02-04 Thread Tom Huppi
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Gert Cuykens wrote: > On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 18:28:23 -0600, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gert Cuykens wrote: > > > They are all located under files right ? But what are they and what do > > > they do ? > > > > Patch what's not correct. > > > > Then there are alot of t

Re: tinderbox ?

2005-02-04 Thread Tom Huppi
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Isaac Yonemoto wrote: > > A tinderbox is a server dedicated to compiling (or "burning") the latest > edition of software into binaries, usually for an operating system. I think it fair to say that in it's most useful form, a 'tinderbox' would be set up to build the latest c

Re: Getting a microphone to work

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Huppi
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Chris Hodgins wrote: > Steven Friedrich wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 February 2005 04:44 pm, Tom Huppi wrote: > > > >>BTW, does anyone know off-hand how to set 'mixer' settings as > >>default (so I would not have to re-set them

Re: Getting a microphone to work

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Huppi
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Joachim Dagerot wrote: > I don't even know what a microphone device would be named and > how to access it. I've recently been screwing around with a few pieces of software which take input from a mic (and other) devices. The device (under FreeBSD 5.3) seems to be of the

Re[2]: ppp -auto my_provider

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Huppi
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Alexander Bubnov wrote: > Hello Tom, > > Wednesday, February 2, 2005, 11:02:04 AM, you wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Alexander Bubnov wrote: > > >> could you help me, please? (I have FreeBSD 5.3) > >> > >> this question: > >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859

Re: ppp -auto my_provider

2005-02-02 Thread Tom Huppi
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Alexander Bubnov wrote: > could you help me, please? (I have FreeBSD 5.3) > > this question: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/ppp.html#PPP-AUTO-NOREASONDIAL > > Why does ppp(8) dial for no reason in -auto mode? I've fought the same irritating issue now

Re: I only want stable software

2005-01-30 Thread Tom Huppi
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Pat Maddox wrote: > Thanks for the help there. I just followed the example in the > Handbook, though to be honest I'm not quite sure what everything > means. Here's my ports-upfile: > *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org > *default base=/var/db > *default prefix=/usr > *defau

Re: FreeBSD 4.7

2005-01-23 Thread Tom Huppi
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, agent0013 wrote: > Hello, i'm a very very newbie in FreeBSD, so i tried to install > it and start the X windows system, but when I type "startx" the > screen stays black, how can i do to laucnh it correctely ? > thanks for you answer. When I used to use distributions of th

Re: NAT/DNS question/recommendation?

2005-01-19 Thread Tom Huppi
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Erik Norgaard wrote: Tom Huppi wrote: > So, what do you use for firewall/nat? ipfw/ipf/pf? I think I can > help you with ipf, if you use something else then I'm sure > someone can help you once they know they have the knowledge you > need. user-ppp has

Re: NAT/DNS question/recommendation?

2005-01-19 Thread Tom Huppi
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Tom Huppi wrote: > > I have a FreeBSD 5.3 workstation connected to the net via user-ppp > > with a dynamic IP. I have user-ppp doing both NAT and simple > > firewall. > > > > I have a headless server box, also 5.3,

NAT/DNS question/recommendation?

2005-01-19 Thread Tom Huppi
I have a FreeBSD 5.3 workstation connected to the net via user-ppp with a dynamic IP. I have user-ppp doing both NAT and simple firewall. I have a headless server box, also 5.3, set up as a NAT client. I run it only when I need the horsepower since it's loud and sucks power. My problem is that

Re: automake, autoconf compiling

2005-01-13 Thread Tom Huppi
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > I use autoconf/automake and libtool daily at work[1]. > > The programs I write have to run on at least 3 different operating > systems (FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris) without the need for constant > manual tweaking of the source. At work (former),

Re: automake, autoconf compiling

2005-01-13 Thread Tom Huppi
Hi Keith, I've recently been struggling with similar issues, and would be interested to know what others might have found effective. I have a number of different versions of the auto-tools on my machine, almost certainly as a result of installing various ports. It is worth note that one can glea

RCS tutorial (was: Re: "$Id: index.html,v 1.46 2004...)

2004-10-02 Thread Tom Huppi
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > [redirected to FreeBSD-questions; this is a technical issue] > You can also check out older versions and compare things; somewhere > there must be a tutorial. I've found Dave Plonka's tutorial to be most usefull. It's all over the place.