Re: tar and --include

2010-05-19 Thread Tim Kientzle
b. f. wrote: Martin McCormick wrote: What I discovered was that --include doesn't appear to do anything at all. The example in the man page shows using it to filter an existing archive ... I never tried that since that is not what was needed here. The --include directive was designed t

Re: pkgtools and xz compressor

2010-01-11 Thread Tim Kientzle
b. f. wrote: I notice FreeBSD 7.2's pkg_add, pkg_create, etc don't have support for the xz compressor, evidently due to lack of support for the xz format in bsdtar. Does bsdtar support xz in FreeBSD 8.0? If you have the xz port installed, yes. If you have liblzma installed, you can even recom

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

2009-05-11 Thread Tim Kientzle
Saifi Khan wrote: The system has just one SATA disk and yet bootloader process identified it as 'ad4'. Ideally, it should be ad1. 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHC

Re: firefox3 with high latencies when acting with mouse or keyboard and graphics refresh

2009-04-08 Thread Tim Kientzle
I saw something similar recently due to a mismatch between hald and the xorg server. In my case, it affected all applications, not just firefox. * Are you running hald? * Do you have "AllowEmptyInput" set in /etc/X11/xorg.conf? * Are you starting xdm, kdm, or gdm from /etc/ttys? Tim O. Hartmann

Re: tar: Unrecognised archive format: Inappropriate file type or format

2007-06-05 Thread Tim Kientzle
Robert, I recently saw your message on freebsd-questions. Can you give me any more details? Tim Kientzle List: freebsd-questions Subject:tar: Unrecognised archive format: Inappropriate file type or format From: Robert Davison Date: 2007-03-20 22:27:20 Message-ID

Re: tar -u adds all files regardless of mod date

2005-09-27 Thread Tim Kientzle
Thanks, Gareth. I'm hoping to get some time this week to backport a lot of changes from bsdtar/libarchive in -CURRENT back to 5-STABLE. I'll let you know when I get that done. Tim Gareth Bailey wrote: Just to add, I seem to be experiencing similar behaviour using the -P option: # tar -P -cvf

Re: tar -u adds all files regardless of mod date

2005-09-21 Thread Tim Kientzle
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Gareth Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... If i then try to update modified files by doing this: # tar -uf dir_b.tar /usr/dir_a/dir_b and I end up with dir_b.tar being 130MB (double size) which should not be the case since no files have been modified in /usr/dir_a/dir

Re: tar -u adds all files regardless of mod date

2005-09-21 Thread Tim Kientzle
): tar -cf foo.tar usr/dir_a/dir_b tar -uvf foo.tar usr/dir_a/dir_b Assuming that works correctly, I know where the mistake is; I'll have a tentative patch for you to try in a couple of hours. Tim Kientzle ___ freebsd-question

Re: cpio and tar are loosing flags (and a panic message without trace)

2005-09-20 Thread Tim Kientzle
Matthew Dillon wrote: : :I guess cpio and tar really should take care about flags. Am I wrong? cpio won't do it, tar won't do it, dump only does whole partitions, cpdup is not an archiver. Hmm. Actually: * Joerg Schilling's "star" has done this for many years. * bsdtar has likew

Re: cpio and tar are loosing flags (and a panic message without trace)

2005-09-05 Thread Tim Kientzle
Emanuel Strobl wrote: Am Montag, 29. August 2005 12:37 CEST schrieb Yar Tikhiy: On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 08:04:45PM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: Then I remember Tim Kienzles great work for bsdtar and all the ACL stuff, but unfortunately a cvPPzf <> xvpPfz also looses the arch flag :( Would y

Re: bsdtar '--exclude pattern' problems

2004-11-30 Thread Tim Kientzle
ently, so a few people may need to adjust their scripts. Rationale: gtar requires the GNU getopt library and exploits a few special features of that library. bsdtar is designed to work with several different getopt libraries, so restricts itself to somewhat more generic behavior. Tim Kie

Re: Logging packets dropped by IPFW

2003-07-07 Thread Tim Kientzle
Tim Kientzle wrote: Micheal Patterson wrote: - Original Message - >> From: "Tim Kientzle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Logging packets dropped by IPFW Is there any way to generate log information about the packets dropped by IPFW? The 'log' modi

Re: Logging packets dropped by IPFW

2003-07-07 Thread Tim Kientzle
Micheal Patterson wrote: - Original Message - From: "Tim Kientzle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Logging packets dropped by IPFW Is there any way to generate log information about the packets dropped by IPFW? The 'log' modifier doesn't s

Logging packets dropped by IPFW

2003-07-07 Thread Tim Kientzle
n particular, I'd like to know the protocol (TCP/UPD/ICMP) and port number for dropped packets. Tim Kientzle ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Update and mailforward.

2003-01-24 Thread Tim Kientzle
ou can also allow users to place .forward files in their individual home directories. Tim Kientzle To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: differentiating apache children from parents ?

2003-01-24 Thread Tim Kientzle
o way to ensure that you kill a child between requests, so you're gauranteed to lose some requests if you go this way (and quite possibly hang a few TCP connections along the way). Don't do it. Tim Kientzle To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Update and mailforward.

2003-01-24 Thread Tim Kientzle
r, install 'qpopper' or 'popper' from the ports and let your users access their mailbox using any POP3-capable email client (e.g., Outlook Express, Netscape Mail, Eudora, etc.) Tim Kientzle To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Changes in /bin/sh between 4.6.2 and 4.7

2003-01-24 Thread Tim Kientzle
t of the preceding command", which isn't possible with 'a &' being run in the background.) If you mean to wait until 'killall' finishes, use just '&&'. If not, use just '&'. Tim Kientzle To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: back up Win2k workstations?

2003-01-23 Thread Tim Kientzle
ad 'man newfs' for details. Using this setup with 100Mbps Ethernet, I can backup a Windows workstation with 60GB of data in about 3 1/2 hours over the network, resulting in a single 60GB file on the server. Fortunately, not all of my Windows machines are this large. ;-) Tim Kientzle To