umass(4) vs Vivitar USB camera

2007-01-25 Thread perryh
Does anyone happen to know where I would find a how-to for downloading and displaying images from a Vivitar ViviCam 3825? That camera seems to support umass(4), so just plug it in and use it like a USB hard drive... It seems not to be quite that simple :( When I plug it in and turn it on,

Re: Request [Ticket#432244926]

2007-01-25 Thread carookee Support
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Re: HP Embedded SATA RAID controller (FreeBSD 6.2)

2007-01-25 Thread George Vanev
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: George Vanev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 10:50 PM Subject: Re: HP Embedded SATA RAID controller (FreeBSD 6.2) George Vanev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have HP ProLiantML 110 G3 server. I

Re: HP Embedded SATA RAID controller (FreeBSD 6.2)

2007-01-25 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Hi George! Common problem. The issue isn't that the FreeBSD driver cannot talk to the SATA controller. It can do that just fine. The problem is that HP is using a modified metadata format on the disk drives. What you need to do is go into the Proliant BIOS and DISABLE the SATA raid. This of

Re: HP Embedded SATA RAID controller (FreeBSD 6.2)

2007-01-25 Thread applecom
George Vanev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AHA-3985 is SCSI controller. The one I have is SATA. Yes, I'm sure that it's Adaptec, but what is the model?! If FreeBSD didn't recognised it during the installation does that mean that it is incompatible with FreeBSD? Yes, I understand that AHA-3985 is

Re: HP Embedded SATA RAID controller (FreeBSD 6.2)

2007-01-25 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
I forgot to mention, ONLY install to ar0. do NOT install to any of the other disks that show up. Ted - Original Message - From: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: George Vanev [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 12:57

Re: HP Embedded SATA RAID controller (FreeBSD 6.2)

2007-01-25 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Hold on there. HP makes SCSI and SATA versions of many of their servers, the model numbers are almost identical between them. I think the only difference in the servers is the SCSI ones have an additional card. Now, before you go any further on Windows drivers you got to understand something.

Blocking traffic by Mac address using IPFW

2007-01-25 Thread Tek Bahadur Limbu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear All, I need some help regarding using IPFW to block specific MAC addresses. How do I block incoming traffic by a MAC address instead of an IP address. Can this be done using IPFW? Since I am quite new to FreeBSD, can somebody shed some light

Re: HP Embedded SATA RAID controller (FreeBSD 6.2)

2007-01-25 Thread George Vanev
- Original Message - From: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: George Vanev [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 10:57 AM Subject: Re: HP Embedded SATA RAID controller (FreeBSD 6.2) Hi George! Common problem. The

FreeRadius + mpd + Postgresql. lost connections

2007-01-25 Thread Данила Полубоярцев
I have VPN-server based on FreeBSD 6.2 + FreeRadius (1.1.4_1) + mpd (3.18_5) + PostgreSQL(8.2.1). It works fine until any user try to enter invalid pair login/password. After that nobody can connect to VPN-server. Moreover, all of opened at that moment connections are lost. I think that problem

Re: [OT] What does this pipe do?

2007-01-25 Thread Oliver Fromme
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Just for completeness, (file) and | (pipe) are also ^^ Sorry, that was just a typo. I meant and |, of course. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29,

man sysinstall

2007-01-25 Thread BSD Certification Team
Hello all, The man page for sysinstall is pretty out of date. I am trying to PXE boot to an unattended install. I figured out that I needed to add dists=base kernels GENERIC even though kernels and GENERIC are not in the list in the man page. Is there anyone in charge of updating this

Re: FreeBSD challenged by Internet

2007-01-25 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:40 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD challenged by Internet What I don't get is I see guys walking in dropping $1000 on associated Mac hardware

BBC debate Battle of the operating systems

2007-01-25 Thread Robin Becker
The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm They want one individual to represent each OS. Apparently they only want Vista, OS X and Linux, but I don't see why we can't press for FreeBSD. -- Robin Becker

RE: BBC debate Battle of the operating systems

2007-01-25 Thread Grzegorz Pluta
People from the media doesnt know that FreeBSD Unix exists. All they talk about is windows and linux not really knowing the difference... Its all stimulated by the apereance of windows vista. People feel like discussing about it. Everyone knows that windows is ble and linux is cool, that Bill

Re: BBC debate Battle of the operating systems

2007-01-25 Thread Robin Becker
Robin Becker wrote: The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm They want one individual to represent each OS. Apparently they only want Vista, OS X and Linux, but I don't see why we can't press for FreeBSD. unfortunately they already

Re: BBC debate Battle of the operating systems

2007-01-25 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm They want one individual to represent each OS. Apparently they only want Vista, OS X and Linux, but I don't see why we can't press for FreeBSD.

Re: Blocking traffic by Mac address using IPFW

2007-01-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Tek Bahadur Limbu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear All, I need some help regarding using IPFW to block specific MAC addresses. How do I block incoming traffic by a MAC address instead of an IP address. Can this be done using IPFW? Since I am quite new to FreeBSD, can

Re: BBC debate Battle of the operating systems

2007-01-25 Thread Robin Becker
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm They want one individual to represent each OS. Apparently they only want Vista, OS X and Linux, but I don't see why we can't press

Re: BBC debate Battle of the operating systems

2007-01-25 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm They want one individual to represent each OS. Apparently they only want

Re: BBC debate Battle of the operating systems

2007-01-25 Thread chris neill
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 02:11:53PM +, Robin Becker wrote: Robin Becker wrote: The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm unfortunately they already closed the applications so I guess FreeBSD will have to remain partially

Re: Problem with ipfw flush

2007-01-25 Thread Ian Smith
Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 162, Issue 11 Message: 31 On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:20:47 -0500 (EST), Dan Mahoney wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey all. In trying to tweak my firewall setup I'm using a file called

Re: man sysinstall

2007-01-25 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:05:13PM -0800, BSD Certification Team wrote: Hello all, The man page for sysinstall is pretty out of date. I am trying to PXE boot to an unattended install. I figured out that I needed to add dists=base kernels GENERIC even though kernels and GENERIC are not in

Re: BBC debate Battle of the operating systems

2007-01-25 Thread Marco Muskus
2007/1/25, Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm They want one individual to represent each OS. Apparently they only want Vista, OS

Re: Problem with ipfw flush

2007-01-25 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Ian Smith wrote: Excellent. I'll read up on this for a bit. I suppose my biggest confusion was as to why I could do: kldload ipfw ipfw add 65000 allow ip from any to any but not ipfw flush ipfw add 65000 allow ip from any to any Clearly, the devil is in the output

win32-codecs still marked forbidden in error?

2007-01-25 Thread Oliver Iberien
Hi, Last ports database update yesterday, and trying to update mplayer... === mplayer-0.99.10_3 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/win32/win32-codecs-3.1.0.r1,1 - not found ===Verifying install for /usr/local/lib/win32/win32-codecs-3.1.0.r1,1 in /usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs ===

FreeBSD server configuration

2007-01-25 Thread Alexandru Gabor
Hi everyone! I need to buy a server for a medium-sized network. The server will run FreeBSD but I'm not quite sure wich. It will need to support 500 Mbps upload and 500 Mbps dowload, perhaps more, and NAT at 50-60 Mbps, firewall, bandwidth shaping and logging with netflows. I want to buy a

Re: ports with -DBATCH

2007-01-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm writing a script to install a series of ports, and would like to use the following: cd /usr/ports/foo/bar make WITH_OPTION1=yes WITH_OPTION2=yes WITHOUT_ANOTHER=yes -DBATCH install That works as expected, but I would also like those settings

Re: BBC debate Battle of the operating systems

2007-01-25 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Marco Muskus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2007/1/25, Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm They want one

Re: Problem with ipfw flush

2007-01-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Ian Smith wrote: Excellent. I'll read up on this for a bit. I've been reading man ipfw for years, but every time find something new :) I suppose my biggest confusion was as to why I could do: kldload ipfw

Re: BBC debate Battle of the operating systems

2007-01-25 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
On 1/25/07, Marco Muskus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/1/25, Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm They want one individual

Re: win32-codecs still marked forbidden in error?

2007-01-25 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On stardate Thu, 25 Jan 2007, the wise Oliver Iberien entered: Hi, Last ports database update yesterday, and trying to update mplayer... === mplayer-0.99.10_3 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/win32/win32-codecs-3.1.0.r1,1 - not found ===Verifying install for

Re: win32-codecs still marked forbidden in error?

2007-01-25 Thread Firas Kraiem
On Thursday 25 January 2007 16:35, Oliver Iberien wrote: Hi, Last ports database update yesterday, and trying to update mplayer... === mplayer-0.99.10_3 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/win32/win32-codecs-3.1.0.r1,1 - not found ===Verifying install for

RAID Performance Questions

2007-01-25 Thread Milo Hyson
I don't really have a whole lot of experience with RAID, so I was wondering if the performance figures I'm seeing are normal or if I just need to tweak things a bit. Based on what I've been reading, I would expect more significant improvements over a single drive. Here's my setup: *

[OT] Does ~ always point to $HOME?

2007-01-25 Thread youshi10
Hello again, I'm revising some documentation that has examples of running Unix commands and I want to make sure that my steps are correct, such that I can substitute the tilde character ('~') for $HOME. The only issue I can see with this is an improper configuration with sudo (ran into

Re: RAID Performance Questions

2007-01-25 Thread Martin Hepworth
Milo if you hunt around you should see papers/articles where it shows foe RAID 5 you need at least 5 drives before you any dramatic performance gains..(sun old Sun articles from around 1998 where they do the math as well). not sure about RAID 10, but again I *think* you need at least 3 drives

[OT] What does this pipe do?

2007-01-25 Thread youshi10
Thank you everyone for the responses. It has been quite educating :). One other question though.. is ksh like the swiss army knife of all shells? Seems kind of odd that it supports both bourne shell constructs and (t)csh constructs. Thanks again! -Garrett

Re: [OT] Does ~ always point to $HOME?

2007-01-25 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again, I'm revising some documentation that has examples of running Unix commands and I want to make sure that my steps are correct, such that I can substitute the tilde character ('~') for $HOME. The only issue I can see with

Is a re-boot req'd after changing 'resolv.conf' ?

2007-01-25 Thread V.I.Victor
I'm simply going to change 2 nameserver ip-addresses. Most of what I've found re. 'resolv.conf' implies it can just be changed on-the-fly. However, other sources (mostly upgrading info) have a reboot involved. So -- re-boot or not? (Note: this is a static-ip box running v5.4.) Thanks!

how to enable linux flash player in firefox

2007-01-25 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi there: I see the new flash9 for linux has been included in ports, so I installed it - but how do I enable the plugin in Firefox? Does it work or does it crash? Thanks, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic

Re: Is a re-boot req'd after changing 'resolv.conf' ?

2007-01-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 25, 2007, at 11:53 AM, V.I.Victor wrote: I'm simply going to change 2 nameserver ip-addresses. Most of what I've found re. 'resolv.conf' implies it can just be changed on-the-fly. However, other sources (mostly upgrading info) have a reboot involved. So -- re-boot or not? (Note:

Re: RAID Performance Questions

2007-01-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 25, 2007, at 10:50 AM, Milo Hyson wrote: The write times of both RAID configurations are slower than the single drive (which is expected due to having to write to multiple drives). However, I wasn't expecting such a drastic reduction (about 50%). The read times, although faster, are

Re: Is a re-boot req'd after changing 'resolv.conf' ?

2007-01-25 Thread Grant
You shouldnt need to reboot after adding a nameserver. I'm not sure if you need to if you change domain names in there. Grant. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Is a re-boot req'd after changing 'resolv.conf' ?

2007-01-25 Thread David Kelly
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 12:15:47PM -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 25, 2007, at 11:53 AM, V.I.Victor wrote: So -- re-boot or not? (Note: this is a static-ip box running v5.4.) There is no reason to reboot after changing /etc/resolv.conf. Almost everything will be using the standard

Re: RAID Performance Questions

2007-01-25 Thread Milo Hyson
On Jan 25, 2007, at 12:15, Chuck Swiger wrote: Still, you also ought to consider that a 3-disk RAID-5 configuration is very much not ideal from either an efficiency or performance standpoint-- you want more like 5 or 6 drives being used, in which case your performance numbers ought to

Re: [OT] Does ~ always point to $HOME?

2007-01-25 Thread youshi10
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Bill Campbell wrote: On Thu, Jan 25, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again, I'm revising some documentation that has examples of running Unix commands and I want to make sure that my steps are correct, such that I can substitute the tilde character ('~') for

Re: RAID Performance Questions

2007-01-25 Thread Jeff Mohler
How about one large raid, and two partitions to serve each purpose? Being so limited in HW, youre either going to take a _huge_ performance hit with only 2 disks per raid (unless Raid0), or an availability hit with everything on one RAID set. But..considering the costs of adding RAID to a

Re: RAID Performance Questions

2007-01-25 Thread Milo Hyson
On Jan 25, 2007, at 13:50, Jeff Mohler wrote: How about one large raid, and two partitions to serve each purpose? Being so limited in HW, youre either going to take a _huge_ performance hit with only 2 disks per raid (unless Raid0), or an availability hit with everything on one RAID set.

Re: RAID Performance Questions

2007-01-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Milo Hyson wrote: I also ran some performance tests with a stock build of PostgreSQL 8.0 to get a different angle on things. Two tests were run on each of the UDMA system drive, the RAID 5 unit, and the RAID 10 unit. The first tested sequential-scans through a 58,000+ record table. The second

Re: Is a re-boot req'd after changing 'resolv.conf' ?

2007-01-25 Thread Ivan Voras
V.I.Victor wrote: I'm simply going to change 2 nameserver ip-addresses. Most of what I've found re. 'resolv.conf' implies it can just be changed on-the-fly. However, other sources (mostly upgrading info) have a reboot involved. So -- re-boot or not? (Note: this is a static-ip box

how can i obtain a @freebsd.org mail address ?

2007-01-25 Thread i b
hi i'm a freebsd user and i can see a lot of people who has a @freebsd.org mail addr. (most are developers) how can I obtain an address like those ? Cheers, -- Bernevig Ioan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: how can i obtain a @freebsd.org mail address ?

2007-01-25 Thread Bill Moran
In response to i b [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hi i'm a freebsd user and i can see a lot of people who has a @freebsd.org mail addr. (most are developers) how can I obtain an address like those ? Become a developer. @freebsd.org email addresses are offered to committers. -- Bill Moran

Re: how can i obtain a @freebsd.org mail address ?

2007-01-25 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
i b schrieb: hi i'm a freebsd user and i can see a lot of people who has a @freebsd.org mail addr. (most are developers) how can I obtain an address like those ? Cheers, Hi, such adresses are only given to committers, who have direct access to the source repository.But if you work hard,

Re: Hairy Cats and mice and FreeBSD

2007-01-25 Thread RW
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:36:38 -0800 Kevin Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Xorg -configure now puts: Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 in the mouse section by default, which is all I've ever needed to make the scrollwheel work I have Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 I think you only need the other

Re: how can i obtain a @freebsd.org mail address ?

2007-01-25 Thread Ivan Voras
i b wrote: hi i'm a freebsd user and i can see a lot of people who has a @freebsd.org mail addr. (most are developers) how can I obtain an address like those ? Become a developer :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Messy ports, how to clean them up?

2007-01-25 Thread O. Hartmann
Well, I use portsnap and portupgrade on a regular basis and therefore I could watch very often the rebuild of ports - a nice and neat thing of FreeBSD. Bit sometimes I or someone else installs ports an they install dependencies and then he/she or I decide to kill/delete a specific port, but very

Re: Messy ports, how to clean them up?

2007-01-25 Thread Bill Moran
In response to O. Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, I use portsnap and portupgrade on a regular basis and therefore I could watch very often the rebuild of ports - a nice and neat thing of FreeBSD. Bit sometimes I or someone else installs ports an they install dependencies and then he/she

Re: man sysinstall

2007-01-25 Thread Tom Rhodes
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:54:47 + Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:05:13PM -0800, BSD Certification Team wrote: Hello all, The man page for sysinstall is pretty out of date. I am trying to PXE boot to an unattended install. I figured out that I

Re: Messy ports, how to clean them up?

2007-01-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 25/01/07, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to O. Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, I use portsnap and portupgrade on a regular basis and therefore I could watch very often the rebuild of ports - a nice and neat thing of FreeBSD. Bit sometimes I or someone else installs

Re: [SOLVED] RAID Performance Questions

2007-01-25 Thread Milo Hyson
A quick call to 3ware and they told me to increase vfs.read_max from 8 to 256. That helped. I'm now seeing 4x performance on a four-drive array vs a single drive. Additionally, Ivan was right about the database being too small. iostat showed no disk activity after the initial run, as

Re: Hairy Cats and mice and FreeBSD

2007-01-25 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 RW wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:36:38 -0800 Kevin Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Xorg -configure now puts: Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 in the mouse section by default, which is all I've ever needed to make the scrollwheel work I have

Re: Messy ports, how to clean them up?

2007-01-25 Thread Robert Huff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way cleaning up automatically a messy ports collection? Like portupgrade does, only the opposite way, not rebuilding/reinstalling a rebuilt/upgraded port, looking for stale ports never used anymore by another port? sysutils/pkg_cutleaves

Re: Hairy Cats and mice and FreeBSD

2007-01-25 Thread Robert Huff
RW writes: Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 in the mouse section by default, which is all I've ever needed to make the scrollwheel work Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 I think you only need the other two values on a mouse with a second scroll wheel. Does anyone know how

[Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-25 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have a friend that swears by them, but ... he's in the Linux camp, so tends to have a quasi-inside track ... What are ppls opinions on them as far as FreeBSD is concerned? Also, interested in what sort of specs ppl are running ... I'm interested

Re: Messy ports, how to clean them up?

2007-01-25 Thread Sahil Tandon
Robert Huff wrote: I use portupgrade. I've never used pkg_deinstall, but given that portupgrade gets ... confused ... occasionally I look suspiciously at anything that promises clean upward recursion. Many people prefer sysutils/portmanager over portupgrade. As usual, YMMV.

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-25 Thread Jeff Royle
Marc G. Fournier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have a friend that swears by them, but ... he's in the Linux camp, so tends to have a quasi-inside track ... What are ppls opinions on them as far as FreeBSD is concerned? Also, interested in what sort of specs ppl are

Re: Messy ports, how to clean them up?

2007-01-25 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Well, I use portsnap and portupgrade on a regular basis and therefore I could watch very often the rebuild of ports - a nice and neat thing of FreeBSD. Bit sometimes I or someone else installs ports an they install dependencies and then he/she or I decide to kill/delete a specific port, but very

The BBC survey....

2007-01-25 Thread Sergio Lenzi
Hello alll Even FreeBSD, or even any BSD (ok, OSX is BSD...) is mention in the BBC survey, I notice that: 1) They claim that 90% of the persons use windows, but in the publish list, is just the contrary... only 2 ones use windows, and like it, and one of them just for games 2) The

Re: Hairy Cats and mice and FreeBSD

2007-01-25 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Huff wrote: RW writes: Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 in the mouse section by default, which is all I've ever needed to make the scrollwheel work Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 I think you only need the other two values on a

Re: [OT] Does ~ always point to $HOME?

2007-01-25 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
I write shells script extensively , I have noticed ~ - gets a subsitution for $HOME ~userid - gets you the $HOME for that user meaning if you have have logged in as root and if you want to run some script on oracle home even though you logged in as root you can simplly

Re: [OT] Does ~ always point to $HOME?

2007-01-25 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 1/26/07, Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I write shells script extensively , I have noticed ~ - gets a subsitution for $HOME ~userid - gets you the $HOME for that user meaning if you have have logged in as root and if you want to run some script on oracle home even

Re: [OT] Does ~ always point to $HOME?

2007-01-25 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: I write shells script extensively , I have noticed ~ - gets a subsitution for $HOME ~userid - gets you the $HOME for that user meaning if you have have logged in as root and if you want to run some script on oracle home even though you

Re: [OT] Does ~ always point to $HOME?

2007-01-25 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 1/26/07, Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 26, 2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: I write shells script extensively , I have noticed ~ - gets a subsitution for $HOME ~userid - gets you the $HOME for that user meaning if you have have logged in as root and if you want

Re: [OT] What does this pipe do?

2007-01-25 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 1/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you everyone for the responses. It has been quite educating :). One other question though.. is ksh like the swiss army knife of all shells? Seems kind of odd that it supports both bourne shell constructs and (t)csh constructs. Yes

Re: BBC debate Battle of the operating systems

2007-01-25 Thread Juha Saarinen
On 1/26/07, Grzegorz Pluta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People from the media doesnt know that FreeBSD Unix exists. Rubbish. I have known about the existence of FreeBSD (and other BSD variants) for a great many years now. -- Juha http://www.geekzone.co.nz/juha