On Tuesday 22 April 2008 12:54, Unga wrote:
--- Peter Boosten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use [pw] without the slash:
adduser -d /home -q -s /usr/local/bin/rzsh
Works like charm
There is no keyword adduser to the pw(8) :)
From the manpage:
The first one or two keywords
On Wednesday 30 April 2008 11:00, O. Hartmann wrote:
O. Hartmann wrote:
Jonathan Chen wrote:
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:07:44AM +, O. Hartmann wrote:
Hello out there,
my question may sound a bit weird, but the situation is as follows:
I use OpenLDAP 2.4 for authetication purposes
dn: uid=jfm,ou=people,dc=hst,dc=org,dc=za
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
objectClass: posixAccount
objectClass: extensibleObject
sn: McKeown
cn: Jonathan McKeown
uidNumber: 1001
gidNumber: 1001
mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
loginShell: /usr/local/bin/bash
host: charlotte.hst.org.za
host: clare.hst.org.za
uid
On Tuesday 06 May 2008 00:08, Mario Vazquez wrote:
I have been using different Linux distributions for some years, and decided
to give FreeBSD a try. The install was successful, but have a question
about how the root account is made. Found that the root folder was created
with the user/group
On Wednesday 07 May 2008 13:56, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
How do I chmod separately files and directories?
If I use chmod -R 644 then it will go through all the subdirectories
assigning everything 644 permissions, directories including.
Use the symbolic form for permissions and use X, which is
On Friday 09 May 2008 14:36, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
On a FreeBSD 6.1 with openldap-server-2.3.39, I have setup nss_ldap and
pam_ldap, but cannot get slapd to start as long as I have nss_ldap.conf
present, it just hangs and nothing in the messages or debug logs. I just
copied ldap.conf to
On Friday 09 May 2008 23:09, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 22:44 +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
On Friday 09 May 2008 14:36, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
On a FreeBSD 6.1 with openldap-server-2.3.39, I have setup nss_ldap and
pam_ldap, but cannot get slapd to start as long
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 01:04, Johan Dowdy wrote:
Just as a best practice you might want to consider running a weekly cvsup
out of cron.
I'm not sure I'd call this best practice in all cases, having taken over a
network where every server OS install, and every port, used whatever had been
the
On Monday 12 May 2008 20:59, Paul Schmehl wrote:
I created a small list of IPs that I wanted to do digs on (because I'm lazy
and don't want to do them one at a time.)
[snip]
WTF? Why do these utilities, which usually read all the lines in a file
now only work once when run through dig? Is
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 18:23, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
The comedy solution:
lam -s '-x ' trydata | xargs dig +short
and of course I meant iplist, not trydata: this was a cut'n'paste, and trydata
is my scratch test data filename (often providing input to a script called
try. Why isn't
[respecting Time's arrow]
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 20:55, Johan Dowdy wrote:
On 5/12/08 1:55 PM, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
cat iplist | xargs -n1 dig +short -x
I think this one wins for brevity.
It can be made shorter:
iplist xargs -n1 dig +short -x
but it fires off multiple dig
On Monday 19 May 2008 11:46, Jonathan Chen wrote:
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 01:49:35AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
Riddle for the day for folks that have source trees... what would you
expect this to print out (ask yourself the question and then execute the
command)?
find /usr/src
On Tuesday 20 May 2008 02:41, RW wrote:
On Mon, 19 May 2008 21:46:03 +1200
Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 01:49:35AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
Riddle for the day for folks that have source trees... what would
you expect this to print out (ask yourself
On Tuesday 20 May 2008 16:44, RW wrote:
On Tue, 20 May 2008 11:33:50 +0200
Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 20 May 2008 02:41, RW wrote:
On Mon, 19 May 2008 21:46:03 +1200
Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
find /usr/src \( -name Makefile -or -name
We had a power failure last night, and this morning I found that imapproxyd
(running on a webserver which provides webmail) had failed to start because
it depends on imapd (running on the mailserver, a different host), and
imapproxyd had won the startup race.
I need to prevent the race by
On Saturday 21 June 2008 01:02, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
Hello all,
I know it was a long time ago, but I was talking with a co-worker about
why perl was removed from the base in v5 -- I seem to recall a discussion
on some mailing list about either the number of arguments or the format
On Monday 24 August 2009 10:07:50 Olivier Nicole wrote:
Is there a command like fuser or lsof which can be used to determine
what files this perl instance is using? Any other ideas on how to figure
out what is going on here?
lsof is in the ports.
and fstat(1) is in the core.
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 15:44:41 Adam Vande More wrote:
[450 lines including multiple signatures and twelve levels of quoting, all to
say:]
Specifically what am I confused on? Or are you just going to continue
with the personal attacks? You've offered no technical rebuttal, simply
On Friday 28 August 2009 10:54:19 Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:24:35 +0100, Jeronimo Calvo
jeronimocal...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi folks!
Im trying to set up a reaaallly basic scrip to allow one user to shutdown
my machine without root permisions, seting up SUID as
On Monday 31 August 2009 17:00:07 Jerry McAllister wrote:
Same response. Do your homework.
The nature of the OP's questions strongly suggested that we are doing his
homework. I'm surprised so many people spoonfed the answers rather than
pointing to resources like the handbook, as the first
[Agghh. To list this time]
On Tuesday 01 September 2009 20:03:19 Paul Schmehl wrote:
I found a sed tutorial once that did this, but I can't seem to find it
again. I have a file with multiple lines, each of which contains a single
ip followed by a /32 and a comma. I want to combine all
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 16:59:27 Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On Wednesday, September 16, 2009 06:08:50 -0500 Jerry ges...@yahoo.com
The backscatter is useful in a way, in that it confirms that my original
reasons for applying an ignore filter on Jerry's email address still apply,
but I wish a
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 18:44:57 Jon Radel wrote:
Jacques Henry wrote:
I commented the commands involved and nothing changed... (with only 10
minutes of time difference)
The 19 minutes between when I sent my suggestions and you responded is
hardly enough time to see if ntpd was slewing
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 18:04:41 Jacques Henry wrote:
Alternatively, from the commandline try
ntpd -g -q -c /etc/ntp.conf
The -g flag allows ntpd to set the clock once regardless of the offset
and the -q causes it to quit after setting the time.
I tried this command without
On Monday 26 October 2009 21:29:27 Yuri wrote:
It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail.
How many people actually use it? Very few.
Why isn't it moved to ports?
What is this anti-sendmail obsession people have?
Almost everyone I've ever spoken to about why they dislike sendmail trots out
a bunch of
On Thursday 29 October 2009 20:44:12 Martin McCormick wrote:
Giorgos Keramidas writes:
You should use a Perl or Python script, and a hash...
If you show us a few sample lines from the input file and how you want
the output to look, it shouldn't be too hard to quickly hack one of those
On Thursday 29 October 2009 21:58:54 Lars Eighner wrote:
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Ruben de Groot wrote:
sendmail is NOT a legacy application. It's actively being developed
ON FreeBSD. Actually, the maintainer(s) are doing a great job
Bullshit.
Why does sendmail call up the internet during
On Tuesday 24 November 2009 09:15:43 Gary Kline wrote:
it's time to come clean an admit that i have never taken
advantage of the option that lets you press [???], then press
other keys in order so the result is like pressing multiple
keys at once.
i have never
On Friday 11 December 2009 08:17:06 Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:38:04 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com
wrote:
Please
see the Handbook section on X11 configuration instead:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html
Just a side
On Tuesday 15 December 2009 23:24:16 Linda Messerschmidt wrote:
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com
wrote:
It's defined in src/lib/libc/Makefile, so you should be able to remove
that line, rebuild libc and reinstall, and see whether your performance
issue
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 22:05:06 Peter Wemm wrote:
Daignostic message to trace mailing list processing, please ignore.
You have heard of freebsd-test@ , haven't you?
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On Sunday 30 May 2010 22:29:14 Alejandro Imass wrote:
Hi all,
I sent a question regarding a problem with USB and I get this in reply.
Can someone explain?
Thanks,
Alejandro Imass
Yes. There's a hosting company called MidPhase whose support queue (at
mpcustomer.com) has been added
On Thursday 10 June 2010 03:30:14 Pieter de Goeje wrote:
On Wednesday 09 June 2010 09:34:40 Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 09/06/2010 08:15:23, Eitan Adler wrote:
Why do I sometimes see the grep in ps's output and sometimes not see
it?
When you run that pipeline the OS doesn't start both
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On Thursday 10 June 2010 14:06:46 Rob Farmer wrote:
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Matthias Fechner ide...@fechner.net
wrote:
Hi,
Am 10.06.10 11:47, schrieb Jonathan McKeown:
Subject: [#24548754] Re: why does ps |grep sometimes not return itself?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:46:31 -0500
On Thursday 10 June 2010 14:51:42 Rob Farmer wrote:
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za
wrote:
[rant about midphase hosting and mpcustomer.com]
They posted in a previous thread about this, saying they couldn't
unsubscribe under their address, ie. somebody
On Thursday 10 June 2010 15:04:53 Matthew Seaman wrote:
The only other mechanism might be to tag each list e-mail with a unique
value for each recipient in such a way that it is preserved in the
message that mpcustomer.com's help system sends out. That has severe
problems of scale and load
On Thursday 10 June 2010 18:30:52 Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 10/06/2010 17:12:50, Jerry wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:12:48 +0200
Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za articulated:
Isn't that called VERP (variable envelope return path)? I agree - the
load it would impose isn't worth
On Monday 14 June 2010 13:39:15 Carmel wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:41:19 +0530
Amitabh Kant amitabhk...@gmail.com articulated:
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote:
I saw a posting here months ago regarding a way to simulate running
a script under CRON.
On Thursday 17 June 2010 09:39:37 Matthew Seaman wrote:
But what about hard links? I hear you ask. Simple:
find /usr/lib /lib -name '*.so.*' -links +2
+1 surely? + modifier in find(1) means ``more than'', not ``at least''.
Jonathan
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On Wednesday 11 August 2010 03:07:32 Rocky Borg wrote:
You should probably preface this by saying you're the author of Qjail
and have been actively promoting it in a few places including the fbsd
forums.
That's interesting, given that you're replying to Fbsd8
fb...@a1poweruser.com. The
On Friday 13 August 2010 15:47:38 Jack L. Stone wrote:
The only thing it didn't do for me was the next step. My final objective
was to really determine the words in the word.file that were not in the
main.file. I figured finding matches would be easy and then could then
run a sort|uniq
On Wednesday 15 September 2010 13:02:41 Jerry wrote:
It took years, literally, before FreeBSD matured enough to get 64-bit
drivers for nVidia working correctly on its platform. The failure to
get the latest version(s) of Java working correctly on FreeBSD and
thereby, at least in my case, make
On Wednesday 12 September 2012 08:31:45 Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 12/09/2012 00:14, Polytropon wrote:
% cksum directory
[snip]
That will give you a checksum on the directory inode -- file names and
associated metadata only, not file content.
[snip]
Generally I find the best test for
On Wednesday 12 September 2012 22:29:45 Gary Kline wrote:
how, with mtree, could I tell whether dir1 == dir2 or not?
From the manpage:
``The mtree utility compares the file hierarchy rooted in the
current directory against a specification read from the standard
input. Messages are
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