:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Dave Vollenweider
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 8:50 PM
To: FreeBSD Questions
Subject: When Unix Stops Being Fun
This has nothing to do with technical problems, but rather
it's more of a request for moral support. This may seem
disjointed, so bear with me
using
Unix-like operating systems for almost two years. I started with Red
Hat Linux back when Red Hat was making and selling their
consumer-grade version of Red Hat Linux, then switched to Debian
before going to FreeBSD last March. I now also run NetBSD on one of
my machines.
Through all
was a master of the Commodore. I was
a master of AmigaDOS. I was a master of MS-DOS. I was a master of
Win95. I was a master of Windows NT4. Then a funny thing happened, I
realized if I spent the time to learn UNIX, I could run it for the rest
of life, without having to learn a new OS every time
I'll most
likely upgrade it...). I had played with RedHat (3 or 4.. I still have
the CDs somewhere!), I had used Unix System V (on a Unix PC (ATT PC
7300) no less!) in the early 90's, but had ended up working with Windows
mostly at my jobs, and thus, at home. Every time there was a new version
Ted Mittelstaedt [Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:46:05PM -0700]:
As an analogy - there's lots of people that know how to pull into
a service station and add air to their car tires. But out of all
those people that have learned how to do this only a tenth of them
know that tire pressure rises when
who wrote a
200 page astronomy thesis in latex using vi, but in most cases you won't
use vi. So why is it important? Because it is so simple, it is one of
the few things that you can rely on when your system has crashed. But
even then, I actually know one SA whose Digital Unix crashed so hard
I thank you all for your responses so far. I actually meant to post my original
message to FreeBSD Newbies, but I posted it here by mistake. Since the damage has
been done, I may as well continue.
I just wanted to clarify a few things about where I'm coming from:
1) I'm not actually going
On 10/2/2004 at 10:50 PM Dave Vollenweider wrote:
| I came across this page:
| http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/8/13/131727/462 and
| I'm overwhelmed by the sheer amount of knowledge I'd have to gain.
=
That page is ridiculous. You do not need to know all those items. You
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 01:57:11PM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote:
I have found that the most valuable skill a good SA has is LAZINESS!
Yup, but beware, there are two kinds: You can be lazy in the sence that
you only do what is absolutely necessary and postpone it as much as
posible - this is the
Some Advice,
There are many things in life that seem like daunting tasks, some of them
worthwhile, some not. But its the goal beyond the task that should be the
deciding factor. Learning unix is not a reason. Its like saying you want to
have children just for the sake of having them. Why do you
Unix-like operating systems for almost two years. I started with Red
Hat Linux back when Red Hat was making and selling their
consumer-grade version of Red Hat Linux, then switched to Debian
before going to FreeBSD last March. I now also run NetBSD on one of
my machines.
Sounds like the path
On Oct 3, 2004, at 3:12 AM, bsdfsse wrote:
Ironically, I'm switching to FreeBSD because I'm already tired. My
bones are aching from years of abuse. I'm tired of..
..being told what I can and can't do with my computers. Did you know
many scanners and photocopiers cannot reproduce money?
In a message dated 10/3/04 4:31:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Excuse me while I shred it before the Secret Service comes knocking on
my door...
Is the secret service in charge of counterfiting now? (as you can see no
formal education is required to be an SA)
On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 17:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 10/3/04 4:31:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Excuse me while I shred it before the Secret Service comes knocking on
my door...
Is the secret service in charge of counterfiting now? (as you can
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004, Mike Jeays wrote:
On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 17:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 10/3/04 4:31:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Excuse me while I shred it before the Secret Service comes knocking on
my door...
Is the secret service in
it was said:
As a purely theoretical question - is it possible to be guilty of an
offence by being in possession of a digital image of a currency bill?
At what resolution does it become an offence?
Hello,
This exactly answers your questions:
This has nothing to do with technical problems, but rather it's more of a request for
moral support. This may seem disjointed, so bear with me.
I've been using FreeBSD for over six months now, but I've been using Unix-like
operating systems for almost two years. I started with Red Hat Linux
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Vollenweider
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 8:50 PM
To: FreeBSD Questions
Subject: When Unix Stops Being Fun
This has nothing to do with technical problems, but rather it's
more
Hi
I was told that I could learn UNIX for free on this site. If so please let me know
how. My email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi
I was told that I could learn UNIX for free on this site. If so please
let me know how. My email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html
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http
it was said:
I was told that I could learn UNIX for free on this site. If so please
=
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Hello,
Welcome to FreeBSD! You certainly can learn about unix type OSs here.
The best place to start is with the Handbook. the URL is
http
daemon and centralized application logging. Tiger
also features command-line access to Spotlight for searching application
metadata and enables many common UNIX utilities to
http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/unix.html
Do a search for FreeBSD on Apple's site and you will see pages and pages
On Aug 20, 2004, at 11:29 AM, Joshua Lewis wrote:
Do a search for FreeBSD on Apple's site and you will see pages and
pages
of FreeBSD references in OS X.
Pops up in the man pages on occasion as well. Just now tried man -k
freebsd with Panther 10.3.5 and only got one hit on perlfreebsd. It
looks
At 2004-06-12T14:06:07+01:00, Matthew Seaman wrote:
For more detail that you could possibly want about the descent of
Unix, see:
http://www.levenez.com/unix/
Hi Matthew,
Thanks for pointing out that interesting site.
Cheers,
Raghavendra.
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Grauwmans Steven (gs) writes:
gs If U could please help me, I'm getting confused.
Linux is a kernel, ie the bit of the OS which needs to be there, but
you should never be aware of in normal use if it works properly.
Unix is a trademark. There used to be an OS
Linux is UNIX, but why is Fedora Core a Linux and FreeBSD a UNIX?
I searched on the internet for an answer, but after visiting 10 sites I
gave up.
If U could please help me, I'm getting confused.
Greetings,
Grauwmans Steven
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Grauwmans Steven wrote:
Linux is UNIX, but why is Fedora Core a Linux and FreeBSD a UNIX?
I searched on the internet for an answer, but after visiting 10 sites I
gave up.
If U could please help me, I'm getting confused.
Linux is a kernel. Fedora uses this kernel, and therefore is a Linux
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 10:06:49AM +0200, Grauwmans Steven wrote:
Linux is UNIX, but why is Fedora Core a Linux and FreeBSD a UNIX?
I searched on the internet for an answer, but after visiting 10 sites I
gave up.
If U could please help me, I'm getting confused.
Because FreeBSD code is derived
This is a hard one to answer. Most people disagree slightly on this
question. It all depends on your perspective. If you go by companies that
are allowed to use the UNIX copyright, then only IBM AIX and Sun Solaris are
UNIX. If you go by the posix specification, then most operating systems can
FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE
pure-ftpd version 1.0.18
I am trying to configure pure-ftpd with both Unix authentication and PureDB
authentication. I am going to use the server with complete TLS/SSL mechanisms
only - and refuse cleartext authentication.
(TLS 2)
at the moment - pure-ftpd only
FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE
pure-ftpd version 1.0.18
I am trying to configure pure-ftpd with both Unix authentication and PureDB
authentication. I am going to use the server with complete TLS/SSL mechanisms
only - and refuse cleartext authentication.
(TLS 2)
at the moment - pure-ftpd only
FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE
pure-ftpd version 1.0.18
I am trying to configure pure-ftpd with both Unix authentication and PureDB
authentication. I am going to use the server with complete TLS/SSL mechanisms
only - and refuse cleartext authentication.
(TLS 2)
at the moment - pure-ftpd only
: syntax error
before '{' token
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk84/work/tk8.4.6/unix.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk84.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk84.
has anyone seen this? fresh install of freebsd5.2.1, ports tree is cvsupp'd
Hi all,
can anybody point me to some info which can help me understand local sockets
(=? UNIX Domain sockets?)?
I have the problem that I can't get milter work in a jail and I suspect
the /var/run/milter.sock socket but don't really understand what it is and
how it works.
Thanks,
-Harry
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
can anybody point me to some info which can help me understand local sockets
(=? UNIX Domain sockets?)?
I have the problem that I can't get milter work in a jail and I suspect
the /var/run/milter.sock socket but don't really understand what
queue is empty
I used ktrace(1) to see where does the problem come from and it appears
that when postqueue(1) tries to connect to named Unix socket
`/var/spool/postfix/public/showq' from the host and Postfix runs in a
jail, it gets a ECONNREFUSED while it works perfectly when Postfix is not
jailed
Frog Here:
I have a file on my /root desktop I would like to share on my
/home/mike desktop (it's a file full-o-music). Which is better? Creating
a hard link ln, a soft link ln -s, or would changing group do the
job? Or should I just create a separate partition to hold the
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 11:45:33PM -0700, MIchael Alexander wrote:
I have a file on my /root desktop I would like to share on my
/home/mike desktop (it's a file full-o-music). Which is better? Creating
a hard link ln, a soft link ln -s, or would changing group do the
job? Or should
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 11:45:33PM -0700, MIchael Alexander wrote:
Frog Here:
I have a file on my /root desktop I would like to share on my
/home/mike desktop (it's a file full-o-music). Which is better? Creating
a hard link ln, a soft link ln -s, or would changing group do
Hiya,
i'm trying to recompile mod_php on my server and i'm getting the
following error?
Attempting to fetch from
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.
fetch:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/PDFlib-Lite-5.0.0-Unix
-src.tar.gz: Service not available, closing
-Lite-5.0.0-Unix
-src.tar.gz: Service not available, closing control connection
Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.
*** Error code 1
is there a solution to this?
Update your ports collection.
Kris
pgp0.pgp
B. Unix
Depends on what you mean by Unix. There is code in it that
derives from the original ATT UNIX.
It is this. Although the idea of Unix may have started in Bell Labs,
I thought the big lawsuits 10+ years ago and lots of work by early
developers settled that no code
From: Jerry McAllister
Sent: March 25, 2004 07:17
Much of what the responder said here is right, but I think there might be
just one little point to pick.
... lots excised ...
B. Unix
Depends on what you mean by Unix. There is code in it that
derives from the original ATT
Gil Binder wrote:
Hey there,
I am a FreeBSD user, I have a debate with someone about FreeBSD.
And I would like you to answer our little debate, FreeBSD is:
A. Linux
B. Unix
C. Something else ( Tell us what ;P )
Thanks and have a great week / day / whatever ;],
Gil
- Original Message -
From: Beheer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD - Linux / Unix ?
Gil Binder wrote:
Hey there,
I am a FreeBSD user, I have a debate with someone about FreeBSD.
And I would like you to answer our
- Original Message -
From: Beheer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FreeBSD - Linux / Unix ?
Much of what the responder said here is right, but I think there might be
just one little point to pick.
... lots excised ...
B. Unix
Depends on what you mean by Unix. There is code
Hey there,
I am a FreeBSD user, I have a debate with someone about FreeBSD.
And I would like you to answer our little debate, FreeBSD is:
A. Linux
B. Unix
C. Something else ( Tell us what ;P )
Thanks and have a great week / day / whatever ;],
Gil
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:18:49PM +0200, Gil Binder wrote:
Hey there,
I am a FreeBSD user, I have a debate with someone about FreeBSD.
And I would like you to answer our little debate, FreeBSD is:
A. Linux
FreeBSD is most certainly not Linux.
B. Unix
That depends on how you
Hey there,
I am a FreeBSD user, I have a debate with someone about FreeBSD.
And I would like you to answer our little debate, FreeBSD is:
A. Linux
B. Unix
C. Something else ( Tell us what ;P )
It's evolved from the original Unix.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 21:18:49 +0200 Gil wrote:
Hey there,
I am a FreeBSD user, I have a debate with someone about FreeBSD.
And I would like you to answer our little debate, FreeBSD is:
A. Linux
B. Unix
C. Something else ( Tell us what ;P )
C. Wonderful ;-)
You may find
Gil Binder wrote:
Hey there,
I am a FreeBSD user, I have a debate with someone about FreeBSD.
And I would like you to answer our little debate, FreeBSD is:
A. Linux
B. Unix
C. Something else ( Tell us what ;P )
The Project tells us (www.freebsd.org):
FreeBSD is an advanced
At Wed, 17 Mar 2004 it looks like Randy Pratt composed:
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 21:18:49 +0200 Gil wrote:
Hey there,
I am a FreeBSD user, I have a debate with someone about FreeBSD.
And I would like you to answer our little debate, FreeBSD is:
A. Linux
B. Unix
C
We will be using our datacenter's backup (Datavault) for our FreeBSD
machines. I do have the Linux emu. installed, but before testing this out I
wanted to see if anyone else has done this before. The agent we will be
using is for Linux (no versions for FreeBSD per the datacenter).
The agent docs
Hello,
We're creating a directory focused on web site credibility. We included:
http://www.bsd.net.au/ in the UNIX section of the All.info directory.
Descriptive information provided by you and our editors helps our users
choose sites. Our editors have already selected starter keyterms
I'am interesing in becoming BSD tester or alfa tester, how I can get
information about job positions in BSD development.
FreeBSD is created and developed by volunteers rather than paid staff.
To get a job in BSD development, you would have to get a job in a
company that is using FreeBSD (or
I'am interesing in becoming BSD tester or alfa tester, how I can get information about
job positions in BSD development.
Thanks
Ricardo Balda
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of the file the same?
You should do your own Comp Sci homework. This looks like (especially
considering the time of th year) the begining of a Unix Basics course.
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At 02:44 PM 1/17/2004, Eric Anderson wrote:
You should do your own Comp Sci homework. This looks like (especially considering the
time of th year) the begining of a Unix Basics course.
Nope; I'm quite experienced with UNIX. However, I posted the
question because I wanted to see what the most
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004, Brett Glass wrote:
At 02:44 PM 1/17/2004, Eric Anderson wrote:
You should do your own Comp Sci homework. This looks like (especially considering
the time of th year) the begining of a Unix Basics course.
Nope; I'm quite experienced with UNIX. However, I posted the
question
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 14:50:18 -0700
Brett Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For example, while I received answers involving languages, such as
sed and awk, the simplest answer to at least one of them seems to use
grep.
How so? My first thought for #3 was 'fgrep -v string', but on
re-reading the
I was asked a good question today about how to do some simple tasks using
standard UNIX tools, and am curious what answers people on the list might
come up with.
What are the simplest, most efficient ways to:
1) Delete the Nth line from a text file?
2) Insert a specified line in a file after
Brett Glass asked on Saturday January 17, 2004:
I was asked a good question today about how to do some simple tasks using
standard UNIX tools, and am curious what answers people on the list might
come up with.
What are the simplest, most efficient ways to:
1) Delete the Nth line from
Brett Glass writes:
I was asked a good question today about how to do some simple tasks using
standard UNIX tools, and am curious what answers people on the list might
come up with.
What are the simplest, most efficient ways to:
1) Delete the Nth line from a text file?
sed -e Nd
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004, Brett Glass wrote:
I was asked a good question today about how to do some simple tasks using
standard UNIX tools, and am curious what answers people on the list might
come up with.
What are the simplest, most efficient ways to:
1) Delete the Nth line from a text file?
2
Hi
I have a Samba FreeBSD Server that is a domain member. I recently purchased
Windows 2000 Services for Unix to do encrypted password synchronization
via NIS on the domain. The ssod daemon that is needed on the FreeBSD
system is not included on the CD and therefor must be compiled from
Hi
I have a Samba FreeBSD Server that is a domain member. I recently
purchased Windows 2000 Services for Unix to do encrypted password
synchronization via NIS on the domain. The ssod daemon that is needed
on the FreeBSD system is not included on the CD and therefor must be
compiled from
We are editing the UNIX section of all.info and would like to include
your web site: http://www.ee.freebsd.org/
The all.info search directory addresses the issue of site credibility.
Web site producers are an integral part of all.info. As a site contact,
your input is essential in helping our
Hello,
My name is Dominick DiMantova and I have a question, or two:
1. what is the difference in either purchasing the media or downloading
the software? If I want to download the software, when I go to one of the
ftp sites, I'm looking at the ste with alot of folders; how do I know what
I
Dominick DiMantova wrote:
Hello,
My name is Dominick DiMantova and I have a question, or two:
1. what is the difference in either purchasing the media or downloading
the software? If I want to download the software, when I go to one of the
ftp sites, I'm looking at the ste with alot of
, or 5.x and, after that's
decided, there are a couple of other options such as
the MINI ISO, the standard ISO, etc.
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386
All I need to do is burn the iso images to my CD's and I've got the
entgire freebsd unix o/s? After that, is it going
-IMAGES-i386
All I need to do is burn the iso images to my CD's and I've got the
entgire freebsd unix o/s? After that, is it going to be quite a process to
install the software, or am I better off spending 60 bucks and get the
CD's from a retailer?
After downloading the ISO images and burning them
All I need to do is burn the iso images to my CD's and I've got the
entgire freebsd unix o/s?
Yes. The whole show. Including the current packages/ports collection.
After that, is it going to be quite a process to
install the software, or am I better off spending 60 bucks and get the
CD's from
In the last episode (Nov 08), Marc G. Fournier said:
Does anyone know of a tool available under X similar to this?
Well, mtr can give you the traceroute in a window, and smokeping can
give you the historical reporting. I don't know of a tool that does
both at once.
--
Dan Nelson
Just educational...
Probably old news but it's an interesting site and the
Unix Timeline is quite awesome. (There is also a
Windows Timeline for those interested).
http://www.levenez.com/unix/
Bye
Javier Soques
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 06:07:50AM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote:
Is there a native FreeBSD shell util for returning the time in seconds
since the Unix epoch? date(1) doesn't seem to do this, only the
converse with the -r switch:
[6:05:51] [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/munk# date -r 1064293551
Tue
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:58:35PM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 06:07:50AM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote:
Is there a native FreeBSD shell util for returning the time in seconds
since the Unix epoch? date(1) doesn't seem to do this, only the
converse with the -r switch
Is there a native FreeBSD shell util for returning the time in seconds
since the Unix epoch? date(1) doesn't seem to do this, only the
converse with the -r switch:
[6:05:51] [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/munk# date -r 1064293551
Tue Sep 23 06:05:51 BST 2003
Just curious - I ended up making a simple C
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003, Jez Hancock wrote:
Is there a native FreeBSD shell util for returning the time in seconds
since the Unix epoch? date(1) doesn't seem to do this, only the
converse with the -r switch:
perl -e 'print time . \n'
Bill
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In the last episode (Sep 23), Jez Hancock said:
Is there a native FreeBSD shell util for returning the time in seconds
since the Unix epoch? date(1) doesn't seem to do this, only the
converse with the -r switch:
[6:05:51] [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/munk# date -r 1064293551
Tue Sep 23 06:05:51
Hi !
I know this question isn't FreeBSD specific, but all the scripts I tried
to achieve what I need only seem to work under Linux.
I have a FreeBSD-5.1-p2+pam_ldap+nss_ldap+openldap+samba (with ldap
support).
Ldap authentication works for both unix and samba accounts.
What I need is a way
I complaint to the national radio station to only provide their live programs for
Windows Mediaplayer.
The reply was that there are version(s) of this Mediaplayer available for Unix systems,
but I had to approach a unix usergroup myself for finding out the details.
Hmmm, I just wonder
Le Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 07:30:03PM +0900, Rob Lahaye ecrivait:
I complaint to the national radio station to only provide their live
programs for
Windows Mediaplayer.
The reply was that there are version(s) of this Mediaplayer available for
Unix systems,
but I had to approach a unix
Hello all,
I want to little question on converting unix mail home
(May be Inbox file) to microsoft outlook program dbx file
because , if our costumer has arrive our isp , we want to
give their mail home in that format.
Many Thanks.
Murat Ustuntas
Hi people,
I had a wrong-behaved server application which opened a unix socket to
respond to incoming connections, so after the socket was opened, the
application core dumped each time it was launched. As a result, 'netstat
-f unix' now shows a lot of not-needed active entries. Is there any way
Dear list,
I would like to hear your opinions about your favorite UNIX programming
platform.
*nix;)
The kind of programming I am more interested is system and network
programming.
Pick one that is accessible to you and dig in. I've found myself liking
the BSDs more than the Linuxes
Dear list,
I would like to hear your opinions about your favorite UNIX programming
platform.
The kind of programming I am more interested is system and network
programming.
I am looking for those details that will make my life easier or harder.
many thanks in advance,
Mihalis.
GUIs normally
wrote:
Dear list,
I would like to hear your opinions about your favorite UNIX programming
platform.
FreeBSD.
The kind of programming I am more interested is system and network
programming.
I am looking for those details that will make my life easier or harder.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc
I have an old SCSI hard drive with a SCO Unix file system. If I mount
this HD on a FreeBSD machine, will it be possible to mount it?
-- Frédéric
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Hi
I have one problem with '.xinitrc' file. I need to run
IceWM, detach it from console and wait until IceWM
exits. I know about 'detach' utility for Unix which
runs process, detaches it but doesn't wait. So when I
place exec detach icewm in the end of my '.xinitrc'
X server shuts down
sergey dyshel wrote:
Hi
I have one problem with '.xinitrc' file. I need to run
IceWM, detach it from console and wait until IceWM
exits. I know about 'detach' utility for Unix which
runs process, detaches it but doesn't wait. So when I
place exec detach icewm in the end of my '.xinitrc'
X server
Sergey, Freebies -
sergey dyshel wrote:
I have one problem with '.xinitrc' file. I need to run
IceWM, detach it from console and wait until IceWM
exits. I know about 'detach' utility for Unix which
runs process, detaches it but doesn't wait. So when I
place exec detach icewm
Two questions:
First, are UNIX domain sockets in any sense ``more efficient'' than
INET (IPv4) sockets?
Second, does there exist any freely available utility tool that would
allow one to connect up a UNIX domain socket to an INET domain socket,
e.g. so that the functionality of a program
I have found many Mac wallpapers online that are in .sit format and I
was wondering if there was a way I could convert a .sit file to say a
.png file so I could use the image on freebsd 5?
thanks in advance
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Bryan Cassidy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Howdy,
I have found many Mac wallpapers online that are in .sit format and I
was wondering if there was a way I could convert a .sit file to say a
.png file so I could use the image on freebsd 5?
.sit files are
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:10:51PM -0600, Bryan Cassidy wrote:
I have found many Mac wallpapers online that are in .sit format and I
was wondering if there was a way I could convert a .sit file to say a
.png file so I could use the image on freebsd 5?
.sit is Stuffit, an archiver/compressor
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:14:56 -0600, Mike Meyer mwm-dated-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a client that wants to start using FreeBSD, because he wants to
get back into programming and wants to use the free compilers on
FreeBSD. However, he hasn't used Unix in 10 years or more, and has
forgotten
I have a client that wants to start using FreeBSD, because he wants to
get back into programming and wants to use the free compilers on
FreeBSD. However, he hasn't used Unix in 10 years or more, and has
forgotten all of it.
Is there a PS or PDF document somewhere that serves as an introduction
Try the Handbook at www.freebsd.org
It's HTML, but it's a good into, as well as a lot of FreeBSD specific stuff.
The Crazy Finn
- Original Message -
From: Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 12:14 PM
Subject: Online intro to FreeBSD/Unix
On 2003-02-26 11:14, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a client that wants to start using FreeBSD, because he wants to
get back into programming and wants to use the free compilers on
FreeBSD. However, he hasn't used Unix in 10 years or more, and has
forgotten all
I have an upcoming project to create a modern UNIX (mainly
FreeBSD-based) workgroup computing environment.
If _YOU_ had your chance to do it from scratch, what technologies would
you use? Basically only following are set in stone. Everything else is
up to me:
1. Centralised user/password/account
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