Re: using samba for backups

2004-03-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 07:32:51PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: There was an article around a couple of years ago I think about some disgruntled MS employee who put code into W95 to make it crash after 41 days or something.The funny part of course was how nobody interviewed could even

Sound

2004-03-14 Thread Teilhard Knight
I just checked my post with header: no sound, and I didn't mean to send that. Lately Outlook express is not playing fair with me. Here is what I wanted to send: Now, I did my homework. I did exactly what the Handbook says, but I cannot make my Creative Platinum Live SoundBlater card to produce

Data recovery.

2004-03-14 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I've just had a disk (pretty much) fail on me. I'd been suspect of it for some time now, but finally confirmed it with a reinstall to 5.2.1 when GEOM started removing it for me ;) Some more tests with smartmontools (http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/) indicate read failures at the same

vinum messages

2004-03-14 Thread Ben
i just set up my first software RAID-1 setup. everything seems to run great, but i'm getting a messages at reboot on the console: Mar 4 18:02:21 archer1 /kernel: Mar 4 18:02:21 archer1 reboot: rebooted by too r Mar 4 18:03:10 archer1 /kernel: vinum: /dev is mounted read-only, not rebuildin g

Re: Binary upgrades?

2004-03-14 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 05:37:56PM +0100, Kai Grossjohann wrote: I wonder if this could be made easier. I'd be surprised if there wasn't a method of doing binary upgrades already. For example, if we decided to track releases, would that enable us to

Re: Pernicious problem with vfork / qmail / qmail-scanner (RESOLVED)

2004-03-14 Thread Justin Baugh, KSC
Happen to catch this, this morning... Good dig on this.. Tcpserver *defaults* to a maximum of 40 simultaneous connections, so this could very well be where your problem is.. Sorry, should have thought of this earlier. You can raise this limit with the -c n (n=number) option.. Please see

RE: Sound

2004-03-14 Thread Dan MacMillan
Put the following line in /boot/loader.conf: snd_emu10k1_load=YES You shouldn't need to compile pcm into your kernel -- there's a kld for it. It won't hurt though. - Danny MacMillan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Teilhard Knight Sent:

Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?)

2004-03-14 Thread Steven N. Fettig
I have two workstations I use (one at home and one at work) connected via a private DSL link that each have the directories /home/me. I want to run a cron job to sync the directories (bi-directionally). Rsync seems to work only in one direction (I know I could set up the script on both

Re: Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?)

2004-03-14 Thread Craig Reyenga
Is NFS an option? It does mean that the client will have slower file access, but it would appear to do exactly what you are after... Hope this at least partially helps. -Craig - Original Message - From: Steven N. Fettig [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 14,

Re: Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?)

2004-03-14 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Port net/unison. Kai ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?)

2004-03-14 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004, Steven N. Fettig wrote: I have two workstations I use (one at home and one at work) connected via a private DSL link that each have the directories /home/me. I want to run a cron job to sync the directories (bi-directionally). Rsync seems to work only in one direction (I

Re: FreeBSD in the travelling industry

2004-03-14 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 04:58:46PM -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: jsha wrote: Are there anyone out there with experience in using Open Source software on top of FreeBSD to manage a travel agency? I have searched through Google and Freshmeat without

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 locks up during installation CD boot

2004-03-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having a problem booting FreeBSD 5.2.1 using a 5.2.1 release CD. The system hangs when mounting the / partition on md0. (memory disk i think) I never make it to the gui installer. It does work if i use safe mode. System hardware: Athelon XP

Re: user setup question

2004-03-14 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 10:58:05AM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 03/13/04 04:29 PM, Lars Eighner sat at the `puter and typed: On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Louis LeBlanc wrote: [..] That is exactly what I'm trying to do. I did find the login.access file, but it didn't seem to work. I set the

PPP Question - should be easy...

2004-03-14 Thread Chris Knipe
Hi all, I was just wondering, I run ppp from rc.conf with -ddial, and it is working brilliantly. However, I need to change ppp configurations quite frequently, is there a quick way to tell ppp to reload the configuration without killing it? I am specifically looking to change values in the

RE: PPP Question - should be easy...

2004-03-14 Thread JJB
Killall ppp followed by ppp -ddial xxx Where xxx is the section header name in the ppp.conf you want to exec. User ppp always reads the default: section name, just add other section names containing your different values. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[OT] sed question

2004-03-14 Thread Steven N. Fettig
Sorry for posting an off-topic question to the list, but this is somethin that has been driving me nuts for weeks now and I can't figure it out. I want to pass a text file through sed that replaces all whitespaces with a carriage return. I.e., if I have the file my_test_text_document.txt

Re: Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?)

2004-03-14 Thread Steven N. Fettig
Bill Campbell wrote: snip I would do this with two rsync runs from one machine cd $directory rsync -e ssh -vaurP ./ $remote:$directory rsync -e ssh -vaurP $remote:$directory/ . Better yet, set up the directories in the rsyncd.conf files on each machine: cd $directory rsync -vaurP ./

Re: Warning in fstream header file

2004-03-14 Thread Gregory Harris
Ah, I found that upgrading from freebsd 5.1 to 5.2.1 fixes this issue. Thanks Greg On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 07:53, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Gregory Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello. I'm not sure if this is the appropriate spot to ask, but I don't seen any alternative places since it is

Re: [OT] sed question

2004-03-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 04:30:40PM -0600, Steven N. Fettig wrote: Sorry for posting an off-topic question to the list, but this is somethin that has been driving me nuts for weeks now and I can't figure it out. I want to pass a text file through sed that replaces all whitespaces with a

Re: [OT] sed question

2004-03-14 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Steven N. Fettig wrote: I can't figure out what the newline character is... I've tried \n \r \, etc. with no avail. I run the following: sed 's/[ ]/\n/g' my_test_text_document.txt From the sed man page: 2. The escape sequence \n matches a newline character embedded

log rotation

2004-03-14 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Quick questions: I've run across some mumblings in the ClamAV lists about Clamd not logging anymore (or not scanning anymore?) when the maximum logfile size is reached. Is anyone in FreeBSD running this, and if so, are you using Newsyslog to rotate the logs? What are your settings (how would I

Re: [OT] sed question

2004-03-14 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Steven N. Fettig wrote: I can't figure out what the newline character is... I've tried \n \r \, etc. with no avail. I run the following: sed 's/[ ]/\n/g' my_test_text_document.txt From the sed man page: 2. The escape sequence

Re: ssh

2004-03-14 Thread Robert Storey
Can machine B ping the other machine? Even if it can, you might still be blocking ssh (port 22) with your firewall (if you've installed a firewall on B). If you do have a firewall, shut it down temporarily and then see if ssh works. regards, Robert On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 10:37:01 -0600 (CST)

Re: vinum messages

2004-03-14 Thread Greg Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Messages wrapped. On Sunday, 14 March 2004 at 14:07:37 -0500, Ben wrote: i just set up my first software RAID-1 setup. everything seems to run great, but i'm getting a messages at reboot on the console: Mar 4 18:02:21

Re: [OT] sed question

2004-03-14 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Rob Ellis wrote: This works with sed in /bin/sh and ksh: sed -e 's/ */\ /g' my_test_text_document.txt I.e., escape an actual newline. I used to do that, or include an actual newline in a script, but it just seems wrong from maintainability and readability standpoints.

Re: Mounting a 4.5R FS during 5.2.1 installation

2004-03-14 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 10:56:34AM -0500, Charles Bacon wrote: Situation: An old remotherboarded PC, Tomato, has an old 4.5R on a 20GB disk. I also have an unused 2940 SCSI controller and a 2GB SCSI disk. On my LAN there's another old remoboed box, Daisy, with a functioning CD. I tried

Re: vinum messages

2004-03-14 Thread Ben
sorry i didn't use the proper format, and sorry for being a dumb user. i eventually figured it out, i hadn't read the Gotcha's section of your man page. for those who are interested: i took the volume offline, reset the configuration (somehow one of my subdisks had gotten into a state where it

Re: Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?)

2004-03-14 Thread Stephen Liu
On Monday 15 March 2004 04:10, Bill Campbell wrote: I would do this with two rsync runs from one machine cd $directory rsync -e ssh -vaurP ./ $remote:$directory rsync -e ssh -vaurP $remote:$directory/ . Hi Bill, Is the option -P --partial -- progress means 'incremental'??? What will

Installing 5.1.2 on Samsung X30 laptop

2004-03-14 Thread Ali
Hello, I've tried installing 5.1.2 on my samsung X30 Laptop without success : It timeout when trying to mount md0. I've tried disabling many options in bios but nothing changed! Could you help me with that? Cordially, Ali Mdidech. ___ [EMAIL

howto serve vnc ipv4

2004-03-14 Thread mario
on freebsd 4.9 kde 3.2 or less for that matter i only get desktop sharing (vnc:5[98]00) on ipv6 does anyone now how to get this to work on ipv4 thanx mario; - - - - - - - - House Of Sites - - - - - - - - Web Design :: Programming :: Hosting :: Maintenance Web site:

[OT?] write C program with UTF16LE

2004-03-14 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. Although I write some php/perl script, I don't write C program. Now I have a very large text file in UTF16LE format, the rule is strings are seperated by numbers. Say 0300 6100 6200 6300 0400 6700 5400 9800 7400 0300 Leading 0300 means the following 3 characters (6 bytes) is a

pkg_update missing?

2004-03-14 Thread Jason Zimberoff
Hello all. I am very new to FreeBSD - so apologies for being a newbie and all... Here is my uname output: FreeBSD freeBSD.comcast.com 5.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 16 22:16:53 GMT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 I have tons of questions, but I will

Deskjet 3320

2004-03-14 Thread Owen Becker
Greetings All, Anyone managed to get an HP Deskjet 3320 working under FreeBSD 5.2.1? It's nicely plugged in, previously recognised and printed upon by windows 2000. It's also sadly not working. Dmesg reports: ulpt0: hp deskjet 3320, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2, iclass 7/1 ulpt0: using bi-directional

Re: pkg_update missing?

2004-03-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 11:00:53PM -0600, Jason Zimberoff wrote: Hello all. I am very new to FreeBSD - so apologies for being a newbie and all... Here is my uname output: FreeBSD freeBSD.comcast.com 5.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 16 22:16:53 GMT 2003 [EMAIL

Re: Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?)

2004-03-14 Thread Steven N. Fettig
-P appears to allow you to show progress graphically with the -v switch also chosen. I think his example: cd $directory rsync -e ssh -vaurP ./ $remote:$directory rsync -e ssh -vaurP $remote:$directory/ . was meant to look like: cd $directory rsync -e ssh -vaurP ./ $remote:$directory rsync -e

weird USB mass storage problems

2004-03-14 Thread Alexei Khalimov
Hello, all! Got external USB2 disk 80Gb drive, which is detected as: uhci0: Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller port 0x10a0-0x10bf irq 9 at device 7.2 on pci0 usb0: Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00,

Re: Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?)

2004-03-14 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 15 March 2004 04:10, Bill Campbell wrote: I would do this with two rsync runs from one machine cd $directory rsync -e ssh -vaurP ./ $remote:$directory rsync -e ssh -vaurP $remote:$directory/ . Hi Bill, Is the option -P --partial --

Well-supported gigabit cards under 4-stable?

2004-03-14 Thread Tillman Hodgson
Howdy, I found a few threads on this topic in google, but they were from a while ago (-stable and hardware are both moving targets, after all). I'm interesting in seeing what low-cost gigabit cards are supported under -stable and which cards might be recommended. I'm looking specifically at the

Re: Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?)

2004-03-14 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004, Kai Grossjohann wrote: ... Explaining the trailing slash is more difficult. I just remember a rule of thumb: if you want to copy directories with rsync, always specify a trailing slash. On both the source and the destination. Of course, man rsync has the full story... I

Re: Well-supported gigabit cards under 4-stable?

2004-03-14 Thread Craig Reyenga
I have two Intel Pro1000MT's, and they work flawless. I can say with a straight face that I have never had a problem with them. They have only been used with one another over a crossover cable, so I can't speak for how well they play with switches or other brands. I beleive NCI (ncix.com) has them

Re: Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?)

2004-03-14 Thread Stephen Liu
- snip - Is the option -P --partial -- progress means 'incremental'??? -P is the same as specifying both --partial and --progress. --progress means to show a progress meter. Normally, if you interrupt rsync while it is transferring a file, rsync will delete the partially

using Firefox Thunderbird already, I can I delete Mozilla Suite.

2004-03-14 Thread Rommel B. IKEDA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am presently using Mozilla Firefox as my Internet Browser and Mozilla Thunderbird as my Email Client... I used to be using Mozilla Internet Client Suite and it is still installed... I was wondering, should I desire to pkg_delete Mozilla 1.6