Re: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 29 May 2009 15:14:20 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Not necessarily. There were 'rules' in Nazi Germany too, and there usually exist at least some 'rules' in oppressive regimes, but they do not necessarily, by virtue of their mere existence, lead

Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail

2009-05-30 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/29 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl: itself, and how much of stupid-written PHP programs I don't think PHP itself is buggy, in fact I think badly written C programs are responsible for far more lossage. It all depends who write programs. Yes... but that has nothing to

Re: Greylisting and new posters

2009-05-30 Thread Erik Norgaard
Mel Flynn wrote: Is it possible to: a) Put a big-red-blink-popup-attentiongrabbing monster text into the subscription page about first posts being delayed with a link to greylisting? b) Hash the bodies of greylisted messages and reject / discard if the same body with a different msg id is

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-30 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/29 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Even 15 seconds of thinking is enough to understand that logging to other user and then su - gives completely no extra security. I don't buy this, given that root's login name is

Re: MIME attachments in mbox files

2009-05-30 Thread George Davidovich
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:40:52PM -0400, Vince Sabio wrote: I have a need (well, I have lots of needs, but I'll try to stay focused here) Given the nature of most messages in the last few days, I'd suggest you're trying too hard. ;-) to be able to take a Windows zip file that is stored as

Re: system reboot because of hdd

2009-05-30 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/29 claudiu vasadi claudiu.vas...@gmail.com: Hello ppl. Straight to business. FreeBSD 7.1-stable 2 hdd. 1 is ad2 and the other is ad6. ad2 is the BSD hdd, and ad6 is just for data (movies, music, etc). ad2 is a 80GB Samsung P-ata133 and ad6 is a WD 250GB S-ata2. While running a

find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, Can you please give me a hint how to use find to search for a specific text within files? I am using find in the following manner: find /path/to/files/ -mtime -2 -ls |less to find files which have been recently modified. But I would like to extend the search to find specific expression

Re: system reboot because of hdd

2009-05-30 Thread claudiu vasadi
ups, sorry. I forgot. I have 1GB ram, 1x module of DDR1 400 MHz (pc3200) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Software creating karaoke from mp3 files

2009-05-30 Thread Fbsd1
Been unable to purchase karaoke of rock and roll greats like AC/DC, THE ROLLING STONES, THE DOORS, LED ZEPPELIN. Looking for advice on software that will allow me to edit out the singing voice tracks from a mp3 file and write the resulting music as a avi file so I can have the song words show

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:25:12AM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Can you please give me a hint how to use find to search for a specific text within files? Generally, you don't - find(1) does not examine the contents of files by itself, just their directory information. You normally

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Can you please give me a hint how to use find to search for a specific text within files? Generally, you don't - find(1) does not examine the contents of files by itself, just their directory information. You normally use grep(1) to search within a file. Ahhh - I use grep on daily basis.

Re: Greylisting and new posters

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 10:20:06 Erik Norgaard wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: Is it possible to: a) Put a big-red-blink-popup-attentiongrabbing monster text into the subscription page about first posts being delayed with a link to greylisting? b) Hash the bodies of greylisted messages and reject

Re: pfsync in GENERIC?

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 05:13:27 Steven Schlansker wrote: On May 29, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Michael Powell wrote: Steven Schlansker wrote: [snip] A custom kernel can free up a little RAM, and maybe boot a little sooner, but it won't produce any earth shattering differences. I think most

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Valentin Bud
2009/5/30 Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.com Can you please give me a hint how to use find to search for a specific text within files? Generally, you don't - find(1) does not examine the contents of files by itself, just their directory information. You normally use grep(1) to

Fw: UK Currency Symbol in 7.2 Console

2009-05-30 Thread Graham Bentley
OK, this is where I am up to. I have plugged my 7.1 Release hard disc back in and I get £ signs no problem. So, I then unplug my KVM and mini keyboard and plug standard ps2 kb / ps2 mouse in. I do a minimal install of 7.2 Release from DVD and make sure I have uk.cp850 in my /etc/rc.conf Guess

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 13:56:22 Valentin Bud wrote: 2009/5/30 Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.com Can you please give me a hint how to use find to search for a specific text within files? Generally, you don't - find(1) does not examine the contents of files by itself, just

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Valentin Bud
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.netmel.flynn%2bfbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Saturday 30 May 2009 13:56:22 Valentin Bud wrote: 2009/5/30 Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.com Can you please give me a hint how to use

Re: MIME attachments in mbox files

2009-05-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 29 May 2009 23:40:52 -0400 Vince Sabio vi...@vjs.org wrote: I have a need (well, I have lots of needs, but I'll try to stay focused here) to be able to take a Windows zip file that is stored as a MIME attachment to an e-mail message in an Mbox-format spool file, and unzip the

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-30 Thread Jerry
The usefulness of government intervention into private lives, businesses, etc. is never going to be resolved on this forum. I am just going to leave with something I received at a business lecture a few years ago. It was by a Princeton professor, Dr. Webner I believe. quote Innovation has never

FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p12 bind9 log files not found

2009-05-30 Thread Prokofyev Vladislav
Hello, I have setup FreeBSD recently, can somebody help me with one interesting thing - Bind9 slave DNS server, everything is works great, but I got a problem with extended logging of xfer, etc. Bind9 started in chroot: root 7880.0 0.1 3156 1004 ?? Ss Fri01AM 0:02.10

GSM to Serial Converter

2009-05-30 Thread Exemys
This is a message in multipart MIME format. Your mail client should not be displaying this. Consider upgrading your mail client to view this message correctly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p12 bind9 log files not found

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 14:50:31 Prokofyev Vladislav wrote: Bind9 started in chroot: root 7880.0 0.1 3156 1004 ?? Ss Fri01AM 0:02.10 /usr/sbin/syslogd -l /var/run/log -l /var/named/var/run/log -s bind30792 0.0 1.2 16212 12864 ?? Is4:10PM 0:00.23

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p12 bind9 log files not found

2009-05-30 Thread Michael Powell
Prokofyev Vladislav wrote: Hello, I have setup FreeBSD recently, can somebody help me with one interesting thing - Bind9 slave DNS server, everything is works great, but I got a problem with extended logging of xfer, etc. Bind9 started in chroot: root 7880.0 0.1 3156 1004

Re: GSM to Serial Converter

2009-05-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Exemys wrote: This is a message in multipart MIME format. Your mail client should not be displaying this. Consider upgrading your mail client to view this message correctly. Wrong list. You should consider upgrading *your* mail client to send messages correctly; general consensus, and I'll

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-30 Thread cpghost
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 03:13:13PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Done the same with HP Laserjet 4000 duplex - it even received an IP automatically via DHCP, so I just had to arp -a and edit /etc/hosts and /etc/printcap. The lpq / lprm tools seemed to operate on the printer server inside

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p12 bind9 log files not found

2009-05-30 Thread Prokofyev Vladislav
named_enable=YES named_program=/usr/sbin/named named_chrootdir=/var/named -Mike After adding these options on my system, named didn't start at boot. Manully attempt to start it via '/etc/rc.d/named start' brought to the following error: /etc/rc.d/named: WARNING: run_rc_command: cannot

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
is a perfect choice. i recommend it for every unix user. Thanks for the pointer! I was actually looking for a set of ethernet print servers, and this looks very promising. Can you confirm that the PS-1206P works well under RELENG_7? it can't. it's ethernet device not PC peripheral so it

Re: Fresh install 7.2-RELEASE i386, X won't start

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
/Leslie of course turn off hald, and run moused. Unfortunately that did not fix the problem :-( What do I test next? /Leslie do X -configure and look at xorg.conf then try fixing something there. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Failure to get past a PCI bridge

2009-05-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 28 May 2009 16:24:00 +0200 Josef Moellers josef.moell...@ts.fujitsu.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install 7.2-RELEASE on a pretty new system (a Fujitsu RX300S5). The first obstacle was the fact that while the system has an AT-Keyboard-Controller, it ist not used (keyboard

Re: What is this forum for?

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hey folks, all of you, could I please sugggest that this entire thread (under a variety of subject names) is an abuse of the lists? Generally i do agree with you. But - in my opinion there are lots of other abuses. Whenever i pointed this out i got tons of protests from others. So please -

Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
It's a detailed how-to but consider the following: a) With Oracle acquiring Sun, one should move to PostgreSQL where ever possible. is this a reason, or that simply mysql is just slow and inefficient compared to postgreSQL? ___

Re: What is this forum for?

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
UPS.. maybe better not write that, as people from governments may get this new idea. Worse, the EU will consider 'super tankers' unfair to smaller sized tankers and require super tankers to only carry half as much cargo. but this will make CO2 emission higher as half-loaded supertanker needs

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p12 bind9 log files not found

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 17:01:17 Prokofyev Vladislav wrote: The named running chrooted has no clue about /var/named. You can either use ducttape: cd /var/named/var sudo ln -s .. named or just strip /var/named from your config file, hence use /var/log/xfer.log. -- Mel This

Re: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
You did all fine, i have the same configured program in my linux/openbsd/netbsd/solaris/whatever OS and it works fine So . . . basically, it's okay for someone to ask about X if that person reread again. You - intentionally or unintentionally - change what i write to mean something else.

Re: Competition law (was Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint)

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I know what socialism means. You seem not to. I haven't anywhere advocated state ownership of businesses - in fact I very clearly stated that I believe in a free market with only that level of regulation required to keep it free from monopoly abuse. You are wrong. there is no monopoly abuse

RE: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
that's why i opt for moderation. because it's completely stupid as there are no rules and no enforcement. On Fri, 29 May 2009, gabe wrote: This is stupid, I'm unsubscribing. jeez -Original Message- From: Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 1:41 PM To:

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Wojciech Puchar said the following on 2009-05-28 23:06: Poland is now slowly losing independence Poland has never had any independence. Your argument is moot. generally you are right. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: MIME attachments in mbox files

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have a need (well, I have lots of needs, but I'll try to stay focused here) to be able to take a Windows zip file that is stored as a MIME attachment to an e-mail message in an Mbox-format spool file, and unzip the attachment. I actually need to script the process. In case it helps, I can

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Basic law of marketing is to give the public what they want. No. The company CREATES a need for their product. That's the number one rule. if they succeed - what's wrong? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
But the choice you have in a strictly moderated mailing list is about the same as the choice my people had in that particular oppressive regime: leave or stay to fight a hopeless battle. Thinking your way - if someone will come to my home and will do what i do not accept - can i force him to

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
But we're talking about vulnerability to dictionary and brute-force attacks. You'd have to first: Ascertain a username in the wheel group. As time needed to brute-force crack any of my password is incomparably longer than the age of universe, this is not an argument. It's just a matter to

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am using find in the following manner: find /path/to/files/ -mtime -2 -ls |less to find files which have been recently modified. But I would like to extend the search to find specific expression within files. -name is used to specify file name. How can I search for strings within text? no

Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 17:31:35 Wojciech Puchar wrote: It's a detailed how-to but consider the following: a) With Oracle acquiring Sun, one should move to PostgreSQL where ever possible. is this a reason, or that simply mysql is just slow and inefficient compared to postgreSQL? Depends

Re: Software creating karaoke from mp3 files

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Been unable to purchase karaoke of rock and roll greats like AC/DC, THE ROLLING STONES, THE DOORS, LED ZEPPELIN. Looking for advice on software that AFAIK nobody yet invented so good voice analyzer that could separate out music and speech. But there are programs that ROUGHLY removes speech

Re: Greylisting and new posters

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Don't be. It's been bothering me for a while and you weren't even the trigger. Ironically the trigger was the endless and rather pointless discussions about list moderation. most probably you didn't read the points. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
because it tells you the file in which the text pattern was found :). Discouraged because: - it's possible to hit maxarglen if the root directory has many subdirectories. xargs is usefull too. i would it as forking for each file will make processing really slow. xargs can cut input data into

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The usefulness of government intervention into private lives, businesses, etc. is never going to be resolved on this forum. And will it be resolved with discussion anywhere else with anyone else? ;) Only usage of crude force can change the way things go today. And both me and anyone on that

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-30 Thread cpghost
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 05:18:07PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: is a perfect choice. i recommend it for every unix user. Thanks for the pointer! I was actually looking for a set of ethernet print servers, and this looks very promising. Can you confirm that the PS-1206P works well

Filter request Re: GSM to Serial Converter

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Could you please add filter for incoming mail to remove things like that from improperly configured client? It's always the same message so it's simple On Sat, 30 May 2009, Exemys wrote: This is a message in multipart MIME format. Your mail client should not be displaying this. Consider

Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Depends on your usage. I'd say for SMTP table lookups, MySQL can out perform PostgreSQL, unless one uses persistent connections (postfix proxy-map to be on topic). The reason for this is that the connection start up for MySQL has lower overhead then for PostgreSQL. for just quick searching of

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
it can't. Okay, thank you. I'll order one and test drive it here, and if it works as it should, I'll order the remaining 200 or so if we're satisfied. ;) so ask edimax directly you certainly get a discount on it. But of course test before. I installed only 7 in various places. hooked

Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail

2009-05-30 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 30 May 2009 17:31:35 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: It's a detailed how-to but consider the following: a) With Oracle acquiring Sun, one should move to PostgreSQL where ever possible. is this a reason, or that simply mysql is just slow and

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 17:57:14 Wojciech Puchar wrote: because it tells you the file in which the text pattern was found :). Discouraged because: - it's possible to hit maxarglen if the root directory has many subdirectories. xargs is usefull too. i would it as forking for each file

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread RW
On Sat, 30 May 2009 14:12:50 +0200 Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Saturday 30 May 2009 13:56:22 Valentin Bud wrote: 2009/5/30 Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.com You can use egrep -r * (grep -e) to search for specific text pattern while you are in a

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Cut off the message a bit later and you will see that using a '+' to terminate the exec primitive emulates xargs behavior: thanks. i didn't know that On Saturday 30 May 2009 14:12:50 Mel Flynn wrote: I use + rather then ; so that one invocation for grep is done whenever maxarglen is hit

Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
you tried using: BUILD_OPTIMIZED=yes BUILD_STATIC=yes Their use could improve the speed of MySQL. the latter (static) will only optimize mysql startup time ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 18:14:49 RW wrote: On Sat, 30 May 2009 14:12:50 +0200 Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Saturday 30 May 2009 13:56:22 Valentin Bud wrote: 2009/5/30 Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.com You can use egrep -r * (grep -e) to

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 30 May 2009 11:25:12 +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.com wrote: Hello, Can you please give me a hint how to use find to search for a specific text within files? One valid solution is to combine find (to find the files) and grep (to search in them). For the combination, you

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
the famous back-tics. % grep expression `find /path/to/files/ -mtime -2 -print` Of course, there are surely easier, faster and better means, but from this one, I know it just works. :-) Furthermore, I unless filelist exceed max lenght of arguments and unfortunately it happens often

Re: MIME attachments in mbox files

2009-05-30 Thread Vince Sabio
** At 00:56 -0700 on 05/30/2009, George Davidovich wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:40:52PM -0400, Vince Sabio wrote: I have a need (well, I have lots of needs, but I'll try to stay focused here) Given the nature of most messages in the last few days, I'd suggest you're trying too hard.

Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 18:05:12 Wojciech Puchar wrote: Depends on your usage. I'd say for SMTP table lookups, MySQL can out perform PostgreSQL, unless one uses persistent connections (postfix proxy-map to be on topic). The reason for this is that the connection start up for MySQL has

Best practices in finding out a trojan

2009-05-30 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, I know this has practically no connection with FreeBSD but I have a site on a shared hosting and it appears the site got a trojan called JS:Cruzer-D. I cannot find anything about it as it appears to be relatively new (28 May). Anyway, I am trying to browse through the joomla cms files in

Re: Best practices in finding out a trojan

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 19:40:55 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: I know this has practically no connection with FreeBSD but I have a site on a shared hosting and it appears the site got a trojan called JS:Cruzer-D. I cannot find anything about it as it appears to be relatively new (28 May). Anyway, I

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Walt Pawley
At 6:44 PM +0200 5/30/09, Wojciech Puchar wrote: the famous back-tics. % grep expression `find /path/to/files/ -mtime -2 -print` Of course, there are surely easier, faster and better means, but from this one, I know it just works. :-) Furthermore, I unless filelist exceed max lenght of

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
make-a-list | while read x; do pretty-much-whatever $x; done which should get around the list length limitations and provides for doing extras between the do and the done. Specifically: find /path/to/files/ -mtime -2 -print | \ while read x; do grep expression $x; done same as -exec works

Re: Greylisting and new posters

2009-05-30 Thread Chuck Robey
Mel Flynn wrote: All (including David with his kick-ass postmaster hat), while off-topic, flames and other non sense covered by Freedom of Speech are an annoyance to many, I'm more bothered by some newcomers to the list that are being greylisted on first post and instantly hit the resend

Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Markus Künkler
Hi! I installed my software using csup and make install. Now there are new versions available. How can i deinstall the old software with depencies or upgrade the complete stuff? I want to use make for that and it should ignore if an old version is already installed or deinstall the old

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi! I installed my software using csup and make install. Now there are new you mean FreeBSD or some add on software? as assume latter. you should use ports for installing software. if there are no port for it, you should write it and contribute ;) but if you already did this way, then you

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 30 May 2009 20:54:10 +0200, Markus Künkler mar...@amobos.org wrote: Hi! I installed my software using csup and make install. Now there are new versions available. How can i deinstall the old software with depencies or upgrade the complete stuff? I want to use make for that and

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 30 May 2009 21:20:13 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: If you need to install software this was, try to set target directory base not in /usr, to not make mess with base system, and not /usr/local - to not mess with ports. creating /usr/local2 is

Multiple program launches in Midnight Commander

2009-05-30 Thread Polytropon
Since I moved to FreeBSD 7, I noticed that if I press Enter on a file name in the Midnight Commander (which associates the start of the proper program with the file name as parameter, controlled by mc.ext file) that the program is sometimes started 2 or three times. This is especially annoying for

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
creating /usr/local2 is a good choice You can even keep it out of /usr employing the /opt Linuxism. :-) no matter what's the name, but it's good to have /usr/local for ports-based installed things /some/other/directory for hand-installed things so both base system and ports are clearly

Re: Multiple program launches in Midnight Commander

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
2 or three times. This is especially annoying for video files that then run multiple instances of mplayer, or image files that then run multiple instances of xzgv -tz. i never had this in any version of FreeBSD including 7.1 i use now but i use mc-lite port

Mysql6 or Mysql5

2009-05-30 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am asking thise here as I am aware there are many ISPs and Hosting farm admins on this list. I am in the process of setting up the next gen servers, and notice the Mysql6 is available in ports. Does anyone have any expierience with it? Is it solid? Fast? Are there any 'gotchas'

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread cpghost
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 09:35:35PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: You can even keep it out of /usr employing the /opt Linuxism. :-) /opt is actually a Solarism... ;-) -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 30 May 2009 23:50:42 +0200, cpghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: /opt is actually a Solarism... ;-) That's true, but nobody knows, because Solaris doesn't exist. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Glen Barber
Polytropon, On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: You can even keep it out of /usr employing the /opt Linuxism. :-) For (my own) clarity sake, won't that take up space in '/'? (Not arguing, just never thought of using /opt on FreeBSD...) -- Glen Barber

Re: rsync approach

2009-05-30 Thread Karl Vogel
On Wed, 27 May 2009 15:03:30 -0700, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com said: P We are thinking of rsync to duplicate 1st [box] 2nd [box] (with the P exception of rc.conf and a few other files of course because we don't P want them to be absolutely identical). P we plan to allow root login and have

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Karl Vogel
On Sat, 30 May 2009 11:25:12 +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.com said: Z Can you please give me a hint how to use find to search for a specific Z text within files? People have mentioned using xargs in combination with find, but if you're dealing with Windows files on a

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-05-30

2009-05-30 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 30 May 2009 18:55:15 -0400, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: For (my own) clarity sake, won't that take up space in '/'? (Not arguing, just never thought of using /opt on FreeBSD...) This depends on your file system layout, Glen. If you put everything into one partition, i.

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Glen Barber
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 30 May 2009 18:55:15 -0400, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: For (my own) clarity sake, won't that take up space in '/'?  (Not arguing, just never thought of using /opt on FreeBSD...) This depends on your

FreeBSD on USB drive for a MacBook Pro

2009-05-30 Thread John Nielsen
I'm looking for advice and/or pointers. I have an Intel-based MacBook Pro and I would like to use a USB thumb drive to be able to boot FreeBSD on it. Some questions: 1) Is this even possible? I've read that you _can_ boot Mac OS X from a USB hard drive on a new MacBook but I'm not sure if the

Myths about Power Over Ethernet

2009-05-30 Thread Midspan Manager
Myths about Power Over Ethernet May 28, 2009 Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) technology integrates power and data across standard Cat5/5e/6 network cabling and provides more flexibility in today’s workplace. PoE enables power to be supplied to network devices, such as IP phones, network cameras, and

about using ppp over ethernet

2009-05-30 Thread Yavuz Maşlak
I use freebsd7.1 I have a adsl modem. I am going to use freebsd as a router and firewall. I wish to use over pppoe. I set the adsl modem as a bridge mode. I configured ppp.conf on freebsd. When I try to connect to internet using ADSL, But I get an error as below; Freebsd can't ping at any

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-30 Thread perryh
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Even 15 seconds of thinking is enough to understand that logging to other user and then su - gives completely no extra security. I don't buy this, given that root's login name

Audio boost OSS/Mplayer

2009-05-30 Thread Kyle Grieb
I want to boost the audio playback of my multimedia. I use mplayer with oss for audio playback. I don't want to re-encode my media. uname -a:'7.1-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD' -- ~ ##The United States of America is a Slave Nation## ##The Human race is a Slave race## !!InfoWars.com!!

[FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE] Audio going silent after wakeup.

2009-05-30 Thread LoH
After setting up an Audigy2ZS with the emu10kx kernel driver, I found that after the machine goes into a suspend mode and wakes up, the sound stops playing. Unloading and reloading the kernel drivers (sound.ko and snd_emu10kx.ko) doesn't appear to do anything. I tested with an external line