Re: Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot

ing through the /etc files but it's hard to piece everything together. I will try putting an echo "can you see this" > /dev/ttyv7 in the syslog-ng script. But I'll do it later. I think I've spent enough time on this one little quirk! Ashley

Re: Updating freebsd without cvsup

-date. It works over HTTP so it might be easier to work around your proxy. http://www.daemonology.net/portsnap/ Ashley ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any ma

Re: Updating freebsd without cvsup

Vittorio wrote: Thanks. I've just compiled the portsnap sources and put the following in /usr/local/etc/portsnap.conf: # Defaults: WORKDIR=/usr/local/portsnap PORTSDIR=/usr/ports KEYPRINT=9b5feee6d69f170e3dd0a2c8e469ddbd64f13f978f2f3aede40c98633216c330 URL=http://portsnap.daemonology.net BUT

Re: portsdb & portsnap

right or missing something (which is actually my feeling!)? Ciao Vittorio portsdb -u updates the ports database, but this is done whenever you access the db anyway (running portversion will do this) portsdb -U updates the index, but that portsnap takes care of t

Re: IE in FreeBSD?

real microsoft word. Why not submit your CV as a PDF? Ashley ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: IPFW won't go away!

Paul wrote: Hi, I run ipf and ipnat. Recently I recompiled the kernel and since then ipfw loads at boot and blocks all my traffic. How do I disable it permanently or uninstall it? I have checked and double checked that it is not in my /etc/rc.conf and kernel config file. So I don't know why

Re: New user

ot of experience with *nix systems there's a lot of stuff that can be put across much quicker face-to-face than in books and web sites. Ashley ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: Subversion on FreeBSD?

), but for some projects that might not be viable. Ashley ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Hard disk problem? kdm bug? What is going on here...

recompiled gettext and did a startx after booting into multi-user mode. Works fine. fsck is reporting no errors on /usr/local (dev/ad0s1e) I'm stumped - I can't work out what the connection is between the symptoms. Any ideas anyone? Thanks Ashley _

pgadmin text entry gone slow

as definitely working before I installed Xorg 6.9 but I can't remember if it's worked since. I'm running an old 6-STABLE and all the ports are up to date on my system. Any idea what is causing this? Ta Ashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$

Upgrading 6.0 to 6.1 with etcmerge

updated (significantly) for so long I'm not sure. (Personally I think it should be in the base system!) Thanks Ashley -- "If you do it the stupid way, you will have to do it again" - Gregory Chudnovsky ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Is there a daemon/program for FreeBSD that accepts Microsoft RDP connections?

il him the output of essential stats, like du -h. I still don't see why he feels the need to monitor the file server though. Surely that's your job! Just my opinionated twopence... Ashley ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Please explain make -j to my little brain

ling your world, where do the extra processes get data from if the IO bandwidth is all used. Have I misunderstood the term IO bound? Please help, I feel like a right tool. Just as a side line... does anybody know the best -j value to build world on a 4-core box? Ashley -- "If you do

Re: Please explain make -j to my little brain

Bill I get it now. Presumably with faster disks, the lower the number of make processes you require. Ashley -- "If you do it the stupid way, you will have to do it again" - Gregory Chudnovsky ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: php5 port error

Has anyone installed PHP5 on 6.1 yet? I've tried fetching a file off a mirror and copying it to /usr/ports/distfiles but I still get "php-5.1.4.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/" Ashley -- "If you do it the stupid way, you will have to do it agai

Re: php-5.1.4.tar.bz2: File unavailable

c SHA256 (php-5.1.4.tar.bz2) = b55253e9557eceb901d83217ec192da22c28c7b2fdf714d3f151f1db663b5 a32 SIZE (php-5.1.4.tar.bz2) = 6356171 (three lines) It seems happy now. I'm assuming this was just an oversight on behalf of the port maintainer? Ashley -- "If you do it the stupid way, you will have t

Getting JAVA_HOME for a jetty rc script

ne else here miss an rc script for Jetty?) Cheers Ashley #!/bin/sh # PROVIDE: jetty # REQUIRE: LOGIN # KEYWORD: shutdown # # Add the following line to /etc/rc.conf to enable jetty: # jetty_enable (bool): Set to "NO" by default. #Set it to "YES"

rc script for Jetty 6

he first.) I'm not much of an rc guru. Does anyone know where I'm going wrong? Ashley #!/bin/sh # PROVIDE: jetty6 # REQUIRE: NETWORKING SERVERS # REQUIRE: LOGIN # KEYWORD: shutdown # # Script to start and stop Jetty 6 # Expects a file at ${jetty6_home}/etc/jetty.conf

Re: accidently deleted /lib/libm.so.4 and /lib/libc.so.6

t into the recovery shell on disc 1, mount your hard disk and copy them across? Presumably those files exist there too. Ashley ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Where is CARP?

t maybe it was a kernel option, but I can't see that either: $ cd /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf && grep -i carp * And I thought it might be a KLD: $ cd /boot/kernel && ls *carp* ls: *carp*: No such file or directory Where is it hiding and how do I enable it? Thanks Ashley -- &q

Re: Where is CARP?

CARP would be a standard part of the base system like it is with OpenBSD- there's no mention on the net (AFAIK) that you have compile it in. Ashley -- "If you do it the stupid way, you will have to do it again" - Gregory Chudnovsky _

rubygems in ports

ncies? And which is preferable - pure gems or ports+gems? Ta Ashley -- "If you do it the stupid way, you will have to do it again" - Gregory Chudnovsky ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Pentium and GUI

a Tyan Tomcat 3, dual Pentium mainboard? TIA Rick-Ashley Read (soon to become CCNP) Portland, OR. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

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