quick question about turning the annoying beep off in X

2003-11-13 Thread twig les
Hey all, in my /etc/csh.cshrc I have xset b off which does what I want, which is to tell X to shut up without me having to type the command in every X session. But it seems clumsy as it puts up an error "xset: unable to open display """ when I ssh in. I fully understand that this *should* be a

Re: quick question about turning the annoying beep off in X

2003-11-13 Thread twig les
--- Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the last episode (Nov 13), twig les said: > > Hey all, in my /etc/csh.cshrc I have > > > > xset b off > > > > which does what I want, which is to tell X to shut up > without me > > having to ty

Bind a process to a specific CPU

2003-12-11 Thread twig les
Can anyone point me to a man page or something on how to bind a specific process to a specific cpu? I have a couple non-multi-threaded programs to run on dual-CPU boxes and I'd like to split them up as I see fit. Thanks for anything. Keith __ Do you Yahoo!? Prote

Dying disk?

2004-06-18 Thread twig les
Hey *, I can't quite figure out if this is a dire warning. I hope not since I can't convince my hard drives to stop failing ... sigh. The machine still works fine and has no data worth worrying about, but it'd be nice to know ... From dmesg: acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG status=51 sensekey=ILLEGAL R

Re: Dying disk?

2004-06-18 Thread twig les
Wow I feel like a moron. I'll check the jumper settings on my *cdrom*. Thnx for the boot to the head. --- Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > twig les <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey *, I can't quite figure out if this is a dire warning. > I &

SCP fails while ssh works...

2004-02-09 Thread twig les
Hey all, I have to identical boxes running 4.6 and all of a sudden one stopped taking SCP even though it still takes ssh connections. The other box is still working fine and they are on the same subnet. The only thing I could find online about this is an MTU mismatch which makes no sense in this

Where to email regarding 4.9RC1 bugs/problems?

2003-10-02 Thread twig les
Hey all, I'm having stability problems after updating my laptop from 4.7 to 4.9RC1 and I'd like to know where I can send the relevant info. I've scoured the site and still can't find any specific place. None of the lists available jumped out at me as obvious. What did I miss? __

Where to find pam_unix documentation?

2003-10-03 Thread twig les
Hey *, I'm trying to do something fairly simple. On a 4.6 Release box I would like to force all users to choose passwords over a certain length and of a certain complexity. Now before anyone jumps and says to edit /etc/login.conf, please note that I tried that and it did not work. I don't want t

pccardd - no PC-CARD slots on 5.1 release

2003-10-23 Thread twig les
Hey all, after googling for about 5 hours and trying everything I can think of on my own I hope someone can help. I just upgraded this morning from 4.9RC1 to 5.1 release and I can't seem to find my ethernet card. Laptop: Toshiba Tecra 8100 NIC: old 3Com 3C589C Kernel: Generic plus "device [tab] p

natd high cpu use

2004-05-11 Thread twig les
Hey all, I just set up a 4.9based router for my home office last week and I noticed this morning that it was slow. So I logged in and threw up a top session and saw this: PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZERES STATETIME WCPUCPU COMMAND 88 root 53 0 33988K 33792K RUN427:02 94

dhcpd interface specification

2004-05-03 Thread twig les
Hey all, I'm missing something small here. I set up isc's dhcp server to listen on one interface and it listens on both. gate# /usr/local/sbin/dhcpd rl1 Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server V3.0.1rc12 Copyright 1995-2003 Internet Software Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visi

Re: dhcpd interface specification

2004-05-04 Thread twig les
twig les wrote: > Hey all, I'm missing something small here. I set up isc's dhcp > server to listen on one interface and it listens on both. > >I do exactly this by adding to /etc/rc.conf: dhcpd_enable="YES" dhcpd_flags="rl1" >and that wo

routing problem on 4.7 release

2003-01-21 Thread twig les
Hey all, I have a 4.7 release box that needs to cvsup its ports. The problem is that this box never sees the outside world normally; it does IDS on an IP-less interface and of course has a backnet interface. So basically I added a temporary IP address to this box, edited my /etc/cvsupfile to use

Re: dvdrip doesnt see my dvds

2002-09-19 Thread twig les
scene. --- Kevin Oberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:54:47 -0700 (PDT) > > From: twig les <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Hey *, I'm trying to use my laptop to rip dvds > using > > dvdrip, but

Can't mount my fat32 partition

2002-09-20 Thread twig les
Hey all, for some reason I'm having a lot of trouble mounting a fat 32 partition, even though the book I have and the web site I found both said that it's a snap. The man page didn't help and a google search didn't either so here goes. I keep getting an invalid argument response when I try to mo

Re: Can't mount my fat32 partition

2002-09-20 Thread twig les
ad0s5 > mount_msdos /dev/ad0s5 /mnt > > Hope that helps, > -Matt > > > On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 13:57, twig les wrote: > > Hey all, for some reason I'm having a lot of > trouble > > mounting a fat 32 partition, even though the book > I > > have an

kernel compilation failure, ack!

2002-09-20 Thread twig les
Hello *, for weeks I haven't been able to cut a new kernel, which means I can't add my sound driver (pcm0) which means I can't get one more step toward the goal of replacing all windows tasks in my life with BSD. The error I get is thus: L# make buildkernel KERNCONF=FW make: no target to make. "

Re: kernel compilation failure, ack!

2002-09-20 Thread twig les
onfigure (I tried pkg_version and its not there). Sigh. Thanks for the lead, any additional help will gain you a smile. --- Dru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, twig les wrote: > > > Hello *, for weeks I haven't been able to cut a > new >

Re: kernel compilation failure, ack!

2002-09-20 Thread twig les
mething up. --- Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2002-09-20 20:42, Dru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, twig les wrote: > > > > > > The error I get is thus: > > > > > > L# make buildkernel KERNCONF=FW &

Re: kernel compilation failure, ack!

2002-09-20 Thread twig les
ll be in a good mood. Thanks again, if I find an answer I'll post it. --- Dru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, twig les wrote: > > > Well you caught me. I had a bunch of garbage in > my FW > > file that I never put there (not intentionally)

Re: kernel compilation failure, ack!

2002-09-21 Thread twig les
NERIC that wasn't in Stable's GENERIC. I'm not sure, hectic week. Again, thnx for the steady stream of common sense. --- Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 06:59:59PM -0700, twig les > wrote: > > I did that, it just found another l

SSH.com on FreeBSD

2002-09-25 Thread twig les
Has anyone compiled and run SSH.com's ssh server on FreeBSD? Specifically the boxes are running 4.6 release (fully patched of course :) and we will be using secureID. The base install is user (locked down from there). Basically I'm wondering if there is anything I will get killed on like having

Random panic and reboot

2002-10-14 Thread twig les
Hey all, I'm a bit curious as to why my 4.6 Release box (stripped down and patched) rebooted this morning. I've had this problem before when I tried to skimp and use cheap memory, but this box has great memory (can't remember which brand) and has been running 4.4 release for a year, then 4.6 rele

monitoring CPU/mem etc without SNMP

2002-11-07 Thread twig les
Hey all, after a bit of thinking and some looking thru email archives I'm still stumped on a way to get CPU, memory, disk I/O, disk use etc info from one machine to another without using SNMP. All these boxes are FreeBSD 4.7 Release. I'm sure I could rig a script to ssh into the boxes and do

dsniff problems

2002-11-14 Thread twig les
Hey all, I'm really trying to find some good info on dsniff and failing miserably. I get this: = L# msgsnarf msgsnarf: no suitable device found L# dsniff dsniff: nids_init: no suitable device found L# tcpkill tcpkill: no suitable device found L# t

Re: dsniff problems

2002-11-17 Thread twig les
wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 01:52:24PM -0800, twig les > wrote: > > Hey all, I'm really trying to find some good info > on > > dsniff and failing miserably. I get this: > > > > = > > L# msgsnarf >

RE: Shared object "libmysqlclient.so.10" not found

2002-11-18 Thread twig les
# dmesg -a sendmail /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libmysqlclient.so.10" not found Sendmail works fine (the fact that you're reading this is proof) after I: == I don't know why Sendmail would fail from this but I'll bet that if you try to use your mysql

Re: TCPDump version in base?

2003-03-06 Thread twig les
as such is all that > meaningful anyway. > > Andrew > > > > On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, twig les wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:53:41 -0800 (PST) > > From: twig les <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: TCPDump version

xv not working right?

2002-07-22 Thread twig les
Hey all, I'm trying to use xv to get a background pic on my laptop and it's not quite working as expected. I'm running 4.6 release (everything else works great) with xv-3.10a_2. My desktop is windowmaker. The command I put in my user's .xinitrc is this: xv -quit -root /usr/home/twigles/pic.jpg

strange messages in /var/log and all logins refused ...

2003-07-07 Thread twig les
Hey *, this morning I tried to log into my freebsd 4.6 release box and was refused (SSH 2.9 sent back the passwd prompt and denied me). I called someone else and they tried, and were refused too. I got in via the console and reset my user and the root passwd and could ssh in successfully. I'm th

Re: strange messages in /var/log and all logins refused ...

2003-07-07 Thread twig les
. Thnx. BTW, what exactly pointed to a disk failure and why? I'm not a programmer by profession (which is good bc I'm pretty bad at it). --- Andy Farkas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, twig les wrote: > > > Also, I found some strange output in

Dead hard drive I think

2003-07-23 Thread twig les
Hey *, A couple weeks ago I posted some error code and someone said it was probably a dying hard drive. I believe he was correct and that the drive is actively getting worse (it's in a "lights-out" center in another state so I wish I could poke at it but I can't). I'm hoping someone can confirm

Re: common criteria status?

2003-08-14 Thread twig les
Yeah you're probably right about money going to developer time rather than certification, but being certified under the common criteria can only help the project. It doesn't seem very likely though. --- Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 09:

common criteria status?

2003-08-14 Thread twig les
Hey *, I was just on a conference call, so naturally I was reading slashdot and saw that Linux has managed to get certified under the common criteria. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20030805/tc_nm/tech_ibm_linux_dc I know that trustedBSD is working towards t