Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 196, Issue 38

2007-11-10 Thread Scott Bennett
on the server's needs. The router draws almost no current, probably far less than the UPS itself does when the line power has failed. Buy a minimal capacity UPS for the router, switches, etc. It will probably be able to keep them running for many hours, likely even days, during a power failure.

Re: FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE build error

2007-12-03 Thread Scott Bennett
jn, where n is the maximum number of parallel jobs you wish to run, try running it without that option. If you haven't been running it that way, then I apologize for the noise. :-) Note that the above applies to the buildwo

looking for a disk partition ("slice") editor

2008-09-21 Thread Scott Bennett
plies, too.) Thanks much! Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * *

Re: looking for a disk partition ("slice") editor

2008-09-21 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:25:19 -0400 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 07:00:39AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > >> I would like to find a disk partition ("slice" in FreeBSD nomenclature) >> editor that runs under FreeBSD

Re: looking for a disk partition ("slice") editor

2008-09-22 Thread Scott Bennett
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:28:05 -0400 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 09:19:40AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > >> On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:25:19 -0400 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >On Sun,

pf vs. RST attack question

2008-10-05 Thread Scott Bennett
o not want to reject legitimate RST packets. Thanks in advance for any clues! Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.ni

ACPI suspend/resume on RELENG_7 vs. Dell Inspiron XPS

2008-11-18 Thread Scott Bennett
spend/resume, etc.). Does anyone know whether this will finally work right under RELENG_7 (especially 7.1-RELEASE)? Thanks in advance for any information on this matter. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG,

/sys/modules/mii/nsgphy.c compilation errors

2009-09-22 Thread Scott Bennett
tried again to build a kernel, I see that the errors persist. Is this something that someone is already fixing? Or should I try to submit a PR? Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Intern

Re: /sys/modules/mii/nsgphy.c compilation errors

2009-09-24 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:22:40 -0400 Lowell Gilbert wrote: >Scott Bennett writes: > >> An update committed since Friday appears to have broken mii/nsgphy.c >> in the kernel. When I try to build a kernel now, I get the following errors >> during the comp

When is it worth enabling hyperthreading?

2009-10-09 Thread Scott Bennett
t, but the slight improvement is sometimes apparent. Also, when running Windows XP, having hyperthreading enabled has allowed me to get out from under some runaway, single-threaded process, even though doing so can take a while because the runaway process does compete vigorously for the shared resour

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-18 Thread Scott Bennett
roblem is simply the failure of the OP to read the section title, which clearly says, "BUGS". Now please, all of you, stop spamming the list with all this nonsense. The very first respondent could well have pointed out the problem, and that would have been the end of

lang/gcc43 and lang/gcc44 installation procedures broken after updates

2009-10-26 Thread Scott Bennett
2/libjava' gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc43/work/build' 2 errors ===>>> A backup package for gcc-4.3.5.20090913 should be located in /usr/ports/packages/portmaster-backup ===>>> Installation of gcc-4.3.5.20091004 (lang/gcc43) failed ===>>&g

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-27 Thread Scott Bennett
abs: "Behavior" and "Cookies". The "Behavior" tab is the one you want. You should be able to figure out what to do from there, but basically you can identify a site by host

Re: lang/gcc43 and lang/gcc44 installation procedures broken after updates

2009-10-28 Thread Scott Bennett
what to do if a situation arises like this for a port that has many dependencies that would typically be better managed by portmaster or portupgrade, however. I guess next I'll try running portmaster as shown above and see what else migh

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-28 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:32:21 -0400 Michael Powell wrote: >Scott Bennett wrote: > > >>>> Alexander Best wrote: >>>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>>>> i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: >>>>> >&

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-28 Thread Scott Bennett
goals but retained Sendmail as the default >MTA "for historical reasons". > >Sorry .. but that's the way it goes every time someone asks the same >question. > And George Santayana's famous dictum may well apply even in this case. :)

Re: lang/gcc43 and lang/gcc44 installation procedures broken after updates

2009-10-28 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:19:08 + "b. f." wrote: >On 10/28/09, Scott Bennett wrote: >> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:28:51 + "b. f." >> wrote: >>>Scott Bennet wrote: >... >> >> With one exception, I do not alter the >

VirtualBox kernel module messages

2009-10-29 Thread Scott Bennett
ppDev=0xe8561948 Oct 29 03:07:03 hellas kernel: VBoxDrvFreeBSDClone: pszName=pts ppDev=0xe86d4a14 As you can see, there is some repetition and some variation. Can anyone tell me what these messages mean and how they might best be stopped? Thanks much!

math/arpack patch.tar.gz timestamp differs between ports and freebsd.org

2009-10-29 Thread Scott Bennett
ror code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/math/arpack. 0.359u 0.158s 0:03.81 13.1% 174+849k 12+0io 0pf+0w hellas# exit exit Script done on Thu Oct 29 03:19:31 2009 Any helpful suggestions out there? Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG **

Re: math/arpack patch.tar.gz timestamp differs between ports and freebsd.org

2009-10-29 Thread Scott Bennett
s can lie. After manually deleting the file per your suggestion, math/arpack installed just fine. Thank you very much! math/octave is now compiling as I write this. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG *

Re: lang/gcc43 and lang/gcc44 installation procedures broken after updates

2009-10-29 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:07:09 + "b. f." wrote: >On 10/29/09, Scott Bennett wrote: >> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:19:08 + "b. f." >> wrote: >>>On 10/28/09, Scott Bennett wrote: >>>> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:

Re: lang/gcc43 and lang/gcc44 installation procedures broken after updates

2009-10-29 Thread Scott Bennett
the old-fashioned method handled any accumulated patches properly, then I think the only problem is in portmaster, rather than lang/gcc4[34]. What, in particular, about those two ports caused portmaster to screw up remains to be determined. Scott

math/py-numpy vs. math/atlas-devel

2009-11-07 Thread Scott Bennett
vent portmaster from trying to build math/atlas. Creating a /var/db/pkg/atlas-3.8.3_1,1/+IGNOREME file in addition doesn't help. How can I force math/py-numpy to accept the already installed math/atlas-devel libraries? Thanks in advance for any help! Sc

Re: math/py-numpy vs. math/atlas-devel

2009-11-09 Thread Scott Bennett
;apparently they should be. maho, if you need any help with this let me >know. I've left the Cc in as well because IIRC, Maho was heavily involved in the upgrade of immense numbers of ports to gfortran42. The next obstacle in math/py-numpy outlined further below may well be a missed re

Re: math/py-numpy vs. math/atlas-devel

2009-11-09 Thread Scott Bennett
On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 20:26:15 + "b. f." wrote: >On 11/9/09, Scott Bennett wrote: >> On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:59:29 -0800 Doug Barton >> wrote: > >... > >> Anyway, the math/py-numpy port now proceeds to build without bothering >> wi

math/atlas-devel build times (was Re: math/py-numpy vs. math/atlas-devel)

2009-11-09 Thread Scott Bennett
physical CPUs, so it's difficult to see how its cache management in a HT environment could be any better than FreeBSD's. Maybe LINUX has been updated to understand five-year-old technology since I last checked, but that still should only make it closer to FreeBSD's performance, not r

Re: GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-22 Thread Scott Bennett
ich compilers, etc. might be written for the GPGPUs of both of the major GPU manufacturers. So if you're waiting for OpenCL for FreeBSD, don't hold your breath, stand on narrow ledges far above ground, and so fort

Re: Mutt and openssl from port

2009-12-12 Thread Scott Bennett
SSLBASE} --sysconfdir=${PREFIX}/etc \ >+ --with-ssl=/usr/local --sysconfdir=${PREFIX}/etc \ > >but got the same. I suppose that OPENSSL_OVERWRITE_BASE doesn't work: >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-Nove

questions about superpages

2009-12-29 Thread Scott Bennett
appreciate that, too. Thanks in advance! Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennet

Re: questions about superpages

2009-12-29 Thread Scott Bennett
nts close to the >promotion thresshold. If someone who knows can also point me toward the >place that these values appear in the source code, I'd appreciate that, too. > Thanks in advance!

"glabel label" questions

2010-01-11 Thread Scott Bennett
Or will I need to recreate the file systems after labeling the partitions and then restore their contents from backups? Is there any danger to unencrypted partitions and data when using the "glabel label" operation? Thanks in advance for any help with this matter.

Re: "glabel label" questions

2010-01-11 Thread Scott Bennett
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:24:47 + krad wrote: >2010/1/11 Scott Bennett > >> My system currently has three external disk drives connected via USB >> 2.0 >> ports and will soon have another drive connected via a Firewire port. The >> three already present

X.org 7.3 fails during startup, claiming font not found

2008-03-17 Thread Scott Bennett
where to find the font that X is looking for? And then, how and where do I install the font? /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts contains no files with names containing the string "fixed", but I know so little about the internals of X that I don't know whether the reference to a default fon

Re: X.org 7.3 fails during startup, claiming font not found

2008-03-17 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:04:10 + "Brad Pitney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Scott Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [..] >> Fatal server error: >> could not open default font 'fixed' >>

X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

2008-03-18 Thread Scott Bennett
ade, and for this?? Pardon my frustration, please. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Interne

Xorg crashing randomly

2008-03-24 Thread Scott Bennett
screen saver routines are the only ones I know do it for certain. Firefox 2.x under X.org 7.3 gets an impenetrable hang, not a crash. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG,

Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

2008-03-24 Thread Scott Bennett
he cursor into the window and wait a few seconds to see what happens before pressing a button. > >This is really becoming a big PITA. > I concur. Since the "upgrade"--do

Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

2008-03-24 Thread Scott Bennett
the case as long as I've been running FreeBSD (i.e., since 5.2.1) and is not new to 6.3. > >The only problem I'm having since 7.3 btw (I forgot about that, but just >remembered) is everytime I start nethack-qt (either local or remote) X >restarts, k

Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

2008-03-24 Thread Scott Bennett
Sorry about the delay in my response. I got tied up in lots of unrelated matters for several days. On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:55:43 +0100 Dominic Fandrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Scott Bennett wrote: >> Now that I've upgraded to X.org 7.3, I'm wish

Re: xorg and radeon, widescreen

2008-04-08 Thread Scott Bennett
>Viewport 0 0 >Depth 15 >EndSubSection >SubSection "Display" >Viewport 0 0 >Depth 16 >EndSubSection >SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 >Depth

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-19 Thread Scott Bennett
ipts. I do not know when the change was made in the kernel to block suid permission elevation on executable non-binaries (i.e., scripts). Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG **

"portmaster --list-origins" question

2011-12-28 Thread Scott Bennett
ed that *all* installed ports would be listed. Did I misunderstand something about the --list-origins option? Or have I run into a bug? Any suggestions of how to proceed would be welcome. Thanks! Scott Benne

Re: "portmaster --list-origins" question

2011-12-30 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:44:57 +0100 Christer Solskogen wrote: >On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: > >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Did I misunderstand something about the --list-origins opti= >on? =C2=A0Or have >> I run into a bug? =C2=A0Any suggestions of how to pr

3 TB disk troubles

2013-02-14 Thread Scott Bennett
n any replies because I am subscribed to the digest form of this list and would like to see responses without having to wait up to 24 hours. :-) Thanks in advance for any help! Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG,

Re: 3 TB disk troubles

2013-02-14 Thread Scott Bennett
ack to the store I bought it and ask them to demonstrate to me that it actually works for them as a 3 TB drive. Sigh. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ***

ifconfig for WLAN using WEP

2004-12-20 Thread Scott Bennett
Free86 to make the machine really usable. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * ** * "

Re: ifconfig for WLAN using WEP

2004-12-20 Thread Scott Bennett
Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >--On Monday, December 20, 2004 02:14:20 AM -0600 Scott Bennett ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've been asked in freebsd-newbies to move this to freebsd-questions, >> so I'll start with my original m

Re: ifconfig for WLAN using WEP

2004-12-23 Thread Scott Bennett
Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >--On Monday, December 20, 2004 11:21:01 AM -0600 Scott Bennett ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I wasn't combining them. Here's some background information: the >> only "connected"

Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed

2004-12-24 Thread Scott Bennett
I'm looking for a driver that supports the Dell Wireless WLAN 1450 Dual- Band card for laptops. If anyone can point me in the right direction, please let me know. Thanks in advance! Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG,

Re: ifconfig for WLAN using WEP

2004-12-24 Thread Scott Bennett
Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Fri Dec 24 16:22:29 2004: >--On Thursday, December 23, 2004 3:49 AM -0600 Scott Bennett ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> As it turns out, this was the right question to ask, for which I >> thank Paul. &

Re: Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed

2004-12-24 Thread Scott Bennett
Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Fri Dec 24 16:25:40 2004: >--On Friday, December 24, 2004 1:54 PM -0600 Scott Bennett ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm looking for a driver that supports the Dell Wireless WLAN 1450 >> Dual- Band card f

Re: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-27 Thread Scott Bennett
version due to expire soon and reject the license number when you attempt to reregister it. Symantec, of course, is unreachable if you try to get them to support the license and software. But perhaps you do your backups a better way. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASME

NDIS and Dell (Broadcom) WLAN 1450 Dual Band card

2004-12-27 Thread Scott Bennett
\DELL\drivers\R63259\TMSetup and \DELL\drivers\R81836. Which, if any, of these is the correct file to use in creating an NDIS driver for FreeBSD? Any useful information to make this FreeBSD system networkable soon will be greatly appreciated! Scott Bennett,

RE: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-28 Thread Scott Bennett
Tom Connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Scott Bennett wrote: >> Tom Connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hello list. I wish to put FreeBSD 5.3 on a new hard drive and have >>> it dual boot with the existing Windows XP system (separa

burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs

2005-01-03 Thread Scott Bennett
s networking, no graphics support). It's getting to be really depressing. Thanks in advance for any help you can send. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG *

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Scott Bennett
echo "Firewall disabled." >> fi >> >> exit 0 > >yes, that's right > [remainder deleted --SB] It has been many years, but it seems to me that, under 4.3BSD, the echo co

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Scott Bennett
with them. Ah, how memory comes flooding back after the message has been sent! Sigh. /etc/rc did have a tty associated with its process and therefore could inform the operator that various daemons and subsystems had been started. It was only the subprocesses that were backgrounded that had to

Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs

2005-01-03 Thread Scott Bennett
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 21:49:26 +1100 (EST) Dave Horsfall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Scott Bennett wrote: > >> I've also tried burning the first file to CD-Rs using Windows XP Home's >> own facilities and using Sonic RecordNow! under said sy

Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs

2005-01-04 Thread Scott Bennett
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:21:06 -0500 Parv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >wrote Scott Bennett thusly... >> >> I've downloaded the following ISO image files: >> >> 5.3-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso >> 5.3-

Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs

2005-01-05 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 12:37:41 -0700 Danny MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:13:56PM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: >> On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:21:06 -0500 Parv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >in message <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Scott Bennett
opers have no customer base because they don't sell the software. That's why it's called FreeBSD though that probably wouldn't matter to a troll even if it could understand it. Scott B

Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs

2005-01-06 Thread Scott Bennett
Many thanks go to Dave Horsfall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who wrote the winning tip on Tue, 4 Jan 2005 17:14:24 +1100 (EST): >On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Scott Bennett wrote: > >> As root, I did the following (assuming I remember the Windows path >> correctly:-): >> >

Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs

2005-01-06 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:55:10 -0700 Danny MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:35:43PM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: >> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 12:37:41 -0700 Danny MacMillan >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >This is not

Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs

2005-01-07 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu Jan 6 09:58:55 2005 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:55:10 -0700 Danny MacMillan >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:35:43PM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: >> >

Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs

2005-01-07 Thread Scott Bennett
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 07:36:30 -0600 Joshua Lokken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 02:31:37 -0600 (CST), Scott Bennett ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu Jan 6 09:58:55 2005 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >

Re: I quit

2005-01-09 Thread Scott Bennett
le has not released a version for Intel processors, so it won't help someone with a pee cee instead of a Mac. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet:

Re: I quit

2005-01-10 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 19:01:26 -0600 David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Jan 9, 2005, at 6:17 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: > >> On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 08:54:55 -0600 Andrew L. Gould >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> Mac OSX is bas

Re: I quit

2005-01-10 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 20:20:29 -0500 Bob Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 06:17:36PM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: >> On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 08:54:55 -0600 Andrew L. Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> >Mac OSX is based up

Re: I quit

2005-01-11 Thread Scott Bennett
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:11:38 -0500 Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >Scott Bennett wrote: >> On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 19:01:26 -0600 David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >[ ... ] >> That may be true. I don't really know because I hav

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-12 Thread Scott Bennett
ows the details of how this is handled in these chips, please post them here. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG *

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-12 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:45:56 +0100 Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Scott Bennett writes: > >SB> Well, no, not exactly. The dual-cored CPUs share certain resources >SB> on the chip that are not shared in a multi-CPU situation, and that sharing >S

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-13 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 02:11:27 +0100 Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Scott Bennett writes: > >SB> I notice that the 5.2.1 boot messages refer to the second core as an >SB> AP, which I'm guessing stands for "attached processor". If that &g

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-14 Thread Scott Bennett
): the >locking overhead is there, but very minimal: a process which takes 16 >minutes will require, maybe, 3 seconds more. > Was that using MPI? Or some other thread management package? Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG

Re: install cd crazyness

2005-01-18 Thread Scott Bennett
copying files it says it >either can't read the cd or that it looks like an audio cd. > >here is how i burnt them >burncd -e -f /dev/acd0c data /home/timothy/5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso burncd -e -f /dev/acd0c data /home/timothy/5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso fixate

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Scott Bennett
s performance on older, slower equipment could be a contributing factor to why hardware vendors like Dell and ATI are willing to provide only limited support for LINUX and none at all for FreeBSD. After all, if FreeBSD lets a Pentium II w/MMX handle, for example, a moderately loaded web site or large n

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Scott Bennett
You sound awfully willing to spend other people's money. Perhaps you should ask them to buy you some texts on economics. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at c

Re: : Mrs. Butterworth vs Vermont Maid

2005-01-22 Thread Scott Bennett
- proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ ^^^ ||| ||| Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * ** * "A well

NDIS gets error with Dell/Broadcom wireless card

2005-01-26 Thread Scott Bennett
rking will be appreciated. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * *

Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs

2005-01-27 Thread Scott Bennett
ges around for Windows XP, but that would mean spending more money on a package you might only use once. :-] Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ***

REPOST: NDIS gets error with Dell/Broadcom wireless card

2005-01-27 Thread Scott Bennett
ssages above suggesting that I should have included any others among those files? Or is that not the problem? Any clues to help get this working will be appreciated. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ***

Re: How does FreeBSD access NetBSD, OpenBSD?

2005-01-28 Thread Scott Bennett
logical partition/slice chain to locate the file system containing the kernel to be loaded. From what I've read, LINUX's LILO boot loader *can* do this. Perhaps the FreeBSD loader will be made smarter someday, but I'd guess that would be a low- priority item on the developer team

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-10-07 Thread Scott Bennett
/page * 262 * 1024 * 1024 pages) or 1048 GB, which I suspect is rather more than FreeBSD kernels currently support, especially in i386, which is what my system is running.

help requested in fixing disk label mistake

2011-01-22 Thread Scott Bennett
in digest form and am at least a week and a half behind on my reading. :-} Thanks much in advance for any helpful ideas. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet:

Re: help requested in fixing disk label mistake

2011-01-22 Thread Scott Bennett
DIRECTLY (or at least Cc: me directly) >because I receive this list in digest form and am at least a week and a half >behind on my reading. :-} Thanks much in advance for any helpful ideas.

REPOST: Re: help requested in fixing disk label mistake

2011-01-25 Thread Scott Bennett
ector of the partition)? Or is my hypothesis >stated above actually incorrect, and if so, why/how? > PLEASE send any replies to ME DIRECTLY (or at least Cc: me directly) >because I receive this list in digest form and am at least a wee

[SOLVED] REPOST: Re: help requested in fixing disk label mistake

2011-01-28 Thread Scott Bennett
over sectors in s1d when newfs(8) had created the file system there, I began repeating the process just described. Eventually, on the fifteenth or sixteenth iteration, voila! The missing device files in /dev/label had suddenly reappeared. :-) I then immediately saved a copy of the corrected bsdlabe

clang options question

2012-10-16 Thread Scott Bennett
From looking at the clang(1) man page, it is not clear to me what the difference is between the -arch option and the -march= option. Would someone please summarize the difference(s) for me? Thanks much! Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG

Re: clang options question

2012-10-17 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 04:25:14 +1100 andrew clarke wrote: >On Tue 2012-10-16 10:52:36 UTC-0500, Scott Bennett (benn...@cs.niu.edu) wrote: > >> From looking at the clang(1) man page, it is not clear to me what the >> difference is between the -arch option and the -mar

Re: Wireless Inspiron 6400 anyone?

2006-10-21 Thread Scott Bennett
cmwl5.sys file via the Windows XP device manager. After more digging around, I think I've found the correct .inf file, but have yet to find time to try running the two files through ndisgen to see what happens under

Re: Wireless Inspiron 6400 anyone?

2006-10-24 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 07:30:26 -0500 Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sunday 22 October 2006 01:21, Scott Bennett wrote: >> On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:06:36 -0500 Patrick Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> wrote: >> >Lane wrote: >> >&g

need to get updates, packages, ports, etc. via Windows XP wireless

2006-11-07 Thread Scott Bennett
t I can try to make 6.1 useful? Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * *---

annoying problems after upgrading to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-04-26 Thread Scott Bennett
me a way to fix the third one. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks muchly in advance. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG

Re: annoying problems after upgrading to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-04-26 Thread Scott Bennett
ansfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 08:51:50PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: >> I've encountered three annoying problems since doing the upgrade from >> 6.1-RELEASE to 6.2-RELEASE using the upgrade option when booting from the >> installation

Re: annoying problems after upgrading to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-04-27 Thread Scott Bennett
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:38:31 -0400 quoth Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >--9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Disposition: inline >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:30:20PM -0500, Scott B

Re: ATI Radeon 9600xt (256MB DDR) on FreeBSD 6.2 ; solved?

2007-05-14 Thread Scott Bennett
s added to the kernel configuration, though 6.2 doesn't seem to need them. device drm device radeondrm I don't recall whether you stated which version of FreeBSD you were using. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ***

Re: Sendmail ignores hosts.allow

2007-05-22 Thread Scott Bennett
nly* that the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files should have any effect whatsoever upon whether incoming connections are handled by sendmail. N.B. even in this case, it is tcpd reading those files and making the decisions, *not*

mbr on second drive.

2007-07-06 Thread Scott Bennett
ntioned above as >a second drive on the machine. The first drive is a ATA and the second >(broken) is a SCSI. > Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 200, Issue 60

2008-01-24 Thread Scott Bennett
m very glad that they feel this way. >> > >Again, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that *so long as* you are >fully willing to suffer the consequences. As with Rosa Parks, you may >succeed in illustrating how unfair the

gencat error messages during 6.3-STABLE buildworld

2008-01-25 Thread Scott Bennett
e id on line 7324 d9 1 ^ gencat: neither blank line nor start of a message id on line 7325 a9 1 ^ gencat: neither blank line nor start of a message id on line 7327 @ ^ ===> bin/date (all) cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=prescott -Wsystem-headers -Werror -Wall -Wno-format-y2k -W -Wno-unu

Re: unix domain socket security and PID retrieval

2008-02-04 Thread Scott Bennett
> >Any suggestions on where I should begin to look? Sure. Take a look at the man pages for fork(2), vfork(2), and fork(3f). > >As it currently stands, I am looking at doing this with perl. In that case, take a look at perlfork(1), too.

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