Re[2]: Help! Stupid Newbie Question

2005-09-24 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:51 PM 9/24/2005, Robert Huff wrote: Glenn Dawson writes: I don't believe I've ever seen a port install itself so that it starts at boot time. As I understand it, up until recently (advent of rcNG ??) that was the default, i.e. ports routinely installed foo.sh in

Re: Newbie question about ports.

2005-06-27 Thread RW
On Friday 24 June 2005 19:36, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Sam Ip wrote: I'm trying out FreeBSD for the first time for use at work. However, there is a corporate firewall and hence ftp traffic doesn't get through. I can access http sites. So if a selling point of FreeBSD is its ports collection

Re: Newbie question about ports.

2005-06-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Sam Ip wrote: I'm trying out FreeBSD for the first time for use at work. However, there is a corporate firewall and hence ftp traffic doesn't get through. I can access http sites. So if a selling point of FreeBSD is its ports collection 1. Can you do a CVSup to update your ports via http?

Re: Newbie question about ports.

2005-06-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 24 June 2005 01:01 pm, Sam Ip wrote: Hi, I'm trying out FreeBSD for the first time for use at work. However, there is a corporate firewall and hence ftp traffic doesn't get through. I can access http sites. So if a selling point of FreeBSD is its ports collection 1. Can you do

newbie question

2005-05-20 Thread Glenn Panuelos
last year i downloaded the miniinst iso disc 3 from the official ftp mirror, now i cant find it does 5.4 miniinst disc will be available only in the official 5.4 release announcement? or it has been permanently removed (ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/5.4/README.TXT)

Re: newbie question

2005-05-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
last year i downloaded the miniinst iso disc 3 from the official ftp mirror, now i cant find it does 5.4 miniinst disc will be available only in the official 5.4 release announcement? or it has been permanently removed This has been well documented in the installation instruction. The

Re: another newbie question

2005-04-20 Thread Daniel Bye
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 05:08:40PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Been playing around with FreeBSD for a couple of months. Just configured my .muttrc, and I'm able to send messages but not to receive. I read the man pages and followed the instructions but still it's not

another newbie question

2005-04-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, Been playing around with FreeBSD for a couple of months. Just configured my .muttrc, and I'm able to send messages but not to receive. I read the man pages and followed the instructions but still it's not working. Am I missing something here? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Re: newbie question

2005-04-18 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Sunday, April 17, 2005 11:52:36 AM -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone give me a very rough estimate on how much time is required on an ongoing basis, after a server is set up with FreeBSD and Apache, to maintain everything. By everything I am referring to everything required to

Re: newbie question

2005-04-18 Thread Chad Morland
On 4/17/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Can anyone give me a very rough estimate on how much time is required on an ongoing basis, after a server is set up with FreeBSD and Apache, to maintain everything. By everything I am referring to everything required to keep the

Re: newbie question

2005-04-18 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: Chad Morland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 1:10 PM Subject: Re: newbie question On 4/17/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Can anyone give me a very rough

newbie question

2005-04-17 Thread SuDaNym
Hello Can anyone give me a very rough estimate on how much time is required on an ongoing basis, after a server is set up with FreeBSD and Apache, to maintain everything. By everything I am referring to everything required to keep the server up, and host about 100 domains. Thank you in

Re: Time spent on server maintenance (was Re: newbie question)

2005-04-17 Thread Kevin Kinsey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Can anyone give me a very rough estimate on how much time is required on an ongoing basis, after a server is set up with FreeBSD and Apache, to maintain everything. By everything I am referring to everything required to keep the server up, and host about 100

DNS newbie question

2005-03-03 Thread Claudiu Bichir
Where do I have to specify the ip of the dns server ? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: DNS newbie question

2005-03-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Claudiu Bichir wrote: Where do I have to specify the ip of the dns server ? Add a line like: nameserver 4.2.2.1 ...to /etc/resolv.conf. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: DNS newbie question

2005-03-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-03-03 05:40, Claudiu Bichir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do I have to specify the ip of the dns server ? In your `/etc/resolv.conf' file. See the manpage of resolv.conf for what is the proper thing to put there. In general, 1 or 2 lines should be enough: search example.net

Re: port newbie question

2005-01-26 Thread Ken Hawkins
that did the trick! thanks, i was typing 'make configure' and not 'make config' On Jan 25, 2005, at 9:32 PM, John Koepke wrote: I think this is a simple thing to do and i need to be running apache13 with php. how can i clean this up and set up apache13 along with php4? is there an easy way to

Re: port newbie question

2005-01-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 04:34:59PM -0500, Ken Hawkins wrote: thanks but no cigar on that one. I also have tried running make configure with no luck. I am at y wits end and am trying to find a way to wipe it and start over again! # make reconfig It's all explained in the ports(7) man

port newbie question

2005-01-25 Thread Ken Hawkins
I searched and couldn't find this so I will ask an (I'm sure to most) easy question. I installed apache2 and mod_php4 on a 4.9 FreeBSD box however, I needed to install apache13 and NOT apache2. i went through and deinstalled mod_php4 and then deinstalled apache2. on the new installation

Re: port newbie question

2005-01-25 Thread Oliver Leitner
You get something like an options menu if youre trying to install that program? Greetings Oliver Leitner Technical Staff http://www.shells.at On Tuesday 25 January 2005 21:21, Ken Hawkins wrote: configure: error: You have enabled Apache 2 support while your server is Apache 1.3.  Please use

Re: port newbie question

2005-01-25 Thread Ken Hawkins
Now that you mention it I did the first time I installed mod_php4 but not now. when I deinstalled mod_php4 I used 'make deinstall distclean' to clear it out. maybe there is a -D switch i can send make so that I can get an interactive menu again? ken; On Jan 25, 2005, at 3:21 PM, Oliver Leitner

Re: port newbie question

2005-01-25 Thread Oliver Leitner
try to remove the work subdir from the port directory of your application, that might do the trick... On Tuesday 25 January 2005 21:32, Ken Hawkins wrote: Now that you mention it I did the first time I installed mod_php4 but not now. when I deinstalled mod_php4 I used 'make deinstall

Re: port newbie question

2005-01-25 Thread Ken Hawkins
thanks but no cigar on that one. I also have tried running make configure with no luck. I am at y wits end and am trying to find a way to wipe it and start over again! ken; On Jan 25, 2005, at 3:31 PM, Oliver Leitner wrote: try to remove the work subdir from the port directory of your

Re: port newbie question

2005-01-25 Thread Oliver Leitner
try to call ./configure with that switch... ./configure --with-apxs=/path/to/bin/apxs btw, a tip, if youre just installing ports, use something like portinstall rather than doing it all by hand;) Greetings Oliver Leitner Technical Staff http://www.shells.at On Tuesday 25 January 2005 22:34,

Re: port newbie question

2005-01-25 Thread Nigel Wohlers
If you delete the /var/db/ports/mod_php4 directory and install the port again, you should have the menu popup so that you can deselect Apache2. Oliver Leitner wrote: try to call ./configure with that switch... ./configure --with-apxs=/path/to/bin/apxs btw, a tip, if youre just installing ports,

Re: port newbie question

2005-01-25 Thread John Koepke
I think this is a simple thing to do and i need to be running apache13 with php. how can i clean this up and set up apache13 along with php4? is there an easy way to wipe out all traces of apache and php to start from scratch? thanks, ken; If I remeber correcly run make config that

freeradius newbie question

2004-12-04 Thread Andreas Magana
I don't no jack about Radius I need info. As far as I have gotten is: download gunzip untar ./configure make make install now what do i do? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: freeradius newbie question

2004-12-04 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 19:55:58 -0800 (PST), Andreas Magana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't no jack about Radius I need info. As far as I have gotten is: download gunzip untar ./configure make make install now what do i do? Read all available documentation here:

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 BIND 9 newbie question..

2004-11-14 Thread Remko Lodder
robg wrote: I'm trying to setup BIND and the Release Notes say: When the named_chroot_autoupdate variable is set to YES (the default), the chroot directory is automatically configured at the boot time. A symbolic link which points to /var/named/etc/namedb is created as /etc/namedb, and a symbolic

FreeBSD 5.3 BIND 9 newbie question..

2004-11-13 Thread robg
I'm trying to setup BIND and the Release Notes say: When the named_chroot_autoupdate variable is set to YES (the default), the chroot directory is automatically configured at the boot time. A symbolic link which points to /var/named/etc/namedb is created as /etc/namedb, and a symbolic link which

Newbie question regarding Virtual Hosts setup

2004-05-05 Thread David H. Ingham
Hopefully, a simple question. I have set up a FreeBSD server to develop a web app for a client. my system is: FreeBSD Version 5.2 Apache Version 2.0.47 MySQL Version 4.0.16 MySQLCC

Re: Newbie question regarding Virtual Hosts setup

2004-05-05 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
David H. Ingham wrote: Hopefully, a simple question. I have set up a FreeBSD server to develop a web app for a client. my system is: FreeBSD Version 5.2 Apache Version 2.0.47 MySQL Version 4.0.16

Re: Newbie question regarding Virtual Hosts setup

2004-05-05 Thread mark
On May 5, 2004, at 11:54 AM, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: David H. Ingham wrote: Hopefully, a simple question. I have set up a FreeBSD server to develop a web app for a client. my system is: FreeBSD Version 5.2 Apache Version

Re: Newbie question regarding Virtual Hosts setup

2004-05-05 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
mark wrote: On May 5, 2004, at 11:54 AM, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: David H. Ingham wrote: Hopefully, a simple question. I have set up a FreeBSD server to develop a web app for a client. my system is: FreeBSD Version 5.2 Apache

Re: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade

2004-04-23 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-22 11:32]: The problem only seems to be with X11. I tried running several commands in console mode that I can normally run from any location and they all worked fine. so far startx seems to be the only thing that won't run like it used This could

Re: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade

2004-04-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:03:16AM -0700, Joshua Lokken wrote: * Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-22 11:32]: The problem only seems to be with X11. I tried running several commands in console mode that I can normally run from any location and they all worked fine. so far startx

newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade

2004-04-22 Thread Ian Bowers
I finally came to my senses and got a copy of FreeBSD about a week ago. I'm very compitent in window$ and DOS, and wanted to start in on something new. I've been toying with BSD for a while and I'm getting to know my way around. I'm having trouble upgrading to gnome 2.6. I had gnome 2.4

RE: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade

2004-04-22 Thread Lucas Holt
I would run portversion -v | grep and make sure everything was upgraded to start with. If all the gnome and X11 related stuff appears to be upgraded, it might be hard to track down which build was at fault. I think the gnome upgrade script made a logfile in tmp. I would check to see if there

Re: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade

2004-04-22 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 10:16:25AM -0400, Ian Bowers wrote: I'm having trouble upgrading to gnome 2.6. I had gnome 2.4 installed and running just fine. I cvsup'd with the ports-supfile, and ran the gnome_upgrade.sh file. Maybe dumb question: Did you upgrade ruby as instructed in

RE: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade

2004-04-22 Thread Ian Bowers
will jump out in the logfile. From: Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Ian Bowers' [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:44:22 -0400 I would run portversion -v | grep and make sure everything was upgraded to start

Re: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade

2004-04-22 Thread Ian Bowers
From: Ewald Jenisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ian Bowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:16:14 +0200 On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 10:16:25AM -0400, Ian Bowers wrote: I'm having trouble upgrading to gnome 2.6. I had

RE: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade

2004-04-22 Thread Lucas Holt
The problem only seems to be with X11. I tried running several commands in console mode that I can normally run from any location and they all worked fine. so far startx seems to be the only thing that won't run like it used to. I read something about shells having to be rehashed to update

Re: Newbie Question

2004-04-19 Thread Remko Lodder
Hello All, How do I uninstall or disable snmpd. I have spent too many days trying to find this info. pkg_info |grep -i snmp Check which snmpd you have installed. then do pkg_delete $return_information_from_pkg_info_command HTH!, Thank you. Jeff -- Kind regards, Remko

Newbie Question

2004-04-18 Thread Jeffrey P. Toth
Hello All, How do I uninstall or disable snmpd. I have spent too many days trying to find this info. Thank you. Jeff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Newbie Question

2004-04-18 Thread freebsduser
Hello All, How do I uninstall or disable snmpd. I have spent too many days trying to find this info. Thank you. Jeff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Sendmail Newbie Question

2004-02-19 Thread dps
Hello~ Excuse the extreme nature of my newbieness, I will try and do my best here. I am using 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE on i386. Basically, I am having trouble with sendmail. I know sendmail is running: $ ps -aux | grep sendmail root 97 0.0 0.8 3052 1552 ?? Ss Tue10PM

RE: Sendmail Newbie Question

2004-02-19 Thread JJB
to receive email msgs to root from the FBSD operating system. You know, when you log in an root, the you have mail mesg. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of dps Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 3:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sendmail Newbie

Re: Sendmail Newbie Question

2004-02-19 Thread Matt Navarre
: Thursday, February 19, 2004 3:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sendmail Newbie Question Hello~ Excuse the extreme nature of my newbieness, I will try and do my best here. I am using 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE on i386. Basically, I am having trouble with sendmail. I know sendmail

Re: Sendmail Newbie Question

2004-02-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
dps wrote: [ ... ] 1) How to I monitor the sendmail log Sendmail uses syslog to log messages to /var/log/maillog. 2) Do I need to do anything special with respect to DNS to get sendmail to be able to send outside of localhost In your circumstances, what you want to do is configure your sendmail

Newbie question: Imager module and p5-Imager in /usr/ports/

2004-01-27 Thread meimi
Hello, I have tried to add Perl module Imager using CPAN. However, it failed. Then, I find a p5-Imager port. I think they are the same thing, isn't it? Thanks Meimi http://www.htmlcss.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Newbie question: Imager module and p5-Imager in /usr/ports/

2004-01-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
meimi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have tried to add Perl module Imager using CPAN. However, it failed. Then, I find a p5-Imager port. I think they are the same thing, isn't it? The port includes, but is a bit more than the CPAN module; it also includes solutions to the problems you had

Re: md5 newbie question

2004-01-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 09:59:07AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: Trying to verify a d/l before compiling: Swami: md5 -s 466c63bb71b710d20a5c353df8c1a19c /tmp/httpd-2.0.48.tar.gz MD5 (466c63bb71b710d20a5c353df8c1a19c) = 017b97dd023763b82a219bdfedd5cc29 MD5 (/tmp/httpd-2.0.48.tar.gz) =

Re: Newbie question

2004-01-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 12:37:05AM +0100, Gafgo wrote: Hello there! I am a newbie to FreeBSD but have read a lot of handbooks. I have also installed different versions on my old computer just to practice (incl 4.8, 4.9, 5.0, 5.1). Now I have bought a new computer and wanted to install 4.9 for

Re: Newbie question

2004-01-20 Thread Gafgo
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 12:37:05AM +0100, Gafgo wrote: Hello there! I am a newbie to FreeBSD but have read a lot of handbooks. I have also installed different versions on my old computer just to practice (incl 4.8, 4.9, 5.0, 5.1). Now I have bought a new computer and

Related Q: (was) Re: Newbie question

2004-01-20 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:59:25AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: It sounds to me as if your new machine has hardware which is supported under 5.x but not 4.9. That's a very good reason to install 5.2 -- caveats about early adopters notwithstanding, by all accounts 5.2 is turning out nicely.

Re: Related Q: (was) Re: Newbie question

2004-01-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:23:57AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:59:25AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: It sounds to me as if your new machine has hardware which is supported under 5.x but not 4.9. That's a very good reason to install 5.2 -- caveats about early

newbie question

2004-01-19 Thread marlon corleone
forgive me if ever this is a off topic, how do i create this sample message, i want to change my motd default to this one, thanks :##:# :### :# :#:# :#:#:### :###:## :# :# :# # :# :#:# :#:# :#:#:# :#:# :# :# :# :#:# :#:# :#:# # :# :#:#:# :#:# :# :# :# :#:# :#:### :### :#:#:#:#:###

Re: newbie question

2004-01-19 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Monday, January 19, 2004 15:24:18 + marlon corleone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: forgive me if ever this is a off topic, how do i create this sample message, i want to change my motd default to this one, thanks :##:# :### :# :#:# :#:#:### :###:## :# :# :# # :# :#:# :#:# :#:#:# :#:#

Re: newbie question

2004-01-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 19 January 2004 09:25 am, Larry Rosenman wrote: --On Monday, January 19, 2004 15:24:18 + marlon corleone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: forgive me if ever this is a off topic, how do i create this sample message, i want to change my motd default to this one, thanks :##:#

RE: newbie question

2004-01-19 Thread Didier WIROTH
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: newbie question On Monday 19 January 2004 09:25 am, Larry Rosenman wrote: --On Monday, January 19, 2004 15:24:18 + marlon corleone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: forgive me if ever this is a off topic, how do i create this sample message, i want to change my motd default

Newbie question

2004-01-19 Thread Gafgo
Hello there! I am a newbie to FreeBSD but have read a lot of handbooks. I have also installed different versions on my old computer just to practice (incl 4.8, 4.9, 5.0, 5.1). Now I have bought a new computer and wanted to install 4.9 for real. But during boot up this happened: ad0: REAL command

NEWBIE QUESTION

2004-01-15 Thread Donald Turnbull
I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome GUI already installed? Do you have plans in making the installation more user friendly in the future? Donald M. Turnbull MCSE, MCDBA _ Let the new MSN Premium

Re: NEWBIE QUESTION

2004-01-15 Thread Rus Foster
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Donald Turnbull wrote: I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome GUI already installed? Do you have plans in making the installation more user friendly in the future? cd /usr/ports make search name=kde cd /usr/ports/x11/kdebase3 make install wait..

Re: NEWBIE QUESTION

2004-01-15 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:47:08 +, Donald Turnbull wrote: I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome GUI already installed? Already installed? No. A large number people want to run FreeBSD on their servers, and having a GUI on a server isn't usually a good or desired

RE: NEWBIE QUESTION

2004-01-15 Thread Philip Payne
I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome GUI already installed? Do you have plans in making the installation more user friendly in the future? Like any newbie I heartily recommend reading through the handbook under the documentation section of www.freebsd.org . I

Re: NEWBIE QUESTION

2004-01-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 15 January 2004 09:47 am, Donald Turnbull wrote: I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome GUI already installed? Do you have plans in making the installation more user friendly in the future? Donald M. Turnbull MCSE, MCDBA KDE and Gnome are on the

md5 newbie question

2003-12-06 Thread Marty Landman
Trying to verify a d/l before compiling: Swami: md5 -s 466c63bb71b710d20a5c353df8c1a19c /tmp/httpd-2.0.48.tar.gz MD5 (466c63bb71b710d20a5c353df8c1a19c) = 017b97dd023763b82a219bdfedd5cc29 MD5 (/tmp/httpd-2.0.48.tar.gz) = 466c63bb71b710d20a5c353df8c1a19c Swami: By eyeballing the first part of line1

Re: md5 newbie question

2003-12-06 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 09:59:07 -0500 Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to verify a d/l before compiling: Swami: md5 -s 466c63bb71b710d20a5c353df8c1a19c /tmp/httpd-2.0.48.tar.gz MD5 (466c63bb71b710d20a5c353df8c1a19c) = 017b97dd023763b82a219bdfedd5cc29 MD5 (/tmp/httpd-2.0.48.tar.gz)

Re: md5 newbie question

2003-12-06 Thread Marty Landman
At 02:48 PM 12/6/2003, Chris Pressey wrote: The -s 466c63bb71b710d20a5c353df8c1a19c part of your command is requesting an md5 hash of the literal string of characters 466c63bb71b710d20a5c353df8c1a19c. That's almost certainly not what you want, and will only serve to confuse. Ah, but you've now

Re: md5 newbie question

2003-12-06 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 16:52:42 -0500 Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Seems the problem here is that the md5 cmd's output is not simply the result string but a description of the cmd together with the result. If I need to do much of this guess a little pgm's called for. From man

Re: md5 newbie question

2003-12-06 Thread Marty Landman
At 05:55 PM 12/6/2003, Chris Pressey wrote: From man md5: -q Quiet mode - only the MD5 sum is printed out. #md5 -q httpd-2.0.48.tar.gz thing1 ; echo 466c63bb71b710d20a5c353df8c1a19c thing2 ; echo difference is `diff thing1 thing2` ; rm thing1 thing2 difference is Thanks Chris,

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 08:36:57PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: [Problems sending mail...] In a moment. First I'll say what I do know: - there is a /var/mail/Marty, empty - emails to Marty go to root's mailbox with the message user unknown I don't know much. :) I did sendmails to

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-30 Thread Marty Landman
At 04:14 AM 11/30/2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: Try changing your user account to 'marty' -- all lower case. Use vipw(8) to do that. In general under Unix, usernames are almost always all lower case and so are most host and domainnames. Ohhh, didn't know that. Thanks Matthew, this worked. The

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:48:18AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: However on unix systems, user 'Marty' is not automatically the same as user 'marty' or as user 'MARTY'. If I understand correctly you're saying that by and large, modern Unix systems are case sensitive but since email is not

sendmail newbie question

2003-11-29 Thread Marty Landman
I'm trying to understand how to configure sendmail on my fbsd box but hope this is on topic enough for the list. I can send an email from a user account to root and receive it fine, but can't send an email to the user account. Also there's mail for user www (apache's installed). What am I

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-29 Thread Steve Bertrand
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 18:10, Marty Landman wrote: I'm trying to understand how to configure sendmail on my fbsd box but hope this is on topic enough for the list. I can send an email from a user account to root and receive it fine, but can't send an email to the user account. Also there's

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-29 Thread Marty Landman
At 06:33 PM 11/29/2003, Steve Bertrand wrote: What command are you using to send the mail? FreeB sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello there . FreeB mail Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help. /var/mail/Marty: 0 messages q FreeB Are you sending to an actual domain on the box? Huh? (warned you I

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-29 Thread Marty Landman
Woops heh heh heh At 06:33 PM 11/29/2003, Steve Bertrand wrote: What command are you using to send the mail? FreeB sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello there [dot] FreeB mail Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help. /var/mail/Marty: 0 messages q FreeB Are you sending to an actual domain on

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-29 Thread Steve Bertrand
Woops heh heh heh At 06:33 PM 11/29/2003, Steve Bertrand wrote: What command are you using to send the mail? FreeB sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello there [dot] FreeB mail Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help. /var/mail/Marty: 0 messages q FreeB Are you sending to an

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-29 Thread Marty Landman
At 08:19 PM 11/29/2003, Steve Bertrand wrote: Are there any clues in /var/log/maillog? Paste the information from that log file here for review. In a moment. First I'll say what I do know: - there is a /var/mail/Marty, empty - emails to Marty go to root's mailbox with the message user unknown I

Newbie question with Squirrelmail 1.41 and IMAP

2003-11-24 Thread Matthew A. Lee
I just recently installed 4.9 on a fresh server. I was also installing squirrelmail 1.41 from the ports directory and also imap-uw (imap4rev1). I pointed my virtual server to the squirrelmail directory. I can get the login prompt, but when I login with a username and password, I receive an

Re: Newbie question with Squirrelmail 1.41 and IMAP

2003-11-24 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 10:34:40AM -0500, Matthew A. Lee wrote: I just recently installed 4.9 on a fresh server. I was also installing squirrelmail 1.41 from the ports directory and also imap-uw (imap4rev1). I pointed my virtual server to the squirrelmail directory. I can get the login

RE: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-15 Thread Gaston Benitez
! :) - Original Message - From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: yo _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 2:28 PM Subject: Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++ I would recommend not trying to learn C or C++ by yourself from a book. The fastest

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-14 Thread C. Ulrich
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 19:12, Scott W wrote: Books and references- C- Already mentioned, KR 'The C Programming Language' is 'the bible.' This is also generally a lousy book to start with if you aren't programming already, but an invaluable reference. Pick up another book, wish I knew a

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-12 Thread yo _
I would recommend not trying to learn C or C++ by yourself from a book. The fastest (and best way) to learn the right stuff is to take coursework from a university or community college. Not that I like disagreeing for no good reason, but I wholeheartedly disagree with that statement. If the

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-12 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 11/12/03 12:09 PM, yo _ sat at the `puter and typed: I would recommend not trying to learn C or C++ by yourself from a book. The fastest (and best way) to learn the right stuff is to take coursework from a university or community college. Not that I like disagreeing for no good reason,

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
I would recommend not trying to learn C or C++ by yourself from a book. The fastest (and best way) to learn the right stuff is to take coursework from a university or community college. If the courses are any good, you'll get feedback, and you'll be paced and challenged with projects

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-12 Thread Scott W
yo _ wrote: I would recommend not trying to learn C or C++ by yourself from a book. The fastest (and best way) to learn the right stuff is to take coursework from a university or community college. Not that I like disagreeing for no good reason, but I wholeheartedly disagree with that

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-11 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 11/10/03 07:12 PM, Scott W sat at the `puter and typed: Alex Kelly wrote: I need to buy a book on C or C++ to help me in FreeBSD. Which would be better to buy? I first thought a book on C would be best, because the OS is written in C. But, now I'm not sure because I read that gcc can

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-11 Thread Daniela
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 13:54, Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 11/10/03 07:12 PM, Scott W sat at the `puter and typed: Alex Kelly wrote: I need to buy a book on C or C++ to help me in FreeBSD. Which would be better to buy? I first thought a book on C would be best, because the OS is

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Monday 10 November 2003 23:23, Alex Kelly wrote: So, it sounds like I should probably tackle C before C++. Not really, there's need to learn C if you just want to learn C++. Any decent C++ book will teach you all you need to know without

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chris Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 10 November 2003 23:23, Alex Kelly wrote: So, it sounds like I should probably tackle C before C++. Not really, there's need to learn C if you just want to learn C++. Any decent C++ book will teach you all you need to know without learning

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Tuesday 11 November 2003 23:02, Lowell Gilbert wrote: each other. [There is a myth that C++ is a superset of C, but this is not really the case.] C++ is based on C. Any C code (providing it does not use certain key word that are reserved

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-11 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:28:32AM +, Chris Howells wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Tuesday 11 November 2003 23:02, Lowell Gilbert wrote: each other. [There is a myth that C++ is a superset of C, but this is not really the case.] C++ is based on C.

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-11 Thread paul van den bergen
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:54 am, Louis LeBlanc wrote: Wow, that's a fairly complete list. Agree completely on the C/C++ application/philosophical differences. The book list missed one very useful C++ book by Josutis, The C++ Standard I think. Don't have it handy. I agree with all said so far

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-11 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 11/12/03 01:37 PM, paul van den bergen sat at the `puter and typed: On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:54 am, Louis LeBlanc wrote: Wow, that's a fairly complete list. Agree completely on the C/C++ application/philosophical differences. The book list missed one very useful C++ book by Josutis, The

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-11 Thread abowhill
I need to buy a book on C or C++ to help me in FreeBSD. Which would be better to buy? I first thought a book on C would be best, because the OS is written in C. But, now I'm not sure because I read that gcc can compile C++ too (so, I'm assuming C++ must get used too). I can recommend Who's

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-11 Thread alexander v p
if i've got the msg, it seems u're sugesting to go to software uni and finish that instead c/c++ advice @ the end. back to the ?, i would go with C for starters. C++ later. alone, with books, lotsa {coffee|oj|pepsi|...|..} and good luck. coursework can help if you have time/money. $0.0153 alex

Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-11 Thread abowhill
A decent school will start you with C as an introduction to programming then teach you basic C++ (you write your own abstract data types). On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 8:17pm alexander v p [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if i've got the msg, it seems u're sugesting to go to software uni and finish that

Another Newbie Question: C or C++

2003-11-10 Thread Alex Kelly
I need to buy a book on C or C++ to help me in FreeBSD. Which would be better to buy? I first thought a book on C would be best, because the OS is written in C. But, now I'm not sure because I read that gcc can compile C++ too (so, I'm assuming C++ must get used too). Does it even matter?

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