ftp access but no log

2007-10-01 Thread Walter
Hi again, I just by chance noticed today that someone was accessing my ftp server. No big deal, except that I did not see any log of it via "last" which usually shows these things. I could see a record in /var/log/xferlog, however. Did someone break in? Should I worry? Thank

Buffalo/Broadcom wireless N card

2008-05-06 Thread Walter
I'm trying to compile support for a wireless router into FBSD 7 using instructions off a FBSD help page I can't locate just now. (I'm working on building a network bridge.) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:10:0:class=0x028000 card=0x03531154 chip=0x432914e4 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Co

Does FBSD 7 support 802.11N cards? G suggestions?

2008-05-14 Thread Walter
at. ?? If "N" isn't supported, is there any problem anyone knows about with the LevelOne WNC0301 or with LinkSys WMP54G cards? CircuitCity has the LevelOne for $25 and the WMP54G for $39. Can someone advise me? Thanks. Walter _

Re: Does FBSD 7 support 802.11N cards? G suggestions?

2008-05-15 Thread Walter
(Sorry Roland; re-sending after I noticed my reply went directly to you rather than the List.) Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:23:44PM -0500, Walter wrote: <>I'm trying to get a Broadcom-based wireless-N card running under FBSD 7. ... > See Chapter 20

Re: Does FBSD 7 support 802.11N cards? G suggestions?

2008-05-15 Thread Walter
Gerard wrote: I have done something similar to that myself. Go to the linksys site and download the latest available driver for your card. Then visit: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html and follow the directions there. I found the direction at 11.8.1 he

Re: Does FBSD 7 support 802.11N cards? G suggestions?

2008-05-15 Thread Walter
Gerard wrote: <>On Thu, 15 May 2008 11:39:08 -0500 Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I found the direction at 11.8.1 helpful, and was able to use /ndisgen/ <>and /kldload/ to bring up the card. (Yea!) Now I need to configure it - I'm printing out 29.3 now. But I can

Re: Does FBSD 7 support 802.11N cards? G suggestions?

2008-05-15 Thread Walter
Doh!! Did it again. Sorry about that Roland. Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 06:54:53AM -0500, Walter wrote: I'm talking about "The Cutting Edge" http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html It's a crap shoot? T

Re: Buffalo/Broadcom wireless N card

2008-05-15 Thread Walter
Walter wrote: I'm trying to compile support for a wireless router into FBSD 7 using instructions off a FBSD help page I can't locate just now. (I'm working on building a network bridge.) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:10:0:class=0x028000 card=0x03531154 chip=0x432914e4 rev=0x01 hdr=

FreeBSD 4.5 and 5.2.1

2005-03-02 Thread Walter
I have both of the above mentioned versions. For some reason or other, neither one will get past the part of the installation where they probe for hardware. I've let both versions get after it for over 2 hours, and they're still probing for hardware. Any suggestions as to what I should be doing to

Re: deleting directories with ??? in name

2004-04-09 Thread Walter
d the result. I'm not subscribed to the List, so please CC me. Thanks. Walter Parv wrote: in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Walter thusly... I apologize for the late reply. Parv wrote: # find . \( -inum -o -inum \) -print0 \ # | xargs -0 rm -rfv Thanks, but when I did: ls -

handling non-printable characters in file names

2003-02-05 Thread Walter
s not able to see the directory either, but maybe because it began with a ". " - I don't know. Also, is there a way to configure FBSD from accepting non-printable characters in file names? Thanks in advance. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "uns

Re: handling non-printable characters in file names

2003-02-05 Thread Walter
Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:28:57PM -0500, Walter wrote: >> Leaving out the details, I need to know how to >>navigate directories and remove files that use non- >>printable characters in their names. du and ls show >>me they're there, bu

monochrome monitor

2003-02-07 Thread Walter
s not work. Any thoughts? (I didn't find anything useful in the handbook or archives, but maybe I missed something.) TIA. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: monochrome monitor

2003-02-07 Thread Walter
BIOS set-up page it shows the display type as "VGA/CGA" but stippled out, as it also stipples out the amount of memory. There are other video related memory settings to be played with, but I'm guessing monochrome is not an option. True?? Thanks. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: monochrome monitor

2003-02-07 Thread Walter
had the VGA in.) I'm guessing either the BIOS does not handle mono, or maybe just this mono card. Thanks for your help so far and whatever other things you might suggest to look at, but it seems like a dead end at the moment. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: monochrome monitor

2003-02-07 Thread Walter
ll no mono. (Before today I only had the VGA in.) I'm guessing either the BIOS does not handle mono, or maybe just this mono card. Thanks for your help so far and whatever other things you might suggest to look at, but it seems like a dead end at the moment. Walter I would suggest that you

Re: monochrome monitor

2003-02-07 Thread Walter
ons I might look for? (Good thought.) James Long wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 01:10:09PM -0500, Walter wrote: I'm guessing either the BIOS does not handle mono, or maybe just this mono card. Long, long, ago, motherboards had a jumper on them, with one position for monochrome, and anothe

Re: Mac can't connect to Internet

2002-10-23 Thread Walter
e it? Also, of curiosity: Why are not IPFIREWALL and IPDIVERT included in the GENERIC kernel? Thanks in advance. Walter Walter wrote: > I had actually tried it with the firewall enabled previously, > but because that had not worked either, had disabled > hoping it would work after (mis-?)readi

Re: Mac can't connect to Internet

2002-10-23 Thread Walter
I pulled the 'nameserver' addresses from /etc/resolv.conf. That seems to fix it. Thanks! W. "Tony M." wrote: > It sounds like you don't have the DNS entries correct on the Mac. Make > sure to set up your Name Server Entries in your tcp/ip control panel. > > Tony > > >But, after several minutes

Re: Mac can't connect to Internet

2002-10-22 Thread Walter
ee the internet just fine. (The firewall is disabled. And I can ping, telnet, & FTP from the Mac to FBSD just fine.) Thanks. Walter Alex wrote: > Friday, October 18, 2002, 6:31:35 PM, you wrote: > > > > I added a Powerbook, OS X, to the local network, configured /etc/hosts >

Re: Mac can't connect to Internet

2002-10-22 Thread Walter
s done and tested. (Fwiw, the configuration I'm trying to implement is: Cable-Modem <=> FBSD <=> hub <=> Mac, PC, etc.) Walter David Kelly wrote: > On Tuesday 22 October 2002 01:24 pm, Kevin Stevens wrote: > > > > Two things: > > > > - Is the FreeBSD

kernel optimization

2002-10-24 Thread Walter
U cpu I586_CPU cpu I686_CPU Q: Do I comment out the "I386_CPU" and "I486_CPU" lines to optimize for a Pentium, (& if not, how do I,) and Q: Does it make a significant difference? TIA. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

BBS

2002-10-24 Thread Walter
I see just a few BBS packages in the Ports area, is there one that considered best; or are there better solutions to offering simple user interfaces? Such as Apache+Perl scripts? Others? Thanks. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions&qu

4.6.2 spurious reboot, fwiw

2002-10-26 Thread Walter
uot; build, among other changes. (Maybe this has bearing on the "4.7 is rebooting on its own" posts, maybe not, but I'd thought I'd mention this, as the best hidden bugs are the ones that have been there for a while but only really manifest themselves later on.) Walter To Uns

Re: 4.6.2 spurious reboot, fwiw

2002-10-26 Thread Walter
Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 08:56:58AM -0500, Walter wrote: > > .. my > > FBSD 4.6.2 system rebooted a little after 2 last night. > > Do you have a UPS? Sounds to me like you had a momentary dip in the > mains voltage. PC's can be very sensiti

incorrect super block

2002-11-03 Thread Walter
Hi, I added a 3 GB HD to my FreeBSD computer (as a second drive). I used /stand/sysinstall to 'fdisk' and 'label' it. But when I try to mount it with 'mount /dev/ad3s1e /data' it complains of an incorrect super block. Any solutions? Thanks. Walter To Un

Re: incorrect super block

2002-11-03 Thread Walter
OK, Thanks. Fixed. It looks like I forgot to "W" (Write) the partiion edit when doing the label. Thanks and sorry for the bother. Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > newfs /dev/ad3s1e > > > > When I do this it says the 'e' partition is unavailable > > What's the output from: > > disklabel -r a

HTTP access

2002-11-04 Thread Walter
g the OPEN firewall that comes with the GENERIC build. Thanks. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: HTTP access

2002-11-04 Thread Walter
this other port number also. I guess time will tell. Walter Ty Hoeffer wrote: > It will probably require a call to their tech support. > > One thing you could try is trafshow. It will display incoming & outgoing > traffic, its port, the protocol being used, and the chars/sec invi

Re: FreeBSD filesystem 1TB Limit

2002-11-05 Thread Walter
This is no doubt heresy coming from a newbie especially, but I was reading that NetBSD can support at least up to 4TB: http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/features.html#large-filesystems Walter Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Joseph Gleason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I

can't load kernel on 386 system

2002-12-01 Thread Walter
hat the /var and the /tmp partitions never use over a few hundred blocks on my Pentium computer, I made them 32Mb each for the 386, but accepted the defaults for the "/" and the Swap partitions; the /usr partition got the remainder of the HD. Am I seeing a configuration error, a MB error, other?

Re: Memory disk

2003-02-12 Thread Walter
, is it possible to use the new memory cards (for digital cameras) instead of a hard drive? The capacity on those is getting pretty large. Then you could drop even the CD. (I hoping to see them completely replace floppies, even as a boot device, some day.) Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: monochrome monitor

2003-02-13 Thread Walter
Doug Reynolds wrote: On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 20:05:46 -0500, Walter wrote: I have no manual for this (used) Acer Pentium 120. The Acer web site does not appear to have schematics or other MB information (that I could find). And looking at the MB I see nothing that leads me (a non-tech) to think

allowing access to a single directory

2003-02-16 Thread Walter
y allowing access to the linked directory and nothing more? Thanks in advance. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: allowing access to a single directory

2003-02-16 Thread Walter
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2003-02-16 09:30, Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I want to allow an anonymous FTP user to see a directory in another slice, so I put a symbolic link to it. But then anyone could access my entire file system by appending combinations of "../" to

Re: allowing access to a single directory

2003-02-16 Thread Walter
Bill Moran wrote: Walter wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2003-02-16 09:30, Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I want to allow an anonymous FTP user to see a directory in another slice, so I put a symbolic link to it. But then anyone could access my entire file system by app

anon ftp

2003-03-06 Thread Walter
rious flags on ftpd to disallow uploading and downloading for anon users altogether, but that's not my goal. Anyone? Thanks. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

MPI / IPC / Sockets / et cetera

2003-03-14 Thread Walter
y or adopt? Thank you in advance. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

ipfw question

2003-03-28 Thread Walter
, but how did rule 01700 get activated when rule 00700, seems to me, should have knocked out the packet? Is this evidence of someone having broken into my FBSD router, as there are no other entries I've seen to other possible internal IP's, or was someone

troubles with ftp access via browser

2007-09-26 Thread Walter
Hi, I've placed some files on a FBSD 6.2 server using the standard ftpd to access them. The content in question is a video clip, but could be anything that I wanted to share with people unknown. I can access the file list with a browser on my internal network - I do this to check that my links

paths - a newbie question

2003-04-05 Thread Walter
After installing a port using "pkg_add -r ," the only way I know to be able to type at the command prompt to have it execute is either to reboot, or to make an alias for it by hand. Surely there's a better way. Is there a way to make the OS make a link auto-majically?

Re: paths - a newbie question

2003-04-05 Thread Walter
Mike Meyer wrote: In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: After installing a port using "pkg_add -r ," the only way I know to be able to type at the command prompt to have it execute is either to reboot, or to make an alias for it by hand. Surely the

Re: paths - a newbie question

2003-04-05 Thread Walter
uess I'm at the point, as another suggested, where I need to buy a book and start reading. Walter ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Setting firewall symbolic constants

2010-03-30 Thread Walter
un in crontab? Or is there a better way? I'm off-list, so please reply directly to this e-mail addy. TIA. Walter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Setting firewall symbolic constants

2010-03-30 Thread Walter
k I'll still plunge along to work a solution for ipfw; it seems to be the default. And along the way I can detect and assign both interfaces and addresses automatically so I can make it work "magically" (crosses fingers) on computers with different

Re: Setting firewall symbolic constants

2010-03-31 Thread Walter
Bob Hall wrote: I use onet=`ifconfig rl0 | grep "inet " | awk '{print $6}'` where rl0 is the outward facing NIC on this gateway. Thanks. But I think I like a method which allows me to get the device names also, to allow a 'hands-off' configuring of the fw. I'll keep your code for fu

ftp giving url but i want the IP address

2010-04-05 Thread Walter
oint me to code (C) to convert it? Thanks. I'm off-list so please reply directly. Walter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "f

Re: ftp giving url but i want the IP address

2010-04-05 Thread Walter
Greg Larkin wrote: Hi Walter, Did you send a HUP signal to inetd so it rereads the config file? kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid` Hope that helps, Greg I actually rebooted (after a boo-boo). So, Yes, inetd was restarted. ___ freebsd

Re: ftp giving url but i want the IP address

2010-04-05 Thread Walter
On 4/5/10 10:08 AM -0500, Walter wrote: Walter, I do some similar sounding things for my gateway just to keep the logs from filling up with attack drivel. But it's not quite the same problem as your question, so I don't do what I'm about to recommend - it's more comple

Re: ftp giving url but i want the IP address

2010-04-05 Thread Walter
want to protect with pf auto-blocking: http://www.freshports.org/security/sshguard/ Hope that helps, Greg sshguard sounds like what I'm building! Their's isn't as simple as mine is, but that's natural for a mature product. I'll give it a look and maybe pic

host & dig

2010-04-10 Thread Walter
inating IP. Should a firewall rule blocking 208.68.zzz.zzz actually operate against 24.110.nnn.nnn? I'd STILL like to know the true source IP to be able to connect back to it. TIA. Again, please respond directly to me (as well as to the List) because I'm not subscribed. Wa

Re: host & dig

2010-04-11 Thread Walter
monitor multiple bad login attempts to block the troublesome IP with a firewall rule. I ALSO would like the correct IP for another purpose (project), that involves connecting back to the source IP. I will give a try to find out which IP address the ipfw firewall operates on - the

no sound with 4.8 & KDE

2003-07-19 Thread Walter
he screen upon initialization, but then works thereafter. TIA. Walter ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: no sound with 4.8 & KDE

2003-07-19 Thread Walter
Matthew Graybosch wrote: Did you open up a mixer program like kmix and making sure that the CD, PCM, and Master channels aren't muted? I'd had that happen to me a few times with Linux when installing ALSA. I DL'd aumix. It showed me that the volumes were not set to zero except for the mic. I cha

Re: no sound with 4.8 & KDE

2003-07-20 Thread Walter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 08:44:03PM -0500, Walter wrote: Try setting both "vol" and "pcm" to 100:100 using the mixer(8) utility. For me at least, my soundcard is *extremely* soft unless I use 100% volume. Sample commands: # mixer vol 100:100 # mixe

Re: no sound with 4.8 & KDE

2003-07-21 Thread Walter
device 13.0. Thanks. Walter ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: no sound with 4.8 & KDE

2003-07-21 Thread Walter
not set real-time priority for the sound. Is this a problem? Thanks. Walter ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

still no sound

2003-08-03 Thread Walter
onnected to the output of another audio device. What else is there to look at? I'm not on the List presently so please CC me. Thanks. Walter ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

Re: still no sound

2003-08-03 Thread Walter
Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: Try running mixer, and see if vol or pcm is set to 0. Sorry I neglected to mention that - I had already checked that at the previous advise from this List. It is set at 75:75 for each and when I set it to 100:100 it makes no difference. Walter

file picker

2003-08-21 Thread Walter
like this in the ports. Can someone suggest a utility, script, et cetera, for this? Otherwise, I'm prepared to write my own, but I don't want to re-invent the wheel, as the saying goes. Thanks. Please CC me as I'm not currently subscribed

deleting directories with ??? in name

2004-03-15 Thread Walter
. -inum 146 -delete' but while it gave no error message, the files/directories remain. Help! How do I delete these odd directories? Please CC me in your response as I'm not currently subscribed to the List. Thanks. Walter ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ma

Re: deleting directories with ??? in name

2004-03-15 Thread Walter
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 03:51:37PM -0800, Derrick Ryalls wrote: I've tried lynx, but it did not display the files. I tried emacs, but I was only able to rename two of the directories to other names I could delete; the other two gave me an error of illegal character. I tried

[Fwd: Re: deleting directories with ??? in name]

2004-03-15 Thread Walter
I managed to delete the files by recreating the directory. Not to seem ungrateful, but isn't it a Bad Thing that it is not straightforeward to delete any file on the system (as root, and thwarted merely because of the characters in the name of the file/directory)? I'm not in a position to mangle

Re: [Fwd: Re: deleting directories with ??? in name]

2004-03-16 Thread Walter
Chris Pressey wrote: Walter, out of curiousity, what FTP server were you running, and (if you remember) what was the exact output of ls -aB ? I'm running, at the moment, the default ftpd in FBSD 4.6.2. (Yeah, I know, it's way old.) I don't remember the exact output, but conta

Re: deleting directories with ??? in name

2004-03-16 Thread Walter
Parv wrote: in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Parv thusly... # find . \( -inum -o -inum \) -print0 \ # | xargs -0 rm -fv Oh, don't forget the '-r', for recursion, option for rm(1) as i did. Use this instead... # find . \( -inum -o -inum \) -print0 \ # | xargs -0 rm -rfv - Par

Re: [Fwd: Re: deleting directories with ??? in name]

2004-03-16 Thread Walter
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 07:07:46PM -0800, Chris Pressey wrote: That wouldn't explain why 'rm -i *' returned 'no match', though. Just to eliminate the obvious: did these weird filenames begin with a '.'? Shell globbing treats file names with a leading period specially. Yo

Re: OT: Beastie 3D-rendered

2007-11-11 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 08:55:18PM +, Tino Engel wrote: > Look what happened to Beastie: > > http://www.tilolit.de/images/tb/wallpapers/teufel.jpg Wieso »teufel«.jpg ? -- B.Walterhttp://www.bwct.de http://www.fizon.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: serial ports from additional old IDE ISA card

2003-11-12 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:41:29AM +0200, Rolandas Naujikas wrote: > I'm tried to poke into ISA slot additional old IDE card (from old 486 > computer) with serials and paralell ports. With jumpers on it I'm > disabled IDE, floppy and parallel port. I'm tried to use only serial > ports, configured a

Kernel panic! 7.0-RELEASE-p4

2008-10-01 Thread Walter Venable
Our box, without readily obvious provocation, started doing this today: Panic: softdep_setup_inomapdep: dependency for new inode already exists. cpuid: 0 physical memory: 1971 MB dumping 78MB: 63 47 31 15 The system then immediately reboots, and hits the panic, reboots, etc. What can I do?? __

Re: Kernel panic! 7.0-RELEASE-p4

2008-10-09 Thread Walter Venable
Thanks, that took care of it. On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Walter Venable wrote: >> >> Our box, without readily obvious provocation, started doing this today: >> Panic: softdep_setup_inomapdep: dependency for new inode

Portsnap causes system to reboot

2008-10-09 Thread Walter Venable
Whenever I run portsnap fetch update (edit: it also happens for a simple portsnap fetch), my system reboots unexpectedly. Here's the output: # portsnap fetch update Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap2.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching snapsho

Re: Portsnap causes system to reboot

2008-10-09 Thread Walter Venable
I found this: $ cat /var/crash/ ..minfreboundsçinfo.0ç vmcore.0zinfo.vmcore.1zinfo.vmcore.2zinfo.vmcore.3zinfo.vmcore.4zinfo.vmcore.5zinfo.vmcore.6zinfo.7vmcore.7zÀ Any idea what that means? Yes, I'm tired, and I did cat on a directory.

Re: Portsnap causes system to reboot

2008-10-09 Thread Walter Venable
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 07:38:09PM +0300, Walter Venable wrote: Whenever I run portsnap fetch update (edit: it also happens for a simple portsnap fetch), my system reboots unexpectedly. Here's the output: # portsnap fetch update Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mi

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

2009-10-28 Thread Walter Venable
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Bernt Hansson wrote: > > > Lars Eighner said the following on 2009-10-28 05:46: >> >> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:24:38 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner >>> wrote: Evidently by making it necessary to learn yet ano

Can't install mod_perl (apr*.h issue)

2008-04-26 Thread Walter Venable
Hey all...whenever I try to install mod_perl, it hangs up saying it can't find the apr*.h files (which I've manually located in /usr/local/include/apr-1/ . My question -- how do I get it to look in that proper folder? See log: Script started on Sat Apr 26 05:14:47 2008 [weaseal: /usr/ports/w

Re: Can't install mod_perl (apr*.h issue)

2008-04-26 Thread Walter Venable
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --On Saturday, April 26, 2008 4:54 PM +0300 Walter Venable < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey all...whenever I try to install mod_perl, it hangs up saying it can't > > find the apr*.h

Python module wnck?

2012-04-26 Thread Walter Hurry
I'm trying to get screenlets up and running on 9.0, but I'm getting the following Python error: ImportError: No module named wnck I believe that this should be supplied by a a package or port named something like py27-wnck, but am unable to trace any such. Can anyone point me in the right dire

Re: Python module wnck?

2012-04-26 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:43:23 -0400, Rod Person wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:37:44 + (UTC) > Walter Hurry wrote: > >> I'm trying to get screenlets up and running on 9.0, but I'm getting the >> following Python error: >> >> ImportError: No m

Re: Python module wnck?

2012-04-26 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:29:44 -0600, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, Walter Hurry wrote: > >> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:43:23 -0400, Rod Person wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:37:44 + (UTC) >>> Walter Hurry wrote: >>> >>>>

Re: Python module wnck?

2012-04-26 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:41:35 -0400, Rod Person wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:14:53 + (UTC) > Walter Hurry wrote: >> >> Thanks for that link! And thanks to Rod and Poly too. >> I now have screenlets up and running perfectly. I have kept notes in >> case a

Re: Python module wnck?

2012-04-26 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:51:49 -0600, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Walter Hurry wrote: > >> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:41:35 -0400, Rod Person wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:14:53 + (UTC) >>> Walter Hurry wrote: >>>> >>&

Re: Python module wnck?

2012-04-27 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:07:59 -0400, Rod Person wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 03:54:29 + (UTC) > Walter Hurry wrote: >> >>> >> >>> How many of the screenlets actually work? When I was working on >> >>> this I found that a number of the

Unresolvable links

2012-04-27 Thread Walter Hurry
Arising from a very useful link posted by Warren Block in another thread: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=163415&postcount=17 , I have been running libchk. It now gives the following (relevant) output: Unresolvable link(s) found in: /usr/local/lib/libreoffice/program/ configmgr.uno.so

FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-05 Thread Walter Hurry
Firstly, sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question. I am quite new to FreeBSD (though fairly experienced at Linux). Almost everything in FreeBSD is fine, except that no matter what I try I cannot get the (USB) mouse to work. I have scoured the handbook, and Googled, but to no avail. This is

Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-05 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:14:35 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > Firstly, sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question. I am quite new to > FreeBSD (though fairly experienced at Linux). Almost everything in > FreeBSD is fine, except that no matter what I try I cannot get the (USB) > m

Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-05 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 01:22:51 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: >> Option "AutoAddDevices" "On" > > Set this to off. > Thanks for the reply. Yes, I've tried setting it to "Off", but there is no apparent difference; only a new set of messages in Xorg.0.log: (EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise

FreeBSD: SOLVED: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work (was : FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work)

2012-06-08 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:59:01 -0400, Jerry wrote: > Ubuntu, > Debian, and Fedora, and projects such as KDE, GNOME and X.org are in the > process of deprecating HAL as it has "become a large monolithic > unmaintainable mess". Well, I finally got it working. I'm far from an expert in this area, but

Re: FreeBSD: SOLVED: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work (was : FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work)

2012-06-08 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:39:22 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:59:01 -0400, Jerry wrote: > >> Ubuntu, >> Debian, and Fedora, and projects such as KDE, GNOME and X.org are in >> the process of deprecating HAL as it has "become a large mono

Re: FreeBSD: SOLVED: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work (was : FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work)

2012-06-08 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:58:49 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: > 2012-06-08 17:51, Walter Hurry skrev: >> On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:39:22 +0000, Walter Hurry wrote: >> Never mind: Stupid moi. The answer was staring me in the face in man >> rc.conf. moused_port. >> >> >

Problems with portupgrade libreoffice

2012-06-09 Thread Walter Hurry
FreeBSD 9 on x86_64. I am in the process of doing a portupgrade on libreoffice (from 3.4.4 to 3.5.2.5). During the build it has (so far) errored out 4 times, in the following modules: vcl framework sfx2 tail_build Each time, it told me to go into the subdirectory, do a gmake clean and a gmake

Re: FreeBSD: SOLVED: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work (was : FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work)

2012-06-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 05:58:25 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: > 2012-06-09 00:10, Walter Hurry skrev: >> On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:58:49 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: >> >>> 2012-06-08 17:51, Walter Hurry skrev: >>>> On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:39:22 +, Walter Hurry wro

Re: Problems with portupgrade libreoffice

2012-06-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 18:12:25 +0100, Dave Morgan wrote: > On 09/06/12 at 04:41P, Walter Hurry wrote: >> FreeBSD 9 on x86_64. >> >> I am in the process of doing a portupgrade on libreoffice (from 3.4.4 >> to 3.5.2.5). During the build it has (so far) errored out 4 times,

Re: Problems with portupgrade libreoffice

2012-06-10 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 20:46:49 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 18:12:25 +0100, Dave Morgan wrote: > >> On 09/06/12 at 04:41P, Walter Hurry wrote: >>> FreeBSD 9 on x86_64. >>> >>> I am in the process of doing a portupgrade on libreoffice

Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Walter Hurry
As the subject says, this is probably a newbie question (I am new to FreeBSD but quite experienced at Linux). FreeBSD9 on x86_64. Cron is running: $ ps -ax|grep cron 1513 ?? Is 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/cron -s 2283 0 S+ 0:00.00 grep cron $ I have a syntactically valid crontab: $ cr

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:10:21 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote: > Have you installed bash? It's not in the system base. > > What's in your shell scripts? Thanks for the quick response. $ pkg_info|grep bash bash-4.2.28 The GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell $ which bash /bin/bash $ $ le

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:21:12 -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > You really have bash in /bin ? Are your scripts executable? What does > /var/log/cron say? $ file /bin/bash /bin/bash: symbolic link to `/usr/local/bin/bash' $ sudo tail -50 /var/log/cron (result snipped at 02:22:00 for brevity) Ju

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-11 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:36:28 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote: > cat /etc/shells $ cat /etc/shells # $FreeBSD: release/9.0.0/etc/shells 59717 2000-04-27 21:58:46Z ache $ # # List of acceptable shells for chpass(1). # Ftpd will not allow users to connect who are not using # one of these shells. /bin/

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-13 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:21:31 -0500, Dan Lists wrote: > The syntax of his crontab file is correct. Vixie cron does care about > leading spaces, tabs, extra spaces, or leading zeros. Earlier versions > of cron are much pickier about the crontab file. The cron logs show > that it is starting his

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-13 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:16:18 -0500, Chris wrote: > On 6/13/2012 6:23 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: >> On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:21:31 -0500, Dan Lists wrote: >> >>> The syntax of his crontab file is correct. Vixie cron does care about >>> leading spaces, tabs, extra s

Re: New to FreeBSD - Some questions

2012-06-20 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:32:24 +0200, Fred Morcos wrote: > Hello all, > > I am new to FreeBSD, coming from a GNU/Linux background (most > comfortable with Archlinux). I compiled a series of questions I would > like to ask in different areas and categories. Should I send them all in > a single email

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