Re: root | su

2008-10-25 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 24 October 2008 23:59, Jos Chrispijn wrote: [Jeremy Chadwick said] You're trying to solve a social (possibly personal?) problem with technology. Simply put, this is a bad idea. Yep, I think that is .true. I would highly recommend you either talk to the idiot and explain to

Re: OT: Shell Script using Awk

2008-11-02 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Sunday 02 November 2008 03:21:55 David Allen wrote: My apologies for asking on this list, but I'm stuck without Perl and need to use awk to generate a report. I'm working with a large data set spread across multiple files, but to keep things simple, say I have A Very Long String that

Broken quoting (was Re: XFCE4)

2008-11-02 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 03 November 2008 08:38:07 joeb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FBSD1 wrote: What port names need to be installed to create a XFCE4 desktop environment? I was looking for a mega port like kde3 has but could not identify one. Thanks in advance. I'm going

Re: Broken quoting (was Re: XFCE4)

2008-11-03 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 03 November 2008 16:17:20 Bob McConnell wrote: [Jonathan to joeb via freebsd-questions] I don't know whether it's you or your email client, but your quoting is hideously broken. Please fix it. It's his email client. Microsoft Lookout will no longer do standard quoting and forces

Re: eps to jpg conversion - which program?

2008-11-08 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 07 November 2008 21:19, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:36:51 +0100, Laszlo Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A batch solution is simple: #!/bin/sh for f in *eps; do convert ${f} `basename ${f} .eps`.jpg done You can also save yourself

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-08 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Saturday 08 November 2008 13:55, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:28:00 -0700 Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . or, as someone else pointed out, one could just learn to scroll to the end before typing. It's not that difficult -- even in Outlook. CTRLEND works like a charm

Re: scripting text replacement

2008-11-09 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Sunday 09 November 2008 00:02:11 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 19:43:52 +0100, bsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a file containing a list of items like that: line1item1 line1item2 line1item3 line2item1 line2item2 line2item3 …400 times I need to insert this into

Release schedules

2008-11-12 Thread Jonathan McKeown
I've been biting my tongue about this because I'm not sure that I can offer any help or useful suggestions, but here goes... What on earth is going on with release scheduling? FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE, according to the scheduling page at www.freebsd.org, should have had a Release Candidate

Re: Release schedules

2008-11-12 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 14:01:47 Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:59:24PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: I've been biting my tongue about this because I'm not sure that I can offer any help or useful suggestions, but here goes... What on earth is going on with release

Re: host based authetication with OpenLDAP and FreeBSD

2008-11-17 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 14 November 2008 14:32, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello, I have a OT question and maybe some of the FreeBSD server admins here can help me out. [snip] Having nss_ldap and pam_ldap installed on every single FreeBSD server/box which is capable of being accessed I found in etc/ldap.conf the

Re: php5 Only IE Users can View Pages.

2008-11-17 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 14 November 2008 19:36, Martin McCormick wrote: I inherited a mrtg application thatnow is running on a FreeBSD6.3 system. Clients report that one can see the php pages when using Internet Explorer but not other browsers that should display the pages. Those customers see raw

Re: ascii text format

2008-11-21 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 21 November 2008 12:49:16 pwn wrote: algouth this is not a freebsd specific text, i need to format some texts under freebsd for they appear in the center of the page when opened in a browser, but i dont want to use HTML for format them, i just want to add tabulation to my *.txt.

Re: process always running

2008-11-27 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 27 November 2008 15:46:58 Dominik Meister wrote: Hi Gian Paolo Buono [Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 02:05:44PM +0100]: there is a method in freebsd for restart process whenever it terminates ? I use in linux respawn in inittab... One possibility that comes to mind is using daemontools

Re: Release schedules

2008-12-13 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 12 December 2008 19:26, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: -- From: Joe S js.li...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 12:20 PM To: Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Jonathan McKeown jonathan+freebsd-questi

Re: Sed question

2008-12-22 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 22 December 2008 00:27:44 Gary Kline wrote: anyway, this is one for giiorgos, or another perl wiz. i've been using the perl subsitution cmd one-liner for years with unfailing success. is there a way of deleting lines with perl using the same idea as:

Re: How to copy only skeleton files while creating a existing user's homes directory?

2009-01-16 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 16 January 2009 12:48:38 O. Hartmann wrote: Hello, I have the following situation: Users are stored in OpenLDAP. I need to create homes directories on new machine memebers in the pool of workstations and do not want the usage of an automated creation of loggin in user via

Re: KDE: What a monster!

2009-01-26 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 26 January 2009 17:02:05 n j wrote: Linus Torvalds on KDE4... [quote] A: I used to be a KDE user. I thought KDE 4.0 was such a disaster I switched to GNOME. I hate the fact that my right button doesn't do what I want it to do. But the whole break everything model is painful for

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 26 January 2009 09:17:05 Andrew Robinson wrote: Message: 2 Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:20:51 -0500 From: Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org Subject: Re: can i split a pdf file? To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: 497d0ff3.6090...@telenix.org

Re: shell commands - exclusion

2009-02-08 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 06 February 2009 02:55, Chris Whitehouse wrote: I think you should be able to do it with a combination of -prune and -delete (or -exec rm -rf {} \; ) on a find command. Substitute your other commands for rm -rf in the -exec above. I would give you a working example except I can't

Re: sh parameter substitution problem

2009-02-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 11 February 2009 12:47:17 Ian Smith wrote: I'm getting nowhere trying to parse out IP addresses from strings of this form in /bin/sh, which have been awk'd out of 'tail named.run': addr='195.68.176.4#1440:' addr='195.68.176.4#16811:' addr='195.68.176.4#276:' sh(1) in hand,

Re: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?

2009-02-12 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 12 February 2009 03:07:42 Paul Schmehl wrote: Sorry if I wasn't clear. I wasn't suggesting that the *users* chgrp the files. Keith would do that as root. Then he sets the setgid bit to www (or whatever the web user is), and from that point going forward any files created by the

Re: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?

2009-02-12 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 12 February 2009 19:15:21 Paul Schmehl wrote: If you set the world readable bit, you break the entire schema.  To make it work, world must have no access - not even directory search access.  So you set u=rwx,g=srx,o-rwx (or 2750), for homedirs and u=rw,g=sr,o-rwx (or 2640) for

Re: new package system proposal

2009-04-08 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 23:35:03 Bob Johnson wrote: On 4/4/09, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hi all [...] My suggestion is to start with a ports tree that is fixed in time. Make that ports tree available as part of this package system and compile a typical desktop set of

Re: new package system proposal

2009-04-09 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 08 April 2009 21:24:00 Bob Johnson wrote: PC-BSD seems to already keep up-to-date binary packages of their applications. Do they accomplish that by only offering a small subset of the full ports collection? Yes - have a look at http://www.pbidir.com/. I installed PC-BSD on a spare

Re: make run-depends-list-recursive?

2009-04-15 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 14 April 2009 21:02:08 Mel Flynn wrote: On Monday 13 April 2009 03:56:15 Tim Judd wrote: make all-depends-list Two things: 1) It surpresses config target and if a port has OPTIONS set, then you may get surprised once you've configured the port and ticked/unticked an option I'm

Re: Can't log-in anymore

2009-04-15 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 15 April 2009 03:58:08 Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hi.. I know someoene here can help fix my biggest problem so far. I can't log-in any more in my FreebSD box the serverver always complain /libexec/ld-elf.so.1:shared object lib.so.7 not found, required by sh Enter full pathname of

Re: make run-depends-list-recursive?

2009-04-16 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 16 April 2009 12:27:04 Mel Flynn wrote: But yes, all-depends-list is exactly that, with the provision that it does not take changed OPTIONS into account. That's what I suspected you were saying yesterday, and it seems to be wrong. Try this (assuming you haven't already

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-18 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Sunday 17 January 2010 10:24:43 Matthew Seaman wrote: Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: I'd be very happy if I could: - fetch the distfiles, even if I have a conflicting port installed - be able to use portmaster -o to switch from one port to an other one that conflicts with it. - be able to

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-18 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 18 January 2010 17:48:37 b. f. wrote: Argh!  Stop! I wish that people who felt the need to add to this thread would read the prior posts beforehand, and consider their comments before posting. I don't know why you assume people didn't. I read the whole thread. I saw people who had

Re: Perl 5.8 - 5.10 On Current Production System

2010-03-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 04 March 2010 19:13:36 Matthew Seaman wrote: You got bitten by an ill-considered change introduced after the UPDATING instructions were written. To work around it, you need to set DISABLE_CONFLICTS when rebuilding the port, eg like this: # portupgrade -m DISABLE_CONFLICTS=yes

Re: How to get hints of software installed by Ports ?

2010-03-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 05 March 2010 16:20:36 Aaron Lewis wrote: Hi, I installed some software from ports today , and it outputs some useful information when finished. e.g where its config file is Due to some mistakes , i lost these important information , how do i see it again ? Is there any

Re: Booting MFS from Secondary Partition

2010-03-07 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Saturday 06 March 2010 15:02:20 Martin McCormick wrote: Fbsd1 writes: just dd the image to what ever drive you want That is the goal. The challenge is to launch a script that detects when the boot device has been unmounted as dd will not work on an active file system. Martin it

Re: Freebsd, postfix and push email

2010-03-30 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 30 March 2010 09:31:00 Matthew Seaman wrote: On 30/03/2010 03:01:27, Tim Judd wrote: I've never heard of either, but when I configure my IMAP server and put any mail client to it, as soon as a mail is delivered, the mail client is notified. That's the IDLE extension to IMAPv4

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-07 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 07 April 2010 11:13:13 Fbsd1 wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:24:51 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Why are there RELEASE base files in /usr/bin. I thought /usr was to only contain binaries installed from ports or packages. No. The /usr/local

Re: Postfix in base system

2010-04-07 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 07 April 2010 13:34:07 Jerry wrote: I noticed that someone in another thread mentioned: quote (2010-03-22) added option to install Postfix into the base /quote I have not been able to locate that item. Could someone list the URL for that notice or tell me where to look for it?

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 11 May 2011 04:19:29 Devin Teske wrote: The reason that the suid bit doesn't work on scripts (shell, perl, or otherwise) is because these are essentially text files that are interpreted by their associated interpreter. It is the interpreter itself that must be suid. I'm pretty

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-12 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 12 May 2011 16:13:50 Chris Telting wrote: On 05/11/2011 07:14, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:54:04PM -0700, Chris Telting wrote: I've googled for over an hour. I'm not looking to get into a discussion on security or previous bugs that are currently

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-13 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 12 May 2011 17:26:49 Chris Telting wrote: On 05/12/2011 07:57, Jonathan McKeown wrote: I'll say that again. It is inherently insecure to run an interpreted program set-uid, because the filename is opened twice and there's no guarantee that someone hasn't changed the contents

Re: 'Using the Packages System' international

2011-08-16 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 16 August 2011 12:13:24 Amanda Lynn wrote: Hi! [snip] Regards, Amanda Lynn +(360) 488-0303 Google the phone number. This has cropped up here before iirc - I'm not sure exactly what the scam is, but scam it is. Jonathan ___

Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

2009-05-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 01 May 2009 22:43:51 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 12:07:22PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: Let's say we have a system that is backed up regularly and it vanishes in a puff of smoke one day. One can get FreeBSD installed on a new drive in maybe half an hour or

Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

2009-05-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 04 May 2009 15:59:14 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:31:16AM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: If you have kept the right information beforehand, you can actually restore your dumps onto ``bare metal'' without doing a partial install first, and with the same newfs

Re: single SATA disk and yet identified as 'ad4'

2009-05-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 11 May 2009 21:38:50 Saifi Khan wrote: Hi all: The system has just one SATA disk and yet bootloader process identified it as 'ad4'. Ideally, it should be ad1. [snip] How does the labelling logic work ? FreeBSD reserves numbers for devices that aren't currently connected, so that

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-29 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 28 May 2009 22:52:47 Jerry wrote: Did you ever bother to consider that if the printer manufacturers actually formed a consensus on a printer language, some third world county or the EU would probably sue them. Nothing I have seen in 20 years equals the audacity of the EU. As long

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-29 Thread Jonathan McKeown
[Sorry for the excessive quoting - I couldn't decide which bits to take out] On Friday 29 May 2009 12:48:00 Jerry wrote: On Fri, 29 May 2009 09:34:36 +0200 Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote: On Thursday 28 May 2009 22:52:47 Jerry wrote: Did you ever bother to consider

Re: n00b question regarding installation via serial console

2009-06-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 04 June 2009 15:46:11 John . wrote: Hello list, Is it possible to boot into the serial console from the installation CD, or must boot.flp be used as per http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-advanced.html ? (the machine has no floppy drive (yet) It's possible -

Re: SetUID/SetGID Kernel Option

2009-06-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
Hi Martin On Thursday 04 June 2009 16:23:29 Martin McCormick wrote: I have been asked to enable the following kernel option: SetUID/SetGID - Allow directories to inherit their owner from the parent directory. The generic kernel under FreeBSD6.3 is what we presently use on the

Re: n00b question regarding installation via serial console

2009-06-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 04 June 2009 17:28:56 Tim Judd wrote: On 6/4/09, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Hello list, Is it possible to boot into the serial console from the installation CD, or must boot.flp be used as per make your own CD add file boot.config containing

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

2009-06-08 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Saturday 06 June 2009 05:43:15 Charlie Kester wrote: On Fri 05 Jun 2009 at 15:06:40 PDT Paul Chvostek wrote: If you elect to filter this person's traffic, and are concerned that you'll continue to be inundated with replies, I'd like to suggest a small procmail script I wrote years ago.

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-09 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 08 June 2009 17:37:14 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 06:31:57PM +0400, Peter Andreev wrote: may be this solution will help you: [snip] * * 31 1/2 * * * 30 4/2 * * * 28 2 * This isn't right, surely? It goes wrong in August and stays wrong for the rest of the

Re: Need a filesystem with unlimited inodes

2009-06-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 21:06:06 Karl Vogel wrote: Create 256 folders named 00-ff:        #!/bin/sh        hex='0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f'        for x in $hex ; do            for y in $hex ; do                mkdir ${x}${y}            done        done        exit 0 Or use

Re: Compiling in sound driver in kernel

2009-06-12 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 12 June 2009 12:54:19 Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:45:59 +0200, Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net wrote: Mel Flynn said the following on 2009-06-12 01:23: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Thu Jun 11 21:56:24 CEST 2009 r...@fqdn:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC

Re: No sound, no mouse and now X applications won't start

2009-06-23 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 15:41:48 Manish Jain wrote: I hope the next release will address these problems, as well as a pretty reasonable request from me much earlier to move vi from /usr/bin to /bin. Even in single-user mode, you almost always need an editor. Which is why you have ed(1) - both

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-24 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 24 June 2009 12:59:13 Manish Jain wrote: About ed first. I might annoy a few people (which would gladden me in this particular case), but ed was just one of Ken Thompson's nightmares which he managed to reproduce in Unix with great precision. By no stretch of imagination would it

Editor in minimal system (was Re: The question of moving vi to /bin)

2009-06-26 Thread Jonathan McKeown
This whole thread only really got started because I questioned Manish Jain's assertion that there was no editor available in /bin. To summarise: There are several editors available ranging from ed (49604 bytes) and ee (60920 bytes) (both with two library dependencies) to emacs (in ports;

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-02 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 02 July 2009 07:21:25 Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:58:15 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you prefer? and why? Actually, I'm not a Linux user. But Linux was my first step into using

Re: FTP Server for individual client spaces

2009-07-10 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 10 July 2009 16:10:24 RS Wood wrote: I run a small engineering company* that exchanges large files (CAD, etc.) with clients, and I want to keep the docs off my email server by setting up a stand alone FTP server where each client can upload and download its relevant files. As such,

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-15 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 15 July 2009 12:45:02 Matthew Seaman wrote: I used to be a NeXTie, and the Screensaver.app there had a really nifty little feature. I'm surprised it's not been copied into other screensaver applications since, as it's pretty simple. They just had a facility where moving the

Re: how to boot or access problem file system

2009-07-31 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 30 July 2009 23:14:39 PJ wrote: But isn't it strange that it used to be pretty simple to upgrade and update. But recently, I notice that communication between the developers and users (or is it the manual page writers) are getting far away from the realities of user/operational

Re: kernel designations terminology confusion -- amd64 used for into quad core

2009-08-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 15:14:49 David Southwell wrote: Hi every one My understanding is that one uses the amd64 for building a kernel for systems with Intel Quad Core processors. It is helpful when naming conventions follow a logical strand. I mean why does freebsd use a single

Re: upgrade 7.2 overwrites partitions

2009-08-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 15:49:38 PJ wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:58:58 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Could somone explain to me why an upgrade from sysinstall would overwrite partitions; especially when the instructions indicate that files will not be

Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2 overwrites partitions)

2009-08-06 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 06 August 2009 09:43:47 Mark Stapper wrote: In light of this, I would really enjoy seeing a Ubuntu like movement in the FreeBSD corner. What I mean is that it would be nice for my mother to install and use FreeBSD. [snip] To achieve this, there are two things that should be made

Re: cat sort(1) sort floating point numbers?

2011-10-03 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 03 October 2011 14:05:42 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I tried sorting a file with a column of floating point numbers (below) with sort(1) -n. However, the numbers seem to have been sorted by the first digit only. sort -g Due to the GNU project's obsession with info

Flaming mailing lists (was Re: Why Clang)

2012-06-20 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 20 June 2012 12:59:51 Stephen Cook wrote: On 6/19/2012 4:06 PM, Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote: [snip childish invective] I'm a relative newcomer. Are the FreeBSD mailing lists always this flame-y? I realize that this particular post might be trolling / satire No, they

Re: Flaming mailing lists (was Re: Why Clang)

2012-06-22 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 22 June 2012 07:04:35 Bernt Hansson wrote: I want to whish all a very mery Midsummer's Eve and Midsummer's Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer#Sweden I appreciate the sentiment but it's midwinter here ;) Jonathan ___

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-22 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 22 August 2012 15:41:05 David Jackson wrote: So this is clearly not about portability, FreeBSD is free to implement these software interfaces to assure that software is portable to FreeBSD. Really? You make software portable by writing it to one environment and then changing every

Re: Using pre-built packages with portmanager

2006-08-07 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Saturday 05 August 2006 19:16, cpghost wrote: How do I get portmanager to upgrade ports, using 1. pre-built packages from /usr/ports/packages (ONLY), and only if there's no binary package there, 2. build from source as usual? Additional limit (preventing use of portupgrade -P) is

Re: Building ports with sorces on a local mirror?

2006-08-28 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Saturday 26 August 2006 22:15, stan wrote: I'm in the process of seting up to build a fair number of machines behind a very restrictive firewall (and besides that the outbound link is very slow). What I have in mind is setting up a machine using mirror software to create a local mirror of

Re: include format for /etc/rc.conf

2006-08-30 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 09:40, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey all, Are there any supported formats for INCLUDES in /etc/rc.conf such that I can drop default configs into /etc/rc.conf and then have files in a certain directory (ala includerc) override them? Basically, I'd like to

Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?

2006-08-31 Thread Jonathan McKeown
I'm setting up a remote server with two identical hard drives, running FreeBSD-6.1. I want to set the drives up as a mirror for data redundancy. I also want to be able to break the mirror when I need to update the OS or installed software, so that if anything goes wrong with the update on one

Re: building and installing world on two separate machines

2006-09-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 04 September 2006 08:25, Dave wrote: Hello, I have a machine that i want to upgrade from 5.x to 6.1. I've got a 6.1 world built on a much faster system and would like to just install it on this machine. I thought about nfs, but i have to drop to single user mode to do the make

FreeBSD installer (was Re: Newbie Experience #2)

2006-09-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 11 September 2006 15:56, Jud wrote: everyone who uses FreeBSD knows that a better (meaning, at least to many folks, more simplified and graphical) installer would be nice Perhaps as an option. The problem is that you need to install a graphical environment to run a graphical

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-12 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:05, Jeff Rollin wrote: That was my point, that BSD was rewritten from the ground up to avoid ATT patents. So whilst some might consider BSD real unix, it's really only emulating V7 with Berkeley extensions. My understanding was that it was copyright rather than

Using PC as serial terminal on running system

2006-09-13 Thread Jonathan McKeown
I'm using my laptop and tip(1) as a serial terminal. This is working well when a machine is booted with the laptop connected to its serial port. However, I need to be able to connect the laptop to a machine which was booted without a serial console. I've set the ttyd0 line in /etc/ttys and

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-14 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 14 September 2006 01:21, Kevin Brunelle wrote: As for the GNU tools, yes most sysadmins use some of them (although not always).  I know that BSD tar handles gzip and bzip2 just fine ( -z and -j respectively).  So I know I wouldn't download gtar just for that feature. In fact, as I

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-14 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 14 September 2006 08:40, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Sep 14, 2006, at 12:29 AM, Jonathan McKeown wrote: In fact, as I discovered a few days ago (after all, how often does one read tar(1)'s manpage?), you only need to use -z and -j when creating a tar archive. bsdtar

Re: Using PC as serial terminal on running system

2006-09-14 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 14:59, Jonathan McKeown wrote: I'm using my laptop and tip(1) as a serial terminal. This is working well when a machine is booted with the laptop connected to its serial port. However, I need to be able to connect the laptop to a machine which was booted without

Re: USB IrDA Adapter

2006-10-02 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Saturday 30 September 2006 13:58, Luchezar Petkov wrote: I really need your help. I've just brought my first USB IrDA adapter to conncect my phone (Sony Ericsson K300i) to my computer. It is recognized by FreeBSD (6.2 beta 1) :: ugen0: Prolific Technology Inc. USB-Serial Controller, rev

Re: no specifc dhcpd port found

2006-10-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 23:46, Noah wrote: Hi there, I am unable to find the dhcpd port in /usr/ports where should I be looking? # find /usr/ports -name dhcp\* I find the easiest way to search for ports is # cd /usr/ports # make search name=dhcp | grep -A2 '^Port:' This finds every

Removing removable ATA hard drives

2006-10-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
I recently bought a drive caddy for an ATA hard drive. The unit is in two parts: a cassette, into which can be fitted a standard ATA hard drive, and a carrier permanently fitted into a standard drive bay. The carrier includes a power keyswitch for the drive bay. I installed it, brought the box

Re: Removing removable ATA hard drives

2006-10-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 05 October 2006 10:38, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I'm reluctant to experiment any more than I have done: the server the drive bay has been fitted to is our live fileserver, with 120GB of user data on two drives on the other ATA channel. I know I would take time to install the

Re: Removing removable ATA hard drives

2006-10-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 05 October 2006 11:00, Olivier Nicole wrote: [Power down a drive bay using its built-in keyswitch and pull the disk without dropping the whole box] Unless you need to move that disk from one machine to another, fix it in your server, keep the tray for future testing when you will

Re: Removing removable ATA hard drives

2006-10-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 05 October 2006 10:34, Jonathan McKeown wrote: I recently bought a drive caddy for an ATA hard drive. The unit is in two parts: a cassette, into which can be fitted a standard ATA hard drive, and a carrier permanently fitted into a standard drive bay. The carrier includes a power

Re: cheapskate webmail interface

2006-10-10 Thread Jonathan McKeown
The Subject: header has gradually grown to: Subject: Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: cheapskate webmail interface Please, please, edit it or use an email client that does. It's in danger of getting silly now. Jonathan ___

ports adding users

2006-10-12 Thread Jonathan McKeown
This is, I guess, a philosophical question. Twice in the last couple of weeks I have been bitten by ports adding users or groups. In setting up my laptop, I created my user account in sysinstall without creating my group. My ~ was created with the GID corresponding to my UID, but in building

Re: ports adding users

2006-10-14 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 13 October 2006 21:54, Lowell Gilbert wrote: The convention is, indeed, that users get UIDs from 1000 up. This doesn't seem to be explicitly described anywhere I can find at the moment, but it is implemented in adduser(8) -- and the porter's handbook requires hard-coded UIDs and

mimedefang with LDAP-enabled sendmail

2006-10-15 Thread Jonathan McKeown
I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I'm running 6.1 (the security branch) with a recently-updated ports tree (1 September). I have modified /etc/make.conf to change the options for the system sendmail, by adding these lines: SENDMAIL_CFLAGS = -I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2

Re: mimedefang with LDAP-enabled sendmail

2006-10-16 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Sunday 15 October 2006 22:19, Jonathan McKeown wrote: sendmail -d0.1 -bt /dev/null gives me Version 8.13.6 Compiled with: DNSMAP LDAPMAP LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS MILTER MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7 NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB NIS PIPELINING SASLv2 SCANF

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 05 October 2010 13:31:08 Carmel wrote: I have been tooling around with FreeBSD for a year or so now and I find it incredible that there is virtually no support for modern hardware; i.e., drivers for 'N' protocol devices. That one factor alone, and there are others, precludes me

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 05 October 2010 15:47:36 Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote: On Tuesday 05 October 2010 13:31:08 Carmel wrote: I have been tooling around with FreeBSD for a year or so now and I find it incredible

Glue records (was Re: ATTN GARY KLINE)

2010-11-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 05 November 2010 09:28:27 Ian Smith wrote: But you don't always have any control of what parent nameservers do; eg we do DNS for a .com but both NS are in .au so DNS reports always whinge about lack of glue They should be whingeing about lack of clue (their own) unless I'm horribly

Re: Glue records (was Re: ATTN GARY KLINE)

2010-11-08 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 05 November 2010 22:51:01 Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Nov 5 02:26:31 2010 From: Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 10:27:38 +0200 Subject: Glue records (was Re: ATTN GARY KLINE

Re: Shopping cart other than OSCommerce?

2010-12-08 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 09 December 2010 01:07:38 Kevin Kinsey wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: You don't magically get immunity from SQL injection by using JDBC or EOF or whatever, but using bound variables in queries rather than feeding user input into raw SQL, or invoking stored procedures or

Re: a perl question

2011-01-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 04 January 2011 12:32:00 S Mathias wrote: cat asdf.txt bla-bla bla-bla bla[XYZ] importantthing another important thing [/XYZ] bla-bla bla-bla [XYZ] yet another thing hello! [/XYZ] bla-bla etc. $ SOMEPERLMAGIC asdf.txt output.txt $ cat output.txt importantthing

Re: Just wanted to install vim - had to spend entire day building X11

2011-01-10 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 10 January 2011 15:02:35 Ed Smith wrote: This seems bizarre. Logically, it would seem better to do a split like vim (bare vim - what you would expect) and xvim (vim with X11) similar to how emacs does emacs/xemacs. Er, no. xemacs is a fork of emacs. emacs has X-related dependencies

Re: problem with shell script

2011-01-12 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 12 January 2011 17:58:33 David Scheidt wrote: ps ax | grep [s]lapd | wc -l The [] creates a one-character class that doesn't match the regex. Easier to type and grep should be a bit faster. And you can save another process by using ps ax | grep -c '[s]lapd' Although as

Re: Problems with perl script on 6.1/5.8.8

2007-02-07 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 22:24, Don O'Neil wrote: I've got a perl script that just refuses to run on my new 6.1 box with Perl 5.8.8... Whenever I run it from the command line I get this: Can't modify single ref constructor in lock at ./caldisp.pl line 84, near *LOCKF) Execution of

Portupgrade moved: use --origin to upgrade it?

2007-03-06 Thread Jonathan McKeown
I remember seeing some weeks ago that people had run into difficulties when portupgrade moved from sysutils into ports-mgmt, and one recommendation was to deinstall portupgrade and then cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade make install Possibly silly question: will I be able to avoid problems

Re: Portupgrade moved: use --origin to upgrade it?

2007-03-06 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 15:32, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Jonathan McKeown wrote: [can I upgrade portupgrade by] portupgrade -NR --origin ports-mgmt/portupgrade portupgrade ? I'm fairly certain that /usr/ports/UPGRADING said what to do. I checked UPDATING before I posted: it doesn't, just

Re: reprocess mails in sendmail

2007-03-07 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 07:28, kk kumar wrote: Hi all, Do you need to include specific commands to periodically process the queue with sendmail? With sendmail I would explicitly (via cron) rerun queue processing every 30 minutes or so. Is there any better method to do this in sendmail

Re: nss_ldap and openldap on the same server.

2007-03-13 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 09:16, Gerhard Schmidt wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 12:07:15AM +0100, Pietro Cerutti wrote: On 3/12/07, Gerhard Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hello, As I see it, nss asks all sources even if the frist one allready knows the answer. Is there a way

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