RE: Printer recommendation please

2012-03-30 Thread Matt Emmerton
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:14:20 -0400 > Mike Jeays wrote: > > > I strongly recommend a laser printer over an inkjet even for home use. > > The reduced running costs and better reliability are easily worth the > > lack of colour, IMO. > > How do they compare for light and occasional use? I'm thinki

RE: much to my surprise.... [ now trending #OT ]

2011-09-22 Thread Matt Emmerton
r, but everything else needed to be reinitialized. A lesson that I learned many years ago - if you can afford a "big" UPS for your servers, you can afford a "little" one for your telco/network equipment. -- Matt Emmerton ___ fr

RE: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread Matt Emmerton
Moving ssh to another port has solved the problem for me. I had used sshguard in the past, but was always leery of locking myself out. Regards, Matt Emmerton -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of James

RE: cmpsfont-1.0_7 checksum mismatch

2011-05-30 Thread Matt Emmerton
have the port *now* you can edit the port with the new checksum calculated using sha256(1). (Edit /usr/ports/print/cmpsfont/distinfo) -- Or this: cd /usr/ports/print/cmpsfont make fetch make makesum -- Matt Emmerton ___ 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: Sending a Fax

2011-05-05 Thread Matt Emmerton
CUPS tweaking, you should be able to get the Linux PC FAX capability working on FreeBSD. YMMV, HTH. -- Regards, Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send an

RE: Port dependencies

2011-04-01 Thread Matt Emmerton
scratch. I dearly love FreeBSD, but after a few hours of building world and upgrading ports/packages, walking over to my RHEL/CentOS machines and typing "yum update -y && reboot" just brings tears to my eyes. -- Matt Emmerton ___

Re: foo; no such thing as a "dual-nic" atom firewall

2010-11-24 Thread Matt Emmerton
yourself out of parts. Any respectable computer shop will have Mini-ITX Atom motherboards and cases, just add another NIC to that along with memory/drives and you're done. Regards, -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted softwarein the core

2010-10-06 Thread Matt Emmerton
like the FSF needs to work on a BSD-compatible licence for this code too. Regards, -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "fr

Re: Zip file making issues

2010-09-20 Thread Matt Emmerton
284343047-Le-ach/download/small/image.jpg". I only recently discovered this bug -- none of my clients have had the guts to tell me about it. == Just change the directory before you start zipping. cd /mount/archive/orders/Sep20/1284343047-Le-ach /usr/local/bin/zip -r /u

Re: ssh under attack - sessions in accepted state hogging CPU

2010-08-11 Thread Matt Emmerton
On 10/08/10 05.13, Matt Emmerton wrote: I'm in the middle of dealing with a SSH brute force attack that is relentless. I'm working on getting sshguard+ipfw in place to deal with it, but in the meantime, my box is getting pegged because sshd is accepting some connections which a

Re: ssh under attack - sessions in accepted state hogging CPU

2010-08-10 Thread Matt Emmerton
On 8/9/2010 8:13 PM, Matt Emmerton wrote: Hi all, I'm in the middle of dealing with a SSH brute force attack that is relentless. I'm working on getting sshguard+ipfw in place to deal with it, but in the meantime, my box is getting pegged because sshd is accepting some connections

Re: ssh under attack - sessions in accepted state hogging CPU

2010-08-09 Thread Matt Emmerton
> I know there's not much I can do about the brute force attacks, but will > upgrading openssh avoid these stuck connections? 1. switch over to using solely RSA keys In the works; I have too many users to convert :( 2. switch to a non-standard port This is not attractive, even though it wou

Re: ssh under attack - sessions in accepted state hogging CPU

2010-08-09 Thread Matt Emmerton
> I know there's not much I can do about the brute force attacks, but will > upgrading openssh avoid these stuck connections? 1. switch over to using solely RSA keys In the works; I have too many users to convert :( 2. switch to a non-standard port This is not attractive, even though it wo

ssh under attack - sessions in accepted state hogging CPU

2010-08-09 Thread Matt Emmerton
2 0:27 32.18% sshd 39591 root 1 1020 6724K 3036K CPU22 0:27 31.88% sshd -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any m

Re: apache22 and new hostname???

2010-01-30 Thread Matt Emmerton
. Regards, -- Matt Emmerton ___ 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: Sendmail & Procmail

2010-01-29 Thread Matt Emmerton
l this way years ago, before I discovered fetchmail, procmail, getmail & maildrop. I would like to get away from sendmail or any other MTA for that matter, but never found solution for handling the emails generated by the system. Check out DragonFlyBSD's dma(1). It&#

Re: spamassassin Y2010 bug

2010-01-03 Thread Matt Emmerton
nning sa-update is also going to be running sa-compile. 2) sa-compile is nice(1)'d by default, and you can provide other flags to nice(1) as well. See http://www.gsicomp.on.ca/~matt/sa-utils-patches.shar Regards, -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd

Re: clear old output in login screen?

2009-05-03 Thread Matt Emmerton
to be redone any time you do an installworld. The solution I've deployed in my environment is to have /etc/issue contain a single ^L character. Prior to doing that, /etc/issue contained 25+ blank lines, which effectively cleared the terminal before displaying the login prompt. Regards, --

Re: IPFW in-kernel NAT: How to compile?

2009-02-06 Thread Matt Emmerton
md64, pc98, etc) to create the LINT file. $ cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf $ make LINT cat ../../conf/NOTES NOTES | sed -E -n -f ../../conf/makeLINT.sed > LINT Regards, -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: Secondary DNS or BSD Server space

2008-12-18 Thread Matt Emmerton
others can set up a secondary DNS server? There was a thread on this just the other day here. Not sure if they are BSD-based, but both dyndns.org and zoneedit.com offser secondary service for practically nothing. -- Matt Emmerton _

Re: looking for a secondary.

2008-12-16 Thread Matt Emmerton
They will host DNS (primary and/or secondary) for 5 zones, free of charge (subject to bandwidth). -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: I need Install DB2 in Freebsd with a tool administration likewebmin but for database DB2

2008-12-10 Thread Matt Emmerton
administration tool. Regards, Matt Emmerton - Original Message - From: "Tomás Rodriguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 2:14 PM Subject: Re: I need Install DB2 in Freebsd with a tool administration likewebmin but for database

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-06 Thread Matt Emmerton
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:34 PM, FBSD1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Top posting is how Microsoft outlook works. Nothing I can do about it. sorry You could disable "include original message". Or use better software. Or just scroll down the to bottom of the message before typing anythin

Re: man -t odd page size

2008-10-22 Thread Matt Emmerton
On Wednesday 22 October 2008 10:38:40 pm Polytropon wrote: Hi! On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:56:20 -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there an easy way to get man to format the man page using plain good > ISO 216 standard A4 page size? My suggfestion for an attempt would be to firs

Re: Port for drawing directed graphs?

2008-09-17 Thread Matt Emmerton
y (in ports?) that can take a data set (for example, a two dimensional array that defines the nodes and the links between them), and produce a printable graph? What you want is the 'dot' tool from the 'graphviz' port in /usr/ports/graphics/gra

FreeBSD on IBM x3400?

2008-03-06 Thread Matt Emmerton
Anyone had any luck (or horror stories) with FreeBSD on IBM x3400 systems? -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: syslog marking sendmail output as "kernel:"

2007-10-16 Thread Matt Emmerton
1) Why is the same sm-mta message getting dumped twice? 2) Why is an empty kernel message getting dumped (which screws up formatting?) Regards, -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: syslog marking sendmail output as "kernel:"

2007-10-16 Thread Matt Emmerton
a newline causes the next entry to be on the same line as the (non-existant) kernel message. The trouble will be tracking this down. Regards, -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: gpg-agent

2007-07-10 Thread Matt Emmerton
y" itself. Perhaps you want this? setenv GPG_TTY `tty` -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

[OT] mail disclaimers [ was Re: Mail etiquette (was: What is this mean by this term) ]

2007-01-18 Thread Matt Emmerton
> > [ snip much ado about mail etiquette and sigs and whatnot ] > > > > I started using the lists from work years ago when I was > > establishing the FreeBSD servers and it was easier to get > > Q&A stuff done... Since then the weenies have come along > > and changed out a perfectly servicable Post

Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11

2007-01-16 Thread Matt Emmerton
The release branch for FreeBSD-6.1, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes I'm sure a case could be made with regard to updated timezone information being "critical" -- but since a port exists for timezone

Re: perl substitution question

2007-01-13 Thread Matt Emmerton
> o > Anybody know if I can do a perl substitution of the scads of > \x80\x9D to simple double-quotes (") from the command line? 80 hex = 200 octal 9D hex = 235 octal cat k | tr "\200" "\"" | tr "\235" "\"" > k.new -- Ma

Re: who's using that port?

2007-01-12 Thread Matt Emmerton
ey were, but not by who. There's no -p > argument to track the pid of the process using the port. > > How do you track that on BSD? See sockstat(1). -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: How to stop automatic creation of /var/mail/$USER

2007-01-01 Thread Matt Emmerton
line to have pw *not* create the mail spool file, although code will skip this is PWALTDIR() is set -- although our version of pw doesn't set this at all. There also appears to be a shortage of command line options that could be used to enable this behaviour. Regards, -- Matt E

Re: IBM DB2 on FreeBSD 6.1

2006-10-22 Thread Matt Emmerton
ng properly. If anyone wants work to resolve these issues, please contact me off-list. I have access to the information that we'd need to get this working. -- Matt Emmerton ___ Découvrez une nouvelle façon d&#

Re: port php5 - what I am supposed to do here?

2006-10-05 Thread Matt Emmerton
tree and try again. > *** Error code 1 > > So what to do now? You've established that the security issue doesn't apply to your environment. 1) Add "DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=yes" to /etc/make.conf 2) Run "portupgrade -u" or "make install clean" Regards,

Re: ipw(4) and iwi(4): Intel's Pro Wireless firmware licensingproblems

2006-10-05 Thread Matt Emmerton
rmware/microcode/whatever it's > called in fxp(4) is included in every OpenBSD and FreeBSD release? Because fxp is not a wireless device, and thus does not fall under the FCC's control for RADIO devices. (The normal Class A/B rules for device emissions still apply, but since the de

Re: How do I give 2 parameters to programs in an unix enviroment?

2006-09-08 Thread Matt Emmerton
for all intents and purposes "unnamed", and you can only build up one "pipeline". That's why named pipes were invented, so that you could have multiple pipes and refer to them by name (instead of implicitly). But in your case, using named pipes is really no different than us

Re: arp -a takes 40 secs to display cached MAC addresses. Is thisnormal?

2006-04-03 Thread Matt Emmerton
27;arp -a -n' and you'll see it complete immediately. -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

6.0-REL problems with ISA ed0, FFS corruption and ancient hardware

2006-03-18 Thread Matt Emmerton
sckd; all other filesystems are scheduled for background fsck 6) Encounter panic "ffs_valloc: dup alloc" 7) In debugger, reset (or panic to get vmcore) Attached is the full dmesg and stacktrace output from kgdb for the *second* panic, since I figure this is the more critical issue. -- Matt E

Re: I belong to too many groups

2006-01-18 Thread Matt Emmerton
ny way to get past this problem or will I need to reinstall? Boot in single-user mode (type "boot -s" at the boot prompt). Then you will be "root" and can fix up your /etc/group files. -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: runtime error (libm.so.3)

2006-01-10 Thread Matt Emmerton
you don't need a specific version, then use the -l option to link, like this: g++ -o winmain winmain.o -lm `wx-config --libs gl,media,std,core,base` Regards, -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Need help switching between two FreeBSD boot drives

2006-01-05 Thread Matt Emmerton
t is marked bootable. The reason you get a beep is because there is no boot loader on that slice. > b) I assume that "F5: Drive 1" means that the drive i'm staring at the > options for is Drive 2, adn that selecting F5 will toggle to Drive 1? Drivers are numbered from 0. So F1/F2 r

Re: PHP5 Error Message

2006-01-05 Thread Matt Emmerton
What could be causing it and how do > I correct it? Take a look at $PREFIX/etc/php.ini and $PREFIX/etc/php/extensions.ini. You may have duplicate module entries. -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Fetch dependencies from LAN

2006-01-01 Thread Matt Emmerton
IDE= in /etc/make.conf. -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: natd -redirect_port question

2006-01-01 Thread Matt Emmerton
natd box. Anyone care to point me the > right direction? Thanks in advance. If you already have natd running, then you need to stop it first before starting it up again. -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fr

[OT] e: Is MegaCameras.com still in business?

2005-12-21 Thread Matt Emmerton
port MegaCameras.com (aka Geoffrey Jones, 718-265-1320) 3) Read digg.com and slashdot.org stores about unscrupulous camera stores operating in NYC 4) Remember, if it's too good to be true, it probably is! -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-

Re: webalizer monitoring apache logs on freebsd6

2005-11-18 Thread Matt Emmerton
htly thing, webalizer always sends > me this output. > Thanks. > Dave. Even better -- run webalizer in "really quiet" mode (-Q). You'll still get warned about fatal errors (ie, can't find logfile, etc) but all other status/error/warning messages are supressed. A real

Re: HyperTerm-like connection via serial port??

2005-11-17 Thread Matt Emmerton
ame thing? Try tip(1) or cu(1). -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: cannot get IP working between associated ath0 & AP, what to do?

2005-11-17 Thread Matt Emmerton
2.168.107.1 > > I am unable to ping my router. (linksys bewfs42) > > It seems like i'm missing something really simple here...anyone able to > help point me in the right direction? Thanks. Maybe deftxkey needs to be set? -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: problem compiling lsof

2005-10-02 Thread Matt Emmerton
Line 153 of devfs.h appears to be "struct sx dm_lock;" -- perhaps pulling in the proper header to define "struct sx" might make things work again? -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Can I do this?

2005-09-15 Thread Matt Emmerton
my zone files over to the new system? The htdocs and zone files you can copy straight over; the config files for both Bind and Apache will need some fixing. -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: tar Syntax Help

2005-07-07 Thread Matt Emmerton
> On 7/7/2005 8:38 PM Matt Emmerton wrote: > > > >>I'm trying to copy an entire file system while using an exclude file to > >>avoid copying things such as /dev, /proc, etc. I've read the man page > >>and found the -X or --exclude-from tar option. I&

Re: tar Syntax Help

2005-07-07 Thread Matt Emmerton
tmp. It's also quite handy when you've got large volumes of data (such as in /home) and the complete system image won't fit on a single tape. The general notion of my script is the following: #!/bin/sh for i in bin boot etc home modules root sbin usr var do tar cvzf /backups/$i.

Re: Unable to set up LPD to use a HP Laserjet 5p in freeBSD 5.3

2005-05-08 Thread Matt Emmerton
ilter. It contains all the magic needed to get a LaserJet 5p to work properly. It was the only filter that seemed to do the right thing for me. -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Where does a port store a saved configuration file?

2005-04-26 Thread Matt Emmerton
> Hello list, > > I had a question regarding where in FreeBSD5.3 the > configuration file for a port is stored. I've been > trying to find the saved configuration file that Snort > created upon me selecting what options to include > during the make install. I had included support for > Prelude,

Re: courier-imap operation timed out?

2005-04-12 Thread Matt Emmerton
> Why do I get these mail errors? > > Apr 12 21:32:59 imapd-ssl: couriertls: read: Operation timed out > Apr 12 21:32:59 imapd-ssl: DISCONNECTED, user=x, ip=[0.0.0.0], > headers=0, body=0, time=287, starttls=1 > > Ofcoure user and ip have been omitted, but this is a connection from a > wind

Re: Ebay Phishing

2005-03-20 Thread Matt Emmerton
#x27;ve been sending mail directly out of my Rogers-hosted machine for almost a year now, without going through their "smart" hosts. This was one of the reasons I switched to Rogers from Sympatico -- Sympatico locked down port 25 which forced me to

Re: make - don't workHELP!!!

2005-02-18 Thread Matt Emmerton
# SCSI media changers > #device da # Direct Access (disks) > #device sa # Sequential Access (tape etc) > #device cd # CD > #device pass # Passthrough device (direct SCSI access) > #device ses # SCSI Environmental Services (and SAF-TE) -- Matt Emmerton

Re: mx2.freebsd.org in SORBS, AGAIN!

2005-02-15 Thread Matt Emmerton
s act and only accept bounces for messages that were sent by their systems? Some kind of simple token in the test messages (much like how mailing list software uses unique IDs) would avoid these kinds of fake-bounces-causing-blacklisting errors. -- Matt Emmerton ___

Re: What Port Installs /usr/local/lib/libiconv.la?

2005-01-22 Thread Matt Emmerton
l .la files, although I can't see any reference to that in the current porters-handbook. If that is still true, I would have to say that libiconv is in error by installing such a file (see the patches included in converters/libiconv/files -- the file is definitely installed). Not sure why

Re: How can I speed up a dd copy?

2005-01-13 Thread Matt Emmerton
> Hello > When I am performing a dd between (2) 36 Gig 160 > disks (to duplicate them) it takes about 2.5 hrs. Is > there any way I can speed this up? Is there any better > way I can clone a bootable main disk? A larger blocksize (bs=) will help dramatically. -

Re: DNS problems

2005-01-08 Thread Matt Emmerton
l0 > > /etc/resolve.conf is empty. You mean /etc/resolv.conf? This is where your nameserver should be listed if you're getting the information properly from your Linksys router. -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: How long will 4.x be supported?

2005-01-07 Thread Matt Emmerton
> Intel > CPUs (800Mhz FSB Xeon64), they don't work in 4.x. Sadly noone in the > FreeBSD universe is even familiar (it seems) with new server MBs. I'd say those who are familiar are using 5.x. Maybe the time to switch is near? -- Matt Emmerton

Re: Man pages take forever on slow machine?

2004-12-28 Thread Matt Emmerton
t;back in the day". I'd expect this to be slow, but... 1+ hours > > for a man page? It's probably a) building the index of man pages and b) formatting the man page you requested. You may see better performance if you install the "catpages" distribution (pre-formatted man pag

Re: kernel compile error

2004-11-25 Thread Matt Emmerton
> /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/if_rue.c:104:23: miibus_if.h: No such file or directory > /usr/src/sys/pci/if_rl.c:122:23: miibus_if.h: No such file or directory > mkdep: compile failed You need "device miibus" in your kernel config if you want to use "device rl". # PCI Ethernet NICs that use the comm

Re: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-25 Thread Matt Emmerton
gt;> > >>>jm > >> > >>sysutils/memtest in the ports. > > > > > > I don't want to embarrass anyone here, but something needs to be said. > > Note this next sentence carefully: THERE IS NO SUCH THIN

Re: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-25 Thread Matt Emmerton
bad. While this method may seem somewhat brute-force-ish, it's often much quicker and easier than futzing around with memtest and guessing. Given the cost of memory these days, swapping it out is generally cheaper than the cost of random downtime and recovering from crashes in a production environment. -- Matt Emmerton ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: OT: Trying to learn C -- some questions

2004-11-25 Thread Matt Emmerton
in': > > : undefined reference to `wgetch' > > I do not know what header file I should be including. > > Or is there something else I'm not understanding? > > I think the real problem hear is that the getch() the example is > referencing is actua

Re: Natd manpage interpretation problem . . .

2004-11-20 Thread Matt Emmerton
he redirect_xxx options only work on single IPs -- not netblocks. If you want to redirect traffic for a specific netblock, you need to have a rule for every IP in the block. -- Matt Emmerton ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: Which Laser Printer for FreeBSD

2004-09-17 Thread Matt Emmerton
up. If you look around, you can find "old" LaserJets that are being dumped when they're still perfectly fine (and usually come with a full toner cartridge too). -- Matt Emmerton ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Where to find jw on FreeBSD?

2004-09-05 Thread Matt Emmerton
or if this is a Linux/RedHat-only script? Thanks, -- Matt Emmerton ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: finding the ip address

2004-08-29 Thread Matt Emmerton
address. There isn't anything that simple, but munging the output of ifconfig is what you want. This assumes that your box only has one IP address (other than localhost): # ifconfig -a | grep "inet " | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | awk &

Re: Does the AMD64 version of FreeBSD run on this?

2004-08-06 Thread Matt Emmerton
> At 09:06 PM 8/6/2004, Matt Emmerton wrote: > > >While Intel (or AMD) may make changes to the underlying silicon to make > >things better than their competitors (ie, larger caches, different pipeline > >architecture, etc), they are committed to maintain compatibility be

Re: Does the AMD64 version of FreeBSD run on this?

2004-08-06 Thread Matt Emmerton
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 06 August 2004 04:58, Brett Glass wrote: > > http://eetimes.com/semi/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=26805631 > > Probably not. Intel isn't going to keep exactly the same architecture as AMD > has now. They'll make a few minor ajust

Re: make installworld trouble

2004-07-25 Thread Matt Emmerton
system header. Are you following the procedure outlined here? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html#AEN26900 -- Matt Emmerton ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Compaq SP750 and FreeBSD

2004-07-04 Thread Matt Emmerton
e, and don't want to get into the Perc/LSI problems that others have had to deal with. Thanks, -- Matt Emmerton ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: can't mount 300G USB drive that's FAT32

2004-06-25 Thread Matt Emmerton
using mount_ntfs out of your mind since it won't help. The FAT32 support in FreeBSD currently doesn't support "large" disks. I don't know the specific value of "large", but there is some comments in the code that point at certain calculations that break for &

Re: UPDATING - perl

2004-05-02 Thread Matt Emmerton
t got too far. Is it ok to allow it to continue? Is there a step that > should be changed/added? cvsup ports-all first? -- Matt Emmerton ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to makestuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread Matt Emmerton
here were packages (though I suppose for an ancient release > like 4.9 there might be). How is 4.9 ancient? It's the most recent release supported for production use. (Refer to http://www.freebsd.org if you doubt this.) You can find all the packages you want for 4.9 at ftp://ftp.freebsd.

Re: php installation problems; now mysql connection problems

2004-03-19 Thread Matt Emmerton
When you chose "install php without mysql", what you really did is install PHP without mysql _support_. This is why you can't connect. Reinstall PHP *with* mysql support and you will be fine. Matt - Original Message - From: "samy lancher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jorn Argelo" <[EMAIL PR

Re: LINT file?

2004-02-29 Thread Matt Emmerton
> Matt Emmerton wrote: > > > cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf > > make LINT > > > > Note that the LINT kernel is _strictly_ a list of all the possible things to > > put in your kernel config -- there are no explanatory comments anymore. > > That's a sham

Re: LINT file?

2004-02-29 Thread Matt Emmerton
find it or it's replacement > please? TIA cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf make LINT Note that the LINT kernel is _strictly_ a list of all the possible things to put in your kernel config -- there are no explanatory comments anymore. -- Matt Emmerton ___

Re: crontab question

2004-02-19 Thread Matt Emmerton
> Greetings, > I am running 5.1-release. I created the file > /var/cron/tabs/root . It is owner root, group wheel. > permissions are -rw--- > > I have the following entry in the file root > > 0 22 2-31 * * /usr/local/bin/rsync -av /dept2/Marketing/ /data/Marketing > 2>&1 /r > oot/rsync.log >

Re: Make BuildWorld options

2004-02-05 Thread Matt Emmerton
build C++ and friends > NO_BIND=true# do not build BIND > NO_FORTRAN= true# do not build g77 and related libraries > NO_GDB= true# do not build GDB > > Is there a list of these options anywhere that explains what each option > does? How about /et

Re: sendmail /etc/mail/Makefile usage

2004-01-24 Thread Matt Emmerton
ateway/firewall/sendmail PC which is the doorway to my private Lan. Add the following to gateway.fbsdjones.com.mc: FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')dnl MASQUERADE_AS(`fbsdjones.com')dnl Then run 'make' from /etc/mail and your internal hostnames should

Re: stumped... .

2004-01-17 Thread Matt Emmerton
. I could do it in > C/C++,but c'mon... ! Any solutions in sed, perl, or ed/ex? > > tia, everybody, > > gary If I'm understanding your question correctly, this Perl script should do it. #!/bin/perl while (<>) { if (/^PATTERN) { last; } print $_; } -- Matt

Re: missing /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 ... not found

2003-12-22 Thread Matt Emmerton
> (I am posting this because a search for the subject above in Google turned > up not much... not much 'tall!) > > What should a user do if their, uhm, /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 file is > missing on 4.7-RELEASE? Can said user `touch /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1` as > a decent fix? Or mount their drive

Re: a technical how to

2003-12-08 Thread Matt Emmerton
a way to adjust the "start-of-file" position, which would effectively "truncate [sic] a file from the beginning to a certain point in the file". One way to accomplish this is as follows: split -b 1024 /path/to/data rm cat * > data.new -- Matt Emmerton _