Re: How to find files that are eating up disk space

2008-12-17 Thread Cliff Addy
e/dir in / "man df" for the whole story Cliff John Almberg wrote: > Here is another newbie question that is driving me crazy, but is > probably a laughable situation to an experienced admin... > > I've got a smallish server that is suddenly out of disk space in the >

Re: How to find files that are eating up disk space

2008-12-17 Thread Cliff Addy
Use "df" to report disk usage. Sitting in /, for example, "df -sm bin" will tell you the disk usage in megs in the bin directory, "df -sm *" will do the same for each file/dir in / "man df" for the whole story Cliff John Almberg wrote: > Here is

Compile problem with gd-2.0.28

2004-10-29 Thread Cliff Addy
d.so: undefined reference to `pthread_mutex_init' Looks to me like a bad reference to a threads library. Any ideas ... ? Cliff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

S/KEY ftp logins

2004-03-08 Thread Cliff Addy
Is there some way to tell if ftp logins are successfully using S/KEY or falling back to cleartext? Is there some way to require S/KEY only? Cliff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Default /var directories/permissions in 4.9R

2004-01-23 Thread Cliff Addy
layout and permissions documented anywhere? Or could someone give me a dump of their 4.9 /var showing just the directories and their perms? Cliff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Qmail Help

2003-08-28 Thread Cliff Sullivan
Does anyone know any good tutorials sites for qmail and vpopmail? im trying to set up a mail server for multiple domains. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Cliff = Cliff Sullivan - TSR 2 24hr Technical Support CoreComm - East Lansing, MI [ 888.715.7873

apple files

2003-07-19 Thread Cliff Sarginson
deas ? The real problem is that this information is important, but my correspondant, not only being a technical dodo, is very impatient. Thanks. -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://li

Xfree86 trouble..

2003-05-30 Thread Cliff
Trying to configure xfree86 with an ati all in wonder 32mb radion card and its not finding the correct driver chipset for it...any ideas? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Backup/RAID dillema

2003-04-04 Thread Cliff
- Original Message - From: "William Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Cliff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 11:35 AM Subject: Re: Backup/RAID dillema > Cliff, > > FreeBSD is going to format everything

Re: Backup/RAID dillema

2003-04-04 Thread Cliff
Sounds like a great idea... Do you reccomend something like wiping the extra drive clean and installing freebsd on it, then just have cvsup run locally every night to transfer all of the files over? - Original Message - From: "William Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Backup/RAID dillema

2003-04-04 Thread Cliff
I am looking for a reliable backup system to be able to have the least downtime possible in the case of a disk failure or the likes. My host does not support tape backup for FreeBSD, nor do they support hardware IDE RAID for it. I am down to almost no option besides vinum, but from what I see in th

Re: portupgrade mess

2003-03-13 Thread Cliff Sarginson
stuff that is in there... > Delete everything in "/usr/ports/distfiles". And before you go to bed one night do a "make clean" from "/usr/ports". It takes some time... -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD codenames?

2003-03-13 Thread Cliff Sarginson
ious about it's offspring. I have tried on my network, for professional reasons, just about every version of Linux around. They do not work out of the box, as they claim to. Well, if you want to reply to this then do so to me personally. "Questions" is already busy enough. -- Reg

Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-06 Thread Cliff Sarginson
ne that memtest gives spurious error on tests 5 and 7 on Asus motherboards. i think I started ths thread. P am amzed at the reaction. The usual bollocks of course about bad harware. Mmm.. sorry guys, X/Screensaver crashes FreeBSD. -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] T

Capture Card.

2003-03-06 Thread Cliff Hazell
recomendations? thanx Cliff. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please

2003-03-04 Thread Cliff Sarginson
S it can tell you what the temperature is. You need to watch what the CPU temp is, because the reaction to over heating is reboot. Good luck. -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Portupgrade .. yet again

2003-03-04 Thread Cliff Sarginson
In "C". It is a complex job, if anyone wants to help email me off list. -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: a simple question about ports

2003-03-04 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:42:31PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:39:13PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-04 Thread Cliff Sarginson
as too many ways it can go wrong for mere mortals. I have offered to re-write it. It will be a mega-project, but my offer is serious. And ruby (don't take our love to town) will place a less than significant role. -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsub

boring old me, KDE revisited

2003-03-03 Thread Cliff Sarginson
I hae taken all adice given. I stil do not have a working KDE, -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Reaality and KDE

2003-03-03 Thread Cliff Sarginson
It it is just impossible to update KDE. -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Ok, KDE/Help .. after my moans what now ?

2003-03-03 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 11:25:18AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-03-03T01:19:27Z, Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I regard portupgrade as a useless, time-wasting tool. If you have had luck > > with it. Then consider yourself blessed. > > OK

Re: Ok, KDE/Help .. after my moans what now ?

2003-03-03 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:43:25AM +0100, Lauri Watts wrote: Content-Description: signed data > On Monday 03 March 2003 02.19, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > Hello, > > Ok so portupgrde did not work in installing the latest KDE. > > I cannot get KDE to run at all. > > I get

Re: Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-03 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 08:24:48AM +0100, Lauri Watts wrote: Content-Description: signed data > On Monday 03 March 2003 00.23, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > > Well I am trying to be constructive. Not just a compainer...although it > > sounds that way (having spent 2 unsuccessful

Ok, KDE/Help .. after my moans what now ?

2003-03-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
en consider yourself blessed. -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

make arts

2003-03-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
audio/arts/work/arts-1.1/flow' gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/audio/arts/work/arts-1.1' gmake: *** [all] Error 2 *** Error code 2 What the f*** is /usr/local/lib/.libs ... -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as v

Re: Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 02:47:51PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Sunday 02 March 2003 02:37 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 03:33:49PM -0500, taxman wrote: > > > On Sunday 02 March 2003 02:22 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > > > At the risk of

Re: Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 03:33:49PM -0500, taxman wrote: > On Sunday 02 March 2003 02:22 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > At the risk of being accused of a complainer. > > I will state here that my experiments in the use of portupgrade, have > > left me without a useable X sy

Re: Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:49:21PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > Will the ports maintainers *please* make sure they release compilable > > ports..especially for the big mothers like X/KDE. > >

Portupgrade -- revisited

2003-03-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
ike X/KDE. -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: a simple question about ports

2003-03-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:39:13PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > Why are ports sometimes released, when they are uncompileable ? > > Lots of different reasons, the most likely one being that they > c

a simple question about ports

2003-03-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Why are ports sometimes released, when they are uncompileable ? -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Portupgrade -- am not Einstein

2003-03-01 Thread Cliff Sarginson
ndamental tool written in a language whose widespread use is noticeable by it's absence. I really have read the documents, and read the mailing list advice. But..sheesh.. Ah well...no flames please. Sound advice, slaps on the wrist..fine. But it has got me beat.. -- Regards Cliff [ This

Re: full/half duplex

2003-02-28 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:27:00PM -0500, Jeremy Faulkner wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 08:23:35PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:37:19PM -, Chris Phillips wrote: > > > Aaron wrote: - > > > I have a 3Com 3c900-Combo and ifconfig

Re: No subject was specified.

2003-02-28 Thread Cliff Sarginson
e appropriate support. Aside from advice on being a good netizen, they are no more responsible for educating their users than a car salesman is obliged to teach you how to drive. Come on, this is 2003, this is the InterNet, not the Arpanet.. :) -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as

Re: full/half duplex

2003-02-28 Thread Cliff Sarginson
> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Do sorted messages exist?

2003-02-27 Thread Cliff Sarginson
that may be better than filtering on things you do want to see. Mmmm... -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Epson 740/USB Revisited

2003-02-27 Thread Cliff Sarginson
rinted. Conclusions ? -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

single user mode

2003-02-27 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Hello, No I can think of kludgy ways to do this, but I want to know the way it should be done. How can you tell from with a shell script whether you are in single-user mode or not ? -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: cat

2003-02-27 Thread Cliff Sarginson
ile, I think the command is: $ set noclobber Or similar.. -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: potential bug when creating ssh keypairs?

2003-02-26 Thread Cliff Sarginson
nsive operation. That may imply something..(too overclocked a CPU..?). -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: question [addendum to answer]

2003-02-25 Thread Cliff Sarginson
in /usr/local/etc/rc.d .. however sometimes the script has an ".example" suffix to it which means it will get ignored. This suffix has to be removed by renaming the file. Sometimes at the end of the "make" you may see a comment to this effect I think, but not always. Maybe ne

Re: GNU programs & texinfo docs vs. manpages [was: Re: linker paths & /usr/local/lib]

2003-02-24 Thread Cliff Sarginson
manpage. > > GNU people do hate manpages annd avoid them some times :( > Yes, the most aberrant product of GNU is "info". Praise be to info2html, which at least makes them usable. Navigating info pages is like having teeth pulled without novocaine. Long live manual pages..keep us

Re: errors building ports INDEX

2003-02-24 Thread Cliff Sarginson
me of the langugage ports being missing, portsdb -Uu, make readmes ... particularly the lack of Japanese ports. I wonder if some kind of "stub" mechanism may not be good idea, for ports you refuse.. ? -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as vi

Spamassassin "tools"

2003-02-23 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Hello, I installed the spamassassin port, but I believe somewhere there should be a tools directory for various utility programs. I can find no trace of it ? Anyone a clue ? -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Verizon DSL & FreeBSD?

2003-02-22 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 01:40:47PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > On 02/22/03 07:03 PM, Cliff Sarginson sat at the `puter and typed: > > Hi, > > Well I can telnet to port 80 on your domain, but it times out in a > > browser. > > I don't get any greeting on the telnet

Re: How to tell if Port is blocked...

2003-02-22 Thread Cliff Sarginson
means. There are sites that will do simple scans for you .. but of course is up to you whether you trust them ;). Actually I get scanned several times a day by dopeheads looking for open-ports on my system. It is a fact of Internet life, it is not rocket science. Probably everyone on this list, c

Re: ssh(d) problems between FreebSD and Linux Systems

2003-02-22 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 03:36:30PM +0200, Willie Viljoen wrote: > On Saturday 22 February 2003 15:01, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > Hello, > > Behind my firewall I am trying to set up password-free ssh between the > > various systems. I have come across a curious problem. From a

Re: LAN and sound support in ASUS A7V333-X

2003-02-22 Thread Cliff Sarginson
7;s site proved fruitless. I would love to know if it is possible though, since eventually said machine will need 2 NICS. I have not tried the sound, since the machine in question is not destined for music :) -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-fre

ssh(d) problems between FreebSD and Linux Systems

2003-02-22 Thread Cliff Sarginson
"achieved this by generating an rsa key, and putting the public one into the authorized_keys2 file as appropriate. Any suggestions ? -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "u

Re: Cvsup Handbook Example

2003-02-21 Thread Cliff Sarginson
. A "daemon" was for the ancient Greeks something like a "guardian angel". It was corrupted into 'demon" with it's evil connotations by judaeo-christian ignorance. I believe that in Islam a demon is an ambivalent entity, capable of good and bad. I asked A

Re: new bie (tar command)

2003-02-21 Thread Cliff Sarginson
nly those files are listed, otherwise the entire table of contents is listed. On or around the 2nd page. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-quest

Re: installkernel first?

2003-02-20 Thread Cliff Sarginson
ieving the same end. > All-in-all there was actually nothing wrong (except my ignorance ) > Naahh..ignorance is me never having learnt how to bang a nail straight into a piece of wood. I do recommend you study up a bit on the shell though. Indenspensible knowledge I am afraid. -- Regards C

Re: Removing emails from an email file automatically.

2003-02-20 Thread Cliff Sarginson
1 false positive spam a day, when I bump the threshold up to something more realistic I would expect that to further drop. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: ftp users - question

2003-02-20 Thread Cliff Sarginson
added into the list contained in "/etc/shells". The program "/sbin/nologin" already exists, so no need to create it. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: download freebsd

2003-02-20 Thread Cliff Sarginson
nd a firewall and/or proxy ? Did you try one of the other nearby European mirrors ? -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: installkernel first? [ a few additions to this reply ]

2003-02-20 Thread Cliff Sarginson
;installworld > you have to mount all the slices affected by such a process (usually all other >slices like > /usr, /var), and also, only the system itself boots up, nothing else is started > preventing any problem caused by installing something new under a running old task >

Re: GECOS field question (names)

2003-02-19 Thread Cliff Sarginson
"hard" space ?? It's just a text file :) There is a structure to it for the use of the "finger" program, how other programs choose to parse it is probably up to the author. Looking at pwd.h it is just a simple ptr to a character string. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson

Re: OT: MUTT folders

2003-02-19 Thread Cliff Sarginson
folder it finds with new mail as the one to open. Type "!" after the "c" to get back to your main in-folder. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: question

2003-02-18 Thread Cliff Sarginson
ritten in this language. > Mmm. Not true. Most programs for Unix are written in C :) C++ is popular however. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: NIC numbering

2003-02-17 Thread Cliff Sarginson
ched to the same card / MAC address if more cards are added or > > they are moved around? > > arp -s (or arp -S) may help. See man arp. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: cannot boot from SCSI disk

2003-02-13 Thread Cliff Sarginson
I was wondering that myself, since I have 4.7 all on it's own on a SCSI disk and it certainly is not dangerously dedicated - something which I thought had gone into retirement anyway in these modern times. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Customizing /etc/motd

2003-02-13 Thread Cliff Sarginson
ins at 8:30 a.m. it could say "Good Morning lame-brain loser. What's the matter ? Couldn't sleep last night ?" "Or were you too busy moon-howling ?" :) -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD and DSL CONNECTIVITY ISSUES,

2003-02-13 Thread Cliff Sarginson
-site could crash your computer, or that DSL has anything to do with it. However, I believe on this very list, sometime ago there was some discussion about a couple of web-sites that did seem to utterly confuse certain browsers, and this was confirmed by some other people. I don't remember if it was resolved - but you need to publish the URL and the browser and some kind souls will try it. One hopes the * instead of the URL does not mean it is a site whose nature dare not be revealed ..:) -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Why is there no JFS?

2003-02-12 Thread Cliff Sarginson
eiser as to whether it is significantly slower or faster than EXT2 -- seems to be dependent on number and size of files on the system. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: cannot boot from a SCSI disk

2003-02-12 Thread Cliff Sarginson
t; FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel > boot: > > prompt. > > I've realized I don't have a fscking idea about how booting works, > especially in FreeBSD. Pretty embarrasing. :( > Mmm..a shot in the dark, have you enabled booting from SCSI device in

Re: fsck_ext2fs

2003-02-11 Thread Cliff Sarginson
don't. The comment in LINT is very cagey about it. It is undoubtedly true that the safest file system to use for data exchange on a single machine between the 2 systems is a DOS/VFAT one. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To

Re: does XFree86 installed from CD lack anything?

2003-02-11 Thread Cliff Sarginson
recent archives for long discussions on it... Or probably someone else will give you a pointer. Nvidia support for FreeBSD is very new. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: running freeBSD with "other" OS's

2003-02-11 Thread Cliff Sarginson
nk XP is a little less unfriendly than former versions of Windows with regard to "other" OS'es. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands

Re: scp GUI

2003-02-11 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:28:37PM -0600, Brian Henning wrote: > i am actually looking for a port for scp on bsd. > any suggestions? > Errm, don't you have it anyway ? # type -p scp /usr/bin/scp -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked

Re: installworld fails

2003-02-10 Thread Cliff Sarginson
; it's hard to say for sure unless you tell us what you did. > > > I did the following: > 2 steps missing... > make buildworld > make buildkernel > make installkernel > < reboot into single user mode > mount -a > mergemaster -p > make installworld mergem

Re: how to you intiate a passive ftp when you are building packages?

2003-02-09 Thread Cliff Sarginson
y putting this in your environment ? FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: languages [OT]

2003-02-08 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Hey nobody mentioned cobol :) I had a friend once who was thinking about suing ICL for teaching him cobol as a junior programmer, which he believed caused him permanent brain damage... Do you know the number of reserved words in Cobol ? Lots 'n lots... -- Regards Cliff Sarginson

Re: CUPS instalation question

2003-02-07 Thread Cliff Sarginson
the manual page entries for the old lpr system from /usr/share/man ... Otherwise "man lpr" will not give you the CUPS lpr man page ;) -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Mounting a linux logical partition

2003-02-04 Thread Cliff Sarginson
backup purposes. Thanks. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

SCSI Disk slice warning question

2003-02-03 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Hello, fdisk complains as follows..does this matter ? ÚÄÄ Disk slicing warning: ÄÄÄ¿ ³chunk 'da0s1' [32..63487] does not start on a track boundary ³chunk 'da0s2' [63488..35860479] does not start on a track boundary

Complaints about disk slice sizes on SCSI disk

2003-02-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
practise. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: How to map bad sectors on IDE?

2003-02-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
e measure, and if everything is backed up somewhere you could use the manafacturer's test disk to do a low level format -- may or may not help, but sounds like you do not have a lot to lose ! -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To

Re: Multiple solutions for a problem (Re: How to map bad sectors on IDE?)

2003-02-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
here is a limit to how much of a CD can be marked "bad". -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Bootable CD

2003-02-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
f_cd_burner_device name_of_iso_file fixate -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: restricting user's directory listing and changing

2003-01-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
gt;``cd'' and ``ls'' so that it will only work within their home directories. > > You could, but that's probably a more difficult solution. > WIth "cd" it's effectively impossible to write a replacement for it. It's builtin into the shell, an

vnc slowness when freebsd is server

2003-01-30 Thread Cliff Sarginson
, so I don;t think that is a bottleneck. Thanks for any help. p.s. To the people I was rude to earlier on this year I apologise, I was in a strange mood. I am a reformed character now. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe

Re: promiscuous mode / strange ethernet packets duplication problem

2003-01-07 Thread Cliff Sarginson
about it. Listening Greg ? -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Portupgrade vs. multiple versions of packages

2003-01-01 Thread Cliff Sarginson
> Do get confirmation of that rm command I listed, though. > # cd / # rm -rf * No problems anymore. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Water Damage

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
. These devices should be reserved only for use in hell. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: 5.0-RC2 sendmail msp-queue gizmo running REAL slow?

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
No BSD is not dead, It is alive and well, and living in my house. Sendmail is antique, no-one should have to read an 1100 page book to get mail. It had it's time. It's time is now over. Use Postfix or Qmail, your life may not be longer, bit will seem so. -- Regards Cliff Sargins

Re: 5.0-RC2 sendmail msp-queue gizmo running REAL slow?

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Sendmail is dead. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Water Damage

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
nks for the info. > > You know insurance adjustors are easily killed. Stuff bluetack down their gobs. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Water Damage

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Drink it. Water and alcohol have quite different somatic effects. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Finding type of memory

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
t kind of memory that server is using ? > It is an old server running P III 450 Mhz, so it must be using PC 100, > but what kind of PC 100 ? ECC or non ECC ? > Phone, -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send

Re: procmail and anti-spam ..sendmail is dead

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Use postfix. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: adduser .. revisited, an apology .. oh come on

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Adding a user should not be rocket science, If the old time Bill Joy lovers would realise that 'csh" sucks big time, we may avoid a lot of problems. If anyone can prove to me that "csh" is superior in any respect to bash, then please tell me. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson

Re: adduser .. revisited, an apology

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
t should be as easy as pie to add a user. Why the hell does FreeBSD go on and on shooting itself in the foot ? RTFM has become a bad joke. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: adduser

2002-12-31 Thread Cliff Sarginson
So why the fuck do things get more difficult ? -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: adduser .. revisited, an apology

2002-12-29 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Ok, Two things. One is I should not have mouthed off such a stupid email. I apologise. Secondly, adduser sucks. Let's end this thread, blame it on me. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROT

Re: adduser

2002-12-29 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 08:31:58PM +0100, Alex wrote: > > Dear/Beste Cliff, > > Sunday, December 29, 2002, 7:53:02 PM, you wrote: > > > adduser is broken. > > Jeez, people wonder why FreeBSD is not more popular. > > FreeBSD is for a number of reasons not popul

adduser

2002-12-29 Thread Cliff Sarginson
adduser is broken. Jeez, people wonder why FreeBSD is not more popular. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: off topic .. interpretation of tcpdump

2002-12-29 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 07:28:40PM +0100, Andrew Prewett wrote: > Today Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > > Hello, > > This is my festive season question. > > I was having some problems with my SMTP mail connection to my ISP. > > So I tcpdump'ed the ethernet ADSL conne

Re: off topic .. interpretation of tcpdump

2002-12-29 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 05:01:55PM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: > On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 16:26, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > Hello, > > This is my festive season question. > > I was having some problems with my SMTP mail connection to my ISP. > > So I tcpdump'ed the

off topic .. interpretation of tcpdump

2002-12-28 Thread Cliff Sarginson
just would like to know :) 17:22:00.343309 M 0:1:71:2:e6:61 > 1:0:0:0:0:0 802.1d ui/C 17:22:02.443185 M 0:1:71:2:e6:61 > 1:0:0:0:0:0 802.1d ui/C -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROT

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