ruby ports and PREFIX

2002-05-27 Thread dannyman
So, what I'm doing here is experimenting with encap, a nifty little package standard where the idea is that you install your software with PREFIX set to /usr/local/encap/pkgname-version, and the package manager, epkg, will look through that dir and symlink files from that hierarchy in to /usr/loca

Re: creating an fdisk partition in an automated way

2001-04-07 Thread dannyman
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 07:31:18PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, dannyman wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:58:12PM -0700, Doug White wrote: [...] > > > fdisk -I is your friend. (DANGER: THIS IS DESTRUCTIVE -- READ THE MAN > > > PAGE FIRST!) >

Re: creating an fdisk partition in an automated way

2001-04-06 Thread dannyman
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:58:12PM -0700, Doug White wrote: [...] > fdisk -I is your friend. (DANGER: THIS IS DESTRUCTIVE -- READ THE MAN > PAGE FIRST!) Yeah ... I use it. It seems to do the right thing. Then disklabel doesn't work. :< I'm looking like this: #!/bin/sh disk='da0' fdisk -I ${

creating an fdisk partition in an automated way

2001-04-04 Thread dannyman
Ooookay ... So, I gave up on sysinstall and wrote a script that beautifully runs disklabel and newfs slices for me, writing an fstab and installing packages after starting off a PXE boot. It is just COOL! Now all my test machines wont boot. The hard disk boot just doesn't DO anything, and the

Re: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server

2001-03-24 Thread dannyman
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:50:51AM -0800, Matt Dillon wrote: > One thing that comes to mind is that you can smarthost your outgoing > email to another host so the queues don't build up. This should > greatly reduce mail load. In fact, I would recommend offloading email > entirely

Re: your mail

2001-02-09 Thread dannyman
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 02:03:28PM -0800, dannyman wrote: > Has anyone patched 4.x OpenSSH and/or the relevant ports to deal with the CRC > checksum exploit? I've got to get 2.3 working on my 3.x box, but just > incrementing the number in the Makefile causes patch-aa to go reje

No Subject

2001-02-09 Thread dannyman
Has anyone patched 4.x OpenSSH and/or the relevant ports to deal with the CRC checksum exploit? I've got to get 2.3 working on my 3.x box, but just incrementing the number in the Makefile causes patch-aa to go rejected ... -d -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Help with PXE boot, install and related...

2001-02-06 Thread dannyman
Indispensible URL for this: http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: nslookup deprecation [was 4.2 complaint]

2000-12-05 Thread dannyman
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 11:48:26AM -0500, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Yusuf Goolamabbas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Recently there was a message indicating that ISC is deprecating > > > nslookup. > > > > "Recently"? nslookup has been officially deprecated for ab

specifying probe order for scsi controllers

2000-03-14 Thread dannyman
sed on the admonition about ISA ethernet probe orders ... but by default the ncr0 is listed first. or is there some way i can config things to keep da0 on the ncr and da1 on the aha? thanks, -danny -- come.to/dannyman To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe free

Re: Using legacy sysinstall to upgrade live system

1999-08-16 Thread dannyman
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 12:29:42PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 17:51:10 MST, dannyman wrote: > > > Uhmmm, what if we don't have a floppy drive? > > Then you probably have a CDROM drive or a network interface, both of > which can be used to get sy

Re: Using legacy sysinstall to upgrade live system

1999-08-16 Thread dannyman
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 12:29:42PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 17:51:10 MST, dannyman wrote: > > > Uhmmm, what if we don't have a floppy drive? > > Then you probably have a CDROM drive or a network interface, both of > which can be used to get sy

Re: Using legacy sysinstall to upgrade live system

1999-08-13 Thread dannyman
ect to take on ... can one reboot into an MFS partition, or how hard would it be to try a "reboot system into upgrade floppy" without trashing the underlying system, in case the user wanted to bail ... maybe a kernel that chroot's itself into an /upgrade directory? Thoughts? -dman

Re: Using legacy sysinstall to upgrade live system

1999-08-13 Thread dannyman
roject to take on ... can one reboot into an MFS partition, or how hard would it be to try a "reboot system into upgrade floppy" without trashing the underlying system, in case the user wanted to bail ... maybe a kernel that chroot's itself into an /upgrade directory? Thoughts? -dman

Re: Budget on user-ppp

1999-07-07 Thread dannyman
up of "max a connects/b minutes online over > c hours". I had things set up so that the users on my system could bring up ppp at will, and bring it down. I also had /etc/daily bring up ppp when it needed it. The problem being, of course, that the on-demand stuff gets pretty nasty at times .

Re: Budget on user-ppp

1999-07-07 Thread dannyman
up of "max a connects/b minutes online over > c hours". I had things set up so that the users on my system could bring up ppp at will, and bring it down. I also had /etc/daily bring up ppp when it needed it. The problem being, of course, that the on-demand stuff gets pretty nasty at times .

Re: GRE encapsulation under FreeBSD 3.2

1999-06-30 Thread dannyman
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 03:35:42PM -0700, Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote: > Does this mean NATD/VPN will work for the clients > that are using M$ VPN? If so, the sooner the better for me. I second that but I'm in no particular hurry there. Supporting CHAP could be a pa

Re: GRE encapsulation under FreeBSD 3.2

1999-06-30 Thread dannyman
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 03:35:42PM -0700, Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote: > Does this mean NATD/VPN will work for the clients > that are using M$ VPN? If so, the sooner the better for me. I second that but I'm in no particular hurry there. Supporting CHAP could be a pa