RE: too many open files

2011-11-28 Thread Murray Taylor
>On 11/27/2011 22:07, Murray Taylor wrote: >> I have have the same issue on a 8.0-RELEASE box and found with >> fstat the tgam_server was holding 12511 open files ... >> >> A what purpose does this serve (google seems to indicate >> that it is to speed up fil

RE: too many open files

2011-11-27 Thread Murray Taylor
x27;t start doing this or anything...? -- Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Special Projects Engineer P: +61 3 8710 0600 D: +61 3 9238 5168 F: +61 3 9238 5140 |_|0|_|"Absence of evidence |_|_|0|is not evidence of absence" |0|0|0|Carl Sagan -Original Me

issue with IPF firewall state tables

2011-11-06 Thread Murray Taylor
ing on around ~2000 state entries. I am aware I can flush the state table, but until the router breaks itself again, I cannot clear it. Does this sound like a full state table? Am I using the best method to check? Is there any form of notification that this is happening anywhere? -- Murray

RE: Turning system accounting data into money

2011-10-13 Thread Murray Taylor
Follow up --- I have just been told that the issue will be resolved over the weekend -- there apparently is some other issue being dealt with first. I should have the 44 files in the inbucket on Monday. -- Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Special Projects Engineer P: +61 3 8710 0600 D: +61

RE: scrpt help neded...

2011-07-21 Thread Murray Taylor
c filename this is preposition you on the line containing the grepped target. -- Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Special Projects Engineer |_|0|_|"Absence of evidence |_|_|0|is not evidence of absence" |0|0|0|Carl Sagan --

RE: how to concatenate 2 pdf files to 1?

2011-05-01 Thread Murray Taylor
If you are using KDE try kpdftool from ports splits file / merges files / ... -- Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Special Projects Engineer P: +61 3 8710 0600 D: +61 3 9238 4275 F: +61 3 9238 4140 |_|0|_|"Absence of evidence |_|_|0|is not evidence of absence&quo

Hitting kern.openfile ~= kern.maxfiles

2011-04-03 Thread Murray Taylor
. It will sometime hover there for days, Then go up and cause freezes, nonstarts etc . Other times it will go up Within a hour or so I've looked at tuning(7) and currently kern.maxfiles is set to 24000. I have hald and dbus running for xorg Any udeas ? -- Murray Taylor Bytecraft Sy

RE: WiFi HotSpot

2010-10-18 Thread Murray Taylor
m0n0wall has a 'standard' set of scripte that implement this Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Special Projects Engineer P: +61 3 8710 0600 D: +61 3 9238 4275 F: +61 3 9238 4140 -- |_|0|_|"Absence of evidence |_|_|0|is not evidence of absence" |0|0|

RE: text editor

2010-06-02 Thread Murray Taylor
estroyed the odd file or two i remember with the addition of 'random' control key additions Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Special Projects Engineer P: +61 3 8710 0600 D: +61 3 9238 4275 F: +61 3 9238 4140 -- |_|0|_|"Absence of evidence |_|_|0|is not ev

RE: Sending alarms to my mobile phone

2010-06-01 Thread Murray Taylor
eing sent. Or I go "full power" on main servers and use kannel from ports and a Telco SMPP service. Send / receive rates are 30 messages / second Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Special Projects Engineer P: +61 3 8710 0600 D: +61 3 9238 4275 F: +61 3 9238 4140 -- |_|0|_|"A

RE: text editor

2010-05-31 Thread Murray Taylor
and 6 NOTE all these have been replaced by nanobsd, but the techniques are still useful, especially if you are pushed for space. Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Special Projects Engineer P: +61 3 8710 0600 D: +61 3 9238 4275 F: +61 3 9238 4140 -- |_|0|_|"Absence of evidence |

RE: text editor

2010-05-30 Thread Murray Taylor
use named buffers also ... a through z "ad'adeletes test from marker a to current into buffer a "appastes from buffer a dd delete current line into default buffer "bdd delete current line into buffer b etc etc Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Speci

Parent Child SIGPIPE and write problem

2010-04-30 Thread Murray Taylor
am doing a go-around twice loop through the write before giving up. Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Special Projects Engineer P: +61 3 8710 0600 D: +61 3 9238 4275 F: +61 3 9238 4140 -- |_|0|_|"Absence of evidence |_|_|0|is not evidence of absence&q

NFS under load-balanced apache

2008-09-21 Thread Murray Taylor
files etc, while the web boxen do the dynamic stuff from the databases etc. We are also considering storing session stuff on the NAS Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Special Projects Engineer P: +61 3 8710 0600 D: +61 3 9238 4275 F: +61 3 9238 4140 -- |_|0|_|"Absence of evidence |

RE: How to split a C string by a string?

2008-09-18 Thread Murray Taylor
g splitting and insertion it looks for a specific string, copies from start up to that point to a workspace, inserts the new text, then appends the remainder, starting AFTER the search string fragment. with a bit of work you could make it do your string splitting Murray Taylor Bytecraft Syste

RE: gantt/pert chart in ports ?

2008-06-23 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Anton Shterenlikht > Sent: Monday, 23 June 2008 8:16 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: gantt/pert chart in ports ? > > Can anybody recommend a simple Gantt or PERT chart program fro

RE: Squid with a Net nanny type setup....

2007-11-22 Thread Murray Taylor
look at dansguardian its in the ports and is excellent for kid-management mjt > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony > Sent: Friday, 23 November 2007 4:34 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Squid with a Net nanny type

RE: batch conversion of TeX

2007-10-17 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Giorgos Keramidas > Sent: Saturday, 13 October 2007 12:46 AM > To: Aryeh M. Friedman > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: batch conversion of TeX > > On 2007-10-12 09:44, "Aryeh M.

RE: minimal install is too big

2007-10-07 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Dmitry Gorbik > Sent: Friday, 5 October 2007 6:25 PM > To: Tim Judd > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: minimal install is too big > > On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 21:11:14 -0700 (PDT) > Tim

RE: FreeBSD and Robotics

2007-06-17 Thread Murray Taylor
I can only think of one other point for this... Interrupt latency. Depending on what you are attempting to do, the variable nature of interrupt responses could be an issue. I.e. if the system becomes io bound during a data capture cycle, and something occurs that requires a response within a very

RE: open source X11 capture/playback tool

2007-06-13 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Matthias Apitz > Sent: Wednesday, 13 June 2007 11:07 PM > To: Reid Linnemann > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: open source X11 capture/playback tool > > El día Wednesday, June 13

RE: Recommendations for config file revision control

2007-06-02 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Maxim Khitrov > Sent: Saturday, 2 June 2007 8:37 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Recommendations for config file revision control > > On 6/1/07, Reid Linnemann <[EMAIL PROTE

RE: printing a very long-line files with openoffice using "letter" pages

2007-05-31 Thread Murray Taylor
the poster util is what you want /usr/ports/print/poster POSTER(1) POSTER(1) NAME poster - Scale and tile a postscript image to print on multiple pages SYNOPSIS poster infile DESCRIPTION Poster can be used to create a large poster by building it from multi- ple

RE: Spaces in SSID in /etc/rc.conf

2007-05-14 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Gunther Mayer > Sent: Tuesday, 15 May 2007 5:46 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Spaces in SSID in /etc/rc.conf > > Hi there, > > I got a low key server who is wirelessly connec

RE: Auto shutdown/restart software for FreeBSD?

2007-05-13 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, 13 May 2007 5:19 PM > To: jekillen > Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List > Subject: Re: Auto shutdown/restart software for FreeBSD? > > On 12/05/07, jekillen <[EMAIL PROTEC

RE: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices, Will FreeBSD accept Office 98 + Publisher?

2007-04-29 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: Ted Mittelstaedt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, 29 April 2007 6:41 PM > To: Murray Taylor; Garrett Cooper; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices,Will > Fre

RE: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices, Will FreeBSD accept Office 98 + Publisher?

2007-04-28 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Garrett Cooper > Sent: Sunday, 29 April 2007 4:28 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices, Will > FreeBSD accept Office 98

RE: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-19 Thread Murray Taylor
hese lists into the red book! mjt > -Original Message- > From: Mark Tinguely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 20 April 2007 3:37 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Murray Taylor > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: IBM / FreeBSD Instal

RE: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-19 Thread Murray Taylor
path, which is obviously much softer on the vagaries of ACPI and is ignoring the crap data returns. mjt > -Original Message- > From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 20 April 2007 12:40 AM > To: Murray Taylor > Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List; [EMAIL PROTE

FW: IBM / FreeBSD - Install Update - Seems to be ACPI

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
In our initial posts, we stated that we seemed to be having issues getting the machine to boot with the 4 processors, so to bypass this we disabled ACPI on boot. This allowed us to get past the CPU error and continue to boot. However down the track we noticed things like the ethernet adapater not

FW: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more part 2

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
BTW we have also successfully booted the 'offending box' with FC4 and it all came up ok. This should rule out hardware issues I hope. Is there a way to force a (re)scan of the other PCI busses ?? Or is there a hint.??? line I can add? mjt -Original Message----- From: Mur

FW: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
OK -- at present I cannot get a 6.2 install disk to get anywhere further. Trying FreeSBIE 2.0.1 (aka 6.2) I can get a boot with set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 set acpi_load=NO boot -v However it doesnt find the bge card nor has it found an fxp card we have tried, so I cant get to dmesg output of

RE: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
From: Derek Ragona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:34 PM To: Murray Taylor; FreeBSD Mailing List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem At 07

FW: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more part 2

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
BTW we have also successfully booted the 'offending box' with FC4 and it all came up ok. This should rule out hardware issues I hope. Is there a way to force a (re)scan of the other PCI busses ?? Or is there a hint.??? line I can add? mjt -Original Message----- From: Murray Ta

IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
OK -- at present I cannot get a 6.2 install disk to get anywhere further. Trying FreeSBIE 2.0.1 (aka 6.2) I can get a boot with set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 set acpi_load=NO boot -v However it doesnt find the bge card nor has it found an fxp card we have tried, so I cant get to dmesg output off

IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
ces to get it going. Dave Faulkner / Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems -- "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein -

IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-18 Thread Murray Taylor
ces to get it going. Dave Faulkner / Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems -- "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein -

RE: Port for Roller?

2007-04-11 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > David Stanford > Sent: Thursday, 12 April 2007 9:54 AM > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > Subject: Port for Roller? > > Hi all, > > Does anyone know if a port exists for > Roller

RE: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive

2007-03-12 Thread Murray Taylor
Akk hate top posting but following the mode of this email http://www.ultradesic.com/index.php?section=125 This is the site for making a mini flash disk-able version of FreeBSD 6.x mjt > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Franks

[SOLVED] Guidance requested for multimedia conversion

2007-02-09 Thread Murray Taylor
> On 2/8/07, Randy Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 01:15:21 + > > dgmm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Friday 09 February 2007 00:04, Murray Taylor wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > B

Guidance requested for multimedia conversion

2007-02-08 Thread Murray Taylor
Hi all, Being much more a system programmer / database person than a multi media type I am requesting a 'recipe' from a video media expert. I need to convert an 8 minute .avi file into a basic dvd. No menus or anything, just a dumb as possible 'load it, press play' disk. As long as I can do that,

RE: Labeling a backward-compatible Zip disk?

2007-01-30 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Kirk Strauser > Sent: Wednesday, 31 January 2007 12:21 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Labeling a backward-compatible Zip disk? > > Out of idle curiosity, I dug out my old box of Z

RE: Mail etiquette (was: What is this mean by this term)

2007-01-18 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: Greg Albrecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 19 January 2007 11:42 AM > To: Murray Taylor > Cc: freebsd-questions > Subject: Re: Mail etiquette (was: What is this mean by this term) > > On 18/01/07, Murray Taylor &

RE: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11

2007-01-18 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josef Grosch > Sent: Friday, 19 January 2007 10:59 AM > To: hal > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11 > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 01:31:22PM -0700, hal

RE: Mail etiquette (was: What is this mean by this term)

2007-01-18 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 19 January 2007 10:13 AM > To: Murray Taylor > Cc: Dak Ghatikachalam; freebsd-questions > Subject: Mail etiquette (was: What is this mean by this term) > &

RE: WWW Proxy/Traffic Analyzer

2007-01-18 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don Munyak > Sent: Friday, 19 January 2007 4:20 AM > To: FreeBSD Questions; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Fwd: WWW Proxy/Traffic Analyzer > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Bachilo D

RE: What is this mean by this term

2007-01-17 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dak > Ghatikachalam > Sent: Thursday, 18 January 2007 11:48 AM > To: freebsd-questions > Subject: What is this mean by this term > > I am confused 2 posters have told me that I am top posting , > > W

RE: FreeBSD 3.4 / 4.5 - 2007 DST Changes

2007-01-10 Thread Murray Taylor
check ports .. there is a port now in misc (?) that does the tzfile updating for you... > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Cormany, Adam > Sent: Tuesday, 9 January 2007 7:49 AM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org > Subject: FreeBS

RE: Externally connecting to databases?

2006-12-14 Thread Murray Taylor
Make sure that "skip-networking" is commented out or removed from /etc/my.cnf You may be 'turned off' there. You will need to stop - start mysql if you change this setting. mjt > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > john Mish III

RE: "dd" mini-iso image to USB pendrive?

2006-12-11 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Bill-Schoolcraft > Sent: Tuesday, 12 December 2006 6:19 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: "dd" mini-iso image to USB pendrive? > > Hello Family, > > I'm trying to get my server t

RE: finding out what devices got an ip from the dhcp ?

2006-12-04 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Beni > Sent: Tuesday, 5 December 2006 7:19 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: finding out what devices got an ip from the dhcp ? > > Hi all, > > Is there an easy and fast way to find

RE: Western Australian Daylight Savings changes

2006-12-03 Thread Murray Taylor
end. mjt Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer Bytecraft Systems P: +61 3 8710 2555 F: +61 3 8710 2599 D: +61 3 9238 4275 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direc

RE: Reply: Mini-Freebsd system on ram, to reduce noise?

2006-11-26 Thread Murray Taylor
partitions on the card - the root (r/o) and /config (r/o on boot, r/w during rc.shutdown to save my configs and scripts) Runs vi, tcpdump, net-snmp No moving parts (HDs, Fans, nada..) mjt Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer Bytecraft Systems -- "Any intelligent fool can make t

RE: Question re ncurses and the various ttys

2006-10-12 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: Raaf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 13 October 2006 7:36 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: Murray Taylor > Subject: Re: Question re ncurses and the various ttys > > > Hi all > > > > I've

Question re ncurses and the various ttys

2006-10-11 Thread Murray Taylor
ut go onto this selected screen or would it go to the initial console screen? (Hmm maybe that is part of the answer, in the form of "Does curses output only go to the current console?" ( ... am I even on the right track ?? ) Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer Bytecraft Systems

RE: idle auto logoff

2006-10-10 Thread Murray Taylor
; > > I checked that - the answer is no. > > cheers, > > Noah > > > Olivier if you are running tcsh / csh try looking for an autologout shell variable in /root/.cshrc man csh open man page then /autologoutto search then n repeatedly to step throu

RE: tool for checking website

2006-10-05 Thread Murray Taylor
nfigs in the first week and sites 'just vanished' as the caches dried up and in the second week 'Whats a shell server' and it shutdown (the saga continued) Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer Bytecraft Systems -- "Any intelligent foo

Anyone used this mobo with 6.1 ??

2006-09-28 Thread Murray Taylor
ASUS P5LD2-VM-DH/C Onboard Audio, VGA, 1*GLAN, 1*PCI-E, 2*PCI, 4*DDRII, 4*SATAII (RAID 0,1), mATX --- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/o

RE: pdf editor

2006-09-27 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Damian Wiest > Sent: Thursday, 28 September 2006 3:33 AM > To: Anton Shterenlikht > Cc: George Allan; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: pdf editor > > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:14:03PM +

RE: Is Active Directory integrated file sharing possible on FreeBSD?

2006-09-20 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Stephanie Bridges > Sent: Tuesday, 19 September 2006 11:48 PM > To: 'Ashley Moran' > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: Is Active Directory integrated file sharing > possible on Fre

RE: fire_saver while inside kde???

2006-08-08 Thread Murray Taylor
try launching xscreensaver before kde ... I have all those screensavers running and dont use the kde ones... I think that there is a firesaver in there. mjt > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Hunter Fuller > Sent: Wednesday, 9 Augu

RE: Adding a FreeBSD Gateway on a DSL/ ATM circuit

2006-08-03 Thread Murray Taylor
look at the defaults in /etc/defaults/rc.conf specifically look for lines with gateway in them iegateway_enable="NO" copy the appropriate lines into /etc/rc.conf edit iegateway_enable="YES" You will need to set the the default_route line also to point to the isp I think ... HTH m

RE: How to Change the Time Zone Rules?

2006-07-30 Thread Murray Taylor
use DST rules. Neither does Lindeman but Lord_Howe does sigh end procedure 8<-- NB you may need to update this file also _before_ doing the above ... (Im not sure, but our net weenie said it was necessary) /usr/share/misc/iso3166 Murray Tayl

RE: How big a flashrom for a minimal freebsd install?

2006-07-30 Thread Murray Taylor
Try these methods of 'minimising' FreeBSD FWIW - I run 4.11 in 20M of a 32M Compact Flash card with the build described here https://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html The box acts as a network health monitor with SNMP and fping utilities running, has a DHCP server running, a GSM modem daemon and has a

A question for the AWK wizards

2006-07-25 Thread Murray Taylor
gsmspool_dir} done ;; *) ;; esac } --8<-- Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer Bytecraft Systems P: +61 3 8710 2555 F: +61 3 8710 2599 D: +61 3 9238 4275 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "Any intelligent fool can make

RE: using fping to monitor internet connection status

2006-07-06 Thread Murray Taylor
st (ie "Level 3 east switch is missing") NB I also listen for SNMP traps from appropriately cabable devices Fping is in ports /usr/ports/net/fping Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer Bytecraft Systems P: +61 3 8710 2555 F: +61 3 8710 2599 D: +61 3 9238 4275 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: getting alerts about system upgrades

2006-05-31 Thread Murray Taylor
u are not at war with," -- Donald Rumsfeld, 27 Jan 2006 I find that using folders / pidgeon holes that the mailer can filter things into works well. I have a freebsd-question, freebsd-small etc etc . The rules then presort inbound for me .. and if it doesnt match a rule it lands in the norm

RE: Copying a file system w/ tar - symbolic links not copied right.

2006-05-10 Thread Murray Taylor
> this: > > > > tar cf - /source/* | ( cd /destination && tar xfv - ) > > > > It copies all the files, but the symbolic links are copied > as files of > > 0 length, rather than re-established as links. > > > > What am I doing wrong here, or is

RE: resetting clock after power outage

2006-05-07 Thread Murray Taylor
if you have ntp setup you may need to do a single ntpdate -b or ntpd -q to get the clock within a reasonable limit so ntpd can run properly man (8) ntpd man (8) ntpdate Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer Bytecraft Systems P: +61 3 8710 2555 F: +61 3 8710 2599 D: +61 3 9238 4275 E

RE: Substitute command on vi

2006-05-07 Thread Murray Taylor
This is a good vi incantation (NB The ^V is only there to allow you to put in the ^M. The ^V doesnt show in the final command line, so dont panic that you cant see it) :g/^V^M/s///g ie g/^V^M/ - find a ^M (any one will do, you dont need to be at the file start) s/// - substitute nothing

RE: Getting DHCP to use resolv.conf? AN ANSWER

2006-05-03 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: fbsd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 4 May 2006 10:56 AM > To: Murray Taylor > Cc: freebsd-questions > Subject: RE: Getting DHCP to use resolv.conf? AN ANSWER > > > > > > > -Original Message- > &g

RE: Getting DHCP to use resolv.conf? AN ANSWER

2006-05-03 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: fbsd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 4 May 2006 11:02 AM > To: Murray Taylor > Cc: freebsd-questions > Subject: RE: Getting DHCP to use resolv.conf? AN ANSWER > > > > The script I sent are operational on FBSD 4.1

RE: Getting DHCP to use resolv.conf? AN ANSWER

2006-05-03 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: fbsd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 3 May 2006 10:36 PM > To: Murray Taylor > Subject: RE: Getting DHCP to use resolv.conf? AN ANSWER > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >

RE: ipfirewall tricks

2006-05-03 Thread Murray Taylor
man ipa-conf is your friend .. mind you it is a large chunk.. here is the home page for IPA ... http://ipa-system.sourceforge.net/ it is capable ... and large ... also ipastat could be used to feed a web page maybe ? HTH Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer Bytecraft Systems P: +61

RE: ipfirewall tricks

2006-05-02 Thread Murray Taylor
> with any ideas. > > > -- > -- > Bryan > bc3910 'at' gmail 'dot' com try ipa from ports... it is an 'accounting' packege that monitors the firewall, and can activate/deactivate rules based on usage, time-of-day etc (if I remember correctly) Murr

RE: Getting DHCP to use resolv.conf? AN ANSWER

2006-04-30 Thread Murray Taylor
sked a few weeks ago. > > > > -- > > Bill Moran > > Collaborative Fusion Inc. > man dhclient-script and my enter and exit scripts below from my home boxen NB I use ddclient from ports to update dns stuff at dyndns.org and the example.com should be replaced with your

RE: Proper Method of Time Sync? (added: time server choices)

2006-04-17 Thread Murray Taylor
Google for pool.ntp.org to find a set of NTP servers near you ... Also read this http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/dlink/ For how not to do it !! mjt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 16 April 2006 12:53 PM To:

Is there a way of automatically including a CVS tag in a string substitution

2006-04-05 Thread Murray Taylor
e tag into programs that can be viewed with ident or what. man ident man what cheers mjt "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein Murray Taylor Bytecraft S

RE: TCP/IP source Code

2006-04-04 Thread Murray Taylor
your freebsd box _and_ have the source code installed /usr/src/sys/netinet is the directory After all, one of the benefits of FreeBSD and the Open Source community is that the source code _IS_ available. cheers mjt "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes

RE: Indiana goes to DST

2006-03-28 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DAve > Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 3:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Indiana goes to DST > > Dave McCammon wrote: > > > Take a look at /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/northamerica, > > par

RE: FreeBSD advocacy PDF?

2006-01-16 Thread Murray Taylor
http://linux.oreilly.com/news/bsd_ss.pdf and here too Murray T > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Murray Taylor > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 9:37 AM > To: Jorge Mario G. Mazo; freebsd-questions@freebsd

RE: FreeBSD advocacy PDF?

2006-01-16 Thread Murray Taylor
the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Jorge Mario G. Mazo > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 8:39 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >

RE: simple shell script

2005-12-08 Thread Murray Taylor
Beech, For what it is worth, and if you are interested in another method, here is a ruby script that I found somewhere and tweaked up a bit more. (Probably not the best ruby, but it was my learning effort) It is called by cron, and does a website 'connectivity' test, ie it attempts to get the s

RE: Send emails with attachments from command line

2005-12-08 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 2:23 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: SV: Send emails with attachments from command line > > > -Ur

RE: Windows/FreeBSD VPNs

2005-11-28 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Nathan Vidican > Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 12:31 AM > To: Dave > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Windows/FreeBSD VPNs > > Dave wrote: > > Hello, > > Do you use mpd through a firewall?

RE: UPS advice, please ...

2005-11-20 Thread Murray Taylor
Second the motion -- nut works well with the APC ups's > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cezar Fistik > Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 10:05 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: UPS advice, please ... > > Hello Kiff

RE: Question about programming graphics

2005-11-17 Thread Murray Taylor
r C / C++ programs. And it is part of the baseline install -- try % apropos curses and you will get all the man pages you kneed ;-) BTW freebsd-questions would also be a place for a general question like this also. ( I ahev copied this to there also for you to seen any other comments arise ;

RE: Help: Asus P5WD2 mobo and ITE IDE controller problem

2005-11-13 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: Roland Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:13:51AM +1100, Murray Taylor wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have had a system configured using this mobo and have hit a > > showstopper. > > &

Help: Asus P5WD2 mobo and ITE IDE controller problem

2005-11-13 Thread Murray Taylor
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RE: Hardware selection for comment.

2005-10-26 Thread Murray Taylor
Viruses by MailMarshal.*** -Original Message- From: Micah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 10:09 AM To: Murray Taylor Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware selection for comment. Murray Taylor wrote: > > Thanks to those who commented &g

RE: Hardware selection for comment.

2005-10-26 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Murray Taylor Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:43 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Hardware selection for comment. Comments requested from people who may have used / broken the following components. I&#

RE: Contact Management Software

2005-10-19 Thread Murray Taylor
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 4:06 PM To: Murray Taylor Cc: Vampire D; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Contact Management Software Thanks for the suggestion of SugarCRM. I think this may work out great for him with a couple of modules. :) Only thing left

RE: Contact Management Software

2005-10-18 Thread Murray Taylor
sugar | grep Port If it doesnt return Port:sugarcrm-2.5.1b_1 or so then your ports tree needs updating. mjt From: Vampire D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 3:49 PM To: Murray Taylor Subject: Re: Contact Management Software

RE: How well do USB -> parallel adapters work for printers?

2005-10-18 Thread Murray Taylor
Troy make a very useful Ethernet -> parallel print server that works well. I dont have the actual part number on hand but searching for this Troy device XCD SS-8S-2 (their serial server) should get you to their pages. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Hardware selection for comment.

2005-10-18 Thread Murray Taylor
Comments requested from people who may have used / broken the following components. I'm looking for items like unwanted interactions, driver probs, etc. >From looking at the 5.4 hardware page http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html the general selection seems to be supported, bu

RE: Contact Management Software

2005-10-17 Thread Murray Taylor
SugarCRM is in ports and its web site has a good demo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew P. Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 6:34 PM To: Mark Kane Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Contact Management Software On 10/1

RE: unexplained system hangs - possible smbfs issue ??

2005-10-09 Thread Murray Taylor
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RE: unexplained system hangs - possible smbfs issue ??

2005-10-09 Thread Murray Taylor
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unexplained system hangs - possible smbfs issue ??

2005-10-09 Thread Murray Taylor
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RE: USB-RS232 adapter in FreeBSD 5?

2005-09-03 Thread Murray Taylor
col do not support the hardware handshake lines. mjt -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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