Re: Deinstall software

2009/5/31 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 pa

Re: FreeBSD on USB drive for a MacBook Pro

2009/5/31 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

Re: Mysql6 or Mysql5

Grant Peel wrote: Does anyone have any expierience with it? Is it solid? Fast? Are there any 'gotchas' when using databases developed on older versions of Mysql? (4). I can't answer about speed or solidity -- except to point out that MySQL themselves describe MYSQL 6.0 as an "alpha development

Re: Deinstall software

For (my own) clarity sake, won't that take up space in '/'? (Not in my case yes as / is usually my only filesystem. for those who keep programs (/usr) separate /usr/local2 or /usr/whatever will be OK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Deinstall software

This depends on your file system layout, Glen. If you put everything into one partition, i. e. /, then everything is going into /. like in my case. with one exception - now i usually have /tmp separate but it's tmpfs :) other "Solarisisms" that I've already seen, such as /export on FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD on USB drive for a MacBook Pro

4) Just to be contrary, I'd also like to use GELI (if possible) for everything but /boot. Does needing an extra /boot partition change anything? Actually you can't create /boot partition, but something else like /b and link /boot to /b/boot bootloader subsystem requires that things are in /boo

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Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

same user password somewhere else. The whole point of ssh is to prevent this sort of thing, by encrypting the message traffic over this insecure communication channel. I think most people using ssh already know it. or maybe not?:) An attacker may be able to intercept the encrypted traffic,

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Re: What's wrong with this picture?

> (Wojciech Puchar) > 33. Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint (Wojciech Puchar) > 34. Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint (cpghost) > 35. Filter request Re: GSM to Serial Converter (Wojciech Puchar) > 36. Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail (Wojciech Puchar) Woj, 20 out of 36 messages, ov

Re: Deinstall software

On Sun, 31 May 2009 10:30:44 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: > does Solaris REQUIRE things to be in /export to be able to export through > NFS or is it just some kind of tradition or routinely repeated rule? No, just tradition or convention. In most cases, there are other structures than j

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

No. The company CREATES a "need" for their product. That's the number one rule. if they succeed - what's wrong? You tell me. nothing. As long as nobody is forced to buy someones product, every kind of propaganda is allowed. It's just peoples problem if they will believe that they NEED for

Re: Deinstall software

all your examples are sounds just like kind of "tradition". Just like for eg. creating lots of partitions no matter if it's needed or not On Sun, 31 May 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 31 May 2009 10:30:44 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: does Solaris REQUIRE things to be in /export to

Re: Deinstall software

Wojciech Puchar wrote: other "Solarisisms" that I've already seen, such as /export on FreeBSD which is usually used on Solaris for NFS shares.) does Solaris REQUIRE things to be in /export to be able to export through NFS or is it just some kind of tradition or routinely repeated rule? It'

Re: Deinstall software

On Sun, 31 May 2009 10:49:18 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: > all your examples are sounds just like kind of "tradition". > Just like for eg. creating lots of partitions no matter if it's needed or > not One exception: The creation of different partitions according to different uses can (

Re: Deinstall software

In fact, given that FreeBSD doesn't seem to have a native convention on how exported filesystems are laid out (no mention in hier(7), no default /etc/exports file), it would make sense to adopt the Solaris/Linux style where feasible. it's best not to adopt any style, but do whatever is optimal

Re: Deinstall software

One exception: The creation of different partitions according to different uses can (but doesn't neccessarily have to) be useful if partition-wise dumps are required or intended. As you know, there are advantages and disadvantages. There can This is only adventage - to use dump. Anyway - do some

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

On 5/31/09, LoH wrote: > 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 test

Re: Deinstall software

On Sun, 31 May 2009 11:19:10 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: > For me it never succeeded, even if it dumps successfully produced output > could be unrestorable. > > After getting this twice i stayed away from this great (but nonworking) > tool. Backup tool that are not 100% sure is not a

Re: Deinstall software

Wojciech Puchar wrote: Your idea won't hurt in single-disk, single-partition case, but this case is prohibited by other "blind repeat" rule of making lots of partitions. I didn't say anything about how file system layout should be mapped to disk partitions[*]. Nor do I support the concept of

Re: Deinstall software

On Sun, 31 May 2009 11:15:19 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: > it's best not to adopt any style, but do whatever is optimal in certain > case. > > You propose just another example of "blind repeated rule". It is often found as "corporate standard". This doesn't mean you have to use it on

Re: Deinstall software

I just prefer dump + restore for "cloning" systems because it explicitely takes care of file attributes and anything; I do use You are right, but rsync can do the same :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/

Re: about using ppp over ethernet

Yavuz Maşlak wrote: I have a adsl modem. I am going to use freebsd as a router and firewall. ... What am I doing wrong? It is probably the firewall, it seems that you use firewall_type="closed". Could give us some more info about it? Which firewall do you use? what are your custom rules? Y

Re: Deinstall software

Your idea won't hurt in single-disk, single-partition case, but this case is prohibited by other "blind repeat" rule of making lots of partitions. I didn't say anything about how file system layout should be mapped to disk partitions[*]. Nor do I support the concept of making lots and lots of

Re: Deinstall software

case. You propose just another example of "blind repeated rule". It is often found as "corporate standard". This doesn't mean you Well i don't expect many smart people working in big corporations. There are exceptions of course - those that got there by accident and not yet left ;) __

migrating berkeley DBs (4.3 to 4.6)

Hi: I have cyrus-imapd 2.3 with Berkeley DB 4.3 and openldap also compiled with BDB 4.3. Now, openldap won't build with 4.3 and defaults to 4.6 so I need to migrate my data, and I would like to migrate my cyrus-imapd also to a newer version of BDB. Are there any tools or tricks for doing t

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sshd + pam_pgsql

Hi! I would like use the sshd with pam_pgsql module. But it isn't work, and I can't configure the pam debug too. So my two question: How can I use the pam debug? How do I use the sshd with pam-pgsql? OS: FreeBSD 7.2 My /etc/pamd./sshd: authrequiredpam_unix.so no_

Re: sshd + pam_pgsql

Dnia niedziela 31 maj 2009 o 16:18:09 Sajó Zsolt Attila napisał(a): > How do I use the sshd with pam-pgsql? I don't know how tu use but I see something strange with your setup. In ssh-pam_pgsql.conf you have pw_type = md5 and in your database you have a cleartext password. I think it is your probl

Re: find and searching for specific expression in files

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? If you just want the filenames which contain the string you are searching for, use the "-l" argument to tell grep to print out

Re: portupgrade jails

David Collins writes: > I have several jails for the purpose of not trashing my root partition > with junk programs that I may not need and also to learn how to run > various system services, ie dns, http, mysql, samba etc. I have been > running them for a while and have only just updated the jai

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Hi there, I want to use FreeBSD 7.2 as a simple firewall and VPN at home. I’ve a dedicated computer to this. I’m trying to compile my FreeBSD 7.2 Kernel on my computer and I having the following problem: [...] /usr/src/sys/modules/svr4/../../compat/svr4/svr4_stat.c: In function 'svr

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How do I wait for a specific process to die? I want to do something like: waitpid 1234&&(echo "done!" | Mail -s "PROC DONE" kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com) I'm sure this is trivial, but I can't find a way to do it. I wrote a Perl script that checks every second if /proc/pid exists, but that only wo

Re: Waiting for a process to die

2009/5/31 Kelly Jones : > How do I wait for a specific process to die? I want to do something like: > > waitpid 1234&&(echo "done!" | Mail -s "PROC DONE" kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com) > > I'm sure this is trivial, but I can't find a way to do it. > > I wrote a Perl script that checks every second if

Re: portupgrade jails

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Lowell Gilbert < freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > David Collins writes: > > > I have several jails for the purpose of not trashing my root partition > > with junk programs that I may not need and also to learn how to run > > various system servic

Mounting Encrypted ISO and mdconfig

Does FreeBSD or any BSD/OS have "mount -o encryption" support ? I want to pipe aespipe and mount an encrypted iso. I have already checked on FreeBSD 7.1 amd64 that loop option isn't available, so I am sticking to mdconfig and vnconfig on old versions. If not then, Is it possible to pipe aespipe wi

Re: kernel compile problem

2009/5/31 Rodrigo Vilanova : > > Hi there, > > >  I want to use FreeBSD 7.2 as a simple firewall and VPN at home. I’ve a > dedicated computer to this. > > >  I’m trying to compile my FreeBSD 7.2 Kernel on my computer and I having > the following problem: > > > [...] > > /usr/src/sys/modules/svr4/..

Re: migrating berkeley DBs (4.3 to 4.6)

my data, and I would like to migrate my cyrus-imapd also to a newer version of BDB. Are there any tools or tricks for doing this? possibly it's compatible but if you are not sure use db_dump and _load to dump and restore data. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Waiting for a process to die

How do I wait for a specific process to die? I want to do something like: waitpid 1234&&(echo "done!" | Mail -s "PROC DONE" kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com) if i understand you correctly: your_program parameters & bg_process_number=$! ...something else... wait $bg_process_number echo "done!"

Re: Waiting for a process to die

2009/5/31 Wojciech Puchar : > >> How do I wait for a specific process to die? I want to do something like: >> >> waitpid 1234&&(echo "done!" | Mail -s "PROC DONE" >> kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com) > > if i understand you correctly: > > your_program parameters & > bg_process_number=$! > > ...something

changing tab stops

I have a C program that writes to a terminal (currently xterm, but could be anything). For reasons I won't go into, I would like to read and change the terminal's tab stops ... from within the program ... in a generic/portable way. Is this possible? If so, what are the key

Re: Waiting for a process to die

Chris Rees wrote: [ `ps ax |grep pid | wc -l ` = 1 ] && (echo "done!" | Mail -s "PROC DONE" kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com) Not always going to work. For example, [ste...@scs:~]% ps ax | grep init 1 ?Ss 0:39 init [2] 13421 pts/1R+ 0:00 grep init Also if you use its p

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

Unloading the module, letting it suspend on its own, then waking it up and reloading the module does not cause the symptoms to appear. Wish I knew offhand what was being called to let it suspend, and which state it was. Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 5/31/09, LoH wrote: After setting up an Aud

Re: UK Currency Symbol in 7.2 Console

Sorry to keep banging on about this but does anyone actually have uk pound signs working in 7.2? What font and keymap are you using? And, what actually is the process for reporting bugs or getting help with problem like this. Any advice appreciated even from Mr Puchar :)) _

Re: UK Currency Symbol in 7.2 Console

bugs or getting help with problem like this. Any advice appreciated even from Mr Puchar :)) who don't use UK keyboard and pound sign. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscr

dual gateways

I know it is not typical, but here's my setup. I have a private IP scope (/24 block) split up. 2 /25's I have a box that has dual NICs. One is on the low /25 and one is on the high /25. The high /25 is only used for jails and his gateway is a soekris/alix board that will function. I can't fin

Re: Waiting for a process to die

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:42:37PM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote: > > Chris Rees wrote: > >[ `ps ax |grep pid | wc -l ` = 1 ] && (echo "done!" | Mail -s "PROC > >DONE" kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com) > > > > Not always going to work. For example, > > [ste...@scs:~]% ps ax | grep init >1 ?

Re: migrating berkeley DBs (4.3 to 4.6)

Wojciech Puchar wrote: my data, and I would like to migrate my cyrus-imapd also to a newer version of BDB. Are there any tools or tricks for doing this? possibly it's compatible but if you are not sure use db_dump and _load to dump and restore data. Thanks, I've had a look at the dump and

Re: Waiting for a process to die

Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:42:37PM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote: Chris Rees wrote: [ `ps ax |grep pid | wc -l ` = 1 ] && (echo "done!" | Mail -s "PROC DONE" kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com) Not always going to work. For example, [ste...@scs:~]% ps ax | grep init 1 ?

Re: migrating berkeley DBs (4.3 to 4.6)

Are there any tools or tricks for doing this? possibly it's compatible but if you are not sure use db_dump and _load to dump and restore data. Thanks, I've had a look at the dump and load utilities, they have no man page it's not FreeBSD but GNU. No man is equivalent of "read documentation

Re: 4 apcupsd problems using USB to connect on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Frank Shute wrote: > > On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 05:08:03PM +0800, Chun-fan Ivan Liao wrote: > > > > OS version: FreeBSD 7.2 RELEASE > > apcupsd version: 3.14.5 > > UPS model: APC-MGE Back-UPS RS 1000VA (BR1000TW) > > UPS cable type: usb > > > > 3 important lines in

how to i designate the current function...?

I'm not sure this is std yet, but think it is available in gcc. If I'm calling funtion bar(char *, char) with one of the args incorrect, is there a way to have gcc name bar() in an error message? I have a function that I may rename that asks whether or not to con

Re: 4 apcupsd problems using USB to connect on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > On Sun, 10 May 2009 17:08:03 +0800 > Chun-fan Ivan Liao wrote: > >> OS version: FreeBSD 7.2 RELEASE >> apcupsd version: 3.14.5 >> UPS model: APC-MGE Back-UPS RS 1000VA (BR1000TW) >> UPS cable type: usb >> >> 3 important lines in /usr/local

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

I'm pretty sure you could set up a filter on Mr Puchar's name; it's not hard. That said, I just read a sample of his posts (not all of them), and the ones I looked at didn't appear to be 'off-topic' and would probably have passed muster from any reasonable moderator (aye, but there's the rub: who

Re: dual gateways

Tim Judd wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Nikos Vassiliadis > wrote: Tim Judd wrote: I know it is not typical, but here's my setup. I have a private IP scope (/24 block) split up. 2 /25's I have a box that has dual NICs. One is

Re: changing tab stops

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 03:44:24PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > > I have a C program that writes to a terminal (currently xterm, > but could be anything). For reasons I won't go into, I would like > to read and change the terminal's tab stops ... from within the > program ... in a generic/po

Re: UK Currency Symbol in 7.2 Console

Hi Graham, I never thought that I could help you, but playing around a bit on the keyboard seemed to open up an interesting obervation: - £ - A working Pound sign! On Sun, 31 May 2009 21:10:25 +0100, "Graham Bentley" wrote: > Sorry to kee

Re: how to i designate the current function...?

On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:31:40 +0200, Gary Kline wrote: I'm not sure this is std yet, but think it is available in gcc. If I'm calling funtion bar(char *, char) with one of the args incorrect, is there a way to have gcc name bar() in an error message? Are you looking fo

Re: UK Currency Symbol in 7.2 Console

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 09:10:25PM +0100, Graham Bentley wrote: > > Sorry to keep banging on about this but does anyone actually > have uk pound signs working in 7.2? What font and keymap > are you using? keymap="uk.cp850" I guess I use the corresponding syscons font file as I don't have a decla

Re: how to i designate the current function...?

On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 12:53:39AM +0200, Ond??ej Majerech wrote: > On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:31:40 +0200, Gary Kline wrote: > > > I'm not sure this is std yet, but think it is available in gcc. > > If I'm calling funtion bar(char *, char) with one of the args > > incorrect, is there a w

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

passed muster from any reasonable moderator (aye, but there's the rub: who gets to define 'reasonable'?). The phrase "You're fast to agree with our resident M$ troll when he argues against government control of anything, even of protecting the population from a 'free' market that's happy to profi

Re: changing tab stops

Thomas Dickey writes: > >I have a C program that writes to a terminal (currently xterm, > > but could be anything). For reasons I won't go into, I would like > > to read and change the terminal's tab stops ... from within the > > program ... in a generic/portable way. > > You could ma

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

Please take this to chat@, because this is getting really old. -- Glen Barber http://www.dev-urandom.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebs

is there a macro that prints the incoming param list?

is there any marco that printfs the incoming list, or am i asking too much of the compiler at runtime? example: main (int argc, char *argv) with this macro might print: "2", "testinput" and baz(char *file, int count) similarly might print,

Re: is there a macro that prints the incoming param list?

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Gary Kline wrote: > > is there any marco that printfs the incoming list, or am i asking too much of > the > compiler at runtime? > > example: > >main (int argc, char *argv) > >with this macro might print: > >"2", "testinput" > >and

Re: is there a macro that prints the incoming param list?

On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 10:23:01AM +0900, till plewe wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > is there any marco that printfs the incoming list, or am i asking too much > > of the > > compiler at runtime? > > > > example: > > > >main (int argc, char *argv) > > >

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Text attribute differences of syscons and xterm

I'd like to ask the following question: Can the syscons driver be configured in a way that certain screen attributes are displayed in the same way? Read: It is possible to use the underline attribute in text mode? For example, when I call "man man" in an xterm, the effect is this, black on white:

RE: kernel compile problem

Hi Chris,Tks for help. My source was incomplete. My bad! best regards,Cabelyn > From: utis...@googlemail.com > Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 20:32:46 +0100 > To: vilanova_rodr...@hotmail.com > CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: kernel compile problem > > 2009/5/31 Rodrigo Vilanova : >>

Re: Text attribute differences of syscons and xterm

On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Polytropon wrote: I'd like to ask the following question: Can the syscons driver be configured in a way that certain screen attributes are displayed in the same way? Read: It is possible to use the underline attribute in text mode? If your video card and monitor combination