Re: Encrypted slice with geli

2009-04-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:42:11 +0200, Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net wrote: Bill Moran said the following on 2009-04-21 14:41: In response to Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net: Giorgos Keramidas said the following on 2009-04-20 23:59: On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:38:54 +0200, Bernt Hansson

Re: Fetchmail problem

2009-04-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:11:13 -0700, Annelise Anderson impal...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: On Monday 20 April 2009 09:12:32 Annelise Anderson wrote: Fbsd1 wrote: Annelise Anderson wrote: I am trying to use fetchmail on FreeBSD but get the message: fetchmail: SMTP 451 4.1.8 Domain

Re: Encrypted slice with geli

2009-04-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:38:54 +0200, Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net wrote: Hello list! I was thinking of makeing a slice encrypted with geli. My question is: does geli init -s 4096 /dev/ad* erase the data on the slice. The handbook didn't say yes or no, and I don't want to try without

Re: OT: Postfix rejects from Freebsd server

2009-04-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:21:31 +, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@hotmail.com wrote: Can you show us the *exact* deferral message? It may be greylisting from the FreeBSD.org mail servers. Ok. This is the exact message: Apr 11 16:26:40 hostname (internal) postfix/smtp[1325]: 488851744F:

Re: sound configuration for pidgin

2009-04-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:56:17 +0700, kyanh xky...@gmail.com wrote: Second, the sound files you are using might simply be a bit low on the volume side. You may want to load them into something like audacity to increase their loudness. The problem is that I use Pidgin's default sound files. I

Re: flex from ports kills buildworld?

2009-04-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:53:09 -0700, Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.com wrote: Probably doing something stupid, but on the off chance I'm not: - Had to install a newer flex from ports for something. - Had to move the system flex to avoid hacking reams of bad makefiles - Did a buildworld, and

Re: OT: Postfix rejects from Freebsd server

2009-04-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:31:22 +, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@hotmail.com wrote: I know this may be OT, but I could use some help on this one. I've completed a major changeover in network provider, and I've now got a proper static ip including ptr records for my mail server (the only service

Re: make, list and M pattern

2009-04-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:54:13 +0400, Boris Samorodov b...@ipt.ru wrote: Hello List, I need to create a list with some valid values and check an input value. Should this makefile work? - LIST=f8 f9 all: @echo USE_LINUX=${USE_LINUX}, LIST=${LIST} .if empty(LIST:M${USE_LINUX})

Re: going from cvs to svnq

2009-04-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:05:17 -0400, Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:18:33 -0400, Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: What I don't know is, I use cvsup all the time, but when I switch to svn, what does the cvsup job of tracking an archive

Re: going from cvs to svnq

2009-04-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:18:33 -0400, Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: What I don't know is, I use cvsup all the time, but when I switch to svn, what does the cvsup job of tracking an archive (not tracking the sources, I mean the archive)? Does svn do it all itself? If so, I can find out

Re: going from cvs to svnq

2009-04-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 07:05:53 -0300 (ADT), Andrew Hamilton-Wright and...@qemg.org wrote: o ***Early Adopter Warning***: There has not been (as far as I know) a general call for people to move to this type of repository access except for committers -- therefore expect rough edges until a

Re: config sendmail

2009-04-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 16:57:34 -0400, Esmaeel Pashapouri epashapo...@ca.inter.net wrote: Hello list, Having truble sending mail through my ISP. I have freebsd 7.1 amd-64 generic installed. With smart host defined for sendmail I get my mails returned with unknown sender esma...@ca.inter.net.

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-03-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:59:16 +0200, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: When I would compare both indentation forms, I'd say that tabbing is the better form because + you can set your individually preferred tab with using the settings of your editor, be it 1, 4 or 8, I like using TAB for

Re: [OT] - Best Practices(TM) for Configuration File Changes

2009-03-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:37:27 -0400, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, list. Before I pose my question, I am not intending to start a flame-war of any sort -- I'm just searching for different ways of doing things. With so many different version control systems available (aside

Re: Kernel compile fails

2009-03-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:53:00 +0300, \Remorque\ odhia...@gmail.com wrote: I have installed 7.1-RELEASE on a hardware with AMD processor. I have successfully buildworld, and now doing the make kernel thing.The kernel config file is pretty GENERIC, I only removed the option to build a DEBUG

Re: Adding new domain in mail server

2009-03-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:49:52 +0800, Ruel Luchavez ruel.free...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list.. we have here a mail server running in FreeBSD 6.2 which is holding out 2 domain (e.g u...@mydomain.com. w...@mydomain2.com) and it running very good, unfortunately I'm not the person who configure this

Re: Compiling everything myself?

2009-03-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:11:32 +0100 (CET), Daniel annonymejens+...@runbox.no wrote: Hi list This may be a basic question, but a question non the less. I have been using Debian for some years and have gotten tired by system freezes, having a slow system, and having a package system that

Re: sendmail limits

2009-03-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:51:12 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: i'm just asking for sure - do sendmail has any limits of how much adresses is put in CC/BCC in single mail? Yes, of course. There is *support* for a limit, but the default is to accept a large

Re: sendmail limits

2009-03-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:43:12 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:51:12 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: i'm just asking for sure - do sendmail has any limits of how much adresses is put in CC/BCC in

Re: Status field STATE in top(1) interactive mode

2009-03-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 07:44:23 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Hi list, in order to find out why Opera often keeps hanging (doing nothing), often for several minutes, I checked its top(1) output. Reading man top, I found the following explaination: [...] STATE is the current

Re: Emacs doesn't want to support 256 colors in terminal window

2009-02-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:31:55 +, Grzegorz Junka c...@gjunka.com wrote: FreeBSD port doesn't allow to configure Emacs in any way, neither from the original port, nor from the nox11 version. I don't think there is any special option for emacs to show 256 colors. Wherever I could find some

Re: hi

2009-02-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:19:30 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: mini-guide for checking out the ports before their removal and building them as local ports. The source for these ports is no longer maintained, and they may pose a security risk if you use them

Re: hi

2009-02-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:04:48 -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: You can always check out ... from a date before its removal from the ports/ tree ... If you need help with maintaining a local copy of the relevant ports ... let me know and I'll write a short mini

Re: understanding freebsd development logic

2009-02-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:25:59 -0800, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: i am puzzled by what seems to be almost a parallel processor development model that exists with freebsd. when 7 came out people were still working on 6.3 i think it was with the aim of going to 6.4 and now with 7.x

Re: hi

2009-02-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:50:41 -0700, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 07:15:35PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Documenting such local 'hacks' in the Handbook is a bit like rubber stamping them with the official 'recommended by FreeBSD' seal of approval. I am

Re: hi

2009-02-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:09:51 -0500, Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: Specifically, what is it we are uncomfortable putting in the handbook? More importantly, what good is a handbook if it is not complete? That's one way of looking at it. The obsessive compulsive perfectionist perspective is that

Re: hi

2009-02-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:52:00 -0700, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:11:55PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:19:30 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: alpine works fine I know. That's why I am not in favor

Re: FreeBSD multiboot question.

2009-02-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:35:00 -0800, Overdorf, Sam sam.overd...@intel.com wrote: I have three partitions loaded with different versions of FreeBSD. I have the multiboot option working and it shows the following: F1 FreeBSD F2 FreeBSD F3 FreeBSD Is there a way that I can change the

Re: hi

2009-02-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:11:46 +, Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: Gentoo userland and emerge tools are easier and elegant though not certainly superior to FreeBSD make mechanism. This is based on my personal experience as i heavily use Gentoo Linux and FreeBSD on older hardware.

Re: sendmail not listening on port 465

2009-02-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:41:34 -0500, Seur Bors seurb...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, I'm using 7.0-RELEASE-p9, Sendmail 8.14.2 (Compiled with ... STARTTLS SASLv2 ...) I'm having problems with Sendmail. Everything is working fine, except that the sendmail daemon is not listening on port 465.

Re: bump year on website

2009-02-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:52:12 -0500, Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html copyright should be 2009 now ;) I've updated the year ranges in both freebsd-doc-license.sgml and freebsd-license.sgml. Thanks :) pgpEAu6eFpOpU.pgp

Re: Accessing the complete log (rlog)

2009-02-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:30:10 -0600, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: Yet another option is to use the Subversion repository instead of CVS: svn log -v -r 1:HEAD svn://svn.freebsd.org/base will dump all commitlogs starting with the first. Probably not recommended if you are going

Re: sh parameter substitution problem

2009-02-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:47:17 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: I'm getting nowhere trying to parse out IP addresses from strings of this form in /bin/sh, which have been awk'd out of 'tail named.run': addr='195.68.176.4#1440:' addr='195.68.176.4#16811:'

Re: make installworld fails

2009-02-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:45:59 -0700, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: I should make sure it's mentioned -- FreeBSD 7.x started an /etc/src.conf that are the knobs for FreeBSD world ONLY. This leaves /etc/make.conf available for ports ONLY. I'd update your files, because there's a possibility

Re: make installworld fails

2009-02-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 17:52:09 +0200, Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.com wrote: elo list, just updated a newly installed freebsd 7.1 system and it crashed here: === rescue (install) === rescue/librescue (install) === rescue/rescue (install) install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 rescue /rescue

Re: make installworld fails

2009-02-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 17:52:09 +0200, Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.com wrote: elo list, just updated a newly installed freebsd 7.1 system and it crashed here: === rescue (install) === rescue/librescue (install) === rescue/rescue (install) install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 rescue /rescue

Re: make installworld fails

2009-02-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 19:19:09 +0200, Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.grwrote: # --- system build options WITHOUT_IPFILTER=yes WITHOUT_IPX=yes WITHOUT_LPR=yes WITHOUT_RCMDS=yes WITHOUT_SENDMAIL=yes I

Re: OT: SVN checkout checksumming

2009-02-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 17:58:00 +0100, cpghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: Let's assume for a moment that you install a post-commit hook that generates a SHA-256 checksum of all the files in the latest repo revision on the svn server. For the sake of simplicity, let's assume that this file is a

Re: Sendmail to Relay different domains to different hosts

2009-02-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 13:15:02 -0500, greg.st...@sungard.com wrote: I am using Sendmail on a FreeBSD7.0 server as a mail relay for some of our servers. These servers relay messages to both internal recipients and external customers. I need to be able to relay mail destined to our internal

Re: OT: SVN checkout checksumming

2009-02-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 20:11:57 +0100, cpghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 07:14:14PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 17:58:00 +0100, cpghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: Let's assume for a moment that you install a post-commit hook that generates a SHA-256

Re: Sendmail to Relay different domains to different hosts

2009-02-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:09:49 -0500, greg.st...@sungard.com wrote: Great! I will give this a try. If I put a single entry into the mailertable for the corporate domain would everything else default to the smarthost defined in sendmail.cf? Yes. If you want *everything* to be handled through

Re: OT: SVN checkout checksumming

2009-02-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:20:25 -0500, FreeBSD free...@optiksecurite.com wrote: Hi everyone, I have asked this question on the svnforum.org and didn't got a good answer, so I try it here. I want to use SVN to automate the update process of a custom application. So, I'm planning to indicate to

Re: Comfortable dd bs= parameters for different media

2009-01-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:11:11 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Hi, I'd like to ask which sizes are comfortable to use for reading from different media using the dd utility. As far as I know, these are good values: Format Device (example)bs=

Re: Question in regards root

2009-01-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:48:08 +1100 (EST), Trevor Smolinski ad...@hellotoslev.com wrote: Hi, Just wondering if you can help. The permissions have been changed and now I can no longer login as root, it comes up and says login: Could not determine audit condition. I am wondering if there is a

Re: Freebsd standards compliance

2009-01-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:03:39 +1000, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: According to wikipedia Freebsd is only mostly compliant with POSIX, yet BSD/OS is fully- why would this be? There are parts of FreeBSD that are deliberately BSD compliant instead of POSIX compliant, because this

Re: temproot location?

2009-01-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:30:29 +0100 (CET), Andreas Davour a...@update.uu.se wrote: I just did something stupid and deleted my temproot before I had finished merging some stuff by hand. Can I recreate it, or is it actually living somewhere in /usr/src before being copied into /var by

Re: some doubts..

2009-01-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:01:52 -0500, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Wouter Snels nos...@ofloo.org writes: Lowell Gilbert schreef: Wouter Snels nos...@ofloo.org writes: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/nl/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html i think there is a problem on

Re: some doubts..

2009-01-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 22:14:18 +0100, Remko Lodder re...@elvandar.org wrote: On Jan 7, 2009, at 9:40 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/nl/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html and rc.conf - make.conf for SENDMAIL_XXX build options: IIRC Remko knows how to fix this. I've copied

Re: mutt question

2009-01-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:11:56 -0500, David Karapetyan david.karapet...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I already am using colors. However, when I open mutt, the email located in the middle of my terminal screen is the one that is highlighted, rather than the topmost one. This strikes me as odd; I'd like

Re: PATH braincramp

2009-01-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:48:36 -0500, Tim Kellers timot...@wallnet.com wrote: I'm having a tussle with one of those things I've done a zillion times, but now I can't fathom what the heck is wrong. When I run flexbackup from a cron job (as root) , the following error is returned by e-mail to

Re: local copy of handbook

2009-01-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 09:27:31 +0530, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: I'd be happy to review the patch that Gabor has written if necessary add or subtract from it. It will take me a bit of time

Re: Createing a package.

2009-01-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 12:23:06 -0500, stan st...@panix.com wrote: I have managed to build OO on a machine of the same architecture as I want to run it oon. The target machine does not seem to be capable of building it. I suspect that it does not have enough memory. Can I create a package on the

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:33:45 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:52:57PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: You can keep a local copy of the docs update the sources for the docs with csup

Re: well, blew it... sed or perl q again.

2008-12-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:51:31 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: All right, then is this the right syntax. In other words, do I need the double quotes to match the http: string? perl -pi.bak -e 'print unless /m/http:/ || eof; close ARGV if eof' * Close, but not exactly

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: You can keep a local copy of the docs update the sources for the docs with csup but you have to regenerate them with a make command after you have csup'd. The process is described within this page I just put up:

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:43:19 +, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: Are the docs branched? I tried running a csup with tag=RELENG_7 and nothing got created; changing the line doc-all to doc-all tag=. fixed it and fetched all the docs. Hi Bruce, No, there are no release-specific

Re: help with sed and tick marks

2008-12-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:31:17 +0100, Len Conrad lcon...@go2france.com wrote: A string in a file contains ('n...@domain.net'', ... where and we want to remove the extra tick mark, to have: ('n...@domain.net', iow, replace net'' with net' We've tried many combinations with sed, but

Re: how can i be certain that a file has copied exactly?

2008-12-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:40:13 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: howdy, in a word, YES, /usr/bin/cmp saved the save before i unlinked the oldfile. here is the strangeness. maybe you know, giorgos, or somebody else on-list. At first--before i got smart and used your snprintf to

Re: how can i be certain that a file has copied exactly?

2008-12-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:35:51 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 02:58:06PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:40:13 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: howdy, in a word, YES, /usr/bin/cmp saved the save before i unlinked

Re: how can i be certain that a file has copied exactly?

2008-12-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:49:03 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I also have some very simple and efficient string-matching functions [[ for SHORT lines!! ]] and other thing we do very often. It was (is?) throw-away code. Does it made sense to have a place on the web where you can get

Re: how can i be certain that a file has copied exactly?

2008-12-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:13:39 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: is there a way i can be sure that my little C program has copied a dos/win file named, say, foo.htm\;7 to simply foo.htm? my program uses fopen/fgets/fputs to copy the markup files. of the several i have copied, no

Re: how can i be certain that a file has copied exactly?

2008-12-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:56:34 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 03:29:05AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:13:39 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: is there a way i can be sure that my little C program has copied a dos/win file

Re: Greetings from Sourceforge and Slashdot

2008-12-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
or that any mutual questions about how things can work out are resolved. Happy holidays :) For the FreeBSD Core Team, Giorgos Keramidas pgp03bhkCJXl8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Sed question

2008-12-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:27:44 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: perl -pi.bak -e 's/OLDSTRING/NEWSTRING/g' file1 file2 fileN that i swiped somewhere. [?] last night i was up until the wee hours coding or extending a c++ program to assist in this stuff.

Re: Sed question

2008-12-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:34:10 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: how can i delete, say, lines 8,9,and 10 from 200 files using sed? Is it sed '8,10d' file newfile or is there a better way? Use in-place editing: keram...@kobe:/tmp$ cat -n foo 1 foo 2 bar 3

Re: Can i update ports tree using SVN

2008-12-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:31:47 +0800, Shaowei Wang (wsw) wsw1w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Guys, i've updated the FreeBSD sources from svn.freebsd.org/ and it's speed is very good. i want to know can i update the ports tree through some svn server ? Unfortunately, no. Only the src/ tree has been

Re: Startup scipt

2008-12-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:05:05 +0100, Mel fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.net wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2008 01:54:57 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: The second invocation uses another set of options from `rc.conf': moused_ums0_enable moused_ums0_port moused_ums0_type

Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot

2008-12-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:16:00 -0800 (PST), ThinkDifferently jer...@futurecis.com wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Did you try the 'safe-mode' option from the loader menu? Yes, to reiterate... Ok, just making sure that you didn't miss that one. Sorry for the noise

Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot

2008-12-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:36:05 -0800 (PST), ThinkDifferently jer...@futurecis.com wrote: ThinkDifferently wrote: Another item of curiosity... I just now tried booting from a CentOS 5.2 DVD. It also hangs with a little window titled Loading SCSI driver that says Loading ahci driver... The

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:06:58 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Now i'm using FreeBSD and it got better each version. Really better, not better. And i really want to keep it that way, because there is no alternative now! There are many constructive ways of

Renaming files with strange characters in dired-mode [was: Re: control character file names]

2008-12-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:59:02 -0800, Noah adm...@enabled.com wrote: If you have customized `dired-listing-switches' try reverting it to a simpler set of options, like: (setq-default dired-listing-switches -lFa) The -b and -B options tend to confuse dired about what the *real* filename

Re: imagemagick convert: japanese text broken in freebsd

2008-12-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:17:38 -0800, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: The conversations on ports@ seem to be mostly concerned with the needs of port maintainers rather than the users of ports. If you have problems getting a port to build or a package added, it feels like the right

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:49:57 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I think the list you're looking for when you talk about only discussing the base-system already exists (probably stable or arch). This is freebsd questions- and the nature of the list according to

Re: control character file names

2008-12-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:52:01 -0800, Noah adm...@enabled.com wrote: * Use a file manager. I often use `dired-mode' inside an Emacs session to move around, copy, re-organize, rename or delete files. Any file manager that can display several character sets at once will do

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:06:52 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I.e. freebsd-quesitions is for all FreeBSD-related questions, not only questions about the FreeBSD base system. from handbook: freebsd-questions User questions and technical support Exactly.

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:12:16 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: freebsd-questions User questions and technical support Exactly. Note, however, that 'user questions' means something very different from what you are pushing to convince everybody else :-) so

Re: Startup scipt

2008-12-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:56:43 +0200, KES kes-...@yandex.ru wrote: It there feature (option in rc.subr) to run multiple services at once? None that I know of. For example I have 'service' to run service with specific flags I want to do: service_enable=YES service_instances=instance1

Re: imagemagick convert: japanese text broken in freebsd

2008-12-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:18:47 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: There are some of us here who are interested in all things related to Unicode and complex scripts questions; we are interested to have such things working on FreeBSD. The OP's question was very

Re: imagemagick convert: japanese text broken in freebsd

2008-12-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:51:23 -0800 (PST), vuthecuong vuthecu...@luvina.net wrote: Hi all Firstly I'm terribly sorry for wrongly posted question not related to freebsd. I will pay attention so that this wrong posting will not occurr again. This is my fault. But I admit that

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-13 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:38:18 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Isn't getting Flash working *with* FreeBSD (and browser of choice) a FreeBSD topic? WITH BROWSER. ask browser programmers for that. Do you really, honestly expect Mozilla, Galeon, Epiphany and any

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-13 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:03:39 -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: after reading all these posts, i've still come up with this answer after looking .. freebsd - the power to serve Might one reasonably surmise that the power to serve implies doing a good job of running server software? Like

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-13 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:24:13 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Technical note: questions@ may be an appropriate forum for general discussion about FreeBSD, or general discussion about thousands of unix software that runs on unices including FreeBSD? I don't

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-13 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:48:55 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: thousands of unix software that runs on unices including FreeBSD? I don't see the difference. If a program runs on FreeBSD it runs on FreeBSD, so it _is_ something that FreeBSD users may be

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-13 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:26:21 -0800, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: anyone know if there are moderators for this list? i know there are some very nice people who keep watch. once i messaged the test list with a ports question (i was having trouble emailing this one - so i was testing to

Re: is there a way to get an ACK from the mutt version of FBSD?

2008-12-13 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:50:53 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: guys, i did something to evolution (or mail) so it sends a your mail was opened on u...@foo.com. i've been hunting thru the mutt docs; i do not see how to get a similar ack from mutt as evo. is there, perhaps a

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:46:03 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: if someone like to compare KDE with windoze - OK but NOT THIS GROUP! Hold the topic censorship horses there a bit... The freebsd-questions list is a general discussion forum where FreeBSD users

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:28:26 +0300, Usr Random rand15...@yandex.ru wrote: Hi dear sirs! Correct please if me wrong, but as i know the source tree of FreeBSD already split into two parts - Servers-oriented (FreeBSD) and PC-BSD (Desktop oriented) ? Or team from PC-BSD is not FreeBSD peoples?

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:22:15 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: There is _nothing_ that is inherently server oriented about the main FreeBSD tree, and it hasn't split to anything of the sort. exactly! FreeBSD is unix oriented! everything else depends on what

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:23:04 +0100, Julien Cigar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you may pkg_add from ftp repository of course .. too bad that there is no pkg_upgrade You can use: portupgrade -PP pkgname This will only use pre-compiled packages to upgrade.

Re: behavioral change of read builtin for sh on 8-CURRENT

2008-12-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
Hi Michael, This looks like a bug in 8.0-CURRENT. Can you please file a bug report and include the text you sent below? On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:49:58 -0500, Michael Proto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed a behavioral difference of the read builtin statement within /bin/sh on CURRENT and

Re: Timer driven tasks in FreeBSD 7

2008-12-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 17:56:47 +0200, Yony Yossef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, What mechanism should I use for making my netwrok driver call a function every half a second, for instnace? I am already using task queues but I haven't found a way to make it work with a timer. callout_xxx()

Re: Returning User With Filesystem/Memory Tuning Questions

2008-12-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 22:44:29 -0600 (CST), Kevin Monceaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: For what it's worth, I've been reading newsgroups with more than 5000 messages in Gnus, a newsreader that runs inside GNU Emacs, and its memory usage has *never

Re: what script is whacking root's files

2008-12-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:30:13 -0600, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /root is on /dev/da0s1a This particular server is running in a VM on a vmware esx 3.5 server. The server runs fine, but every so often the dot files disappear for root. I have not found the behavior to follow a reboot,

Re: open multiple xterms with script

2008-12-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 09:58:52 +0200, Aggelidis Nikos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your help! some additional questions: 1) is there any way to give the root password once? i tried this: #!/bin/sh su root -c \ xterm -geometry 80x25 -title 'App 1' -e 'app1' xterm -geometry 80x25

Re: Returning User With Filesystem/Memory Tuning Questions

2008-12-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 17:24:48 -0600 (CST), Kevin Monceaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Roland Smith wrote: Application crashed can also be due to bad hardware, especially memory. Make sure that you rule out hardware troubles before diving into the software. I don't think it

Re: Why process memory starts so high up in virtual space with FreeBSD malloc?

2008-12-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:57:23 -0800, Yuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: The FreeBSD malloc(3) implementation can use either mmap() or sbrk() to obtain memory from the system. It does not 'waste a high percentage of memory' but it simply maps only high addresses

Re: documentation problem for times(3) man page

2008-12-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:51:46 +0100, Viktor Štujber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Half a year ago I started the following thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-April/172448.html. The subject was a documentation issue where a man page mismatched the actual system

Re: documentation problem for times(3) man page

2008-12-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:17:13 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:51:46 +0100, Viktor Štujber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Half a year ago I started the following thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-April/172448.html

Re: Why process memory starts so high up in virtual space with FreeBSD malloc?

2008-12-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:28:48 -0800, Yuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am compiling the following program: #include stdlib.h main() { printf(0x%x\n, malloc(1)); } You should probably use printf(%p, ptr) to print pointers :) in 32-bit 7.1-PRERELEASE and get 0x28201100 which is ~673MB of 4GB

Re: for awk experts only.

2008-11-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:59:51 -0800, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wordnet/wn prints the string noun out whereas I'd rather it simply printed n. Is there a way of making this substitution using awk? (I've never used awk except as a cmdline filter.) The following

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