Re: variable line-display pager?

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:37:38PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > Need help findind a way of using existing unix utilities to diplay > chunks of N lines of a text files. Here N <= the number of lines in > the file. > > For instance, say that my xterm/console/"Konsole" is 80x53 lines. > My text fil

Re: Stuck

On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:47:42 -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: > > > NOTE: Slightly OT, but figured it was worth the post. > > > > As a side-note, the config-file will be "cleaned up" before being embedded > > into the kernel. Meaning "config -x `sysctl -n kern.bootfile`" will rarely > > ever match t

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:32:59 -0500, Brian Callahan wrote: > IANAL, but I have been informed by several lawyers that you cannot do > this. The Windows 7 EULA, when preinstalled on a machine, states that > the agreement is between you and the company selling you the computer, > and "By using the Sof

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:57:02 -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > Sometimes there can be activation issues with OEM versions of Windows > XP. They're usually keyed to the manufacturer's BIOS. Not a problem anymore - after 2014. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andr

Re: 8.2-PRERELEASE?

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 04:04:19PM +0100, Harald Servat wrote: > > Hello list, > > yesterday (Feb, 17th) I performed a cvsup (using csup, infact) of my > /usr/src tree using > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8 > in my csup file (based on the csup > file /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-su

Re: variable line-display pager?

On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Gary Kline wrote: Zank you, Sir Chip.. Anybody else? I'm loathe to use anything gui, but here's where I'll be happy w ith something GUI THat i can squeeze my "15" or small-n lines' worth into. xterm -geometry 80x18 -e 'less -N /var/log/Xorg.0.log' Why 18 to get 15 line

Re: ZFS-only booting on FreeBSD

Robert Bonomi wrote: > A non-ZFS boot drive results in immediate, _guaranteed_, > down-time for replacement if/when it fails. Not if it is gmirrored and hot-pluggable. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Re: variable line-display pager?

Quoth Chip Camden on Saturday, 19 February 2011: > Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 19 February 2011: > > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:52:40PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > > > Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 19 February 2011: > > > > Need help findind a way of using existing unix utilities to diplay > > >

Re: variable line-display pager?

Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 19 February 2011: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:52:40PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > > Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 19 February 2011: > > > Need help findind a way of using existing unix utilities to diplay > > > chunks of N lines of a text files. Here N <= the number

Re: variable line-display pager?

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 04:23:00PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:52:40PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > > Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 19 February 2011: > > > Need help findind a way of using existing unix utilities to diplay > > > chunks of N lines of a text files. Here N <=

Re: variable line-display pager?

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:52:40PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 19 February 2011: > > Need help findind a way of using existing unix utilities to diplay > > chunks of N lines of a text files. Here N <= the number of lines in > > the file. > > > > For instance, say tha

Re: variable line-display pager?

Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 19 February 2011: > Need help findind a way of using existing unix utilities to diplay > chunks of N lines of a text files. Here N <= the number of lines in > the file. > > For instance, say that my xterm/console/"Konsole" is 80x53 lines. > My text file is around 200

Re: BSD Magazine PDFs

On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 13:50:22 PST Mike Jeays wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:37:14 -0500 Alfredo Perez wrote: I am missing them all, can you upload them somewhere? They are all online at bsdmag.org I think they'd like you to subscribe to their newsletter before downloading the electronic ve

variable line-display pager?

Need help findind a way of using existing unix utilities to diplay chunks of N lines of a text files. Here N <= the number of lines in the file. For instance, say that my xterm/console/"Konsole" is 80x53 lines. My text file is around 200 lines long and I want to use more or less or some GUI page

Re: How to forward old root mails to an external email address?

You can use fetchmail (in the ports) and teapop (in the ports too) setup a config that fetches your email (via pop) and send via smtp to another place in the planet It has been a long time (about 10 years) since I use this... Sergio ___ freebsd-quest

Re: How to forward old root mails to an external email address?

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:14 PM, RW wrote: > 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 w

Re: How to forward old root mails to an external email address?

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

Can motorola v195 be supported as network interface?

I have this phone, 'usbconfig -d ugen1.2 dump_device_desc' shows it like this: ugen1.2: at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON bLength = 0x0012 bDescriptorType = 0x0001 bcdUSB = 0x0110 bDeviceClass = 0x0002 bDeviceSubClass = 0x bDeviceProtocol = 0x bMaxPacket

Re: ZFS-only booting on FreeBSD

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Daniel Staal wrote: > I see the advantage, and that it offers higher levels of resiliency and if > properly handled should cause no problems.  I just hate relying on humans to > remember things and follow directions.  That's what computers are for. > Repairing a fa

Re: ZFS-only booting on FreeBSD

--As of February 19, 2011 2:12:20 PM -0600, Robert Bonomi is alleged to have said: A non-ZFS boot drive results in immediate, _guaranteed_, down-time for replacement if/when it fails. A ZFS boot drive lets you replace the drive and *schedule* the down-time (for a 'test' re-boot, to make *sure*

Re: BSD Magazine PDFs

On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:37:14 -0500 Alfredo Perez wrote: > I am missing them all, can you upload them somewhere? > > Thanks in advance > > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Xn Nooby wrote: > > > Thanks for the replies, good to know I'm not missing any issues. > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at

Re: How to forward old root mails to an external email address?

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Daniel Staal wrote: > --As of February 19, 2011 9:33:26 PM +0100, Andy Wodfer is alleged to have > said: > > 'm running FreeBSD 8.0 Release on this particular server and I have a >> rather large root mailbox under /var/mail/root. >> >> I have set up an alias und

Re: BSD Magazine PDFs

I am missing them all, can you upload them somewhere? Thanks in advance On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Xn Nooby wrote: > Thanks for the replies, good to know I'm not missing any issues. > > > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Charlie Kester > wrote: > > On Fri 18 Feb 2011 at 08:13:19 PST MFV

Re: ZFS-only booting on FreeBSD

On 19/02/2011 15:35, Daniel Staal wrote: > I'm still not clear on whether a ZFS-only system will boot with a failed > drive in the root ZFS pool. If it's a mirror, raidz or similar pool type with resilience, then yes, it certainly will boot with a failed drive. Been there, done that. Che

Re: How to forward old root mails to an external email address?

--As of February 19, 2011 9:33:26 PM +0100, Andy Wodfer is alleged to have said: 'm running FreeBSD 8.0 Release on this particular server and I have a rather large root mailbox under /var/mail/root. I have set up an alias under /etc/aliases for new emails, but I need to forward all the old ema

How to forward old root mails to an external email address?

Hi all! I'm running FreeBSD 8.0 Release on this particular server and I have a rather large root mailbox under /var/mail/root. I have set up an alias under /etc/aliases for new emails, but I need to forward all the old emails in this mailbox to an external email address. How can I do that? Than

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Reality: >  XP purchased with a Toshiba laptop runs native, but fails on >  virtualbox, on the same laptop.  I believe XP is crippled to only >  run on Toshiba, & vbox presents too clean/generic an environment ;-) Sometimes there can be a

Re: ZFS-only booting on FreeBSD

> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:35:35 -0500 > From: Daniel Staal > Subject: Re: ZFS-only booting on FreeBSD > [[.. sneck ..]] > > Basically, if a ZFS boot drive fails, you are likely to get the following > scenario: > 1) 'What do I need to do to replace a disk in the ZFS pool?' > 2) 'Oh, that's

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

I am typing on a Lenovo Thinkpad R500 running 8-stable, after (a very high quality) instruction installation by Yamagi Burmeister (http://www.bsdforen.de/showthread.php?s=e2db5256b283497ca371738ad34b7572&t=24823). I am very happy with both FreeBSD and my notebook since I switched (unnerved) from G

Re: ZFS-only booting on FreeBSD

P0r c qpppqppqpqapprfpprkkqroikiujpou Q R F Rf On 2/18/11, Daniel Staal wrote: > > I've been reading over the ZFS-only-boot instructions linked here: > (and further linked from there) and have one > worry: > > Let's say I install a Fr

Re: ZFS-only booting on FreeBSD

On 19 February 2011 15:35, Daniel Staal wrote: > --As of February 19, 2011 2:44:38 PM +, Matthew Seaman is alleged to > have said: > >> Umm... a sufficiently forgetful sysadmin can break *anything*.  This >> isn't really a fair test: forgetting to write the boot blocks onto a >> disk could sim

Re: Developing Embedded Network Device on FreeBSD

After a little more research ... On Feb 19, 2011, at 9:04 AM, David wrote: > Hello All: > > I am new to FreeBSD development (I've done some work on NetBSD, but mostly > on Linux). > > I am developing a COTS-based network appliance. After doing my research, I've > decided to > use FreeBSD as my

Re: Developing Embedded Network Device on FreeBSD

On Feb 19, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 19/02/2011 14:04, David wrote: >> [Snip] >> I'd greatly appreciate any pointers. I'm really looking forward to developing >> under FreeBSD, but just need a few pointers to get me started. > > You'll find that FreeBSD documentation is rather

Re: ZFS-only booting on FreeBSD

--As of February 19, 2011 2:44:38 PM +, Matthew Seaman is alleged to have said: Umm... a sufficiently forgetful sysadmin can break *anything*. This isn't really a fair test: forgetting to write the boot blocks onto a disk could similarly render a UFS based system unbootable. That's why s

8.2-PRERELEASE?

Hello list, yesterday (Feb, 17th) I performed a cvsup (using csup, infact) of my /usr/src tree using *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8 in my csup file (based on the csup file /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile). According to [1], RELENG_8_2 and RELENG_8_2_0_RELEASE were created b

Re: Developing Embedded Network Device on FreeBSD

On 19/02/2011 14:04, David wrote: > I am new to FreeBSD development (I've done some work on NetBSD, but mostly > on Linux). > > I am developing a COTS-based network appliance. After doing my research, I've > decided to > use FreeBSD as my development platform. I would like to get my development

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

On Saturday 19 of February 2011 06:12:52, Craig Butler wrote: > Lenovo destroyed thinkpad in the t410i range; > * stupid flimsy/flexi keyboard with massive delete and escape keys > (why ???) I don't liked it either so I stayed with R400. > * gobi 2000 3g connectivity, cant get it working on anythi

Re: ZFS-only booting on FreeBSD

On 19/02/2011 13:18, Daniel Staal wrote: >> Why wouldn't it be? The configuration in the Wiki article sets aside a >> small freebsd-boot partition on each drive, and the instructions tell >> you to install boot blocks as part of that partitioning process. You >> would have to repeat those steps w

Developing Embedded Network Device on FreeBSD

Hello All: I am new to FreeBSD development (I've done some work on NetBSD, but mostly on Linux). I am developing a COTS-based network appliance. After doing my research, I've decided to use FreeBSD as my development platform. I would like to get my development environment to the point where I c

Re: ZFS-only booting on FreeBSD

--As of February 19, 2011 12:01:37 PM +, Matthew Seaman is alleged to have said: Let's say I install a FreeBSD system using a ZFS-only filesystem into a box with hotswapable hard drives, configured with some redundancy. Time passes, one of the drives fails, and it is replaced and rebuilt u

Re: booting a kernel directly from stage 1/2

On Sat Feb 19 11, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 19/02/2011 02:47, Alexander Best wrote: > > but that won't work. i get some numbers and then it says: > > btx halted or something like that. > > Can't you boot into fixit mode from installation media? That should > allow you to repair the boot blocks a

Re: booting a kernel directly from stage 1/2

On 19/02/2011 02:47, Alexander Best wrote: > but that won't work. i get some numbers and then it says: > btx halted or something like that. Can't you boot into fixit mode from installation media? That should allow you to repair the boot blocks and make your system bootable again. Cheers,

Re: ZFS-only booting on FreeBSD

On 18/02/2011 15:59, Daniel Staal wrote: > > I've been reading over the ZFS-only-boot instructions linked here: > (and further linked from there) and have one > worry: > > Let's say I install a FreeBSD system using a ZFS-only filesystem into a > box with hotswapable