pkg_add -r -F update

2006-12-05 Thread Karel Kulhavy
man pkg_add says -r Replace existing packages. I did pkg_remove transcode, then installed transcode I compiled from sources, then removed all files containing transcode in their name from the system and then tried to replace the OpenBSD binary package again. pkg_add transcode-1.0.2p0.tgz says

Re: pkg_add -r -F update

2006-12-05 Thread Woodchuck
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Karel Kulhavy wrote: man pkg_add says -r Replace existing packages. I did pkg_remove transcode, then installed transcode I compiled from sources, then removed all files containing transcode in their name from the system and then tried to replace the OpenBSD binary

Re: pkg_add -r -F update

2006-12-05 Thread Tonnerre LOMBARD
Salut, On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:13:38AM +0100, Karel Kulhavy wrote: pkg_add transcode-1.0.2p0.tgz says Collision: the following files already exist some with same md5, some with different pkg_add -r update transcode-1.0.2p0.tgz should replace the package acording to the manpage. It doesn't

Re: ral0: device timeout

2006-12-05 Thread Bill Maas
On 12/4/06, Markus Bergkvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, the connection light and the transmission light is always on, regardsless if it is connected to the network or sending/receiving or not. Only when I take the network interface down the lights go out. If that means anything to anyone.

Compiling netpbm

2006-12-05 Thread Karel Kulhavy
Hello I want to use xpm2ppm, but it doesn't work because it says [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xpmtoppm vnc/img_0.xpm xpmtoppm: Input file has line that is too long (longer than 2048 bytes). Obviously, someone programmed with fixed-size buffers. I would like to increase the compiled-in buffer size

Re: Compiling netpbm

2006-12-05 Thread Nico Meijer
Hey, Is it possible to compile netpbm on openbsd from the sources without extensive OpenBSD maintainer expertise? Use the ports, Luke. Check ports(7), which will help you on your way (hint: targets). Good luck... Nico

Re: Compiling netpbm

2006-12-05 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:50:48AM +0100, Karel Kulhavy wrote: Hello I want to use xpm2ppm, but it doesn't work because it says [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xpmtoppm vnc/img_0.xpm xpmtoppm: Input file has line that is too long (longer than 2048 bytes). Obviously, someone programmed with

Re: Compiling netpbm

2006-12-05 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/12/05 11:50, Karel Kulhavy wrote: - Getting sources - web - ports - graphics - netpbm there are no sources, only some auxilliary files ports != srpm. Read http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html which describes the system and leads you through unpacking the ports tree and building a

Re: slow terminal on macppc

2006-12-05 Thread Nick Holland
Bryan Irvine wrote: I'm running a test openldap server on an imac 333Mhz. When I run things from the console it's really really slow, but when I'm in X things are a lot faster. For example: I just ran as a test (several times) the ldap command time slapcat, which basically dumps the

Re: Compiling netpbm

2006-12-05 Thread Woodchuck
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Karel Kulhavy wrote: Hello I want to use xpm2ppm, but it doesn't work because it says [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xpmtoppm vnc/img_0.xpm xpmtoppm: Input file has line that is too long (longer than 2048 bytes). Obviously, someone programmed with fixed-size buffers.

Re: pkg_add -r -F update

2006-12-05 Thread Lars Hansson
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 17:13, Karel Kulhavy wrote: pkg_add transcode-1.0.2p0.tgz says Collision: the following files already exist some with same md5, some with different pkg_add -r update transcode-1.0.2p0.tgz should replace the package acording to the manpage. It doesn't - prints the

Re: Openldap

2006-12-05 Thread Dr. Harry Knitter
Am Montag, 4. Dezember 2006 20:23 schrieb Bryan Irvine: I have installed the following binaries: openldap-server-2.3.24 openldap-client-2.3.24 db-4.2.52p8 OS is OpenBSD 4.0 You need to install openldap-server-2.3.24-bdb If installed from ports use env FLAVOR=bdb make install to get

Re: pf load balancer and server health

2006-12-05 Thread Pierre-Yves Ritschard
You might also want to check http://spootnik.org/slbd which is specifically aimed at your problem. Its a privilege separated daemon which can perform several types of health checks and has support for sorry servers.

Re: vpn difficulties

2006-12-05 Thread Ryan Corder
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 12:06 +0900, Mathieu Sauve-Frankel wrote: now, I got the tunnel setup just fine using just ipsec.conf. I was just curios if there was a quick and simple way to to test traffic through the tunnel since it is just a host to host configuration. I'm curious to know why

Re: vpn difficulties

2006-12-05 Thread Martin Gignac
On 12/5/06, Ryan Corder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I never said that ping wasn't a good test...if I could use ping I would. However, in the setup where I have two machines, A and B that have addresses 192.168.2.5 and 192.168.2.6 respectively and an IPSec tunnel setup as so: A - ike esp from

Re: Mac Mini (intel) status

2006-12-05 Thread Theo de Raadt
Not working for me. I get this far: CD_ROM: 90 Loading /CDBOOT probing: pc0 com0 mem(699K 991M a20=on) disk: hd0+* cd0 boot c and there it stays forever. I suspect the c following the boot prompt is left over from hold c to boot from cd. The keyboard at this point is dead. Any

autoresponder for postfix

2006-12-05 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
i need to setup an autoresponder on a 4.0-release machine running postfix 2.3.2. is there anything in ports that does this already? in the meantime, i'm getting yaa! up and running. there are a few other things listed at http://www.postfix.org/addon.html#autoreply any suggestions appreciated.

Re: autoresponder for postfix

2006-12-05 Thread Antti Harri
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: i need to setup an autoresponder on a 4.0-release machine running postfix 2.3.2. is there anything in ports that does this already? in the meantime, i'm getting [snip] What about vacation(1) ? -- Antti Harri

Re: pkg_add -r -F update

2006-12-05 Thread K H A I
I have try to run pkg_add -r -F but it did not work for me. I remebered correctly I did try to delete pkg_delete with that - i option to ask you to remove the package and its dependents, I did removed the package and its dependents and re-add the package. with pkgadd. It may have some bug? but

Re: autoresponder for postfix

2006-12-05 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Original message Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 17:38:54 +0200 (EET) From: Antti Harri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: autoresponder for postfix To: misc@openbsd.org On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: i need to setup an autoresponder on a 4.0-release machine running postfix

Re: autoresponder for postfix

2006-12-05 Thread Marc Balmer
* Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: Original message Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 17:38:54 +0200 (EET) From: Antti Harri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: autoresponder for postfix To: misc@openbsd.org On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: i need to setup an autoresponder on a

source upgrade to 4.0 - what to check?

2006-12-05 Thread Toni Mueller
Hello, I've managed to get myself into the ugly position of needing to do a remote source upgrade from 3.9 to 4.0. Reason: Using RAIDFRAME on an architecture I don't have handy over here... Do I have to take care about more issues than are covered in FAQ4+5? Or even better, can I somehow mount

Odd issue - in kernel pppoe

2006-12-05 Thread Pierre Lamy
Last night I wanted to try out the kernel pppoe rather than userland pppoe, on 4.0 GENERIC/i386. Took me a few minutes but I was able to setup a stable connection, surf the net etc. Many thing worked, but one thing didn't. I play an online game called Eve Online, and while using in-kernel

apache and mysql5.022 on openBSD

2006-12-05 Thread K H A I
Dear Friends, I have problem running php script with querry and mysql. under openbsd4.0 php sqlqurery.php works fine. but when i run over web browser, it does not recognise the hostname which return mysql_error() function. unknown hostname xx.yyy.zzz How do i tackle this issue? for openbsd the

Re: Odd issue - in kernel pppoe

2006-12-05 Thread Claudio Leite
* Pierre Lamy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Last night I wanted to try out the kernel pppoe rather than userland pppoe, on 4.0 GENERIC/i386. [...] The only difference I can spot is the MTU, which would actually be 1492 on tun0 as well, it just isn't reflected in the ifconfig. The rest of my

Re: Openldap

2006-12-05 Thread Bryan Irvine
You need to install openldap-server-2.3.24-bdb If installed from ports use env FLAVOR=bdb make install to get it, or if you used packages then use the bdb version. --Bryan I installed the package. However, on the mirror I used I don4t find any bdb version. So it is. I thought I

New version of check_hw_sensors to support the sysctl hw.sensors output changes

2006-12-05 Thread andrew fresh
Ahh the joys of not enough time to follow -current. I am finally working on upgrading my machines to 4.0 and have found that in sysctl.c v1.135[1], Otto changed the output to be simpler[2]. However, I was using some of the output that is now gone for my Nagios check[3] so the old version is

submit.cf

2006-12-05 Thread stupidmail4me
What exaclty is this file for? I know that localhost.cf is the default an doesn't accept connections from the outside world. sendmail.cf is for accepting connections to the outside world. But I can't find anything about submit.cf that explains exactly what it does. Everyone is raving about the

Re: submit.cf

2006-12-05 Thread Will Maier
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:04:25AM -0800, stupidmail4me wrote: What exaclty is this file for? I know that localhost.cf is the default an doesn't accept connections from the outside world. sendmail.cf is for accepting connections to the outside world. But I can't find anything about submit.cf

OpenBSD 4.0 CD Set Package List

2006-12-05 Thread Kenneth Bond
Hello, I am considering purchasing an OpenBSD 4.0 CD Set. I have been a user of OpenBSD for some time, but have recently moved to a location where my only internet connectivity option is 56K/V.90 dialup. At this point, an FTP install is not an option. Is there a published list of the packages

Re: autoresponder for postfix

2006-12-05 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Original message Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 17:34:59 +0100 From: Marc Balmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: autoresponder for postfix To: Jacob Yocom-Piatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: misc@openbsd.org ... if you have your user database in ldap, you might give ldapvacation a try

Re: apache and mysql5.022 on openBSD

2006-12-05 Thread Darren Spruell
On 12/5/06, K H A I [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends, I have problem running php script with querry and mysql. under openbsd4.0 php sqlqurery.php works fine. but when i run over web browser, it does not recognise the hostname which return mysql_error() function. unknown hostname xx.yyy.zzz

Re: submit.cf

2006-12-05 Thread Darren Spruell
On 12/5/06, stupidmail4me [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What exaclty is this file for? I know that localhost.cf is the default an doesn't accept connections from the outside world. sendmail.cf is for accepting connections to the outside world. But I can't find anything about submit.cf that explains

rapidly rewriting a file causes filesystem to become full

2006-12-05 Thread Joe Advisor
Hi all, If I rapidly rewrite a file, for example: while true; do echo foo /foo; done; Or for example: #!/usr/bin/perl for (1 .. 10) { MyStuff::Util::writeFile('/root/foo', $blah); } The filesystem eventually says filesystem full. Obviously those are corner cases because I am rapidly

unkillable process

2006-12-05 Thread Karel Kulhavy
I wrote a program that wrote a lot of data to a file and then tried to kill it. It was unkillable. Even kill -9 pid didn't work. It continued trashing the machine and finally I managed to reboot it and then it fixed. After repeated attempts to deliver -9 signall I could still start new programs.

Re: rapidly rewriting a file causes filesystem to become full

2006-12-05 Thread Bryan
I can't wait to see the replies to this one... On 12/5/06, Joe Advisor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, If I rapidly rewrite a file, for example: while true; do echo foo /foo; done; Or for example: #!/usr/bin/perl for (1 .. 10) { MyStuff::Util::writeFile('/root/foo', $blah); } The

Re: rapidly rewriting a file causes filesystem to become full

2006-12-05 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/12/05 11:57, Joe Advisor wrote: If I rapidly rewrite a file, for example: The filesystem eventually says filesystem full. you're probably using softdep, turn it off if you want to do this.

Re: unkillable process

2006-12-05 Thread Martin Schröder
2006/12/5, Karel Kulhavy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I wrote a program that wrote a lot of data to a file and then tried to kill it. It was unkillable. Even kill -9 pid didn't work. It Read ps(1) - especially the explanation of state. Best Martin

Re: submit.cf

2006-12-05 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/12/05 13:23, Will Maier wrote: On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:04:25AM -0800, stupidmail4me wrote: What exaclty is this file for? I know that localhost.cf is the default an doesn't accept connections from the outside world. sendmail.cf is for accepting connections to the outside world.

Re: rapidly rewriting a file causes filesystem to become full

2006-12-05 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Joe Advisor wrote: Hi all, If I rapidly rewrite a file, for example: while true; do echo foo /foo; done; Or for example: #!/usr/bin/perl for (1 .. 10) { MyStuff::Util::writeFile('/root/foo', $blah); } The filesystem eventually says filesystem full.

Re: apache and mysql5.022 on openBSD

2006-12-05 Thread Robert
K H A I wrote: Dear Friends, I have problem running php script with querry and mysql. under openbsd4.0 php sqlqurery.php works fine. but when i run over web browser, it does not recognise the hostname which return mysql_error() function. unknown hostname xx.yyy.zzz How do i tackle this issue?

Re: ral0: device timeout

2006-12-05 Thread Markus Bergkvist
Ok, thanks. Good to know, then I don't have to think about that anymore. /Markus Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: On 12/4/06, Markus Bergkvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, the connection light and the transmission light is always on, regardsless if it is connected to the network or sending/receiving

Re: ral0: device timeout

2006-12-05 Thread Markus Bergkvist
I have a RT2600 also on my AP so I guess I have to get my hands on a working out-of-the-box AP to verify that it is no hardware problem. /Markus Bill Maas wrote: On 12/4/06, Markus Bergkvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, the connection light and the transmission light is always on,

OT: random openbsd appearance

2006-12-05 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
i couldn't help but notice the following pic from a uchicago.edu page: http://support.uchicago.edu/docs/email/clients/thunderbird/quickstart.html subconscious openbsd advertising

vpn and routing

2006-12-05 Thread Mitja
Hello, I am lost in a routing problem or a very simple NAT trouble I can't resolve. OpenBSD 4.0 GENERIC kernel except for the RAID. My network looks like this: ISP -- router1 -- VPN -- router2 (em1: 193.189.180.129) (bge1: 10.1.1.11) It looks like NAT isn't working.

Re: slow terminal on macppc

2006-12-05 Thread Jordan Klein
A number of graphically-oriented systems are faster in X than in console mode. This includes sparc, sparc64, macppc, probably others. That's considered normal. :) Nick. I believe the cause is the video hardware. The PC video hardware has always had built-in text-mode with built-in (or

Fw: slow terminal on macppc

2006-12-05 Thread Ben Calvert
Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 15:43:20 -0800 From: Ben Calvert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: slow terminal on macppc On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 19:59:00 -0800 Bryan Irvine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running a test openldap server on an imac 333Mhz. When I

Re: Commands don't work after rm -rf /*

2006-12-05 Thread Diana Eichert
I wrote a script that automagically sent e-mail to the OpenBSD misc@ list. from reading the list it appears I can send to a variety of e-mail addresses, including this one [EMAIL PROTECTED], in order to get e-mail to the list. However I never see the automagically generated e-mails show up on the

Re: submit.cf

2006-12-05 Thread alexander
stupidmail4me wrote: What exaclty is this file for? I know that localhost.cf is the default an doesn't accept connections from the outside world. sendmail.cf is for accepting connections to the outside world. But I can't find anything about submit.cf that explains exactly what it does. My

Re: rapidly rewriting a file causes filesystem to become full

2006-12-05 Thread Joe Advisor
Interesting... so I did turn off softdep, and that did fix it. However, based on my reading, I thought that softdep + disabling of write cache is the approved mechanism for allowing for hard reboots without fsck. If this is the case, does this mean that I am in an either / or situation... as

Re: Commands don't work after rm -rf /*

2006-12-05 Thread alexander
Jason Dixon wrote: I wrote a script that tested inode performance by removing unwanted blocks. It was pretty simple, so I tested it first against the first slice (it's the smallest, so it should be a quick test). However, something happened after I ran the script and the system no longer

snort -i pflog0 trouble

2006-12-05 Thread Alexander Zatserkovniy
Hi! I try OpenBSD 4.0 (i386 mp) as an IDS. The problem is: snort -Dqp -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -i pflog0 don't recognize net traffic (It tell about unknown type net packages). snort -r /var/log/pflog don't recognize it too, but tcpdump -r /var/log/pflog , tcpdump -pi pflog0 do it. Follow

Re: Commands don't work after rm -rf /*

2006-12-05 Thread Bryan Irvine
On 12/5/06, Jason Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote a script that tested inode performance by removing unwanted blocks. It was pretty simple, so I tested it first against the first slice (it's the smallest, so it should be a quick test). However, something happened after I ran the

Re: Commands don't work after rm -rf /*

2006-12-05 Thread Shane J Pearson
On 06/12/2006, at 12:14 PM, Bryan Irvine wrote: It's the anti-unix newbie avoidance system. I propose a source change to rm that *after* it has completed removing / it then displays a dialog that the system would prefer it if you ran windows millennium. ;) Oh man, that's low. I can

Re: rapidly rewriting a file causes filesystem to become full

2006-12-05 Thread K K
On 12/5/06, Joe Advisor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this is the case, does this mean that I am in an either / or situation... as in, it is not possible to have rapid rewrites and rapid reboot simultaneously. Or is sync in cron a reasonable approach? The best option would be to redesign the

Re: rapidly rewriting a file causes filesystem to become full

2006-12-05 Thread alexander
Joe Advisor wrote: Interesting... so I did turn off softdep, and that did fix it. However, based on my reading, I thought that softdep + disabling of write cache is the approved mechanism for allowing for hard reboots without fsck. If this is the case, does this mean that I am in an either /

Dell SAS 5iR

2006-12-05 Thread Gustavo Rios
Dear friends, i tried to figure it out whether DELL SAS 5iR is supported by openbsd 4.0 on i386 in the openbsd site, but i could not see! I wonder, if it is not supported, if there are plans to support it ? Thanks in advance.

Re: Commands don't work after rm -rf /*

2006-12-05 Thread Mike Erdely
On Tue, December 5, 2006 7:33 pm, Diana Eichert wrote: Is there a problem with Jason Dixon? Is that a leading question? ;-) :)

Re: rapidly rewriting a file causes filesystem to become full

2006-12-05 Thread Philip Guenther
On 12/5/06, Joe Advisor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... If this is the case, does this mean that I am in an either / or situation... as in, it is not possible to have rapid rewrites and rapid reboot simultaneously. The problem is related to the process of repeatedly growing the file and then

problem with spamd-white table and greylisting

2006-12-05 Thread peter dunaskin
Hello, I'm having some weird problem with spamd in greylisting mode. The problem is that spamd-white table stays empty all the time. I've reread the manpages for a few times now and I have other spamd setup running on other mailserver (3.9 though) like a charm without any problems with pretty

Problem with iPod, not an MSDOS filesystem

2006-12-05 Thread Mikolaj Kucharski
Hi, I have strange problem with mounting an iPod. On new device I have this problem: # cat /etc/fstab | grep ipod /dev/sd0j /home/disks/ipod msdos rw,nodev,noexec,-u=mikolaj,-g=mikolaj,noauto 0 0 # mount /home/disks/ipod mount_msdos: /dev/sd0j on /home/disks/ipod: not an MSDOS filesystem #

Re: Problem with iPod, not an MSDOS filesystem

2006-12-05 Thread Tim Hoolihan
On 12/5/06, Mikolaj Kucharski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have strange problem with mounting an iPod. On new device I have this problem: # cat /etc/fstab | grep ipod /dev/sd0j /home/disks/ipod msdos rw,nodev,noexec,-u=mikolaj,-g=mikolaj,noauto 0 0 # mount /home/disks/ipod

Re: Problem with iPod, not an MSDOS filesystem

2006-12-05 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 12/5/06, Mikolaj Kucharski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sd0 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: Apple, iPod, 1.62 SCSI0 0/direct removable sd0: 76319MB, 19079 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 2048 bytes/sec, 39075372 sec total 80GB. Maybe it's one of the ipods with 2K sectors. Look in the archives for an

Re: Bug in ksh // Improvement for tar ?

2006-12-05 Thread Uwe Dippel
Thanks for all the answers ! My concern was not the empty demo: # demo= # if [ $demo == -n -o $demo == -e ]; then echo bar fi # which behaves logically (demo is not equal to neither -n nor -e; and so bar is not printed). My concern is more about this: # demo=-n # if [ $demo == -n -o

Emacs site-wide function loading

2006-12-05 Thread sac
Hi, To install python mode in emacs 21.4 on Openbsd4.0 I have byte-compiled the python-mode.el and dropped in the directory path /usr/local/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/progmodes/ and the directory is in `load-path'. The autoload function definition: (autoload 'python-mode python-mode Python

Re: Problem with iPod, not an MSDOS filesystem

2006-12-05 Thread Mikolaj Kucharski
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:14:34PM -0500, Tim Hoolihan wrote: I have strange problem with mounting an iPod. On new device I have this problem: # cat /etc/fstab | grep ipod /dev/sd0j /home/disks/ipod msdos rw,nodev,noexec,-u=mikolaj,-g=mikolaj,noauto 0 0 # mount /home/disks/ipod

Re: Problem with iPod, not an MSDOS filesystem

2006-12-05 Thread Mikolaj Kucharski
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 09:27:39PM -0700, Chris Kuethe wrote: On 12/5/06, Mikolaj Kucharski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sd0 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: Apple, iPod, 1.62 SCSI0 0/direct removable sd0: 76319MB, 19079 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 2048 bytes/sec, 39075372 sec total 80GB. Maybe it's one of

Re: Commands don't work after rm -rf /*

2006-12-05 Thread Woodchuck
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Dixon wrote: I wrote a script that tested inode performance by removing unwanted blocks. It was pretty simple, so I tested it first against the first slice (it's the smallest, so it should be a quick test). However, something happened

Re: Bug in ksh // Improvement for tar ?

2006-12-05 Thread Woodchuck
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Uwe Dippel wrote: Woodchuck: Thanks for the confirmation of tar being frontend to pax. Then, what is the good reason that the frontend kind of suppresses the abilities of the underlying routine ? Thanks, Uwe I suspect it is to maintain compatibility with the most

Re: ral0: device timeout

2006-12-05 Thread Bill Maas
From http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/rtrmgmt/ie2116/install/cables.htm#wp1043436 : The bottom LED is the Ethernet activity LED. When it flashes, it indicates that data is being transmitted or received between the server and a network device. The flashing frequency is proportional

Re: rapidly rewriting a file causes filesystem to become full

2006-12-05 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Joe Advisor wrote: Interesting... so I did turn off softdep, and that did fix it. However, based on my reading, I thought that softdep + disabling of write cache is the approved mechanism for allowing for hard reboots without fsck. If this is the case, does this mean that

Re: autoresponder for postfix

2006-12-05 Thread Josh Archambault
i read the manpage and am not certain it will work since users don't have system accounts and all mail is delivered and owned by a single user, _dovecot. it is possible to pipe emails using master.cf to an external program. i'll experiment with vacation since yaa is something of a headache to

Re: Bug in ksh // Improvement for tar ?

2006-12-05 Thread Philip Guenther
First off, I had earlier written this: Now, the behavior you describe is required by the standard Further checking shows that I was incorrect: if compliance to the SUSv3 XSI extension is claimed, then the 'test' utility must return true for this: [ -n = -n -o -n = -e ] The reference is