Re: kernel

2004-05-12 Thread Julien Gabel
In the chapter 9.3 Building and installing a custom kernel of the freebsd handbook it's written that MYKERNEL is an example but I don't know how I can find that. In fact I don't know what MYKERNEL represents. MYKERNEL is just an example of a renamed/modified GENERIC kernel. That wants to say

Re: websites visited

2004-05-11 Thread Julien Gabel
How do I find the different websites and e-mails sent and recieved from my computer? One way is to set up your firewall (vis a vis ipfw) to log all incoming and outgoing connections on ports 25, 80, 110, 143 and/or any others you want to monitor. It will be time-consuming, however, to sift

Re: cdda2wav doesn't dump complete Audio CD

2004-05-09 Thread Julien Gabel
I am trying to copy some old Audio CD's. I have got an IDE CD burner - configured as SCSI device 1,0,0 . When I use # cdda2wav -vall cddb=0 -D1,0,0 -B -Owav - as recommended by THE handbook - only the first four tracks of The Handbook (16.3.2 Ripping CD Audio Tracks) just suggest the

Re: cdda2wav doesn't dump complete Audio CD

2004-05-09 Thread Julien Gabel
I am trying to copy some old Audio CD's. I have got an IDE CD burner - configured as SCSI device 1,0,0 . When I use # cdda2wav -vall cddb=0 -D1,0,0 -B -Owav - as recommended by THE handbook - only the first four tracks of The Handbook (16.3.2 Ripping CD Audio Tracks) just suggest the

Re: tr A-Z a-z

2004-05-08 Thread Julien Gabel
Strange: I was used to do upper case lower case conversion always like this and it suddenly doesn't work anymore: $ echo Z | tr [A-Z] [a-z] You can use special classes in this case too: $ echo Zz | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] -- -jpeg. ___ [EMAIL

Re: where has /etc/defaults/make.conf gone? [was: COPTFLAGS...]

2004-05-16 Thread Julien Gabel
Take a look in /etc/defaults/make.conf, /etc/defaults/rc.conf, etc. OK, in case of rc.conf the situation is pretty clear - the general system defaults are defined in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and if you want to change something you edit /etc/rc.conf whose settings override those of

Re: Maintainer of WHOIS command

2004-05-22 Thread Julien Gabel
Who is the FreeBSD Maintainer of WHOIS command? $ ident /usr/src/usr.bin/whois/whois.c or http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/whois/whois.c ... might give you an idea of who are commiting to this utility. Does anybody know if there is some official organization that maintains

Re: etrn script..

2004-05-22 Thread Julien Gabel
I have an etrn script I want to run, but it has to be run AFTER sendmail starts how do I do that under 5.2.1 ? Eventually adding this script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. -- -jpeg. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: 10.0 community mandrakelinux

2004-05-23 Thread Julien Gabel
je cherche le cd4 d'install d'une version mandrake 10.0 community on m'a donné un lien arrivant chez vous mais il ne fonctionne pas ftp://ftp.sg.freebsd.org/sites/mandrake/iso/mandrakelinux-10.0-community pourriez-vous m'éclairer cordialement denis pranchere

Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server

2003-09-30 Thread Julien Gabel
Hello, I will start going through lifewithqmail.org. Would like to clear few more things: In mailserver I think the messages will be stored in var/mail/accountname (correct me if i am wrong). I have very less disk space for /var. This was not a concern with POP3 because messages get deleted

Re: writing pdfs

2003-10-10 Thread Julien Gabel
Right, but in return you gave up nice generation of exactly equivalent PS files. I have a PS printer - I put PDF on the web and cat PS to the printer :-) You can use pdftops(1) from the xpdf Port wich seems to make a very correct PostScript output. For me, the pdf2ps(1) from Ghostscript make a

Re: writing pdfs

2003-10-10 Thread Julien Gabel
The only thing I would add to the excellent replies is that no one seems to have mentioned the dvipdfm utility, part of the teTeX package, which generates pdf directly from your .dvi file; no need to convert ps to pdf. Because pdflatex(1) can output PDF directly from the same LaTeX source

Re: atacontrol(8)

2003-10-14 Thread Julien Gabel
Add the following to /boot/loader.conf: hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 Why to this file and not to /etc/sysctl.conf? I have no monitor on that box, so I want to make sure it is more likely to work after the reboot. loader.conf(5) is the system bootstrap configuration file (third step) and is read before

Re: Increasing per-process memory limits?

2003-10-15 Thread Julien Gabel
Try reading the manual page of /etc/login.conf: man login.conf Another way of enforcing/changing the limits that a user process has is through the 'limit' built-in command of tcsh or the /usr/bin/limits system tool. More information about these in the tcsh(1) and limits(1) manpages.

Re: src code

2003-10-16 Thread Julien Gabel
i need to know where can i download the newest freebsd from, i do not have a unix system, but i will, and i wanna know the site that i can DL it from . * Obtaining FreeBSD (all can be answered here): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html -- -jg.

Re: src code

2003-10-17 Thread Julien Gabel
i need to know where can i download the newest freebsd from, i do not have a unix system, but i will, and i wanna know the site that i can DL it from . * Obtaining FreeBSD (all can be answered here): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html the *newest* would

Re: firebird 7 in freebsd cvs appears to be broke

2003-10-19 Thread Julien Gabel
I downloaded the new firebird-7 port from the freebsd cvs server. Make will run for about 20-mins then stop with these errors: It works for me (i'm posting via a webmail accessed under Mozilla- firebird-0.7), and there is nothing to see on the bento cluster about this port :

Re: Open Files

2003-10-27 Thread Julien Gabel
I'd suggest lsof from /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof which listens all open files in the system. Or fstat(1) in the base system. -- -jg. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: PostFix error

2003-10-30 Thread Julien Gabel
I have added the above lines to my newly created /etc/periodic.conf file. For the record, these changes and others are recommended (by printing them to the screen during the install phase) specifically by the port itself. If you didn't notice it telling you at the time you installed, you

Re: stop the desktops' upgrades

2003-10-30 Thread Julien Gabel
OK, this is probably a troll (and I notice that it was composed on Outlook Express--I'm guessing not running under WINE), but I'm going to answer it anyway And was previously posted on -advocacy, along with an other seems-to-be troll subject... -- -jg.

Re: newbie:/usr/ports/distfiles

2004-02-06 Thread Julien Gabel
I'm up to about 700Mb of files in /usr/ports/distfiles. Other than insurance in case of a re-install, is there a good reason to keep them around? No, you can safely delete anything in /usr/ports/distfiles or remove and recreate the directory. It just means that if you decide to reinstall a

Re: [OT] where to question about gnome?

2004-02-07 Thread Julien Gabel
Hello. This is really a dump question, but all the mailing lists on gnome.org seems pretty cold. There are only several posts each month on lists like gnome-freebsd and gnome-2-list. Where do people go to when they want to discuss about gnome? Try the 'freebsd-gnome' list: =

Re: Portupgrade crash

2004-02-07 Thread Julien Gabel
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 10:23:58PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: My machine just suffered a power-failure 6 hrs into a portupgrade -a I restarted it after a pkgdb -F Did I do the right thing? Yep, that should be pretty safe (assuming e.g. fsck didn't discover that the power failure caused

Re: USB Flash Drive.

2004-02-07 Thread Julien Gabel
uhci0: Intel 82801BA/BAM (ICH2) USB controller USB-B port 0x2440-0x245f irq 5 at device 31.4 on pci0 usb0: Intel 82801BA/BAM (ICH2) USB controller USB-B on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered

Re: bsd equiv of trace?

2004-02-09 Thread Julien Gabel
What is the BSD equivalent of trace on Solaris? ktrace(1) then kdump(1) on both 4.X and 5.X. truss(1) can be used too, but work in conjunction with /proc which is not mounted by default on 5.X due to security reasons. A work is in progress as it is a required feature for 5.3:

Re: pkg database corrupted ? (LONG)

2004-02-09 Thread Julien Gabel
Somehow, my ports DB got corrupted or something, so I cannot portupgrade anymore :( I updated by cvsup to see if it changed something, but id didn't. This is the command I issued after cvsuping: # cd /usr/ports # make index portsdb -u pkgdb -Fvu 1/ After ran cvsup(1), have you tried to

Re: supfile tag to use? port/src

2004-02-09 Thread Julien Gabel
I am a little confused by what the website says and what the example supfiles have. 1. When do I use tag=.? T he website says only use this for ports, but in my /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile the tag is set to tag=.. I thought tag=. was saying 'gimme the lastest thing

Re: supfile tag to use? port/src

2004-02-09 Thread Julien Gabel
You are right. /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile is more... explicit :) What do you mean? The handbook says don't use tag=., except for ports, but the standard file has such. Which is it? Use it or don't? And if I do what branch will I be getting? The standard-supfile is for

Re: 4.7 Release

2004-02-24 Thread Julien Gabel
Hello Freebsd Team. I installed a 4.7RELEASE FreeBSD based machine to run a software that is designed for that version of FreeBSD. My machine crashed and now I need to reinstall the system with the same version, but unfortunately, I lost my 4.7RELEASE CD, and now looking on your website for

Re: obsolete files?

2004-02-24 Thread Julien Gabel
so what, freebsd from scratch is the only way to avoid this? Where can I find information on 'freebsd from scratch'. Pointers would be appreciated. You can find that 'article' in the FreeBSD Documentation Set: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/\

Re: Not able install FreeBSD 5.1 properly.

2004-02-24 Thread Julien Gabel
I am facing problem in installation of FreeBSD 5.1. The system configuration is – P IV 2.4 GHz with two hard drives 1 CDROM 1 CDRW. I am trying to install FreeBSD in primary slave, in a primary partition of size 4GB. I have given 200MB as swap, 1500MB as /usr and rest to / . When it asks

Re: Shell scripting woes.

2004-02-24 Thread Julien Gabel
Hello guys! I have two questions about shellscripts: 2) The same backup job - is written as a bash script, and it works perfectly when run by hand, but it won't run as a cron job. Are you using a full path in the shebang at the top of the script? Such as: #!/bin/sh or

Re: Shell scripting woes.

2004-02-24 Thread Julien Gabel
As a reply to both answers, here's a script that wont' run: #!/usr/local/bin/bash echo start test.txt ...and here is bash: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/etc] whereis bash bash: /usr/local/bin/bash this is /var/log/cron Feb 24 19:20:00 p3-550 /usr/sbin/cron[27988]: (root) CMD

Re: Why can't I write this file?

2004-03-08 Thread Julien Gabel
I just changed the permission and ownership of some files and was denied writting to this file even though I'm in the group and the group has write permissions. Did I forgot something or is this strange? I thougth I should be able to write as user akruijff ls -loa drwxrwxr-x 2 www

Re: Amavis-Stats.

2004-03-08 Thread Julien Gabel
Has anyone installed Amavis-Stats on a FreeBSD 4.9 Release server? When I try running the Perl script, I get an error about not being able to find warnings.pm... There exists a little FreeBSD guide for amavisd-new at: http://www.erodia.net/doc/amavis-stats_freebsd.txt I didn't test it, but

Re: Amavis-Stats.

2004-03-08 Thread Julien Gabel
Has anyone installed Amavis-Stats on a FreeBSD 4.9 Release server? When I try running the Perl script, I get an error about not being able to find warnings.pm... There exists a little FreeBSD guide for amavisd-new at: ^^^ ...

Re: Amavis-Stats.

2004-03-09 Thread Julien Gabel
Has anyone installed Amavis-Stats on a FreeBSD 4.9 Release server? When I try running the Perl script, I get an error about not being able to find warnings.pm... There exists a little FreeBSD guide for amavisd-new at: http://www.erodia.net/doc/amavis-stats_freebsd.txt I had gone through

Re: Amavisd/ClamAV

2004-03-09 Thread Julien Gabel
I am running Postfix 2.0.16 on FreeBSD 5.2.1 and used the FreeBSD port collection to install amavisd-new. I have this entry recurring in my amavisd log: WARN: all primary virus scanners failed, considering backups I looked on the clamav web site and found this statement: clamscan is

Re: Amavis-Stats.

2004-03-09 Thread Julien Gabel
:-/ I really am a little bit too far into the configuration of the 4.9 server to update to a 5.x server...isn't 4.9 the recommended production release from Freebsd.org? Yes, it is. To me, it looks like Perl isn't finding an end-of-line (;) somewhere or isn't seeing the script file properly

Re: Recovery CD for FreeBSD 5.2.1

2004-04-01 Thread Julien Gabel
I just installed FreeBSD and now would like to create a recovery CD. I know that there is a recovery floppy, but my floppy drive is broken, so I hope to find an appropriate CD image. For installation I used the mini-iso-image, but it seems that it is impossible to start a recovery session

Re: changing root password.

2004-04-05 Thread Julien Gabel
I've got a 4.8R system that I use for development of a 'freebsd-small' type network device. The network device environment runs out of memory, the kernel and an mfsroot.gz image coming from a 32Mb pccard Compact Flash drive. The mfsroot.gz development image is stored as a vnconfig vn0

Re: libssl

2004-04-06 Thread Julien Gabel
I deleted libssl.so.3 by accident Whats the best way to get it back w/o reloading (fetch depends on it...and I found it fast!) If it is /usr/lib/libssl.so.3, the following can do the job : # cd /usr/src/secure/lib/libssl # make obj make depend make -- -jpeg.

Can't *write* to a hard disk, not even a slice using fdisk(8).

2004-04-10 Thread Julien Gabel
Hello, Here is my problem. I had a hard disk for one year now, working together with an other identical disk in a _hard_ mirror. One month ago, I noticed the mirror was not active, found that the second part of the mirror was not responding and decided to recreate completely the mirror after

Re: Can't *write* to a hard disk, not even a slice using fdisk(8).

2004-04-10 Thread Julien Gabel
Here is my problem. I had a hard disk for one year now, working together with an other identical disk in a _hard_ mirror. What's a '_hard_ mirror'? How did you set it up? I want to say that it is a mirror created with a hardware HighPoint HPT374 (channel 2+3) UDMA133 controller ; not created

Re: Can't *write* to a hard disk, not even a slice using fdisk(8).

2004-04-11 Thread Julien Gabel
GEOM doesn't let you write to an active device, except if you set kern.geom.debugflags=16 Ok no problem, I changed it this way : # sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 kern.geom.debugflags: 1 - 16 But it seems to change *absolutly nothing*... :( # mount /dev/ar0s1a on / (ufs, local) devfs

Re: Can't *write* to a hard disk, not even a slice using fdisk(8).

2004-04-11 Thread Julien Gabel
I want to say that it is a mirror created with a hardware HighPoint HPT374 (channel 2+3) UDMA133 controller ; not created using software, like vinum for example. - But when I tried to create a slice on it, I get: # fdisk -BI ad10 *** Working on device /dev/ad10 *** fdisk:

Re: Can't *write* to a hard disk, not even a slice using fdisk(8).

2004-04-11 Thread Julien Gabel
do you have your securelevel set in rc.conf to YES and to a higher level (like 3)? Yes, this machine had a securevel positionned: it set to '2'. But because I can't touch the disk even in Single User Mode, I don't think it is related, but... What is your idea? -- -jpeg.

Re: Can't *write* to a hard disk, not even a slice using fdisk(8).

2004-04-11 Thread Julien Gabel
do you have your securelevel set in rc.conf to YES and to a higher level (like 3)? Yes, this machine had a securevel positionned: it set to '2'. But because I can't touch the disk even in Single User Mode, I don't think it is related, but... What is your idea? Ok. I had missed the

Re: Can't *write* to a hard disk, not even a slice using fdisk(8).

2004-04-11 Thread Julien Gabel
GEOM doesn't let you write to an active device, except if you set kern.geom.debugflags=16 Ok no problem, I changed it this way: # sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 kern.geom.debugflags: 1 - 16 But it seems to change *absolutly nothing*... :( Mmmhh... We're doing something wrong here I

Re: Can't *write* to a hard disk, not even a slice using fdisk(8).

2004-04-13 Thread Julien Gabel
GEOM doesn't let you write to an active device, except if you set kern.geom.debugflags=16 Ok no problem, I changed it this way: # sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 kern.geom.debugflags: 1 - 16 But it seems to change *absolutly nothing*... :( [...] Mmmhh... We're doing something wrong here

Re: [SOLVED] Can't *write* to a hard disk, not even a slice using fdisk(8).

2004-04-18 Thread Julien Gabel
do you have your securelevel set in rc.conf to YES and to a higher level (like 3)? Yes, this machine had a securevel positionned: it set to '2'. But because I can't touch the disk even in Single User Mode, I don't think it is related, but... What is your idea? Ok. I had missed the

Re: mtab

2003-06-16 Thread Julien Gabel
I have a script which besides doing a lot of things, must mount a filesystem if it is not already mounted, so I wanted to use an mtab like file to check my mount status. With the mount(8) command? # mount [-v|-p] -- -jg. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla Firebird ?

2003-07-12 Thread Julien Gabel
Is there a port for the current mozilla firebird mail client? Does anybody have a binary of a recent build that will run on freebsd 5.1 natively ...that you will share? I read about building it from src, but it looks more complicated then ./configure make ,,,make install and therefore is out

Re: USB + palm setup.

2005-01-28 Thread Julien Gabel
I am having troubles getting my Palm m505 working via USB under 5.3 RELEASE. For the basic setup, I have been following: http://www.geekhome.net/palm.html [...] My problem is with /dev/ucom0 and /dev/pilot. How do I create these correctly? I have the following entry in /etc/usbd.conf:

Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports.

2005-01-28 Thread Julien Gabel
Your missing the point. INDEX is supposed to be in the RELEASES on the CDROMs because the CD's are supposed to be self-contained, ie: you should not require an Internet connection to get a complete install. Otherwise there's no point in even bothering to release the CDROMS in the first

Re: custom periodic scripts

2005-01-28 Thread Julien Gabel
How would I go about adding scripts to periodic? I particular I have a couple of scripts to fetch virus definitions and scan my system. I gathered the is a 'proper' way to do it by using /usr/local/etc/periodic but not how to do it. Just put an executable script on a tree similar to

RE: Missing INDEX file in Ports.

2005-01-29 Thread Julien Gabel
Your missing the point. INDEX is supposed to be in the RELEASES on the CDROMs because the CD's are supposed to be self-contained, ie: you should not require an Internet connection to get a complete install. Otherwise there's no point in even bothering to release the CDROMS in the first

Re: Backup to CD-Rs and DVDs.

2005-01-29 Thread Julien Gabel
I'm in the same boat as Xian. I want to backup to DVD so I can upgrade to 5.3. dump in 4.10 does not have a -P option, and growisofs says nothing about handling spanning, so how do I span my dump over multiple DVDs? Then some day if all goes well I will split /usr into /usr and /usr/home,

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

2005-02-09 Thread Julien Gabel
See the thread The FreeBSD Project is announcing a public competition for the new logo design. in -advocacy - I've already replied with my views on the subject, along the same lines as your comments. I'm not subscribed to -advocacy can you provide me with an archive link to this thread

RE: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-24 Thread Julien Gabel
That doesen't mean of course that it's impossible to do it - you can for example use Solaris for a small company server - but the effort required to go against the grain is much higher. Solaris for example comes with no compiler and you must compile by hand all the applications you need, and

Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-24 Thread Julien Gabel
That doesen't mean of course that it's impossible to do it - you can for example use Solaris for a small company server - but the effort required to go against the grain is much higher. Solaris for example comes with no compiler and you must compile by hand all the applications you need, and

RE: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced).

2004-07-15 Thread Julien Gabel
2) can i compile kernel with -march=pentium,pentium[234] -O2 optimization? in NetBSD 2.0 doing -march=pentium produces kernel that doesn't boot at all, just resets. 2.0 is always under develpoment and not yet released. I don't see the problem with 1.6.2. 4) is IPv6 working well? (i mean no

Re: ports, mailman and mail-gid.

2004-08-10 Thread Julien Gabel
I'm trying to get the mailman port installed with mail-gid=mailman (because I'm running Postfix), but I'm having zero success. If you don't use postfix virtual and aliases files, the group needs to be 'nobody'. I've tried make --with-mail-gid=mailman, --DWITH-MAIL-GID=mailman,

Re: ports, mailman and mail-gid.

2004-08-10 Thread Julien Gabel
I'm trying to get the mailman port installed with mail-gid=mailman (because I'm running Postfix), but I'm having zero success. If you don't use postfix virtual and aliases files, the group needs to be 'nobody'. But I *do* use virtual and aliases files. The group needs to be mailman. Ok.

Re: Is Device pooling / HZ option Documented anywhere

2005-11-01 Thread Julien Gabel
Is Device pooling / HZ option documented anywhere. I am in the process of upgrading my firewall to freebsd 5.4 tuned for network performance. Need further information regarding Device pooling / HZ. I usually check for the polling(4) manual page and read the corresponding section in

Re: Squirrelmail problem?

2005-11-02 Thread Julien Gabel
I've got a box running 5.4p8, latest versions of courier imap, squirrelmail, and php 4.4.1. I'm seeing this issue; I can open message #1, I can't open any other messsages, I get a timeout and a blank page(plus the compose, address, etc).. other than that, I'm not sure where to go with this,

Re: Squirrelmail problem?

2005-11-02 Thread Julien Gabel
I've got a box running 5.4p8, latest versions of courier imap, squirrelmail, and php 4.4.1. I'm seeing this issue; I can open message #1, I can't open any other messsages, I get a timeout and a blank page(plus the compose, address, etc).. other than that, I'm not sure where to go with this, any

Re: Squirrelmail problem?

2005-11-02 Thread Julien Gabel
After a php update, i usually need to reinstall squirrelmail and its dependancies using `portinstall -Rf -m -DWITH_OPENSSL squirrelmail' just to be sure all is rebuild with the correct SSL support. Done, but no help. Anyone? Just to be sure, have you restart apache after the overall update?

Re: Con not update xterm-206 via portupgrade.

2005-11-15 Thread Julien Gabel
=== xterm-206_1 conflicts with installed package(s): xorg-clients-6.8.2 They install files into the same place. Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1). *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/xterm. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/xterm. ** Command failed

Re: php4 port upgrade

2006-05-08 Thread Julien Gabel
' squirrelmail instead of: # portupgrade -rRf -m '-DWITH_OPENSSL_BASE' squirrelmail without much success for the moment... -- Julien Gabel. pgpTS3lBCiXbV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: php4 port upgrade

2006-05-08 Thread Julien Gabel
. -- Julien Gabel. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Odd daily run output.

2006-02-14 Thread Julien Gabel
Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1e253678-1358 234742-1%/tmp I know there's 8% reserved for softupdates, but how is it possible ^^^ Not for soft updates, but generally for root to be able to work in

Re: Odd daily run output.

2006-02-15 Thread Julien Gabel
Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1e253678-1358 234742-1%/tmp I know there's 8% reserved for softupdates, but how is it possible ^^^ Not for soft updates, but generally for root to be able to work

Re: Formatting an email for this list using vi

2003-11-17 Thread Julien Gabel
I have just started learning to use vi, and remember someone posting something a while ago about how to re-format an email reply to have proper 60 character width or something like that, does anyone remember how that is done? When you're in the editor: :set wm=20 will give 60 character

Re: Formatting an email for this list using vi

2003-11-17 Thread Julien Gabel
I have just started learning to use vi, and remember someone posting something a while ago about how to re-format an email reply to have proper 60 character width or something like that, does anyone remember how that is done? When you're in the editor: :set wm=20 will give 60 character

Re: how to change the name of root?

2003-11-19 Thread Julien Gabel
When I get admin emails from my remote boxes, or send messages from them, they are from root or charlie root. How do I change this? I would use vipw(1) to edit the password database. Or you can use the pw(8) command this way : # pw user mod -n root -c WhatYouWant -- -jg.

Re: Script question...

2004-01-12 Thread Julien Gabel
Hi list, I've making a script to write the content of three text files to one file, but I want to separate each files by a delimiter like the name of the file. Maybe this little sh(1) script can do the job: # = begin.script = #! /bin/sh

Re: Official wallpapers

2004-09-22 Thread Julien Gabel
The flame detail around the daemon (can't remember his name...) is excellent. IIRC, that's Beastie. ;) Beastie was one name used, but wasn't he called Chuck at one point? Seems not, according to http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/. -- -jpeg. ___

Re: error when trying to install mysql 4.1.12.

2005-06-10 Thread Julien Gabel
i'm having problems trying to install mysql41-server from ports since 4.1.12 was made available, using freebsd 4.11: // [11:06:51] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports/databases/mysql41-server] # make install clean snip Making all in client source='mysql.cc' object='mysql.o' libtool=no

Re: php4-xml port.

2005-06-10 Thread Julien Gabel
cc: /usr/local/lib/.libs/libexpat.so: No such file or directory *** Error code 1 [snip] libexpat.so is in /usr/local/lib, but the .libs on that path looks bizarre. Any thoughts? ln -s /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/.libs cd /usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions make clean make install Or see

Re: error when trying to install mysql 4.1.12.

2005-06-11 Thread Julien Gabel
I upgraded to version 4.1.12 on RELENG_5 without problem. Just a thought: what about using GNU readline? readline-5.0 was installed via ports when i installed 4.1.11 some time ago. i guess this is the port you are referring to. Yes it is, in particular since i saw this post yesterday at:

Re: error when trying to install mysql 4.1.12.

2005-06-11 Thread Julien Gabel
I upgraded to version 4.1.12 on RELENG_5 without problem. Just a thought: what about using GNU readline? readline-5.0 was installed via ports when i installed 4.1.11 some time ago. i guess this is the port you are referring to. Yes it is, in particular since i saw this post yesterday at:

Re: netgear wg311T and ath driver attaching

2005-06-11 Thread Julien Gabel
I'm attempting to use the netgear wg311T card, which I bought since the ath man page and docs said it is supported under FBSD. I'm using the 5.4 release. I did: cd /sys/modules/ath; make; make install kldload if_ath and dmesg presents: ath0: Atheros 5212 mem 0xdf00-0xdf00 irq

Re: Unable to decipher error ELF binary type 3 not known

2005-06-21 Thread Julien Gabel
Cvsup'd system last weekend but was unable to complete portupgrade due to following error: ELF binary type 3 not known execution of expat-1.95.5_2 script failed, exit status 255 ELF binary type 3 not known /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig: 1: Syntax error: ( unexpected

Re: Solution: Unable to decipher error ELF binary type 3 not known

2005-06-26 Thread Julien Gabel
I ran portupgrade -f linux_base-8 successfully and then ran portupgrade -arR. The system reports stale dependencies and suggest I manually run pkgdb -F to fix which I do. The first line of output reads: Stale dependency: acroread-5.10_1,1 - linux-expat-1.95.5_2

Re: Realtek RTL8169 on FreeBSD 5.4: no carrier.

2005-08-11 Thread Julien Gabel
I recently installed FreeBSD 5.4 on an ABIT AA-8 DuraMax and all went well. All hardware detected properly and everything was running great, until I got to configuring my network. ifconfig shows my onboard gigabit LAN as status: no carrier I can successfully ping localhost and the IP that was

Re: which audio driver for Intel AC'97?

2005-04-14 Thread Julien Gabel
I have a HP/COMPAQ NC6000 Laptop which has a AC'97 audio controller. I'm using freebsd5.4(pre-release). Is the chip supported? I was not able to find info on the hardware page? [...] device = '82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller' Have you tried using the 'snd_ich'

Problem loading a NDIS kernel module.

2005-04-16 Thread Julien Gabel
Hello, Trying to get wireless networking on my notebook, i tried the NDISulator. After copying the configuration and binary files to the corresponding path at /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis, i created the driver definition header using ndiscvt(8). Then, i have build and install the driver module

Re: FreeBSD NIS client and Solaris NIS server problem...

2005-04-28 Thread Julien Gabel
Hello, I'm having a bit of trouble getting my FreeBSD workstation ( 5.4 PRERELEASE ) binding to our Solaris 8 NIS server. I do not get any warnings or errors when ypbind starts up, but if I do a 'rpcinfo localhost', it takes a very long time to come back with anything(stays in a 'nanslp'

Re: No inodes free ?

2005-05-19 Thread Julien Gabel
I've just cvsup'ed and began to make installworld. This is the error I get now : No inodes free. There is, I think, still enough room free on / and /usr (see the output of df -h below). What causes this error and how do I avoid it ? The 'i' opion of the df(1) command may help here. --

Re: 5.4 +apache (how to restart)

2005-05-19 Thread Julien Gabel
Apache starts fine on boot, but need restart(ie: stop, start) to reload changed httpd.conf. How do I do this in 5.4? If it was installed using the ports collection, you can do: # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache2.sh restart Or: # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache2.sh reload -- -jpeg.

Re: No inodes free ?

2005-05-19 Thread Julien Gabel
I've just cvsup'ed and began to make installworld. This is the error I get now : No inodes free. There is, I think, still enough room free on / and /usr (see the output of df -h below). What causes this error and how do I avoid it ? The 'i' opion of the df(1) command may help here. [EMAIL

Re: syncing sources without cvs and cvsup.

2005-05-20 Thread Julien Gabel
i need to update my freebsd sources to -current but the firewall i'm behind blocks both cvs and cvsup, and ctm is an overkill. Just for information, why is CTM an overkill? I use it at work for the very same problem as described here, and don't see any drawback (yet...). -- -jpeg.

Re: syncing sources without cvs and cvsup.

2005-05-20 Thread Julien Gabel
i need to update my freebsd sources to -current but the firewall i'm behind blocks both cvs and cvsup, and ctm is an overkill. Just for information, why is CTM an overkill? I use it at work for the very same problem as described here, and don't see any drawback (yet...). Just a thought

Re: syncing sources without cvs and cvsup.

2005-05-20 Thread Julien Gabel
i need to update my freebsd sources to -current but the firewall i'm behind blocks both cvs and cvsup, and ctm is an overkill. Just for information, why is CTM an overkill? I use it at work for the very same problem as described here, and don't see any drawback (yet...). Just a thought

Re: NSSwitch settings on 5.4.

2005-05-23 Thread Julien Gabel
AFAIK there never was a default nsswitch.conf in FreeBSD 5.4, I always had to create a new one from scratch. Well there was one sitting on my system in /etc I certainly didn't create it! This system started life as 5.2-RELEASE, so maybe it crept in earlier on? If you have a file named

Re: NSSwitch settings on 5.4.

2005-05-23 Thread Julien Gabel
AFAIK there never was a default nsswitch.conf in FreeBSD 5.4, I always had to create a new one from scratch. Well there was one sitting on my system in /etc I certainly didn't create it! This system started life as 5.2-RELEASE, so maybe it crept in earlier on? If you have a file named

Re: When will X11R7.2 hit the ports tree ?

2007-02-18 Thread Julien Gabel
X11R7.2 was released three days ago. Any ideas when will we see it in ports ? http://blog.xbsd.org/2007/02/16/xorg-72-has-been-released-but-not-in-ports-yet/ -- julien. http://www.thilelli.net/~jgabel/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Problem with RRDTool reinstallation

2007-05-08 Thread Julien Gabel
This server is close to deployment so I can't afford to reinstall. I get the following error when I try to reinstall/install RRDTool. Must be caused by a failed portupgrade I did earlier. There are already 3 PRs for this problem : -

Re: No free space add after removing large file.

2005-08-30 Thread Julien Gabel
On my fs I had a file of 20gb. The free space on that fs was at that time around 1gb. But after removing the 20gb file, the freespace wasn't added :-S ? What has gone wrong and how can I 'reclaim' the free space? There could be a process which has an open filehandle to this file. The file

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