Re: simpliest way to calculate octal?

2003-11-10 Thread Francesco Casadei
for this and other conversions: $ echo 'ibase = 16; obase = 8; A04E' | bc 120116 ibase and obase are the input and output base respectively. Note that you must use capital letters for exadecimal numbers, lower case letters are variable names. See bc(1) manual page for more information

Re: 1024x768 on a toshiba 8100 tecra in a text (Non X) Console screen

2003-12-28 Thread Francesco Casadei
Support', as suggested in the above snippet. Francesco Casadei __ Yahoo! Mail: 6MB di spazio gratuito, 30MB per i tuoi allegati, l'antivirus, il filtro Anti-spam http

Re: DMA problem with DVD drive

2004-01-16 Thread Francesco Casadei
ot; > end of the original message I have a similar drive on my Toshiba Satellite A30-514 and to set UDMA mode on boot I have put the following line in /boot/loader.conf: hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" Here's the relevant part of dmesg output: acd0: CDRW at ata1-master UDMA33 Franc

Re: dlopen() and parent symbols

2004-02-05 Thread Francesco Casadei
, it may be quite complicated to extract the shared functionality from the application to be compiled in a stand alone library. [...] Francesco Casadei ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: touchpad mouse not working with freebsd

2004-02-13 Thread Francesco Casadei
ns when probing the PS/2 mouse port. It should never be necessary under normal circumstances. [...] So, try to put the following line into /boot/device.hints: hint.psm.0.flags="0x1000" Francesco Casadei ___ [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Comprehensive list of error codes?

2003-09-30 Thread Francesco Casadei
s what you want, but take a look at sysexits(3) manpage. Francesco Casadei -- You can download my public key from http://digilander.libero.it/fcasadei/ or retrieve it from a keyserver (pgpkeys.mit.edu, wwwkeys.pgp.net, ...) Key fingerprint is: 1671 9A23 ACB4 520A E7EE 00B0 7EC3 375F 164E B17B pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: vi and wrap text

2003-10-08 Thread Francesco Casadei
argin edit options are set, the wrapmargin value is used. wrapscan, ws [on] Set searches to wrap around the end or beginning of the file. [...] So, for example, the command ':set wl=72' will wrap lines at 72 characters. Francesco Casadei -- You can download my public key from

Re: hard error reading

2003-10-15 Thread Francesco Casadei
e fine you may check if the cabling is ok. I once had a 'fallback to PIO mode' error with a Promise TX2 IDE RAID controller and two IBM IC35L040AVER07-0/ER4OA44A. Each drive had a couple of fans in front of it and one of this was failing and noisy. I unplugged the fans and the proble

Re: Using FreeBSD Graphics

2003-10-27 Thread Francesco Casadei
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 04:52:38PM -0600, Sean P Shehan wrote: > I own and operate a small commercial web site hosting business. We have > recently begun using FreeBSD on our new servers and wanted to ask if it was > ok to use FreeBSD graphics in our advertising for hosting? > > Thank you, > >

Re: UPS program for Freebsd

2002-12-29 Thread Francesco Casadei
an write your own program to execute custom actions, for example I have a program that notifies me via SMS when one of the four events ONLINE, ONBATT, LOWBATT and SHUTDOWN occurs. You can find nut in the ports collection located at sysutils/nut. Francesco Casadei -- You can download my

Re: UPS program for Freebsd

2002-12-30 Thread Francesco Casadei
as no USB or > lan connection on it to allow for network monitoring. :) > [snip] > > end of the original message Yes it would. My UPS is attached to /dev/cuaa1 with the cable that ships with the UPS. Francesco Casadei -- You can download my public key from http://di

Re: ata "fallback to PIO mode" on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-02 Thread Francesco Casadei
O4 Slave = ??? ad6 falls back to PIO mode on heavy I/O activity, i.e. when the system does a level 0 file systems dump from the RAID 1 array (ad4,ad6) to the backup disk ad0. Rebooting and rebuilding the array with the Promise BIOS utility temporarily solve the problem. The system may be up and

Re: ata "fallback to PIO mode" on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-02 Thread Francesco Casadei
= PIO4 Slave = ??? After little disk activity, like searching a file throughout the entire filesystem, the second disk of the RAID array falls back to PIO4 mode. I booted the system from the live system cd (2nd disk of the freebsd distribution set) then ran dd to read from and write to ad6

Re: ata "fallback to PIO mode" on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-05 Thread Francesco Casadei
problem won't still be solved then I will try in order the following: - disable tagged queuing - buy different hardware! Francesco Casadei -- You can download my public key from http://digilander.libero.it/fcasadei/ or retrieve it from a keyserver (pgpkeys.mit.edu, wwwkeys.pgp.net, ...)

Re: POP Server with Secure Password Authentication

2003-01-07 Thread Francesco Casadei
the checkbox "Use SSL/TLS blah blah..." (I don't remember the exact label!) is checked in the mail account options. That's all! For a quick start see: http://www.freebsddiary.org/stunnel.php http://www.freebsddiary.org/stunnel2.php http://www.freebsddiary.or

linux-realplayer-8.cs2 and segmentation fault

2003-01-07 Thread Francesco Casadei
at/linux/lib/libm.so.6 -> libm-2.2.4.so System version is: FreeBSD goku.kasby 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #1: Thu Dec 26 12:47:59 CET 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GOKU i386 Linux-base port version: linux_base-7.1_2 Does anybody got linux-realplayer to work? Francesco Casadei -- You can download my public key from http://digilander.libero.it/fcasadei/ or retrieve it from a keyserver (pgpkeys.mit.edu, wwwkeys.pgp.net, ...) Key fingerprint is: 1671 9A23 ACB4 520A E7EE 00B0 7EC3 375F 164E B17B msg14585/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: POP Server with Secure Password Authentication

2003-01-08 Thread Francesco Casadei
indows 95 box, via an MPPE-encrypted tunnel over the Internet, to a PPTP FreeBSD server, which in turn is the firewall/gateway of the office LAN. Francesco Casadei -- You can download my public key from http://digilander.libero.it/fcasadei/ or retrieve it from a keyserver (pgpkeys.

Re: ata "fallback to PIO mode" on dual processor AMD systems

2003-01-10 Thread Francesco Casadei
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 03:02:46PM +0100, Francesco Casadei wrote: > [snip] > Yesterday I checked the drive ad6 with the Drive Fitness Test program from IBM. > Both quick and advanced test returned that the drive is ok. I then ran the test > against ad0 (the backup drive): the quick

USB ADSL modem

2002-11-11 Thread Francesco Casadei
Before I buy a USB ADSL modem I want to be sure it works with FreeBSD-STABLE. The modem I would like to buy is a Digicom Michelangelo USB, which uses a GlobeSpan chipset. I have an AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB controller, which is supported by ohci device. Francesco Casadei P.S. I have

Re: ctm

2002-11-25 Thread Francesco Casadei
the message > > end of the original message Read the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ctm.html Francesco Casadei -- You can download my public key from http://digilander.libero.it/fcasadei/ or retrieve it from a keyserver (pgpkeys.mit.edu, wwwkeys

Re: ATA errors

2002-12-08 Thread Francesco Casadei
ev/ar0s1h ( /home) Last dump: Level 0, Date Thu Dec 5 05:44 obviously the system is slower, but it works. I'm tired to reboot and rebuild the array each time, can anybody help me to solve this problem? Francesco Casadei P.S. sorry for the long post, but I'm sure the info

Re: ATA errors

2002-12-08 Thread Francesco Casadei
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:31:38AM +0100, Francesco Casadei wrote: > [snip] > > P.S. sorry for the long post, but I'm sure the information I gave you will help > you to diagnose the problem. > [snip] > > end of the original message Ahem... actually the post should h

Re: filesystem size

2003-03-01 Thread Francesco Casadei
TED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > end of the original message This is a FAQ: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#FFS-LIMITS Francesco Casadei -- You can download my public key from http://digilande

Re: filesystem size

2003-03-01 Thread Francesco Casadei
ow the right answer to your question, but I suggest you to look at http://www.rfc.net/ and search for NFS. Searching on http://groups.google.com/ may also be useful (I've found a lot of threads about this topic). Francesco Casadei -- You can download my public key from http://digila

Re: How to pass password to mount_smbfs

2003-03-01 Thread Francesco Casadei
[...] It is possible to use fstab(5) for smbfs mounts: //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/public/smb/public smbfs rw,noauto 0 0 [...] So the answer to your question is: man mount_smbfs less /usr/share/examples/smbfs/dot.nsmbrc man fstab Hope this helps. Francesco Casade

Re: /kernel: file: table is full

2003-03-25 Thread Francesco Casadei
g/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#FILE-TABLE-FULL Francesco Casadei -- You can download my public key from http://digilander.libero.it/fcasadei/ or retrieve it from a keyserver (pgpkeys.mit.edu, wwwkeys.pgp.net, ...) Key fingerprint is: 1671 9A23 ACB4 520A E7EE 00B

Re: Network programming

2003-03-30 Thread Francesco Casadei
gt; list, please CC to me.) > > br > socketd > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > end of the original

Re: ALT (or META) key doesn't work in syscons.

2003-04-05 Thread Francesco Casadei
st archives for 'meta AND alt', you will find a thread titled 'A question asked many times' with the answer you're looking for. Francesco Casadei -- You can download my public key from http://digilander.libero.it/fcasadei/ or retrieve it from a keyserver (p

IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack, IPv4-only and IPv6-only

2003-07-13 Thread Francesco Casadei
y host and IPv4-only host by installing twice FreeBSD and using dual-boot. Is this possible to achieve? Does anybody know how to do this? Furthermore, how can an application detect system's configuration (IPv4/IPv6, IPv4-only, IPv6-only)? Thank you for your help, Francesco Casade

Re: IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack, IPv4-only and IPv6-only

2003-07-14 Thread Francesco Casadei
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 04:46:40PM +, othermark wrote: > Comments in-line: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Francesco Casadei wrote: > > > > --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Content-Disposition: inline > >

PPTP link and MTU

2003-07-16 Thread Francesco Casadei
tion is: which is the largest value for the MTU of a PPTP link such that it does not cause IP fragmentation? Francesco Casadei -- You can download my public key from http://digilander.libero.it/fcasadei/ or retrieve it from a keyserver (pgpkeys.mit.edu, wwwkeys.pgp.net, ...) Key fi

Re: Quick file allocation

2003-07-24 Thread Francesco Casadei
For more information: read truncate(1) manpage. You may also want to take a look at dd (read dd(1) manpage). Francesco Casadei -- You can download my public key from http://digilander.libero.it/fcasadei/ or retrieve it from a keyserver (pgpkeys.mit.edu, wwwkeys.pgp.net, ...) Key fingerp

Re: ports-supfile config

2003-07-25 Thread Francesco Casadei
/refuse /bar/stool/src-all/refuse.cvs:RELENG_3 [...] Personally, I use /usr/local/etc/cvsup as the base dir and /usr as the prefix dir, i.e. *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup *default prefix=/usr The refuse file I use for the entire Ports Collection is located at /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/port

Re: NATD and PPP problem

2003-08-14 Thread Francesco Casadei
the interface's IP number is changed, natd will dynamically alter its concept of the alias address. [...] Add the following line to /etc/rc.conf: natd_flags="-dynamic" Even if you solved the problem, you may also want to try this solution. Francesco Casadei -- You

Re: file size limit

2003-08-26 Thread Francesco Casadei
in this tar file, but failing that i'd like to extract > everything around the avi that is not corrupted so i won't loose everything. > Thanks. > Dave. [snip] This is a FAQ. Go to www.freebsd.org and read FAQ 3.29 "What are the limits for ffs filesystems?". Fr

'make search name' fails to show port info

2003-08-27 Thread Francesco Casadei
25 19:39 /usr/ports/INDEX-5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7872512 Aug 26 10:32 /usr/ports/INDEX.db Francesco Casadei -- You can download my public key from http://digilander.libero.it/fcasadei/ or retrieve it from a keyserver (pgpkeys.mit.edu, wwwkeys.pgp.net, ...) Key fingerprint is: 1671 9A23

Re: Cron on qmail not sending me logs

2003-08-28 Thread Francesco Casadei
qmail man dot-qmail http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ Francesco Casadei -- You can download my public key from http://digilander.libero.it/fcasadei/ or retrieve it from a keyserver (pgpkeys.mit.edu, wwwkeys.pgp.net, ...) Key fingerprint is: 1671 9A23 ACB4 520A E7EE 00B0 7EC3 375F 164E B17B pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature