Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail

2009-05-30 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/29 Wojciech Puchar : >>> itself, and how much of stupid-written PHP programs >>> >> >> I don't think PHP itself is buggy, in fact I think badly written C >> programs are responsible for far more lossage. > > It all depends who write programs. > Yes... but that has nothing to do with PHP. P

Re: Greylisting and new posters

2009-05-30 Thread Erik Norgaard
Mel Flynn wrote: Is it possible to: a) Put a big-red-blink-popup-attentiongrabbing monster text into the subscription page about first posts being delayed with a link to greylisting? b) Hash the bodies of greylisted messages and reject / discard if the same body with a different msg id is bein

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-30 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/29 Wojciech Puchar : >> Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >>> Even 15 seconds of thinking is enough to understand that logging >>> to other user and then su - gives completely no extra security. >> >> I don't buy this, given that root's login name is well known :) > > if someone can intercept the p

Re: MIME attachments in mbox files

2009-05-30 Thread George Davidovich
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:40:52PM -0400, Vince Sabio wrote: > I have a need (well, I have lots of needs, but I'll try to stay > focused here) Given the nature of most messages in the last few days, I'd suggest you're trying too hard. ;-) > to be able to take a Windows zip file that is stored a

Re: system reboot because of hdd

2009-05-30 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/29 claudiu vasadi : > Hello ppl. > > > Straight to business. > > FreeBSD 7.1-stable > > 2 hdd. 1 is ad2 and the other is ad6. ad2 is the BSD hdd, and ad6 is just > for data (movies, music, etc). ad2 is a 80GB Samsung P-ata133 and ad6 is a > WD 250GB S-ata2. > > While running a process that w

find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, Can you please give me a hint how to use find to search for a specific text within files? I am using find in the following manner: find /path/to/files/ -mtime -2 -ls |less to find files which have been recently modified. But I would like to extend the search to find specific expression wi

Re: system reboot because of hdd

2009-05-30 Thread claudiu vasadi
ups, sorry. I forgot. I have 1GB ram, 1x module of DDR1 400 MHz (pc3200) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.or

Software creating karaoke from mp3 files

2009-05-30 Thread Fbsd1
Been unable to purchase karaoke of rock and roll greats like "AC/DC, THE ROLLING STONES, THE DOORS, LED ZEPPELIN". Looking for advice on software that will allow me to edit out the singing voice tracks from a mp3 file and write the resulting music as a avi file so I can have the song words show

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:25:12AM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > Can you please give me a hint how to use find to search for a specific > text within files? Generally, you don't - find(1) does not examine the contents of files by itself, just their directory information. You normal

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
>> Can you please give me a hint how to use find to search for a specific >> text within files? > > Generally, you don't - find(1) does not examine the contents of files by > itself, just their directory information. You normally use grep(1) to > search within a file. Ahhh - I use grep on daily b

Re: Greylisting and new posters

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 10:20:06 Erik Norgaard wrote: > Mel Flynn wrote: > > Is it possible to: > > a) Put a big-red-blink-popup-attentiongrabbing monster text into the > > subscription page about first posts being delayed with a link to > > greylisting? b) Hash the bodies of greylisted messages an

Re: pfsync in GENERIC?

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 05:13:27 Steven Schlansker wrote: > On May 29, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Michael Powell wrote: > > Steven Schlansker wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > A custom kernel can free up a little RAM, and maybe boot a little > > sooner, > > but it won't produce any earth shattering differences.

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Valentin Bud
2009/5/30 Zbigniew Szalbot > >> Can you please give me a hint how to use find to search for a specific > >> text within files? > > > > Generally, you don't - find(1) does not examine the contents of files by > > itself, just their directory information. You normally use grep(1) to > > search wit

Fw: UK Currency Symbol in 7.2 Console

2009-05-30 Thread Graham Bentley
OK, this is where I am up to. I have plugged my 7.1 Release hard disc back in and I get £ signs no problem. So, I then unplug my KVM and mini keyboard and plug standard ps2 kb / ps2 mouse in. I do a minimal install of 7.2 Release from DVD and make sure I have uk.cp850 in my /etc/rc.conf Guess wha

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 13:56:22 Valentin Bud wrote: > 2009/5/30 Zbigniew Szalbot > > > >> Can you please give me a hint how to use find to search for a specific > > >> text within files? > > > > > > Generally, you don't - find(1) does not examine the contents of files > > > by itself, just their

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Valentin Bud
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Mel Flynn < mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net > wrote: > On Saturday 30 May 2009 13:56:22 Valentin Bud wrote: > > 2009/5/30 Zbigniew Szalbot > > > > > >> Can you please give me a hint how to use find to search for a > specific > > > >> text within file

Re: MIME attachments in mbox files

2009-05-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 29 May 2009 23:40:52 -0400 Vince Sabio wrote: > I have a need (well, I have lots of needs, but I'll try to stay > focused here) to be able to take a Windows zip file that is stored as > a MIME attachment to an e-mail message in an Mbox-format spool file, > and unzip the attachment.

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-30 Thread Jerry
The usefulness of government intervention into private lives, businesses, etc. is never going to be resolved on this forum. I am just going to leave with something I received at a business lecture a few years ago. It was by a Princeton professor, Dr. Webner I believe. Innovation has never come f

FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p12 bind9 log files not found

2009-05-30 Thread Prokofyev Vladislav
Hello, I have setup FreeBSD recently, can somebody help me with one interesting thing - Bind9 slave DNS server, everything is works great, but I got a problem with extended logging of xfer, etc. Bind9 started in chroot: root 7880.0 0.1 3156 1004 ?? Ss Fri01AM 0:02.10 /usr/sbin/s

GSM to Serial Converter

2009-05-30 Thread Exemys
This is a message in multipart MIME format. Your mail client should not be displaying this. Consider upgrading your mail client to view this message correctly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p12 bind9 log files not found

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 14:50:31 Prokofyev Vladislav wrote: > Bind9 started in chroot: > > root 7880.0 0.1 3156 1004 ?? Ss Fri01AM 0:02.10 > /usr/sbin/syslogd -l /var/run/log -l /var/named/var/run/log -s > bind30792 0.0 1.2 16212 12864 ?? Is4:10PM 0:00.23 > /usr/sbi

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p12 bind9 log files not found

2009-05-30 Thread Michael Powell
Prokofyev Vladislav wrote: > Hello, > > I have setup FreeBSD recently, can somebody help me with one interesting > thing - Bind9 slave DNS server, everything is works great, but I got a > problem with extended logging of xfer, etc. > Bind9 started in chroot: > > root 7880.0 0.1 3156

Re: GSM to Serial Converter

2009-05-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Exemys wrote: This is a message in multipart MIME format. Your mail client should not be displaying this. Consider upgrading your mail client to view this message correctly. Wrong list. You should consider upgrading *your* mail client to send messages correctly; general consensus, and I'll

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-30 Thread cpghost
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 03:13:13PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > Done the same with HP Laserjet 4000 duplex - it even received > > an IP automatically via DHCP, so I just had to "arp -a" and > > edit /etc/hosts and /etc/printcap. The lpq / lprm tools seemed > > to operate on the printer server

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p12 bind9 log files not found

2009-05-30 Thread Prokofyev Vladislav
> > named_enable="YES" > named_program="/usr/sbin/named" > named_chrootdir="/var/named" > > -Mike > > After adding these options on my system, named didn't start at boot. Manully attempt to start it via '/etc/rc.d/named start' brought to the following error: /etc/rc.d/named: WARNING: run_rc_comma

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
is a perfect choice. i recommend it for every unix user. Thanks for the pointer! I was actually looking for a set of ethernet print servers, and this looks very promising. Can you confirm that the PS-1206P works well under RELENG_7? it can't. it's ethernet device not PC peripheral so it doesn

Re: Fresh install 7.2-RELEASE i386, X won't start

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
/Leslie of course turn off hald, and run moused. Unfortunately that did not fix the problem :-( What do I test next? /Leslie do X -configure and look at xorg.conf then try fixing something there. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: Failure to get past a PCI bridge

2009-05-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 28 May 2009 16:24:00 +0200 Josef Moellers wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install 7.2-RELEASE on a pretty new system (a Fujitsu > RX300S5). > The first obstacle was the fact that while the system has an > AT-Keyboard-Controller, it ist not used (keyboard and mouse are > connecte

Re: What is this forum for?

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hey folks, all of you, could I please sugggest that this entire thread (under a variety of subject names) is an abuse of the lists? Generally i do agree with you. But - in my opinion there are lots of other abuses. Whenever i pointed this out i got tons of protests from others. So please - wh

Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
It's a detailed how-to but consider the following: a) With Oracle acquiring Sun, one should move to PostgreSQL where ever possible. is this a reason, or that simply mysql is just slow and inefficient compared to postgreSQL? ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: What is this forum for?

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
UPS.. maybe better not write that, as people from governments may get this new idea. Worse, the EU will consider 'super tankers' unfair to smaller sized tankers and require super tankers to only carry half as much cargo. but this will make CO2 emission higher as half-loaded supertanker needs

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p12 bind9 log files not found

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 17:01:17 Prokofyev Vladislav wrote: > > The named running chrooted has no clue about /var/named. You can either > > use ducttape: > > cd /var/named/var && sudo ln -s .. named > > > > or just strip /var/named from your config file, hence use > > /var/log/xfer.log. > > > > --

Re: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
"You did all fine, i have the same configured program in my linux/openbsd/netbsd/solaris/whatever OS and it works fine" So . . . basically, it's okay for someone to ask about X if that person reread again. You - intentionally or unintentionally - change what i write to mean something else.

Re: Competition law (was Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint)

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I know what socialism means. You seem not to. I haven't anywhere advocated state ownership of businesses - in fact I very clearly stated that I believe in a free market with only that level of regulation required to keep it free from monopoly abuse. You are wrong. there is no monopoly abuse wh

RE: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
that's why i opt for moderation. because it's completely stupid as there are no rules and no enforcement. On Fri, 29 May 2009, gabe wrote: This is stupid, I'm unsubscribing. jeez -Original Message- From: Chad Perrin Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 1:41 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Wojciech Puchar said the following on 2009-05-28 23:06: Poland is now slowly losing independence Poland has never had any independence. Your argument is moot. generally you are right. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: MIME attachments in mbox files

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have a need (well, I have lots of needs, but I'll try to stay focused here) to be able to take a Windows zip file that is stored as a MIME attachment to an e-mail message in an Mbox-format spool file, and unzip the attachment. I actually need to script the process. In case it helps, I can dedi

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Basic law of marketing is to give the public what they want. No. The company CREATES a "need" for their product. That's the number one rule. if they succeed - what's wrong? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: On the need for moderated questions lists

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
But the choice you have in a strictly moderated mailing list is about the same as the choice my people had in that particular oppressive regime: leave or stay to fight a hopeless battle. Thinking your way - if someone will come to my home and will do what i do not accept - can i force him to go

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
But we're talking about vulnerability to dictionary and brute-force attacks. You'd have to first: Ascertain a username in the wheel group. As time needed to brute-force crack any of my password is incomparably longer than the age of universe, this is not an argument. It's just a matter to us

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am using find in the following manner: find /path/to/files/ -mtime -2 -ls |less to find files which have been recently modified. But I would like to extend the search to find specific expression within files. -name is used to specify file name. How can I search for strings within text? no mat

Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 17:31:35 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >>> It's a detailed how-to but consider the following: > >>> a) With Oracle acquiring Sun, one should move to PostgreSQL where ever > >>> possible. > > is this a reason, or that simply mysql is just slow and inefficient > compared to postgre

Re: Software creating karaoke from mp3 files

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Been unable to purchase karaoke of rock and roll greats like "AC/DC, THE ROLLING STONES, THE DOORS, LED ZEPPELIN". Looking for advice on software that AFAIK nobody yet invented so good voice analyzer that could separate out music and speech. But there are programs that ROUGHLY removes speec

Re: Greylisting and new posters

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Don't be. It's been bothering me for a while and you weren't even the trigger. Ironically the trigger was the endless and rather pointless discussions about list moderation. most probably you didn't read the points. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
because it tells you the file in which the text pattern was found :). Discouraged because: - it's possible to hit maxarglen if the root directory has many subdirectories. xargs is usefull too. i would it as forking for each file will make processing really slow. xargs can cut input data into

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The usefulness of government intervention into private lives, businesses, etc. is never going to be resolved on this forum. And will it be resolved with discussion anywhere else with anyone else? ;) Only usage of crude force can change the way things go today. And both me and anyone on that li

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-30 Thread cpghost
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 05:18:07PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> is a perfect choice. i recommend it for every unix user. > > > > Thanks for the pointer! I was actually looking for a set of ethernet > > print servers, and this looks very promising. > > > > Can you confirm that the PS-1206P wor

Filter request Re: GSM to Serial Converter

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Could you please add filter for incoming mail to remove things like that from improperly configured client? It's always the same message so it's simple On Sat, 30 May 2009, Exemys wrote: This is a message in multipart MIME format. Your mail client should not be displaying this. Consider upg

Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Depends on your usage. I'd say for SMTP table lookups, MySQL can out perform PostgreSQL, unless one uses persistent connections (postfix proxy-map to be on topic). The reason for this is that the connection start up for MySQL has lower overhead then for PostgreSQL. for just quick searching of ke

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
it can't. Okay, thank you. I'll order one and test drive it here, and if it works as it should, I'll order the remaining 200 or so if we're satisfied. ;) so ask edimax directly you certainly get a discount on it. But of course test before. I installed only 7 in various places. hooked on

Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail

2009-05-30 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 30 May 2009 17:31:35 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar wrote: It's a detailed how-to but consider the following: a) With Oracle acquiring Sun, one should move to PostgreSQL where ever possible. > >is this a reason, or that simply mysql is just slow and inefficient >compared to

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 17:57:14 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> because it tells you the file in which the text pattern was found :). > > > > Discouraged because: > > - it's possible to hit maxarglen if the root directory has many > > subdirectories. > > xargs is usefull too. i would it as forking for

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread RW
On Sat, 30 May 2009 14:12:50 +0200 Mel Flynn wrote: > On Saturday 30 May 2009 13:56:22 Valentin Bud wrote: > > 2009/5/30 Zbigniew Szalbot > > You can use egrep -r * (grep -e) to search for specific text > > pattern while you are in a directory with many sub directories. The > > output is nice

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Cut off the message a bit later and you will see that using a '+' to terminate the exec primitive emulates xargs behavior: thanks. i didn't know that On Saturday 30 May 2009 14:12:50 Mel Flynn wrote: I use + rather then ; so that one invocation for grep is done whenever maxarglen is hit (li

Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
you tried using: BUILD_OPTIMIZED=yes BUILD_STATIC=yes Their use could improve the speed of MySQL. the latter (static) will only optimize mysql startup time ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 18:14:49 RW wrote: > On Sat, 30 May 2009 14:12:50 +0200 > > Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Saturday 30 May 2009 13:56:22 Valentin Bud wrote: > > > 2009/5/30 Zbigniew Szalbot > > > > > > You can use egrep -r * (grep -e) to search for specific text > > > pattern while you are in a

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 30 May 2009 11:25:12 +0200, "Zbigniew Szalbot" wrote: > Hello, > > Can you please give me a hint how to use find to search for a specific > text within files? One valid solution is to combine find (to find the files) and grep (to search in them). For the combination, you can use the fam

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
the famous back-tics. % grep "expression" `find /path/to/files/ -mtime -2 -print` Of course, there are surely easier, faster and better means, but from this one, I know it just works. :-) Furthermore, I unless filelist exceed max lenght of arguments and unfortunately it happens often

Re: MIME attachments in mbox files

2009-05-30 Thread Vince Sabio
** At 00:56 -0700 on 05/30/2009, George Davidovich wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:40:52PM -0400, Vince Sabio wrote: I have a need (well, I have lots of needs, but I'll try to stay focused here) Given the nature of most messages in the last few days, I'd suggest you're trying too hard. ;-

Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 18:05:12 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > Depends on your usage. I'd say for SMTP table lookups, MySQL can out > > perform PostgreSQL, unless one uses persistent connections (postfix > > proxy-map to be on topic). The reason for this is that the connection > > start up for MySQL h

Best practices in finding out a trojan

2009-05-30 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, I know this has practically no connection with FreeBSD but I have a site on a shared hosting and it appears the site got a trojan called JS:Cruzer-D. I cannot find anything about it as it appears to be relatively new (28 May). Anyway, I am trying to browse through the joomla cms files in ho

Re: Best practices in finding out a trojan

2009-05-30 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 30 May 2009 19:40:55 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > I know this has practically no connection with FreeBSD but I have a site > on a shared hosting and it appears the site got a trojan called > JS:Cruzer-D. I cannot find anything about it as it appears to be > relatively new (28 May). Anyway

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Walt Pawley
At 6:44 PM +0200 5/30/09, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> the famous back-tics. >> >> % grep "expression" `find /path/to/files/ -mtime -2 -print` >> >> Of course, there are surely easier, faster and better means, >> but from this one, I know it just works. :-) Furthermore, I > >unless filelist excee

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
| while read x; do "$x"; done which should get around the list length limitations and provides for doing "extras" between the "do" and the "done". Specifically: find /path/to/files/ -mtime -2 -print | \ while read x; do grep "expression" "$x"; done same as -exec works but forks a process fo

Re: Greylisting and new posters

2009-05-30 Thread Chuck Robey
Mel Flynn wrote: > All (including David with his kick-ass postmaster hat), > > while off-topic, flames and other non sense covered by Freedom of Speech are > an annoyance to many, I'm more bothered by some newcomers to the list that > are > being greylisted on first post and instantly hit the r

Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Markus Künkler
Hi! I installed my software using csup and make install. Now there are new versions available. How can i deinstall the old software with depencies or upgrade the complete stuff? I want to use make for that and it should ignore if an old version is already installed or deinstall the old ver

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi! I installed my software using csup and make install. Now there are new you mean FreeBSD or some add on software? as assume latter. you should use ports for installing software. if there are no port for it, you should write it and contribute ;) but if you already did this way, then you hav

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 30 May 2009 20:54:10 +0200, Markus Künkler wrote: > Hi! > I installed my software using csup and make install. Now there are new > versions available. How can i deinstall the old software with > depencies or upgrade the complete stuff? I want to use make for that > and it should igno

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 30 May 2009 21:20:13 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: > If you need to install software this was, try to set target directory base > not in /usr, to not make mess with base system, and not /usr/local - to > not mess with ports. > > creating /usr/local2 is a good choice You can eve

Multiple program launches in Midnight Commander

2009-05-30 Thread Polytropon
Since I moved to FreeBSD 7, I noticed that if I press Enter on a file name in the Midnight Commander (which associates the start of the proper program with the file name as parameter, controlled by mc.ext file) that the program is sometimes started 2 or three times. This is especially annoying for

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
creating /usr/local2 is a good choice You can even keep it out of /usr employing the /opt "Linuxism". :-) no matter what's the name, but it's good to have /usr/local for ports-based installed things /some/other/directory for hand-installed things so both base system and ports are clearly se

Re: Multiple program launches in Midnight Commander

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
2 or three times. This is especially annoying for video files that then run multiple instances of mplayer, or image files that then run multiple instances of xzgv -tz. i never had this in any version of FreeBSD including 7.1 i use now but i use mc-lite port

Mysql6 or Mysql5

2009-05-30 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am asking thise here as I am aware there are many ISPs and Hosting farm admins on this list. I am in the process of setting up the next gen servers, and notice the Mysql6 is available in ports. Does anyone have any expierience with it? Is it solid? Fast? Are there any 'gotchas' when

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread cpghost
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 09:35:35PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > You can even keep it out of /usr employing the /opt "Linuxism". :-) /opt is actually a Solarism... ;-) -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 30 May 2009 23:50:42 +0200, cpghost wrote: > /opt is actually a Solarism... ;-) That's true, but nobody knows, because Solaris doesn't exist. :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Glen Barber
Polytropon, On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > You can even keep it out of /usr employing the /opt "Linuxism". :-) > For (my own) clarity sake, won't that take up space in '/'? (Not arguing, just never thought of using /opt on FreeBSD...) -- Glen Barber ___

Re: rsync approach

2009-05-30 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Wed, 27 May 2009 15:03:30 -0700, >> prad said: P> We are thinking of rsync to duplicate 1st [box] > 2nd [box] (with the P> exception of rc.conf and a few other files of course because we don't P> want them to be absolutely identical). P> we plan to allow root login and have disabled all p

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

2009-05-30 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Sat, 30 May 2009 11:25:12 +0200, >> "Zbigniew Szalbot" said: Z> Can you please give me a hint how to use find to search for a specific Z> text within files? People have mentioned using xargs in combination with find, but if you're dealing with Windows files on a server, be prepared

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-05-30

2009-05-30 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the maili

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 30 May 2009 18:55:15 -0400, Glen Barber wrote: > For (my own) clarity sake, won't that take up space in '/'? (Not > arguing, just never thought of using /opt on FreeBSD...) This depends on your file system layout, Glen. If you put everything into one partition, i. e. /, then everything i

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Glen Barber
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 30 May 2009 18:55:15 -0400, Glen Barber > wrote: >> For (my own) clarity sake, won't that take up space in '/'?  (Not >> arguing, just never thought of using /opt on FreeBSD...) > > This depends on your file system layout, Glen. If you

FreeBSD on USB drive for a MacBook Pro

2009-05-30 Thread John Nielsen
I'm looking for advice and/or pointers. I have an Intel-based MacBook Pro and I would like to use a USB thumb drive to be able to boot FreeBSD on it. Some questions: 1) Is this even possible? I've read that you _can_ boot Mac OS X from a USB hard drive on a new MacBook but I'm not sure if the s

Myths about Power Over Ethernet

2009-05-30 Thread Midspan Manager
Myths about Power Over Ethernet May 28, 2009 Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) technology integrates power and data across standard Cat5/5e/6 network cabling and provides more flexibility in today’s workplace. PoE enables power to be supplied to network devices, such as IP phones, network cameras, and

about using ppp over ethernet

2009-05-30 Thread Yavuz Maşlak
I use freebsd7.1 I have a adsl modem. I am going to use freebsd as a router and firewall. I wish to use over pppoe. I set the adsl modem as a bridge mode. I configured ppp.conf on freebsd. When I try to connect to internet using ADSL, But I get an error as below; Freebsd can't ping at any out

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-30 Thread perryh
Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > >> Even 15 seconds of thinking is enough to understand that logging > >> to other user and then su - gives completely no extra security. > > > > I don't buy this, given that root's login name is well known :) > > if someone can intercept th

Audio boost OSS/Mplayer

2009-05-30 Thread Kyle Grieb
I want to boost the audio playback of my multimedia. I use mplayer with oss for audio playback. I don't want to re-encode my media. uname -a:'7.1-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD' -- ~ ##The United States of America is a Slave Nation## ##The Human race is a Slave race## !!InfoWars.com!! ___

[FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE] Audio going silent after wakeup.

2009-05-30 Thread LoH
After setting up an Audigy2ZS with the emu10kx kernel driver, I found that after the machine goes into a suspend mode and wakes up, the sound stops playing. Unloading and reloading the kernel drivers (sound.ko and snd_emu10kx.ko) doesn't appear to do anything. I tested with an external line dev

What's wrong with this picture?

2009-05-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 30 May 2009, freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org wrote in freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 260, Issue 31 [..] >1. Fw: UK Currency Symbol in 7.2 Console (Graham Bentley) >2. Re: find and searching for specific expression in files > (Mel Flynn) >3. Re: find and searching