Mirror Freebsd - Doubts

2010-08-29 Thread Felipe Agnelli Barbosa
I am wanting to mount a mirror, to place repositories of debian / ubuntu, because many machines in my company update the repositories and doing so will improve the process performance. However, I do this in FreeBSD (with spegla, ftpmirror ...), and was wondering if it is possible, if not I will

Re: Mirror Freebsd - Doubts

2010-08-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 29/08/2010 15:37:51, Felipe Agnelli Barbosa wrote: I am wanting to mount a mirror, to place repositories of debian / ubuntu, because many machines in my company update the repositories and doing so will improve the process performance. However, I do this in FreeBSD (with spegla, ftpmirror

doubts regarding System Initialization working (SYSINIT)

2009-01-14 Thread Mehul Chadha
Hello all, I have been browsing through the FreeBSD kernel's source code trying to understand its working . In the mi_startup() in /sys/kern/init_main.c all the SYSINIT objects are sorted using bubble sort and then they are executed in order. My doubt is that we have declared the

some doubts..

2009-01-07 Thread Wouter Snels
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/nl/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html i think there is a problem on that page, i've noticed that you are supposed to add following in rc.conf, however i remember that it was supposed to be in make.conf.. SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include/sasl -DSASL

Re: some doubts..

2009-01-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Wouter Snels nos...@ofloo.org writes: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/nl/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html i think there is a problem on that page, i've noticed that you are supposed to add following in rc.conf, however i remember that it was supposed to be in make.conf..

Re: some doubts..

2009-01-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Wouter Snels nos...@ofloo.org writes: Lowell Gilbert schreef: Wouter Snels nos...@ofloo.org writes: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/nl/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html i think there is a problem on that page, i've noticed that you are supposed to add following in rc.conf, however i remember that

Re: some doubts..

2009-01-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:01:52 -0500, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Wouter Snels nos...@ofloo.org writes: Lowell Gilbert schreef: Wouter Snels nos...@ofloo.org writes: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/nl/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html i think there is a problem on

Re: some doubts..

2009-01-07 Thread Remko Lodder
On Jan 7, 2009, at 9:40 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:01:52 -0500, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Wouter Snels nos...@ofloo.org writes: Lowell Gilbert schreef: Wouter Snels nos...@ofloo.org writes:

Re: some doubts..

2009-01-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 22:14:18 +0100, Remko Lodder re...@elvandar.org wrote: On Jan 7, 2009, at 9:40 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/nl/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html and rc.conf - make.conf for SENDMAIL_XXX build options: IIRC Remko knows how to fix this. I've copied

Re: some doubts..

2009-01-07 Thread Remko Lodder
On Jan 7, 2009, at 10:52 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 22:14:18 +0100, Remko Lodder re...@elvandar.org wrote: On Jan 7, 2009, at 9:40 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/nl/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html and rc.conf - make.conf for SENDMAIL_XXX build

Re: some doubts..

2009-01-07 Thread Remko Lodder
On Jan 7, 2009, at 10:14 PM, Remko Lodder wrote: On Jan 7, 2009, at 9:40 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:01:52 -0500, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Wouter Snels nos...@ofloo.org writes: Lowell Gilbert schreef: Wouter Snels

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-09-05 Thread Mikel King
On Sep 5, 2007, at 12:10 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Them's fighting words - don't you realize an entire subgroup of the FreeBSD developers spent untold amounts of time and effort setting up a rigged contest to attempt to convince the userbase that there was such a

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-09-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 12:10:50PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Them's fighting words - don't you realize an entire subgroup of the FreeBSD developers spent untold amounts of time and effort setting up a rigged contest to attempt to convince the userbase that

RE: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-09-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Pollywog Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 8:50 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: doubts about the freebsd devil On Friday 31 August 2007 15:32:26 Jerry McAllister wrote

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-09-04 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Them's fighting words - don't you realize an entire subgroup of the FreeBSD developers spent untold amounts of time and effort setting up a rigged contest to attempt to convince the userbase that there was such a difference, in order to replace the logo with a round

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-09-04 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 04:10:50 Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Them's fighting words - don't you realize an entire subgroup of the FreeBSD developers spent untold amounts of time and effort setting up a rigged contest to attempt to convince the userbase that

RE: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-09-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Erich Dollansky Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 9:11 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Pollywog; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: doubts about the freebsd devil Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-31 Thread Nélio Mesquita
On 8/30/07, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nélio Mesquita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to all! Just for curiosity, why the FreeBSD logo is a little devil? Is there a history around it? It's not a devil, it's a daemon, and there is plenty of history:

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-31 Thread Reid Linnemann
Written by Nélio Mesquita on 08/31/07 06:44 On 8/30/07, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nélio Mesquita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to all! Just for curiosity, why the FreeBSD logo is a little devil? Is there a history around it? It's not a devil, it's a daemon, and there is plenty of

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-31 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 07:53:50PM -0300, Nélio Mesquita wrote: Hello to all! Just for curiosity, why the FreeBSD logo is a little devil? Is there a history around it? There is so much history it would take you several days to read it all. Just look for stuff on 'Beastie' or 'Bsd' or other

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-31 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 31 August 2007 15:32:26 Jerry McAllister wrote: There will also probably be loads of people replying to tell you that it is not a devil but a character representing a daemon that is a helpful sprite and that it is not a logo, but a mascot. I think that is much less different than

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-31 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 03:50:27PM +, Pollywog wrote: On Friday 31 August 2007 15:32:26 Jerry McAllister wrote: There will also probably be loads of people replying to tell you that it is not a devil but a character representing a daemon that is a helpful sprite and that it is not

doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-30 Thread Nélio Mesquita
Hello to all! Just for curiosity, why the FreeBSD logo is a little devil? Is there a history around it? Thank you! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-30 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Nélio Mesquita wrote: Hello to all! Just for curiosity, why the FreeBSD logo is a little devil? Is there a history around it? See www.beastie.com Thank you! -- Pietro Cerutti PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-30 Thread John Webster
--On Thursday, August 30, 2007 19:53:50 -0300 Nélio Mesquita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to all! Just for curiosity, why the FreeBSD logo is a little devil? Is there a history around it? Thank you! Sort of answers your question. (Implied and explicit.)

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-30 Thread Bill Moran
Nélio Mesquita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to all! Just for curiosity, why the FreeBSD logo is a little devil? Is there a history around it? It's not a devil, it's a daemon, and there is plenty of history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_%28computer_software%29 -- Bill Moran

RE: doubts regarding the kernel programs

2007-05-31 Thread Dhananjaya hiremath
Hello sir, Here we are forewording the source code for that we have to make modification in the command IPMI_REGISTER-FOR_CMD .This is uniplemented command so we want to iplement it and want to print a message like IPMI REGISTER FOR CMD has been called. Thank U and Regards

doubts regarding the kernel programs

2007-05-30 Thread Dhananjaya hiremath
Hello sir, Here we got the kernel source code and we want to modify the code so that we can print a some debug message.If we do this change where we will see this modification if we compile this again or is there any mothod to see weather modified method is correct or not.

Doubts in softc and device_get_softc(dev)

2007-02-17 Thread aji abraham
--- aji abraham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi My name is Aji Abraham, now working with device drivers. the word softc and the function device_get_softc(dev) getting confuse me a lot. am listing some query below .. pls help me .. Q1 In a free BSD driver Code, there are two device

Re: doubts

2005-12-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Anirban Adhikary wrote: Hi guys This is Anirban. I have a doubts on the following question. How to write a shell program that will check whether a server is up or down (on ping) and log the report to a file. You may be wondering why no-one is replying to you and the main reasons would

doubts

2005-12-13 Thread Anirban Adhikary
Hi guys This is Anirban. I have a doubts on the following question. How to write a shell program that will check whether a server is up or down (on ping) and log the report to a file. Hope i will receive my answer soon. With regards Anirban

Re: doubts

2005-12-01 Thread arden
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:26:43 +0100 Stevan Tiefert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anirban Adhikary schrieb: Hi this is Anirban. I have to write a shell script that will take the tar back-up of a directory (named anirban)on a dialy basis Hope i will receive the ans soon.

doubts

2005-11-30 Thread Anirban Adhikary
Hi guys this is Anirban.I have a doubt on the following write a Shell script that will take a tar backup of a user on a daily basis. Server details - 192.168.1.19 login - beta password - bta321 working directory to use anirban Hope i will receive my answer soon.

Re: doubts

2005-11-30 Thread Subhro
Anirban Adhikary sat at his 'puter and typed on 11/30/2005 14:38: Hi guys this is Anirban.I have a doubt on the following write a Shell script that will take a tar backup of a user on a daily basis. Server details - 192.168.1.19 login - beta password - bta321 working directory to use anirban

Re: doubts

2005-11-30 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Anirban Adhikary schrieb: Hi guys this is Anirban.I have a doubt on the following write a Shell script that will take a tar backup of a user on a daily basis. Server details - 192.168.1.19 login - beta password - bta321 working directory to use anirban Hope i will receive my answer soon.

doubts

2005-11-30 Thread Anirban Adhikary
Hi this is Anirban. I have to write a shell script that will take the tar back-up of a directory (named anirban)on a dialy basis Hope i will receive the ans soon. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: doubts

2005-11-30 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Anirban Adhikary schrieb: Hi this is Anirban. I have to write a shell script that will take the tar back-up of a directory (named anirban)on a dialy basis Hope i will receive the ans soon. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: CVSup doubts

2005-11-26 Thread vizion
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Efren Bravo Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 10:39 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: CVSup doubts Hi, I'm trying to configure CVSup to download only ports but I've

Re: CVSup doubts

2005-11-26 Thread Chris
vizion wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Efren Bravo Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 10:39 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: CVSup doubts Hi, I'm trying to configure CVSup to download only ports but I've

Re: CVSup doubts

2005-11-26 Thread Jason C. Wells
Chris wrote: I hate users looking for the shortcuts. Funny. I didn't see that at all in the original email. What I saw was a genuine misunderstanding. He was asking about using CVSUP to track ports on a one by one basis. What he didn't understand is that a person really wants to CVSUP

Re: CVSup doubts

2005-11-26 Thread Efren Bravo
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Efren Bravo Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 10:39 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: CVSup doubts Hi, I'm trying to configure CVSup to download only ports but I've several doubts about it. I took /usr

Re: CVSup doubts

2005-11-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-11-26 23:28, Efren Bravo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason, David, Chen and the others, !=Chris, I don't lose my time to answering him because I wouldn't have time to read the CVSup man pages as Chris suggests, jajajajaja thanks for your help Strange as his style may seem, he is

CVSup doubts

2005-11-25 Thread Efren Bravo
Hi, I'm trying to configure CVSup to download only ports but I've several doubts about it. I took /usr/share/examples/ports-supfile file. (freeBSD 6.0 RELEASE-i386) 1- When I update a specific port, only is updated his skeleton or his binary files are downloaded too? 2- For instance

Re: CVSup doubts

2005-11-25 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 07:38:34PM +0100, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, I'm trying to configure CVSup to download only ports but I've several doubts about it. I took /usr/share/examples/ports-supfile file. (freeBSD 6.0 RELEASE-i386) 1- When I update a specific port, only is updated his

doubts

2005-11-24 Thread Anirban Adhikary
Hi guys. This is Anirban. I have a doubt on crontab.The question is how to write a crontabwhich takes the back-up at 11:59 pm daily and every tuesday of the week Hope i will receive the answer soon. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: doubts

2005-11-24 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 10:08:15AM +0530, Anirban Adhikary wrote: Hi guys. This is Anirban. I have a doubt on crontab.The question is how to write a crontabwhich takes the back-up at 11:59 pm daily and every tuesday of the week Hope i will receive the answer soon. I don't quite understand

Re: doubts

2005-11-24 Thread Chris
David Scheidt wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 10:08:15AM +0530, Anirban Adhikary wrote: Hi guys. This is Anirban. I have a doubt on crontab.The question is how to write a crontabwhich takes the back-up at 11:59 pm daily and every tuesday of the week Hope i will receive the answer soon. I

RE: doubts on FreeBSD

2005-11-23 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Cstdenis Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 3:42 AM To: Anirban Adhikary; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: doubts on FreeBSD Same as any other *nix operating system. Basically just follow

doubts on FreeBSD

2005-11-22 Thread Anirban Adhikary
Hi guys, This is ANIRBAN. I have question on How to install any application on FreeBSD from tar.gz source? Hoping to received the answer soon. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: doubts on FreeBSD

2005-11-22 Thread Cstdenis
or if necessary gmake make But, if a program is in the ports tree you are better off using that unless you have specific reason not to. - Original Message - From: Anirban Adhikary [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 3:37 AM Subject: doubts

RE: doubts on FreeBSD

2005-11-22 Thread simon butsana
Hi, copy the tar ball somewhere, and decompress it using tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz Usually a directory with name filename will be created and you need to go there using cd filename There you usually find a file README or INSTALL with all necessary instructions. You

Some doubts to start

2005-07-05 Thread Efren Bravo
Hello list, How you will realize I'm new in unix. I've been reading about freeBSD and I wish to know what is the meaning of: 1-Font Server. 2-NFS Server and NFS Server 3-Ports From freeBSD can I start a graphical environment like KDE and GNome. Which of them would be recommended? Best

Re: Some doubts to start

2005-07-05 Thread Aaron Peterson
On 7/5/05, Efren Bravo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, How you will realize I'm new in unix. I've been reading about freeBSD and I wish to know what is the meaning of: 1-Font Server. 2-NFS Server and NFS Server 3-Ports From freeBSD can I start a graphical environment like KDE

Re: Some doubts to start

2005-07-05 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 7/5/05, Efren Bravo wrote: ... From freeBSD can I start a graphical environment like KDE and GNome. Which of them would be recommended? In FreeBSD 5.4, Gnome contains more localization features than KDE, at least for my native language. For example in Gnome I can tell it to display menus

doubts

2003-12-23 Thread manish gautam
Hello sir ! I have some very silly problems using freebsd 4.7. 1. How to enable telnet service in freebsd 4.7 ? 2. How to use ethereal to capture network packet on freebsd 4.7 ? please reply me soon. Thanking you manish gautam B.E computers pune (India) Yahoo! India Mobile:

doubts

2003-12-23 Thread manish gautam
Hello sir ! I have some very silly problems using freebsd 4.7. 1. How to enable telnet service in freebsd 4.7 ? 2. How to use ethereal to capture network packet on freebsd 4.7 ? please reply me soon. Thanking you manish gautam B.E computers pune (India) Yahoo! India Mobile:

enabling telnet service and capturing packets with ethereal ( was Re: doubts )

2003-12-23 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
for a better response from the mail list in future I suggest you use a subject that is more descriptive of your message. On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 12:01, manish gautam wrote: Hello sir ! I have some very silly problems using freebsd 4.7. 1. How to enable telnet service in freebsd 4.7 ? read

Re: doubts

2003-12-23 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, manish gautam wrote: 1. How to enable telnet service in freebsd 4.7 ? You may want to look at 'ssh' - it is used in the same way as telnet; i.e. 'ssh hostname' and is more secure. For telnet; edit /etc/inetd.conf - and uncomment the line with telnet (remvoe the #) and

Configuring a Kernel (doubts)

2003-08-10 Thread Paredes Sánchez Martín A.
Hi: When installing FreeBSD, in the Kernel Configuration Menu I select the full-screen visual mode because I want to disable all the SCSI controllers (only have IDE drives) and the PC-card controller (it is not a lap top). am I building a new kernel?, so the next reboot I have the same

Re: Configuring a Kernel (doubts)

2003-08-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Paredes Sánchez Martín A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When installing FreeBSD, in the Kernel Configuration Menu I select the full-screen visual mode because I want to disable all the SCSI controllers (only have IDE drives) and the PC-card controller (it is not a lap top). am I building a