(bourne)shell variable names containing a variable?

2005-10-20 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Hello, I try to assign a value to a variable, but the variable should consist of another variable. Is this possible (in bourne shell)? Example: #!/bin/sh list=one two three four for item in $list; do ${item}_present=yes done This doesn't work since the shell tries to execute

Re: su - does not ask for password

2005-10-14 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 14. Oktober 2005 17:48 CEST schrieb Teo De Las Heras: I've added myself to the wheel group and can successfully su - into root. I'm wondering though, where I make the configuration to ask for a password when su - is called. You have to assign the superuser a password first. su will

Re: Which MySQL version best to use and with/without linux threads?

2005-10-04 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 5. Oktober 2005 02:17 CEST schrieb Peter Wemm: On Friday 30 September 2005 06:22 am, Olaf Greve wrote: Then, I'm currently configuring a second beast, ee, server. :) Being an AMD-64 19 server, running FreeBSD 5.4-Release AMD64. On it, I instinctively installed the latest

acpi_thorttle and cpufreq/ichss questions

2005-09-28 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Hello, my laptop (PIII LV) runs fine with cpufreq and ichss: dev.ichss.0.%desc: SpeedStep ICH dev.ichss.0.%driver: ichss dev.ichss.0.%parent: cpu0 dev.ichss.0.freq_settings: 794/-1 497/-1 If I understand the output correctly i have two SpeedSteps, the full 800MHz (with higher voltage) and

Re: Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot

2005-09-16 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 16. September 2005 11:05 CEST schrieb Ashley Moran: Norberto Meijome wrote: or figure out in which order things are started and make sure the ttyvs are launched before syslogng Can you recommend a good description of the FreeBSD boot process? The man (8) boot (excellent

Re: A sendmail config question

2005-09-16 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 17. September 2005 03:49 CEST schrieb stan: I'm setting up a 4.11 STABLE machine. 4.11 comes with sendmail 8.13.4, and I prefer to use this, rather than build the one from ports (BTW if anyone has a strong reason that I should do this different, I'd entertain a discussion on

Re: ftpd in a jail

2005-09-13 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 13. September 2005 12:03 CEST schrieb Dan Toganel: I have a ftpd server running in a jail and i want to redirect the ftp traffic from my real host to jail. I have already configured my traffic from 22 and 25 to jail with natd and ipfw, but isn't working for ftp. You know about

Re: make .if exists problem/question

2005-09-05 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 5. September 2005 18:03 CEST schrieb Harti Brandt: On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Emanuel Strobl wrote: [...] You should think of .if and .for as preprocessor directives. They are processed when make reads the makefile and builds the dependency graph. If you need something more dynamic you

Re: USB-RS232 adapter in FreeBSD 5?

2005-09-04 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Sonntag, 4. September 2005 01:42 CEST schrieb Bill Moran: I've got a USB - RS232 adapter I'm trying to get working on 5.3-RELEASE. I've seen a lot of comments about these kind of things that seem to indicate that they can be used (I occasionally have needs to use this lappy as a serial

Re: Terminals

2005-09-04 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Sonntag, 4. September 2005 22:44 CEST schrieb Grant Peel: Hi all, I have serveral servers in a cage in Toronto, but I live 120 miles away. Every once in a while, I will crash a box, or lock myself out of one of them (mostly just the dev box now!). Anyways, is it possible to daisychain the

Re: GbE NICs besides em (recommendation wanted)

2005-08-31 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 31. August 2005 10:51 CEST schrieb Dmitry Mityugov: On 8/31/05, Emanuel Strobl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm quiet disappointed with the em nics and wanted to try some other GigaBit NICs (1000baseTX only). AFAIK there are re, sk, bge driven cards. Which doesn't

wi mini-pci replacement, ath or ral?

2005-08-30 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Hello, I have a old notebook (vaio SRX41P) which I want to make 802.11g speaking. The original Lucent card is mini-pci standard so I guess I can use any other mini-pci model. What should I prefer, cards with Atheros chipset or cards with the (cheaper) Ralink? Has anybody compared them

GbE NICs besides em (recommendation wanted)

2005-08-30 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Hello, I'm quiet disappointed with the em nics and wanted to try some other GigaBit NICs (1000baseTX only). AFAIK there are re, sk, bge driven cards. Which doesn't saturate a [EMAIL PROTECTED] at 200mbit/s with interrupt load (like em does)? I heard that the re is way better than the not so

Re: moving everything except a directory

2005-08-30 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 1. Oktober 2005 00:40 CEST schrieb Brian John: Say I am at ~ and I have 10 directories inside named 1, 2, 3, 4 ,5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. What command can I use to move everything but directory 2? What if I wanted to move everything but directories 2 and 7? See regular expressions,

Re: Directory permissions issue taring directories onto a Compact Flashcard

2005-08-29 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Sonntag, 28. August 2005 15:11 CEST schrieb Paul Hamilton: Well, I never really resolved this. I later tried taring at a sh Hello Paul, while I'm writing a tar PR I tried to reproduce your problem. Unsuccessfully. It works just fine. I guess your tar isn't finishing without errors, since

Re: cpio and tar are loosing flags (and a panic message without trace)

2005-08-29 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 29. August 2005 12:37 CEST schrieb Yar Tikhiy: On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 08:04:45PM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: Then I remember Tim Kienzles great work for bsdtar and all the ACL stuff, but unfortunately a cvPPzf xvpPfz also looses the arch flag :( Would you mind sending a PR

Re: cpio and tar are loosing flags (and a panic message without trace)

2005-08-27 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 27. August 2005 06:58 CEST schrieb Matthew Dillon: :Thank you, I know cpdup but I haven't known that it's flags aware! :Unfortunately I need to write to a raw device, I guess there's no way : for=20 cpdup without a filesystem... : :I guess cpio and tar really should take care

shell usage (syntax) question

2005-08-27 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Hello, how can I delimit a program parameter from a shell instruction? Example: I want to tell the shell that stderr should be redirected to file /tmp/test, not cpio to use /file/test: # /usr/bin/cpio -idmuv /dev/ad0h 2 /tmp/test This doesn't work, I guess cpio grabs the . How can I write it

cpio and tar are loosing flags (and a panic message without trace)

2005-08-26 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Hello, hmm, once again me. And again with a probably not so common problem. I need to replicate files, exactly like they are! I thought cpio was the deal, but no way, I tried several -H formats but that hasn't changed anything. As soon as a file gets restored the flag arch is reset, same with

Re: cpio and tar are loosing flags (and a panic message without trace)

2005-08-26 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 27. August 2005 05:16 CEST schrieb Matthew Dillon: :Hello, : :hmm, once again me. And again with a probably not so common problem. :I need to replicate files, exactly like they are! :I thought cpio was the deal, but no way, I tried several -H formats : but=20 that hasn't changed

make .if exists problem/question

2005-08-25 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Dear make gurus (bsd make, not gmake), it seems that make checks .if directives only at statrup. How can I trigger a reread? I have the problem that in one target I create a filetree, another target checks if it exists, if not it creates itself again. Now it works perfectly when I call the two

Re: make .if exists problem/question

2005-08-25 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Donnerstag, 25. August 2005 20:10 CEST schrieb David Kirchner: On 8/25/05, Emanuel Strobl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear make gurus (bsd make, not gmake), it seems that make checks .if directives only at statrup. How can I trigger a reread? I have the problem that in one target I

Re: FreeBSD clients for M$ Exchange

2005-08-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 22. August 2005 14:13 CEST schrieb Matthias Apitz: Hello together, In the future we will use an Exchange 2003 server because it provides groupware functionality for the clients (in most My condolences. I had years of awful experiences with Exchange 5 and 5.5, but the absolutely

Re: dd is so slow on my SCSI disc

2005-08-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 22. August 2005 22:13 CEST schrieb Sebastian Pahlke: Hi all, I'm trying to clean a disc before selling them: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 Do I make something wrong because the transfer rate is only 60932 bytes/sec??? These are 60 kbytes/sec, slower than my internet connection!!!

Re: Freebsd 6.0 Release Time

2005-08-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 22. August 2005 23:09 CEST schrieb Jerry McAllister: Hi !! Sorry if this question was made previously. I'm installing like ten freebsd terminals in two weeks. But i don't know when freebsd 6.0 will become stable. I've seen the schedule, it says agoust 18, but it's not ready

Re: NFS question...

2005-08-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 23. August 2005 02:51 CEST schrieb Eric Murphy: Hey guys... Ive setup a NFS correctly (I think) on my BSD 5.4 box Added nfs_enable_enable=yes rpcbind_enable=yes portmap_enable=yes in my rc.conf and its seems to be working... My question is this.. I can mount the

Re: dd is so slow on my SCSI disc

2005-08-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 23. August 2005 04:29 CEST schrieb Mike Jeays: On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 20:57, Danny MacMillan wrote: Sebastian Pahlke wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to clean a disc before selling them: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 You may want to consider using /dev/random instead of,

Re: Slow Install CD

2005-08-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 23. August 2005 05:09 CEST schrieb Karol Krizka: Hi, I managed to come accross this old Compaq Proliant server and wanted to try it out for a personal webserver. Since I wanted to try out BSD, I decided to go with it as the operating system. My choice distro (or what do you call

Simple IPv6 question [Was: Re: IPv6 site local EUI-64 adresses and jails]

2005-08-15 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 12. August 2005 21:24 CEST schrieb Emanuel Strobl: Am Freitag, 12. August 2005 20:53 CEST schrieb Emanuel Strobl: Hi all, I'm quiet new to IPv6 so I'd like to ask some questions: Here are two more: How do I use the eui64 option of ifconfig? 'ifconfig fxp0 inet6 fe80:0:0:0

Re: IPv6 site local EUI-64 adresses and jails

2005-08-13 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 13. August 2005 10:53 CEST schrieb David Malone: On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 08:53:20PM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: Now in the 24-16-24 scheme of th interface id part of the IPv6 address, the 16 bits were inserted with the value FFFE. And bit 57 was changed to one! Why What

IPv6 site local EUI-64 adresses and jails

2005-08-12 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Hi all, I'm quiet new to IPv6 so I'd like to ask some questions: So far I know how to generate s site-local address on basis of the MAC address of the interface. That's what FreeBSD does itself for INET6 enabled kernels. Now in the 24-16-24 scheme of th interface id part of the IPv6 address,

Re: IPv6 site local EUI-64 adresses and jails

2005-08-12 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 12. August 2005 20:53 CEST schrieb Emanuel Strobl: Hi all, I'm quiet new to IPv6 so I'd like to ask some questions: So far I know how to generate s site-local address on basis of the MAC address of the interface. That's what FreeBSD does itself for INET6 enabled kernels. Ok

Re: IPv6 site local EUI-64 adresses and jails

2005-08-12 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 12. August 2005 20:53 CEST schrieb Emanuel Strobl: Hi all, I'm quiet new to IPv6 so I'd like to ask some questions: Here are two more: How do I use the eui64 option of ifconfig? 'ifconfig fxp0 inet6 fe80:0:0:0:eui64 ' doesn't work! What's the meaning of the %fxp0 tail

Re: IPv6 site local EUI-64 adresses and jails

2005-08-12 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 12. August 2005 22:48 CEST schrieb Michael W. Oliver: On 2005-08-12T21:03:35+0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: Am Freitag, 12. August 2005 20:53 CEST schrieb Emanuel Strobl: Hi all, I'm quiet new to IPv6 so I'd like to ask some questions: So far I know how to generate s site

Re: IPv6 site local EUI-64 adresses and jails

2005-08-12 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 12. August 2005 22:48 CEST schrieb Michael W. Oliver: On 2005-08-12T21:03:35+0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: Am Freitag, 12. August 2005 20:53 CEST schrieb Emanuel Strobl: Hi all, I'm quiet new to IPv6 so I'd like to ask some questions: So far I know how to generate s site

Re: IPv6 site local EUI-64 adresses and jails

2005-08-12 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 13. August 2005 00:03 CEST schrieb Michael W. Oliver: On 2005-08-12T22:56:19+0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: Am Freitag, 12. August 2005 22:48 CEST schrieb Michael W. Oliver: ifconfig fxp0 inet6 3ffe:dead:beef:cafe::/64 eui64 alias Hmmm, that doesn't work here (6.0-beta2

Re: multiport serial reccomendations?

2005-08-12 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 13. August 2005 01:14 CEST schrieb Danny Howard: Hello, I'm looking to build a nanny box to provide maintenance services to my servers. One of these services ought to be serial console access. I've currently got an old Cyclades box in service, but I'm curious to just sport a

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-11 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 10. August 2005 19:48 CEST schrieb Unix: O. Hartmann wrote: Mike Jakubik wrote: On Wed, August 10, 2005 6:37 am, Dmitry Mityugov said: There are Maxtor MaXLine II and III, and perhaps several other models, that are supposed to work 24/7. Right, i have a dead 250GB Maxline

Re: Reading the volume-id/label of a cd/dvd ?

2005-07-28 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Donnerstag, 28. Juli 2005 16:49 CEST schrieb Warren Block: On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, FreeBsdBeni wrote: Is there an easy way to get to know the volume id or disclabel of a cd or dvd ? Mounting the cd/dvd just gives me the contents of the disc, but not its name. In k3b one can ask the info

Re: I have found a pc on the side curb

2005-07-19 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 19. Juli 2005 00:17 CEST schrieb Greg 'groggy' Lehey: On Monday, 18 July 2005 at 11:13:42 -0400, Martin wrote: [missing attribution] a pentium 133mhz with freebsd. I was woundering if there was away around the login: admin password: * maybe there is a universal

Re: two default routes

2005-07-18 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 18. Juli 2005 05:25 CEST schrieb Jon Falconer: I have two ISP connections, a 45Mb and a 6Mb. Depending on what block of local addresses a packet is coming from will determine which ISP I want to send the packet out. In essence the default route used for a packet depends on its

Re: Serial Access

2005-07-07 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 8. Juli 2005 00:16 schrieb Frank de Bot: Hi, My server support by bios remote access via the serial port. Configured it, bios shows up on my terminal client. But as soon the FreeBSD has been loaded. (Last message I get through was: Press [enter] to boot immedialty. Is it needed

Re: uplcom a callin only device?

2005-06-29 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2005 10:55 schrieb Norbert Koch: Hello. I'm trying to get a sub-to-rs232 adaptor running with FreeBSD-5. The vendor of this adaptor is some chinese company named High-Edge Tech, but as usbdevs shows, it identifies as USB_VENDOR_PROLIFIC(0x067b) and

Re: uplcom a callin only device?

2005-06-29 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2005 16:32 schrieb Norbert Koch: 5.4 has the new uplcom driver which checks the revision maybe you can apply the cvs version to your 5.3 (guess). -Harry I tested this with RELENG_5 as of last week. Hmm, then you have the new uplcom driver... The device seems to

Re: Software RAID-1 on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-06-29 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2005 21:28 schrieb ptitoliv: Hello everybody, I have 2 120 Go Drives installed on my FreeBSD 5.4 Box. I want to create with these 2 disks a software RAID-1 solution. I wanted to use vinum but lots of people say that vinum is very unstable on FreeBSD 5.4. So I am I can't

Re: removing freebsd bootloader

2005-06-23 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Donnerstag, 23. Juni 2005 19:25 schrieb Paulo Roberto: Hello, How do I remove the FreeBSD bootloader from the MBR without touching the slices? Without warranty, but fdisk -B should do the trick. I think it keeps the partition table and replaces the boot code of the MBR. Make sure the XP

Re: FreeBSD L2TP client

2005-06-20 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 20. Juni 2005 21:05 schrieb Andy Miller: I am looking for a way to use FreeBSD as a L2TP VPN client. Does anyone know of a way to do this. I found ng_l2tp, but I'm not quite sure how to use it. If anyone has a good how-to, or can give me some direction, Check mpd from the ports,

Re: The perennial vfs.usermount query

2005-06-16 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Donnerstag, 16. Juni 2005 04:18 schrieb Joe Altman: 1) If this: $: more /etc/sysctl.conf # $FreeBSD: src/etc/sysctl.conf,v 1.8 2003/03/13 18:43:50 mux Exp $ # # This file is read when going to multi-user and its contents piped # thru ``sysctl'' to adjust kernel values. ``man 5

Re: nfs server amd problems

2005-06-10 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 10. Juni 2005 09:51 schrieb Osmany Guirola Cruz: Hi people I have installed a 5.3 STABLE box with automount(amd) daemon working perfectly with the defaults flags(/net /host) and the nfs server exporting only my home. all this work but then i upgrade my system to 5.4 and

Re: nfs server amd problems

2005-06-10 Thread Emanuel Strobl
.. i don't want compile userland and kernel twice...:-) Thanks Osmany On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 13:55 +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: Am Freitag, 10. Juni 2005 09:51 schrieb Osmany Guirola Cruz: Hi people I have installed a 5.3 STABLE box with automount(amd) daemon working perfectly

Re: How to boot kernel.old version in 5.4

2005-06-09 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Donnerstag, 9. Juni 2005 23:40 schrieb fbsd_user: In 5.4 after compiling a new kernel you have the default boot location being /boot/kernel/ directory containing the current newly compiled kernel and /boot/kernel.old/ directory containing the generic system. For safeguard I do mkdir

device sio vs. device uart

2005-06-09 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Hello, after compiling a custom kernel with device uart instead of device sio I see the following in my boot message: sio0 failed to probe at port 0x3f8 irq 4 on isa0 sio1 failed to probe at port 0x2f8 irq 3 on isa0 sio2: not probed (disabled) sio3: not probed (disabled) But I don't have sio in

Re: illegal user root user failed login attempts

2005-05-18 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 18. Mai 2005 22:56 schrieb Kirk Strauser: On Tuesday 17 May 2005 09:36, Peter Kropholler wrote: As things stand, ssh is designed so you can't get at people's passwords and I am leaving it alone. Focussing instead on the task of making sure my passwords are strong, limiting

Re: NFS read-ahead?

2005-05-17 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 16. Mai 2005 16:44 schrieb Andrea Venturoli: Mike Tancsa wrote: Offhand, not really, but if you look around via google for mount_nfs freebsd -r a lot of people suggest r=32768,-w=32768. Perhaps use that as a starting point and experiment to see what gives you the best

Re: NAT with two different alias addresses. Is it possible?

2005-05-09 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 9. Mai 2005 22:29 schrieb : Hello, everybody! I've just installed freeBSD 5.3 on my old computer to make it NAT router for internet sharing. The example is classical: two machines in my internal network and one IP from provider. Except one moment - my internet connection is

Re: Group Rights in FreeBSD 5.3

2005-05-09 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 9. Mai 2005 22:55 schrieb Dixit, Viraj: Hi, I need a question answered. In the FreeBSD 5.3 OS system, I have just created a new group called backup and I have added one user to this group called backup. What I am looking for is what is the command to limit this group called backup

Re: ipfw + natd = some sites won't work :-S

2005-05-09 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 10. Mai 2005 00:42 schrieb Frank de Bot: Hi, I got my FreeBSD set up to do nat, but it doesn't work 100%. Sites like Google for instance does work, but many other don't. All other protocols I guess you're using an A-DSL line with PPPoE, right? If so, see tcp-mss fix. PPPoE

Re: ipfw + natd = some sites won't work :-S

2005-05-09 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 10. Mai 2005 01:04 schrieb Frank de Bot: Emanuel Strobl wrote: Am Dienstag, 10. Mai 2005 00:42 schrieb Frank de Bot: Hi, I got my FreeBSD set up to do nat, but it doesn't work 100%. Sites like Google for instance does work, but many other don't. All other protocols I

Re: ipfw + natd = some sites won't work :-S

2005-05-09 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 10. Mai 2005 01:19 schrieb Frank de Bot: Emanuel Strobl wrote: The problem is the same: IP-IP tunneling reduces TCPs mss which the linux box doesn't fix. ICMP will work of course, TCP with full payload won't. I don't knwo how/why you tunnle IP into IP on that linux box

vfs.usermount and directory owner

2005-05-06 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Hello, I want to be able to access my cd drive as normal user. As any user, not a specific one. So it's a problem that I can't mount it to a general directory like /cdrom since only one user can be owner and it looks like it's required that the mountpoint belongs to the user, even with

Re: How should I divvy up my HDDs? Suggestions Please.

2005-05-05 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Donnerstag, 5. Mai 2005 17:43 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Harald, thanks. GPT sounds great but the quick search I did turned up a lot of references to 64-bit chips i.e. FreeBSD.org said The GPT partitioning scheme was introduced with the ia64 architecture as an MBR replacement. Can GPT

Re: Boot Problem

2005-05-05 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 6. Mai 2005 03:59 schrieb Koushik Narayanan: Hello, I have a PC with Windows XP,FreeBSD-5.3 and Linux(Fedora).I use GRUB as my boot manager and I boot into FreeBSD using chainloader. I have XP and FreeBSD on primary partitions.I had a linux primary partion apart from these.I

Re: nvidia nforce motherboard w/onboard nic

2005-05-05 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 6. Mai 2005 06:05 schrieb je killen: To whom ever receives and responds to this request for info; I had installed Mandrake Linux on a machine that uses an nvidia motherboard and found there to be no ethernet driver included with the distribution. After hunting around I found a

Re: groff alternative?

2005-04-28 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Donnerstag, 28. April 2005 23:37 schrieb Chuck Swiger: Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: [ ... ] Install pre-rendered man pages instead of the mdoc source, and fake up a shell script that locates the appropriate page, decompresses it and pipes it to $PAGER. At least some flavors of the man

groff alternative?

2005-04-26 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Hello, I'm using NO_CXX in my make.conf to strip down the base system to ~50MB including man pages. The only problem is that groff is missing if I don't build c++, and even if I build groff itself and the needed libstdc++ it costs me about 10MB. If I just skip NO_CXX it's only 500k more, so I

Re: groff alternative?

2005-04-26 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 26. April 2005 20:26 schrieb Thomas Dickey: On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 08:10:41PM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: Does anybody know any alternative for the groff part to view man pages simply with the man command? It's horrible that the filter needs more space than all the manpages

Re: groff alternative?

2005-04-26 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 26. April 2005 20:43 schrieb Diomidis Spinellis: Emanuel Strobl wrote: I'm using NO_CXX in my make.conf to strip down the base system to ~50MB including man pages. The only problem is that groff is missing if I don't build c++, and even if I build groff itself and the needed

Re: FreeBSD Update Upgrade

2005-04-24 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 25. April 2005 01:59 schrieb Giuliano Cardozo Medalha: People, When I try to use CVSUP ... if I use the script with: tag=. ... what it mean ? It mean 5.4 or 5.3 sources ? It's HEAD, which is 6-current, the developers code base ;) You want RELENG_5_4 for 5.4 sources and RELENG_5

Re: Temperature Sensors on a Mini-ITX Board

2005-04-11 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 6. April 2005 23:39 schrieb Andrew: Does anyone know how to read the temperature sensors on a VIA Mini-ITX board? I've tried xmbmon, lmmon and healthd but nothing seems to read it/them. I can't find anything under the dev sysctl hierachy either. I can't see anything relevant in

Re: usb console

2005-04-11 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 8. April 2005 00:50 schrieb Gert Cuykens: Is it possible to do the console thingie not with a null modem serial cable but with a usb cable ? When you do the serial console, it means that you have a screen like it was the other pc's screen, right ? With boot messages and Right, in

Re: restricting fat jails

2005-04-11 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 8. April 2005 15:18 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i was wondering exactly which files in /dev/ can be removed in a jail ? If we're talking about FreeBSD 5.x none, sinc it's devfs. You can control which devices are in a jail by creating jail_NAME_devfs_ruleset. and i thought of a

no (t)csh read builtin?

2005-04-08 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Hello, how can I interactively read a variable from the command line with tcsh? The *[^c]sh command read doesn't exist, so how can I do it with csh? Thanks, -Harry pgp31USGx8RFH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: too many illegal connection attempts through ssh

2005-04-06 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 6. April 2005 12:07 schrieb Erik Nørgaard: Edwin D. Vinas wrote: shown below is snapshot of too many illegal attempts to login to my server from a suspicious hacker. this is taken from the /var/log/auth.log. my question is, how do i automatically block an IP address if it is

Re: HZ=1000 ?

2005-04-05 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 5. April 2005 01:09 schrieb John Pettitt: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interestingly, HZ=100 has remained constant for decades (!), despite CPUs getting faster all the time. This is an excellent value for most typical usage patterns. Cranking it up should only be required for special

Re: Promise TX2 Rebuild via atacontrol??

2005-04-05 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 4. April 2005 23:29 schrieb Edgar Martinez: All, I have a failed member in a RAID1 array and using atacontrol can see that the status is degraded. I am curious if I can use atacontrol to rebuild the array if the original array was built using the Promise BIOS utility. If I tell

Re: Boot manager

2005-04-03 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Sonntag, 3. April 2005 19:07 schrieb Teilhard Knight: Could you recommend a good boot manager, please? I mean, to boot several OSs, but not relying on Lilo. Not Xosl, because it doesn't work together with a Drive Overlay. Yes, I can strongly recommend gag. Very powerfull, yet very simple to

Re: Boot manager

2005-04-03 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Sonntag, 3. April 2005 20:36 schrieb Gert Cuykens: On Apr 3, 2005 7:33 PM, Christopher Nehren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-04-03, Teilhard Knight scribbled these curious markings: Could you recommend a good boot manager,

Re: multyple gateway or load balancing on two channels

2005-04-02 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 2. April 2005 09:26 schrieb ' : Hello. How I use subject without help of providers side (wthout BGP, pptp etc.). You can use pf for multihomed routers, if you just want to use multiple lines for downloads. If you want to provide Webservices or anything similar with more than one

Re: FreeBSD server behind router-NAT; how to configure sendmail?

2005-04-02 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 2. April 2005 18:07 schrieb Rob: Hi, My ISP provides me with a fixed IP address and a registered hostname. I use a Sitecom DC-207 that serves as a plain router, NAT and 4-port switch, to connect three Windows PCs and one FreeBSD PC simultaneously to the internet. The router

Re: blanking the console

2005-04-02 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 2. April 2005 23:11 schrieb dick hoogendijk: OK, probably a stupid question. I can't find it though. Sorry. How can I blank the screen on the console (terminal). Hmmm, clear is not what you mean? Something like the linux setterm -blank 60 which will blank the screen after 60

Re: sendmail

2005-03-31 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 1. April 2005 03:17 schrieb Gert Cuykens: On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:03:09 -0500, wizlayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [***] Its 5.5mb and my gmail doesnt want to sent it :( So how do you do that with the sendmail command ? Well, sendmail was designed to transport eMails. And eMails

Re: How do I kill the console? (or how to make nullconsole work)

2005-03-30 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 30. März 2005 09:16 schrieb John Pettitt: I'm running 5.4 BETA1 on a soekris 4801 board. The unit emulates a console on a serial port. I want to use the serial port for my GPS so I want the console messages from BSD to go away - an in particular I want BSD to ignore inbound data

Re: Partitioning

2005-03-29 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 30. März 2005 07:24 schrieb Quinn Ellis: Help! FreeBSDamsel in distress. I'm just starting out with this OS and already running into a problem. Initially I installed FreeBSD onto a seperate hdd but that died. I have a 120gig drive, that i want to partition into two 10gig drives,

Userland dig/host for lookups against /etc/hosts?

2005-03-27 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Dear all, my testbed lacks of Ethernet Ports so one machine has no connection to my DNS, no problem, there is something called /etc/hosts I thought. It works if I ping 'hostname', but how can I find out the IP of 'hostname' from the command line? dig and host want to contact the DNS server,

Re: Userland dig/host for lookups against /etc/hosts?

2005-03-27 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 28. März 2005 08:23 schrieb Alexander Chamandy: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 07:17:31 +0200, Emanuel Strobl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, my testbed lacks of Ethernet Ports so one machine has no connection to my DNS, no problem, there is something called /etc/hosts I thought

Re: kaudiocreator

2005-03-26 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 25. März 2005 19:14 schrieb dick hoogendijk: kaudiocreator is a nice program for extracting audio tracks and converting them w/ almost any encoder. Only pittfall is hat kde is needed. You can read audio tracks directly from ata CD-Drives with /dev/acd0t1 t2 t3 etc. You just have

ot: FWIW meaning? [Was: Re: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE: panic in ffs_valloc]

2005-03-26 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 26. März 2005 23:19 schrieb Gary Kline: On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 10:16:57PM +, Gary Kline wrote: [...] Yours, -- Ed Schouten [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a FWIW, but the same thing is happening with DMA While I see this on questions@ - What does FWIW mean? I think

Re: Issue with FreeBSD, Compact Flash

2005-03-25 Thread Emanuel Strobl
checked your card in any other (ata-mode) device? In what kind of hardware do you plug in your card, Soekris, EPIA, WRAP, or general IDE-CF adapter? -Harry :-( :-( Thank you, Matt Emanuel Strobl wrote: Am Mittwoch, 23. März 2005 21:02 schrieb Matt Juszczak: Howdy, Does anyone have any

Re: Issue with FreeBSD, Compact Flash

2005-03-25 Thread Emanuel Strobl
card in any other (ata-mode) device? In what kind of hardware do you plug in your card, Soekris, EPIA, WRAP, or general IDE-CF adapter? -Harry :-( :-( Thank you, Matt Emanuel Strobl wrote: Am Mittwoch, 23. März 2005 21:02 schrieb Matt Juszczak: Howdy, Does anyone

quick timestamp question (ctime/mtime)

2005-03-24 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Hello, is it possible that mtime of a file can be changed without also changing ctime? Vice versa is easy, chmod or similar will do that. But if I change mtime with touch, also ctime gets changed. I ask because I'm about writing a little backup script and want to be sure to capture every file

Re: Issue with FreeBSD, Compact Flash

2005-03-23 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 23. März 2005 21:02 schrieb Matt Juszczak: Howdy, Does anyone have any ideas on the following? Trying to load m0n0wall, which uses a FreeBSD 5 kernel. Keep getting the boot errors you see in the paste link below. http://paste.atopia.net/107 We really dont want to have to

Re: FreeBSD HOWTO: Software Mirror System Disk

2005-03-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 22. März 2005 22:01 schrieb Aaron Trumm: Hello is anybody there? I don't know if I'm subscribed... I have a question...is this a typo?: gmirror insert gm0 /dev/ad6 I get to that step and get the message class not found should it be?: gmirror insert boot /dev/ad6? You have

Re: AMD64 very slow!

2005-03-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 23. März 2005 00:38 schrieb Boris Spirialitious: I have opteron 246 system with 2 port intel em card. We have test bed with about 200Kbs traffic and we route through 5.3/i386 system. Load is about 50%. With same settings, amd64 system run with 85% load. How could be so slow?

Re: scp stalling

2005-03-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 23. März 2005 00:51 schrieb Bob Ababurko: Hello- I have two boxes that I am trying to transfer files between and for some reasson I am getting annoting slow transfers. I am running OpenSSH_3.8.1p1on the server end with freeBSD 5.3 and OpenSSH_3.5p1 with freeBSD 4.9 on the

Re: AMD64 very slow!

2005-03-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 23. März 2005 01:19 schrieb Boris Spirialitious: -- Emanuel Strobl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 23. März 2005 00:38 schrieb Boris Spirialitious: I have opteron 246 system with 2 port intel em card. We have test bed with about 200Kbs traffic and we route through

Re: /usr/ports/packages/

2005-03-19 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 19. März 2005 21:34 schrieb Gert Cuykens: Does only portmanager create packages ? Or does make install also make a package ? How can i tell them to put all the packages in the /usr/ports/packages/ instead of the port application directory ? If /usr/ports/packages exists 'make

Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-18 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 18. März 2005 14:06 schrieb Christian Tischler: Hi, I would like to run an MS exchange server. But I am not at all willing to set up an MS box at all. ??? Windows is a really good, well maintained standardized and secure piece of software compared to Exchange. I can't imagine why

Re: x11 cookie expires after some time

2005-03-18 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Sonntag, 14. November 2004 19:28 schrieb Emanuel Strobl: Dear all, perhaps someone can explain me why I can't execute a x-program via a ssh session after some time (some hours). When I log into the machine everything is fine and xclock or any other x11 application is working fine

Re: ntpq:write to localhost.domain failed: no route to host

2005-03-18 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 18. März 2005 23:42 schrieb Feroz F. Basir: Hi, I compiled ipfilter option in my kernel. As usual reboot my machine. When I run ntpq -p I got an error ntpq:write to localhost.domain failed: no route to host. Before I compiled in ipfilter, it worked. My /etc/ipf.rules contains

Re: no patch whats going on

2005-03-17 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 18. März 2005 01:35 schrieb Colin Percival: On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 08:52:30AM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12825/info/ For the benefit of people on -questions who didn't read my reply on -security: This bug doesn't exist in FreeBSD, thus the lack

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