Re: cksum entire dir??

On Wednesday 12 September 2012 22:29:45 Gary Kline wrote: > how, with mtree, could I tell whether dir1 == dir2 or not? From the manpage: ``The mtree utility compares the file hierarchy rooted in the current directory against a specification read from the standard input. Messages are writ

Re: cksum entire dir??

On Wednesday 12 September 2012 08:31:45 Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 12/09/2012 00:14, Polytropon wrote: > > % cksum [snip] > > That will give you a checksum on the directory inode -- file names and > associated metadata only, not file content. [snip] > Generally I find the best test for differe

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

On Wednesday 22 August 2012 15:41:05 David Jackson wrote: > So this is clearly not about "portability", FreeBSD is free to implement > these software interfaces to assure that software is portable to FreeBSD. Really? You make software portable by writing it to one environment and then changing ev

Re: Flaming mailing lists (was Re: Why Clang)

On Friday 22 June 2012 07:04:35 Bernt Hansson wrote: > > > I want to whish all a very mery Midsummer's Eve and Midsummer's Day > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer#Sweden I appreciate the sentiment but it's midwinter here ;) Jonathan ___ freebsd-q

Flaming mailing lists (was Re: Why Clang)

On Wednesday 20 June 2012 12:59:51 Stephen Cook wrote: > On 6/19/2012 4:06 PM, Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote: [snip childish invective] > I'm a relative newcomer. Are the FreeBSD mailing lists always this > flame-y? I realize that this particular post might be trolling / satire No, they are

Re: cat sort(1) sort floating point numbers?

On Monday 03 October 2011 14:05:42 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I tried sorting a file with a column of floating > point numbers (below) with sort(1) -n. However, > the numbers seem to have been sorted by the first > digit only. sort -g Due to the GNU project's obsession with info (

Re: 'Using the Packages System' international

On Tuesday 16 August 2011 12:13:24 Amanda Lynn wrote: > Hi! [snip] > Regards, > Amanda Lynn > +(360) 488-0303 Google the phone number. This has cropped up here before iirc - I'm not sure exactly what the scam is, but scam it is. Jonathan ___ freebsd-qu

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

On Thursday 12 May 2011 17:26:49 Chris Telting wrote: > On 05/12/2011 07:57, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > > > > I'll say that again. It is inherently insecure to run an interpreted > > program set-uid, because the filename is opened twice and there's no > > guar

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

On Thursday 12 May 2011 16:13:50 Chris Telting wrote: > On 05/11/2011 07:14, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:54:04PM -0700, Chris Telting wrote: > >> I've googled for over an hour. > >> > >> I'm not looking to get into a discussion on security or previous bugs > >> that are c

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

On Wednesday 11 May 2011 04:19:29 Devin Teske wrote: > > The reason that the suid bit doesn't work on scripts (shell, perl, or > otherwise) is because these are essentially text files that are interpreted > by their associated interpreter. It is the interpreter itself that must be > suid. I'm pret

Re: problem with shell script

On Wednesday 12 January 2011 17:58:33 David Scheidt wrote: > > ps ax | grep [s]lapd | wc -l > > The [] creates a one-character class that doesn't match the regex. Easier > to type and grep should be a bit faster. And you can save another process by using ps ax | grep -c '[s]lapd' Although as o

Re: Just wanted to install vim - had to spend entire day building X11

On Monday 10 January 2011 15:02:35 Ed Smith wrote: > This seems bizarre. Logically, it would seem better to do a split like > vim (bare vim - what you would expect) and xvim (vim with X11) similar > to how emacs does emacs/xemacs. Er, no. xemacs is a fork of emacs. emacs has X-related dependencie

Re: a perl question

On Tuesday 04 January 2011 12:32:00 S Mathias wrote: > cat asdf.txt > bla-bla > bla-bla > bla[XYZ] > importantthing > another important thing > [/XYZ] > bla-bla > bla-bla > [XYZ] > yet another thing > hello! > [/XYZ] > bla-bla > etc. > $ SOMEPERLMAGIC asdf.txt > output.txt > $ cat output.txt > impo

Re: Shopping cart other than OSCommerce?

On Thursday 09 December 2010 01:07:38 Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Chuck Swiger wrote: > > You don't magically get immunity from SQL injection by using > > JDBC or EOF or whatever, but using bound variables in queries rather > > than feeding user input into raw SQL, or invoking stored procedures > > or us

Re: Glue records (was Re: ATTN GARY KLINE)

On Friday 05 November 2010 22:51:01 Robert Bonomi wrote: > > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Nov 5 02:26:31 2010 > > From: Jonathan McKeown > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 10:27:38 +0200 > > Subject: Glue re

Glue records (was Re: ATTN GARY KLINE)

On Friday 05 November 2010 09:28:27 Ian Smith wrote: > But you don't always have any control of what parent nameservers do; > eg we do DNS for a .com but both NS are in .au so DNS reports always > whinge about lack of glue They should be whingeing about lack of clue (their own) unless I'm horribly

Re: Which OS for notebook

On Tuesday 05 October 2010 15:47:36 Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 October 2010 13:31:08 Carmel wrote: > > > I have been tooling around with FreeBSD for a year or so now and I find > > > it incredible

Re: Which OS for notebook

On Tuesday 05 October 2010 13:31:08 Carmel wrote: > I have been tooling around with FreeBSD for a year or so now and I find > it incredible that there is virtually no support for modern hardware; > i.e., drivers for 'N' protocol devices. That one factor alone, and there > are others, precludes me

Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

On Wednesday 15 September 2010 13:02:41 Jerry wrote: > It took years, literally, before FreeBSD matured enough to get 64-bit > drivers for nVidia working correctly on its platform. The failure to > get the latest version(s) of Java working correctly on FreeBSD and > thereby, at least in my case, m

Re: Grepping a list of words

On Friday 13 August 2010 15:47:38 Jack L. Stone wrote: > The only thing it didn't do for me was the next step. My final objective > was to really determine the words in the "word.file" that were not in the > "main.file." I figured finding matches would be easy and then could then > run a sort|uniq

Re: How to connect a jail to the web ?

On Wednesday 11 August 2010 03:07:32 Rocky Borg wrote: > You should probably preface this by saying you're the author of Qjail > and have been actively promoting it in a few places including the fbsd > forums. That's interesting, given that you're replying to Fbsd8 . The announcement of qjail cam

Re: Detecting fake library versions

On Thursday 17 June 2010 09:39:37 Matthew Seaman wrote: > > "But what about hard links?" I hear you ask. Simple: > > find /usr/lib /lib -name '*.so.*' -links +2 +1 surely? + modifier in find(1) means ``more than'', not ``at least''. Jonathan ___ free

Re: Simulate CRON

On Monday 14 June 2010 13:39:15 Carmel wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:41:19 +0530 > > Amitabh Kant articulated: > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Carmel wrote: > > > I saw a posting here months ago regarding a way to simulate running > > > a script under CRON. I wrote it down and now cannot f

Re: Midphase Hosting

On Thursday 10 June 2010 18:30:52 Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 10/06/2010 17:12:50, Jerry wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:12:48 +0200 > > > > Jonathan McKeown articulated: > >> > >> Isn't that called VERP (variable envelope return path)? I agree - the &

Re: Midphase Hosting

On Thursday 10 June 2010 15:04:53 Matthew Seaman wrote: > > The only other mechanism might be to tag each list e-mail with a unique > value for each recipient in such a way that it is preserved in the > message that mpcustomer.com's help system sends out. That has severe > problems of scale and lo

Re: Midphase Hosting

On Thursday 10 June 2010 14:51:42 Rob Farmer wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Jonathan McKeown wrote: [rant about midphase hosting and mpcustomer.com] > > They posted in a previous thread about this, saying they couldn't > unsubscribe under their address, ie. somebody

Re: Midphase Hosting

On Thursday 10 June 2010 14:06:46 Rob Farmer wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Matthias Fechner wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Am 10.06.10 11:47, schrieb Jonathan McKeown: > >> Subject: [#24548754] Re: why does ps |grep sometimes not return itself? > >>

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Re: why does ps |grep sometimes not return itself?

On Thursday 10 June 2010 03:30:14 Pieter de Goeje wrote: > On Wednesday 09 June 2010 09:34:40 Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On 09/06/2010 08:15:23, Eitan Adler wrote: > > > Why do I sometimes see the grep in ps's output and sometimes not see > > > it? > > > > When you run that pipeline the OS doesn't s

Re: Fwd: [#24525016] External USB drive causes system to hang completely

On Sunday 30 May 2010 22:29:14 Alejandro Imass wrote: > Hi all, > > I sent a question regarding a problem with USB and I get this in reply. > Can someone explain? > > Thanks, > Alejandro Imass Yes. There's a hosting company called MidPhase whose support queue (at mpcustomer.com) has been added (p

Re: Postfix in base system

On Wednesday 07 April 2010 13:34:07 Jerry wrote: > I noticed that someone in another thread mentioned: > > > "(2010-03-22) added option to install Postfix into the base" > > > I have not been able to locate that item. Could someone list the URL > for that notice or tell me where to look for it? :

Re: usage of /usr/bin

On Wednesday 07 April 2010 11:13:13 Fbsd1 wrote: > Polytropon wrote: > > On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:24:51 +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: > >> Why are there RELEASE base files in /usr/bin. I thought /usr was to only > >> contain binaries installed from ports or packages. > > > > No. The /usr/local subtree (LOCAL)

Re: Freebsd, postfix and push email

On Tuesday 30 March 2010 09:31:00 Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 30/03/2010 03:01:27, Tim Judd wrote: > > I've never heard of either, but when I configure my IMAP server and > > put any mail client to it, as soon as a mail is delivered, the mail > > client is notified. > > That's the IDLE extension to

Re: Booting MFS from Secondary Partition

On Saturday 06 March 2010 15:02:20 Martin McCormick wrote: > Fbsd1 writes: > > just dd the image to what ever drive you want > > That is the goal. The challenge is to launch a script > that detects when the boot device has been unmounted as dd will > not work on an active file system. Martin

Re: How to get "hints" of software installed by Ports ?

On Friday 05 March 2010 16:20:36 Aaron Lewis wrote: > Hi, > > I installed some software from ports today , and it outputs some > useful information when finished. > e.g where its config file is > > Due to some mistakes , i lost these "important" information , how do i > see it again ? Is ther

Re: Perl 5.8 -> 5.10 On Current Production System

On Thursday 04 March 2010 19:13:36 Matthew Seaman wrote: > You got bitten by an ill-considered change introduced after the UPDATING > instructions were written. To work around it, you need to set > DISABLE_CONFLICTS when rebuilding the port, eg like this: > ># portupgrade -m DISABLE_CONFLICTS

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

On Monday 18 January 2010 17:48:37 b. f. wrote: > Argh!  Stop! I wish that people who felt the need to add to this > thread would read the prior posts beforehand, and consider their > comments before posting. I don't know why you assume people didn't. I read the whole thread. I saw people who had

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

On Sunday 17 January 2010 10:24:43 Matthew Seaman wrote: > Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > > I'd be very happy if I could: > > - fetch the distfiles, even if I have a conflicting port installed > > - be able to use portmaster -o to switch from one port to an other one > > that conflicts with it. > > - b

Re: black hole test

On Wednesday 16 December 2009 22:05:06 Peter Wemm wrote: > Daignostic message to trace mailing list processing, please ignore. You have heard of freebsd-test@ , haven't you? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/

Re: 8.0: OpenSSL stat()'s NLS 500+ times causing extreme system load

On Tuesday 15 December 2009 23:24:16 Linda Messerschmidt wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > > It's defined in src/lib/libc/Makefile, so you should be able to remove > > that line, rebuild libc and reinstall, and see whether your performance > > issue goes away. > > I t

Re: upgraded to 8, no mouse is broken

On Friday 11 December 2009 08:17:06 Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:38:04 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wrote: > > Please > > see the Handbook section on X11 configuration instead: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html > > Just a side question: 5.4

Re: [] confession...

On Tuesday 24 November 2009 09:15:43 Gary Kline wrote: > it's time to come clean an admit that i have never taken > advantage of the option that lets you press [???], then press > other keys in order so the result is like pressing multiple > keys at once. > > i have ne

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

On Thursday 29 October 2009 21:58:54 Lars Eighner wrote: > On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > sendmail is NOT a legacy application. It's actively being developed > > ON FreeBSD. Actually, the maintainer(s) are doing a great job > > Bullshit. > > Why does sendmail call up the internet du

Re: Merging Related Information from 2 Tables

On Thursday 29 October 2009 20:44:12 Martin McCormick wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas writes: > > You should use a Perl or Python script, and a hash... > > > > If you show us a few sample lines from the input file and how you want > > the output to look, it shouldn't be too hard to quickly hack one of t

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

On Monday 26 October 2009 21:29:27 Yuri wrote: > It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail. > > How many people actually use it? Very few. > Why isn't it moved to ports? What is this anti-sendmail obsession people have? Almost everyone I've ever spoken to about why they dislike sendmail trots out a bunch of cl

Re: NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008

On Wednesday 14 October 2009 18:04:41 Jacques Henry wrote: > > Alternatively, from the commandline try > > > > ntpd -g -q -c /etc/ntp.conf > > > > The -g flag allows ntpd to set the clock once regardless of the offset > > and the -q causes it to quit after setting the time. > > I tried this comman

Re: NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008

On Tuesday 13 October 2009 18:44:57 Jon Radel wrote: > Jacques Henry wrote: > > I commented the commands involved and nothing changed... (with only 10 > > minutes of time difference) > > The 19 minutes between when I sent my suggestions and you responded is > hardly enough time to see if ntpd was s

Killfiles (was Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security...)

On Wednesday 16 September 2009 16:59:27 Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Wednesday, September 16, 2009 06:08:50 -0500 Jerry The backscatter is useful in a way, in that it confirms that my original reasons for applying an ignore filter on Jerry's email address still apply, but I wish a few more people

Re: remove newlines from a file

[Agghh. To list this time] On Tuesday 01 September 2009 20:03:19 Paul Schmehl wrote: > I found a sed tutorial once that did this, but I can't seem to find it > again. I have a file with multiple lines, each of which contains a single > ip followed by a /32 and a comma. I want to combine all t

Re: questions about FreeBSD

On Monday 31 August 2009 17:00:07 Jerry McAllister wrote: > Same response.   Do your homework. The nature of the OP's questions strongly suggested that we are doing his homework. I'm surprised so many people spoonfed the answers rather than pointing to resources like the handbook, as the first r

Re: SUID permission on Bash script

On Friday 28 August 2009 10:54:19 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:24:35 +0100, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: > > Hi folks! > > > > Im trying to set up a reaaallly basic scrip to allow one user to shutdown > > my machine without root permisions, seting up SUID as follows: > [snip] > > Th

Re: what www perl script is running?

On Wednesday 26 August 2009 15:44:41 Adam Vande More wrote: [450 lines including multiple signatures and twelve levels of quoting, all to say:] > Specifically what am I confused on?  Or are you just going to continue > with the personal attacks?  You've offered no technical rebuttal, simply > in

Re: what www perl script is running?

On Monday 24 August 2009 10:07:50 Olivier Nicole wrote: > > Is there a command like fuser or lsof which can be used to determine > > what files this perl instance is using? Any other ideas on how to figure > > out what is going on here? > > lsof is in the ports. > and fstat(1) is in the core.

Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2 overwrites partitions)

On Thursday 06 August 2009 09:43:47 Mark Stapper wrote: > > In light of this, I would really enjoy seeing a "Ubuntu" like movement > in the FreeBSD corner. > What I mean is that it would be nice for my mother to install and use > FreeBSD. [snip] > To achieve this, there are two things that should b

Re: upgrade 7.2 overwrites partitions

On Wednesday 05 August 2009 15:49:38 PJ wrote: > Polytropon wrote: > > On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:58:58 -0400, PJ wrote: > >> Could somone explain to me why an upgrade from sysinstall would > >> overwrite partitions; especially when the instructions indicate that > >> files will not be overwritten? >

Re: kernel designations terminology confusion -- amd64 used for into quad core

On Wednesday 05 August 2009 15:14:49 David Southwell wrote: > Hi every one > > My understanding is that one uses the amd64 for building a kernel for > systems with Intel Quad Core processors. > > It is helpful when naming conventions follow a logical strand. I mean why > does freebsd use a single m

Re: how to boot or access problem file system

On Thursday 30 July 2009 23:14:39 PJ wrote: > > But isn't it strange that it used to be pretty simple to upgrade and > update. But recently, I notice that communication between the developers > and users (or is it the manual page writers) are getting far away from > the realities of user/operationa

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

On Wednesday 15 July 2009 12:45:02 Matthew Seaman wrote: > > I used to be a NeXTie, and the Screensaver.app there had a really nifty > little feature. I'm surprised it's not been copied into other screensaver > applications since, as it's pretty simple. They just had a facility where > moving the

Re: FTP Server for individual client spaces

On Friday 10 July 2009 16:10:24 RS Wood wrote: > I run a small engineering company* that exchanges large files (CAD, > etc.) with clients, and I want to keep the docs off my email server by > setting up a stand alone FTP server where each client can upload and > download its relevant files. As suc

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

On Thursday 02 July 2009 07:21:25 Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:58:15 -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > > QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you > > prefer? and why? > > Actually, I'm not a Linux user. But Linux was my first step into > using UNIX on a x86 PC

Editor in minimal system (was Re: The question of moving vi to /bin)

This whole thread only really got started because I questioned Manish Jain's assertion that there was no editor available in /bin. To summarise: There are several editors available ranging from ed (49604 bytes) and ee (60920 bytes) (both with two library dependencies) to emacs (in ports; 59926

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

On Wednesday 24 June 2009 12:59:13 Manish Jain wrote: > About ed first. I might annoy a few people (which would gladden me in > this particular case), but ed was just one of Ken Thompson's nightmares > which he managed to reproduce in Unix with great precision. By no > stretch of imagination would

Re: No sound, no mouse and now X applications won't start

On Tuesday 23 June 2009 15:41:48 Manish Jain wrote: > I hope the next release will address these problems, as well as a pretty > reasonable request from me much earlier to move vi from /usr/bin to > /bin. Even in single-user mode, you almost always need an editor. Which is why you have ed(1) - bot

Re: Compiling in sound driver in kernel

On Friday 12 June 2009 12:54:19 Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:45:59 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: > > Mel Flynn said the following on 2009-06-12 01:23: > > >> FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Thu Jun 11 21:56:24 CEST 2009 > > >> r...@fqdn:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > > > > > >

Re: Need a filesystem with "unlimited" inodes

On Wednesday 10 June 2009 21:06:06 Karl Vogel wrote: > Create 256 folders named 00-ff: > >        #!/bin/sh >        hex='0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f' >        for x in $hex ; do >            for y in $hex ; do >                mkdir ${x}${y} >            done >        done >        exit 0 Or

Re: Cronjob

On Monday 08 June 2009 17:37:14 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 06:31:57PM +0400, Peter Andreev wrote: > > may be this solution will help you: [snip] > > > > * * 31 1/2 * > > * * 30 4/2 * > > * * 28 2 * This isn't right, surely? It goes wrong in August and stays wrong for the res

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

On Saturday 06 June 2009 05:43:15 Charlie Kester wrote: > On Fri 05 Jun 2009 at 15:06:40 PDT Paul Chvostek wrote: > >If you elect to filter this person's traffic, and are concerned that > >you'll continue to be inundated with replies, I'd like to suggest a > >small procmail script I wrote years ago

Re: n00b question regarding installation via serial console

On Thursday 04 June 2009 17:28:56 Tim Judd wrote: > On 6/4/09, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> Hello list, > >> > >> Is it possible to boot into the serial console from the installation > >> CD, or must boot.flp be used as per > > > > make your own CD > > > > add file boot.config containing just one l

Re: SetUID/SetGID Kernel Option

Hi Martin On Thursday 04 June 2009 16:23:29 Martin McCormick wrote: > I have been asked to enable the following kernel option: > >SetUID/SetGID - Allow directories to inherit their owner from the >parent directory. > > The generic kernel under FreeBSD6.3 is what we presently use on

Re: n00b question regarding installation via serial console

On Thursday 04 June 2009 15:46:11 John . wrote: > Hello list, > > Is it possible to boot into the serial console from the installation > CD, or must boot.flp be used as per > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-advanced.html ? > (the machine has no floppy drive (yet) It's possible

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

[Sorry for the excessive quoting - I couldn't decide which bits to take out] On Friday 29 May 2009 12:48:00 Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 29 May 2009 09:34:36 +0200 > > Jonathan McKeown wrote: > >On Thursday 28 May 2009 22:52:47 Jerry wrote: > >> Did you ever bother to

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

On Thursday 28 May 2009 22:52:47 Jerry wrote: > > Did you ever bother to consider that if the printer manufacturers > actually formed a consensus on a printer language, some third world > county or the EU would probably sue them. Nothing I have seen in 20 > years equals the audacity of the EU. As l

Re: single SATA disk and yet identified as 'ad4'

On Monday 11 May 2009 21:38:50 Saifi Khan wrote: > Hi all: > > The system has just one SATA disk and yet bootloader process > identified it as 'ad4'. Ideally, it should be ad1. [snip] > How does the labelling logic work ? FreeBSD reserves numbers for devices that aren't currently connected, so tha

Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

On Monday 04 May 2009 15:59:14 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:31:16AM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > > > If you have kept the right information beforehand, you can actually > > restore your dumps onto ``bare metal'' without doing a partial ins

Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

On Friday 01 May 2009 22:43:51 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 12:07:22PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > > Let's say we have a system that is backed up regularly and it > > vanishes in a puff of smoke one day. One can get FreeBSD > > installed on a new drive in maybe half an hou

Re: make run-depends-list-recursive?

On Thursday 16 April 2009 12:27:04 Mel Flynn wrote: > But yes, all-depends-list is exactly that, with the provision > that it does not take changed OPTIONS into account. That's what I suspected you were saying yesterday, and it seems to be wrong. Try this (assuming you haven't already configured/

Re: Can't log-in anymore

On Wednesday 15 April 2009 03:58:08 Ruel Luchavez wrote: > Hi.. > > I know someoene here can help fix my biggest problem so far. > > I can't log-in any more in my FreebSD box > the serverver always complain > > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1:shared object "lib.so.7" not found, required by sh > Enter full pat

Re: make run-depends-list-recursive?

On Tuesday 14 April 2009 21:02:08 Mel Flynn wrote: > On Monday 13 April 2009 03:56:15 Tim Judd wrote: > > > make all-depends-list > > Two things: > 1) It surpresses config target and if a port has OPTIONS set, then you may > get surprised once you've configured the port and ticked/unticked an optio

Re: new package system proposal

On Wednesday 08 April 2009 21:24:00 Bob Johnson wrote: > PC-BSD seems to already keep up-to-date binary packages of their > applications. Do they accomplish that by only offering a small subset > of the full ports collection? Yes - have a look at . I installed PC-BSD on a s

Re: new package system proposal

On Tuesday 07 April 2009 23:35:03 Bob Johnson wrote: > On 4/4/09, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > > Hi all > > [...] > > > My suggestion is to start with a ports tree that is fixed in time. Make > > that ports tree available as part of this package system and compile a > > typical desktop set of ports,

Re: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?

On Thursday 12 February 2009 19:15:21 Paul Schmehl wrote: > If you set the world readable bit, you break the entire schema.  To make it > work, world must have no access - not even directory search access.  So you > set u=rwx,g=srx,o-rwx (or 2750), for homedirs and u=rw,g=sr,o-rwx (or 2640) > for f

Re: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?

On Thursday 12 February 2009 03:07:42 Paul Schmehl wrote: > > Sorry if I wasn't clear. > > I wasn't suggesting that the *users* chgrp the files. Keith would do that > as root. Then he sets the setgid bit to www (or whatever the web user is), > and from that point going forward any files created b

Re: sh parameter substitution problem

On Wednesday 11 February 2009 12:47:17 Ian Smith wrote: > I'm getting nowhere trying to parse out IP addresses from strings of > this form in /bin/sh, which have been awk'd out of 'tail named.run': > > addr='195.68.176.4#1440:' > addr='195.68.176.4#16811:' > addr='195.68.176.4#276:' > > sh(1) in

Re: shell commands - exclusion

On Friday 06 February 2009 02:55, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > > I think you should be able to do it with a combination of -prune and > -delete (or -exec rm -rf {} \; ) on a find command. Substitute your > other commands for rm -rf in the -exec above. > > I would give you a working example except I ca

Re: can i split a pdf file?

On Monday 26 January 2009 09:17:05 Andrew Robinson wrote: > Message: 2 > > > Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:20:51 -0500 > > From: Chuck Robey > > Subject: Re: can i split a pdf file? > > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > > Message-ID: <497d0ff3.6090...@telenix.org> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8

Re: KDE: What a monster!

On Monday 26 January 2009 17:02:05 n j wrote: > Linus Torvalds on KDE4... > > [quote] > > A: I used to be a KDE user. I thought KDE 4.0 was such a disaster I > switched to GNOME. I hate the fact that my right button doesn't do > what I want it to do. But the whole "break everything" model is > pain

Re: How to copy only skeleton files while creating a existing user's homes directory?

On Friday 16 January 2009 12:48:38 O. Hartmann wrote: > Hello, > I have the following situation: > > Users are stored in OpenLDAP. I need to create homes directories on new > machine memebers in the pool of workstations and do not want the usage > of an automated creation of loggin in user via pam_

Re: Sed question

On Monday 22 December 2008 00:27:44 Gary Kline wrote: > > anyway, this is one for giiorgos, or another perl wiz. i've > been using the perl subsitution cmd one-liner for years with > unfailing success. is there a way of deleting lines with perl > using the same idea as: > >

Re: Release schedules

On Friday 12 December 2008 19:26, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > -- > From: "Joe S" > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 12:20 PM > To: "Roland Smith" > Cc: ; "Jonathan McKeown" > > Subject: Re: Rele

Re: process always running

On Thursday 27 November 2008 15:46:58 Dominik Meister wrote: > Hi > > Gian Paolo Buono [Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 02:05:44PM +0100]: > > there is a method in freebsd for restart process whenever it terminates > > ? I use in linux respawn in inittab... > > One possibility that comes to mind is using dae

Re: ascii text format

On Friday 21 November 2008 12:49:16 pwn wrote: > algouth this is not a freebsd specific text, i need to format some texts > under freebsd for they appear in the center of the page when opened in a > browser, but i dont want to use HTML for format them, i just want to add > tabulation to my *.txt. >

Re: php5 Only IE Users can View Pages.

On Friday 14 November 2008 19:36, Martin McCormick wrote: > I inherited a mrtg application thatnow is running on a > FreeBSD6.3 system. Clients report that one can see the php pages > when using Internet Explorer but not other browsers that should > display the pages. Those customers see raw

Re: host based authetication with OpenLDAP and FreeBSD

On Friday 14 November 2008 14:32, O. Hartmann wrote: > Hello, > I have a OT question and maybe some of the FreeBSD server admins here > can help me out. [snip] > Having nss_ldap and pam_ldap installed on every single FreeBSD > server/box which is capable of being accessed I found in etc/ldap.conf >

Re: Release schedules

On Wednesday 12 November 2008 14:01:47 Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:59:24PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > > I've been biting my tongue about this because I'm not sure that I can > > offer any help or useful suggestions, but here goes... > > >

Release schedules

I've been biting my tongue about this because I'm not sure that I can offer any help or useful suggestions, but here goes... What on earth is going on with release scheduling? FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE, according to the scheduling page at www.freebsd.org, should have had a Release Candidate published

Re: scripting text replacement

On Sunday 09 November 2008 00:02:11 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 19:43:52 +0100, bsd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a file containing a list of items like that: > > > > line1item1 line1item2 line1item3 > > line2item1 line2item2 line2item3 > > …400 times > > > > I need to

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

On Saturday 08 November 2008 13:55, Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:28:00 -0700 > > Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >. . . or, as someone else pointed out, one could just learn to scroll > >to the end before typing. It's not that difficult -- even in Outlook. > > works like a charm

Re: eps to jpg conversion - which program?

On Friday 07 November 2008 21:19, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:36:51 +0100, Laszlo Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A batch solution is simple: > > #!/bin/sh > for f in *eps; do > convert ${f} `basename ${f} .eps`.jpg > done You can also save yourse

Re: Broken quoting (was Re: XFCE4)

On Monday 03 November 2008 16:17:20 Bob McConnell wrote: [Jonathan to joeb via freebsd-questions] > > I don't know whether it's you or your email client, but your quoting > > is hideously broken. Please fix it. > > It's his email client. Microsoft Lookout will no longer do standard > quoting and f

Broken quoting (was Re: XFCE4)

On Monday 03 November 2008 08:38:07 joeb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > FBSD1 wrote: > > What port names need to be installed to create a XFCE4 desktop > > environment? > > > I was looking for a mega port like kde3 has but could not identify one. > > Thanks in advance.

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