Re: Why does `df` lie about free space

2004-03-16 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 02:31:11AM +0200, Kyryll A Mirnenko wrote: So whats wrong with `df` (e.g. statfs/fstatfs)? It's not a bug, any more than it was when you asked on Friday. -- Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Salvage, like other forms of virtue, is http://www.pobox.com/~mph

Re: showing total/free memory

2004-01-28 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 08:03:46AM +1100, Rowdy wrote: I am setting up MRTG and at the moment I am parsing /var/run/dmesg.boot and the output from `top -b -d 1` to get total and free memory respectively, but I hope there is an easier way. Try vmstat instead. -- Matthew Hunt [EMAIL

Re: 'There are suspended jobs.'

2004-01-28 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 03:28:13PM -0600, W. D. wrote: How do I find out which jobs are suspended, and how to un-suspend them? Type jobs. The jobs will be listed, each having a number in brackets. If you want to un-suspend number 3, say fg %3. -- Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * UNIX

Re: umounting /

2003-12-11 Thread Matthew Hunt
(ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s1e on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) mfs:20 on /tmp (mfs, asynchronous, local, nosuid) procfs on /proc (procfs, local) -- Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Salvage, like other forms of virtue, is http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * its own reward. -George

Re: Recursion with grep?

2003-11-13 Thread Matthew Hunt
on several files. When using -r, the arguments to grep should be directories. It will process all of the files in the given directories, recursively. There is no provision for searching a subset of the files (i.e. *.c). If you need to do that, use find and xargs. -- Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Recursion with grep?

2003-11-13 Thread Matthew Hunt
the same thing as a regular expression as it does as a wildcard, and it could also match parts of the ls -l output besides the filename). -- Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: complex crontab query

2003-09-30 Thread Matthew Hunt
0 3 1-7 * * [ `date +%a` = Thu ] mycommand -- Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Science rules. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: complex crontab query

2003-09-30 Thread Matthew Hunt
and 15th of each month, plus every # Friday. -- Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Salvage, like other forms of virtue, is http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * its own reward. -George Reamerstaff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Re:Re: Cat a directory

2003-09-22 Thread Matthew Hunt
thing as on FreeBSD; shows the contents of the directory, just like you're asking it to. Just because you can't fathom a use for this behavior doesn't mean it's wrong. If you don't want to see it, don't ask cat to show it to you. -- Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Science rules. http

Re: Newbie - CD Burning Question

2003-09-03 Thread Matthew Hunt
/acd0c data image.iso fixate Note that image.iso will be approximately as large as the sum of all the files are going onto the CD. -- Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * UNIX is a lever for the http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * intellect. -J.R. Mashey

Re: Cannot install any port

2003-07-28 Thread Matthew Hunt
made the problem visible, and I deleted the bad directory. -- Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Clearly there are more things in the http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * heavens than anyone anticipated. -enp ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: spamassassin slow to process messages

2003-07-07 Thread Matthew Hunt
. :-) Is the machine heavily loaded with other work? Assuming that there are no messages between the ones you posted, it doesn't look like the machine is overburdened by mail alone. -- Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Science rules. http://www.pobox.com/~mph

Re: Disable PING command

2003-07-03 Thread Matthew Hunt
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Re: Disable PING command

2003-07-03 Thread Matthew Hunt
of it all together. Just shutting down the /sbin/ping isn't enough. That's all I am saying. :) You're wrong. You would be right if we were talking about lots of other programs, but not ping. -- Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Science rules. http://www.pobox.com/~mph

Re: mac file to unix format

2003-02-26 Thread Matthew Hunt
similar to zip, or tar+gzip. You'll need to extract the file(s) in the archive and see what graphics format they're really in. Take a look at /usr/ports/archivers/stuffit. I don't know if it works with all Stuffit files or not (e.g. it may be outdated). -- Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Eight

Re: PS1 command! ?

2003-02-12 Thread Matthew Hunt
want ${PS1} (curly braces, not parentheses). I think your mind has been tainted by Makefiles which use $(foo) for variable substitution. -- Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Science rules. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: how to delete a file called ????

2003-02-12 Thread Matthew Hunt
-check and delete it with find: $ find . -inum 1238024 ./+ $ find . -inum 1238024 -delete (Note that find displays the name differently from ls. It looks like a bold + in my xterm.) -- Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Inertia is a property http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * of matter

Re: how to delete a file called ????

2003-02-12 Thread Matthew Hunt
the same question. As I've mentioned before in this thread, it's completely possible that the file doesn't even have question marks in its name, anyway, because ls will display unprintable characters as question marks. -- Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * UNIX is a lever for the http

Re: spamassassin port ...

2002-11-14 Thread Matthew Hunt
. Or, $ cd /usr/ports $ make search key=spamassassin -- Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: changing build options for ports

2002-10-31 Thread Matthew Hunt
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Re: Wondering about mail clients (specific features)

2002-09-26 Thread Matthew Hunt
=flagellation (The names of your incoming mailboxes may differ, depending on your interests. The = sign means the folder is in your ~/Mail directory. There's probably some knob to change that, too.) -- Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Clearly there are more things in the http://www.pobox.com/~mph