root on raid with external usb disks

2007-04-24 Thread Eugene Hercun
I'm having a bit of a hard time trying to set up a root on software raid with raidctl with two external usb hard drives. The reason why I am trying to configure this as root on raid is because I have a fast notebook that is continually frying hard drives (I personally think that it has a blown cap

number of files in dir

2005-05-02 Thread Eugene Hercun
Hello, I am unable to find a command that will list the number of total files in a directory and all subdirectories. Thank you in advance. Eugene

Re: number of files in dir

2005-05-02 Thread Eugene Hercun
Mr. Steven Mestdagh just answered part of my question. Thank you.

Re: number of files in dir

2005-05-02 Thread Eugene Hercun
hah! I have 58740 files...anyway... I read through the man page, and I don't see any information regarding the '| wc -l' part. Funny, I did the same thing for FreeBSD and it gave me 9 (the number of files should be similar to the OpenBSD (58740)) Eugene

beginner, intermediate, and advanced scripting

2005-05-14 Thread Eugene Hercun
Hello everyone, I was reading the "UNIX System Administration Handbook" the other day, and I really liked the idea of programming your own scheduled automated tasks. Mr. Holland made a very good point regarding this issue "Ok, your computer is doing some "inefficient work", but that's what compute

Re: beginner, intermediate, and advanced scripting

2005-05-15 Thread Eugene Hercun
Thank you for your responses. Sorry I could not reply sooner since I went to work before I posted this e-mail. Anyway, I might have missed it, but did anyone recommend a book regarding scripting for BSD with perl? I think were getting a little bit off topic in the last few posts... =) Eugene

Re: beginner, intermediate, and advanced scripting

2005-05-15 Thread Eugene Hercun
Thank you all once again for your help for I am now a little more informed, and I know that I do not have to buy a book just yet. I wonder how similar perl is to c++? Since my teacher in university told me when you learn one language you know them all (not litteraly). But I guess I'll find out from