Re: Copying a CD

2002-12-22 Thread Mike Jeays
David S. Jackson wrote: On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 09:44:58PM -0500 Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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

List etiquette

2002-12-22 Thread Mike Jeays
Many times I have asked questions on this list, and had helpful replies from one or more people. My usual practice is to reply to them directly and thank them, and tell them whether their idea helped. This avoids cluttering up the list with "thank-you" messages, but may look as though I haven't b

Re: Padding expr output

2002-12-22 Thread Mike Jeays
Kurt Bigler wrote: on 12/22/02 3:57 PM, BSD Freak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I am usiung expr in a shell script and need to pad it's output to always be 3 characters. An example will explain thing better: % expr 007 + 1 Output is 8 I need the output to be 008 I checked the expr m

Re: List etiquette

2002-12-23 Thread Mike Jeays
Cliff Sarginson wrote: On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 08:39:17PM -0500, John Bleichert wrote: On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Dan Nelson wrote: Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 18:38:37 -0600 Subject: Re: List etiquette In the last episode (Dec 22), Mike Jeays said: Many times I have asked questions on this

OpenOffice and Mozilla

2003-02-20 Thread Mike Jeays
Several times I have found that running OpenOffice 1.0 on FreeBSD 4.7 has corrupted my Mozilla settings. The contents of .mozilla looks intact, but it refuses to recognize my profile. I have to build a new profile, and move over my bookmarks and mail folders. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386;

KBTV setup problem

2006-09-05 Thread Mike jeays
are/apps/kbtv/kbtv_part.py", line 389, in extendToolbar self.toolbarwidget = KbtvToolbarWidget(self, tb) File "/usr/local/share/apps/kbtv/kbtv_toolbar.py", line 48, in __init__ self.mixerchan = bthardware.MIXER_CHANNEL_NAMES.index(mchan) ValueError: list.index(x): x not in li

Re: KBTV setup problem

2006-09-06 Thread Mike jeays
gt; HTH, > > Dan > > On Wednesday 06 September 2006 05:09, Mike jeays wrote: > > Has anyone else encountered this problem with KBTV? Note that the line > > showing the mixer channel seems to lack an entry. > > > > chaucer 501 /usr/home/mike # btsetup >

Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD

2006-09-19 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 10:49 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 01:52:07AM -0700, Stanley Wright wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > Is it possible to boot FreeBSD from a floppy disk or a CD. I dont want > > the other users to know the OS is on the computer. > > Wow, stealth

Re: TV capture card

2006-11-10 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 22:28 +0600, Bachilo Dmitry wrote: > В сообщении от Пятница 10 ноября 2006 22:18 Tsu-Fan Cheng написал(a): > > Hi > > thank you guys. I just ordered a TV card from Avermedia, it should be > > using brooktree chip. i chose AverMedia over Happahauge simply because it's > > les

Re: question

2006-11-12 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 19:40 +0100, Sebastian Herrmann wrote: > > Hallo, > > could you tell me how to download FreeBSD from your site? > > Gruß > > Sebastian > > > > "Ein Herz für Kinder" - Ihre Spende hilft! Aktion: www.deutschlandsegelt.de > Unser Dankeschön: Ihr Name auf dem Segel d

Re: Install problems

2006-11-25 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 19:04 -0500, Jose wrote: > Hi, > > > > Let me start by saying I am new to FreeBSD. I downloaded the iso, burned it > to disk and installed the software. However when I restart the pc after the > install I get an error message that it cannot find the kernel. I have gone > t

Re: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out....

2007-09-02 Thread Mike Jeays
ice user's point of view. Both work great. Both seem rock solid, and recover well from the occasional power outages I get at my new home. (Ought to get a battery backup before disaster hits one day, I suppose). All the development tools are a few mouse-clicks away. I may switch back

Re: network card setup?

2007-03-06 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 18:49 +0530, elaya raj wrote: > Hi, > i new to freebsd i want to configure my network card. But i dont know how to > configure it. after configure the nic card i want to configur ftp also.. so > plz guid me how to configure the nic card and ftp... > _

[Fwd: Re: Search & Replace Issue]

2006-12-24 Thread Mike Jeays
--- Begin Message --- On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 12:13 -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Jack Stone wrote: > > > > > > > >> From: Parv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To: Josh Paetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> CC: Jack Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >> Subject: Re: Search & Replace Is

Re: dd is so slow on my SCSI disc

2005-08-22 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 20:57, Danny MacMillan wrote: > Sebastian Pahlke wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to "clean" a disc before selling them: > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 > > You may want to consider using /dev/random instead of, or in combination > with, /dev/zero. Zeroing out a d

Hauppauge Win TV Go-Plus

2005-09-11 Thread Mike Jeays
I am not having much success with this card so far, on a 5.3 system. I added device bktr device iicbus device iicbb device smbus to the kernel config file, and it compiled without error, but there is no reference to iicbus, iicbb or smbus in the dmesg output. All that is new is: bktr0: m

Re: Free Opera

2005-09-20 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 15:52, Gerard Seibert wrote: > I know that this is slightly off topic, but Opera is now being given > away free. There is a FreeBSD version available there. > > http://www.opera.com > > > We will now return you to your regularly scheduled forum. > I downloaded and install

Re: Free Opera

2005-09-20 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 19:48, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2005-09-20 19:17, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 15:52, Gerard Seibert wrote: > >> I know that this is slightly off topic, but Opera is now being given > >> away free. The

Re: sendmail or another mail server?

2005-09-26 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 19:01, Efren Bravo wrote: > Hi, > > I've installed a fBSD and now I'm tuning it 'cause I need to put it to > serve as mail server. > > My questions is if sendmail is able to serve as a serious mail server or I > should try with another software for this job. > > In

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 11:34, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Kirk Strauser wrote: > > >On Monday 26 September 2005 22:54, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > > >>Here you are, I'm sure this sort of thing is what you are really > >>dying to have on there; > >> > >> > > > >You owe me a new keyboard, prefera

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 17:28, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Mike Jeays wrote: > > > > >As well as turning off the beastie, is there a way to suppress all the > >dmesg and other output, so that the first thing to appear is the KDM or > >GDM login screen? When I show FreeBS

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-29 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 17:28, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Mike Jeays wrote: > > > > >As well as turning off the beastie, is there a way to suppress all the > >dmesg and other output, so that the first thing to appear is the KDM or > >GDM login screen? When I show FreeBS

Disk errors

2005-09-30 Thread Mike Jeays
I am getting one or two of these a day on a Western Digital 80GB disk How concerned should I be? The machine seems reliable otherwise. ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=61092255 ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=61314367 ad0: WARNING - REA

Re: Disk errors

2005-09-30 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 16:48, Gerard Seibert wrote: > On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:31:58 -0400, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Disk errors > Wrote these words of wisdom: > > > I am getting one or two of these a day on a Western Digital 80GB disk > > How conce

Re: Disk errors

2005-10-03 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 13:48, Joe S wrote: > Mike Jeays wrote: > > I am getting one or two of these a day on a Western Digital 80GB disk > > Most drive manufacturers provide diagnostic tools for the drives they > produce. In this case, Western Digital provides a bootab

Re: best programming language for console/sql application?

2007-04-22 Thread Mike Jeays
ode, and is my current favourite. TCL is more verbose, and does not have the excellent OO features to be found in Python and Ruby. Python is very easy to learn - it even seems a bit naive to begin with, but it is actually very powerful. OT as you said, and the stuff of flamewars! --

Re: machine will no longer boot

2007-05-28 Thread Mike Jeays
e able to use the antique line-editor 'ed' from the "ridiculous" shell. Use Knoppix or another machine to read or write down the man pages, and use it to delete the lines from fstab. You might also be able to use 'sed' from the command line to change the offen

Re: How to mount USB key

2007-06-06 Thread Mike Jeays
lp. If it is a DOS-format device, you need to say mount -t mdsos /dev/da0 /mnt or maybe mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

Re: Mounting USB-stick

2005-04-23 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 15:41, Fridtjof Busse wrote: > Hi > I've got a problem with mounting a USB-stick on FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 (and > according to google I'm not the only one, but noone seems to have had > the problem I have): > If I plug the stick in, I get lots of > > Apr 23 21:26:08 fbsd kernel: (da

Re: Qt programming

2005-04-26 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 14:27, Steven Friedrich wrote: > On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:08:13 +, Chuck Robey wrote: > > >Steven Friedrich wrote: > >> I want to learn Qt programming. Can I do that without buying anything > >> from TrollTech (until I'm ready to develop a commercial program) ? Does > >

Ports update gone badly wrong

2005-04-29 Thread Mike Jeays
I think I have made a horrendeous mess of my workstation. I have been running 5.3 with no problem, and then I tried to csvup the ports files, using the following section in ports-supfile. Note I didn't change the release tag! I updated a few of the ports, including Evolution and Firefox, and had

Re: Looking for a KATE replacement

2005-04-30 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 04:35, Frank Staals wrote: > Hey everyone, > > When I started using FreeBSD for desktop usage ( about a year ago ) I > used KDE as desktop manager, but now I am using XFCE4.2.1 for that > purpose. But when writing html pages, scripts, programs etc I still use > KATE ( KDE

Re: Ports update gone badly wrong

2005-05-01 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 17:44, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 04:37:10PM -0400, Mike Jeays wrote: > > I think I have made a horrendeous mess of my workstation. I have been > > running 5.3 with no problem, and then I tried to csvup the ports files, > > using the

Re: NVIDIA Driver on 5.4 RC3

2005-05-10 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 12:37, Rod Person wrote: > On Tue, 10 May 2005 12:24:30 -0400, Joseph Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I've got an NVIDIA TNT2 and I'm trying to install NVIDIA's driver on the > > AMD > > 64 Release of 5.4 RC3. The driver I'm trying to install is: > > NVIDIA-Fr

Re: Help with Expect Script

2005-05-15 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 14:09, Phusion wrote: > I'm new to writing expect scripts and need some help. The script will > telnet to a host and run some commands. I want the script to ping the > host to see if it's alive first before it telnets into it. Also, I > know the host is pingable meaning it res

Epson Stylus C86 Printer

2005-05-15 Thread Mike Jeays
I have just bought one of these printers, and am having trouble getting it to work with ghostscript. It is connected via a USB port, and it responds momentarily when I send anything directly to /dev/ulpt0. I would appreciate the correct parameters for ghostscript - I think it should work with de

Re: Epson Stylus C86 Printer

2005-05-17 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 11:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >-- Messaggio originale -- > >Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 23:02:56 +0100 > >From: Chris Hodgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >S

Re: Epson Stylus C86 Printer

2005-05-17 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 15:44, dgmm wrote: > On Monday 16 May 2005 02:35, Mike Jeays wrote: > > I have just bought one of these printers, and am having trouble getting > > it to work with ghostscript. It is connected via a USB port, and it > > responds momentarily when I send

Re: Epson Stylus C86 Printer

2005-05-17 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 18:42, Mike Jeays wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 15:44, dgmm wrote: > > On Monday 16 May 2005 02:35, Mike Jeays wrote: > > > I have just bought one of these printers, and am having trouble getting > > > it to work with ghostscript. It is conne

Re: Epson Stylus C86 Printer

2005-05-20 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 17:49, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have just bought one of these printers, and am having trouble getting > > it to work with ghostscript. It is connected via a USB port, and it > > responds momentarily

Re: Help with Expect

2005-05-22 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 20:30, Phusion wrote: > I need some help with an expect script I'm trying to write. Here's > what I would like to do. > > - Ping the host to see if it's up. > a. If the host responds to pings telnet into it. > b. If the host doesn't respond to pings write that to a log fi

Re: Help with Expect

2005-05-23 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 10:33, Phusion wrote: > Mike, > > I need to this be in an expect script because I will be entering > commands after I telnet into the machine. Thanks for the help though. > > On 5/22/05, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2005

Re: Adding a FormFeed to an LPR printcap file?

2005-05-28 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 23:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello: > > Could someone suggest a way to add a form feed to the > end of a print document in LPR? I have a printer that > doesn't eject the last page when the print job is > finished; and I can't seem to find this in the manual. > > My gues

Re: bsd vx tux

2005-06-03 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 08:34, Knut Anish Nordb wrote: > http://home.hit.no/~petterse/grafikk/tux_vs_daemon.jpg > look what somone did with the bsd mascot:( > I want revenge!! ;) > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.o

JDK 1.5 port fails to compile

2005-06-04 Thread Mike Jeays
I downloaded the required sources for jdk15, but the port fails to compile; here are the final messages. Did I fail to do something important? FreeBSD 5.3, with an up to date ports tree. ../../../src/share/classes/com/sun/jmx/mbeanserver/MBeanInstantiatorImpl.java:162: warning: non-varargs c

Re: JDK 1.5 port fails to compile

2005-06-05 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 21:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Saturday 04 June 2005 06:28 pm, Vizion wrote: > > On Saturday 04 June 2005 16:27, the author Mike Jeays contributed to the > > dialogue on- > > > > JDK 1.5 port fails to compile: > > >I downloaded the

Re: CUPS hp deskjet driver install fails

2005-06-07 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 19:00, Paul Schmehl wrote: > I'm running 5.4 RELEASE. I installed cups, set up two printers (one hplj > network printer and one hpdj parallel port printer) and printed test pages. > The network printer printed a test page just fine. The parallel port > deskjet printer too

Re: ggv errors with pdf

2005-06-08 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 20:58, .VWV. wrote: > > > Hello. > > Probably this one will be definitely my end question. > > I have a problem with ggv whilst trying to read pdf documents, not ps > documents [attachment]. Moreover, I would like to know what's the best > resource available to produce p

Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without "sh

2008-01-07 Thread Mike Jeays
ty implications at all - > assuming your scripts are OK, of course. I don't see anything especially bad about putting "." as the last item in the PATH on a personal desktop machine. It is convenient, IMHO worth the risk. If my desktop gets hacked, I have w

Xmkmf/make problem

2004-10-18 Thread Mike Jeays
I have several Xlib programs that compiled successfully on earlier versions of FreeBSD (4.1 and before), using xmkmf and make. With 5.1, I get an error message: "make: don't know how to make /usr/include/machine/ansi.h. Stop" It looks as though this header file, and several others, have been mov

Re: Xmkmf/make problem

2004-10-19 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 19:39, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2004-10-18 19:25, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have several Xlib programs that compiled successfully on earlier > > versions of FreeBSD (4.1 and before), using xmkmf and make. With 5.1, I >

Re: Xmkmf/make problem

2004-10-19 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 08:31, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2004-10-19 07:26, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 19:39, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > On 2004-10-18 19:25, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

Re: How to print to hp JetDirect/LaserJet

2004-10-30 Thread Mike Jeays
Add rm=192.168.1.40 to the /etc/printcap entry. My example is (faraday is the name of the machine with the printer): lp|hp710c:\ :lp=::rm=faraday:rp=lp:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:sd=/var/spool/lpd:mx#0: ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.fr

Re: release 5.3 'Configure' missing 'XFree86' option

2004-11-09 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 22:13, e wrote: > hi: > > i downloaded the new 5.3 release (i386 iso disks 1, 2). > > i have installed freebsd many times. this release does not have > 'XFree86' as a 'Configure' option. > > is this me or is there a problem? > > thanks, > > efs > > > ___

Re: Corrupted Zip Disc

2004-11-12 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 15:36, Anthony Arjil wrote: > I am a novice when it comes to computers so I am not certain > if anything on your site will help me. I have a bad 100mb > zip disc that my Iomega can no longer read. I have photos on the disc. > Can anything help retrieve the data? > > Ant

Re: Xmkmf/make problem

2004-11-13 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 20:22, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2004-10-19 19:15, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 08:31, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > On 2004-10-19 07:26, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [...] I

Re: Xmkmf/make problem

2004-11-13 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 12:41, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2004-11-13 08:49, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 20:22, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > On 2004-10-19 19:15, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 20

Re: Xmkmf/make problem

2004-11-13 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 19:53, Mike Jeays wrote: > On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 12:41, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2004-11-13 08:49, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 20:22, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > > On 2004-10-19 19:15,

Re: Xmkmf/make problem

2004-11-15 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 12:41, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2004-11-13 08:49, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 20:22, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > On 2004-10-19 19:15, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 20

Re: book recommendation...?

2004-11-21 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 09:27, J.D. Bronson wrote: > I am looking for a good FreeBSD book recomendation > that would over the 5.x series and be available in Barnes/Noble > locally. > > (My wife is looking for some gift ideas for me and I felt this might be a > good start) > > I dont need a totally

Tar -N date error?

2004-11-25 Thread Mike Jeays
I have trouble with tar's -N format with 5.1 (yes, I am going to upgrade to 5.3 this weekend). Commands such as tar -cvzf arch.tar.gz -N '2004-09-01' * and tar -cvzf arch.tar.gz -N'10 days ago' * work fine for periods in the recent past (up to about 40 days), but for more than that, everything

Re: bsdtar '--exclude pattern' problems

2004-11-30 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 08:31, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: > Hello all, > > I upgraded 5.2.1 to 5.3 recently and I'm trying to run my cron scripts > which use tar utility (which defaults to bsdtar(1) on 5.3) and I can't > figure out how to use '--exclude pattern' with it. It seems I'm > missing somethi

Re: USB Flash Drive

2004-11-30 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 09:24, Brian Bobowski wrote: > Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: > > >>Yes, put an entry in /etc/fstab for it. e.g.: > >> > >>/dev/da0 /flash[1] msdosfs[2] rw > >> > >> > >> > > > >Perhaps my card is just unusal, but freeBSD makes a da0s1 node which > >is the appro

Re: wps to odt?

2010-02-02 Thread Mike Jeays
On February 2, 2010 07:35:42 pm Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 09:20:50AM +1100, andrew clarke wrote: > > On Tue 2010-02-02 12:44:41 UTC-0800, Gary Kline (kl...@thought.org) wrote: > > > is there such a converter that sends m$ Works [.wps] to odt? > > > > AbiWord. > > > > And a quick-a

Re: PASSWORD LOST!!

2010-02-09 Thread Mike Jeays
On February 8, 2010 01:53:22 pm Eric Petersen wrote: > Hey guys, > > I have a web/ftp server loaded with FreeBSD. This was done a couple > of years back. Since then the person or persons that did the original > install have gone out of business and cannot be found. > > Currently I have an issue log

Re: OT: dead box

2010-03-21 Thread Mike Jeays
On March 21, 2010 08:24:15 am Frank Shute wrote: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:23:34AM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > > Frank Shute wrote: > > >Sorry if this is a bit off-topic. > > > > > >I came in the other day to find my workstation powered off. Hitting > > >the power on button had no effect as

Re: Installation queries

2010-04-24 Thread Mike Jeays
On April 24, 2010 07:53:27 am Glen Barber wrote: > Hi, > > Warren Liddell wrote: > > I have a Hard Drive presently running Win 7 which ironically i wish to > > remain souly a Win drive .. my question is, i have another drive im > > looking to put in while i take the windows 1 out and install FreeBS

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Mike Jeays
-- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca http://www.rotarycpmm.ca On June 8, 2009 02:56:31 pm Jos Chrispijn wrote: > Found another solution (for running @ 23:58): > > 58 23 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /myscript > > thanks for all o

Re: KDE3 --> KDE4

2009-08-26 Thread Mike Jeays
x27;. But it seems to be a distraction from actually doing useful work. Much better to turn it off, IMHO. -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca http://www.rotarycpmm.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: xhost does not work as expected

2006-04-27 Thread Mike Jeays
t; thanks > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" To enable remote X displays, use either "startx -list

Re: newly installed apps not in path?

2006-05-15 Thread Mike Jeays
, I beleive you have to issue a 'rehash' command after modifying the libraries in $PATH. I would not have expected to see this problem with bash, however. -- Mike Jeays http://ca.geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: cleaning off unix/linux????

2006-05-21 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 13:41 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 07:21:23PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: > > > > On May 20, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > Gang, > > > > > > A 40G drive that I thought was bad (when trying to install W2K > > > on the drive) may be

Re: MESS

2006-05-22 Thread Mike Jeays
ng it though. > > > Cheers, > Mikhail. > > The 'ed' editor is in /bin, and so is available at single-user boot. It is a real antique, but if you have a copy of the manual it is not too hard to correct /etc/fstab. 'ee' is in /usr/bin -- Mike Jeays http://ca.geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2006-05-28 Thread Mike Jeays
x27;, or any tutorial on bash for a more detailed description. Quite confusing syntax, and a hard-to-remember incantation, IMHO. -- Mike Jeays http://ca.geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: release 6.1

2006-05-31 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 10:43 -0700, jdow wrote: > From: "Erik Trulsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:49:42PM +0300, mehmet gogebakan wrote: > >> i would like to install 6.1-RELEASE to my computer , configuration is: > >> > >> 128 MB SDRAM > >> LG cdrom 52x > >> 8 MB Grafic

Re: file creation date in freebsd

2006-06-17 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 02:44 +0500, Imran Imtiaz wrote: > However we can find the modification date of a file but is it possible that > we can also get creation date of the file? > > regards, > Imran Imtiaz > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-12 Thread Mike Jeays
ng list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" Agreed. The noise level on this list is quite low, and off-topic threads get discouraged after a few iterations. I would NOT be

Re: why printf() don't work?

2009-01-05 Thread Mike Jeays
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Re: short-changed on SD card?

2009-02-02 Thread Mike Jeays
rt with a clean slate, and can run fdisk and newfs, if you want a BSD-only device. Make sure you write on the right device! -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca http://www.rotarycpmm.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: OT: sed + exit status

2009-02-15 Thread Mike Jeays
On February 15, 2009 01:26:27 am Dimitar Vasilev wrote: > >. Is sed "successful" is there are no instances of FOO? Or > > only if there is at least one instance of FOO and it is successfully > > replaced by bar? > > > >Respectfully, > > > > > >

Re: Fail to start KDE

2004-02-22 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:46:54 +0800 Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all folks, > > Version 5.2 > new installation > > I encountered problem in starting KDE after installation. > > 1) > KDE installed > pkg_info | grep kde > kde-3.1.4 The "meta-port" for KDE > kdeaddons-3.1.4 Additiona

Re: Fail to start KDE

2004-02-22 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:07:52 -0600 Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 22 February 2004 10:33 am, Mike Jeays wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:46:54 +0800 > > > > > Create a file .xinitrc in the home directory, containing the single > > line 'st

Re: Fail to start KDE

2004-02-23 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 11:48:56 +0800 Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Jeays wrote: > > >>Version 5.2 > >>new installation > >> > >>- snip - > >> > >> > > > >Create a file .xinitrc in the home directo

Re: Fail to start KDE

2004-02-24 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:51:14 +0800 Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>- snip - > >> > >> > >>2) > >>After starting 3 'Xterm windows' I can start KDE 3.1 from any one of the > >>'Xterm window' with; > >> > >># startkde > >> > >>It worked with KDE started. > >> > >> > >>3) On INIT 3/text

Re: Email account utilization warning.

2004-03-02 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 22:00, lee slaughter wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Dear user of "FreeBSD.org" mailing system, > > > >Our main mailing server will be temporary unavaible for next two days, > >to continue receiving mail in these days you have to configure our free > >auto-forwa

Remote access in 5.1

2004-03-09 Thread Mike Jeays
Since upgrading from 4.7 to 5.1, I can no longer open an xterm from another machine by setting the DISPLAY variable to point to the 5.1 machine. Is there some setting that is now disabled by default for security? Other connectivity works fine. ___ [EMAI

Re: Remote access in 5.1

2004-03-10 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 23:41, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:13:21PM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote: > > Since upgrading from 4.7 to 5.1, I can no longer open an xterm from > > another machine by setting the DISPLAY variable to point to the 5.1 > > machine. Is there

Re: extra pages when printing text files using pr and lpr

2004-03-12 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 23:09, rogermiller wrote: > Hi, all. > > I write a lot of plain text files, and print them to a dot matrix > printer attached to my parallel port. To do so, I use the pr command > to add headers, as follows: > pr -o 8 filename | lpr > > The problem is that the system alway

Re: Format floppy problem

2004-03-16 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 11:39, Prodigy wrote: > When u formated your floppy, u have to use disklabel to label floppy disc: > disklabel -w -r /dev/fd0 fd1440 > > and then u have to make new file system on that floppy: > newfs /dev/fd0 > > That's all, now u can mount your floppy disc. > > > Hi folks

Re: Compiling everything myself?

2009-03-16 Thread Mike Jeays
anks in advanced. You can do either one. The ports system automates source download, compilation and installation. The package system fetches and installs pre-compiled binaries. Take your pick. Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca http://www.rotarycpmm.ca _

Re: Licensing

2009-05-08 Thread Mike Jeays
On May 8, 2009 01:09:51 am Steve Bertrand wrote: > I've got a question that is likely not suited for this list, but I know > that there are people here who can guide me off-list. > > Being a network engineer, I'm far from a developer. With that said, I've > written numerous network automation progr

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2009-05-18 Thread Mike Jeays
-- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca http://www.rotarycpmm.ca On May 18, 2009 12:56:07 pm David Roberts wrote: > Hi, I was reading this thread as the problem I'm having seems quite > similar, and with version 7.2, although I had the same behavior with 6.3 as > well. > > >

Re: What is this forum for?

2009-05-28 Thread Mike Jeays
ttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" Now you guys are really off topic. Try moving it to alt.dev.null, and let the rest of us ask and answer questions about FreeBSD, please. --

Re: What price at the license of FreeBSD 7?

2008-07-19 Thread Mike Jeays
ou made me spit my pepsi all over my desktop ! > Thanks!! How many Zimbabwe dollars, I wonder? This seems to give the finest measurement for approximations to zero... -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: defrag

2008-08-27 Thread Mike Jeays
> > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" That's true about FAT.

RE: TIME loss

2006-07-13 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 17:35 -0400, Chris Hill wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > > > But as I mentioned earlier > > > > ntpd is running , when I do top > > ...? > > Anyway, make sure your drift file exists and is writeable. Mine looks > like this: > > $ ls -l /var/db/ntpd

Re: Searching a drive and copying files

2006-07-22 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 10:47 -0400, Joshua Lewis wrote: > Hello List, > > I have a two part question for anyone who may be able to help. > > I need to search my drive for all pictures on my system and copy them > to a networked system using sftp or ssh or what not. There will be > duplicate na

Re: Corrupt MBOX

2006-07-22 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 13:18 -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote: > Derek Ragona wrote: > > > It may be corrupted by spam. This happens when SPAM has bad headers. This > > effects all POP clients/servers. > > > > -Derek > > OK, is there any easy repair process that I can use to remedy the > s

Re: Force UDMA100 drive to UDMA33 or PIO4?

2006-09-02 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 21:12 -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > How do you force a UDMA100 drive to UDMA33 or PIO4 mode in FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE? atacontrol mode ad0 pio4 for example. man atacontrol, obviously, for more details. > ___ > freebsd-questions@freeb

Re: office apps

2010-06-06 Thread Mike Jeays
On June 6, 2010 04:34:16 pm Chip Camden wrote: > This might not be the right list for this question -- if so, please slap > me over to the right one. > > Does anyone have a recommendation for a lighter-weight office suite? > OOo is such a pig. It takes a good minute to start it up and open a > spr

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