RE: Which Laser Printer for FreeBSD

2004-09-19 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tim Aslat Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 9:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can usually pick these units up at auction for around the $20 mark, or sometimes less. Mine came with a second paper tray

The FreeBSD Diary: 2004-08-29 - 2004-09-18

2004-09-19 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list

Samba Configuration Options for small 2-3 person office?

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

Re: Please explain.

2004-09-19 Thread Julian Elischer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2 Major Issues: - FreeBSD has a processor affinity design issue thanks for the non combatative and diplomatically styled message? - The core kernel issues with FreeBSD is the horrible threading support.There is so much crap in FreeBSD kernel. The multithreading issue in

Re: Please explain.

2004-09-19 Thread Julian Elischer
I never saw this email from timh so I'm replying to this reply instead.. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: processor affinity design issue.. i.e.. processes stay on the cpu they are spawned on..which is a big problem for mysql which explains why it performs better on other systems. yes We ALL

Re: Please explain.

2004-09-19 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your taking it the wrong way, I was simply asking a question to the developers to confirm this. I have standardized on FreeBSD. I apologized if I made it seem like I was trolling, not my intention. If a business were to standardize on FreeBSD, they would love to know if

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

2004-09-19 Thread rruegner
Hi, i never seen this , cause i am installing from bins, but you can do it all without nocups cause using this parameters later depends only on your entries in the smb.conf, but it will be nice to have the choice. Regards W. D. schrieb: After 'make install', this appears: l samba

Re: Regarding Boot failure

2004-09-19 Thread Nagilum
If it does not continue from there (did you press return?) something went wrong during the installation process because apparently the kernel is not where the bootloader expects it. Try to do the install again and make sure the bootloader is installed on the right place. The handbooks install

Re: Please explain.

2004-09-19 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Martin P. Hellwig wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cut Well, fair enough but it still comes down to if you have a other OS which does what you need than use that OS. SMP support is only one thing to consider. But perhaps you require the BSD license for you biz? Actually I'm not very knowledged

Re: DVD question...

2004-09-19 Thread arden
On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 06:48, Vulpes Velox wrote: On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 22:44:14 -0400 Glenn Sieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey list! I'm a BSD guy for servers such. My own server (wingfoot) runs 4.10-STABLE, and my last job was 95% FreeBSD in the data center. I'm getting sick of

Re: Apache+mod_ssl + mod_php segfault (culprit found!)

2004-09-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 12:07:38AM -0500, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: This sounds to me very much like you've got the mod_php loadable object linked against an incompatible version of a shlib which apach+mod_ssl is also linked to. At a guess: i) I'd

MDaemon Warning - virus found: Permanent Delivery Failure

2004-09-19 Thread MDaemon
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Re: Automating FreeBSD Installation(s)...

2004-09-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 04:11:06PM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote: I've read several articles out there that address different means to automate (or standardize, for internal purposes) FreeBSD installations. One article (which was older) spoke of scripting sysinstall via an install.cfg with

Re: Apache+mod_ssl + mod_php segfault (culprit found!)

2004-09-19 Thread Vonleigh Simmons
Matthew Seaman wrote: It certainly seems that you are right as usual, Matthew. Removing openssl.so from /usr/local/lib/php/20020429 and restarting Apache works (no core dump!) Unfortunately this didn't work for me. Deleted the file and still apache dumps on me. Try setting

Re: 4.10, Jails, apache and FIN_WAIT_1

2004-09-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 10:48:15PM +0100, Rob wrote: The problem is, I'm getting a lot of stalled connections when accessing the webserver. running netstat on the host shows e.g.: tcp4 0 0 jade.http 212.57.246.42.35590FIN_WAIT_1 tcp4 0 0 jade.http

Re: core dump with portupgrade

2004-09-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 04:55:38PM -0500, Anthony Philipp wrote: Hello, when I was trying to upgrade my laptop with the latest ports this is what happened. (16:50:29) [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/philipp1 1# portupgrade -arR Stale dependency: ORBit-0.5.17_1 -- gettext-0.12.1 -- manually run

Native Mozilla-Firebird build via ports?

2004-09-19 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello everyone, I recently got myself a broadband internet connection and happily started upgrading a lot of software on my machine. Among others, I wanted to upgrade MozillaFirebird. Before the upgrade I used FireBird 0.7. Then I deinstalled the package - I really don't remember where I got the

Re: Native Mozilla-Firebird build via ports?

2004-09-19 Thread yuri van Overmeeren
'Firebird' is now called 'Firefox', you dont have to build it, Native version is in the packages (version 0.9.3) -yuri Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: Hello everyone, I recently got myself a broadband internet connection and happily started upgrading a lot of software on my machine. Among others, I

Re: winxp freebsd dual boot with freebsd on second HD

2004-09-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 05:20:35PM -0700, Abe Olson wrote: The instructions say: Other operating systems, in particular Windows® 95, have been known to overwrite an existing MBR with their own. If this happens to you, or you want to replace your existing MBR with the FreeBSD MBR then use

Re: kernel ident

2004-09-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 07:10:43PM -0600, John Shelton wrote: the kernel configuration file contains the option 'ident.' is the value of ident hardcoded into the kernel? just curious. thanks. Yes it is, but indirectly. The 'ident' setting should be the same as the filename you use for the

Re: Native Mozilla-Firebird build via ports?

2004-09-19 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hi, On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 14:10:15 +0200 yuri van Overmeeren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'Firebird' is now called 'Firefox', you dont have to build it, Native version is in the packages (version 0.9.3) Oh, yes, I remember... ooops... should've thought of that... Thank you very much, Benjamin --

Re: Please explain.

2004-09-19 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 18), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Your taking it the wrong way, I was simply asking a question to the developers to confirm this. I have standardized on FreeBSD. I apologized if I made it seem like I was trolling, not my intention. If a business were to standardize

Ssh connection

2004-09-19 Thread Pota Kalima
I am having trouble connecting TO my base machine which runs release 5.2.1 from 2 other machines (Mac OS X, and Windoz). I can connect to the OS X machine FROM this base machine as well as from the windoz machine. When attempting connection from OS X I get the following message: Yes Master? ssh

Re: KDE / kdegraphics3 Build Failure

2004-09-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 10:48:33PM -0600, Michael G. Goodell wrote: When I did a make install clean on the /usr/ports/x11/kde3 port it built for a quite a while then died with this error: /usr/local/include/kjs/lookup.h:96: warning: non-static const member `const char* const

ATAPICAM - cdrecord will not recognize my DVD burner

2004-09-19 Thread BSDjunkie
FreeBSD Enthusiasts, I have been using cdrecord since I built my system. I have an Asus A7N8X delux motherboard, AMD 3200+ cpu, 2G of ram and (2) 15,000 rpm scsi drives. I recently bought a Toshiba DVD+r/-r burner, which I replaced my DVDr/CDRW drive with. The new drive is detected at bootup:

Re: Question

2004-09-19 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 08:16:39PM -0400, Hotmail wrote: I Bought from you FreeBSD 4.10 v, my main concern after I installed it in my laptop I have trouble defining my network wireless card Linksys wireless -B and the network, How can I do that?. Also Do I need the device wi0?, and how can I

Re: panic: rtqkill route really not free

2004-09-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 01:40:12AM -0400, NetAdmin wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2 and today was the second time in 3 days that my box has rebooted with (panic: rtqkill route really not free). I've looked on the web but can't find anything relevant. Has anyone else run across

lastlog

2004-09-19 Thread John Lee
Dear guys, How do i retrieve last login details for JUN-2004 as I can only see SEP-04 now.. last | grep user -- only shows SEP i guess How can i get JUNE? Thanks! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Ssh connection

2004-09-19 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Are you running a firewall? On Sep 19, 2004, at 8:28 AM, Pota Kalima wrote: I am having trouble connecting TO my base machine which runs release 5.2.1 from 2 other machines (Mac OS X, and Windoz). I can connect to the OS X machine FROM this base machine as well as from the windoz machine. When

TROLLING!! (Re: Please explain.)

2004-09-19 Thread Bill Moran
Look. It's simple. Don't come on to a FreeBSD mailing list calling FreeBSD names, and then get upset when people call you a Troll. If you don't like how FreeBSD works or how it's being developed, use something else, or help the developers improve it. Otherwise, get the hell off this mailing

iam looking for the php5 java extensions

2004-09-19 Thread Thomas May
does anyone know if a php5 java extension port is available. thanx thomas --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.762 / Virus Database: 510 - Release Date: 13.09.2004 ___

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

2004-09-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 02:28:22AM -0500, W. D. wrote: After 'make install', this appears: l samba configuration options qk x x x Please select desired options: x x lqqk x x x

Re: Please explain. (What is HawkinsOS?)

2004-09-19 Thread Technical Director
Err, maybe you should use ... HawkinsOS??? T.J.HAWKINS Secure, Stable, Supported Operating System... I really enjoyed that. Maybe this inquiry is to get the developers to work out HawkinsOS, whatever version of FreeBSD you sed'd s/FreeBSD/HawkinsOS/g, problems with multi-threading? My troll

Portupgrade error

2004-09-19 Thread Mike Jarsulic
I am getting the following error while running portupgrade: # portupgrade -arC [Updating the pkgdb format:bdb1_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 302 packages found(-0 +5) . done] /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:323:in `deorigin': cannot convert nil into String (PkgDB::DBError)

Re: lastlog

2004-09-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 09:05:11PM +0800, John Lee wrote: How do i retrieve last login details for JUN-2004 as I can only see SEP-04 now.. last | grep user -- only shows SEP i guess How can i get JUNE? Look at the saved copies of wtmp under /var/log. Hmmm... By default newsyslog(1) is

deleting mails

2004-09-19 Thread susmit sarkar
Dear Sir/Madam, I know that the question I am asking might sound very stupid. But it has me really perplexed. It relates to Unix mail. I use the d command to delete mails. Like d message_number or d message-list But sometimes I find that the mails get deleted and sometimes not. I want the

IP Firewall blocks cvsup

2004-09-19 Thread Rob
Seems to work with everything else incl. ftp. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Rob. block in log all pass out all pass out on lo all pass in on lo all pass out quick on bfe0 proto tcp/udp from any to any port 1024 pass in quick on bfe0 proto icmp all icmp-type 0 pass in quick on bfe0 proto

Re: XFree86-4 config issue

2004-09-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Don't top-post, please. http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html digish reshamwala [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After reducing the secure lever I was able to configure the XFree86 by using #XFree86 -configure then #cp XF86Config.new /etc/X11/XF86Config (Copying it in common

Re: /var/db/pkg/cups-base-1.1.20.0/+CONTENTS: No such file or directory

2004-09-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi folks, I don't know what I have done to cause this, but now every use of the various portutils results in this message: /var/db/pkg/cups-base-1.1.20.0/+CONTENTS: No such file or directory That files does indeed not exist, althoug the directory

Frustration: the only thing mounting with NFS client :-)

2004-09-19 Thread lost gweilo
Hi there, I am trying to access an NFS server (Debian Linux, host name lg) from my FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE system (host name gw) on my LAN. My basic system info: gw# uname -mnprs FreeBSD gw 4.10-STABLE i386 i386 It doesn't seem to work: gw# mount -v -t nfs lg:/mnt/tt/music /root/uu

Re: /var/db/pkg/cups-base-1.1.20.0/+CONTENTS: No such file or directory

2004-09-19 Thread Andy Smith
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 09:58:26AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Andy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know what I have done to cause this, but now every use of the various portutils results in this message: /var/db/pkg/cups-base-1.1.20.0/+CONTENTS: No such file or directory [...]

kdepim on 5.3-beta4

2004-09-19 Thread messmate
Hello, i've installed rel 5.3-beta4 but can't install kdepim :( Everething else of kde is installed and runs. Kdepim is needed for several utilitys like keyboard, etc.. Anyone know how to install it ? Thanks in advance -- Amicalement mess-mate ___

Re: DVD question...

2004-09-19 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
arden wrote: On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 06:48, Vulpes Velox wrote: the thing i think is missing is a *nix answer to dvd2one Arden What features of dvd2one? I googled for and read the website, I don't see anything overly impressive. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please explain.

2004-09-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It appears that FreeBSD have a clear Multi-threading lock-in issue that needs to be fixed. Not work arounds. According to many freebsd developers nobody simply wants to fix this, is it true that the current smp work are just 'work-arounds' not real fixing? Did David

Re: Please explain.

2004-09-19 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 16:57:00 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) wrote: Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It appears that FreeBSD have a clear Multi-threading lock-in issue that needs to be fixed. Not work arounds. According to many freebsd developers nobody simply wants to fix

Re: Please explain.

2004-09-19 Thread Tom Rhodes
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 17:14:22 +0200 Miguel Mendez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 16:57:00 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) wrote: Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It appears that FreeBSD have a clear Multi-threading lock-in issue that needs to be fixed. Not

Re: DVD question...

2004-09-19 Thread Glenn Sieb
Vulpes Velox said the following on 9/19/2004 1:48 AM: I'm pretty sure I can find AVI/MPEG editing packages for BSD easy enough. avidemux, mplayer, ffmpeg should take care of nearly all of your needs Yup--as I said... :) But I'm having a dickens of a time finding something that will let me

Re: Please explain.

2004-09-19 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
Tom Rhodes wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 17:14:22 +0200 Miguel Mendez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 16:57:00 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) wrote: Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It appears that FreeBSD have a clear Multi-threading lock-in issue that needs to be fixed.

Re: ATAPICAM - cdrecord will not recognize my DVD burner

2004-09-19 Thread Fabian Keil
On Sunday 19 September 2004 14:55, BSDjunkie wrote: I have been using cdrecord since I built my system. I have an Asus A7N8X delux motherboard, AMD 3200+ cpu, 2G of ram and (2) 15,000 rpm scsi drives. I recently bought a Toshiba DVD+r/-r burner, which I replaced my DVDr/CDRW drive with.

Re: Ssh connection

2004-09-19 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Sep 19, 2004, at 05:28, Pota Kalima wrote: I am having trouble connecting TO my base machine which runs release 5.2.1 from 2 other machines (Mac OS X, and Windoz). I can connect to the OS X machine FROM this base machine as well as from the windoz machine. What happens if you try to ssh to the

Re: Ssh connection

2004-09-19 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Sep 19, 2004, at 05:28, Pota Kalima wrote: I am having trouble connecting TO my base machine which runs release 5.2.1 from 2 other machines (Mac OS X, and Windoz). I can connect to the OS X machine FROM this base machine as well as from the windoz machine. What happens if you try to ssh to the

Re: Please explain.

2004-09-19 Thread timh
Mr. Watson, you have addressed my questions greatly and I do agree that it will take years to successfully tackle the issue but when FreeBSD has had less funding than Linux it's obvious that it's developers have made huge progress and that I'm proud of. Your response was alot better than yelling

Re: Ssh connection

2004-09-19 Thread Pota Kalima
On 19/9/04 5:56 pm, Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 19, 2004, at 05:28, Pota Kalima wrote: I am having trouble connecting TO my base machine which runs release 5.2.1 from 2 other machines (Mac OS X, and Windoz). I can connect to the OS X machine FROM this base machine as

Re: Ssh connection

2004-09-19 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Sep 19, 2004, at 10:17, Pota Kalima wrote: On 19/9/04 5:56 pm, Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens if you try to ssh to the machine from itself? KeS Tried to ssh to machine itself and got the following: $ Ssh 192.168.0.5 The authenticity of host '192.168.0.5 (192.168.0.5)' can't

Re: Omni Drivers for a Canon Printer

2004-09-19 Thread Ned Harrison
Thank you very much! I did not find Omni drivers though. However, I did find very detailed instructions on how to modify the default configuration for a Canon S800 printer that is using gimp-print drivers that makes an Canon S520 run. So I decided to give it a shot. I found in the Gimp-print

Re: Ssh connection

2004-09-19 Thread Pota Kalima
On 19/9/04 6:24 pm, Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 19, 2004, at 10:17, Pota Kalima wrote: On 19/9/04 5:56 pm, Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens if you try to ssh to the machine from itself? KeS Tried to ssh to machine itself and got the following:

Re: Please explain. (What is HawkinsOS?)

2004-09-19 Thread timh
Ok, I just wanted an answer and I already got a *few* good answers and I DONT WANT A WAR. Yes, HawkinsOS is FreeBSD 5.x based and the goal is to donate back to the community, but this is irrelevant! The questions were not even over HawkinsOS. Let's all refrain from starting a huge arguement I

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

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

Samba 'make install' chokes on textproc/expat2

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

Re: Samba 'make install' chokes on textproc/expat2

2004-09-19 Thread Jens Holmqvist
it is rekommended to install Samba 3.0.7 instead since 2 series of samba is obsolete and for the problem you will have to send some error message On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 14:17:30 -0500, W. D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't get Samba 2.2.11 to install. Has anyone encountered a problem with

Re: ATAPICAM - cdrecord will not recognize my DVD burner

2004-09-19 Thread Matt Navarre
On Sunday 19 September 2004 09:51, Fabian Keil wrote: On Sunday 19 September 2004 14:55, BSDjunkie wrote: I have been using cdrecord since I built my system. I have an Asus A7N8X delux motherboard, AMD 3200+ cpu, 2G of ram and (2) 15,000 rpm scsi drives. I recently bought a Toshiba

Re: deleting mails

2004-09-19 Thread Richard Lynch
susmit sarkar wrote: I know that the question I am asking might sound very stupid. But it has me really perplexed. It relates to Unix mail. I use the d command to delete mails. Like d message_number or d message-list But sometimes I find that the mails get deleted and sometimes not. I want

Re: DVD question...

2004-09-19 Thread Richard Lynch
Glenn Sieb wrote: But I'm having a dickens of a time finding something that will let me author DVDs. Any pointing in directions or help would be greatly appreciated! By 'author' you mean 'burn', right?... Or are you talking about compiling your mpeg files into a DVD file system? I *THINK*

Re: Please explain.

2004-09-19 Thread timh
My question regarding the 2 extremely major flaws in FreeBSD are being addressed as I have learned from mature FreeBSD developers, due to my question. Therefore many linux-fanatics who are focussed on an only-linux world will no longer be able to use this issue. These two stop-gap items will be

Re: Ssh connection

2004-09-19 Thread Rob
Pota Kalima wrote: On 19/9/04 6:24 pm, Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 19, 2004, at 10:17, Pota Kalima wrote: On 19/9/04 5:56 pm, Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens if you try to ssh to the machine from itself? KeS Tried to ssh to machine itself and got the

Need help with dying drive/restoring data

2004-09-19 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
Hi all, Help! My laptop drive seems to be dying, and while I did keep backups, the last one was a bit old. When I boot up, the drive makes clanking sounds I've never heard before, and never finishes the load. I'm going to make a rescue disk, but does anyone have a strategy for how I could

los+found - INODE Addres and filename

2004-09-19 Thread Joachim Dagerot
Suddenly when I started my system the disk check flagged ALL (I mean all, including directory) files of a user as errenous and started to unlink them. I init 1 and unounted the volume and ran fsck direct on it. Then it created a lost+found directory and after a few millions 'y' 'enter' key

Re: Ssh connection

2004-09-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sep 19, 2004, at 10:17, Pota Kalima wrote: On 19/9/04 5:56 pm, Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens if you try to ssh to the machine from itself? KeS Tried to ssh to machine itself and got the following: $ Ssh

Re: deleting mails

2004-09-19 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
susmit sarkar wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I know that the question I am asking might sound very stupid. But it has me really perplexed. It relates to Unix mail. I use the d command to delete mails. Like d message_number or d message-list But sometimes I find that the mails get deleted and sometimes

Re: DVD question...

2004-09-19 Thread Glenn Sieb
Richard Lynch said the following on 9/19/2004 4:41 PM: But I'm having a dickens of a time finding something that will let me author DVDs. Any pointing in directions or help would be greatly appreciated! By 'author' you mean 'burn', right?... No. I said 'author' I meant 'author' not 'burn'

raid5 setup

2004-09-19 Thread Roisin Murphy
hi I'm thinking about buying three 160GB ata or sata drives and setting up RAID5. The first question is, is it true that the ata command set has nothing to tell the state of the write cache and is this the same with sata drives? Since i'm not concerned with the performance of that array, all that

Re: Multihead Consoles in FreeBSD?

2004-09-19 Thread Dr. Sichendra Bista
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:08:02 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday, 19 September 2004 at 20:20:08 +0545, Dr. Sichendra Bista wrote: I would love to explore if there are some people around who are working on or created multihead consoles in FreeBSD as stated at

disabling USB in install kernel

2004-09-19 Thread russell
Hi all, I'm trying to get FreeBSD installed on a Sony VAIO U50, but the install kernel never gets past probing the USB devices and I can't for the life of me work out how to disable USB. In OpenBSD I boot -c to bring up the user kernel config and then disable uhci* and all is good, but the

Re: Need help with dying drive/restoring data

2004-09-19 Thread Subhro
Which media do you intend to backup to? If I were in your place, I would just tar the /home and the /etc and put it on a USB drive or on a CDR/DVDR if you have a burner. However, Are you sure that the drive is fixed firmly into the drive bay and you are seating the laptop on a sturdy base?

Re: ATAPICAM - cdrecord will not recognize my DVD burner

2004-09-19 Thread BSDjunkie
--- Fabian Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 19 September 2004 14:55, BSDjunkie wrote: I have been using cdrecord since I built my system. I have an Asus A7N8X delux motherboard, AMD 3200+ cpu, 2G of ram and (2) 15,000 rpm scsi drives. I recently bought a Toshiba DVD+r/-r

Re: Ssh connection

2004-09-19 Thread Subhro
On 19 Sep 2004 20:32:15 -0400, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sep 19, 2004, at 10:17, Pota Kalima wrote: On 19/9/04 5:56 pm, Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens if you try to ssh to the machine from itself?

Re: ATAPICAM - cdrecord will not recognize my DVD burner

2004-09-19 Thread BSDjunkie
--- Matt Navarre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: device atapicam You also need devicecd Thank you for the info! I didn't think it was no longer a kernel conf option since I didn't see it in the NOTES file (replacement for LINT??) and thought it should have been loaded

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

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

Re: couldn't map memory

2004-09-19 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : The bfe_attach function which is getting registered with the Device as a : callback is being called, and eventually reaches the line where it : attempts to do: : sc-bfe_res = bus_alloc_resource(dev, SYS_RES_MEMORY,