to do this. Fine. However, on one machines I can do ``id
lewiz'', which won't work on another (with an identical setup). Why?
Last thing seems to be that cvsweb also doesn't recognize that I am
lewiz, it lists me as uid4001 (I notice it's a cgi-bin script, could it
be because it's using statically
the queue. I don't know if
this is even a problem (maybe it's normal), but I'd quite like to
understand what the messages mean.
Thanks very much,
-lewiz.
--
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freedom and liberty.
-- Henrik Ibsen
/inetd.conf and uncomment the telnet entries. You must
then ensure that inetd starts at system bootup (man rc.conf). Next
reboot (or after you manually start inetd) you will be able to telnet
in.
Best wishes,
-lewiz.
--
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists
;)
Thanks very much,
-lewiz.
--
Baker's First Law of Federal Geometry:
A block grant is a solid mass of money surrounded on all sides
by governors.
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, grep and awk ;) There's probably a more professional
way of doing it, but I don't know (I'd be interested to hear though ;)
Best wishes,
-lewiz.
--
I didn't like the play, but I saw it under adverse conditions. The
curtain was up
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 01:30:48AM -0400, Dragoncrest wrote:
the Ports cause if it is, I certainly haven't found it yet. I'd like to
cd /usr/ports
make search key=bittorrent will help you ;)
Best wishes,
-lewiz.
--
An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible
or LDAP. I'm not sure how they'd work
but they both provide a way of creating ``virtual'' users (but then,
what is a virtual user anyway if they can login?)
Hope that's some help,
-lewiz.
--
Celebrate Hannibal Day this year. Take an elephant to lunch
don't know specifically but I've noticed there has been some
discussion in the Ports mailing list. Maybe you could have a look at
Google Groups :)
Best wishes,
-lewiz.
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Best wishes,
-lewiz.
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Groups shows that this integration was planned, but I've been
unable to determine if it's been done (an early post said it would
probably be around for GNOME2.2) and how to use it.
Any help on getting GNOME to print to local CUPS printers would be
great. Thanks very much,
-lewiz
still not build some of them,
which would be useful if you're not using that service. For example:
many people won't be using BIND on their box. Some people use bash, or
korn shells and therefore csh/tcsh are redundant.
Hope that helps,
-lewiz.
--
There are two ways of disliking poetry; one
you could use
ImageMagick (graphics/ImageMagick) -- you'll have to do some extensive
man page reading though, it's a bit more complicated than click-n-point.
Best wishes,
-lewiz.
--
Expense Accounts, n.:
Corporate food stamps
want. You can find mplayer in
multimedia/mplayer in the ports.
Best wishes,
-lewiz.
--
We can defeat gravity. The problem is the paperwork involved.
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)) but I find apsfilter suits my needs. It can print to
both remote Windows hosts and remote JetDirect-style hosts (which would
suit your needs, I think).
Hope that's some help,
-lewiz.
--
Kiss me twice. I'm schizophrenic
. It is also more configurable (again, LDAP is
supported).
Hope that's some help,
-lewiz.
P.S.
A final note: if the remote MUA (e.g. Outlook) is not configured to
leave mail on server you will not have the backup of mail that you
desire. This can be configured, but a better solution would
no mail yet unless I have not used the webmail
Just a guess but are you sure by ``no mail'' it doesn't mean ``no new
mail''? If you read new mail via WWW it would change the flags and
indicate the mail had been read.
Best wishes,
-lewiz.
--
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... :)
Best wishes,
-lewiz.
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Don't feed the bats tonight.
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it too. It sounds quite a
kludge, but I really think it's quite elegant. A design feature is that
scanning gets more efficient as the volume of messages goes up -- many
other scanners degrade in efficiency.
Best wishes,
-lewiz.
--
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain
group: ldap files
(i.e. not files ldap). ymmv.
Best wishes,
-lewiz.
--
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but
won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
-- Bill Vaughan
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:31:45PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 12:16:30AM +0100, lewiz wrote:
Yes. You need to look at nss_ldap ;)
I would love to -- on 4.8 STABLE. When I last looked at nss_ldap
on FreeBSD, I thought it only runs on 5.x.
Ah. Sorry, I just missed
what I'd need to get it to work with 9x. Any takers?
I'm not certain, but I don't know that it's possible with anything
pre-2000.
Best wishes,
-lewiz.
--
Don't get suckered in by the comments -- they can be terribly
misleading. Debug only code.
-- Dave Storer
trouble. If you're
really worried about upgrading between more than one minor release you
could always try incrementing, which will work for sure. It seems a
rather silly way to do it though.
Best wishes,
-lewiz.
--
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, as he sipped
. I don't know if there's much difference
between the 9000 and the 7200. Have you tried using an older driver?
Best wishes,
-lewiz.
--
Never count your chickens before they rip your lips off
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that works on it?!
Absolutely, I've had mine working. I always use apsfilter for printers
(it's under print/apsfilter in the ports). If your model is also a
scanner, you should be taking a look at SANE. A quick Google will
return lots of info.
Best wishes,
-lewiz.
--
A bird in the hand
could unset that and use the ``sudo'' command. Take a look
at security/sudo in the ports collection. That'd be quite contrived
though.
Best wishes,
-lewiz.
P.S.
Some of my examples might not work -- I didn't test them and I'm
shocking for getting things to work first time.
--
Why was I born
,
but the only way to get this to work is using an aterm, etc. Is there
anything like a colorroottail in existence?
Thanks very much,
-lewiz.
--
[Sir Stafford Cripps] has all the virtues I dislike and none of the
vices I admire.
-- Winston Churchill
understood ld, ldconfig
and libraries). Thanks very much,
-lewiz.
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Don't cook tonight -- starve a rat today!
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doesn't work. In
/usr/X11R6/lib/loaders/image I have plenty of .so files (I actually
don't believe that imlib2_loaders provided the ones I required (the
pkg-plist doesn't include jpeg)).
Anybody with any ideas? It's getting a bit frustrating now...
-lewiz.
--
If God had wanted you to go
).
Sorry for such a bulky mail, I couldn't really find how else to cut it
down. Many thanks!
-lewiz.
--
Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if
you run out of food.
-- Dean McLaughlin
...
Sorry I can't help more,
-lewiz.
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-- Will Rogers
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Many thanks! You've given me some excellent ideas. I'll tell you how
I fare.
-lewiz.
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-- Alan Perlis
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much do everything
this does (assuming I have control over each and every DHCP server... :)
Again, thanks very much,
-lewiz.
--
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
=/boot/splash.pcx
splash_pcx_load=NO
I have the VESA compiled into my kernel for the 800x600 mode (I also
had the same problem with a smaller bitmap. PCX files result in the
same problem also).
Many thanks,
-lewiz.
--
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my traditional
without the unnecessary GUI.
Hope that's some help.
-lewiz.
--
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a
just man is also in prison.
-- Henry David Thoreau
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of any use.
Anybody with any other information on FT clients?
-lewiz.
--
Love cannot be much younger than the lust for murder.
-- Sigmund Freud
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details (or
even a copy of the original Linux client)?
Many thanks,
-lewiz.
--
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and
everything else follows in the same way.
-- Alan J. Perlis
in
/etc/dhclient-enter-hooks, which gets executed _before_ dhclient starts
searching. It all works fine now.
Sorry for bothering everybody, it might have been a mistake on my
part.
-lewiz.
--
Absent, adj.:
Exposed to the attacks of friends and acquaintances; defamed;
slandered
(thus allowing me
to view cached webpages without causing PPP to dial). However, this
appears to make no difference and I get the regular DNS-type error
message. Any help on this would be much appreciated.
I am running squid-2.5_1, compiled today from ports.
Many thanks,
-lewiz
is not responding. Is this the
case? I've verified that the DHCP server is working (another machine
has no problems obtaining a lease). Any ideas?
-lewiz.
--
Better dead than mellow.
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be causing a hang.
Many thanks for your response,
-lewiz.
--
Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
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what else to
use. I've heard of CODA and even AFS but I don't know their suitability
to my purpose. I think I might do a bit more research then ask again on
this list.
Thanks for your information, I'll go read about amd ;)
-lewiz.
--
All true wisdom is found on T-shirts
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 09:53:02PM +1100, Talon wrote:
My question is how do i ping out from the inside of the jail after i
have logged in.
You cannot ping anywhere from inside a jail. You'll get ``ping: socket:
Operation not permitted''. Don't ask me why, I just know it's the case
;)
-lewiz
that
anyone knows of ?
Hope that's a bit more help,
-lewiz.
--
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest
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-openssh
ports-net-bind9
ports-mail-postfix
ports-www-apache13
The only way I know of doing this involves an ignore file. It'd be
pretty complicated though.
-lewiz.
--
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
-- Plato
ideas?
-lewiz.
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Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the
world has ever seen.
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-lewiz.
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All my friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us
sane.
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Hi,
I've been having problems recently trying to login as a local user
when my YP/NIS server is unavailable. This is essentially to me as the
machine in question is a laptop and is required to work without the
network.
I have a local user (lewiz2) and a NIS/YP user (lewiz). When I am
away
mount is unavailable. I've tried the soft
option but that doesn't seem to make any difference. Anybody with any
good ideas on how best to cope with this situation?
-lewiz.
--
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
-- Henry Kissinger
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 08:29:58PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Jan 01), lewiz said:
At the login: prompt I enter my username (lewiz), hit return and get
nothing for a while until:
yp_order: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out
Hit ^T during the pause and find out what program
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 08:25:20PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Dec 29), lewiz said:
I'm wondering if there is any way to stop my system completely
falling over when my YP/NIS server is no longer available? I am
unable to login, even with my root account. I have a local
to there.
I've had a few false-positives from the default SpamAssassin settings so
it's best to be aware you may still get some. Anyhow, I guess you've
thought of this already :)
Best wishes,
-lewiz.
--
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton
to mine.
-lewiz.
--
There is a green, multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder.
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. I'll rerun the setup and tell you what mine says.
-lewiz.
--
New Year's Eve is the time of year when a man most feels his age, and
his wife most often reminds him to act it.
-- Webster's Unafraid Dictionary
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 02:33:10PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
lewiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've just got a 3C589 PCCARD NIC going. However, I'm using the BNC
(10Base2) connector so I need to specify ``media 10base2/BNC'' in
rc.conf. However, if I do this DHCP doesn't seem to work
that don't allow this to happen.
Has anybody found good solutions to them?
I would be eager to hear what anybody has to say on this matter.
Many thanks,
-lewiz.
--
You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog.
-- Alfred Kahn
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 07:10:23PM +0100, Morten olson wrote:
Hi.. can i update from FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE to FreeBSD 5.0 when its out?
Yes, take a look at the FreeBSD Handbook. There are details on
upgrading there.
-lewiz.
--
There is nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 01:26:41PM -0800, Eric De Mund wrote:
lewiz,
] This may have come up before but I've not found anything after
] searching Google that quite satisfies the question.
]
] I run my laptop on my network during evenings but during the daytime I
] attend college, where I
'' utily suggested by Eric De Mund to
synchronize the two logins in conjunction with the secondary username
you suggested. Thanks again, I'll follow up with how I got on.
-lewiz.
--
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some
ideas on this matter?
-lewiz.
--
The reason we come up with new versions is not to fix bugs. It's
absolutely not.
-- Bill Gates
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contacting him to see if he got any further but in the meantime any
ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
-lewiz.
--
Cocaine -- the thinking man's Dristan.
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On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 02:33:10PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
lewiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've just got a 3C589 PCCARD NIC going. However, I'm using the BNC
(10Base2) connector so I need to specify ``media 10base2/BNC'' in
rc.conf. However, if I do this DHCP doesn't seem to work
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 10:21:55PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote:
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, lewiz wrote:
I was playing around with some options on a 4.4-RELEASE disc1 ISO I'd
burnt. I have now got it working. I'm just about to test if it'll work
on 5.0-DP2. A guy on eu.openprojects.net
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 10:22:56PM +, lewiz wrote:
pccard_ifconfig but I could be wrong. It works so I'm leaving it there.
I ran the DOS-based 3Com configuation utility. I downloaded it from the
Internet (mail me if you can't find it and I'll email it to you). This
On second thoughts
just get through anyway. In fact, just now they've been getting through
first time. I'm sure my DNS is all messed up but it seems odd it gets
through after a few retries -- is that part of the filter? If it's
persistent, let it in?
Does anybody know when this was implemented?
-lewiz
.
Thanks for your info,
-lewiz.
--
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and captain of your soul.
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,
-lewiz.
--
Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.
Confound those who have said our remarks before us.
-- Aelius Donatus
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the
same. After this it actually detected and DHCP worked to resolve my IP.
I used the 10BaseT port (UTP) instead of my preferred 10Base2 (BNC).
Maybe you could try the same.
-lewiz.
--
I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it
scattered around the beaches of the world
address via DHCP it doesn't flash or
anything. Maybe I'm missing something. I can provide any information
required.
Any help would be much appreciated,
-lewiz.
--
No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife in the shoulder blades will
seriously cramp his style
Hi,
Just been told by somebody that PNP in the BIOS should be disabled. I
have actually already got it disabled, so this doesn't seem to be the
issue.
-lewiz.
--
Hurewitz's Memory Principle:
The chance of forgetting something is directly proportional
to . to uh
a yearbook for my college, I've got some nice stuff
in CorelDRAW right now. It'd need to be fairly sturdy. Any information
would be appreciated. I know of the KDE/GNOME projects but haven't used
them, any feedback on these would be good.
Thanks very much,
-lewiz.
--
No, `Eureka' is Greek
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 04:47:55PM -0500, David S. Jackson wrote:
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 04:07:13PM + lewiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for some powerful DTP software for FreeBSD / UNIX in
general (Linux would be fine, emulation is nice :).
Hi Lewiz. Powerful
is a bit
dodgy -- some of the links don't work and stuff. I'll see what I can do
with this one, and tell you how I get on.
Thanks very much for the details.
-lewiz.
--
The Kennedy Constant:
Don't get mad -- get even
for the device. I've been trying to get an
AHA-2920 working for some time now and I have not yet got the kernel to
even probe it (after booting in verbose mode). I'm wondering whether or
not I have my kernel config. wrong.
Thanks very much,
-lewiz.
--
Sattinger's Law:
It works better
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 02:53:09PM +, lewiz wrote:
I've not really much (any) knowledge of QoS. I am wondering whether
it would be possible to de-prioritize bandwidth from a certain ip
address?
Ideally I want a jail on my gateway for setting up downloads (using
wget). Since I am
) as I have two mice.
I can switch to just PS/2 but does anybody know how I might set up
similar functionality in FreeBSD as Windows. Also, is there any way I
can make my middle button double-click (but also retain other uses, when
defined in applications)?
Many thanks.
-lewiz.
--
Sanity
Hi,
I've been looking into something I've wanted to do (prioritizing
bandwidth based on IPs). You could try looking at the man pages for
ipfw and dummynet (where ipfw is the controller application for a
dummynet). I'm 99% certain you can achieve the desired result in this
way.
-lewiz
wrong but doesn't anybody ever remember messing about with that
sort of stuff to change colors?
-lewiz.
--
Hindsight is an exact science.
This message is intended only for the use of the person(s) (``the
intended recipient(s
workstations -- if the jail were deprioritized it would kick in
only if there was no other traffic.
Is this possible with QoS (or anything else) and if so, how?
Thanks very much,
-lewiz.
--
For an idea to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be
always old-fashioned
be pointless but it could kick in if files are over
a certain file size (ie, copying ISO files across network disks).
Any solutions exist?
-lewiz.
--
When a fly lands on the ceiling, does it do a half roll or a half
loop
sort=reverse-threads
might be of use -- it groups all messages together much the same way as
most newsreaders do. Tell me how you get on, if you decide to go down
this route, I'd be interested to see what you come up with.
Best wishes,
-lewiz.
--
The older I grow the more I distrust
nntp switches in my muttrc is there any way I can have
these ignored and not throw errors if I am running a version of mutt
without the patch?
Thanks very much,
-lewiz.
--
To iterate is human, to recurse, divine.
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problems with them (they hang my machine all the time) so be prepared
for trouble.
-lewiz.
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impressed.
This sounds interesting - can you provide any more details?
-lewiz.
--
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out,
which is the exact opposite.
-- Bertrand Russell, Skeptical_Essays, 1928
but any ideas?
-lewiz.
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-- Sydney J. Harris
This message is intended only for the use of the person(s) (``the
intended recipient(s)'') to whom
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:53:26PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote:
At 2002-11-04T22:00:37Z, lewiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've been wondering - what does ``root'' stand for?
My understanding is that 'root' is the user that owns the base of the
filesystem (the 'root' of the tree structure
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:03:26PM -0600, Larry Rosenman wrote:
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 16:00, lewiz wrote:
Hi,
I've been wondering - what does ``root'' stand for? I've just been
doing some calculus as part of my math. homework and I've just written
down ``there are no ``real'' roots
for me.
-lewiz.
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QMail has
better support for pre-delivery virus and spam checking. You might want
to read the docs for QMail as to whether or not it also supports
alternative authentication methods as I am enjoying using it more than
Courier... so far.
-lewiz.
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 07:59:38PM +1000, BSD Freak
of the message
mutt has a graphical front-end. You could try pine though, if you
don't like mutt. I think you are posting to the wrong mailing list, try
a Debian one.
-lewiz.
--
Reflections on Ice-Breaking
Candy
Is dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.
-- Ogden Nash
Hi,
I've been using abook for quite some time but I didn't realize it had
any association with mutt. Are you saying that it can be invoked from
within mutt (i.e. when I try and go to the address book - not through
the regular execution of a programme)? Thanks,
-lewiz.
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002
Hi,
Afaik, UDMA100 is only supported if there is just one device on the
channel. Feel free to shoot me if I am incorrect, which is quite
possible. Just double-check by asking Google or something - but I have
a gut feeling this may be the case.
-lewiz.
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