Re: GD from ports on FreeBSD 4.9

2004-04-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 23), Wayne Pascoe said: On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 10:49:33AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Apr 22), Wayne Pascoe said: gdft.c:485: `FT_ENCODING_MS_SYMBOL' undeclared (first use in this function) Make sure your freetype is up-to-date (2.1.7_3

Re: Specifying sort fields

2004-04-23 Thread Dan Nelson
]... DESCRIPTION Write sorted concatenation of all FILE(s) to standard output. and a bit farther down: With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. I agree that examples would be nice. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: MRTG from ports

2004-04-23 Thread Dan Nelson
, and reinstall the SNMP_Session port. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Jail and spammass-milter (sendmail/spamassassin)

2004-04-23 Thread Dan Nelson
and then run spamass-milter with -p inet:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Return Delivery of Mail I've never Sent

2004-05-12 Thread Dan Nelson
been forging the sender address for years). -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sharing Linux swap space on FreeBSD 4.9

2004-05-12 Thread Dan Nelson
not configured I poked around my kernel config file, and changed the NSWAPDEVS variable to 2; still no luck. You sure swap is on primary fdisk partition 4, and not extended partition 1 (aka s5) ? I think Linux will create an extended partition rather than use up all four primaries. -- Dan

Re: interupts

2004-05-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 10), Kenneth Culver said: Quoting stan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there a way, in FreeBSD 4 STABLE, to determine what a given machine's intrupt (PCI intrupt assignment) ussage is? dmesg | grep irq Also vmstat -i -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: JDK14 for FreeBSD

2004-05-09 Thread Dan Nelson
, you can uninstall the linux one. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tr A-Z a-z

2004-05-07 Thread Dan Nelson
that it depends on my special environment settings. A different user doesn't have this problem. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: arp issues...but WHY

2004-05-04 Thread Dan Nelson
connections. This is the problem. You don't have two networks and since both NICs are on the same network, it complains. Kent How are these not different networks? Could you explain? What would I need to do to MAKE then different? Two switches. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Where is nss_files.so.1?

2004-05-04 Thread Dan Nelson
using FBSD 5.2.1, cvs'ed and compiled today (4 May 2004). As far as I know, there is no nss_files.so on FreeBSD. The 'files', 'dns', 'compat', and 'nis' sources are built into libc. Samba shouldn't be looking for it. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Oddball package and portupgrade

2004-05-14 Thread Dan Nelson
the instructions in the man page by putting in a +IGNOREME into the package's directory (/var/db/pkg/adptfbsd_304/) but I still get the same error. How can I get portupgrade to ignore this installed package? I just renamed the package to adptfbsd-304 myself :) -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL

Re: Disk full / NFS, df, and du

2004-05-16 Thread Dan Nelson
(at least) rename open files that are unlinked to .nfs# until the last process closes the file, and then they delete it. If you've got unlinked files held open, it's got to be on the server itself. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Disk full / NFS, df, and du

2004-05-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 17), Eric Anderson said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (May 16), Eric Anderson said: I have a few large NFS file servers, holding about 1Tb of diskspace each. I break those logical disks (it's on a hardware RAID) into partitions, and share them. My users

Re: Manually starting RCng scripts disabled in rc.conf

2004-05-17 Thread Dan Nelson
to control everything, but if I have to enable them all in rc.conf and then manually stop them after each boot, I'll most likely end up writing my own non-RCng wrapper scripts for each app. :( forcestart should do what you want, I think. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Manually starting RCng scripts disabled in rc.conf

2004-05-17 Thread Dan Nelson
/whatever.sh.notnow start and stop it again in the obvious way. I'd be interested to know what the drawbacks to this approach are. The only drawback to that is if you upgrade the port, it'll stick a new copy of whatever.sh in rc.d for you. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ls(1) crashes

2004-05-17 Thread Dan Nelson
10 is a Bus Error and is usually due to bad memory or improper overclocking. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: MOM (more on milters) - Checked by AntiVir DEMO version -

2004-05-17 Thread Dan Nelson
and the milter most likely don't agree on where the socket is. If they agree and sendmail is started before the milter, you'll get warnings from sendmail but once the milter starts up everything will work. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: threaded processes

2004-05-18 Thread Dan Nelson
to the kernel. Under 5.x the default is to use kernel-supported threads, which are visible to ps, top, et al. If you're really curious, the pstack command in ports will show all the threads in a process on 4.x (and 5.x if you use libc_r). -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Max NFSD processes

2004-05-19 Thread Dan Nelson
does the last nfsd process have? If your backend storage is a RAID with lots of disks, and your last nfsd is actually getting some use, then bumping up the nfsds will probably help. Although if you're hitting a kernel bottleneck (locking for example), more nfsds won't do any good. -- Dan

Re: memory allocation/deallocation (malloc experts needed)

2004-05-20 Thread Dan Nelson
. With MALLOC_OPTIONS set to jz (i.e. no filling of freed memory), it takes .184 seconds to free them all. With it set to J, it takes 1 second. CPU: Intel Pentium III (909.96-MHz 686-class CPU) -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h #include sys/time.h #include

Re: Perl and Linux Compatibility

2004-05-20 Thread Dan Nelson
a FreeBSD version of that shared library, or build/install a Linux version of Perl and use that. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Long filename question on burning CD

2004-05-21 Thread Dan Nelson
; they enable the Joliet and Rock Ridge extensions, which will attach Windows and Unix filenames to each entry in the ISO image. See the mkisofs manpage for more info. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: sigset_t

2004-05-24 Thread Dan Nelson
: sigset_t sig; sigemptyset(sig); sigaddset(sig, SIGALRM); -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: How to decrease the loader wait-time?

2004-05-24 Thread Dan Nelson
? I kind of figured it would be found in the Handbook, I haven't found it. Pointers welcome. /boot/loder.conf: beastie_disable=YES autoboot_delay=2 works for me. The variables are defined in the loader manpage (not loader.conf, which only describes the syntax). -- Dan Nelson

Re: Question regarding reported directory sizes.

2004-05-25 Thread Dan Nelson
, and you'll see it shrink down. The truncation code is in the file create codepath, not the delete one (which means it's not constantly trying to shrink the directory as you delete files). -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Question regarding reported directory sizes.

2004-05-25 Thread Dan Nelson
. echo Creating 1 file. Directory should shrink by 50% touch 1 ; ls -ld . echo Deleting last file rm 10500 ; ls -ld . echo Creating another file. Directory should shrink to one frag touch 10001 ; ls -ld . rm 1 10001 -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: fputs

2004-05-26 Thread Dan Nelson
); ... } Try adding an fflush(stdout) at the end of that code block. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Porting ALSA drivers to OSS may be easy, according to OSS ;)

2004-05-26 Thread Dan Nelson
internally. Porting a Linux ALSA driver to FreeBSD is probably about as easy as porting a Linux OSS driver. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: NFS server fail-over - how do you do it?

2004-05-31 Thread Dan Nelson
to move an active server to standby. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Issues with large files on nfs-mounted filesystems?

2004-06-03 Thread Dan Nelson
. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: interleaved swap? (5.2.1)

2004-06-04 Thread Dan Nelson
swap devices, so it's meaningless now. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: termcap vs terminfo

2004-06-05 Thread Dan Nelson
shouldn't have any problems. If you want to be portable across all systems, I think some commercial systems' curses libraries don't do color, so you'll have to check for that. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: setting up a system with no keyboard

2004-06-05 Thread Dan Nelson
to a machine on the same subnet. Just make sure the ip address you pick isn't already in use. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: lseek problem

2004-06-06 Thread Dan Nelson
SEEK_SET itself, does it? -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Top Consistency

2004-06-08 Thread Dan Nelson
understanding wrong? The %WCPU and %CPU columns are weighted averages over ~60 seconds, while the CPU states row is an instantaneous snapshot, so they will almost never total up. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Net::LibIDN

2004-06-09 Thread Dan Nelson
. No, it doesn't; ldconfig is used by the run-time linker (ld-elf.so.1), not the compile-time linker (ld, usually via gcc). What's missing is a -L/usr/local/lib someplace, which is one reason that using ports is a good idea: ports know where their dependencies live :) -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL

Re: FreeBSD use for SANs ?? Reasonable ?

2004-06-10 Thread Dan Nelson
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Re: A project that requires a 'heartbeat' type application

2004-06-10 Thread Dan Nelson
on FreeBSD boxes and works fine. 1.2.2 looks like it builds but doesn't fail the IP over correctly. I am currently using it to flip between two mysql servers doing master-master replication. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL

Re: swap size and zombie

2004-06-12 Thread Dan Nelson
the parent process (PPID column), and fix the bug in it :) -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aix

2004-06-12 Thread Dan Nelson
much. In other words, Unix knowledge will help, but not as much as it might for other Unix-like systems. Pay attention at the course :) -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: unlocking stale nfs? adding -t to running nfsd?

2004-06-13 Thread Dan Nelson
). Is there a way to tell a running nfsd to start accepting tcp connections? Just bounce nfsd after changing nfs_server_flags in rc.conf. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: unlocking stale nfs? adding -t to running nfsd?

2004-06-13 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 13), Palle Girgensohn said: --On Sunday, June 13, 2004 15:00:47 -0500 Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Jun 13), Palle Girgensohn said: I should really do this mount with tcp, of course, but found no way to get a running nfsd to also start

Re: spamassassin, clamav with sendmail - not scanning local mails.

2004-06-14 Thread Dan Nelson
fetching tools to inject messages to localhost port 25 or 587 instead of execing sendmail. Fetchmail should do this by default (it will fall back to execing sendmil if the port isn't open); not sure about the others. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ucom* at uftdi? does not work with getty

2004-06-14 Thread Dan Nelson
of ucom.c. That looks like it will convert ucomX to a callin device. A correct fix would probably be to copy all the code in dev/sio/sio.c related to the devs array to ucom.c, and name the devices ttyuX and cuauX instead of ucomX. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: CPU frequency

2004-06-15 Thread Dan Nelson
machdep.tsc_freq to get the exact clock rate in Hz. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is PERC4/Di supported under FreeBSD 5.2.1?

2004-06-17 Thread Dan Nelson
) But if you click on the amr(4) link, the manpage does list Dell PERC 4/Di as one of the cupported controllers, so it is supported on FreeBSD 5.x. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 - Joke-only release ? April Fools ??

2004-06-19 Thread Dan Nelson
two lines that repeat continuously: A line that starts with: spec_getpages A line that starts with: vm_fault: pager One of the lines ends with: 0xc4866000 (can't tell which) One of the lines contains: md0: I/O read failure My only guess is your mfsroot floppy might be bad. -- Dan

Re: read vs. mmap (or io vs. page faults)

2004-06-20 Thread Dan Nelson
before the userland process needed it. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Regarding FreeBSD proc entries

2004-06-21 Thread Dan Nelson
for examples. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: read vs. mmap (or io vs. page faults)

2004-06-21 Thread Dan Nelson
be a lot easier for read to do this, since the kernel is getting a steady stream of syscalls. Once a 64k chunk of mmapped address space is pulled in, the system isn't notified until the next page fault. (or am I misunderstanding how readahead is implemented on mmapped data?) -- Dan Nelson

Re: Reinstalling And /usr

2004-06-21 Thread Dan Nelson
to the partition editor, set it up, write, reboot, and you're done. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Sendmail for Large Sites

2004-06-22 Thread Dan Nelson
could write programs in assember, but most people use a higher-level language. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: three libtools - portupgrade question

2004-06-22 Thread Dan Nelson
versions, it'll just reinstall it. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Network configuratin issue

2004-06-23 Thread Dan Nelson
/20010211.freebsd-net -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Migrating cvs repositories from Linux to FreeBSD

2004-06-23 Thread Dan Nelson
matter. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Coping and Pasting from console

2004-06-24 Thread Dan Nelson
# Set to your mouse port. allscreens_flags=-m on # Enable mouse for all virtual screens and reboot. Left button selects, middle pastes, right adjusts an existing seelction. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: setting LPT1 to polled mode via acpi

2004-06-29 Thread Dan Nelson
to the IRQ setting and mentions some HP printers not working in IRQ mode. I commented the relevant line in /boot/device.hints and rebooted no change. Use the lptcontrol command to switch between polling and interrupt mode. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: user is not logger in, but who claims something else

2004-06-29 Thread Dan Nelson
. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Repost : Anybody having any knowledge of VirTool.DOS.Sfc ?

2004-06-29 Thread Dan Nelson
Almost certainly a false detection. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Booting with Grub

2004-07-01 Thread Dan Nelson
partition's bootblock. root(hd0,1) chainloader +1 -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GBDE

2004-07-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 01), DrVince said: Hi everyone, is there an ETA for GBDE to move in the stable branch? GBDE is based on GEOM, which is too large of a subsystem to be backported to 4.x. It'll be available in -STABLE when the stable tag gets shifted to the 5.x branch :) -- Dan

Re: Getting swap info without kvm access

2004-07-02 Thread Dan Nelson
? If not, why is that one piece of info not available through a sysctl() call? It is in 5.x. The kvm_getswapinfo() function reads the vm.swap_info sysctl when getting status on a live system. You'll just have to install the applet setgid kmem to get swap info on 4.x. -- Dan Nelson

Re: LVM ? (not vinum!)

2004-07-04 Thread Dan Nelson
with already, but it just does not seem to exist. Vinum lets you resize volumes by concatenating plexes, and then you can run growfs to expand the filesystem into the new space. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: `top` process memory usage: SIZE vs RES

2003-09-12 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 12), Jesse Guardiani said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 11), Jesse Guardiani said: 2.) What, exactly, is RES? `man top` describes it as this: RES is the current amount of resident memory, but does that mean RES is included in SIZE

Re: `top` process memory usage: SIZE vs RES

2003-09-12 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 12), Jesse Guardiani said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 12), Jesse Guardiani said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 11), Jesse Guardiani said: 2.) What, exactly, is RES? `man top` describes it as this: RES is the current

Re: Mozilla 1.5b and FreeBSD

2003-09-15 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 15), Martin Hudec said: is there any possibility to install Mozilla 1.5b to FreeBSD other than using Linux binary compatibility (I don't know anything about that)? cd /usr/ports/www/mozilla-devel make install -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Skey Login, telnet ssh

2003-09-16 Thread Dan Nelson
ChallengeResponseAuthentication No to your ssh config file. This may work on 5 too. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: fbsd fibre channel SANs

2003-09-17 Thread Dan Nelson
-server links are high-bendwidth. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recompiled kernel PRERELEASE: top command gives rubbish output !?!

2003-09-17 Thread Dan Nelson
here at some point? If so, any idea where and when ? Things that want to dig into kernel data will need rebuilding. lsof and strace are the only ones I can think of offhand. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: Where is 4.5, 4.6, etc. on the FTP sites ?

2003-09-18 Thread Dan Nelson
was removed from the ftp sites. Do you have to pay for the space taken up by your faucet handles? Try www.freebsdmirrors.org for a list of sites that have the disk space to keep old releases. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL

Re: Cat a directory

2003-09-18 Thread Dan Nelson
files, database files, and audio files? No OS does that by default. Maybe you should teach them how to reset their terminals when they cat binary data; ^Jreset^J should work, assuming your TERM variable is set right. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Where is 4.5, 4.6, etc. on the FTP sites ?

2003-09-18 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 18), Josh Brooks said: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Dan Nelson wrote: Do you have to pay for the space taken up by your faucet handles? Try www.freebsdmirrors.org for a list of sites that have the disk space to keep old releases. Thank you - this is much appreciated

Re: File deletion problem

2003-09-19 Thread Dan Nelson
on the process holding the fd. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can't find -ldl ...

2003-09-20 Thread Dan Nelson
() family of functions are included in libc. Remove -ldl from the Makefile and report this bug to the Resin coders. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: help with installing a program

2003-09-20 Thread Dan Nelson
that it can take advantage of libiconv. cd /usr/ports/devel/gettext make install will automatically install GNU iconv first. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Unix timestamp

2003-09-22 Thread Dan Nelson
BST 2003 $ date -r 1064293551 +%s 1064293551 $ date +%s 1064294819 -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: WD drivers: Gone completely in 5.x?

2003-09-23 Thread Dan Nelson
won't work on, maybe you could ship one to Soeren and let him take a look at it? -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Message format *again* (was: Why mplayer in FreeBSD 5.1 behave not so good as Debian in my computer?)

2003-09-26 Thread Dan Nelson
as a hint that the next line is a logical continuation. Lines not ending in a space are not flowed, so it's easy to specify what text will be flowed and what won't. I'd use it myself if I can ever get around to hacking joe's paragraph-reformat function to add the trailing spaces.. -- Dan

Re: Q: Compiles for wrong processor and it still worked

2003-09-28 Thread Dan Nelson
/make.conf 686, pII, p3, and p4 are all basically the same instruction set. the later versions add more MMX and SEE operations, and I don't believe gcc generates code that uses them. The different arch flags probably just change the instruction timing tables. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL

Re: iftop

2003-09-29 Thread Dan Nelson
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Re: Ports : Mozilla / Mozilla-devel

2003-09-30 Thread Dan Nelson
probably have to rebuild all the ports that depended on the old gettext. The portupgrade tools minimize this risk by preserving old shlibs in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg, so you can upgrade dependant ports at your leisure. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: SCSI DAT tape drive

2003-09-30 Thread Dan Nelson
going from memory as I'm not at the machine right now). Is this the normal device to reference when reading/writing to the scsi dat tape drive ? Yes; /dev/sa0 for the first tape drive. If you want, you can symlink /dev/rmt to /dev/sa0 :) -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: newbie question - how to pass textfile as an argument

2003-10-01 Thread Dan Nelson
% /otherdir/ -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Headless question

2003-10-01 Thread Dan Nelson
special measures. You may also want to enable the serial console, so you can remotely reboot the machine if it hangs on you. I believe all that you need is to add console=comconsole to /boot/loader.conf, and possibly also enable logins on /dev/ttyd0 in /etc/ttys. -- Dan Nelson

Re: Need a Makefile expert.

2003-10-01 Thread Dan Nelson
expands to, plus .o. Try removing $(SHADOW_M).o from both lines above? -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Archives

2003-10-02 Thread Dan Nelson
://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/, but I find http://freebsd.ramblers.ru/ more intuitive. Most of the lists are also available at gmane.org and groups.google.com, and you can fetch the raw archive files for offline searching from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/ -- Dan

Re: init / (idle) CPU USAGE

2003-10-03 Thread Dan Nelson
0 12 ?? RL9:27AM 509:10.58 (idle) You can't kill it. It's a pseudo-process that runs when no other processes are runnable. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Issues mirroring drives with Vinum in FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE

2003-10-04 Thread Dan Nelson
a bug in Mail.app. It should allow the user to specify which lines to wrap. The format=flowed spec allows for mixed wrapped and unwrapped text, but apparently few wsywig editors add the user-interface for it. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Anyone using Linux-PAM on 5.x?

2003-10-04 Thread Dan Nelson
, because nothing is pluggable. And Huh? So all the /usr/lib/libpam_*.so files are just there for show? -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Pointer please

2003-10-05 Thread Dan Nelson
memory with 0xd0 (see the malloc manpage). See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/52907 for a patch that will let you distinguish freed vs malloced memory, and pinpoint the exact allocation that's causing you trouble. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: malloc() behavior (was: Pointer please)

2003-10-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 05), Robert Huff said: Dan Nelson writes: Could be one of two problems. The program either malloced memory and tried to use it without zeroing it, or it freed some memory and tried to keep using it. In -current, the malloc has the J debugging flag set, which

Re: malloc() behavior (was: Pointer please)

2003-10-05 Thread Dan Nelson
it with a set value, or leave it. Programs exhibiting weird behaviour under any of those three cases are broken. Most debugging mallocs will trigger it, purify will probably catch it (never used it), and valgrind under Linux will definitely catch it. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Squid and newsyslog

2003-10-07 Thread Dan Nelson
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Re: bgfsck - message won't go away

2003-10-07 Thread Dan Nelson
any filesystems actually require checking or not. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mkisofs file too large?

2003-10-07 Thread Dan Nelson
rejects files over 2^31 bytes: tree.c:1520 if (S_ISREG(lstatbuf.st_mode) (lstatbuf.st_size = (off_t)0x7FFF)) { errno = EFBIG; errmsg(File %s is too large - ignoring\n, whole_path); -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: problems with pam_ldap - ssh and file attributes

2003-10-08 Thread Dan Nelson
, and dns; you can build a dynamic one, or step up and write an nscd daemon that static binaries can connect to for nss lookups :) -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: I dont have the sources in /usr/src ..how do i get the sources from Net .

2003-10-08 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 09), Shrikant said: cvsup is the easiest way. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/cvsup.html has instructions. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Keeping maillogs

2003-10-10 Thread Dan Nelson
the maillog line, raise the 'count' value, and remove the Z (or J) flag. See the newsyslog manpage for more info. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Redirect to /dev/null

2003-10-10 Thread Dan Nelson
fd1 - /dev/null fd2 - stdout 21 fd1 - /dev/null fd2 - /dev/null -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

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