Re: /bin/rm: Argument list too long.

2004-11-19 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 10:19:39AM +0100, Dennis Koegel typed: > find /foo/bar -type f -maxdepth 1 | xargs rm -n100 or just ls | xargs rm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, s

can't get rid of this file with trailing backslash?

2004-11-19 Thread Andy Firman
I was editing my named.conf and somehow saved the file with a trailing backslash and I can't get rid of it. -rw-r--r-- 1 root bind18314 Nov 18 11:35 named.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root bind18314 Nov 18 11:07 named.conf.save.11-18 -rw-r--r-- 1 root bind17389 Nov 18 10:58 named.conf\

Something about booting bsd on the second disk from windows loader

2004-11-19 Thread hu shouwen
Mr Answer: Sorry having troubled you to give me reasons about the solution to the question "9.10. How can I use the Windows NT loader to boot FreeBSD?" listed on bsd site. I have installed my first bsd on the second disk with whole space, and I have chosen to install bootmgr. But when reboot, I

Dual NICs in BSD

2004-11-19 Thread Trevor B. Sullivan
Hi, I have a Compaq Proliant 3000 server with a fresh install of FreeBSD 5.2.1 on it. It has an Intel Dual-port NIC (of which I'm using one port), and a Netgear GA620 Gigabit fiber card. The copper port is referred to as fxp0 and the fiber, ti0. I'm having a problem getting the two network connecti

Re: BlackBox slow

2004-11-19 Thread Karel Miklav
Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: You may want to look into openbox. It's like all the other boxes only with no slit... Thanks man. I just threw my eyballs on hackedbox and wmi; we'll se what will become of it. Hackedbox doesn't have nor slit neither toolbar, that's what I was looking for. _

Re: desktop-file-utils

2004-11-19 Thread Radek Kozlowski
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 06:54:36PM -1000, Robert Marella wrote: > Hello > > Am I the only one who cannot build gnome2.8 from ports? I get stopped > because it cannot download "desktop-file-utils-0.9.tar.gz". > > This should be found at http://freedesktop.org but the site was > compromised and is

Problem with gvinum on 5.3RC

2004-11-19 Thread Willem Jaap Zwart
Hi I've upgraded my 5.1xx box to 5.3 and run into problems with vinum I've followed the instructions of upgrading from vinum to gvinum (disabled vinum in rc.conf, add geom_vinum_load to loader.conf and changed /etc/fstab). Before 'install makeworld' the vinum volume mounted correctly After the 'in

Re: Patching

2004-11-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 01:43:00AM -0500, RL wrote: > Hi, if you update your source tree through cvsup now and them, is it > still necessary to follow the FreeBSD security advisories and patch > your system? In others words, when you cvsup the source through > RELENG_5_3 and make the world, does it

Re: BlackBox slow

2004-11-19 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
> and it doesn't change much if I add or remove a line. What is your > experience with BlackBox? Is there a BB clone without slit and taskbar > or something like that? You may want to look into openbox. It's like all the other boxes only with no slit... -- If I write a signature, my emails will

bridging tapX interfaces only

2004-11-19 Thread spambait701
I have been trying to create an isolated virtual LAN with the following configuration. A single FreeBSD v4.10 server with one physical NIC (fxp0) is connected to two remote client Windows XP machines via OpenVPN tunnels. OpenVPN v1.6 on the server and v2.0 on the clients. There are therefore two

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 with 4GB RAM - memory ignored

2004-11-19 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Axel S. Gruner wrote: > Our new x345 Server with 1 XEON 2.8GHz CPU (second one will be built in > next week) has 4GB RAM. > I see the following message while the system is booting: > > "131072 of memory aboce 4GB ignored" > > Well, i will use all the memory i paid for ;-), so

Re: will this update strategy work?

2004-11-19 Thread Kjell Midtseter
On Friday, 19 November 2004 at 1:03:55 -0800, Dino Vliet wrote: > I have the following questions. > > 1) Will this update strategy work? > 2) Is the 1.6GB partition big enough for a basic > FreeBSD 5.3 install? This is the output of df -h after a recent basic 5.3R install: Filesystem Size

Postfix/fetchmail problem

2004-11-19 Thread Mark Ovens
I've set up postfix, fetchmail, and courier-imap on a FreeBSD box (4.10) and got it working - for one account. When I added a second account it goes wrong; all mail gets sent to the user that fetchmail is running as. My .fetchmailrc contains poll pop.myisp.com protocol POP3 user mark wit

Re: /bin/rm: Argument list too long.

2004-11-19 Thread Brian Bobowski
Mipam wrote: Hi, I tried to delete all files from a dir, however I got this message: /bin/rm: Argument list too long. So, no go. newfs is also no option, because the dir is not a seperate fs. Any hints exept for manual labour? Bye, Mipam. I gather it's rm * that's not working? If so, try a subse

Re: CANNOT SSH to my computer

2004-11-19 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 07:43:50PM -0500, Ivan Georgiev wrote: > On Thursday 18 November 2004 07:08 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > Ivan Georgiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thursday 18 November 2004 06:00 pm, Sebastian Holmqvist wrote: > > > > On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:44:05 -0500, Ivan Georgi

Re: /bin/rm: Argument list too long.

2004-11-19 Thread Dennis Koegel
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 09:58:40AM +0100, Mipam wrote: > I tried to delete all files from a dir, however I got this message: > /bin/rm: Argument list too long. You probably did "rm *", and * expanded to too many files. One way is to simply remove the directory completely (rm -r /foo/bar), but thi

will this update strategy work?

2004-11-19 Thread Dino Vliet
Hi all, I'm using FreeBSD 4.10 on my toshiba sattelite pro 4600 laptop together with win98. During the past months I've noticed i'm doing less with win98 and more and more with FreeBSD (replaced quicken with gnucash and much more). The only reason I have win98 is because I never managed to get my

Re: PCMCIA Wireless Card Question

2004-11-19 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 01:21:58PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Thursday 18 November 2004 12:42 pm, Tom Connolly wrote: > > Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > > On Tuesday 16 November 2004 12:30 pm, Tom Connolly wrote: > > >> Hello List, > > >> I have just put FreeBSD 5.3 Release on my Dell Latitude

/bin/rm: Argument list too long.

2004-11-19 Thread Mipam
Hi, I tried to delete all files from a dir, however I got this message: /bin/rm: Argument list too long. So, no go. newfs is also no option, because the dir is not a seperate fs. Any hints exept for manual labour? Bye, Mipam. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mai

Re: quotas on 5.3

2004-11-19 Thread Nicolas Kowalski
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, dave wrote: Hello, Hello. Got a question on quotas. I've enabled them on /usr and /var filesystems by adding the userquota option to their options in fstab. This is after i recompiled my kernel with the QUOTA option in it and rebooted. I then added: enable_quotas="YES" check

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