Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Dick Davies
* Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0125 07:25]: > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dick Davies > > > > I don't think it does cost the Foundation nothing, that's the > > trouble. You spend years jumping through hoops to get the certification (the > > only benefit of which is it pleases

RE: make installworld - permission denied

2005-01-05 Thread Subhro
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 12:53 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: make installworld - permission denied > > > kern.securelevel? > > kern.securelevel = 0

RE: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dick Davies > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 11:12 PM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java > > > If FreeBSD can get a current binary JRE distributed then it helps

Can'tping between FreeBSD and Win2K...

2005-01-05 Thread k o u b
IPFW is initialized without any setup in the rc.conf file??? I was used the mini-install... it's automaticaly enable after installation?? TIA Mrachik. koub. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: make installworld - permission denied

2005-01-05 Thread Mark
> kern.securelevel? kern.securelevel = 0 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Dick Davies
* Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0157 06:57]: > > Tom Vilot writes: > > I tend to agree. Are people still using Java? > Keep in mind that Sun's main Java push was into micro-code for embedded > devices, that is why Java was written in the first place. And somehow this mutated into J2EE.

RE: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 4:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD > > > In a message dated 1/4/05 11:50:27 PM E

RE: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony > Atkielski > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 5:53 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java > > > Tom Vilot writes: > > TV> I prefer to use j

RE: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Boris > Spirialitious > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 8:50 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD > > > One system cost me 3 months salary in Russia. Is this how y

RE: make installworld - permission denied

2005-01-05 Thread Subhro
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 9:44 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: make installworld - permission denied > > Urgh, it was all going so well. I suppose it had to

Re: make installworld - permission denied

2005-01-05 Thread Kent Stewart
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 08:39 pm, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 10:14 pm, Mark wrote: > > Urgh, it was all going so well. I suppose it had to happen: > > > > I did as the hallowed handbook commanded: > > Why aren't you following /usr/src/UPDATING instead, that tends t

Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-05 Thread Eric Schuele
Tom Vilot wrote: Eric Schuele wrote: On the other hand... I've switched to an Atheros based miniPCI card which works quite well with 'device ath'. I can give you a link if your interested. I might be interested in one of those. I have a Dell Inspiron 8200. I purchased mine from: http://www.p

Re: source control question

2005-01-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-01-06 00:22, Robert William Vesterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>On 2005-01-05 20:29, Robert William Vesterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>Does anyone know of a source control system that is not so >>>directory-centric? Most of the ones I've seen seem to have a

Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-05 Thread Eric Schuele
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 5 January 2005 at 11:20:31 -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I'm thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop. I have a number of Dells, and on the whole I'm happy, but I've had "issues" before. Can anybody who has one of these machin

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: > You need to instead block Tm[0-9]+ because he likes to change his > address every few weeks [1]. Ah, thanks; filter updated accordingly :-) > [1] Perhaps the counter reflects the number of times his AOL account > has been deleted. Indeed, PS: cable.ro

Re: source control question

2005-01-05 Thread Robert William Vesterman
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-01-05 20:29, Robert William Vesterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone know of a source control system that is not so directory-centric? Most of the ones I've seen seem to have a base assumption that, more or less, "directory" == "project". [...] AFAICT, an

Re: grep help RESOLVED

2005-01-05 Thread Jay O'Brien
Tillman Hodgson (and others!)wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 08:27:51PM -0800, Jay O'Brien wrote: > >>I want to look at all of the lines in a FreeBSD log file that do not >>have an entry from an IP, example 1.2.3.4. Some basic help with the >>use of grep would be appreciated. This is one of t

Re: make installworld - permission denied

2005-01-05 Thread Mark
> > #make buildworld > > #make buildkernel KERNCONF=L004 > > #make installkernel > > This step should have been: > make installkernel KERNCONF=L004 Sorry, that was a typo on my part. I did in fact run the command you suggested. > Why don't you use "shutdown now" instead, that way your put

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 03:48:05PM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Scott Bennett wrote: > > > Ah. So the troll didn't really expect *anybody* reasonably to > > have provided support. It just wanted something to bitch about on this > > list. It should go back to the bit

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Scott Bennett wrote: > Ah. So the troll didn't really expect *anybody* reasonably to > have provided support. It just wanted something to bitch about on this > list. It should go back to the bit bucket it came from. Procmail is your friend. Something like: # # Wel

Re: grep help

2005-01-05 Thread cape canaveral
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 22:31:54 -0600, Tillman Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 08:27:51PM -0800, Jay O'Brien wrote: > > I want to look at all of the lines in a FreeBSD log file that do not > > have an entry from an IP, example 1.2.3.4. Some basic help with the > > use of g

Re: grep help

2005-01-05 Thread joseph kacmarcik
> grep ^[^1.2.3.4]*$ logfile.log to not match, use: grep -v 1.2.3.4 logfile.log -v, --invert-match Invert the sense of matching, to select non-matching lines. when there are multiple patterns you don't want to see, try: egrep -v '1.2.3.4|5.6.7.8' logfile.log joe __

Re: grep help

2005-01-05 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005, Tillman Hodgson wrote: >On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 08:27:51PM -0800, Jay O'Brien wrote: >> I want to look at all of the lines in a FreeBSD log file that do not >> have an entry from an IP, example 1.2.3.4. Some basic help with the >> use of grep would be appreciated. This is o

Re: make installworld - permission denied

2005-01-05 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:14:13 -0800, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Urgh, it was all going so well. I suppose it had to happen: > > I did as the hallowed handbook commanded: > > #make buildworld > #make buildkernel KERNCONF=L004 > #make installkernel > > I rebooted into single user mode: > > #

Re: make installworld - permission denied

2005-01-05 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 10:14 pm, Mark wrote: > Urgh, it was all going so well. I suppose it had to happen: > > I did as the hallowed handbook commanded: Why aren't you following /usr/src/UPDATING instead, that tends to be more up to date than the handbook. > > #make buildworld > #make build

Re: grep help

2005-01-05 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 08:27:51PM -0800, Jay O'Brien wrote: > I want to look at all of the lines in a FreeBSD log file that do not > have an entry from an IP, example 1.2.3.4. Some basic help with the > use of grep would be appreciated. This is one of the arguments I've > tried that didn't wor

grep help

2005-01-05 Thread Jay O'Brien
I want to look at all of the lines in a FreeBSD log file that do not have an entry from an IP, example 1.2.3.4. Some basic help with the use of grep would be appreciated. This is one of the arguments I've tried that didn't work: grep ^[^1.2.3.4]*$ logfile.log Jay O'Brien Rio Linda, Californi

make installworld - permission denied

2005-01-05 Thread Mark
Urgh, it was all going so well. I suppose it had to happen: I did as the hallowed handbook commanded: #make buildworld #make buildkernel KERNCONF=L004 #make installkernel I rebooted into single user mode: #mount -a #cd /usr/src #mergemaster -p #make installworld (setting of variables omitted, i

Re: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup

2005-01-05 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Wed, 5 Jan 2005 it looks like Miguel Mendez composed: > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 21:10:46 -0800 > "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > A bit OT but wanted to throw my $0.02 anyway... > > > CUPS is unnecessary. unnecessary software complicates the machine > > and makes it har

Re: Uptime?

2005-01-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:31:19PM -0800, Mark wrote: > I realise this may be the wrong list to post to, but it *is* > a question and it *is* about FreeBSD... :) > > http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html > > So, we know BSD is capable of stupidly high uptime, but what > I'd like to kno

Re: Uptime?

2005-01-05 Thread Tom Vilot
Mark wrote: So, we know BSD is capable of stupidly high uptime, but what I'd like to know is how? I mean, we all have to patch things now and again, recompile kernels etc. Does this mean these sites are running thousand-day-old unpatched kernels,... Yep!! (AFAIK) ___

Re: iTunes server SUCCESS!! Here are my notes

2005-01-05 Thread jason henson
You are welcome! The script seems to be a little dated. Entry 20041010 in /usr/src/UPDATING says you don't need KEYWORD: FreeBSD, and I think there are some other updates to the format too. The old ones will continue to be supported for now. On 01/04/05 13:49:18, Timothy Luoma wrote: This o

Uptime?

2005-01-05 Thread Mark
I realise this may be the wrong list to post to, but it *is* a question and it *is* about FreeBSD... :) http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html So, we know BSD is capable of stupidly high uptime, but what I'd like to know is how? I mean, we all have to patch things now and again, recompi

Re: 3ware Esclade 7006-2

2005-01-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 23:01:31 -0700, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: > >I have downloaded the CLI util and the 3dm2 web interface from 3ware.com and >have been trouble getting them to work. Its not totally obvious, but to connect to the 3dmd2, you need to talk to it via https, not ht

Re: source control question

2005-01-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-01-05 20:29, Robert William Vesterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know of a source control system that is not so > directory-centric? Most of the ones I've seen seem to have a base > assumption that, more or less, "directory" == "project". > > But in reality, a directory could

Re: install.cfg disklabel customization question

2005-01-05 Thread Curtis Almond
Good suggestion on using bsdlabel. Unfortunately I am required to use FreeBSD 4.6.2 which does not contain this utility and disklabel requires one to invoke an editor to define the new label. What I resorted to doing was having netboot create /usr100 and then later overwrite the /etc/fstab via an

4.10 USB problems

2005-01-05 Thread Gregor Mosheh
I've been using 4.10 and the EHCI driver, for an external hard drive, for several months and just recently a USB-related problem has started. When the drive is plugged in it is properly recognized by umass, etc. However, attempting to mount the drive results in "/kernel: umass0: BBB reset failed,

Re: System update

2005-01-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 08:55:27AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > > Where does it say that? I see only comments in passing about 'make > > world', but the explicit directions on how to update (correctly) > > mention the separate buildworld/installworld steps. > > Around line 490 of /usr/src/UPDAT

Re: error in burning v5.3 disc 2.iso

2005-01-05 Thread Rowdy
John W Ward II wrote: I can burn the other downloads but disc2.iso freezes up the system and won't respond. I have a PIII 1ghz w/512 ram, XPPro and Nero v5 software. I have never had a problem burning an iso before and even downloaded the file three times and twice from different ftp sites. Can you

Re: error in burning v5.3 disc 2.iso

2005-01-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
> I can burn the other downloads but disc2.iso freezes up the system and won't > respond. I have a PIII 1ghz w/512 ram, XPPro and Nero v5 software. I have I was currently facing the problem. It seems that it takes some time to ingest all the information in the disc2.iso image before it starts burn

Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Tom Vilot
Anthony Atkielski wrote: I tend to agree. Are people still using Java? Yeah, I think so . strange as it seems to me. Perl seems to do just about everything. Agreed. OTOH, Perl is quite idiomatic, and that can be a real hurdle. Plus, there are so *many* ways to do things in Perl, that it ca

Re: System update

2005-01-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
> Where does it say that? I see only comments in passing about 'make > world', but the explicit directions on how to update (correctly) > mention the separate buildworld/installworld steps. Around line 490 of /usr/src/UPDATING (version 4.10-p5) it reads: To rebuild everything ---

Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs

2005-01-05 Thread Danny MacMillan
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: > > >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: > >>

error in burning v5.3 disc 2.iso

2005-01-05 Thread John W Ward II
I can burn the other downloads but disc2.iso freezes up the system and won't respond. I have a PIII 1ghz w/512 ram, XPPro and Nero v5 software. I have never had a problem burning an iso before and even downloaded the file three times and twice from different ftp sites. Can you help? Thanks, John Wa

Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Tom Vilot writes: TV> I prefer to use just about any other tool (except, of course, for TV> JSP/.NET, etc). Python, Perl, ... any other tool will do the jobs I TV> need done and I can avoid the sluggishness of Java, the licensing TV> ambiguities, and the dependence on a company that is *not* a TV>

Re: System update

2005-01-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 08:34:22AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > I have serveral questions about the update procedure. > > 1) starting from 4.10 RELEASE I have cvsup-ed to 4.10 RELENG. Now what > is the command to build FreeBSD? > > The hand book says "do not use make world, but use mak

Re: Running top on system console without being logged on

2005-01-05 Thread Anthony Atkielski
> How about creating a user like this with vipw: > topper::userno:groupno::0:0:Topper Harley:/nonexistent:/usr/bin/top > and then just logging in on spare console screen as topper? > > I'm not sure if there are security implications though, even if the user > is not member of the wheel group etc.

System update

2005-01-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have serveral questions about the update procedure. 1) starting from 4.10 RELEASE I have cvsup-ed to 4.10 RELENG. Now what is the command to build FreeBSD? The hand book says "do not use make world, but use make buildworld", and look at /usr/src/UPDATING first. But in /usr/src/UPDATING it

source control question

2005-01-05 Thread Robert William Vesterman
Does anyone know of a source control system that is not so directory-centric? Most of the ones I've seen seem to have a base assumption that, more or less, "directory" == "project". But in reality, a directory could be a project, or part of a project, or part of many projects, or merely struct

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 17:58:53 EST the latest troll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> blathered: >In a message dated 1/5/05 4:03:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> Besides ... with a name like hardcodeharry, I would expect a little more >> intelligence; a little more willingness to

Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-05 Thread Tom Vilot
Eric Schuele wrote: On the other hand... I've switched to an Atheros based miniPCI card which works quite well with 'device ath'. I can give you a link if your interested. I might be interested in one of those. I have a Dell Inspiron 8200. ___ freebs

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Tom Vilot
Jerry McAllister wrote: Yes, and his holy mission seems to be to waste people's time and energy trying to draw attention to himself without making any contribution of value to the community. Less than two months ago, vastly excessive amounts of bandwidth and delete effort were wasted in this lis

Re: New FreeBSD 5.3 e-mail server extremely slow - traced to getpwnam maybe ?

2005-01-05 Thread Bruce Campbell
Quoting Bruce Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ... > Well, somewhat unbelievably, copying a getpwent.c from 4.7 > and remaking libc on 5.3 with it worked. Load average > has gone from 70 to 2. > One of my co-workers has found a less kludgey workaround for the high load problem we were seeing on 5

Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 5 January 2005 at 11:20:31 -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> I'm thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop. I have a number >> of Dells, and on the whole I'm happy, but I've had "issues" before. >> Can anybody who has one of these machines (1150 only, p

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Your point might have some teeth if the "newer" version were better, but the entire problem is that 5.x is much worse than 4.x, so there lies the issue. 4.10 is NOT supposed to be an "old" version. Its the production version. Because its readily admitte

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 PROTECTED]>, >> >wrote Scott Bennett thusly... >>

Re: Powering down FreeBSD 5

2005-01-05 Thread Skylar Thompson
Forrest Aldrich wrote: Can FreeBSD be configured to actually power off the machine, rather than sit with "Press any key to reboot". We're redeploying some servers, and we'd like them to be powered on individually, not powered up upon plug-in to the power cable. Do you have ACPI compiled into yo

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 04:02 pm, Tom Vilot wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >so why are you even trying? > > Why are you on this list? > > This is a questions list. Not an advocacy list, not a "BSD SUX" list. > > Why are you here? > > I wish I could be as arrogant and condescending as you,

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 05:02:23PM -0700, Tom Vilot wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >=20 > > >so why are you even trying?=20 > > > > >=20 > > Why are you on this list? > >=20 > > This is a questions list. Not an advocacy list, not a "BSD SUX" list. > >=20 > > Why are you here? > >=20

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:20:06PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 1/5/05 7:16:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Why are you here? > > > > I wish I could be as arrogant and condescending as you, but clearly you > > were born with an advantage in th

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Tm4528
In a message dated 1/5/05 7:16:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Why are you here? > > I wish I could be as arrogant and condescending as you, but clearly you > were born with an advantage in that are He has a Holy Mission. Yes, a mission to get the FreeBSD team to suppor

tcsh, colorful prompt

2005-01-05 Thread Thanos Tsouanas
Hello.. I have set up a colorful prompt for tcsh. It ends in default color so that whatever I type after it has default color. I dont really care for the color of the prompt, but I would like to see what i type (input) with a specific color. If I end the prompt with an open (say) green color, th

MySQL

2005-01-05 Thread Joshua Lokken
From: Joshua Lokken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 18:16:40 -0600 Subject: Re: MySQL To: Leon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Questions On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:03:08 -0500, Leon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 5.3 version of FreeBSD. > I want to install MySQL > > Can you please te

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Tm4528
In a message dated 1/4/05 11:50:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > None of the new Supermicro hardware I've tried works with Freebsd > 4.10 properly. I've seen that this has been reported by others. > They are all based on the 7520 and 7530 Intel chips. 5.3 works > ok, but

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 05:02:23PM -0700, Tom Vilot wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >so why are you even trying? > > > > Why are you on this list? > > This is a questions list. Not an advocacy list, not a "BSD SUX" list. > > Why are you here? > > I wish I could be as arrogant and condes

Re: Powering down FreeBSD 5

2005-01-05 Thread Tom Vilot
Forrest Aldrich wrote: Can FreeBSD be configured to actually power off the machine, rather than sit with "Press any key to reboot". We're redeploying some servers, and we'd like them to be powered on individually, not powered up upon plug-in to the power cable. /sbin/shutdown -p Although it do

Powering down FreeBSD 5

2005-01-05 Thread Forrest Aldrich
Can FreeBSD be configured to actually power off the machine, rather than sit with "Press any key to reboot". We're redeploying some servers, and we'd like them to be powered on individually, not powered up upon plug-in to the power cable. Thanks. ___

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Tom Vilot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so why are you even trying? Why are you on this list? This is a questions list. Not an advocacy list, not a "BSD SUX" list. Why are you here? I wish I could be as arrogant and condescending as you, but clearly you were born with an advantage in that arena. _

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Tm4528
In a message dated 1/5/05 6:29:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whine, whine, whine, bitch, bitch, bitch. You aren't technically capable of grasping a single point in this discussion, Tom, so why are you even trying? _

Re: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?

2005-01-05 Thread Brian Astill
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 06:02 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > So ... if your flavour of Windoze can read FAT32, a FAT32 partition > > is a very good idea because all the commonly-available unices can > > read it as well. > > If it can't ...  the options aren't so good.  I'd think ext2 would > > be the on

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Tom Vilot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whine, whine, whine, bitch, bitch, bitch. So go use Linux. Someone is twisting your arm? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Tm4528
In a message dated 1/5/05 3:59:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rather, it was the people who *developed* the *free* and very powerful operating system (that he is attempting to use) he called stupid. I'm still waiting to see him post an apology. I, for one, am humbled by

Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Resequenced, time: 40 seconds. See http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Wednesday, 5 January 2005 at 19:24:27 +0100, Kiffin Gish wrote: > On Wednesday, January 05, 2005 07:23, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >> I'm thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop. I have a number >> o

Re: sendmail and mbox permissions

2005-01-05 Thread J65nko BSD
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 23:23:29 +0300, Eugene M. Minkovskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > I use FreeBSD 5.3 and sendmail. When root rechieve the mail, > mailbox's (/var/mail/root) permission bits has been setted to > 600. Who and how it does? Can I change this behavior? > > -- For security re

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Tm4528
In a message dated 1/5/05 4:03:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Besides ... with a name like hardcodeharry, I would expect a little more > intelligence; a little more willingness to dig into things. A slight > tendency to ask the question: "how can I hack this code to work

Re: Re: Can't ping between FreeBSD and Win2K...

2005-01-05 Thread Mrachik
> Please, someone can help me? May be trouble in ipfw? Mrachik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Running top on system console without being logged on

2005-01-05 Thread Reko Turja
I'd like to run top on the system console to keep an eye on the system, but I'd prefer not to have the console logged on to do so. Is there an elegant way to do this? How about creating a user like this with vipw: topper::userno:groupno::0:0:Topper Harley:/nonexistent:/usr/bin/top and then just

Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:00:47PM -0700, Tom Vilot wrote: > Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > >Tom, > > > > Have you tried any of the alternative implementations of Java? > >Sun's isn't the only one out there. > > > > I have. > > I'm sorry, I am mostly venting my frustration with Java as a language,

Re: Dumb OpenOffice install error

2005-01-05 Thread Simon Burke
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:56:28 -0600, Joshua Lokken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:52:16 +, Simon Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:58:24 -0600, Joshua Lokken > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > There's a thread on this list from yesterday that s

Re: 3ware Esclade 7006-2

2005-01-05 Thread Justin England
- Original Message - From: "Frederic Andres" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FreeBSD Questions" Cc: "Justin England" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 12:28 AM Subject: Re: 3ware Esclade 7006-2 Hi, My question is mainly on the driver though. Which should I use? The twe dri

Re: broken port

2005-01-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:19:21PM +0100, Kiffin Gish wrote: > Sometimes when I am trying to make something from the ports I get the > message that the port is 'broken'. > > For example, while trying to build the enlightenment window manager. > > What does that mean and what can I do to get aroun

Re: broken port

2005-01-05 Thread daniel quinn
On January 5, 2005 04:19 pm, Kiffin Gish wrote: > Sometimes when I am trying to make something from the ports I get the > message that the port is 'broken'. > > For example, while trying to build the enlightenment window manager. > > What does that mean and what can I do to get around it? from the

Re: broken port

2005-01-05 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jan 5, 2005, at 4:19 PM, Kiffin Gish wrote: Sometimes when I am trying to make something from the ports I get the message that the port is 'broken'. For example, while trying to build the enlightenment window manager. What does that mean and what can I do to get around it? The BROKEN line in the

broken port

2005-01-05 Thread Kiffin Gish
Sometimes when I am trying to make something from the ports I get the message that the port is 'broken'. For example, while trying to build the enlightenment window manager. What does that mean and what can I do to get around it? -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands _

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Mark
> I, for one, am humbled by the BSD teams... I have come out of hibernation early in order to agree with all of the above points. Back to bed for me, Good night. Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:58:47 -0700, Tom Vilot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Besides ... with a name like hardcodeharry, I would expect a little more > intelligence; a little more willingness to dig into things. A slight > tendency to ask the question: "how can I hack this

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Tom Vilot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think he was calling the members of this list stupid. You are correct. He wasn't. Rather, it was the people who *developed* the *free* and very powerful operating system (that he is attempting to use) he called stupid. I'm still waiting to see him post an apolog

Re: Dumb OpenOffice install error

2005-01-05 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:52:16 +, Simon Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:58:24 -0600, Joshua Lokken > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > There's a thread on this list from yesterday that states plainly that > > OpenOffice does not build on FreeBSD 5.3: > > > > > However, i

Re: Dumb OpenOffice install error

2005-01-05 Thread Simon Burke
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:58:24 -0600, Joshua Lokken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There's a thread on this list from yesterday that states plainly that > OpenOffice does not build on FreeBSD 5.3: > > However, it does build on 4.11-STABLE. > I have OpenOffice 1.1.3 running on 5.3. All that i nede

Re: Is bpf a part of IPFW, or am I confused?

2005-01-05 Thread Andreas Davour
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Olivier Certner wrote: I'm not able to give a deep answer on that. What I can say is that you must compile the kernel with bpf if you want to use the DHCP protocol or the tcpdump utility. tcpdump as well? Worth remembering. It would be great if someone can clarify the precise ro

usb modem

2005-01-05 Thread Alvaro Rosales
hello guys , I have installed a usb modem andin my FreeBSD 5.1 box, the system has created a /dev/ugen0 and /dev/ugen0.1, but when I try to do a cu using ugen0 or ugen0.1 I dont get any answer from the modem, cu just says that the device is not configured. Is there any other file I need to confi

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Tm4528
In a message dated 1/5/05 3:00:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>Asking a guy from a poor country to donate his hardware to a >>US organization at least partially funded by Yahoo is "helpful"? What planet >>are you from? >> >The planet where 99% of the posts on this list

Re: Is bpf a part of IPFW, or am I confused?

2005-01-05 Thread Andreas Davour
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Charles Swiger wrote: On Jan 5, 2005, at 3:09 PM, Andreas Davour wrote: I have searched the handbook and the manpages and not really understood the role of bpf. Is it supposed to be enabled when I use IPFW or is it another beast altogether, best left undisturbed? The BPF, or B

Re: Is bpf a part of IPFW, or am I confused?

2005-01-05 Thread Andreas Davour
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:09:55PM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote: I started to do some research for a kernel compile that should migrate my system into the future I came upon the line "options bpf" in the kernel config file. I have searched the handbook and th

RE: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Hi Paul, I'm going to top-post here since you used html formatting and it's hard to insert into that. As for the FreeBSD distribution of the JDK, if you go to the link here: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml You will see that the organization "The FreeBSD Foundation" is cu

Re: Is bpf a part of IPFW, or am I confused?

2005-01-05 Thread Olivier Certner
I'm not able to give a deep answer on that. What I can say is that you must compile the kernel with bpf if you want to use the DHCP protocol or the tcpdump utility. It would be great if someone can clarify the precise roles of bpf. Olivier ___ fre

sendmail and mbox permissions

2005-01-05 Thread Eugene M. Minkovskii
Hi. I use FreeBSD 5.3 and sendmail. When root rechieve the mail, mailbox's (/var/mail/root) permission bits has been setted to 600. Who and how it does? Can I change this behavior? -- Sensory yours, Eugene Minkovskii Сенсорно ваш, Евгений Миньковский _

Re: Is bpf a part of IPFW, or am I confused?

2005-01-05 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jan 5, 2005, at 3:09 PM, Andreas Davour wrote: I have searched the handbook and the manpages and not really understood the role of bpf. Is it supposed to be enabled when I use IPFW or is it another beast altogether, best left undisturbed? The BPF, or Berkeley Packet Filter, is really intended

Re: Is bpf a part of IPFW, or am I confused?

2005-01-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:09:55PM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote: > > I started to do some research for a kernel compile that should migrate > my system into the future I came upon the line "options bpf" in the > kernel config file. > > I have searched the handbook and the manpages and not really

Is bpf a part of IPFW, or am I confused?

2005-01-05 Thread Andreas Davour
I started to do some research for a kernel compile that should migrate my system into the future I came upon the line "options bpf" in the kernel config file. I have searched the handbook and the manpages and not really understood the role of bpf. Is it supposed to be enabled when I use IPFW or

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