Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-09-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 12:10:50PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > >Them's fighting words - don't you realize an entire subgroup of the > >FreeBSD developers spent untold amounts of time and effort setting up > >a rigged contest to attempt to convince the use

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-09-05 Thread Mikel King
On Sep 5, 2007, at 12:10 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Them's fighting words - don't you realize an entire subgroup of the FreeBSD developers spent untold amounts of time and effort setting up a rigged contest to attempt to convince the userbase that there was such a

RE: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-09-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Erich Dollansky > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 9:11 PM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: Pollywog; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-09-04 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 04:10:50 Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > Them's fighting words - don't you realize an entire subgroup of the > > FreeBSD developers spent untold amounts of time and effort setting up > > a rigged contest to attempt to convince the userbase

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-09-04 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Them's fighting words - don't you realize an entire subgroup of the FreeBSD developers spent untold amounts of time and effort setting up a rigged contest to attempt to convince the userbase that there was such a difference, in order to replace the logo with a round

RE: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-09-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Pollywog > Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 8:50 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: doubts about the freebsd devil > > > On Friday 31 August 2007 15:3

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-31 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 03:50:27PM +, Pollywog wrote: > On Friday 31 August 2007 15:32:26 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > > There will also probably be loads of people replying to tell you > > that it is not a devil but a character representing a daemon that > > is a helpful sprite and that i

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-31 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 31 August 2007 15:32:26 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > There will also probably be loads of people replying to tell you > that it is not a devil but a character representing a daemon that > is a helpful sprite and that it is not a logo, but a mascot. I think that is much less different tha

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-31 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 07:53:50PM -0300, Nélio Mesquita wrote: > Hello to all! > Just for curiosity, why the FreeBSD logo is a little devil? Is there a > history around it? There is so much history it would take you several days to read it all. Just look for stuff on 'Beastie' or 'Bsd' or other

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-31 Thread Reid Linnemann
Written by Nélio Mesquita on 08/31/07 06:44>> On 8/30/07, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Nélio Mesquita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello to all! Just for curiosity, why the FreeBSD logo is a little devil? Is there a history around it? It's not a devil, it's a daemon, and there is plen

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-31 Thread Nélio Mesquita
On 8/30/07, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Nélio Mesquita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello to all! > > Just for curiosity, why the FreeBSD logo is a little devil? Is there a > > history around it? > > It's not a devil, it's a daemon, and there is plenty of history: > http://en.wi

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-30 Thread Bill Moran
"Nélio Mesquita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello to all! > Just for curiosity, why the FreeBSD logo is a little devil? Is there a > history around it? It's not a devil, it's a daemon, and there is plenty of history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_%28computer_software%29 -- Bill Moran h

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-30 Thread John Webster
--On Thursday, August 30, 2007 19:53:50 -0300 Nélio Mesquita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello to all! > Just for curiosity, why the FreeBSD logo is a little devil? Is there a > history around it? > > Thank you! Sort of answers your question. (Implied and explicit.)

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-30 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Nélio Mesquita wrote: > Hello to all! > Just for curiosity, why the FreeBSD logo is a little devil? Is there a > history around it? See www.beastie.com > > Thank you! -- Pietro Cerutti PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

RE: doubts regarding the kernel programs

2007-05-31 Thread Dhananjaya hiremath
Hello sir, Here we are forewording the source code for that we have to make modification in the command "IPMI_REGISTER-FOR_CMD" .This is uniplemented command so we want to iplement it and want to print a message like" IPMI REGISTER FOR CMD" has been called. Thank U and Regards Dhan

Re: doubts

2005-12-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Anirban Adhikary wrote: Hi guys This is Anirban. I have a doubts on the following question. How to write a shell program that will check whether a server is up or down (on ping) and log the report to a file. You may be wondering why no-one is replying to you and the main reasons would be:

Re: doubts

2005-12-01 Thread arden
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:26:43 +0100 Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anirban Adhikary schrieb: > > > Hi this is Anirban. I have to write a shell script that will take the tar > > back-up of a directory (named anirban)on a dialy basis > > Hope i will receive the ans soon. > > _

Re: doubts

2005-11-30 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Anirban Adhikary schrieb: Hi this is Anirban. I have to write a shell script that will take the tar back-up of a directory (named anirban)on a dialy basis Hope i will receive the ans soon. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fr

Re: doubts

2005-11-30 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Anirban Adhikary schrieb: Hi guys this is Anirban.I have a doubt on the following write a Shell script that will take a tar backup of a user on a daily basis. Server details - 192.168.1.19 login - beta password - bta321 working directory to use anirban Hope i will receive my answer soon. __

Re: doubts

2005-11-30 Thread Subhro
Anirban Adhikary sat at his 'puter and typed on 11/30/2005 14:38: Hi guys this is Anirban.I have a doubt on the following write a Shell script that will take a tar backup of a user on a daily basis. Server details - 192.168.1.19 login - beta password - bta321 working directory to use anirban Hop

Re: doubts

2005-11-24 Thread Chris
David Scheidt wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 10:08:15AM +0530, Anirban Adhikary wrote: > >>Hi guys. This is Anirban. I have a doubt on crontab.The question is >> >>how to write a crontabwhich takes the back-up at 11:59 pm daily and every >>tuesday of the week >>Hope i will receive the answer so

Re: doubts

2005-11-24 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 10:08:15AM +0530, Anirban Adhikary wrote: > Hi guys. This is Anirban. I have a doubt on crontab.The question is > > how to write a crontabwhich takes the back-up at 11:59 pm daily and every > tuesday of the week > Hope i will receive the answer soon. I don't quite underst

RE: doubts on FreeBSD

2005-11-23 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Cstdenis >Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 3:42 AM >To: Anirban Adhikary; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: doubts on FreeBSD > > >Same as any other *nix operating sy

RE: doubts on FreeBSD

2005-11-22 Thread simon butsana
Hi, copy the tar ball somewhere, and decompress it using tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz Usually a directory with name will be created and you need to go there using cd There you usually find a file README or INSTALL with all necessary instructions. You can read the READ

Re: doubts on FreeBSD

2005-11-22 Thread Cstdenis
Same as any other *nix operating system. Basically just follow the installation instructions with the program. Common basic ones are... untar it tar -zxf file.tar.gz cd into the extracted dir cd file/ run the configure script if there is one. ./configure and compile it with make or if

Re: doubts

2003-12-23 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, manish gautam wrote: > 1. How to enable telnet service in freebsd 4.7 ? You may want to look at 'ssh' - it is used in the same way as telnet; i.e. 'ssh hostname' and is more secure. For telnet; edit /etc/inetd.conf - and uncomment the line with telnet (remvoe the #) and ei

enabling telnet service and capturing packets with ethereal ( was Re: doubts )

2003-12-23 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
for a better response from the mail list in future I suggest you use a subject that is more descriptive of your message. On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 12:01, manish gautam wrote: > Hello sir ! > > I have some very silly problems using freebsd 4.7. > > 1. How to enable telnet service in freebsd 4.7 ? re