new system call: Operation not permitted

2013-02-15 Thread Aaron Brubacher
Hi, I'm trying to learn system calls on FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE and I've added this system call: int aaronflag(struct proc *p, struct aaronflag_args *uap) { return 1; } with this entry in syscalls.master: 364 STD BSD { int aaronflag(); } After running make syscalls.c and compiling, i

Re: vmstat -w not honored

2013-02-15 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 15 Feb 2013, at 21:01, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Fleuriot Damien writes: > >> I'm running 8.3-STABLE and apparently, vmstat won't honor both -i >> (interrupts) and -w (repeat display every wait delay seconds) flags at >> the same time. >> The problem also arises with -z. >> >> The manual do

Re: vmstat -w not honored

2013-02-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Fleuriot Damien writes: > I'm running 8.3-STABLE and apparently, vmstat won't honor both -i > (interrupts) and -w (repeat display every wait delay seconds) flags at > the same time. > The problem also arises with -z. > > The manual doesn't mention these flags being incompatible with -w. They are

Re: Problem with GPA after updating

2013-02-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gerard writes: > FreeBSD-8.3 STABLE > gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.19 > libgcrypt 1.5.0 > gpa 0.9.3 > > When attempting to run 'gpa', I am greeted with an error message. The > message can be viewed here: http://www.seibercom.net/logs/gpa_error.png > > It seems to indicate that there is a problem with the GPG

Re: Fun Scripting Problem

2013-02-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2013-02-13 12:27, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > I know how to do this in Python, but I really want to do it in > straight Bourne shell. I have some ideas, but I thought I'd > give you folks a crack at this Big Fun: > > a) You have a directory of files - say they're logs - generated > at nondeterm

Re: Installing Matlab

2013-02-15 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On 15-02-2013 10:36, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On 14-02-2013 22:42, Vijay Kaul wrote: >> I was wondering if anyone has had any recent (or not-so-recent) >> experience installing Matlab on FreeBSD/PC-BSD? (Yes, I know about >> octave.) >> >> I'm not entirely new to *nix, but I'm novice enough that I

Problem with GPA after updating

2013-02-15 Thread Gerard
FreeBSD-8.3 STABLE gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.19 libgcrypt 1.5.0 gpa 0.9.3 When attempting to run 'gpa', I am greeted with an error message. The message can be viewed here: http://www.seibercom.net/logs/gpa_error.png It seems to indicate that there is a problem with the GPG library returning an unexpected v

pkg_add problems after upgrading to 9.1-RELEASE and a fix

2013-02-15 Thread Eduardo Morras
Hi all, yesterday i updated my server to 9.1-RELEASE from 8.3. After that, while recompiling the ports and packages i get a lot off errors trying to get 9.1-RELESASE packages and all recompiled from ports. The problem is that there's no 9.1-RELEASE directory in ftp.freebsd.org server. I solve

Re: Installing Matlab

2013-02-15 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On 14-02-2013 22:42, Vijay Kaul wrote: > I was wondering if anyone has had any recent (or not-so-recent) > experience installing Matlab on FreeBSD/PC-BSD? (Yes, I know about > octave.) > > I'm not entirely new to *nix, but I'm novice enough that I can't seem > to get this to work. > > Perhaps t