Re: confusing printing error

2004-05-13 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:53 PM -0500 5/13/04, Eric Crist wrote: Hey list, I re-ran the apsfilter setup routine, and now my printer seems to work fine, except I can only print with: # lpr -Paps1 file I can't print from Kmail, or anything else, as I get the following error: A print error occurred. Error message

Re: dual processor and FreeBSD 4.9

2004-05-10 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:16 PM +0200 5/10/04, Vivailsud Staff Member wrote: Hello, I am in trouble with FreeBSD 4.9p, I have got dual processor server (2 x Pentium II 400MHz) and I would like that FreeBSD could be able to use the both of them. I have read that you need to compile the kernel once again, but I would

Re: Strange pkg_info output

2004-05-25 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:01 PM -0400 5/25/04, Chuck Swiger wrote: Jorn Argelo wrote: Recently I came across something which kind of bothered me. Every time when pkg_info removes and/or registers a package it gives this output: pkg_info: package bsdpan-DBD-mysql-2.9003 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package

Re: Strange pkg_info output

2004-05-25 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:49 PM -0400 5/25/04, Chuck Swiger wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: [ ...snip thread about pkg_info: ... has no origin recorded messages... ] In my case, it was happening on something that I had always upgraded via ports portupgrade. It was not bsdpan (which I do not even have

Re: Strange pkg_info output

2004-05-26 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:41 PM -0400 5/25/04, Chuck Swiger wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 4:49 PM -0400 5/25/04, Chuck Swiger wrote: If you install perl from ports, you apparently get bsdpan included. Hmm. How would I know if I had it? I don't seem to have any port with the letters 'pan' in it. and `locate

Re: ho hum. Make installworld

2004-06-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:06 AM +0100 6/3/04, Edd wrote: I checked it out of a pserver like always. setenv CVSROOT=bla bla cvs login cvs co src I find it much better to use 'cvsup' over pserver, but I think you will have better luck if you change that last line to: cvs co -P src (or have a .cvsrc with the two

Re: Installing FreeBSD on Sparc Ultra II clone

2004-06-21 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:02 PM +0100 6/21/04, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 10:41:26AM -0500, Hank Allen wrote: I would like to get some info on installing FreeBSD by booting with floppies and using ftp to download on a Tatung machine. I'm not sure where to get the disk images. Any help would be

Re: Installing FreeBSD on Sparc Ultra II clone

2004-06-21 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:23 PM +0100 6/21/04, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 12:22:15PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: It would be an interesting Sparc Ultra II clone which could boot up off of i386 floppies... Tatung's latest products include a range of AMD Opteron and Xeon based rack mount

Re: Wireless S-L-O-W Samba Domain Logon...

2003-09-17 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:59 AM -0700 9/17/03, RA Cohen wrote: I needed to extend the reach of the wiring in one of the buildings and installed an SMC inexpensive router/access point running the latest and greatest 802.11G. ... Everything works but the domain logins are so slow as to be almost unuseable. Does that

Re: AFS - OpenAFS

2003-10-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:27 AM -0400 10/3/03, Jerry McAllister wrote: I am wondering how I might go about connecting to an AFS cell on my FreeBSD 4.8 system. Any input would be helpful. Currently, as far as I know, there is no version of AFS client available for FreeBSD although I keep hearing about openAFS

Re: AFS Server + MAC + Jail

2003-10-06 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:08 PM -0400 10/5/03, Kenny Freeman wrote: I'm using the latest release of openafs, plus I keep my entire system and kernel up to date with patches. ... Anyways, my question is really just about AFS and whether or not it works on 5.1-RELEASE. My understanding is that the server-side should

RE: Latest stable fixes are unstable

2003-10-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:14 PM -0400 10/9/03, Jeffrey Wheat wrote: Apologies for being so vague... All that happens on the 4.8(4.9RC) servers is they suddenly reboot without leaving anything in the log files at all, so it is very difficult to provide more details on the crash. In the case of the 4.9 systems, are

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*sh and slow build world in FreeBSD 5.1

2003-10-10 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:58 AM +0100 10/10/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) I can't get /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*sh to work. I don't have any ideas to offer on this. 2) Building kernels/worlds is MUCH slower than under 4.X. A kernel used to take around an hour; it's taking about 4 under 5.1 (Cyrix 166mhz/64Mb

Re: lpd setup for remote printer

2003-10-15 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:17 PM -0400 10/15/03, Tom Parquette wrote: I'm trying to configure printing on the local machine (Stargate) to point to lp on P3R-272. This is what I currently have coded in Stargate's printcap file: lp|HP2000 on P3R-272:\ :sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\

Re: Clarification on CVS Tags

2003-10-28 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:00 AM -0800 10/28/03, Jason Williams wrote: Thanks Matthew for your explanation. You answered a lot of my questions. Makes sense now really. Just out of curiosity, why would someone want to use: RELENG_4_8_0_RELEASE? Is there some type of benefit? One would think that the best option for

Re: Smbd process not disconnecting

2003-10-29 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:42 AM -0600 10/29/03, Charles Howse wrote: Note below, that the connection was opened on the 28th, but did not close, however the connection to Seeds closed about 4 mins after I opened it. Snippet from /var/log/moe.log [2003/10/28 12:11:13, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(698) moe

RE: Smbd process not disconnecting

2003-10-29 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:22 PM -0600 10/29/03, Charles Howse wrote: Garance wrote: I'm not much of an expert on the low-level details, but I can say that what you're seeing is also what I've seen, and that I believe samba is supposed to work that way. I just checked again, and the connection was closed at 12:13

Re: problems with LPD

2003-10-30 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:45 PM -0700 10/28/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a printer configured in the BSD, is working fine, now I need to enable that other systems print in this printer, to do this I add 2 lines to the file /etc/hosts.lpd 10.192.2.134 as_nte.intranet.telmex.com. but the remote system can't

RE: problems with LPD

2003-10-31 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:55 PM -0700 10/31/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Garance. Thanks for your answer, ... I think that the solution to my dilemma, is modify the source code of LPD. But before this I like to try the netgroup option, where can I begin to read? Well, you can check: man hosts.lpd which

Re: FreeBsd , I REALLY need some help :-)

2003-11-04 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:47 PM +0100 11/4/03, Nic Bergen wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install freebsd on an old i486 (75mhz) with 40mb ram I have two harddrives 260 and 349mb. Which version of FreeBSD are you trying to install? -- Garance Alistair Drosehn= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer

Re: The fear of cvsupping my ports...

2004-01-27 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:24 PM +0100 1/27/04, Henrik W Lund wrote: Greetings! Now, the thing is, I run into problems when I've cvsupped my ports tree. make index bails out afer about 2 seconds, and portsdb -U spews out about 3000 lines of portname missing: dependency list incomplete. Do you 'refuse' anything when

Re: Can someone explain where the cvsup-mirror port puts it's crontab entry?

2004-01-29 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:06 PM -0500 1/29/04, stan wrote: I've just installed this wonderful port, and with some kind help from the list got it working. Thanks to everyone. Now, I've got a learning question. This port creates a crontab entry to schedule updates. I looked in /var/cron/tabs, and I don't see it....

Re: SCP fails while ssh works...

2004-02-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:08 PM -0800 2/9/04, twig les wrote: Hey all, I have to identical boxes running 4.6 and all of a sudden one stopped taking SCP even though it still takes ssh connections. This may not help you at all, but every time I've had a problem where scp fails and ssh works, it has been because the

Re: filesystem permissions using dump on live filesystem

2004-02-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:47 PM -0500 2/23/04, Aaron Peterson wrote: i put a user in the operator group in /etc/group: -snip- and attempted to dump a live filesystem: -snip- what am i missing here? nevermind. i had to log out and log back in. that solved my problems. now my only question is why does one

Re: LPD's emailing of errors to user@hostname

2004-02-29 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:45 PM -0600 2/29/04, freebsd wrote: lpd will generate error messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] specific email addresses. Is there a way to have lpd deliver to a single account (e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]) regardless of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] that originated the job? Not right now. I could change

Re: redirecting /tmp

2004-03-04 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:37 PM -0500 3/4/04, Robey Holderith wrote: I'm trying to find a way to set an environmental variable so that the system will use /usr/tmp or something instead of /tmp as a temporary directory. Some utilities will pay attention to the TMPDIR environment variable. The story is that I was

Re: Usability Of NOCLEAN

2004-03-06 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:37 PM -0600 3/6/04, Peter Schultz wrote: Hi, I'm just curious about the usability of NOCLEAN. If I've just updated world and things are fine with the installation, is it considered safe to use NOCLEAN? If we thought that behavior was always safe, then that would be the default behavior.

Re: Moving SSH port off of port 22

2004-03-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:01 AM -1000 3/9/04, Jason Halbert wrote: Hello All: I need some help moving SSH off of port 22, preferably onto port 23 and disabling telnet. Can I do this just by changing something in /etc/services or by means of a firewall? You change the configuration for sshd in /etc/ssh/sshd_config,

Re: AFS 1.2.11 compilation on FreeBSD 5.2?

2004-03-17 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:03 AM -0800 3/17/04, Matt Weatherford wrote: Has anyone done this? Care to share your notes? :) I want the AFS server, mainly. I dont care about the client. I have not compiled or run the server, but some friends of mine claim it wasn't too hard to do. Compiling and running a server on

RE: newsyslog and apache

2004-03-22 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:19 PM -0800 3/22/04, Noah wrote: I ask that you please be specific as to what you think is wrong with my newsyslog.conf file because I cant seem to figure out what you are talking about here? Looks like my newsyslog.conf file matches the recommended config: Hi. I do not run apache at all,

Re: installworld failing on sparc64

2004-04-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:48 AM + 4/3/04, Andy Miller wrote: I am currently upgrading a Sparc64 system from 5.1 to 5.2.1. buildworld was successful, as well as the build and install of the kernel. After a reboot, I ran installworld and received the following error message: === bin/csh install -s -o root -g wheel

Re: I *really* need help PLEASE - buildworld failing on mkdep libstdc++can't find unwind.h but it *is* there

2004-04-12 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:41 PM -0600 4/12/04, P.D. Seniura wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: It is not clear to me what problem you are trying to solve by the activities you are pursuing: perhaps you ought to install 5.2.1 or 4.9 from a .iso image and get on with other tasks, and revisit the issue of recompiling

Re: printing over the network

2002-12-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:02 PM +0200 12/21/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you using lpd or lprng (have to get that out of the way) lpd Is lpd running / listening? - Show me iulian#ps -ax | grep lpd 4544 ?? Is 0:00.01 lpd What does lpc status all return? Nothing What version of freebsd are you

Re: Managing /etc/hosts.lpd??

2003-01-28 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:19 PM -0500 1/28/03, Bill Moran wrote: Mark wrote: Is there a better way to manage lpd permissions than specifying individual hosts in /etc/hosts.lpd? I have a heterogeneous network here (there are a few Winder's machines in addition to a bunch of Unix machines) that has a bunch of

Re: lpd/lpr stopped working

2003-02-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:39 PM +0100 2/3/03, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: Hi! I'm a bit pussled. I can print from OpenOffice and Phoenix. But konq chokes: A print error occured. Error message received from system: /usr/local/bin/lpr -P 'laserjet' '/var/tmp/kde-mekanix/kdeprint_pYNslYF' : execution failed with

Re: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE and X11R6 build on 5.0-CURRENT in one set

2003-02-04 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:15 PM +0700 1/16/02, Pavel Burovsky wrote: Excuse me for, perhaps, plaqued question. FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE (I obtained it from www.linuxcenter.ru) contains the XFree86 server built on 5.0-CURRENT snapshot(anyway it so reported by XFree86 server). Is it normal? FAQ says it's not. I would

RE: Samba and $

2003-08-14 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:41 PM +0800 8/12/03, Katinka Mills wrote: I thought in the version with Freebsd 4.8 that you could now use accounts with $ signs in them The 'pw' command has been changed so that you can create user accounts (and user groups) which end in a $. That's all samba should need. I'm pretty sure

Re: lpd logging

2003-08-14 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:13 PM +1000 8/5/03, jason fiddian wrote: help please we have lpd -l running to log daemon activities but where does it log to? It depends on what lines you have in /etc/syslog.conf. You would want to check /var/log/lpd-errs, and you may also see the lines in /var/log/messages. If

Re: Bind query logging stops after a logrotate.

2003-09-08 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:04 PM -0700 9/8/03, Charlie Schluting wrote: FBSD 5.1: Using Bind9.2.2, and I have query logging turned on: logging { channel querylog { file /var/log/query.lo~g; print-time yes; }; category queries { querylog; }; }; After a logrotate, it stops logging completely. The permissions are

Re: VMware2 build under -CURRENT ... is Broken?

2003-04-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:49 PM -0700 4/1/03, Danilo Fiorenzano wrote: 5.0-CURRENT with sources cvsup'd on March 30. portinstall vmware2 aborts with: .../vmmon-only/freebsd/hostif.c: In function `FindMPN': .../vmmon-only/freebsd/hostif.c:186: invalid operands to binary *** Error code 1 Stop in

Re: customizing printcap to email file

2003-04-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:33 PM -0500 4/3/03, David Banning wrote: what I would like to do is have windows boxes print to a unix printer filter which would convert the file into pdf format and put the file into a directory where it could be emailed out. Anyone tried this? First off, I tried modifying the printcap

Re: About newsyslog behavior

2003-07-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:08 PM +0300 7/2/03, Jim Xochellis wrote: I suspected that some processes are confused because a *new* log file is created and these processes are making the assumption that their log file will be always the same and perhaps they open it once and then work with the FILE pointer. If a program

Re: Question on order and targets of kernel and world builds

2002-07-17 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:04 PM -0400 7/16/02, John Mills wrote: Hello - I would appreciate a bit more information on the 'world' and 'kernel' building process. Please point me at the right section of the Handbook or Greg's book if there is a succinct description. I have been doing 'CVSUP' followed by: # make

Re: /var/run/printer?

2002-07-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:30 PM -0700 7/23/02, Ed Yu wrote: When I try to run 'lpc restart all', it shows lp: cannot open lock file lp: lpc: unable to connect to /var/run/printer: no such file or directory lpc: check to see if the master 'lpd' process is running. couldn't start daemon However, ps aux shows

Re: /var/run/printer?

2002-07-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:34 PM -0700 7/24/02, Ed Yu wrote: You are right. When I restart the machine after I uncommented LPD_ENABLE=YES, /var/run/printer shows up. I also did check /usr/local/sbin and there are lpc and lpd in it. I basically totally mixed LPR and LPRng. Hmm. I am not completely sure I understand

Re: Help debugging printing

2002-10-06 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:50 PM -0400 10/6/02, Gerard Samuel wrote: I setup and installed a printer yesterday, and installed LPRng and apsfilter from ports (fresh cvsup), and had apsfilter print out that funky test page. In continuing the setup the box, I am trying to print a file, and getting these results -

Re: LPD protocol screwup and ctl_renametf error

2002-10-18 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:12 PM -0400 10/18/02, TheGlenMann wrote: Docs on the subtleties on LPD seem to be in short supply. It looks like the PAGEPROTECT thing breaks the whole system, then the cannot rename seems to be Windows trying again to send the file... How can I determine what is wrong? I suspect that

Re: samba printing stopped after upgrade to 2.2.6

2002-10-28 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:03 PM -0500 10/28/02, Vivek Khera wrote: DN == Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but I have not enabled CUPS in samba at all. Does anyone know what I need to do to migrate successfully from samba 2.2.5 to 2.2.6? Here's my config: DN When you did the install, you probably just

Re: Samba taking too long to upload files.

2002-11-04 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:56 AM -0800 11/4/02, Roberto Armenteros wrote: The download process is very fast, but not the upload process. When I upload to my other windows machine it goes five times as fast as my bsd box. What could be the problem? Make sure your ethernet card has the correct setting wrt half-duplex

Re: xargs -J

2002-11-26 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:10 PM -0500 11/25/02, David S. Jackson wrote: Hi, I've been trying to use |xargs -J [] mv [] [].suffix but to no avail. I've tried |xargs -J mv \[\] \[\].suffix and variations but that doesn't seem to work either. It seems to work fine with the -i command under GNU xargs, but not under

Re: Problem pulling particular directory from CVS

2002-11-27 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:43 PM -0800 11/26/02, Paul A. Scott wrote: From: Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you maybe running out of space on your local drive? You might also have a corrupted CVS repo, but I don't think you'd be getting those errors in that case. No, I have over 40GB available on the

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-07 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:48 PM +1030 12/8/02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or reliability. I'm currently about to finish the manuscript of the

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-07 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:28 AM -0500 12/8/02, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 12:48 PM +1030 12/8/02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: If *you* are interested, please let me know. I'll make a decision depending on the amount of feedback I get. There's at least two cases, right? diskless booting off something like

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-08 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:54 PM -0800 12/8/02, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: I mostly-wasted a bunch of time investigating web sites and articles which had schemes for diskless booting, and then discovered that the picobsd manpage told me everything I needed to know (to set up a non-harddisk filtering bridge booting off

Re: printing error

2003-02-08 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:44 PM -0800 2/8/03, chip wiegand wrote: I just setup my new Epson C62 printer, works great on my freebsd box. I am using samba to share it with the rest of the family pc's. They see it in network neighborhood, connect, install the drivers, all fine. but the test page won't print. Nothing

Re: 5.0-RELEASE under VMWare 3 : slowdown and even hangup

2003-02-13 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:51 AM +0100 2/13/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm kinda in the same situation : XP Pro, WMWare 3.2, several virtual machines running fine (linux,w2k), but the freebsd 5-RELEASE is quite a pain to use in this env. The guest OS keeps on slowing down, to the point that it's unusable. Kris

Re: machine accounts and samba

2003-03-02 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:48 AM +0100 3/2/03, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: charles pelletier wrote: how do you add a machine account in samba? i've already added users using 'smbpasswd -a username password' but cannot for the life of me remember how to add a machine to the samba domain. man smbpasswd smbpasswd -m

Re: Installing CUPS pkg

2003-03-12 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:58 AM -0600 3/12/03, Bob McCarty wrote: JBMAC# make install === Installing for cups-1.1.18.0_4 === cups-1.1.18.0_4 is already installed - perhaps an older version? If so, you may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it

Re: question on samba install

2003-03-19 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:01 AM -0500 3/19/03, David Banning wrote: If I install samba without cups, is it still possible to print with samba? I have a small network with a few win boxes and the samba install is older. It doesn't have cups. I am just wondering, since samba now installs cups by default, whether it is

Re: Personal development CVS question

2003-03-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:04 PM -0500 3/24/03, Steve Bertrand wrote: The current state of my app is ready for production, so I would like to take a snapshot of it as is, then implement it. I would like to leave this snapshot alone, and further develop in other aspects of the program now. Am I correct with this

Re: Freebsd 5.3 - long uptimes...

2005-01-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:26 PM + 1/9/05, Robert Watson wrote: On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Mark wrote: FreeBSD will run for years without a boot in many cases. Ah, this point fascinates me. Running for years? Do you ever have to recompile your kernel? :) The longest personal uptime I've had is just under two years,

Re: Freebsd 5.3 - long uptimes...

2005-01-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:27 PM -0500 1/9/05, Garance A Drosihn wrote: My main production-system use of FreeBSD is for a chat server, which needs to be up all the time or everyone stops chatting and starts yelling at me. The longest uptimes I've had so far are: * 373 days 10 hours (a 6-hour long power outage

Re: Freebsd 5.3 - long uptimes...

2005-01-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:13 PM -0600 1/9/05, Chris wrote: Long uptimes = unsecured+unpatched boxes. Long uptimes? No thanks. If you had read my earlier message, you would see that I take steps to keep the important components patched, and thus my machine has been as secure as a freshly-built system. Long uptimes are

Re: let me just throw this out there..

2005-01-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:02 PM -0800 1/24/05, gabriel wrote: Has it ever happened to anyone here where your computer (in this case, my gateway running ipfw+natd) just restarts out of nowhere. It isn't even a crash, it just restarted. Yes. Turned out to be an overheating problem. (one of the CPU fans was starting to

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:37 PM +0100 2/10/05, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Julio Capote writes: Untrue, I know a NUMBER of emerging graphic artists, who would kill for this kind of exposure, and are much better than any commercialized firm I've seen. If they are so good, why would they kill for this kind of

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:13 PM -0500 2/10/05, Mike Hauber wrote: And quite frankly, it doesn't take weeks to figure out how to use correct grammar in an announcement or a responce (and even if the grammar is left _so_ wanting, take a look at the archives for this list. It can't be all _that_ bad, can it?) Who are

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:00 AM -0500 2/11/05, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Just to sum up things as I understand it... People want to change the logo from Beastie to something else because Beastie isn't professional enough, so some committers decided to hold a contest for a new logo? We thought it would be nice, after

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:34 PM -0500 2/11/05, Frank Laszlo wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: FreeBSD is driven by commercial matters. Many of the people that work on it are paid to work on it by their employers, who are using it commercially. I wouldnt say many, there are few commiters who are actually paid

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:56 PM -0800 2/11/05, Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Friday 11 February 2005 02:44 pm, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Tinnin writes: Hmmm, let's see, Anthony Atielski, 30 posts on this subject alone, on a tech help list. Makes you wonder what sort of priorities you have.

Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-27 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:53 PM +0100 2/27/05, Anthony Atkielski wrote: I've gotten two messages like the ones below today on my production server (5.3-RELEASE): ... kernel: ad10: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=4848803 ... kernel: ad10: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out What do these messages mean? The

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-13 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:06 AM -0500 3/13/05, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: hello i find that loader prompt very frustrating: 1. it is *VERY* unprofessional For what it's worth, the default for displaying that image has changed for freebsd 6.x. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems

Re: cvs question?

2005-03-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:00 PM + 3/24/05, Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote: Hi people I am learning in the use of cvs for sync my src and ports i use this command line and works perfectly #cvs -d [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs co src but this line update my source tree with the current version 6.0. But i don't want this

Re: Samba problems

2005-03-29 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:29 PM -0300 3/26/05, Alejandro Pulver wrote: Hello, I am using FreeBSD 5.3 with Samba 3.0.7,1. I can read all files from a Windows 2000 Pro. But when I try to access a mount point that is an NTFS filesystem, I have no read permission (files and directories appear as zero length files) until

Re: how to restrict lpd

2005-04-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:37 PM -0700 4/3/05, Bill Ding wrote: Hello, I am setting up some jails and have limited all the host daemons to the host's IP except for lpd. I can't find a way of doing that. Can it be done? I know it can in LPRng, but I prefer to install as little software as possible on servers. I don't

Re: error during make buildkernel in 5.2.1

2004-08-10 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:15 PM -0700 8/10/04, Mike wrote: Greetings: This is my first foray into 5.2.1. I installed and ran cvsup (standard and for ports). I went to build the kernel and and make buildkernel died. Here is the error message. Any comments or hints would be helpful. Did you just install 5.2.1 from

Re: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-14 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:31 AM +0930 8/15/04, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: Hello, I'm in the process of cleaning a Maildir full of spam. It has somewhere in the vicinity of 400K files in it. I started running this yesterday: find . -atime +1 -exec mv {} /home/paulh/tmp/spam/sne/ \; It's been running for well over 12

Re: PROCFS

2004-08-18 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:08 PM -0700 8/17/04, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 09:14:06PM -0700, Dennis George wrote: Hi all, Can I disable PROCFS (through kernel configuration[sysctl/GENERIC] ) in freeBSD Yes. It's clear from the GENERIC config how to do this (remove the entry)). Is there

Re: top for 4.10 jail - looking to work with a someone to make it work

2004-08-18 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:24 PM -0500 8/18/04, george donnelly wrote: I need top for 4.10 jails to work, and i know a lot of other people would like it. So i am looking for someone who like to develop a new patch for it (if it doesn't already exist?) and then keep the patch up to date. we're willing to pay and would

Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for?

2004-09-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:45 AM +0100 9/3/04, Andy Holyer wrote: I explained that generally some upgrade comes along that requires a reboot, but I realized that I don't know how long a box would stay up in the maximum. So, come on, this should be fun, what's the biggest uptime you've ever had for a BSD box? I don't

Re: Printing problem with CUPS LPD

2005-11-12 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:16 PM +0100 11/12/05, Frank Staals wrote: Hey, I have a HP LaserJet 1010 and I was trying to get it working with FreeBSD, so I installed CUPS and configured it to recoginize the printer and it does, I can successfully print a testpage using the webinterface. So I was trying to print a

Re: CVSUP Issues FBSD 6.0

2005-11-12 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:09 PM + 11/12/05, Robert Slade wrote: Hiya, I'm having a problem with newly installed system. cvsup -g L 2 supfile gives Release not specified for collection default with the supfile (based on standard-supfile) containing: default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org default base=/var/db default

RE: AFS in FreeBSD 5.4 or 6

2006-03-05 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:31 AM -0800 3/4/06, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: openafs has a compiled binary for FreeBSD 6.0 on their website, have either of you even tried it, or are you going to just write it off without even seeing it it works at all? I have not tried it, since the openafs mailing list had some talk of

Re: BSD License Innocence Clause Proposal

2006-03-19 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:16 AM +0300 3/20/06, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: We need a special clause in the license we release our work under. [...] Basically, it should state that under no circumstances and under no legislation should ever any entity be punished for breaking the license terms. So you want a license

Re: lpr errors- using /dev/ulpt0

2006-03-21 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:59 PM -0800 3/21/06, Rob wrote: lpc status lp command reports that it is up, a job is spooled, and the printer is idle but nothing comes out. I am finding the following ... in /var/log/lpd.errs: lp: unable to open dfA000xenon ('f' line) lp: job could not be printed (cfA000xenon) xenon

Re: SiI3112 Controller Question

2006-03-30 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:51 PM -0800 3/30/06, Richard P. Koett wrote: Some quick questions: 1) Are these SiI3112 controllers any good? They suck. They are horrible. They are very cheap to buy -- and are overpriced after you add in all the aggravation they provide. Don't waste your time on them. Buy a real SATA

Re: something better then rsync for duplicating systems ... ?

2006-03-30 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:46 PM -0400 3/30/06, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I have two servers, one of them a backup of the other ... right now, I'm using rsync to do it, but since rsync has to traverse both servers file systems to do its comparison, it puts a good load on the system, and takes awhile to run ... You

Re: Portupgrade Ruby | warning: Insecure world

2006-04-05 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:38 PM +0200 4/5/06, Jonas Jacobsen wrote: When i use portupgrade, i get this Warning all the time /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools.rb:980: warning: Insecure world writable dir /tmp, mode 041777 have any of you seen that warning before,? and do you know how to make it go away

Re: newsyslog.conf question

2006-04-12 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:01 AM + 4/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have developed a boot image for a CD to be used on servers througout the organization I work for. Everything is working great, except for one small problem. When I boot from the CD I created, I receive a message stating newsyslog: malformed

Re: Init can't exec /bin/sh for /etc/rc

2006-04-14 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:39 PM +0200 4/14/06, Günther Darwin wrote: Hi, I was running the buildkernel command when the computer suddenly froze and the only option i had was a 'hard reset' unfortunatley it wasn't all trouble free this time. When i try to start FreeBSD I get the message: Init can't exec /bin/sh

Re: Sparc vs i386 architecture

2006-01-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:14 PM -0800 1/8/06, Danial Thom wrote: --- Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: user Opteron/Athlon64 - better than both :) AMD made RISC-like architecture that just runs i386-like code (i386+more registers and few extra instructions, while lots of mostly-unused instructions

Re: Configuring a Printer - Printing Code

2006-01-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:44 PM -0600 1/23/06, Mark Kane wrote: The problem comes when printing from this machine. Whenever trying to print, instead of printing the text of the document or website, it prints a bunch of code. Here is a short sample: --- flipXY 0 eq c3x2 c4x2 eq or {false PickCoords } { /shrink

Re: AFS in FreeBSD 5.4 or 6

2006-03-01 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:27 PM + 2/28/06, Craig Ryhorchuk wrote: Hello, I am looking for specific instructions on installing, maintaining and using AFS with FreeBSD 5.4 or 6. I want to set up one or more servers and make them available to clients running whatever O/S. I think Arla has the client side

Re: printer/tcp: bind: Address already in use

2003-11-17 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:47 PM -0800 11/17/03, K Anderson wrote: Hey there all. For quite some time I've been noticing messages on the primary console as well as the message log. inetd[630]: printer/tcp: bind: Address already in use I have cups installed and happen to notice something in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d

Re: printer/tcp: bind: Address already in use

2003-11-17 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:02 PM -0800 11/17/03, K Anderson wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: Are all the messages from the same process? And is that process really 'inetd'? If so, what kind of entries do you have in /etc/inetd.conf? Woa, thanks for the quick response. Just a matter of luck... :-) Yes, the process

Re: connection to remote printer is down

2003-11-29 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:26 AM -0600 11/27/03, Charles Howse wrote: I have an HP1100 printer that I set up on machine moe with apsfilter, and is working perfectly. I'm trying to setup machine larry to print text only to the printer on moe, but I'm not getting anywhere. Jobs get into the local spool, but time out

Re: connection to remote printer is down

2003-11-29 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:26 PM -0600 11/29/03, Charles Howse wrote: On Saturday 29 November 2003 01:03 pm, Garance A Drosihn wrote: To me, it looks like lpd is not accepting remote connections on moe. That would happen if lpd is not being started during system startup, or if you have started it up with the '-s

Re: FreeBSD vs Samba machine account creation

2003-11-30 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:12 PM + 11/30/03, Stacey Roberts wrote: Hello, Some time ago, I saw a thread on this list that had concluded that the adduser facility in FreeBSD had been amended so that samba machine accounts can be created with the required $ at the end of the desired machine user name. The 'pw'

Re: CVSup to local copy

2003-12-11 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:00 AM +0800 12/12/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I need to update the sources of several servers in my network. I have already made a cvsup -g -L 2 cvs-supfile on one of the servers and placed all under /home/ncvs. I assume that /home/ncvs is a directory that is NFS-exported to all of

Re: Stupid cvsup questions

2003-12-15 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:41 PM +0200 12/15/03, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: Hi, I have 2 identical (copy/paste) ports-supfiles on two machines: it# grep -v '#' /etc/ports-supfile *default host=cvsup.ro.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix *default

Re: runaway CVSup ?

2003-12-19 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:29 AM -0800 12/19/03, Toru . wrote: how long it takes to complete make install clean of cvsup-without-gui. It looks like the process went into a infinate loop and I keep seeing the same message over and over. Is this normal behavior? It is hard to know for sure, because you didn't really

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