Re: rctl within jail

2013-09-22 Thread Fbsd8
David Demelier wrote: Hello there, I wanted to use rctl within a jail to add more fine grained setting for some users, and default ones to. But it does not seem to work. Is it supported? Do we need to add a special flag to the jail creation? # rctl -a loginclass:default:maxproc:deny=30 rctl:

Re: initialize msdosfs on memory stick?

2013-09-12 Thread Fbsd8
Gary Aitken wrote: On 09/12/13 16:26, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:13:11 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: On 09/12/13 15:51, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 15:39:26 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: I can't seem to find how to do this in the handbook or man pages. I need to initialize a

Re: distfiles changed to new path

2013-08-28 Thread Fbsd8
ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 August 2013 20:13, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: I just did a portsnap run that updated the base port system. Now I see a port's distfile going to /var/ports/distfiles instead of /usr/ports/distfiles. Is this a error in the newly updated base port system

distfiles changed to new path

2013-08-27 Thread Fbsd8
I just did a portsnap run that updated the base port system. Now I see a port's distfile going to /var/ports/distfiles instead of /usr/ports/distfiles. Is this a error in the newly updated base port system which contains the default port make environment?

Re: jail.conf ignoring exec.fib?

2013-08-17 Thread Fbsd8
Karl Pielorz wrote: --On 14 August 2013 08:58 -0400 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: The jail(8) man page lacks details about how to use exec.fib. It requires either a new kernel (with options ROUTETABLES=2 or however many you want), or a boot-time setting with net.fibs=2 in /boot

Re: jail.conf ignoring exec.fib?

2013-08-14 Thread Fbsd8
Karl Pielorz wrote: I'm running 9.2-RC2 amd64 on a system, with a number of jails. The jails are setup using '/etc/jail.conf' - but the exec.fib in jail.conf seems to be being ignored? e.g. in /etc/jail.conf I have: testjail { jid = 100; exec.fib = 1; Set FIB 1

Re: sysvipc only for one jail

2013-08-13 Thread Fbsd8
Shane Ambler wrote: On 12/08/2013 21:39, Trond Endrestøl wrote: While it is currently in beta maybe you could also try 9.3 and verify that the shared memory update works or eliminates this configuration? If you missed the change, 9.3 is implementing shared memory using mmap. What 9.3

Re: sysvipc only for one jail

2013-08-13 Thread Fbsd8
Terje Elde wrote: On 12. aug. 2013, at 19.46, Trond Endrestøl wrote: If you start the jail manually using jail(8), then /etc/jail.conf comes into play, whereas the lines in /etc/rc.conf is used during automatic startup of the jails when the host is rebooted. The whole arrangement seems

Re: if_bridge and ng_netflow

2013-08-10 Thread Fbsd8
Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: Hi all. I have one machine with bridge configured. Recently I thinked about capturing all traffic on the bridge with ng_netflow. 1. ng_ether doesn't attach to bridge0 interface: # ngctl list | grep ether Name: rl0 Type: ether ID: 0034

Re: Static Jail ID's (JID's) for use with IPFW?

2013-08-07 Thread Fbsd8
Karl Pielorz wrote: Hi, I have a number of jailed systems running - and I've been setting up ipfw rules for them. This is on FBSD 9.1. 'ipfw' lets you match on traffic to/from a Jail ID (JID) - however every time jails get started / stopped their JID changes [thus breaking the firewall

.sh script code to determine IPv4 or IPv6

2013-08-03 Thread Fbsd8
I have a .sh script that I need to determine if the entered IP address is IPv4 or IPv6. Is there some .sh command that does this? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

9.2-BETA1 iso is available

2013-07-27 Thread Fbsd8
Just down loaded the 9.2-BETA1 iso. Thought others would be interested to know it is available. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: jls usage

2013-07-13 Thread Fbsd8
Teske, Devin wrote: On Jul 11, 2013, at 6:19 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: In a .sh script I'm trying to get the jid for a single jail using this code jid=`jls -j jailname | cut -f 1- | awk '{print $1}'` Looks a little over complicated... why not just.. jls -j jailname jid Thanks Devin. Thats what

jls usage

2013-07-11 Thread Fbsd8
In a .sh script I'm trying to get the jid for a single jail using this code jid=`jls -j jailname | cut -f 1- | awk '{print $1}'` The first line output by jls is a title line which the cut command is suppose to cut out so the first field on line 2 gets selected by the awk command. This is not

Re: upgrade qjail

2013-06-08 Thread Fbsd8
Masayoshi Fujimoto wrote: Hi. Could you tell me how to upgrade qjail-1.7 to qjail-3.0 ? I can not start www. So I have to use qjail-1.7 now. _ root@freebsd:/root # pkg_info | grep qjail qjail-1.7 Utility to quickly deploy and manage jails root@freebsd:/root # jls JID IP

Re: Per-IP Bandwidth Monitoring

2013-06-08 Thread Fbsd8
Kenta Suzumoto wrote: Hello. I'm running a FreeBSD machine with 5 IP addresses, each of them attached to a specific jail. I'm wondering if there is an easy way to monitor the bandwidth usage of each of them individually. Upon googling, I ran into a lot of suggestions like bandwidthd. I gave

why is ports web page so far out of date

2013-06-04 Thread Fbsd8
I can not get current version of the ports system. The ports web page http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ is almost 2 years out of date. Says the port I am interested in is at 1.7 version when just 2 weeks ago it was at 2.2. Portsnap is also messed up showing the 1.7 version.

kldload mrouting.ko

2013-06-03 Thread Fbsd8
kldload mrouting.ko command gives not found message. How do I load mrouting beside compiling the kernel with option MROUTING in kernel source? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Max top end computer for Freebsd to run on

2013-06-02 Thread Fbsd8
I'm a sub second speed freak. What is the max number of cpu's and memory size that Freebsd can handle? Can it handle 16 4ghz cpu's and 32gb of memory? I need a gaming server with some really big balls for hundreds of jails. Money is not a deciding factor here, horse power is.

kernel config file

2013-03-21 Thread Fbsd8
Back around 4.x there was a File that had all the available kernel compile options with their meanings as comments. On 9.1 I don't see that file any more. Where can I find that file that lists all the kernel compile options? The 9.1 NOTES file is not that file. I have makeoptions

Handbook Jail Chapter rewrite available for critique

2013-03-18 Thread Fbsd8
To all interested parties; I have completed the final draft of the total rewrite of FreeBSD's handbook Chapter 16 on Jails. Before submitting my work for submission to the documentation group for insertion in the handbook I am looking for critique of the work to find errors in concept,

Re: Upgrade from 6.4 to 9.1?

2013-03-16 Thread Fbsd8
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 16), Drew Tomlinson said: I have an old system happily running 6.4 but am finding that it can no longer download or build a ports index. Thus I guess it's time to upgrade. What gotchas do I need to look out for? In the past my upgrades have always

Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-11 Thread Fbsd8
Ben Cottrell wrote: On Mar 10, 2013, at 19:18, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: What is really needed is for the tzsetup program to state which east coast selections have day light saving included. Maybe a pr is in order. Nope, you pretty conclusively proved that you're using the right

Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-11 Thread Fbsd8
Jerry wrote: On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:18:23 -0500 Noel articulated: On 3/11/2013 7:49 AM, Fbsd8 wrote: Even though the system is now on DST the date command still displays EDT. Does the date command ever show DST? EDT = Eastern Daylight Time timezone not to be confused with EST = Eastern

Re: svn new pkg system

2013-03-10 Thread Fbsd8
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2013-03-09 22:04, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Giorgos Keramidas writes: Is svn going to become part of the base system in 9.2-RELEASE? No. [good reasons for not including subversion ellided] On the other hand ... The traditional - and I believe

day light saving time happened today

2013-03-10 Thread Fbsd8
day light saving time happened early sunday morning and the time shown by the date command is still one hour behind. I just did a clean 9.1 install from cdrom and selected the correct time zone for my location. I don't see any entry for daylight saving time in tzsetup I though the EDT had

Re: svn new pkg system

2013-03-10 Thread Fbsd8
Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:18:04 -0400 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: No body has made a case for NOT including svn in the base system. If it can be a port there is no reason why it can not be included in the base system. Giorgos did when he said Subversion

Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-10 Thread Fbsd8
Ben Cottrell wrote: On Mar 10, 2013, at 10:37, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: day light saving time happened early sunday morning and the time shown by the date command is still one hour behind. I just did a clean 9.1 install from cdrom and selected the correct time zone for my location

Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-10 Thread Fbsd8
Ben Cottrell wrote: On Mar 10, 2013, at 14:50, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: # /root find /usr/share/zoneinfo -type f -print | xargs md5 | grep `md5 -q /etc /localtime` MD5 (/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York) = e4ca381035a34b7a852184cc0dd89baa That's really, really odd. I'm confused

Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-10 Thread Fbsd8
Lowell Gilbert wrote: The next test is to check the clock in GMT. I expect it to be off, which means that the timezone rules are not the problem. If this is not the case, the diagnosis gets more interesting. And how do you purpose I check the clock in GMT?

Re: [Bulk] Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-10 Thread Fbsd8
Mike Jeays wrote: On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:42:52 -0400 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: The next test is to check the clock in GMT. I expect it to be off, which means that the timezone rules are not the problem. If this is not the case, the diagnosis gets more

svn new pkg system

2013-03-09 Thread Fbsd8
Is svn going to become part of the base system in 9.2-RELEASE? Is the new pkg system going to totally replace the pkg_ system in the base 9.2-Release? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Jailed process listening to broadcast address of host system - possible?

2013-03-05 Thread Fbsd8
Matthias Petermann wrote: Hello, is there any way to listen to a networks broadcast adress from within a Jail? Given ist the following setup: * The host (IP 192.168.2.127) * The jail (same IP as host, 192.168.2.127) When I do: $ nc -l 192.168.2.255 I got the following results:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/ certificate error

2013-03-01 Thread Fbsd8
When my browser access wiki.freebsd.org I get certificate error message. Who should I notify about this problem? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Limiting jail CPU memory resources

2013-03-01 Thread Fbsd8
Is there anything in 9.1 to Limit jail CPU memory resources? ___ 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: https://wiki.freebsd.org/ certificate error

2013-03-01 Thread Fbsd8
Javad Kouhi wrote: Also no problem with FreeBSD 9.1 and chromium. But sometimes ago I have this problem with all https sites. because the government forged the wrong SSL certificate and my browser and my browser warned me about it. Do you have this problem with other websites? On Fri, Mar 1,

Re: Limiting jail CPU memory resources

2013-03-01 Thread Fbsd8
Mark Felder wrote: On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 08:38:05 -0600, fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Is there anything in 9.1 to Limit jail CPU memory resources? https://wiki.freebsd.org/Hierarchical_Resource_Limits Read that all ready and left me with more question than answers. Its experimental and has

Re: https://wiki.freebsd.org/ certificate error

2013-03-01 Thread Fbsd8
Mark Felder wrote: On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:23:25 -0600, je...@seibercom.net wrote: I am not sure what he gets, but I receive this: That Gandi certificate is correct. I wonder if he's got some strange MITM going on. Heres the link I followed

Re: Limiting jail CPU memory resources

2013-03-01 Thread Fbsd8
Mark Felder wrote: On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:52:41 -0600, fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Read that all ready and left me with more question than answers. Its experimental and has to be compiled into the kernel. Need solutions that are provided as part of the base system. Such as a loadable kernel

sh script files

2013-02-20 Thread Fbsd8
I noticed that when power fails I loose the contents of some files I am using in a sh script. I read and write the file this way file=/usr/local/etc/filename # read file . ${file} # write to file ${file} I'm thinking the file is never closed so on power failure I loose the contents of the

Re: sh script files

2013-02-20 Thread Fbsd8
Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:40:08 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: # write to file ${file} I'm thinking the file is never closed so on power failure I loose the contents of the file. How would I code a command to close the file? The file is closed when the write operation has been

Re: How to add zfs support to FreeBSD?

2013-02-18 Thread Fbsd8
Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:57:14 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: Fbsd8 wrote: The handbook does not cover how to add zfs support. How is it done? Let me reword. If zfs is in the base system why does it not show up when I look for it this way? if config -x $( sysctl -n kern.bootfile

Quota as a boot time module

2013-02-16 Thread Fbsd8
I was reading the handbook quota section and it says quota has to be compiles into the kernel. I thought it can also be loaded as a boot time module? If so, how is it done. If so, I will also file a pr to get the handbook quota section updated. Thanks

9.1 kernel src only

2013-02-16 Thread Fbsd8
Before the install media format changed at 9.0, sysinstall had option to only install kernel source. Can I use 9.1 svn to just checkout the kernel src necessary to compile a custom kernel? If so, how would I code the svn command to make it happen? Thanks

Re: pkg_add -r broken for 9.1

2013-02-11 Thread Fbsd8
elhosots wrote: Because of a missing link at freebsd.org, pkg_add -r pkgname does not work I hand modify the source code and put 9-stable above 9.1-RELEASE to get around the problem in main.c Works fine for me. You did not scan the questions archives. This problem has been covered many

vnet without epair

2013-02-09 Thread Fbsd8
Has any one been able to get RELEASE 9.1 to enable jail vnet without having to use epair? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

jails running xorg desktop, is it possible?

2013-02-09 Thread Fbsd8
Has anyone been able to get a xorg desktop to run inside of a jail? All information and links to howto's welcome. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: vnet without epair

2013-02-09 Thread Fbsd8
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On 2/9/2013 5:57 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: Has any one been able to get RELEASE 9.1 to enable jail vnet without having to use epair? Yes, you can use vnet-enabled jails with several types of interfaces. Physical ones like em0 etc, virtual ones like vlan0 etc, netgraph ethernet

file-descriptor file system?

2013-02-08 Thread Fbsd8
What is a fdescfs file-descriptor file system? Is it still a normal part of 9.1? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: sysctl security.jail.* descriptions

2013-02-07 Thread Fbsd8
Jamie Gritton wrote: On 02/06/13 09:59, Fbsd8 wrote: Fbsd8 wrote: Waitman Gobble wrote: On Feb 6, 2013 7:17 AM, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Waitman Gobble wrote: On Feb 6, 2013 7:02 AM, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Where do I find the descriptions of what these jail MIBs

Re: NcFTPd on 9.1 64-bit

2013-02-07 Thread Fbsd8
Jim Pazarena wrote: Jim Pazarena wrote, On 2013-01-27 7:58 PM: I have found that on the two machines which I installed 9.1 on, NcFTPd fails system logins for non-root attempts with Password wrong for user from 192.168.1.51 These are logins which previously on 9.0 worked as expected, and

sysctl security.jail.* descriptions

2013-02-06 Thread Fbsd8
Where do I find the descriptions of what these jail MIBs do? security.jail.param.allow.mount.zfs: 0 security.jail.param.allow.mount.procfs: 0 security.jail.param.allow.mount.nullfs: 0 security.jail.param.allow.mount.devfs: 0 security.jail.param.allow.mount.: 0

Re: sysctl security.jail.* descriptions

2013-02-06 Thread Fbsd8
Waitman Gobble wrote: On Feb 6, 2013 7:02 AM, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Where do I find the descriptions of what these jail MIBs do? security.jail.param.allow.mount.zfs: 0 security.jail.param.allow.mount.procfs: 0 security.jail.param.allow.mount.nullfs: 0

Re: sysctl security.jail.* descriptions

2013-02-06 Thread Fbsd8
Waitman Gobble wrote: On Feb 6, 2013 7:17 AM, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Waitman Gobble wrote: On Feb 6, 2013 7:02 AM, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Where do I find the descriptions of what these jail MIBs do? security.jail.param.allow.mount.zfs: 0

setting MIBs on a per jail bases

2013-02-06 Thread Fbsd8
Is there a way to set these MIBs on a per jail bases? allow.mount.nullfs allow.raw_sockets cpuset.id securelevel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: setting MIBs on a per jail bases

2013-02-06 Thread Fbsd8
Fleuriot Damien wrote: Running 8.3 here and the answer is no. On Feb 6, 2013, at 5:39 PM, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Is there a way to set these MIBs on a per jail bases? allow.mount.nullfs allow.raw_sockets cpuset.id securelevel Rereading the man jail for 9.1 talks about

Re: sysctl security.jail.* descriptions

2013-02-06 Thread Fbsd8
Fbsd8 wrote: Waitman Gobble wrote: On Feb 6, 2013 7:17 AM, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Waitman Gobble wrote: On Feb 6, 2013 7:02 AM, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Where do I find the descriptions of what these jail MIBs do? security.jail.param.allow.mount.zfs: 0

Re: zoneedit.com

2013-02-03 Thread Fbsd8
Nick K wrote: I am posting here hoping that a Dan from ZoneEdit.com still monitors this mailing list. I am in a very bad situation and my mail forwarding has been down for over a week -- no response from ZoneEdit support. I found references to people getting help from Dan here:

svn for 9.1

2013-02-03 Thread Fbsd8
What is the category / port name to install svn? ___ 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

new committed port svn or portsnap

2013-02-03 Thread Fbsd8
When a port gets committed where is it really being committed to? Why is there such a delay before svn.freebsd.org/ports/head gets updated with the newly committed port? How often is the portsnap file updated? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Booting Problem

2013-01-30 Thread Fbsd8
Doug Hardie wrote: On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800 Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD drive. It starts the

Re: http://localhost/phpmyadmin

2013-01-30 Thread Fbsd8
Rasel Ahmed wrote: Please help me what the applied host in website ? Sent from my iPhone You have to provide details of your problem before some one can help you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: /etc/rc.d/jail script

2013-01-29 Thread Fbsd8
Fbsd8 wrote: I have noticed that the /etc/rc.d/jail script will not start a jail that has the same ip address as a jail that is already running. But if I define 2 jails the manual way in rc.conf that have the same ip address they will start. So is this a bug in the jail script or is there some

sh export

2013-01-28 Thread Fbsd8
I'm reading a script and i see a lot of exports. Is there some command to display the exported environment? The env command does not show them. Only see things made by setenv command. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: sh export

2013-01-28 Thread Fbsd8
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com writes: I'm reading a script and i see a lot of exports. Is there some command to display the exported environment? The env command does not show them. Only see things made by setenv command. You're not clear on which shell the script

Re: sh export

2013-01-28 Thread Fbsd8
kpn...@pobox.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 07:41:35PM -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: This is what I am looking at in a sh script echo export jail_${jailname}_hostname=\${jailname}\ puts it into the env and this brings it back out eval jailname=\\$jail_${jailname}_hostname\ Question is how can I

/etc/rc.d/jail script

2013-01-28 Thread Fbsd8
I have noticed that the /etc/rc.d/jail script will not start a jail that has the same ip address as a jail that is already running. But if I define 2 jails the manual way in rc.conf that have the same ip address they will start. So is this a bug in the jail script or is there some reason for

who am i logged in as

2013-01-27 Thread Fbsd8
I know there is a command that will give me the name of the account I am logged in on. But I can not recall the name of this command. What is the name of this command? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: jails bind ip

2013-01-26 Thread Fbsd8
Zyumbilev, Peter wrote: Hi, I have successfully run multiple jails on freebsd 9.1 Two of the jails are FreeBSD and I have no problems with them. However I havesome strange problem with Debian 6.0 Jail. This is my config jail_debian_rootdir=/jail/debian jail_debian_hostname=debian.bivol.net

Re: jails bind ip

2013-01-26 Thread Fbsd8
Zyumbilev, Peter wrote: Are you saying you installed the Debian 6.0 operating system inside of a Freebsd jail and expect it to function? on top of all works ;-) Look at mailing list archives earlier ...See mails from me. Peter Ok I read the archive thread subject jails. You read a

jails ip addresses

2013-01-24 Thread Fbsd8
Is there any situation where assigning the same IP address to a new jail that has already been assigned to a previous jail valid? I think not, but want verification. What are your thoughts? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

sh script ?

2013-01-24 Thread Fbsd8
I get this message [: 10.0.10.21: bad number on this code [ ${saved_ip} -eq ${used_ip} ] echo good match Both variables have valid ip addresses in them. Why does it think the variable content is a number and not text? What am I doing wrong? Thanks for your help

Re: sh script ?

2013-01-24 Thread Fbsd8
Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jan 24 12:11:42 2013 Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:07:40 -0500 From: Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com To: FreeBSD questions questi...@freebsd.org Subject: sh script ? I get this message [: 10.0.10.21: bad number on this code

creating new user account password.

2013-01-23 Thread Fbsd8
I know I can create a new user account having a password same as the user name. After logging in the first time using the user account name as the password, I want to force the user to create a new password. Is there a way to do that? ___

Re: creating new user account password.

2013-01-23 Thread Fbsd8
Matthew Seaman wrote: On 23/01/2013 20:06, Fbsd8 wrote: I know I can create a new user account having a password same as the user name. After logging in the first time using the user account name as the password, I want to force the user to create a new password. Is there a way to do

Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE w/ SanDisk ImageMate S11202

2013-01-19 Thread Fbsd8
Waitman Gobble wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I have a PCI Express card with VIA VL800 chipset which seems to work OK with a Seagate drive, so I presume the interface is working. If I boot with a SanDisk ImageMate S11202 plugged into the

pax error message

2013-01-18 Thread Fbsd8
I use pax this way. cd dir-path pax -wzX -x cpio -f path-file-name . The period at end of above command is part of the command. When dir-path contains data over 7G in size pax issues this error msg, pax: file is to large for cpio format ./dir-path How do I correct this?

sh script code to get file size.

2013-01-18 Thread Fbsd8
In a script in am working on I need to find out the allocated size of a sparse file. The only command that comes to mind is ls -lh The du -h command is not appropriate because it will show the occupied size and not the allocated size. I don't know how to parse out to the position in the output

Re: sh script code to get file size.

2013-01-18 Thread Fbsd8
In a script in am working on I need to find out the allocated size of a sparse file. The only command that comes to mind is ls -lh The du -h command is not appropriate because it will show the occupied size and not the allocated size. I don't know how to parse out to the position in the

Re: sh script code to get file size.

2013-01-18 Thread Fbsd8
Chris Hill wrote: On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Fbsd8 wrote: In a script in am working on I need to find out the allocated size of a sparse file. The only command that comes to mind is ls -lh The du -h command is not appropriate because it will show the occupied size and not the allocated size. I

tar compression

2013-01-17 Thread Fbsd8
The man page for tar command says there a 4 different compress types you can use, xz, bzip, bzip2 and gzip. Which one is the fastest and compresses the most? I am using -z option for gzip and it sure is slow. Hoping one of the other zip options are better. What do you guys use? Another

Re: tar compression

2013-01-17 Thread Fbsd8
Georg Reilinger wrote: If it doesn't necessarily have to be tar, then I'd recommend using 7zip: archivers/p7zip It has among the best compression ratios. The man page for tar command says there a 4 different compress types you can use, xz, bzip, bzip2 and gzip. Which one is the fastest and

understanding sparse files

2013-01-16 Thread Fbsd8
I want to understand what is going on inside of sparse files. I have a test case set up. I have a small directory tree set up containing just the systems running libraries. The directory tree contains a copy of the following systems directories, /bin. /lib, /libexec, /sbin, and /usr which has

Re: sh script problem with capturing return code

2013-01-14 Thread Fbsd8
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org writes: I think it's a real bug, and the test cases don't cover extra

Re: sh script problem with capturing return code

2013-01-14 Thread Fbsd8
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org writes: I think it's a real bug, and the test cases don't cover extra elements at all. Now I just have to figure out the right fix. I'm pretty sure

Re: sh script problem with capturing return code

2013-01-14 Thread Fbsd8
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: This fixes the problem that was bothering you, but the interactions of different features are complicated, and many of them are documented in fairly loose language. Is that the diplomatic way of saying

Re: Reading the handbook from console

2013-01-13 Thread Fbsd8
Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:48:33 -0800, dte...@freebsd.org wrote: -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Polytropon Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 2:33 PM To: Fbsd8 Cc: scotteb

Re: Reading the handbook from console

2013-01-13 Thread Fbsd8
Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:15:23 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: What do you mean by enable console graphics? Is this something different than x11? The is a famous library, svgalib, a low level console graphics library which can - under _very_ specific circumstances - display graphics

Re: Reading the handbook from console

2013-01-13 Thread Fbsd8
Robert Bonomi wrote: Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:48:01 +0100 From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de To: Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com Subject: Re: Reading the handbook from console Cc: scotteb...@gmail.com, dte...@freebsd.org, questi...@freebsd.org On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:15:23 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: What

pax command and sparse files

2013-01-12 Thread Fbsd8
I have a sparse file allocated to 1G ls -lh test.img shows 1.0G du -h test.img shows 5.9M This is what I was expecting. Now after pax on that single test.img file ls -lh test.img.tar.gz shows 1.4M du -h test.img.tar.gz shows 1.4M This is what I was expecting. Here is the problem:

manpage - html

2013-01-12 Thread Fbsd8
Is there any command line command to convert a port's manpage to html? Well really any manpage. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: manpage - html

2013-01-12 Thread Fbsd8
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com mailto:fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Is there any command line command to convert a port's manpage to html? Well really any manpage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandoc http://mdocml.bsd.lv

Re: manpage - html

2013-01-12 Thread Fbsd8
Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:52:06 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: OK let me be more specific. Using just commands that are in the base system. IE; come with the 9.1 system Very well: zcat `man -w ls` | groff -Thtml -dpaper=a4 -P-pa4 ls.html zcat `man -w ls` | groff -Thtml ls.html

Re: manpage - html

2013-01-12 Thread Fbsd8
Fbsd8 wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:52:06 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: OK let me be more specific. Using just commands that are in the base system. IE; come with the 9.1 system Very well: zcat `man -w ls` | groff -Thtml -dpaper=a4 -P-pa4 ls.html zcat `man -w ls` | groff -Thtml

Re: Reading the handbook from console

2013-01-10 Thread Fbsd8
Scott Eberl wrote: I went ahead and installed the FreeBSD handbook onto my system and I was able to find it on disk per the motd notes but I'm wondering if there is a preferred method for reading these since they are in html format. I tried w3m and lynx and it looks like they are both not

make install package?

2013-01-10 Thread Fbsd8
When I do a make install package command the package gets stored in the directory I am in. What is the default path for the packages to be stored in? Is it /usr/packages? If that is indeed the default location, how do I get the make install package command put it there automatically?

Re: Unable to install xorg using pkg_add

2013-01-10 Thread Fbsd8
Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 10:30 -0600, Scott Eberl wrote: [snip] I then updated to 9.1-RELEASE using freebsd-update. Everything seems to have gone smoothly but now I'm getting the below error when trying to isntall xorg. I upgraded from 8.3 to 9.1,

Re: make install package?

2013-01-10 Thread Fbsd8
Gökşin Akdeniz wrote: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:04:59 -0500 tarihinde Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com yazmış: What is the default path for the packages to be stored in? Is it /usr/packages? It is /usr/ports/packages/All. If that is indeed the default location, how do I get the make install package

Re: sh script problem with capturing return code

2013-01-09 Thread Fbsd8
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com writes: Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:30:49 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: I can not get the return code from mtree to control the displaying of a error message. The mtree at the end of the script does function correctly because I can tell

Re: sh script problem with capturing return code

2013-01-09 Thread Fbsd8
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org writes: I think it's a real bug, and the test cases don't cover extra elements at all. Now I just have to figure out the right fix. I'm pretty sure that the fix is just to set rval on jumping to the extra tag in

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