Re: apropos returning same item twice

2010-09-18 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 12:18 -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: > On Thursday 16 September 2010 4:12:44 am Wayne Sierke wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 18:27 -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: > > > On Wednesday 15 September 2010 12:39:15 pm Wayne Sierke wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 00:37 +, Al

Re: extra open ports in rkhunter

2010-09-18 Thread Carl Johnson
Anonymous writes: > Chuck Swiger writes: > >> Hi-- >> >> On Sep 18, 2010, at 4:27 PM, Carl Johnson wrote: >>> The following are the ports if anybody has any ideas, but I would also like >>> to know how to trace them down myself: >>> >>> tcp4 0 0 *.876 *.*

Re: extra open ports in rkhunter

2010-09-18 Thread Carl Johnson
Chuck Swiger writes: > Hi-- > > On Sep 18, 2010, at 4:27 PM, Carl Johnson wrote: >> The following are the ports if anybody has any ideas, but I would also like >> to know how to trace them down myself: >> >> tcp4 0 0 *.876 *.*LISTEN >> tcp6

Re: extra open ports in rkhunter

2010-09-18 Thread Anonymous
Chuck Swiger writes: > Hi-- > > On Sep 18, 2010, at 4:27 PM, Carl Johnson wrote: >> The following are the ports if anybody has any ideas, but I would also like >> to know how to trace them down myself: >> >> tcp4 0 0 *.876 *.*LISTEN >> tcp6

Re: extra open ports in rkhunter

2010-09-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Sep 18, 2010, at 4:27 PM, Carl Johnson wrote: > The following are the ports if anybody has any ideas, but I would also like > to know how to trace them down myself: > > tcp4 0 0 *.876 *.*LISTEN > tcp6 0 0 *.921 *

extra open ports in rkhunter

2010-09-18 Thread Carl Johnson
I am running rkhunter and it keeps reporting a port inconsistency between sockstat and netstat -a. Netstat shows an extra 5 ports open, but netstat doesn't show what is holding ports open, so I don't know what they are. Does anybody know how to determine what is holding open a port? I have been

Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer

2010-09-18 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:09:57 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Polytropon wrote: > > > On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:10:45 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > > Polytropon wrote: > > > > I would like to have ONE thing that is used for printing, > > > > and that does support ALL printers ... > >

Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer

2010-09-18 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Saturday 18 September 2010 6:09:57 pm per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Polytropon wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:10:45 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > > Polytropon wrote: > > > > I would like to have ONE thing that is used for printing, > > > > and that does support ALL printers ... >

Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer

2010-09-18 Thread perryh
Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:10:45 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > Polytropon wrote: > > > I would like to have ONE thing that is used for printing, > > > and that does support ALL printers ... > > > > Isn't that exactly what CUPS is supposed to be? > > Obviously not. Er,

Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer

2010-09-18 Thread dan
On 17.09.2010 02:45, Chabane HEMDANI wrote: I'm computer science teacher at university of Tizi-ouzou in Algeria. I'm using FreeBSD since 2007 when I "discover" it by chance when searching in the Web something about Linux. Since that date, I always invited and recommended to my students to ins

Re: Problems with upgrade - lost partition

2010-09-18 Thread Peter Boosten
Ping... -- HTTP://www.boosten.org On 27 aug 2010, at 11:19, Peter Boosten wrote: Hi, I recently updated a machine (running on VMWare) from 7.2 to 8.1. This machine has two (virtual) disks. While the upgrade went rather smooth ('make buildworld, make buildkernel, make installkernel, reboo

Re: "Unable to find device node for ./dev/ad4s1b in /dev"

2010-09-18 Thread Peter Boosten
On 18 sep 2010, at 22:15, Henry Olyer wrote: This morning I downloaded and burned the latest CD for 8.1. Then I took a brand new laptop, an ACER, model ASPIRE-7741Z-5731, and tried to install FreeBSD. (It had a copy of windoz on it. goodbye and good riddance.) My point is simple, this

"Unable to find device node for ./dev/ad4s1b in /dev"

2010-09-18 Thread Henry Olyer
This morning I downloaded and burned the latest CD for 8.1. Then I took a brand new laptop, an ACER, model ASPIRE-7741Z-5731, and tried to install FreeBSD. (It had a copy of windoz on it. goodbye and good riddance.) My point is simple, this is about as vanilla as it gets. And I get the error,

Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer

2010-09-18 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:50:30 -0400 > From: Jerry > To: FreeBSD > Subject: Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer > > You keep insisting that it is complicated; yet, you fail to > specifically state what it is that you are failing to comprehend. Your > "bloat" comment makes no s

Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer

2010-09-18 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:50:30 -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:15:25 +0200 > Polytropon articulated: > > Obviously not. Look at the dependencies, the bloat, and the > > overall complicatedness of installing a printer. Also, the > > documentation situation could be better. When dealing

Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer

2010-09-18 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:15:25 +0200 Polytropon articulated: > On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:10:45 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > Polytropon wrote: > > > > > I would like to have ONE thing that is used for printing, and that > > > does support ALL printers ... > > > > Isn't that exactly what C

Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer

2010-09-18 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:10:45 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Polytropon wrote: > > > I would like to have ONE thing that is used for printing, and that > > does support ALL printers ... > > Isn't that exactly what CUPS is supposed to be? Obviously not. Look at the dependencies, the bloat,

Re: BSD licensed Web Fourm / Blog

2010-09-18 Thread Jason Dixon
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 01:22:48AM -0500, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > Hello, > > I thought I would ask quick, does anyone know of web forums or blog > software that is BSD licensed? Blogsum is BSD licensed. -- Jason Dixon OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc. jdi...@omniti.com 443.325.1357 x.241 __

Re: FreeBSD 8.1 - boot failures (upgrades and clean installs) - root FS corrupt?

2010-09-18 Thread David Rawling
On 18/09/2010 6:19 PM, I wrote: Any suggestions on debugging what's going on? I'd really like to be able to get current. Dave. Hmm. Further diagnosis is even more interesting. The output from the installation (console 2 - Alt-F2) shows segmentation faults and core dumps for mv, rm and ln c

Re: BSD licensed Web Fourm / Blog

2010-09-18 Thread Reko Turja
I thought I would ask quick, does anyone know of web forums or blog software that is BSD licensed? Serendipity - http://www.s9y.org/ Works well with Postgres too. -Reko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

FreeBSD 8.1 - boot failures (upgrades and clean installs) - root FS corrupt?

2010-09-18 Thread David Rawling
Hi all I'm striking some trouble attempting to upgrade (and also in building a clean replacement) for an existing 8.0-RELEASE-p3 system running in a virtual machine. The host is Hyper-V R2 and 8.0 has been just fine and dandy. Upgrades and installation generally appear to go fine - no error

Re: sysinstall vs gmirror

2010-09-18 Thread Brandon Gooch
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 1:20 AM, wrote: > Adam Vande More wrote: [SNIP] > The question is, how do I go about partitioning gm0 from Fixit? > I've seen nothing so far that describes how to go about creating > multiple partitions on a gmirror (or on anything else, for that > matter) without either