On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 07:33 am, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> IFF k3b works, and I think it might, I'll put up a howto
> on my bsd virtual site. Make this domain more useful.
> The help from this group has been outstanding, but getting things
> CD and DVD actually
t it writes all to one file without stopping.
Try the man page.
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On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 01:31, Lewis Thompson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:56:43PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> > * Lewis Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20031107 17:28]: wrote:
> > > At my university everything is firewalled and the only way I can
> > > transfer files to/from my account is
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 09:49, Shawn Guillemette wrote:
> I have installed ipfw and each time the machien is rebooted I lose the
> rules I added.
>
> any thoughts?
>
Do you mean you have added them by hand at the command lline?
I believe the norm is to have them in rc.firewall and with the appropriate
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 06:20, Lorin Lund wrote:
> I am running on an old Toshiba Portege with this video
> chipset:
> NM2200 [MagicGraph 256AV]
> Everything is showing dithered under X but when I boot
> to Windows I get great color. I suspect that this is
> merely a configuration problem but I don't
>
software to wake up the
terminal or prevent the screen saver taking over until a further timeout
has elapsed. I've not been able to find such an ioctl call parameter.
Does anyone have any ideas or a solution please?
(FreeBSD 4.8-Release)
Malcol
you switch to the X display with Ctl-Alt-f9 or simply Alt-f9.
Virtual consoles not otherwise active can be used for input/output
consoles for your own programs.
Malcolm Kay
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On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 11:32, Marty Landman wrote:
> At 07:15 PM 11/15/2003, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> >On my 4.7-STABLE machine I believe the default number of
> >virtual consoles is 16 with the first 12 having by default /dev entries
> >/dev/ttyv0 to /dev/ttyvb; certainly not /dev
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 00:28, Marty Landman wrote:
> At 04:13 AM 11/16/2003, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> >I think you may have misunderstood the nature of the virtual terminals.
> > What do you hope to do through ssh. The virtual terminal is relavent only
> > to the local machine -- i
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 00:52, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 00:28, Marty Landman wrote:
> > At 04:13 AM 11/16/2003, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > >I think you may have misunderstood the nature of the virtual terminals.
> > > What do you hope to do through ssh. The v
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 01:12, Marty Landman wrote:
> At 09:22 AM 11/16/2003, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> >Probably not what you want; but assuming the machine you are ssh'ing from
> >is FreeBSD or Linux or something else with virtual terminals
>
> My workstation is windoz xp.
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 01:58, Marty Landman wrote:
> At 09:55 AM 11/16/2003, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> >On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 01:12, Marty Landman wrote:
> > > My workstation is windoz xp.
> >
> >Then you should be able to start multiple ssh sessions each in a
> >separat
'nimbus mono l'. It is actually coded as a
proportional font but is in fact mono-spaced.
You'll find it in the fonts provided in gnu-ghostscript and can be fed
directly to the X fontlist.
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On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:38, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2003, Max Clark wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >How do you create an ISO from a cd as the source? Obviously when the ISO
> > where to be burned I would like it to be identical to the original cd.
>
> dd if=/dev/$cdrom of=tmpfile.iso
>
> Whe
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 06:35, Barry Skidmore wrote:
> Vahric,
>
> Here are the results of the mount you suggested:
>
> digital-village# mount
> /dev/ad1s1a on / (ufs, local)
> /dev/ad1s1e on /boot (ufs, local, soft-updates)
> /dev/ad1s1g on /home (ufs, local, soft-updates)
> /dev/ad1s1d on /tmp (ufs,
e?Thanks.
>
> $ groff -Tps -man /path/to/man/page/man.1 | lpr -P PS-Printer
>
This is making hard work of it. You need to first find the path to the
man page; but man itself is capable of preparing a PS output:
$ man -t manpage | lpr -P PS-Printer
Malcolm Kay
cts the quality of the output formatting to that
achievable on a console. OK if you have only a primative printer
but a far cry from the result achieved using Antoine's method;
or more conveniently:
$ man -t manpage | lpr -P PS-printer
In your method the intermediate explicit file is not nee
u have a postscript
printer (or a print system accepting postscript) try:
$ man -t manpage | lpr -P PS-Printer
and compare the difference.
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To u
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 21:20, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> Hope someone will have the pacince to read all this ...
>
> I have a 120G HDD, in the BIOS is set as LBA. I've RTFM as much as I
> could, but there still are some things I clearly don't understand. I
> want to be sure that I can move this disk to a
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 01:43, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 00:29:14 +1030
>
> Malcolm Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 21:20, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > > Hope someone will have the pacince to read all this ...
> > >
> &g
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 10:30, DG wrote:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jez Hancock
> > Sent: Friday, 5 December 2003 10:46 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Out of pty's
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 03:25:54PM -0800, Jus
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 14:42, Justin Burke wrote:
> * Malcolm Kay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > 1. Build and install a new kernel with the line
> > >
> > > pseudo-device pty 256
> > >
> > >in the configuration file.
> > >
> &
# enable Ethernet_802.2 frame
options ETHER_SNAP
and then in rc.conf you could use :
ifconfig_fxp0f2_ipx="ipx 0x00010010"
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On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 01:10, Jez Hancock wrote:
> #!/bin/sh
> sed=/usr/bin/sed
> passwd_file=/etc/passwd
>
> ignore_users="root|toor|daemon|operator|bin|tty|kmem|games|news|man|smmsp|b
>ind|uucp|xten|pop|nobody|mysql|www|sshd|ftp|cyrus"
>
> cmd="$sed -E -e '/^(#|$ignore_users)/d' -e 's/:.*//' $passwd
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:20, KURT BUFF wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm following the directions here:
>
> http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/postfix-exchange-users.html
>
> to improve the gateway to our Exchange box, and am stuck on a particular
> step.
>
> I just can't seem to make the Putty SCP work from my wor
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 13:08, Jeff LaMarche wrote:
> Hey all...
>
> Have FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE, and I've run out of space on the slice /
>
> I really want to avoid having to backup and reformat, or doing anything
> that's super-time-intensive - from reading various posts and blogs
> related to FreeBSD, i
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 03:04, michaela wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I had a question regarding Dump/Restore. I just had to reinstall
> FreeBSD completely because of a problem, and now I wanted to RESTORE just
> the filesystem '/usr/home'. Well, I went into '/usr/home', then tried
> "restore -rf /dev/
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 10:11, Dragoncrest wrote:
> HI all. How do I change the default router (aka gateway) in freebsd
> without rebooting? I know I can change the IP, subnet mask, and broadcast
> address through ifconfig, but I couldn't find in there where I could change
> the default router. Anyo
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 10:24, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 10:11, Dragoncrest wrote:
> > HI all. How do I change the default router (aka gateway) in freebsd
> > without rebooting? I know I can change the IP, subnet mask, and
> > broadcast address through ifconfig, b
opened the device
as /dev/nsa0 then mt would write a second FileMark so on reading
back you would find a zero length file between consecutive dumps.
(if you use /dev/sa0 then the second FileMark will be written at the
beginning of the tape effectively discarding previously written dump)
Malco
on from futher junk that
may have been written in previous use -- thus for normal tape drives an
'append' command would be quite flakey.
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On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 06:47, Jim Ramsay wrote:
> I have tried to add an extra entry to /etc/termcap:
>
> rxvt-cygwin-native|rxvt terminal emulator (native MS Windows/Cygwin):\
>
> :pa#64:Co#8:AF=\E[3%dm:AB=\E[4%dm:op=\E[39;49m:\
> :
> :ac=+\257,\256-^0\333`\004a\261f\370g\361h\260j\331k\277l\332
ant; but most people find it more convenient to stay with the
defaults as other applications won't find them.
I think you may be confused with the serial driver names, sio? and the floppy
disk controller name fdc0; which as far as I can re
into printcap. If I modify the printer via the CUPS
> interface it scraps all of the above and replaces it with one line which
> is the name I gave the printer in the setup.
>
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ed via /etc/ttys)
You can even login as 'root' the privileged user this way but it is highly
discouraged -- it is considered insecure and also you can end up with a lot
of junk in your root disk partition.
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On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 20:46, Luke Kearney wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 20:13:36 +1030
>
> Malcolm Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus:
> > On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 17:12, Luke Kearney wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I am having a troublesome time with CUPS and printing to
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 02:02, Robert Huff wrote:
> Malcolm Kay writes:
> > If you start 'xdm' at boot time you can then login as a user
> > through an X login window. (Often started via /etc/ttys)
>
> While many people fo this, it has been (semi-officially)
>
b/X11/fonts/TTF/ directory. Then
> I added the following line into my /etc/X11R6/XF86Config:
>
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
>
Does this directory contain a file fonts.dir?
You possibly need to go there and execute:
# mkfontdir
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er names such as da[n] or rda[n].
Yes; I think you did.
Likely you will need to reconfigure your drive and
reinstall from your backup.
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On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:39, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:27:01 +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> >This is likely your problem source!!!
> >
> >/dev/rad[n] is an alias of /dev/ad[n]; that is it refers to IDE drive n.
> >(Historically they had somewhat diffe
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 17:09, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:57:13 +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> >How big was the image you copied to the disk? -- that should tell
> >you how much of your drive is overwritten.
>
> The image was about 4MB.
Before or after decom
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 01:12, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 20:53:06 +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> >OK; how did you install initially? Was the whole disk used for BSD?
> >Did you follow the defaults during installation?
> >
> >If both the latter questions are
he version you are looking for
then you don't need to install the port algorithm; just go ahead with the
'make install'.
And assuming you have an internet connection it might all happen.
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ht
ady made.
>
> Want this just for repairs and such when having problems with the HD.
Go direct to one of the FreeBSD ftp sites; e.g.
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/
There you will find subdirectories containing ISO images for
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:39 pm, Polytropon wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> just a little terminology note (from me, Mister
> Use-the-correct-words): If you are refering to a kind of hard
> disk, use "disk" with k. Think like "diskette". If you are
> refering to optical media, use "disc" with c. Think like "CD =
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:27 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:39 pm, Polytropon wrote:
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > just a little terminology note (from me, Mister
> > Use-the-correct-words): If you are refering to a kind of
> > hard disk, use "disk&
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:29 am, Chris Rees wrote:
> I have always considered hard disk, floppy diskette, and
> compact disc (and digital versatile disc) to be the
> terminology; but then again the official British spelling is
> disc, whereas AFAICR the US spelling is disk.
What organisation defines
rver in the Helo command -- after all this is the
rout that
will be followed by any responses.
Is there a better way around the difficulty.
Views please
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On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:46 pm, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 06:17:47PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > The send-pr appears to assume that mail can and will be sent
> > directly through sendmail or equivalent rather than inderctly through
> > an ISP mail serv
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:07 am, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:26:07AM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:46 pm, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 06:17:47PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > > > The send-pr appears to
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:59 am, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2008-03-17 00:26, Malcolm Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:46 pm, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 06:17:47PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > > > The send-pr
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:45 am, Da Rock wrote:
> Out of sheer curiosity- is this spam? Is there any reference to the
> "paint" on FreeBSD? I can't imagine where it would be used...
>
A google search shows it up in http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/
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On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:57 pm, Ruel Luchavez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can you help me on this..I attached it in this email
> whats the meaning of it and how can i get rid of that??
>
> Please...Thanks
>
I don't believe attachments are redistributed by this
mailing list.
Best to cut and paste your error
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:31 pm, Michaël Grünewald wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am planning to distribute some of the makefiles I wrote on various
> platforms, including FreeBSD. I need the help of some insightful soul to
> take a few decisions:
>
> --- Where to install? I think /usr/local/share/mk is fin
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:43 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:31 pm, Michaël Grünewald wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am planning to distribute some of the makefiles I wrote on various
> > platforms, including FreeBSD. I need the help of some insightful soul
ts ppp, through /etc/rc.d/ppp.
Normally the file time is updated every 30 seconds or so by setting "enable
echo".
The loop also includes a call to sleep of a few minutes so the the loop does
not
greatly consume processing time. This has worked well for us and I suspect would
also work i
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 08:00 am, Teo De Las Heras wrote:
> I looked through the man pages and online, but I can't find
> information on what the M is for in 'tar Mcvf'. I constantly
> see this as a way to archive / backup files.
I find it in the man pages without problems:
-M
--multi-volume Creat
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 01:46 pm, TV JOE wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've a C program written for Suse linux. I'm having minor
> problems compiling. First is that the cexp (complex exponent)
> is not available in /usr/include/math.h. Is it possible to add
> on a library that includes this function? I compile as
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 12:19 am, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 01:46 pm, TV JOE wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've a C program written for Suse linux. I'm having minor
> > problems compiling. First is that the cexp (complex
> > exponent) is
r narrow range of popular applications. Go
outside that range and and other systems are more
than competitive.
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identified as HP allowed some
reintallation to proceed but it is incomplete and doesn't
run.
I have never experienced this sort of lockout on a FreeBSD
system.
It is looking as though I will need to do a completely new
XP installation -- which I am not looking forward to.
It has been said before Windows is OK until something goes
wrong; but then it is mostly unfixable.
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On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 02:15 am, Danial Thom wrote:
> --- Malcolm Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 09:27 am, Danial Thom
> >
> > wrote:
> > > Schwab Streetsmart
> > > Accounting Software (CA)
> > > Qu
;
> Hmmm - looks like no-one has good news for me on this front so
> I'll try a different approach:
>
> Can anyone suggest a UNIX filesystem for a removable IDE disc
> that can be used on linux and freebsd and that can be exported
> by NFS?
>
I thought most
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 03:50 am, Jim Pazarena wrote:
> I want to run a job every 00:05 sunday morning.
> It is a script which run for a few minutes, then
> attempts to re-submit itself via at.
> at the end of the script, it has:
> echo "/usr/local/bin/script" | at 00:05 sunday
> this produces an error
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:58 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 03:50 am, Jim Pazarena wrote:
> > I want to run a job every 00:05 sunday morning.
> > It is a script which run for a few minutes, then
> > attempts to re-submit itself via at.
> > at the end of the scr
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:25 pm, Gayn Winters wrote:
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> > Russell J. Wood
> > Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 3:54 PM
> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Disk error messages (ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk#
> > xx)
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 a
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 03:37 am, Marc Evans wrote:
> Hello -
>
> I am running FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE as of Dec-15-2005 on a P4
> system. I have a CDRW drive attached, which identifies as
> follows:
>
> acd0: CDRW at ata1-slave UDMA33
>
> I wish to use this device to produce CDRW backup disks
> perio
e
> determined by the system? Is there a way to detect my new
> termcap entry? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
You should be able to set this through resources:
For example in .Xdefaults add:
Rxvt*termName: rxvt-unicode
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On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 03:29 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 07:34 am, E. Eusey wrote:
> > The secondary screen functionality on my xterm
> > (rxvt-unicode) was acting strangly. So, following the
> > advice at:
> >
> > http://cvs.schmorp.de/browse/*check
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 06:05 am, Tim Greening-Jackson wrote:
> Hello there. I hope someone can help me with what I am sure is
> an elementary problem. I am currently investigating FreeBSD
> with a view to using it on my server in place of Fedora Core
> 4. Before I move the server from Fedora to FreeBSD
ig -l` before and after the
> mdconfig, and choosing the one that shows up as new, but that
> is not elegant and is vulnerable to a race condition.
>
On my system (5.4) mdconfig reports the created device to stdout:
So:
memdevice=`mdc
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 04:54 pm, user wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > On my system (5.4) mdconfig reports the created device to
> > stdout: So:
> > memdevice=`mdconfig -a -t malloc -s10M`
> > sets the device name in $memdevice.
>
> Thank you
whether reservations for things
like disklabels are not automatically taken care of when 'a' is
the first partition in the slice, so I suggest if you place the
'b' partition first you do this with an offset of 16 sectors.
But make it a rule to retain the traditional relationsh
Host not found
<<< 554 Error: no valid recipients
How do I get sendmail to use a valid host name such as
"internode.on.net"?
Help would be much appreciated,
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On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 07:26 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > I can now send e-mails using the standard 'mail' utility
> > to most destinations but apparently 'alpha.home' is still
> > used as the source domain in the HELO command and as
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:24 am, Wendell Anderson wrote:
> I have successfully installed FreeBSD 6.0 with X.org and
> KDE 3.4.3.
>
> When I execute "startx" the "tcm" windowing system, starts
> up fine. However when I try starting KDE, I get x-server
> errors.
Do you mean tcm or twm?
>
> I need h
I wrappers for command line utilities but the base
level utilities.
Any help appreciated.
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On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:25 am, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > It is not very clear what utilities are capable of writing R
> > or RW CDs on a multipurpose optical drive. It seems that
> > burncd doesn't do this and the man pages for growisofs talks
> >
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> El día Thursday, March 02, 2006 a las 11:29:31PM +1030, Malcolm
Kay escribió:
> > It is not very clear what utilities are capable of writing R
> > or RW CDs on a multipurpose optical drive. It seems that
> > burncd do
On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 10:50 am, Jose Borquez wrote:
> How do you add a floppy device and then mount a floppy in
> FreeBSD?
Others have answered this; but many of us most of the time find
it more convenient to use mtools for MS floppy access rather
than a proper mount.
You'll find it in the ports a
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 08:57 am, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm trying to use less paper by printing on both sides of each
> sheet.
>
> The printer is capable of duplex printing, but all the
> postcript I send to it ends up printed single-sided.
>
> The original PS is generated by a web-browse
ients
to be expected or am I missing something? More importantly is
there a way around it?
Is it feasible to install both Xorg and XFree86 on the one system
and choose the appropriate one at a given time?
Any help or information appreciated.
Malcolm Kay
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 06:15 am, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:47:01PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > My primary activity at home is on a machine "alpha" running
> > FBSD 5.4 and Xorg version of X. But I have a couple of other
> > machines running old
?
An X connection can be established in the other direction without problem.
I would appreciate any thoughts on this matter.
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On Saturday 26 June 2004 04:56, James W. Thompson, II wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 12:18:57 -0700, Gill Elmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > I have a Kayak XU800 dual processor computer and I'm confused as to which
> > version of FreeBSD I sould download for installation on this machine.
> > Tha
On Saturday 26 June 2004 06:51, Joe Schmoe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just loaded XFree86-4 from the ports tree on my
> laptop, running 5.2.1-RELEASE.
>
> It took about 2.5 gigs of space to compile and add it
> all.
>
> Let's say I have a small hard drive in an old laptop,
> and let's also assume that I am
On Sunday 27 June 2004 07:49, antenneX wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "antenneX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 1:40 PM
> Subject: Re: A SED script
>
> > On 2004-06-26 12:08, antenneX <[EMAIL
On Sunday 27 June 2004 04:28, Dan Finn wrote:
> That did it. Why is it neccisary to specify the block size?
Because the default block of 512 used by dd is not big enough to hold
a cd block.
Malcolm
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On Saturday 26 June 2004 22:06, JJB wrote:
> Security Paranoia
> It's very important that you completely understand the impact of
> using the following command will have on your ability to make
> changes to your system.
>
> The simplest thing you can do is set the immutable flag on all
> system bin
On Thursday 15 July 2004 11:26, Pete Collins wrote:
> Malcolm,
>
> I noticed your issue on the bsd-questions list without
> a response. I struck the same issue with hpux from
> 10.20 through 11.11. I disabled the X11UseLocalhost
> parameter (X11UseLocalhost=no) in the sshd_config to
> resolve.
T
On Friday 23 July 2004 11:58, Peter Ryan wrote:
> Hi,
> This is probably a contender for the dumbest question
> of the year.
I wouldn't exectly call your question dump; but it is not very explicit.
>
> When I defined my IP address in the freeBSD installation,
> I had to give a name. All the exampl
On Friday 23 July 2004 16:04, Miguel Cardenas wrote:
> Hello
>
> Anybody knows a program or utility to view XML documents?
You should realise that XML defines a syntax and grammar for
storing data. How that information is intended to be used
(or displayed) depends on the particular application f
On Friday 23 July 2004 18:26, cpghost wrote:
> Malcolm Kay wrote:
> >On Friday 23 July 2004 16:04, Miguel Cardenas wrote:
> >>Hello
> >>
> >>Anybody knows a program or utility to view XML documents?
> >
> >You should realise that XML defines a
On Friday 30 July 2004 12:30, Peter Ryan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as part of the jdk14 install, i have to
> download the file j2sdk-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.bin
> from the sun web site and put it into the
> /usr/ports/distfiles folder.
> I did that - no problem.
> I can see the file listed in the right place.
>
On Sunday 01 August 2004 03:51, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2004-07-31 18:43, Mark Ovens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> >>On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:30:59 +0100 Mark Ovens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> To implement this in a running X session type this in an xterm
> >>>
> >
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:49 am, Haulmark, Chris wrote:
> Someone broke the silence:
> > i have a genuine problem here.
> > i noticed my backup cdrw's had stopped working at some point. upon
> > furthur investigation i find i cannot mount cd's full stop.
> >
> > titan# mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /moun
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 10:39 pm, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote:
>Dear all of you,
>
>
>My computer (HP Compaq DC7100) refuses to boot to FreeBSD. It enters
>the
>in the bootloader and the computer reboots! What kind of behavior is
>thi
>
>I'm aware that some UNIX systems need a pa
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:45 am, Scott I. Remick wrote:
> --- Ramiro Aceves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > My pentium 100 MHz with 16 MB RAM runs smoothly with FreeBSD 4.10 , it
> > even runs fvwm under X. I am not able to run 5.3 install, as I only have
> > 16MB, I was suspecting that I need more mem
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 04:27 am, Eric F Crist wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've decided to try doing a complete system backup, attempting a
> bit-for-bit copy. A friend told me to try the following:
>
> # dd if=/dev/ad4 of=/dev/ad6
>
> Both drives are identical SATA150. Is this the best way? I'm hope to
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