Does anyone happen to know where to find the updated TZ data
in old format? This is what 6.1 file(1) has to say about
a zoneinfo file imported from one of my really old boxes:
$ file PST8PDT
PST8PDT: old timezone data
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#1. The drive temperatures seem ridiculously high to this naive
reader, but what do I know?...
110 to 190 Celcius? Yikes... Or maybe that's normal?
How hot is too hot?
I'd think if you can't hold onto them with bare hands they are too
hot. 100C is *way* too hot. It's a wonder they are
Call me silly, but it seems to me you ought to be lobbying Apple
for Linux support.
Get a decent Apple-made Linux player, and FreeBSD support via
the linux emulator would *probably* work, no?
I agree, getting Apple to support iTunes on Linux is key. I don't
know if there have been
The 2 systems, Windows or FreeBSD, cost the same. That is,
assuming that time=money. Which everyone does, except for those
who have so much money they don't have to work for a living, or
those who have nothing and are perectly content to live with - nothing.
But I am not comparing Windoze
They finally got around to posting linux usage but are apparently
biased or too STOOPIT! to acknowlege *BSD...which seem really odd
as a netcraft query returns:
Solaris 9/10 Apache/2.0.54 (Unix) 16-Jan-2007 212.58.224.116
BBC Internet Services, Docklands.
This says nothing either way
Does anyone happen to know where I would find a how-to for
downloading and displaying images from a Vivitar ViviCam 3825?
That camera seems to support umass(4), so just plug it in and use it
like a USB hard drive...
It seems not to be quite that simple :( When I plug it in and turn
it on,
What I don't get is I see guys walking in
dropping $1000 on associated Mac hardware crap
...
The most expensive system around here is a Mac Sawtooth that cost
$225 -- including a 17 monitor -- last September. The (Dell)
FreeBSD box I'm using at the moment cost $10 at a
What I don't get is I see guys walking in
dropping $1000 on associated Mac hardware crap
...
The most expensive system around here is a Mac Sawtooth that cost
$225 -- including a 17 monitor -- last September. The (Dell)
FreeBSD box I'm using at the moment cost $10 at a flea market,
Is there some way to figure out what apps I don't need installed
anymore?
all of my systems, whether desktops or servers, i start with
the minimal install. from there, i use the ports collection to
buildout anything i need. i know this is probably the long way
around for most cases, but
I doubt there is any reasonably priced ISP that will help in
troubleshooting a problem that's not reproducible on Windows.
$19.95 a month for DSL (ISP charges) is not reasonably priced?
WTF?
Dunno about your neck of the woods, but last time I checked around
here Verizon was
You mean work like a scrollwheel, or as the center button
of a three button mouse? Mine works like the latter,
I have yet to have it work as a scroll wheel, even though
my /etc/X11/xorg.conf contains the very same ZAxisMapping.
This (6.1) box has a Logitech TrackMan Marble+ trackball. When
I doubt there is any reasonably priced ISP that will help in
troubleshooting a problem that's not reproducible on Windows.
$19.95 a month for DSL (ISP charges) is not reasonably priced?
WTF?
Dunno about your neck of the woods, but last time I checked around
here Verizon was charging
Unfortunately all Micro$lop 'standard' email clients and a
few others put the cursor at the top of the email, so the
bad habit has developed across the world both domestically
and in businesses, to write there, rather than continuing
the email thread at the bottom.
This behavior of
The command to calculate md5 sums is 'md5', not 'md5sum',
and it is part of the base.
...
Not sure why apropos md5 shows md5sum and gmd5sum (g for gnu?),
maybe it's from a port.
I also suspect that gmd5sum is a link to md5sum or vice versa.
gmd5sum is indeed from a port, but md5sum does
Both the executable and the manpage for md5sum seem to be missing
from this 6.1-RELEASE system, making it difficult to check the
downloaded 6.2-RELEASE and FreeSBIE ISOs. Isn't md5sum supposed
to be part of the base?
Meanwhile, apropos md5 yields this line, among others
gmd5sum(1), md5sum(1)
cat k | tr \200 \ | tr \235 \ k.new
Or, skipping the unnecessary cat and invoking tr only once
tr \200\235 \\ k k.new
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Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:59:20PM -0800, Jeff Mohler wrote:
Not all of us can program..but let me ask this question.
Linux is all volunteer, how did it get so far ahead?
It isn't. People in the know like FreeBSD as a server which
is where it
Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe core needs to make it easier to direct are funds to the
sub-projects of are choice and still qualify it as a deductible
expense.
For accounting/tax purposes, aren't salary and benefits just as
deductible as contributions? Hire someone qualified
Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 08 January 2007 12:04 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Such a report will be incomplete if the system in question is an
NIS client. For starters, see yp(8).
Would getent passwd and getent group be more definitive?
No idea. There is no
Vizion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can someone please tell me what package installs libkrb5.so.8
for FREEBSD-6.1-RELEASE #0?
On my 6.1 system, /usr/ports/INDEX contains an entry for krb5-1.5_1
but my /usr/ports/security/krb5/pkg-plist lists lib/libkrb5.so.3
rather than libkrb5.so.8. To make
2. How to see that how many Users are created on a FreeBSD
System.. meaning how to get All Users/Groups list on a FreeBSD
Server?
The information is in /etc/passwd and /etc/group. You can
get a count with the wc command.
Such a report will be incomplete if the system in
I have a Keyspan USB serial port on my FreeBSD 6.1 box and trying
to connect from a Linux box to the machine. I'm using minicom and
not sure of the settings that should be used. I see the following
in dmesg...
sio0: 16550A-compatible COM port port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4
flags 0x10 on acpi0
Does anyone happen to know where I would find a how-to for downloading
and displaying images from a Vivitar ViviCam 3825? I see several
digital-camera utilities of one sort or another in the ports, but
none whose index entry mentions Vivitar.
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I'm trying to debug some panics on my system, and the section
in the handbook that goes over kernel debugging points to
/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNEL as the location of kernel.debug.
But I don't have this file there. I only have 'kernel'.
Just in case this was not obvious, KERNEL there is
Yours might be in GENERIC, MYKERNEL, etc. -- the same place where
you built the currently-running kernel. If you're running the
original CD-installed kernel, I suppose the corresponding place
would be GENERIC (but I don't know offhand whether the standard
install includes
I have a new system with NO FLOPPY CONTROLLER and a 3ware 9550
card. It's a 1u system -- sticking extra things into PCI slots
as a workaround is likely to be impossible.
Any possibility of using a USB floppy drive?
3) Adding the kldload command to the emergency holographic shell
(I was
can anyone tell me what the operator group is for, or docs where I can
read about it? I see that /sbin/shutdown and /sbin/mk_snap_ffs are both
executable by members and various things in /dev/ are mountable by them.
My understanding is that group operator is intended for those who
deal with
I need any online complete manual on sh, not a brief as it is man sh.
The last one doesn't describe many features both interactive (command
line editing, using history interactively, and many others) and
scripting (for example, conditional expressions).
info bash might be a reasonably good
I was running FreebBSD 5.x until a few days ago at home on a little
shuttle cube server with a celeron processor when my hard drive
appeared to develop multiple problems and finally died. I had a
western digital external usb hard drive attached to the server that
I used for daily backups ...
From this:
lia href=http://www.domain.com/tales/wouf.html
To this:
lia href=tales/wouf.html
In other words, I just want the relative path and remove all
the extra: http://www.domain.htm/ portions of the lines.
...
cat file.html | sed -e s|http://www.domain.com||g file.tmp.html
Vishal Patil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could someone point me to an example that shows a SIMPLE network
protocol implemented over TCP/IP inside the FreeBSD kernel.
I think I could look at the NFS client driver but is there an
example simpler than that.
NFS normally runs over UDP, not TCP.
FK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If alternatives are all copies of the master,
they must have the same contents. I checked and
found they are equal.
# dd if=/dev/da0s2a skip=160 bs=512 count=16 of=sb1
16+0 records in
16+0 records out
8192 bytes transferred in 0.013373 secs (612571 bytes/sec)
I have a C program which currently does not use any terminal control
facilities. I don't want to make it into a full-screen application,
or anything close, but I would like to extract the bold and sgr0
terminfo strings (or the md and me termcap strings, if on a system
too ancient to have
Does FreeBSD have an equivalent to the Solaris date -a command,
i.e. a command-level interface to adjtime(2)? I didn't see any
mention of a -a switch in the manpages for date(1) or gdate(1),
nor anything applicable in apropos, and a grep for adjtime in
likely-seeming parts of /usr/src didn't turn
B H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
LimChang Guen skrev:
My browser show the message : Tomcat's administration web
application is no longer installed by default.
Download and install the admin package to use it.
How can I fix it?
Download and install the admin package to use it.
Just
Well..also, how about mounting jfs/ext3/xfs/reiserfs partitions on FreeBSD?
For ext3 and reiser, ports/sysutils/e2fsprogs and ports/sysutils/progsreiserfs.
For xfs, I am guessing that one or both of ports/sysutils/xfsprogs and
ports/sysutils/xfsm may be applicable. The only thing I find
You have just about any right in single user mode. Type
chmod 644 /etc/ttys
If you edit the file using vi and it isn't writable you can force to
write to it by typing :w!
Not if his FS is mounted read-only.
Sure, he can remount it read-write, if he knows how :)
(Someone else already posted
Christian Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry if I sound rude, but did you ever read the BSD license?
http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html
It says in the first sentence:
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted
I'd suggest you do NOT buy a Sony VAIO ...
- I still have unresolved problems with ACPI
...
- Battery does not hold what it says: I have never got more than 1:30
out of it - and they claim more than 3 hours - (I assume with power
off)
These are very likely related. It is quite
I want to install Linux in an extended partition after my FreeBSD
slice so that I won't loose unecessary primary partitions to Linux
because I want to install other OS:es too.
Are there any problens with this do you think?
This, I think rather old article, recommends to install FreeBSD
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATETIME WCPU COMMAND
18 root1 -60 -179 0K 8K *Giant 15:09 77.05% irq7: lpt0
11 root1 171 52 0K 8K RUN 48.0H 11.13% idle
The interrupt service for the parallel port is using over 3/4 of
the CPU, and half
* Somehow tell the printer not to receive so quickly.
how can I do this?
I have no idea how to do it, or if it is even possible, which is why
I said somehow. You could check the printer's manual to see if it
has such a setting.
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As for the cable on backwards, its keyed with a tab on the outside
perimeter and inside with a blocked hole or two. Should be very
hard to install incorrectly ...
Backwards = drive end to motherboard, motherboard end to drive.
Very easy to do if using only one drive, and the keying may not
I want to know if it is possible to _programatically_ switch to
an unused virtual tty, and then use this as the display page.
( By unused I mean marked 'off' in /etc/ttys )
So if I set ttyv7 to off, can I launch a program (possibly from
a cold boot) that selects tty7 ( ie the now getty-less
... does anyone know the range of Power Over Ethernet? I want
something to go from my house to my garage apartment then hook
a wireless access point in to the POE box. The garage and the
house are on their own power circuit but where the lines split
is in between the house and the
The garage and the house are over 1/10 of a mile apart?
yeah. it's not a car garage.
...
I don't plan to string cable at all. Cable is already in place
for all the electric stuff.
IOW the cat5 between the buildings is already in place? In that
case, and supposing whoever put it in knew
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