Re: forcing boot

2006-06-04 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
the files off it then i can replace the HD, but it refuses boot anything but single user mode. In single user mode /etc/netstart should bring up the network. If you have data on partitions other than the root, you can manually mount them read-only. $.02, /Mikko

Re: Linker Error: undefined reference to __ctype_b

2006-04-10 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
x? If so, this is the wrong mailing list. $.02, /Mikko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Bootstrapping usb flash

2006-02-14 Thread Mikko Heiskanen
I have a Lacie Orange 7Gb usb flash drive, into which I've tried to install FreeBSD 6-RELEASE a couple of times. I've had no luck booting it, only a "invalid diskslice" -message after normal installation and boot. However, netbsd3 boots nicely with default install off the drive, as does archlin

dualboot winxp & freebsd

2005-07-29 Thread Mikko Heiskanen
quite sure freebsd's own bootloader can do it without problems. Question remains: how? I vaguely remember I had done it before. Thank you for your time, Mikko (using freebsd 5.4) PS: I'm not subscribed at the moment, I would appreciate if you could post a copy for me.

Re: Perl 5.8.6 to 5.8.7 upgrade fails IPC tests

2005-06-26 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 06/26/05 02:32 PM, Mikko Tyljrvi sat at the `puter and typed: On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 06/26/05 10:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sat at the `puter and typed: On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 15:17:06 -0400 Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Perl 5.8.6 to 5.8.7 upgrade fails IPC tests

2005-06-26 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
Figure out what limit is being hit and do something about it :-) Some of the values can be tweaked at run-time, with "sysctl kern.ipc.semxxx=value", others have to be set at boot time (in /boot/loader.conf), or compiled into the kernel. $.02, /Mikko __

Re: simple? sh problen

2005-05-15 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
-9]*$' >/dev/null } isnum() { case "$1" in *[^0-9]*|'') return 1;; esac return 0 } The second one is likely to be faster unless "expr" is a shell builtin (typically it it not). $.02, /Mikko ___

Re: Encryption of login passwords--where and how is it done?

2005-04-16 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
sr/src/lib/libcrypt/. The MD5 password hashing scheme is found in crypt-md5.c (the whole password is being used, btw). $.02, /Mikko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and too many files open...

2005-03-23 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
but why do i get the message "too many files open..."? I think there is a separate limit for sockets, which you may be hitting. Check with "sysctl kern.ipc | grep socket". $.02, /Mikko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: Xwrapper doesn't use .xinitrc, or does it?

2005-03-20 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
wont do, since it no longer has the authority to do so)?? Isn't there some documentation for Xwrapper somewhere? You want startx(1). The .xinitrc file is read by "xinit", btw. $.02, /Mikko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: Synaptics Touchpad driver

2005-03-13 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
for example by putting hw.psm.synaptics_support="1" into /boot/loader.conf. See loader.conf(5) and /boot/defaults/loader.conf for more information. $.02, /Mikko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: "Bus errors"

2005-02-06 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
ng sysutils/xmbmon to keep an eye on the temperature of your CPUs. My Athlon 3200+ tends to fall over on its face when running setiathome on a hot summer's day, and there is no way I'm going to put even more loud fans in that box... $.02, /Mikko

Re: Script to merge mailinglist archives

2005-01-27 Thread Mikko Heiskanen
mbox. Also isn't about unzipping the archives. Just to clarify. I'm 100% sure some awk guru can tell me a oneliner in 2 seconds. Mikko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Script to merge mailinglist archives

2005-01-27 Thread Mikko Heiskanen
esults to a file whose filename comes that matched months last 2 digits of year+ 2 digits of month. And this for all the files in a directory containing, say, archives from 1998 -> 2005. Easy? Mikko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

Re: making music

2005-01-26 Thread Mikko Heiskanen
Gert Cuykens > Does freebsd has programs to make music ? like sonar or logic or fruityloops ? If you know tracking, cheesetracker seems to be nice. Mikko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: samba printing

2005-01-24 Thread Mikko Heiskanen
-P%S /var/spool/samba/%s; /bin/rm /var/spool/samba/%s; /bin/echo %T %U %M %I %a %S>> /var/spool/samba/smbprint.log" Which, ofcourse, keeps appending to the file, so one might want to logrotate it. So now it is working. Hope this helps others who have struggled to get it work. Oh, and

RE: samba printing

2005-01-23 Thread Mikko Heiskanen
n priviledges on windows side. I am though almost certain it is some little configuration err. As always. Mikko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

samba printing

2005-01-23 Thread Mikko Heiskanen
know how to proceed, and would love some guidance. Thanks, Mikko ps. would hate to have to put it into windows box, as printer supports PS. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

linux emulation

2004-12-02 Thread Mikko Heiskanen
FreeBSD know when to use linuxemu? How does it handle, say, stuff in /dev? Specifically when there aren't things like ethn in there. Man linux is kinda short. Sorry if my question is reallyreally stupid. Thanks, Mikko ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Ntpd assistance

2004-09-22 Thread Mikko Heiskanen
my understanding, doesn't use the config file. Mikko ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Soundcards on 6-current

2004-09-12 Thread Mikko Heiskanen
to do some cvsupping before getting things to work properly, and used the standard-supfile for it to get anything to work at all. So there's my reason. I remembered there shouldn't be any questions on latest devel version on here, so I am sorry about that. Mikko __

Soundcards on 6-current

2004-09-11 Thread Mikko Heiskanen
u for your time, Mikko ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: 5.2.1 fs in 4.10

2004-09-09 Thread mikko
Thank you for the info. I guess I'll go back to 5 until 5-stable. Mikko ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

5.2.1 fs in 4.10

2004-09-09 Thread mikko
ly screwed? Thank you for your time, Mikko ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Where to find jw on FreeBSD?

2004-09-06 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
port that contains 'jw' or if this is a Linux/RedHat-only script? Sort-of. Google leads me to http://freshmeat.net/projects/docbook-utils/, which points to http://sources.redhat.com/docbook-tools/. $.02, /Mikko ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] maili

Re: [UPDATED]sick and tired of freebsd resolving problems

2004-08-28 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
e machine responce. Don't try add anything, don't try remove anything, don't try change anything. If you still haven't found yourself what's wrong during those checkings, post the input and output. You forgot: 5. Run "ipfw list" (must be root) and 6.

Re: allowing users to mount cdrom

2004-07-03 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
m not using a GUI login thingy). $.02, /Mikko ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: non-interactive password

2004-04-24 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
d, the script was lost. > > Can someone refresh my memory on the command format? echo "$password" | pw usermod "$user" -h0 Might do the trick. $.02, /Mikko ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: Playing DVD

2004-03-13 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
e a still > better quality? Have you enabled DMA on the DVD drive? It is turned off by default, and makes the drive really slow. If not, add hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" to /boot/loader.conf to enable DMA at next reboot. You can also manually enable DMA with "atacontrol mode&quo

postgresql & client

2004-02-24 Thread mikko
I run into something weird. Is it so, that you cannot have both; the postgresql server, and postgresql client, installed at the same time? When I first install one or the other from ports, and after I try to install the other, I am informed that: ===> postgresql-client-7.4.1_1 conflicts with ins

Re: Perfoce client only

2004-02-17 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
e tool from <http://www.perforce.com/perforce/downloads/freebsd4axp.html>. It is a single statically linked binary ("p4") that does everything. $.02, /Mikko ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

local mail delivery

2004-01-22 Thread mikko
Hi, I am wondering how should I setup a server. I have installed spamassassin, and am using fetchmail to get mail from another host. Now, I wouldn't want to install procmail. I do not understand how the mail travels: I make a ssh connection to start imapd on the target mail-host with fetchmail,

gnumail

2004-01-03 Thread mikko
Hello, I am having trouble trying to start the gnumail -port, which I compiled from a port-tree from 2 week past. I was wondering if I could get help from here. I am running FreeBSD-5.1-release/i386. The program starts with a dialog box which has two buttons, but there isn't any text in them. In t

Re: mplayer problem

2003-12-28 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
ced the same thing. A cursory check with "trafshow" indicates that I simply don't have enough bandwith for the large version, which requires more than the 1.5Mbit my DSL connection will handle. The medium size feed usually stays below 1 Mbit. $.02, /Mikko _

Re: Out of memory error

2003-12-27 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
> > Any pointers would be appreciated. You'll need to tweak MAXDSIZ, see LINT. The default value seems to be picked up from /sys//include/vmparam.h, and is 512MB on i386. There is a corresponding kernel tunable (at least in 4.9) called "kern.maxdsiz" you can

Re: spamassassin

2003-12-20 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
t didn't look like the program. I googled and still > couldn't find a good tutorial. If someone knows of a good tutorial and > could give me a quick explaination, i'd be greatful. Oh, I am running > 5.1-RELEASE. thanx Have you looked at port

Re: Ultra 2 SMP stop in probing devices during install

2003-11-27 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
stions over on [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, I strongly suspect that your Ultra 2 has a scsi controller that FreeBSD doesn't support (fas?), so even if you manage to boot, you'll have to run it diskless and configure it to netboot. $.02, /Mikko

Re: Something with port 53

2003-11-09 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
gt; IP_ADDR_2mail.domain.com mail > > etc/sysctl.conf > net.inet.udp.blackhole=1 What about net.inet.udp.log_in_vain? $.02, /Mikko ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Anyone using Linux-PAM on 5.x?

2003-10-05 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
member correctly one has to rebuild the openpam lib in order to enable debug logging, but it may be worth the effort if nothing else helps. $.02, /Mikko ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Anyone using Linux-PAM on 5.x?

2003-10-05 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003, Mikko Työläjärvi wrote: > ... > >Having had some experience writing pam modules on a number of > >platforms, I whipped out my suite of pam test modules to have a look > >at this incredbible breakage you speak

Re: Anyone using Linux-PAM on 5.x?

2003-10-04 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
a copy of the > stuff I am going to have to port so others can use it? Whatever difficulties you are experiencing, I'd say the reason is not specifically related to openpam or FreeBSD 5. Maybe if you post some details, such as source and error messages, someone will be able to help you. R

Re: PASSWD file hosed...

2003-10-04 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
Also, I've set the console as insecure, so it's going to ask me for a > root password. This is controlled in the file "/etc/ttys". $.02, /Mikko ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: explain annoying "You have XXX mail messages"

2003-10-04 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
il" variable to ~/mail or some other directory. This makes csh look for new mail in the specified path(s). See csh(1), under the description of the "mail" variable. All other programs use the environment variable MAIL, or default to /var/mail/$USER, where there is no mail for you.

Re: how to get system information

2003-09-28 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
isted with "usbdevs", pci ones with "pciconf", ATA devices with "atacontrol", SCSI ones with "camcontrol", XFree prints lots of info on your graphics card into /var/run/XFree86.0.log. Also, some of the values detected at boot end up as sysctls (usually

Re: Problems running new diablo-{jre,jdk} JVMs

2003-09-06 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
t; [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lib# /usr/local/diablo-jdk1.3.1/bin/java -version > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libm.so.2: Undefined symbol "__fpclassifyf" > > I'm at a loss. Any ideas? It won't work on 5.1. See: <http://www.freebsdfounda

Re: zmore for bzip2?

2003-08-31 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
could read a few bytes, match against known magic numbers and then prepend those bytes to the stream before feeding to the decompressor, for the cost of an extra "cat" process: magic=$(dd bs=1 count=3 2>/dev/null) case $magic in BZh) DECOMPRESSOR=bunzip2;; *) DECOMPRESSO

Re: Off Topic Regex Question

2003-08-29 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
$list =~ s/ \d \d/ \d/g; > would do the trick, but that gives me: > dog d 1 1 cat d snake d 1 I'm not sure I understand your criteria, but try something like: $list =~ s/(\w+\s+\d\s?)[\d\s]*/$1/g; $.02, /Mikko ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mai

Re: Dumping/reading memory space of a running program.

2003-08-25 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Sten Daniel Sørsdal wrote: > > How do i read/dump the entire memory space of a running program? > Is this possible? > I really dont have the option of restarting it. gcore(1) perhaps? $.02, /Mikko ___ [EMA

Re: gdm crash!

2003-08-14 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
r: Fatal X > error - R > estarting :0 > > I just ran an evolution under gnome. The X will automatically restart a > couple of hours. Is it a known bug? Looks like X aborted. I have no idea what is wrong, but you can always check if X logged any complaints in /var/log/X

Re: rpc.statd and NFS Server on 4.8-RELEASE

2003-07-19 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
m I doing wrong to have rpc.statd using SO MUCH memory. It isn't. See the FAQ. <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#STATD-MEM-LEAK> $.02, /Mikko ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: looking for http/web copy program - I think

2003-07-18 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
bummmer but theres no choice You could, for example, use "wget" (ports/ftp/wget). Never mind the "ftp" category - it speaks http too. $.02, /Mikko ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

Re: how to copy just part of a file?

2003-07-16 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
PHP, I'm wondering > if there's a more direct way to do it with basic GNU/BSD commands. Ever heard of POSIX... ;-) $.02, /Mikko ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Problems locating source to build ksh93 port

2003-07-16 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
0% 1458117 bytes transferred in 9.9 seconds (144.43 kBps) $.02, /Mikko ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Hi FreeBSD forum's Champs

2003-07-13 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
gh /usr/ports/graphics or <http://www.freebsd.org/ports/graphics> and you'll see... $.02, /Mikko ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: mod_ssl question: using my own CA?

2003-07-12 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
at hand): > > $ ./sign.sh server.csr > > This signs the server CSR and results in a server.crt file. > > shell# find / -name sign.sh % tar ztf mod_ssl-2.8.14-1.3.27.tar.gz | grep sign.sh mod_ssl-2.8.14-1.3.27/pkg.contrib/sign.sh $.02, /Mikko ___

Re: extracting cd-audio to wav

2003-07-11 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
understand if it did not build - the port has some 1k lines of patches. There is also "dagrab" and "cdda2wav" (the latter is in the sysutils/cdrtools port). Additionally, the "ata" driver has track nodes that you can "dd" from :) $.02, /Mikko __

Re: IglooFTP in free(): error: chunk is already free

2003-07-05 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
ours ago. > PS. if it is a patch ... should we notify the port maintaner? > Thank you. Sure. I don't use IglooFTP, but once you manage to figure out if the one-line patch solves your problem, feel free to file a PR and watch it rot. $.02, /Mikko > > > On Sun, 2003-07-

Re: IglooFTP in free(): error: chunk is already free

2003-07-05 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
patch in /usr/ports/ftp/IglooFTP/files/patch-ad and rebuild the port, then things should work better. $.02, /Mikko patch-ad: --- dir_tree.c.org Sat Jul 5 14:26:53 2003 +++ dir_tree.c Sat Jul 5 14:27:02 2003 @@ -153,7 +153,6 @@

Re: using bind() call on FreeBSD

2003-06-23 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
tons(blah); etc ... I.e. zero-fill the whole struct before use. $.02, /Mikko > bind() > listen() > accept() > . > . > . > close( descriptor from accept() ) > close( descriptor from socket() ) > > But I am getting error 99 (Cannot a

Re: accidently deleted user "www"

2003-06-22 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
you can do: # grep '^www:' /var/backups/master.passwd.bak >> /etc/master.passwd # pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd $.02, /Mikko ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: flashpluginwrapper for Flash 6 (Shared Library Tools redux)

2003-06-21 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
, pthread_mutex_t and pthread_mutexattr_t are pointers, on Linux they are structs. $.02, /Mikko ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Problem with USB ulpt0 and CUPS

2003-06-20 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
sleep(1) between opening the device and the first write proved to be a sufficient workaround. $.02, /Mikko ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: xterm questions

2003-06-14 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
osible? Try running: xterm -cc 46-47:48,58:48,64:48 or put something like: XTerm*charClass: 46-47:48,58:48,64:48 in your Xdefaults. See xterm(1), especially the section on character classes. Since URLs can contain all sorts of junk, you may want to expand on the above example. $.0

Re: Problems with my terminal device files

2003-06-02 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
cd /dev # sh MAKEDEV pty1 # 32 more nodes... # sh MAKEDEV pty2 # another 32 nodes... # sh MAKEDEV pty3 # etc... $.02, /Mikko ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: /usr/src on a dedicated drive?

2003-03-16 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
ike someone else to confirm this. Would there be any problems if I put > /usr/src on it's own disk? No. :-) /Mikko To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: DHCP Server "learning" name servers since server itself is dhcp'd??

2003-03-09 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, David Kelly wrote: > On Saturday 08 March 2003 12:32 pm, Mikko Työläjärvi wrote: > > > > It is more elegant in perl, but dhclient-enter-hooks is a > > shellscript, so it felt easier to just add it there. > > /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks needs to be crea

Re: DHCP Server "learning" name servers since server itself is dhcp'd??

2003-03-08 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
reload fi return 0 } 8< It is more elegant in perl, but dhclient-enter-hooks is a shellscript, so it felt easier to just add it there. $.02, /Mikko To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: SBC DSL vs Fbsd 4.7 PPPoE?

2003-03-03 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
for PPPoE has to be "ifconfig up" in order to be usable. I don't even know whether that is true any more. > Also, how do I know what hostname to set in my rc.conf file ... before > I've been assigned a dynamic IP?? Anything you want. SBC won't care and it won't

Re: Xfree86-4 question re OpenGL

2003-02-23 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
owing > > No OpenGL support > > I have Mesa 3,4,2_2 loaded ( it appearesd during the KDE build I think ) > > How cam I get the OpenGL support working? >From my /etc/X11/XF86Config: Section "Module" ... Load "GLcore" Load &

Re: catch output from sh -xv to a file

2003-02-16 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
... Should work, except for the script being unable to print stuff to stderr. There is also the possibility that I'm totally missing your point... :) $.02, /Mikko To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: #!/bin/sh & execve

2003-02-08 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
also want to have a look at bin/16393; at the bottom is a list of how some unices handle the situation. Your best bet at trying to be portable is to use at most one argument, no whitespace and no "#". The PR: <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16393> $.02, /Mikko To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: LINUX sysinfo syscall

2003-01-12 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
emented. My > questions are: > > 1- Is there some other port/package or option I should be using? > > 2- Would a later version of FreeBSD fix this? Linux "sysinfo" was checked into the source in mid-2001. Upgrading should help. $.02, /Mikko To Unsubscribe

Re: Lots of files in a directory

2003-01-02 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
gh all entries, but also sort them... It would probably be better to patch the dang server to use a multi-level directory structure instead. $.02, /Mikko To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: linux compatability

2002-12-28 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
x this? Run "/compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig". That should update the path cache of the (linux) dynamic linker. I assume the permissions on the libs already are reasonable. $.02, /Mikko To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: NFS - what troubles to expect ?

2002-12-07 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
bsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_nfs>. If you are using amd(8) to auto mount, options should be tweakable in amd.conf. FreeBSD does not have an exact equivalent to the Solaris automounter. $.02, /Mikko To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Can I use my USB mice in text mode?

2002-11-11 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
have everything that is required. Otherwise "usb" and "ums" could be loaded dynamically via /boot/loader.conf. Or by hand (for testing) with "kldload ums". Does "dmesg | grep ums" show anything at all? $.02, /Mikko To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: REASON #7919 NOT to do things as root!

2002-11-09 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
cp /var/backups/master.passwd.bak /etc/master.passwd # pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd > I just double checked and still seem to have access using other accounts > and I've made a copy of master.passwd in case I "commit" the changes > from passwd. Data is copied in the oth

Re: mergemaster question

2002-10-26 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
/src/etc/rc.{diskless*,i386,network*} /etc I think there are hooks in mergemaster that allow you to script some of this stuff, but I've never gotten around to use them. $.02, /Mikko To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: ftpd.conf

2002-10-26 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
ftpd(8): it does not use "ftpd.conf". The lukem version of ftpd is described in lukemftpd(8). Yes, it is confusing. $.02, /Mikko To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Ports FAQ is a great read [port.tar??]

2002-10-14 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
e not found, no access) > > I am losing faith in my abilities and am most certainly settling on a life > of /stand/sysinstall and `pkg_add -r` :-( Can someone offer me hope? Try a client that does recursive ftp, for example "wget" (should be installable with "pkg_add -r

Re: /dev/urandom is randomly cool

2002-10-06 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Fernando Gleiser wrote: > On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Mikko Työläjärvi wrote: > > > > > tr -cd a-zA-Z0-9 < /dev/urandom | dd bs=$len count=1 2>/dev/null > > > > Which will give you $len random bytes from the set a-zA-Z0-9 (it reads > > a l

Re: /dev/urandom is randomly cool

2002-10-06 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
-Z0-9 < /dev/urandom | dd bs=$len count=1 2>/dev/null Which will give you $len random bytes from the set a-zA-Z0-9 (it reads a lot more from /dev/urandom than it produces though). Another answer is, as always, "use perl" :-) $.02, /Mikko To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: /var/spool/uucppublic

2002-10-01 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
people still alive using uucp... ;-). Hmm.. looks like that will happen in 5.0. Whee. $.02, /Mikko P.S, My first email address was a UUCP address, with a "!" and all... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: PPP, dynamic IPs, and handling renumbering

2002-09-29 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
leases. The only place I can get the IP from now is > ifconfig tun0 [...] You are not getting your address via DHCP, as you are using PPP which does its own address negotiation. One of these days I will understand the point of running PPP over ethernet... $.02, /Mikko To Unsubscribe: s

Re: man tcsh | col -b | grep -i stderr

2002-09-29 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
o stdout, and not much else (you append a "&" to whatever redirector you're using, e.g. ">&" or "|&"). I haven't used [t]csh for a very, very long time. To be able to decipher the documentation of redirection in "sh", you need to know

Re: Bourne shell redirection of STDOUT

2002-09-28 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
2) Since dialog will require a tty anyway, let it talk directly to /dev/tty, and redirect stderr to stdout: myvar=`$DIALOG --inputbox "Hitme" 8 40 2>&1 >/dev/tty` $.02, /Mikko To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: find case-insensitive challenge [cut/sed]

2002-09-23 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
You might also want to pick up a copy of "Mastering Regular > Expressions." Yes! Highly recommended. Maybe a bit overkill as a primer on using sed, though... ;-) $.02, /Mikko To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: What kind of PPP connection do you have?

2002-09-18 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
answers in each case > here, please. I note that other books have decided to describe > only one or the other, but currently I think there's a reason for > both. User PPP. Hmm... can kernel PPP do PPPoE? /Mikko Mikko Työläjä[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message