Re: Why no ls on DVD or livefs.iso?

2013-10-10 Thread W. D.
At 01:58 10/6/2013, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 01:29:19 -0500, W. D. wrote: Booted with both. Alt-F4 to get to command line. Very limited commands: ls: not found. Try /rescue/ls explicitely instead. Why? What good are these disks if they don't have the most basic of commands

Re: Why no ls on DVD or livefs.iso?

2013-10-10 Thread W. D.
At 08:47 10/6/2013, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, W. D. wrote: Booted with both. Alt-F4 to get to command line. Very limited commands: ls: not found. Why? What good are these disks if they don't have the most basic of commands? The emergency holographic shell was always very

Why no ls on DVD or livefs.iso?

2013-10-06 Thread W. D.
Booted with both. Alt-F4 to get to command line. Very limited commands: ls: not found. Why? What good are these disks if they don't have the most basic of commands? Trying to clone a hard disk that has an number of bad sectors. Trying to save most of my data. Want to use recoverdisk, but

Cronjob Cvsup - What?

2013-01-26 Thread W. D.
According to: http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html Cvsup is deprecated. If I have a Cron entry like: #- #Min HrDOM Mnth DOW Command # At 3:46 in the morning, everyday, as root, update the ports tree: 46

Tried to install 9.1 from bootonly - won't boot

2013-01-26 Thread W. D.
I get to the logo screen where it says: 1. Boot [Enter] 2. etc. 3. etc. Won't accept any keyboard input, not even Ctrl-C, or Ctrl-Alt-Del. Am using PS/2 Keyboard and mouse through my trusty PS/2 KVM switches. Any ideas or do I just stick with 8.3? Start Here to Find It Fast!™ -

Re: Nightmare on FreeBSD Street: NIC Drivers

2008-02-25 Thread W. D.
At 20:05 2/24/2008, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 01:09:06PM -0600, W. D. wrote: Compiled, built kernel, and world per: http://www.f.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html Still getting timeout errors. Seems like more of them with this nfe driver

Nightmare on FreeBSD Street: NIC Drivers

2008-02-23 Thread W. D.
Compiled, built kernel, and world per: http://www.f.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html Still getting timeout errors. Seems like more of them with this nfe driver. FreeBSD 6.2, Asus M2NPV-VM, nVidia Ethernet. Can anyone help me debug this problem or suggest a solid,

Re: IPFW: Blocking me out. How to debug?

2008-01-02 Thread W. D.
At 08:34 12/30/2007, Ian Smith, wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, W. D. wrote: At 08:49 12/22/2007, Ian Smith wrote: Warning: overlong message. access to only your LAN. Will this webserver later have a public IP address, or run behind NAT with port forwarding? Public IP. So will your

Re: IPFW: Blocking me out. How to debug?

2007-12-29 Thread W. D.
At 08:49 12/22/2007, Ian Smith wrote: Warning: overlong message. W. D. wrote: OK, sorry. I guess I just assumed that it would be obvious that this is a Web server. (Never assume anything, my good fellow - Sherlock Holmes). By the way, it is/will be running Plesk server

Fwd: Re: IPFW: Blocking me out. How to debug?

2007-12-23 Thread W. D.
pictures to make it any more obvious To make what more obvious? Nash - Original Message From: W. D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 9:30:11 AM Subject: Re: IPFW: Blocking me out. How to debug? At 05:45 12/20

Ethernet Card Times out on Transfer of Large Files

2007-12-16 Thread W. D.
Hello Gentlemen: The NVidia Ethernet card, nve0, seems to burp on transfers of large files. After browsing the Web, apparently this is a fairly common problem: http://www.google.com/search?q=nve0+device+timeout+FreeBSD From what I can tell, this seems to be the best, most recent fix:

Re: Yikes! FreeBSD samba-3.0.26a_2,1 is forbidden: Remote Code Execution...

2007-12-14 Thread W. D.
At 09:50 12/12/2007, Remko Lodder wrote: W. D. wrote: At 02:01 12/12/2007, Remko Lodder wrote: W. D. wrote: ...Vulnerability - CVE-2007-6015 http://www.freshports.org/net/samba3/ *samba3 3.0.26a_2,1* net http

Best FreeBSD Firewall for 6.X?

2007-11-27 Thread W. D.
Hi folks, Just built a 6.2 box. Wondering what is the best software firewall. Yes, I know that this is a loaded, and subjective issue. I just couldn't find a definitive answer:

Now can't get past the copyright info. What next?

2007-10-24 Thread W. D.
I've got a FreeBSD 4.9 Samba file server that boots but hangs after the Regents of the University of California text. Is there some way to fix this? Boot from a CD? Put the hard drive in another computer? Help! Start Here to Find It Fast!™ - http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/

Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread W. D.
Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY. Remote PuTTY: Access denied Using keyboard-interactive authentication. At computer terminal: PAM authentication error for root from 192.168.XXX.XXX Any ideas? Thanks! Start Here to Find It Fast!™ -

Make is broken! How to fix?

2007-05-01 Thread W. D.
usw2# cd make++ usw2# ls -lt total 5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1221 May 1 18:35 Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 190 May 1 18:35 distinfo -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 643 May 1 18:35 pkg-plist -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 602 Oct 17 2004 pkg-descr usw2# make install

Re: Make is broken! How to fix?

2007-05-01 Thread W. D.
At 20:59 5/1/2007, Matt Emmerton wrote: usw2# cd make++ usw2# ls -lt total 5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1221 May 1 18:35 Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 190 May 1 18:35 distinfo -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 643 May 1 18:35 pkg-plist -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 602 Oct 17 2004 pkg-descr

Re: Make is broken! How to fix?

2007-05-01 Thread W. D.
At 21:06 5/1/2007, Garrett Cooper wrote: W. D. wrote: usw2# cd make++ usw2# ls -lt total 5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1221 May 1 18:35 Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 190 May 1 18:35 distinfo -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 643 May 1 18:35 pkg-plist -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 602 Oct

Re: Make is broken! How to fix?

2007-05-01 Thread W. D.
At 21:25 5/1/2007, Garrett Cooper wrote: W. D. wrote: At 20:59 5/1/2007, Matt Emmerton wrote: usw2# cd make++ usw2# ls -lt total 5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1221 May 1 18:35 Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 190 May 1 18:35 distinfo -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 643 May 1 18:35 pkg

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 install CD causes immediate reboot

2007-01-28 Thread W. D.
At 11:34 1/28/2007, Andrew Gould, wrote: I was given a Dell Dimension m200a yesterday by someone who recently upgraded. I think it was created around 1997. CPU: Pentium RAM: 48MB odd: This PC runs Win95; but has 2 usb ports. Didn't Win98 predate usb ports? When I try to boot up with the

How real time is FreeBSD?

2006-09-20 Thread W. D.
Just reading this about Linux on ZDNet and was wondering: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9593_22-6117479.html?part=rsstag=feedsubj=zdnn Start Here to Find It Fast!™ - http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names - http://domains.us-webmasters.com/

Re: Code beautifiers, anyone?

2006-08-25 Thread W. D.
At 17:00 8/24/2006, Matti J. Karki wrote: On 8/24/06, Kyrre Nygård [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps you could share with us whatever scripts you've written? Totally forgot to include the actual intendation script. There should be a Python script attached to this mail. Please note, that the

Ouch! write failed, file system is full

2006-08-19 Thread W. D.
How do I get out of this mess? gzip: stdout: No space left on device Broken pipe df Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 9918398644-7395 108%/ I tried to do a backup: cd / mkdir archive tar -zcvpf /archive/full-backup-`date

Re: building a cluster

2006-05-21 Thread W. D.
At 00:49 5/21/2006, Carlos Silva wrote: Hi, I want to build a cluster with 2-3 nodes to convert my video files to DVD pretty faster (it takes an ETA of 12 hours right now), but I'm not familiarized with this systems, so if anyone can give me a little help on creating this cluster it's very

Re: List archive search broken?

2005-12-01 Thread W. D.
At 23:06 11/28/2005, Micah wrote: Hey All, I just went to http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/ , typed in VNC into the Search box (left Match, Format, Sort By as All, Short, and Score), and got a page of results. When I try to move on to any other results page, I get an

Re: Need Help Installing FreeBSD with AMD x86

2005-07-26 Thread W. D.
At 01:57 7/26/2005, Corey Farwell, wrote: I have all the ISO's burned to a CD, but when I put the boot disk in to install, after I restart, it goes to the normal windows. I've already tried going to the BIOS settings, but nothing there helped me. What do I do now? Corey Farwell Hey Corey, In

Re: Ntpd error msg

2005-07-08 Thread W. D.
At 11:15 7/8/2005, Shawn Wall wrote: Hello list, I've just installed a new 5.3 server and I have setup ntpd. When I start the daemon I get this error msg: Wintermute ntpd[512]: Frequency format error in /var/db/ntpd.drift Here is my ntp.conf: Driftfile /var/db/ntpd.drift Server

Re: Nothing works

2005-07-05 Thread W. D.
At 21:56 7/5/2005, Timothy McLouth wrote: First i tried to make my own installation cd(s) from the instructions given, they did not work so I e-mailed for answers got two different answers neither of which worked so i bought the installation cd(s) ver 5.4...I downloaded the manual which is of

Re: /stand/sysinstall

2005-06-03 Thread W. D.
At 13:20 6/3/2005, Philip Wege, wrote: Question regarding the utility /stand/sysinstall Usually I get a Interface option to modfiy my interfaces ip and address , but on the current installation it is missing, has anyone had this before and how do one get the option to modify your interfaces

Re: New to Freebsd

2005-06-02 Thread W. D.
At 18:35 6/2/2005, Raciel Perez Hernandez, wrote: Helo list I am new on freebsd but some time ago I use linux and still using it one month ago I download Freebsd 5.3, and yesterday I finish to download Freebsd 5.4, my question is wich version is more stable 5.3 or 5.4 rigth now I do not know

Re: Clock running fast

2005-05-04 Thread W. D.
At 14:49 5/4/2005, Ryan Winograd, wrote: Hi all, I recently noticed that the system clock on a machine i recently set up is running very quickly, about 2x realtime by my measuring. What can i do to solve/investigate this problem? What information would be helpful?

Re: Clock running fast

2005-05-04 Thread W. D.
At 16:07 5/4/2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:51:05PM -0500, W. D. wrote: At 14:49 5/4/2005, Ryan Winograd, wrote: Hi all, I recently noticed that the system clock on a machine i recently set up is running very quickly, about 2x realtime by my measuring. What can i do

Re: kylix run in freebsd???

2005-04-25 Thread W. D.
At 14:07 4/24/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, kylix run in freebsd??? http://www.Google.com/search?q=Kylix+on+FreeBSD http://www.Google.com/search?q=Kylix Start Here to Find It Fast!™ - http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names - http://domains.us-webmasters.com/

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2005-04-20 Thread W. D.
At 11:43 4/20/2005, koen de wijs wrote: Hello folks, I'm new to unix. This year I tried FreeBSD. Some friend of mine adviced FreeBSD. I think it works great. Only one thing that I don't like is that you will need to know a lot to setup a lot of basic stuff. I want to try out Linux. I heard it

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2005-04-20 Thread W. D.
At 15:20 4/20/2005, Kevin Kinsey wrote: SNIP After using sysinstall for the base system, with a little reading up on shell scripting, you can set up your own install wizard and run it from a floppy, cross a reboot and take a day off while the server/desktop/whatever box sets itself up I'm

Re: India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!?

2005-04-14 Thread W. D.
At 08:20 4/14/2005, Subhro, wrote: Anthony Atkielski wrote: All the more reason to have a mirror in India. The shorter the distance to cover, the faster the transfer is likely to be, This is definitely technically true but not practially as far as India is concern. The average bandwidth

Re: Ebay Phishing

2005-03-20 Thread W. D.
At 10:18 3/20/2005, Robert Slade wrote: Hi all, Is it just me, but I've had 2 Ebay Phishing e-mails to this e-mail address that I only use for this mail list. Both mails where from Comcast users !! Please forward them (include headers) to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Same for [EMAIL PROTECTED] Start Here

Re: Can't Login to Box Anymore

2005-03-17 Thread W. D.
At 14:44 3/17/2005, JP wrote: Hello, I recently installed Samba and was configuring the box for winbindd. Upon rebooting I can no longer login to the box via telnet or any other means. The console also generates the same error: login in free(): error: chunk is already free This is on

Re: Install squirrelmail

2005-03-16 Thread W. D.
Please see comments below: At 10:55 3/16/2005, Martin Schweizer wrote: Hello I want to install squirrelmail from ports (cvsuped today). Make runs without problems but after make install the following error occurs: Build complete. (It is safe to ignore warnings about tempnam and tmpnam).

Re: FreeBSD 4.4

2005-03-13 Thread W. D.
At 00:11 3/14/2005, Bhaban Singh wrote: Is there any source do download the FreeBSD 4.4. I really needed the 4.4 version. Yep: http://MirrorList.FreeBSD.org/FBSDsites.php Start Here to Find It Fast!™ - http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names -

Re: Size of FreeBSD

2005-03-10 Thread W. D.
At 12:38 3/10/2005, Mark Goodell wrote: THank you Philip, Jerry, Kris: (Actually, I went back and forth through the website literature trying to figure this out, and finally gave up. It may be that the question itself treads on an issue that no longer is challenged - the size of OS

Re: Articals/howtos needed ..

2005-02-18 Thread W. D.
At 04:33 2/18/2005, faisal gillani wrote: Hello there i want some small sized articals about freebsd , if you have any please mail me on [EMAIL PROTECTED] . thanks = *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Allah-hu-Akber*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ God is the Greatest Lots of links on this page:

Re: Configure X Server

2005-02-15 Thread W. D.
At 12:23 2/15/2005, Peterhin wrote: OK thats great, now that I am there, my problem is with say 'ee' how do I edit the text.? I am a total newbie to the CLI. Any help would be appreciated. I typed 'ee xorg.conf.new' it gives me the editor and the 'xorg.conf.new' at the bottom of the screen.

Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-11 Thread W. D.
At 22:13 2/11/2005, Peterhin wrote: Good day, I am a Newbie to Freebsd and was just reading your reply Re. Instead of freebsd.com, why not... and you made the comment; Linux is inferior to FreeBSD, and yet it is taken more seriously because of the atmosphere around it, despite its technical

Re: Help Please ... Question on cvsupit

2005-01-24 Thread W. D.
At 22:14 1/24/2005, Andrew Batson wrote: Hello, I have been trying for the last few days to figure out how to update the ports collection via the cvsup process. I have two different books on FreeBSD version 5.x and both say to use this cvsupit program but I cannot find it any where. I have

Re: PLEASE SIR

2005-01-19 Thread W. D.
At 06:41 1/19/2005, Ali Farhan wrote: SIR KINDLY TELL ME HOW CAN I MOUNT CDROM AND FLOPPY IN FREEBSD 5.1 ..OR TELL ME THE SPECIFIC SITE AT WHICH I SEARCH.PLZ SIR.KINDLY REPLY ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. At the bottom of this page: http://www.US-Webmasters.com/FreeBSD/Install/ Start Here

Re: programming languages and visual programming under FreeBSD

2005-01-16 Thread W. D.
At 13:23 1/16/2005, koen de wijs wrote: Are there any visual programming tools under FreeBSD, like click and drag like microsoft visual c? http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/ Start Here to Find It Fast!™ - http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names -

Re: FreeBSD 4.9 Still available?

2005-01-15 Thread W. D.
At 14:45 1/15/2005, Jordan Michaels wrote: Anyone know where I can grab an iso of 4.9? I need that particular distro for a project that I'm working on. All I see on the mirror sites is 4.10 and up. Help? ftp://ftp4.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RELEASE OR:

Re: I am new User

2004-12-25 Thread W. D.
At 12:45 12/24/2004, pedram wrote: Hi I want Learn FreeBSD but I am New in Unix Platform. I have MCSE and CCNA Certification and I am Administrator in an ISP and some companies. I was Download FreeBSD 5.3 Which books or sites you suggest me to learn?

Re: best newsgroup?

2004-12-22 Thread W. D.
At 09:21 12/22/2004, Pervert Files wrote: Hello, What is the best newsgroup to read freebsd question. muc.lists.freebsd.questions doesn't seem to be updating with anything on my news provider. -- Thanks, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can also try:

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread W. D.
How 'bout this one? http://news.google.com/news?q=walmart+laptop Start Here to Find It Fast!™ - http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names - http://domains.us-webmasters.com/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Free BSD documentation required

2004-12-08 Thread W. D.
At 04:25 12/8/2004, Milind Nanal wrote: List, I am new to FreeBSD finding is little difficult with administrative commands. I have worked on RedHat Suse. Service startup, boot scripts, pstree command everything seems to be different in FreeBsd compare to RedHat or Suse. Can any give me

Re: How do you make install without direct internet access?

2004-11-23 Thread W. D.
At 14:31 11/23/2004, Ralph, wrote: Hey, I've got a proxy-out connection where these boxes are installed. In other words, the only way to get out to the internet is through the http/ftp proxy. So in my /etc/profile I have a line HTTP_PROXY=my.internal.proxy:80 export HTTP_PROXY But when I do a

Re: Installation of Free BSD

2004-11-21 Thread W. D.
At 10:07 11/21/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you send me simple detailed directions on the installation as well as how to set up for IP address and DSL. The instructions with the disks were a bit confusing. I can't get the software to open after installation so I know that we are doing

Re: xorg upgrade advice

2004-11-13 Thread W. D.
At 12:15 11/13/2004, Chuck Tuffli wrote: i'm in the process of upgrading a 4.7 system from Xfree86 to xorg from ports and am running into some problems. the upgrade instructions seemed pretty simple pkg_delete -f /var/db/pkg/imake-4* /var/db/pkg/XFree86-* cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg make install

Completely remove MySQL?

2004-11-07 Thread W. D.
Hi Folks, How does one completely remove MySQL from FreeBSD 4.9? My router died, and upon replacement I switched to static IP addresses on my local network. Unfortunately, When using phpMyAdmin to access a database, it tries to access the database at the old IP. I can easily recreate the

Re: Completely remove MySQL?

2004-11-07 Thread W. D.
you already have. Michael W. D. wrote: Hi Folks, How does one completely remove MySQL from FreeBSD 4.9? My router died, and upon replacement I switched to static IP addresses on my local network. Unfortunately, When using phpMyAdmin to access a database, it tries to access the database

Re: Sorry

2004-10-27 Thread W. D.
At 04:18 10/27/2004, Jaime Moss wrote: I am looking at non Microsoft platforms for a mail server. Does FreeBSD have one in it ? Yes. I use qmail--it's very good with high volume. I will also be looking at Linux. What is the differnce between FreeBSD and Linux? They are both good operating

Re: some advice needed to considering to move my w2k machine into a freebsd workstation.

2004-10-26 Thread W. D.
At 14:31 10/26/2004, Jian Guang Xu wrote: My current system follows: AMD Athlon 1600+, 1 Gigabytes RAM, 40 Giga harddrive, GeForce 2 with 32 Mb, AC97 Onboard Audio Adaptor, D-Link DFE-538TX. The system got follow applications: W2K Workstation Professional runs very smooth right now. Firefox 1.0

pkg_install-20040802 errors for cvsup-without-gui?

2004-10-18 Thread W. D.
Hey folks, Just ran CVSup, but am getting some errors. Any ideas? Version: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #2: Fri Aug 9 22:27:21 CDT 2002 Checksum OK for pkg_install-20040802.tar.gz. === Patching for pkg_install-20040802 === Applying FreeBSD patches for pkg_install-20040802 === Configuring for

Re: pkg_install-20040802 errors for cvsup-without-gui?

2004-10-18 Thread W. D.
At 12:06 10/18/2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: ce93d.jpg Re pkg_install-20040802 errors1.emsfile://D:\Programs\Eudora\attach\Re pkg_install-20040802 errors1.ems 0880.0002 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 11:26:02AM -0500, W. D. wrote

pkg_install-20040802 errors for cvsup-without-gui?

2004-10-17 Thread W. D.
Hey folks, Just ran CVSup, but am getting some errors. Any ideas? Checksum OK for pkg_install-20040802.tar.gz. === Patching for pkg_install-20040802 === Applying FreeBSD patches for pkg_install-20040802 === Configuring for pkg_install-20040802 === Building for pkg_install-20040802 === lib

Re: Unable to umount Cdrom drive.

2004-10-13 Thread W. D.
At 13:22 10/13/2004, Laszlo Antal wrote: Hi, I have FreeBSD 4.10 installed. When I mount the cdrom with #mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom everything works fine.I can get to my ports and everything But when I want to swap cds and I type #umount /cdrom I get this error message:: Unable to umount

Re: Where can I read the old questions??

2004-10-13 Thread W. D.
At 13:36 10/13/2004, Laszlo Antal wrote: Hi, I am trying to install Apache and PHP and MySQL. I'm having some trouble but I don't want to bug anybody with my questions. I remember There was a lot of question about this topic So I would love to browse through them. Thank you Laszlo --lantal

Re: Installer

2004-10-12 Thread W. D.
At 15:14 10/12/2004, Newton wrote: Dear Friends : I'm a Linux user since 1,999 and I'm really interested in start FreeBSD. OK, it's a new system, different versions and so on. My experience with computers started with Basic, after MS-DOS, Windows and Linux. When I tried Linux, 5 years-ago,

NTP Time Server for LAN: Broadcasting or Not?

2004-10-04 Thread W. D.
Hi Folks, I've got a FreeBSD - NTP time server configured on my small LAN. Here's some output: ntpq pe remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter === +navobs1.wustl.e .USNO.

Re: Boot floppies for FreeBSD 4,8

2004-10-02 Thread W. D.
At 10:14 10/2/2004, nigel henry, wrote: Having multiple linux installs on my machines, I've had to use boot floppies to boot some of em. I'm not too good at configuring GRUB or LiLo to chainload to other bootloaders at the moment, so, is it possible when installing FreeBSD to make a boot

Re: How to begin ???

2004-09-29 Thread W. D.
At 20:08 9/29/2004, Savchuk Taras, wrote: I understand nothing in FreeBSD source code, but want to sort out this problem. The hard business is begining, so I want to begin. Who can show me the right way? ps: I have some expirience in C/C++ programming, understanding i386 arch and I am familiar

Re: how can I browse the The freebsd-questions Archives tar files!

2004-09-24 Thread W. D.
At 02:26 9/24/2004, Huajian Luo, wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 03:05:33PM +0800, Huajian Luo wrote: Hi, Can someone tell me how to use mutt to view freebsd-question archives I gunzipped the file and It's a txt file, so I think there maybe a better way to view it by mutt,

Re: Port upgrading - my way

2004-09-24 Thread W. D.
At 14:44 9/23/2004, Chris, wrote: You could join in the FreeBSD tradition, though, and do it the Right Way(tm) ... http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html An excellent tutorial/article by Dru Lavigne Kevin Kinsey OK, after reading this tutorial, here is MY new

Re: Port upgrading - my way

2004-09-24 Thread W. D.
At 23:11 9/24/2004, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Friday 24 September 2004 06:32 pm, Chris wrote: W. D. wrote: At 14:44 9/23/2004, Chris, wrote: You could join in the FreeBSD tradition, though, and do it the Right Way(tm) ... http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.htm l

Samba public directory on FreeBSD

2004-09-23 Thread W. D.
What is recommended for a public, 'free-for-all', anyone can read or write directory on FreeBSD? What are the reasons for preferring one place over another? Would these work? /usr/local/share/sambapublic/ /usr/share/sambapublic/ /home/sambapublic/ Start Here to Find It Fast!™ -

Re: [Samba] Re: Samba public directory on FreeBSD

2004-09-23 Thread W. D.
At 13:20 9/23/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is recommended for a public, 'free-for-all', anyone can read or write directory on FreeBSD? What are the reasons for preferring one place over another? Would these work? /usr/local/share/sambapublic/ /usr/share/sambapublic/

Re: [Samba] Re: Samba public directory on FreeBSD

2004-09-23 Thread W. D.
At 14:26 9/23/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: At 13:20 9/23/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is recommended for a public, 'free-for-all', anyone can read or write directory on FreeBSD? What are the reasons for preferring one place over another? Would these work?

Re: Samba Configuration Options for small 2-3 person office?

2004-09-20 Thread W. D.
At 07:42 9/20/2004, Peter Risdon wrote: W. D. wrote: After 'make install', this appears: l samba configuration options qk x x x Please select desired options: x x lqqk x x x

RE: Samba 'make install' chokes on textproc/expat2 now openldap - FreeBSD

2004-09-20 Thread W. D.
At 23:47 9/19/2004, W. D. wrote: At 14:24 9/19/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: Personally, unless one has great need not to, I highly recommend upgrading to samba3 to start with. The perfomance gains alone I found well worth it. Plus if you plan to integrate into a network with 2k/XP/2K3

Samba Configuration Options for small 2-3 person office?

2004-09-19 Thread W. D.
After 'make install', this appears: l samba configuration options qk x x x Please select desired options: x x lqqk x x x [ ] syslog With syslog support x x x x [ ] ssl

Re: Samba Configuration Options for small 2-3 person office?

2004-09-19 Thread W. D.
At 08:11 9/19/2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: Re Samba Configuration Options.emsfile://D:\Programs\Eudora\attach\Re Samba Configuration Options.ems 0880.0002 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 02:28:22AM -0500, W. D. wrote: After 'make

Samba 'make install' chokes on textproc/expat2

2004-09-19 Thread W. D.
Can't get Samba 2.2.11 to install. Has anyone encountered a problem with textproc/expat2? Start Here to Find It Fast!™ - http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names - http://domains.us-webmasters.com/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

RE: Samba 'make install' chokes on textproc/expat2 now openldap

2004-09-19 Thread W. D.
. ~~ OK. I Googled for this problem with all sorts of variations of keywords, and nothing showed that would point me in the right direction. What is the simple way to get past this and install Samba -Original Message- From: W

Swap file errors on 4 GB drive.

2004-09-05 Thread W. D.
Hi folks, I tried to install FreeBSD 4.9 on a computer with a 4 GB drive, but it killed the kernel when it got a swap file error. I put in an 8 GB drive an everything went smoothly. Any ideas on how to avoid error when installing to smaller drives? By the way, I've been refining some notes of

Re: Swap file errors on 4 GB drive.

2004-09-05 Thread W. D.
At 03:39 9/5/2004, Markie wrote: |- Original Message - |From: W. D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 7:36 AM |Subject: Swap file errors on 4 GB drive. | |Hi folks, | Hi |I tried to install FreeBSD 4.9 on a computer with |a 4 GB drive

Re: ntpd as broadcastclient - not working?

2004-09-01 Thread W. D.
Hi Harlan, Thanks for your reply. Harlan Stenn wrote: I recommend you get the latest ntp-dev stable tarball Is there anything more recent than: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ntp_spool/ntp4/ntp-dev-4.2.0a-20040830.tar.gz and build it using the instructions I gave you earlier. Yes,

Re: ntpd as broadcastclient - not working?

2004-08-31 Thread W. D.
Thanks for looking into this, Danny! Reply below... At 12:49 8/31/2004, Danny Mayer, wrote: At 11:15 PM 8/30/2004, W. D. wrote: Hi Danny, Reply below... At 19:02 8/30/2004, Danny Mayer wrote: At 07:13 PM 8/30/2004, W. D. wrote: 30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: logging to file /var/log/ntpd.log 30

Re: ntpd as broadcastclient - not working?

2004-08-31 Thread W. D.
At 17:16 8/31/2004, Harlan Stenn, wrote: At 14:57 8/31/2004, W. D., wrote: For some reason, I can't get to the UDel.edu FTP site. Do you happen to know why? ftp://ftp.udel.edu/pub/ntp/ntp4/ If you cannot use FTP, it is because there were Serious Hacking attempts aimed at UDel from that netblock

Re: ntpd as broadcastclient - not working?

2004-08-31 Thread W. D.
Thanks for the info, Brad. Reply below... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: W. D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD appears to expect these NTP programs to be in: /usr/sbin/ That is where the 2003 Oct port put them. That's because the FreeBSD port specification modifies the default

Re: ntpd as broadcastclient - not working?

2004-08-31 Thread W. D.
Hi Danny, Thanks again for your reply. More... At 21:15 8/31/2004, Danny Mayer, wrote: At 06:37 PM 8/31/2004, W. D. wrote: At 17:16 8/31/2004, Harlan Stenn, wrote: At 14:57 8/31/2004, W. D., wrote: For some reason, I can't get to the UDel.edu FTP site. Do you happen to know why? ftp

Re: ntpd as broadcastclient - not working?

2004-08-30 Thread W. D.
dissapointed that that there isn't more clear and simple documentation for FreeBSD/Unix software. I've found 'man' pages to be almost useless. They rarely give examples, and when they do, they are extremely complicated. Criminy, why make it easy for Bill Gates to keep his stranglehold? W. D. wrote

Re: ntpd as broadcastclient - not working?

2004-08-30 Thread W. D.
At 01:22 8/30/2004, Harlan Stenn wrote: The new binaries are probably in /usr/local/bin/ . Right you are! Why is that? Shouldn't there be a compiler directive for FreeBSD that puts them in /usr/sbin/ ? I believe that is where FreeBSD expects them to be. Shall I just move them over there

Re: ntpd as broadcastclient - not working?

2004-08-30 Thread W. D.
At 01:46 8/30/2004, Harlan Stenn, wrote: Better to follow the FreeBSD convention and leave them in /usr/local. Change xntpd_program in /etc/rc.conf . H Thanks Harlan for your reply. FreeBSD appears to expect these NTP programs to be in: /usr/sbin/ That is where the 2003 Oct port put them. I

Re: ntpd as broadcastclient - not working?

2004-08-30 Thread W. D.
Hi Danny, Reply below... At 19:02 8/30/2004, Danny Mayer wrote: At 07:13 PM 8/30/2004, W. D. wrote: 30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: logging to file /var/log/ntpd.log 30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: ntpd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 30 14:14:07 GMT 2004 (1) 30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: precision = 4.191 usec 30

Re: ntpd as broadcastclient - not working?

2004-08-29 Thread W. D.
Hi Danny, Thanks again for your reply. More below... At 18:44 8/28/2004, Danny Mayer wrote: At 06:35 PM 8/28/2004, W. D. wrote: I did some fooling around and found some diagnostic programs. I don't know why you are doing this since I already told you that I fixed a bug referenced in bugzilla

Re: ntpd as broadcastclient - not working?

2004-08-29 Thread W. D.
At 06:04 8/29/2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: Re ntpd as broadcastclient - n1.emsfile://D:\Programs\Eudora\attach\Re ntpd as broadcastclient - n1.ems 0880.0002 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 02:07:16AM -0500, W. D. wrote: Hi folks

ntpd as broadcastclient - not working?

2004-08-27 Thread W. D.
Hi folks, I have Tardis (Windows) running on my network broadcasting NTP time signals (right now every 4 seconds), but the FreeBSD machine is running 5 seconds faster than all the other computers. Here are the lines that I added to /etc/rc.conf: xntpd_enable=YES xntpd_flags=-A -c

Copy all files and subdirectories preserving time stamp?

2004-08-23 Thread W. D.
Hi folks, What would be the way to copy all files and subdirectories from one directory to another--preserving the time stamp and other attributes? It seems that 'cp' usually puts a time stamp of the current date and time. Would this work? cp -r -p -@ /some/source/directory/*

Re: Copy all files and subdirectories preserving time stamp?

2004-08-23 Thread W. D.
At 12:00 8/23/2004, Moti Levy wrote: W. D. wrote: Hi folks, What would be the way to copy all files and subdirectories from one directory to another--preserving the time stamp and other attributes? It seems that 'cp' usually puts a time stamp of the current date and time. Would this work? cp

Re: 4.10 Install failure.

2004-08-16 Thread W. D.
At 10:43 8/16/2004, Tyler Parrott, wrote: Yeah, right after I sent that email I read about the image already being bootable. I supposed I should do my homework before making my posts:) Anyways, the image is burnt correctly, so I'm back to where I started with no idea how to move forward... On

Recommended software for various computer types?

2004-08-11 Thread W. D.
Hi Folks, What are some recommendations for programs for these different types of computers? (Internet Web Server, Desktop Workstation, Firewall, Samba LAN File Server) Which programs are essential? Useful? Which to avoid? Why? Comments on configuration options? Here's a chart:

Re: Finding Cosultants

2004-07-28 Thread W. D.
At 21:10 7/28/2004, Jonathan White wrote: Anyone have an idea how to find a FreeBSD consultant in Brooklyn NY? Thanks jonathan http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/consult.html http://www.Google.com/search?q=%28brooklyn+OR+nyc++OR+%22New+York%22%29+freebsd

Re: LED proggy question

2004-06-19 Thread W. D.
Hey Hugo, Thanks for the info! I don't think that the rest of the list got the reply because [EMAIL PROTECTED] wasn't in one of the recipient fields. I don't know why the list doesn't include it. Regards, W. D. At 05:40 6/19/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: Hey, I got this working

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