Re: violation copyright

2005-03-31 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 04:20, Rod Sortons.Net wrote: > Hi, I'm Rod > > I'm working on a website + magazine in Rouen (France) about night : clubs, > pubs, concerts ... > > look at this : http://bistrot.diablotins.free.fr > > Regarding your copyright legal mention page, this pub uses your logo for

Repairing an inconsistent system

2005-04-03 Thread Mike Jeays
I made a mess of my 5.3 installation. I cvsupped the ports tree, and then tried to get the gtk interface to Ruby to work, and reinstalled the port for gtk20. Firefox and Evolution then stopped working, complaining about missing libraries such as libgtk-x11-2.0.so.400 being absent - they have been

Re: Firefox won't start

2005-04-08 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 12:32, Fridtjof Busse wrote: > Hi > I just installed FreeBSD 5.4RC, everything works so fine. > Just firefox won't work (running xfce), neither the package nor the > port. I can only start it as root, under a normal user nothing happens > at all. /usr/X11R6/bin/firefox quits a

Re: Digital Cameras

2005-04-08 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 16:13, Ralph wrote: > --- "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > On Apr 4, 2005, at 10:28 PM, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: > > > > > Is there a chance to get digital camers working > > with FreeBSD? All I > > > need is load images from camera using USB

Re: Cannot connect to printer...

2005-01-22 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 06:27, Kiffin Gish wrote: > I have read the manual carefully, looked in the forums and tried everything, > but for the life of me I just cannot get my printer to work under FreeBSD. > > Actually my setup is nothing complicated or so you would think. I have an HP > Deskjet 720

Re: Help on a little script

2005-01-23 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 11:30, antenneX wrote: > Am running FBSD-4.10p2 > > I have a serious need for some help on a CGI script I just installed. > I've tried to reach the author but no dice there. > > It's used to automate "unsubscribes" on a mail list. > > It works well except for this: > It cha

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 CD2 ?

2005-01-23 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 10:13, Daniel S. Haischt wrote: > AFAIK - The 2nd CD only contains additional software > packages ... > > faisal gillani schrieb: > > i installed freebsd 5.3 & the first cd installed > > everything i needed , but i got 2 cds with freebsd , i > > browsed it but couldent unders

RE: cannot boot after updating to 5.3 stable

2005-01-28 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 22:35, Subhro wrote: > Your problem is, somehow the mountpoint entries in /etc/fstab have messed > up. As a result the system cant find the root file system. At the > Mount> > Prompt type ? to get a list of all the valid mountpoints. Then manually > mount all the mount points

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 04:12, faisal gillani wrote: > Is it allowed to distribute Freebsd on any other > distro & charging only media cost related to it ? > GNU based application are very hard to find here in my > country & ordering from Internet is very expensive, > for a normal user , so i was thi

Re: Disk Copy Software

2005-02-03 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 21:45, Donald L Swoboda wrote: > Is there a Disk To Disk copy software available that can be used to > copy/backup a disk that has FreeBSD operating system installed. I would like > to copy my existing disk to another disk as a backup. > Thanks > Don Swoboda > [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: SQL Questions -> migrating MySQL to PostgreSQL?

2005-02-11 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 19:18, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Peter Risdon wrote: > > Postgresql is an excellent dbms and well worth a look. But if you're > > starting out, I think mysql is the place to be. > > Ok, since the discussion is up, I have used MySQL for years, no problem > serves my needs. Yet,

SCSI device numbers

2005-02-13 Thread Mike Jeays
I have at present two emulated SCSI devices on my system; a USB flash drive, and a DVD-writer. They get assigned: 0,0,0 0) 'SanDisk ' 'Cruzer Micro' '2033' Removable Disk 2,0,0 200) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVDRAM GSA-4160B' 'A300' Removable CD-ROM if the USB device is present at boot time (I th

Re: SCSI device numbers

2005-02-15 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 09:45, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have at present two emulated SCSI devices on my system; a USB flash > > drive, and a DVD-writer. > > > > They get assigned: > > > > 0,0,0 0

Re: can't reboot after messing up my rc.conf file

2005-02-16 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 13:42, aklist_061666 wrote: > Hi All: > > I was editing my rc.conf file and left off a quote mark, and now when I try > to reboot I get an error and am prompted to drop into shell to fix it. > > The default prompt is /bin/sh, and if I hit return I get a prompt. > > How can

Re: NFS hangs on 5.3-RELEASE-p5

2005-02-17 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 07:09, Robert Watson wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Peter Risdon wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 14:23 +0200, Simonas Kareiva wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > The problem is, that the nfs server hangs after running for a while, > > > like, 20 minutes. Any file operations

Re: Mounting iomega zip drive

2005-02-21 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 19:34, E. J. Cerejo wrote: > I use to be able to mount my paralell zip drive with > the following command under Fbsd 4.x: > > mount -t msdos /dev/da0s4 /zip > > now I'm running 5.3 I can't, what changed? > > I noticed that there is only da0 in my /dev directory, > I have th

Re: Redistribution of FreeBSD 5.3

2005-02-23 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 21:38, Bryan Smith wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Bryan and I am wondering if I can freely distribute FreeBSD 5.3. > If I can redistribute it, is there anything I need to include with the ISO > images when I distribute them? I read that I need to include the copyright > notic

Toshiba Satellite laptop

2005-02-25 Thread Mike Jeays
I was thinking of getting a spare hard disk for a Toshiba Satellite laptop (Pentium 3 with 256MB). Does anyone have any good or bad experiences? It runs Knoppix perfectly well. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

RE: Toshiba Satellite laptop

2005-02-26 Thread Mike Jeays
r are you going > to have the instructions on how to get it apart. > > Ted > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Jeays > > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 4:13 PM > > To: freebsd-question

Failure to probe devices

2004-01-03 Thread Mike Jeays
I have a Pentium 4 1.8 Ghz on an ASUS P4S533 motherboard. FreeBSD 5.1 fails to install - it just hangs while probing for devices, and I left it for many minutes. There is no ZIP or JAZZ drive; just an IDE disk and an LG CD-RW drive. This machine installs and runs FreeBSD 4.7 with no problems, a

Re: Failure to probe devices

2004-01-03 Thread Mike Jeays
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have a Pentium 4 1.8 Ghz on an ASUS P4S533 motherboard. FreeBSD 5.1 fails to install - it just hangs while probing for devices, and I left it for many minutes. There is no ZIP or JAZZ drive; just an IDE disk and an LG

Re: Failure to probe devices

2004-01-04 Thread Mike Jeays
Subhro wrote: Hello Mike, Did u recompile the kernel? If yes then can u just include the kernel config file? Also did u include any non standard flags in /etc/make.conf? Cheers! Subhro -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Jeays Sent

Re: Failure to probe devices

2004-01-04 Thread Mike Jeays
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I am not sure what else there is to post. The machine gets to the point where it says something like "Probing devices - this may take a while", and then nothing else happens. I read the 5.1 errata, and tried switch

Simulating network latency

2004-05-14 Thread Mike Jeays
We have a proprietary application which will not work properly over our WAN, even though there is more than enough bandwidth. It works fine on a LAN. We suspect a latency problem, mainly because we can't think of anything else it might be. We are not getting any help from the vendor. Is there a

Re: Simulating network latency

2004-05-14 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 19:05, Kevin Stevens wrote: > On Fri, 14 May 2004, Mike Jeays wrote: > > > Is there a way to set up a machine with two network cards, which will > > simply forward every packet from one card to the other, but will > > introduce an arbitrary delay per

Re: mounting usb camera - no /dev/da* !!!

2004-05-17 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 19:16, Jason Taylor wrote: > I have a similar situation with a Cannon Powershot A40. I can't mount > it, but gphoto is able to access it. I had to modify a config file or > two in order for the ugen devices to be created writable by anyone other > than root. Sorry, I don

Re: mounting usb camera - no /dev/da* !!!

2004-05-18 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 04:09, Ben Paley wrote: > On Tuesday 18 May 2004 04:02, Mike Jeays wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 19:16, Jason Taylor wrote: > > > I have a similar situation with a Cannon Powershot A40. I can't mount > > > it, but gphoto is able to acce

FreeBSD mailing lists

2004-05-21 Thread Mike Jeays
Hi! I have received no messages at all from freebsd-questions, or one or two of the other FreeBSD mailing lists, for about 2 days. Do you know if there is a problem at their end, or has perhaps my ISP decided they are all spam? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re:

2004-05-24 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 09:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have an older computer wich cant`t boot CD-ROM discs and I hawe two ways: > -to boot from the hard disc; > -or to boot from the floppy and instal it from CD-ROM. > But i have no idea how to do this. > Marko, Slovenia > > __

Gnome System Monitor 2.2.2

2004-05-31 Thread Mike Jeays
This applet works fine for CPU and memory, but shows 0% for network utilization on my machine, even when doing a heavy FTP transfer. Is there some magic setting somewhere, please? FreebSD 5.1 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: statistical program for FreeBSD?

2004-06-04 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 21:58, Gary wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know of a statistical program that will run in FreeBSD? I am > looking for one that will run the Heckman's Phase 2 model, as SPSS will not > run it. The only one I know of is SAS, but it is for windows only.. (costs a > lot of mone

Re: Leaving a server on all day

2004-06-08 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 16:06, Bill Moran wrote: > Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jun 8, 2004, at 1:59 PM, Bill Moran wrote: > > >> Hopefully I'll get my flat screen back soon from repair. I guess > > >> those use > > >> less power, right? > > > > > > I remember having this con

Re: JDK Installation

2005-06-12 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 22:49, Zousys Info wrote: > > Background Information: > > FreeBSD 5.4 > Try to install JDK 1.5.0.03 > - > What I have done is : > > 1) Dow

Re: Shell script help

2005-06-28 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 22:52, fbsd_user wrote: > My sh shell script ability is not that good. > Have 2 simple coding problems. > > How do I code a statement to subtract one from a field. > > $rulenum = $rulenum - 1 > $rulenum = '$rulenum - 1' > > one='1' > $rulenum = $rulenum - $one > $rulenum='$

Re: Trouble mounting Zip drive

2005-07-05 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 15:35, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 05:44:17PM +0200, Andreas Wider?e Andersen wrote: > > [...] > > # mount /zip > > mount: /dev/da0s4 on /zip: incorrect super block > > Your ZIP disk hasn't been formatted as UFS, I would try `msdos' > instead. Try "mount

RE: defragmentation in FreeBSD 4.11

2005-07-27 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 07:54, Norbert Koch wrote: > > How one could defragment a partition on FreeBSD ? Which tools are > > available > > for this ? > > None as I know. Usually there is no reason to defragment a ufs partition. > > Norbert > ___ > freeb

Re: How well do USB -> parallel adapters work for printers?

2005-10-19 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 03:34, Sandy Rutherford wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:19:59 -0400, > > Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > The guy who provides our hardware recommended a USB -> parallel adapter, > > but I've got no experience with these. I've been warned about USB ->

Re: Epson Stylus C65

2005-10-19 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 20:01, Alejandro Pulver wrote: > Hello, > > I have tried to make this non-Postscript printer work on FreeBSD > without success. It is connected by USB and appears as '/dev/ulpt0'. > > I have tried 'apsfilter' with Gimp-Print drivers for Epson Stylus C64, > but it only printe

Re: Epson Stylus C65

2005-10-20 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 20:36, Alejandro Pulver wrote: > On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:14:59 -0400 > Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I had a good bit of trouble with the very similar C86. Google for the > > DeviceModel parameter values if these don't work wit

Re: xorg.conf block my machine

2005-10-26 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 10:01, Micah wrote: > Pablo Allietti wrote: > > hi all. i have xorg loading in tty7 at startup. > > i change my mouse and i modified the file xorg.conf to mouse0 to mouse1. > > > > well the problem is my machine cant start again :( load all system > > but when finish an

DMA errors

2005-10-29 Thread Mike Jeays
I have a 40GB Maxtor D740X-6L disk, and have been unable to install 5.4 or 6.0 on it. I get errors: ad0: FAILURE WRITE_DMA STATUS=51 error=84 (IRC, ABORTED) LBA=.. as soon as I try to commmit the changes in sysinstall. I have checked that the IDE cable is the 80-wire type, and cleaned up the c

RE: DMA errors

2005-10-29 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 19:48, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Try a different disk drive. > > What motherboard is in use here? > > Ted > > >-Original Message- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Jeays > >Sent: Saturda

RE: DMA errors

2005-10-31 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 02:11, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >-Original Message- > >From: Mike Jeays [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 8:04 PM > >To: Ted Mittelstaedt > >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >Subject: RE: DMA errors

RE: DMA errors

2005-11-05 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 08:00, Mike Jeays wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 02:11, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > >-Original Message- > > >From: Mike Jeays [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 8:04 PM > > >To: Ted Mittelstaedt

Migrating Evolution folders

2005-11-05 Thread Mike Jeays
I recently upgraded from 5.3 to 5.4, and this resulted in an upgrade of Evolution from 1.4 to 2.2.1.1. The folders are now held in ~/.evolution instead of ~/evolution, but there seem to be some format incompatibilities. I have not succeeded in migrating my mail yet. I googled for the problem, an

Re: Running A Named Server

2005-11-12 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 15:52 -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: > If I understand this correctly, if I want to enable a cache name server, > all I have to do is the following: > > In /etc/rc.conf enter: > named_enable="YES" > > Run this command: > # cd /etc/namedb > # sh make-localhost > > I enter the

Re: How do I re-format 'dangerously dedicated' drive?

2005-11-20 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 23:24 +, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > Hi all, > > I don't have an MS-DOS floppy, and I think my CDROM isn't booting because the > HD is 'dangerously dedicated,' even though it is a bootable CD and the BIOS is > set to boot it first. > > I want to totally clear my drive so

Re: Trouble installing fvwm2

2005-11-23 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 16:03 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I just compiled/installed fvwm2 from ports on my 6.0. But I don't know how to > run it. > > I have gdm launching gnome 2.12 by default and fvwm2 does not appear in the > list > in gdm. > > I am such a newbie, that I can't ima

Re: Trouble installing fvwm2

2005-11-23 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 10:57 -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > On 11/23/05 10:36 AM, Mike Jeays sat at the `puter and typed: > > On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 16:03 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I just compiled/installed fvwm2 from ports on my

Re: Unable to install on large hard drive

2005-11-26 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 23:35 -0800, Christopher Kelley wrote: > Up until now, I've installed FreeBSD on smaller drives (< 15 gig), but I > recently had to replace the HD in my windows machine, so I got a larger > hard drive with the idea of installing fBSD on it as well and dual > booting that ma

Re: rc question: one-time script

2005-12-15 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 15:53 +0200, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > Hello list, > > Is there any way of runnning a script, only once? > at boot time for example? and all that in an rc friendly > way, without having to change the /etc/rc* scripts? > > thanks in advance > > Nikos > > __

Re: Problems connecting a digital camera

2004-08-12 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 13:00, Norbert Koch wrote: > Hi! > > I run into problems trying to connect a KONICA_MINOLTA DiMAGE Xg from > my FreeBSD system, FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE i386. > > I think, I've got all the necessary devices in my kernel. > > Now, dmesg tells me > > umass0: KONICA_MINOLTA DiMAGE

[Fwd: Re: licensing]

2004-08-18 Thread Mike Jeays
I omitted sending this reply to Chris to the list by mistake. Please correct me if I am wrong. --- Begin Message --- On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 11:06, Chris Knipe wrote: > Quick question > > I'm not sure about the license that FreeBSD falls under. Are we allowed to modify > code (specifically /sb

Re: disk2.iso: rescue disk

2004-08-23 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 17:02, Charles Ulrich wrote: > Hanspeter Roth said: > > Hello, > > > > is the disk2.iso mainly a rescue disk? > > Or does it contain further stuff for installation? > > It is mainly a rescue disk. It contains nothing that you'll actually need for > a FreeBSD install. It would

Re: mtools on -STABLE

2004-08-25 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 18:37, Steven Friedrich wrote: > I discovered the culprit. I recently added acpi to my STABLE kernel. > I've removed acpi and now I get, like before: > > fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 > fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold > fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive>

Re: vi editor related question

2004-08-27 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 20:46, Parv wrote: > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote > Soo-Hyun Choi thusly... > > > > I edit ... certain text editor under Windows XP, and then I open > > ... using vi editor under FreeBSD. Then, there are bunch of "^M" > > sign at the end of each line. Does anyone know

RE: Web browsing

2004-09-06 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 10:00, JJB wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Um, I know this is going to sound stupid, but I am completely > > dumbfounded as to how I can runa web browser in FreeBSD. I got so > > frustrated that I didn't know how to use FreeBSD and the fact that > > Elmira is a Windows c

Re: showing which path a user program runs from?

2004-09-13 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 22:37, robg wrote: > hi, say im the user 'rob' and i have the same program in two seperate > folders in my /home dir and run both.. if i run ps it shows me im > running both, but how can i find out which location folder is running > which program shown in ps The "which" comma

Re: What to backup

2004-09-15 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 18:23, Scott Gerhardt wrote: > On Sep 15, 2004, at 1:08 PM, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > > On 09/15/04 11:19 AM, Curtis Vaughan sat at the `puter and typed: > >> I have a question about what exactly I should backup on my 5.3 FreeBSD > >> Server. So far I have chosen the following

Re: Unable to umount Cdrom drive.

2004-10-13 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 14:22, Laszlo Antal wrote: > Hi, > > I have FreeBSD 4.10 installed. > When I mount the cdrom with #mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom > everything works fine.I can get to my ports and everything > But when I want to swap cds and I type #umount /cdrom > I get this error message

Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2004-09-28 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 18:17, Nicx wrote: >Hi Guy's > >I have problem with my floppy > >always said me : > >Can't open /dev/fd0: > >No such file or directory > >and my floppy disk is corectly installed at my BIOS > >I haven't problem with Linux or Solaris but i don'

SMTP Authentication

2004-10-03 Thread Mike Jeays
How do I tell sendmail to provide an authentication string when I ask it to send messages to my ISP (a cable provider)? They use PLAIN authentication, and I did not have too much trouble getting the base 64 string by snooping with Ethereal when I sent mail from Evolution, and can send out emails "

Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun

2004-10-03 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 17:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 10/3/04 4:31:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >Excuse me while I shred it before the Secret Service comes knocking on > >my door... > > Is the secret service in charge of counterfiting now? (as y

Re: Netbooks & BSD

2010-10-19 Thread Mike Jeays
On October 19, 2010 10:29:46 pm Gary Kline wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 02:53:30PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > >El d?a Sunday, October 17, 2010 a las 12:17:16PM -0600, Warren Block escribi?: > > >>On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, Matthias Apitz wrote: > >

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)

2010-10-20 Thread Mike Jeays
On October 20, 2010 03:47:38 am per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Matthias Apitz wrote: > > El d?a Tuesday, October 19, 2010 a las 07:29:46PM -0700, Gary Kline escribi?: > > > PS: I really _was_ current on hardware stuff. Back in the VAX > > > 780 days :-) > > > > I booted my first UNIX V7 ta

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)

2010-10-20 Thread Mike Jeays
On October 20, 2010 03:46:06 pm Bob Hall wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:07:55PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > > On 10/20/2010 11:55 AM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:47:38AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > >> Matthias Apitz wrote: > > >>> El d?a Tuesday, October 19

Re: Creating clone of a HDD including boot partition

2010-12-14 Thread Mike Jeays
Put it in a USB enclosure, and run dd in=/dev/sourcedisk out=/dev/targetdisk bs=1M Drink coffee until done. On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:42:42 +0100 nagios wrote: > Hello, > > I have setup a tailored made configuration (1 UFS partition + 1 swap + boot > sectors) for some hardware that I am resell

Re: New to FreeBsd

2011-01-03 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 16:16:13 +0200 George George wrote: > I am new to the Free BSD and i have a question on how to install a > packet.What i have to type to download a python editor?I cant find the right > packet name.Thank you very much. > ___ > freebsd

Re: documentation OF FreeBSD

2011-01-18 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:43:01 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:07:12 +0200, Ross Cameron > wrote: > > Considering the wording of the original posting I HIGHLY doubt the OP would > > be willing to use PINE/MUTT/MAIL. > > > > So they hardly count,... 99% chances (my bet anyways) a

Re: script help

2011-02-16 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:47:57 +0100 Bernt Hansson wrote: > 2011-02-14 23:34, Jack L. Stone skrev: > > Hello folks: > > Hello! > > > No doubt this will be easy for those with scritping abilities. > > > # find all of the same filenames (copyright.htm) and then replace the year > > 2010 with 2011

Re: BSD Magazine PDFs

2011-02-19 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:37:14 -0500 Alfredo Perez wrote: > I am missing them all, can you upload them somewhere? > > Thanks in advance > > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Xn Nooby wrote: > > > Thanks for the replies, good to know I'm not missing any issues. > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at

Re: Nasty reference loop in login.conf

2012-07-17 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:48:38 -0700 (PDT) Jakub Lach wrote: > Initially dropped to single user mode, but when > I saw ED(1) I reconsidered and dusted off trusty > LiveCD :) > > Thanks. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Nasty-reference-loop-in-login-

Re: cksum entire dir??

2012-09-12 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:55:57 -0700 Waitman Gobble wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 07:31:45AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > On 12/09/2012 00:14, Polytropon wrote: > > > > % cksum > > > > > > > > and could obtain a checksum - so

PC-BSD 9.0 in VirtualBox

2012-09-27 Thread Mike Jeays
I have been running PC-BSD 9.0 with the KDE interface in a VirtualBox VM, and notice that it uses CPU resources when idle, driving up my CPU temperature about 15 degrees on an otherwise idle machine. (It is an Intel i5 quad four). Is this to be expected? _

Re: cksum entire dir??

2012-10-04 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 05:36:19 +0400 Австин Ким wrote: > Hi, all, > > > Paul Kraus writes: > > > > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:18 PM, wrote: > > > > > >> It's a real shame Unix doesn't have a really good tool for comparing > > >> two directory trees. You can use 'diff -r' (even on binaries), bu

Re: Gnome

2012-12-02 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 18:36:23 + ren_...@yahoo.com wrote: > Hello, I was wondering if you can use Gnome to run your FreeBSD server, > instead of using let's say Direct Admin ? > If so, is there any literature on it ? > Thank you, > Sam Fasciano > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > ___

Re: static ip address and ifconfig

2012-12-29 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:13:32 -0500 Fbsd8 wrote: > I don't have static ip address so I can not find out for myself. > Lets say I am a company that my ISP has assigned us > 25 static ip address. > > When I issue the ifconfig command what will it show me? > > Just the single primary static ip addr

Re: [Bulk] FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-17 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:25:03 + (GMT) Georg Reilinger wrote: > Hi everybody, > > > My issue is the following: > > As far as I know, FreeBSD has completely dropped support for KDE 3.5. > > Whether it's the ports, or the pkg_add precompiled binaries. Am I right in > > assuming this? >

Re: [Bulk] Re: sh script ?

2013-01-24 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:16:54 -0500 Fbsd8 wrote: > Robert Bonomi wrote: > >> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jan 24 12:11:42 2013 > >> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:07:40 -0500 > >> From: Fbsd8 > >> To: FreeBSD questions > >> Subject: sh script ? > >> > >> I get this message [: 10.0.10

Re: cron/crontab befuddlement

2002-12-26 Thread Mike Jeays
Kirk Bailey wrote: ok, I read man cron and man crontab, and it's as clear as mud. Anyplace I can read more and maybe make the light dawn on this useful feature? OR, would anyone care to explain more? Basically, you create a file where each line is a command to be executed on a given schedule.

Browser delays

2002-12-29 Thread Mike Jeays
I am using Mozilla 1.0 with FreeBSD 4.7. The machine is attached to a cable-TV high-speed service via an SMC Barricade router. I get IP addresses assigned by DHCP running on the router. I have tried without the router (connecting directly to the cable modem), and get the same results. When brow

Re: Browser delays

2002-12-30 Thread Mike Jeays
Robin Damm wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 09:48:04PM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote: When browsing certain web sites, including www.cnn.com, there is about a 90 second delay when I load the first page; subsequent pages are quite fast. I don't get the same problem with Windows 2000. Any sugges

Re: Browser delays

2002-12-30 Thread Mike Jeays
correctly. After a timeout on the series of requests a request is submitted in ipv4 format and the connection is made. The only thing to do is force FreeBSD to use only ipv4 addresses. Dean Scott Network Engineer Familymeds, Inc. -Original Message----- From: Mike Jeays [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Error when trying to mount cd

2002-12-31 Thread Mike Jeays
Stacey Roberts wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 21:29, Kevin Greenidge wrote: --- Stacey Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 17:28, Kevin Greenidge wrote: I was trying to mount a Windows XP disk to use as a test. Hi Kevin, To test what?

Re: Shell guru needed.

2003-01-02 Thread Mike Jeays
mike wrote: Hey guys. heres the skinny. I have a huge library and i want to organize it. I want find to go through recursively, and move any "pdf" files it finds to a certain directory. I need an example piece of script on how i would confront this. It will save me hours if not days so thanks in

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-02 Thread Mike Jeays
Dimitry Andric wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2003-01-03 at 02:29:49 Chris Doherty wrote: Additionally HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and recent releases of FreeBSD cycle back to zero after 497 days wacky. how/why is this the case? 2^32/100/24/60/60 ~= 497.1

Re: Bystander shot by a spam filter.

2003-01-04 Thread Mike Jeays
Brett Glass wrote: At 07:05 AM 1/1/2003, Cliff Sarginson wrote: Let's stop kicking Richard Stallman. He has his own agenda. It should remain his own. But GCC is why you can compile FreeBSD. No, it's not. You can compile FreeBSD because it's written in C. GCC just happens to b

Re: Bystander shot by a spam filter.

2003-01-04 Thread Mike Jeays
Mike, this message was originally posted to the FreeBSD-chat mailing list, where by definition it's on topic. It is definitely not on topic for FreeBSD-questions. Please don't forward this sort of thing to this list. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. I

Re: mounting a dos file system

2003-01-10 Thread Mike Jeays
Adam Stroud wrote: Instal Samba. I have a silimar situation, and Samba works great foe me. I have small network at home, my system running freebsd and two other systems running windoze. I would like to be able to mount one of the logical dos drives on one of the windoze systems so I can tra

ASUS P4S533 on-board LAN

2002-10-09 Thread Mike Jeays
I recently bought a machine with an ASUS P4S533 motherboard, and FreeBSD 4.6 does not see the on-board LAN connection at boot-up time. (Yes, it is enabled in the BIOS.) Must I buy a separate LAN card, or is there a way to get the on board connection to work? Thanks in advance. -- Mike

Re: ASUS P4S533 on-board LAN

2002-10-09 Thread Mike Jeays
. > > -- > Matt Emmerton Thanks for the advice, from you, Tim and and Kent. Here is the DMESG is attached. -- Mike Jeays : Informatics Technology Services Division, Statistics Canada Room 3200, Main Building, Holland Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0T6 Voice (613)-951-9929 Web page :

Releasing IP addresses

2002-10-14 Thread Mike Jeays
How can I release IP addresses obtained by DHCP? I need to do the equivalent of "ipconfig /release" under Windows 2000, or the winipcfg utility in Windows 95. -- Mike Jeays : Informatics Technology Services Division, Statistics Canada Room 3200, Main Building, Holland Aven

NEC Versa LS and 3COM Megahertz card

2002-10-28 Thread Mike Jeays
I have a NEC Versa LX (Pentium 200), with a 3Com Megahertz combined Ethernet and modem PCMCIA card (3CCFEM556 B). The Ethernet part works fine under a well-known proprietary OS, but FreeBSD 4.7 refuses to see it on boot-up. I have fiddled with the BIOS options, but have had no success. Any sugge

NEC Versa LX and 3COM Megahertz

2002-10-29 Thread Mike Jeays
I have a NEC Versa LX (Pentium 200), with a 3Com Megahertz combined Ethernet and modem PCMCIA card (3CCFEM556 B). The Ethernet part works fine under a well-known proprietary OS, but FreeBSD 4.7 refuses to see it on boot-up. I have fiddled with the BIOS options, but have had no success. Any sugge

Re: NEC Versa LX and 3COM Megahertz

2002-10-29 Thread Mike Jeays
Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Mike Jeays wrote: I have a NEC Versa LX (Pentium 200), with a 3Com Megahertz combined Ethernet and modem PCMCIA card (3CCFEM556 B). The Ethernet part works fine under a well-known proprietary OS, but FreeBSD 4.7 refuses to see it on boot-up. I have

Scanners and software

2002-12-14 Thread Mike Jeays
Does anyone know of a combination of scanner and software that works well with FreeBSD (4.7)? The machine has USB ports built into the ASUS P4S533 motherboard. I am looking for a scanner that will handle both 35mm and 2 1/4 inch square black and white negatives with good resolution. To Unsubs

Re: Going from Windows to X - suggestions

2002-12-18 Thread Mike Jeays
Marco Radzinschi wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Raphaël Dingé wrote: Install KDE and/or gnome. Your call. I'm new to FreeBSD myself, having used blackbox window manager on a P133 with 48MB of RAM. Though it's not impossible, with only 16MB or RAM, GNOME or KDE would probably be pushing

Re: Drawing diagrams a-la-Visio

2002-12-21 Thread Mike Jeays
David Schultz wrote: Thus spake Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I am looking for an application that will allow diagrams to be drawn (such as network topologies) similar to the Windows program Visio (I think that is what it is called). One that has some pre-defined shapes/lines etc suitab

Re: Drawing diagrams a-la-Visio

2002-12-21 Thread Mike Jeays
Cliff Sarginson wrote: Ok, thanks for the answers. I shall have a look at the various suggestions... I may also mail whoever makes Visio and say what an excellent X11 application it would make :) It's sold by Microsoft - although they bought it from someone else. I don't think they will be i

Copying a CD

2002-12-21 Thread Mike Jeays
How can I use dd to copy a CD? The command below does not work - I presume I have failed to understand something. I have tried other devices begining "acd". 209 ~# dd if=/dev/acd0c of=x1 dd: /dev/acd0c: Invalid argument 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.000219 secs (0 byt

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