two questions

I'm having a brain freeze tonight and apparently forgot some basic UNIX commands.. what is the command to remove the file "--directory" rm *directory* = nope rm "*directory*" = nope rm \-\-\directory = nope rm -i * = nope and dosent even see the file Also, if I'm in / and want to tar the entire

Quake 3 server breakage

I havent investigated this issue in depth enough to know which updated port might have changed this, or if its a ld issue, but I now see that many of the libs quake3 server uses in /usr/compat/linux/lib/ are now symlinked to the new version 2.2.4.so and quake refuses to run. Specifically, the files

USB HD support in 4.9?

I've considered purchasing a external harddrive, preferably USB, and installing freebsd on it and use it as a rsync backup server for my production system. I'm using 4.9-RELEASE, anyone out there using a external USB HD successfully and which manufacturer? Michael __

re: Replacing Bind8x with Bind9

read the /usr/ports/dns/bind9 Makefile and use the 'PORT_REPLACES_BASE_BIND9' option to make. make PORT_REPLACES_BASE_BIND9=yes install clean In rc.conf -- named_enable="YES" named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named" named_flags="-c /usr/local/etc/namedb/named.conf -u bind" and you can als

yahoo messenger

Yahoo has officially updated messenger such that you can no longer connect using the current freebsd yahoo port version ( 0.99.19.1 ). I just tried to install their NEW package.. makayla# pkg_add fbsd4.ymessenger.tgz pkg_add: could not find package gtk-1.2.3 ! pkg_add: could not find package glib-

Re: yahoo messenger

> Well, they do say the FreeBSD 4.5 is the supported platform. How old is > that? going on 6 months, but they HAVE to know port versions in freebsd is ever evolving, especially since yahoo is a FreeBSD supporter and camp. Or, so they say. > Anyway, did you get it installed and running? No, lik

ymessenger

who would like to go in with me on a full yahoo ban of their services. I am so damn tired of this freebsd camp writing services so that only M$ users can enjoy them. The fucking chat.yahoo.com JAVA is written specifically for M$, now we have a NEW updated client that MOTHERUCKING wont even install

Re: ymessenger

> I think we're all frustrated with the recent issues with both MSN and > Yahoo. However, I don't think this mailing list is the place to start > such a vulgar rant. Trolling isn't tolerated here. > > -- > Adam > excuse me mailing list police. ___ [EMAI

Re: ymessenger

My yahoo username under GAIM isnt recognized. michael > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:51:55 -0400 > "James A. Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The Yahoo part of Gaim broke last week and is still not working. > > Not true. It works (for now). > > http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ > > "Our friends over at

ftp recurvisely

Is there a way using the core ftp to mget all files on a site, creating the directorys and getting the files in the recursively? michael ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send a

Need a good Unix script that..

I need a simple sh script that will daily (via cron) crawl a website looking for multiple keywords, then reporting those keyword results and URL to an email address. Anyone know of a pre-written script that does this, or point me in the right direction in using the FreeBSD core commands that can a

Apache failure after php-pspell and aspell upgrade

This morning, after updating: php4-pspell-4.3.8_3 aspell-0.60 I now get the following error in httpd-error.log when attempting to restart apache 2.x: /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/libaspell.so.16: Undefined symbol "pthread_mutex_init" Fix underway for this? Michael

chroot

I installed ( or so I thought ) a chroot env last night and ran into some difficulties. Could someone very familiar with openssh/chroot glance over http://probsd.ws/chroot.txt and tell me what I did wrong please? chroot.txt is an EXTREMELY detailed example of what I did, and script output of th

genzo.it

I guess we could contact Stefano Cecconi and explain that Mr virus boy, aka Alex Battiston is spreading a malicious virii * shrug * To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Watching users

Grant Cooper said: Just because you see some anonymous FTP activity and some telnet activity dosent mean there are blackhats on this list targeting you. As for secure shell, its history compared to FTP cant even be compared. Did you upgrade SSH when you saw the vulnerability, or did you a week, o

Re: make buildworld error after cvsup

re-cvsup, its likely you cvsupped and got 1/2 a commit. > > > Milon Papezík wrote: > >> the same here :-( >> >> Milon >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Jamie Heckford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 4:56 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: make buildworl

RE: upgrade issue

FreeBSD 4.6 was at the bottom of 'man cat' because thats when that man was updated. ie September 15th, 2001 = FreeBSD 4.6 -- GnuPG Key - http://probsd.org/michael.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: upgrade issue

oh ok... then yes, man cat shows your your current version of fbsd * eye roll * Adam Weinberger wrote: (10.21.2002 @ 1840 PST): Michael Sharp said, in 0.3K: << FreeBSD 4.6 was at the bottom of 'man cat' because thats when that man was updated. ie September 15th, 2001 = Fre

NFS from win to fbsd

Anyone know of a decent, free NFS client for win32 that can access exports from my fbsd nfsd? -- GnuPG Key - http://probsd.org/michael.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

remote mounting of UNIX directories

Its my understanding a windows box CANNOT mount a /home/user a remote fbsd server, only those on the same local network. Am I correct? __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe:

freebsd slice - 2 hdd's

My wife's business wants to have a freebsd server and they gave her a old computer to install freebsd on. The machine has 2 small hdd's ( seen as ad0 and ad1 ) and I was wondering if anyone sees any problem with putting the / , /var, /tmp , and swap slices on ad0 and putting all of the /usr slice o

4.8-PRERELEASE kernel panic

I just pulled down RELENG_4 at 11:45pm EST via cvsup and 'made world' like I have for the past two years with no problems. However, after doing so, I get the following on a reboot: panic: still using grody create_intr interface uptime: 0s Automatic reboot in 15 seconds... I am able to boot into k

portsdb -Uu * /usr/local/ permission denied error

I normally update my ports tree by running cvsup, portsdb -Uu, pkgdb -F, then portversion |grep "<" . I also have a jail that has its own ports tree. On the host system, when running portsdb -Uu, I am getting the following that I dont understand: portsdb -Uu Updating the ports index ... /usr/loc

IDE LiteON CD-RW supported by burncd?

I understand ALL IDE CD-RWs are supported under FreeBSD, but has anyone actually used a CD-RW by LiteON ( http://liteonit.com ) and had sucess with it under burncd? Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

difficulties with BIND going from 8.* to 9.*

I decided today it was time to install bind9 from ports and I am have having some issues I need help with. Under 8.* I started BIND with the -u bind -g bind flags and a sockstat -4 showed named running as user bind. However, in 9.* I understand the -u bind flag is enough, but the server fails to s

Re: User I didn't add

Correct, when you installed Apache, the user/group www ( 80 ) was added to the system. The acct is passwordless, thus, preventing anyone from logging. These accts are needed because your httpd.conf file says run the server as user/group www(80). Michael On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 06:32:43 -0600 "Grant

Dynamic Rules with IPFW

I use Dynamic rulesets with IPFW: ipfw add check-state ipfw add deny tcp from any to any established ipfw add allow tcp from my-net to any setup keep-state But I also have services I need anyone on the net to get to, without me making a connection first from " my-net ". I allow such services wi

chroot

I installed ( or so I thought ) a chroot env last night and ran into some difficulties. Could someone very familiar with openssh/chroot glance over http://probsd.ws/chroot.txt and tell me what I did wrong please? chroot.txt is an EXTREMELY detailed example of what I did, and script output of t

Re: X11 Fonts

>> > today after the upgrade to fontconfig, something graciously changed >> > my fonts without asking. What is the program and example to change >> > X11 fonts? >> >> I have the same problem.. it really messed up Mozilla's GUI font. >> Everything on it looks like "h t t p : / / w w

ruby upgrade broke portsdb and pkgdb

I cvsupped my ports tree about 3 hrs ago and there was a ruby update. After the update, I dont have permission to use portsdb or pkgdb , even as root. I tried a re-cvsup about 10 minutes ago... Checkout ports/net/pythondirector/pkg-plist Edit ports/sysutils/apachetop/Makefile Add delta 1.8 200

ruby upgrade broke portsdb and pkgdb (update2)

Its definetly ruby. Sorry for the long paste, but here is the 'script -a file' before and after the update darken# echo about to update ruby and I have access to /usr/local/siESC[ESC[Kbin^M about to update ruby and I have access to /usr/local/sbin darken# cd /usr/local/sbin/^M darken# pkgdb -uF^M

ruby ( final answer )

pkgdb is still looking for /usr/local/bin/ruby which after the upgrade dosent exist. Its now /usr/local/bin/ruby16 ln -s /usr/local/bin/ruby16 /usr/local/bin/ruby fixes pkgdb and portsdb michael ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

ruby upgrade broke portsdb and pkgdb (update )

seems I have no access to use anything in /usr/local/sbin/ even as root I have a jail that does not have the ruby update done, and I can use the executables in /usr/local/sbin within that jail. I'm going to cvsup the ports in that jail, do the ruby upgrade and see if I have access to the executab