FWIW:
Many have recommended using xargs to pass the generated list
entries into tar or some other archiving program. I've often
had trouble processing lists of filenames using xargs. Most
of the problems revolve around oddball characters in the
filenames, which tend to be created by users using
My IPv6 tunnel has a tendency to vanish from time to time. So I
thought I might write a script to check that and attempt
reconstituting it if needed. After some considerable messing
about, I really thought this ...
#!/bin/sh
if ifconfig en1|grep -q inet6 2001 ; then exit;
else
if ps -ax |
At 7:53 PM -0300 2/17/11, Mario Lobo wrote:
I replaced the thermal grease (as advised here) with a new one but that didn't
change those figures.
I've not attempted to keep up with changes in thermal
conductivity of heat sink compounds for something like 40
years. About that time, National
On Sun, 30 May 2010, Fbsd1 wrote:
Been using ee and been happy.
Now I have need for an editor with block commands.
I'd suggest looking into aee.
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Wump Research Company
676 River Bend Road, Roseburg, OR 97471
541-672-8975
At 1:28 PM -0500 3/6/10, Chuck Swiger wrote:
While I think floppy drives are still useful for BIOS updates and the
like, it's not just Apple that isn't selling machines with floppy
drives any more. Go to HP or Dell and try to buy a new machine with a
floppy drive-- they don't sell them anymore,
b) go with gpt / gpart, which is okay if FreeBSD will
be the only OS that accesses the disk(s) in question,
as I may assume by your statements.
That's correct; these will be strictly BSD accessible drives.
FWIW: I've used GUID drives with Mac OS X, Windows XP, Ubuntu
and PC-BSD all resident
At 10:41 AM -0400 11/5/09, PJ wrote:
Ruben de Groot wrote:
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 09:26:15AM -0400, PJ typed:
Polytropon wrote:
On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:25:58 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote:
output should be: 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 etc.
is:1 2 3 4 5 6
the calendar.sh is
At 4:44 PM +0200 8/17/09, Heiner Strauß wrote:
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 06:18:45PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
On 17 August 2009 pm 18:09:06 cpghost wrote:
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:25:29AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
By the way, where did I read that #define macro names have to
be
At 6:44 PM +0200 5/30/09, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
the famous back-tics.
% grep expression `find /path/to/files/ -mtime -2 -print`
Of course, there are surely easier, faster and better means,
but from this one, I know it just works. :-) Furthermore, I
unless filelist exceed max lenght of
At 4:48 PM +0200 4/15/09, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
unix naming convention normally dictates the following:
cp -r /cdrom/dir /mnt/
# will create /mnt/dir and everything under it
cp -r /cdrom/dir/ /mnt/
# will copy contents of dir into /mnt
That was what I thought it should do - but it
At 12:31 PM -0700 1/6/09, Chad Perrin wrote:
On the other hand, I don't trust Verisign, either.
What's to trust? If you pay them, you in.
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Walter M. Pawley w...@wump.org
Wump Research Company
676 River Bend Road, Roseburg, OR 97471
541-672-8975
At 9:33 AM -0700 10/11/08, Kelly Jones wrote:
newsyslog rotates logfiles so that messages.0.gz is yesterday's file,
messages.1.gz is the day before's, etc.
This is ugly.
IMHO, this is worse than merely ugly. I gave up rotating log
files a long time ago when I kept running into problems that
On Oct 7, 2008, at 12:51 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
...
I remounted the heatsink (side note: curse you, Intel - was that meant
to be funny?), and didn't apply a single bit of paste other than what
came on it.
FWIW: one needs to be careful with the application of heat sink
paste if one doesn't
At 10:01 AM +0100 8/23/08, Matthew Seaman wrote:
Walt Pawley wrote:
At the risk of beating this to death, I just happened to
stumble on a real world example of why one might want to use
Perl for sed-ly stuff.
... snip ...
wump$ ls -l Desktop/klog
-rw-r--r-- 1 wump 1001 52753322 22 Aug
At 9:59 AM +0200 8/22/08, Oliver Fromme wrote:
- The perl command you wrote above is pretty much a sed
command anyway (except you incorrectly used non-portable
regular expression syntax). Why use perl to execute a
sed command?
At the risk of beating this to death, I just happened to
At 8:46 AM -0400 8/21/08, Steve Bertrand wrote:
- read email addresses from a file in the format:
user.name TAB domain.tld
- convert it to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- write it back to either a new file, the original file, or to STDOUT
I'm curious why Perl isn't a decent choice. I think I'd do
At 3:49 PM -0700 8/21/08, Walt Pawley wrote:
At 8:46 AM -0400 8/21/08, Steve Bertrand wrote:
- read email addresses from a file in the format:
user.name TAB domain.tld
- convert it to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- write it back to either a new file, the original file, or to STDOUT
I'm curious why
At 4:19 PM -0700 8/21/08, Walt Pawley wrote:
At 3:49 PM -0700 8/21/08, Walt Pawley wrote:
At 8:46 AM -0400 8/21/08, Steve Bertrand wrote:
- read email addresses from a file in the format:
user.name TAB domain.tld
- convert it to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- write it back to either a new file
At 5:23 PM -0700 7/19/08, Gary Kline wrote:
Guys,
Is there an easyy way of splitting yp these tags into one-per-line?
I'm not obcessive [[?, :)]], but for what I've got in mind, the tags and stuff
would look better to my eyes? the outcome of this will go ino a special
database, not html .
I've been fiddling with compiling nzbget-0.4.0 on a 6.3 system.
My initial efforts failed the configuration process for not
finding iconv.h. This, despite /usr/local/include/iconv.h being
present and supposedly in the include search path if the info
documentation can be believed.
Just to see if I
At 12:06 PM +0200 5/5/08, Mel wrote:
On Monday 05 May 2008 10:12:05 Walt Pawley wrote:
I've been fiddling with compiling nzbget-0.4.0 on a 6.3 system.
My initial efforts failed the configuration process for not
finding iconv.h. This, despite /usr/local/include/iconv.h being
present
At 12:06 PM +0200 5/5/08, Mel wrote:
On Monday 05 May 2008 10:12:05 Walt Pawley wrote:
I've been fiddling with compiling nzbget-0.4.0 on a 6.3 system.
My initial efforts failed the configuration process for not
finding iconv.h. This, despite /usr/local/include/iconv.h being
present
On 3/29/08 1:17 PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote on SCSI network
they are all adaptec (ahc driver) controllers - manual says it can be
target as well as initiator
Others have been discussing the potential speed of such an
arrangement. I'm more concerned about SCSI bus addressing being
a problem.
At 12:08 PM -0800 3/7/08, Fred C wrote:
I have one of my disks over heating and I would like to monitor the
disk temperature. Is there any way to get the disk S.M.A.R.T
information on FreeBSD?
How about smartmontools from ports?
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Walter M. Pawley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wump Research Company
676
At 1:41 PM +0200 1/13/08, Matiss wrote:
Hey all
Hope this is more or less right place to ask.
What I noticed on my FreeBSD 6.2 installation, that
pkg_add -r ImageMagick results in a file not found error.
DTG864# pkg_add -r ImageMagick
Error: FTP Unable to get
Once upon a time I messed with FreeBSD rather frequently. Then
things changed. Time passed and I'm back to tinkering with
things a little, though mostly from the perspective of a Mac OS
X user. In that distant past, I found that rotating log files
in the classical manner - changing the number and
At 10:16 AM -0800 1/3/07, X X wrote:
... It needs to work with both windows and macs on
the network. It has to have the ability to run
automated backups to either internal hd (like raid
mirroring) or usb external hd.
If you're planning to do backups of the client computers' hard
disks, you may
At 11:47 PM -0500 9/20/06, W. D. wrote:
Just reading this about Linux on ZDNet and was wondering:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9593_22-6117479.html?part=rsstag=feedsubj=zdnn
Cybernetic floobydust, IMHO.
--
Walter M. Pawley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wump Research Company
676 River Bend Road, Roseburg,
At 4:20 AM -0700 8/23/06, Vizion wrote:
My home network is connected by my Linksys Broadband Router
model RT31P2 to an upstream Cable company supplied Motorola
SB5100 cable modem.
A single IP address is allocated via DHCP to the Linksys to
which my private network is attached. The IP address is
At 5:03 PM -0400 8/24/06, Robert Huff wrote:
I need to monitor and record that IP address and initiate a
series of processes if/when the IP address changes.
You could schedule a script that uses 'curl' or 'fetch' to
acquire the status page from the router and parse the upstream
IP
At 6:30 PM -0600 7/27/06, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
Really? I wouldn't want such a myopic view when choosing to
allocate our
shareholders dollars. Best tool for the job. Period!
That is not as easy as you make it out to be. WHat one might in the
short term see as the best tool may
Operationally, at least, I seem to resolved my problem with
Xorg 6.9.0 and using the Mach32 ATI video card.
I included lines in xorg.conf.new in Section Device ...
Option tv_out false
Option tv_standard None
I suspect only the latter is necessary but haven't
I have an old box I've been messing with. I had it running X on
FreeBSD 5.3, seemingly well enough. I decided to move to 6.1,
installed more RAM, a bigger hard disk and a CD-RW drive that
can see CD-Rs (unlike the original old SCSI CD drive) and chose
an install everything from CD. Things went
At 10:42 AM -0500 6/17/06, Nikolas Britton wrote:
What kind of ATI card is this?
There's a label on what's probably an E-PROM that says
PCI MACH32
113-23000-110
(C) 1995
... Here's a wild guess: it might be the
DRI/DRM crap, disable it, in xorg.conf, and try again:
Section Module
At 2:35 PM -0500 6/17/06, Nikolas Britton wrote:
On 6/17/06, Walt Pawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 10:42 AM -0500 6/17/06, Nikolas Britton wrote:
What kind of ATI card is this?
There's a label on what's probably an E-PROM that says
PCI MACH32
113-23000-110
(C) 1995
Wow thats old
I'm looking for a tool that will allow me to compare directories
(recursively) showing what files are different,etc. meld
( textproc/meld )
can do this to some extent, showing missing files,etc, but not showing
what files are different withoug having to open each file and do a diff.
I've been messing about with FreeBSD lately, though mostly I
use Mac OS X. I've grown accustomed to using less as a pager,
generally preferring the manner in which it would make all the
scrolled through crud vanish when I was done pawing about in
it. But less didn't behave that way when telnet'd
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