Re: How do I give 2 parameters to programs in an unix enviroment?

2006-09-08 Thread backyard
--- Lasse Edlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I have two files foo and bar and try to run diff on them I write: $diff foo bar I can also write $cat foo | diff - bar But how do I give a program two (2) commands? not only to diff but to any program that wants double input... I wanna do

Re: How do I give 2 parameters to programs in an unix enviroment?

2006-09-08 Thread David King
Here's an example using zsh (I assume it's the same using bash, but different using tcsh or sh): diff (find /usr/local -type f | sort) (for each in /var/db/pkg/*/ +CONTENTS; do grep -v '^@' $each; done | sort) This does a diff(1) of what /var/db/pkg says that /usr/local should look like,

Re: How do I give 2 parameters to programs in an unix enviroment?

2006-09-08 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 08), David King said: Here's an example using zsh (I assume it's the same using bash, but different using tcsh or sh): diff (find /usr/local -type f | sort) (for each in /var/db/pkg/*/ +CONTENTS; do grep -v '^@' $each; done | sort) This does a diff(1) of what

Re: How do I give 2 parameters to programs in an unix enviroment?

2006-09-08 Thread David King
Here's an example using zsh (I assume it's the same using bash, but different using tcsh or sh): [...] This uses the () operator. [...] There's another, similar operator that does force it to use temp files, but I can never remember what it is :) [...] Just for the archives, The =() operator

Re: newbee to freebsd, unix, etc...

2006-07-30 Thread Bryan Bonifacio
Hi Charlie, I am presently trying to teach myself FreeBSD too and the best HOWTO/Tutorial/Book out there for guys like us are, in my opinion, the FreeBSD Handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/) and Greg Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD

Re: newbee to freebsd, unix, etc...

2006-07-30 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Bryan Bonifacio wrote: Hi Charlie, I am presently trying to teach myself FreeBSD too and the best HOWTO/Tutorial/Book out there for guys like us are, in my opinion, the FreeBSD Handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/) and Greg Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD

newbee to freebsd, unix, etc...

2006-07-29 Thread Charlie OBrien
Hi, im Charlie in Tucson Arizona. Im trying to teach myself FreeBSD and this is what i have done so far. I have downloaded and installed FreeBSD 6.1 onto my spare computer. i can boot the computer and login into the # prompt. how do i invoke the KDE windows environment? what are some other

Re: newbee to freebsd, unix, etc...

2006-07-29 Thread Garrett Cooper
/ Im pretty proficient at using microsofts windows environment. Welcome to a Unix environment though. Things are quite a bit different here. any help is greatly appreciated. And help is gratefully given as long as respect is as well on the list :). -Garrett

Re: newbee to freebsd, unix, etc...

2006-07-29 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 08:10:05PM -0700, Charlie OBrien wrote: Hi, im Charlie in Tucson Arizona. Im trying to teach myself FreeBSD and this is what i have done so far. I have downloaded and installed FreeBSD 6.1 onto my spare computer. i can boot the computer and login into the # prompt.

The Unix Haters Handbook

2006-06-01 Thread Rico
Hi all. I had not before seen this book, but doing some Unix research I found it at http://research.microsoft.com/~daniel/uhh-download.html Loving Unix I found the book hilarious and quite entertaining and still containing some truth. The chapter about the rm command is very funny because

Re: The Unix Haters Handbook

2006-06-01 Thread Kyrre Nygard
At 09:20 01.06.2006, Rico wrote: Hi all. I had not before seen this book, but doing some Unix research I found it at http://research.microsoft.com/~daniel/uhh-download.html Loving Unix I found the book hilarious and quite entertaining and still containing some truth. The chapter about the rm

Re: cleaning off unix/linux????

2006-05-21 Thread Derek Ragona
clean of this boot record, but this was [mumble] years ago. thanks for any tips, y'all, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: cleaning off unix/linux????

2006-05-21 Thread Gary Kline
between the rational (unix) and the imbecilic (guess). Too bad there isn't some unix/linux port, hopefully floppy-sized that will boot just enough DOS to use delpart.exe. Maybe FreeDOS has a boot floppy? Ahnybody here know? gary -- Gary Kline

Re: cleaning off unix/linux????

2006-05-21 Thread Mike Jeays
installed. That's the problem. So I'm stuck between the rational (unix) and the imbecilic (guess). Too bad there isn't some unix/linux port, hopefully floppy-sized that will boot just enough DOS to use delpart.exe. Maybe FreeDOS has a boot floppy? Ahnybody here

Re: cleaning off unix/linux????

2006-05-21 Thread Gary Kline
. But I have not had/used DOS/Win-3.11 since 1993. thanks for the idea. gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: cleaning off unix/linux????

2006-05-21 Thread Gary Kline
JN -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cleaning off unix/linux????

2006-05-20 Thread Gary Kline
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Re: cleaning off unix/linux????

2006-05-20 Thread Gerard Seibert
Gary Kline wrote: Gang, A 40G drive that I thought was bad (when trying to install W2K on the drive) may be entirely good. I am trying to avoid having to buy a DOS/Win platform. I've had both W2K and FBSD or Ubuntu on this one machine. For various reasons I

Re: cleaning off unix/linux????

2006-05-20 Thread Charles Howse
On May 20, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Gary Kline wrote: Gang, A 40G drive that I thought was bad (when trying to install W2K on the drive) may be entirely good. I am trying to avoid having to buy a DOS/Win platform. I've had both W2K and FBSD or Ubuntu on this

Re: cleaning off unix/linux????

2006-05-20 Thread Rowdy
Gary Kline wrote: Gang, A 40G drive that I thought was bad (when trying to install W2K on the drive) may be entirely good. I am trying to avoid having to buy a DOS/Win platform. I've had both W2K and FBSD or Ubuntu on this one machine. For various

Re: cleaning off unix/linux????

2006-05-20 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gang, A 40G drive that I thought was bad (when trying to install W2K on the drive) may be entirely good. I am trying to avoid having to buy a DOS/Win platform. I've had both W2K and FBSD or Ubuntu on this one

PCL interprefer for unix

2006-04-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
anybody knows about program able to convert PCL printer code to postscript/PDF/bitmap/whatever - so it will be possible to view PCL prints on monitor and print it on non-PCL printers? thanks! Wojtek ___

Re: PCL interprefer for unix

2006-04-06 Thread Igor Robul
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 01:50:33PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: anybody knows about program able to convert PCL printer code to postscript/PDF/bitmap/whatever - so it will be possible to view PCL prints on monitor and print it on non-PCL printers? Maybe

Re: Help? (unix as windoze replacement)

2006-04-06 Thread wc_fbsd
At 09:49 AM 4/6/2006, you wrote: Don't use FreeBSD. I know this will be an unpopular post on this list, but you've said a number of things that tell me that you will be unsuccessful with FreeBSD: Unpopular, perhaps. But good advice. If you're looking for a nearly effortless desktop unix

Direct Connect unix client - big problem on amd64

2006-01-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i installed dctc-0.84.1 from prebuild .tbz on FreeBSD 6.0/amd64 and (with parameters that i used before on NetBSD/i386 system): INFO ] Direct Connect Text Client v0.84.1| hubip: dchub.l. hubport: 1411 VAR ] cnx_status|1| file exists. creating new sema. creating. semid=196610 created 2FD103C3.

Veritas backup exec with ralus (remote agent for linux and unix servers)

2005-12-04 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, Does anyone managed to install ralus and make it works on freebsd ? We have a veritas backup exec server that backups all of the m$ servers and we would like to backup freebsd servers from the same location.. Veritas (now symantec) doesnt supports freebsd but supports linux... I

Interactive Unix S51K (or S52K) support

2005-11-28 Thread Kenneth W Cochran
Does FreeBSD have any support (even read only) for the S51K and/or S52K filesystems as were in Sunsoft Interactive Unix... umm... 4.1.x? FAQ/documentation pointers very welcome. :) Thanks, -kc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

RE: Mach kernel and Unix over 68k : well before OS X (Was: Status of6.0 for production systems)

2005-11-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Gilbert Fernandes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 10:30 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mach kernel and Unix over 68k : well before OS X (Was: Status of6.0 for production systems

Mach kernel and Unix over 68k : well before OS X (Was: Status of 6.0 for production systems)

2005-11-19 Thread Gilbert Fernandes
Consider that when MacOS moved to UNIX that all the UNIX software vendors could now easily port their applications to Macintosh. Excuse me, sir. Your discussion is pretty impressive and I have been reading it with care. Honestly, I am far from having a distant enough picture of the whole say

[OT] Re: Mach kernel and Unix over 68k : well before OS X

2005-11-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 07:29:41PM +0100, Gilbert Fernandes wrote: snip But Unix has been available for MacOS users for a long time, far before MacOS X went out and using a Mach kernel. It has been since 1996, over a Mach kernel. Apple had its own UNIX running on 68k hardware since 1998

Re: Mach kernel and Unix over 68k : well before OS X (Was: Status of 6.0 for production systems)

2005-11-19 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
Additionally, Apple had AU/X running on Macs before even machten. Natively. Chad On Nov 19, 2005, at 11:29 AM, Gilbert Fernandes wrote: Consider that when MacOS moved to UNIX that all the UNIX software vendors could now easily port their applications to Macintosh. Excuse me, sir. Your

Re: [OT] Re: Mach kernel and Unix over 68k : well before OS X

2005-11-19 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Nov 19, 2005, at 11:47 AM, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 07:29:41PM +0100, Gilbert Fernandes wrote: snip But Unix has been available for MacOS users for a long time, far before MacOS X went out and using a Mach kernel. It has been since 1996, over a Mach kernel. Apple had

Re: Mach kernel and Unix over 68k

2005-11-19 Thread Joe Altman
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 07:55:48PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 28. [OT] Re: Mach kernel and Unix over 68k : well before OS X (Roland Smith) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 19:47:13 +0100 From: Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OT] Re: Mach kernel and Unix over 68k : well before OS

UNIX System Certification Programs

2005-10-21 Thread Martin McCormick
I do would be to say that I use UNIX systems to solve technical problems. While DNS is my primary responsibility, I notice that I have spent a good portion of my carreer, here, coming up with UNIX-based automation solutions to problems that individuals in my group or groups we are close

Re: UNIX System Certification Programs

2005-10-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
, bsdcertification.org and bsdcertification.com Please tell me any thoughts you might have. Stating that I've been messing around with UNIX systems for about 14 years probably won't get me very far.:-) Don't underestimate the value of experience! It is well known that there is a vast number of paper

RE: UNIX System Certification Programs

2005-10-21 Thread Bob Middaugh
To: Martin McCormick Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UNIX System Certification Programs On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Martin McCormick wrote: As part of the formalization process for our carreer paths, our organization is wanting us to be certified in our areas of expertise

Re: OT: Re: WinXP administration guide for unix guru

2005-08-22 Thread Igor Robul
Louis LeBlanc wrote: Does it tell you why XP requires any user wishing to print to a network printer must have administrator privileges? It doesnt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: OT: Re: WinXP administration guide for unix guru

2005-08-22 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:28:38 +0400 Igor Robul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Louis LeBlanc wrote: Does it tell you why XP requires any user wishing to print to a network printer must have administrator privileges? It doesnt ** Reply Separator ** Monday, August 22, 2005

Re: OT: Re: WinXP administration guide for unix guru

2005-08-22 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 08/22/05 04:56 PM, Gerard Seibert sat at the `puter and typed: On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:28:38 +0400 Igor Robul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Louis LeBlanc wrote: Does it tell you why XP requires any user wishing to print to a network printer must have administrator privileges? It

RE: OT: Re: WinXP administration guide for unix guru

2005-08-22 Thread Joshua Weaver
Of Louis LeBlanc Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 4:29 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Re: WinXP administration guide for unix guru On 08/22/05 04:56 PM, Gerard Seibert sat at the `puter and typed: On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:28:38 +0400 Igor Robul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Louis

Re: OT: Re: WinXP administration guide for unix guru

2005-08-22 Thread Aaron Peterson
On 8/22/05, Joshua Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the symptoms that you need administrator privileges? The default security scheme, even with the SP2 behemoth installed, require an administrator or power user to install the printer, but a user can print to it. Is this just a postfix

Re: OT: Re: WinXP administration guide for unix guru

2005-08-22 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 08/22/05 05:03 PM, Joshua Weaver sat at the `puter and typed: What are the symptoms that you need administrator privileges? The default security scheme, even with the SP2 behemoth installed, require an administrator or power user to install the printer, but a user can print to it. Is this

Re: WinXP administration guide for unix guru

2005-08-21 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Kent Hauser wrote: Hi, I've been a Unix sysadmin (SunOS 3.x, 4.x, Solaris, FreeBSD) for 15 years, but am now being forced to learn how to run a collection of XP boxes. Can anyone recommend a book which explains this confusing beast? I'm talking about a book which

Re: OT: Re: WinXP administration guide for unix guru

2005-08-21 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 08/20/05 11:23 PM, Andrew L. Gould sat at the `puter and typed: On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 07:09:52 +0300 Ovidiu Ene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is this a joke? Kent Hauser wrote: Hi, I've been a Unix sysadmin (SunOS 3.x, 4.x, Solaris, FreeBSD) for 15 years, but am now being

Re: OT: Re: WinXP administration guide for unix guru

2005-08-21 Thread Andrew L. Gould
a Unix sysadmin (SunOS 3.x, 4.x, Solaris, FreeBSD) for 15 years, but am now being forced to learn how to run a collection of XP boxes. Can anyone recommend a book which explains this confusing beast? I'm talking about a book which explains where things are put (equiv of / var/mail

Re: OT: Re: WinXP administration guide for unix guru

2005-08-21 Thread Garrett Cooper
: Hi, I've been a Unix sysadmin (SunOS 3.x, 4.x, Solaris, FreeBSD) for 15 years, but am now being forced to learn how to run a collection of XP boxes. Can anyone recommend a book which explains this confusing beast? I'm talking about a book which explains where things are put (equiv of / var

Re: OT: Re: WinXP administration guide for unix guru

2005-08-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0735619743/ Kent Hauser wrote: Hi, I've been a Unix sysadmin (SunOS 3.x, 4.x, Solaris, FreeBSD) for 15 years, but am now being forced to learn how to run a collection of XP boxes. Can anyone recommend a book which explains

Re: WinXP administration guide for unix guru

2005-08-21 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On August 20, 2005 6:02:18 PM -1000 Kent Hauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been a Unix sysadmin (SunOS 3.x, 4.x, Solaris, FreeBSD) for 15 years, but am now being forced to learn how to run a collection of XP boxes. Can anyone recommend a book which explains this confusing beast? I'm

Re: WinXP administration guide for unix guru

2005-08-21 Thread Kurt Buff
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On August 20, 2005 6:02:18 PM -1000 Kent Hauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been a Unix sysadmin (SunOS 3.x, 4.x, Solaris, FreeBSD) for 15 years, but am now being forced to learn how to run a collection of XP boxes. Can anyone recommend a book which explains

Re: WinXP administration guide for unix guru

2005-08-21 Thread stheg olloydson
operating system. I don't know if that's true, but I use it from time to time, and I have yet to find an actual OS-native command missing. The book's website is www.ucgbook.com, and it has free samples. As for using familiar *nix tools under Windows, MS offers Windows Services for UNIX 3.5 as a free

WinXP administration guide for unix guru

2005-08-20 Thread Kent Hauser
Hi, I've been a Unix sysadmin (SunOS 3.x, 4.x, Solaris, FreeBSD) for 15 years, but am now being forced to learn how to run a collection of XP boxes. Can anyone recommend a book which explains this confusing beast? I'm talking about a book which explains where things are put (equiv of /var

Re: WinXP administration guide for unix guru

2005-08-20 Thread Ovidiu Ene
is this a joke? Kent Hauser wrote: Hi, I've been a Unix sysadmin (SunOS 3.x, 4.x, Solaris, FreeBSD) for 15 years, but am now being forced to learn how to run a collection of XP boxes. Can anyone recommend a book which explains this confusing beast? I'm talking about a book which

OT: Re: WinXP administration guide for unix guru

2005-08-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 07:09:52 +0300 Ovidiu Ene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is this a joke? Kent Hauser wrote: Hi, I've been a Unix sysadmin (SunOS 3.x, 4.x, Solaris, FreeBSD) for 15 years, but am now being forced to learn how to run a collection of XP boxes. Can anyone recommend

Re: A secure connection to an SCO Unix 5.2 behind a pf firewall.

2005-08-04 Thread Martin Welk
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 05:06:37PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would appreciate any suggestions for a reasonably secure solution. I just found all this out and am totally blank. Have a look at OpenVPN (http://www.openvpn.org/), it is available as a FreeBSD port and it comes with a

Re: A secure connection to an SCO Unix 5.2 behind a pf firewall.

2005-08-04 Thread eculp
Quoting Martin Welk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 05:06:37PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would appreciate any suggestions for a reasonably secure solution. I just found all this out and am totally blank. Have a look at OpenVPN (http://www.openvpn.org/), it is available

A secure connection to an SCO Unix 5.2 behind a pf firewall.

2005-08-03 Thread eculp
I installed a FreeBSD6.0 server/firewall for a remote customer about a week ago. Today they told me that on there LAN they had a Unix box that runs their internal ascii based accounting system that they have been accessing by modem from home. Now they want to access it over the Internet

RE: A secure connection to an SCO Unix 5.2 behind a pf firewall.

2005-08-03 Thread eculp
Quoting Gayn Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 3:07 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: A secure connection to an SCO Unix 5.2 behind a pf firewall

Need a good Unix script that..

2005-07-29 Thread Michael Sharp
I need a simple sh script that will daily (via cron) crawl a website looking for multiple keywords, then reporting those keyword results and URL to an email address. Anyone know of a pre-written script that does this, or point me in the right direction in using the FreeBSD core commands that can

Re: Need a good Unix script that..

2005-07-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
Michael Sharp wrote: I need a simple sh script that will daily (via cron) crawl a website looking for multiple keywords, then reporting those keyword results and URL to an email address. Anyone know of a pre-written script that does this, or point me in the right direction in using the FreeBSD

using -t option with unix sort ?

2005-07-14 Thread Daniel Malaby
Hi All, I am trying to sort a tab delimited file with sort. The problem I am having is with the -t option. I do not know how to pass a tab. Things I have tried: sort -t \t sort -t '\t' sort -t \t sort -t 0x09 sort -t '0x09' sort -t 0x09 sort -t ^I sort -t '^I' sort -t ^I Any suggestions would

Re: using -t option with unix sort ?

2005-07-14 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On 7/14/05, Daniel Malaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am trying to sort a tab delimited file with sort. The problem I am having is with the -t option. I do not know how to pass a tab. snip sort -t \t /snip Any suggestions would be much appreciated. remove the space between -t

Re: using -t option with unix sort ?

2005-07-14 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On 7/14/05, Nelis Lamprecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/14/05, Daniel Malaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am trying to sort a tab delimited file with sort. The problem I am having is with the -t option. I do not know how to pass a tab. snip sort -t \t /snip Any

Re: using -t option with unix sort ?

2005-07-14 Thread Daniel Malaby
Nelis Lamprecht wrote: On 7/14/05, Nelis Lamprecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/14/05, Daniel Malaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am trying to sort a tab delimited file with sort. The problem I am having is with the -t option. I do not know how to pass a tab. snip sort -t \t

Re: using -t option with unix sort ?

2005-07-14 Thread Tsampros Leonidas
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 10:47:50AM -0700, Daniel Malaby wrote: Nelis Lamprecht wrote: On 7/14/05, Nelis Lamprecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/14/05, Daniel Malaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sniiip E002 19085 GENERAL DYNAMICS5031802 E-GL/VX/B/R1.0 SFT CD, GL VXWORKS

Re: using -t option with unix sort ?

2005-07-14 Thread jdyke
Tsampros Leonidas wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 10:47:50AM -0700, Daniel Malaby wrote: Nelis Lamprecht wrote: On 7/14/05, Nelis Lamprecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/14/05, Daniel Malaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sniiip E00219085 GENERAL DYNAMICS5031802

Re: using -t option with unix sort ?

2005-07-14 Thread Csaba Henk
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 10:47:50AM -0700, Daniel Malaby wrote: The sample data has 9 fields, I am trying to sort on the fifth field, here is what I have tried. sort -t\t +4 -5 -o test.txt sample.txt I did try removing the space and it did not work, I have also tried removing the -5. I

Re: Using unix mail with maildir format

2005-07-05 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 04 Jul Vince wrote: Unix mail wont as maildir is not the original unix format. Mave a look at the nail port mail/nail It can/does have a mail type interface and reads maildir. As we talk about the original *NIX mail format I have a question about mbox maildir too. I'm about to set up

Re: Using unix mail with maildir format

2005-07-05 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jul 5, 2005, at 12:08 AM, dick hoogendijk wrote: What are the pro's and cons for/against both mail standards? Won't the maildir format with all this separate mails not be more difficult to maintain? In what way more difficult to maintain? maildir makes backups easier as incrmental

Re: Using unix mail with maildir format

2005-07-05 Thread Gustavo De Nardin
On 04/07/05, Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mave a look at the nail port mail/nail It can/does have a mail type interface and reads maildir. Thanks, that's the MUA I was looking for for a long while. :] -- (nil) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Using unix mail with maildir format

2005-07-05 Thread Leon Messner
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 08:08:57AM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: What are the pro's and cons for/against both mail standards? Won't the maildir format with all this separate mails not be more difficult to maintain? I have to say that running courier/maildir never gave problems 'till now

Using unix mail with maildir format

2005-07-04 Thread bsd
Hello, Does anyone know if there is a way to read mail with unix mail program? I've been using this program since couple of years and I am quite happy with It… I can't seem to find a shortcut to have It read maildir format… Thanks

RE: Using unix mail with maildir format

2005-07-04 Thread Vince
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bsd Sent: 04 July 2005 11:13 To: Liste FreeBSD Subject: Using unix mail with maildir format Hello, Does anyone know if there is a way to read mail with unix mail program? I've been using

Using unix mail with maildir format

2005-06-29 Thread bsd
Hello, Does anyone know if there is a way to read mail with unix mail program? I've been using this program since couple of years and I am quite happy with It… I can't seem to find a shortcut to have It read maildir format… Thanks

Re: Using unix mail with maildir format

2005-06-29 Thread Ean Kingston
On June 29, 2005 08:50 am, bsd wrote: Hello, Does anyone know if there is a way to read mail with unix mail program? The standard mail command only reads mbox formatted mail stores. I've been using this program since couple of years and I am quite happy with It… I can't seem to find

Re: Using unix mail with maildir format

2005-06-29 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005, Ean Kingston wrote: On June 29, 2005 08:50 am, bsd wrote: Hello, Does anyone know if there is a way to read mail with unix mail program? The standard mail command only reads mbox formatted mail stores. I've been using this program since couple of years and I am quite

Re: Using unix mail with maildir format

2005-06-29 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, bsd wrote: Hello, Does anyone know if there is a way to read mail with unix mail program? I've been using this program since couple of years and I am quite happy with It… I can't seem to find a shortcut to have It read maildir format… have a look at the mail/nail

Re: Using unix mail with maildir format

2005-06-29 Thread J65nko BSD
On 6/29/05, bsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if there is a way to read mail with unix mail program? I've been using this program since couple of years and I am quite happy with It… I can't seem to find a shortcut to have It read maildir format… The program maildir2mbox

Re: FreeBSD/UNIX backups to DVD+RW

2005-06-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
this to work? (Webpage link is sufficient if there is something out there. I couldn't find one.) I'm fairly new to the FreeBSD/UNIX world, so please be gentle. Thanks, -james ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: FreeBSD/UNIX backups to DVD+RW

2005-06-17 Thread James Riendeau
this to work? (Webpage link is sufficient if there is something out there. I couldn't find one.) I'm fairly new to the FreeBSD/UNIX world, so please be gentle. Thanks, -james ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD/UNIX backups to DVD+RW

2005-06-17 Thread Ean Kingston
dump fails with Broken pipe. Any clues to how to get this to work? (Webpage link is sufficient if there is something out there. I couldn't find one.) I'm fairly new to the FreeBSD/UNIX world, so please be gentle. Thanks, -james

BSD and: great timeline of UNIX developments and BSD ancestry

2005-06-17 Thread Hanno Krusken
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 By reading some out of the OpenSolaris forum, it look's like ther can be a changs to bring FreeBSD tight together with OpenSolaris in futuer The comment I like is: For a great timeline of UNIX developments and ancestry, check out: The original

FreeBSD/UNIX backups to DVD+RW

2005-06-16 Thread James Riendeau
/0' /home But growisofs fails with :-( /dev/cd0 doesn't look like isofs..., and of course dump fails with Broken pipe. Any clues to how to get this to work? (Webpage link is sufficient if there is something out there. I couldn't find one.) I'm fairly new to the FreeBSD/UNIX world, so please

Re: FreeBSD/UNIX backups to DVD+RW

2005-06-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:14:50PM -0500, James Riendeau wrote: I'm trying to setup backups to the DVD-RW drive on our new server before it goes into production. I've got the DVD-RW drive working, and I figured out how to dump to it: # dvd+rw-format /dev/cd0 # dump -0 -uL -C16 -B4589840 -P

Problem with unix file system

2005-06-14 Thread snoopy
Hi, i have a problem with an erro of me : i have formated unfortunely my ufs partition of my server data, how is possible to unformat ufs file system, i've try easy recovry with raw mode but many files lost , please anybody can help me or my data as lost?

Re: Problem with unix file system

2005-06-14 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/14/05, snoopy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i have a problem with an erro of me : i have formated unfortunely my ufs partition of my server data, how is possible to unformat ufs file system, i've try easy recovry with raw mode but many files lost , please anybody can help me or my data as

Re: Problem with unix file system

2005-06-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, i have a problem with an erro of me : i have formated unfortunely my ufs partition of my server data, how is possible to unformat ufs file system, i've try easy recovry with raw mode but many files lost , please anybody can help me or my data as lost? What do you mean by format? Did

Re: With all we can do in Unix ...

2005-06-13 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/11/05, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... why is it impossible to view/edit the BIOS while the server is live? It's not impossible to view the BIOS settings in an OS but if you changed the BIOS settings you would still need to

RE: With all we can do in Unix ...

2005-06-13 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marc G. Fournier Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 11:25 PM Oh, I have those motherboards also ... but, again, its only the newer servers that I've *had* something to plug them into, so I always disabled (or left

Re: With all we can do in Unix ...

2005-06-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/11/05, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... why is it impossible to view/edit the BIOS while the server is live? It's not impossible to view the BIOS settings in an OS but if you changed the BIOS settings you would still need to reboot before the changes take effect, so there

With all we can do in Unix ...

2005-06-11 Thread Marc G. Fournier
... why is it impossible to view/edit the BIOS while the server is live? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___

Re: euid !=0,directory /tmp/.ICE-unix will not be created

2005-05-12 Thread Darrel
/.X11-unix mkdir -m 1777 /tmp/.ICE-unix Darrel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Learning UNIX internals

2005-05-10 Thread Charles Swiger
On May 7, 2005, at 12:57 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Yes, it will be. You'll need something more basic to start with. While the books you asked about in your initial post will be okay, my suggestion would be [Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems, ISBN 0130313580], which provides more of a

euid !=0,directory /tmp/.ICE-unix will not be created

2005-05-10 Thread Darrel
Hello, I can startx with twm but not Gnome2-lite. The X server shuts down immediately 'Cannot establish any listening sockets' 5.3-RELEASE-p13 buildworld Sat May 7, src and ports I do not think it is a font problem, but there is an entry in Xorg log which states /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID is

Re: Learning UNIX internals

2005-05-10 Thread Alden Pierre
provides more of a theoretical background for OS concepts. I'd second this recommendation. Tanenbaum's a good author... I'm currently using this book in my OS class this semester. I have no knowledge on unix internals, but this book gives an excellent overview on OS concepts. After we had finished

euid !=0,directory /tmp/.ICE-unix will not be created

2005-05-10 Thread Darrel
I can startx with twm but not Gnome2-lite. The X server shuts down immediately 'Cannot establish any listening sockets' I do not think it is a font problem, but there is an entry in Xorg log which states /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID is not valid, deleted from path. Darrel I installed

Re: Learning UNIX internals

2005-05-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 7 May 2005 at 21:13:33 +0300, Sergey S. Ropchan wrote: On 5/7/05, Jon Drews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I was thinking of getting one of these two books. I want to learn more about how UNIX and in particular, FreeBSD work. Has anyone read either of these books? UNIX

Learning UNIX internals

2005-05-07 Thread Jon Drews
Hi: I was thinking of getting one of these two books. I want to learn more about how UNIX and in particular, FreeBSD work. Has anyone read either of these books? UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers by Uresh Vahalia http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0131019082/ref=pd_bxgy_img_2/104

Re: Learning UNIX internals

2005-05-07 Thread Chris Hodgins
On 5/7/05, Jon Drews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I was thinking of getting one of these two books. I want to learn more about how UNIX and in particular, FreeBSD work. Has anyone read either of these books? UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers by Uresh Vahalia http://www.amazon.com

Re: Learning UNIX internals

2005-05-07 Thread Jon Drews
On 5/7/05, Chris Hodgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are interested in Unix and FreeBSD this is a good choice: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/0201702452/reviews/026-9762435-1924466 Thank you Chris: The problem is I don't know what semaphores, mutex locks

Re: Learning UNIX internals

2005-05-07 Thread Chris Hodgins
On 5/7/05, Jon Drews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/7/05, Chris Hodgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are interested in Unix and FreeBSD this is a good choice: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/0201702452/reviews/026-9762435-1924466 Thank you Chris

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