Re: question on manpages/hier(7)

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-quest

question on manpages/hier(7)

up-to-date there too. -- 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"

securing MySQL: easiest/best ways?

args="--bind-address=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]

ket. It must be in /tmp. Note I am not arguing that the use of localhost requires a named 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?

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

se, you must specify a hostname to access the TCP 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?

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

cti and net-mgmt/cacti-spine. -- 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

ly examine it and reuse it? > Anyway, doesn't the mysql 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

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

e file can't 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: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

make network setup more difficult and provide no real security 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 ma

Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

face for it to actually work 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

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

sed it earlier today 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@free

Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

nk I may just shelve this and if needed, turn up my Time Capsule's wireless capability (if it would play nicely and extend the WRT54G, I'd be using it now). And APs that support open source firmware are not that hard to find, though Tomato doesn't support as many as the *-wrt va

Re: bridged wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

ts between two physical interfaces require a bridge? No other docs have mentioned it but of their "easy instructions" have worked either. -- Paul Beard Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem? ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

a spare WRT54G or its modern equivalent. But that doesn't mean I don't want 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.or

wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

regdomain FCC indoor ecm authmode AUTO privacy OFF txpower 27 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS wme burst dtimperiod 1 -dfs 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 ho

screen and curses(?) output

erase erase2 intrkill ^O ^Y ^D^? ^H ^C ^U lnext min quitreprint start status stopsusptime ^V 1 ^\ ^R ^Q ^T ^S ^Z 0 werase ^W -- Paul Beard / www.paulbear

Re: kernel debugging: seeing swap issues in 7.0

> package from the FTP 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/ <

Re: kernel debugging: seeing swap issues in 7.0

PU COMMAND 32272 root 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/ &l

kernel debugging: seeing swap issues in 7.0

0s2b 139 0 /dev/md0 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

Re: what is pkg_create doing?

a look there. I wasn't sure if something changes 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?

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

verbose sysctl messages in dmesg?

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

ment variables. [/var/db/pkg]# export PORTS_DBDRIVER=bdb1_hash; pkgdb -qF ---> Checking the package registry database [Rebuilding the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... - 542 packages found (-0 +542) .. what am I missing? FWIW, I can use an incantation of portmanager to

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

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)]

usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:207:in `main' from /usr/local/sbin/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 h

one for the archives

culprit. I will add this info to the PR as well. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com

lingering problems with ports collection

e directory (/usr/ports/{PORTNAME}/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 paulbeard [at] mac.com

port installation problems progress

ed a buildworld (against a fresh source tree), 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

libtool/shared libraries problem

15 is preferred. There is no warning about the popt port in UPDATING. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: workaround for the expat problem

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 paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: some anomalies in my system?

doing (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/ directory, all went well and I have now resolved my problem. Apologies if I offended. The insight on libtool is appreciated. -- Paul

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

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

workaround for the expat problem

nyone 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 paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: some anomalies in my system?

t was the first step to getting this fixed or at least worked around. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com

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

5.7. this would/should give me expat.5. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: some anomalies in my system?

libtool - not found ===>Verifying 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 paulbeard [at] mac.com

some anomalies in my system?

build 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 paulbeard [at] mac.com

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

man1/xmlwf.1.gz /usr/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 somethi

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

eeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RELEASE/packages Thanks. I'll see if those will work. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com

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

like 4.9 there might be). -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com

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

ork around 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 paulbeard [at] mac.com

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

es to show for it. [/usr/ports/textproc/expat2]# 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 paulbeard [at] mac.com

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

and I have been pulling 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 paulbeard [at] mac.com

wrestling with b*rked package/ports collection

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 a

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

is will do any harm, it seems 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 paulbeard [at] mac.com

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

em to have 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 paulbeard [at] mac.com

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

client.so.10 -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 paulbeard [at] mac.com

MySQL 3 server problems: mysqlclient.10 not found?

8_2 ===> Running 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/mysql

Re: Yahoo! and GAIM

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 paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL

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

ks. I 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 paulbea

Re: Plan 9 style backup utility for FreeBSD?

duplicated hierarchy. If I'm 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

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

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

Re: 5.2 where is /kernel.GENERIC

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 paulbeard [at]

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

one would dispute using a floppy on x86 hardware. -- Paul Beard 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: How can I automatically mount a windows-xp share from a freeBSD box using windows username andpassword?

, but there is a wealth of good information here: http://www.google.com/search?q=nsmbrc&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To uns

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

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 paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

kern.maxfiles problem resolved

-P. 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 pa

Re: kern.maxfiles questions

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 paulbeard [a

Re: kern.maxfiles questions

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

kern.maxfiles questions

4.9-RELEASE #3: Sun Dec 21 14:01:26 PST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RED i386 -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, s

Re: ghostview missing libc.so.4?

the apps I need 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

Re: Dynamic DNS Updates

for me so far (touch simulated woodgrain). -- Paul Beard 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?

t 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 -- Pa

kern.maxfiles limit exceeded: what to investigate?

a flaky binary were slowly eating up file descriptors. -- Paul Beard 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

ppgsout: 283967 -- Paul Beard 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

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 paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL

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

in your case perl5.8 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 paulbeard [at] mac.com __

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

were 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 paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

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

needit is welcome, as well but not as pressing: I think they work with dyndns and of course I chose no-ip.org. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscr

Re: NATd question

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

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

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 argu

Re: the proces that can be monitored

pwalk against the host you want to monitor and see what's available. There are a lot of variables to look at. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

Re: config(8) out of sync with source

e you a kernel remarkably similar to the one you installed initially. If that works, you can rest assured the procedure is sound, and it's the configuration that needs tweaking. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: ports problems

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 [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: games that don't need X-11

games in the ports tree or porting other games that are not there yet? -- Paul Beard 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: Remove ^M characters from xhtml file

at all that stuff 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" all the time. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___

Re: adaptive stealth in ipfw?

e 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. --

Re: Adding new IP's without reboot?

device name). [/usr/home/paul]:: ifconfig xl1 192.168.2.100 up -- Paul Beard 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

nd swap in the table, / might be 3. -- Paul Beard 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

cally unmounted when they appear to be quiescent. -- Paul Beard 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

boot. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

POLA violation?: snmp renumbering stuff

5 ? 7 HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageFixedDisk /proc 4096 Bytes ? 1 ? 8 HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageFixedDisk /usr/ports 512 Bytes ? 35548516 ? -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: advice needed on creating hmtl docs?

e 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 [at] ma

Re: make vs. pkg_add

ing. I have used both pkg_add and make install clean interchangeably, though I prefer working from source. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

Re: Perl configuration

is cheap). The side-effects are too hard to predict or rectify, in my experience. -- Paul Beard 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: FreeBSD Motherboard survey...

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 effor

Re: Can I install packages only for my release?

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 th

Re: Network messaging

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 fi

Re: Network messaging

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 respond

Re: Monitoring

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 addi

Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

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 f

Re: FreeBSD Essay.

xplain something /very/ complicated (although 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 lis

Re: Recommendations for wireless networking and FreeBSD

nd adapter 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/movablety

Re: Mozilla 1.5 errors?

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 <ht

Re: Mozilla 1.5 errors [resolved?]

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

Mozilla 1.5 errors [resolved?]

text. I have 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

Mozilla 1.5 errors?

gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/ports/www/mozilla/work/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/movablety

Fwd: Re: kernel "make" error.

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 Me

Re: kernel "make" error.

what to do. I have attched a copy of my custom kernel "MYKERNEL". Any help with this problem would be great!!! Thank you. Sending the error message would be a big help. -- Paul Beard <http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/> whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Kansas st

Re: Should I upgrade to 4.9?

4.x branch, so 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 m

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