Re: Can I Reinstall FreeBSD Over SSH?

2008-05-25 Thread Lothar Braun
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Kyrre Nygård wrote: | My server is getting kinda messy, but my ISP charges too much for a reinstall. Can I do this myself over SSH? Or perhaps there are ways to make ones system as clean as a fresh install? Thanks. If you have a spare partition

Re: Delete a folder although its not empty

2008-04-08 Thread Lothar Braun
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Ruel Luchavez wrote: | Do you also know the command for viewing the used space of a certain | directory? | Is their other command aside from df ? have a look at du(1). This is the utility you are looking for. Regards, ~ Lothar -BEGIN PGP

Re: Delete a folder although its not empty

2008-04-08 Thread Lothar Braun
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ruel Luchavez wrote: | Hello... | | I'm tired of deleting a directory or folder in a server using rm and | rmdir but before deleting a directory using rmdir the folder must be | empty..what should i do or what command should be use in Free BSD to

dhcp + vpnc results in broken routes (routing loop)

2007-11-06 Thread Lothar Braun
Dear list members, i'm running FreeBSD 7.0 BETA-2 on a laptop within a network that assigns addresses from 10.32.136.0/24 via dhcp to it's members. After obtaining the 10.32.136.0/24 address, we are supposed to connect to a vpn-gateway using e.g. vpnc. After connecting to the gateway the laptop

Re: Emacs vs XEmacs: which to choose for plain console using?

2007-01-04 Thread Lothar Braun
Hi Elisej, On Wednesday 03 January 2007 20:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are advantages and disadvantages of xemacs over emacs? Which to choose for plain console using? Maybe http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsAndXEmacs can help you to understand the differences. There's also a

Re: Emacs vs XEmacs: which to choose for plain console using?

2007-01-04 Thread Lothar Braun
On Thursday 04 January 2007 11:05, Lothar Braun wrote: But in your case you only have the possibility to use emacs. Only emacs is able to work on the plain console. Uh. I have to correct myself: emacs -nw will start emacs on the console. So you can use both editors. Regards, Lothar

Re: Multiple port versions

2007-01-04 Thread Lothar Braun
Hi, On Wednesday 03 January 2007 16:33, Vizion wrote: Just been doing a check on installed applications. pkg_info shows multiple installed versions of autoconf, automake, db gnupg. viz: autoconf-2.13.000227_5 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms autoconf-2.53_3

Re: bind problem

2006-10-10 Thread Lothar Braun
Hi Robin, On Tuesday 10 October 2006 16:22, Robin Tiwari wrote: i've configured dns server in freeBSD 6.1 but when i query the server it wont resolve my domain name. i've added in resolv.conf also and my bind daemon is also running without any errors. i couldnt figure out the problem. if any

aclocal19 doesn't find macros

2006-10-10 Thread Lothar Braun
Hi list, i'm trying to work on a configure.ac which contains the line AM_PATH_XML2(2.4.0,,AC_MSG_ERROR([*** LibXML version $XML_VERSION not found!])) When i process it with aclocal15 everything works fine. But if i take aclocal19 for that job, i'll get the error message:

Re: problems ssh'ing debug1: An invalid name was supplied (OSX client)

2006-10-10 Thread Lothar Braun
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 16:29, David Robillard wrote: any clues why ssh is hanging before a prompt is provided from the server side. this prompt stalling behavior is only happening when I am coming from my OSX ssh client. Any clues on this? I have never see this betwe. I had this

Re: How to change all /bin/bash at /etc/passwd to /sbin/nologin?

2006-10-09 Thread Lothar Braun
Hi James, On Monday 09 October 2006 09:24, James Corteciano wrote: How to change all word lines of /bin/bash at /etc/passwd file to /sbin/nologin in just a single line command? I think you can do this with: sed 's!/bin/bash$!/sbin/nologin!' /etc/passwd /etc/passwd Best regards, Lothar

Re: How to change all /bin/bash at /etc/passwd to /sbin/nologin?

2006-10-09 Thread Lothar Braun
On Monday 09 October 2006 10:03, Matthias Apitz wrote: sed 's!/bin/bash$!/sbin/nologin!' /etc/passwd /etc/passwd DONT DO THAT this way. The result would be that your actual shell truncates the file '/etc/passwd' to zero length and then launches the 'sed'. Damn. I just built the regexp but

Re: cp/mv/etc : argument list too long ... I am sick of this

2005-12-05 Thread Lothar Braun
user wrote: Ok, so I have some big directories with lots of files. If I do mv or cp, it always refuses, telling me: cp: argument list too long so, no problem ... I get creative with things like this: for f in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ; do cp $f*