I found a recipe for converting flac to mp3:
flac -cd in.flac | lame -h - out.mp3
and I thought I might be able to able to combine multiple flac files
into a single mp3 file with something like the following:
( flac -cd file1.flac ; flac -cd file2.flac ) | lame -h - both.mp3
but in practic
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:39:59 +0100
Andy Wodfer wrote:
> I already tried something similare, but I keep getting command not
> found for formail. I was hoping there was a way of doing this without
> installing additional software - just use what comes with a default
> FreeBSD installation.
formail
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:53:27 -0800
Ed Flecko wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I want to install squid from the ports package (i.e.,
> /usr/ports/www/squid) instead of installing from source (which, it's
> my understanding, would force me to create a squid user, squid group,
> etc. manually).
>
> However, I
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:57:12 +0300
Peter Andreev wrote:
> Use of "xargs" on many files will be much faster than "find...exec"
> construction
This is a surprisingly common myth. exec can pass single or multiple
arguments according to whether you use ";" or "+"
>
> find / -type f -name copyrigh
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:13:43 -0800
David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Christopher J. Ruwe
> wrote:
> > Since some weeks my local clock runs two hours early.
> > My /etc/localtime is a copy of /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin
> > and I have set both ntpd_enable="YES" and nt
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:52:01 -0500
Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> patrick writes:
>
> > Is there any official way to run a private portsnap mirror? ie. Have
> > one, external server fetch from the official portsnap sources, and
> > then internal servers pulling from the private mirror?
>
> It runs ov
On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 12:04:59 -0500
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
> I have a server I installed 8.1-RELEASE on and believe I screwed up
> when rebuilding the kernel to support QUOTA because now that I am
> troubleshooting these weird messages in the log, I find I am actually
> running 9.0-CURRENT. I h
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 07:47:02 -0600
ajtiM wrote:
> Thank you very much. But I like to know if I need to change entry in
> make.conf:
> # added by use.perl 2010-11-05
> 17:40:46 PERL_VERSION=5.8.9
>
> to PERL_VERSION=5.12.3
>
> or just delete those line.
You don't need to do anything, it'll be
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 07:03:32 -0600
ajtiM wrote:
> Hi!
>
> My system: FreeBSD 8.1
>
> I like to update perl to higher version and I don't want to screw
> up... I red /usr/ports/UPDATING:
>
> "perl-after-upgrade" script supplied with lang/perl5.12
>
> If I update to perl 5.12.3 is it enough that
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 12:09:11 -
"Graham Bentley" wrote:
> After several months away from FreeBSD I am asking
> for advice on versions for general desktop / interest
> use [non critical learning platform]
>
> Should I hang on a bit for 8.2 to go current?
>
> Or will I easily be able to update
On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:17:43 -0800
Rem P Roberti wrote:
> I installed linux-opera, and I guess I made a mistake by opening it
> the first time as root, when I should have opened as user. At any
> rate, I can now only open the browser as root, and when I do I get
> this message:
>
> opera: $HOME
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:37:58 +1000
Da Rock wrote:
> You'll have to excuse my ignorance (and my curious mind...), but I
> can't seem to find a straight answer to this. I know linux uses
> gmake, and gmake is installed via ports on FreeBSD, but does that
> mean gmake will only create linux binaries
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:23:28 -0800
Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Graeme Dargie wrote:
> > Now I know I am going to get hung out to dry on this one, but I am
> > having a problem with Jon Radel and his encrypted mails to this
> > list. I cannot open them, I cannot get his add
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 05:47:23 -0800
kellyremo wrote:
>
> "to memory" means: mounting a ~2 GByte filesystem [ tmpfs?, or
> ramfs? ], and put the "/tmp" on it. [ e.g.: 4 GByte ram in the pc ].
> what to write in the "/etc/fstab"?
I have
tmpfs
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:10:40 -0800
Chip Camden wrote:
> It seems prudent to me to reduce the attack surface to that which
> really needs to be defended -- "When you defend everything, you
> defend nothing". Not to mention avoiding the overhead of encrypting
> OS files.
I don't think the plain t
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 12:06:17 -0800
Gary Kline wrote:
>
> Until late last year I had an emergency account on a site named
> toxic.magnesium.net. It was a tenuous site; one day it vanished, and
> when it did show up again, my account was gone. Else I had forgotten
> the password ... :-( Anyway,
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:45:22 +
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> MASTER_SORT = http
I used to use
MASTER_SORT_REGEX = ^http
for this when a former ISP traffic shaped ftp
If you set "MASTER_SORT = http", then you get
://[^/]*http/ in MASTER_SORT_REGEX, so it looks like MASTER_SORT is
intended
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:32:13 -0800
Chip Camden wrote:
> > sodserve# stat -f "%SB %N" /*
> > Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /COPYRIGHT
> > Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /bin
> > Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /boot
> > Dec 31 18:59:59 1969 /dev
> > Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /etc
> > Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /lib
> > Jan 9 04:54:21 20
g a file absolutely not touched ever in the system
> can helps but which one?
>
> markand@Melon ~ $ ls -l /root/.cshrc
> -rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel 798 19 Jul 04:17 /root/.cshrc
>
> It seems that this file has the FreeBSD dist access time so can't
> refers to neither
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:42:04 +
RW wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:00:39 -0500
> Chris Brennan wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Giorgos Keramidas
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I'm sorry that you had to install software that you don't re
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:00:39 -0500
Chris Brennan wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Giorgos Keramidas
> wrote:
>
> > I'm sorry that you had to install software that you don't really
> > need and I can help you clean up by saving your installed ports as
> > 'binary packages' and re-install
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:43:13 +0100
Tony Maserati wrote:
> I hear that - but if I want gvim I'll install gvim. What it's doing
> here is installing something I didn't ask for, well actually, it's
> fooling me into giving me something I don't need.
It's not as if gvim is something separate. gvim i
On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 17:33:40 -0700 (MST)
Warren Block wrote:
> > They are also doing very different things. MAKE_JOBS_SAFE applies
> > -j to GNU make, which is invoked to do the actual compiling of
> > third-party software. make -j 16 install applies -j to BSD make,
> > which is used to implement
On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 22:09:31 +
Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 23:43:22 +0200
> Коньков Евгений wrote:
>
> > cd /usr/ports//
> > make -j 16 install
>
> Don't do that then :)
>
> Ports which are marked MAKE_JOBS_SAFE will automatically be built
> using -j as far as I know.
They are
On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 16:55:17 +0100
Rolf Nielsen wrote:
> Thanks to all who've replied so far. Matthew's ideas strike me as the
> most interesting ones, and I will certainly explore them and see if I
> can get it working.
> I guess I should have explained in my original post that I neither
> nee
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:13:02 -0700
Chad Perrin wrote:
> In this case, example was:
>
> cat file | foo arg
>
> . . . where it could have been:
>
> foo arg file
>
> That's just kind of absurd. I mean, that sort of usage (foo arg
> file) is exactly the purpose for which grep was designe
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 08:05:14 -0800
Chip Camden wrote:
> Quoth Chad Perrin on Tuesday, 04 January 2011:
> > The weirdest thing about most useless uses of cat is that not using
> > cat would actually be a little clearer and involve fewer keystrokes
> > -- as in this case.
> >
> I blame OOP. Prog
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 10:01:47 -0800
Devin Teske wrote:
>
> On Jan 4, 2011, at 9:33 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>
> >> "Patrick" == Patrick Bihan-Faou
> >> writes:
> >
> > Patrick> cat asdf.txt | grep -v XYZ | grep -v bla
> >
> > And yet, you still have the "Useless Use of Cat".
>
>
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:10:04 +1000
Da Rock wrote:
> On 12/30/10 11:09, Bruce Cran wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:49:25 +1000
> > Da Rock wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Pardon me for being the queer one to ask this- but how does one
> >> force/override building a port marked as broken?
> >>
> >
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:21:43 +
RW wrote:
> AFTER is what can't be run until the current script
> completes.
Sorry, that should be BEFORE not AFTER.
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On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 07:50:20 -0500
Nu 2 Da Boro wrote:
> Thanks, but I'm still unable to get it to work... I'm trying to get
> barnyard2 to boot after mysql
> I placed mysql and/or mysql-server under PROVIDE and/or REQUIRE in
> rc.d/barnyard2. Then ran rcorder to show the correct setting and
> st
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:38:53 -0500
Nu 2 Da Boro wrote:
> I am trying to change the boot order for a service on my server... I
> have a service that boots before mysql and need to change this.
You need to add a dummy script to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ to order
them, something like:
#!/bin/sh
# PROV
On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 11:39:58 -0800
"Ron (Lists)" wrote:
> ===> Checking if devel/libltdl already installed
> ===> libltdl-2.2.10 is already installed
> You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again
> by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly.
> If you rea
On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 15:11:54 -0500
"Grant Peel" wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Up to this point I have always updated (within a branch), by dropping
> to single user mode for everything.
>
> After running cvsup to obtain the new source, is it generally
> considered OK to run the maike buildworld in multi
On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 09:40:43 -0800
Chip Camden wrote:
> Quoth Frank Shute on Sunday, 26 December 2010:
> > I generally play my tracks of an album like so:
> >
> > for track in $(cat trombone_shorty-backatown.m3u); do
> > mplayer $track
> > done
> >
> > They then play in the correct order.
> >
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:33:42 -0600
David Kelly wrote:
>
> Mail.app, Outlook, or Firefox. But in doing this you are not giving
> up the ability to do mail on your console.
> ...
> When using maildir format both mutt and dovecot can operate out of
> the same mail repository at the same time.
mut
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:29:01 +0600
Victor Sudakov wrote:
> RW wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I'm not sure this will work. The initial question was about
> > > > > how to obtain an environmental variable. If the rc.d script
> > > >
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:34:27 +0600
Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> >
> > > I'm not sure this will work. The initial question was about
> > > how to obtain an environmental variable. If the rc.d script
> > > of svnserve sources /etc/rc.conf and/or /etc/rc.conf.local,
> > > it is o
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:26:43 -0700
Keith Seyffarth wrote:
>
> > gdbm the core.dump and see if that helps (you may need to enable
> > symbols in
>
> Thanks for the information, but I'm not sure what you mean by "gdbm
> the core.dump." GDBM appears to be a database management tool of some
> sort,
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:32:42 +1000
Da Rock wrote:
> I can't seem to get my head on straight with the realtime scheduling
> in FBSD despite all my googling. Can someone give me a pointer to the
> latest info? As far as I can tell FBSD has it, but only root(?) can
> use it?
>
> I'm interested in
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 21:11:21 -0800
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> Thanks. It would never have occurred to me to look for documentation
> of the _base_ system in a _port_. The porter's handbook, maybe, but
> the others? Seems to me like a POLA violation.
The documentation isn't really a part o
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:09:16 -0800
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> Which of the 8.1-RELEASE distribution sets contains the handbook,
> developer's handbook, porter's handbook, etc? I thought I had
> searched everywhere, but must have missed something.
Those distributions were a mystery to me the
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:31:01 +0800
xinyou yan wrote:
> if i use portupgrade -af --patch (it take much times)
>
what's "--patch"?
> And i don't finish it
> Then the second time . i do it again Does it continue or reupgrade
> anythins
It starts again. See pkg_glob(1) for how to avoid thi
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:07:00 -0700 (MST)
Warren Block wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Michael Powell wrote:
>
> > Grant Peel wrote:
> >
> >> I suspect I have an issue with Proftpd and need to update it
> >> quickly. At Christmas break we will be apdating all ports and src,
> >> but for now, I woul
On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 20:32:57 -0800
Gary Kline wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 06:49:45PM -0800, xSAPPYx wrote:
> > Also, the + operator means '1 or more' but needs escaped:
> > %s/[0-9]\+/foo/g
>
>
> Okay. I thought that the + must be perl-only regex... .
It's from "Extended" REs rath
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 18:02:43 + (UTC)
JB wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:26:33 +0000, RW wrote:
> > Broadly n-STABLE branch-off from CURRENT and release security
> > branches branch-off from a STABLE branch. Release candidates are
> > usually points on a Stable Bra
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 14:42:09 +0100
J B wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have:
> $ uname -r
> 8.1-RELEASE
> installed.
>
> I understand the concept of software dev, and RELEASE (a snapshot in
> time), and CURRENT as a dev branch, and STABLE as a dev branch
> followed CURRENT. But I have difficulty placing them
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:36:09 -0500
Chris Brennan wrote:
> My fbsd desktop is popping up with Software Update. My question is
> weather this pulls updates from packages or ports.
There are a few applications, such as opera, that can "phone home" and
check for newer versions. Typically they can't
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:08:35 -0500
Eitan Adler wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Jerry
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:08:26 -0600
> > Adam Vande More articulated:
> >
> >> While I agree with your point in this context, the statement "The
> >> number of _UNDISCOVERED_ bugs, on the o
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 12:50:21 -0700 (MST)
Warren Block wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, RW wrote:
>
> > -aRr isn't implied by -a, the rR options are ignored in the former.
> >
> > I think it's fairly clear that recursing through installed
> > packages with cons
On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:51:08 +0100
Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Did anyone in the community try to adopt the Entropy Key
> http://www.entropykey.com/
> for use with FreeBSD?
>
> As a non-programmer I would not even try but perhaps someone with
> better skills already did?
>
> FWIW MirBS
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 06:22:55 -0500
Jerry wrote:
> I don't see anything that specifically states the the "-R or -r"
> flags are in included with the "-a" flag; although I might be
> misinterpreting it. If it was implied i think it should have been
> better documented.
-aRr isn't implied by -a, th
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 22:11:50 -0700 (MST)
Warren Block wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Jerry wrote:
>
> > When using 'portupgrade', I commonly use the '-r' flag in
> > conjunction with the previously discussed '-a' flag. While not as
> > through as the "-u -p" flags with 'portmanger', it does accompl
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 10:28:06 -0600
Adam Vande More wrote:
> You may wish to read that page again. Dom0 support doesn't exist in
> FreeBSD, and paravirt domU is sketchy at best.
The page says:
"The port will only run as a guest (ie. domU) right now, on i386/PAE
platforms."
which is open t
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 23:22:49 +0100
Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> Yes, of course I did.
Then of course you should have mentioned it.
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On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:15:27 +0100
Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> Trying to update with portmaster (-a -B -d) but everytime the process
> stops after some time and I can't find out why this happens. All I
> see is a screen full of names, but no message why the thing dumped
> core.
>
> Is there a way
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 20:42:06 -0700
Gary Kline wrote:
> People, is there a utility to give me the rate of bps that I am
> _supposed_ to be getting from my telco DSL?
If your modem or router has some means of configuring it, typically via
a browser, you can get usually get that information there.
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:07:11 +0700
Victor Sudakov wrote:
> RW wrote:
> > >
> > > The geli(8) man page suggests initializing a geli provider with a
> > > random keyfile (geli init -K). It also asks for a passphrase by
> > > default.
> > >
> &g
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:14:57 +0700
Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Colleagues,
>
> The geli(8) man page suggests initializing a geli provider with a
> random keyfile (geli init -K). It also asks for a passphrase by
> default.
>
> What happens if a provider is initialized without the -K option, just
> w
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:32:23 +0100
Arthur Chance wrote:
> On 10/21/10 13:38, RW wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:10:28 +0100
> > Arthur Chance wrote:
> >
> >
> >> 50s) had the experience of programming microcode on a machine by
> >> inserting bra
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:33:46 +0200
Polytropon wrote:
> I couldn't not format it (it was some FAT format on it) as it
> detached from the system by itself as soon as accessed.
It might just have been faulty. If it couldn't be accessed as a normal
device, how would the driver get installed in the
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:10:28 +0100
Arthur Chance wrote:
> 50s) had the experience of programming microcode on a machine by
> inserting brass slugs for 0s and ferrite slugs for 1s on a pin board.
I wonder why it was brass/ferrite rather than brass/empty or
ferrite/empty.
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:22:15 -0500
Martin McCormick wrote:
> Last night, I had to take down our primary DNS for
> maintenance and lots of systems began having trouble of various
> kinds.
>
> While I expected the FreeBSD system I was on to hang for
> a couple of seconds and then start
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:24:26 +0100
David Southwell wrote:
> Tried that but no good - it still seems to goof up. I recall it used
> to work many versions ago but it may not have been picked up on a
> regression test.
>
It works for me. Which port is it failing on?
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On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:14:30 +0100
David Southwell wrote:
> Hi
>
> man portupgrade advises:
>
> -f
> --forceForce the upgrade of a package even if it
> is to be a downgrade or just a reinstall of the same ver-
> sion, or the port is held by
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 06:13:42 -0500 (CDT)
Scott Bennett wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:42:30 +0100 Bruce Cran
> wrote:
> >You can find more information about the VM architecture at
> >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/arch-handbook/vm.html .
> >
> The top(1) man page is clearly in er
On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:40:54 -0700
mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/178267
>...
> So, is such approval on file with the FreeBSD Foundation?
" without first obtaining _any_ _required_ license or other
approval ..."
It doesn't sa
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:18:38 +0200
Eric Masson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to create a script that would launch php-cgi in fastcgi
> mode. So far, I've the following script :
>
>...
>
> sig_stop="TERM"
> pidfile="/var/run/${name}/${name}.pid"
> command="/usr/sbin/daemon -f -p ${pidfile} /usr
On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:01:24 +0200
"O. Hartmann" wrote:
> On several FreeBSD boxes "performing portsnap fetch" updating the
> ports on a regular basis, folder /var/db/portsnap/files/ gets filled
> over time. I was wondering if there is not an elegant, sophisticated
> way cleaning up those files n
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 08:22:58 -0400
Jerry wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 12:59:50 +0100
> RW articulated:
>
> > There shouldn't be any need to do that, they are supposed to be
> > deleted automatically. I have 22371, if you have much more than that
> > you probab
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:24:58 +0200
Bas Smeelen wrote:
> *Wired:* number of pages wired down, including cached file data pages
That refers to buffer pages (displayed as Buf), which are a subset of
the cached file data pages.
The pages in the cache queue are not specifically cached file data
pag
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:41:16 +0200
Bas Smeelen wrote:
> On 09/29/2010 01:42 PM, Bruce Cran wrote:
> > On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:57:09 +0200
> > Bas Smeelen wrote:
> >
> >
> >> *Cache:* number of clean pages caching data that are available for
> >> immediate reallocation
> >> http://www.freebsd.
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:11:10 -0400
Jules Gilbert wrote:
> A typical FBSD user wants to be able to do a ports-based install, or
> perhaps a pkg_add and, presto, out of the box, have a browser.
>
> And, here it comes... Wait for it.
>
> Without too much trouble, have a running Java, connect to t
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:58:42 -0500
Martin McCormick wrote:
> After successfully installing bind97 from a package on
> to a new server, I do a cvs-sup of the system to get the latest
> patches in to the kernel. After discovering that bind97 had been
> replaced with bind9.6.1,
Presumably th
I'm planning to use gjournal+geli on a 2TB drive in a USB enclosure.
What I've read about this suggest that the order should be:
geli-gjournal-ufs. I was wondering if it's possible to do it in
the order gjournal-geli-ufs, which should be much more efficient. I've
read that ufs should go directly
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 16:14:38 -0700
Ed Flecko wrote:
> Thanks RW!
>
> How do I make the changes you've suggested, i.e., like changing from
> the small UFS cache, etc.; that can all be done by altering the
> squid.conf file?
Yes, take a look at the cache_dir lines in in the sq
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 09:38:03 -0700
Ed Flecko wrote:
> Thank you Jerry.
>
> The only reason I'm not using the squid port is because I found a
> website
> (
> http://teklimbu.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/enterprise-freebsd-squid-proxy-server/
> )
> that has detailed instructions on installing squid f
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:27:31 +0200
Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:56:19 -0400, Kyle Dippery
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've just installed 8.1 from distribution CDs and updated stable
> > with cvsup. I want to enable freebsd-update to keep the system,
> > well, updated.
>
> That
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:14:58 +
Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Dear fellow FreeBSD users,
>
> I have a cron script that plays music in the morning when I arrive at
> work.
>
> in ~/.xalarm I have two lines, one that calls xterm and one that calls
> mplayer and plays a series of music files in a p
On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:56:09 -0700
Kurt Buff wrote:
> Right now I've got an installation of squid 3.0.24, and want to move
> to the 3.1 branch.
>
> I could just do a 'make deinstall' on the current version, then do
> 'make install' in the 3.1 port, but I'm wondering if there's a smarter
> way to
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:44:46 -0500
Depo Catcher wrote:
> getmail + qmail + procmail replacement + courier-imap = win?
Why use an mta at all? getmail was specifically designed to avoid that.
You can just do something like:
getmail -> procmail -> whatever
getmail -> dovecot-deliver+sieve plugi
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:18:58 -0400
Aleksandr Miroslav wrote:
> hello,
>
> I am looking for something on BSD that will give me the same info as
> free(1) in Linux. i.e. I would like to know the state of
> total/used/free memory and swap.
>
> I know there are a number of utilities in ports that w
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 09:46:50 +0200
David DEMELIER wrote:
> 2010/6/1 Eitan Adler :
> The differences are that portupgrade use a database, it's written in
> ruby while portmaster is only one shell script. That's why I really
> prefere portmaster that also have zsh completion and is faster.
Am I th
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:17:23 +0200
Beat Siegenthaler wrote:
> It never causes trouble. The only thing that if I use restart, rc says
> the daemon is not running (but running fine) .
> But after reading Your article it is now clear why.
I don't think it should be. Most daemons write their pid (pr
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:35:02 -0700 (PDT)
Dan Strick wrote:
> That explains the problem.
> I copied the file /usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt from my old
> FreeBSD release-8.0 system and hooked it up to fetchmail with the
> fetchmail sslcertfile option. At least fetchmail is now happy.
You
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:40:06 +0200
Alex Huth wrote:
> Hello?
>
> Is anyone using skype on freebsd 8 and can tell me how to do the
> setup? Seem to be that there is no port
cd /usr/ports && make search name=skype
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On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 09:59:28 -0700
Jason wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 05:30:31PM +0100, RW thus spake:
> >Is it perhaps the security log that you are seeing? You are missing:
> >
> >security_output="/var/log/security.log"
> >
> That was it! Thank you.
On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 09:10:53 -0700
Jason wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to get periodic to not send mail to root, and only log,
> but have been unsuccessful thus far.
>
> Here are the contents of my /etc/periodic.conf file (0644, root,
> wheel):
> daily_output="/var/log/daily.log"
> week
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 17:16:05 -0500
Ryan Coleman wrote:
> rc.conf loads on boot up before your user scripts and you are allowed
> to log in.
rc.conf is sourced into /etc/rc.subr which in turn is sourced into
individual rc scripts.
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On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 15:44:54 +0700 (ICT)
Olivier Nicole wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While updating my servers I recently found out a stange behaviour.
>
> I have a configuration file for cvsup.
>
> If I set the default tag to be RELENG_7_3, I will build a kernel of
> name 7.3-RELEASE-pX
>
> If I set the
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 22:33:16 +0200
Samuel Martín Moro wrote:
> you may want add to your ntpd.conf:
> driftfile /your/drift
> logfile /your/log
They have perfectly good defaults.
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On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 01:12:27 -0700
Doug Hardie wrote:
> I have a question about what I am seeing on several servers. These
> are 4 core machines with more than the needed memory. Load is never
> above .5 and memory usually shows over half free. I have never seen
> it even close to the limit (in
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:25:38 -0700 (PDT)
Unga wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm using FreeBSD 8.1 on i386 machine.
>
> I have upgraded a package using portmanager, but the upgrade seems
> not successful.
>
> The required package is upgraded but all packages depend on the
> upgraded package were not reco
On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:19:56 +0200
Jos Chrispijn wrote:
> Just had a quick look in my installed ports and found out that I have
> multiple versions of automake installed:
> ...
> Is this common
yes, it's normal
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On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:56:56 +0800
Fbsd8 wrote:
> tree is no big deal, but I bet they don't do backups.
If that's an issue, don't back it up.
> That ports tree
> directory is a large resource hog if you lift the blinders and look
> at the big picture.
> Just my 2 cents.
Funnily enough that'
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:28:54 -0400
Jerry wrote:
> For starters, you are using the wrong sendmail. You need to use the
> Postfix 'sendmail' version.
>
> $ which sendmail
> /usr/sbin/sendmail
>
> I have Postfix installed and running. Sorry, I thought that was
> obvious.
>
> Typing: "man sendmai
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:12:27 +0200
Gilles wrote:
> Hello
>
> This is on a remote 6.3 host: I'd like to get an e-mail if a user hits
> the CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot the server.
>
> Googling told me that the use of the three-key combo can be
> enabled/disabled when compiling a new kernel, but not ho
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:28:29 +0100
Arthur Chance wrote:
> I suspect whoever you were talking to probably has more of a clue
> than I do. As a quick data point, I just ran "portsnap fetch update"
> while another process did a "df /var; sleep 1" loop and /var
> increased by about 30MB at its peak.
On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 15:36:00 +0100
Chris Rees wrote:
> On 29 June 2010 19:18, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote:
> > On Jun 29, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Matthew Seaman
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Whether or not he agrees with them is a matter of philosophical
> >> interest only, so long as he keeps to the terms.
> >
On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:58:07 -0700 (PDT)
Chris Stankevitz wrote:
> --- On Thu, 7/1/10, Glen Barber wrote:
> However, your comment seems to be in disagreement with online
> warnings of "do not mix 'pkg_add' packages with 'make' ports".
>
> My original question's intention was to prevent me from
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