Re: Creating freebsd usb boot

2013-07-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:01:10 +0300, Erhan Gulsen wrote: > Hi, > I am Erhan,i have a problem,i read your all definition but i can not > create usb boot FreeBSD,i have a ubuntu 12.04 operating system.I want to > create it with FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso but when i try > this,it shows ''boo

Re: Bill Paul's network drivers

2013-07-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:28:39 -0300, Michel Behr wrote: > Hi > > I'm considering learning how to build drivers, so I can make my Lenovo S400 > wireless card get detected by FreeBSD. > > The Architecture Handbook cites these "Bill Paul's network drivers". > > 9.5 Network Drivers: Drivers for network

Re: OT: rsync on Mac OSX

2013-07-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 14:48:03 -0700, Chris Maness wrote: >On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Giorgos Keramidas >wrote: >>On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 13:35:00 -0700, Chris Maness wrote: >>> I have been using rsync with Mac OSX with no issues until today. I >>> generally use

Re: OT: rsync on Mac OSX

2013-07-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 13:35:00 -0700, Chris Maness wrote: > I have been using rsync with Mac OSX with no issues until today. I > generally use it instead of the copy command because if the copy fails > on large files, I can pick up where I left off. I have backed up > entire Final Cut Pro projects

Re: FFMpeg and FreeBSD

2013-06-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:25:19 +0930, Shane Ambler wrote: > On 27/06/2013 09:57, Simon wrote: >> Hello Everyone, >> >> Does anyone use the latest FFMpeg version 1.2 and FreeBSD? >> >> How did you compile it? did you run into any issues? >> >> The FFMpeg port is 6+ months behind and I feel like I'm t

Re: ZFS on MBR does not boot at all

2013-05-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 05 May 2013 17:56:49 -0500, Joshua Isom wrote: > On 5/5/2013 3:20 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> Hi David, >> >> Thanks for following up with what the real problem was. I updated the >> Wiki to include this: >> >> Note that partition or

Re: ZFS on MBR does not boot at all

2013-05-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:29:18 +0200, David Demelier wrote: > 2013/4/18 David Demelier : >> Hello, >> I would like to use ZFS over MBR for multiboot purposes. I've followed >> that guide https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition but it >> does not boot at all. The loader does not show up

Re: svn & new pkg system

2013-03-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:39:50 -0400, Fbsd8 wrote: > Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: >> On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:18:04 -0400 >> Fbsd8 wrote: >> >>> No body has made a case for NOT including svn in the base system. If >>> it can be a port there is no reason why it can not be included in the >>> base system.

Re: svn & new pkg system

2013-03-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2013-03-09 22:04, Robert Huff wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas writes: > > > Is svn going to become part of the base system in 9.2-RELEASE? > > > > No. > > [good reasons for not including subversion ellided] > > On the other hand ... > > The traditiona

Re: svn & new pkg system

2013-03-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 18:25:22 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: > Is svn going to become part of the base system in 9.2-RELEASE? No. Subversion is a large system, with a ton of dependencies, and there's basically _nothing_ to gain by having to spend extra effort trying to keep an imported version up to date.

Re: backups using rsync

2013-03-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:30:22 +0100, Matthias Petermann wrote: > Hello, > Zitat von Giorgos Keramidas : > >> If this is a UFS2 filesystem, it may be a good idea to snapshot the >> filesystem, and then rsync-backup the snapshot instead. > > Last time I tried UFS2 snapsh

Re: Zlib version in FreeBSD - 3 releases behind?

2013-03-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2013-03-06 08:06, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 03/05/13 16:12, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >On 2013-03-04 07:28, KrisUniverse wrote: > >>The Zlib baked into FreeBSD is Zlib 1.2.4 even on 9.1R. > >> > >>However, Zlib has gone to 1.2.7 sometime ago after steppin

Re: Zlib version in FreeBSD - 3 releases behind?

2013-03-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2013-03-04 07:28, KrisUniverse wrote: > The Zlib baked into FreeBSD is Zlib 1.2.4 even on 9.1R. > > However, Zlib has gone to 1.2.7 sometime ago after stepping through > 1.2.5, 1.2.6 and 1.2.7 with bug fixes. > > Is there any reason for not using Zlib 1.2.7? I don't have a 9.1-RELEASE system

Re: backups using rsync

2013-03-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2013-03-04 03:35, "Ronald F. Guilmette" wrote: > As a result of this past Black Friday weekend, I now enjoy a true > abundance of disk space, for the first time in my life. > > I wanna make a full backup, on a weekly basis, of my main system's > shiny new 1TB drive onto another 1TB drive that

Re: backspace shows ^? in serial communication

2013-02-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2013-02-26 23:40, s m wrote: > hello all, > > i have problem with backspace in freebsd 8.2. when i run a serial > program to communicate via a serial port to the other system, > backspace shows ^? in opened terminal. i use termios and fcntl to > open, read, write and close serial port. i set e

Re: Fun Scripting Problem

2013-02-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2013-02-13 12:27, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > I know how to do this in Python, but I really want to do it in > straight Bourne shell. I have some ideas, but I thought I'd > give you folks a crack at this Big Fun: > > a) You have a directory of files - say they're logs - generated > at nondeterm

Re: shell scripting: grepping multiple patterns, logically ANDed

2012-06-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:25:46 -0400, Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: > hello, > > I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question, but here > goes. > > I have the following in a shell script: > > #!/bin/sh > > if [ "$#" -eq "0" ]; then > find /foo > fi > if [ "$#" -

Re: opening a shared object / failing with Undefined Symbol.

2011-03-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Jim wrote: > I have an application that opens two .so files with dlopen(3): >  /usr/local/lib/libag_core.so >  /usr/local/lib/libag_gui.so > > Both files exist > Running nm(1) against each produces a lot of output, showing all the > symbols I know to exist in each

Re: license of the code in freebsd documantation

2011-03-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
2011/3/3 Kouichiro Iwao : > I'm writing a script based on the code in freebsd docs, and caring > about the license of it. The original scripts are example 6 and 7 of > the following page. How do I have to treat my code if I distribute it? > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/ldap-auth/client.

Re: switching from gnu make to bsd make

2011-02-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:26:13 +0200, Vikash Badal wrote: > Make all produces the follow output: > > make all > cc -o bin/nntpd -lpthread -lmysqlclient_r -Wall -g -Iinclude > -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/mysql -L/usr/local/lib > -L/usr/local/lib/mysql obj/log.o obj/cleanup.o obj/config.

Re: switching from gnu make to bsd make

2011-02-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:59:14 -0600 (CST), Robert Bonomi wrote: >> From: Vikash Badal >> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:30:02 +0200 >> Subject: RE: switching from gnu make to bsd make >> >> > -Original Message- >> > From: Polytropon [mailto:free...@edvax.de] Sent: 10 February 2011 10:11 >> > A

Re: nedit problem

2011-02-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:33:50 -0700, Fred Boatwright wrote: > Hello, > > After updating all ports on 8.1-RELEASE, nedit has a problem. The right > mouse button works ok in the toolbar but if it is pressed in the text > area, for example to copy a block of text, the cursor changes shape and > the X

Re: gmake format

2011-01-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:37:58 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > You'll have to excuse my ignorance (and my curious mind...), but I > can't seem to find a straight answer to this. I know linux uses gmake, > and gmake is installed via ports on FreeBSD, but does that mean gmake > will only create linux binarie

Re: Running two daemon instances -- rc.d or not?

2011-01-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:16:29 -0500, Tom Worster wrote: > I need to set up a server with two instances of SphinxSearch searchd > (listening on different ports, of course). > > What's a good way to do it? > > Copying /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sphinxsearch to > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sphinxsearch2 and editing

Re: How to adjust man page line length [SOLVED]

2011-01-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:02:56 -0800, Charlie Kester wrote: >> In ancient times man was originally a shell script. What is old is new >> again. > > Is this a consequence of the move to mdocml instead of groff? No, we are still using groff's groff_mdoc(7) package for authoring manpage content. ___

Re: How to adjust man page line length [SOLVED]

2011-01-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:51:45 -0600, "David J. Weller-Fahy" wrote: > * Giorgos Keramidas [2011-01-19 02:57 -0500]: >> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:29:18 -0600, David Kelly wrote: >> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 06:11:13PM +0100, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> >>

Re: How to adjust man page line length

2011-01-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:29:18 -0600, David Kelly wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 06:11:13PM +0100, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:40:38 -0600, "David J. Weller-Fahy" >> wrote: >>> To expand on the question in the subject: How does one t

Re: How to adjust man page line length

2011-01-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:40:38 -0600, "David J. Weller-Fahy" wrote: > To expand on the question in the subject: How does one tell `man` not to > automatically format man pages to 80 columns? I'm looking for a fairly > easy way to do this, or confirmation it would involve internal > gymnastics I ma

Re: Just wanted to install vim - had to spend entire day building X11

2011-01-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:02:35 -0500, Ed Smith wrote: > This seems bizarre. Logically, it would seem better to do a split like > vim (bare vim - what you would expect) and xvim (vim with X11) similar > to how emacs does emacs/xemacs. XEmacs[1] is not 'Emacs with X11 support', but a very different

Re: Just wanted to install vim - had to spend entire day building X11

2011-01-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:43:13 +0100, Tony Maserati wrote: >On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Giorgos Keramidas >wrote: >>On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 22:19:02 +0100, Tony Maserati wrote: >>> I'm just curious - what's the point of including X11 as a dependency >>>

Re: Just wanted to install vim - had to spend entire day building X11

2011-01-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 22:19:02 +0100, Tony Maserati wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just curious - what's the point of including X11 as a dependency > to vim? And then making a vim-lite port (which you usually discover > after installing X11). How about making it vim and vim-x11 instead? Maybe because gvim is

Re: How to clean system

2011-01-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 23:41:24 +0200, Коньков Евгений wrote: > GK> On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 23:18:07 +0200, Коньков Евгений > wrote: >>> Hi >>> System have many programs. >>> Wanna to upgrade to new version of FBSD >>> >>> Is it possible to clean system from garbage (all programs, files, >>> header files

Re: How to clean system

2011-01-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 23:18:07 +0200, Коньков Евгений wrote: > Hi > System have many programs. > Wanna to upgrade to new version of FBSD > > Is it possible to clean system from garbage (all programs, files, > header files, except configuration files) > like installing FBSD from CD? > > is there cmd?

Re: is there a "best" online python tutorial?

2011-01-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 2 Jan 2011 13:29:44 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > Guys, > > I actaully have studied python...but only for about twenty > minutes); maybe a few days, actually. What is the best online > tutorial to learn python? With ink+paper book, altho in lots of > ways I prefer real books, they almost de

Re: Where to post FreeBSD tutorials?

2010-12-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:17:31 -0500, Xn Nooby wrote: > If I write a document about how to do something with FreeBSD, is there > a good place to post it, or a link to it? > > Something like "how to edit a video in FreeBSD", not official documentation. > > I usually have to google things to find them

Re: How to build a BROKEN port?

2010-12-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:31:37 -0800, mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: >>>>>> "Giorgos" == Giorgos Keramidas writes: > > Giorgos> Edit it's 'Makefile'. Look for an assignment of the form: > > Minor nit... that's &qu

Re: How to build a BROKEN port?

2010-12-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:49:25 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > Pardon me for being the queer one to ask this- but how does one > force/override building a port marked as broken? > > I'm not about to run a make install clean on it, but I would like to at > least have a crack at trying to fix whats wrong. In

Re: FreeBSD IPSec stack contains backdoors?

2010-12-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:36:39 -0500, Mike L wrote: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Giorgos Keramidas > wrote: >> The FreeBSD security officer team has already written an official >> response about this. Please have a look at: >> >> http://lists.freebsd.org/p

Re: FreeBSD IPSec stack contains backdoors?

2010-12-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
The FreeBSD security officer team has already written an official response about this. Please have a look at: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2010-December/005746.html Regards, Giorgos On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:28:37 +0600, Victor Lyapunov wrote: > -- Forwarded m

Re: Creating clone of a HDD including boot partition

2010-12-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:57:33 +0100, bsd wrote: > Le 15 déc. 2010 à 16:45, Giorgos Keramidas a écrit : >> On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:11:45 +0100, bsd wrote: >>> Is there a way to dd to a file to create an iso image and then restore >>> (still using dd from this image). I

Re: Creating clone of a HDD including boot partition

2010-12-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:11:45 +0100, bsd wrote: > Is there a way to dd to a file to create an iso image and then restore > (still using dd from this image). I only have one IDE <--> USB cable > so this is the reason why It'd more simple for me to create an iso > image of the disk and then restore.

Re: Kind of off topic.

2010-12-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:21:06 -0600, Jorge Biquez wrote: > Hello all. > > A friend is asking me to help him to solve some problem he has in his > servers. To some I would be able to connect using ssh, with other just > it i snot possible. I remember that on the windows world there was a > commerci

Re: Want sendmail applying aliases to 'cc:' field too

2010-12-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:12:17 +0300, c0re wrote: > I do use aliases file and I know what is it. > But it looks like not this case. > I want Cc: be rewritten like in aliases file defined in Cc: header, > not only those one that comes in "RCPT TO:". > And sendmail does not do it with Cc: field. > Yes

Re: Archiving directories / zip format

2010-12-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 08:17:17 +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Dear all, > > From time to time I want to archive a quite a few directories to download > them conveniently. I have been using tar to do it, endingin up with a > tar.gz file. But the problem with it is that I do not have a unix machine >

Re: Thanks.

2010-11-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:25:31 +0330, Mohsen Mostafa Jokar wrote: > Hello. > Thank you very much. You are welcome :) > I want make a new community of FreeBSD for my country, i think > i must serve a domain like you tell me. > > if i serve a domain, second step what is it? > > i want have a email

Re: Sendmail Question: Smart Host Round-Robin In Mailertable?

2010-10-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:51:59 -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > A bit OT, but I'm hoping one of you resident geniuses can point me to > an answer > > I have a situation where I need to set up round-robin across several > smart hosts in the sendmail mailertable for all traffic. (For a > variety of re

Re: gzip tries to unpack/pack 1st the filename of $GZIP

2010-10-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:36:59 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > Hello, > > I was facing a problem in some Makefile/shell-scripting and finally I > could nail it down: > > when you set the environment variable GZIP to something, for example to > let it point to gzip itself, it tries 1st to unpack this

Re: how to recursively symlink every file in a dir

2010-09-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 13:24:50 -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > I want to make it so every file is a seperate symlink in dir2 if and > only if it is a regular file (not a dir) in dir1... the reason is if > the file is unchanged then use symlink but I can rm the symlink and > replace it with a non-syml

Re: Writes to Hard Disk Going Beyond Capacity

2010-07-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:10:31 -0400, Patrick Donnelly wrote: > Hi List, > > I have a strange problem in a C program I wrote. I open a hard > disk character file (/dev/ad1) and attempt to write over the > entire disk. I expect the last write that would go beyond the > hard disk length (capacity) to

Re: fetchmail certificate verification messages

2010-07-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 23:36:58 +0200 (CEST), Marco Beishuizen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm seeing in my logfiles a lot of messages like these from fetchmail: > > Jul 3 22:02:54 yokozuna fetchmail[1437]: Server certificate > verification error: self signed certificate in certificate chain > Jul 3 22:02:5

Re: rc.conf: gnome_enable="YES" - which instructions executed?

2010-07-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:10:41 -0700 (PDT), Chris Stankevitz wrote: > My rc.conf file has this entry: gnome_enable="YES" > > Q: Where on my hard drive can I find the instructions executed to "enable" > GNOME? > > A: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gnome [bad answer: file does not exist] gnome_enable is a 'de

Re: .sh check for numeric content

2010-06-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:19:53 +0200, Thomas Keusch wrote: > t...@eternity:~$ b=5 > t...@eternity:~$ case "$b" in >> [0-9] ) >> echo numeric >> ;; >> * ) >> echo alpha >> ;; >> esac > numeric > t...@eternity:~$ > > Works for me. Depending on what "numeric" means, th

Re: Perl Dumping Core

2010-06-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:18:19 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 16/06/2010 15:11:15, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> I am running 8.1-PRERELEASE and seeing a half dozen of these a day: >> >>(perl5.10.1), uid 0: exited on signal 11 >> >> Anyone have theories on this? > > You have a perl process or proce

Re: Too many defunct processes; kill -9 not working

2010-06-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 14:08:58 +0300, Eitan Adler wrote: > Lately I've been getting a considerable number of defunct processes. I > do not know of any major event that changed my computer (ie it is not > related to an ports update or a freeBSD upgrade). > > This is often caused by me killing the proc

Re: which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 07:57:51 -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:19:08 +0300 > Giorgos Keramidas articulated: >> You can always install bash with "pkg_add". The default package is >> not built as a static binary, but you can compile a static bash >> bi

Re: which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 22:35:09 +, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote: > hello, > i am coming from the linux world where i was using the bash shell but > i found out that there are also much more. > > can u tell me the basic differences between them?(pros and cons) It isn't humanly possible to write *al

Re: two questions....

2010-06-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 16:04:20 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > guys, i just found a truckload of Just Outstanding fonts. at the CTAN > .org site there must be hundreds of these superb serif typefaces. in > my /home/kline/ directory, i have a ~/.fonts directory. but it's been > awhile since i've added t

Re: text editor

2010-05-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 31 May 2010 11:36:53 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> Vim is much smaller than Emacs but it still a few MB's here: >> >> keram...@kobe:/usr/ports/packages/All$ ls -ld vim* >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 5757731 1 =CE=9

Re: text editor

2010-05-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 31 May 2010 09:59:00 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: >> Vim is much smaller than Emacs but it still a few MB's here: >> >> keram...@kobe:/usr/ports/packages/All$ ls -ld vim* >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 5757731 1 Απρ 17:11 vim-lite-7.2.344.tbz > > Does Vim install more than the binary?

Re: text editor

2010-05-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 30 May 2010 17:28:27 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: >On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 09:31:59PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> If you don't mind the size of the respective packages, both VIM and >> GNU Emacs have support for many features that ee(1) lacks. > > I'm

Re: sh script writing help

2010-05-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 30 May 2010 13:14:01 +0800, Aiza wrote: > In a .sh type script I have && exerr " very long message gt 250 char" > all on the same line. This is a real pain to edit. > > Is there some code a can use to continue this on the next line so I > can see it on the screen and still have the command

Re: text editor

2010-05-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 30 May 2010 11:36:31 +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: > Been using ee and been happy. > > Now I have need for an editor with block commands. > > Put dd on the first line of sequence number you want to start deleting > and dd on the last line of the block and hit enter and the block of > lines are delet

Re: Cloning question

2010-05-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 26 May 2010 22:33:16 -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > I've written a few "howto"'s on backup/restore/cloning in the past, but > now I have a question that I hope to have quickly answered. > > I'm not looking for criticism on my approach, only on whether it will > work. With that said, I'll l

Re: Bash lockups

2010-05-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 21 May 2010 09:30:05 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas writes: >> Does this lock-up happen if you leave the shell 'idle' for too long >> over an ssh session? There may be problems with stateful connection >> tracking between your terminal and

Re: Bash lockups

2010-05-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 19 May 2010 16:14:52 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: > I have been experimenting with FreeBSD for a while, and I consistently > get bash lockups at irregular intervals when it is otherwise idle. By > lockup, I mean that it stops responding to the keyboard and uses 100% > CPU. It will sometime

Re: newsyslog not reading /ect/rc.conf arguments?

2010-05-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 5 May 2010 08:01:26 -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote: > Greetings again. Running FreeBSD 8.0, I have added the following to > /etc/rc.conf: > > newsyslog_flags="-a /usr/old-log/" > > I have stopped and started newsyslog. However, the rotated logs are > still being written into /var/log. No err

Re: Suspect results from iostat--FBSD bug?

2010-05-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 5 May 2010 07:34:55 -0500, Peter Steele wrote: > We use iostat to collect statistics of hard drive activity. We've been > seeing some values for the transaction wait column that look > suspicious. This is easy to reproduce by just running iostat > repeatedly over a short period of time, as

Re: reoeating, which port offers "blog-style" feedbak?

2010-04-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:48:49 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > Guys, > > I'm creating another virt website and intend to publish things that > users could respond to. It is also time to rethink my "JOTTINGS" > thoughts and put each of the 15 sections|chapters into a format where > readers could give fee

Re: version/revision control software for things mostly not source

2010-04-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:34:19 +0300, Dan Naumov wrote: > I've looked at SVN and it looks reasonably easy to grok, but reading > the "Version Control with Subversion" book... it seems there is no > actual way to truly erase/delete/destoy/purge a part of an existing > repository? This sounds rather w

Re: How to make "man" pages

2010-04-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:49:04 +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: > For the questions list archives: > I wrote an How To Creating a manpage from scratch. > > You can read it here. > > http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=4602 > > Thanks to all the people who replied to my post. Nice post. This is exactl

Re: setting sendmail.mc options?

2010-04-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 03:53:18 -0700, Jeff Hamann wrote: > I'm sure this isn't the correct place for this question, but I'm not > sure where to go as I only use my FreeBSD Unleashed to admin my > sendmail. > > I'm a newbie at this and could use a little help. > > I'm trying to configure sendmail, us

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:01:53 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > thanks for your url as well and the others to posted. but it seems > like overkill since i dont need any explicit option or argument. i > just need the script to tell me whether i have an arg or not. > following is something i've kept in on

Re: How to make "man" pages

2010-03-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:54:25 +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: > OK i want to write a man page from scratch. So lets say i want to use > /usr/share/man/man2/jail.2.gz as my starting sample. How do I convert > this .gz file to a plain text file so I can edit it with ee? And how do > I turn the edited text file b

Re: Custom Kernel to Memory Stick

2010-03-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:49:08 -0500, Jay Hall wrote: > Ladies and Gentlemen, > > I have been asked to explore the possibility of booting FreeBSD from a > memory stick. This was not a problem; worked great when installed from > the distribution CD. > > What would be the best way to get our custom

Re: How to send a patch in a proper way?

2010-03-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:20:49 +0100, Adam PAPAI wrote: > Hi, > > As of today I'll try to help and create bugfix patches for usr/src and > usr/ports. > > I've already done 2 patches and posted it to the -current list but > don't really know what is the best way to post the patches. Who will > "check

Re: emacs-23.1_3,1 -> 23.1._4,1 upgrade

2010-03-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:22:12 +0200, n dhert wrote: > There was an emacs upgrade in the ports today, but it fails: > ... > image.o(.text+0x6674): In function `png_load': > : undefined reference to `png_check_sig' > image.o(.text+0x6db4): In function `png_load': > : undefined reference to `png_check

Re: sendmail && UTF-8

2010-03-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:29:27 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > Hello, > > I want to sendout mail the following way: > > sendmail -t < filename > > where the file 'filename' contains some header lines, especially To: > Subject: and From: and as well the body of the mail; all is in UTF-8 > and

Re: make buildworld runs out of space

2010-03-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:38:06 -0700 (PDT), Bill Tillman wrote: > I have built two machines with 8.0-STABLE-201002-amd64. When I updated > the sources and ran make buildworld process it would fail claiming > that / was full. > > It seems to be running into the problem when the make installkernel >

Re: mailing list archive as mbox

2010-03-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:08:32 +0100 (CET), Alexander Best wrote: > Dan Nelson schrieb am 2010-03-07: >> In the last episode (Mar 07), Alexander Best said: >> > hi there, > >> > what are the steps i need to perform to get a copy of the entire >> > mailingslist >> > archive of lets say freebsd-curre

Re: Compiler Flags problem with core2 CPU

2010-03-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 23:26:20 +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: >>See the section "3.17.14 Intel 386 and AMD x86-64 Options" in the gcc >>Info manual. It contains a full list of the supported CPU-TYPE values >>for the -mtune=CPU-TYPE option. The -march=CPU-TYPE option accepts the >>same CPU types: >> >>

Re: Compiler Flags problem with core2 CPU

2010-03-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:37:27 +0800, Aaron Lewis wrote: >Paul B Mahol wrote: >>On 2/28/10, Aaron Lewis wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I gonna recompile kernel for my core2 CPU , so i'd like to pass some >>> flags to gcc. Kinds of "-march=core2" , i tried to modify >>> /etc/make.conf >>> >>> e.gCFLAG

Re: Compiler Flags problem with core2 CPU

2010-03-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:38:45 +0800, Aaron Lewis wrote: > Hi, >I gonna recompile kernel for my core2 CPU , so i'd like to pass some > flags to gcc. >Kinds of "-march=core2" , i tried to modify /etc/make.conf >e.gCFLAGS += -march=core2 -O20 -ffast-math -mfpmath=sse >But it fails

Re: Mailing lists link in handbook redirects to......

2010-02-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:22:32 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: > If I do > > host lists.freebsd.org > lists.freebsd.org is an alias for wwwdyn.freebsd.org. > wwwdyn.freebsd.org has address 69.147.83.38 > wwwdyn.freebsd.org has IPv6 address 2001:4f8:fff6::26 > wwwdyn.freebsd.org mail is handled by 0 > >

Re: NetBSD 5.0 looks cool

2010-02-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:32:20 -0800 (PST), Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> NetBSD needs a *very* minimal set of POSIX tools to build, e.g. you can >> get away with an sh(1) utility and a pretty basic make(1) tool. They >> have really done

Re: NetBSD 5.0 looks cool

2010-02-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:09:54 +0530, Masoom Shaikh wrote: > here is excellant intoduction to NetBSD-5.0 > > http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img0.html > > certain statements are very impressive in those slides like "Build any > NetBSD platform from any POSIX environment" > $ uname -s -m > Linux i686 >

Re: python script to backup installed packages

2010-02-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:35:16 -0600, Adam Vande More wrote: > Thanks for the tips, I may add some of your functionality to my own. > I think I might add a couple more features like accepting a backup > path from the command line and an auto create for the dir if it > doesn't exist. One other thin

Re: python script to backup installed packages

2010-02-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:15:12 -0600, Adam Vande More wrote: > Sometimes you have need to backup installed packages. I realize most > port management tools do this automatically, but if you're on a system > with a lot of packages installed and one port management tool fails > and you use another t

Re: HELP! Is that possible "creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root"

2010-02-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:04:00 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: >On 11/02/2010 05:23, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:18:30 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: >>>Lin Taosheng writes: >>>> Is that possible to implementated? >>> >>> For mo

Re: HELP! Is that possible "creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root"

2010-02-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:18:30 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: >Lin Taosheng writes: >> Is that possible to implementated? > > For most purposes, what's important is not the account name, > but the User II. "Root" is special because it has UID 0. You can, > create other accounts with UIS 0 ... but

Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:35:17 +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: >On 10/02/2010 11:10 μ.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: >> I would like to create a boot CD using FreeBSD 8.0 but I just noticed >> that there is no existing boot.flp file for 8.0. What is the >> alternative to get a boot image to create my CD

Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4

2010-02-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:58:07 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: >On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:00:00PM +, Frank Shute wrote: >> >> AFAIK, the system compiler is going to be clang in the future and for >> ports you'll install a compiler from ports. > > Can you provide a URL for some discussion of this? I h

Re: A question on syntax in /etc/login.conf

2010-02-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
<#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign> On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:00:59 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: > On the page > > http://www.se.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-localization.html > > Syntax is shown as: > > language_name:accounts_title:\ > :charset=MIME_charset:\ > :lang=lo

Re: make doesn't see changes in /etc/mail/freebsd.mc

2010-01-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:59:16 +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I've seen this behaviour for years, but never bothered > to ask why. > > Imagine I already have in /etc/mail local .mc and .cf files. Imagine I > then update freebsd.mc. When I run make nothing happens. What I think > should happen i

Re: FreeBSD sources from svn repos

2010-01-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:51:26 +, Masoom Shaikh wrote: > Hi List, > > I am confused about FreeBSD versions maintained in svn repos > > 1. http://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.0/ > 2. http://svn.freebsd.org/base/release/8.0.0/ > 3. http://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/ > > (2) is easy, most prob

Re: Setting "zfs_arc_max" value in FreeBSD 8.

2010-01-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:49:15 +0530, Sherin George wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to tune ZFS file system by setting "zfs_arc_max" value in > FreeBSD 8. > > In solaris, it is achieved like this > > == > === > For example, if an application needs 5 GByte

Re: vi editing

2010-01-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:37:49 -0800 (PST), gahn wrote: > Hi gurus: > > I am trying to add a word on every line (right in front of every line) via > vi. Right now I have: > > x > x > x > > after that, I want to have: > > "new word" x > "new word" x > "new wor

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:11:12 -0800, Charlie Kester wrote: > On Wed 23 Dec 2009 at 22:33:20 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>> I can still login as regular user, and when I run 'pwd -P' the output is >>> / and then it goes back to the prompt. Output of 'ls -ld

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:40:13 -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: >On 2009.12.24 00:21:47 +, Pieter de Goeje wrote: >>On Thursday 24 December 2009 00:01:11 Rem P Roberti wrote: >>> Today I booted my laptop and discovered that /home was gone. >>> Well...not exactly..but for all intents and purposes. Th

Re: editing a binary file

2009-12-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:29:18 +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: >> My bet would be /usr/ports/editors/hexedit. Been a while since I've >> used it, but AFAIR, it has a curses or a curses like interface, and >> it's fairly simple to use, yet sufficiently powerful for most normal >> binary editing. If

Re: is this getting out?

2009-12-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:49:10 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > But aristotle is halted and I am back into learn mode. This sentence probably belongs in a fortune cookie collection somewhere. Hah! :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

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