string manipulation in a shell script

Hi guys and Gals, I have a simple script: #!/bin/sh a=ia$(date +%d%m%Y) tar -cf $a.zip /usr/home/projects/lunaria/items all mv $a.zip /usr/home/itemsall/ this nearly does what I want, I would like to put the time in the file name aswell. If I put the %T in the date variable, the resultant value

Re: string manipulation in a shell script

Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 04:33:27PM +0800, Kathy Quinlan wrote: Hi guys and Gals, I have a simple script: #!/bin/sh a=ia$(date +%d%m%Y) tar -cf $a.zip /usr/home/projects/lunaria/items all mv $a.zip /usr/home/itemsall/ this nearly does what I want, I would like to put the time

Re: rc.conf

Chris limina wrote: I'm running bsd 5.2.1 there is a syntax error in my rc.conf what course of action do i take to repair it without having to re-install. There should be a way to easily fix this. but none of the boot options allow me to edit that file. elighten me please. Read the

Networking problem

I have a friend who can not get his FreeBSD 5.2 server to act as a gateway, from the internal network we can ping the external network card, but no further. From the server we can ping the entire world. I had him bring it over and set up my server (FreeBSD 4.8R as the gateway) so I now have:

Networking problem UPDATED

I have a friend who can not get his FreeBSD 5.2 server to act as a gateway, from the internal network we can ping the external network card, but no further. From the server we can ping the entire world. I had him bring it over and set up my server(FreeBSD 4.8R as the gateway) all my clients can

RE: 5.2 install hangs after menu

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dimitri Aivaliotis Sent: Monday, 9 February 2004 11:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 5.2 install hangs after menu On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 23:26:51 +0800 Kathy Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: 5.2 install hangs after menu -- USB ISSUES

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dimitri Aivaliotis Sent: Tuesday, 10 February 2004 9:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 5.2 install hangs after menu On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 17:47:27 +0800 Kathy Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED

5.2 install hangs after menu

I am trying to install FreeBSD5.2 on an Athlon XP 2100+ machine with 512Mb ram and 20gb hdd (5gb partition for FreeBSD)MSI 745 Ultra motherboard. If I select any option on the menu, it tries to install and then hangs saying BTX halted. Even if I use option 3 (safe mode) If I select option 5

RE: 5.2 install hangs after menu

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dimitri Aivaliotis Sent: Monday, 9 February 2004 11:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 5.2 install hangs after menu On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 23:05:09 +0800 Kathy Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Gateway traffic reporting tool (port)

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason C. Wells Sent: Sunday, 9 November 2003 7:44 AM To: Augusto Jun Devegili Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Gateway traffic reporting tool (port) You can easily use count rules in ipfw