RE: When Unix Stops Being Fun

2004-10-03 Thread steveb99
I think what you are going through is something people go through no matter what their career path is. I would say when you reach that point is when you have to decide is this something I want to do for the next n years. The first part of my life I was a musician and did all sorts of gigs from

RE: IP address conflicts

2004-10-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bart Silverstrim Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 12:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IP address conflicts On Oct 2, 2004, at 2:27 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The

Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun

2004-10-03 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Saturday 02 October 2004 08:50 pm, Dave Vollenweider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has nothing to do with technical problems, but rather it's more of a request for moral support. This may seem disjointed, so bear with me. I've been using FreeBSD for over six months now, but I've been

The FreeBSD Diary: 2004-09-12 - 2004-10-02

2004-10-03 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

Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun

2004-10-03 Thread bsdfsse
Ironically, I'm switching to FreeBSD because I'm already tired. My bones are aching from years of abuse. I'm tired of.. ..being told what I can and can't do with my computers. Did you know many scanners and photocopiers cannot reproduce money? Apparently the US government has worked with

python 2.2.3

2004-10-03 Thread Kirk Bailey
Got a problem; my server was upgraded, and now runs python 2.2.1. BUT, that vesion has a bug. The attempt to upgrade to the next and presumably repaired version failed. My friend and mentor reccomeded this on icq: Well. You can always go to FreeBSD.org. Find out who the package maintainer is

Re: IP address conflicts

2004-10-03 Thread Martin Paredes
Well, you could move all of the servers onto a separate network to any of the individual client machines (and make sure that the server network isn't accessible from any of the network ports your clients have access to, clearly). That way, even if one of your pet idiots decides to

OpenOffice 1.1.3 package

2004-10-03 Thread Markie
Hi all I just installed OpenOffice 1.1.3, via a package, on -CURRENT from a few days ago. pkg_add complained about not being able to find XFree86 and imake 4.3.0 (I think) and perl - which is odd because I do have perl installed - so I used -f to force it. However, when I try and run

Re: vinum

2004-10-03 Thread Peter Schuller
drive a device /dev/ad0 drive b device /dev/ad3 ... ** 1 Can't initialize drive a: Operation not supported by device ... illuminating. Is this a common problem? How do I fix it? I've made sure that the disks in question have been labeled using disklabel -e as vinum volumes. What else?

Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun

2004-10-03 Thread Glenn Sieb
bsdfsse said the following on 10/3/2004 3:12 AM: Ironically, I'm switching to FreeBSD because I'm already tired. My bones are aching from years of abuse. I'm tired of.. MuchSnippage Hear Hear!! ..of Linux distributions with fatal flaws. I went on a giant search to pick the perfect Linux

Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun

2004-10-03 Thread Michal Pasternak
Ted Mittelstaedt [Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:46:05PM -0700]: As an analogy - there's lots of people that know how to pull into a service station and add air to their car tires. But out of all those people that have learned how to do this only a tenth of them know that tire pressure rises when

Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun

2004-10-03 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I had a glance at that list you refer to and the article it refers to. Don't worry, you don't need to know and learn all that: copy files to and from a floppy disk?? I don't even remember when I had a computer with a floppy drive. On the other hand, the vi editor? Well, I have known people

Mail server questions (SMTP Auth, Imap and virtual domains)

2004-10-03 Thread Wayne Pascoe
Hi all, I've got a mail setup doing virtualhosts as described at http://www.penguinpowered.org/documentation/exim_virtualhosting.html My users can pull their mail down with POP, but have to use their ISP's SMTP server for outgoing mail. I'd like to do two things at this stage, and I'd

Re: apache - how to redirect page not found

2004-10-03 Thread Chris Howells
On Sunday 03 October 2004 00:10, David Banning wrote: I notice on some web sites when you try to load a page that does not exist, it directs the users browser to another page. How do I set that up in apache? If you have PHP installed, you can use the following PHP code: ?php header(Location:

HP LaserJet 1000

2004-10-03 Thread
. HP LaserJet 1000 (USB) System FreeBSD 5.2.1 printer HP LaserJet 1000 PIII-1000/RAM 128/HDD 80/CD-ROM/ CUPS 1.1.21 cat sihp1000.dl /dev/ulpt0 input/output error lpinfo -v network socket network http network ipp network lpd direct parallel:/dev/lp1 serial

Tips for Teachers Issue 226

2004-10-03 Thread Weekly Teacher Tip Newsletter
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plone 2.0.4

2004-10-03 Thread Monah Baki
Hi All, Once I upgraded ports on my 4.10 server and installed from ports plone-2.0.4, I login as admin and try to click on the sharing tab, I get an error: You do not have sufficient privileges to view this page. If you believe you are receiving this message in error, please send an e-mail to

Addendum: When Unix Stops Being Fun

2004-10-03 Thread Dave Vollenweider
I thank you all for your responses so far. I actually meant to post my original message to FreeBSD Newbies, but I posted it here by mistake. Since the damage has been done, I may as well continue. I just wanted to clarify a few things about where I'm coming from: 1) I'm not actually going

Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun

2004-10-03 Thread MikeM
On 10/2/2004 at 10:50 PM Dave Vollenweider wrote: | I came across this page: | http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/8/13/131727/462 and | I'm overwhelmed by the sheer amount of knowledge I'd have to gain. = That page is ridiculous. You do not need to know all those items. You

Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun

2004-10-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 01:57:11PM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote: I have found that the most valuable skill a good SA has is LAZINESS! Yup, but beware, there are two kinds: You can be lazy in the sence that you only do what is absolutely necessary and postpone it as much as posible - this is the

Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun - some advice

2004-10-03 Thread TM4525
Some Advice, There are many things in life that seem like daunting tasks, some of them worthwhile, some not. But its the goal beyond the task that should be the deciding factor. Learning unix is not a reason. Its like saying you want to have children just for the sake of having them. Why do you

SMTP Authentication

2004-10-03 Thread Mike Jeays
How do I tell sendmail to provide an authentication string when I ask it to send messages to my ISP (a cable provider)? They use PLAIN authentication, and I did not have too much trouble getting the base 64 string by snooping with Ethereal when I sent mail from Evolution, and can send out emails

xorg DPMS weirdness with laptop

2004-10-03 Thread Markie
I had to patch the trident driver which does the whole turn off backlight thing for the CyberBlade (which is what my laptop, unfortuantly, has) and this works with xset dpms force off/suspend/standby. However, if I just leave it alone it's still doing it's old behavior of making the screen black

Thunderbird not displaying mails in IMAP-folder

2004-10-03 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello everyone, I recently set up a Courier-IMAP server (version 3.0.5) in my local network. I want to use Thunderbird 0.7.3 running on FreeBSD 5.2.1 to connect to the server. Basically, this works. But when new mails arrive in the mailbox, Thunderbird only indicates them in the folder tree,

portversion / ruby is broken after updating ports

2004-10-03 Thread robg
I update my ports every couple of days, and there were only a small amount today that needed to be updated, so I ran the cvsup to update ports file I then typed `portsdb -Uu` and this came up: server# portsdb -Uu Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..*** Error code 1 1

Re: OpenOffice 1.1.3 package

2004-10-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 11:24:34AM +0100, Markie wrote: Hi all I just installed OpenOffice 1.1.3, via a package, on -CURRENT from a few days ago. pkg_add complained about not being able to find XFree86 and imake 4.3.0 (I think) and perl - which is odd because I do have perl installed - so

Re: Thunderbird not displaying mails in IMAP-folder

2004-10-03 Thread Radek Kozlowski
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:43:41PM +0200, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: Hello everyone, I recently set up a Courier-IMAP server (version 3.0.5) in my local network. I want to use Thunderbird 0.7.3 running on FreeBSD 5.2.1 to connect to the server. Basically, this works. But when new mails

Re: portversion / ruby is broken after updating ports

2004-10-03 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 03 October 2004 11:45 am, robg wrote: I update my ports every couple of days, and there were only a small amount today that needed to be updated, so I ran the cvsup to update ports file I then typed `portsdb -Uu` and this came up: server# portsdb -Uu Updating the ports index ...

PHP5-GD and X11 requirement

2004-10-03 Thread Roop Nanuwa
I'm trying to add GD support into my PHP5 install and I'm utterly confused by one thing. For some reason, GD has a dependency on X. Why is that? This is a server that doesn't even have a monitor plugged in, what features of X does the PHP GD module require? It seems rather ridiculous to me that

Re: SMTP Authentication

2004-10-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 11:02:08AM -0400, Mike Jeays wrote: How do I tell sendmail to provide an authentication string when I ask it to send messages to my ISP (a cable provider)? They use PLAIN authentication, and I did not have too much trouble getting the base 64 string by snooping with

Firewalk Port Broken

2004-10-03 Thread Phusion
I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1. I tried to install the firewalk port and this is what I got. I got the dependencies of libdnet and libnet-devel installed before trying firewalk. %pwd /usr/ports/security/firewalk %sudo make === Building for firewalk-5.0_1 Making all in src cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.

Re: Thunderbird not displaying mails in IMAP-folder

2004-10-03 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Radek Kozlowski wrote: You'll need to configure courier-imap with: --enable-workarounds-for-imap-client-bugs to make Mozilla/Thunderbird work. -Radek Thanks a lot! Seems to work now. =) Kind regards, Benjamin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: PHP5-GD and X11 requirement

2004-10-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 12:44:54PM -0700, Roop Nanuwa wrote: I'm trying to add GD support into my PHP5 install and I'm utterly confused by one thing. For some reason, GD has a dependency on X. Why is that? This is a server that doesn't even have a monitor plugged in, what features of X does

Re: IP address conflicts

2004-10-03 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 3, 2004, at 2:11 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: locking your dorm room Yup. This is self-defense in any college setting, there's too many juveniles around. Well, that's the point of college today...real life without the real life consequences :-) It's training for taking responsibility,

Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun

2004-10-03 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 2, 2004, at 11:50 PM, Dave Vollenweider wrote: This has nothing to do with technical problems, but rather it's more of a request for moral support. This may seem disjointed, so bear with me. Alt.sysadmin.recovery? :-) I've been using FreeBSD for over six months now, but I've been using

Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun

2004-10-03 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 3, 2004, at 3:12 AM, bsdfsse wrote: Ironically, I'm switching to FreeBSD because I'm already tired. My bones are aching from years of abuse. I'm tired of.. ..being told what I can and can't do with my computers. Did you know many scanners and photocopiers cannot reproduce money?

Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun

2004-10-03 Thread TM4525
In a message dated 10/3/04 4:31:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Excuse me while I shred it before the Secret Service comes knocking on my door... Is the secret service in charge of counterfiting now? (as you can see no formal education is required to be an SA)

Re: OpenOffice 1.1.3 package

2004-10-03 Thread Markie
- Original Message - From: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Markie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 7:56 PM Subject: Re: OpenOffice 1.1.3 package On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 11:24:34AM +0100, Markie wrote: Hi all I just installed OpenOffice 1.1.3,

Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun

2004-10-03 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 17:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 10/3/04 4:31:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Excuse me while I shred it before the Secret Service comes knocking on my door... Is the secret service in charge of counterfiting now? (as you can

Re: NDISulator (aka. Project Evil) wmp54gs w. bcm4306

2004-10-03 Thread K. Greenwood
--- Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 01 October 2004 03:46 pm, K. Greenwood wrote: Quick question. Where do queries regarding Bill Paul's NDISulator go? I have seen some to current, hardware, mobile. Or even better, a howto (the best I have seen thus far is:)

Re: OpenOffice 1.1.3 package

2004-10-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 10:34:30PM +0100, Markie wrote: This must be an old package, because 4.3.0 hasn't been in the ports collection for some months now. Kris Do you think that might be the cause of my infinate 100% CPU loop thing? Should I try hunting around for something done using

replacing a failed drive with hardware raid ...

2004-10-03 Thread Marc G. Fournier
never having done it before, I don't know how to do it :( vinum is easy ... replace the drive, make sure its partitioned right and start it ... I have an IIR controller, with the storcon utility from the command line ... drive 3 has failed, and I have a 'good drive' in slot 6 that is sitting

making a script for folding@home

2004-10-03 Thread jason
I have [EMAIL PROTECTED] and wanted to make a startup script for it. I saw another folding client in the ports, but I wanted to tweak the script a little to help my comp run quietly. If I could I would like to run my comp 24x7, but I can't do it right now because I have a hard drive that

FreeBSD interrupt dispatch

2004-10-03 Thread Haidong Xia
Hello all, I am trying to do some experiments in which I need to insert some codes before an interrrupt is dispatched. But I don't know where I should insert the codes. Basically, when an interrupt arrives, the kernel needs to call the corresponding interrrupt handler. I need to insert some

Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun

2004-10-03 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004, Mike Jeays wrote: On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 17:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 10/3/04 4:31:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Excuse me while I shred it before the Secret Service comes knocking on my door... Is the secret service in

MPD and logging...

2004-10-03 Thread Eric Crist
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I'm looking to have some better logging in MPD. Currently, it seems to log nearly everything. The only thing I can find about disabling logging in this application involves an interactive 'shell' where I can disable certain logging. I

MPD VPN questions...

2004-10-03 Thread Eric Crist
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I have MPD setup to create pptp VPN. I have a couple of questions. 1) How do I make traffic coming from a host that's connected to the VPN look like it's coming from a VPN IP address? Currently it comes from their real, i.e. public IP

Load increase after upgrading php4

2004-10-03 Thread Bjorn Swift
Early September I upgraded php4 using the new php port structure (that is php4 and php4-extensions). Since then I have noticed quite an increase in server load - I'd say my current load is about five times what it was before. Graph available here: http://bjorn.swift.is/tmp/hermes-uptime-year.png

lpd remote printing

2004-10-03 Thread Incoming Mail List
I have two FreeBSD v5.2.1 systems and a Windows XP system. The first FBSD system (192.168.1.1) is acting as the print server and using apsfilter as the filtering software. The Windows XP box prints to the .1 system through SAMBA. Both the FBSD .1 server and the Windows box print fine. Text is

Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun (pushing the thread even more OT)

2004-10-03 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: As a purely theoretical question - is it possible to be guilty of an offence by being in possession of a digital image of a currency bill? At what resolution does it become an offence? Hello, This exactly answers your questions:

Port Freeze

2004-10-03 Thread Raman
Hi, I thought this port freeze was only supposed to last 2 weeks from Sept 3rd. Just wondering what is taking so long. - Raman ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

nfs server not responding / is alive again

2004-10-03 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I'm using an nfs mount to get at the underlying file system on a system that uses unionfs mounts ... instead of using nullfs, which, last time I used it over a year ago, caused the server to crash to no end ... But, as soon as there is any 'load', I'm getting a whack of: Oct 3 22:46:16 neptune

Re: Port Freeze

2004-10-03 Thread Gerard Samuel
Raman wrote: Hi, I thought this port freeze was only supposed to last 2 weeks from Sept 3rd. Just wondering what is taking so long. Until portmanager says so. 5.3 is still being tested, so when things settle down, things are as they are for the time being...

Booting to CD and the handing off to HD

2004-10-03 Thread Cristobal Miguelo
Hello, I'm going to be working on a firewall box where I want to boot to CD and run an integrity check on the Hard Drive. If the Hard Drive checks out OK, I want the CD to then hand off to the hard drive and boot the hard drive. Is that possible? What man pages and/or web pages should I read

RE: IP address conflicts

2004-10-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bart Silverstrim Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 12:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IP address conflicts On Oct 3, 2004, at 2:11 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: locking your

FreeBSD4.4,Maxtor 200Gb: slice extends beyond end of disk

2004-10-03 Thread .
Hi, FreeBSD zloy 4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #14: Mon Jan 26 10:36:37 MSK 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/vasa i386 Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 200Gb ATA133 HDD Sep 30 13:43:48 zloy /kernel: ad1: 131071MB Maxtor 6Y200P0 [266305/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA100 .. Sep 30 13:47:30