Re: Re: Any way to tell what the RAM configuration is?

2006-12-06 Thread patrick
Awesome, that works like a charm! Thanks, Patrick On 12/6/06, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Dec 6, 2006, at 11:00 AM, patrick wrote: > I'm wondering if there's any way in FreeBSD (4.x on i386) to tell what > the RAM configuration in the system is? ie. Ca

Re: Any way to tell what the RAM configuration is?

2006-12-06 Thread Josh Carroll
Sure. Install the dmidecode port (from /usr/ports/sysutils/ dmidecode), and run: dmidecode -t memory Of course, this relies on the BIOS reporting the memory properly. In my case, on an Asus P5B motherboard, it reports the RAM at 533 MHz (DDR2-533), even though it's set in the BIOS to run at

Re: Any way to tell what the RAM configuration is?

2006-12-06 Thread Vince Hoffman
patrick wrote: I'm wondering if there's any way in FreeBSD (4.x on i386) to tell what the RAM configuration in the system is? ie. Can it show me if I have four 256MB modules versus two 512MB's? Obviously it would be possible to just open up the computer and see for my self, I'

Re: Any way to tell what the RAM configuration is?

2006-12-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 6, 2006, at 11:00 AM, patrick wrote: I'm wondering if there's any way in FreeBSD (4.x on i386) to tell what the RAM configuration in the system is? ie. Can it show me if I have four 256MB modules versus two 512MB's? Obviously it would be possible to just open up the compu

Any way to tell what the RAM configuration is?

2006-12-06 Thread patrick
I'm wondering if there's any way in FreeBSD (4.x on i386) to tell what the RAM configuration in the system is? ie. Can it show me if I have four 256MB modules versus two 512MB's? Obviously it would be possible to just open up the computer and see for my self, I'm hoping I ca

Re: mount privileges...what the heck?

2006-07-21 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
DW wrote: > Discovered something odd today, trying to get the procedures down to > help someone who wanted to mount a second drive to a mount point in > their home directory. : > Ownership on mount point: dude:dude /usr/home/dude/drive2 > > Now when I do: ># mount /dev/da1s1d /usr/home/dud

Re: mount privileges...what the heck?

2006-07-21 Thread Robert C Wittig
DW wrote: no, the first time this was my thought too, I've been known to do stuff like this, especially since so much activity is done with 'sudo', but we went back (each of us on our respective machines), and did it again, making sure we were doing it as 'dude', not sudo or 'root', and it ha

Re: mount privileges...what the heck?

2006-07-21 Thread DW
Robert C Wittig wrote: DW wrote: So any ideas on why I need to do a chown -R dude:dude after the first mount?? Am I missing something, going insane, or is something buggy here You created the directory as root: # mkdir /usr/home/dude/drive2 ...so it belongs to root. no, the first t

Re: mount privileges...what the heck?

2006-07-21 Thread Robert C Wittig
DW wrote: So any ideas on why I need to do a chown -R dude:dude after the first mount?? Am I missing something, going insane, or is something buggy here You created the directory as root: # mkdir /usr/home/dude/drive2 ...so it belongs to root. I can only assume that... 'Ownership

mount privileges...what the heck?

2006-07-21 Thread DW
Hello, Discovered something odd today, trying to get the procedures down to help someone who wanted to mount a second drive to a mount point in their home directory. Running FreeBSD5.5p2 * 2nd drive device/partition: /dev/ad1s1d * /etc/sysctl.conf: vfs.usermount=1 * /etc/devfs.conf: perm

Re: sem_open(3) and FBSD 5.2 : what the point ?

2004-02-06 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 06), Eric Jacoboni said: > Here's a sample code: > > #include ... >dis_ping = sem_open("/ping.sem", O_CREAT, 0777, 1); ... > > On FBSD 5.2, gcc first complains it doesn't know about O_CREAT... > That's not what the se

sem_open(3) and FBSD 5.2 : what the point ?

2004-02-06 Thread Eric Jacoboni
g..."); sem_post(dis_pong); } sem_close(dis_ping); sem_close(dis_pong); return 0; } This code compiles and works fine on Darwin... On FBSD 5.2, gcc first complains it doesn't know about O_CREAT... That's not what the sem_open() manpage claims but, ok, let's i

RE: what the...

2003-07-08 Thread Jeff MacDonald
my guess is that it would be "peecee" as in PC work. >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >> Andrew Thomson >> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 8:50 AM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subj

what the...

2003-07-08 Thread Andrew Thomson
any translations on "pee wee" work?? .."some hardened systems, possibly some Peewee work as well with some of the Engineers."... ajt. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send an

Re: What the simplest way to do outgoing smtp?

2003-06-04 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Adam wrote: > > The absolute EASIEST way to set up SMTP is to use sSMTP .. It might be > too simplistic for you, but in many cases it is sufficient for someone > who only needs a barebones SMTP solution. > > http://packages.debian.org/testing/mail/ssmtp.html > ftp://metalab.u

Re: What the simplest way to do outgoing smtp?

2003-06-04 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 08:46:51PM +0100, philip payne wrote: > Hi, > > This is a pretty basic question so I don't mind if the answer is an RTFM > style link. ;-) > > I recently obtained some 3rd party POP3 mailboxes unrelated to my current > ISP for email to a new domain... unfortunately my ISP'

Re: What the simplest way to do outgoing smtp?

2003-06-04 Thread Adam
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 15:46, philip payne wrote: > Hi, > > This is a pretty basic question so I don't mind if the answer is an RTFM > style link. ;-) > > I recently obtained some 3rd party POP3 mailboxes unrelated to my current > ISP for email to a new domain... unfortunately my ISP's smtp server

What the simplest way to do outgoing smtp?

2003-06-04 Thread philip payne
Hi, This is a pretty basic question so I don't mind if the answer is an RTFM style link. ;-) I recently obtained some 3rd party POP3 mailboxes unrelated to my current ISP for email to a new domain... unfortunately my ISP's smtp server doesn't let me send any email addressed as anything other than