Re: help with text-append over SSH ?

2007-10-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
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. (I am in a jail of some sorts). I want to append the contents of a local text file to the contents of a

Re: X (xorg 7.3) consumes all the CPU

2007-10-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-09 22:01, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to start a process so that memory and CPU usage can be tracked closely enough to determine what the cause of 100% CPU use would be? I've got a box, recently installed 6.2 RELEASE with xorg 7.3 installed, and when X is

Re: Equations

2007-10-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-06 08:50, Frank Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 12:22 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Since the first releases of TeX, there have been many interesting developments about font-handling in the TeX world, like the typeface definitions of ConTeXt, and the drop

Re: Equations

2007-10-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-05 15:03, Frank Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 23:34 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am always a bit surprised that TeX was released in 78 (before my birth!) and---despite its algorithms are published---its output quality remains unmatched [1] by common

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-06 20:53, James Jeffery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Evening to you all (or morning in some parts of the world). Im learning C++ from Sams Teach Yourself C++, now many will call this a dumb method, and the books pointless and stupid, but i have no knowledge of any lower level

Re: Sendmail IP interface assignment -- how to?

2007-10-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-04 10:32, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: You also need: FEATURE(no_default_msa) otherwise, you're definitely heading in the right direction. Thanks, Matthew! That was the piece I was missing. I tried my Daemon_Options above, but found out its presence does

Re: Managing very large files

2007-10-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-04 08:43, Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've got a 28GB tcpdump capture file that I need to (hopefully) break down into a series of 100,000k lines or so, hopefully without the need of reading the entire file all at once. I need to run a few Perl processes on the

Re: question about Postfix

2007-10-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-02 16:12, jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 1, 2007, at 7:58 PM, Joe in MPLS wrote: The package install of postfix does nothing to sendmail. It's not like the MTA switch utility found in some linux distros. Just turn off the various bits of sendmail in /etc/rc.conf and start

Re: Adding CR/LF

2007-10-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-29 19:54, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, though, I think the CRLF characters were backwards in the original post of this thread, which used \n\r. I'm pretty sure it's \r\n as I've done it. I may just be having a stupid day, though, and be getting them backwards

Re: Adding CR/LF

2007-09-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-28 18:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this should be easy, but I cannot get it to work right. Basically, I have a list of items, and I need to place each one on a separate line. Here is the script I am using. #!/bin/sh FILENAMES=test1 test2 test3 FILELIST= for filename in

Re: 7.0-CURRENT Ports Collection?

2007-09-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-29 20:15, Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/29/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aryeh Friedman wrote: Are you attempting to download ports on 6.2 before you move to 7 or on 7? If the and your on a SMP (dual core don't know about physically seperate) there are

Re: oops (was Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64))

2007-09-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-30 07:24, Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well the procedure *ALMOST* worked turns out that sysinstall clobbers any unmodified bsdlabels (bug?) Which 'procedure' would that be? You haven't quoted anything from the previous messages, and your mailer hasn't included an

Re: Getting vim to work correctly.

2007-09-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-28 13:45, Nikos Vassiliadis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 28 September 2007 11:56, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-09-27 23:05, Jay Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Schuele wrote: On 09/27/2007 21:01, Jay Chandler wrote: Howdy. Sorry to keep hitting the list

Re: Getting vim to work correctly.

2007-09-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-27 23:05, Jay Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Schuele wrote: On 09/27/2007 21:01, Jay Chandler wrote: Howdy. Sorry to keep hitting the list with questions today, but does anyone know how to get the home, delete, end, page up, etc. keys working correctly in vim? It works

Re: If the mirror sites (all four I've tried now from all over the world) have the FreeBSD 6.1 downloads contain the FreeBSD4.11 image, how is one supposed to download V6.1?

2007-09-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
% Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:23:28 +1200 % Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % From: Brett Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] % Subject: If the mirror sites (all four I've tried now from all over the % world) % have the FreeBSD 6.1 downloads contain the FreeBSD4.11 image, how is one %

Re: sed question...

2007-09-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-24 20:52, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 11:07:20PM -0400, Howard Goldstein wrote: # delete the last 10 lines of a file sed -e :a -e '$d;N;2,10ba' -e 'P;D' # method 1 sed -n -e :a -e '1,10!{P;N;D;};N;ba' # method 2 Question two, can sed do

Re: sed question...

2007-09-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-25 11:28, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you! This will help me de-code that sed one-liner that was evidently written by a sedexpert. The linux pages help further, but I've found some soild tutorials. Hi Gary. A word of caution there... If you plan to use GNU/Linux

Re: sed question...

2007-09-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-25 22:49, Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 25 September 2007 22:21:48 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: A word of caution there... If you plan to use GNU/Linux manpages for learning sed(1) be _very_ cautious for GNU/Linux-specific parts. There are subtle, yet possibly

Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?

2007-09-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-24 15:10, Nikos Vassiliadis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 22 September 2007 23:41, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-09-22 20:12, Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 22 September 2007 19:27:36 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: That's because there's no such thing as a newbie

Re: urgent sendmail question

2007-09-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-24 08:34, Duane Winner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I know if I poked around enough, I could find the answer, but am up against the wall here and need a quick solution. I just discovered a major problem with my sendmail configurations. Just recently started consolidating

Re: sed question[s]

2007-09-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-24 14:07, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I could probably do at least part of this with an ed shell script, but sed is probaly more standard. (I may have asked this before, years back: FWIW. Anyhow, don't see it in my ~/Mail/freebsd files.) How can I automagically

Re: migrate from postfix to qmail

2007-09-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-22 02:47, Lotfi kecir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello. i'm newbbie in Unix especially in in FreeBSD. Recently i have setup one mail server with postfix-dovecot and i would like to migrate it to Qmail server. but i didn't know how to do it. Someone can give help me? Thanks. Why

Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?

2007-09-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-22 14:52, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'most people' is a vague term, http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.200708/mxsurvey.html if you have a look at this survey, sendmail rules it. So 'most' depends on the context and a mailinglist isn't of much

Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?

2007-09-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-22 20:12, Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 22 September 2007 19:27:36 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: That's because there's no such thing as a newbie Sendmail user. Nobody stays a newbie long enough if they configure Sendmail properly That is why I use Postfix. I would

Re: Can not connect to external modem

2007-09-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-21 13:35, Marcos Vinicius Buzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I Am having troubles to set up an external serial modem on FreeBSD 6.2. Here is my dmesg: sio0: 16550A-compatible COM port port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A When I run the following command, the

Re: top columns VCSW and IVCSW

2007-09-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-21 21:44, Andreas Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I couldn't find it in the man page and Google turned up with nothing of value so I ask here. What does the top (in IO mode) columns VCSW and IVCSW mean? VCSW = 'Voluntary context switches' IVCSW = 'Involuntary context switches'

Re: Sendmail out to port 2525

2007-09-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-19 12:53, Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am using FBSD-6.2p7 Sendmail-8.13.8 I spent several days trying different configs to relay mail from my sendmail relay received from another relay using postfix -- to a Windows server only listening on port 2525. So far no luck and all

Re: Sendmail out to port 2525

2007-09-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-19 14:06, Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:34:54 +0300 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail out to port 2525 On 2007-09-19 12:53, Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am using

Re: Sendmail out to port 2525

2007-09-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-19 17:36, Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:11:32 +0300 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail out to port 2525 On 2007-09-19 14:06, Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can

Re: Bash mailing list? 

2007-09-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-17 15:56, bsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would like to know if anyone of you knows a good maling list about bash programing (beginners). If you have particular questions about using bash(1) on FreeBSD, then this list is fine. If you are more interested in bash(1) internals,

Re: Which versioning system is the simplest to use??

2007-09-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-12 10:45, Agus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow...Thanks a lot guys for your very nice responsesI will investigate a litlle all the choices u gave mebut i think i will go for cvs, as i dont need anything fancy...just to keep it simple. Very much appreciated Thanks and

Re: qmail help

2007-09-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-13 22:48, Bill Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just make qmail from port and killed sendmail. I can send mail out but can't recvice it. I think that the mailboxes is not made,, You'll have to provide us with *many* more details about the precise steps you followed, what you wanted

Re: http://www.freebsd.org site unreachable

2007-09-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-14 22:13, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am unable to get to freebsd.org is this on my end only ? just loaded. works It seems to work now. With many of the FreeBSD folks mid-flight to Copenhagen, for EuroBSDCon 2007, it

Re: fbsd sendmail as MTA

2007-09-13 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-12 20:46, Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're switching our MTA from postfix to sendmail on a purely mail relay server and all is running just fine except for one minor essential. Is there any way to have sendmail perform the same service as the recipient_bcc.map and

Re: fbsd sendmail as MTA

2007-09-13 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-13 13:49, Peter Boosten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having said that, Postfix bundles a lot of the functionality of many milters. If you are happy with the way Postfix works, why do you have to switch to Sendmail? I use both (on different machines) and they both have their 'charms'

Re: subversion 1.4.4_1: svnserve.in missing

2007-09-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-12 06:10, Kyle Allender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: sia# pkg_info | grep krb krb5-1.6.2 An authentication system developed at MIT, successor to Ker sia# Do you really need two separate Kerberos implementations? If the port version is aabsolutely

Re: subversion 1.4.4_1: svnserve.in missing

2007-09-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-10 20:31, Kyle Allender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I let the build complete during the day while away at work and found this when I arrived home: [Updating the pkgdb format:bdb_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 479 packages found (-0 +1) . done] --- Reinstallation of devel/subversion

Re: subversion 1.4.4_1: svnserve.in missing

2007-09-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-11 06:40, Kyle Allender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: sia# svn co \ http://svn.calendarserver.org/repository/calendarserver/CalendarServer/trunk \ CalendarServer /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libkrb5.so: Undefined symbol

Re: Which versioning system is the simplest to use??

2007-09-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-11 15:41, Agus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, I am doing a little bit of security and log watching with sec.pl and was trying to mantain de secconf files organized... So whenever one is changed it keeps track of the change and can rollback O that is what i am going to use

Re: subversion 1.4.4_1: svnserve.in missing

2007-09-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-09 23:04, Kyle Allender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm attempting to install subversion from the ports tree on 6.2 RELEASE using: make install and receive this error: [...] === Installing for subversion-1.4.4_1 ** Missing /usr/ports/devel/subversion/files/svnserve.in for

Re: subversion 1.4.4_1: svnserve.in missing

2007-09-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-10 07:20, Kyle Allender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: [...] === Installing for subversion-1.4.4_1 ** Missing /usr/ports/devel/subversion/files/svnserve.in for subversion-1.4.4_1. *** Error code 1 The path to `svnserve.in' points to the `files/' subdirectory

Re: csh if..then delhema.

2007-09-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-09 08:57, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the input gentlemen, Interesting to that the question was posted by G(rant) and then answered by G(ary), G(arrett) and G(iorgos)! (what are the odds!). Haha :) Anywho, I am busily converting the script to perl as per the

Re: csh if..then delhema.

2007-09-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-09 20:44, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Do any of you gents know if there is a converter that turns Bo[u]rne (:-)) shell into perl? Years ago there was commericalware (i Think) that took /bin/sh to C. Maybe Ii'm mis-remembering. I've googled aroud and

Re: csh if..then delhema.

2007-09-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-08 20:00, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have tried every escape sequence I can think of, and I still get Division by 0 error here.. if ($filesystem == \/) then $fsname = $fsnm1 elseif ($filesystem == '/var') then

Re: bash on login.

2007-09-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-06 17:06, Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I'm using bash for standard shell, what I don't understand is when I'm connect by ssh on my server the bash don't parse .bashrc file. Because .bashrc is not loaded by login shells. Read the manpage of bash(1) for more details,

Re: Version of top included in FreeBSD

2007-09-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-04 22:08, Bruce Cran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed that the version of top included in FreeBSD is 3.5beta12 and a new version 3.6 was released last year (see http://sourceforge.net/projects/unixtop). I realise fixes and improvements have been made locally in the 3 years

Re: how to access dvdrom drive

2007-09-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-03 19:51, Terrence Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just installed free bsd and trying to access my dvdrom drive. I issued the command: mount /dev/acd0 /cdrom but I got a message stating incorrect super block. What is the correct method for accessing the files on my dvd rom.

Re: Configuring FreeBSD 6.2 to use sendmail for sending only

2007-08-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-30 18:03, L Goodwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Um... I just want to pass an email message (complete with From, To, Subject and message body) to a mail handler (sendmail), as I stated in the original post. Anyway, Chuck kindly provided sample code. The only thing I'd like to do

Re: Cannot rebuild Sendmail (with sasl2) **FIXED**

2007-08-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-31 18:29, brad davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to send a heartfelt 'THANK YOU' to everyone who contributed info to this thread. I had to use bits a pieces of everyone's input to make it finally do what I wanted it to do.. which it finally does! Hurray! :-) THANK

Re: How to retrieve a directory tree from perforce.freebsd.org?

2007-08-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-31 20:01, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 31 August 2007 19:50:19 Howard Goldstein wrote: Dang. Like an idiot savant, perforce appears to be (channeling Yoda I am?) Time for a script to workaround perforce's needlessly overcomplex stupidity. Thanks for letting me know I'm

Re: How to retrieve a directory tree from perforce.freebsd.org?

2007-08-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-31 13:50, Howard Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dang. Like an idiot savant, perforce appears to be (channeling Yoda I am?) Time for a script to workaround perforce's needlessly overcomplex stupidity. Thanks for letting me know I'm beating my head against the wall with the

Re: How to retrieve a directory tree from perforce.freebsd.org?

2007-08-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-31 23:10, Howard Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I have been tinkering with scripts which pull changesets from Perforce and commit them to 'clonable' Mercurial repositories (other repoformats should be possible too). If there is a specific part

Re: Cannot rebuild Sendmail (with sasl2)

2007-08-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-30 17:48, brad davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your help. We seem to be further now. Running the 'make cleandir' twice seems to have gotten us past that hangup. Now the buildworld and buildkernel and installkernel all worked. It seems, however, that the

Re: Configuring FreeBSD 6.2 to use sendmail for sending only

2007-08-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-30 17:01, L Goodwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please see the fine Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html Although, it is entirely reasonable to consider using Postfix instead. Chuck, I'd prefer to

Re: FreeBSD Cron Job to run (ifconfig em0 down; ifconfig em0 up)

2007-08-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-30 01:03, Hinkie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I want to run a cron job in /etc/crontab that runs (ifconfig em0 down; ifconfig em0 up) if my cables static ip gateway can't be pinged but I can't figure it out. I can't get the syntax that runs in the command window, to then put intot

Re: FreeBSD Cron Job to run (ifconfig em0 down; ifconfig em0 up)

2007-08-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-29 18:51, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fragment from my test program (used for other thing but doesn't matter) /sbin/ping -i 0.5 -s 1450 -c 3 tested_host /dev/null 2/dev/null if [ $? != 0 ];then perform_action_if_doesnt_ping fi I'm not sure if '!=' is a 'portable'

Re: FreeBSD Cron Job to run (ifconfig em0 down; ifconfig em0 up)

2007-08-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-29 14:18, Eric Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 29, 2007, at 1:54 PMAug 29, 2007, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-08-29 18:51, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fragment from my test program (used for other thing but doesn't matter) /sbin/ping -i 0.5 -s 1450 -c 3

Re: Cannot rebuild Sendmail (with sasl2)

2007-08-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-29 18:02, brad davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I am a new FreeBSD user (almost converted from Linux). My company is switching over mail servers from an (expensive and old) Red Hat server to FreeBSD 6.2. Yippie! Welcome to the FreeBSD side of the world :-) :-) I have

Re: Cannot rebuild Sendmail (with sasl2)

2007-08-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-30 02:14, brad davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After installing the cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd port, I am now unable to rebuild sendmail and/or The World. You need the security/cyrus-sasl2 port, not sasl2-saslauthd. I have the cyrus-sasl2 as well as cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd installed

Re: FreeBSD Wireless

2007-08-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-27 15:17, Thiago Pollachini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/8/2, Thiago Pollachini [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello ALL, i was studying the ifconfig manual and i did not find any argument or explanation about block relay. Can anyone help? no one? regards, There's no block relay in

Re: Test on FreeBSD site

2007-08-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-24 06:36, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to NetOpsCenter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How long does it take for a test to be accepted or rejected on the FreeBSD test mail box? Is three minutes normal for a test to pop up? I had some FreeBSD 7 config issues and this

Re: Convince me, please!

2007-08-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
One of the best emails I've seen as a reply to a user coming from the Windows world. Many thanks for taking the time to write all this :-) - Giorgos On 2007-08-15 03:14, David Southwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see where both sides in this argument are coming from.. basically a lack of

Re: looking for an OS and wanting to know if this is the one.

2007-08-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-13 23:51, Brooks Lackey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay i have a Dell Inspiron 9300 with centrino mobil technology at 1.86GHZ, 512MB of memory and a 60Gig HDD. Basically I need to know which of the OS from freebsd will be the best for me to use? Any recent release should do. The

Re: looking for an OS and wanting to know if this is the one.

2007-08-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-14 02:42, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 11:25:00AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-08-13 23:51, Brooks Lackey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am just looking around as i am now tired of Windows. I dont know everything about OS but i like to learn new

Re: Ports patches? Where should I send them to?

2007-08-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-14 16:26, Heiko Wundram (Beenic) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I started hacking away at Python 2.5.1 in the ports distribution to implement HCI bluetooth socket handling for FreeBSD. As I've had my fair share of experience with the Python patching process, I'd rather see this patch go

Re: stty: unknown mode: doofus

2007-08-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-04 10:05, Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 4, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Bill Moran wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And was prompted for my password. I entered it (probably miskeyed it as I was leaning over the keyboard from a strange position and got a

Re: Firewall rules / Proper directory

2007-08-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-02 14:49, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-08-02 12:36, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm developing firewall rules for a machine, and I'm wondering what the standard is for putting my version of an ipfw firewall_script

Re: no buffer space

2007-08-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-03 08:31, Mark Busby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a firewall for my pppoe dsl connection that is giving me fits. After a few hours of surfing it runs out of buffer space. I have run memtest on the memory, checked fine. Changed out memory, still locking up. top while out of

Re: Getting up my wireless network

2007-08-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-02 13:46, Roberth Sjon?y [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, now Im trying to get my wireless network interface up and go, but how? The chipset si atheros so I guess the device driver is okay, but how do I configure which network and the wep key and the static ip adresses i want?

Re: Firewall rules / Proper directory

2007-08-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-02 12:36, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm developing firewall rules for a machine, and I'm wondering what the standard is for putting my version of an ipfw firewall_script? I usually save my rules in '/etc/pf.conf' or '/etc/ipfw.rules'. It's not like the '/etc'

Re: Simple SMTP forwarder

2007-07-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-07-27 09:40, Ernst de Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need a daemon that will accept SMTP connections and will call the 'sendmail' command to have them transported. I should be able to configure it so it will only accept connections from certain IP addresses. That's precisely the

Re: installing manual pages

2007-07-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-07-23 11:12, Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, When I went for FreeBSD, I chose the minimal distribution and as a result do not have man pages. I would like to install them but when I specify an fpt server (via sysinstall) I get: Unable to transfer the manpages

Re: installing manual pages

2007-07-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-07-23 11:31, Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I went for FreeBSD, I chose the minimal distribution and as a result do not have man pages. I would like to install them but when I specify an fpt server (via sysinstall) I get: Unable to transfer the manpages distribution

Re: installing manual pages

2007-07-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-07-23 12:26, Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/manpages/ [4] Run the 'install.sh' script as root: Need to chmod it to have appropriate permissions but thank you! I now enjoy man pages for all the default tools

Re: project-open on FreeBSD

2007-07-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-07-20 09:08, Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody had luck installing project-open on FreeBSD? What is ``project-open''? I don't see anything about it in the Ports Collection. Are we talking about http://www.project-open.org/? ___

Re: project-open on FreeBSD

2007-07-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-07-20 09:32, Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-07-20 09:08, Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody had luck installing project-open on FreeBSD? What is ``project-open''? I don't see anything about it in the Ports Collection. Are we talking about

Merging with Mercurial (was: Re: macosx stuff seeping into the ports?)

2007-07-13 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-07-12 12:36, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just tried a merge with mercurial, built out of ports. /usr/local/bin/hgmerge: /Developer/Applications/Utilities/FileMerge.app/Contents/MacOS/FileMerge: not found Umm, why the hell would I have that on FreeBSD?? The

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-Release

2007-07-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-07-02 16:21, Joe Vender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has a release date been set for FreeBSD 7.0-Release? If not, how about an (educated guess) approximate date, month? The release schedules are posted online at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/ If a date is not posted there, it's

Re: Making docs

2007-07-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-07-01 15:27, Zbigniew Komarnicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I want to create documentation in FreeBSD. I read this article: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/02/08/Big_Scary_Daemons.html then I compile and I obtain the following error: You know we regularly re-build the

Re: Starting again from Scratch

2007-06-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-06-25 18:27, Graham Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:16:59 +0200 Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The base system and ports are separate. The base system is built from /usr/src, while ports are built under /usr/ports. Concerning ports, I would install

Re: freebsd on laptop

2007-06-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-06-20 10:35, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi folks, I want to buy a laptop and install linux and freebsd, the problem is, some 14' laptop doesnt come with cdrom and floppy, but has win2000 installed. How can I install linux and freebsd on it? My experience is about

Re: sendmail local problem...

2007-06-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-06-18 11:57, Agus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am having trouble with my mailI only want it configured to deliver locally, which in one of my bsd did it by default...but in this bsd i am gettint messages deferred... Connection refused by himalaya.x.x which is my router. It

Re: problem with sed command and csh

2007-06-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-06-18 12:28, Nikos Vassiliadis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last but not least, do you have use csh? It's not recommend for scripting. This must be the most sensible thing I've read in the entire thread. Quoting rules aside, tcsh is a nice interactive shell, but there are far too many

Re: problem with sed command and csh

2007-06-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-06-18 11:33, Olivier Regnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I founded solution with awk command and that works well. cat /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf | awk '{ sub(/^[ \t]*MAKE_ARGS = {/, \n\t\x27ports-mgmtp/portupgrade\x27 = \x27WITH_BDB4=1\x27,\n\t\x27sysutils/fastest_csvsup\x27 =

Re: Memory mannagment

2007-06-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-06-14 01:15, cadastrosonline cadastrosonline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, Each process has its own private address space. The address space is initially divided into three logical segments: text, data, and stack. But if the address is just something like 343556 then how

Re: [FreeBSD][Newb] How I use sendmail to send mail?

2007-06-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-06-11 09:26, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I've used sendmail for a dozen years--largely by hit or miss and following others' examples' let me add my two cents'. A couple years ago I bought a (used) copy of SENDMAIL (by O'Reilly, whose books are usually ++outstanding). I

Re: [FreeBSD][Newb] How I use sendmail to send mail?

2007-06-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-06-10 21:25, Bjorn Boulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doug, Mats Your advice is on the money; thanks. I see this: Jun 10 05:43:40 jake sendmail[15068]: l5AAhekD015068: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=oracle (1004/1005), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30062,

Re: Recommendations for config file revision control

2007-06-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-06-02 21:45, Maxim Khitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's an update on what I ended up going with. I decided to go with my idea of moving all configuration files to a common directory, but with a bit of a change. I created /config and under it base/ and user/. Everything in base/

Re: Recommendations for config file revision control

2007-06-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-06-02 12:43, Thierry Lacoste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have an idea of how to manage symlinks with jailed software? Thierry. [snip long posts quoted in their entirety] Hi Thierry. Please don't top-post. Your reply belong to the bottom of the text you are replying, at least in

Re: The mailman bug

2007-05-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-05-31 16:08, Balwinder S Dheeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I think, the mailman (mailing list manager/server) at http://lists.freebsd.org/ is not handing and, or correcting the headers well. It is therefore difficult to filter and, or process messages coming from the mailing

Re: make packages

2007-05-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-05-28 12:27, Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le 28/05/2007 ? 13:16:00+0300, Thanos Rizoulis a ?crit O/H Albert Shih ??: Hi All I would like when a make install in any ports the system make a tbz in /usr/ports/packages/All every time and WITHOUT any option in command line

Re: make packages

2007-05-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-05-28 10:50, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: ,--- | $ pkg_info | fgrep vim-lite | vim-lite-7.0.224_1 Vi workalike, with many additional features (Lite package | $ pkg_create -b

Re: Submitting a new port via send-pr seems broken...

2007-05-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-05-25 14:39, Alan Garfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, When I try and submit a new port via send-pr I get this from my primary mail server from the MX at freebsd.org. --- May 25 14:35:28 thing1 postfix/smtp[65727]: 335055E10: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: Managing USB device names

2007-05-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-05-25 09:09, Chris Kottaridis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using USB to connect an external disk drive. It seems to get assigned a different device name when it connects in. The names seem to cycle through /dev/da* where * is changing on each disconnect and reconnect. With this

Re: Build with debug symbols

2007-05-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-05-20 07:41, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I build a port with debugging information; i.e. 'make -g', is that debugging information stripped out when the program is installed? If so, is there anyway to prevent this from happening? I have been attempting to build 'claws-mail'

Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...

2007-05-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-05-16 03:21, Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Oliver Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 mai 2007 03:18 To: Jerry McAllister Cc: Oliver Peter; Ian Lord; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...

Re: can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-05-01 15:58, David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am attempting to zip large files that are 2GB - 3GB. uname -a; FreeBSD 3s1.com 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #7 I have tried gzip, bzip2 from the ports and rzip. All give no errors on zipping, but will not unzip, siting CRC

Re: can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-05-02 12:26, David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: A lot of the features related to file sizes and other attributes of the files stored on a disk depend highly on the type of file system used on the disk. What file system does the destination directory live

Re: Tagging email subject line with something like [fbsd-questions]

2007-04-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-04-25 14:05, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List-Id: User questions freebsd-questions.freebsd.org Can gmail not filter on that? Do you have any suggestions for how to do something similar with mutt or procmail? Sure; you can use something like this in your `.procmailrc': :0

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-04-14 12:34, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 11:52:18AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Also, it's Linux-based so documentation in terms of manpages are most likely non-existent, like with Gentoo Linux. That's by no means universal among

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