Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Scott Mitchell
, apart from some loss of sync between the audio & video, but that is apparently not a FreeBSD-specific problem. There was a thread about this on -questions about a month ago explaining what was needed to make it work, although the real 9.10 release, or the port, might make this easier. Cheer

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Scott Mitchell
just be a matter of installing that, then adding the install dirs of the various plugins to Opera's plugin path... Cheers, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but wea

Re: The Opera browser on FreeBSD

2006-12-06 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 05:51:59PM +, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > Followed your instructions, put my linux-flashplugin and acroread plugin > directories on Opera's plugin search path and... wow! everything suddenly > started working. I was asked off-list how I set up the plug

Re: The Opera browser on FreeBSD

2006-12-06 Thread Scott Mitchell
meet :-) So when is 9.10 going to be released? Cheers, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into je

Re: memorystick usage on freebsd...now what:-)

2006-09-02 Thread Scott Mitchell
ise that should work. I've seen devices where the only partition showed up as /dev/da0s4, so it might be worth checking which /dev/da0s* nodes were actually created, or run 'fdisk da0' to see the partition table data. HTH, Scott -- ==

Spinning down a USB drive?

2006-06-28 Thread Scott Mitchell
), rev 0.02 [...] It's using USB 1.1 right now because the machine is running 5.4 where USB 2.0 wasn't enabled by default in GENERIC (and I didn't think I needed it). I can post dmesg and other info as necessary. Many thanks in advance, Scott -- ====

Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-26 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 01:54:14PM +0100, Joao Barros wrote: > On 6/26/06, Scott Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Yeah, megarc does have possibly the worst interface I've seen in quite a > >long time. Allegedly the Linux monitoring tools for these adapters will &g

Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-26 Thread Scott Mitchell
check-status script is a real Control-M character, and there are embedded tabs in a couple of the egrep patterns, in case those get lost in transit. Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "

Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE

2006-06-22 Thread Scott Mitchell
d for the new drives to be recognised? Cheers, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucke

Re: kernel module for ipf

2006-05-18 Thread Scott Mitchell
t the ipl.ko module. No, I have no idea why it's called ipl not ipf either... Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, Engla

Re: Bittorrent link for 6.1 does not work

2006-05-12 Thread Scott Mitchell
er BT twice now). How is it not working for you? -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott

Re: BSD equiv of /proc?

2006-05-05 Thread Scott Mitchell
/proc procfs rw 0 0 You should get a directory under /proc for every process on the system, with a bunch of files under each one. Try man procfs for the details. Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell

Re: Dell vs. Silicon Mechanics vs. FreeBSD Systems

2006-04-27 Thread Scott Mitchell
RAID controller is a bit useless (we're only using it to protect against drive failures, rebuilds take _ages_ but performance seems OK otherwise), but there's an add-in RAID card available if you need it. Cheers, Scott --

Re: portupgrade -s and NFS /usr/ports?

2006-02-27 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:34:55PM +1100, Richard Burakowski wrote: > Scott Mitchell wrote: > > > performance reasons. However, I want downloaded distfiles and built > > packages to go in /usr/ports where other machines can see them, but there > > > i don't sav

portupgrade -s and NFS /usr/ports?

2006-02-26 Thread Scott Mitchell
d for these problems? Thanks, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon _

FreeBSD, CVS and NetApp

2005-12-19 Thread Scott Mitchell
ic FreeBSD and NetApp versions... Many thanks in advance, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked in

Re: Completely disable sendmail

2005-12-15 Thread Scott Mitchell
t still be a good idea to fix your sendmail configuration so you can actually send mail from this system. Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge,

Re: schedule a script at "system startup"

2005-12-04 Thread Scott Mitchell
shell running as someuser. I guess the advantage of running your script out of /etc/rc.d is that you can control when it gets run relative to all the other startup scripts - 'man rcorder' for details on this. Cheers, Scott -- ====

Re: Cheap Hardware for Home Network

2005-10-09 Thread Scott Mitchell
ity - this is a machine that will be on all the time, you'll come to rely on it, so it will be a complete pain when it falls over, especially if you're not physically there to reboot it. You might want to think about running mirrored disks, so you don't lose the whole machine w

Re: dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it

2005-08-25 Thread Scott Mitchell
my homebrewed scripts :-) I will have to check it out. Cheers, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucke

Re: dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it

2005-08-24 Thread Scott Mitchell
to restore the version of a file that existed on any particular date. Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.o

Re: Connect to Cisco VPN server from FreeBSD?

2005-08-14 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 04:38:34PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote: > Hi all, > > As in the subject - has anyone managed to get a FreeBSD machine to connect > to a Cisco VPN server, using IPSec and 2-factor authentication (password + > SecurID card)? My employer has been acquired by

Re: cvsup-mirror

2005-04-19 Thread Scott Mitchell
n /usr/share/examples/cvsup. Also see Ch 19 of the handbook for lots of details on setting this up: http://www.uk.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html Cheers, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell

Re: Connect to Cisco VPN server from FreeBSD?

2005-04-10 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 01:41:20PM -0500, Ash wrote: > Scott Mitchell wrote: > > > >Thanks, that looks promising. The SecurID thing is apparently just a > >flavour of XAUTH which seems to be supported, so it might just work. > > > >Cheers, > > > >

Re: Connect to Cisco VPN server from FreeBSD?

2005-04-10 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 12:26:45PM -0500, Ash wrote: > Scott Mitchell wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >As in the subject - has anyone managed to get a FreeBSD machine to connect > >to a Cisco VPN server, using IPSec and 2-factor authentication (password + > >SecurID card

Connect to Cisco VPN server from FreeBSD?

2005-04-10 Thread Scott Mitchell
yself, except I don't have any account details for the server yet. I really don't want to keep a Linux or Windows machine around just to connect to the office... Many thanks in advance, Scott -- ===

Re: Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay

2005-03-29 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 01:25:34PM +0200, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > My point was that FreeBSD doesn't work on the machine. I wanted to know > why. I still don't know why it doesn't work on the machine. Apparently > nobody here really knows how FreeBSD works. So you keep saying. It probably

Re: Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay

2005-03-23 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 03:46:40AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > But I don't really know for sure, because nothing is documented, and > nobody here knows anything. Anthony, Have you filed a PR for this problem? A search for your name in the FreeBSD bug database and the freebsd-bugs archive d

Re: c++

2005-02-20 Thread Scott Mitchell
ither of us... Followups redirected to -chat. Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engine

Re: c++

2005-02-20 Thread Scott Mitchell
e the same representation on a given machine/compiler. In any case, this stuff really has nothing to do with FreeBSD - you should be asking these questions in a C/C++ programming group. Cheers, Scott -- === Sc

Re: Has anybody EVER successfully recovered VINUM?

2004-12-08 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 01:01:30PM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:54:45AM +0000, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 12:34:27PM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > > > I'm just saying that in my case it didn't work out well. As with any other

Re: Has anybody EVER successfully recovered VINUM?

2004-12-08 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 12:34:27PM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:30:13AM +0000, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:52:55AM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > > > AFAIK the only way to guarantee a consistent rebuild is to do it offline > >

Re: Has anybody EVER successfully recovered VINUM?

2004-12-08 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:52:55AM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > Scott, your procedure is what I have used, except for: > > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:09:05AM +0000, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > 6. Tell vinum to restart the failed subdisk: > > > > # vinum start raid.

Re: Has anybody EVER successfully recovered VINUM?

2004-12-08 Thread Scott Mitchell
to do this. Maybe we're just really lucky. So if you follow these instructions and end up trashing your disks, it's not my fault. I *really* recommend having a recent backup before starting, assuming the volume is still readable, just in case. Good luck! Scott -- ==

Re: DSL Disconnects

2004-12-01 Thread Scott Mitchell
any data over it and try to bring it back up again if it ever drops. Hopefully someone else can help you stop the connection from dropping in the first place :-) Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitch

Re: Out of Office AutoReply: Sex

2004-11-15 Thread Scott Mitchell
turning into -chat material :-) Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon __

Re: hot swap scsi drive

2004-10-19 Thread Scott Mitchell
te happy for you to stop a drive then pull it, and new drives come up all by themselves when plugged in, but your hardware might need some extra incantations to make it work - you really need to try a few of these commands and see what happens. Cheers, Scott -- ======

Re: find -exec surprisingly slow

2004-08-15 Thread Scott Mitchell
With the exim+exiscan patches (available from ports) you can get even more creative and integrate virus scanning, SpamAssassin, etc. with very little effort. Cheers, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key

Re: /etc and /usr/local/etc directories

2004-08-14 Thread Scott Mitchell
, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon ___

Re: /etc and /usr/local/etc directories

2004-08-13 Thread Scott Mitchell
y machine, and /etc just contains machine-specific configuration. Cheers, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don&#

Re: wrong Xircom card??

2004-07-28 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:34:31AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 05:59:19PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > What exact Xircom card is this? The xe driver only knows about the older > > Xircom PCMCIA cards. Some of their CardBus adapters are (I believe) > &

Re: wrong Xircom card??

2004-07-28 Thread Scott Mitchell
? What exact Xircom card is this? The xe driver only knows about the older Xircom PCMCIA cards. Some of their CardBus adapters are (I believe) handled by the dc driver. Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell

Re: changing cards in a reader

2004-06-27 Thread Scott Mitchell
the freebsd-current mailing list, to see if anyone there can shed some light on this. Sorry I can't be more help, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Camb

Re: changing cards in a reader

2004-06-26 Thread Scott Mitchell
ou might want to look into setting up the automounter to do the rescan and eject automatically when cards are mounted and unmounted, respectively. Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may

Re: Mounting a multicard reader (FBSD)

2004-06-20 Thread Scott Mitchell
ore pulling it out. There's a small chance of damaging the card if you don't do this. Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England

Re: Mounting a multicard reader (FBSD)

2004-06-19 Thread Scott Mitchell
d article about this on DaemonNews last year: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200305/cfmount.html Hope that's some help to you, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked

Re: kernel

2004-05-15 Thread Scott Mitchell
essible to the installing machine - which may or may not work, depending where your symlink points to. I'm not sure if this is also the case for the standalone kernel build process using config(8). I worked around this by keeping the configs in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf, but making sure that

Re: Per-User QUOTA's vs blocksize

2004-03-10 Thread Scott Mitchell
this point. I'll file a PR, unless anyone cares to beat me to it... Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171

Re: NIS problems solved

2004-01-24 Thread Scott Mitchell
a pwd_mkdb is done. Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballo

RE: Nis

2004-01-23 Thread Scott Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I'm running NIS with freebsd as the server and using redhat clients. > I have authentication working fine but I cant seem to get changing the > passwords to work. If you change the password from a redhat > box it just > changes the NIS password not the system passw

RE: sendmail help?

2004-01-22 Thread Scott Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think you are barking up the wrong tree. > I don't think you understand how your ISP works. > ISP's do not allow direct smtp access to their email servers, > they consider it an security risk to their environment. Erm, the OP is trying to send mail, not receive it: >

RE: NTP doesn't work behind IPF firewall?

2004-01-22 Thread Scott Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If I kill both ntpd processes so the socket is no longer in use, I can > manually set the time with ntpdate. I can't figure out why two ntpd > processes get spawned - it's like that on both servers, and > even after a > reboot both appear again... > > EA Most odd. What

RE: NTP doesn't work behind IPF firewall?

2004-01-22 Thread Scott Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I know ntp is running because it updates the driftfile, > and ps shows it's active: > > # ps -aux | grep ntp > root 81 0.0 0.2 1328 960 ?? Ss9Jan04 1:06.65 > /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid > root 83 0.0 0.2 1364 992 ?? S 9Ja

Re: Updating DNS after DHCP

2004-01-14 Thread Scott Mitchell
ws and FreeBSD clients. You want to read the 'DYNAMIC DNS UPDATES' section of the dhcpd.conf(5) manpage, and whatever docs your DNS server has on this topic. There are plenty of examples of working configs for isc-dhcpd and bind to be found on the web. HTH, Scott -- ==

RE: Whan can I do if OS does not boot after makeworld

2004-01-13 Thread Scott Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Did you ever have any problem about makeworld process ?! > I afraid of one day will come and I can't boot my FreeBSD > > Vahric This is why the recommended update process is (in part): # make buildworld # make buildkernel # make installkernel Followed by a reboot into

Re: /etc/rc.conf vs /etc/defaults/rc.conf

2004-01-12 Thread Scott Mitchell
oticing. Hope that helps, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon ___

Re: Plan 9 style backup utility for FreeBSD?

2004-01-07 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:08:24PM +0100, Martin Brecher wrote: > Scott Mitchell wrote: > [...] > >> > >>Is there some standard tool for doing this on FreeBSD? You can't just > >>do a direct copy cause this results in major disk space wastage so I'm

Re: How to create .iso file image of cdrom (atapi)?

2004-01-07 Thread Scott Mitchell
fail on a cdrom drive. Well, you can use a bs value that is a multiple of 2048 (like the 64k in my previous example). Using a larger block size will generally speed up the transfer, up to a point. Scott -- === Scot

Re: How to create .iso file image of cdrom (atapi)?

2004-01-04 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 02:51:12AM +1030, W. Sierke wrote: > "Scott Mitchell" wrote: > > You want to use /dev/acd0c - the 'c' partition covers the whole disk. > > Something like: > > > > dd if=/dev/acd0c of=foo.iso bs=64k > > Ah! Thanks for

Re: How to create .iso file image of cdrom (atapi)?

2004-01-04 Thread Scott Mitchell
hat you want. Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon ___

Re: swapping external hard drives

2004-01-03 Thread Scott Mitchell
ption issues until I turned off tagged queueing. You might want to verify that the data on the backup is really what it should be :-( Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eag

Re: Plan 9 style backup utility for FreeBSD?

2004-01-03 Thread Scott Mitchell
ink-dest directory, rather than copying the data again. Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't g

Re: What do you use?

2004-01-01 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 05:59:18PM -0500, Scott W wrote: > Scott Mitchell wrote: > > > >There no particular reason for an ATA RAID to be slower than SCSI, assuming > >similar disks in each. 10krpm 'server class' ATA disks are available these > >days, althoug

Re: What do you use?

2004-01-01 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 01:09:23PM +, Francisco Reyes wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > > As for RAID, we use Vinum, but only because I inherited a bunch of machines > > with hot-swap SCSI bays and no hardware RAID. It works well, once you have >

Re: What do you use?

2004-01-01 Thread Scott Mitchell
a new RAID server, though. Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Ano

Re: Samba tutorial

2003-11-25 Thread Scott Mitchell
o you should answer all Samba questions :-) It's for Samba 3.0 (which is the samba-devel port in FreeBSD), but most of the basic configuration is similar enough to Samba 2.8 that it is useful for both. Scott -- =====

Re: Newbie question with Squirrelmail 1.41 and IMAP

2003-11-24 Thread Scott Mitchell
have my notes from when I did this to check for sure. At least one of them should work, anyway. Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England |

Re: Mini atx for firewall

2003-11-19 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:39:01AM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote: > On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:11:46PM +0100, Nico Meijer wrote: > . > > > It was a ME6000 (fanless 600Mhz machine): > > > > I'm usin

Re: Mini atx for firewall

2003-11-19 Thread Scott Mitchell
the fact that the USB connection only runs at 11Mbps is not a problem. Just another option to consider. Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" sc

Re: strange dump (dark matter?)

2003-10-23 Thread Scott Mitchell
h seemed to clear up the > unreferenced file. You should only be running fsck on unmounted filesystems, or those mounted read-only. Looks like you tried to fsck a mounted filesystem? Cheers, Scott -- === Sco

Re: problem with aue card

2003-10-09 Thread Scott Mitchell
error on rx: IOERROR > > Any piece of advice how to make this card work would be appreciated. Are you on a 100Mbps network? Our driver seems to have issues with this device on such networks, although it seems to work fine on 10Mbps connections. Scott -- ===

Re: Booting without keyboard.

2003-10-06 Thread Scott Mitchell
VM switch might be useful in this situation. Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines&

Re: searching FBSD Questions News Group.

2003-09-25 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:08:56AM -0400, fbsd_user wrote: > Scoot You should look closer at what google found. Not one of those > hits is from the FreeBSD-Questions NG. > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=FBSD_User&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&; > btnG=Google+Search > > > Looks like all the hits com

Re: searching FBSD Questions News Group.

2003-09-25 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:40:16AM -0400, fbsd_user wrote: > The google search system stopped archiving FBSD news groups at the > start of 2002, so google search is useless. Really? A Google Groups search for your email address brings up a bunch of posts to freebsd-questions, written this year, a

Re: huge /var/log/exim files

2003-08-14 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:42:01AM -0500, Kirk R. Wythers wrote: > /var is full, and I see that /var/log/exim files are huge > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:230 pwd > /var/log/exim > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:231 ls -lh > total 172088 > -rw-r- 1 mailnull mail 102M Aug 6 10:32 mainlog > -rw-r- 1 ma

Re: How to send a PR without send-pr?

2003-08-14 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:47:03PM +0200, Toni Schmidbauer wrote: > > trying to answer q2 because q1 was too complicated :-) > > edit /etc/mail/submit.cf and change > > D{MTAHost}[localhost] > > to > > D{MTAHost}[] > > restart sendmail. this is untested, so let me know if it works > for you.

Re: I have problem HAER ERROR ad1s1a WHAT IS IT?

2003-08-14 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 05:48:06PM +0400, Denis wrote: > I can't login to the system. When I try I get next message: > > ad1: hard error.. > > What is it? What i can do next? Your disk is dying. Time to buy a new disk and rebuild your system, then restore from backups or copy what you can f

Re: UK keyboard and missing ? character

2003-08-14 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:06:05PM +0100, Darren wrote: > > Hello Jez, > > Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately this and many variations don't > allow me to use the ? (UK pound) character. I've spent some more time > searching around and hav'nt found a working solution, yet. > > Of those UK pe

Re: XP to FreeBSD LAN connection

2003-07-28 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 07:51:24PM +0800, #I NYOMAN SUKA ADA# wrote: > Hi, > I had looked for information about my problem, > but I couldn't find similar. > > I have two pcs, one with Win XP has 2 network cards. > The other PC with FreeBSD with one network card only. > I want to keep my main Inter

Re: looking for a mp3 player.

2003-07-25 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 06:41:36AM -0500, sweetleaf wrote: > looking for a good mp3 player with a nice gui and if possible a EQ. I was also > looking for one that plays the other audio formats too like the vorbis and such. > > Thanks in advance, > > Sweetleaf Try this one: multimedia/xmms

Re: SMC - 2402W wireless PCI ethernet card

2003-07-23 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 10:52:51PM +0300, Alin-Adrian Anton wrote: > Hi guys, > > anyone knows if this "*SMC - 2402W" *is supported by FreeBSD? I am going > to buy 2 x wireless cards. If any other are better supported or one > knows that they work well, please tell me, so I can buy the right one

Re: latex and latex2e

2003-07-18 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 10:25:13AM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: > As mentioned before I installed the teTeX port and indeed got latex too. > At least there was a symlink called that way ;-)) > Reading about latex I noticed that there should be a modern variant in > use called latex2. It also exist

Re: how to check for bad blocks on IDE

2003-07-16 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:55:51PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a way in freebsd to check for bad blocks. Linux can do this via a > -c flag to mkfs; but newfs for FreeBSD does not seem to have this > functionality. > > The issue is that I have a IDE disk that I suspect

Re: IMAP stealing mail??

2003-07-14 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 09:19:51PM -0700, Kevin Stevens wrote: > At a guess I suspect there's confusion between the IMAP and non-IMAP > clients as to where the mail spool is and who owns it. The UW-IMAP > server will, by default, take the mail from the spool and put it in the > user directory a

Re: IMAP stealing mail??

2003-07-13 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 04:23:50PM -0500, David Loszewski wrote: > On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 15:04, lewiz wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 03:33:40PM -0500, David Loszewski wrote: > > > squirrelmail on my webserver. Once I grab my mail using one of these > > > webmail clients it's as if it's actuall

Re: OEM hardware for a FreeBSD appliance?

2003-07-13 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 02:27:22PM -0700, Kevin Glick wrote: > www.soekris.com > > Kevin Glick > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > > I'm looking to build a little FreeBSD box that doesn't have any (or > > many) moving parts. Just a flashdrive, 2-3 ethernet p

Re: Samba passwords

2003-07-01 Thread Scott Mitchell
[homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No browseable = No [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba printable = Yes browseable = No -- === Scott Mitc

Re: Samba passwords

2003-07-01 Thread Scott Mitchell
27;smbpasswd' to change passwords, the UNIX password file gets updated as well and my NIS clients see the change as well. Merging everything into one central authentication database can wait until 5.x gets deployed on the servers :) Hope that's all useful to somebody... Scott

Re: Changing to a PS/2 keyboard after install

2003-06-11 Thread Scott Mitchell
rce. The handbook covers the whole process in great detail. 5.1 is a great improvement on 5.0, but it'll still have a few rough edges. I'd be cautious running it on my only machine, or one I couldn't live without if something horrible did happen. Cheers, Scott --

Re: Changing to a PS/2 keyboard after install

2003-06-10 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 10:08:59PM -0700, Gary Schenk wrote: > On Monday 09 June 2003 05:30 pm, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > - Is the keyboard & port hardware actually OK? Make sure you can at > > least use it to get into the machine's BIOS setup screens. Note that > &g

Re: Changing to a PS/2 keyboard after install

2003-06-09 Thread Scott Mitchell
PS/2 and USB keyboards. There should be no harm in having them both enabled. - Post your /etc/rc.conf, /var/run/dmesg.boot and anything that looks relevant from /var/log/messages. There may be a clue in there as to why the keyboard isn't working. Scott -- ===

Re: Reliable USB NIC?

2003-06-09 Thread Scott Mitchell
USB 1.1 compatibility mode for now. Not that driving my 512kbps cable connection will be particularly taxing for it in either mode... Thanks for the info, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "E

Reliable USB NIC?

2003-06-08 Thread Scott Mitchell
too expensive' and 'available in the UK' should be on that list too :-) Does such a beast exist? Cheers, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels

Re: USB Flash Memory Drives support under FreeBSD

2003-06-08 Thread Scott Mitchell
hich you have now reminded me about :-) Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get suck

Re: Is my HD broken?

2003-05-29 Thread Scott Mitchell
find out for sure. > Any diagnostic tool I can use? Run the disk manufacturer's diagnostic utility on it. These are usually on a bootable floppy, so you might want to pull the suspect drive and do this on a less essential machine. Scott --

Re: advice about copy from disk to disk

2003-05-29 Thread Scott Mitchell
. Hope that helps, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" sco

Re: rdist vs rsync

2003-04-04 Thread Scott Mitchell
have a choice, use rsync. Cheers, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet en

Re: CRW-600 MultiCard reader

2003-04-02 Thread Scott Mitchell
the way the driver expects it to, though. Sorry I couldn't be more help, and good luck in getting this working. Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked in

Re: rebuild one module

2003-04-02 Thread Scott Mitchell
probably get away with just unloading and reloading the module to test your changes, rather than rebooting every time. Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but wea

Re: CRW-600 MultiCard reader

2003-04-01 Thread Scott Mitchell
p as da0, cd0, cd1. That should also ensure that the card reader uses da1-da4 every time. Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B17

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