Re: freebsd-update problems

2013-02-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
cs ATM, but IIRC you need to run an install step now. Check the docs ... they should tell you. HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ 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: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 08:11:50PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > >> is it possible to speed up port make ?? > >> i want to install openbox and xorg on a Pentium 4 and 2gb ram, > >> compiling xorg takes about 2 hours > > 2 hours only?? > > Try lang/gcc46 or 47 > or sci

Re: An idea I have!

2012-06-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
uot;Let it Be". "BSD, BSD, BSD, yeah, BSD ... there will be an answer..." I don't know if I could perform with such a group, but I'd be interested in helping produce the studio work. Unfortunately, my audio box runs Windows. Win98, AAMOF. My synth is on its last legs

Re: (no subject)

2012-01-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 04:43:03AM +0200, Rares Aioanei wrote: > On 01/11/2012 02:25 AM, Glen Davenport wrote: > >My name is Glen Davenport. I am trying to download freebsd but haven't a > >clue as to how the FTP function works.When I go to download I am given a > >directory listing. Needless to

Re: difference between cvsup and csup?

2011-12-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
m not sure about that off the top of my head). Hope this helps. Kevin Kinsey ___ 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: For My Edification

2011-05-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
On 05/02/11 19:44, Polytropon wrote: Although others have already given you excellent replies, I would like to add a few comments. I have a couple of suggestion that I've not yet seen in the thread ... and kudos to you for a] asking, and nicely done, and b] gathering your courage to give this

Re: Thunderbird segfaults if UID > 0

2011-04-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 06:09:21PM +0200, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > Create a new user account, log in to it, run tbird ? Would that be any different then moving ~/.mozilla and trying to run it? Because that was a total failure ;-) KDK P.S. I'm thinking the answer is NO. I can give it a try

Thunderbird segfaults if UID > 0

2011-04-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
CALL getpgrp 54137 sh RET getpgrp 54137/0xd379 54137 sh CALL wait4(0x,0xbfbfe778,WUNTRACED,0) 54137 sh RET wait4 54141/0xd37d 54137 sh CALL exit(0x8b) Anyone got a clue what I've done? Thanks, Kevin Kinsey

Re: Shopping cart other than OSCommerce?

2010-12-08 Thread Kevin Kinsey
uot; background instead of a programming one. A man who has no inkling of the existence of carnivorous animals will not build his house in a tree. My $.02, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: About FreeBSD command question

2010-12-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
kan wrote: > Hi Support, > > I have a FreeBSD server for mailing, > I must make backup and check the which > bit (32bit/64bit) is now use in FreeBSD, > so can you provide the command for me? > > Regards, > Kan What output does: $ uname

Re: freebsd PHP extensions: missing option ?

2010-11-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
d question: How to solve this? See above for starters. You might also be able to hack the Makefile, but that's just what it is ... a hack ;-) Good luck! Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Dave wrote: Hi. Sorry ... Hello, and welcome. And I made it a bit shorter ;-) > I'd like to:- Have a ssh login via LAN available, I believe that's a standard feature, but I expressedly disabled that (well, told it not to implement it) when I orignaly installed the OS. Or have a VNC ser

Re: Thanks.

2010-11-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Ryan Coleman wrote: On Nov 18, 2010, at 9:14 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:25:31 +0330, Mohsen Mostafa Jokar < mohsenjo...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello. Didn't Mohsen Mostafar Jokar post this same question last week? Ye

Re: need help with php.

2010-10-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
n't do anything. I built the test.php with and zip. Scrreen is blank. Let me try konqueror; maybe I don't have something turned on it firfox3. gary Short Tags are (wisely ) deprecated now. should Just Work(tm). If not, post back ;-) HTH, Kevin

Re: How to confirm/deny ntp is working?

2010-08-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ently; mergemaster gave me a new ntp.conf and this is the exact stuff in there ;-) Kevin Kinsey ___ 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: BSD logo

2010-07-29 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Antonio Olivares wrote: But yes we are in difficult times and then the 2012 saga, will the world end? I have it on good AUTHORITY: $dig @daleco.biz daleco.biz | grep AUTHORITY: ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1 That we're perfectly OK:

Re: apache22 build problem: cgi disabled

2010-07-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
cgi: enabled (shared) proxy_scgi: disabled cgid: disabled If "make show-modules" says "enabled" and the port still configures with "--disable-cgi", I'd definitely contact the maintainer and see what's up. My $.02, Kevin Kinsey __

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
. Of course not. Even Jesus knows RedHat sucks. Kevin Kinsey ___ 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: Convert all packages to ports

2010-07-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
since the packages take time to build and push out to the FTP servers. You end up with some problems because the system expects version $n.123 of "somepackage" but the installed "somepackage" is $n.121, and vice-versa problems can happen as well. They are fairly minor to

Re: pkg_add fails due to 'broken pipe'. Is my system in a consistent state?

2010-06-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chris Stankevitz wrote: pkg_add -r gnome2 This command fails repeatedly with "broken pipe" because the FTP > connection breaks. When it dies, I just re-run the command. I'm now on the fifth attempt. The gnome2 package is a "meta" package that installs many other packages. Q1: Is it bad f

Re: rc.conf: gnome_enable="YES" - which instructions executed?

2010-06-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
icated is going > on. So my question is -- how is this working? Thank you, Err, Magic? More seriously, `man rc` and several hours of cross-references (rc.subr., rc.conf., rc.local, etc. etc.) might be enlightening. HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-q

Re: Copy a FreeBSD 8* install to larger HD

2010-06-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
y) do I use? dd or cp or some other to copy the files. I'd recommend dump and restore ... possibly piping dump *to* restore, something like: dump -0 -a -L -u -f - /usr | ( cd /newusr ; restore -ruf - ) HTH. Thanks You're welcome :-) Kevin Kinsey __

Re: debian compatibility

2010-05-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jim Pazarena wrote: can I please be directed to any on-line reference as the procedures involved in executing a Debian binary on FreeBSD 8? Thanks! http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/linuxemu.html HTH, KDK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Re: user friendliest gui

2010-05-13 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Ok so I have my new box setup and I have installed Clamav-devel Tcl86 Dialog First question is , I have only ever used clamav-clamd in the past > which I start with /usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-clamd start to run it, how do I run devel? Second question is , where to o

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
an I have to help out with that (or tell you if it's even possible). This is open-source stuff; you might even get sam@ 's attention and get help from the writer himself if you're wearing your lucky sneakers. Kevin Kinsey ___ fr

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
/ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/Packages-8-stable/devel/libpciaccess-0.10.6_1.tbz Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "f

Re: dhcpd doesn't sent route information

2010-04-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Onur Aslan wrote: $ cat /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf option domain-name-servers 8.8.8.8, 8.8.8.4; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; default-lease-time 3600; max-lease-time 86400; ddns-update-style none; option routers 192.168.1.1; subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range 192.168.1.4 1

Re: bsdstats & country

2010-04-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Aiza wrote: How does bsdstats know what country the PC posting its info is from? Probably via a lookup in the regional registry; see RFC 2050. Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

[Fwd: Re: dhcpd doesn't sent route information]

2010-04-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Onur Aslan wrote: I tried, but It doesn't helped. >Please show us the revised dhcpd.conf. Also, did you -HUP >your named? Sorry! That should be "dhcpd". $kill -HUP `pgrep dhcpd` should do the trick. KDK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: dhcpd doesn't sent route information

2010-04-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Onur Aslan wrote: I tried, but It doesn't helped. Please show us the revised dhcpd.conf. Also, did you -HUP your named? Kevin Kinsey A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most ann

Re: dansguardian + squid running on local machine

2010-04-15 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ring out ipfw's syntax. HTH, Kevin Kinsey P.S. You'll get some recommendations for other firewalls, too. Use which ever one makes sense to you :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: "internet connection tester script"

2010-03-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
'm not sure why this script is needed. In ~/.cshrc: alias upping -t3 yahoo.com ... or something (your .bashrc equivalent, or .shrc, etc.) should do the trick, with much less effort on all fronts. HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine

2010-03-16 Thread Kevin Kinsey
alexus wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:21 PM, andrew clarke wrote: On Fri 2010-03-12 00:16:35 UTC-0500, Steve Bertrand (st...@ibctech.ca) wrote: The machine has a Motherboard that supports 2 double pentium III processors with 1GB of ram and a hard disk with 40GB. I run FreeBSD 7.2 on a head

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/03/2010 16:12:11, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Matthew" == Matthew Seaman writes: Matthew> On 05/03/2010 15:51:52, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: The spamtrap is a shiny object for spam, and anything that goes there gets bloc

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
mikel king wrote: Way back about 10 years ago, I was playing around with IPFW a lot. I wrote a script to update IPFW from changes made to a MySql db. It was a just for fun project, that turned out to be rather useful I have some developers that I managed who like you were road warriors. They

Re: How to check a ext3 partition ?

2010-02-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
zaxis wrote: There is a ext3 partition used to share data between linux and freebsd. Sometimes freebsd cannot mount this partition as abnormal poweroff. I have to enter linux to do `fsck.ext3` . Can freebsd fsck ext3 partition ? Not natively, AFAIK. Check out /usr/ports/sysutils/e2fsprogs;

Re: Mozilla Updates

2010-02-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Programmer In Training wrote: Since the advisories from Mozilla[0-1] have been released, and updates for at least FireFox and Thunderbird are available, when will they be made available via ports (especially FF 3.6 TB 3.0.2)? Should I deinstall the ports version and go ahead and compile from sour

Re: ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address

2010-02-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
GLADtr GLADtr wrote: Hello my friends! Help me please with its problem. I`m don`t understood what it is problem... I doubt I do either, but I'll bite. *mx# uname -a* FreeBSD mx.taricat.ru 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #1: Mon Jan 25 09:28:38 UTC 2010 r...@mx.taricat.ru:/usr/obj/ usr/src/s

Re: X11/freebsd problem

2010-02-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chuck Robey wrote: I have this problem with my built-under-freebsd-current Xorg, it gives me this following sort of error everytime it starts up: (pts/2):{14}% Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0

Re: /root permission reset on boot

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
upgrade my world (make buildworld, make installworld, etc.). I do this often (every time a release patch is released). So, perhaps this only happens during these upgrades? Yup, 99% sure of that. Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: Problems with "make clean"

2010-01-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
02/out/freebsd.amd64/debug/obj/VBoxRT/VBox: Directory not empty No explanation, sorry. Have you tried $chflags -R nosch work $rm -rf work ? HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: FreeBSD sources from svn repos

2010-01-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
without developer's heads rolling, most likely, but stuff is Merged-from-Current (or wherever) fairly continually, and, as such, is occasionally susceptible to hiccups. Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: can't load smbfs kernel module

2010-01-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: This is on FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0 r202964M ia64 I've built a kernel with smbfs module: # ls -al /boot/kernel/smb* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 265579 25 Jan 13:36 /boot/kernel/smbfs.ko -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 680186 25 Jan 13:36 /boot/kernel/smbfs.ko.symbols but can'

Re: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev!

2010-01-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
insecur...@malandrines.net wrote: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev! help me please $ grep ad /var/run/dmesg.boot Is /dev/ad0 there? /dev/ad0s1b ? Do you have SCSI disks instead? A RAID? Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Server set up

2010-01-16 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chad Perrin wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 04:34:17PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: NTFS comes with "NT" versions of Windows, that is, NT, Windows 2000, and everything since then. W95 and W98 used FAT filesystems. Fat32 was the default for Win98 IIRC. I know a lot of MS Windows use

Re: Server set up

2010-01-15 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jerry McAllister wrote: Of course, if you plan to dual boot FreeBSD along with the existing installation of W98, then you need enough disk for both of them. Probably 20 Gbytes each as a minimum. More is nicer. If you want to dual boot, then you will need to acquire a utility that will allow yo

Re: Failed to Load Kernel

2010-01-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
e happened in the past, I think. You might trying disconnecting one optical drive and trying again. Kevin Kinsey ___ 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: Failed to Load Kernel

2010-01-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
er clue on this, as I've not had the problem for years. I've also not burned a CD for FreeBSD on Windows *ever*, so I'm thinking it could be related to that, somehow or other, despite the fact that you can "see" everything. But then again, maybe I just don't t

Re: problem with php5-snmp

2009-12-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
tion. HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ 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: Remote ssh tunnel in background or script?

2009-11-09 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ot; is needed to open the tunnel on the "localname" side on port 24 (a privileged port). You could do this as "root" on the local side, but shouldn't connect *to* root on the remote computer. On Nov 9, 2009, at 7:30 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Greetings! sudo ssh -L thisbox:2

Remote ssh tunnel in background or script?

2009-11-09 Thread Kevin Kinsey
for backgrounding issues.At any rate, what I'd like to do is have a script set up the connection, or write some daemon that would monitor the connection and fix it if it gets reset. At any rate, if I could get this SSH process to detach from a terminal, it'd be great. Any suggestions?

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

2009-10-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Eric to call up troops to end this holy war on this list once and for all. I'm sharpening blades in the shop even as I write this! DEUS VULT!!!! 'Nuff ... please? Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
he/she would attempt to conjure up the right code to make it work. HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ 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: changing cron's From: address in emails

2009-10-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
h mail(1), so I can have whatever subject header I want, and the envelope data comes from the user ("usually m...@myhost.tld"). Cron sees nothing because stdout/err is redirected to dev/null. Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
age for msk(4) isn't a bad one. It could be that you need to add a KLD to loader.conf or something ... at the very least, it should say what variants are expected to work with msk(4). HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Question about FreeBSD syscall usage

2009-10-21 Thread Kevin Kinsey
on if I'm wrong). I hope this is helpful to you. Kevin Kinsey ___ 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: sysinstall colours

2009-10-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
nclusion with 8.0. However, a day is coming ... Kevin Kinsey ___ 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: Tcpwrappers, sendmail, and unknown hosts...

2009-10-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jeff Laine wrote: On Sat,10-10-2009 [12:31:01], Kevin Kinsey wrote: Seems like a lot of the spam we fight comes from hosts with no DNS entries. What about using this? -- $grep sendmail /etc/hosts.allow sendmail : KNOWN : allow sendmail : UNKNOWN : deny

Tcpwrappers, sendmail, and unknown hosts...

2009-10-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Seems like a lot of the spam we fight comes from hosts with no DNS entries. What about using this? -- $grep sendmail /etc/hosts.allow sendmail : KNOWN : allow sendmail : UNKNOWN : deny - Comments? anyone tried it? Kevin

Security cams/DVR, using FBSD?

2009-08-21 Thread Kevin Kinsey
are combination you use or recommend for video monitoring? TIA, Kevin Kinsey -- There is a Massachusetts law requiring all dogs to have their hind legs tied during the month of April. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: freebsd

2009-08-17 Thread Kevin Kinsey
BONGANI MANGANYE wrote: i dont know if is me or what but you havent answerwd my question,please take ur time ad give me reply Kevin Kinsey 08/17/09 2:18 PM >>> BONGANI MANGANYE wrote: am doing research about freebsd ,so can you help me with this information 1. features, ben

Re: freebsd

2009-08-17 Thread Kevin Kinsey
BONGANI MANGANYE wrote: am doing research about freebsd ,so can you help me with this information 1. features, benefits and setbacks 2. Functionality and features 3. versions, strong and weak points 4. Unique features www.freebsd.org :-) Kevin Kinsey -- Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still

Re: FTP

2009-07-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ropos truss truss(1) - trace system calls ... so you can use the above tool to see what's going on from the server's point of view. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re. Se non e vero, e ben trovato. ___ fr

Re: upgrade almost done on ns1.thought.org

2009-06-14 Thread Kevin Kinsey
erver 2.us.pool.htp.org driftfile /var/db/ntp.drift restrict 10.47.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 nomodify notrap anybody? Not certain, Gary, as IANAE; here, /etc/ntp/holds "ntpd.conf", and /etc/ntp.conf is a symlink to said file. No issues with ntp; I'm running 7-STABLE from

Re: GSM to Serial Converter

2009-05-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
27;ll leave it to another troll to quote the relevant RFC's. ;-) Oh, and upgrade your keyboard to one with an ENTER key as well, please. :-P Kevin Kinsey -- Ring around the collar. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: loader.conf

2009-04-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
*isn't* a physical memory limit ... what's the current setting of hw.physmem, and why would you *want* to limit it? On my systems, both 7x and 6x, hw.physmem is something like 4G by default---despite the fact I've nothing like that amount of RAM onboard. Any guru here give me some enli

Re: installing freebsd 7.1 ( error mounting /dev/acd0 input/output error)

2009-03-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
all the OS..regardsAjeesh /dev/acd0 is your CDROM drive. Try using a different CD for starters ... (a 2nd copy) ... if that doesn't work, it might be a bad CDROM drive. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants.

Re: phpBB3, php5 and mysql

2009-03-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
compiled in? I installed php5 now from ports with the apache mod_php5 module being installed. PHP is great about telling what's wrong ... if it's configured to do so. Once you have an error message, it'll be easier to know how to fix it. Kevin Kinsey -- Ever wonder if ta

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chris Rees wrote: 2009/3/12 Gilles : Hello I'd like to download information from our competitor's web site, without their knowing it's from us. The Tor network works fine, but they don't seem to provide a *nix version, much less a command-line version (the download script will run on a non-X

Re: Which install ?

2009-03-09 Thread Kevin Kinsey
s enabled by default. Kevin Kinsey -- Squirrels eating squirrels, my God, that's sick. ___ 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: Apache 1.3.41

2009-03-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ings out permanently, you'll need to rebuild all the extensions. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Our business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in high spirits. -- Robert Louis Stevenson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

2009-03-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
7;m just making more noise; you didn't give any hardware details. Some manufacturers (I have a SanDisk Cruzer) are now putting multiple partitions on a flash stick; the Cruzer has one which, on Windows,emulates a CD-ROM drive (dunno why a CD emulation would take up 3.5 GB, tho). Kevin Kinsey -- I

Re: OT: what is the X11 equiv of /dev/null

2009-03-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
clutter it up. My usual workaround is: 1. "xterm &" in Terminal one. 2. "appname &" in the new Xterm, then CTL-D. I also have a couple of buttons in XFCE that simply call "ssh $somehost $someapp". I've no idea where it puts t

Re: RELENG_7 != STABLE?

2009-02-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
case that was what your question actually was. Kevin Kinsey -- Are you a turtle? ___ 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: hi

2009-02-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ues of the community. By way of evidence, I present the following terms, used frequently in correspondence on these lists: It Just Works(tm) The Right Way(tm) "canonical" P.O.L.A. And be sure and check today's .sig ;-) Kevin Kinsey -- Grandpa used to

Re: desktop app/config

2009-02-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ich is supposed to look like Win95. And, I've not seen XFWM mentioned yet, which is pretty user friendly and a tad more lightweight than KDE or Gnome ... which could be important if you're talking about "recycled" hardware. My $.02, Kevin Kinsey __

Re: pkg_info & php

2009-01-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
$0.02. There is a good possibility that doing the following would help: *Pick one version or the other, probably v 5, as v4 is EOL'ed. *Uninstall both versions and Apache, and all php-extension ports. *Reinstall the PHP$n port with Apache module enabled via OPTIONS. *Reinstall the correct php-

Re: running asfiles on windowmaker...

2008-12-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
bitmaps/autocad.xbm /usr/local/include/bitmaps/bargraph.xbm ... and now we know why looking for asfiles doesn't help much. Try running "files", Luiz. Kevin Kinsey -- If it's Tuesday, this must be someone else's fortune.

Re: install/upgrade FREEBSD on a remote server

2008-12-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
. It involves fetching the source code via cvsup/csup, and rebuilding the kernel and world(userland), etc. The entire process is covered in Chapter 24 of the handbook; see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html for the beginning of the "old way" part. H

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-21 Thread Kevin Kinsey
> $1" Of course, that doesn't work, either. Shows why csh(1) is considered bad for snow removal, as the story, maybe, goes.... Joy to the world, Kevin Kinsey -- Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

Re: kldload: can't load /usr/local/modules/fuse.ko: Exec format error & fusefs-ntfs-1.2531

2008-12-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Dino Vliet wrote: Hi people, kldload: can't load /usr/local/modules/fuse.ko: Exec format error What does $file /usr/local/modules/fuse.ko say, and do you have Linux support built and enabled? Kevin Kinsey -- A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspe

Re: How do I permanently set the numerical ip in dmesg?

2008-11-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
You can read the manpage for ifconfig(8) ("man ifconfig") and possible the manpage for rc.conf(5) for more information. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Many hands make light work. -- John Heywood ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: Soundcard problem

2008-11-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
s re: your soundcard from `dmesg` or /var/run/dmesg.boot, if it's there. Also, output of `cat /dev/sndstat` and perhaps a listing thus: ls -l /dev/dsp* /dev/mixer for starters. Kevin Kinsey -- Fortune favors the lucky. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: mail server

2008-11-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ails would help as much as anything else in tracking down the source of the issue. Kevin Kinsey -- The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: PHP Session Support in /tmp

2008-11-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
8 rc.local And, by way of an alternate suggestion, remember that cron(8) recognizes an "@reboot" special string instead of the normal five-field time indicators. @reboot /bin/mkdir /tmp/php_sessions HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- It's amazing how many people you could be friend

Re: Segmentation fault (core dumped)

2008-11-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
pache, or some other module (like Perl, PHP, Python) that is used by Apache? Kevin Kinsey -- If it ain't baroque, don't fix it. ---P.D.Q. Bach ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: FreeBSD in VMWare box

2008-11-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Derek Ragona wrote: You can have the FreeBSD just use DHCP to get network settings. -Derek And the magic incantation for that is: if0="DHCP" in /etc/rc.conf, where "if0" is the ID string for the interface you wish to configure automatically. HTH, Kevin K

Re: tool to recover fat partition

2008-11-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
used sysutils/ddrescue for recovery from a FAT partition, but I'm not at all sure if it will help in your situation. Kevin Kinsey -- Seems this guy showed up at a party, and all of his friends jumped for Joy. But she sidestepped, and they missed. _

Re: Large discrepancy in reported disk usage on USR partition

2008-10-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
pear that perhaps Mel also guessed right about df being aliased? Just my guess, but, as you mention, no nfs mounts appear. I may be mistaken, but I think it's also possible to get into this sort of situation by mounting a local partition on a non-empty mountpoint---at least, it happened to

SSH Port forwarding when "PermitRootLogin"==no ?

2008-10-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
emote server is a dynamic port. Any suggestions how I might get this to work? TIA, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: MTA on non-standard port

2008-10-26 Thread Kevin Kinsey
r me, but no one else likes it ;-) Thanks again, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

MTA on non-standard port

2008-10-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
the server (currently I'm running dual-sendmail with Amavisd-new and spamassassin). Anyone doing such a thing, or have a few hints handy? TIA, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

Re: Scanner

2008-10-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
owever, IANAE, some it may not, (YMMV, #include "disclaimer.h" and all that). I suppose I must be doing something wrong. Please bear in mind that this is my first time that I am using the command line. I have been able to thanks to the very easy and instructive FreeBSD's handbook. It

Re: Command to rechown

2008-09-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
. As for restoring permissions on /etc/, mtree(8) is your friend ... I'd recommend taking a look at the manpage, however, because IANAE. However, all disclaimers included, I *think* you want % cd / % mtree -U -f /etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist Kevin Kinsey -- It is now pitch dark. If you proceed

Re: NATD Reverse Proxy

2008-09-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ROTECTED] 831-459-5354 Someone else's wheel, for perusal, at least: http://www.shmoo.com/~bmc/software/wicap/announce.html The tarball is still up there. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one. -- John Galsworthy ___

Re: X server crashes on exit

2008-09-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
f how to diagnose and fix this problem? Thanks Herman Have you looked at the logfiles? (/var/log/Xorg.$n.log) Kevin Kinsey -- Let your conscience be your guide. -- Pope ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: nat and firewall

2008-09-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
s MFC'ed, but apparently fairly recently? I suppose we need someone a tad more "in the know" to straighten that out for us. Kevin Kinsey -- A wise man can see more from a mountain top than a fool can from the bottom of a well. ___ freeb

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
#x27;t get routed to the correct address when it's destined for port 25. So a common thread is that traffic on the ISP's net isn't going out via yourserver.com:25 --- would seem to indicate port blocking, which is quite common for port 25. Tried 587 or some weird alternate? Ke

Re: branches, updates, buildworld

2008-09-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
e system. If you, for example, happen to upgrade expat or something basic to a bunch of ports, things can go pretty haywire until everything's back up-to-date. But, then again, that's what the ports-mgmt tools are supposed to help with. Last but not least: Thanks for the fast and detaile

Re: ssh

2008-09-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ort" parameter in the same config file. And as an aside ... don't do it. ;-) Just my guess. Kevin Kinsey -- Reactor error - core dumped! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-question

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