Re: Preventing portmaster from using packages for specified ports

2012-05-08 Thread John Webster
--On May 8, 2012 9:33:59 PM +0100 Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: I'm happy to use the -P option to let portmaster use packages for most of my ports but there's a few that must be compiled from the port instead because I need to configure non default options, e.g. to enable

Re: Preventing portmaster from using packages for specified ports

2012-05-08 Thread John Webster
--On May 8, 2012 10:51:16 PM +0100 Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: On Tuesday 08 May 2012, John Webster wrote: Would this work for you?  From the manpage:      For those who wish to be sure that specific ports are always compiled instead of being installed from packages

Re: pkdgb and corrupted record(s)

2011-08-12 Thread John Webster
--On August 12, 2011 11:08:01 AM -0700 Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: All, This seems fairly benign so far, but I find it happening on several machines after switching from portupgrade to portmaster. Don't know if that switch is actually part of the issue or not, though I'm really

Re: .sh check for sufix g or m on size field

2010-07-12 Thread John Webster
--On July 12, 2010 10:29:08 PM +0800 Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Sorry miss send, was not done yet. Have a .sh script that accepts an -s sparse file size. Only 2 suffix's are valid m and g. Been trying to get this line of code to strip out just the single letter. But it strips the

Re: combining network interfaces

2009-04-09 Thread John Webster
--On April 9, 2009 5:18:26 PM +0200 Frederique Rijsdijk frederi...@isafeelin.org wrote: Hello, Is there a way in FreeBSD to combine a number of network interfaces to one virtual interface on which I can tcpdump all the traffic of those interfaces at once? Take a look at netgraph.

Re: Remote backups using ssh and dump

2008-04-04 Thread John Webster
We use the following in a script to backup our servers. /bin/ssh -q -o 'BatchMode yes' -l user host '/sbin/dump -h 0 -0uf - /home \ | /usr/bin/gzip --fast' 2 /path/to/logs/host/home_full.dump.log /backups/host_home_full.dump.gz --On April 4, 2008 12:59:27 PM -0500 Paul Schmehl [EMAIL

Re: Paging Matthew Seaman

2008-01-04 Thread John Webster
--On Friday, January 4, 2008 10:28 AM -0600 Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: du -hd1 That's not what I'm looking for. That will return *files* and directories one level deep. I want directories *only* all levels deep. Would the following work? find /path/to/directories -type

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

2007-12-21 Thread John Webster
--On December 21, 2007 11:23:03 AM -0500 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to shinny knight [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The reason that is not recommended is that it results in sudden steps of the clock. Occasionally, these steps go backwards. Software that is very sensitive to

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

2007-12-21 Thread John Webster
--On Friday, December 21, 2007 13:24:40 -0500 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to John Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --On December 21, 2007 11:23:03 AM -0500 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to shinny knight [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The reason

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

2007-12-21 Thread John Webster
--On Friday, December 21, 2007 13:51:29 -0500 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to John Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Not generally suitable for cron because it can take longer to slew than it does for the next cron execution to occur, which would then result in multiple

Re: Two questions about UNIX(r) certification.

2007-10-18 Thread John Webster
--On Thursday, October 18, 2007 13:49:07 + Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html#unix Mac OS X is now a fully certified UNIX operating system, conforming to both the Single UNIX Specification (SUSv3) and POSIX 1003.1.

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-30 Thread John Webster
--On Thursday, August 30, 2007 19:53:50 -0300 Nélio Mesquita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to all! Just for curiosity, why the FreeBSD logo is a little devil? Is there a history around it? Thank you! Sort of answers your question. (Implied and explicit.)

Re: still generating sendmail.st log using postfix

2007-06-21 Thread John Webster
--On Thursday, June 21, 2007 16:26:58 -0400 Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using postfix and have sendmail_enable=NONE and I see sendmail.st log file filling up and being rotated. Why is the sendmail.st file still be used with postfix? Is there some thing else I have to do to stop

Re: Interesting Change In ssh Behavior

2007-06-19 Thread John Webster
--On Tuesday, June 19, 2007 15:15:25 -0500 Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Campbell wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2007, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I just recently update one 6.2 and one 4.11 machine to the latest stable

Re: NTPd not syncing time correctly - No errors either

2007-05-31 Thread John Webster
--On Thursday, May 31, 2007 19:02:47 -0400 Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I'm running a dev server in VMWare (On a WindowsXP host) just to screw around with some things. Running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE. VMWare causes the clock in FreeBSD to be a inaccurate; it loses about 2 hours every

Re: completly remove (or modify) a port

2007-04-18 Thread John Webster
Look in /var/db/ports. Removing the postfix directory or the options file in that directory should do the trick. jw --On Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:16:28 -0600 Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I have been trying to work with postfix from the ports collection. I need to rebuild it

Re: NTPD not keeping time

2006-12-01 Thread John Webster
--On Friday, December 01, 2006 10:23:17 -0800 Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 1, 2006, at 9:56 AM, Kris Anderson wrote: Darn the system time strayed over night. One thing I failed to mention is that freebsd is running on a virtual machine. Sigh-- you're right, you should

Re: deleting with wildcards over ssh ... how ?

2006-08-30 Thread John Webster
--On Wednesday, August 30, 2006 11:06:39 -0400 Ensel Sharon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to delete some remote files with a wildcard, running 'rm' over ssh. The obvious syntax doesn't work at all - it doesn't even make an ssh connection - I think it is interpreting the wildcard

Re: find not finding file.

2006-04-27 Thread John Webster
--On Thursday, April 27, 2006 18:43:01 +0100 RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone explain this: # find /etc/ -name 'named.conf' # ls -l /etc/namedb/named.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3715 Nov 13 17:35 /etc/namedb/named.conf /etc/namedb is a link to another directory,

Re: IP Routing Question

2006-02-14 Thread John Webster
--On Tuesday, February 14, 2006 11:40:45 -0800 Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/14/2006 11:17 AM Steve Douville wrote: Weird stuff... route add -host aaa.bbb.ccc.209 aaa.bbb.ccc.196 -ifp em1 Shouldn't this be: route add -host aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd aaa.bbb.ccc.209 Where

Re: updating perl

2005-06-25 Thread John Webster
Read /usr/ports/UPDATING: 20050624: AFFECTS: users of lang/perl5.8 AUTHOR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] lang/perl5.8 has been updated to 5.8.7. You should update everything depending on perl. The easiest way to do that is to use perl-after-upgrade script supplied with lang/perl5.8. Please see

Re: gnome problem

2004-11-22 Thread John Webster
Antoine, You need to comment out the following in /etc/X11/XF86Config: Option XkbRules xfree86 See /usr/ports/UPDATING jw --On Monday, November 22, 2004 13:43:18 -0500 Antoine Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When first running gnome I get this error window popping up. Error