On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:37:58 +1000
Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote:
You'll have to excuse my ignorance (and my curious mind...), but I
can't seem to find a straight answer to this. I know linux uses
gmake, and gmake is installed via ports on FreeBSD, but does that
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 05:47:23 -0800
kellyremo kellyr...@zoho.com wrote:
to memory means: mounting a ~2 GByte filesystem [ tmpfs?, or
ramfs? ], and put the /tmp on it. [ e.g.: 4 GByte ram in the pc ].
what to write in the /etc/fstab?
I have
tmpfs/tmp tmpfs rw,size=428000
I
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:23:28 -0800
Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote:
On Jan 24, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Graeme Dargie wrote:
Now I know I am going to get hung out to dry on this one, but I am
having a problem with Jon Radel and his encrypted mails to this
list. I cannot open them, I cannot
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:10:40 -0800
Chip Camden chip.cam...@gmail.com wrote:
It seems prudent to me to reduce the attack surface to that which
really needs to be defended -- When you defend everything, you
defend nothing. Not to mention avoiding the overhead of encrypting
OS files.
I don't
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 12:06:17 -0800
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
Until late last year I had an emergency account on a site named
toxic.magnesium.net. It was a tenuous site; one day it vanished, and
when it did show up again, my account was gone. Else I had forgotten
the password ...
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:32:13 -0800
Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote:
sodserve# stat -f %SB %N /*
Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /COPYRIGHT
Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /bin
Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /boot
Dec 31 18:59:59 1969 /dev
Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /etc
Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /lib
Jan 9
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:45:22 +
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote:
MASTER_SORT = http
I used to use
MASTER_SORT_REGEX = ^http
for this when a former ISP traffic shaped ftp
If you set MASTER_SORT = http, then you get
://[^/]*http/ in MASTER_SORT_REGEX, so it looks
absolutely not touched ever in the system
can helps but which one?
markand@Melon ~ $ ls -l /root/.cshrc
-rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel 798 19 Jul 04:17 /root/.cshrc
It seems that this file has the FreeBSD dist access time so can't
refers to neither.
Do you have any clue?
Cheers,
I'd suggest
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:43:13 +0100
Tony Maserati ableton...@gmail.com wrote:
I hear that - but if I want gvim I'll install gvim. What it's doing
here is installing something I didn't ask for, well actually, it's
fooling me into giving me something I don't need.
It's not as if gvim is
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:00:39 -0500
Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote:
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Giorgos Keramidas
keram...@freebsd.orgwrote:
I'm sorry that you had to install software that you don't really
need and I can help you clean up by saving your installed ports as
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:42:04 +
RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:00:39 -0500
Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote:
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Giorgos Keramidas
keram...@freebsd.orgwrote:
I'm sorry that you had to install software that you
On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 16:55:17 +0100
Rolf Nielsen listrea...@lazlarlyricon.com wrote:
Thanks to all who've replied so far. Matthew's ideas strike me as the
most interesting ones, and I will certainly explore them and see if I
can get it working.
I guess I should have explained in my original
On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 22:09:31 +
Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote:
On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 23:43:22 +0200
Коньков Евгений kes-...@yandex.ru wrote:
cd /usr/ports/any/port
make -j 16 install
Don't do that then :)
Ports which are marked MAKE_JOBS_SAFE will automatically be built
using
On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 17:33:40 -0700 (MST)
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
They are also doing very different things. MAKE_JOBS_SAFE applies
-j to GNU make, which is invoked to do the actual compiling of
third-party software. make -j 16 install applies -j to BSD make,
which is used
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 08:05:14 -0800
Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote:
Quoth Chad Perrin on Tuesday, 04 January 2011:
The weirdest thing about most useless uses of cat is that not using
cat would actually be a little clearer and involve fewer keystrokes
-- as in this case.
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:13:02 -0700
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
In this case, example was:
cat file | foo arg
. . . where it could have been:
foo arg file
That's just kind of absurd. I mean, that sort of usage (foo arg
file) is exactly the purpose for which grep
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 10:01:47 -0800
Devin Teske dte...@vicor.com wrote:
On Jan 4, 2011, at 9:33 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Patrick == Patrick Bihan-Faou
patrick.bihan-f...@teambox.fr writes:
Patrick cat asdf.txt | grep -v XYZ | grep -v bla
And yet, you still have the Useless
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:10:04 +1000
Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote:
On 12/30/10 11:09, Bruce Cran wrote:
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:49:25 +1000
Da Rockfreebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote:
Pardon me for being the queer one to ask this- but how
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:38:53 -0500
Nu 2 Da Boro nu2dabor...@gmail.com wrote:
I am trying to change the boot order for a service on my server... I
have a service that boots before mysql and need to change this.
You need to add a dummy script to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ to order
them, something
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 07:50:20 -0500
Nu 2 Da Boro nu2dabor...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, but I'm still unable to get it to work... I'm trying to get
barnyard2 to boot after mysql
I placed mysql and/or mysql-server under PROVIDE and/or REQUIRE in
rc.d/barnyard2. Then ran rcorder to show the
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:21:43 +
RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:
AFTER is what can't be run until the current script
completes.
Sorry, that should be BEFORE not AFTER.
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On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 09:40:43 -0800
Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote:
Quoth Frank Shute on Sunday, 26 December 2010:
I generally play my tracks of an album like so:
for track in $(cat trombone_shorty-backatown.m3u); do
mplayer $track
done
They then play in the correct
On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 15:11:54 -0500
Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote:
Hi all,
Up to this point I have always updated (within a branch), by dropping
to single user mode for everything.
After running cvsup to obtain the new source, is it generally
considered OK to run the maike
On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 11:39:58 -0800
Ron (Lists) rg.li...@rzweb.com wrote:
=== Checking if devel/libltdl already installed
=== libltdl-2.2.10 is already installed
You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again
by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly.
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:33:42 -0600
David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote:
Mail.app, Outlook, or Firefox. But in doing this you are not giving
up the ability to do mail on your console.
...
When using maildir format both mutt and dovecot can operate out of
the same mail repository at the
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:34:27 +0600
Victor Sudakov v...@mpeks.tomsk.su wrote:
Lowell Gilbert wrote:
I'm not sure this will work. The initial question was about
how to obtain an environmental variable. If the rc.d script
of svnserve sources /etc/rc.conf and/or /etc/rc.conf.local,
it
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:29:01 +0600
Victor Sudakov v...@mpeks.tomsk.su wrote:
RW wrote:
I'm not sure this will work. The initial question was about
how to obtain an environmental variable. If the rc.d script
of svnserve sources /etc/rc.conf and/or /etc/rc.conf.local
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:26:43 -0700
Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net wrote:
gdbm the core.dump and see if that helps (you may need to enable
symbols in
Thanks for the information, but I'm not sure what you mean by gdbm
the core.dump. GDBM appears to be a database management tool of some
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 21:11:21 -0800
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Thanks. It would never have occurred to me to look for documentation
of the _base_ system in a _port_. The porter's handbook, maybe, but
the others? Seems to me like a POLA violation.
The documentation isn't really a part of
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:32:42 +1000
Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote:
I can't seem to get my head on straight with the realtime scheduling
in FBSD despite all my googling. Can someone give me a pointer to the
latest info? As far as I can tell FBSD has it, but only
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:09:16 -0800
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Which of the 8.1-RELEASE distribution sets contains the handbook,
developer's handbook, porter's handbook, etc? I thought I had
searched everywhere, but must have missed something.
Those distributions were a mystery to me the
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:31:01 +0800
xinyou yan yxy@gmail.com wrote:
if i use portupgrade -af --patch (it take much times)
what's --patch?
And i don't finish it
Then the second time . i do it again Does it continue or reupgrade
anythins
It starts again. See pkg_glob(1) for how
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:07:00 -0700 (MST)
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Michael Powell wrote:
Grant Peel wrote:
I suspect I have an issue with Proftpd and need to update it
quickly. At Christmas break we will be apdating all ports and src,
but for now, I
On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 20:32:57 -0800
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 06:49:45PM -0800, xSAPPYx wrote:
Also, the + operator means '1 or more' but needs escaped:
%s/[0-9]\+/foo/g
Okay. I thought that the + must be perl-only regex... .
It's from Extended
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 14:42:09 +0100
J B jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I have:
$ uname -r
8.1-RELEASE
installed.
I understand the concept of software dev, and RELEASE (a snapshot in
time), and CURRENT as a dev branch, and STABLE as a dev branch
followed CURRENT. But I have difficulty
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 18:02:43 + (UTC)
JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:26:33 +, RW wrote:
Broadly n-STABLE branch-off from CURRENT and release security
branches branch-off from a STABLE branch. Release candidates are
usually points on a Stable Branch
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:36:09 -0500
Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote:
My fbsd desktop is popping up with Software Update. My question is
weather this pulls updates from packages or ports.
There are a few applications, such as opera, that can phone home and
check for newer versions.
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:08:35 -0500
Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net
wrote:
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:08:26 -0600
Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com articulated:
While I agree with your point in this context, the
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 22:11:50 -0700 (MST)
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Jerry wrote:
When using 'portupgrade', I commonly use the '-r' flag in
conjunction with the previously discussed '-a' flag. While not as
through as the -u -p flags with 'portmanger', it
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 06:22:55 -0500
Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote:
I don't see anything that specifically states the the -R or -r
flags are in included with the -a flag; although I might be
misinterpreting it. If it was implied i think it should have been
better documented.
-aRr
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 12:50:21 -0700 (MST)
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, RW wrote:
-aRr isn't implied by -a, the rR options are ignored in the former.
I think it's fairly clear that recursing through installed
packages with consistent dependecies isn't going
On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:51:08 +0100
Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se wrote:
Hi,
Did anyone in the community try to adopt the Entropy Key
http://www.entropykey.com/
for use with FreeBSD?
As a non-programmer I would not even try but perhaps someone with
better skills already did?
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 10:28:06 -0600
Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote:
You may wish to read that page again. Dom0 support doesn't exist in
FreeBSD, and paravirt domU is sketchy at best.
The page says:
The port will only run as a guest (ie. domU) right now, on i386/PAE
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 23:22:49 +0100
Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote:
Yes, of course I did.
Then of course you should have mentioned it.
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On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:15:27 +0100
Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote:
Trying to update with portmaster (-a -B -d) but everytime the process
stops after some time and I can't find out why this happens. All I
see is a screen full of names, but no message why the thing dumped
core.
Is
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 20:42:06 -0700
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
People, is there a utility to give me the rate of bps that I am
_supposed_ to be getting from my telco DSL?
If your modem or router has some means of configuring it, typically via
a browser, you can get usually get that
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:07:11 +0700
Victor Sudakov suda...@sibptus.tomsk.ru wrote:
RW wrote:
The geli(8) man page suggests initializing a geli provider with a
random keyfile (geli init -K). It also asks for a passphrase by
default.
What happens if a provider is initialized
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:14:57 +0700
Victor Sudakov suda...@sibptus.tomsk.ru wrote:
Colleagues,
The geli(8) man page suggests initializing a geli provider with a
random keyfile (geli init -K). It also asks for a passphrase by
default.
What happens if a provider is initialized without the
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:22:15 -0500
Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote:
Last night, I had to take down our primary DNS for
maintenance and lots of systems began having trouble of various
kinds.
While I expected the FreeBSD system I was on to hang for
a couple of
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:10:28 +0100
Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote:
50s) had the experience of programming microcode on a machine by
inserting brass slugs for 0s and ferrite slugs for 1s on a pin board.
I wonder why it was brass/ferrite rather than brass/empty or
ferrite/empty.
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:33:46 +0200
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
I couldn't not format it (it was some FAT format on it) as it
detached from the system by itself as soon as accessed.
It might just have been faulty. If it couldn't be accessed as a normal
device, how would the driver get
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:32:23 +0100
Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote:
On 10/21/10 13:38, RW wrote:
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:10:28 +0100
Arthur Chancefree...@qeng-ho.org wrote:
50s) had the experience of programming microcode on a machine by
inserting brass slugs for 0s
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:14:30 +0100
David Southwell da...@vizion2000.net wrote:
Hi
man portupgrade advises:
-f
--forceForce the upgrade of a package even if it
is to be a downgrade or just a reinstall of the same ver-
sion, or the
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:24:26 +0100
David Southwell da...@vizion2000.net wrote:
Tried that but no good - it still seems to goof up. I recall it used
to work many versions ago but it may not have been picked up on a
regression test.
It works for me. Which port is it failing on?
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 06:13:42 -0500 (CDT)
Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote:
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:42:30 +0100 Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk
wrote:
You can find more information about the VM architecture at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/arch-handbook/vm.html .
The
On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:40:54 -0700
mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/178267
...
So, is such approval on file with the FreeBSD Foundation?
without first obtaining _any_ _required_ license or other
approval ...
It doesn't say
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:18:38 +0200
Eric Masson e...@free.fr wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to create a script that would launch php-cgi in fastcgi
mode. So far, I've the following script :
...
sig_stop=TERM
pidfile=/var/run/${name}/${name}.pid
command=/usr/sbin/daemon -f -p ${pidfile}
On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:01:24 +0200
O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote:
On several FreeBSD boxes performing portsnap fetch updating the
ports on a regular basis, folder /var/db/portsnap/files/ gets filled
over time. I was wondering if there is not an elegant, sophisticated
way
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 08:22:58 -0400
Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote:
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 12:59:50 +0100
RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com articulated:
There shouldn't be any need to do that, they are supposed to be
deleted automatically. I have 22371, if you have much more than that
you
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:24:58 +0200
Bas Smeelen b.smee...@ose.nl wrote:
*Wired:* number of pages wired down, including cached file data pages
That refers to buffer pages (displayed as Buf), which are a subset of
the cached file data pages.
The pages in the cache queue are not specifically
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:41:16 +0200
Bas Smeelen b.smee...@ose.nl wrote:
On 09/29/2010 01:42 PM, Bruce Cran wrote:
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:57:09 +0200
Bas Smeelen b.smee...@ose.nl wrote:
*Cache:* number of clean pages caching data that are available for
immediate reallocation
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:11:10 -0400
Jules Gilbert jules.sto...@gmail.com wrote:
A typical FBSD user wants to be able to do a ports-based install, or
perhaps a pkg_add and, presto, out of the box, have a browser.
And, here it comes... Wait for it.
Without too much trouble, have a running
I'm planning to use gjournal+geli on a 2TB drive in a USB enclosure.
What I've read about this suggest that the order should be:
geli-gjournal-ufs. I was wondering if it's possible to do it in
the order gjournal-geli-ufs, which should be much more efficient. I've
read that ufs should go directly
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:58:42 -0500
Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote:
After successfully installing bind97 from a package on
to a new server, I do a cvs-sup of the system to get the latest
patches in to the kernel. After discovering that bind97 had been
replaced with
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 09:38:03 -0700
Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you Jerry.
The only reason I'm not using the squid port is because I found a
website
(
http://teklimbu.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/enterprise-freebsd-squid-proxy-server/
)
that has detailed instructions on
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 16:14:38 -0700
Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks RW!
How do I make the changes you've suggested, i.e., like changing from
the small UFS cache, etc.; that can all be done by altering the
squid.conf file?
Yes, take a look at the cache_dir lines
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:27:31 +0200
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:56:19 -0400, Kyle Dippery k...@engr.uky.edu
wrote:
Hello,
I've just installed 8.1 from distribution CDs and updated stable
with cvsup. I want to enable freebsd-update to keep the system,
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:14:58 +
Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear fellow FreeBSD users,
I have a cron script that plays music in the morning when I arrive at
work.
in ~/.xalarm I have two lines, one that calls xterm and one that calls
mplayer and plays a series of
On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:56:09 -0700
Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
Right now I've got an installation of squid 3.0.24, and want to move
to the 3.1 branch.
I could just do a 'make deinstall' on the current version, then do
'make install' in the 3.1 port, but I'm wondering if there's a
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:44:46 -0500
Depo Catcher depocatc...@gmail.com wrote:
getmail + qmail + procmail replacement + courier-imap = win?
Why use an mta at all? getmail was specifically designed to avoid that.
You can just do something like:
getmail - procmail - whatever
getmail -
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:18:58 -0400
Aleksandr Miroslav alexmiros...@gmail.com wrote:
hello,
I am looking for something on BSD that will give me the same info as
free(1) in Linux. i.e. I would like to know the state of
total/used/free memory and swap.
I know there are a number of utilities
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:17:23 +0200
Beat Siegenthaler beat.siegentha...@beatsnet.com wrote:
It never causes trouble. The only thing that if I use restart, rc says
the daemon is not running (but running fine) .
But after reading Your article it is now clear why.
I don't think it should be. Most
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 09:46:50 +0200
David DEMELIER demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote:
2010/6/1 Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com:
The differences are that portupgrade use a database, it's written in
ruby while portmaster is only one shell script. That's why I really
prefere portmaster that also
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:35:02 -0700 (PDT)
Dan Strick mla_str...@att.net wrote:
That explains the problem.
I copied the file /usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt from my old
FreeBSD release-8.0 system and hooked it up to fetchmail with the
fetchmail sslcertfile option. At least fetchmail is
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:40:06 +0200
Alex Huth a.h...@tmr.net wrote:
Hello?
Is anyone using skype on freebsd 8 and can tell me how to do the
setup? Seem to be that there is no port
cd /usr/ports make search name=skype
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On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 09:10:53 -0700
Jason jhelf...@e-e.com wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to get periodic to not send mail to root, and only log,
but have been unsuccessful thus far.
Here are the contents of my /etc/periodic.conf file (0644, root,
wheel):
daily_output=/var/log/daily.log
On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 09:59:28 -0700
Jason jhelf...@e-e.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 05:30:31PM +0100, RW thus spake:
Is it perhaps the security log that you are seeing? You are missing:
security_output=/var/log/security.log
That was it! Thank you.
I really didn't even think
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 15:44:54 +0700 (ICT)
Olivier Nicole olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote:
Hi,
While updating my servers I recently found out a stange behaviour.
I have a configuration file for cvsup.
If I set the default tag to be RELENG_7_3, I will build a kernel of
name
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 17:16:05 -0500
Ryan Coleman ryan.cole...@cwis.biz wrote:
rc.conf loads on boot up before your user scripts and you are allowed
to log in.
rc.conf is sourced into /etc/rc.subr which in turn is sourced into
individual rc scripts.
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 22:33:16 +0200
Samuel Martín Moro faus...@gmail.com wrote:
you may want add to your ntpd.conf:
driftfile /your/drift
logfile /your/log
They have perfectly good defaults.
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On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 01:12:27 -0700
Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote:
I have a question about what I am seeing on several servers. These
are 4 core machines with more than the needed memory. Load is never
above .5 and memory usually shows over half free. I have never seen
it even close to
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:25:38 -0700 (PDT)
Unga unga...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi all
I'm using FreeBSD 8.1 on i386 machine.
I have upgraded a package using portmanager, but the upgrade seems
not successful.
The required package is upgraded but all packages depend on the
upgraded package were
On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:19:56 +0200
Jos Chrispijn ker...@webrz.net wrote:
Just had a quick look in my installed ports and found out that I have
multiple versions of automake installed:
...
Is this common
yes, it's normal
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On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:56:56 +0800
Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote:
tree is no big deal, but I bet they don't do backups.
If that's an issue, don't back it up.
That ports tree
directory is a large resource hog if you lift the blinders and look
at the big picture.
Just my 2 cents.
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:28:54 -0400
Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote:
For starters, you are using the wrong sendmail. You need to use the
Postfix 'sendmail' version.
$ which sendmail
/usr/sbin/sendmail
I have Postfix installed and running. Sorry, I thought that was
obvious.
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:12:27 +0200
Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote:
Hello
This is on a remote 6.3 host: I'd like to get an e-mail if a user hits
the CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot the server.
Googling told me that the use of the three-key combo can be
enabled/disabled when compiling a new
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:28:29 +0100
Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote:
I suspect whoever you were talking to probably has more of a clue
than I do. As a quick data point, I just ran portsnap fetch update
while another process did a df /var; sleep 1 loop and /var
increased by about 30MB
On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 15:36:00 +0100
Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote:
On 29 June 2010 19:18, Roger B.A. Klorese rog...@queernet.org wrote:
On Jun 29, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Matthew Seaman
m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote:
Whether or not he agrees with them is a matter of philosophical
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:03:04 -0700 (PDT)
Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@yahoo.com wrote:
I would like to learn more about how rc operates. I want to know
where on the hard drive the instructions are located that activate
when I say gnome_enable=YES. I naively thought I would find a file
On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:58:07 -0700 (PDT)
Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@yahoo.com wrote:
--- On Thu, 7/1/10, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote:
However, your comment seems to be in disagreement with online
warnings of do not mix 'pkg_add' packages with 'make' ports.
My original
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:28:52 +0100
Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote:
Anyone else having problems with bsdstats?
I seem to getting quite a lot of errors going back to the last
reinstall.
(I think the System disabled messages are probably a side effect of
running periodic monthly from
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:37:14 +0200
Antonio Vieiro anto...@antonioshome.net wrote:
I'm eager to try out 8.1,
Personally, I don't ever recall seeing a noticeable difference after a
minor base-system update. Most user visible change comes from ports.
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:36:13 -0700 (PDT)
zaxis z_a...@163.com wrote:
The /dev/ad4s8 is an empty partition. Now i want to move /var
and /usr to it. Do i need to format /dev/ad4s8 to UFS ?
I would, there are FreeBSD specific file flags, that I don't think are
supported by ext2fs. UFS with
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:19:53 +0200
Thomas Keusch f...@bsd-solutions-duesseldorf.de wrote:
t...@eternity:~$ b=5
t...@eternity:~$ case $b in
[0-9] )
echo numeric
;;
* )
echo alpha
;;
esac
numeric
t...@eternity:~$
Works for me.
Now try it
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:50:14 +0200
Thomas Keusch f...@bsd-solutions-duesseldorf.de wrote:
10 is not valid input according to the problem/pseudocode (in the
forum) that the above code was posted as a solution for.
And if you were answering in that forum that would be a good point.
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:37:55 +0200
Thomas f...@gothschlampen.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 09:24:39AM +0800, Aiza wrote:
Hello,
Receiving a variable from the command line that is suppose
to contain numeric values.
How do I code a test to verify the content is numeric?
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:20:00 +0800
Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote:
test $name = ${path}/${group}* continue
[ -z ${found_list} ] found_list=${name} ||
I had not known about the 'test' command.
You have taught me something new.
In case you're not aware, [ -z ${found_list} ] is
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:19:22 -0500
J. Porter Clark j...@porterclark.com wrote:
1. I'd like to be able to expand the list of choices in the
boot menu (the menu with single user mode, safe mode, etc.) to
include booting in any of several different environments, e.g.,
home wired, home wireless,
On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:28:44 -0400
Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote:
I currently am using mail/thunderbird as my mail reader and it is just
doing the job very well (even with heavy use of filters) I use
xfce4 on 8.1-PRERELEASE (updated and portmaster -Rafd'ed about 3 weeks
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:11:48 +0200
Morgan Wesström freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz wrote:
On 2010-06-16 02:51, Modulok wrote:
Yo,
I have a FreeBSD box acting as a router between me and the Internet.
Whenever someone on the local network downloads something, the other
connections have
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