getting DHCP-assigned IP address

2003-12-02 Thread Michael A. Smith
Is there an easy way to get the IP address that DHCP has assigned to an interface? I know I can do it the hard way -- parsing the results of ifconfig with regular expressions -- but I suspect there's a much easier way. -- Michael A. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Programm

setting xterm font from the command line

2004-06-23 Thread Michael A. Smith
, etc... and it can never find the font. For example: $ xterm -fn Bitstream-Vera-Sans-Mono xterm: unable to open font "Bitstream-Vera-Sans-Mono", trying "fixed" Where can I find the font list that xterm is checking? Thanks!! --

Re: setting xterm font from the command line

2004-06-24 Thread Michael A. Smith
that have spaces, for example: "-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-*-r-normal-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" I've tried every combination of single quotes, double quotes and backslashes before the spaces without success. I get back an error like this: xterm: bad command line option "

Re: setting xterm font from the command line

2004-06-24 Thread Michael A. Smith
r xterm) and it DOES barf whether I escape, quote or whatever. Thanks a million, guys!! -- Michael A. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ($do || !$do) && undef($try); # Master of Perl, Yoda is. H? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.

Re: setting xterm font from the command line

2004-06-25 Thread Michael A. Smith
to properly set the font size (using -fs 8) with the -fn option. I switched to -fa (and -fb) and it works like a charm. Thanks for all your help! -- Michael A. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ($do || !$do) && undef($try); # Master of Perl, Yoda is. H? ___

Re: Disk defragmentation

2004-01-07 Thread Michael A. Smith
to just shut off a FreeBSD system (i.e. pull the plug). A proper shutdown insures all the not-yet-written things get written to disk. Welcome to the brave new world of FreeBSD. Cheers! -- Michael A. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Programmer at Large _

Re: font in xfterm4

2003-11-02 Thread Michael A. Smith
, -sl 2000 for a 2000-line scroll buffer). Note: the above command is on my XFCE3 system. I'm not at my XCFE4 system, so I don't know if the main command is xfterm or xfterm4. Either way the parameters are the same. Good luck! Enjoy XFCE4. -- Michael A. Smith <[EMAIL PR

Lego Mindstorms USB infrared device support?

2002-10-10 Thread Michael A. Smith
The new LEGO Mindstorms 2.0 set comes with a USB IR tower to upload code to the RCX programmable brick. Does anyone know if there's any support for this in FreeBSD? How about the serial IR tower that came with the first Mindstorms set? Thanks!! -- Michael A. Smith <[EMAIL P

/usr filesystem crashing

2003-02-13 Thread Michael A. Smith
(different inode numbers) each time. There are a few other problems the system is having (SSH, cups, and nmbd), but I suspect they're related to this disk issue. I've tried updating to 4.7-STABLE, but the filesystem locks up before I can get through it. Any thoughts (besides re-f

problem making port databases/ruby-bdb1

2003-03-06 Thread Michael A. Smith
p -R /usr/ports/databases/ruby-bdb1/work/bdb1-0.1.8/docs/*.rd /usr/local/share/doc/ruby/bdb1/ /bin/cp -R /usr/ports/databases/ruby-bdb1/work/bdb1-0.1.8/docs/doc /usr/local/share/doc/ruby/bdb1/ cp: /usr/ports/databases/ruby-bdb1/work/bdb1-0.1.8/docs/doc: No such file or directory *** Error code 1 St

2 filesystem problems: blst_radix_free and bad inode number

2003-06-09 Thread Michael A. Smith
me up clean. I don't know if the problems are related. I disassembled the array and booted from one of the mirrored drives alone -- same error -- then I reassambled the array. Any ideas on how to solve one or both of these problems? Thank

dual-homed problems

2003-07-08 Thread Michael A. Smith
zeus# ifconfig rl0 inet 192.168.1.145 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists Any ideas for getting this NIC up and running properly?? Thanks!! -- Michael A. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Programmer at Large ___ [EMAIL PROT

PC-Card NIC not recognized in 4.8R

2003-08-14 Thread Michael A. Smith
. Same laptop, same NIC, different version of FreeBSD. How can I get a PC-Card NIC recognized in 4.8? Any ideas. Thanks! -- Michael A. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Programmer at Large ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/

ed1 network problems on laptop

2003-08-21 Thread Michael A. Smith
No network glitches at all. Argh. Any clues?? I don't wanrt to re-install from scratch -- and doubt it would do any good! -- Michael A. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Programmer at Large ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"