Re: can i split a pdf file?

On Monday 26 January 2009 09:17:05 Andrew Robinson wrote: > Message: 2 > > > Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:20:51 -0500 > > From: Chuck Robey > > Subject: Re: can i split a pdf file? > > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > > Message-ID: <497d0ff3.6090...@telenix.org> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8

Re: shell commands - exclusion

On Friday 06 February 2009 02:55, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > > I think you should be able to do it with a combination of -prune and > -delete (or -exec rm -rf {} \; ) on a find command. Substitute your > other commands for rm -rf in the -exec above. > > I would give you a working example except I ca

Re: sh parameter substitution problem

On Wednesday 11 February 2009 12:47:17 Ian Smith wrote: > I'm getting nowhere trying to parse out IP addresses from strings of > this form in /bin/sh, which have been awk'd out of 'tail named.run': > > addr='195.68.176.4#1440:' > addr='195.68.176.4#16811:' > addr='195.68.176.4#276:' > > sh(1) in

Re: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?

On Thursday 12 February 2009 03:07:42 Paul Schmehl wrote: > > Sorry if I wasn't clear. > > I wasn't suggesting that the *users* chgrp the files. Keith would do that > as root. Then he sets the setgid bit to www (or whatever the web user is), > and from that point going forward any files created b

Re: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?

On Thursday 12 February 2009 19:15:21 Paul Schmehl wrote: > If you set the world readable bit, you break the entire schema.  To make it > work, world must have no access - not even directory search access.  So you > set u=rwx,g=srx,o-rwx (or 2750), for homedirs and u=rw,g=sr,o-rwx (or 2640) > for f

Re: new package system proposal

On Tuesday 07 April 2009 23:35:03 Bob Johnson wrote: > On 4/4/09, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > > Hi all > > [...] > > > My suggestion is to start with a ports tree that is fixed in time. Make > > that ports tree available as part of this package system and compile a > > typical desktop set of ports,

Re: new package system proposal

On Wednesday 08 April 2009 21:24:00 Bob Johnson wrote: > PC-BSD seems to already keep up-to-date binary packages of their > applications. Do they accomplish that by only offering a small subset > of the full ports collection? Yes - have a look at . I installed PC-BSD on a s

Re: make run-depends-list-recursive?

On Tuesday 14 April 2009 21:02:08 Mel Flynn wrote: > On Monday 13 April 2009 03:56:15 Tim Judd wrote: > > > make all-depends-list > > Two things: > 1) It surpresses config target and if a port has OPTIONS set, then you may > get surprised once you've configured the port and ticked/unticked an optio

Re: Can't log-in anymore

On Wednesday 15 April 2009 03:58:08 Ruel Luchavez wrote: > Hi.. > > I know someoene here can help fix my biggest problem so far. > > I can't log-in any more in my FreebSD box > the serverver always complain > > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1:shared object "lib.so.7" not found, required by sh > Enter full pat

Re: make run-depends-list-recursive?

On Thursday 16 April 2009 12:27:04 Mel Flynn wrote: > But yes, all-depends-list is exactly that, with the provision > that it does not take changed OPTIONS into account. That's what I suspected you were saying yesterday, and it seems to be wrong. Try this (assuming you haven't already configured/

Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

On Friday 01 May 2009 22:43:51 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 12:07:22PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > > Let's say we have a system that is backed up regularly and it > > vanishes in a puff of smoke one day. One can get FreeBSD > > installed on a new drive in maybe half an hou

Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

On Monday 04 May 2009 15:59:14 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:31:16AM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > > > If you have kept the right information beforehand, you can actually > > restore your dumps onto ``bare metal'' without doing a partial ins

Re: single SATA disk and yet identified as 'ad4'

On Monday 11 May 2009 21:38:50 Saifi Khan wrote: > Hi all: > > The system has just one SATA disk and yet bootloader process > identified it as 'ad4'. Ideally, it should be ad1. [snip] > How does the labelling logic work ? FreeBSD reserves numbers for devices that aren't currently connected, so tha

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

On Thursday 28 May 2009 22:52:47 Jerry wrote: > > Did you ever bother to consider that if the printer manufacturers > actually formed a consensus on a printer language, some third world > county or the EU would probably sue them. Nothing I have seen in 20 > years equals the audacity of the EU. As l

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

[Sorry for the excessive quoting - I couldn't decide which bits to take out] On Friday 29 May 2009 12:48:00 Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 29 May 2009 09:34:36 +0200 > > Jonathan McKeown wrote: > >On Thursday 28 May 2009 22:52:47 Jerry wrote: > >> Did you ever bother to

Re: Circumstance leading up to removal of perl from base?

On Saturday 21 June 2008 01:02, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > Hello all, > > I know it was a long time ago, but I was talking with a co-worker about > why perl was removed from the base in v5 -- I seem to recall a discussion > on some mailing list about either the number of arguments or the fo

Re: Install Linux in FreeBSD

On Wednesday 09 July 2008 08:46, Ruel Luchavez wrote: > Hi again list, > > Is it possible to run a VM machine in your freebsd server in which inside > that VM you are running on it a Linux environment? coul it be? > You would rather want to know why do I want that set up? Simply because I > want to

Re: Install Linux in FreeBSD

On Friday 11 July 2008 05:29, Ruel Luchavez wrote: [running Linux in a VM on FreeBSD] > > Did you read section 10 of the Handbook - Linux Binary Compatibility? > > Yes I read it Jonathan, Im newbie in BSD...regarding on my post is it > possible? > or Do you have any link so that i could much unde

Re: Install Linux in FreeBSD

On Friday 11 July 2008 12:36, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > I believe the OP question is: > How to run a Full blown linux OS on a Virtual Machine on FreeBSD, > > and not > how to run linux binaries on FreeBSD via emulation.. Not in context: the original question was Is it possible to run Linux in a VM

Re: How to divide up?

On Sunday 20 July 2008 08:37, Gary Kline wrote: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 05:03:15AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:44:07 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Now, if you want to merely "hack something quick and dirty", a short > > > Perl script can

Building modules distributed with Apache, using ports

This may be a daft question. I freely admit it's a lazy one - I'm hoping someone has a quick answer that'll save me a couple of hours building a test server and experimenting. I built apache 2.0 from ports, using WITH_LDAP - but not WITH_LDAP_MODULES, as the Makefile.doc says it's implied by WI

Re: Having some problems with a FreeBSD mail server (SMTP)

On Thursday 31 July 2008 02:35, Andrew Falanga wrote: > Hi, > > I run a mail server for my church. Today I was called that folks are able > to receive, but not send their mail. They are all currently configured for > POP3 (I use dovecot). > > At home I tried to send mail to two different e-mail a

Re: Handling of daily and weekly mails

On Thursday 31 July 2008 09:03, Maximillian Dornseif wrote: > I administer about a dozen FreeBSD Servers. This results in me getting > about 100 mails a week from the PERIODIC(8) scripts. Obviously this is to > much to read with care. > > I wonder what the canonical approach is to handling hundred

Re: shutdown/reboot suggestion

On Sunday 10 August 2008 07:11, Michael Grant wrote: > I have such a script, I put it in /bin/require_hostname and symlinked > shutdown, halt, reboot, fastboot, and fasthalt to this script: > > #!/bin/sh > > if [ "$1" = `hostname` ]; then > shift > exec /sbin/`basename $0` $@ > else

Re: Regular Expression Trouble

On Wednesday 27 August 2008 15:25:02 Martin McCormick wrote: > The sed pattern matching system is interesting because I > can think of several similar situations in which the data are > there but there is no guarantee where on a given line it sits > and grep or sed usually will pull in the w

Re: LDAP and Account Management

On Monday 01 September 2008 23:33:11 Chris wrote: > I've toyed with LDAP accounts before to get them to work. But now I'm > going to put it into production. > > I'm wondering though about user and group management. When ports are > installed on individual servers, users and groups are sometimes a

Re: Question on bind page

On Tuesday 02 September 2008 08:12:13 Richard Yang wrote: [snip] > To start named is pretty much the first step before going to configure > BIND. I have to reinstall it and it still doesn't work. Personally, I would have said it's exactly the other way round: you shouldn't start named until afte

require pam_deny in auth chain causes logins to fail

pam.d/README says: Note that having a "sufficient" module as the last entry for a particular service and module type may result in surprising behaviour. To get the intended semantics, add a "required" entry listing the pam_deny module at the end of the chain. But in fact auth sufficient pam_unix

Re: How to change NIC IP when system is running FBSD 6.1

On Tuesday 18 July 2006 15:49, Erin Fortenberry wrote: > > But please, that's so, um, "Windows-ish"? > > > > #ifconfig xl0 down* > > #ifconfig xl0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > > > Cake! > > > > Kevin Kinsey > > Don't forget to adjust the default route and save your changes for when the >

Re: Using pre-built packages with portmanager

On Saturday 05 August 2006 19:16, cpghost wrote: > How do I get portmanager to upgrade ports, using > 1. pre-built packages from /usr/ports/packages (ONLY), > and only if there's no binary package there, > 2. build from source as usual? > > Additional limit (preventing use of portupgrade -P) i

Re: Building ports with sorces on a local mirror?

On Saturday 26 August 2006 22:15, stan wrote: > I'm in the process of seting up to build a fair number of machines behind a > very restrictive firewall (and besides that the outbound link is very > slow). > > What I have in mind is setting up a machine using mirror software to create > a local mirr

Re: include format for /etc/rc.conf

On Wednesday 30 August 2006 09:40, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > Hey all, > > Are there any supported formats for INCLUDES in /etc/rc.conf such that I > can drop default configs into /etc/rc.conf and then have files in a > certain directory (ala includerc) override them? Basically, I'd like t

Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?

I'm setting up a remote server with two identical hard drives, running FreeBSD-6.1. I want to set the drives up as a mirror for data redundancy. I also want to be able to break the mirror when I need to update the OS or installed software, so that if anything goes wrong with the update on one d

Re: Fwd: [#24525016] External USB drive causes system to hang completely

On Sunday 30 May 2010 22:29:14 Alejandro Imass wrote: > Hi all, > > I sent a question regarding a problem with USB and I get this in reply. > Can someone explain? > > Thanks, > Alejandro Imass Yes. There's a hosting company called MidPhase whose support queue (at mpcustomer.com) has been added (p

Re: why does ps |grep sometimes not return itself?

On Thursday 10 June 2010 03:30:14 Pieter de Goeje wrote: > On Wednesday 09 June 2010 09:34:40 Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On 09/06/2010 08:15:23, Eitan Adler wrote: > > > Why do I sometimes see the grep in ps's output and sometimes not see > > > it? > > > > When you run that pipeline the OS doesn't s

Midphase Hosting

ac.za; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:05:39 +0200 Received: by secure.mpcustomer.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id 4841C1532997; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:46:31 -0500 (CDT) To: Jonathan McKeown Subject: [#24548754] Re: why does ps |grep sometimes not return itself? Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:46:31 -0500 Fro

Re: Midphase Hosting

On Thursday 10 June 2010 14:06:46 Rob Farmer wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Matthias Fechner wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Am 10.06.10 11:47, schrieb Jonathan McKeown: > >> Subject: [#24548754] Re: why does ps |grep sometimes not return itself? > >>

Re: Midphase Hosting

On Thursday 10 June 2010 14:51:42 Rob Farmer wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Jonathan McKeown wrote: [rant about midphase hosting and mpcustomer.com] > > They posted in a previous thread about this, saying they couldn't > unsubscribe under their address, ie. somebody

Re: Midphase Hosting

On Thursday 10 June 2010 15:04:53 Matthew Seaman wrote: > > The only other mechanism might be to tag each list e-mail with a unique > value for each recipient in such a way that it is preserved in the > message that mpcustomer.com's help system sends out. That has severe > problems of scale and lo

Re: Midphase Hosting

On Thursday 10 June 2010 18:30:52 Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 10/06/2010 17:12:50, Jerry wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:12:48 +0200 > > > > Jonathan McKeown articulated: > >> > >> Isn't that called VERP (variable envelope return path)? I agree - the &

Re: Simulate CRON

On Monday 14 June 2010 13:39:15 Carmel wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:41:19 +0530 > > Amitabh Kant articulated: > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Carmel wrote: > > > I saw a posting here months ago regarding a way to simulate running > > > a script under CRON. I wrote it down and now cannot f

Re: Detecting fake library versions

On Thursday 17 June 2010 09:39:37 Matthew Seaman wrote: > > "But what about hard links?" I hear you ask. Simple: > > find /usr/lib /lib -name '*.so.*' -links +2 +1 surely? + modifier in find(1) means ``more than'', not ``at least''. Jonathan ___ free

Re: How to connect a jail to the web ?

On Wednesday 11 August 2010 03:07:32 Rocky Borg wrote: > You should probably preface this by saying you're the author of Qjail > and have been actively promoting it in a few places including the fbsd > forums. That's interesting, given that you're replying to Fbsd8 . The announcement of qjail cam

Re: Grepping a list of words

On Friday 13 August 2010 15:47:38 Jack L. Stone wrote: > The only thing it didn't do for me was the next step. My final objective > was to really determine the words in the "word.file" that were not in the > "main.file." I figured finding matches would be easy and then could then > run a sort|uniq

Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

On Wednesday 15 September 2010 13:02:41 Jerry wrote: > It took years, literally, before FreeBSD matured enough to get 64-bit > drivers for nVidia working correctly on its platform. The failure to > get the latest version(s) of Java working correctly on FreeBSD and > thereby, at least in my case, m

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