Re: Wrong times written by mkisofs?

2008-01-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-01-20 11:16, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me asume you use a _recent_ mkisofs and set up a correct timezone... [...] What do you get from mkisofs -version? mkisofs 2.01 (i386-unknown-freebsd6.2) This is nearly 4 years old, why

Re: syslogd not reading messages from a remote machine

2008-01-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-01-12 15:50, Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 11, 2008, at 9:51 AM, Andy Greenwood wrote: I have recently set up a Fortigate-60 to run as a firewall/vpn on my home network. I have a FreeBSD 7.0-prerelease machine sitting behind it in the DMZ which is running

Re: Sendmail: exposed root, why?

2008-01-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-01-08 13:26, Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerahmy Pocott wrote: Hello, From the sendmail documentation: There are always users that need to be exposed -- that is, their internal site name should be displayed instead of the masquerade name. Root is an example (which

Re: My sendmail appears to be fixed, advice needed though

2008-01-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-01-05 13:08, Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, Sorry for this flurry of e-mail from me over the last few days. This has been highly frustrating. You should post *more* details, not less. One of the things which was missing from the older posts (or at least, one

Re: Finally, Flash seems to be working for Me :)

2008-01-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-01-04 00:42, Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/4/08, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rudy writes: I do do more than watch youtube videos, but people send me links and I'm always bummed if I have to reboot into Ubuntu just to see a stupid video :)

Re: Paging Matthew Seaman

2008-01-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-01-04 09:59, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I figure if anyone knows the answer to this off the top of their head, Matthew will. I'm sure Matthew knows the answer, but you should use a more relevant subject. This way the archived posts will be more useful to future posters.

Re: How do I get sendmail working again

2008-01-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-01-05 11:18, Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wanted to post the contents of my hostname.mc file: whitbap# cat whitbap.mc [...] FEATURE(`no_default_msa') MAILER(local) MAILER(smtp) This part seems ok. dnl set SASL options dnl TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5

Re: My sendmail appears to be fixed, advice needed though

2008-01-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-01-05 17:13, Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, oddly enough I moved those additional lines to a position before the MAILER macros (I'll post the whitbap.mc file below as it exists now). However, I still got those error messages: Jan 5 18:29:10 whitbap sm-mta[6207]:

Re: dlopen(), atexit() on FreeBSD

2007-12-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-30 18:49, Markus Hoenicka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I bumped into a platform-specific problem when using the Firebird database client library in a dlopen()ed module on FreeBSD. libdbi (http://libdbi.sourceforge.net) is a database abstraction layer which dlopen()s available

Re: Building FreeBSD from source on OS X?

2007-12-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-31 16:33, Johan A. van Zanten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings. Recently i acquired an intel-based Mac mini and would like to build FreeBSD on it, but the mini needs to be (always) running OS X, because of other duties (DVR) it has. Is it possible to build FreeBSD from source

Re: corporate backers of freebsd

2007-12-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-31 23:14, Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 31 December 2007 18:10:55 Gary Smithe wrote: In short, here's my question: Canonical, RedHat, IBM, Novell, and a slew of others are funding / supporting Linux development and pushing some of that development into the free

Re: corporate backers of freebsd

2007-12-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-31 16:57, Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Yes, Gary, there are companies who also fund FreeBSD work in several ways [...] Some examples which I recall off the top of my head are: Don't forget pair Networks, which has generously supported phk

Re: How to make sendmail listen on an address other than the loopback

2007-12-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-28 10:33, Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get an e-mail system working for my church (whitneybaptist.org). I've added a file called local-host-names in /etc/mail as described in the Handbook, then did /etc/rc.d/sendmail restart and then did sockstat |

Re: Buildworld RELENG_7 problem

2007-12-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-26 06:34, Bernt Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I'v got a bit of a problem upgrading from FreeBSD 7.0-BETA2 #0 to any later version. This is the error I get: gtyp-gen.h echo NULL};gtyp-gen.h echo static const char * const

Re: mutt??

2007-12-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-27 11:02, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trtryinng to rebuild everything on tao to get my i810 graphics working. Somehow, mutt bbroke. It seems to break with something undefined in perl5.8. Anybody know what this is: Undefined symbol __sbmaskrune ? That's odd.

Re: removing ipfw rules

2007-12-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-27 15:47, Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have two ipfw rules that I want to remove. They are viewable with the ipfw show command --- snip --- 06600 0 0 allow ip from any to any proto tcp src-ip 66.66.66.66 dst-port 22 06700 0 0 allow ip from

Re: how long does send-pr take to post

2007-12-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-20 17:19, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the past I have not been able to do send-pr but now that I fixed my local mail issues all other email apps work... how long should I wait for the pr to show up before I decide some kind of error happened. A few hours for the

Re: Cannot get Script to Run Via Crontab

2007-12-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-17 07:19, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas writes: The lines from my script that are causing the problem are: [...] The cron message to mail/root ends with: exec: ps2pdf12: not found I am assuming that cron cannot find a path or a config file

Re: Bash script to find out the summary of user memory usage [not working]

2007-12-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-17 06:00, Patrick Dung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have correction with the script but still doesn't work: #!/usr/local/bin/bash for user in `ps -A -o user | sort | uniq | tail +2` do echo user: $user ps aux -U $user | tail +2 | while read line do mem=`echo

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-16 19:36, Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 14/12/07 Giorgos Keramidas said: Tcsh is a fine shell. I'm using it all the time (that's how I found out that a buglet reported by Kris Kennaway a few months ago was indeed a bug which I could reproduce

Re: Cannot get Script to Run Via Crontab

2007-12-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-16 19:10, David Goodnature [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a perl script that I can execute from the command line as root. It runs fine. When I try to automate it using the root crontab, the script fails. The lines from my script that are causing the problem are: my $scomd =

Re: pdksh vs. mksh info [was: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.]

2007-12-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-15 13:54, Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/bin$ ls -ld mksh bash ksh % -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 684699 Dec 9 19:51 bash % -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 2390645 Aug 31 17:07 ksh % -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 236202 Dec 9 18:34 mksh Wow.

Re: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-14 15:22, Barnaby Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just finished it and I would say it does exactly what what Ted and cpghost suggests it should - there are plenty of sections where the author introduces what can be done with a particular tool or part of the OS, and suggests to

pdksh vs. mksh info [was: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.]

2007-12-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-14 21:10, Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used bash for an interactive shell for about 5 years until I discovered the goodness of pdksh. About half the size, statically linked, not full of bugs and better editing features. Plus it's not GPL. Hi Frank, Now that you mention

Re: GOOD boook!

2007-12-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-14 14:44, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many thank to whomever recommended SED AND AWK a few weeks ago. Was it you, Giorgos? Not really, no. At least, my `sent-mail' folder didn't come up with any matches. But it's a jewel of a book, you're right about that...

Re: How to use cut or awk commands into sed command ?

2007-12-13 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-13 09:35, Halid Faith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me try to explain I have a file called A which contains variable values as below; file1, abc12 foot1, cba11 boby, def123 ... Also I have another file called B which contains partly valuable values as following; ### file of A

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-13 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-13 18:05, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran across this today: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ Title: Csh Programming Considered Harmful I wonder what responses I might get here, and how much of this applies to tcsh as well (I'm still not

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-13 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-13 21:59, Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-12-13 18:05, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran across this today: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ Title: Csh Programming Considered Harmful That was written sometime

Re: How to use cut or awk commands into sed command ?

2007-12-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-12 23:19, Halid Faith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a file named file1 which contains some values. I want to replace some strings into it, so I use sed command but I get an error. sed s#oldstring#`cut -d, -f3 file2`# file1 sed: 1: s/yenidomain2/f0b2875d- ...: unterminated

Re: smart_host on sendmail min config

2007-12-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-10 22:00, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dec 9 09:15:38 newsyslog[587]: logfile first created Dec 9 09:15:38 sm-mta[720]: starting daemon (8.14.2): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:00 Dec 9 09:15:38 sm-msp-queue[724]: starting daemon (8.14.2): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:00 Dec

Re: smart_host on sendmail min config

2007-12-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-11 13:02, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ideally, something like `mail -v' should show at least an attempt to post the message to the local queue: [...] monster-freebsd# sendmail -bd -q1m -v 050 WARNING: local host name (monster-freebsd) is not qualified; see

Re: smart_host on sendmail min config

2007-12-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-11 13:25, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Neat! Your local Sendmail submission service works then. You should be able to see the message in the `clientmqueue' with: mailq -Ac Now, can you show us how your local rc system starts Sendmail

Re: smart_host on sendmail min config

2007-12-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-11 13:53, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: You still haven't shown us: * How your local rc system starts Sendmail Until I can get it right from the command line I am not going to include it in my /etc/rc thus currently there is none

Re: smart_host on sendmail min config

2007-12-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-10 15:08, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: On Dec 10, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: What else do I need to add to this to make it work (i.e. send all mail via mx1.optonline.net): OSTYPE(`freebsd6')dnl define(`SMART_HOST',

Re: FreeBSD make on other platforms [was: Re: Building FreeBSD onLinux]

2007-12-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-04 08:29, Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Giorgos, The build failed for me 'with a syntax error before __dead2 '. Are there any special include files I am supposed to have? I had trouble with the autoconf version I had installed and had to upgrade

FreeBSD make on other platforms [was: Re: Building FreeBSD on Linux]

2007-12-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-03 08:08, Micha?l Gr?newald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have tried GNU Make 3.80 as well as pmake. And I can't seem to find bmake for Linux. I have found in my vaults a script that downloads pmake source from your favorite

Re: Building FreeBSD on Linux

2007-12-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-02 20:13, Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed/bootstrapped NetBSD pkgsrc on the linux box. This comes with bmake(which I think standas for bsdmake). pkgsrc is a very different ``beast'' altogether. It knows enough to bootstrap itself on any host with a

Re: Building FreeBSD on Linux

2007-12-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-30 16:06, Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to build all of FreeBSD from a Linux Machine and seem to be running into problems. We have farm of build machines that we use to build many other things and my team would look like to use it going

Re: Getting around ISP SMTP firewall settings (Re: Submitting a new port if send-pr is broken)

2007-11-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-26 04:00, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW I a redirected this to -questions You should be able to set up a local mailer/MTA (sendmail, postfix, etc.) and tell it to use your ISP's mail server on TCP port 25, and it all should just magically work unless they require

Re: Strange kernel log message

2007-11-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-26 09:58, Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I have this in my security run output: kernel log messages: +++ /tmp/security.hLYJI0kFSun Nov 25 03:01:02 2007 +NNNMNMMIII M III SIISAS SAAA 3 303,020,0 ,, EE IEIIESSSAIAA S A f ff + + +f WTF now? I'm not sure

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-25 15:23, eBoundHost: Artur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All I have to say is WTF is wrong with whomever wrote this page. http://www.freebsd.org/internal/fortunes.html == Examples of entries that should not usually be declared 'offensive': * Hitler quotes.

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-25 17:59, eBoundHost: Artur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yea that's a great answer. thanks for your insight. this is not some technical question that can be researched, this in fact tarnishes the image of the freebsd community, so it's not such an easy go rtfm type of deal. The

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-25 19:43, eBoundHost: Artur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are not bothered by the fact that the fortune cookie database contains Hitler quotes, but you merely want to ammend the text of the web site, then you are more than welcome to post patches to the freebsd-www list. That's

Re: top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-25 19:01, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 06:56:15PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: I think it's kind of a chicken-and-egg problem: we don't really know for sure whether TOFU[1] posting spurred much of the rise of illiteracy or the increase of relative

Re: top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-23 21:58, David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 22, 2007, at 9:10 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: Understood from that perspective, perhaps you can see why people might dislike top posting. Many here (and elsewhere) will not reply to a top-poster. I am one of these people. If I see

Re: Help with a new port?

2007-11-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-24 15:24, Zachary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, My name is Zachary Kline, Hi Zachary, Anyway, to get to the point: I'm not quite sure where to ask this. I have a new port which I feel should be included in the FreeBSD accessibility category, [...] This port is Emacspeak,

Re: can you help about this script

2007-11-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-22 10:10, ann kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Giorgos Thank you But my output is from your suggstion printf Created: %s\n, system(date +%Y%m%d); 20071122 Created: 0 20071122 Updated: 0 how can I have output as Created: 20071122 Updated: 20071122 You'll have to use the

Re: can you help about this script

2007-11-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-21 12:26, ann kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all how command date, hostname run in awk program? awk -F program.awk file.txt You don't use backticks... These are a feature of the shell, and running a script through progname.awk is no longer a shell session. Try system(date) in

Re: Making mergemaster skip certain files

2007-11-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-17 20:06, Howard Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-16 22:34, J. Porter Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mergemaster for more details, but here's a short description of what I use on my laptop for some time now: 1. A `.mergemasterrc' file

Re: congrlations to the freebsd developers

2007-11-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-17 22:44, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-17 18:53, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: M. Warner Losh wrote: You can run FreeBSD/i386 on amd64 boxes. All the different methods people have suggested to me for doing this has

Re: hyperthreading CPU and broken scheduling?

2007-11-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-18 11:43, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To enable hyperthreading, try setting the following in /etc/sysctl.conf: machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1 and reboot

Re: What do I put in fstab to get my DVD/CDROM burner to work?

2007-11-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-16 22:24, Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, David J Brooks wrote: On Friday 16 November 2007 08:23:21 pm Gary Kline wrote: This is the old and current fstable: # DVD drive (top) /dev/acd0 /media/cdroms/0 udf ro,noauto 0 0 #

Re: What do I put in fstab to get my DVD/CDROM burner to work?

2007-11-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-17 02:55, Joshua Isom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 16, 2007, at 10:56 PM, Yeef wrote: this is work for me freebsd 6.2-RELEASE /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 you should use root mount it. Or set vfs.usermount to 1, if I remember

Re: Making mergemaster skip certain files

2007-11-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-16 22:34, J. Porter Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to keep certain files out of the reach of mergemaster? I understand the need for carefully merging the old and the new, but I really shouldn't ever have to for files like these: /etc/aliases /etc/hosts

Re: What do I put in fstab to get my DVD/CDROM burner to work?

2007-11-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-17 14:13, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 08:03:25PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-17 02:55, Joshua Isom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 16, 2007, at 10:56 PM, Yeef wrote: this is work for me freebsd 6.2-RELEASE /dev/acd0

Re: congrlations to the freebsd developers

2007-11-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-17 18:53, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: M. Warner Losh wrote: You can run FreeBSD/i386 on amd64 boxes. All the different methods people have suggested to me for doing this has blown up also since I use a nvidia card it is almost pointless unless I can run the

Re: bash and strings

2007-11-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-16 03:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everyone, I'm sure this is easy, and I am making it harder than it is. I am being supplied a list of files, and need to create the files and directories to hold them, but I cannot figure out how to take the string apart. For example, I am

Re: cron/send mail question

2007-11-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-15 13:47, zbigniew szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, What command (when using cron) should I invoke to automatically sent /var/log/exim/rejectlog file to a specified email address? I just need to analyze it and would best prefer to have it in my inbox in the morning.

Re: OT: gcc/binutils question

2007-11-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-15 17:17, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how to convert arbitrary data (in file) to object file, so i will be able to do extern char something[] and use it - in C. Try to file2c(1) utility. Quoting from its manpage: % EXAMPLES % The command: % %date |

Re: semi-OT: awk - field separator

2007-11-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-15 13:24, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the canonical way to get (FreeBSD default) awk to use a single double-quote as the field separator? I have tried variations on -F\\\ and -F\ and the best I can get is: + awk -F {print $2} ./script.sh: 1: Syntax error: word

Re: Socket programming question

2007-11-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-14 15:21, Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, My question has to do with how someone would find out if a call to socket(2) actually produced a socket. I know that the API works, I've programmed with it many times, but is there a way to find out if 's' returned by socket(2)

Re: Gcc Problems

2007-11-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-14 13:21, Mike Fahey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Freebsd4.10 When I try to compile any problem I get the following error. Any suggestions? Thanks. helpers/dummy.c:1: syntax error before `/' Here is a sample trying to build any port. make === wget-1.10.2_1 depends on file:

Re: What server for a mail server

2007-11-13 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-14 09:04, Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a project where I should set-up a mail server for approximately 12000 users, 4000 virtual domains, 15000 messages per day, 700 MB traffic per day. The machine should run Postfix, courrier-imap and a web mail (probably

Re: need an explanation of make serarch output

2007-11-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-11 09:23, Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry beinf rude but I wonder if either of the responders took there own advice and RTFM'ed (where M=mail) What I mean is I was *NOT* asking how to get the deps list... I was asking that for example make search key=jdk16

Re: problems with building a patch

2007-11-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-11 16:02, Matthias Apitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've build a patch for 'nn-6.7.3' to add support for RFC1522 to my beloved news-reader. Before giving it away I was trying it on a fresh workspace of the /usr/ports/news/nn and run into the problem that new files which

Re: nanobsd, picobsd, tinybsd

2007-11-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-09 17:01, John Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody please explain to my what the differences are between nanobsd, picobsd and tinybsd. They all seem to be doing the same (creating a minimal FreeBSD image that can be used in embedded systems), or is this not right? What

Re: nanobsd, picobsd, tinybsd

2007-11-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-10 15:45, John Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 10, 2007 9:40 AM, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-11-09 17:01, John Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody please explain to my what the differences are between nanobsd, picobsd and tinybsd. They all seem

Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-11-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-09 18:55, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:39:12PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I've been using the following for some time: keramida su - Password: root# exec env SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash bash -l I know

Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-11-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-09 16:34, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ discussing `su -m' option ] Also the only way I know on FreeBSD to interactively become a user with no real shell (true, nologin etc). It should be possible to type: su username i.e. here's an ftp session on my laptop:

Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-11-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-09 18:10, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: i.e. here's an ftp session on my laptop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# fgrep ftp: /etc/passwd ftp:*:1003:1003: user:/home/ftp:/usr/sbin/nologin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# su ftp [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-07 13:49, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know for sure. We shall rue the day beastie was ever demoted to mere mascot. RUE I TELL YOU The beastie is here[1] to stay, no worries... [1] 'Here' as in anywhere I can attach a sticker :-) ___

Re: How can I use the Windows loader to boot FreeBSD

2007-11-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-07 15:19, Alou Dialy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read this FAQ but I am still confused. How does it work if you have windows on ad0 and freebsd on ad1. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER AFAICT, the 'explicit' list of steps missing from the

Re: Is there a way to compare what is in the ports tree with what is installed?

2007-11-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-05 14:53, Brett Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ie. If I had a particular version of the ports tree on a server, how could I check to see if any of the programs in that tree were actually installed? Is there a simple command or sequence of commands to do this? Try running the

Re: Is there a way to compare what is in the ports tree with what is installed?

2007-11-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-05 02:36, Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dir /var/d/pkg | grep portname My Linux systems have a dir command but my FreeBSD does not. Is there something I need to install? Not really. The ls(1) utility works fine :-) ___

Re: How to write a condition in Bourne shell

2007-11-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-05 14:03, Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am a lame Bourne sheel programmer, how to write: while [ ( $? -ne 0 ) -a ( $retry -gt 0 ) ] ; do that should execute as long as $? is not null and $retry is greater than 0? Try something like... retry=0

Re: reverse grep

2007-11-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-04 01:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How is it possible to select lines that do NOT match a specific pattern? grep -v 'pattern' ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: [freebsd-questions] Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-10-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-30 20:39, Howard Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: You could possibly also put bash -l exit in your .shrc, which would exit if bash exited successfully. I haven't tested it, but it should work. or 'exec bash -l' which will replace the existing shell with

Re: release(8) environmental variables

2007-10-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-30 18:02, Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as building goes, the variables in play are: DESTDIR, MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX, RELEASEDIR, CHROOTDIR, CVSROOT, EXTSRCDIR, EXTDOCDIR, BUIILDNAME, RELEASETAG, NODOC, NOPORTS, WORLD_FLAGS, LOCAL_SCRIPT For stage one of the

Re: release(8) environmental variables

2007-10-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-31 11:03, Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 13:54 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-10-30 18:02, Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as building goes, the variables in play are: DESTDIR, MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX, RELEASEDIR, CHROOTDIR

Re: release(8) environmental variables

2007-10-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-31 13:26, Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: really sucks. I believe that's intentional, so re-running make release with different CHROOTDIR values will produce consistently similar binaries. I use LOCAL_SCRIPT to copy /etc/make.conf (well, /etc/src.conf) into place

Re: Core dump

2007-10-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-31 15:32, Rem P Roberti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A program that I use has started giving me this error message when I try to load it: Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped) Can someone give me a heads up on what's going on here. I've done a reinstall to no avail. Is there any

Re: memory pool, rfc

2007-10-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-01 01:00, Eduardo Morras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm already on hackers list but has very low traffic (9 messages last 5 days) and this is a question list no ? ;-) This is a 'general' questions list, with a fairly high level of traffic. Many FreeBSD committers and team affiliates

Re: memory pool, rfc

2007-10-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-01 02:06, Eduardo Morras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:38 01/11/2007, you wrote: This is a 'general' questions list, with a fairly high level of traffic. Many FreeBSD committers and team affiliates are subscribed, but there are still a lot of knowledgeable people who are respected

Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-10-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-29 20:50, Stephen Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been drawn to my attention not to use bash from the ports collection, because if one of it's dependencies (gettext or libiconv) fails or is updated significantly, it could break, and prevent login. The suggested solution was to

Re: evil idea

2007-10-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-26 23:34, Astrodog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/26/07, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running amd64 8-CURRENT and there are a few i386 only ports that I absolutely must have installed and at the same time since I have 4 GB of RAM all kinds of bizarreness is created

Re: evil idea

2007-10-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
if I downgrade to i386. So here is the idea: use qemu to create a virtual version of my machine (with less then 2GB or RAM) and install i386 8-CURRENT on it (I want to use -CURRENT for all my installs) On Sat, 27 October 2007 20:33:44 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I don't think Aryeh wants

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-23 23:24, Harald Schmalzbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks all, here was my example, just for completeness, I found mentors for my needs. #include stdio.h void main() { short nnote; // Numerischen Notenwert einlesen printf(Bitte numerischen Schulnotenwert eingeben:

Re: Q: general LaTeX mailing list

2007-10-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-23 12:43, Byung-Hee HWANG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Who knows a good general LaTeX mailing list? Ah yes, here is also good mailing list for the question. However, I want to give specific and professional advice about LaTeX. Unfortunately, Google disappointed my desire ;;

Re: Want to upgrade sendmail in next OS release

2007-10-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-21 16:42, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-10-21 11:28, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'd like to upgrade my sendmail version in advance of upgrading to the next release of the OS. Why? I can afford the time to start/stop sendmail here and

Re: Want to upgrade sendmail in next OS release

2007-10-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-21 11:28, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'd like to upgrade my sendmail version in advance of upgrading to the next release of the OS. Why? # cd /usr/src/lib/libsm # make obj make depend make # cd /usr/src/lib/libsmutil # make obj make depend make # cd

Re: Why 7.0 is so late ?

2007-10-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-18 18:31, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry McAllister writes: I'd much rather that a RELEASE version is as stable as it can reasonably be made than that it arrives on time. Yup. I think that is the way all of us feel. I don't think many will argue, at least not loudly.

Re: sendmail problems

2007-10-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-19 00:23, Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Duane Winner wrote: Hello, I need help to resolve a problem with my sendmail server. Usually when 'sendmail' is in a subject line, one can usually expect Giorgos respond :) Thanks Steve, I'm honored by the confidence :) I've been

Re: Why 7.0 is so late ?

2007-10-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-17 18:20, Gueven Bay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/10/17, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: while companies like Microsoft must publish in time to make the share holders not to mention that microsoft regularly has delays like year. happy, FreeBSD can afford to wait until the

Re: batch conversion of TeX

2007-10-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-18 11:42, Murray Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I usually start by writing something like this in a Makefile: DOC = foo SRC = $(DOC).tex PDF = $(DOC).pdf PDFLATEX = pdflatex all: $(PDF) $(PDF): $(SRC) $(PDFLATEX

Re: Ref : Permission to use parts of FreeBSD documentation on My Website

2007-10-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-18 02:04, allen paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I working on compiling Linux kernel and related issues, I was interested in using the some documentation on FreeBSD site. I needed permission if I could post some of the documentation on my website. The documentation is BSD

Re: Ref : Permission to use parts of FreeBSD documentation on My Website

2007-10-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-17 17:31, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: allen paul wrote: Thank you, That was the peice of information I was looking for. Sure, I will respect proper credits, and skip copyrighted information. I might have been mistaken if I mistook BSD documentation as freely

Re: how to make a patch

2007-10-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-16 15:10, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found and fixed a bug in one of the ports how do I make a patch file (I only changed one line in one file) and who do I send it to? If you know precisely the file, you can use diff(1) to generate the patch file. Note that patch

Re: help with text-append over SSH ? - dd: unknown operand

2007-10-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-12 16:43, Juri Mianovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-10-11 16:49, Juri Mianovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an account on a system where I cannot log in over SSH, but I _can_ run a limited set of commands remotely, over SSH

Re: coonverting text to tex

2007-10-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-15 09:49, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any utils that will convert plain text to TeX? It depends on how much you can compromise about the quality and typesetting beauty of the output. A naive approach would be something like: \documentclass{article}

Re: batch conversion of TeX

2007-10-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-12 09:44, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those who have followed my openoffice to TeX conversion know I am brand new to TeX and want to know how to do the following conversions (hopefully via some non-interactive process [eg. Make files]): TeX--plain text TeX--HTML

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